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A2 Tre RepuMc Cofcanbui. lrL. Wednesday. January 16. People News llrap-up 7 1 Students, teachers focus ruled Tuesday that federal judges should end their supervision of previously segregated public schools if court-ordered integration has eliminated "the vestiges of past discrimination." Glendening is county executive in Prince George's Comity, M(L, a suburb of the nation's capital that has operated under a court order to desegregate its schools since 1972.

sights on newspaper bill if-- Legislature '91 -By Jodi Perns -Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS A House subcommittee will rework a bill Associates' Press Randall T. Shepard, chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, addresses a Joint session of the legislature during Tuesday's busy schedule of activities. Motion denied NEWPORT The trial of a suspended Indiana State University professor accused in the murder of a young Terre Haute man will remain in Vermillion County, a judge has ruled. Vermillion Circuit Judge Doni Darnell denied a defense motion Tuesday for a change of venue in the murder trial of Robert David Little, 53. Attorneys Dennis Zahn and James Voyles argued the April 2 trial should be moved because of extensive publicity.

During a Jan. 7 hearing, they offered boxes of news stories and videotapes of newscasts concerning the case. Little was arrested last month for the mutilation slaying of Steven Agan, 23, after death row inmate Larry Eyler implicated him. Agan's body, with multiple stab wounds, was found Dec 28, 1982, in a field by an abandoned house in Newport, about 40 miles north of Terre Haute. Little was charged Dec 18.

He is held without bond in the Vigo County JaiL Eyler was sentenced to death in Illinois for the 1986. dismemberment murder of Dan- iel Bridges, 15, of Chicago. Eyler pleaded guilty to murdering Agan and told the court Dec 13 that Little participated in and -photographed that slaying. Eyler. 37, was sentenced to 60 years in prison and fined $10,000 by Darnell 3 plead guilty INDIANAPOLIS A bank loan officer and two clients have pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud a federal housing program.

Their actions leave two defendants in a U.S. District Court trial that began Monday. The five defendants were named in a 37-count indictment in July by a federal grand Jury investigating fraud in Depart- ment of Housing and Urban De velopment mortgage insurance programs. They were charged with conspiring to defraud the De partment of Housing and Urban Development of $660,000 in connection with a plan to rehabilitate six condominium units along Fall Creek Parkway. The property was owned by defendants William E.

Miller, 35, of Indianapolis and William L. Phillips, 31, of Cicero. Shooting arrests INDIANAPOLIS Six Indianapolis teen-agers are under arrest Tuesday in connection with a drive-by shooting that left one teen-ager dead and three wounded Monday night All six teen-agers are being held on preliminary counts of murder for 72 hours, police said. Det LsA. Vanbuskirk said the shooting was not gang-related.

but was more of a neighborhood feud that escalated. The police investigation also revealed that the shots came from one of the two cars, she said. The shooting fatally injured 16-year-old Daniel O. Booker. Booker died from a chest wound at 7:19 p.m.

Monday at Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis Police Detective Al Watson said. High court ruling WASHINGTON For Parris Glendening, who helps oversee the nation's 12th largest school district, a Supreme Court ruling easing forced busing for racial balance means he and other officials won't be under a judge's thumb forever. The Supreme Court, in one of its most important statements on school desegregation in 15 years, Information Defense probe ALEXANDRIA, Va. Co-. bic Defense Systems Inc.

and its former president have pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a senior Air Force procurement official The company also pleaded guilty Tuesday to theft of government property and filing false statements, and agreed to pay $4.65 million in penalties. The San Diego-based con- tractor, a subsidiary of Cubic and its former president, Cohrin "Sam" Wellborn, admitted conspiring to bribe former Deputy Assistant Air Force Secretary Victor D. Cohen to influence the award of three contracts. Copter crash EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. Two crewmen were killed and two others were injured when a helicopter crashed during a night training mission, the Air Force said Tuesday.

The UH-1 helicopter with four men aboard went down Monday evening at Edwards' porthern section in the Mojave Desert, a base statement said Miami tornadoes MIAMI Two tornadoes tore apart airplanes at a small -airport and smashed windows -and doors in an elementary school, injuring one teacher, authorities said. One twister struck in the Pembroke Pines area of Broward County and the other hit West Miami in neighboring Dade County. The Broward County twister flipped over about 15 planes at 'North Perry Airport, said Jim Reynolds, spokesman for the Broward County Aviation De-, partment Reynolds said some' of the planes were torn apart He estimated damage at up to $1 million. Ballooning record TOKYO British tycoon Richard Branson and his Swedish co-pilot were well on their way today to becoming the first people to cross the Pacific Ocean in a hot-air balloon, spokesmen for the project said. Spokesman Hideki Beppu, speaking from Miyakonojo by telephone, said that with the help of the jet stream the two adventurers had already set a speed record for hot-air ballooning 180.9 mph, marked just hours after take-oft The previous record was 261 kilometers per hour (162 mph), he said.

Baltics on edge VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. Lithuanians were burying 10 victims of a Soviet military assault today, but could not put to rest fears of a widening crackdown on the Baltic republics' popularly elected secessionist governments. Tough rhetoric from some Moscow hard-liners and pro- Kremlin rallies in Baltic capitals had separatist supporters fortiflying buildings and preparing for attack while much of the world was preoccupied by -the Persian Gulf crisis. From Wire Dispatches FAR RAH FAWCETT and RYAN O'NEAL Ryan O'Neal, Tatum feuded over Farrah Ryan O'Neal says he and daughter Tatum have not gotten along well since he began living with Farrah Faweett more than a decade ago. Tatum, now 27, had been living with O'Neal since she was a child and her parents divorced.

"I had to.make a choice between Tatum and this girl and 4 chose Farrah," said in the February issue of Vanity Fain "Tatum made me choose. I said, That's a bad idea. I sleep with this girt, Tatum, I don't slcr nuh O'Neal, who with Faweett stars in a new TV series, "Good Sports," said of his daughter "I picked her up and I made her a movie star and an Academy Award winner and rich. And I loved her, too. And I never violated her or any of the possibilities.

I took care of her. And then I finally found someone who was dear to me, and she couldn't have it, she couldn't deal with it" But O'Neal had some kind words for his daughter, who has two children with her husband, tennis star John McEnroe. "I miss her," he said. Crew's 'Pretty Woman' was no kin to Orbison's A federal judge ruled the rap group 2 live Crew's satire of Roy Orbison's hit "Pretty Woman" did not infringe on the 1964 song's copyright U.S. District Thomas A.

Wiseman rejected a lawsuit brought by Nashville's Acuff-Rose Music Inc. "2 Live Crew is an anti-establishment rap group," Wiseman said. "This song derisively demonstrates how bland and banal the Orbison song seems to them." The Orbison classic depicts a pretty woman, "the kind I'd like to meet," while the rap version of the same name is about a "big, hairy, bald-headed, two-timin' woman," Wiseman ruled. From Wire Dispatches Lotteries The winning numbers selected Tuesday: INDIANA Daily Three 4-0-0; Daily Four 4-8-0-6. OHIO Pick 3 Numbers 6-2-5; Pick 4 Numbers 8-9-5.

The Cards were: A (ace) of Hearts. 4 (four) of Clubs. (queen) of Diamonds and 6 (six) of Spades. KENTUCKY Pick 3 0-7-0. ILLINOIS Daily Game 7-0-9; Pick Four -3-1 -7-1 Estimated Lotto Jackpot: $6 million.

MICHIGAN Daily Lottery -85; Daily-4 5-1-7-7. The Keno numbers were: 4. 6, 10, 12. IX 2CL22. 23.

25. 23. 37. 39. 46.

48. 51. 53. 56. 65.

66. 80. The Lotto 47 jackpot: $8 million. Customer Service that would guarantee freedom of expression for student newspapers and yearbooks. House Bill 1052, sponsored by Rep.

Hurley C. GoodalL D- ROBERT NAVES Muncie, was supported by students and high school journalism teachers Tuesday. Bat some members of the House Education Committee questioned whether it went too far by guaranteeing all students freedom of expression in the clothing, buttons and badges they wear. "I would not vote for a bill that allows students to wear what they want," said state Rep. Vernon G.

Smith, a Democrat who is a principal at Gary Community School Corp. The measure" would not protect expression that is obscene, libelous or that constitutes an unwarranted invasion of privacy. School officials could also ban expression that incites students to break the law, violate school regulations or disrupt classes. But lobbyists representing school administrators and school boards argued that the bill would allow students to wear clothing that promotes alcohol and drug use and to print nearly anything they wanted in a student newspaper. The bill as it now reads makes expression of any form artistic, painting, a picture, comments to a teacher all expression is protected under this bill," said David Emmert of the Indiana School Boards Association.

But students and high school journalism teachers argued in favor of the measure, saying they act responsibly when using tneir First Amendment rights or free expression and resent a principal's right to censor their work. Jeff Lovell, a freshman at Hillsdale College, told the committee he worked for two months last year on a story that accused a coach of misappropriating money at Fort Wayne Northrop High SchooL The story was killed by North- J1" With the new Low Fat diet from Physicians WEIGHT LOSS Centers, anyone can cat three healthy, nutritious, good-testing meals everyday and suB lose weight. In fact, Phvsicans WEIGHT LOSS Centers is so sure youH lose weight, that we're willing to give you 50 off the weight i I -sk rop's principal, who used the article as leverage to gain the coach's resignation, Lovell claimed. "Professionally, I was particularly disturbed because the principal told me my articles were accurate, well-written, well-documented and true," Lovell said. Committee members also were troubled by a provision in the bill that would make administrators, teachers, school boards and other officials immune from civil or criminal liability resulting from a student publication.

If a person suffered damages because of a student article, the only defendants he could sue would be the student editor and author, who likely would not have the 'money to pay, said Rep. Robert E. Hayes, D-Columbus. There's no responsibility on the part of school officials to vv- Ftiysidans WEIGHT LOSS Lr Centers, even review what is being written," said Hayes. In other committee action, the House Judiciary Committee delayed action on a measure that would amend Indiana's living will statute to conform with the U.S.

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