Friday • September^ ► People in the news Academy Awards host search begins NEW YORK (AP) — Whoopi Goldberg has settled on her cj-ioice as host N for next year’s ' Academy Awards show —x Rosie O’Donnell. During an appearance on O’Donnell’s TV show Thursday, Goldberg, the host of this year’s Oscars, declared: “There isn’t anybody else who can do it in my opinion but Rosie." She urged the audience to write the Academy to tell them so. Osmond up-staged by throat injury DETROIT (AP) — He’s a little bit rock ’n’ roll and a little bit ... hurt. A throat injury will force 38- year-old Donny Osmond to miss the first three weeks of the mus cal Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Osmond, who has the title role in the Andrew Lloyd Webber produc tion, injured his vocal cords Osmond three weeks ago while performing in Boston. He aggravated the injury Tuesday doing voice exercises. Osmond up-staged by throat injury NEW YORK (AP) — Superman actress Margot Kidder, found dazed and filthy in a Los Angeles back yard in April, says she is “much humbled” and feeling fine. In her first interview since the episode, the 47-year-old Kidder told Barbara Walters on ABC’s 20/20 that she has suffered for years from manic depression. “It wasn’t my mood swings that alarmed me as much as the altered states that I would go into,” Kidder said in the interview, which airs Friday. “I likened them to LSD trips without the LSD.” ► Campus Dean receives honorary doctorate The dean of Texas A&M’s College of Science received an honorary doc torate two weeks ago from the Uni versity of Bergen in Norway. Richard E. Ewing was given the award during a special ceremony and banquet attended by the Queen of Norway. Ewing was honored for his work in applied mathematics/ numeri cal simulation and his close links with researchers at the University of Bergen. ► City Council run-off begins Saturday College Station voters will head to the polls Saturday to decide a run-off for the College Station City Council. The election will end the race between Paul Williams, a College Station business man, and Brad Martin, a landscape architect. Residents can cast their bal lots at the College Station City Council chambers at 1101 Texas Avenue South. ► State Tech may gain top state health official LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — The state could lose a second high-ranking fig ure to the Texas Tech hierarchy if Chancellor John T. Montford decides to pluck Texas’ top health official. State Health Commissioner David R. Smith is “pondering the possibility” of becoming the first president of the Texas Tech Uni versity Health Sciences Center, he told the Lubbock Avalanche- Journal. “I’ve got to weigh some family decisions,” he said. Montford already said he plans to recommend to school regents that interim university President Donald Haragan, a finalist for the chancellor’s job, become the per manent president of the university. National Guard pilot dies in crash CORSICANA, Texas (AP) — A small, twin-engine plane crashed early Thursday, killing the pilot as he was attempting an emergency landing, authorities said. Killed was Robert Warner of Chauvin, La., a 31-year-old Nation al Guard captain. The Federal Aviation Adminis tration in Fort Worth said the Beechcraft Baron was on a flight from Houston’s Hobby Airport to Love Field in Dallas when the pilot reported engine trouble about 2:30 a.m. The Texas Department of Public Safety said the pilot tried to land at Corsicana’s municipal airport but crashed about three-quarters of a mile from the northern edge of the field into a resident’s front yard. DPS Sgt. Kenneth Authier said the plane was owned by GTA Inc. of Dallas and was carrying bank documents. A GTA spokeswoman who identified herself only as Bonnie said she could not confirm any information. ► Nation I Yale tops latel college rankinl WASHINGTON (AP)-J sity topped U.S. News cl Report’s annual survey offol best universities. Swarthmorl was the top liberal arts sctaj The magazine, now in] year of rankings, is one] publications that offer guJ high school students :l choose among hundreds* leges and universities. “We use many of the rJ schools use to judge theirs cess," said Al Sanoff, mans tor for the project. ‘Howevs in the guidebook that inch] school, students need to: host of factors, and rankit one of them.’ This year’s ranking, s Thursday, ended Harvard's streak at No. 1. It finish: behind Yale and Princeton. Critics say the rankings heavily on statistical meas. fail to sort out importantir and character differences. This day in history (AP) — Today is Friday, Sept. 6, the 250th day of 1996. There are 116 days left in the year. On this date: In 1837, the Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio went co-educational as it conferred equal academic status to a class of four women and 30 men. In 1901, President McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-Amer ican Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. In 1939, South Africa declared war on Germany. In 1941, Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear yellow Stars of David. In 1975, Czechoslovak tennis star Martina Navratilova, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum. Ten years ago: 22 worshipers were killed when two gunmen attacked a synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey, with machine guns and grenades, then took their own lives. Five years ago: In the Soviet Union, the State Coun cil, a new executive body composed of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and republic leaders, recognized the independence of the Baltic states. One year ago: Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination as he was called back to the witness stand at the OJ. Simpson trial. ► Weather Today Tonight Tomorrow Highs & Today’s Birthdays Country singer David Allen Coe is 57. Comedian- actress Jane Curtin is 49. Rhythm-and-blues musician Claydes Smith of Kool & The Gang is 48. Actor-comedi an Jeff Foxworthy is 38. Country singer Mark Chesnutt is 33. Singer CeCe Peniston is 27. Rock singer Dolores O’Riordan of the Cranberries is 25. Actor Justin Whalen of Lois and Clark is 22. Yesterday's H 92°F Jason J and thi Yesterday's i 74°F Party cloudy with widely scattered show ers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy with widely scattered show ers and thunderstorms. C4 Pays Only Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday HOURS: THURS THRU SAT id-6'SUN‘1-5 Announcing The Suit Club’s Third Annual Sizzling Summer Clearance Outstanding Prices on Name Brand Qrmlity Clothing Jr&st ci fe