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Wednesday
September 28, 1994
The Allen American
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World
•TOKYO — A key defendant in one of Japan’s biggest postwar
scandals was found innocent of bribe-taking Tuesday, a surprising
prosecution defeat that highlights the loopholes in the country’s
bribery laws. Takao Fujinami, a former chief Cabinet secretary,
was a central figure in the scandal that helped topple the long-rul-
ing Liberal Democratic Party last year. Fujinami was accused of
influencing labor regulations on behalf of Recruit, a job-placement
firm, in exchange for about $200,000 and 10,000 unlisted shares in
a Recruit real estate subsidiary in 1984-86.
•NEW DELHI, India — A huge banner proclaimed “Plague
Control Room” at the capital’s train station, and police stood by
Tuesday to rush the sick to the hospital. Officials urged calm, but
as plague spread from western Surat to New Delhi and across the
nation to Calcutta, authorities also escalated efforts to find the sick,
rush antibiotics to pharmacies and spray insecticide to kill disease-
carrying fleas.
Nation
• LOS ANGELES — The judge in the O.J. Simpson case pre-
dicted speedy selection of a jury and expressed surprise Tuesday
at the number of people willing to give up months of their lives to
participate in the famous murder trial. Superior Court Judge Lance
Ito said the number willing to serve was 25 percent to 30 percent
higher than he had anticipated when he summoned 1,000 prospec-
tive jurors. Ito had four sets of roughly 250 people on call this
week, but said the last batch may not be needed.
•FLINT, Mich. — Up to 11,500 workers went on strike Tuesday
at a key General Motors Corp, complex, shutting off the flow of
parts needed to keep many other GM plants running. As many as
100,000 other GM workers could be idled within 48 hours, a union
leader warned. The United Auto Workers walked off the job at the
huge Buick City complex, complaining of production speedups,
safety problems and subcontracting.
•WASHINGTON — The House sent the president a bill
Tuesday extending for a year the John F. Kennedy Assassinations
Records Review Board. The board, established in 1992, is respon-
sible for examining hundreds of thousands of Kennedy assassina-
tion documents and deciding whether they can be made public.
State and Local
•AUSTIN — Consumers and the insurance industry Tuesday
squared-off over automobile insurance rates with insurers seek-
ing an increase and consumers recommending a decrease. The
hearing on benchmark auto rates is expected to last several days.
The hearing examiners will make a recommendation to Insurance
Commissioner Robert Hunter.
•WASHINGTON — Texas Republicans endorsed a national
GOP platform that promises speedy House action on term limits,
tax cuts and more, saying the contract is a way of renewing voters’
wavering faith in Congress. ‘We are showing people in writing
what we will do once we are elected and inviting them to throw us
out if we don’t keep our word,” said Mac Thornberry, one of 17
Republican challengers from Texas appearing at the GOP rally on
the Capitol steps.
• SAN ANTONIO — The shooting of an off-duty jail guard
shows that anyone can be a victim of violent crime, his boss says.
Police said Tuesday that no arrests have been made in the killing
of Arthur C. Lopez Jr., 22, who was shot early Monday outside his
apartment complex.
Forces take over Haiti’s political institutions
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — American The amnesty measure was part of a deal thrown by the military. I
troops expanded their mission Tuesday from worked out Sept. 18 between the U.S. delega- The- first U.S. fatality came as American I
disarming the Haitian military to taking up tion led by former President Carter and Haiti’s troops were refurbishing the Villa d’Accueil, a □
posts around the Parliament building and City military junta. Haitian state guest house during the dictator-
Hall in anticipation of Haiti’s return to civilian A soldier posted on the roof of the ship of Jean-Claude Duvalier that now house
rule_ Parliament scanned the area with binoculars, the independent Electoral Council, which is to ,
The U.S. forces suffered their first fatality and others took up posts at the gate. Army oversee elections.
Tuesday. An American soldier was found shot vehicles stood watch in front of the building. They found him dead, said U.S. Embassy
to death at hillside mansion being prepared Small crowds of Haitians gathered in front spokesman Stanley Schrager. They don’t
for legislators returning to Haiti for of the building. know if this was a sniper or self-inflicted. 262
Wednesday’s Parliament session. At City Hall, U.S. military police in armored Boxx said in Washington that the shooting
Pentagon spokesman Dennis Boxx said the vehicles were posted inside the compound was being investigated as an apparent suits
soldier’s death was being investigated as “an and Army Humvees, machine guns mounted cide.” . u
apparent suicide.” on their tops, took up guard just outside. Witnesses said they heard two shots about
He was part of the 10th Mountain Division Mayor Evans Paul, exiled President Jean- 11 a.m. on the northern side of the Villa
from Fort Drum, N.Y., and his identity was not Bertrand Aristide’s former campaign manag- d’Accueil. @
immediately released. er, is expected to come out of hiding and Helicopters hovered over the area after the
Military police strung concertina wire in return to his office on Thursday, U.S. officials shooting, and platoons of American soldiers
front of the white colonaded Parliament build- said. stood guard behind twin rows of concertina
ing, a day before the Haitian legislative body Paul has been out of sight for most of the wire. They walked openly showing no signs of
was to begin discussing a bill authorizing three years since Aristide — Haiti’s first the tension that would follow a sniper killing,
amnesty for the country’s top military leaders, democratically elected president — was over- They refused to talk about the death.
No mechanical malfunctions
cited in Air Strikes crash
OKLAHOMA CITY — The hol in Stevens’ system.
National Transportation Safety The report addresses factual
Board isn’t ready to release its details of the crash. Conclusions
conclusions on a fatal airplane about the cause of the accident
crash that killed a pilot and an will be released later, officials
Oklahoma City television said. Stevens was flying a
reporter, but it says there were Marchetti F260. Ms. Jones was
no mechanical malfunctions. accompanying him to do a story
Pilot Maurice “Skip” Stevens, about Air Strikes International, a
38, of McKinney and Kathy McKinney company that flew cus-
Jones, 30, of Oklahoma City died tomers in mock aerial dogfights
July 5 when the plane Stevens and bombing runs.
was flying slammed into the Records show Stevens did not
Cimarron River bed about three have a civilian pilot’s license or a
miles west of Dover in Kingfisher current medical certificate.
County. He told a federal inspector that
The NTSB report released his pilot’s license was “in his car”
Monday said the wreckage and a when the inspector asked for it
cockpit video camera used to tape about two weeks before the fatal
the flights showed no evidence of crash, the NTSB report said,
mechanical malfunctions. The Records show Stevens never
report also said toxicology tests applied for his civilian pilot’s
showed no signs of drugs or alco- license after he left the Navy.
Dealing with Business
Federal Reserve leaves
interest rates unchanged
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve left interest rates
unchanged today after a regularly scheduled meeting of central
bank policy makers.
The Fed issued a brief statement saying the meeting had ended
but announcing no increase in interest rates.
Private economists had been widely predicting that the Fed
would leave interest rates unchanged today although many are
forecasting a sixth rate increase this year when Fed policy makers
next meet on Nov. 15.
Today’s meeting, which lasted for more than fours hours, was of
the Federal Open Market Committee — composed of the Fed’s
seven Washington board members and five of the Fed’s 12 region-
al bank presidents. They meet eight times a year.
Greyhound won’t make payment
DALLAS — Greyhound Lines Inc. says it will not pay a $4.2 mil-
lion interest payment when it’s due Friday because it would be
imprudent to pay during financial restructuring.
Dallas-based Greyhound said Tuesday that financial advisor
Rothschild Inc. advised against the $4.2 million interest payment
on $98.9 million due 2007.
“During the 30-day grace period for the interest payment, we
will work with Greyhound’s board to develop a comprehensive
restructuring plan that will be proposed to Greyhound’s security
holders and provide the financial basis for future growth,” said
Wilbur L. Ross, Jr., senior managing director of Rothschild.
People in the News
"Schindler’s List” writer
returning to Australia
IRVINE, Calif. — “Schindler’s List” writer Thomas Keneally is
leaving the faculty of a California university to spend more time in
his native Australia.
Keneally began teaching at the University of California at Irvine
in 1991. He will leave in June for Sydney.
“The commute has become onerous and I’ve found it difficult to
extricate myself from Australia,” he said. “They’ve asked me to
come back on an occasional basis, and hand on heart, this is not
based on rancor.”
Garbo tribute part of Nicks’ new album
PHILADELPHIA — Stevie Nicks has often felt that Greta Garbo
desire to be alone.
On her latest album, Nicks wrote the song “Greta” just for her.
“I have often thought, maybe I’ll just go paint, or maybe I’ll go
and write that book that everybody wants me to write about my
life, or maybe I’ll just go do something else really creative for a
while, and I have never been able to quite do that,” said Nicks, who
made her name with Fleetwood Mac.
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Panel recommends federal-
funding for fetal research •
BETHESDA, Md. — A federal The action is only the first step
panel recommended Tuesday in a process directed toward
that the government end its ban reversing a 15-year ban on federal,
on funding of human embryo financing of research using
research, saying very young human embryos. A report of the
embryos “do not have the same committee will be reviewed in
moral status as infants and chil- December by another NIH advi-
dren.” sory panel, which will then make
Opponents of the research recommendations directly to NIH
immediately labeled the decision Director Harold Varmus. • -
“ethically and morally bankrupt” Varmus may draw up the final
and pledged to carry their resis- guidelines for NIH grants for
tance to the floor of Congress. embryo research. NIH officials (
The 19-member committee of said it will be at least six months
experts selected to advise the before the agency could start 1
National Institutes of Health con- funding research. I
eluded that fertilized human eggs Brigid L.M. Hogan, a cell biolo-
can be used for federally funded gist at Vanderbilt University and a
scientific research within guide- committee co-chairman for sci-
lines that limit how long an ence, said embryo research “can
embryo can be kept alive, the make important contributions t@
sources of the sperm and egg, a whole range of medical prob-
and the purposes for the study. lems.”
Hits ‘ Sports
Jones to Jimmy: Cool it
on Cowboy criticism
IRVING — Jerry Jones wants Jimmy Johnson to start being a
journalist and quit being a “bitter” former coach.
The Dallas Cowboys owner, stung by Johnson’s recent criti-
cisms of current coach Barry Switzer, said Tuesday he hoped the
NFL analyst for Fox “can keep in the parameters of being a jour-
nalist. I hope he can be professional and not float out into petty,
negative comments about this football team.”
Jones said “Johnson’s attitude will not affect whether we make
a first down or fumble the ball. In my mind, what he said rein-
forces in my mind why he was not here.”
“He was a great coach, but he was wrong when he said he was
the only one responsible for the success of the team.”
Jones said he was “surprised” about Johnson’s recent com-
ments.
“We all heard him the day he left, how great he felt about the
team,” Jones said. “I just hate to see what happened the last five
years tarnished. And I’m not going to let him do it.”
Jones said the $2 million he gave Johnson for the divorce “was
the best money I ever spent.”
Panthers, Jaguars expect
bad talent pool to pick from
IRVING — The Carolina Panthers and the Jacksonville
Jaguars, the NFL’s newest teams, may get an inkling this week of
just how bad they’ll be when they get going next season.
The people doing the picking think very bad. They believe the
expansion stocking plan will leave them a choice of the aged, the
unfit and the just-plain bad.
“I don’t think we’ll find much of value,” says Bill Polian, the L
Carolina general manager. “I think a lot of the people we’ll be able •
to pick will be players just signed off the street.”
Other NFL people aren’t so sure, suggesting that free agency
will make available to Carolina and Jacksonville the kind of non-
expansion players they never would get otherwise. They will be
far enough under the salary cap that they will be able to afford
players others wouldn’t.
What’s in the Forecast
Today ;
Mostly sunny.
High 87 to 94. Low 1
56 to 61.
Extended
Forecast
Thursday through
Saturday, mostly
sunny days and clear
at night Highs in the
80s. Lows in the 60s.
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