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A Russian parliamentary committee announced in November that the country could not yet comply with the world’s ozone-protecting chlorofluorocarbon ban treaty (which took effect in January 1996). Russian scientists proposed an alternative, however: a ten-year, $100 billion program in which 30 to 50 satellites would bombard the atmosphere with lasers to stimulate production of ozone, thus compensating for the Russian CFCs.
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Therisa Frasure, 22, and a 16-year-old accomplice were indicted in July for murdering an elderly woman in Cincinnati. According to a sheriff’s detective, they robbed the woman to get money for bus tickets to Nashville, where they intended to take hostages at the Grand Ole Opry and demand a personal meeting with singer Reba McEntire. (According to a McEntire representative, the women had never requested a meeting in the conventional way.)
In January in Fremont, California, a carjacker yanked Cecilia Laus, 54, out of her car and drove off, leaving the woman shaken but also bewildered, since the car was a 1976 AMC Pacer.
