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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 10-12-1989 The BG News October 12, 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 October 12, 1989" (1989). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4987. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4987 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. Thursday Weather Vol.72 Issue 31 High 70° October 12, 1989 Low 45 Bowling Green, Ohio The BG News BRIEFLY Abortion bills imminent in Ohio by Robert E. Milter privacy. It was a monkey wrench in their law." Ohio didates split the anti-abortion vote, Folger said. Campus lawmakers do not face that problem, she added. Spangler said if restrictive legislation is offered in Associated Press writer Folger said since July, voters in six of eight state Ohio "the pro-choice people are going to be heard special elections indicated support for the Supreme from." Soviet music plays: in COLUMBUS — A spokeswoman for a statewide an- Court decision. Ohio Right to Life and other anti-abortion activists Bryan Recital Hall this evening, ti-abortion group said Wednesday the Florida Legis- will rally in Columbus on Oct. 28. The next day, "New Music from the USSR: Soviet lature's defeat of bills that would have restricted Spangler's group plans a "March for Choice" ui Saxophone Ensembles" will be abortions is no indication of what might happen to "(Florida is) indicative of what is Columbus with Democratic Gov. Richard Celeste performed by the saxophone similar measures In Ohio. and Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio. ensembles at 8 p.m. John Sampen will But an official of an Ohio pro-choice organization going to happen in some states. Rep. Joan Lawrence, R-Galena, author of a bill to direct this free performance. said Florida sent a message to all lawmakers that I don't think Ohio will add many permit abortions under certain guidelines up to the "there are dangers in trying to take away people's 25th week of pregnancy, agreed that Florida's consti- rights." restrictions." tution may have prompted some opposition to re- Nation Janet Folger, legislative director of Ohio Right to -Janet Folger, legislative director strictions. Life, and Jill Spangler, executive director of the But she said Florida is "indicative of what is going Aide sentenced: A former National Abortion Rights Action League of Ohio, of Ohio Right to Life to happen in some states. I don't think Ohio will add nursing home aide in Grand Rapids, were asked about the action in Florida. That state's many restrictions." Mich, was sentenced to 20 to 40 years Legislature held the first special session on abortion She said anti-abortion candidates won two elec- She said her bill was introduced to provide a forum in prison for helping to smother since the U.S. Supreme Court in July upheld a re- tions in Florida and one each in Missouri, Alabama, for discussion and "doesn't reallv do anything." She elderly patients in a pact with her strictive Missouri law. Four bills were defeated in Mississippi and Georgia. said abortions are not performed after the 25th week lesbian lover. Catherine Wood Tallahassee on Tuesday and 10 more Wednesday. Pro-choice candidates won in South Carolina and of pregnancy except in extreme cases. testified against her lover, "That will have no real effect in Ohio," Folger California. But in South Carolina the winner was the Folger said Right To Life is working on bills for in- Gwendolyn Graham, in court. said. "They have a constitution that talks a lot about daughter of a predecessor and in California two can- D See Abortion, page 3. Wood said the murders were part of a pact that the two hoped would bind their love. She said Graham told her the killings helped her to "relieve tension. Local store Minor arrested: Police arrested a 16-year-old on charges of planting two bombs in Anderson, Did., must drop Wednesday. Monday and Tuesday the 1,200 student Anderson High School had to be evacuated and classes cancelled because of the bombs. newspaper Damages to the high school are estimated to cost less than $800. Birthday ruined: Linda by Jill Novak Nichols of Arp, Texas, was more than staff writer disappointed when burglars stole her videocassette recorder, answering The limited supply of issues of The machine, jewlery, cash, a birthday Plain Dealer, once available for local cake and birthday presents. It was residents courtesy of a Bowling Green her twin sons', Damon and Dustin, store, is no longer for sale. birthday and the burglars took the Quarter's Party Store, 107 State St., skateboards Nichols was going to give no longer offers the daper because her sons and the cash she intendedto when officials at The Plain Dealer dis- use to take them to the state fair in covered the store was selling issues, Dallas this weekend. they threatened the supplier for Quar- ' 'It takes a low person to steal a ter s with unemployment, according to 10-year-old's birthday cake," she Ron Chriss, owner of Quarter's. said. "I'm mad." Chriss said he had been sending a driver, or supplier, to the Cleveland Truck 'remains': in Fort area to pick up papers because news- Lauderdale, Fla., a truck thief "aper distributors refused to deliver apparently stopped dead in his tracks when he discovered the vehicle he had The circulation department at the taken was marked "Human Remains, Plain Dealer found out and called the Extreme Care." The 24-foot rental distributor's place of employment, he truck, stolen from a casket company, said, declining to mention the identity was abandoned with its cargo, an of his supplier. empty shipping container intended "They said whoever was pirating for a corpse. papers to the store in Bowling Green would lose their job," Chriss said. "The "What... did they think it would guy who had been sneaking me papers have in the back? Dead fish?," Hugh called me — his voice was quivering — Allgood, owner of Flite-Rite and he said he knew there was a Dig Company, said. readership here, but he didn't want to lose his job and he was sorry." I Notified of this decision last week, • ■ > State Chriss said he is angered at the actions of Plain Deaferrepresentatives. "My understanding of free enter- « Production stalled: A fire prise is that if I am willing to buy the that has kept a Canadian plant from product, I should be able to sell it," he producing a chemical that is used in said. automobile air bags is not likely to Because he was so upset by their de- cause problems withproduction of the cision, Chriss has called the circulation bags at TRW Inc. 's Cleveland plant, a department numerous times to inquire ill ' '"' Oft, if*! TRW spokesman said Wednesday. about the decision, only to be told "it The fire Sunday at CIL Explosives in was a management decision and that's Beloeil, Quebec, stopped ClL's all." he said. production of sodium azide, which is A manager in The Plain Dealer's cir- an active ingredient in air bag culation department who refused to propellants. give his name said the company made ( decision in March to discontinue sales TRW is one of two companies that of the paper in all areas west of Seneca make air bags for domestic County, unless customers are on a mail automakers. The other is order basis. Chicago-based Morton International. "The decision was made because of TRW also makes car parts and economic reasons," he said. "Our _ industrial equipment. company will take the revenues we are saving (from discontinuing distribu- Senator concerned: Sen. tion) and use our resources to concen- Howard Metzenbaum said he has trate on the Cleveland product," he asked the Justice Department to look said. BG News/ John Grieshop into whether Paramount Pictures has However, the manager refused to Are We Having Fun Yet? illegally put the squeeze on elaborate on Chriss's situation and As part of the 1989 Homecoming festivities, the University Activities Organization sponsored a Homecoming Blanket Concert second-run movie nouses. The would only say officials at the news- near the Student Services Building Wednesday featuring the three-member band On The Rocks. Although the sparse crowd company has made it impossible for paper " don't want that happening." seemed to enjoy the concert, freshman Alecia Mazza, unimpressed, naps on her boyfriend's back. small theaters to continue charging $1 D See Plain Dealer, page 5. a seat by demanding that it receive $1.05 a ticket, said Metzenbaum, DOhio. "I am concerned that this change in Paramount's licensing arrangements De Klerk set Swimmer pleads guilty may constitute a back-door effort to force discount theaters to charge Summary suspensions were issued Oct. 3 to Fos- higher admission prices and reduce by Jeff Batdorf ter, Craig Schoenlein and Craig Janeck because of competition," Metzenbaum said in a to negotiate staff writer letter to the Justice Department's their circumstances. anti-trust division. The students had five days to appeal the suspen- by Greg Myre One swim team member has pled guilty to charges sions, but no appeals were made. of breaking and entering and five others have left In other developments: Reading celebrated: Rep.