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Show GA Thursday NATIONAL re 3 Standard-Examiner Miss America continues AIDS education campaign Tunnel for drugs found at U.S.“Mexico border | SAN DIEG( i > Mer ® v as +d tne us S ind 3 to 4 feet “wide with crete floor, nind-boggling Hook ¢ Ouse of the Drug En robably a professional.” Mexican agents discovered the States,” she slyly described how doctors struction on the U.S. side, but stopped about 50 feet short, Hook wear gloves for their protection when dealing with patients. ‘ “It is important to put’on a glove. Make sure it is a’ latex Customs yokesman Jack Kelly said. Guzman was theintendedtarget of a hit by a rival cartel May + at the Guadalajara, Mexico, yort. But gunmen mistook Carnal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo’s car for Guzman’s and shot e prelate 14 times at close Mexican agents found docu- and Hook walked the glove,” Cornett said, speaking slowly and deliberately. “I hope you un- derstand what I said,” she said with a wink. Theydid. Two-by-fours were laid as a track for carts to transport drugs, and generators at the Mexican warehouse powered the lights and air conditioning “They could have smuggled “We appreciated her hoftesty,” said senior’ Millie Rothstéin. “I think there were students wo were uninformed, It’s great that she could inform them.” multi-ton quantities of cocaine... andit would have gone undetect- Cornett, 21, who is using her reign as a national platform to “The discovery means that we lave stopped thepotential of an Operation that could haveledto a lot of drugs being introducedinto United It appeared to be headed toward a warehouse under cor Kelly ed,” Hook said. A completed tunnel, apparently built by drugtraffickers, wasdiscovered beneath Arizona’s border with Mexico in 1990. It was only one-third the size of the newtunnel, U.S. authorities said, but equally sophisticated. Leanza Comett She was not allowed to say ‘condom’ or ‘AIDS’ in some schools. May at Wolfson High School in Jacksonville, where school officials asked her nat to mention condoms, 1,500 feet length of the “Narco-tunnel,” as it was dubbed by U.S. agents, who estimated it cost $1.5 million to $2 million to construct ra, Hook said W ednesday. } ina about said 452-foot tunnel while investigatng the slaying of a Roman Cathhey eae it t by reeputed ¢jrug rd Joaquin “E]IC ‘h apo” Guzman 1 I fornia. taken then . months to a year to do this, t a con- begins under a ware- from a border crossing into Cali- Agency office in San I i estigatec ca § killing, Ho *k said The tunne out ‘5 feet high is 2 JACKSONVILLE, Fila. (AP) — Miss America Leanza Cornett, who has made AIDS education her cause, was ordered not to utter “condom” or “AIDS” during classroom visits in her native Florida. She got her message across anyway. Ata talk Cornett gave in mid- — teach about AIDS, also ran into problems in rural Bradford County, outside her hometownof Jacksonville. She said she was told not to mention AIDS when visiting three elementary schools there on Tues- day. So she warned the youngsters about “peer pressure to use drugs or have other kinds of behavior” that could be dangerous. “She said we should work hard, stay in school, don’t do drugs and makethe right decisions,” said Kasey Dowling, a fifth-grader at Southside Elementary. “I'll listen because she’s pretty and has been on TV.” The Associated Press A Mexican drug agent works his way into a 1,432-foot-long tunnel discovered near the border city of Tijuana, Mexico. Democrats prepare to push health plan WASHINGTON (AP) — WhenPresident inton’s health care plan is released, the Demcratic National Committee plans to spend mMlh lions on a publicity campaign totry tosell it the public The party has established a non-profit fountion, known for nowas.the National Health Ld ‘ Campaign, to solicit funds fre ym labor un ns, corporations, wealthy party donors and individuals. \ party official said Wednesdayorganizers d to raise more than $25 million. [he Washington Post, which first reported the DNC plan in today’s editions, said fundraisers already have begun solicitations even though there were further indications Wednesday that Clinton again will delay unveiling the plar 1 Senate negotiations over Clinton's economic program are complicating his health care plans, forcing further delay and confusing their financing Clinton all but conceded Wednesday that health care was on hold because of the budget debate. That debate will dominate Congress health care “launchdate.” But aides said June 22 was almost certain to slip to July, after Clinton returns from a trip to Japan, Korea and Ha- throughout the month and into July and Clinton said the administration wanted to ensure the health care planis “presented at a time and in a way that both the Congress and the American people can focus onit.” Wall. Spokesman George Stephanopoulos said the administration still hopes for a June release, but he did not sound optimistic that would occur. “Clearly, you have to be sensitive to the budget as you're considering unveiling health care,” he said. After several previous delays, this week had been penciled in on Clinton’s calendar for a major health care announcement: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s task force was to produce its report and the president was to stress the highlights while the reforms were shapedinto legislation. Additional delays, however, resulted in June 22 being tentatively set as the administration’s The delays are of increasing concern to some Clinton advisers who believe he must keep his commitment to push for passage of the package this year. But congressional leaders have discouraged Clinton from doing so, and other Clinton advisers believe the president should hold the plan until his budget clears Congress, particularly if the final product, as expected, contains significant new taxes. Whatever their view in the timing debate, Clinton health advisers say their work will be complicated by the budget negotiations. In Years of Dependability those talks, the administration has expressed a willingness to scale back Clinton’s $72 billion energy tax by perhaps as much as $30 billion, provided that moneyis made up with additional spending cuts. Teen sentenced to 50 years in torture slaying SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Th e last of four teenagers to plead gui lty in the slaying of a 12-year- ‘Herlack of mercy, of tender courage,is a horrifying lesson to usall.’ — Prosecutor Guy Townsend ol¢ { girl who was tortured to death over an alleged lesbian loveaffair wa s sentenced Wednesday to 50 yea rs In prison. 1992 slaying-of Shanda Renee Judge Jeanne Jourdan sen- Sharer, who was beaten, choked, stabbed, sodomized with atire iron and burned alive on a rural road near the Ohio River town of Madi- tenced her to the *maximum 60 ye irs, but suspended 10 years for » mi ligating circumstances. Defense attorney Charles Asher son. d Rippeyfelt threatened by two the other girls involved, Mary Witnesses have said Loveless wanted Shandakilled because she La urine Tackett and Melinda Lo veless. Tackett and Loveless eac h received 60-year terms. The case involved the January thought Shanda was stealing the affections of her 15-year-old female Sal _a horrifying lesson to usall.” Rippey sobbed as Shanda’s par- Hope Rippey was sentencedafter a |! -day hearing. St. Joseph Super10 r willing participant in the killing, and Jourdan said: “There were avenues of escape, ways to help herself, ways to help Shanda. ... Her lack of mercy, of tender courage,is lover. Although Shanda was badlyin- jured and covered with blood from head to toe after more than four hours of vicious torture, doctors said she would have lived if she hadn’t been set afire. Officials testified that Rippey, 16, of Madison, admitted enticing Shanda to leave her home around midnight on Jan. 10, 1992, and dousing Shanda with gasoline. Jefferson County Prosecutor Guy Townsend painted Rippey as a ents read a scathing statement about how the killing has affected their family. “She was only 12 years old and she was a daddy’s girl and nowall the special things we do together SAVE ¢ Heavy duty, large capacity ¢ 2 Speed ¢ 4 Temperatures are gone forever,” Steve Sharer ¢ 3 Water levels Self-cleanfilter said. “May yourot in hell with the rest of your murdering friends.” Rippey pleaded guilty in April to ¢ Regular, PermanentPress, Knits/Delicate cycles felony murder, arson and criminal confinement. SUMMER MEMBERSHIP OPEN HOUSE SPECIAL *MODEL LAT7793 As compared to Model LAT7800 CENTENNIAL SAVINGS DRYERS JETCLEAN™ eye ee 3 Days Left! Call 393-CLUB AEE \ (Join for aslittle as $99 and receive over $100 in gifts!) MODEL LDE4000 Large door ¢ Porcelain top Free Gift Bag! 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