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2A FLORIDA TODAY, Thursday, May 2, 1996 Law lets felons, noncitizens slip through LAW, From 1 A Time runs short to snag Sharon Stone sans Anyone who wants to cast a naked Sharon Stone in a movie better hurry up. "If somebody says to me the movie is going to make $5 million if you take off your clothes I am probably not going to do it" Stone told TV's "Extra" in an interview for broadcast issue when the motor voter plan was proposed, but failed to get it made part of the legislation, said Dick Smolka, who publishes a Washington, D.C-based newsletter called Election Administration Report Some suggested having a line on the form asking for country of birth. Anyone who answered a foreign country could then be asked for proof of citizenship. Smolka said the problem is biggest in California, Florida, Texas and Arizona. "It's a problem that's spotty in its nature," Kimberling said.

"It occurs mostly in the border states, which kind of worries me. You sense what the spirit is behind the complaints. It is a legitimate concern, but there is no visible solution, because the truth is, no one checked these things before." Sandra Lambert director of the Florida Division of Drivers License in Tallahassee, pointed out that it's not her agency that is registering voters. "What we are charged with doing is giving the opportunity to register to vote to every Florida resident We're the data gatherers," she said. "To the customers, it's a seamless process, they don't know the difference." Those people being investigated by the Brevard Sheriffs Office are unlikely to face any consequences, said Maj.

Dave Waller, supervisor of the investigative unit It would have to be proved the person signed up knowing it was wrong instead of thinking they were allowed, he said. "It may be the person is not trying to do anything wrong," Waller said. 'They're doing something right trying to become part of America, but they're just misinformed." Not all states adopted the motor voter bill. Montana, for example, has election day registration in which voters simply sign up at the polls. Illinois and Mississippi adopted it only for federal elections, not for state and local polling.

And there are irregularities between states. For example, convicted felons in Florida do not have the right to vote unless they are granted clemency by the governor's Cabinet In New York, however, once a felon completes a sentence, his voting rights are restored. Kimberling wondered what the procedure would be for a felon in New York who has served a sentence and then moved to Florida. Republicans made citizenship an Proof of citizenship or proof someone is not a felon never was required in Florida, or elsewhere. "The problem is because registering is more accessible," Galey said.

"And they dont have to come look me in the eye and swear to the oath." One change included in the motor voter law does help local election officials catch felons who try to register, said Bill Kimberling, deputy director of the Office of Election Administration of the FEC in Washington. Federal courts now notify the local supervisor of elections office when someone from the jurisdiction is convicted. It's up to individual states to establish a similar system for state and local courts. So far Florida has not The burden still lies on the supervisor of elections to determine the qualifications of the voter. That has not changed," Kimberling said.

"If the complaint is that they are getting more applications and they don't like the workload, that's different The integrity of the system has not changed." House passes HIV testing compromise Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON Stepping up federal efforts to combat AIDS among pregnant women and infants, the House on Wednesday approved legislation that eventually could require mandatory HIV testing of newborns but only if a new drive to encourage voluntary prenatal testing of women fails to reduce the number of infected babies. The bill, which passed the House 402-4, was a compromise that broke a deadlock over legislation to extend the Ryan White Act the principal source of federal aid for treatment of people with AIDS. The measure requires states, to qualify for aid, to carry out existing government guidelines calling for routine HIV counseling and voluntary testing of pregnant women. Opponents of efforts to require immediate HIV testing hailed the compromise because it postpones mandatory testing until after a five-year effort to promote voluntary testing of pregnant women. Critics say any mandate violates the privacy rights of women and discourages them from seeking prenatal care.

The compromise is expected to clear the Senate perhaps as early as today. doesn't make anyone inferior. "When I went to school, I was, taller than everybody else, they made fun of me, teased me, called, me names, hurt my feelings bit," Sandy Allen told Indianapolis' public school students this week. At 7 feet inches, Sandy Allen is tied with a Pakistani man for title of tallest person in the world-; according to The Guinness Book World Records. Weighing only 6 pounds at birth, Allen, now 40, began growing faster than normal babies, and was 6 feet''-3 inches by age 10.

Also Wearing dark glasses to hide an-' "unglamorous case of pink eyey'S Jane Fonda told youth workers. to" keep urging girls to stay in school and avoid pregnancy. i "We've got to create a new-, norm, a new cultural norm," Fonda," told the Minnesota Organization oh' Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting. "A norm that will say, 'It's cool to stay in school, it's really great to stay healthy and' work out and not get AIDS sexually transmitted Fonda, 58, said she got interested' in high rates of teen pregnancy after attending the 1994 U.N. ulation conference in Cairo.

Compiled by Dori Labu? I i today. STONE "But if it has a value that I can comprehend, then I probably would. But the sooner the better because I am not getting any younger," the 37-year-old actress said. Stone, who was promoting her role as a death-row inmate in the film "Last Dance," said she was eager to do the gritty role. "I never get scripts like this.

They must have confused my mail with someone else," she said. Alien teaches children to stand tall, proud The world's tallest woman wants kids to know it's OK to be different That's why she's starring in a new video aimed at teaching schoolchildren that being different in any way from size to color 2 KSC workers picked for astronaut corps CORPS, From 1A New set includes identical twins ADVERTISEMENT both great candidates and that you couldnt tell them apart And they were right" Parents Richard and Patricia Kelly of Flagler Beach said NASA can thank Neil Armstrong for propelling the 32-year-old look-alikes toward astronaut careers. "Well, I think it was a Sunday, 1969. They were little kids, and they were watching Neil Armstrong take that first step on the moon," Richard Kelly said. "I guess that stirred their excitement" Don't look for the pair to fly aboard the same shuttle mission, however.

Shuttle crews are comprised of a commander, a pilot and several mission specialists, and the commander normally is older and has logged more time in space than a flight's pilot "It could happen, but it would be unlikely," Ross said. "Since they're both from the same astronaut class, they'll be coming along at the same pace. And usually, you have a commander who is more experienced than the pilot" By Todd Halvorson FLORIDA TODAY Talk about a potential double-take in space. NASA has picked a set of identical twins to become astronauts. Navy pilots Mark and Scott Kelly were among the 35 test pilots, engineers and scientists picked by NASA this week to be part of the astronaut class of 1996.

Pity the poor selection committee. "We may have interviewed the same guy twice for all we know," joked Duane Ross, chief of NASA's Astronaut Selection Office at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Born Feb. 21, 1964, in Orange, the twins are jet pilots at Patuxent River Naval Air Station near Lexington Park, Md. "First time we've selected siblings of any kind that I'm aware of," Ross said.

"But they both made it on their own merits. Everybody said that they were f--X PA-" Caldeiro who is married and soon to be a father built a high-performance, two-seater composite aircraft that has been showcased in a Toyota television commercial and featured on the cover of two aviation journals. All those traits helped the two land their coveted jobs. "We look for a good mix of good academics, good relatable work experience and outside activities, and both of these folks fit the bill on all those accounts," said Duane Ross, chief of NASA's astronaut selection office at JSC Vast experience in shuttle operations, however, likely gave both Higginbotham and Caldeiro an edge over other finalists. With an ambitious plan to build a $40 billion international space station looming, Ross and other NASA officials said the agency is looking for engineers with experience in day-to-day shuttle fleet operations.

"With the space station assembly and initial operations coming up over the next six to eight years, what the people in Houston need is people with good solid operational experience," KSC Director Jay Honeycutt said. "And that's what we've got down here." The two NASA engineers are only the second and third KSC employees to be singled out for astronaut training. Former Lockheed Space Operations Co. engineer Kay Hire who in 1993 became the first woman to serve in a U.S. Navy combat air squadron started the trend in 1994.

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