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NEWS IN BRIEF
McDonald's CEO to
retire at year's end
CHICAGO (AP) - McDonald's
Corp. is replacing its chairman
and chief executive, Jack
Greenberg, as it struggles to
emerge from a deep, two-year
slump.
The fast food chain said
Thursday that Greenberg, 60,
decided to retire at the end of
the month after 21 years at the
company. McDonald's board
elected the company's presi
dent and vice chairman, Jim
Cantalupo, 59, to take over the
top two spots.
McDonald's has reported
lower earnings in seven of the
past eight quarters and recently
announced it is slowing its
expansion pace as it grapples
with a crowded restaurant mar
ket, sluggish economy, com
plaints about poor service and a
depressed stock price.
Michael Jackson
absent from trial
SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) -
Michael Jackson failed to show
up in court Thursday, after two
days of testimony in which he
caused a stir by hobbling in on
crutches and making comical
faces at observers.
Jackson was scheduled to tes
tify for a sixth day in a S21 mil
lion lawsuit alleging he backed
out of two millennium concerts.
It was the third time Jackson
was a no-show at the trial.
Jackson's lawyer, Zia
Modabber, told the court the
latest absence was due to an
unspecified medical problem.
The attorney did not immedi
ately return calls for further
comment.
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Members of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraterni
ty at the University of Alabama adorn their
house with a sign that reflects their senti-
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ments toward former Tide Head Coad
Dennis Franchione. Franchione said Thursiij
that he will not be returning as head coacr
D.A. asks for convictions ii
jogger case to be thrown
NEW YORK (AP) — Citing
DNA on a sock, prosecutors
asked a judge Thursday to throw
out the convictions of five young
men found guilty of beating and
gang-raping a jogger during a
1989 “wilding” spree in Central
Park that exposed the city's deep
racial divide to the rest of the
nation.
District Attorney Robert
Morgenthau’s recommendation
came 1 I months after a convict
ed rapist who had never before
come under suspicion in the case
confessed. Also. DNA tests con
firmed that his semen was on
one of the socks the victim was
wearing 13 years ago.
Morgenthau stopped short of
declaring the five innocent, but
said the confession and the tests
create “a probability that the
verdicts would have been more
favorable to the defendants.”
And he said no purpose would
be served by retrying them.
The decision of whether to
throw out the convictions rests
with state Justice Charles
Tejada, who is expected to rule
by Feb. 6.
The attack on a white 28-
year-old investment banker,
allegedly by a gang of black and
Hispanic boys from Harlem,
became emblematic of New
York City’s struggles with crime
and race relations in the late
1980s.
The five defendants, who
were 14 to 16 at the time of the
attack, are now mostly in their
late 20s and have already com
pleted prison terms ranging from
six years to II 1/2 years for the
crime.
But throwing out of their con
victions could clear the way for
them to sue the city and would
free them from having to register
as sex offenders for the rest of
their lives.
Their families and lawyers
called for an immediate ruling
from the judge.
“We are truly moved by this
decision,” said Sharonne
Salaam, mother of one of the
youths. “But we also feel like
we've been victimized, like the
Central Park jogger. We all feel
we were denied justice.”
Through a spokeswoman, the
victim declined comment.
Despite remarkable recovery
from severe brain injuries, she
has said she remembers nothing
of the attack and was unable to
help police identify suspects.
The victim was left for dead
in a pool of mud and blood on
April 19, 1989, after dozens of
teenagers descended on the park
to mug runners and bicyclists in
a crime spree dubbed “wilding.”
She was in a coma for 12 days.
The randomness of the spree
terrified many New Yorkers. It
was another blow to a city strug
gling with a soaring crime rate
and it came during a string of
high-profile racial incidents,
including Bernhard Goetz's
shooting of black youths on the
subway and attacks in the
Howard Beach and Bensonhurst
neighborhoods.
Some questioned whether the
Central Park youths were round
ed up because of their skin color
and suggested police would not
have pursued the ciise so aggres
sively had the victim been black
or Hispanic.
Police said all five confessed
— four of them on video — and
that evidence proved devastating
at trial.
“We all took turns getting on
top of her,” Antron McCray, then
15, told police in one tape.
Defense attorneys said the
youths were coerced into bogus
confessions by police who kept
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