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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Thursd AS Gambling Commission Is Divided 30-Hour Kiss Sends Couple Members argue whetherreport should take moral toneor simplybe informational THEASSOCIATED PRESS $ ; f WASHINGTON — Membersof a federal panel studying gambling seemlargely united against “‘convenience gambling” — via the Internet, or on slot machines in supermarkets — and against slot ma- chines at racetracks, bars and food stores. Six membersof the nine-member National Gambling Impact Study Commission attending a meeting here Wednesday seemed to agree on an overriding ' goal: to maintain gambling as a destination activity — a reason to travel to places like Las Vegas or Atlantic City But there are wide divisions among commission memberson the overall tone of the report they are drafting for Congress, the president, state governments and tribal governments about the economic andsocial impactsof legalized gambling. After two yearsof work, they face a June 18 deadlineto submit that report. | Commissioner John Wilhelm, generalpresident of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union, said the themeshould be informational — whatis known about theeffects of gambling expan sion and whatshould be monitored. ‘A prohibitionist view of gamblingis not going to work,” Wilhelm said. “History demonstratesthat. But commissioner Richard Leone, a former state treasurer of NewJersey, said the report should ac THEASSOCIATED PRESS Ark. ing to set up a new country used sign language totell her son she loved him, then told his jurors how he killed three members of an Arkansas family. Whenshewasdone, Gloria Ke: hoe turnedto her son intears and said, “It’s got to betold, Chevie There’s wrong and there’s right God won't let me live with it any Chevie Kehoe, 26, of Colville, Wash., and Danny Lee. 26, of Yu- kon, Okla., are charged with racketeering, conspiracy and murder. Prosecutors say the pair wanted minutes, an treated for fati; showed up. Commissioners reachedsomeconsensusregarding pari-mutuelbetting — betting on horse and dograc- ing and jai-alai — that betting from home is a prob- Dror Orpaz at tracks, up from18 in somestates bera. lem andthat 21 shouldbe the minimumageto wager The previou hours was se New York The pair was amo: ples who pa athon kissing cont by a U.S. toothpaste The contest Aviv's mains Onstate lotteries, commissioners generally agreed that states should spend moreonaddiction treat- ment and education programs, that lotteries should not branchinto “‘casino-typeactivities” suchas video poker, that advertising shouldberestrainedandthat lotteries should examine whether their marketing targets poor people. As for casinos, commissioners voiced concern gamblers. stand, sheflashed “I love you” to hersonin sign language,then told jurors what shesaid wasthestory her son told her after the Muellers were killed in January 1996: Kehoe and Lee dressed in FBI raid outfits, entered the Muellers' homeandlay in wait. Once the family arrived, they bound their busted his head.”” The girl was killed after the menasked her where the family kept its valuables. In the middleof telling thesto ry, Gloria Kehoe turned to her son and said: “ You knowit’s right Bud. Don’t look at methat way She testified later that Leecon. firmed muchofherson’sstory Gloria Kehoe spoketo jurors hands with plastic and told them they werebeing arrested. “Bill went first, then Nancy after receiving a grant of immuni thenthelittle girl. I was told by Chevie that Bill fought like a {SOB],” she Chevietold me he used the butt of a shotgun and hit [Bill] overthe head with it and mentioned in court, but included attempting to hide various finan- ty. " Full details of the deal weren't cial transactions and picking up cor r at 8:30 p.m. Mond about the easy availability of credit and alcohol to When Gloria Kehoe took the The world rec ord 30 hi its final report, six of the nine commissioners a LITTLE ROCK, THE ASSOCIAT JERUSS ing for what port subcommittee. But with the commission nearing Kehoe’s Mother Implicates Him in Murders motherof a manchargedwith try To Hospital knowledge that the nation is ‘on a slippery slope that could bring gambling outlets to every neighborhood. “I would not be surprised,” Leone said, “if a commission [studying gambling]in 20 years has to deal with franchise wars, between ‘McGambling’ and “‘TGIGambling.’” The two-day meeting that began Wednesday was billed as a session of the panel’s three-member re- The Assoc ated Press Dror Orpaz and Karmit Tsubera maintain a healthy lip-lock hoursinto their record-breakingkiss in Tel Aviv, Israel. Tuesday, only two mained, and 12 1 paz and Tsuber ones still kissing They woi world and § Competitors Call a Truce After 40 Days on Roll THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thecompetition started Feb. SYDNEY, Australia — After riding a roller coaster 14 hours aday for five weeks, the last two contestants in a competition called it quits Wednes- day andsplit the prize money Steve Fletcher and Rosa Vacarro endedtheir 40. day ride by announcing astalemate in the competi tion and collecting $6,300 each. coaster in the Southern Hemis| By Tuesday, only two were | Fletcher, who took two months of vacation f his jobas a police officer to enter the contest thedecisionto get off was promptedby sor andfamily and fiscal commitments. Thetwo spent more than five weeks whirl twirling on the Bush Beast roller coaste Wonderland amusement park, near Sydne Each hadto endure 14 hour 26. y took their seats aboard the lar y of continuous motionandsleep in the same seat each night But hesaid the contest wouldnot stop hi takinghis children on fair ridesat the Rc ShowinSydneythis week. “If there er there and the line’s not too long, I'll have it,” he said. “I'm just anidiot her son after his shootout with Ohiopolice in 1997 to set upa whites-only Aryan Peoples Republic in the Pacific Northwest Robbing andkilling Arkansas gun dealer William Mueller, his wife, Nancy, and her daughter Sa rah Powell was part of the plan, the government says. Selling guns AIR DUCT CLEANING $95.00 hole House taken from thefamily helped pay the men’s living expenses, prose Package cutorssay. 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