Show Media study: Foreign news overlooked WASHINGTON (AP) - Except for hot spots and places with a strong US connection American the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press “The overemphasis on stories caters to the concerns of Americans during this period of rising isolationist sentiment” said the study d The study examined foreign news coverage by The New York Times eight regional newspapers ABC News CNN a local news broadcast in Philadelphia the Christian Broadcast Network and two talk shows The Times ran an average of 26 international stories a day during the four-mont- h period regional newspapers averaged 12 a day and ABC and CNN between two and three a day Tommy Miller assistant managing editor of the Houston Chronicle one of the newspapers surveyed by the Times Mirror Center said the paper has an open page every day devoted to international news in addition to stories that run on other pages In November 1992 before US troops went to Somalia the Chronicle published an eight-pag- e special section on famine in the African na- tion Miller said that the Saturday edi prison for conspiracy to and huge regions of the world were largely ignored” citing the fact that An elderly man is ture 11 with demographics and 21 with education Looking at the geographic distribution only 16 stories dealt with Australia and the Pacific Accident kills one in bank 1S7 about the South Asia subcontinent including India The study also concluded that international news coverage is overwhelmingly neutral in tone and where it does lean toward one view or another it has no predictable influence on public opinion For example the survey found that coverage of Bosnia tended to support US intervention while opinion polls found the US public opposed to getting involved Coverage of Russia during the survey period focused on the fighting in Chechnya and tended to be negative particularly toward Boris Yeltsin But opinion surveys found the public favorably inclined toward Russia and its president Citing a survey done for the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations the Times Mirror study said the public has “essentially the same degree of ‘warm feeling’ toward Yeltsin as toward Bill Clinton” - in NASA photo The Associated Press It also found that “key subjects islands and only helped out of the vehicle he was driving after it went out of control and crashed through a Columbia National Bank win NORRIDGE 111 (AP) - A sedan driven by an elderly man careened through a parking lot Friday smashing several cars then ploweid through a bank’s plate-glas- s window crushing one customer to death and injuring five sedan Witnesses said they first saw the four-dobash into parked cars on both sides of a lane in a shopping center’s large parking lot Witness Frank Powers said the car backed up at least once and smashed into more cars or Then it veered down the lane toward a food store made a left turn and shot ahead about 50 yards toward the bank in the middle of the plaza “He kept going straight for the bank And went right through it All I seen was glass splatter” Powers said Flying glass injured one teller as the car crashed through the window of the storefront Columbia National Bank drove over a desk and came to rest completely inside the lobby about 6 feet from the 4 teller counters “I heard an explosion and when I turned around I saw a car coming through the window and it hit a WASHINGTON - The photo-grap- h had just disappeared from the television screen when the first of a flood of calls came in to Cable Network News Viewers were sure they had seen the face of Jesus in the photo taken by the ' Hubble Space ' Telescope The picture of stars being born ih g a 6 gas cloud was' released Thursday by NASA With the picture turned on i(s side what appears to be a shadowy n face can be seen m the upper dow on Friday in Norridge ill The car landed on top of one customer killing him Five people were injured guy sitting in a chair and the chair turned over on top of him and then the car crushed the chair" said bank customer Tom Snyder “It missed me by about 3 feet and I'm lucky” trillion-mile-lon- ‘ Snyder who has had first aid training said he found the victim’s pulse but it stopped after a few minutes “There was nothing we could do for this guy” he said por-tio- “I was aware of calls when I gof here at 8 am” said Steve Gallion a supervising producer at CNN ip' Atlanta “Since then there have been dozens if not hundreds” Henry Ellermann 55 of suburban Norridge was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital in Chicago Five customers and employees were hurt police said Three of the injuries weren’t according to area hospitals The extent of the other two injuries wasn’t immediately known Witnesses said the “very old” driver remained in the car until someone helped him out Clintons enjoy artificial storm MCLEAN Va - The Washing- political scene is sometimes dev scribed as a circus but President Clinton slipped out of town Friday night to see the real thing j Clinton and his wife Hillary: made it a foursome with their daughter Chelsea and an unidentified male friend They were' seated in the front row under a giant' big top for the Cirque du Soleil show featuring “He was shaking a lot and he used a cane and sit on a chair inside the bank” said they let him Pamela Truong who works in a nearby shop - Police Sgt Roy Peters said the driver was being questioned and police still weren’t sure what led up to the late morning crash colorful dancers acrobats Philippines begin rebuilding after ferocious deadly storm MANILA Philippines (AP) - The most powerful typhoon in a decade ripped through the Philippines Friday and today churning up floodwaters that killed at least 65 people destroying thousands of houses and cutting electricity to a third of the country Billboards crashed to the ground and 125-mwinds tore roofs from houses To keep from being blown away television reporters on Friday lashed themselves to lampposts as they broadcast from Manila Bay h After whipping up winds along the eastern coast of the Philippines’ largest island Luzon Typhoon Angela weakened only slightly before hitting the capital Manila One of the billboards it toppled crushed eight buses and two trucks at a garage in suburban Paranaque By this morning roads littered with debris were being cleared and linemen were trying to restore electricity to a wide area around 140-mp- Senators may - Not the worst The deadliest typhoon to hit the Philippines in 50 years was Typhoon Ike which killed 4353 people in August 1 984 The strongest storm on record in the Philippines is Typhoon Joan whose 172 mph winds killed 2361 people in October 1970 The typhoon the strongest in a decade swept Friday across 25 provinces on the main island of Luzon including Manila the National Disaster Coordinating Council said The disaster council said 437760 people were affected including more than 280000 who were forced to flee to government shelters after their homes were submerged in floodwaters or destroyed by the howler In Manila local officials said the more than 16000 people forced to flee were return kill front-runn- er anti-firear- political agenda The 10 lawmakers contend in a letter that the Atlanta-ba- National Center for Injury Prevention and sed Control has “preordained political goals" favoring gun control The center created during President Bush’s adminisbitration denies that its research contains any anti-gu- n as Nevertheless it is a favorite target of the National Rifle Association which alleges that some of the center's $2 million in annual federal grant money has paid for literature urging people to support gun control “Taxpayer dollars are supporting unadulterated anti-gu- n advocacy” NRA chief lobbyist Tanya Metaksa said Friday "We don’t think it’s an appropriate use” surThe Oct 19 letter to Sen Arlen Specter a faced this week on the NRA’s computer site on the Internet Specter another candidate for the Republican presidential nomination chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee panel with jurisdiction over the CDC R-P- budget The senators - nine Republicans and one Democrat wrote that the center “has focused its firearms work entirely in areas that most directly affect the uses of firearms We are absolutely committed to get - law-abidi- ting the politics out” CDC spokeswoman Mary Arm Fenley said only a fraction of the NCIPC budget is for gun violence research as the center examines a wide range of safety issues including drowning bums poisoning and car crashes She denied that there is any anti-gu- n bias in the center’s research “We are not heading toward any kind of control agenda” Fenley said “What we are trying to do is give people the scientific information that will help us get around this political and emotional debate about the right to bear arms” The senators’ letter supports an amendment by Sen Bob Smith that would transfer the NCIPCs entire $436 million budget to breast cancer research A Smith spokeswoman said his main objection is that the NCIPC work duplicates research done by the Department of Justice and National Institute of Health among others Two studies - by the Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general and by the General Accounting Office - have found the CDC program does not duplicate other government research The House passed a budget resolution last spring calling for elimination of the NCIPC but funding for it survived in the House version of the health spending bill The Senate version also contains full funding but has yet to come to a floor vote H from using them where we needed them In the Navy we had to get rid of the combat exclusion except for the Marine Corps ground forces and submarines” Batjer said 1A From Despite the black eye the Navy suffered military is finally getting over what she calls from its Tailhook Association symposium 200 years of tradmon that virtually ignored in Las Vegas during the 1991 Labor Day women’s rights weekend Batjer said Navy top brass failed Batjer left the Navy following nine years to understand the lessons of Tailhook and 12 in more to reserves the and active duty the sexual abuse of women officers enter a University of Utah doctoral the Secretary of the Navy to call for aforcing study program in political science She told a U on the status of women of U student seminar this past week “the Batjer served on that panel that forced military is facing a major manpower crisis senior officers to face the Navy's manpower women” is solution and the shortfall problems and admit women would While some senior officers hoped have to serve on warships including on Ronald Reagan would reverse gains women aircraft carnets made in the military during the 1970s "Many women have wanted to serve Reagan's defense secretary Caspar their country serve it loyally and serve it Weinberger signaled women would no well They've wanted their country to longer be barred from combat zones Batjer remain strong militarily Now we're giving said them more opportunities" the Salt Lake In the next war Weinberger said there City native said would be no front lines “It’s the only life I’ve known" said head of “We could no longer restrict people Capt Colleen McGowan Military ing to their homes today as floodwaters reced' ed The disaster council also said damage to agriculture was initially estimated at about $257 million Infrastructural damage was about $206 million The agency’s early report said 62 people were killed 50 of them from the Bicol region on the southeastern leg of Luzon where the typhoon landed Police reported three other people died in the metropolitan Manila area after they were hit by flying debris The disaster council also reported 10 people were missing but an official of Quezon province east of Manila said as many 23 people remained missing in his province The casualty figure could still grow bigger as communication links to remote areas are restored But the fatalities so far are fewer than those caused by typhoons of similar strength CDC gun research WASHINGTON (AP) Influential senators inBob Dole are cluding GOP presidential trying to stop a research project at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention saying it pushes an acces- ' Viewers say Jesus said of more than 7000 stories examined only nine dealt with agricul- Two commit armed robbery and being an sory violent to compete successfully against national news” the survey th - ar usually must be more dramatic and “The US media carry few international articles that would broaden and educate Americans about the world beyond those hot spots where ‘breaking’ news usually about conflict is occurring” it said During a period beginning March 1 the center found 7061 stories dealing with foreign affairs in selected print and television outlets The survey did not tally the number of local and national stories during the same period Fla MONTICELLO teenagers were sentenced Friday -one of them to life in prison - for the murder of a British touri whose slaying helped tarnish Flon tourism industry da’s billion-dollJohn "Billy Joe" Crumitie 18 must serve at least 25 years befort he’s eligible for parole in the slayins of Gary Colley The Englishman wai killed during a bungled 1993 robbery at an Interstate 10 rest stop near Monticello about 35 miles east of Tallahassee whose testimony A helped convict Crumitie Deroo “Lowlife” Spear got eight years ih “Events overwhelmingly drove foreign news coverage probably more than they do domestic news since foreign events and disasters self-center- four-mon- Teen faces life for tourist killing one-four- th news media largely ignore the rest of the world concludes a survey for inei NATIONAL : BRIEFS Bank crash tion was devoting 17 columns to national and Washington news 12 columns to international and 19 to local and state “Local television (from which of Americans gets most of their news) may be all but ignoring the world” said the study noting that Channel 3 in Philadelphia carried 13 foreign stories during the survey period fewer than one a week Report blames isolationist sentiment US-relate- Standard-Exa- m FROM PAGE ONE 4A Saturday November 4 1 995 in the past The much weaker Tropical Storm Zack killed at least 165 people in the central Philippines just a week ago Officials attributed the lower toll to extensive preparations including evacuation of residents of flood-pron- e areas as early as Thurs- in bombing hoax FORT WORTH Texas -- A high school honors student whC' pulled a bomb hoax modeled on the Oklahoma City blast in order to de-- i lay a calculus exam was sentenced Friday to two years in prison Peter Koh 18 was also fined $4000 He pleaded guilty to making a telephone bomb threat and posrifle sessing an assault-styl- e Prosecutors said that Koh a student at Paschal High School got two other people to call the Fort! Worth school district on May 16-asay there was a bomb in a Ryder truck parked in front of the ad- ' ministration building The truck was found to contain- 40 bags of concrete sprinkled with: fertilizer and doused with diesel fuel Nearly a month earlier on April 19 a fuel bomb in a Ryder truck blew apart the federal: building in Oklahoma City killing 169 people President Fidel Ramos who supervised refly to the Bicol region Saturday to meet local officials and assess the damage there Ramos had declared a state of disaster in provinces in the path of the storm allowing local officials to spend emergency funds with little government interference lief and rescue work Friday was to The typhoon moved farther away from the Philippines Saturday At 10 am (9 pm Friday EDT) it was 250 miles west of Manila moving westward toward Vietnam at 12 mph and packing sustained winds of 106 mph with gusts of up to 128 mph nd Officials: McVeigh had documents having a concealed weapon ing the stop By NOLAN CAY © 1995 The Daily Oklahoman dur- FBI agents looking for evi" FBI agents found him two dence against bombing defendant Timothy McVeigh seized days later in the Noble County ear plugs and a thick envelope of jail after identifying him as a suspect in the deadly blast documents — including his handwritten statement that it is The records Friday also show “lawful” to kill those who McVeigh had an envelope in the “would take away my liberty” front seat of his 1977 Mercury The Daily Oklahoman has and a tool box in the Marquis learned trunk Also in the papers were a The court records do not discopy of the Declaration of Indeclose the envelope’s contents pendence and material on the The Daily Oklahoman was Branch Davidian tragedy near told they included quotations Waco Texas unsealed Friday show McVeigh had the ear plugs with him when he was stopped Records for a traffic violation 75 minutes afier the bombing April 19 that killed 169 people An Oklahoma trooper arrested McVeigh for personnel and budgets at the Hill Air Force Base medical clinic “It can give you a lot of responsibility at a young age” the McGowan said “I have 13 people working for me and a $16 million annuad budget I don’t think you get that anywhere else at my age” McGowan grew up living on Marine bases where her father served But McGowan said she doesn't plan to stay for the minimum 20 years needed for retirement After getting a master's degree in hospital administration McGowan said she will leave the Air Force in 2002 to enter private industry As an unmarried officer McGowan said “all the travel including a year in Korea was fine for me I’ve had a great time But part of me now wants to settle down" However Master Sgt Debbie Bruno an Air Force recruiter said marriage is not a barrier to service Historically women had to be single to stay in “but they changed that a long time ago “ And married women also can have Columbia hopes to break record CAPE CANAVERAL Fla To the astronauts’ delight bad weather at NASA’s space shuttle landing site may keep Columbia orbit an extra record-breakin- g Initiates Open Warfare Against American People” Man tries to film families and make the military a career she his own death In Bruno’s case her father served in the Navy an uncle in the Marines and an aunt in the Army Air Corps which became the Air Force in 1947 “She was the one who said ’You’ve got to join the Air Force’ At that time I was going nowhere and I just wanted to start something and finish it” Bruno said - A man run over by a train said COLORADO SPRINGS CoWj Friday: morning apparently committed sua cide and set up a camera to photograph his own death authorities said The 49- - ear-ol- d man was lying down with his head across a rlJ when a northbound freight traS went by at 6 32 a m The tracks ir near Interstate 25 in the middle tJ Colorado Springs The man was decapitated Police were called about 10 minutes later when a southbound train and crew members saw the body The man's identity was not released Polce said the man had set up a camera with a timer on a tripod in an appwent efort to photograph L1’ own death The film was being developed Fnday "i Although congressional efforts to cut entitlement programs which include military retirement benefits apparently have hurt armed services recruiting efforts recently Bruno said she is convinced "if you want to stay in and you’re doing your job the opportunities are there to do 20 years or even 30 or more" she would If Child cc !d serve m-r- t 70 " he said “But 1 can only gt At age 62 she will ha N: ol what “I’m just as proud a i that I'm doing" Child said “ ' n in-i- il ' the hearts patriotism and love of 11fan of my children then 1 feet v sceful " in 17th ' day “I’m keeping my fingers crossed my legs crossed my eyes crossed and everything else I can cross that that will happen” astronaut Al Sace co said Friday 14 days into the laboratory-research mission “We’re all hoping for that because we all feel great None of us'is tired We worked hard We accom' plished a lot of things and we’d like to just keep it going” Columbia and its seven astro- nauts are due to land at Kennedy' Space Center on Sunday morning ' Low clouds and high wind are forC-cast from political philosophers material on the battles of Lexington and Concord which started the American Revolution an editorial cartoon and a leaflet titled “US Government ers v Student sentenced :' day ‘lawful’-to-ki- ll flame-twirl- and even a strong man The Clintons were directly in the line of fire for an artificial snow-storthat blew crepe paper into their faces but they endured the or-’ deal with good humor r w ( - 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