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In August a television station in Jacksonville, Florida, that had been carrying Reverend Jerry Falwell’s Old Time Gospel Hour suspended the show and threatened to cancel it altogether because of Falwell’s sexually explicit descriptions of the alleged foibles of President Clinton.
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The French newspaper Le Parisien reported in November that a black man who was the object of racist remarks made by an elderly woman in a Vienna train station snatched the woman’s train ticket and ate it. Transit-authority rules specify that a passenger without a ticket must pay a hefty fine.
In April in Savannah, Georgia, Robert Palmer, 44, was charged with burglary after removing a windowpane and entering the home of Joseph Palmer. He insisted he broke in only to ascertain whether he was related to Joseph.
Ray Von “Poochie” Everette Jr., arrested in June for sexual assault, told a sheriff’s investigator in Gloucester, Virginia, that he crawled into bed with three sleeping women and had sex with one of them “to prove a point.” He said he wanted “to show her she could be had,” because he suspected the woman was a lesbian. Said the investigator, “He thought it would bring her back right and make her act right.”
In February Memphis police arrested a 21-year-old man for burglarizing a home. The man had left a pair of sneakers behind and returned several hours later, knocked on the door, and asked the home owner, “I was wondering, have you all seen my shoes? They’re red and white Nikes.”
