The Leesville Daily Leader from Leesville, Louisiana (2024)

March 17, 1995

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The Leesville Daily Leaderi

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Leesville, Louisiana

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Friday, March 17, 1995

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3

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Leesville Daily Leader riday March 17 1995 3A StateNationalInternational Weather Partly Cloudy 7550 rom the National Weather Service riday: Widely scattered showers or thunderstorms southeast otherwise partly cloudy Highs in the 70s riday night: air Lows 50 to 55 Saturday: Mostly sunny Highs 75 to 80 Satur day night: air Lows 50 to 55 Vernon Parish forecast riday: Patchy early morning fog: Otherwise partly cloudy Highs 70 to 75 Wind north 5 to 10 mph riday night: air Ar eas of dense fog developing late 50 to 55 Light north wind Saturday: og dissipating by mid morning: Otherwise mostly sunny Highs in the upper 70s Extended forecast Sunday: air Highs in the 70s Monday: Partly cloudy Lows in the 50s Highs in the 70s Tuesday: air Lows in the 50s Highs in the 70s Pilot aviation weather briefings from DeRidder AA ASS: 462 6101 or 1 800 992 7433 US Attorneys apologize for outbursts LOS ANGELES (AP) Detective Mark tense six day tenure in the witness chair at OJ murder trial came to a halt Thursday with a cloud of racist allegations and the threat of more testimony following him out of court Defense attorney Lee Bailey made clear he plans to recall uhrman after researching racism claims by other witnesses A pros ecutor hurried uhrman off the stand after just seven crisp questions that suggested to jurors he lacked the necessary information to devise an instant frame up of Simpson Unaware of whereabouts or details of the killings uhrman had no reason to take a bloody glove from the murder scene and drop it at estate Deputy District Marcia ques 1 tions indicated Outside court former lead attorney Robert Shapiro suggested Bai aggressive focus on racism was causing a rift in the defense camp Gingrich submits proposed book deal WASHINGTON (AP) Speaker Newt Gingrich submitted his proposed book deal to the House ethics committee Thursday contend ing the agreement a normal publishing arrangement that com plied with all standards of conduct Stripped of the $45 million advance that brought Gingrich a bar rage of negative publicity the agreement keeps the speaker's promise: He accept the same formula for royalties as Vice Pres ident Al Gore got for his book on the environment The proposed contract with HarperCollins a publishing company owned by Rupert Murdoch entirely under House rules according to the submission to the committee by the speaker's private lawyer Jan Baran Police: Woman dies during exorcism EMERYVILLE Calif (AP) ive members of a religious sect were charged with murder in the death of a woman who police said beaten in an attempt to drive demons from her body Eight members of the group stayed in an apartment with the body for five days aftr their minister told them that the woman's spirit had gone to and that they should wait for it to come back police said The followers eventually realized something was wrong Police said people at the exorcism told them that Kyong a Ha 25 was struck 20 to 50 times on the chest She had at least 10 broken ribs Eun Kvong Park minister of the 15 member Jesus Amen Min istries was arrested along with four followers They were arraigned on Wednesday ederal judge strikes clihic access law MILWAUKEE (AP) A judge struck down a federal law Thurs day that protects access to abortion clinics contradicting previous rul ings and setting up a possible showdown in the US Supreme Court In a ruling stemming from a September protest at a Milwaukee clinic LTS District Judge Rudolph Randa said the 1994 reedom of Access to Clinics Entrances Act was unconstitutional Seven other federal judges and the 4th US Circuit Court of Ap peals in Richmond Va have upheld the law limiting the importance of order Still anti abortion protesters said the ruling was important Report: Wrong breast removed GRAND RAPIDS Mich (AP) A surgeon performing a mas tectomy on a cancer patient removed the wrong breast a TV sta tion reported Citing unidentified sources WZZM said Wednes day that the 69 year old woman went in for the operation at But Hospital in ebruary The report did not identify either the patient or the doctor Hospital spokesman Tim Bulson said he could not confirm the report just that we have to be very careful to adhere to the laws of patient he said or until someone comes forward with consent from the patient we discuss any of the In Tampa la meanwhile a rights group appealed Thursday for tougher state laws to protect hospi tal patients who are victims of mistakes Shopping mall gorilla steps into the sun ATLANTA (AP) Ivan the gorilla who spent most of his life in a shopping mall emerged slowly into the sunshine Thursday his first foray outdoors in nearly 30 years it were raining he have come said Bob Daugher ty an anthropologist who worked with Ivan for 10 years in Tacoma Wash hates getting Captured as an infant in Africa Ivan spent 27 years alone in a cage at a Tacoma mall then was brought to Zoo Atlanta in October He is slowly being introduced to other gorillas The 400 pound silverback lowland ape emerged from his cage with about 200 reporters photographers and guests looking on just as morning showers were epding Budget panel OKs spending slashes WASHINGTON (AP) Majority Republi cans pushed $17 billion in spending cuts through the House and $100 billion more through its budget committee Thursday as furious Democrats accused them of reneging on a deal and using phony double counted savings The House voted 227 200 for a GOP plan slicing $17 billion out of already enacted pro grams including public housing summer jobs for youths and aid for the arts and pub lic broadcasting The cuts were the first the House has cleared in the Republican cam paign to balance the budget The White House noted the occasion with a political swipe at recent GOP budget cuts and a veto threat for cutting government but I think a real difference between clos ing 1200 offices and cutting back on food President Clinton told a meeting of state legislators is no question that if the bill is in its present form the president would veto chief of staff Leon Panetta told reporters He called the reductions sible and mean Besides its spending cuts the bill would provide $54 billion to help 40 states recover from recent natural disasters About $5 bil lion would go to California to aid its recovery from last Northridge earthquake Shortly afterward the GOP muscled a plan through the budget panel that would make another $100 billion in reductions over the next five years to help pay for the Repub lican tax cut package The vote was 24 11 and like the House roll call it was nearly party line The $100 billion in cuts would be in over all discretionary spending which covers one third of the $15 trillion budget including de fense foreign aid and domestic programs but not benefit programs such as Medicare Decisions about which specific programs would be trimmed were to be made later this year Nonetheless the committee voted to rec ommend cuts in more than 140 programs to achieve the savings including reductions in job training programs subsidies paid to some corporations and foreign aid Chairman John Kasich Ohio said the reductions 71 would shrink an excessively large govern ment and return tax dollars to Americans you actually cut spending good things happen" he said The votes were almost drowned out by a raucous finger pointing row between the parties over whether Republicans had at tracted conservative Democratic support for their spending cuts with a promise they later abandoned In exchange for conservative De votes for the $17 billion package of' cuts Republicans said they had agreed they would use the immediate savings for deficit reduction Savings that the measure would create in future years could be used for a tax cut they said Records subpoenaed by US attorney BATON ROUGE (AP) Louisiana Insur ance Department records have been subpoe naed by the attorney as part of an on going investigation the chief prosecutor said Thursday Attorney Hymel acknowledged the investigation when he was asked if In surance Commissioner Jim Brown had ap peared before a federal grand jury on Wednesday Hymel would not confirm or deny any ap pearance by Brown or give details of the in vestigation is an on going investigation I would rather not say when it started We have subpoenaed documents from the insur ance Hymel said Earlier in the day a legislator who did not want to be identified said that Brown had gone before a grand jury Brown could not he reached for comment Allen Pursnell an assistant commissioner of insurance said he knew nothing of any ap pearance but stressed that his boss has rou tinely taken documents to grand juries around the state that have investigated failed insurance companies As commissioner Brown seizes the failed assets and liquidates the firms Brown a Democrat has been under fire recently from the just ousted head of the Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association Sally Nungesser said she was fired at insistence an allegation he and the LIGA board have denied She complained that she could not get records from Brown on what he was doing with the money from the failed companies Brown called her a Republican activist who wanted to smear him in an year He stressed that every penny invested or' spent by his agency is under scrutiny of the judges of the 19th District Judicial Court Legislative Auditor Dan Kyle acknowl edged in an interview a month ago that he was cooperating with federal authorities in what started out as a routine audit of the in surance division that handles the failed companies On Thursday Kyle said he was aware of the investigation but had not provided any of his auditing reports just finishing up the field work on the audit he said Louisiana Committee wants legislators list BATON ROUGE (AP) The health agency was told Thursday to furnish by next week a list of legislators who are profiting from the Medicaid program The Joint Legislative Budget Committee went along with Rep Melissa de mand of the Department of Health and Hos pitals A day earlier the Shreveport legislator said that she was of being tarred by the same referring to complaints from citizens that elected officials and former elected officials were getting wealthy off Medicaid DHH officials told her at the time that the task would be awesome looking through a list of 30000 Medicaid vendors to find the names of legislators who own vendor businesses Iberia wants repeal of state law NEW IBERIA (AP) Iberia Parish ap parently is the first school system in Louisiana to pass a resolution requesting re peal of a state law prohibiting the reduction of teacher salaries according to Superinten dent Charles Lanza have not received anything from any other Lanza said after the School Board passed the resolution Wednesday night The law was enacted in 1993 and pro hibits the reduction of a teacher's salary be low the amount of the salary paid during the previous year In Iberia Parish supplemental salaries for school employees are based on sales tax rev enues and those revenues fluctuate Lanza said Deer crash into living room BATON ROUGE (AP) Two deer appar ently mistook their reflections for other deer and crashed through a cathedral win dow to join them inside they went Deputy Ben James said Thursday tore up the floor rugs busted holes in the Sheetrock walls They damaged porcelain and crystal tore the room up pretty Sharp hooves ripped oriental rugs and scratched hardwood floors Cuts from broken glass left blood all over Philip Grove was watching television with his wife in the den of their home Wednesday night when they heard the crash in the din ing room He rushed into the room and grabbed a chair to try and herd the deer out Jury convicts Koon BATON ROUGE (AP) A jury took only 19 minutes Thursday to convict Walter Joseph Koon of murdering his es tranged wife and her parents The 12 member jury will be asked riday to decide whether Koon 49 should be exe cuted or given life in prison for the three murders Koon pleaded innocent by reason of insan ity He admitted responsibility for the shoot ings but said he did not remember doing them Shot to death on March 5 1993 were father in law Richard Guidry 73 his mother in law elicie Guidry 66 and his es tranged wife Michelle Guidry Koon 37 All were shot in the head with a 9 mil limeter pistol ederal courthouse evacuated LAAYETTE (AP) A law clerk going through a mail came upon what ap peared to be a bomb prompting law enforce ment officials to evacuate the federal court house Thursday afternoon By Thursday night experts were still try ing to determine whether the package did indeed contain a bomb not yet determined whether it is an explosive device or said Deputy US Marshal Mike Moriarty He said a bomb squad probably would learn that later Thurs day night The clerk for US District Judge John Shaw told a Lafayette television station that she opened a padded envelope and saw what appeared to be two sticks of dynamite with a wire attached! She said she gave a list of pos sible suspects people who might have a grudge against the judge to federal invests' gators International NASA astronaut welcomed to Mir RUSSIAN SPACE CENTER (AP) It was a traditional Russian welcome: Bread salt and bear hugs Cosmonauts rolled out the red carpet Thursday for NASA astronaut Norman Thagard when he ar rived at the space station Mir his home for the next three months A US flag was draped on a wall in honor of first American guest been expecting your arrival for some Mir comman der Alexander Viktorenko said Thagard replied in Russian: glad to be on the station and to see my Normally not one to show emotion Thagard had a huge grin when he floated into the orbiting outpost 1 12 hours after his Soyuz cap sule docked His Soyuz crewmates Russian cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennady Strekalov happily gave him the spotlight The first cosmonaut to reach Thagard Yelena Kondakova gave the astronaut a hug and a big kiss on the cheek Viktorenko and longtime Mir resident Valery Polyakov then embraced him or several moments everybody hugged everybody else and each of the newcomers were presented the customary bread and salt in this case bread chunks Rebels claim Saddam's son shot NICOSIA Cyprus (AP) Saddam eldest son has been wounded in a Baghdad assassination attempt Kurdish rebels claimed Thursday amid widening reports of unrest and military moves across Iraq A radio station run by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan one of the main Kurdish factions opposed to Saddam said defense minis ter Gen Ali Hassan al Majid survived another attack while visiting the northern oil city of Kirkuk Both assassination attempts occurred in the last 48 hours the ra dio said according to official Islamic Republic News Agency monitored in Nicosia Odai Hussein 31 was apparently shot by several gunmen firing assault rifles in a Baghdad ambush He was hospitalized with serious wounds the radio said Al Majid who is cousin was the target of a soldier who was part of his security escort IRNA quoted the PUK as saying Several of al bodyguards were killed but he escaped un harmed the reports said There was no immediate confirmation of the attacks by independent sources and no word from Baghdad Bosnian Croats suspend talks ZAGREB Croatia (AP) Bosnian Croats suspended all talks with Muslim led government Thursday blaming a top govern ment commander for the abduction of a Croat officer The move signaled trouble for the shaky Muslim Croat federation coaxed into life by Washington last year and feted there Thursday its first anniversary Maj Gen Vlado Santic commander of a Croat unit fighting with Bosnian government forces in the northwestern enclave of Bihac has been missing since riday and Croats hold Gen Atif Dudakovic a Muslim responsible are putting on hold all talks and negotiations with the Mus lim side until we get information on what said Ivan Ben der speaker of the self styled Bosnian Croat parliament Dudakovic who commands government forces fighting Serbs in the Bihac area said Wednesday he had arrested some of his military police in connection with disappearance He called the ab duction criminal that should not rock Muslim Croat ties 1 Bender however told The Associated Press that Dudakovic di rectly responsible for the fate of our Students vandalize campus JOHANNESBURG South Africa (AP) Students and workers vandalized the University of Witswatersrand campus Thursday part of a wave of unrest rolling through South colleges and uni versities Several hundred students overturned trash bins and flooded corri dors with fire hoses after African National Congress officials failed to break an impasse between the students and the administration over reinstating 48 workers and students expelled last year Elsewhere a technical college in Bloemfontein was closed until next Wednesday after rock throwing clashes between black and white students Thursday put two students in the hospital Both sides said racial tensions had been running high for several weeks Ignoring warnings from President Nelson Mandela students at scattered universities and technical colleges across the nation have flirted with violence and hostage taking recently to press an array Qf local demands The unrest demonstrates a weakening of the links between the ANC which won last first all race elections and some of its al lies who are now impatient for the government to quickly improve the lives of poor blacks Weather ram Partly Cloudy US Louisiana.

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