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FAIRHAVEN -- State, local and military officials hauled off close to 200 pounds of black gunpowder found in a locked bunker at Fort Phoenix amid fears that vandals might discover and blow it up.
"We were told if it ignited, it would blow up the whole structure," Deputy Fire Chief Timothy P. Francis said.
FAIRHAVEN -- The federal Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday it will send a PCB cleanup crew to Sconticut Neck on Thursday to dig test pits at the Galary property on Hathaway Street.
The work crew will arrive at 6 a.m. to set up air monitors and other equipment to excavate and search for contamination, including buried PCB fill.
Warning that the East Coast is in increasing jeopardy from dangerous Hurricane Edouard, the National Weather Service in Taunton is urging coastal residents and boaters from New England to Georgia to keep a wary eye on the storm.
"We need to watch this real closely," meteorologist Alan Dunham said late yesterday afternoon, after an update from the National Hurricane Center. "We don't want to panic anyone yet, but the East Coast is in more jeopardy than it was two or three days ago. If anyone's thinking of taking a boat south this weekend, I'd say don't do it."
I haven't been a classroom student for ages, but I still have a special fondness for this time of year.
For going Back to School.
As a journalist covering education, I tend to move to the rhythms of the academic calendar. But even if I weren't writing about schools, I'd almost certainly harken back to my own student days as soon as I saw a store display of lunch boxes and notebooks.
There are some memories that just never seem to fade ...
FALL RIVER -- After refusing to try any cases at the new courthouse here, claiming prosecutors have inadequate office space, Bristol County District Attorney Paul F. Walsh said an agreement was reached yesterday, giving his staff more room.
Mr. Walsh met with Chief Justice John J. Irwin Jr., who was vacationing in Harwich, yesterday afternoon to discuss the problem and was assured more room will be given to his staff at the $15.4 million courthouse.
"He basically said there should be enough space for everyone and we would be given more room," Mr. Walsh said.
By Maureen Boyle, Standard-Times staff writer
NEW BEDFORD -- As his stunned mother sobbed, a 33-year-old man was convicted of shocking prostitutes with a stun gun, then raping one of them in a series of attacks two years ago.
Mark S. Gomes, a licensed nurse, was convicted of raping one of the women, as well as a string of other charges ranging from kidnapping to assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in connection with attacks on two women.
By Ric Oliveira, Standard-Times staff writer
NEW BEDFORD -- Edward Natal did not say much as artist Jaclyn Andrews drew a washable tattoo on his arm yesterday.
In fact, Edward remained mum even when a reporter quizzed him about how it felt.
The boy just showed off his arm and pointed to a stage where dozens of other boys were getting trophies for their basketball performance earlier in the day.
The design on his arm linked him with those players. It was a basketball and hoop. One of his friends said the Natal boy loved to play the sport but was too small to play with the others.
When asked if he would play one day, Edward vigorously nodded his head and smiled.
Hundreds of teen-agers and adults turned out yesterday for the Mount Pleasant School cookout sponsored by the New Bedford Housing Authority and the neighborhood police unit.
By Richard L. Berke, The New York Times
CHICAGO -- Dick Morris, President Clinton's chief campaign adviser and the central force behind the emphasis on family values that had its apex at this week's Democratic convention, announced his resignation yesterday after a tabloid reported that he had a year-long relationship with a call girl.
CHICAGO -- It could not possibly have come at a worse time: just a few hours before Bill Clinton appealed for the support of the convention that renominated him and the nation he hopes will elect him, nine weeks hence, to a second term.
From the Democrats' point of view, at least, it could not have been a worse kind of charge. It would have been better if Dick Morris, midwife of President Clinton's political rebirth, one of the co-authors of last night's speech, had been accused of robbing a string of banks.
By John King, AP Political writer
CHICAGO -- In a cracking but forceful voice, President Clinton appealed for a second term last night, offering himself to the Democratic convention as a champion of working families who has revived the economy and blocked extreme Republican budget cuts.
"Hope is back in America, and we are on the right track to the 21st century," President Clinton declared in accepting the Democratic nomination for a second time, before an adoring convention hall of cheering delegates and millions more in a national television audience.
By Rachel G. Thomas, Standard-Times staff writer
The Massachusetts delegation did not deliver the convention ballot Wednesday night to President Bill Clinton. That honor fell to Ohio.
But area members said they have felt a national spotlight on them anyway, by both political leaders and media.
By Richard Lorant, Associated Press writer
BOSTON -- When a federal judge ordered the city's public schools desegregated in 1974, the first day of classes was marked by rock-throwing and protests that came to symbolize white backlash.
Yesterday, a white girl whose court challenge of racial quotas could upend that desegregation plan spent her first day at the Boston Latin School without fanfare or visible opposition.
SAN FRANCISCO -- What'll it be? Chaste romance, or explicit sex? Harmless conflict, or wanton and gratuitous violence? The newest version of Microsoft's Web browser lets computer users be as nasty as they wanna be.
Internet Explorer 3.0 allows parents to decide exactly how much sex and violence they -- and their children -- can see while on the Internet.
NEW YORK -- Stocks fell sharply yesterday as reports of big strides in the nation's economy fanned investors' fears of inflation and higher interest rates.
WASHINGTON -- New home sales unexpectedly surged in July to the highest level in five months, continuing the powerful economic momentum of the previous three months and feeding new fears of higher interest rates.
The reports of a 7.9 percent jump in home sales after an annualized 4.8 percent second-quarter economic growth rate -- the biggest in two years -- were welcome news to President Clinton just before he accepted the Democratic nomination for a second term.
By Charlene Rocha, Standard-Times correspondent
Phyllis Mayer is among the 5,500 students enrolled in day classes at UMASS Dartmouth this fall.
She'll walk the campus, carrying her books in a pack thrown over her shoulder, go to class, take notes, write papers, the usual.
There is, however, something that sets her apart.
At camp for burn survivors, fun has a healing power
By Robert Miller, Ottaway News Service
It was mid-afternoon at Camp Hi-Rock in the picturesque Berkshire Hills town of Mt. Washington, and peace had settled on the Connecticut Burns Care summer session. A big lunch after a rowdy morning can slow anyone.
An hour earlier, campers had been dancing in their bathing suits to an improvised rendition of "Twist and Shout." In the lunch line, the main topic of conversation was the tragedy of missing "Friends" and "Melrose Place."
By Barry Wilner, Associated Press writer
Bobby Beathard has been called an innovator and even a genius for the way he builds teams. He was a mastermind in Washington and his San Diego clubs, although inconsistent, have been a tribute to his ability to recognize talent.
Bobby Ross won a national championship at Georgia Tech and has gotten the Chargers into the playoffs in three of his four seasons as coach. They made the Super Bowl in 1994 and just might get back this season if a few things break right.
By Barry Wilner, Associated Press writer
Let's get one thing straight from the start: The San Francisco 49ers, while still the best of the West, aren't nearly the terror they've been recently.
Does that mean they won't contend for the Super Bowl? Of course not. Does that make them any less entertaining to watch? Obviously not.
What the 49ers have this year, however, is holes. Cornerback, running back and the entire offensive line and kicking game all are filled with questions.
By The Associated Press
SEATTLE -- The Red Sox have been there before. Big lead going into August, then -- BAMM! -- out of nowhere comes their hated arch-rival to knock them out of contention.
But this time around, it's the Yankees who are looking over their shoulder at the Red Sox.
And things are getting pretty tense around the Yankee clubhouse.
It was five years ago next month when Rudy Bulgar, Jo Jo Goodine and Sharik Mendes entered New Bedford High School. They walked through the doors just like any other freshman on that early September weekday. Only on the football field, where each had been preceded by a reputation, did anyone notice.
For the Republicans, it can't get any better than this. On the eve of his nomination speech for re-election, President Clinton's closest adviser, Dick Morris, a man he has known for almost 20 years, resigned in a storm of juicy tabloid news that he conducted a year-long affair with a $200-a-night Washington, D.C. prostitute.
The battle of the economists continues to rage over whether Bob Dole's tax-cutting, budget-balancing economic plan is: (a) a piece of artful chicanery; (b) a piece of rubbish; or (c) the revealed economic wisdom of the ages.
Fortunately, Judy Shelton, an economic policy adviser to Sen. Dole, has logged on with a new twist to the whole plan that suddenly makes things much clearer. I mean, we can now understand what had been vaporous muddle. Thank you, Judy, you're like a blast of room air freshener in this sulfurous debate.
CHICAGO
The Democrats came to Chicago in 1968 and lost the presidency.
The Democrats came to Chicago in 1996 and lost the party.
The Gatsby of the Ozarks is not satisfied with reinventing himself, separating himself from his party and springing up, fully formed, as the Democratic nominee. He has also reinvented the image of the Democrats so completely that, as presented on television this week, there isn't much of a party left.
There is only a Clinton cult of personality.
Twice in the past month President Clinton has lost his temper in public.
His televised seething is calculated (1) to intimidate reporters who dare to raise the Whitewater-Travelgate issue; (2) to display a financial carrot and stick to aides under investigation, and (3) to begin to denounce the independent counsel as a partisan hack.
On Aug. 1, Bill Plante of CBS incurred the presidential displeasure by asking if Mr. Clinton still intended to sign the bill to pay legal expenses of those fired from the travel office, as two press spokesmen had said he would.
CHICAGO
Welfare is a divisive issue, but Democrats don't expect it to ruin the facade of general party unity at their national convention.
Bill Clinton has conceded there are tensions within the party over the new welfare legislation he signed into law last week despite the opposition of such Democratic Party luminaries as Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, the Democratic general chairman.
By January Gill, For The Associated Press
"A love story. Yes: this is a love story. It's about passion, sensual pleasure, deep pulls, lust, fears, yearning hungers. It's about needs so strong they're crippling.
"It's about saying good-bye to something you can't fathom living without."
As Caroline Knapp tells it, her romance was not with a person but with alcohol.
"First Kid" is an extended food-fight of a movie that gets better as it goes along; by the end, it achieves mediocrity.
Sinbad -- you either like him or want to throttle him -- stars as a White House Secret Service agent who, in real life, wouldn't be trusted with Socks the cat. He finds himself in charge of the president's son (Brock Pierce), who is going through a troubled early adolescence. And no wonder -- he seems to be almost permanently grounded.
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