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A4 Wednesday, December 6, 1995 NATIOIXAL The Manhattan Mercury 1 ABC enters all-news business Associated Press better," CNN spokesman Steve Haworth said. ABC's announcement came a week after Murdoch, whose News Corp. Ltd. has a 24-hour news channel in Western Europe and it: i aEf ivU tremendous resources as the chief executive of a S9 billion-a-vear media conglomerate that "includes the Fox TV network, satellite TV services in Asia and Europe, newspapers, movies, book publishers and an on-line service. ABC executives, however, said they have an advantage over Murdoch because ABC has an established broadcast news organization and can combine the resources of ABC News and ABC-owned Worldwide Television News, an international news syn-dicator, while providing strong local news through ABC's affiliates.

Murdoch has "got to develop a domestic news organization before he can start thinking of cable," Arledge said. Murdoch's personal assistant in London said he could not immediately be reached for comment. ABC News produces television's top-rated evening newscast, "World News the top-rated Sunday panel, "This Week with David and Associated Press ABC executives Roone Arledge and Robert Iger discuss network's latest news venture Tuesday. satellite TV ventures in the Far East, said he planned a "really objective news channel" to compete with CNN, which he complained had become too liberal. Ted Turner said his network would squash Murdoch "like a bug." Murdoch brings with him Associated Press Mike Moore, editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, stands Does Doomsday Clock which the in plot t0 Tinish, attack publishes bimonthly NEW YORK ABC enters the 24-hour, all-news network business with the belief that if they build it you will watch.

ABC's top executives said Tuesday they will begin a "computerized, digital network" in early 1997, providing an alternative to the pioneer in the field, CNN. Media titan Rupert Murdoch and NBC also plan around-the-clock TV news. 'During the Gulf War, the Clarence Thomas hearings, the O.J. hearings, even though there was a 24-hour service, when we went on the air with those events, people found ABC," said ABC News President Roone Arledge. "I think the same thing will happen, only more so, when we're on 24 hours a day," he added.

The new service will offer a brand-name blend of global, national and local reports. CNN, which began in 1980 and is available in 60 million U.S. homes, took the news in stride. "The competition with them in 24-hour news will only make us ch Associated Press PULASKI, Tenn. The 14-year-old brother of a high school senior charged after a deadly 'rHT shooting spree a was arrestee: ior i I trying to recruit siuaenis 10 nn-ish the job his brother started," a prosecutor said.

Jeremy Rouse Jeremy Rouse apparently was angij in a i ins brother, 17-year-old Jamie, was arrested in the Nov. 14 shooting at Richland High School. A teacher and a student were killed and a teacher was wounded. "He apparently just loved his brother and was upset over Jamie's treatment," District Attorney General Mike Bottoms said Tuesday. Jeremy was arrested Monday and charged with solicitation to commit first-degree murder.

If oinsettios from 3.49 to $26.95 (DeCwery ftvoitoBU Ted Koppel's "Nightline." started." Jamie Rouse faces a Jan. 4 hearing on two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder. He has told police that he wanted to kill teachers because they harassed him and his grades were declining. The attempted murder charges stem from the teacher who was wounded and an assistant principal who was threatened during the attack. Jamie's best friend, Stephen Abbott, 17, who allegedly knew of the plan but did nothing to stop it, was also charged.

convicted, he could serve five years in a juvenile detention center. "He discussed what he intended to do and he approached some other students to help him," said Mike Chapman, a Giles County sheriffs investigator. The eighth-grader has not attended classes at the school in Lynnville, about 65 miles south of Nashville, since the shooting, Principal Wayne Hobbs said. Bottoms said Jeremy had been under suspicion for some time. "We felt he was not going to do it in the next couple of days but later," Bottoms said.

"He wanted to finish the job his brother had beside the Doomsday Clock. need reset? cessful U.S. hydrogen bomb test in late 1952. Changes in technology and the world's political climate moved the clock's hands 11 more times before 1991, when the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and announced further cuts in nuclear weapons. START pushed the clock back seven minutes to 17 minutes before midnight, five minutes behind the next closest setting.

"The Bulletin's primary concern was to keep people aware of the extraordinary dangers of a nuclear exchange between the United States and the then-Soviet Union. It was incredibly dangerous and it is not without its danger today," Rieser said. Among the issues being debated in resetting the clock are: nuclear proliferation; the risk of nuclear terrorism; keeping track of existing nuclear materials; dis-mantling nuclear arsenals; nuclear cleanup and the storage of nuclear waste. Associated Press CHICAGO To punctuate the Cold War's end fouryears ago, the hands on the Doomsday Clock were moved to their farthest point from midnight, the symbol of nuclear apocalypse. Now directors of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary of warning against the dangers of nuclear war, are wondering if they were too optimistic.

"WTiile we are back from the brink we are not out of the woods," said Leonard Rieser, a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and has headed the prestigious Bulletin's board since 1985. Pushed by the anniversary and the uncertain status of international relations, experts associated with the Bulletin are gathering this week to discuss whether to reset the clock. The clock was last reset in 1991, when the hands were moved back to 17 minutes to midnight. Past decisions on resetting the clock were made in private. This year, the experts have invited menu bers of the public to comment because the debate isn't as clear-cut, said Nancy Myers, executive director of the Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, ULTIMATECOLLECTION Missouri kills killer fresh Greens.

Wreaths 12" to 64" -7 VJ Bulletin. The bronze, 18-inch clock hangs in the Bulletin's headquarters on the University of Chicago campus and a likeness appears on the publication's cover. Its hour hand has always been positioned near midnight, symbolizing doomsday, and the minute hand is superimposed on a map of the world. In 1945, members of the Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic bombs starting in 1942, formed the Atomic Scientists of Chicago on the university's campus. On Dec.

10, 1945, that group published the first Bulletin, a six-page newsletter that warned of the millions of lives that would be lost in a nuclear attack on U.S. cities. "This catastrophe will be inevitable if we do not succeed in banishing war from the world," they wrote. In 1947, the Doomsday Clock debuted, set at seven minutes until midnight to symbolize the urgency of nuclear issues. Two years later, it was moved four minutes closer to midnight after the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb.

And in 1953, the hands moved the closest yet to midnight two minutes in reaction to the sue- After the execution, Department of Corrections spokesman Tim Kniest read a final statement from O'Neal: "Praise the Lord and the name of Jesus. I forgive everybody involved in this. Jesus is my Lord." Defense lawyer Michael J. Gorla claimed in appeals that the trial jury that sentenced O'Neal to death wasn't told that one of the prison guards who testified had been convicted of assault. An appeals court ruled the information would not have changed the trial's outcome.

O'Neal's execution was the third this week; the other two were in Florida. In Starke, on Tuesday morning, child killer Phillip Atkins died in the electric chair after his lawyers failed to convince authorities that the machine malfunctioned during an execution the previous day. 8 niuo A fttftthat will be remembered all Here's the secret 55 gift subscription 2 -give a 2 of The a Ml Micky Mouse other Flogs Decorative Oircl Houses, Gazing Dolls Fresh Cut Cdljrtstmas Trees 4 m. Z. Living aUjrtBtmsa I rees ii 'bj um wsum wrnmm Festival of Holiday Music Associated Press POTOSI, Mo.

A reputed white supremacist who stabbed a black prisoner to death with a homemade ice pick was executed by injection early this morning as he clutched a Bible to his chest. Robert Earl O'Neal 34, was executed after a last-minute appeal was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court. At the time of the slaying in 1984, O'Neal was serving a life sentence for murdering a 78-year-old man during a burglary. Officials said O'Neal was involved with the Aryan Brotherhood, a supremacist group.

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