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Tuesday, May 2, NATION 'uesday. May 2,2000 THE BATTALION Page 13 uideiinelTirne Warner Inc. drops ABC affiliates • a diagnosis of ADHDi w guidelines, a child ymptoms in at least Wos >uch asat luuneandatscli , XTC ... V _ D „. AD , „ e , , . NEW YORK (AP) — For many fans mptoms must harm the it fABC . s >. Good Morning America,” it iiic or social functioning!! wasn’t such a beautiful morning today. ix months. A quarrel over transmission rights ■ miidelines are forchilde etweenTime Warner Inc. and the Walt - > m . a nun , )isney Co. left seven Disney-owned ill 12. Most ADI ID rest: . .• er <-'1 i iBC stations ott ot local cable sys- ud\cd that age group,anti jms.Theonly way for cable customers m also said it recognizes! ) see ABC programs would be to rig ;ympto eiulkeii? leirTVsto get an ABC station the old- il rambunctiousness and; ashioned way through an antenna. Atotal or 3.5 million homes were al- ected in seven markets, according to is is the first time the acade /lichael Luftman, spokesperson for i\\ n up guidelines forabek 'ine Warner. Cable customers were rilment" The academy Y (ithout ABC programming in New York . 1 aty; Los Angeles; Houston; Raleigh- ’I'l".-’ 1 * 101 " 1 hiee years; )urham,N.C.; Toledo, Ohio; and small )r Martin I Stein, co-s: lartsofTime Warner systems in Fresno, dalif, and Philadelphia. The move comes in the midst of May weeps, the period when ratings are used oset local advertising rates. Sweeps be an Thursday and last until May 24. “Disney has taken ABC away from ou,” read a Time Warner message on e cable channel that normally carries |VABC-TV, ABC’s affiliate in New r ork City. “We offered a proposal that ould have kept ABC for our cus- mers. Disney said no.” Disney had offered a series of dead- ine extensions after the original na- icdiatrics professor at thef of California at San Dies: bon dumpj disposal of carbon dioxide ds of sequestration are of the technology is still in nay bo a while before a significant impact on io air but researchers are irray of approaches. 4 mi tional transmission deal expired Dec. 31. The most recent deadline, offered in March, expired at 12:01 a.m. today. Disney said today it had already giv en Time Warner permission to carry the seven stations through May 24, the last day of the sweeps period, and accused Time Warner of lying to its customers. In the next weeks, ABC is set to air four celebrity editions of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire”, the conclusion of its miniseries “Arabian Nights,” the Daytime Emmys, Saturday’s Kentucky Derby and virtually all of its prime-time season fi nales. The first celebrity “Millionaire” is set for tonight. “Some deranged individual has de prived all of these people of ABC,” said Preston Padden, executive vice president of governmental relations at Disney. “These people are arrogant manipulators.” Padden said Disney had asked the Federal Communications Commission to intervene, saying it is illegal for a ca ble system to take a broadcaster off the system during the sweeps period. Disney has asked that Time Warner cable systems not only feature its new channels — Toon Disney and a soap opera channel — but also make the Disney Channel part of the basic ser vice packages. News in Brief Terminal cleared for weapon search LINTH1CUM, Md. (AP) — A ter minal at Baltimore-Washington In ternational Airport was evacuated this morning after security work ers detected what they thought was a weapon in a carry-on bag. However, no weapon was found, said Maryland Trans portation Authority spokesper son Kerry Brandt. About 1,000 passengers were sent back to the main terminal, where many spent about two hours waiting for information or try ing to make other arrangements. At 7:45 a.m., workers “detect ed something that could be a weapon” in a piece of carry-on lug gage that was being X-rayed, said airport spokesperson John White. Airport officials evacuated both the terminal and planes awaiting departure, and bomb sniffing dogs were taken onto the planes. Incoming flights were rerouted to another terminal. “Once the canine units did their thing, everybody was put back through security and al lowed to get on the planes again,” White said. The terminal was reopened at 10:15 a.m. Arkansas woman faces execution VARNER, Ark. (AP) — Prison offi- ials prepared for the first execution of a roman in the state in more than 150 'ears, a nurse who killed her two children nd initially blamed her action on depres- ion over the Oklahoma City bombing. Christina Marie Riggs, who had ob- ained court permission to drop all ap- leals, was flown early Sunday from the dcPherson Unit, the state women’s Jrison, to the Cummins Unit, where ex- cutions take place, Correction Depart- nent spokesperson Dina Tyler said. absorb carbon dioxids ct large scale disposal life is still unclear, moderate depths wotils . greater depths, il wcuio u . oiioct on the oceanit: Riggs was to choose her last meal oday in advance of her Tuesday exe cution, Tyler said. Jim Harris, a spokesperson for Gov. Mike Huckabee, said the governor planned to review Riggs’ case. On Friday, Amnesty International USA asked Huck abee to grant Riggs executive clemency. Riggs, 28, was convicted of capital murder for killing 5-year-old Justin and 2-year-old Shelby Alexis in 1997. Justin was injected with potassium chloride and morphine and eventually smothered; his sister was smothered. Riggs, a former Oklahoma City res ident, initially said trauma she experi enced working as a nurse after the April 1995 bombing there drove her into a deep depression. Her mother said in court documents that Riggs worked at the bomb site. The Veterans Administration hospital where Riggs worked disputed that but said records showed she was paid overtime for helping at another hospital that day. The defense did not bring up the bombing during the trial itself. Her lawyer argued she suffered from depression and was innocent by reason of mental disease. But prosecutors said Rig gs hated her son, left the children by them selves while she competed in karaoke contests and plotted their deaths for two or three weeks. After she was found guilty, Riggs told jurors during the penalty phase: “I want to die. I want to be with my babies. 1 want you to give me the death penalty.” Club COL l* St 0} m » - ' Y : 2 DAYS for $20. Learn the basics of* makes golf enjoyable. 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