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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 10-13-1993 The BG News October 13, 1993 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News October 13, 1993" (1993). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5588. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5588 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. G The BG News Wednesday, October 13, 1993 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 76, Issue 35 The BG Ncwi/Nalhun Wallace Briefs Toledo Weather Council Sunny and cool: Wednesday, mostly sunny. hosted High around SO. Mostly north winds 10 mph or less. Wednesday night, mainly clear. Low near 30. Prichard Oncampus by Joe Peltier police reporter Elsewhere Productions kicks off season: The editor of the nation's Elsewhere productions largest newspaper had much to will begin its 1993-94 theatre say about everything from season this weekend with its Arthur Ashe to Beavis and performance of "Incom- Butthead. municado," a play based on Peter S. Prichard, editor of the life of the American USA Today, was in Toledo for the poet, Ezra Pound. Private Industry Council's 10th Performances will be In anniversary luncheon Tuesday. room 411 of South Hall Following his speech he was Wednesday through Satur- questioned about USA Today's day at 8 p.m. There will also involvement in exposing the fact be a Saturday performance that tennis star Arthur Ashe had at 2 p.m. Tickets are $2 and AIDS. will be sold at the door at the Prichard said his paper neither time of the performance. reported that Ashe had AIDS nor did it force him to come forward with the fact. Outside campus According to Prichard, one of Couple files lawsuit his reporters recieved an against supermarket: anonymous tip that Ashe had the A Bowling Green couple is disease. When Ashe was con- suing a local grocery store fronted, he asked the reporter if and one of its distributors he could prove it, Prichard said. for $25,000 for alleged neg- He said the USA Today would not ligence after the woman bit have printed the story because into a piece of pastry and the reporter could not find cracked a tooth on a "tooth" anyone to confirm Ashe's disease that she said was in the "on the record." pastry. "It was pretty unlikely that we Patsy Ann and Thomas were going to get the story on the Nye, 717 Kenwood, have record since the only three peo- filed suit in Wood County ple who could confirm it were Court of Common Pleas, for Digging In The Dirt Arthur, his wife and his doctor," the October 9,1991 Incident Prichard said. in which Patsy Ann Nye al- Self-employed Myrna Engelhard! from Bluffton, Ohio finishes her husband David, they established Engelhard! Landscaping four According to Prichard, the legedly was injured as she landscaping in front of Founders Tuesday afternoon. Along with years ago. ate pastry she purchased at See Prichard, page four. Churchill's Supermarket, 1141 S. Main St.. originally made at McGlynn Bakeries, located in Chanhassen, Min- nesota. Dayton man guilty of charges The complaint states that Patsy Ann Nye bit into the by James Hannah The panel must now determine cape the death penalty. She is awaiting vent them from identifying him to police. pastry and cracked her The Associated Press whether to sentence Keene to death. sentencing. tooth on the tooth she al- Keene showed little emotion when the Trials are pending for Laura Taylor, "This was not with passion. This was leges was In the bakery, verdict was read by Montgomery County 17, and Demarcus Smith, 17. All the de- not with provocation," Levinson said. "It causing what the complaint DAYTON, Ohio - A man charged in a Common Pleas Judge Robert Brown. fendants are from Dayton. Ms. Taylor was just taking care of business." characterized as "perman- three-day robbery and shooting spree in However at one point, Keene put his face and Smith cannot be sentenced to death Defense attorney Michael Monta said ent damage." December that left six people dead was in his hands. because they are juveniles. all of the defendants except Keene had According to the com- found guilty Tuesday of all charges Keene was one of four people charged The verdict came after seven days of prior criminal records. plaint, which describes the against him. In the Dec 24-26 shooting spree. He was testimony in the trial. The prosecution Monta questioned the credibility of tooth as "rotten," the bakery A three-Judge panel convicted Marvel- charged in five of the six deaths and ac- rested its case Tuesday and defense at- several witnesses and suggested the and the store were negligent lous Keene, 20, of Dayton, of all 20 cused of being the triggerman in four of torneys called no witnesses. other defendants had been making the in "falling to warn [the cou- counts, Including aggravated murder, them. During closing arguments, Assistant decisions during the snooting and rob- ple] that foreign objects aggravated robbery, attempted aggra- In August, Heather Mathews, 21, County Prosecutor James Levinson said bery spree. could be In their products." vated murder, kidnapping, aggravated pleaded guilty to aggravated murder in a robbery was the motive in the slayings The complaint states that burglary and burglary. plea agreement that will allow her to es- and that Keene shot his victims to pre- See Guilty, page four. the Incident has caused Thomas Nye to lose the ser- vices and consortium of his wife In the future, the com- plaint states. Aidid urged to release U.S. pilot The couple has requested a Jury trial. The bakery and The Associated Press tions freed 32 Somali prisoners, AP/ Victor Caluda supermarket have 28 days to including four key aides of Aidid respond to the lawsuit. captured during U.N. raids. MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The But elders of Aldid's clan were remains of what was believed to working to free Durant and the Boy dies after sniffing be another American soldier Nigerian U.N. peacekeeper first, gasoline: killed in a failed U.N. raid on a as a goodwill gesture, The Wash- LANCASTER, Ohio-A suspected Somali militia com- ington Post and CBS Radio re- teen-ager died of burns pound were turned over to U.N. ported today. from a fire that started as he authorities Tuesday. "With the help of God, we hope was sniffing gasoline. The return of the body, an- to settle this matter," Ahmed Jamie O'Rourke, 13, of nounced at a U.N. briefing by Rage, one clan elder, was quoted Lancaster, died around 4 Capt. Tim McDavitt of New Zea- as saying by The Washington a.m. Tuesday, said Ann Ir- land, would raise the death toll Post. "The first thing that is im- wln, nursing supervisor at from the Oct. 3 battle to 18 Amer- portant is to free those two mili- Children's Hospital in icans. tary men." Columbus. Meanwhile, news reports Durant was captured during a Police Lt. D J. Regan said said elders of militia leader Mo- U.N. raid Oct. 3 that left at least O'Rourke and three friends named Farrah Aldld's clan would 17 American soldiers dead and were sniffing gasoline at urge him to release a captured more than 70 wounded. Aidid Rising Park Monday night U.S. pilot and a Nigerian said 315 Somalls were killed, when the fire started. peacekeeper as a gesture of many of them civilians, and the peace. Red Cross put the figure of So- Fire Inspector Rudy The reports came amid contin- mali wounded at 700, about one Touvell said Tuesday he did uing international efforts, spear- third of them women and chil- not know what started the headed by the United States, to dren. fire. No one else was in- find a diplomatic settlement to The bungled operation stunned jured. Somalia's problems. Washington and prompted calls A U.N. spokesman in Mogadi- by some U.S. lawmakers to with- Regan said people sniff shu said U.N. Secretary-General draw U.S. troops from Somalia. gasoline to get high. Boutros Boutros-Ghall will con- Clinton has since pledged to vene a meeting In Ethiopia next withdraw U.S. soldiers by March U.S. Army Rangers hoist the casket of soldier Loranzo Ruiz, who was killed last week In Somalia as part of the UN peacekeeping force, during his burial at Ft. Bliss National Cemetary Oct. 12,1993. Lancaster Is about 25 week to discuss Somalia despite 31. miles southeast of Colum- opposition from Aidid and an- Farouk Mawlawi, a U.N. civil- bus. other top warlord. ian spokesman, said today that ed by representatives of the Or- Mahdi Mohamcd, each called for controlled by Aidid said, "It Aidid spokesmen have said the the Oct. 20 meeting in Addis ganization of African Unity, the postponement of the meeting in seems out of question to embark Compiled from staff and American pilot. Chief Warrant Ababa, Ethiopia, will be "simply Islamic Conference and the Arab radio broadcasts Monday night. on a new initiative without con- wire reports. Officer Mike Durant, would not to evaluate developments In So- League. sulting the Somali people and be released until the United Na- malia." He said it will be attend- Aidid and his chief rival.