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2A The Paducah Sun Friday, September 1995 New TV station in Murray Sunday afternoon 1 vi signs on Continued from 1A Parker has plans for further investment. WQTV, which will cover a 30- to 35-mile radius and operate 24 hours a day, will be added to most cable systems in the market within 30 days, Parker said. It is affiliated with the WB Network and will feature many children's programs, movies and sports, but the focus is on local programming. Viewers can expect to see such things as Murray State University's Homecoming Parade, Tater Day in Benton, the famous fish fry in Paris, and lots of local sports. "I think it's the wave of the future that small markets like Murray and Mayfield are going to have their own television stations to bring local things to people," he said.

"There still will be the market for the large stations that cover multi-states and do the things that they do best, but I think it's like newspapers or radio (stations) every little community now is in a position to support these kinds of activities. So we think it's a good project from a community prospective as well as a good Associated Pre si Amy Devine, co-founder of the Citizens Project, rests against a stone wall at the Garden of the Gods park in Colorado Springs, Colo. Devine and her husband formed a group three years ago to counter what she viewed as the Christian right's growing intolerance toward non-traditional cultural issues. Liv Neurologist accused of plot to kill over reference letter Some ride the conservative tide; others determined to fight it BY STEVI BAKER ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE, Tenn. Security cameras in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center parking garage spotted Dr.

Ray Mettetal in a wig, false beard and shoes with lifts. In the pocket of the neurologist's padded trenchcoat was a large syringe that investigators say contained a lethal solution of salt water and boric acid. Mettetal, police say, was bent on revenge: He was put to kill the department chairman whose refusal to write him a letter of recommendation more than 10 years ago destroyed his dream of becoming a brain surgeon. Mettetal, 44, faces a preliminary hearing Friday on charges of attempted murder. If convicted, he could get up to 25 years in prison.

He has been held without bail since his arrest Aug. 22 by campus police who had been monitoring the garage's security cameras and got suspicious because of his shabby cover local sports events. The station's first newscast will be at 6 p.m. on Sept. 11.

Parker termed WB an emerging network. "This is their second season. They are programming a lot of children's programs Saturday morning anu eacn murmng, Monday through Friday." The network also has an hour of children's programs each weekday afternoon. Parker plans to have WQTV play a strong role in community service events. "When it comes to smaller telethons and things that local organizations do.we would like to be involved in those types of activities, and we hope our high scnooi coacnes win De participants in some type of televised coach's shows." The station will feature new and different programs than previously seen in the market, such as Fantasy Football.

"It's big on the West Coast," Parker said. "It's where people get to buy, sell, trade and manage their own professional team. It's sort of a fantasy, though, so they call it Fantasy Football." Parker said getting ready to put the station on the air has meant lots of work, "but it's going to be fun." for being a neurologist, a doctor who also treats brain problems but can't operate. At Vanderbilt, Mettetal was a neurology resident from 1981 to 1983 and a neurosurgery resident in 1983-84. He did another year of neurology residency in 1986-87.

Dr. Randall Blouin, who was a neurology resident with Mettetal in 1981-83, said Mettetal had been told by Allen's predecessor that he could get into neurosurgery if he first did a residency in neurology. But Allen, who became department head in 1983, refused to be bound by that promise, reevaluated his residents and refused to write a letter of recommendation for Mettetal, effectively ending his chances of getting into the neurosurgery program at Vanderbilt, Blouin said. "I feel sorry for Ray. I guess I'll just leave it at that," said Blouin, now a pediatric neurologist in Greenville, S.C.

McNally, Mettetal's lawyer, wouldn't discuss what defense he plans to use. Clinton partner pleads innocent in Whitewater ASSOCIATED PRESS LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Another Partner of President Clinton in the hitewater land development pleaded innocent to fraud and conspiracy charges Thursday and said she would never cooperate with prosecutors. Susan McDougal, charged with eight felonies, accused independent counsel Kenneth Starr of using threats and harassment in an attempt to force a plea bargain. Starr's office declined to comment on her allegations.

"I would not be standing here if I had had anything to say about President Clinton or his wife to the special counsel," the former wife of banker James McDougal told reporters after her federal court arraignment. LOTTERY NUMBERS KENTUCKY PICK THREE 2 80 PICK FOUR 5 13 6 CASH FIVE 19 23 26 30 34 Estimated jackpot: $1.5 million ILLINOIS PICK THREE-MIDDAY 4 56 PICK THREE-EVENING 8 55 PICK FOUR-MIDDAY 76 4 5 PICK FOUR-EVENING 0497 fstimaied jackpot: $4 million 3 I fek its tfcs wave of fts fsstssre tlsst zrzW markets iliirray mi Ulayflsi are cohg to have tS dr own tslsvfsssn states to fcrfaa local tlslssp to people. (E)very littSe entity now is Li a to xsppal these kinds of activities. -Sam Parker 93 business project." Area radio and TV veteran Larry Mcintosh and co-anchor Lee Wilhaus will present local news at 6 and 10 nightly, and Mcintosh will disguise. The target of the alleged murder attempt, Dr.

George Allen, chairman of Vanderbilt's neurosurgery department, was never harmed. Authorities said they don't-know whether Mettetal had previously tried to contact him. Mettetal's lawyer, Pat McNally, wouldn't discuss why his client, who lives in Harrisonburg, was in the parking garage, but insisted Mettetal intended to kill no one. Police said the cameras caught him near Allen's parking spot. "The picture of the man they painted in that courtroom is not the man I know," said Penny Hill, a nurse who worked with Mettetal at a hospital near Nashville after he left Vanderbilt.

"He said things didn't work out at Vanderbilt. But he never seemed real angry about it." Acquaintances say Mettetal had dreamed of being a neurosurgeon, a specialist who can perform brain surgery. Instead, he had to settle yi. Associated Press need to work on things." Fortensky, 43, was a twice-divorced construction worker when he met Taylor in 1988 at the Betty Ford Clinic, where they being treated for substance abuse. They were married Oct.

6, 1991, at Jackson's Neverland Ranch in front of such guests as Nancy Reagan. The paparazzi hovered in helicopters. The breakup announcement came one day after Elizabeth Arden canceled the September launch of Taylor's Black Pearls perfume in a dispute. surgeon saves man Dr. Steve Hoefflin, Jackson's surgeon, leaped in after the man and kept the man afloat, Gallinot said.

Fleiss and Dr. Bruce Hensel, a reporter with KNBC-TV, called The department keeps a rescue boat at the pier, and officers pulled both men to safety. Hensel, Hoefflin and Fleiss were attending a function at the pier late Wednesday. r3 to growth, neither can it escape political unrest. "People need to take back control of their government," says Zoe Ciscon.

Putting that attitude to work, she helped pass a 1994 ballot initiative imposing two four-year terms on the city council. But the victory could turn to ashes after an appeals court ruled the measure unconstitutional. "It just took the wind out of my lungs," Ciscon says. "We worked so hard, and it was just so casual how the judges disregarded the will of the people. But we will not quit." Neither will Alan Armijo.

"I have never believed in term limits," said Armijo, a second-term councilman. "The people have a chance to get rid of politicians in elections," Armijo is undaunted by the 71 percent who backed term limits. "It is an important principle to defend." TUSTIN, Partners in Anxiety Voting Republican is a big tradition here in the wealthy Pacific hills of Orange County, one Karin Reynolds used to proudly defy. No more. Over the past three years, she has switched from Democrat to independent to Republican, changes born of the challenges of raising three children while working as a physical therapist and watching her husband struggle to get a small business into the black.

Work, schools, soccer games, dinner, sleep, work. It is an exhausting cycle that, for all the talk about angry white males, has made Reynolds and working women like her perhaps the electorate's most volatile voters. These emotions drove her away from Democrats who "think everybody deserves a free ride." Independent Ross Perot benefited in 1992; Republicans, in 1994. But the GOP isn't guaranteed her vote in 1996. Or her husband's.

A "small-business fiscal conservative," Ed Reynolds owns an environmental engineering firm that finally got some traction last year. No thanks, in his view, to the government. "I keep losing bids to less qualified minority firms," he says. And when he finally landed one, Orange County filed for bankruptcy protection, leaving Reynolds in the lurch to the tune of $50,000. Across America, the Reynold-ses and many suburban people like them are the biggest commodity in a new politics, born of a reassessment of so much of what had become so accepted.

Economics. Race. Illegal immigration. Crime. Declining values.

These often overlapping issues blend into powerful emotions, which in turn compete with the inherent optimism, that so many people are determined not to surrender. The result is an anxious America, in unpredictable economic and political turmoil. This is the second and final part of a drive across America, talking to people about their hopes and fears at the cusp of a new campaign season. BY JOHN KING ASSOCIATED PRESS BIRMINGHAM, Ala. These eight are special.

In turbulent economic times, they are among the finest Birmingham Southern College has to offer. And in turbulent political times, when many in their generation favor apathy over activism, they are eager to get to work teaching, social work, some in politics. Yet for all this idealism, something is sadly missing: They have no political heroes. "I can't think of one," says Louisa Carlile, a political science and writing major. "I don't have any," says Jason Pinyan, a recent political science graduate.

"It just seems foreign to me that a president could actually inspire people," says Michelle Boweh, a 1994 graduate training for social work. In their lives, nothing much good has been said of government, either in Washington or the state capital in Montgomery, that all eight consider corrupt and blind to the state's education crisis. Their sense that the system is rigged against them extends far beyond politics. "We are resented in the work force by middle-aged people already feeling the pressure of competition and downsizing," Pinyan says. "There is no way I am going to be where my parents are economically." "And what about our kids?" Bowen says.

"Are they going to make less and have less than we are? I think our country is in a very scary situation." SPRINGFIELD, Abortion Politics New resorts are changing the character of the Ozarks and the surrounding plateau, but more often than not, the towns are still anchored along the old railroad tracks. This is conservative country, and a place where people such as 28-year-old supermarket clerk Dave Plemons can emerge as unlikely political powers. His maps divide Springfield into six districts, with 3,300 homes marked by dots, phone numbers at hand. On a moment's notice, Plemons can saturate a community with literature or a lawmaker with telephone calls. In the old days, this might have been the local Democratic or Republican headquarters.

Instead, it is the Springfield Right to Life Committee chapter; today's best organizers work around issues, and there is none more intense than abortion. After years on the defensive, anti-abortion forces are making gains in the new Republican Congress. With little fanfare, this momentum has extended to the states: Eight adopted new abortion restrictions this year. Plemons is determined to make Missouri the ninth. In September, the legislature will try to override the governor's veto of a measure requiring women to receive counseling before an abortion.

His work highlights not only the evolution of political organizing but another critical transformation: a growing acceptance of incremental gains, such as ending federal funding of abortions or requiring parental notification. "Many used to consider it immoral to accept anything short of outlawing abortion," says Mary Kay Culp, the Missouri Right to Life president. "My view is that you can't throw a touchdown pass if there is nobody in the end zone to catch it. So why not stick to a steady ground game and see if you can't win more fans over along the way?" COLORADO SPRINGS, The Culture War Ground Zero in America's culture war sits 170 miles west of the Kansas border, where the i prairie collides breathtakingly with the jagged, snowcapped Rockies. Colorado Springs is home to about 40 Christian right ministries and groups, including James Dobson's nationally potent Focus on the Family organization as well as Colorado for Family Values, the state group that spearheaded passage of a ban on laws protecting homosexuals from discrimination.

But it is home to Amy Devine, too, guaranteeing a two-way debate in the values war. Three years ago, Devine founded Citizens Project to fight what she viewed as the Christian right's intolerance. The early battles taught a valuable lesson: "We were carrying our own stereotypes." So Devine is trying to turn down the volume. Over dinner. A year ago, she got the idea for "Dialogue Dinners," suppers at which opposing players in the community's fights over gay rights, sex education and other subjects meet in small groups and discuss their differences.

About 100 people have participated, and some groups formed a year ago still meet. "There is more common ground than people expected," Devine said. She offers it as a model to liberals who Devine says share blame for the harsh tone of today's cultural and values skirmishes. "I cringe when I see a lot of stuff coming out of people I support," Devine says. "We need to try to express our views in a reasoned way and in a noninflammatory way." Not that her approach always works.

Devine hasn't been able to persuade Dobson to co-sponsor the dinners. To him, Colorado Springs is "the Gettysburg of the civil war of values," ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.: Term Limits A few skyscrapers compete with the adobe ana Indian structures that give Albuquerque its tranquil character. And just as -this historic city is not immune JL Elizabeth Taylor and Larry Fortensky are shown in this June jjiiuiu, ian.cn in rew luin. Taylor's seventh marriage ends in search for space ASSOCIATED PRESS BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -Elizabeth Taylor says she and husband No.

7 Larry Fortensky "need our own space for a while" and are splitting up, four years after their lavish wedding at Michael Jackson's ranch, "We have agreed to a trial separation. We both hope this is only temporary," Taylor said in a statement Tuesday. The 63-year-old violet-eyed actress told syndicated columnist Liz Smith: "I feel sad. I sincerely hope it will work out. But Larry ana I Jackson's plastic ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA MONICA, Calif.

-Michael Jackson's plastic surgeon jumped into the ocean to save a suicidal man early Thursdays as Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss called 911 for help. An unidentified 40-year-old man handcuffed himself and jumped off a pier just after midnight in this coastal city west of Los Angeles, police Sgt. Gary Gallinot said..