September 30, 1996
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A military intelligence officer accused of giving South Korea secret U.S. documents won a court ruling today that would free him pending trial. But prosecutors appealed. U.S magistrate judge W. Curtis Sewell ordersed Kim, 56, freed on $200,000 bond and more than $500,000 worth of property put up by his friends.

Maryland Governor Parris Glendening has some new policy initiatives he hopes will crack down on crime. Glendening was joined by 75 elementary students and other local lawmakes at a news conference in Suitland this morning where he issued a statewide call to "stop the violence."

D.C. police are disputing a newspaper report that there is a high turnover rate in Mayor Marion Barry's private security detail.

The Washington Times reported today that only one of the 17 officers assigned to the detail in January 1995 remains. D.C police issued a statement this afternoon saying more than 50 percent of the original officers remain on the detail. The security detail protects the Mayor, his wife and his son.

An experimental vaccine halted the progress of a particular type of Multiple Sclerosis in a number of patients on whom it was tested, leading to hopes that some patients can be saved from the most devastating effects of the disease.

Dr. Arthur Vandenbark of Veterans Medical Center and Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Ore., conducted the research: "The vaccine was effective in stimulating a regulatory response in a portion of the patients, and those patients that did have a response to the vaccine did not progress clinically over the year that we followed them."

White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta says negotiating with Congressional Republicans got easier after Bob Dole left the Senate leadership. Panetta points to the weekend budget accord, which prevented another government shutdown. He says its part of a recent pattern of GOP lawmakers trying to resolve disputes with President Clinton, not bully him. The Senate is expected to pass the spending measure -- and the President to sign it -- before the new fiscal year at midnight.

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