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Thursday November 21, 2002 Page A2 -The Sentinel Pennsylvania Curses Fined again! ataractics task force formed EASTON (AP) One of the first things the new head of the Northampton County's Department of Community and Economic Development implemented was a no-cursing policy. Drew Lewis, who took over the department in October, calls the policy "a presentation thing." "It's a personal thing for the way I would like us to present in the office, primarily driven by my Christian values," he said. Curses are ranked by severity. A stray "damn" costs 25 cents, while nastier four-letter words cost $1. The money is being used to pay for the office Christmas lunch.

Administration Director James Hickey says he has been one of the most reliable contributors. "I usually put in money in advance," Hickey said. "If I know a bad day is coming up, I'll put in $20." something we'd like to see," Lukens said. Study by Pew The task force of doctors, hospital executives, insurers, trial lawyers and patient advocates is chaired by Villanova law professor Abraham Gafni. The group will collaborate with health-law expert Dr.

William Sage, who is directing a $3.2 million Pew Charitable Trust study of the problem. Nine companies have stopped writing medical malpractice insurance in Pennsylvania in the past three years. the Legislature about, on an interim basis, allowing them to practice without coverage." Schweiker did not favor letting doctors practice without coverage, spokesman Michael Lukens said. And legislators wouldn't approve it, said Steve Miskin, spokesman for House Majority Leader John M. Perzel, R-Philadelphia.

"It's been ruled out," he said. Rendell spokesman Ken Snyder later said Rendell knew the idea would draw opposition from hospitals. Suspending catastrophic fund payments is more likely, Miskin and Lukens said. "It's before he becomes governor. "The short-term relief is on the way," Rendell told a news conference.

Emergency relief Rendell said he and Schweiker discussed possible emergency actions to provide relief before the end of the year, because many doctors face cancelation of their malpractice policies on Jan. 1. Rendell said possibilities included suspending doctors' required payments into a state catastrophic fund and also referred to "discussions with PHILADELPHIA (AP) -Gov. -elect Ed Rendell said he and Gov. Mark Schweiker have discussed drastic short-term steps to attack Pennsylvania's medical malpractice crisis, possibly letting doctors suspend payments to a state insurance fund in order to ease their financial bind.

Rendell announced a special task force Wednesday to look into soaring rates that have prompted some doctors to leave the state and some hospitals to consider cutting back services. He wants short-term recommendations by Jan. 20, the day News briefs Racist groups recruiting women Alleged beating of trooper to trial HARRISBURG Three men have will stand trial on charges they tried to kill a state trooper during an undercover drug sting. Israel Marcucci, 15, Wilberto Rodriguez, 16, and Lawrence Storm, 20, all of Harrisburg, were being held in Dauphin County Prison on charges including robbery, conspiracy to attempted homicide. Trooper Timothy Longenecker said he was undercover and buying drugs from Storm in a van on Sept.

13 when Storm suddenly pulled out a gun and demanded Longenecker hand over his wallet, which had his police badge inside. "I didn't know how he'd react. I thought he'd probably shoot me," Longenecker testified. He said he forced Storm's gun into the air, pressed his gun to Storm's chest and pulled the trigger but it didn't fire. As the trooper and Storm struggled, Longenecker said he was dragged out and beaten in the street by Rodriguez and another person, who police say was Marcucci.

When Longenecker got up and prepared to fire his gun, he said, the teens ran. Monroe County doctors protesting STROUDSBURG Physicians throughout Monroe County will close their offices next week to protest the soaring malpractice insurance rates they say are forcing them to leave the state. The local medical society is planning the "emergency conference" which will include a four-hour meeting of doctors and others in Stroudsburg on Tuesday, when the doctors will close for the day. "We are trying to show people what it would be like if there were no doctors," said Dr. Natalie Falanga, president of the Monroe County Medical Society.

"Practically all of the doctors' offices in the county will be closed." The emergency department at Pocono Medical Center will be open and staffed, and doctors will do their regular rounds visiting hospitalized patients. Man returned for arraignment STATE COLLEGE A man accused of stealing $700 from his parents' bank accounts shortly after they were killed was returned to central Pennsylvania from a New York City psychiatric facility for an arraignment. Daniel J. OpdenhofT, 24, the son of former State College Area School District Superintendent William Opdenhoff, 56, and his wife, Georgeann, 54, had been in an unidentified psychiatric ward in New York since Oct. 25.

Opdenhoff a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic who was shackled at the waist, wrists and ankles during Wednesday's proceeding was charged with multiple counts of unlawful use of a computer, identity theft, receiving stolen property and related charges. He was committed to Centre County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail. lun mmt(t ing such tracts as Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf and "White Power" by George Lincoln Rockwell. "I stay in because I love it. I believe in it," she said.

"I love my friends but that's not why I'm here. I can make friends at a local bridge club." Courtney said she is treated as an equal by male members and believes she can walk away from the group without fear of reprisal. She said she's going to college to be a history teacher so she can give back to the community and spend time with her family. Courtney predicted that while more women have been joining the movement, the groups will remain dominated by men. She estimated that 30 percent of Aryan Nations' members are female.

"I don't think women tend to be as political," she said. "I'm happy to be there, but I'm not going to push anybody into it." Courtney resembled the women interviewed by Blee in that they defy stereotypes of racist people, such as those with few friends. Blee said most of the women had good jobs, received an education and had stable families. "It's very disturbing. We're talking about average white Americans ending up very violent people," Blee said.

Potok, who agreed with Blee's findings, pointed to this week's arrest of one of the founders of Women for Aryan Unity as a sign of women emerging in racist groups. Christine Greenwood, 28, was charged along with two other men in California in connection with a violent plot. "Women are promised leadership and told their ideas will be respected, but the reality is, they're still expected to make lunch," Blee said. PITTSBURGH (AP) White supremacist groups are increasingly recruiting women because they tend to be overlooked by police and are less likely to leave the groups than are men, according to research by a University of Pittsburgh sociologist. But while many groups tout equality and respect, the leadership of such groups remains dominated by males, said Kathleen Blee, who studied women's emerging role in such groups in her latest book, "Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hale Movement." "It's a scary idea; they're building a movement with durability," Blee said.

The sociology professor interviewed 34 women of various ages in the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi groups and so-called Christian identity groups. Blee said she decided to look into today's makeup of such groups after writing a Pulitzer Prize-nominated book about women in the Klan in the 1920s. Women bring in family members She found that white women are increasingly being recruited into the white supremacist movement as a way for groups to remain discreet, and found the groups use women to help build a wider base by reaching out to their husbands, boyfriends and children. "They're being manipulated," said Mark Potok, spokesman for the Southern Poverty Law Center. "Bring in the pretty girls and the men will follow.

It's not so easy to put a swastika on a guy's forearm and get him to chant 'Death to the While Potok said there's no way to count the number of women in racist groups, he agrees with Blee's estimate that the number of women in some groups now range 25 to 50 percent of the membership. Blee found that women tend to join not Kathleen Blee because they subscribe to racist or anti-Semitic ideology, as men do, but for personal reasons. They will befriend a member of such a group, often without knowing it, and slowly begin to subscribe to the group's beliefs in a cult-like fashion, she said. May disagree but stay in group And because the bond is based on relationships, a small number of women may even remain in the group despite differing beliefs. "A number of women simply ignore the parts they don't want to hear.

They'll tell me they take their kids to Jewish doctors, have abortions and let their kids play with African-American kids," Blee said. A woman who would only identify herself as Courtney and described herself as a 23-year-old member of the Aryan Nations said no one recruited her; rather, she said, she was drawn torfhe group through read- A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Wednesday in Bellefonte. ms r.fr'w? mi By The Associated Press is Lottery I SL Senate approves Sunday liquor sales Wednesday's Daily Number: 376 Big 3331 Pennsylvania Cash 5: 13, 17, 22, 24, 31 Powerball: 14,21,22, 29, 44 Powerball: 3 Power Play: 3 Two players matched all five winning numbers drawn in Wednesday's "Pennsylvania Cash 5" game and will each receive $122,689. Lottery officials said 206 players matched four numbers and won $285 each; 6,873 players matched three numbers and won $9 each; and 71,961 players matched two numbers and won $1 each. The Powerball prize will go to an estimated $52 million for Saturday.

Sen. Joe Conti, R-Bucks, who proposed the amendment. "It's an effort to offer to the people of Pennsylvania enhanced service on Sundays." Opponents of the provision failed to pass two amendments, one effectively killing the project and the other prohibiting Sunday sales in Philadelphia. "I don't know of one consti-tutent who has called me and HARRISBURG (AP) Sunday alcohol sales would be allowed at up to 10 percent of the 650 state-owned liquor stores in Pennsylvania under a bill approved by the state Senate late Wednesday night. The provision allowing the Sunday sales for a two-year test period was contained in an amendment to a state liqusr code bill that was sent to the House of Representatives.

The amendment was approved 26-23 before the bill passed 28-21. The House on Monday approved its own version of the pilot project sought by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. However, the Senate did not act on that bill but added its own version to the liquor code bill. "It really is a continuation of the modernization of the state stores in Pennsylvania," said said, VI need the state stores open on said Sen. Gibson E.

Armstrong, R-Lan-caster. "The one thing we don't need in Pennsylvania is more consumption of alcohol. I think it's a bad amendment." Senators also rejected a proposal by Sen. Robert J. Mellow, D-Lackawanna, the Senate minority leader, to place lottery machines in each of the state liquor stores.

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