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"Celebrating 75 years of Excellence // Inside the News Sports Opinion • Gqffhey talks about smut and such The Falcon football team lost CcmtpUS • Three South Bronx residents pay a visit to Central Michigan this weekend for the third StCltC • Mountain people struggle in city schools straight time. Page 7 Nation* Simpson case to wrap up this week NEWS Monday, September 25, 1995 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 84, Issue 15 Roses are Red... Trial 'embarrasses' FBI Terrorists' defense accuses agency, jury deliberates Larry Neumelsler The sheik, prosecutors say, is a The Associated Press Muslim fundamentalist who saw the United States as Islam's NEW YORK - Prosecutors in worst enemv. He also is accused the biggest terrorism trial in U.S. of inspiring others to kill Rabbi history accused Sheik Omar Ab- Meir Kahane in 1990, bomb the del-Rahman and nine others of World Trade Center in 1993 and hatching a "monstrous" plot to plan to assassinate Egyptian kill thousands of people in a se- President Hosni Mubarak during ries of bombings in New York. a U.S. visit. But by the time the jury began Abdel-Rahman's alleged role deliberating Saturday, the de- was giving followers religious fense had put the tactics of the sanction to bomb, assassinate, nation's top law enforcement kidnap and kill to persuade the agency on trial, accusing the FBI: United States to change its of plotting to frame the defen- Middle East policies. dants to revive its reputation. When the trial began nine "This case is about one of the: months ago. Assistant U.S. At- biggest and most embarrassing torney Robert Khuzami accused moments in the FBI's history," the defendants of devising "a Rahman defense lawyer John Jacobs told battle plan that was so horrible, the jury in U.S. District Court. so monstrous, so vicious that if it tacks on the U.S. military in the Abdel-Rahman, a blind, Egyp- had been successful the lives of Middle East. And they spent tian religious leader, is charged every person in this city and in weeks showing evidence from with leading 14 Muslims in a plot this nation would be changed the Trade Center bombing, even to bomb the United Nations, the forever." though none of the defendants The BC Ni»»ffilaclc McCrcw FBI's Manhattan offices, the Hol- Prosecutors played dozens of was directly charged in the at- Joal Clark, sophomore pre-med major, looks al plants for his molhcr a( UAO's campus flower sale. land and Lincoln tunnels and the taped conversations that were tack. Nlkki Stewart, a senior accounting major, is helping Clark pick out the perfect plant. George Washington Bridge - all secretly recorded by FBI in- But authorities may have in a single day. formant Emad Salem. They stretched the evidence, said Vin- Three defendants pleaded showed videotape of five defen- cent Cannistraro, the CIA's chief guilty, a fourth testified for the dants allegedly mixing a bomb in of counter-terrorism operations government and a fifth will be a garage - although a pros- from 1988 to 1990 and now an in- ecution expert testified the de- Police search for family tried later. The remaining 10 de- ternational security consultant. fendants, if convicted, face max- vice lacked the right mix of imum prison sentences ranging ingredients to explode. The defense accused FBI Airplane enlisted trol's surveillance airplane. One Green to live with her sister. from life to 20 years. Delibera- Prosecutors provided the jury agents and Salem of concocting officer went up with the pilot, but According to the police report, tions continued Sunday and are with transcripts of speeches in the bomb plot so they could race in quest for clues according to Detective Ken Fort- James may have hitchhiked to expected to last about two weeks. which Abdel-Rahman urged at- in and play hero. ney, no clues were uncovered in Bowling Green from Oklahoma in case of missing the aerial search. In the report, a woman who "We did the aerial search and knows James claimed he left mother, children didn't turn up any clues," Fort- with "only the clothes on his Clinton attends baptism ney said. "At this point we're just buck," no money and not even his driver's licence. Joe Boyle waiting." Sonya Ross nity where it was taken away in the 1980s." And he The BC News Kristina's ex-husband, James Kristina was last seen wearing The Associated Press said he wants to ensure that American families and Anderson, was to meet Kristina a black sweatshirt with light- communities receive a chance to "solve their own City and campus police as well and their two children at Wood- colored stripes, black pants and SCRANTON, Pa. - President Clinton attended problems and realize their own possibilities." as Sheriff's deputies combed the land Mall Wednesday and Kris- white Reebok shoes. his nephew's christening Sunday - and seized a Clinton, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and area Friday afternoon looking for tina's sister, Maria Dcwalt was to Asia Marie is described as chance to point out, campaign style, that the nation their daughter, Chelsea, traveled to Scranton for clues in the disappearance of a pick the woman and children up. having brownish-blonde hair and is prospering because of his administration's work. the christening of Tony and Nicole Rodham's woman and her two children. However, Kristina and the big brown eyes. She was last seen Clinton told a crowd of about 200 people who 3-month-old son, Zachary, at Court Street United According to Friday's police children, along with another per- wearing dark blue suspender greeted him at the airport that crime is down and Methodist Church. Also attending the ceremony report, Kristina Lyn Anderson son, were nicked up by a taxi at pants and a white turtlcneck. new jobs are being created because of his adminis- was Zachary's grandmother, Sen. Barbara Boxer, and her children, Levi and Asia the mall and taken to the Bob Levl reportedly has short blonde tration's effort to "lift up the values of work and D-Calif. Marie, were last seen at the Bob Evans restaurant. The taxi driver hair and brown eyes. He was last family and freedom." Evans restaurant on East Woos- was the last person to see the seen weiring faded green bib "We seem to be coming together again as a coun- Clinton shook hands and greeted well-wishers ter Street last Wednesday. four. overalls and a green polo shirt try, and looking to the future again," Clinton said. for nearly an hour at the Scranton airport, before Police spent Friday combing James lias physically abused with green and beige stripes. "For me at least, every day is an enormous oppor- heading to lunch with 17 relatives and friends at the ditches along Interstate 75, Kristina in the past and lias a tunity ... to try to elevate the things that all of you the Rodham family home on nearby Lake Winola. the area around Bob Evans and criminal record, Dewalt said. All Police are encouraging anyone live by day in and day out." After lunch, Clinton did more handshaking with areas north of the airport. four Andersons had lived in Ore- who may have seen any of the At times, the president seemed to be in cam- the crowd gathered in front of the Rodham home. Around 4:30 p.m. police called gon until four months ago when four to call the Crimcstoppers paign mode. He told the crowd he intends to con- He ducked briefly into the Lakeview Market and in the Ohio State Highway Pa- Kristina moved to Bowling hotline at 352-0077 tinue working "to try to restore economic opportu- greeted the shop owner, but didn't buy anything. Bosnians to boycott peace talks You're No Tommy Lasorda Government, Croat forces continue attacks on Serb border SamlrKrllic stripped large chunks of terri- not been met," Silajdzic said. reach a cease-fire or continue The Associated Press tory from the Serbs, and some The Muslim-led Sarajevo their a military offensive in the Bosnians think they can win government has demanded that northwest. SARAJEVO, Bosnia- more on the battlefield than at the Serb military leadership in Sacirbey said recently that the Herzegovina - Demanding con- the negotiating table. Banja Luka to be removed and government's military campaign cessions from Serb rebels, the The statement, issued by dialogue opened with moderate should be replaced by peace ne- government said Sunday its for- President Alija Izetbegovic's of- Serbs in that northern Bosnian gotiations. Silajdzic, on the other eign minister will boycott talks fice, said without elaboration Serb stronghold. hand, has said offensives should on a U.S. peace plan this week in that "the Serbian side has not continue until an agreement is New York. positively responded to our con- signed and the rebels demilitar- The government made the an- structive suggestions" regarding "Some of our ize Banja Luka.