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.