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the growing use of cellular telephones: fraudulently charging calls to other people's phone numbers; and illegally eavesdropping on other people's cellular conversations. The former involves a practice known as, 'cloning,' in which a person's cell phone number is replicated; the latter involves the use of a scanner, which enables someone to listen in on calls.

Mayor Marion Barry's decision to go on retreat for reasons of health and spiritual well-being. Mayor Barry left one retreat near Annapolis on Wednesday for another in St. Louis. There has been widespread speculation that he may have relapsed into drugs and alcohol, speculation which has not been confirmed.

at abortion clinics in Atlanta and Tulsa. No one has claimed responsibility for the two bombs that exploded recently at a women's health clinic in Atlanta. This week, authorities released a tape recording in which a telephone caller claims responsibility for two bomb attacks at a Planned Parenthood clinic outside Tulsa last September.

that it has discriminated against black farmers. Following a recent investigation, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman says that the Farm Service Agency used discriminatory lending practices. The Agency will temporarily halt all farm foreclosures, until it determines what role discrimination may have played in each farmer's financial problems.

new restrictions on campaign contributions, announced yesterday. The DNC no longer will take more than 100,000 dollars a year from anyone. And it no longer will accept donations from two sources which the law allows to contribute: namely, the subsidiaries of foreign corporations; and, foreign citizens who are permanent residents of the United States.

by Digital Equipment Corporation in December. The jury awarded six-million dollars to plaintiffs who said their use of Digital keyboards left them disabled. The court found that Digital should have warned users about the potential of injury. The appeal process is being watched closely by the computer industry.

in the Gingrich ethic violations case. The Justice Department has received a tape of House Speaker Gingrich and other Republican leaders talking about counter-attacks on the House Ethics Committee. A couple of democratic activists in Florida taped the conversation, and delivered it to Representative Jim McDermott, a member of the Ethics Committee.

to promote Acting CIA Director George Tenet to the full rank of director, following Anthony Lake's withdrawal from consideration. Unlike Lake, Tenet is expected to win easy Senate confirmation. He's been Deputy CIA Director since 1995 and prior to that served as Staff Director of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is conducting the confirmation hearings.

the Immigration and Naturalization Service. In the year ending September 1996, right before the presidential election, the INS granted a record one-point-one million citizenships...that's triple an average year. Only later did they find out that about 10,000 new citizens had previously been arrested or convicted of felonies.

where Secretary General Kofi Annan yesterday proposed eliminating 1,000 staff positions and cutting administrative costs as the first step in his program to reform the world body. The United States, the organization's biggest debtor, has vowed not to pay until Congress sees major changes in the U.N.