August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 Faron Lovelace

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 Second of three parts If they’d been in a more respectable line of work, Norwin Meneses, Danilo Blandon and “Freeway Rick” Ross would have been hailed as geniuses of marketing. …

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 Chocolate contains substances that might mimic the effects of marijuana, boosting the pleasure you get from eating the stuff, researchers say. The ingredients might make the texture, smell and flavor …

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 On a November afternoon in 1981, San Francisco DEA agent Sandra Smith inadvertently uncovered the first direct link between cocaine and the secret army the Central Intelligence Agency was assembling …

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 The tiny Kalispel Tribe’s bid to open a $17 million Airway Heights casino is giving at least one other tribe ideas. How about a casino in downtown Spokane? It’s not …

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 Isn’t that Chris Anderson behind the wheel of a “Dante’s Peak” film truck? File/The Spokesman-Review

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A2 Wednesday’s Washington Triple Choice: 896. Wednesday’s Washington Lotto: 3-10-15-16-26-49. No winner. New jackpot: $3 million.

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A2 A lesbian who lost custody of her 5-year-old son can visit with the boy at her home as long as her live-in lover is not around, a judge ruled Wednesday. …

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A3 President Clinton is poised to declare that the Food and Drug Administration will regulate tobacco as an addictive drug, a move that could clear the way for broad government controls …

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A3 Members of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill protest outside the White House where President Clinton was signing the health insurance bill. The bill does not extend equal coverage …

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A4 Former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm, who recently lost his bid for the Reform Party’s presidential nomination, admitted Wednesday that he tried marijuana 25 years ago. Lamm said friends offered him …

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A4 A newly formed conservative group - Women for Tax Reform - is planning a television advertising campaign to castigate President Clinton for failing to enact the middle-class tax cut he …

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A4 In between runs for the presidency, Ross Perot spent the last four years railing against the “giant sucking sound” of U.S. jobs and U.S. dollars going overseas. But at the …

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A4 Wednesday’s events on the presidential campaign trail: The candidates: Bill Clinton signed a bipartisan bill making it easier for Americans to obtain and keep health insurance. This bill, plus the …

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A5 Paramedics sawed off the head of a family’s pet python Wednesday after the 9-foot snake coiled itself around a pregnant woman’s stomach and entangled her husband as well. Mary Anne …

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A5 A woman who forgot she had stuffed a loaded gun into her underwear was wounded when it went off in a bingo parlor restroom, police said. Carolyn Hutchinson, 35, was …

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A5 When in trouble, call an expert. Students at Palisades Park’s high school needed their transcripts to send off to colleges, but they were in the computer and no one who …

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A5 A career criminal was sentenced to life in prison for robbing an 8-year-old Girl Scout selling cookies with her mother outside a supermarket. “No case is a better example of …

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A6 Surging enrollment during the next decade, particularly in the West and Southeast, will require about 6,000 new schools and 190,000 more teachers nationwide, the Education Department says. About 51.7 million …

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A6 This month’s massive blackout in the West could have been avoided if officials in Oregon had simply notified California electric utilities when the first power line failed more than an …

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A7 To reduce death and injuries from air bags, U.S. automakers will soon ask that a cornerstone safety regulation be reshaped to allow them to put less-violent air bags in cars. …

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A7 The first head-to-head comparison of the nation’s two most popular medicines for prostate trouble found that one gives significant relief while the other is virtually worthless. The two medicines, Hytrin …

August 22, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A8 Armey