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The BG News Tuesday , November 23, 1993 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 76, Issue 64 Briefs Handgun bill center of debate Weather The Associated Press clean up the savings and loan fi- baum, D-Ohio. over unanimous Republican op- an ambitious final-day agenda asco. President Clinton prodded position, and last week's approv- that ranged from the campaign lawmakers to deliver the bill for Sunny skies coming: The House approved a plan to al of the North American Free overhaul bill to a $90 billion WASHINGTON - After a year remake the campaign finance his signature as a "Thanksgiving Trade Agreement. package of spending cuts to less marked by swings from confron- laws, a key item on President Day present" to a crime-weary Today, partly sunny. High Rep. Bob Livingston, R-La, weighty concerns. Among them tation to cooperation, Congress Clinton's agenda. The 255-175 public. Senate Majority Leader briefly donned a clown's hat and was a bill to expand the Harry S. in the mid 50s. Southwest struggled to find common ground vote set up what are likely to be George Mitchell suggested Sun- winds 10 to 20 mph. Tonight, a plastic red nose to poke fun at Truman Historic Site in Inde- on a handgun control bill Monday contentious negotiations with the day he'd favor returning after the Democrats' campaign pendence, Mo., by the addition of mostly cloudy. Low in the and wrap up its business for Senate, which approved its own the holiday if the bill wasn't fin- lower 30s. Chance of preci- finance bill. "It's goofy, it's com- the Truman Farm Home, located 1993. bill earlier in the year. ished. plex, it's unbelievable," he said. in Grandview. pitation 20 percent. Compromise legislation to ex- It was the Brady bill that held The first session of the 103rd Wednesday, cloudy. Slight The Senate was all but done for The Brady bill had been seven tend jobless benefits to the long- center stage in the final hours of Congress was nearly over. Its chance of showers. High 40 the year, although a session was years in the debating, and never term unemployed also was up for the year's session. main accomplishments included set for late in the day so leaders had passage seemed so close. to 45 but falling to the lower final passage, as was a bill to "I think we're moving very enactment of Clinton's package 30s by sunset. Chance of could clear any last-minute bills. provide a final $18 billion to well," said Sen. Howard Metzen- of tax hikes and spending cuts Sec Brady, page three. rain 30 percent. House leaders worked through Outside campus Dallas unveils Accused men released: CAPE TOWN, South monument In Africa -- Three black men accused of murdering American student Amy Biehl in a racist attack were memory of JFK freed today at the trial's start because a witness re- The Associated Press fused to testify. His sister Jean Kennedy Prosecutor Nollic Niehaus Smith observed the anniver- said he had no choice but to DALLAS - With an assas- sary in Ireland. Smith, the U.S. withdraw charges after the sin's nest as a bleak backdrop, ambassador to Ireland, read witness, Charles Benjamin, Dallas unveiled a simple but extracts from his speeches at said he was concerned about eternal tribute Monday to the a memorial Mass in Dublin. his safety and would not tes- memory of President John F. "It's a day to remember the tify. Kennedy. great man that he was, and The three were among Twin fighter jets thundered that for a short space of time seven black males charged low above Dealey Plaza and a he was at the highest seat of in Biehl's slaying, which un- flock of white doves fluttered power in the world," said the derscored the anger of mili- skyward at the exact moment Rev. Michael Kennedy, a rela- tant blacks toward whites, of the assassination 30 years tive from Tipperary, who or "settlers." ago. celebrated the Mass at Du- Biehl, 27, a white Ful- It was 12:30 p.m. Nov. 22, blin's Pro Cathedral. bright scholar from New- then and now. port Beach, Calif., was driv- In 1963, a clock atop the In Kennedy's hometown of ing friends home to the Texas School Book Depository Boston, city government and black township of Guguletu recorded the time as a sniper institutions named for the 35th on Aug. 25 when a mob of on the sixth floor opened fire president held no ceremonies. youths stoned her car and on the motorcade, killing Ken- stabbed her to death. nedy and wounding Gov. John "We are not very en- Connally. thusiastic about celebrating In 1993, Connally's widow, the day he got killed," said Nellie, slipped a black drape Ice-T not so cold: Charles Daley, director of the from a plaque marking the JFK Library. "I hate to think sloping, sunswept plaza as a HONOLULU - Don't con- we would celebrate the day fuse Ice-T the man with the National Historic Landmark. [President Abraham] Lincoln "Thirty years ago, fate cop-killing, ghetto "gang- went to Ford's Theater. We brought me here as an unwill- sta" characters portrayed in celebrate Kennedy's birthday, ing player in the most unfor- which we think is more appro- his songs and movies. gettable tragic drama of our "I know I'm a spokesman, priate." time," Connally told thousands Throughout the Dallas and there's a little pressure. of spectators and dignitaries. ceremony, spectators glanced I can only be myself. If any- "Now," she continued, and pointed intermittently body wants to follow me, fol- "three decades later, we are toward a seven-story red brick low who I am," he said. "If gathered not to look back with building overlooking Dealey you try to follow characters grief, but to look forward with Plaza. in my music or films, you're hope. The Warren Commission gonna end up dead. Pick the "Many of us share our own concluded it was there, from a right person." indelible memories of that aw- corner window of what today The rapper, rocker, actor ful hour, but today we recog- is the Sixth Floor Museum, and businessman doesn't nize the lasting place this site that Lee Harvey Oswald lay in mind the pressure of being a will forever have in our na- wait. role model, as long as it's on "Then suddenly, here in this his terms. tion's history." Sen. Edward Kennedy and plaza, just a few yards from "The problem with the other family members and where we stand, the president word role model is people Sen. Edward friends marked the day with was shot to death," recalled want you to lie and play this Kennedy, D-Mass, right, accompanied by his wife Victoria, prepare to place a rose on the U.S. District Judge Barefoot grave of his brother, the late President, John F. Kennedy, In Arlington National Cemetery Monday. visits to JFK's grave at Arling- politically correct person. ton National Cemetery in Vir- Don't call me a role model Rep. Joseph Kennedy and his wife, Beth, join in remembering the 30th anniversary of the assassina- ginia. and then tell me how I tlon. See Kennedy, page three. should be. You don't get to be a role model by listening to other people," Ice-T said at the start of a 2 1/2-month tour with his hardcore band, Withrow may be Man fights for worker s' rights Body Count. Ice-T, or Tracy Marrow, pioneered the popular f7©lrV U.S. TtGOSUTGT Organizer heading nursing home unionization efforts "gangsta" style of rap that uses raw language to de- The Associated Press Spokeswoman Heidi Findley in by Tara Stubbs lonely profession because he wants to help people scribe and comment on the Columbus, Ohio, said Withrow general assignment reporter improve their working conditions. violence, hopelessness and was traveling and not imme- A native of San Francisco, he said he became in- anger of poor black com- WASHINGTON -- An Ohio diately available for comment. terested in union work after being laid off and munities fed up with how woman may become the next In addition to being state He's 24, lives out of a suitcase and cares about watching his students fail to find jobs. they are treated by society person to sign all the paper treasurer since 1983, Withrow is the rights of the average worker. He's Eric Ver- Verhoogen said his primary goal as a teacher in general and police in par- money printed by the United well-connected in the Democrat- hoogen, a union organizer who is spending the was to give students self esteem. He said teaching ticular. States. ic Party. Thanksgiving season in Bowling Green helping kids to be better people was more important than Star of the films "New President Clinton has nomi- She began her political career Wood County nursing home workers' efforts for teaching math.