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Other news to note Compiled from wire reports A-1 4 The Orlando Sentinel, Thursday, August 1 1 1 994 took over as the president of the world's largest legal group Wednesday. He referred to an editorial by Burger in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal that says the ABA should stick to matters relating to the practice of law. "He and I on this issue flat-out disagree," said Bushnell, who is a subject of controversy for his support of the decriminalization of drugs. Girl taken hostage wrecks car captor kills himself DARDANELLE, Ark. A 17-year-old girl taken hostage by an escaped prisoner deliberately crashed a car Wednesday when he ordered her to take the wheel as police began chasing them.

The man killed himself as officers closed in. Lindsey Michelle Dye of Batesville, fastened her seat belt to prepare for the crash and was unharmed when her more than 12-hour ordeal ended shortly after midnight. The inmate, Kelly W. Drott, had escaped from a Louisiana prison Sunday, 1piiiiglllMIWIWi Eii iui MM iiipimm. npi mil H.JII limn I if -v j''f''-'Xfm.

"x4. ''I I AtP iC I If "1 vXv'l 11: I I 1 f. 1, Si i T. Planned Parenthood clinic damaged several businesses in an office complex Wednesday. No one was injured.

The FBI, federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and state fire marshal's of? fice were investigating the early-morning fire. Planned Parenthood officials said they had no immedi ate indication it was set. The of? fice was a federally subsidized family-planning clinic that has never provided abortions. It has operated in Brainerd for more than 20 years, said Tom Webber, executive director of the state Planned Parenthood group. The clinic has been the site of occasional picketing but never any violence.

Planned Parenthood plans to move the clinic. Divers try to gauge fuel left in barge that sank in '42 CLEVELAND The Coast Guard and contract divers begarr measuring the amount of fuel oil Tuesday that remains in a barge that sank in Lake Erie 52 years ago, officials said. The barge, the Cleveco, lies about 13 miles off Cleveland in water 72 feet The 260-foot barge was en route from Toledo, Ohio, to Cleveland when it went down in a blizzard in1 December 1942, the Coast Guard said. Divers plugged a leak ih' July, the Coast Guard said. The Cleveco, which is upside down and covered with zebra had been leaking one ounce every" 13 minutes, and officials said they do not know how much of barge's original cargo of 1 million' gallons of fuel oil remains.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Henry Alarmclock reads poetry at Smiley's Laundro- night reading. These twentysomethings are walking mat in Denver to a group gathered for a Tuesday in the footsteps of the Beat poets of the 1950s. Poets make art amid fluff and fold Hallucinogenic mushrooms big draw in Georgia area LIZELLA, Ga. A group of local residents is calling a meeting tonight to ask Bibb County deputies to stop trespassers who have come to pick hallucinogenic mushrooms. Deputies will attend the meeting to address the residents' concerns and to discuss patrols in the area, said a Bibb County sheriffs major.

Apparently, the mushrooms are plentiful this year. A landowner in Li-zella said an increasing number of people have been coming onto private property to collect wild psilocybin mushrooms. Rain and flooding hit the area several weeks ago. "We have had problems out in this area every year during springtime with little kids coming out looking for mushrooms," said Debra Bryant of Lizella. "We have had kids come all the way from Atlanta." S.

Carolina governor race: Runoffs set for Aug. 23 Runoffs are necessary in South Carolina's gubernatorial race and will be held Aug. 23. No candidate in either party got a majority in Tuesday's primary voting. In other results of Tuesday's primaries, Republicans nominated millionaire candidates to challenge Democratic Govs.

Roy Romer in Colorado and Zell Miller in Georgia. Former state Rep. David Beasley led the race for the GOP nomination for South Carolina governor, and retiring four-term Rep. Arthur Ravenel was second. On the Democratic side, Lt.

Gov. Nick Theodore fell 1,700 votes short of a majority with a quarter of a million votes cast. He will face Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley who got 38 percent of the vote in a four-person field. ABA president disagrees with chief justice on stands NEW ORLEANS The head of the American Bar Association on Wednesday attacked former U.S.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger's statements that the group has no business taking stands on issues like abortion and gun control. George Bushnell Jr. of Detroit ASSOCIATED PRESS Police capture 4 convicts in 2 separate Jail breaks HARTFORD, Conn. Freedom proved fleeting for four convicts fleeing from two separate Connecticut jail breaks as police, acting on anonymous tips, caught all of them within hours, authorities said Wednesday. Two female inmates of the Niantic Correctional Center were picked up Tuesday on Interstate 95 after a man using a car phone called police to say he had seen two odd-looking women.

Two male escapees of the minimum-security prison in Somers, were caught in Massachusetts Tuesday after eight hours of freedom. dye and berets. One wears a neon orange cap with a Tide logo on it and more than a few are decked out in mismatched thrift-store finds. As the night goes on, one poet laments the rogue she loves to hate; another curses his uncle's flea-bitten dog. A 4-year-old with his mother on laundry night sings "Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star." The newsletter Poesis lists some 45 venues in Denver and Boulder offering everything from lesbian and cowboy poetry to a reading of works by the late Colorado Poet Laureate Thomas Hornsby Ferrill.

And there are the many casual, come-as-you-are open readings and workshops at coffeehouses around town. Some of the readings are raucous "poetry slams." Part performance and part Gong Show, these sessions feature judges giving scores based on their own fickle vibes and on audience response. Heckling is strongly encouraged. "Please do not applaud a mediocre poem," said emcee Mari Christie at a recent slam at the Mercury Cafe. At these gatherings, the poet faces howling, whistling patrons clanking their beer bottles and DENVER On some nights at Smiley's Laundromat on Denver's East Colfax Avenue, you can hear poetry over sloshing suds and the spin cycle.

As feedback squeals through an amplifier, a dozen would-be poets lean against vibrating washers, dragging on cigarettes and waiting to step up to the mike. "I'm glad all of you could make it out," says Cameron Walter, 19, host of the Tuesday night readings. A few bemused bystanders in the busy laundromat stop folding clothes to look. They might not know it, but they are seeing poetry in its newest form young, hip and happening in unlikely places. Poetry is everywhere you turn these days a few verses taped to a lamppost, shouted in cafes, on MTV and in the staid Denver Press Club.

While the packaging may be different, these "Generation poets most of them under 30 and fed up with packaged entertainment are walking in the footsteps of the Beat poets of the 1950s. The poets tonight are black-clad in faux fur, tie- $10 million lawsuit filed in taped police beating LOS ANGELES The lawyer for a Hispanic youth whose beating by a police officer was captured on videotape filed a $10 mil-' lion civil rights lawsuit Wednesday. Attorney Humberto Guizar filed the suit on behalf of 17-year old Felipe Soltero and his mother, Enriqueta de la Cruz, against the city of Compton, the officer involved, Officer Michael Jackson, and Compton Police Chief Hourie Taylor. Jackson is black, but Gui-zar said he did not think it was a racial issue. Hispanics in Compton, 10 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, have held rallies branding the attack as racist.

committed suicide three years after he shot her, leaving her partially blind and paralyzed. Prosecuting Charles Peterson for murder could not be justified because too much time had passed between the night in August 1990 he wounded Suzanne Rubin and the day in December 1993 she fatally shot herself, District Judge Ronald Reagan ruled. Peterson is now serving 23 to 55 years in prison for the 1990 shooting. It was the second time a judge has dismissed a murder charge in the case. Fire at family clinic spreads to other offices in complex BRAINERD, Minn.

A fire that apparently started in a Man avoids murder charge a 2nd time in wife's suicide PAPILLION, Neb. A judge Wednesday threw out a murder charge against a man whose wife her when he was governor of Arkansas and asked that her complaint be dismissed at least until after he leaves office. An active civil damage lawsuit against a president would compromise the authority and dignity of the office, said Robert Bennett, the president's personal attorney. 1 .1 5 li-S'l of allegations that he illegally accepted gifts from people doing business with his department. "All of this can be explained," Espy said on his way to a conference.

He declined to give details in his defense because the case is pending. Attorney General Janet Reno asked a three-judge panel Tuesday to appoint a special counsel to complete a Justice Department investigation of Espy's corporate contacts. The investigation focuses on trips Espy took to Arkansas in May 1993, when he stayed at a facility of the Arkansas-based poultry giant Tyson Foods Inc. after a speech to a poultry group and flew to Washington on a company jet; and to Texas in 1994, when he sat in the Tyson skybox during a football game. Clinton claims immunity in Paula Jones' lawsuit President Clinton claimed presidential immunity Wednesday in asking a federal judge to dismiss a former state employee's sexual harassment lawsuit against him.

The judge did not immediately rule. In documents filed in U.S. District Court in Little Rock, Clinton denied allegations by Paula Corbin Jones that he made unwanted sexual advances toward Starr promises to make his own judgments in case The new independent counsel said Wednesday he would make his own judgments on all aspects of the wide-ranging Whitewater affair but promised to build on his predecessor's work. In his first public statement since a three-judge panel named him Friday to replace Robert Fiske, Kenneth Starr said, "It is my intent to build upon Mr. Fiske's investigation and the considerable work he and his team have undertaken." However, he added "at the same time, the appointing court's order requires that I make an independent judgment as to the matters involved in this investigation.

I will fulfill that duty." Democrats have criticized Starr as too partisan, and Clinton's private lawyer has suggested he ought to voluntarily refuse the position. Espy says he can explain charges of taking gifts Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy expressed confidence Wednesday that he will be cleared ASSOCIATED PRESS A Russian member of the U.N. peacekeeping force Wednesday patrols a weapons collection center in Bosnia just west of Sarajevo. U.N. general warns both sides in Bosnia Spy building was no CIA, Pentagon officials say The CIA and the Pentagon in- sisted Wednesday that they had fully disclosed to Congress the construction of a $310 million! headquarters for the agency thatj operates the government's spy sat- ellites.

The National Reconnais-j sance Office submitted documents1 to the Senate Intelligence Commit-3 tee showing that the administra-f tion had provided specifics on the planning, construction and cost of; the buildings to Congress on a least nine occasions since 1990, But despite the unusual public dis- play of previously secret conflicts and details, senators continued to complain that they had been kepi in the dark. And CIA Director Jirn Woolsey acknowledged at a hear- ing before the Senate panel than the costs of the headquarters! hadn't been spelled out as clearly! as they should have been. Iran denounces allegations by Argentina in bombing UNITED NATIONS Iran late Wednesday denounced as groundless Argentine allegations against four Iranians sought in a deadly anti-Jewish bombing last month in Buenos Aires. In a statement released by its U.N. mission, Iran demanded that Argentina "present any evidence andor documents it possesses concerning the unfounded allegations against the four Iranian nationals." It said the four would file a defamation suit to clear their names.

Argentine President Carlos Menem Wednesday threatened to expel Iranian ambassador Habi Soleiman Pour for Iran's alleged role in the bombing. Iran's statement came hours after Argentina hauled in Iran's envoy in Buenos Aires to notify him that a worldwide manhunt was on for four Iranian diplomats wanted in the bombings. Dominican president OKs plans for new elections SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic President Joaquin Bala-guer, accused of fraud in his May re-election, made a rare nationwide appearance with his top rival Wednesday to announce they agreed to new elections next year. Under the agreement, Balaguer is to be sworn in as president Tuesday. The candidate elected Nov.

16, 1995, would take office the following February to serve the remainder of his four-year term. His top opponent in the May election, Jose Francisco Pena Gomez, contended 200,000 people were blocked from voting. German police act to block far-right rallies for Hess BONN, Germany German police are coordinating action to prevent far-right extremist rallies planned this weekend on the anniversary of the death of Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess, a state government minister said Wednesday. Herbert Schnoor, interior minister of North-Rhine Westphalia state, said the action plan was SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina The commander of United Nations troops in Bosnia threatened to call in NATO airstrikes against Serbs and Muslims Wednesday unless they stop fighting in a weapons exclusion zone around Sarajevo. It was the first time the Muslim-led Bosnian army has been threatened with NATO airstrikes, and UN.

special envoy Yasushi Akashi urged both sides to stop fighting and get back to the negotiating But as his appeal was issued Serbs and Muslims traded more than 400 mortar and artillery rounds in and around the 12-mile weapons exclusion zone, prompting the U.N. commander, Lt. Gen. Michael Rose of Britain, to issue his threat. NATO warplanes have attacked Serb targets three times.

The most recent strike was Friday when they knocked out a Bosnian Serb antitank gun to punish the Serbs for seizing heavy weapons from a U.N. compound in Sarajevo. for Christian unity and the dramatic reforms in Ro-1 man Catholicism. ALBERT NICKERSON agreed in a meeting between police and state and federal governments about a week ago. Hess hanged himself in Berlin's Span-dau jail in 1987 and has since become a symbolic figure for II GEORGE W.

CORNELL Cornell, dean of American religion writers daring the more than four decades he covered the beat for The Associated Press, died Wednesday in New York. He was 74. Cornell had suffered from heart problems the past two years. Born July 21, 1920, in Weatherford, Cornell was a graduate of the University of Oklahoma. He joined the AP in' New York in October 1947 as a general assignment reporter.

When he began specializing in religion coverage in 1951, his columns were the first on the subject carried on a regular basis by a news wire service. He won virtually every award offered for journalistic excellence in the field of religion and wrote a half-dozen books. Among the major stories he covered were the mid-century rise of the ecumenical movement Wednesday. Dylan and Caitlin Thomas spent most of their turbulent, drunken and penurious marriage in this tiny town, the model for his world-famous play for voices, Under Milk Wood. More than 1,000 people attended the ceremony at St.

Martin's Church. Caitlin Thomas, who was living in Sicily with former actor Giuseppe Fazio before she died last week at the age of 80, wrote after Dylan's death in New York in 1953: "I can't decide now if I liked the bloody man all his betrayals and weaknesses." Nickerson, who began his career in the oil business as a service station attendant and rose to become chairman and chief executive officer of Mobil died Sunday in Cambridge, Mass. He was 83. Nickerson began working at a Socony gasoline station in 1933 and became president of the company in 1955. He was its chairman and CEO from 1958 to 1969, during which time the company changed its name to Mobil.

He also served as chairman of the board from 1961 to 1969. Nickerson also served as di Widow of Dylan Thomas buried by his side in Wales LAUGHARNE, Wales Caitlin Thomas, widow of the poet Dylan, was laid to rest alongside her husband in the local churchyard here rector and later chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. I 1.