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Show The Daily Herald . TV Thursday, January 18, 1996 nenas eoisoi 38 A Muslim clerNEW YORK ic and nine followers drew stiff sentences for plotting to blow up New York-are- a landmarks, a conspiracy the judge said would have caused devastation on a scale unseen since the Civil War. a Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahmacharismatic preacher with intense passions, was the spiritual leader of the plot to bomb the United Nations, FBI offices, two runnels and a bridge in an effort to force a change in U.S. policies in the Middle East. . PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) A "Friends" episode that depicts a lesbian wedding ceremo-i- i is getting a decidedly unfriendly reception from at least one television station. jThe NBC affiliate KJAC is pre- -' empting the installment scheduled toUir tonight, saying it is unsuitable for traditional family viewing. The popular program will be replaced with a Super Bowl spec- n, ials'' Before We do not believe the episode meets prevailing stan-d&of good taste in our community," Ron Kelly, KJAC vice president and general manager, said in of 'Friends' a prepared sheik delivered an angry speech in Arabic attacking the United States as an "enemy of Islam." "This case is nothing but an extension of the American war against Islam," the blind cleric told U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey through an interpreter. Then Mukasey took his turn, telling a packed and heavily guarded Manhattan courtroom that tens of thousands of other Muslims prosper and contribute to Amerite issued . Wednesday. "We are the Super Bowl station and interest in the Dallas Cowboys isery high," he said. JThe episode celebrates the marto riage of Ross lesbian her partner. Lesbian activist Can-daGingrich, the sister of House Speaker Newt Gingrich, will officiate the ceremony. 'Network officials say the erisode has met with little opposi-tiq- n ex-wi- fe ce Mukasey said that if the sheik's conspiracy hadn't been prevented, it "would have resulted in the murder of hundreds, if not thousands of people, and brought about devastation on a scale that beggars the imagination, certainly on a scale unknown in this country since the Civil War." The government's key witness was Emad Salem, a former Egyptian army officer turned FBI informant who infiltrated the defendants' circle and secretly taped their conversations. Salem, who reportedly was paid $1 million by the FBI and was granted immunity from prosecution, has been placed in a federal witness protection Plane door pops open in flight Teth;SAN ANTONIO (AP) ered at the waist, a cockpit crew member pulled a hatch closed and setured it with rope after a stairwell on a TWA jet popped open during flight. None of the 72 people aboard was injured. SThe Boeing 727 was cruising at 35,000 feet, en route Tuesday night from St. Louis and about 100 miles from the San Antonio International Airport when a cockpit light indicated a rear stairway under the tail was open. The crew discovered it had dropped about 2. feet, officials said. lA bulkhead door between the stairway and the passenger compartment prevented the cabin from Wing air pressure. The captain flew the plane to 3,b()0 feet to permit a crew mem- b to reach a handle behind the daor, TWA spokesman John : McDonald said Wednesday. When the crew member pulled the stairs shut, he was secured with rope and possibly seat belt extension straps to keep him from being swept out. - , , uzr ' nf y Vi?r:i ff f vV h . 4iP wM' A v " , carried semiautomatic weapons. g Two dogs patrolled bomb-sniffin- ' the courthouse with federal agents, and concrete barriers kept vehicles away. At times, 30 federal mar- shals were in the courtroom. The defendants were convicted Oct. 1 of seditious conspiracy and n nil ,vf- - ,., ,1, A.. - ft. ... ..f .,. AP Photo U.S. Courthouse in lower Manhattan on Wednesday. Inside the courthouse, a judtje handed down stiff' Kaukab Siddique, center, of the Committee to Free Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, raises his fist as he shouts his support for the Muslim cleric outside the 2 I sentences to conspirators and Rahman. f anti-Ara- ,m.smm 'FJ r?:' rw, I .III Hfe - I BB&SEXKT I MMMMK! I j p , and; more on all neoclassic tables .'.... atpur mahogany-finishe- ' - L Jtr CjT V..cLb XJ f K , f'tW 0" S11J& , tables d ) IIIIIIUBHIMIIIMIIII 1 IIMIWIIW IIBIIMII IIIIMTTWIIMl-- l WTFtniOT I milMl'lll'li dLh v, iBMWaWBIMWBMMMHWIW J3r5 Co) 4 iSlF) Co" EZS XJ DOLLARS ' MINUTES ' 1 ' 145-un- 24 Vh; 18 7," dia. f top 0sy JOJ .; .i mini. II II J Mi iiywwMiiTOi How can you go wrong with a FREE Sony Phone, j I $50 cosh back and 50 minutes of oirtime credit I'll I ' that signs for' a referral up j' for service. S- - . ' JFK Jnfs editor quits magazine SW flilf PS cemre Tai 17 The edi?NEW YORK (AP) tor has walked out after just two issues of George, John F. Kennedy. JiVs celebrity-fille- d political mag- - 29', 'A-- dia. top ;Eric Etheridge, 38, said he was leaving because of "editorial differences" with Kennedy and and executive publisher Michael Berman. Etheridge, a former editor for Rolling Stone and the New York Observer, reportedly called the parting "amicable" but refused to elaborate. George is published as a joint venture between Random Ventures Inc., founded by Kennedy and Berman, and France-base- d Hachette Filipacchi Magazines. For now, Kennedy, the editor in chief, is to assume hands-o- n editorial duties, The Wall Street Jc&ma! said. SThe 500,000 copies of (he first with Cindy isstie of George Crawford in a powdered wig on sold out, and the secth cover ond issue reportedly also &old well. The third issue is due on newsstands next week. ' ; .Av.uUhl.u.lrMore, ami thnniKh On The Double delivery to all other stores. . JR. Ifc. nn ' - 35-ye- ar Abdel-Rahma- Flames CHICAGO (AP) fanned to blowtorch intensity by high winds swept through a South Side apartment house before dawn today, forcing some panicked occupants to leap from upper stories. Four people were killed and scores were injured. ,'Firefighters arrived on the scene to find many people in the it eight-storbuilding , calland windows out of hanging ing out desperately for help. ''People in the street were screaming, he's going to jump, he's going to jump," said Red Cross worker Debra Russell. '.Firefighter Bill Heenan, standing on a ladder five floors up, , managed to catch an gir! in his arms after she was dropped from one of the floors above him. He then carried the terrified child to safety. . i -- X A' : Apartment fire r kills 4 in Chicago y, mant to convict him, he argued. Mukasey sentenced hirn to the maximum 35 years for his "monstrous crime." There is no parole for federal prisoners,' but they can cut up to 15 percent off their sentences through good behavior. That could reduce a sentence, for example, to 29 years and nine months. The sentencings came nearly two years after the convictions of four men in the World Trade Center bombing, which killed six people and injured more than 1,000. The terror conspirators were not directly charged in that Feb. 26, 1993, bombing but were accused of being part of the organization that carried it out. Outside the courthouse Wednesday, a small army of city police officers wore bulletproof vests and . - , r Of the cleric's followers, the other charges. The n also was found judge came down hardest oil.'.'El J" Sayyid Nosair, sentencing him to guilty of plotting to assassinate Hosni President life in prison for his role in the ' Egyptian bomb plot and for killing militant Mubarak, a conviction which car- b Rabbi Meir Kahane in a . nes a mandatory lire term. ""J1U"" .mw,.mM 4 five children. The government "squeezed a few words" from a conversation he had with an infor- - can life. elsewhere. v - passports and visas intended to get Nosair out of the country following a jailbreak. Seven defendants other received prison terms of 25 to 35 years for aiding the bombing plot. "I'm not a terrorist," pleaded Mohammed Saleh, 39, who said he came to the United States to finish college and earn money to raise sentenced being v. including possession of bogus Wednesday to a mandatory life prison term without parole, the ds statement New York hotel in 1990. "Because of the bombing of the World Trade Center, the government made up this case," complained Nosair, who was convicted of federal racketeering statutes in the Kahane killing after being acquitted of murder in state court. Nosair's cousin Ibrahim A. 45, received 57 years on conspiracy and other charges, By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press Writer station dumps . 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