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Inside the News Nation Opinion • Tom Mather considers growing up State* Task force begins anti-smog message Divers continue search for victims following plane crash Nation • Women say they were harassed at work E W S Page 4 Wednesday, May 22, 1996 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 83, Issue 132 The News' Freemen abort surrender talks Briefs Tom Laceky wild gestures during the discussion. new player on the FBI team gave handshakes, the new participant vehicle, but did not come to the ne- Man.asked to leave The Associated Press Other Freemen and some FBI Freeman leaders a sheaf of papers. handed the several pages of papers gotiating table. They sat in their vehi- agents looked on. After the conver- Duke offered no explanation or in- to Edwin Claris and Russell Landers, cle out of sight of the reporters and church property JORDAN, Mont. - Surrender talks sation ended, the Freemen conting- formation on what was in the papers the only Freemen attending Monday. photographers on a hillside half a AKRON, Ohio (AP) A between the Montana Freemen and ent returned to their compound and and the FBI has never commented Four men have represented the mile away. man who has been asked to the FBI were aborted after a heated Duke and the FBI agents left the ne- on any aspect of the standoff. Freemen previously. The FBI believes 18 people are on leave a church property by discussion between one of the anti- The content of the papers was not the congregation says he's gotiating table. Monday's meeting was unusual in the compound, including two girls 8 government activists and the media- Shortly after the two sides parted, several ways. The 40-minute session known, but they apparently were the and 10 years old and another 16. waiting for directions from tor. God. several armed Freemen appeared appeared cordial but was the main, if not only, focus of the meet- Some of the adults are wanted on "I'll do what God tells me Colorado state Sen. Charles Duke, outside their farm house refuge. shortest yet and, for the first time, ing. Clark and Landers withdrew a state and federal charges that range to do," Jim Dunn, S3, said who engineered the face-to-face The developments came on the started late, by 15 minutes. few yards to talk briefly at one point, from writing millions of dollars in bad Monday in response to the meetings after other intermediaries 58th day of the standoff between the A third man, presumably an FBI and they carried the papers back to checks to threatening to kidnap and 124-100 vote Sunday by failed, talked with an unidentified FBI and Freemen after a lull in what agent, joined Duke and the two FBI the Freemen's sanctuary when the kill a federal judge. members of the First Con- Freeman for about 15 minutes this had been twice-daily negotiating negotiators who talked with the meeting ended. gregational Church. morning. sessions. No talks were held Monday Freemen at the previous twice-a-day Three people followed Clark and The Freemen group, believed to "I've talked to Him, but Journalists viewing from a half- afternoon. meetings. Landers from the main house of the be heavily armed, says it is not sub- He hasn't told me yet to mile away could see Duke making 960-acre farm complex in another ject to state or federal laws. move," he said. "God will At Monday morning's meeting, a After the customary round of handle my problems." Dunn said he took up res- idence on the church prop- Colorado residents erty 13 months ago because Look who's talking God told him to do so. He and his dog have been living react to Supreme Court's in a makeshift home of cardboard and duct tape. Church members said his decision about gay rights dog soils the yard and food left by Dunn for birds has attracted rats. Joe Wheelan anymore." First Congregational The Associated Press In the college town of Boulder, the Church moderator Larry decision had special meaning be- Becker said Sunday there LAKEWCOD. Colo. - For a state cause the measure would have was no deadline to get Dunn that has battled over an anti-gay- struck down an existing ordinance to leave the church prop- rights amendment, the U.S. Su- here that affirmed civil rights for gays erty. preme Court decision striking down and lesbians. "You won't see us escort- Matu Eagle embraced her partner, ing Mr. Dunn off the prop- the measure served only to deepen erty," Becker said then. "It divisions and keep the debate Holly Hutchinson, at a rally celebrat- is important to see to his raging. ing the decision. well-being." In the coffee shops and busi- "It's wonderful. It's a big relief," The Rev. Bob Mollard nesses of this Denver suburb, the Eagle said. "I feel more protected as said church officials had arguments continued, as they have far as having a place to live life de- been in contact with social everywhere in Colorado for the past cently." service agencies to assist four years. Dunn. "It made me realize how much ha- tred there is out there, and bigotry," "When I voted for Police search for said artist Jacqueline Wolber. Amendment 2, i voted missing alligator Chip Bosman, a sewage company NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio supervisor, had a different view, for equal rights, not - A tough-skinned critter comparing the high court to a "dicta- less, not more. That's escaped from a vehicle torship." along Interstate 480. Police "The Supreme Court stick their the way I understood it. were looking for a 33-inch- noses into too many things," he said. If they can overturn our long alligator. Colorado constitutional Amend- vote, then I'm not going Baldo Campana, a brick- ment 2, approved in 1992, banned The Allocated Prci. layer from Loratn, told laws that protect gays from discrimi- to vote anymore." police that his pet escaped Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole campaigns In Florida. nation. But it was never enforced be- from a leash and apparently Toula Theos fell out of the back of his cause it was immediately challenged pickup truck In this Cleve- in court by gay men and women as Colorado resident land suburb. well as three cities that had enacted Campana discovered the gay rights ordinances. alligator missing Monday In a 6-3 vote Monday, the nation's Similarly across the nation, the Five hundred die in ferry morning when he arrived at high court ruled the measure would reaction was split between those a construction site in Cleve- deny gays constitutional protection who see a movement for civil rights land. and make them "unequal to every- and others who see a campaign for Hugh Qulnn, a herpctolo- one else." special rights. accident in Lake Victoria glst and curator at Cleve- "Amendment 2 embarrassed me," "This is a huge breakthrough," ex- land Metroparks Zoo, said said Richard Wolber, a 59-year-old claimed Beth Barrett, spokeswoman Abdulla Rlyaml expected to be found, the radio One man identified only as Cha- the alligator could survive a for the National Gay and Lesbian The Associated Press station said. cha told Radio Tanzania that the ship high-speed fall from the Lakewood lawyer. "It was a vicious, cruel act passed... to get at gays." Task Force in Washington. "This is not an ordinary tragedy. It was overcrowded. "There was no truck. "It's a victory not just for gays and proper procedure for ticketing," he Qulnn said the alligator, Others said they had nothing DAR ES SALAAM Tanzania - is a national tragedy," President Ben- which weighs about six against homosexuality but felt gays lesbians but for all who believe in civ- - More than 500 passengers, many jamin Mkapa said in a live radio said. pounds, will eat mice, fish, didn't deserve special rights. il rights. It's another notch for us on of them teen-agers, drowned Tues- broadcast. He declared three days of The ferry was traveling southeast insects and other small "My son is chemically imbalanced, the score-card of wins and losses." day after a feny hit a rook and cap- mourning and oroved flags to be from Bukoba to Mwanza, about 110 animals. It is too small to perceptually handicapped, and he At the heart of the euphoria and sized in Lake Victoria, state-run radio flown at half-staff. miles away. Journalists in Mwanza chase dogs, cats or larger should have the same rights as the fear is the belief that the Supreme and journalists said. A total of 441 passengers were said the ferry struck a rock before it animals, he said. lesbians and everybody else." Toula Court ruling will pave the way for Passing ships pulled 40 survivors listed as being aboard the ferry, sank. Police from North Olm- Theossaid.