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Show Seeets. NATION Girlfriend says fan may have killed 14 people Thursday, May 13,1999, THE DAILY HIERVL Din 6 Utah House backslegislation to put limits on Y2K lawsuits tion bill hax become a key vote advisers would urge him to veto By JIMABRAMS _ “This is a laser shot that goes after a problem by which the group will rate he House bill in its. present lawmakers’ support for form because it goes too far in that exists once every thousand years.” American businesses, “It would limiting the legal rights ofthose WASHINGTON The be an entirely avoidable catas: legitimate complaints House voted Wednesday to Rep. TomDavis, R-Va trophe if Congress didn't pass withThe bill, it said," may, in fact, limit millennium-bug lawsuit AssociatedPress Writer By Allashial CHRIS Pes ROBERTS Wate ———— | » SOCORRO, N.M. —The girl. — @ measure that busini Say is needed to avoid a year: waually torturing three womentold police he may have 2000 financial catastrophe. The White Housesees it as slanted killed as many as 14 people against consumers and deserv. aud buried their bodies in ing of apresidential veto, navanes and arroyos. {he information, which sume in an interview with Cynthia Lea Hendy soon after The legislation, approved 236-190, would try to stem a potent’ | flood oflawsuits arising from computer breakdowns byestablishing a 90-day waiting period before suits can be filed, encouraging mediation, vurker Ray, her boy! cnt aud quttpfendant, disposed of the capping punitive damages and Hy é y limiting class action lawsuits. writes in eastern New Mexico's The ality. today is that Riera County unbridled Y2K litigation is jeop+ Details from Hendy’s interqiew could explain why law guforcement officials mounted 4 massiveeffort after a woman, hiceding and wearing on padlocked collar, fled Ray mobile homein Elephant Butte this bill and ended up swamp ing the economy ina tidal wave work” to fix computerproblems, find they can’t process credit trwnd of a man charged with #"dizing coordination and team- said Rep. David Dreier, R Calif, oneof thechiefsponsor of the bill. “This adv arial mentality pri cards and customer information records or lose money because of supply or power disruptions, tes tor efforts oflitigation,” he said But the White House says President Clinton's senior Consumers might sueif there are decrease the incentives organizations have to 4 cus- tomers and busin to be ready for the transition to the next century.” problems in medic il equipment 2K problems.” NO CLOSING COSTS’ Thebill has the strong back- ing of business groups and the problems from corinitere that misree This is a laser shot that 2000 date could result in hundreds of billions of dollars in Low fixed rate loans and you pay goes after a problemthat exists once every thousand year faulty computers. Litigation could arise from said the bill's ct of sponsor, Rep. Tom pas R 1 Jer Jasinowski, president of the sociation of computer glitches if businesses Manufacturers, says the litiga- lawsuits, crippling the economy and undermining efforts to fix no closing costs, few , following leads in 10 and using ground-penedriting radar and dogstrained & locate human remai Agents combed arroyos in| Sierra County and arched flephant Butte Lake for bodies THE W. FREDERICK GROUP, INC. (801) 373-7500:si si aw) dnd otherevidence. No bodies bive been found. : Ray's attorney, Jeff Rein, suid Hendy's allegations came dlier she had worked out a deal (ith prosecutors that reduced Qorh the numberof charges she| RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Four hours before he was to be executed Wednesday, a mentally ill man's life was when Gov. dim Gilmore commuted his death sentence. It was thefirst time Gilmore has stopped the executionof a condemned inmate since he became governor in more than | Ago. Calvin Swann, 44, was to be hut to death at 9 pm. for rob- d her potential prison from 198 years to bing andshooting a 62-year-old man in his Danville home in She told them what they But defense lawyers argued ’s life should be se hesuffers from Wanted to hear,” Rein said. ¢hittk if they would havefound @Pe bodies after 45 d: ffmld have seen we some committed to dearees.” my, 59 pitals faces 25 charges @iyglving two women who ftettsed him and Hendy ofkid- more as a treated a M repeatedly with anti-p sychotic ‘tipping and-sexual torture. He medications and was fatved a preliminary hearing m2 additional charges relat- foundincompetent byjudges to stand trial, said his lawyer, a third woman whos vas kidnapped by Ray and John Howley. Swann’s brother, twice Swann, said he met with his brother on Tuesday and told 5 , in July 1996. a and his daughter me say they are innocent. TOP 15 REASONS TO BUY A PHOENIX COOLER! Clyde Beedaughter Glenda Jean Wesse”R: 1. 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