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The News-Leader NATION Saturday, December 5, 1987 6 A jt't v- i m' i 4f Ik. -f- ST, Ruling gives Bush chance to gain Michigan delegates 1 X. SJ? ta $S'Ak if fF Rep. Jack Kemp, upper right, gestures David Duke Friday during a brief shouting match toward fringe Democratic presidential candidate at the New Hampshire secretary of state's office. Kemp, fringe candidate clash over racism CAMPAIGN EIGHTY-EIGHT toward winning the most delegates in Michigan; our goal is to be No.

1 in Michigan," said Engler, the majority leader in the Michigan Senate. Boucher's ruling stems from a lawsuit filed by establishment Republicans many of whom support Bush's presidential candidacy. They contended the rule change violated state law and national party rules. "There seems to be no question here that state party rules are subordinate to national party rules" under state law, Boucher said. "It is simply unfair to change the rules unilaterally in the middle of the game." Attorney Donald Reisig wouldn't say whether the decision would be appealed or whether the State Committee would comply.

David McKeague, who represented pro-Bush forces, said the committee could do nothing but comply with Boucher's opinion. The Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. circuit judge ruled Friday that Michigan Republicans supporting presidential candidate Pat Robertson wrongly altered state GOP rules shutting out many backers Bush of Vice President George Bush from the state's delegate selection process. Kent County Circuit Judge George Boucher's ruling would revoke a change in party rules adopted in September by the GOP State Committee, which is now dominated by supporters of Robertson and Rep. Jack Kemp, If the decision survives an appeal, it would give Bush a clear shot at gaining a majority of Michigan's 77 delegates to the 1988 Republican National Convention.

"It's an excellent shot in the arm and it continues what has been a drumbeat of good news, said John Engler, one of four co-chairs of the Bush effort in Michigan. "It puts us further down the path said Friday that a reliable source in the state Office of Court Administration which is investigating the allegations read him portions of the trial transcript Wednesday night. "In the records, the judge says, when the defense attorney asked that the woman kneel on the floor during questioning, Quirk said. Quirk also said the tape was made Wednesday afternoon after a candidate to file, one minute after the filing period began at 8 a.m. Then came David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan official from New Orleans.

Duke, president of the National Association for the Advancement of White People, attended Kemp's news conference before holding his own. As Kemp was leaving, Duke approached him and demanded to know what he would do "to end the massive racial discrimination against white people in America." BRIEFLY Patrol ordered to catch St Louis road gunmen From Our Wire Services ST. LOUIS The Missouri Highway Patrol, under orders from Gov. John Ashcroft, is stepping up its efforts to catch gunmen who are firing on motorists in the St. Louis area.

Ashcroft in a news conference on Thursday called the nearly 20 sniper incidents since mid-October "a random attack against the social order." In St. Louis, police assigned more patrol cars to a section of Interstate 55 where two shootings were reported Wednesday. Police urged motorists who believe they have been the target of gunfire to report the incidents immediately. The shootings began in October and there has been one death. Senate unanimously passes veterans bill WASHINGTON The Senate voted 88-0 Friday to approve a veterans bill that includes cost-of-living increases in veterans compensation benefits and amendments providing for AIDS and drug abuse testing in VA hospitals.

The increase in benefits for veterans with service-connected disabilities matches the 4.2 percent increase given to Social Security recipients starting this month. Police shoot pit bull after killing of infant DETROIT A boxer-pit bull terrier killed a 2-week-old baby Friday, and police shot the family pet to death shortly afterward, authorities said. Brian Lillis died of head injuries suffered in the attack, reported shortly after 2 a.m., said Sgt. Chris Buck. The infant's 17-year-old brother and some younger children were home at the time of the mauling, but the victim's parents, whose were not identified, were not, Buck said.

No charges were filed. Elsewhere LOS ANGELES Mayor Tom Bradley on Friday signed an ordinance outlawing the sale and manufacture of realistic toy guns in the nation's second-largest city, but the ban won't take effect until after Christmas. WASHINGTON The Senate on Friday rejected legislation outlawing so-called "plastic guns" that can escape detection by metal detectors and X-ray security machines used in airports. WASHINGTON Sen. Strom Thurmond celebrated his 85th birthday a day early Friday, and the gifts included a pair of bright red boxer shorts and a "Spuds MacKenzie" beer mascot doll he recently criticized on the Senate floor.

Kemp, moving through a room crowded with reporters, said he was not a racist and did not appreciate the question. The two began shouting. "When are you going to end affirmative action, which is a racial program of discrimination against white people?" Duke asked. "I believe in equal opportunity for every man and every woman irrespective of color, race, creed or religion," Kemp shouted back and then left the room. attacked.

The woman said the judge had claimed it was the only way to prove the defendant's guilt. "She cried, she felt like slime, she was humiliated, she was degraded," Holtzman said. "When a victim alleges misconduct by a judge, should it be covered up? Is the district attorney supposed to keep it quiet?" Dennis Quirk, president of the state Court Officers Association. Judge forced woman tore-enact sex offense The Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. Republican Jack Kemp got in a shouting match over racism with a fringe candidate Friday after formally entering the New Hampshire presidential primary.

Rep. Kemp, was the first major candidate to pay his $1,000 and sign a declaration of candidacy, entering the state's leadoff primary next Feb. 16. Candidates have until 5 p.m. Dec.

18 to file. Anti-abortion Democrat Anthony Martin-Trigona was the first Prosecutor: The Associated Press NEW YORK A prosecutor has accused a judge of forcing the alleged victim in a sex case to get down on her hands and knees to re-enact the incident charges disputed by a court officers union and others in the case. Brooklyn District Attorney Elizabeth Holtzman charged that the incident occurred Sept. 28 before Civil Court Judge Irving W. Le-vine, who acquitted the defendant Fast-footed lizard court officer and the defense attorney stepped forward to dispute the allegations about the judge.

Kevin Dauernheim the court officer who was in the small anteroom during the questioning said the woman "was standing at all times." He said the judge got angry when attorney Paul Ascher asked that the woman kneel. Ascher agreed that he had asked the woman to kneel down, but that Levine refused to allow it. after a non-jury trial of sexual misconduct, a misdemeanor. Holtzman's office said the charges had been reduced from felony rape and robbery charges but declined to comment on why. On Wednesday, Holtzman released the audio portion of a videotaped sworn statement by the complainant in which the woman said the judge made her re-enact the crime in a small anteroom to show the position she was in when disrupts Florida school Model of Pennsylvania electric chair too tasteless for Christmas parade The Associated Press MAITLAND, Fla.

Students and teachers at Maitland Middle School watched aghast as a 4I-foot-long black lizard with yellow stripes scurried by their classrooms at lightning speed. "Stop your foolishness and get back to work," one disbelieving teacher told a student who reported the loose reptile, according to Principal Howard Fleming. A few minutes later, the teacher found out the student was right, Fleming said. The Nile monitor lizard, which resembles a small alligator, was apparently somebody's escaped pet that got loose in the covered walkways outside classrooms Wednesday afternoon, officials said. The reptile was pursued by about 20 police officers, firefighters, game officials and school employees who first trapped it with a tennis net against a fence.

In the struggle, the lizard broke free and streaked across the parking lot. As the volunteers pursued, the lizard rammed into another fence and the game control officers used a pole with a rope noose to snag it. It was only the second time in 12 years that Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission officials had seen one of the creatures loose in this area. Nile monitors have long sharp claws and a powerful bite that, although not poisonous, can cause infection. They eat mice, snakes, birds and frogs.

Although they are sold in pet stores, they are savage and virtually untamable, said a state game official, John Moran. The Associated Press PERKASIE, Pa. Santa Claus won't have to share a Christmas parade with a mock electric chair, parade officials have ruled. "Having an electric chair is tasteless for a Christmas parade," said James H. Dotzen-rpth of Hilltown.

Last year, Dotzenroth launched the first Pennridge Christmas parade and quashed the float plans earlier this week. Brenda L. Williams whose former husband is on Pennsylvania's death row was turned down Wednesday in her bid to have the mock chair in today's parade. But she still plans to march in the parade from Perkasie to her hometown of Sellers-ville with her son, Kenneth J. Williams 10, in her effort to convince people the boy's father, Kenneth Williams isn't a murderer.

But they have bowed to parade organizers, who shuddered at the thought of Santa Claus sharing the route with a float carrying a 6-foot-high wood and sheet metal model of Pennsylvania's electric chair. Williams said she and her husband were divorced before the 1983 slaying of an Ohio truck driver, for which Williams was convicted in 1985. Kenneth Williams is held in Lehigh County Prison in downtown Allentown, awaiting a hearing on a petition for a new trial. Brenda Williams said several jailhouse witnesses had testified a former inmate confessed to killing the truck driver. No place like home Woman returns from miserable Asian trip Robertson predictions Gannett News Service DES MOINES, Iowa Pat Robertson is scaling back estimates of his support in Iowa.

As recently as last month, the Republican presidential candidate and former Christian broadcaster was saying he could mobilize 70,000 people to support him at the Feb. 8 Republican caucuses. In fact, the Republican Party of Iowa was including that number in its projection of a record caucus turnout. In a visit to Des Moines Thursday, Robertson still insisted he can win, but he based that on the assumption that the caucus turnout will be exceptionally low. "The current political thinking is that there will probably be somewhere under 100,000 people turned out in total, and that maybe The Associated Press LAWRENCE, Kan.

Like Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz," Emily Hill has returned to Kansas, convinced after surviving a blizzard in Tibet and a rhinoceros attack in Nepal that there really is no place like home. "The thing I'm most excited to see is the hackberry tree in my back yard," the 19-year-old woman said Wednesday. "Simple things like that. It's nice to be home." Hill, a sophomore at Dartmouth College, is recuperating at her parents' home after suffering leg, chest and back wounds last month when a rhinoceros gored her in an animal preserve in Nepal. In October, Hill spent about a week snowbound with 40 tourists in a rusty and battered bus that The NevC vLeatkr (ISSN M93-M44) TO CALL US: (417) 816-1100 From anywhere In Missouri, call toll-free: For classified ads l-800-492-480( For subscriber services 1-800-492-480; To report local news: 834-1 126 CIRCULATION SERVICE 1.

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Griesy is one of four black students in the school, including his brother and sister, and said he believes he was a victim of racism. His girlfriend, ninth-grader Melissa Mattson, said she felt school officials thought "Phil had been forcing himself on me. They say I was trying to get away." That isn't true, she said; the two have been seeing each other for a couple of months. reduces for Iowa 44,000 to 45,000 would win," he said. "That's the current best thinking in the political camps." Party officials, however, disagreed.

"Robertson told you that?" asked Ronda Menke, executive director of the state Republican Party. "I would have no idea why he would say that," she said, "unless he is trying to lower the expectations, or unless he knows something about the weather we don't." Menke is projecting crowds totaling at Republican caucuses across the state. That is, she said, "if the weather is good. You always have to attach that caveat." The Iowa Poll shows Robertson's support in Iowa at just 8 percent, compared with 36 percent for Kansas Senator Robert Dole and "I kiss my boyfriend on the cheek every day, and I haven't gotten suspended," said Sue Ronning, a lOth-grader. "I've been warned millions of times for kissing or hugging or holding hands," said lOth-grader Tara Steinbach.

Some students skipped classes Wednesday and confronted school officials after Griesy, 16, was suspended. Principal Gordon Klein, who made the decision to punish Griesy, said that over the past several years three or four students had been suspended for violating the policy. stalled during a blizzard in the Tibetan Himalayas. She and two friends eventually hiked 60 miles in the snow to Katmandu and got help for the stranded travelers. Less than a month later, Hill was with a trained guide in the Chitwan National Park when the wild Indian rhinoceros, spooked by an elephant, attacked.

She required 60 stitches. "It was the worst experience of my life," she said. Hill said it was hard to believe that her odyssey is over. "I'm kind of in a fog right now," she said. "I have a real emotional attachment to my home and my family, but I have been gone so long, it's really hard to believe I'm finally home." Hemphill and Mclntyre were tried simultaneously by the same judge, but with separate juries.

Jurors got the cases Oct. 7, late in the afternoon, and deliberated for more than seven hours, said attorney Michael Johnson. At about 2 a.m., they were sent to a hotel for the night. They were awakened about 7:30 a.m. and driven back to the courthouse.

One jury reached a verdict about 1 p.m. and the other about two hours later. But within hours, Johnson said he got a call from a juror whom he would not identify. She was in a "hysterical state" and said she did not believe Hemphill was guilty and had agreed to the verdict because she wanted to go home, he said. Murder appeal linked to sleepy jurors Black pupil suspended for kissing white The Associated Press CHICAGO Attorneys for two men sentenced to life in prison for murder said Friday they'll appeal the convictions on grounds the jurors were too sleepy to render a fair verdict.

"At a certain point you're motivated more by the thought of getting home and having a hot shower than by a defendant that you don't know from a bag of hammers," said attorney Michael Johnson, who represented Joseph Hemphill, 48, of suburban Chicago. Hemphill and Winston Mcln-tyre, 24, of St. Louis, were sentenced to life imprisonment by Cook County Judge William Cousins for the March 6 murders of a man and a woman. The Associated Press TWO HARBORS, Minn. Nearly 100 high school students skipped class to protest the suspension of a black classmate for kissing his white girlfriend.

Students angered at the one-day suspension of llth-grader Phil Griesy say it raised questions about racism, sexism and the fairness of Two Harbors High's unwritten policy against kissing. Griesy'8 girlfriend was not punished, and some other students at the virtually all-white school say that while they've been scolded for publicly displaying affection, punishment is rare..