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1 1 ENTERTAINMENT Another shot at top Emmy 'Sopranos' leads in nominations, looks for Best Drama trophy NATION, 10A FOOTBALL Titans tickets go to fastest fingers Phone, online orders may beat those waiting at Adelphia SPORTS, 1C TRENDS Hot dots Jazz up your decor with eye-popping retro patterns LIVING STYLE, ID July 13 2001 86 T62 Weather forecast on 6B NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE A GANNETT NEWSPAPER VOLUME 97, NO. 194 6 SECTIONS 3 COPYRIGHT 2001 PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID IN NASHVILLE, TN JAMES Bf I fry i TENNESSEAN This is the greatest display of liberty Nashville has ever seen. We're the voice, but they're the volume. Listen to them." Steve Gill, talk-radio host 'The activities of the talk-radio people and Senator Blackburn have killed the right of the people to vote." Sen. David Fowler, who wanted a public referendum on income tax issue IK Police await Condit lab tests Obstruction charges being considered WASHINGTON (AP) Federal officials have expanded their investigation into Chandra Levy's disappearance to determine whether US.

Rep. Gary Condit obstructed justice. Meanwhile, police yesterday awaited FBI lab tests to see if items removed from Condit's apartment contain blood. They also began searching vacant buildings. Items sent to the lab after a light and chemical test used to detect possible blood included a portion of a mini-blind and swabs of residue taken from spots on the floor and wall, law enforce Senate's last-ditch income tax bid fails 15 tuition hike up for vote today j' The Tennessee IWUI Higher By BONNA la CRUZ, DUREN CHEEK and ROB JOHNSON Staff Writers State senators tried to resurrect an income tax plan late yesterday but, amid protest chants of "No tax, no," ultimately approved a budget with no tax increase that lawmakers contend could put the state in deeper financial peril next year.

Two Republican sena Education Commis sion will vote today on a recommendation that state colleges and universities raise tuition 15 for the 2001-02 academic year. On IB I CONDIT ment officials said. They cautioned that the light test can react to various organic materials, and that only lab tests could confirm whether the material was blood or another substance. Terrance Gainer, Washington's inside Police consider four see-' narlosin Levy's disappearance. 0n6A tors, who have opposed an income tax consistently, ing being an increase in called the protesters a the state sales tax and an mob.

income tax. The budget agreement The Capitol was locked capped one of the longest down for evening votes in legislative sessions in the Senate and House as a recent history, which saw mob of protesters broke a the rise and fall of many tax plans, the most endur- Please see BUDGET, 2A Crowd hurls rocks, rhetoric to protest tax rut' No. 2 police official said officials did not expect major advances from the nearly four-hour search done early Wednesday with Condifs consent Police have said repeatedly they do not consider Condit, D-Calif, a suspect A police source has said the congressman acknowledged a romantic relationship with the former Bureau of Prisons intern. The investigation proceeded on several fronts yesterday. Federal prosecutors and the FBI were looking at a flight attendant's allegation that Condit urged her to sign a statement denying a 10-month affair she says they had.

Anne Marie Smith also said Condit told her she did not have to cooperate with FBI agents. Prosecutors and FBI agents were conducting interviews and trying to determine whether to go further, one official said. They also have sought any information Smith might have about Levy. with no new taxes similar to one already passed by the House. No one was arrested.

One woman was taken to an area hospital with an asthma attack, emergency medical workers said. The crowd grew to at least 1,000 on the immediate grounds, with several hundred more across the street at the Legislative Plaza Many people were giving credit to conservative talk-radio hosts Phil Valentine and Steve Gill By LEON ALLIGOOD, ROB JOHNSON and DUREN CHEEK Staff Writers A shouting mob of more than 1,000 anti-tax protesters, fearing an 11th-hour approval of a state income tax, stormed the Capitol building yesterday, pounding on office doors and breaking a few windows, one of them by a rock hurled into Gov. Don Sundquist's office. For two emotional hours, authorities blocked entrances to the Capitol, where inside the Senate eventually voted a budget BILL STEBER STAFF taxes while, Dennis Nance of Fairview joins a crowd gathering in front of the Capitol yesterday to protest any new Please see PROTEST, 2A inside, state lawmakers work on passing a budget they can send to the governor. 'Opry' telecast will move fromTNN to CMT, expand to one hour Aug.

18 president said the channel will prepare the audience with five nights of specials about tunities for coveted television time. In addition, said Opry member Jeannie Seely, the move reconnects the broadcast with Music City. "I love working with a network that is not only music-oriented, but country-oriented, and that's (programmed) here in Nashville. Plus, the more they can show of the Opry, the better I like it" 1M least trying to be the country standard." TNN built its reputation on country music, but The National Network has gained viewers as it has moved away from country lifestyle programming in favor of syndicated reruns and movies. Carter wondered whether CMT would change the televised segment to accommodate the video channel's younger audience.

To the contrary, said Steve Buchanan, Gaylord's Grand Ole Opry Group president: Instead, the Opry will present CMT fans with a broader picture. "If they can see who has influenced Brad Paisley or Martina McBride, that's enlightening and hopefully pulls them into the music more." Paul Hastaba, CMT general manager and senior vice since April 1985 on what began as The Nashville Network. Opry owner Gaylord Entertainment sold TNN and CMT to WestinghouseCBS, now Viacom, in 1997 with a provision that the Opry stay on cable well into 2002. "It looks like a pretty positive move," said Nashville media observer Jimmy Carter. TNN is not committed to country.

CMT is at By CRAIG HAVIGHURST Staff Writer Grand Ole Opry Live, the televised portion of WSM's historic radio show and the last vestige of country music programming on cable's The National Network, will move Aug. 18 to Country Music Television, Opry officials said yesterday. CMT will expand Opry Live from 30 to 60 minutes, and its preview show, Opry Backstage, will be canceled. The expanded Opry Live, mixing onstage and backstage action, will be telecast Saturdays at 7 p.ro, repeating twice each weekend. It now repeats once, three hours after the initial telecast A half-hour of the 75-year-old Opry has been televised SEELY Opry history in the week running up to the switchover.

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