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DUBLIN, Calif. - A woman who once tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford says she regrets the murder attempt and joins Americans in mourning his recent death. Sara Jane Moore was only 40 feet away from Ford outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco when she fired a single shot at him on Sept. 22, 1975. As she raised her .38 caliber revolver, Oliver Sipple, a disabled former U.S. Marine who was standing next to her, pushed up her arm as the gun discharged. The bullet flew over Ford's head by several feet, ricocheted off the side of the...

From the Waco (TX) Tribune-Herald: Sheehan, other protesters arrested near Bush ranchThursday, December 28, 2006 By Erin Quinn Tribune-Herald staff writer CRAWFORD — War protester Cindy Sheehan and several fellow peace activists were arrested this morning outside President Bush’s ranch where Bush is meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and others on Iraq war policy. Sheehan, arrested just after 11, said she and others were conducting a “peace surge” to address concerns that Bush may increase U.S. troop numbers in Iraq. The Bush administration is under mounting pressure to change its...

<p>THREE decades after being sent to prison for trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford, Charles Manson disciple Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme has found love - with a lesbian serial killer.</p> <p>Kristen Gilbert, a former Northampton, Mass., veterans affairs nurse, was convicted in 2001 of poisoning four patients in her care. Now she is said to be carrying on a caged-heat affair with none other than Manson's former groupie Fromme.</p>