Briefly Speaking
State parole officials
removed a convicted child molester from an Anaheim motel where he was
staying Sunday. The move was to protect 59-year-old Sid Landau and end
protests, police said.
Some 45 protesters stood
near the motel for hours, holding signs and asking motorists to honk in
support of Landau's ousting. Residents learned of his whereabouts from
fliers handed out by police operating under "Megan's Law."
Landau was forced out of
another Anaheim motel on Sept. 13 after neighbors found out he was living
there. He was convicted in 1988 on three counts of molesting boys younger
than 14 and served eight years in prison. - AP
The House Judiciary
Committee voted Friday to release the videotape of President Clinton's
grand jury testimony on Monica Lewinsky. The panel also voted to release
about 2,800 pages of material that accompanies Kenneth Starr's report.
The videotape will be
released at 6 a.m. today PST. The White House is denouncing the committee's
action, saying it shows a lack of bipartisanship.
Republican Chairman Henry
Hyde said the debate was vigorous and the spirit of bipartisanship is
alive. He said that there was a general view among Democrats not to release
anything, but the view among Republicans was to release as much as
possible. - UPN
The mother of Sarah
Ferguson, Britain's Dutchess of York, was killed in a head-on collision on
an Argentine provincial highway Saturday night, police said Sunday.
Susan Barrantes' Land Rover
collided with a light truck driven by a local resident around 9:15 p.m. on
a two-lane black-top road in flat countryside, 323 miles west of Buenos
Aires. Her nephew, who was also in the Land Rover suffered various injuries
but survived the crash, police said.
Police have not yet
established the cause of the crash. Barrantes, 61, was not wearing a seat
belt at the time of the collision. Her head was decapitated from the
collision, reports said. - Reuters
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This article was published in Vol. 135, No. 12 (Monday, September 21, 1998), on page 3.