Two sheriff's deputies are under investigation after they were videotaped clubbing a Mexican man and woman. Television news helicopters tracked the deputies chasing a pickup truck crammed with 21 suspected illegal immigrants. The truck pulled over after a 70-mile chase. One deputy was taped clubbing the driver in the back. The woman was hit when she got out of the cab.
Man knows not his time
The bodies of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 32 other Americans arrived at Dover, Del., April 6 aboard two Air Force transport jets. An Air Force passenger plane carrying Mr. Brown and his delegation veered off course and crashed during high winds and driving rain into a cloud-covered hill April 3 near Dubrovnik, Croatia. Early reports blame the crash on Croatia's crude air traffic control systems that utilize low-frequency radio beacons to help pilots chart a landing course during bad weather. Such beacons are subject to disturbance from lightning, rain, and static electricity. Unlike more modern systems, the older radio beacons do not provide the pilot a warning if they give erroneous information because of interference.
In Washington April 4, a special prosecutor announced he has closed the investigation into Mr. Brown's financial affairs and will decide soon how to dispose of those parts of the probe involving the late commerce secretary's son and business associates. Special prosecutor Daniel Pearson has been investigating why Mr. Brown received more than $300,000 from a business associate and whether he tried to hide the payments.
President Clinton spoke at the April 6 arrival ceremony in Dover and on April 4 eulogized Mr. Brown at a memorial service in Washington's St. John's Episcopal Church. Mr. Clinton led the mourners in a responsive reading from the 40th chapter of the book of Isaiah. Verse 8 says, "The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever." Also on board the plane that killed Mr. Brown and government and business officials was New York Times reporter Nathaniel Nash, a believer in Christ. WORLD columnist Cal Thomas, a friend and former colleague of Mr. Nash, said, "Nathaniel's faith complimented and influenced his pursuit of truth.... [T]he source of his decency, courage, and high ethical standards was his relationship to Christ."
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Issue: "Children of Chernobyl"
April 13, 1996
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