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Tuesday • January 28,
► People in the News
Campus
Rumors refuted by
New Year's witnesses
Writer claims credit
for last Tupac album
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Two
women who rang in New Year’s Day
with John F. Kennedy Jr. and his new
wife say there’s no truth to tabloid
reports of trouble in Camelot.
, Karin Mason
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A song
writer claims he is due thousands of
dollars for 11 songs he produced and
co-wrote for All Eyez on Me, the Tupac
Shakur album that has become a hit
after the rapper’s
1992 assault case. Shakur was shot
to death last September in Las Vegas.
All Eyez on Me has sold more than
7 million copies.
Lost Rat Pack TV
film to air in April
Challenger crew to
be honored by Corps
Former bomb suspect
considers movie deal
Kennedy
and Brenda
Davidson said
Kennedy and
Carolyn Bes
sette Kennedy
seemed very
happy and com
fortable in the
crowd at
Half Moon
loon, near
the
Sa-
the
Shakur
Big Sky ski resort.
“I just want to comment so that
everyone knows that what the
tabloids are saying just isn’t true,”
Mason said in an interview with
Entertainment Tonight to be aired
sometime this week.
Davidson said she and Bessette
Kennedy’s girl-talk somehow got
twisted around in the tabloids,
which reported that Bessette
Kennedy said to “think twice" be
fore getting married.
“It was a total lie,” Davidson said.
“They were very much a married cou-
death.
Johnny Lee
Jackson claims
that he was
promised a
$10,000 ad
vance per song
against royal
ties of 3 per
cent. Jackson
said he repeat
edly has asked Death Row Records
for payment but has been refused.
He has sued the label for unspec
ified damages.
The lawsuit also claims that Death
Row “uses various strong-arm tac
tics” ... to ‘convince’ artists to per
form and to waive their rights.
Death Row officials referred calls
to the company’s lawyer, David Ken
ner, who did not immediately return a
call Monday.
Death Row President Marion
“Suge” Knight is in prison awaiting sen
tencing for violating probation in a
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Suspicion
brought unwelcome attention to
Richard Jewell. Now the former se
curity guard is embracing the lime
light, considering a movie deal for
his story as the Olympic park bomb
ing suspect.
Daily Variety, citing unidentified
sources, reported Monday that Jew
ell is considering offers from three
studios, with bids in the mid-six-fig-
ure range.
The entertainment industry news
paper said Jewell is leaning toward a
studio called Fox 2000 and a deal
that also includes the rights to the
Vanity Fair magazine article “American
Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jew
ell." None of the participants would
comment to Daily Variety.
Jewell was suspected for months
by federal authorities of setting the
pipe bomb bomb that killed a woman
and injured more than 100 people at
the Olympic Games in Atlanta. The re
sulting media attention ended only
when officials formally said he was no
longer under investigation.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The
Rat Pack is back.
A newly found kinescope of the
only known television performance
featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin
and Sammy
Sinatra
Davis Jr. has
been donated to
a museum and
will be shown in
April.
The Frank
Sinatra Spectac
ular was shown
June 20, 1965,
as a benefit for
the Dismas
House in St. Louis, the city’s first
halfway house for ex-convicts.
The program hasn’t been shown
since its original telecast to a se
lect group of theaters. Producer
Paul Brownstein found the record
ing in a secretary’s office at the
Dismas House.
The film was donated to the Mu
seum of Television and Radio in Bev
erly Hills. The museum will screen the
film in New York and Los Angeles in
April. The cable channel Nickelodeon
is expected to air the show at an un
determined date.
To commemorate the 1986 ex
plosion of the space shuttle Chal
lenger, there will be a special playing
of taps at the Quadrangle tonight at
11. ‘Echo Taps’ is also played to hon
or members of the Corps of Cadets
who have died. The ceremony is at
tended by all members of the Corps
and is open to the public. Quiet hours
will be observed on the Quadrangle
throughout the day.
Squadron 17 was reorganized in
1992 as Challenger 17 to honor the
memory of the six astronauts and one
school teacher killed in the accident.
los Villa said. “I’m not saying it*
tentional misrepresentation, buta
least it was negligent representati
The 250-acre parcel of land
Katy is being sold to develops
$1 million.
Leonard Rauch, coordinating
chairman, wrote to Texas A&MS\
Regent Chair Mary Nan West exp
ing concern that the school
filling its promise to pay a
amount of the costs with privates
State
Police listened in
graveside prayer
Land deal brings
suspicion in funding
COLLEGE STATION (AP) — State
education officials are asking Texas
A&M University to find other ways to
help pay for a new basketball arena
since a land sale will not bring in
enough money.
Approval of the $33 million arena
by the Higher Education Coordinating
Board had hinged on money from the
land. Board officials said A&M should
have told them the land’s value
dropped by $12 million.
“I can’t help but feel that we were
snookered on this," board member Car-
KERRVILLE (AP) — Darlie
er cooperated with Rowlett?
and gave a voluntary written
ment after her two young sons
stabbed to death, the lead
gator testified Monday.
Under defense question!
tective Jimmy Patterson also
lice officers used a hidden
phone to listen to the Routierfa
private graveside prayer sen'
week after the June 6 killings
The police eavesdropped’
someone went up there andr
confession,” Patterson testifie:
“Do you know that’s a vie
of federal law?" defense at:
Doug Mulder asked. Patterso'
not required to answer Mu
question because itcalledfi
gal knowledge.
► This day in history
Weather
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 28, the 28th day of 1997. There
are 337 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1902, the Carnegie Institute was established in
Washington, D.C.
In 1909, the United States ended direct control over
Cuba.
In 1915, the Coast Guard was created by an act of
Congress.
In 1916, Louis D. Brandeis was appointed by Presi
dent Woodrow Wilson to the U.S. Supreme Court, be
coming its first Jewish member.
In 1980, six U.S. diplomats who had avoided being
taken hostage at their embassy in Tehran flew out of Iran
with the help of Canadian diplomats.
In 1982, Italian anti-terrorism forces rescued U.S. Brig.
Gen. James L. Dozier, 42 days after he had been kid
napped by the Red Brigades.
In 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73
seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all sev
en crew members: flight commander Francis R. “Dick”
Scobee; pilot Michael J. Smith; Ronald E. McNair; Ellison
S. Onizuka; Judith A. Resnik; Gregory B. Jarvis; and
schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.
One year ago: The Dallas Cowboys captured their third
Super Bowl victory in four years, beating the Pittsburgh
Steelers 27-17. France set off a sixth underground nu
clear blast in the South Pacific, the last in a series of
atomic tests that generated protests worldwide.
Today
Tonight
Tomorrow
Highs & Lows
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28°F
Today's birthdays
Actor Alan Alda is 61. Rock musician Dave Sharp (The
Alarm) is 38. Rock singer Sam Phillips is 35. Singer Sarah
McLachlan is 29. DJ Mixmaster Muggs (Cypress Hill) is
29. Actor Elijah Wood is 16.
Windy and cold,
becoming clearer in the
evening.
Partly cloudy and cold.
Partly sunny.
Tomorrow’s Expefa
High
42°F
Tomorrow 0s
Expected L
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