Copyright 2000 The Seattle Times Company
The
Seattle Times
April 18, 2000, Tuesday Night Final Edition
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A6; DAILY BRIEFING
LENGTH: 455 words
HEADLINE:
Daily Briefing
BODY:
Update
President Clinton yesterday pledged during a visit to the
hardscrabble Navajo reservation town of Shiprock, N.M., to help American Indians
enter the digital age through greater access to a 19th-century invention - the
telephone. He pledged $1-a-month phone service to 300,000
Indian households to spread the power of the Internet.
A federal appeals
court in Tennessee yesterday refused to stay the execution of Robert Glen Coe,
who could become the first person put to death in Tennessee in 40 years. Coe,
44, is scheduled to die by injection tomorrow for the 1979 kidnapping, rape and
murder of an 8-year-old girl.
Attorneys for Wen Ho Lee, the scientist
accused of breaching security at Los Alamos National Laboratory, asked a judge
yesterday to throw out evidence obtained in an FBI search of his home, saying
the warrant wasn't specific.
Col. James Hiett, the Army officer who once
headed American anti-drug efforts in Colombia, pleaded guilty yesterday to
concealing knowledge that his wife was laundering drug money while they lived in
Bogota. He faces a maximum three years in prison and $250,000
fine.
A district judge in Colorado has ordered the Jefferson County
Sheriff's Office to make its investigative report on the Columbine High School
shootings available to the families of two of the slain victims. Lawyers for the
families of Dan Rohrbough and Kelly Fleming had requested emergency access to
the documents to decide whether to file lawsuits over the attack. The deadline
for filing suits is Thursday, the first anniversary of the day two teenage
gunmen killed 12 students, a teacher and themselves.
By the
numbers
Texas Gov. George W. Bush earned an estimated
$1.3 million last year and paid $514,000 in
taxes, according to a statement his campaign released yesterday. Bush and his
wife, Laura, donated $210,000 to churches and charities,
including the $130,000 in royalties from Bush's autobiography,
"A Charge to Keep." Bush's income includes his $115,345 salary
as governor, and investment income from state and federal blind trusts in his
name.p
Upcoming
House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt
is expected to announce in the next week his opposition to legislation that
would grant permanent normal trade relations to China, sources
close to the Missouri Democrat said yesterday. President Clinton favors the
measure, as do members of the Republican leadership in the House. Gephardt's
office declined to comment.
Today in history
In
1906, an earthquake struck San Francisco. The quake and resulting fires
devastated the city, leaving more than 1,000 people dead and 200,000 people
homeless.
In 1923, Yankee Stadium was opened.
GRAPHIC: PHOTO; Richard Gephardt
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