Show Weekly News Briefs J by Linda Fabert It looks like Kirk Buckner didn't kill his parents brothers f and aunt after all It seems his uncle James has confessed that he was the one who murdered seven family members in Elkland MO two weeks ago Police were speculating that the leg and abdominal wounds he received while struggling with his nephew Kirk may have been self self ted According to the police Kirk was left-handed left however the murder weapon was found in his right hand The motive f for r the killings still has not been disclosed Fourteen year old Kirk was found stabbed to death in his uncles uncle's house after he was all dg U to have murdered his family before traveling five miles to o his uncles uncle's home hom to murder Ted Bundy has convinced the Supreme Court that he should be allowed an appeal on the grounds of insanity and is claiming he was denied competent legal counsel although he chose to def defend nd himself at the time of his trial for the murder of Kimberly Leach and two Florida university co Although he claimed he was competent and andin in full possession of his faculties at atthe atthe atthe the time of his trial he now claims that his erratic behavior during the trial should have indicated that he was not Bundy was originally given the death sentence for the murders Is the Loch Ness Monster Nessie really real Old legends die diehard diehard diehard hard and for the residents of Drumnadrochit Scotland she or he is very real For three days a scientific probe made up of 25 cabin cruisers using sonar made sweeps of the feet deep lake in an effort to bounce echoes off any o objects or or creatures lurking in the dark waters According to project director Adrian Shine There are some strong sonar contacts on Loch Ness but I 1 do not think they add up to your media monster However other participants said sonar contacts did show the existence of something and local residents still insist the monster is there There were three unexplained sonar contacts that experts said could mean there is something alive and moving in the lake It doesn't look like Robert Bork is going to win his appointment to the Supreme Court Bench However he has no intention of going down without a fight With 53 senators publicly opposing his nomination for the position he still intends to continue his fight for the appointment In the past Bork has spoken out against the ERA and has expressed racist viewpoints both of which have turned many senators against him Because of the long battle over Bork the picking of a anew new justice Justice could fall to the next president nt According to Senator Alan Cranston I dont don't think anybody should share the illusion that the next nominee will sail through like a greased pig no matter what that nominee may be like Well We'll take a hard look look at at the nominee 1 r jm 4 Two hundred thousand thousand gay gay rights many of whom are dying of AIDS marched on Washington DC D.C. in an effort to persuade law makers t to appropriate more federal monies for the development of a cure for the deadly virus Activists unfurled a massive quilt with more than 2000 names of persons who have died after contracting AIDS Actor Robert Blake actress Goldberg and former NOW president Eleanor were present ata rally at the Capitol Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson recruiting votes spoke to the crowd as wellIn well l In 1963 i there vas was a great march i in front of the Lincoln Memorial I 1 was there because I cared Im I'm here tonight because I Icare Icare Icare care he said Locally Mountain Fuels Fuel's natural gas prices have declined decline 37 7 percent about 20 for the average residential n ial customer J since last w winter In November 1984 the thea a l 1 average customers customer's annual bill was This year the average annual bill will be Since July 1984 Mountain Fuel has cut natural gas prices seven times Natural gas prices account for approximately half of a residential customers customer's bill The balance consists of the cost of operating and maintaining maintaining main main- taming Mountain Fuels Fuel's distribution system Did Governor Bangerter blow a bunch of money fo for nothing The three pumps he had installed in the desert west of the Great Salt Lake for lake drainage have presently presently- lowered the level of the lake about two feet Now the the- theAir Air Force is is forbidding th the governor to drain drain any any more water off the lake because they say it will flood their bombing ranges Evidently Gov Bangerter agreed now to flood those ranges in inan inan inan an effort to get the Air ir F Force Force- to tollow allow him to install the thep p pumps out there The Air Force now wants to enforce that agreement |