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EBRIEFING
Friday • January 24,1*
► People in the News
President hopeful
of star’s apology
NEW YORK (AP) — President
Clinton is urging Dennis Rodman to
just do it: Just say I was wrong.
“I’m sure in his heart of hearts
he regrets doing that, but I would
hope that at
some point in
addition to pay
ing this enor
mous fine, and
also trying to
pay the gentle
man he kicked
... that he’ll find
a way to say, ‘I
Rodman shouldn’t have
done it and I re
ally regret it,’ ’’ Clinton told New
York’s WBIS-TV in an interview air
ing Thursday.
“I think it will only make him big
ger, and it will make his fans think
more of him. It will send a who-
knows-what signal to some young
person out there who, like Dennis
Rodman, has enormous abilities
and terrific imagination and a little
bit different from the run-of-the-mill
person and therefore really identi
fies with Dennis Rodman."
Rodman told ABC’s “PrimeTime
Live” this week that his kick of a
courtside cameraman during a game
in Minnesota was only a “tap.”
“I apologized,” said the Chicago
Bulls forward, who has agreed to
pay cameraman Eugene Amos
$200,000. “But most people in the
world would say, ‘He’s acting.’ ”
The National Basketball Associ
ation has fined Rodman $25,000
for the incident and suspended him
for 11 games. The suspension, the
second-longest in league history,
will cost Rodman more than $1.1
million in lost pay.
Cisneros to head
Univision network
DALLAS (AP) — Henry Cisneros
is becoming president of the Span-
ish-language television network Uni
vision next month, which he thinks
will allow him to continue to offer a
public service.
“It is the offering of information
services and entertainment ser
vices, news services, to a commu
nity that needs them and hopefully
that can use them in making its way
into the mainstream of this coun
try,” the former San Antonio mayor
and Department of Housing and Ur
ban Development secretary told
The Associated Press.
Univision reaches 92 percent of
U.S. Hispanic households, with an
80 percent audience share of Span-
ish-language viewership overall.
Cisneros said he needed a job
that paid more than his Cabinet
post, with one daughter in college
and another in law school. He con
firmed that he will be making more
with Univision than his $148,000
annual salary at HUD.
Cisneros, 49, is the subject of an
investigation into allegations he lied
to the FBI during a background
check about payments he made to
a former mistress. He declined to
answer questions about that.
Sinatra’s art up for
grabs at auction
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) —
Frank Sinatra is drawing fans from
all over the
world for his art.
A signed lith
ograph of one of
the crooner’s ab
stract paintings
is part of the
ninth annual
Frank Sinatra
Celebrity Golf
Tournament
Silent Auction
that begins Jan. 31.
Other autographed celebrity
items include a boxing glove from
Sinatra
► This day in history
Today is Friday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 1997. There
are 341 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
In 1848, James W. Marshall discovered a gold
nugget at Sutter’s Mill in northern California, a discov
ery that led to the gold rush of 1849.
In 1908, the first Boy Scout troop was organized in
England by Robert Baden-Powell.
In 1922, Christian K. Nelson of Onawa, Iowa, patent
ed the Eskimo Pie.
In 1943, President Roosevelt and British Prime Min
ister Churchill concluded a wartime conference in
Casablanca, Morocco.
In 1965, Winston Churchill died in London at age 90.
In 1972, the Supreme Court struck down laws that
denied welfare benefits to people who had resided in
a state for less than a year.
In 1978, a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunged
through Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrated, scatter
ing radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada.
In 1986, the Voyager 2 space probe swept past
Uranus, coming within 50,679 miles of the seventh
planet of the solar system.
In 1993, retired Supreme Court Justice Thurgood
Marshall died in Bethesda, Md., at age 84.
► Today's birthdays
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Ernest Borgnine is 80. Ca
jun musician Doug Kershaw is 61. Singer-songwriter
Neil Diamond is 56. Singer Aaron Neville is 56. Singer
Warren Zevon is 50. Comedian Yakov Smirnoff is 46.
Actress Nastassja Kinski is 37. Country musician
Keech Rainwater (Lonestar) is 34. Olympic gold-medal
gymnast Mary Lou Retton is 29.
Oscar De La Hoya, a moon-landing
photo of Buzz Aldrin, a blue se-
quined jacket worn by Wayne New
ton and a Sharon Stone-signed
script from the movie “Casino.”
The tournament and auction ben
efit the Barbra Sinatra Children’s
Center for abused youngsters in
Palm Springs.
Mrs. Sinatra said Tuesday night
that her 81-year-pld husband “is do
ing great” since his return home af
ter hospitalization.
Bullock’s career
full speed ahead
NEW YORK (AP) — Sandra Bullock
is feeling the need for speed again.
After starring in “A Time To Kill”
last summer and “In Love And War”
which opens Friday, she’s working on
the sequel to “Speed,” the hit movie
she made with Keanu Reeves.
“The last two films were very
heady and internal and I wanted to
do something that was fun and
physical to balance things out,” she
says in the February issue of US
magazine.
The 32-year-old actress says,
“this is the last time I’ll do some
thing like this.”
Ever?
“Ever,” she replies. “Probably.”
Weather
Today
Surprise witness' testimor
will point to staged crime
KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — The
prosecution in Darlie Routier’s cap
ital murder trial introduced this
morning an FBI agent who said he
would testify that the crime scene
was staged and her two sons were
killed by someone they knew.
Prosecutors presented the sur
prise witness outside the presence
of the jury. Defense attorneys ob
jected strenuously, but state District
Judge MarkTolle called a morning
recess to consider the testimony.
Agent Alan Brantley said he had
affidavits, newspaper articles and
975 crime scene photographs to
support his testimony.
Assistant District Attorney Greg
Davis on Wednesday demonstrated
in front of the jury box how he con
tends Mrs. Routier killed her sleep
ing sons: by holding a knife over his
right shoulder and flailing away.
Later, an expert on bloodstains
testified that the prosecutor’s move
ments corroborate how both boys’
blood could have gotten on the
back of Mrs. Routier’s nightshirt.
Mrs. Routier, 27, is charged with
two counts of capital murder in the
June 6 deaths of her sons Damon, 5,
and Devon, 6. She could face the
death penalty if convicted.
Mrs. Routier says she was at
tacked after her sons were stabbed
by an unknown assailant whcl
carded her kitchen knife iift
laundry room before fleein'®
Rowlett home.
Jurors stood and leanedo\t:«
railing to get a better view ofD:«
demonstration, which canieai®
prosecution began wrappingt:!
capital murder case after 13<k f
testimony from 35 witnesses.
Bloodstain expert Tom Beveli
lied Wednesday that the blood
on Mrs. Routier’s shirt, alongwii
own tests, guided him to thecok
sion that she stabbed her sons.
First Assistant District Attor
Norman Kinne apologizedW
day for remarks he madeoutsidei
courthouse on Tuesday. Bereft
to the defendant’s mother, Di
Kee, as "trailer trash" after she
cused him of lying to reporten
the impact of testimony.
“To anyone other than thewoi
who called me a liar, if I offended
one, I apologize," Kinne said. “Host
temper, and I shouldn’t have. I’m
accustomed to being called a liat h
not a liar, and I won’t be called
without a response."
His confrontation with Ms.
was broadcast on televisionm
reports Tuesday night. A wave
complaints to the district attorni
office followed on Wednesday
Tonight
Tomorrow
Highs & Lows
.
Today’s Expected Hip
74°F
Tonight’s Expected!
47°F
Partly cloudy with isolat
ed showers, and a west
wind of 10-15 mph.
Clear with a north wind
at 10 mph.
Sunny and clear with
winds out of the north
at 10 mph.
Tomorrow’s Expected
High
70°F
'Tomorrow Nights
Expected Low
44°F
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