March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A1 A TV news report stopped Spokane heart doctor Donald Canaday in his tracks as he exercised at home last Friday. A new study had linked a hypertension drug - one …

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A1 Defense attorney F.Lee Bailey, right, questions Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman about a crime scene photo during testimony Wednesday. Photo by Associated Press

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A1 Senate Republicans on Wednesday squashed North Idaho lawmakers’ attempt to revive a bill to help cities pay for the stress of rapid growth. The 23-10 defeat came nine days after …

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A1 Federal subsidies intended to boost farm income and aid the rural economy also benefit some of the richest neighborhoods on Spokane’s South Hill, a government watchdog group says. Since 1985, …

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A1 Teenage entreneur Jason Lawrence owns computer store and maintains a 3.0 grade-point average. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A2 Wednesday’s winning “Triple Choice” lottery numbers: 827. Wednesday’s winning Washington Lotto numbers: 8-22-23-29-31-41. No winner. Next jackpot $13 million.

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A3 Republican leaders quelled an uprising over abortion Wednesday and muscled $17 billion in cuts in housing aid, school improvements and other programs toward House passage. By a near party-line 242-190 …

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A3 Faced with an unbeatable Democratic filibuster, Senate Republicans late Wednesday abandoned an effort to block President Clinton’s order barring federal contractors from permanently replacing striking workers. After a weeklong struggle, …

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A3 A judge refused Wednesday to order the city to let a gay organization hold its own St. Patrick’s Day parade, and Irish-American gays said they would march anyway to protest …

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A3 Raising their voices in the stormy debate over affirmative action, liberal Democrats and women’s advocates pressed President Clinton on Wednesday to resist political pressure to retreat. “We will not be …

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A4 Three decades after a surgeon general’s report linked smoking to human cancers, researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine here have traced one of the genetic pathways by which …

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A4 The post office will nearly triple its production of the increasingly popular peel-and-stick stamps this year. Some 6.8 billion of the stamps that don’t need to be moistened will be …

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A4 Infant formula manufacturers stand to reap a windfall - critics say as much as $1 billion - under Republican legislation to replace a federal nutrition program for low-income pregnant women …

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A5 As diplomats in New York begin urgent discussions about an expanded mission for the U.N. military force in Croatia, their commanders in the field are worried that the troops will …

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A5 A Filipino maid convicted of a double murder will be executed as scheduled, Singapore said Wednesday, despite a plea from the Philippine president for a delay to examine purported new …

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A5 Nova Scotia’s former premier, who also served as a federal Cabinet minister, was charged Wednesday with rape, attempted rape and illegal detention. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the charges …

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A5 Investigators have concluded that a weak lock on a bow door was one of the main reasons the ferry Estonia sank, killing more than 800 people, a newspaper reported Wednesday. …

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A5 New evidence indicates that a Roman Catholic cardinal was deliberately gunned down, and not caught in a shootout between drug gangs as the previous government claimed, a government source says. …

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A6 Allan Lipsett, press secretary for House Speaker Newt Gingrich, surveyed the hundreds of union protesters and dozens of police outside his office Wednesday, glanced at the news helicopter above and, …

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A6 A man who had denied Detective Mark Fuhrman ever made racial slurs said Wednesday that he now remembers a previously repressed memory in which Fuhrman called him a “nigger.” Max …

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A8 Armed with 20-year-old snapshots and dusty college yearbooks, Spokane residents have gathered all week near First and Monroe to gobble gluttonous amounts of spaghetti. Pasta-hungry penny-pinchers Tuesday night waited in …

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A8 A top-level management dispute that has been simmering for months at Wismer Martin Corp. boiled over Wednesday in a series of resignations that include company president Stan Hatch. Hatch’s March …

March 16, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A8 N New York Stock Exchange trader scans a newspaper during a lunch break Wednesday, when the Dow slid in response to new concerns about inflation. Photo by Associated Press