Show ” iitfiii 1 Hatch Kennedy urge tax on smokes WASHINGTON (AT) — The federal rigarane tax would ncariy BPe trader a plan proposed by Sea Ortia Hatch and ah Sea Edward Kennedy w to provide health insurance to children and reduce the defied Thetas would mocasc from 24 oenu to 6? cents per pack and nuse S3Q bifiioa over five wears ’ the screams said Thursday The federal would award grants gmnaml to Made which would owned with private lo provide “cbild-anl-y'' msm-e- rs cov- erage and help parents rather bay it or participate ia employment-base- d heriri plans States that chose to take part would pay 10 percent and 20 percent of the cost of then program Under the propwm S2Q biilka of the total raised froaa the higher tax would be used to extend coverage to children — at least 5 million a year whoa file props is fully phased in the sponsora a said The remaining S10 billion -- tnso jzjrtik ar r tips fc-t- wsu’ ji ' ' W7 3W ! Cosby’s son a random robbery victim LOS ANGELES (ATI — A Rjtsuaa tnoa accused of killing Ennis Couby chusc Ins vitro at random police said fiwdreg the sandraa besade a Mercedes-Sc- ar darkened rand dra-aMe- d along Jane boon you tx I Itonamid the ride rf the road in gel help tn fix a the” Chief Willie no-tfe- g syuqg police Williams said Thresday Mikail IS Mutator was arrested Wednesday North Hollywood home and he wasexpoondto he harped whh murder today Police say hey have Hired the murder weapon and a wool dtp stppusedly worn to thekSkx K3 Cosby s only sou was shut as be changed a tire on his S13U(KM convertible Jan 16 just off a busy Los Angeles freeway No one tampered with the car to flatten the the WiUtaas said nor was race a faouc “This was a random stop as far as wo know now” WStros said "The motive was robbtry Hc passed by and Mr Cosby was just them” Prim say they nu3 anal sure whether Markhascv took anything from Cosby that wight Williams icyocvod reports that the slaving may have beet the work erf a Rusmub car theft rmg or have ties m he Jtinsraa muh Markhascv does have a dedraudm ciabunur He aenc to he Untied States as a Russian refugee ia 19M end is wa a US atatat a laden! affinal speaking oaeua-htio- a of anonymity told The Aasuouaed Press The primary wjtnrss to the slaying was a woman Etuis Cosby apparently was gumg m Vasa hat nigix After Cosby hid the Hu tire she went to the scene ia her car aad cane face to furr ujh he Wiiluuns said her devenpbaa of Marfcfau-se- v watremuthuhly anrunar As the chief spoke Maritha-tev'- s mug shut and an arris's sketch made from her description woe dbpiayod side by side The National Enquirer was he first lo react he tip hat led to Markhascv's arrest The caller phoned the tabloid's rip bee just days after the kiftiag Enquirer editor Stove Cat said The ripsu who had hqped to Las Nigum Paten Cvrt Mill Millams aunts 9d Gmpy s non Enns Casc) Thu-sc- w a tu sna a Of claim the ttbiosd's SliMJAW reward gave the Enquirer a pager aumbts The number and name went given to police The person told the tabloid there was a Russian mob con-- - zr Mual Mavnawat and the ne link w as wideiy reported Tfcitrsdty: Williams said however ntiixw ake Markhavev acted Car said he tipster directed police u he urea uhtre he gun hd iier an :ni ti rmit ww- THt i Tmieviron- :iit - l it "T’fis up aiiiic v:r ni-ihcr tiuiuruds wes menoaicuin reirutsd mid kiliou--- J WtUattSS Mid : j jp m‘ i would be used to reduce the fed- eral budget deficit Hatch and Kennedy said Health insurance is the ticket to quality health care and Farm state lawmakers irate over mine deal Kennedy said Tbe two lawmakers aonotmoad the plan a day after the Census Bureau repotted that neatly 10 million children — or one out of seven — had no health iasunuoe in 1995 WASHINGTON (AF) — A deal to pay a Canadian company 565 mfflkw lo abandon a gold mine near Yellowstone National Park is browning mare oomplientod than the White House expected Now it has lawmaken riled gotten irem-sta- child deserves that tw ticket’ sc Republican lawmakers representing Stales would set eligibility firm states wore mmnsnd Thinday when levels with priority going to they leaned that the CTLmoa admiutsn-rio- n wants to offset revenue losses from lower income families that doit qualify for Medicaid tbe gov- the deal by curing money — at lend for a oon- ernment health care program for year — that would go to a servarioa program thepooc Hatch and Kennedy said they “It's wrong headed and completely expected the program would unacceptable the ultimate eumple of prompt private msuranoe oorapa-aie- s robbing Peter to pay PauL steamed Rep to offer more daildoaly poli- Bob Smih chairman of he House cies for families not eligible for Agriculture Committee He said tbe prosubsidies posal would not dear his oommincc R-O- rc Earlier in the week the mhninisaatx if was offering Crown Butte Resources Ltd a Canadian mining company S65 mSbon in cash over a number of vents as part of an hgroam am reached ltd summer to abandon the New Wcdd Mine in Montana on the edge f Ycfftowsauac ywi Environnvrmnligs have loikl the mine for years maintaining that k threatened one of riie nation's premier parks and aa emenstwe wanashed The company has ym to say whether if would accept he catk offoebut it did not take kmg for members of Congress to weigh ia The pnyanents to Crown Bun according vhe White House would aome frta royalties rite Interior Depmaem receives on coal cd and gas leaies an federal land TW im ciuurnuui irf Rep Bob Lriingsum x rite House Appt iipruiiHiit Cvwtmiinu: hal rite adnuntMTaLK is secretly selling iff :s guvemnum assets C!khii Congress proven success “ AgricuiJLse snewslc no pi effort'' be aeciured Even so under congiesstiuai budget rules hose kisses in royalty fcvicmk have to be nude qpby savings obeuiasc Thursday smc GOF Ikunitkeis learned that he adnuntsauLKW emends to achieve hose savings by cutting buck money u will pv ianners his yew under he Conservation Reserve Friigrani to set aside eroded lurmland Sew Fat Roberts accused ihc adminiMraiion of try ing to pay liu one envaruamdiUl tniownc w he evpense si another ewv iroiuntmisl pngrum hut has n budgeted to ary agru'UtU-- ' c ' v ccd cm benmd ci jki" Washmguiu : Tbe admires:! iron : me t com mil ltd to bi ivi v a Rrsejrve Fsograin uriu : :ii -ol iuta'mptst puiimg 't' nioiq eojtd ‘hmuunc hi pitoouc v Bm as iun i 'tu Oowr bti:a aen 2 R-L- hav-nu- fi :u Bums Vtv was "acantanuv i:cist:il :vni m uny Sen ConrhO METROPOLIS HL (A F) — Rob Krothe edge of bin aland home Stock here fat neatly two weeks he is get- ting bored In every direction his neighbors have been swamped by rise mtuky Ohio River floodwaters His home built ou a small bill is sriQ dry but Kroner has watched the Ohio inch dover each day submerging his mailbox and purring his street under 12 feet of waux “Want a ride over? he hollers across the 50 yards of water “How about a cold beer?” be asks clambering out of tbe green metal boat that's the only way off of what his wife calls Gilligaa's bland a reference to rite TV sitcom The sweikn river swamped Metopls two weeks ago not long after the went flooding in the Ohio River Valley in 30 years began Tbe valley was hit Thuraday with a new autm that left qp to an inch of rain ia pans of Kentucky and aoutheatam fllmnau More rain may prolong the flouring and its misery bu forecasters say the Ohio and long-go-ne the Mississippi River which it joins would rite only sligtady Fox a second day the Mississippi was nearly 9 feet above New school policies vindicate kissing boy WASHINGTON (AF) — You must remember this A kiss is wartimes jwd a kiss Especially when if comes from a friendly and tbe target is a flood stage as its crest neared New - s-- 1 itHiluin Tbe Ohio while dill five to 2(1 fret above flood mage in many places should fall slowly from Owensboro Ky to Sbawawraowx Upstream from Mempulis residents ia Paducah Ky said they were appreciative flood waO long of the city 's The Herald Journal CLASSIFIEDS 752-212- 1 if u'wCir yew unoti Vuer ls servaMB usied Ct 745 No 1000 W 752-OS7- 1 - s v- nar rre n 5wt PATKCX'S DAY mrmr Appearsif ia i ih I? sjaif r it rsfiatirur grjgum at In Jnc Lagan Efucabon iorbd&am So says the Educaooa Ihpart-mein new guidelines aimed at helping school officials figure oaf nt what is sexual harassment and what is rot In the one of Johnathan who was the punished last year for kitting a gid at school it was nc Prc-vef-le first-grad- er fl He's very happy He said t 0 o llfeltmn liWrTRffirnTvtgWPr 3 QZ BAIUJERSHO? HARMONY" is” The guidelines published tart ymm to tasang a gk at school torsdiy call upon tbe “judg- can put his nwnd at aasa Tb ed and common sense of EaucuDon Capartmant Owoarad bool officials when fighting TTursoay M a pack on to ntcmeuL The department told by a a yaar-otsb snorcf ficials to consider tbe alleged d -- a o e I told them I was just Hying be friends” his mrtho Mis reverte said this motning “ll akes everything we went rough and cvayJsng we fought worth iL Maybe other chil-e- a won't have to go through lender 'sage 0 i caviroameaL” the guide-linThe facwrs in the guidance — e said “Foi a afinn that a kb on tbe cheek does not consoto rise to the level of a le sexual harassment tbe Johnathan was separated from partment said menuoaing the se but not Johnathan's name School in Lrxiagw NC fat a “fa order to grie me to a and banned from aa ice harassment trier1 day uni e cream patty aHa kwaing a sufficiently severe persistent 1996 in September that it adversely pervasive The case drear worldwide Eecri a student's education or edaabash safes a hostile or -- es one-om- mci-dc- at fint-grad- er i dsas-mai- L1 A teameii Cironss from Salt Lake City Tile HOagSSICQ new Sridgecbrid Barbershop Chorus ' tjorixtsmmscmvati mis hscnsaaaRCksisji - - u ' 4 to - - ( "to - - i1:-- fy of State Madeleine Albright Sktndtrv Marrii BJ0Y ST ‘k Meet Secretary 30" A Ton first-grad- er u- m ATljy5AT39H:VlAL We Buy Scrap Cars Vatey Mata au puogruni Sunned maligned lor its plan brown ugliness Qa the other side of the wall a park bod launch and ampmdicater have disappeared beneath the murky watts Only :ik tops of four park bcncncs are a virw “That wall iutsa 'i strvod any purpme at ad — until now" lan Hatfield iuud In Saiihluwd Ky 12 miles lunbtr iipMicun residents who had Irani iciuly buih a and sandbag ievtee to hold riie Ohu' and Cumberland mers at -hay greeted riu new an grimiy Wjutv lapped du!euHiidy close to riw up — S lese iKue riie stmts m places — and dm was murine undts rite pounding uiu Madrid Mo opposite the wesuremuna rip of Kentucky At lead 59 deaths have been twamod on and tornadoes from Arkansas to Wed Virginia Two people were diS missing in Kentucky and one was bring sought in southern Ohio X- - pay ioi a Amid flooding Illinois couplers home is an island ner is pacing : s |