RESIGNING. ANITA HILL, 40, whose allegations of sexual harassment nearly derailed the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas; from the University of Oklahoma law school; in Norman. Hill said campus politics prompted her decision.
SENTENCED. WANG DAN, 27, Chinese dissident who led the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests; to 11 years in prison; in Beijing. Paroled in 1993 after serving a 3 1/2-year sentence, Wang continued to criticize the regime and was charged with conspiring to overthrow the government.
SENTENCED. EUGENE DE KOCK, 48, commander of a South African security-police assassination squad who was nicknamed Prime Evil by his colleagues; on...
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