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Show Saturday June 30, 1990 Saturday Briefin A: Ameriean finishes bike journey on Greai Wall of China BEIJING (AP) American cyclist Kevin Foster, dodging startled guards who wanted to arrest him, whizzed down the last stretch of the Great Wall to reach the ocean Friday, completing his journey on the ancient monument. Four people who were waiting to greet Foster were questioned for about an hour, including two American businessmen who helped sponsor his journey. "It was kind of an exciting ending but not the ending I planned," a end-to-e- sunburned and scratched Foster said after returning to Beijing by train. The scratches came from bushes along the last stretch of wall. He said the guards at Shanhaiguan, where the wall ends at the ocean, were startled to see him and a Chinese companion come shooting down the wall from a direction other than the ticket booth and turnstile for tourists. Foster said he ducked out of sight AP Laserphoto while the guards questioned Professor Li Wenyan of the Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Geog- raphy, Foster's Chinese sponsor; a Chinese television reporter; and Bill and Laroy Van Dyke, brothers Cyclist Kevin Foster mounts a camel at a seaside tourist attraction at Shanhaiguan, celebrating the finish of his ride on the Wall. China, World Manny Garcia and Denver attorneys Craig Truman and Karen Chaney, vowed to appeal. Gardner, 29, became the youngest man on Utah's death row when he received the death penalty on Oct. 25, 1985, for shooting attorney Michael Burdell during an escape attempt. StatoRoglon Gardner execution Sections of frames found - DEN BOSCH, Netherlands (AP) A woman walking her dog found frame sections from one of three stolen van Goghs, but police said Friday they had no solid leads to the third van Gogh theft from Dutch museums in 25 months. A police task force was questioning museum staff Friday, although police said they believe t theft from the Noordbrabants Thursday's Museum was not the work of insiders. The thieves police believe there were three jumped several fences and smashed through a reinforced ground-floo- r window to gain entry to the museum. A sophisticated alarm system was not functioning in the gallery where the paintings were kept. The museum in this city 53 miles south of Amsterdam set the total worth of the paintings at between $2.7 million and $5.4 million. Israel plans compensation - A judge SALT LAKE CITY (AP) on Friday ordered condemned killer Ronnie Lee Gardner to be put to death by lethal injection Aug. 24 for the murder of an attorney during a shootout at the Metropolitan Hall of Justice in 1985. Gardner, shackled hand and foot and surrounded by armed guards, appeared before 3rd District Judge Frank G. Noel, who issued a new death warrant. The method of execution was a departure from Gardner's request at sentencing nearly five years ago to die before a firing squad. Asked his preference again Friday by Noel, he replied, "I'll take lethal injection." Noel also appointed three ..ew attorneys to represent Gardner after previous counsel Andrew Valdez and from the case. Joan The new attorneys, Salt Lake lawyer Watt-withdre- SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Utah Sports Authority board has its tour of proposed wrapped Olympic sports venues and now has less than two weeks to decide where to place three key events. The board is scheduled to announce its final decision at a meeting on July 10. The sites, funded by about $54 million in sales tax revenues, are designed to help the state win a bid for the 1998 Winter Olympics and become a Western U.S. winter sports training center. The board's two-da- y visit to proposed sites ended Thursday night in Utah County after traveling from Ogden. up - JERUSALEM (AP) Israel plans to pay about in compensation to each family of the seven Palestinians slain near Tel Aviv by an Israeli gunman, a defense ministry spokesman said Friday. The decision was made "as a special gesture in light of the tragic circumstances" surrounding last month's attack, said Danny Naveh, a spokesman for Defense Minister Moshe Arens. On May 20, Ami Popper, an Israeli civilian, opened fire on a group of Arab workers from the occupied Gaza Strip, killing seven and wounding 10. The slayings, near the Tel Aviv suburb of Rishon Letzion, inflamed tensions throughout the occupied lands and touched off a wave of rioting in which seven other Palestinians were shot and killed by soldiers. $38,000 Venue site naming and top officers of the U.S.-basic company. The company helped sponsor the trip. actor from Foster, 30, a part-tim- e Ojai, Calif., set out May 11 to become the first person to bicycle on top of the wall from one end' to the other. He started at the wall's westernmost pass, Jiayuguan, in Gansu province, but had to skip a large stretch of wall that traverses a closed military area. He walked alongside other portions of wall that are in ruins, altogether bicycling 1,174.8 miles of the wall. Foster is the first person to bicycle any substantial distance on the monument, which China's emperors built more than 2,000 years ago to keep out foreigners. "I was the first to do it, that was the dream," he said, "f someone else wants to do what I just did good luck." "The last few days I've been thinking not just about ending it but about taking a shower," he added. The 12 days he spent bicycling from Beijing east to the ocean were the toughest, he said, because the wall snakes through mountainous terrain. In places, the man-mad- e ed Bike-o-Mat- 3,700-mile-lo- KSL employee suit - A KSL SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Radio employee has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Bonneville International Corp. and three of its employees on grounds they discriminated against him on the basis of comage. According to the plaint filed in U.S. District Court Friday, Robert G. Schildmeyer alRadio gave leges that Bonneville-KS- L preferential treatment to employees, including raises and promotions not given him. Schildmeyer also claims he was terminated from the position of managing editor and demoted to a night L staff position. The suit alleges Radio retaliated against him after he filed discrimination charges with the state industrial commission and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. six-cou- nt less-qualifi- Bonne-villeiKS- In response to Schildmeyer's the complaint said Bonneville-KSL Radio cited his job performance and a reduction in force. charge, 1 : I a if : post-aparthe-id one-ma- ' 1 20-fo-ot He also encountered bureaucratic barriers the worst of the trip, when local police began demanding he obtain a separate travel permit for each county he passed through. They also said he could not sleep in villages near the wall but had to travel each night to the county seats. "I didn't enjoy the authority part," he said. "Meeting the people those were the along the wall best times." Foster said he is thinking about writing a book about his experiences. Chinese all along the route were fascinated by his custom-bui- lt aluminum mountain bike, much lighter than the black steel bicycles that are the main mode of transportation in China. He is hoping his journey will be included in the Guinness Book of World Records. Nation Wife running mate - BALTIMORE (AP) For months GOP gubernatorial candidate William S. Shepard searched in vain for a running mate. So he asked his wife. He will name Lois Shepard as his lieutenant governor candidate when he files officially for the race on Monday, The Sun reported Friday. Shepard made his decision after months of being turned down by prominent Republicans unwilling to give up their current offices for what most consider to be a hopeless race to defeat incumbent Gov. William Donald Schaefer. The Sun said Shepard's decision sent state Republican leaders into a frantic effort to change his mind, suggesting that a husband-and-wif- e team would be regarded as frivolous. Sources said Shepard responded by threatening not to run at all. - PHILADELPHIA (AP) An Am-tra- k train carrying at least 94 people derailed Friday as it approached 30th Street Station, injuring the engineer, authorities said. The engine and the first three cars of the eight-ca- r Montrealer derailed near the Philadelphia Zoo, Vh miles northwest of the station, shortly after 1 p.m., said Amtrak spokesman Clifford Black. Black said there were no immediate reports of injuries to passengers. The engineer suffered bruises on his legs and upper body, none of which appeared serious, said police Sgt. Christopher McCabe. The derailment occurred at a track ' switch, but the cause was not known, Black said. The cars remained Rushmore coins CD t w P-- XMm lf; 33: All Monrovian utilities cut off - rode it," Foster said. "There were a couple of times I went to take a step and there was a drop. I was able to grab the bushes and hold on." n, t.Sd AP Laserphoto Liberia (AP) Rebels battled troops at four locations in an arc surrounding Monrovia on Friday after capturing the country's main water treatment plant. Government sources said soldiers shut off water to the capital to prevent the rebels from poisoning it. Civilians who fled the fighting said the guerrillas appeared to be preparing to attack the city. The rebels, who in six months have advanced from the northeastern tip of Liberia to the southwestern capital on the Atlantic Ocean, have said they will attack Monrovia unless President Samuel Doe resigns. They have refused to attend a second round of peace talks mediated by the Liberian Council of Churches. Doe, 40, has been resisting internal and externa! pressure to give up power and help end a tribal war In which soldiers and rebels have killed more than 1,000 civilians. The fighting has brought the country's economy to the brink of collapse. Most businesses closed in Monrovia after troops fired at protesters who marched Wednesday to demand Doe's resignation. At least five demonstrators were critically wounded. Food and fuel shortages worsened Friday in Monrovia, which has been without water since Wednesday areas also were reported to be night Rebel-hel- d food shortages. severe experiencing Sources in the Defense Ministry said the water supply from White Plains, 12 miles from Monrovia, was turned off by technicians acting on the orders of seven soldiers guarding the facility. The technicians fled, as did the soldiers after two days of intermittent fighting. MOUNT BARCLAY, cliffs. "I carried the bike more than Train jumps tracks South African Parliament A top JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) government official said Friday that a political system might include two houses of Parliament one elected directly and the other weighted in favor of minorities. Constitutional Development Minister Gerrit Viljoen told government television that a new constitution could have one chamber elected by a simple one-vo- te system. A second chamber would give equal voting power to different groups, even though the groups may be unequal in size, Viljoen told the South African Broadcasting Corp. The second chamber could have veto power on major policy decisions, Viljoen said. He did not say if the groups would be defined along racial lines or by other means. Viljoen's comments on Friday and a speech he delivered Thursday night provided new details of the government's thinking as it prepares to negotiate a new constitution with black opposition groups, wall simply stops and yields to sheer Onlookers get a view of a Union Pacific steam locomotive, pulling the Idaho Centennial train aboard! through Soda Springs. The train will cross Idaho twice for the state's Centennial. - The Senate congressional approval for the government to mint commemorative coins next year to finance a face lift of Mt. Rushmore. By voice vote, the Senate approved legislation that calls for U.S. Mint to strike a series of gold, silver and other coins honoring the national memorial's 50th anniversary. The bill now goes to President Bush for his signature. Supporters expect sales of the coins to raise $35 million, which will be split equally between the Mount Rushmore Memorial Society and the U.S. Treasury. WASHINGTON (AP) on Friday gave final Moore says she steered back to drug topic - WASHINGTON Rasheeda (AP) Moore testified under Friday she repeatedly steered Marion Barry onto the subject of drugs after the mayor said he did not want to use cocaine the night he was arrested in an FBI sting operation. Moore denied a suggestion by Barry's lawyer that she trapped the mayor in the sting operation or that her motive for working with the FBI was because Barry had abandoned her for cross-examinati- another woman. Moore broke the FBI's instructions and tried to persuade the mayor to use drugs, she admitted under a second day of questioning by defense attorney R. Kenneth Mundy. Midway through the FBI videotape of the sting operation, Moore asks the mayor if he wants to use drugs. "No, not tonight," Barry replies on the tape. But Moore brings the subject back to drugs repeatedly after that. "You felt you were going beyond your mandate not to persuade, influ ence, coerce or beguile" Barry into using drugs? asked Mundy. "I did," said Moore. "Why did you do that?" asked Mundy. Moore said she got "overcarried" In performing her duties for the FBI that night. "In your zeal to get Mr. Barry," Mundy said accusingly. "For all you knew, he had been off drugs since May" 1989 when Moore went to California. "Not in my zeal," insisted Moore. "I was not out to get Mr. Barry." "What was your intent?" asked Mundy. "Working this operation" with the FBI, replied Moore. Mundy suggested Moore had been badly treated by the mayor. Was she angry at Mr. Barry because he didn't return her calls throughout an eight-mont- h span in 1989, asked. No, Moore said. Was she angry because the mayor Mi-nd- was involved with another woman, Maria McCarthy, or because Barry had slapped Moore when they broke up Had Moore been scorned? a reporter asked Mundy after the day's court session. their romantic relationship? asked Mundy agreed immediately and quoted the old proverb: "Hell hath no Mundy. No, she wasn't, Moore insisted each fury like a woman scorned." Moore insisted that Barry repeatedly time. On the videotape, Barry tells Moore used code language about drugs in at one point that "Maria" is interested carrying on their conversation. And she said he acted on his own in buying in having sex with the mayor. Walking up to the witness stand, crack cocaine from an undercover FBI Mundy stood next to the former model agent and smoking it. "He was comfortable, he was being and showed her a segment of the transcript of the recorded conversation himself during the visit, she said. Moore, the government's star witduring the Vista sting. The former model inexplicably ness in Barry's drug and perjury trial, shouts "Oh, Maria, Maria," just before testified previously that she and the FBI agents and police detective crash mayor used drugs together "over 100 into Moore's hotel room to arrest times" and had an intimate relationship from shortly after their 1986 meetBarry for cocaine possession. "If there was no vengeance on your ing until The jury spent much of Thursday mind" why would Moore say such a a videotape showing Barry watching thing? inquired Mundy. "I have no idea," responded Moore, arriving at Moore's hotel room last Jan. 18, eventually smoking the drug suggesting it was "Out of and being arrested. mid-198- 8. |