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► People in the news
Lawyer asks judge
to block prosecution
Prospective juror
claims ignorance
► State
DETROIT (AP) — Dr. Jack
Kevorkian’s lawyer asked a federal
judge on Monday to block authori
ties from prosecuting the retired
pathologist again for helping people
commit suicide.
Kevorkian
“Does a
state have the
right to make
you suffer? The
answer ab
solutely has to
be no,” Geoffrey
Fieger told U.S.
District Judge
Gerald Rosen.
“It is the role of
this court to pro
tect us from unfettered government.”
Fieger appealed to Rosen one
day after Kevorkian helped Richard
Faw, a 71-year-old psychiatrist from
Wilson, N.C., kill himself.
Faw, who suffered from colon
cancer, died of carbon monoxide
poisoning, said Medical Examiner
LJ. Dragovic, who ruled the death
a homicide.
Dragovic said autopsy results
showed Faw’s colon had been re
moved and that he had cancer in
his colon area, lymph nodes, lower
belly and bones. But he said other
organs were cancer-free and that
Faw wasn’t terminally ill.
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They said it
couldn’t be
done: Attorneys
in the OJ. Simp
son civil case
found a prospec
tive juror Monday
who claims to
know nothing
about the crimi
Military begins
housing demolition
Simpson
nal trial and couldn’t care less.
“Do you have any strong feel
ings at all about this case?” asked
plaintiff attorney Daniel Petrocelli.
“No I don’t,” said the woman,
who is in her 20s.
“I don’t even know when it start
ed or ended. I don’t have any opin
ion of anything.”
She said she was busy going to
school and working and didn’t read
newspapers or watch TV.
“Are you aware of Shannon Lu
cid, the woman who orbited the
earth over 300 times?” Simpson
attorney Robert Baker asked.
“No,” the woman said.
“Well, she knows more than you
know about this case,” he said,
drawing laughter in the courtroom.
The woman was not chal
lenged by either side and was al
lowed to remain on the prospec
tive jury panel.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The Army
on Monday began demolishing a va
cated Fort Bliss subdivision that
had put the military at odds with ac
tivists who wanted the homes
turned into low-income housing.
A coalition of community organi
zations remained opposed to the
removal of the 138 duplexes that
make up the Hayes subdivision,
but a group spokesman said it had
no legal way to intervene.
“We don’t really have much
power to stop them,” said Steve
Juen, president of El Pasoans for
Affordable Housing.
The Army plans to use the
land for 130 new homes to be
built during the next two years for
military personnel.
who emigrated to the United States
in 1956 and became a citizen in the
early 1960s, announced Monday
that he’s establishing the Emma
Lazarus Fund.
Named after the poet whose
words — “Give me your tired, your
poor, your huddled masses yearn
ing to breathe free...” — are in
scribed on the Statue of Liberty,
the fund will make the money avail
able immediately, Soros told a
news conference.
The idea, he said, is to provide
direct assistance — payment for
English-language instruction, civic
education, even the $95 fee re
quired for naturalization.
Congress sends
budget to Clinton
► Nation
Billionaire helps
legal immigrants
WASHINGTON (AP) — Upset by a
“mean-spirited” law denying food
stamps, SSI and other federal aid to
legal immigrants, billionaire philan
thropist George Soros is pledging
$50 million to help those hurt by
the new welfare law.
The Hungarian-born financier,
WASHINGTON (AP) — With just
hours to spare Monday, a battle-
weary Senate sent President Clinton
a $389 billion spending bill for
scores of federal agencies and a
tightening of immigration laws, the
Republican-led 104th Congress’
last major legislation.
The catchall bill contains $6.5
billion in extra money that Clinton
demanded for education, drug-fight
ing and other programs and pushes
overall spending nearly as high as it
was before Republicans captured
Congress two years ago.
It also drops GOP-written immi
gration provisions the White House
argued were too severe, such as
one barring federally paid AIDS care
for illegal immigrants.
The 84-15 vote sent the mea
sure to Clinton, who promised to
sign it so that the 1997 fiscal year
can begin Tuesday without a rerun
of last year’s partial government
shutdowns. Forty-six Democrats and
38 Republicans voted for the legis
lation, while one Democrat and 14
Republicans opposed it.
The House approved the mea
sure Saturday night, 370-37, and
with a preelection adjournment ap
proaching, most of its members im
mediately left Washington.
While bent on speeding home for
their re-election races, senators saw
their hopes of adjourning for the year
immediately dimming because of a
dispute over a separate bill authoriz
ing air traffic systems. Democrats
complained that it contained lan
guage to help Federal Express pre
vent its truck drivers from unionizing.
Williams was under the inft
drugs. However, state pol
74 marijuana plants and it
pounds of dried hallw
mushrooms at his house.
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Williams to the hot springs a
thorities he had gonetobecj f
Williams up by himself Ttag
night of a full eclipse ofthe
► World
Russian populai |
continues decll
Man dies after
watching eclipse
SELMA, Ore. (AP) — A man who
went to the hot springs in the
desert to watch a lunar eclipse was
found dead the next day in the 117-
degree water.
Kevin Williams, 35, died of hyper
thermia at Mickey Hot Springs in the
Alvord Desert, an autopsy found.
Authorities awaited results of tox
icology tests to determine if
MOSCOW (AP) — Fti
riages and births are cot
to Russia’s declining poo.:
the government said Mona
The state Statistics C(r|
said the population deci
147.7 million from 148 ™
during the first six montlis? I
year. However the rate of *
was less steep than intfr;
months of 1995.
Russia’s population ano
pectancy have been fallinj
the late 1980s because oh
ing health and living standa:;
The committee said the
uing population decline re‘i!|
in part, fewer marriages am!
ing number of divorces.!!
there were 9.1 births perlj
people during the first W
year, compared to 9.5 bi
1,000 people during the sa-i
riod last year.
► This day in history
Weather
(AP) — Today is Tuesday, Oct. 1, the 275th day
of 1996. There are 91 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1908, Henry Ford introduced the Model T au
tomobile to the market: each car cost $825.
In 1949, Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-
tung raised the first flag of the People’s Republic of
China during a ceremony in Beijing.
In 1961, Roger Maris of the New York Yankees
hit his 61st home run during a 162-game season,
compared to Babe Ruth’s 60 home runs during a
154-game season.
In 1962, Johnny Carson succeeded Jack Paar as
regular host of NBC’s “Tonight” show.
In 1964, the Free Speech Movement was
launched at the University of California at Berkeley.
Ten years ago: Former President Jimmy Carter’s
presidential library and museum were dedicated in
Atlanta with help from President Reagan, who said
he and his predecessor had come together in “mu
tual respect.”
Five years ago: President Bush strongly condemned
the military coup in Haiti, suspending U.S. economic
and military aid and demanding the immediate return to
power of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Today
Tonight
Tomorrow
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Today’s birthdays
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Today's Expected!!
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Tonight’s Expect
62°F
Tomorrow's E\pei!
(AP) — Actor Walter Matthau is 76. Actor James
Whitmore is 75. Former President Jimmy Carter is
72. William Rehnquist, chief justice of the United
States, is 72. Actor Tom Bosley is 69. Actress-
singer Julie Andrews is 61. Baseball Hall-of-Famer
Rod Carew is 51. Actor Randy Quaid is 46.
Partly cloudy and
warmer. Winds light
out of the southeast.
Partly cloudy and cool.
Winds light from
southeast.
Partly cloudy.
High
85°F
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