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Show I ., . "' . . . .. . .. . fflE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL • SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY• WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1997 . . U.S. DIGEST PROSECUTORS RETURN TO SURVIVORS AS THEY WRAP UP CASE AGAINST NICHOLS: The prosecution rested its case against Te~ Nichol_s yester~ay, leaving jurors with the image of a Manne captain and his comrades buried in rubble after a bomb destroyed the O kl ahom a City federal building. Nichols, 42, co uld face the death penalty if convicted of murder, conspiracy and weapons counts. His former Army buddy, McVcigh, 29, has appealed his conviction on identical charges. STUDENT OPENS FIRE AT SCHOOL; THREE DEAD, FIVE WOUNDED: A 14year-old boy who warned last week that "something big's going to happen" inserted earplugs, drew a gun and shot eight students as a prayer meeting ended in a high school lobby Monday in West Paducah, Ky. Three girls were killed. The boy, Michael Carneal, surrendered when a boy grabbed the teen after he stopped Michael shooting. Afterward, Carneal told Heath High Carneal Schoo l Principal Bill Bond, "I'm sorry." " Really, the main question is, why," Sheriff Frank ~ugustus said. "He stated there was no personal vendetta agamst anyone. It was just a random shooting." CLINTON SIGNS BILL PROVIDING DOLLAR COIN: President Clinton has approved what will be the first alteration in America's circulating coins in two decades. On Monday, he signed legislation providin~ a new, gold:colored_ dollar coin with a distinctive edge. It will replace coms beanng the portrait of 19 th century suffragist Susan B. Antho!1y, when they run out in about 30 m o nths. The government will continue printing dollar bills. Lawmakers couldn't agree whether the new dollar coin should depict the Statue of Liberty or an actual woman or women of historical importance. They left the decision to the treasury secretary. - THE NATION .. nn1 Reno rejects independent council request WASHINGTO N (AP) - Attomey General Janet Reno yesterday re jected Republican demands to seek an independent counsel to investiga te telephone fund raising by President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, saying the calls were outside the scope of federal law. She also rejected a special prosecutor to investigate allegations former Energy Secretary Hazel O 'Leary solicited a charitable contribution in return for m eeting Chinese businessmen. In her explanation, Reno said Clinton's fund raising calls in October 1994 were made from the White House private quarters, not the president's offices. "This places the calls outside the scope... of (federal election law) which applies only to solicitations for hard-money contributions occurring within the federal workplace, 11 she wrote. Reno went right to the deadline before making her long-expected decisions. Congressional reaction was immediate. Senate GOP leader Trent Lott called Ren o's decision a tragedy. Sen. John G lenn, D-Ohio, praised Reno for acting courageously despite "tremendous political pressure" from Republicans. Late this morning, she took the unusual step of crossing Pennsylvania Avenue from the Justice Department to FBI headquarters to meet Director Louis J. Freeh, who was openly at odds Attorney General fanet Reno meets reporters at th e fu stice Department in Washington yesterday. with her in pushing for an independent counsel. Their m eeting was brief. "This public spectacle of division between our ch ief law enforcement officers is a further blow to public confidence," said Sen. Charles Grassley, R Iowa. Even before the decision was announced, Republican Rep. Dan Burton, who chairs a House committee investigating campaign finance, announced he w ould bring Reno and Freeh to Capitol Hill next Tuesday to explain their differences. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , 1 THE WORLD WORLD DIGEST Israel threatens to annex West Bank ,,.,,..--, FORTY-ONE NATIONS LAUNCH JOURNEY FOR TRUTH ABOUT NAZI GOLD: More than 50 years after the end of World War TI, the world may finally get a full explanation of what happened tO go ld st0len by the Nazis. A three-day conference opening · ; , today in London brings together 4 1 nations and , Holocaust victim s to launch a search for gold ......- ._ _. looted by the N azis as they conquered much of S~uart Europe.The United States, meanwhile, will Eizenstat contribute an initial $4 million to the fund, U.S. Undersecretary of State Stuart E. Eizenstat, head of the American delegation, announced. LITTLE HOPE FOR SURVIVORS IN RUSSIAN MINE BLAST: Trapped m ethane gas exploded in a deep shaft of a Siberian coal mine yesterday, and searchers said they had little hope of finding any of 6 7 miners alive. Res~ue workers co.unted 54 bodies in the shaft by late yesterday, while 13 other mmers remained unaccounted for, Col. Yuri Krashkin of the Ministry of Emergency Situations said. Authorities said m ost of the victims died of burns or inhalation of poison gases, although the blast also caused cave-ins. SECOND MURDERER ACCUSES WINNIE OF CONTRACTING KILLING: A second convicted murderer told • the Truth and Reconcil iation Commission today that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela ordered the killing of a Soweto doctor and offered $8,000 for the job. In a statem!!nt submitted to the commission, Thulani Dlamini, 28, admitted he and Cyril Mbatha killed Dr. Abu-Baker Asvat in January 1989. But they were arrested before Mandela could make good on her offer to pay them. Winnie Mandela J |