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Page 14 The Battalion Tuesday, August 31,1993
Michael Jackson cancels
concert after collapse
The Associated Press
SINGAPORE — The groans and catcalls grew among Michael Jack-
son fans as the announcement rang across the packed stadium Mon
day: The performer is ill and the show is off.
Jackson was back in seclusion, leaving fans with rain checks and
questions about the condition of the 35-year-old singer.
For the third time, Jackson, reportedly suffering from an acute
headache and vomiting, canceled a performance on a world tour
dogged by allegations of child molestation. He has appeared twice in
Thailand and once in Singapore.
More than 40,000 angry fans who filled Singapore's open-air Nation
al Stadium were told to come back for a concert on Wednesday or ask
for a refund.
"He was well this afternoon, but as we went to the stadium he slow
ly developed this acute headache or migraine," Dr. David Forecast told
reporters.
The doctor said Jackson was dizzy and vomiting, and was in the
care of a neurologist.
A spokesman for the promoters said Jackson fainted backstage. Lee
Sobers, Jackson's publicist, would not take phone calls.
The entertainer was taken back to his suite at Raffles Hotel for a full
examination. Some 20 fans kept a vigil below the window of his third-
floor suite.
Dehydration from heat and humidity was blamed for the two post
ponements in Thailand. His publicists insisted the concerts were not
called off because of allegations that he had sexually abused a 13-year-
old Los Angeles area boy.
Forecast did the same on Monday.
"This (migraine) condition has nothing to do with the allegations,' 1 ’
Forecast said.
The star has denied any wrongdoing, and his spokesman says the
charges were concocted by the boy's father, a Beverly Hills dentist
who tried to extort $20 million from the entertainer.
In Los Angeles, Jermaine Jackson read a prepared statement Monday
expressing the family's "love and unfailing support" for his brother.
"Michael has been made a victim in a cruel, obvious attempt to take
advantage of his fame and success," he said. "We know, as does the
whole world, that he has dedicated his life to providing happiness for
young people everywhere."
Two men use
street people
to file false
tax returns
The Associated Press
FORT WORTH - From
January through April of last
year, two men rounded up
street people whom they
would drive to tax-filing busi
nesses to file false tax returns.
Over the four-month period,
William Flynn and Alva Ran-
dell Bennett said, they helped
electronically file at least 46 false
tax returns with the Internal
Revenue Service, claiming
$115,876.60 in refunds.
When the refunds — which
averaged about $2,500 — were
delivered, Bennett and Flynn
would receive almost $1,000
per return.
Monday, Flynn pleaded
guilty before U.S. District
Judge Terry Means to two
counts of filing false claims.
Bennett pleaded guilty on
June 14, also to two counts of
filing false claims. He was sen
tenced by U.S. District Judge
Eldon Mahon to 51 months in
prison, to be followed by three
years' probation.
Assistant U.S. Attorney
Richard Roper of Fort Worth
said Flynn and Bennett pre
pared or caused to he prepared
false returns of the street peo
ple they recruited.
Clinton
Continued from Page 1
Republicans to win. He said he
may ask the Senate to consider the
agreement first because chances for
approval there are better.
The possibility of sending U.S.
troops to Bosnia has been on the
table since last February when
Clinton said the United States
would be willing to participate in
peacekeeping efforts there.
At the United Nations, U.S.
Ambassador Madeleine K. Al
bright said the United States is
considering offering troops but
has not made a specific offer.
"There is a misapprehension
here," she said. "The United
States has all along said it would
be willing to participate in imple
mentation of a freely arrived at
agreement. So far as we know,
that has not yet happened.
"The United States is actively
considering the use of troops to
implement such an agreement,
should it come about, but there
has been no commitment made at
this point, certainly not by me,"
Albright said.
Negotiations resume in Geneva
Tuesday on a plan that would di
vide Bosnia into Serb, Croat and
Muslim mini-states.
The Muslim-led government,
which currently controls 10 per
cent of Bosnia, rejected the plan
Saturday, demanding more land
as well as U.S. and NATO partici
pation in any peace settlement.
Asked about the use of Ameri
can forces, Clinton said, "Whether I
would be prepared to do that or
not depends on whether I am con
vinced that the agreement is ...fair,
fully embraced by the Bosnian gov
ernment and is enforceable. That
has been a source of concern for
our military planners all along."
Renewing U.S. willingness to
participate in a peace agreement,
Clinton said, "I want to see what
the details are, I want to get the
briefing on it, I want to know that
it will be enforceable."
He also defended the continu
ing presence of U.S. troops in So
malia, where American forces and
U.N. troops are expanding their
role after a humanitarian mission
to prevent mass starvation.
"There needs to be a lot of na
tion-building in Somalia from the
ground up, a lot of institution-
building," Clinton said. "We did
go there to stop the starvation and
the violence and the bloodshed,
but it's also true that the absence
of order gave rise to all those
problems, and so we're still trying
to fulfill our original mission in
Somalia."
He brushed off a question
about an unsuccessful raid byU.S.
forces searching for the lieu
tenants of fugitive warlordMo-
hamed Farrah Aidid.
Blaming Aidid's forcestoi
killing Pakistani peacekeepers
and four Americans, Clinton said,
"So, we have to deal with that."
However, he said, "I am open to
other suggestions. I think the
United Nations should be open to
other suggestions."
Asked later if Monday's raid
had been bungled, Clinton said,"I
don't think 1 would characterize it
in that way."
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