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"After I got married and had a little one it helped a whole lot but it's still in the back of your memory especially not knowing nothing" of how his mother was killed. been held since August in the Bannock County Jail in connection with the homicide of a 13-year-old girl. In his statement to police, Wood recounted how he abducted Coleman from a parking lot on the corner of Jewella and Greenwood Road and drove her car out to the woods near the General Electric Industrial Park. He described how he raped Coleman in the back seat before killing hen "I told her come out here in the woods and I'm gonna let ya go and you can find your way back to the road here. And uh, walked her out there and shot her in the back of the head." Eve 1976.

Five years later, Shirley Coleman's skeletal remains, a leather coat, a shoe and a bra were discovered by hunters in an area near Woolworth Road. A hole the size of a bullet was found in her skull. James Wood confessed to the murder to police in Pocatello, a town of about 45,000 in the southeastern part of Idaho. He admitted to the Coleman murder and several similar crimes. A native of Florida, Wood lived in Shreveport for a number of years and worked as a driver for Patrick Industries.

He went to Idaho to visit relatives, and has Ex-Shreveporter being held in Idaho in different murder case. By CHRISTY NEMETZ The Times A murder mystery that has perplexed Caddo Parish investigators for nearly two decades may have been solved in Idaho. A 47-year-old former Shreve-porter has told police in Pocatello, Idaho, that he raped and murdered a 33-year-old mother of four who was last seen shopping for presents on Christmas never figured they 'd find her." James Wood, murder suspect The Pocatello Police Department has contacted the Caddo Parish Sheriffs Office about Wood's confession, Pocatello Police Chief Lynn Harris said Monday. Sheriff Don Hathaway said he had no knowledge of the crime or the confession. The murder predates his term in office.

"Once we are officially made aware of this we probably will 3 'Please go to sleep in heaven.3 Vi Weihua Wu, Fang Yang's roommate at Monday's memorial POLITICS: Sen. Bob Pack-wood, accused of sexual harassment, fought a subpoena for his personal diaries Monday amid a Senate debate that lasted seven hours. Page 2A DEATH: Paramedics at the scene with River Phoenix before he died were told the actor had been taking drugs. Page 3A POLITICS: Oklahoma's Gov. David Walters, who has faced calls for his impeachment, said he won't seek re-election.

Page 6A COURTS: The Supreme Court agreed to set new boundaries for its landmark Miranda ruling on the rights of criminal suspects. Page 6A COURTS: Two 11 -year-old boys began their trial in England Monday. They are charged with the murder of a 2-year-old boy taken from a crowded shopping mall. Page 7A SOMALIA: American reinforcements moved into their new home in Mogadishu, a featureless sprawl of desert scrub dubbed Victory Base. Page7A Beard axes riverboat design panel Five of committee's 10 members met with Harrah's Monday.

By JENNIFER RAMPEY The Times Mayor Hazel Beard will no longer rely on her design review committee to evaluate Harrah's-Shreveport Casino's plan for the city-owned riverfront The mayor, who postponed a committee meeting last week because of controversy over whether it should be open to the public, decided "final approval (of design plans) will be made by staff," said Stephanie Edmiston, Beard's communications director. Beard was unavailable for comment on Monday. Five of the 10-member committee met behind closed doors Monday with Harrah's general manager Anthony If rrT A-ii i Vn i I'-; V'-A I I V- vl, Wv-i i a tV' I- 5 JjT. i '3 Sanfilippo to review the $40 million-plus project, from the controversial steel holding basin to landscaping. GAMBLING Sanfilippo said the meeting DETENTION: Caddo Parish commissioners say they are reluctant to close the parish's juvenile detention center and predict a 1995 tax referendum to raise the money to keep the 3-year-old facility open.

Page 1B FIRE: Shreveport fire investigators question students evacuated from the Shreveport Job Corps Center which was damaged in a weekend blaze. Page 1B Times photosWIIKE SILVA Fang Yanq's sister Lei Yang comforts her parents, Dr. Ni- Osborn Funeral Home at the end of the memorial service 1 anjun Huang and Dr. Zhengshi Yang, as friends file out of Monday for the medical school graduate student. Family, friends mourn student BUSINESS: Beginning this week, secret shoppers will be visiting area businesses to find out how hospitable employees are to Shreve-port-Bossier area visitors.

Page 8B wasn't intended to be a design review committee function or to circumvent an open meeting. "I hope I'm able to call citizens to my office to discuss what Harrah's is doing without having to make that public, too." City Attorney Jerry Jones has argued the mayoral committee is not subject to open meetings laws because it wasn't appointed by the City Council. However, a 1989 attorney general's opinion indicates mayoral committees must meet publicly. "Had we known or even suspected a full committee meeting was being convened, we might well have opted not to go," said member Charles Kirkland, executive director of the Metropolitan Planning Commission, who was joined by MPC commissioner Wendell Collins. Committee member Carolyn Dowling chose not to attend Monday's meeting.

"I will only attend an official design review committee meeting that complies with the open meeting laws," she said. "I think it was an opportunity for the citizens to have information on the riverfront." But the mayor's decision to shelve the committee makes the matter moot. Edmiston said a separate group the riverfront executive committee has been the formal channel for receiving public comment. liked LSU Medical School graduate student drew nearly 200 mourners family, classmates, faculty, acquaintances. Yang's parents looked on from the front row, still trying to fathom the tragedy and finally collapsing into tears at the end.

Their daughter was found dead a week ago after falling 10 stories from Shreveport's Biomedical Research Institute. Police believe she fought with her attacker, scratching him in a rooftop struggle: Please see STUDENT, Page 2A By LARRY BURTON The Times Her picture was draped in black lace, as is Chinese custom. Mourners were handed white flowers to wear, another funeral tradition in her native land. Poems in bold Chinese script hung from the chapel walls. One passage, described how the whole world will cry over the death of Fang Yang, 26.

Monday's funeral here for the well- AREA COLLEGES: Gambling, Louisiana Tech and Northeast Louisiana are still in the running for league football championships. PageIC PREP: Byrd High's win over Southwood helps them advance from No. 10 to No. 9 in the Associated Press Class 5A Louisiana High School Football Poll. Page 1C A banner hung over a photo of Fang Yang translates as 'Live White House salaries cause stir LSUS head John Darling in running for Florida job Lottery numbers Nov.

1, 1993 IP Haiti; did you see what Dee Dee makes? "It's going to be nasty," one middle-level aide said grimly after the Monday morning staff meet Mark Auburn, executive vice president at the University of Akron, and William Katzenmeyer, USF college of education dean. "I'm certain By DAVID WESTERFIELD The Times LSU in Shreveport Chancellor John Darling has reached the not-so-short list of finalists for the president's post at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Clinton's press secretary makes less than Gore's spokeswoman. By RON FOURNIER The Associated Press WASHINGTON- Tense whispers and the indignant crackling of Page A15 of The Washington Post broke the morning quiet at the White House. Salaries of nearly every LOUISIANA PICK THREE Itffl TEXAS PICK THREE Of eight only two were dropped from consideration by the university's board of regents Monday.

The other six three men and three women will ly pleased to still be under consideration. It's an honor," said Darling, 56. "That university is a superbly fine institution. We'll represent ourselves and LSU as best ings. In a comical understatement, White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said the list "has created a little curiosity." Her salary: $100,000.

1 gL Clinton's economic policy director, Wall Street millionaire Robert E. Rubin, makes $100,000, $5,000 less than his aide, Gene Sperling. Rubin, who originally was going to work for free, set his own salary and spread the extra salary dollars among his staff. Sandy Berger, the No. 2 man in the National Security Council, earns $110,000, and Gore's national security chief, Leon Fuerth, makes $119,500.

No matter how the salaries compare in Washington, there will be little sympathy from a general public with a median household income of $30,786. "I think it would cause discussion in any organization to have the salaries of everybody publicized," Myers said. "We've tried as best we can to see to it that everybody's salaries match their responsibilities. Nothing can be done perfectly." LOCAL SCHOOLS employee filled the page right there in boldface! If you listened hard, you Darling Myers BfflffltiLi could almost hear GOVERNMENT jaws drop. 1993 The Times Ann Landers 50 Money 8B Classified 5C Shemwold SD Comics Sports 1C Deaths 2B Television 60 Editorials 48 Tell The Times 50 Entertainment 3D Weather 2A undergo two days of interviews within the next few weeks.

Darling's strong points were his business background, international experience, work with the Legislature and academic credentials, USF officials said. "I thought he had a vision for the university," said David Schenck, dean of the Sarasota campus. A new president is expected to be named in December. Eliminated from the list were The list unveiled a White House pay scale that doesn't always make sense: Myers makes $19,500 less than Maria Rom ash did as spokeswoman for Vice President Al Gore, and $18,000 less than Rahm Emanuel, an aide in the communications operation. we can.

The president at USF will earn about $150,000. Darling earns $90,000 as LSUS chancellor. Darling came to Shreveport three years ago from Mississippi State University, where he was provost and vice president. He did not apply for the Florida job, but was nominated for it. 4Y0U An embarrass ment in any office, the publication of salaries angered some White House workers, embarrassed others, and was prime news inside the Beltway.

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