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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 9-8-1989 The BG News September 8, 1989 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 September 8, 1989" (1989). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4967. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4967 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. Friday Weather Vol.72 Issue 12 High 85° September8, 1989 Low 65° Bowling Green, Ohio The BG News Bill challenges drugs BRIEFLY An additional $35 million would be al- by Beth Grace located to build another new state Associated Press writer prison, he said. Henry indicated the task force grants could be funded, at State COLUMBUS - Two days after least in part, by federal funds from an President Bush took his proposal to expanded federal drug-war budget and battle drugs to the nation, a Republican the new prison could be financed with a Carpenter cleared: The state lawmaker announced legislation 30-year bond issue. victim of a 156-year old law was aimed at strengthening Ohio's war State corrections officials have said recently cleared of his two-year against drugs. that despite a $638 million prison con- sentence after spending 18 months of Sen. Charles Henry of Burton, flan- struction program that will leave the it in prison. James D. Moseley of ked by fellow Republicans Senate state with 24 prisons by 1992, it will not Decatur, Ga. was given a two-year President Stanley Aronoff and Sen. be enough to hold the number of in- sentence for having oral sex with his Paul Pfeifer, chairman of the Senate mates expected to be jailed by then. wife. The nearly two- century-old Judiciary Committee, unveiled a bill Henry said the bill also would rework sodomy law was changed by a Thursday aimed at teaming state drug the state's criminal forfeiture statutes Superior Court judge to be fighting expertise and money with local to bring them more in line with stricter inapplicable to ''consenting married drug task forces. federailaws. Under the bill, authorities couples." The bill also takes aim at drug would be allowed to seize all assets, dealers' "most vulnerable area — their Eroperty and proceeds related to drug Menopause study: A recent profits," Henry said. ansactions, even if the offender is study published in the New England Senate Democrats, who already have charged with only one offense. Journal of Medicine concluded the proposed a major judicial system ex- State law now requires that a person changes in women's blood cholesterol pansion, appointment of a drug czar be charged with two or more offenses during menopause could contribute to and new prison construction, welcomed before criminal forfeiture proceedings the increase risk of heart attacks the proposal but did not endorse it. can begin. during their mid 50s. The study was "We re glad to see the Republicans The measure also would make Ohio directed by Dr. Karen A. Matthews of getting on board," said spokesman the 18th state to impose an excise tax the University of Pittsburgh. Chris Burnett. "We want to see Ohio on drug trade. The rates would be $3.50 have a good, solid drug program, but per gram of marijuana, $200 per gram Traveling stray: Since were concerned about a proposal with of other controlled substances and $400 jumping on Kent Wassenberg's such a decentralized focus." per 10-unit dose of controlled substan- motorcycle two years ago, Brutus, a Henry's measure calls for a $50 mil- ces. 70 lb. boxer/labrador retriever has lion fund from which a 12-member Drug dealers would also be required traveled 25,000 miles on the bike's BG News/Brock Visnich state task force, headed by the lieuten- to purchase state tax stamps. trailer. Brutus wears goggles to Falcon Chow ant governor, would allocate grants of It's a law enforcement tool," Aron- Crotect his eyes, a hooded sweatshirt at least 150,000 to county task forces. off said, explaining that failure to ob- i protect from the cold and a harness Karl Vogt, professor of management, serves macaroni salad to Falcon wide More grant money would be made a- tain a stamp would give authorities au- to keep him from falling off the bike. receivers Darnell Staten (*16) and Allen Smith (*17) during the "Meet the Team" vailable depending on the scope of the thorization to begin confiscating prop- Brutus can be seen with the picnic at Doyt L. Perry Stadium Thursday evening. The Falcon Club, Delta Zeta local drug problem and population, erty and other assets against the taxes Marysville, Kan. native throughout sorority and Phi Psi fraternity sponsor the annual event. Henry said. owed, plus a 100 percent penalty. the midwest. Permission plea: Larry McAfee, 33, of Atlanta recently won NATO rebuilds permission of the courts to turn off his Christian leader reproves U.S. life support system. The system has two dead and seven wounded. kept him alive for four years after a by Rlma Salameh discussions in 1985 motorcycle accident that left him Associated Press writer The U.S.-trained general said he would welcome a quadriplegic. The judge said the return of Ambassador John McCarthy and other McAfee had the right to refuse American diplomats to Lebanon only if Washington medical treatment. BEIRUT — Gen. Michel Aoun said Thursday that recognized his Christian Cabinet as the legitimate western Europe U.S. foreign policy is "biased and shortsighted," government. His government competes for power with a Mos- then asked American help in what the Christian by Alison Smale leader calls the war of liberation against Syrian lem Cabinet led by acting Premier Salim Hoss. Associated Press writer Nation troops in Lebanon. Aoun said the U.S. withdrawal of McCarthy, who had been in Lebanon since the rival its last diplomats Wednesday was based on "rumors, regimes were created a year ago, avoided taking false suppositions and unconvincing reasons." sides by not presenting his credentials to either. VIENNA. Austria — Greece's mistrust of its old U.S. military helicopters evacuated the 30 remain- enemy Turkey, a NATO ally, blocked Western plans Gone batty: A 65-year- old ing Americans from the U.S. Embassy compound in to propose limits on military maneuvers, sources re- Lorain, O. woman was bitten by a "It is pitiful that east Beirut on Wednesday morning. ported Thursday after talks resumed on reducing rabid bat after it attached itself to her American-Lebanese relations "It is pitiful that American-Lebanese relations conventional forces in Europe. body cast — she recently had back should deteriorate to that point due to the stubborn- The West hoped to begin the third six-week round surgery. The woman is physically should deteriorate to that point ness of the American Embassy... backed by a biased between NATO and the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact with fine, but emotionally shaken after the due to the stubbornness of the and shortsighted foreign policy," Aoun said. Eroposals that would help maintain what U.S. Am- attack. Police officials say that it was He was clearly angered by the State Department's assador Stephen J. Ledogar called the "breathtak- an isolated incident. American Embassy ... backed by declaration Wednesday that it evacuated the U.S. ing pace" of the 23-nation talks, which began in diplomats because Aoun threatened the palace in March. Miata mania: Car dealers are a biased and shortsighted Baabda, east of Beirut, the 54-year-old Maronite On Wednesday, NATO diplomats in Vienna and busy these days writing waiting lists foreign policy." Catholic general urged the "American people and Brussels put the finishing touches on the Western for potential buyers of the 1990 Mazda their elected representatives to ignore their State plan, described by senior officials as an unpreceden- Miata. So popular is this luxury Department's policy." ted effort to curb military exercises on the world's rrtscar, some buyers are putting Americans should "support all the Lebanese, Mos- most heavily armed continent. >n deposits to get the Miata next -General Michel Aoun, Christian lems and Christians, in our war of liberation" year. Car magazines are calling the leader in Lebanon against the Syrians, he said. Diplomatic sources said; however, that Greece felt car "fun and affordable." Base price NATO set the limits too high when it proposed requir- for the car is $13,800. State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tu- ing maneuvers to be announced in advance if 40,000 He likened the 6-month-old battle between his twiler said Wednesday that a leader of Christian reservists would be called up or 1,200 armored per- Cemetary case: Police 20,000 Christian soldiers and a Moslem alliance led youths who massed outside the embassy before the sonnel carriers used. officials in Louisville, O. are by the 40,000 Syrians to what Americans' "forefath- evacuation told diplomats they could move in and out Greece sought lower limits because of concern currently searching for vandals who ers did... 200years ago" in the Revolutionary War. of the compound only "at their own risk." about neighboring Turkey, the sources said, but they broke into the mausoleum of Syrians and Christians exchanged artillery fire for Aoun said her remarks were "a calculated but Augustus Coy, who died in 1937. The five hours before dawn Thursday and police reported crude personal attack on me." 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