April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A1 Howie Heller, 7, sits with “Casey at the Bat” at Joe Robbie Stadium. Photo by Associated Press

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A1 The woman who was stabbed to death in her Spokane Valley home this week may have started the fight with her estranged husband, investigators said Friday. Mary “Cookie” Birnel suffered …

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A1 Chelsea Clinton visits the Taj Mahal with her mother, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Photo by Associated Press

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A1 1. Coeur d’Alene music store owner Rod Mitchell worked with Patty Duke on her new series, “Amazing Grace,” which premieres tonight. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review 2. Showtime. Patty Duke’s …

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A1 President Hafez al-Assad of Syria was reported by Israeli officials Friday to have agreed to establish relations with Israel in return for getting back the Golan Heights, which his country …

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A2 Friday’s winning “Triple Choice” lottery numbers: 073. Friday’s winning Washington Keno numbers: 4-5-11-12-21- 23-24-36-45-47-48-49-56-62-64-65-74-75-76-80. Friday’s winning Idaho Banko Doubler numbers: N-15,N-17,K25,K-26,K-27.

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A2 A tour operator that sold package trips went out of business Friday, stranding 2,000 travelers in the Caribbean and Mexico and disrupting the vacation plans of thousands of others. Club …

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A3 A bank robbery was foiled because the bank was no longer a bank. But the holdup man still walked away with $127. The bank had closed last August, but apparently …

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A3 A man was convicted Friday in a wave of mail bombings that targeted his girlfriend’s family and left five people dead, all within an hour. A federal jury took just …

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A3 Thousands of nurses marched from the Capitol to the White House on Friday to protest layoffs and hospital economy moves they contend are threatening their jobs and their patients’ health. …

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A3 A neighbor of O.J. Simpson testified Friday that he did not see a white Ford Bronco parked outside Simpson’s home when prosecutors say Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman …

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A3 An after-hours bomb blast blew out several windows at a U.S. Forest Service office. No one was injured. District Ranger Guy Pence said he knew of no reason for anyone …

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A3 Taking up a literal front-line position in the battle over abortion, Operation Rescue is moving its headquarters next door to an abortion clinic - one that employs the woman who …

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A4 Turkish soldiers killed 29 Kurdish rebels Friday in a stepped up military campaign in southeast Turkey, while the army pressed its offensive in northern Iraq to wipe out guerrilla camps. …

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A4 Russian troops seized the last important town held by Chechen rebels on Friday, starting a new phase of the war in the breakaway southern republic. The fall of the town, …

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A4 Trying to deter crime, Singapore launched an unusual experiment Friday by televising the conviction of a man who confessed to molesting schoolgirls. Sim Seng Wah, 37, was the first person …

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A4 President Clinton chats with U.S. soldiers relaxing in a kiddie pool. Photo by Associated Press

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A4 Israeli forces killed a senior Hezbollah commander in a helicopter-gunship attack on his car in southern Lebanon Friday, and Katyusha rockets from the region rained down on northern Israel hours …

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A4 The Security Council voted Friday to scale down the U.N. peacekeeping force in Croatia and deploy troops on the country’s borders. But the mandate is vague and does not address …

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A5 A woman whose husband of three hours raped her 7-year-old daughter, giving the girl the AIDS virus, was sentenced Friday to four years in prison for endangering the girl and …

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A5 Selena during a 1994 performance. Photo by Associated Press

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A5 The Coast Guard turned off its Morse code equipment after nearly a century of monitoring telegraph distress calls such as the Titanic’s 1912 collision with an iceberg. The reason: “Modern …

April 1, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A6 An exhausted young refugee rests near the town of Ngozi, Burundi. Photo by Associated Press