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Show - I THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTHllllN UTAH UNIVEllSITY • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1998 U.S. DIGEST MILITARY JUDGE WON'T DISMISS SEXUAL MISCONDUCT CASE: A military judge in Fort Belvoir, Va. refused yesterday to dismiss a sexual misconduct case against the Anny's former top enlisted man after his lawyers argued the Anny deliberately stacked his jury with women and senior officers. The judge said Anny officials acted fairly in selecting the jury pool. Former Sgt. Maj. of the Anny Gene McKinney, 46, is charged with 19 counts stemming from six women's claims of sexual harassment and assault. If convicted, McKinney could be sentenced to 56 years in prison and reduced to the lowest rank. THE DYLANS ARE TOP GRAMMYNOMINATED FATHER-SON DUO: The times they are indeed a' changing. Bob Dylan and his son, Jakob of the Wallflowers, were each nominated for three Grammy Awards yesterday. Soul balladeer Kenneth " Babyface" Edmonds, with eight, captured the most nom inations for the second year. Grammy's big losers: the Spice Girls, who earned none of Bob Dylan the 460 nominations. The 40th annual Grammy Awards ceremony will be held at New York's Radio Ci ty Music Hall on Feb. 25. Kelsey Grammer will be host. ACTOR WHO PLAYED FORREST GUMP'S SHRIMP-LOVING PAL ACCUSED IN STABBING: Actor Mykelti Williamson, best known as the shrimp-farming fnend of Tom Hanks' character in "Forrest Gump," was airested for of stalking his ex-wife and stabbing a friend of hers. Williamson was being held in lieu of $1 80,000 bail after the late Monday incident, Detective Jeff Carnival said today. Cheryl Chisholm, the actor's ex-wife, told police Williamson was stalking her near her residence earlier in the evening, sa id police spokesman Mike Partain. The stabbing victim, a 32year-old man was in critical condition, officials said. WEEKEND TICKETS FOR DIANA'S GRAVE SOLD OUT ON SECOND DAY: Callers snapped up all the weekend tickets to view Princess Diana's grave yesterday, and one-fourth of all tickets available have been sold in the first two days of telephone sales. A spokeswoman for Althorp Park, the home of the Spencer family, said a total of 40,000 tickets were purchased by yesterday afternoon . Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, said profits from this summer would be donated to the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. IRANIAN PRESIDENT STEPS TOWARD RAPPROCHEMENT WITH U.S.: In gestures, statements and even in his Cabinet appointments, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami is moving toward rapprochement with the United States .. Khatami will culminate months ofcareful maneuvering with a televised interview with CNN, airing today in the United States, in Mohammad what Iran has billed as an address to Khatami Americans. His intention to talk to the people rather than the U .S. government seems a clever move: It allows him to detour around anti American Islamic hard-liners and seek a detente with Washington. AMERICAN BALLOONIST PACKS UP, PONDERS FUTURE FLIGHT: Undaunted by four failures, solo balloonist Steve Fossett packed up his deflated aircraft yesterday and started figuring out what he would do differently if he were to make another attempt at flying around the world. Russian farmers were startled Monday when Fossett's balloon floated onto their wheat fields. Yesterday, however, they greeted the American like an old friend. Fossett returned later to collect the $350,000 balloon that carried him more than 7,300 miles from St. Louis before equipment failures forced him to land. 11Jll Colleagues mourn Bono's death SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) - He played Bono - who had skied at the resort for more the fool as part of Sonny &. Cher during the than 20 years - was alone at the time. 1960s and ' 70s, and his very name became Investigators said there was no immediate something of a punchline when he was first evidence that drugs or alcohol were involved. elected to Congress. Unaware he had not made it down the hill, his But Sonny Bono had gone a long way toward wife, Mary Whitaker, and their children, 6-yearshedding his old Chianna image as a belland 9-year-old bottomed Chesare, buffoon when waited for him he died in a at the bottom. skiing accident The wife Monday. He reported him was 62. missing when "Sonny was the resort becoming a closed about much more 4:30 p.m. His important body was leader than ~ found about people realize," c.. two hours House Speaker ~ after that, but N ewt Gingrich Qhis death was said. ~ not made ~ public until Bono, an avid skier, slammed ~ after midnight. His death into a tree Rep. Bono walks on Capitol Hill Wednesday, May 7 in this file came less than while on the photo. Bono died Monday in California afeer a skiing accident. slopes with his a week after family at the Heavenly Valley Ski Resort on the Michael Kennedy, 39 year-old son of the late Nevada California s tate line, 55 miles south of Robert F. Kennedy, slammed into a tree and Reno. died while playing football on skis in Aspen, He had skied on ahead into the woods off the Colo. main trail to try out the fresh powder in an area Bono evolved from playing the fall guy to his that is not officially out of bounds but is more sharp-tongued wife on "The Sonny and Cher hazardous. He struck a tree squarely, ripping off Comedy Hour," to a politician in demand for the bark ..He died on impact of serious head and his GOP fund-raising speeches peppered with Hollywood anecdotes. neck injuries, officials said. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1 WORLD DIGEST THE NATION THEWORLDI~- More than 1,200 dead in Algeria ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Carrying mattresses on who fled and took refuge in a mosque or in stores in Meknassa, a nearby community where another their backs, terrified villagers fled their homes yesterday, flooding big-city public squares to seek 117 people were killed Sunday night. a safe haven from the vicious attacks that have The slew of recent massacres - some of them among the worst since Islamic insurgents killed more than 1,200 people in a week. Shocked by Algeria's incessant bloodshed, launched their violent crusade six years ago have come in rapid succession, killing scores of European and U.S. diplomats insisted they wanted to help men, women and children at - but said they were essentially one time. The powerless to end attacks have been marked by the killing spree. "There seems extreme to be very little savagery: The one can do in killers have concrete terms," wielded knives, swords and axes said Klaus van der Pas, chief ~ and burned ~ entire villages spokesman for the European ~ to the ground. No one has Commission. Late last night, claimed survivors responsibility reported another i:i for any of the i:: mass slayings, slaughter - 200 people killed in a Citizens of Daira de Ramika, Algeria, hold their rifles for self- which come as defense, yesterday. Daira de Ramika is one of the four scenes weekend Muslims are of the past week's brutal massacres. massacre in a celebrating the remote western holy month ·of village - bringing the total killed since Saturday Ramadan. But Algeria's frequent bombings and to nearly 400. bloody massacres mostly are blamed on Islamic "The bodies were mutilated, and many militants intent on toppling the military-backed disfigured by axes," said one survivor of the secular government in favor of a regime run Sunday night massacre in Chekala, which has no according to strict Koranic law. telephones and is reachable only by narrow There has been some speculation that the government, while waging an offensive against mountain roads. The man, who earlier yesterday had buried the extremists, has looked away as a means of drumming up anger against the insurgents. fellow villagers, was one of about 100 villagers i |