Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, August 2, 1995 TAG: 9508020044
SECTION: NATL/INTL PAGE: A-10 EDITION: METRO
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WASHINGTON - Any postal employee - worker or manager - who brings a gun to work will be fired, the post office's governing board announced Tuesday.
``Guns won't be tolerated in postal installations. Any employee who violates this policy will immediately lose his or her job - no ifs, ands or buts,'' Postmaster General Marvin Runyon said at a board meeting in Denver.
Runyon said the policy applies to all postal employees except police and postal inspectors.
- Associated Press
New review ordered in copter downing
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon's civilian leadership has ordered the military to review the 1994 shootdown of two U.S. Army helicopters by Air Force fighters to make sure all those responsible have been held accountable, officials said Tuesday.
In an unusual step, Deputy Secretary of Defense John P. White directed the secretaries of the Air Force and the Army to check over what has been done so far and recommend additional punishments - in the form of administrative actions - if they believe them necessary.
The Pentagon has come under criticism because despite a year of legal proceedings, only one person has been court-martialed and he was acquitted, while a handful of others received light administrative punishments.
Kenneth Bacon, the Pentagon's spokesman, said the Defense Department leadership had wanted to wait until the military legal process had run its course.
- Los Angeles Times
Psychiatrist guilty in false-memories case
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Vynnette Hamanne believed she was the victim of bizarre childhood sexual abuse involving satanic rituals, and that she had seen her grandmother stirring a cauldron of dead babies.
None of it was true, and a jury Monday ordered the woman's psychiatrist, Dr. Diane Humenansky, to pay her $2.5 million for planting false memories in her mind.
Attorneys for Hamanne said the verdict thoroughly discredits the repressed-memory theory, which says a person can endure repeated abuse and not remember it until years later.
- Associated Press
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