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U.S. District Judge David Coar, who is presiding over the sometimes-heated case, agreed with the National Organization for Women that McCorvey's identity as Roe was irrelevant in a case about allegedly illegal activity by protesters at abortion clinics. Testimony by McCorvey, who converted to the anti-abortion rights cause in 1995, was limited to what she saw in the four years before her conversion, when she was marketing director at several abortion clinics in Dallas. Tribune photo by Charles Osgood Norma McCorvey (right) of Roe vs. Wade fame talks to reporters at the Dirksen Federal Building Wednesday after testifying in a civil racketeering case as Sandra Cano and Joseph Scheidler look on.

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"Yes, I sold a truck one night that didn't even have a motor in it," she said to laughter in the courtroom. "The guy pushed it off the lot, and he was happy." Later, McCorvey said she wasn't upset her testimony was limited. McCorvey had waited to testify last week for several hours but had to be rescheduled until Wednesday. In a precedent-setting use of a federal law originally aimed at organized crime, NOW has accused anti-abortion rights activists of a national conspiracy to shut down abortion clinics. The suit charges that anti-abortion rights leaders, including Joseph M.

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"I heard the prosecutor say he objected to the judge's order, and I just couldn't handle it," Starks, 34, said after the hearing. The 9-year-old, who attended Wednesday's hearing in Cook County Juvenile Court started crying quietly as soon as he understood his brother would be coming home. The boy was considered too young to be detained and lived at home with his 16-year-old brother and mother since the incident. David died March 7 of peritonitis, a tearing of the intestine, along with swelling of the brain, according to law enforcement authorities. Judge Martin Agran, angry that the medical examiner's final report still is not completed a month after David's death, said the older brother can return to school but must stay at home during after-school hours.

Noting the boy had no prior criminal record and that all the younger foster children Karen Starks had taken into her home a year ago had been removed by state child-welfare workers after David's death, Agran said he felt the boy posed no danger to anyone in the household. Depending on how soon Starks could resolve a home telephone issue, he was to be released either Wednesday or Thursday. The judge's order overwhelmed the boys' mother, who suddenly had difficulty breathing and Event Ends Saturday 411 Closed Easter Sunday Mj City Colleges' ex-chief vies for post Uffi INTO MET Mm City Colleges' former chancellor, Ronald J. Temple, who was fired in March after spending months on a public campaign to save his job, apparently has decided it's time to move on. According to officials at Pittsburgh's Community College of Allegheny County, Temple is one of four finalists vying for the president's job at the much-smaller Pennsylvania school.

Temple, 56, was fired as chancellor of the Chicago City Colleges system after he launched a public campaign deriding his bosses particularly board chairman Ronald Gidwitz who he said tried to bloat the community col-lejes' payroll with his cronies. Temple is competing for the Pittsburgh job against another Illi nois community college president, Roy Flores, who heads Elgin Community College. Flores, 57, became president of the Elgin college in 1994 and survived a trustees' attempt to unseat him a few years ago. The two other finalists are Donald Alexander, 58, president of Allegany Community College in Cumberland, and Gene Proulx, 53, vice president for academic affairs at Erie Community College in Buffalo. The City Colleges board is still negotiating Temple's buyout, which could be more than $500,000.

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