Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, January 1, 1994                   TAG: 9401010041
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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BRIEFLY . . .

Seventy-two police officers were killed by gunfire in 1993, more than half of all those who have died in the line of duty, the National Association of Chiefs of Police reported Friday.

The District of Columbia Fire Department must let a firefighter perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation even though he is a carrier of the infectious disease hepatitis B, a federal judge has ruled.

A top Prudential Securities Inc. executive has resigned as general counsel because of a scandal about the firm's sales of risky limited partnerships to unsuspecting investors. He remains an executive vice president.

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