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A10 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH NEWS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1999 www.postnet.coni House will hear debate on banning controversial abortion procedure Baker Local personality becomes USA Networks president Continuedfrom PageAl gether to create an enterprise of growing and enduring value," Diller said. Baker, 46, has spent more than half of his broadcast career in St. Louis. He managed a start-up radio station, and in 1983 became general manager of KPLR-TV (Channel 11).

As the 1980s ended, he founded River City Broadcasting LP. with $5.5 million in seed money from in Baltimore and last year was anointed as chief executive officer-designate, the man who would run the company after Chairman David Smith retired. The move was a major vote of confidence because' Sinclair has always been run by members of its founding family. When Baker left, he explained that he wanted to pursue other business opportunities he could no longer ignore. USA Networks, he said Thursday, "is that unique, entrepreneurial communications company which has the management and businesses in place to actually execute the converging e-commerce, television and Internet model that others can only speak of." were," she said.

While she did not have a partial-birth abortion, she argued that her case illustrates why some abortions are necessary to protect a mother's health. "It was not clear what the risks were," she said. Carnahan promises a veto The measure is likely headed for a veto. Gov. Mel Camnhan has promised he will reject any bill that does not have a health exemption for the mother.

Luetkenhaus said his bill has 116 supporters in the House enough to override Car-nahan's veto. During the hearing, abortion opponents also said the procedure is inhumane. Ed Martin, director of the human rights office of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, said the bill should be seen as part of humanity's respect for life. "This bill may be breaking new ground," he said.

"These infants three inches from life are part of life." Dr. Ann M. Hennessey, a Jeffer son City pediatrician, said children can live outside the womb at 23 or 24 weeks the time frame for the controversial procedure. "We are really pushing the limits," she said. "These babies come out kicking and screaming." Luetkenhaus' bill is HB 427.

under the age of 1. Lou DeFeo, a lawyer for the Missouri Catholic Conference, who helped draft the bill, said the approach may help avoid legal benchmarks that apply to abortions. Courts have ruled that states must allow abortions if the procedure would protect the life or the health of the mother. Abortions are generally allowed as long as the fetus could not survive outside of the womb. DeFeo said he wants the courts to decide at what point are you dealing with an infant and no longer dealing with a fetus." M.

Susan Carlson, a St. Louis lawyer and a former Washington University professor, told the Criminal Law committee last week that the proposed ban would, fail three constitutional tests: It prohibits a woman's right to get an abortion before the fetus is viable, it has no health exemption and it is vague, possibly banning other procedures. Another opponent, Mary Ellen Degnan, 41, of Columbia, spoke of her cross-country quest to find a clinic that would perform an abortion at 22 weeks into her pregnancy. Her unborn twin sons had multiple birth defects and could not have survived outside the womb. Degnan's doctors were worried about her well-being as the difficult pregnancy progressed.

"It was not clear what the risks Starbucks Starbucks will pay for Big Mac blasts Continued from PageAl Schultz, Starbucks' chairman and chief executive, did the polite thing. "I sent him a little note, congratulating him on the season and thanking him for wearing the hat," Schultz said. That little note went a long way with McGwire, who had just read Schultz's book, "Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time." The baseball player seen as a hero by Americans counted Schultz as one of his heroes. A friendship is born Two weeks later, the telephone Comple te HP Paikage Un investors. Baker built River City into a middle-market broadcasting force, with one.

television station (KDNL-TV of St. Louis) and 34 radio stations that reached 9 Baker in 1994 percent of American households. The company's two St. Louis stations were KPNT-FM (105.7), which has an alternative rock format, and WVRV (101.1), which bills itself as "adult alternative." River City cashed in on its success three years ago, merging with Sinclair in a dual worth $1.2 billion. Baker went to work for Sinclair rang in Schultz's office in Seattle, and it was McGwire on the other end of the line.

McGwire thanked Schultz for the note. Schultz complimented McGwire on the way he handled himself the entire season, on his warm relationship with his rival, Sammy Sosa, and on his general "humility and grace," Schultz recalled. The men traded stories about their two young sons. They got along great so great, in fact, that McGwire visited Seattle in December and stayed overnight at Schultz's home. "We spent the entire evening and the following day getting to know one another, talking about the responsibility to be a role model that he felt as an athlete and the responsibility we feel as a company to fiscal benevolence," Schultz said.

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"Just the other day we got an e-mail," she said. "It said, 'Hey, there's a guy who's got his picture on the Internet as a registered sex offender but he's going by a different name in our Howerton said police arrested the man when they found he hadn't been checking in with his probation officer. A popular site Georgia's Internet site has proven to be a hit with that state's residents. "The sex offender site is by far the most popular site on our Web page," said John Bankhead, spokesman for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Through noon Thursday, the site he coordinates had registered 21,000 visits this month.

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The House Criminal Law committee approved the bill aimed at so-called "partial-birth abortions" on Thursday morning. The sponsor, Rep. Bill Luetkenhaus, D-Jo-sephville, said he expects a vote on the plan in the next several weeks. At issue is a procedure in which the fetus is delivered feet-first, the skull collapsed and the brain removed before the delivery is completed. Health officials have said they have no record of the procedure ever being done in Missouri.

The bill is unusual because it approaches the issue through criminal statutes. It says anyone who "intentionally kills" a "partially born living infant" is guilty of infanticide or the murder of someone CAPITOL BRIEFS Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau Carnahan lambastes concealed-weapons plan Gov. Mel Carnahan said he opposes the concealed-weapons measure on the April 6 ballot but hasn't decided if he will actively campaign to defeat it. "I think it's a terrible policy for the state," Carnahan said Thursday. "I really think more guns are not going to make it safer." If voters adopt the statewide referendum known as Proposition sheriffs could issue concealed-weapons permits to people who are at least 21, who have no felony convictions and have passed a handgun safety course.

The three-year permits would cost $80. Carnahan said he is especially concerned with the thought of people carrying hidden guns into places like bars and banks. Supporters of the measure say concealed weapons would give average citizens the chance to protect themselves from crime. State Rep. Wayne Crump, D-Po-tosi, who supports gun legislation, said theme parks in Florida have had no problems with concealed weapons carriers, who leave their guns at the gate.

Malpractice measure gets first-round approval The House gave first-round ap proval Thursday to a bill changing the state's medical malpractice law. The measure, sponsored by Rep. Brian May, D-St. Louis, is designed to give people more time to sue doctors who fail to relay the results of medical tests. "This is a woman's health care issue," May said.

Ann Weiss, a resident of St. Ann, sparked the legislation. She found out she had cancer of the cervix four years after a doctor's exam first detected a problem on a routine physical exam. Because of an office mixup, Weiss was never notified. The malpractice law said it was too late for her to file suit because four years had passed.

May's bill would allow patients to file suit two years from the date they discovered that they had not been informed of a medical test, instead of two years from the date of the act of neglect. May said the bill was written as a compromise with doctors' groups. The House approved the bill in a voice vote. It needs one more vote in that chamber before moving to the Senate. Board of Education OKs anti-weapons resolution OSAGE BEACH Missouri's Board of Education approved a resolution on Thursday opposing Proposition which would allow concealed weapons to be carried by qualified residents.

Board member Peter Hers-chend, a co-chair for the campaign opposing Proposition drew up the resolution. Herschcnd, a co-owner of Silver Dollar City, said weapons have no place on school grounds. Opponents of Proposition said the ballot measure would allow those with concealed weapon permits to carry guns onto school campuses, though not inside a school. Federal law prohibits weapons from being carried within feet of a school, but exempts those with pcfjrnits. Own a Full-Featured Business Copier ror ms ume ms 0m ifl7 tlA Dan jMft jVJI S- Schultz announced Thursday at a joint news conference in a Starbucks store in West Hollywood, Calif.

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