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Directory SPORTS OPINION TODAY Switchboard 372-2601 Classified Ads 372-6977 Baseball Softball Tom Denk Display Ads 372-2605 hashes out partly Editorial 372-6966 Akron...18...2 ... 2 ...9 Western 9 ...6... 3 ...3 Sports 372-2602 a plan for cloudy and Entertainment 372-2603 BG 3... 1 ... 6... 1 BG 3... 1... 0...0 making our Falcons lose three out of four games to Falcons commit 12 errors in dropping four Story Idea? Give us a call own cult warmer weekdays from I pm.to 5 pm..or Zips in weekend action games to second-place Broncos e-mail: "'[email protected]" High: 50 Low: 25 MONDAY April 14,1997 Volume 83, Issue 133 The BG News Bowling Green, Ohio 4?: "Serving the Bowling Green community for over 75years" Racism probed as cause of shooting a stolen car that drove through a City sees third police checkpoint in a crime- unarmed black shot ridden part of town Tuesday night. Two officers opened fire by white officers after the driver, Robert Lundy Sr., sped through the checkpoint in three years and swerved at police. Lundy, 55, who is white, escaped injury and The Associated Press was arrested. CHARLOTTE, N.C. - It is sup- posed to be a shining example of When police got to the car, they the "New South," a city proud of found a mortally wounded Boet- decisions years ago to desegre- ticher. Of the 22 shots fired, 20 gate its schools and elect a black hit the car, the 48-year-old pas- mayor. senger had been hit in the neck. But Charlotte is reeling from Neither she nor Lundy were the death of Carolyn Sue Boetti- armed. cher, a black woman killed by police less than a week ago. It "That just sounds a bit ridicu- was the second time in six lous. Not 22 times," said Eli- months that an unarmed black zabeth Lewis, 32, as she picked was killed by white officers. up her two young children at a friend's home 200 feet from the "Why does this regretful thing scene of the shooting. "This real- continue to go on in the city of ly scares me because I have to Charlotte?" asked Rev. Willie drive alone a lot of the time." Simpson, who lives in the area where the shooting occurred. Police said the officers fired in "We have a problem with our self defense, and there has been BG New. PhM. by Jcrtmy Martin police officers. Are they caught no violence following the shoot- up in racism? How can a man ing. But the Incident threatens to Violent Femmes lead singer and guitarist Cordon Cano led the group through their show Friday at Anderson Arena. who is white get out of that car shake Charlotte's reputation as a and not get shot?" progressive city that resolves its Boetticher was a passenger in problems. The Femmes rock BG Search for missing □ The Violent Femmes The audience was a good cross roots. They frequently thanked "Blister in the Sun" and kill time section of the University and the crowd for letting them play before they went to the bars. airplane continues rocked Anderson Arena local community population. here. Along with "Blister," "Ameri- Friday night as BGSU There were students with mul- The first song that drew a re- can Music" was an early high- The Associated Press some sort of signal," Chandler opened its doors for this tiple body piercings sitting next sponse from the crowd was "Out light. Lead singer and guitarist said, "something that will tell us to parents who had brought up the Window." Any song from Gordon Gano's guitar string EAGLE, Colo. - Three U-2 spy the plane is there, such as broken popular college band. little "sibs" for the weekend. their recent greatest hits collec- broke during this song, leaving planes were back in the air Sat- trees or scarring or burning." Overall, Bowling Green, in all its tion, "Add It Up," drew a re- the Femmes to continue with just urday, searching Colorado's Joining the search were By Brandon Wray and Tod shapes, sizes, and colors, came to sponse. bass and drums. Like the true snow-covered mountains for a Colorado National Guard heli- McCloskey see the Femmes. The band played their most veteran band it is, the Femmes missing Air Force pilot and his copters, which flew 16 sorties, The BG News "I thought the concert was famous song, "Blister in the worked through the mistake and warplane. and Civil Air Patrol planes, which great and went very well," said Sun," early in the set. The crowd led a sing-along until a roadie The surveillance planes were also made 16 flights over the "American Music" returned to Greg Lesinski, a guitarist for the immediately erupted in a danc- could get Gano's guitar fixed. taking pictures of a 476-square- search area, Chandler said. Anderson Arena Friday night local band, September's Chil- ing frenzy. It was interesting to In the past, Gano has rarely mile area near New York and There was also a military turbo- courtesy of the Violent Femmes. dren. "It was about time Bowling see whether or not a lot of the spoken with the crowd, usually Red and White mountains, about prop in the search. The Violent Femmes brought Green had a good show like this. crowd who just came to hear leaving Brian Ritchie to handle 20 miles southwest of Vail in cen- Lt. Col. Bill Payne of the Civil their quirky and offbeat stage It is going to pave the way for fu- "Blister in the Sun" would stay that job. tral Colorado. Two of them have Air Patrol said searchers were show to Bowling Green for a con- ture shows," Lesinski said. "I after they heard It. Luckily they The Femmes strange sense of sensitive radar that can see looking mostly for an engine. cert that was well-received by thought the show was great and did. humor came through in songs through the snow. "They hold up pretty well under University students. The Fem- went very well." With this concert Bowling like "Dahmer is Dead," a song "That's actually providing us a crash," he said. mes played all of their classic The Femmes, who got their Green had the opportunity to about their hometown of Mil- with our data to focus the The search was expanded from hits including, "Blister in the start in the early 80s playing the prove that it was a real concert waukee and its most famous psy- search," Air Force Lt. Col. Robin two to five areas on Saturday Sun," "American Music" and college circuit, seemed to enjoy going community and not just a Chandler said. "Add it Up." the opportunity to return to their bunch of drunks looking to hear • See FEMMES, page three. "What we're looking for is • See PLANE, page three. Trial relocation questioned The New Master Prospective cleared the prospective jury pool more than a year, most of the of relatives, friends and acquain- jury pool has exhibited a know- jurors recall tances of the 168 people killed ledge gap. They remember the and the hundreds more who were bombing's immediate aftermath media images injured. and recent news stories about "There's hardly a person in McVeigh's purported confes- of bombing Oklahoma that doesn't know sions, but almost all said they'd someone affected by the bomb- paid little attention to stories The Associated Press ing. There is considerable less about the ongoing investigation. knowledge and considerable less "A lot of the jurors, even DENVER - They remember emotion in those jurors in though they know about the case, rescuers running from the Okla- Colorado," said Irven Box, a they don't even know the amount homa City rubble, carrying prominent Oklahoma City de- of deaths," Box said. bloodied babies in their arms. fense attorney who is following At the very least, moving the They remember their first the trial. trial got McVeigh into a state less glimpse of a suspect, a stone- But did the change of venue inclined to sentence people to faced Timothy McVeigh in crew solve the problem of what die. He could face the death pen- cut and orange jail jumpsuit, be- Matsch called the demonization alty if convicted on federal mur- ing marched past news cameras. of McVeigh by the Oklahoma der and conspiracy charges in They remember accounts of media? the April 19, 1995, bombing that McVeigh's purported confession. Prosecutors and defense attor- destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah The recollections of prospec- neys declined to comment, citing Federal Building. tive Jurors raise the question the Judge's gag order, but most whether moving the McVeigh's legal experts following the trial "There are only five people on trial 600 miles to the judge's say moving the case worked.