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Fire
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[ was scared,” she said. “The fire
| so big and the wind was blowing
te direction of my building. I was
fed it was going to happen again.”
The residents of the two-bed-
[m apartments were moved tem
porarily to other apartments at
/is House and Kensington Place.
■Vnspach said none of the resi
sts had renter’s insurance. The
{mated damage will be deter-
lied later in the week,
ted Cross provided emergency
[essities such as food, clothing
toiletries for residents whose
Irtments burned. Beds also were
jin temporary apartments.
ISTRUCTOR
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feimpson is one of 11 instructors
|rged with sexual misconduct at
xdeen Proving Ground, about 30
es northeast of Baltimore. The
adal led to an investigation into
al misconduct at U.S. military
es worldwide.
simpson, who is married, is
rged with raping eight women un-
his command, five of whom he has
/acknowledged as sexual partners.
The encounters he pleaded guilty
occurred between March 1995,
) months after Simpson arrived at
:rdeen, and September 1996.
I™ The court-martial judge, Col. Paul
nston, asked Simpson who initiat-
the sexual encounters. In two cas-
Simpson said, the women did. In
cases, he said, both he and the
|men agreed to sex. In five cases, he
ersaid he could not remember or
not give a clear answer.
He said he used condoms with at
|st two of the women. In most cas-
he said, he could not recall whether
used a condom.
FLOODS
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■ A highway-model snow blower
was used as a pump, sucking water
. off the streets and spraying it in a
-100-foot-high arc over the levee
'^back into the river.
min northwestern Minnesota, ris
ing water from the Wild Rice and
Marsh rivers forced the evacuation
of about 1,000 residents of Ada, a
uivn of 1,700.
j* I “We’re absolutely over-
whelmed,” Mayor Russ Onstad
laid from one of the town’s few
forking phones. “We’re getting
Iter from north, south and
l|st.”
President Clinton signed a
Jtewide disaster declaration
onday because of South Dako-
s blizzard and the flooding,
lere was no immediate word
declarations for other states
the region. Thousands re
gained without power.
JFloods across the Midwest in
993 were blamed for 48 deaths
d $10 billion in damage in
line states.
Temperatures dropped to zero
londay at Dickinson, N.D., and Be-
|idji, Minn., recorded a wind chill
>137 below zero.
10utside Wahpeton, N.D.,
long the Red River, Tom
1/ Jbela’s wheat and bean fields
ere entombed in ice that was
5 feet deep in spots.
[ “It’s kind of neat looking,” he
id. “There’s ridges in it. They look
£ little snowbanks. There was 50
| Uph winds making whitecaps in
,he yard. They froze in midair.”
r | Kubela’s farm is just 100 yards
Way from the Bois de Sioux Riv-
a tributary to the Red River. His
irnily has lived there for 110
; ars, and this is the worst weath-
: anyone can remember.
“You expect it, but when you get
major flood, and throw in a bliz-
itd, and a deep freeze afterwards
nothing like this has every hap
ped here,” he said.
Across the river in Brecken-
dge, Minn., Jason Matteson
tove his ice-covered four-
heel all-terrain vehicle looking
Tan open store to buy diapers
'this 2-year-old son. Matteson
id he’s been using towels since
turd ay.
“I’m in dire need,” he said. “The
Y’s not slowing down.”
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Tuesday • April 8, 1997
Poll to survey parents
about ratings system
► Lawmakers and children's advocacy
groups have criticized the voluntary
TV ratings for being too vague.
LAS VEGAS (AP) —The TV industry will ask parents
whether major changes should be made to the 3-
month-old ratings system, Jack Valenti, the executive
who oversaw its creation, said Monday.
Ranging from “TV-G” for all audiences to “TV-MA,”
mature audiences only, the voluntary ratings have been
under a barrage of criticism from lawmakers and chil
dren’s advocacy groups for not providing parents with
enough detailed information about shows’ sexual, vio
lent and language content.
Valenti, who also is president of the Motion Picture As
sociation of America, made his remarks in an interview at
the National Association of Broadcasters convention here.
Public Opinion Strategies and pollster Peter Hart will
jointly interview more than 1,000 randomly selected
parents beginning next month.
But Valenti would not say what results would trigger
major changes to the six-tier, age-based ratings that
went into effect Jan. 1.
“Is it 51 percent or 64 percent? I don’t know,” he said.
“There’s no line in the sand.”
Other studies say parents want more detailed ratings
than the movie-like ones now in use.
Later, in remarks to the convention, Valenti said:
“I have said publicly that we are going to be very flex
ible with these guidelines. We’ll make some changes
here and there. But I want everybody to know we are
not going to make any large revisions in these guide
lines unless and until real parents with real kids tell us
they want those changes to be made.” Broadcasters ap
plauded Valenti’s comments.
In addition to the polls, Valenti said, the TV in
dustry would be talking to the nation’s roughly
1,600 TV stations to get parental feedback on the
ratings’ effectiveness.
Despite critics’ complaints about the ratings, Valen
ti said in the interview, “I’m confident that what we’re
doing is right and useful... It’s very easy to criticize.”
Valenti also told broadcasters that TV ratings are not
designed for Congress or advocacy groups, but for par
ents, who will be the final arbiters. Congress, he said,
should not interfere.
teachers learn to avoid prejudice.
Dees advised the audience to
carry on their own battles against
discrimination.
“I wish I had the answer I could
give you [to] how we can all get
along,” he said. “We have to learn
to really love one another. That's
probably the answer, if there is a
single answer.”
Piazza
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Piazza said homosexuals have
been orphaned because their his
tory has not been recorded in its
entirety. This uniqueness has cre
ated a God-like strength among
gay and lesbian Christians, he said.
“We are isolated, unique and
alone,” Piazza said.
He said sexuality should be cele
brated and enjoyed and many church
es refuse to deal honestly with it.
‘As Christians, we must reclaim sex
uality from the heathens,” Piazza said.
His lecture was sponsored by the
Rainbow Christians, Friends Con
gregational Church, Just Peace In
stitute, Gay Lesbian and Bisexual
Aggies, and Parents, Families and
Friends of Lesbians and Gays.
Dees
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When asked his opinion of the
Hopwood decision, Dees said he
does not believe in affirmative ac
tion personally, but preferential em
ployment is sometimes necessary
to ensure equality.
“As we balance the playing
field, some people are going to
lose out,” he said.
In addition to fighting hate in
court, Dees said, the Southern
Poverty Law Center helps educators
teach tolerance in the classroom.
The center distributes education
kits to over 55,000 schools in the coun
try and publishes a magazine to help
Officials still unable to
locate Simpson's items
LOS ANGELES (AP) — O.J.
Simpson has told a judge that he
does not have his Heisman tro
phy, his Chevy Suburban and
dozens of other items sought by
the plaintiffs in his civil lawsuit,
but he did not say where they are.
In papers filed Friday and
made public Monday, Simpson
offered explanations of why most
of the 108 items were not in his
Brentwood home when Los Ange
les County sheriff’s deputies ar
rived to seize them March 28.
Simpson said some items are
being held in trust for his children,
Sydney and Justin; some were giv
en to his ex-wife Marguerite as part
of their divorce in 1978 and other
things went to Nicole Brown Simp
son as part of their 1992 divorce.
Simpson, who says he is broke,
agreed to turn over to the court stock
certificates for his companies, O.J.
Simpson Enterprises and Orenthal
Productions and Pigskins Inc.
He declined to turn over his
memberships to two ritzy country
clubs because he said they are
non-transferable.
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