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The BG News Friday, April 10,1992 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 74, Issue 130 Weather Pemberville woman reports seeing UFOs in field by Chris Hawley The BG News not be printed, said she was driving home "hydraulic" sound when it moved, the a patch of smokey-smelling fog while at about 12:30 am. when she saw the ob- woman said. driving to her home. jects flying around radio transmission At one point, one of the objects moved After watching the objects together, As the University prepared for the ons- towers at the corner of Route 105 and directly toward the vehicle and aimed the two attempted to drive toward them laught of thousands of children during Rees Road. The woman said she stopped two "extremely bright" white lights at at about 3 a-m. The objects then dis- Sibs and Kids Weekend, other strange her car to watch the objects and listen for her, the woman said. appeared, the woman said. creatures were making their presence noises. known in Wood County. "I just felt compelled to watch," she "I almost felt like whatever it was was The woman's boyfriend was not availa- A 36-year-old Pemberville woman told said. "I never felt like I was in danger." watching me as much as I was watching ble for comment. a Wood County Sheriffs Department them," she said. The woman said she called the sheriff's dispatcher she and her boyfriend had The woman described the objects as department at about 11 a-m. to learn if Rain tonight: watched four lighted, unidentified ob- top-shaped and illuminated by red and The woman said she drove home and anyone else had seen the objects. Wood Friday, cloudy with a jects flying above a field Wednesday white lights. She said the objects moved watched the objects from her driveway. County Sheriffs Department Records chance of showers. High in morning. in all directions and stopped quickly. One Her boyfriend joined her about 45 Officer Brenda Brenneman said no other the lower SOs. East winds 5 The woman, who asked that her name of the objects emitted smoke and and a minutes later, saying he had encountered sightings were reported. to IS mph. Chance of rain 50 percent. Friday night, cloudy with chance of Too Sexy For My Cat? showers. Low in the mid-40s. Chance of rain 40 percent. City studies Saturday, variable cloudi- ness with a slight chance of showers. High in the lower 13 plans for 60s. Chance of rain 30 per- cent. redistricting Inside The News by Doug Baker OLIVET, Mich.-Racial The BG News tensions send many African- American students packing Thirteen plans for redistricting the city's une- from this small liberal arts venly distributed wards were examined by Bowl- college. ing Green City Council's Government and Per- a College Life. Page four. sonnel Committee Thursday night, but none were chosen to replace the current set up. The committee looked at various four- and six- Soviet future gloomy: ward maps which attempted to more equally dis- Nobel prize-winning e- tribute the city's population based on the 1990 conomist James Buchanan census figures. The meeting was designed to fa- indicates that the transition miliarize committee members with the various to market economies in proposals. Eastern-bloc nations will be difficult in a presentation Most of the maps were drawn by city engi- Thursday evening. neers but several students also presented redis- Q Campus. Page five. tricting maps to the committee. The committee will put the maps on display In Wood County Library for the public to examine. No beer, kid: Anybody wishing to offer a plan must submit it COLUMBUS - State legis- by 5 p.m. on April 20. City maps can be picked up lators move to ban non- at the city's offices, 304 N. Church St. Junior Je- alcoholic beer consumption sse Squire and senior Jennifer Sader presented among minors. both four- and six-ward maps they had drawn. □ Elsewhere. Page seven. "What we tried to achieve was numerical ac- curacy using main roads as dividing lines," Squire said. "The difference between the largest Outside Campus and smallest districts is 51 people." See Wants, page four. Cleveland State eyes cuts: CLEVELAND - Cleveland State University said Wednesday it will cut more U.S. jury finds than $12 million and 225 po- sitions from its budget as it struggles to meet cuts in Noriega guilty state education assistance. The three-step plan calls for a 7 percent tuition in- (above) Watching them- of drug charges crease beginning In the fall selves on a TV screen, Amy quarter and immediate Jo Brimmer (left) and Rac- chel Butler get down to the by Richard Cole spending cuts of $4.1 mil- The Associated Press lion. Additional spending tune of "I'm Too Sexy" by cuts of $4.1 million and $4 Right Said Fred for their million would occur in the Fun Flicks video In the Stu- dent Services forum Thurs- MIAMI - Manuel Noriega was convicted summer and fall quarters. day afternoon. of eight of 10 drug and racketeering charges that The university plans to Brimmer said that they led to the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama. cut 81 full-time positions, made the video because, The former Panamanian leader was found most of which have been "We're Just nuts and we like guilty of the key counts of racketeering and empty since a hiring freeze to have fun". racketeering conspiracy, plus six lesser charges. was put into effect in Febru- Meanwhile, (right) Book- He was acquitted of two lesser charges, cocaine ary. Another 144 positions store employees Terl Long, distribution and conspiracy to import cocaine. are to be eliminated through Jacl Browant and Sherry The federal court trial lasted seven months, attrition and layoffs by Abke take a peek at the during which the government painstakingly built December. spectacle from the outside. its case against a head of state it called "a small The 19,000-student uni- More than 50 videos were man in a general's uniform" who was "just an- versity has about 1,630 full- made at $3 each. This was other crooked cop." time employees. the second year that Fun The jury finished work in its fifth day of de- Flicks, sponsored by the liberations. On Wednesday, they announced they Dead head (stones): University Activities Or- were deadlocked with one holdout; U.S. District TONTOGANY - A Tonto- ganization, came to Bowling Judge William Hoeveler urged them to try again. gany Cemetery official has Green. estimated costs of damage Noriega's lawyers maintained he was a victim in a Wednesday tombstone The BG NcwiUay Murdock vandalism incident at more See Noriega, page six. than $35,000. The incident is believed to be related to theft of a truck recovered by Bowling John Major predicted to win Green Police the same day. BG stadium may be Sixty-four tombstones in the cemetery were overtur- ned and 31 damaged. renamed for Perry Britain's prime minister race A sheriffs deputy report- only the field Itself is named by Maureen Johnson ed the vandal ism at about HURON - The University's than a majority. their share in three landslide vic- after the coach. The Associated Press 4:30 a.m. after he discovered Board of Trustees Is sched- Projections by Independent tories under Margaret Thatcher. tombstones lying on Tonto- uled to meet 10 a.m. today at The board will not be taking Television News gave the Con- "This is very, very bad news gany Creek Road in front of the Flrelands College cam- any action this month in re- LONDON ~ Prime Minister servatives 329 seats. Labor 270 for Labor," said BBC analyst the cemetery. pus. gard to the current budget John Major, who waged a come- and Liberal Democrats 24. Peter Kellner. "It is also rotten Topping the agenda will be crisis affecting the Universi- from-behind campaign to extend "We were written off at the news for the pollsters ... they the proposed honoring of the ty. According to secretary of 13 years of Conservative Party weekend, but we didn't sink into blew it." Lottery late Doyt L. Perry, the win- the board Lester Barber, all government, appeared headed defeatism," said Home Secretary The combined verdict of the ningest football coach in Uni- formal budget decisions will for a slight majority in the House Kenneth Baker, a former Con- last opinion polls this week Pick 3 Numbers: 4-2-2 versity history. Perry passed be made at the next board of Commons following Thurs- servative Party chairman. showed Labor about a point Pick 4 Numbers: 4-5-0-4 away last month. meeting, scheduled for May day's elections. "The battle is not yet over," in- ahead, though the difference was Cards: Two of Hearts The board action would a With results in hand from 362 sisted Labor Party leader Neil well within the margin of error.