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A2 Trie Republic Columbus, Ind- Monday. December 31, 1990 People News Wrap-up Eve celebrations indoors or include a chaperone if they want to party until 1991, police say. The city's youth curfew is in effect tonight despite the hol Excommunicated priest preps to tie a new knot The Rev. George Stallings a former Roman Catholic priest who was excommunicated after forming a church for Associated Press Mary Taylor, 83, is carried across flood members of waters that surround her rural Marion home Fire Department. Hundreds of residents Sunday afternoon.

She was carried by, statewide were evacuated. State flooding prompts hundreds to flee iday and extra officers will be on patrol, police said. The curfew bars people under. 17 from the streets between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.

weeknights, unless participating in school activities, returning from work or accompanied by an adult Fans rampage LOS ANGELES Punk rock fans ordered to leave an overcrowded concert hall went on a rampage, ripping out seats, hurling bottles at police andx smashing the windows of stores and offices outside, authorities saia Sunday. A police officer was cut on the head by a bottle and several concertgoers were injured in the Saturday night melee at the Classic Theater in North Hollywood, officials said. Firefighters briefly turned hoses on the crowd to restore order. 11 arrested rf WASHINGTON Eleven people were arrested Sunday af- ter they scaled the north fence of the White House and threw red ink, simulating blood, into a fountain, according to author- ities. They were among a group of 40 demonstrators affiliated with the D.C.

Coalition Against the U.S. in the Middle East, according to Doug Holmes of the uniformed division of the Secret Service. Boats capsize NEW DELHI, India At least 43 people, including 32 schoolchildren, drowned when two boats capsized in a river in eastern India, news reports said Sunday. "Press. Trust of India said 120 people were rescued after Saturday's accident in Jalmagi river in West Bengal state.

The reports said the boats were bringing back students and teachers of several elementary schools from an annual sports competition at a nearby town, 745 miles southeast of New Delhi. Commander fired MOSCOW The commander-in-chief of Soviet troops in what was East Germany was fired after two senior officers deserted and stole missiles and other armaments, the government newspaper Izvestia reports. Geh. B. Snetkov was fired after the desertions of Lt Col.

M. Kolesnikov, a regimentaLcom-mander, and Capt G. Moiseyenko, leader of a supply unit, Izvestia said Sunday. No pardons ATHENS, Greece Re- -1)onding to a formidable public outcry, the government has reversed itself and decided not to go ahead with announced plans to pardon leaders of the 1967-74 military dictatorship. Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis had said Friday that he decided for humanitarian reasons to pardon nearly all the jailed former members of the junta, some of whom are serving life sentences.

3 servicemen die OLONGAPO, Philippines Fire swept through a two- story hotel packed with U.S. servicemen en route to the Persian Gulf on Sunday, and police said three Americans and a woman were killed. From Wire Dispatches Shoreline survey PORTAGE State planners are calling on the public to help them decide what to do with Indiana's portion of Lake Michigan shoreline. Protection of wildlife habitats and private public access to bird-watching areas, tourism, and increased development are some of the issues officials hope to resolve. A series of public meetings will begin next month to solicit opinions on the competing uses of the lake front The sessions represent a first step in a preliminary study for a shoreline management plan.

Such a plan was recommended by the General Assembly earlier this year for 45 miles of shoreline now experiencing rapid change. Four meetings will be held between mid-January and mid-February in Michigan City, Gary, Whiting and another city, Lee Botts. Sewer suit JEFFERSONVILLE A Clark County minister says he'll probably reject a $100,000 offer by local government to settle a suit stemming from a $34.10 sewer bill. The Indiana Avenue Missionary Baptist Church in Jeffersonville filed suit in the wake of a property error by the county treasurer's office 17 years ago. Because of government red tape, the 300-member church lost title to its property in 1973.

It filed suit against the city of Jeffersonville, several former county officials and the man who bought the property at a tax sale. ami Skinner a leader WASHINGTON In the two years since becoming trans portation secretary, Samuel K. Skinner has, been mentioned for so many other top Bush administration jobs that he has developed a ritual re- samuel skinner sponse. But it seems to be a measure of his standing in Washington that Skinner's name has come up recently as the rumor mill ground on about the job of White House chief of staff, already held byJohn Sununu; attorney general, a post occupied by Dick Thornburgh; and director of the Office of Management and Budget, a job held by Richard Darman. Plot foiled LOS ANGELES Police said they foiled the plans of a "pencil-necked, pimply-faced street gang" to kill police officers today for stifling the drug trade.

Officers arrested three alleged gang members and seized two rifles, one handgun and 163 rounds of ammunition during raids early Saturday in the suburban San Fernando Valley. Police Lt Jim Vojtecky clined to identify the gang. But he described it as "a local pencil-necked, pimply faced street gang" with about two dozen members. No curfew break ATLANTA Young people should hold their New Year's disenchanted black Catholics, says he getting married next year. Stallings announced his engagement to Houston attorney Candace Mosly, 29, at an inaugural banquet Friday for the New Orleans chapter ofris Imani Temple African-American Catholic Congregation.

"He said he's wanted toeet married and have children For a long time," said William Marshall, Stallings spokesman. Mosly is a prosecutor in the Houston district attorney's office. Last year, Stallings, then a priest in Washington, accused the church of racism and formed his own congregation. He was excommunicated earlier this year. McFerrin not worried, joins in singing for life Vocalist Bobby McFerrin lined up hundreds of people to hum andfng through a 24-hour event billed as "Singing for Your Life." McFerrin, whose songs include "Don't Worry, Be Happy," kicked things off Sunday night at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.

of nine Grammy Awards, lined up about 300 singers, including members of his all-vocal ensemble, "Voicestra," to participate for several hours each, said Lauren Artress, canon pastor at the Episcopalian cathedral. McFerrin, who lives in San Francisco, said he hoped to show how music could help people deal with everyday problems. "I've become very fascinated with religious and spiritual sign- iflcance of music in Third World countries, where everything is celebrated and honored," he said. 'In Living Color writer sick of glorified ghetto Comedian-writer Franklyn Ajaye gays "In Living Color" glorifies ghetto life and that's one of the reasons he's leaving the hit television show. "I have no desire to be hip to the latest black slang and do the stereotypical hip thing," Ajaye says in TV Guide.

He says he left Fox Television's show by mutual agreement "This whole street, urban rap needs to be pulled back some. The ghetto is being glorified, and there's nothing good about a ghetto except getting the hell out-of one." The comedy show features skits about two "homeboy" thieves who speak in street slang. "Being black and speaking properly are not exclusive. Nelson Mandela speaks beautifully. Should Mandela put his hat on backward and say, 'Yo homey, this is Nelson.

Yo, this is def?" From Wire Dispatches Lotteries Associated Pras Winning numbers selected Sunday: INDIANA Daily Three 0-8-2; Daily Four 7-3-6-0. KENTUCKY 6-5-4 Kentucky Cash ILLINOIS Daily Game 3-9-1; Pick Four 6-3-8-9. Estimated Lotto Jackpot: $3 million. I LOTTO AMERICA Three tickets match all six numbers in the Lotto America drawing Saturday, meaning players from Idaho. Missouri.

and Indiana will split the $22 million jackpot The winning numbers drawn Saturday night were 7-JI-25-29-38-, 42, 1 vcjiis 1 fgJ Ebi TiX U- the Mill Township Volunteer homes --4 fell over much of the state Saturday and Sunday and the rapid melting of snow precipitated the flooding, the weather service said. Dry weather was forecast today through midweek. Shipe, however, warned that southwestern Indiana near the confluence of the White and Wabash rivers could expect extensive flooding later in the week as water moved downstream. Some of the hardest hit areas so far have been from Indianapolis northward along the White and Mississinewa rivers. so Associated Press Flood waters coursed down nearly every major stream in Indiana today and officials urged riverside residents in many areas to join the more than 1,000 evacuees who had fled their homes statewide.

No injuries were reported. Gov. Evan Bayh cut short a South Carolina vacation to hurry home and assess some of the worst flooding to hit Indiana in decades, and federal disaster officials were to take a helicopter tour of the state, said Jerry Hauer, director of the state Emergency Management Agency. Four counties Elkhart, Hamilton, Huntington and Newton had declared local emergencies by this morning. We think some of the.

areas are still to "see the most significant flooding," Hauer said. Rains and melting snow over the weekend caused numerous streams and rivers to surge out of their banks. Weather fore casters warned that tributaries still were dumping water into the larger streams, and flood crests won't hit some parts of the state until late in the week. "It's the most widespread and significant flooding in In diana since 1964," said Phil Roberts, one of Hauer's chief deputies at SEMA. Al Shipe, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Indianapolis and the state's top flood-watcher, said flooding was occurring along every major river in the state.

"We'll be having a major flood on all of them. For the extensiveness, this is extremely Shipe said this morning. Evacuations have occurred since Saturday in 17 counties: Allen, Brown, Delaware, Elkhart, Grant, Huntington, Madison, Marion, Montgomery, Morgan, Newton, Pike, Porter, Rush and "aA -iswaasv -x Associated Press Robert Cochran restrains his dog as his friend John Tankersley retrieves his dog house from the flooded front yard of Cochran's trailer near West Lafayette Shelby. High water closed roads in at least 50 of Indiana's 92 counties, and some bridges were reported washed out Bayh issued a special directive Sunday night placing the Indiana National Guard on alert and ordering guardsmen to make armories available to flood evacuees. "His first concern was whether we had any loss of life and any injuries, and we informed there had not been any to this point," said Bayh spokesman Les Miller.

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