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PeifQiniswD TheDailyltem Sunbury. Pa. Tuesday. July 31, jlgQO Page 4 NEWS IN BRIEF Specter waets mew prosecetoi in drag prone Many new teachers fail state tests HARRISBURG The Education Department reported that almost percent of new teachers and those coming from out of state failed tests required to work in Pennsylvania! 4. The department said on Monday that 82.3 percent of the 3,832 people who took the battery of tests in March passed.

That represents a slightly better showing than the last time the tests were administered in November when 81.5 percent passed The tests cover such areas as general and professional knowledge and basic reading, math and writing skills. Prospective teachers must also pass a test in the subject they intend to teach. "The tests are an instrument not only for keeping people from teaching who are unqualified, but an instrument for driving up the qualify of Pennsylvania teachers and teacher-education schools," said department spokeswoman Janet look upon the number that r'-failjH'ac a tinl in rtinnnncina whfrf nrnfimme nppH tn ctrAnnpr Lawyer may be grand jury target ByRichKlrkpatrick The Associated Press for 91 fr-' U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Dela-ware, chairman of the Senate.

Judiciary Committee, to hold a confirmation hearing on the nomination of acting U.S. Attorney James West, whose office is handling the cocaine-use investigation. Although such a hearing is rare for a U.S. attorney candidate, Specter feels this case is special because of allegations made by former 'Auditor General Don Bailey, said spokesman, Dan Bailey sent a letter to Specteen July 17 urging him to seek a spettjl prosecutor for the case. questioned how aggressively ijbe case is being pursued becaue he said, Guida and West gether for the state attorney general and are friends.

West disqualified himself from the case last year and HARRISBURG Sen. Ap len Specter wants a special prosecu- tor to take over the cocaine-use investigation swirling around a former top aide to U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh. Specter, asked for an independent counsel to look into whether former U.S. Justice Department lawyer Henry Ban used cocaine, the senator's spokesman said Monday.

The senator said he based his opinion on publicity the case has generated and the decision by Thornburgh and other Justice Department officials to disqualify Photo by The Associated Press NEW GUIDE: Katherine Quigley, tour guide at the Capitol Building in Harrisburg, displays copies of the new Capitol Guide Book. The book will be handed out to visitors and distributed by lawmakers to constituents. The 28-page, full-color guide is designed to help visitors understand the Legislature's past and present. Barr, now living in suburban Har- i a iisuuig, uccii iiiciiuuiicu in icu- 7nlJ HIS V1IIV1 UVUUlT VJU1UUII LiUiriVU.Iil eral court documents filed in con- tne inVestieation nartinn with an investigation into '1 1 .1 5 die in house fire; police seek arsonist oaney nas oeen ai ouus wuq yvesji over the prosecutor's handling of an investigation into job-selling in the Auditor General's Department. Bailey complained the indictment of a deputy he retained when he took office was timed to embarrass him'as he was seeking re-election in 1988.

Bailey's predecessor, Af Benedict, and Benedict's top deputy, John Kerr, were convicted in the investigation. Bailey's deputy, Harold Imber, pleaded guilty to racketeering and was sentenced to jail. West said Bailey, a Democrat, played no part in the scheme. But Bailey was defeated for re-election by Barbara Hafer, who hammered at the job-selling scandal. McKenna said West's nomination would not have cleared the White House if the FBI had found any substance to Bailey's allegations.

"The FBI gave him a cleart clean bill of health," McKenna said. 'I suspected cocaine use by former state prosecutor Richard Guida. Sources have said Barr also is a target of the grand jury inquiry, but no indictments have been returned. Barr left the department in May 1989 before the allegations surfaced. The government two weeks ago won federal court approval to dissolve a plea agreement it had with Guida on grounds he did not tell prosecutors all he knew about drug use by others.

In a letter late last week to the i U.S. Justice Department, Specter also said the special prosecutor should study whether to take control of the Guida case as well. The request was made to U.S. Deputy Attorney General William B. Barr, who is not related to Henry Barr.

Justice Department spokesman Dan Eramian said Monday the department had not yet received the letter. Specter has 'f asked Carmen Milagro Cintron, 37, the mother of Ms. Valentin and the Nazario children, was listed in serious condition at Community Hospital of Lancaster with burns, cuts and smoke inhalation, hospital spokeswoman Angela Giurlando said. Angelica Marie Vazquez, nearly 14 months, also a daughter of Ms. Valentin, was flown to St.

Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. She was in critical condition in the intensive care unit and was being treated for smoke inhalation and a slight burn, hospital spokeswoman Phyllis Propert said. By The Associated Press LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) Police have been interviewing neighbors of five people who were killed when their home was set on fire, but no arrests have been made and the motive for the arson has not been determined, authorities said. Police had been called to the house and neighborhood four times Sunday night to calm a domestic disturbance, but they said they didn't know whether or not those problems were related to the fire.

"We know there was definitely a disturbance," said Lancaster Police Sgt. John "But we don't know anything else about the fire other than it was deliberately set." Authorities said the early morning fire Monday was so intense when fire personnel arrived there was little chance to rescue the victims. "The first arriving company re- ported they had fire blowing across the street 15 to 20 feet," Fire Lt. Ed Knight said. "People were reporting there were people trapped on the second floor.

And there were. That's where the victims were found." Trooper David Fisher, a state police fire marshal, said the porch was deliberately set afire. Those killed in the fire were Mar-garo Daniel Rodriguez, 36; Yolanda Valentin, 17, who was two months pregnant; her 2-month-old daughter, Carmen Elisa Sole); an 8-year-old boy, Jaime Nazario, and his 7-year-old sister, Madeline Nazario. This Quiz is part of the Daily Item's "Newspaper in Education" program and is Sponsored by Nationwide Insurance Magistrates to decide on dangerous' dogs PITTSBURGH Local ordinances requiring muzzles for pit bulls have been invalidated by a new Pennsylvania law that makes magistrates the judges of whether dogs are dangerous, no matter what their breed. Because the law regulates dog behavior, not breed, all ordinances that name individual types of dogs were cleared from the books Monday when the law went into effect.

"We're really talking about a handful of dogs out there that are known to be attack dogs," said State Rep. Kenneth Brandt, R-Lancaster, the bill's sponsor. "Right now there's no recourse for dog law officers to set apart dangerous dogs." District justices will have the final word in defining "dangerous" dogs and citing, their owners. Carnegie Mellon will offer bagpipe major PITTSBURGH Clans of bagpipers from around the world are setting up scholarships at Carnegie Mellon University, where a new program will offer a music degree for playing the instrument with Scottish roots. "We think we'll be able to legitimize the instrument, which when you think about it has been around a lot longer than some we use in orchestras," said Marilyn Taft Thomas, director of CMU's music department.

James Mcintosh, who has taught bagpipe informally at CMU for six years, presented the idea to the school's music department last fall, and faculty members approved earlier this year. Starting this fall, two bagpipe students a year will study classical music of the 16th and 17th centuries. The students will devote little time to the folksy tunes most often heard in parades, Mcintosh said. Baby sitter convicted of scalding toddler PITTSBURGH A baby sitter has been convicted of causing second-degree burns on a 2-year-old boy's face, neck and genitals after the toddler wet his pants. An Allegheny County jury convicted Vernetta Regan of Pittsburgh of aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and endangering ptlie welfare of Paul Chandler of Wilkinsburg.

Paul spent six days in West jenn Hospital's burn unit with burns from hot water. Regan, 36, told the jury Monday she had no idea how Paul was burned 3jjst Aug. 2 when Paul and four other children were staying at Regan's DUIuling will pack jails, official says PITTSBURGH An Allegheny County commissioner says a recent 3uperior Court ruling that alcoholism treatment is no substitute for jail 3ime will pack the county's crowded cells with convicted drunken drivers. I The court ruled the Legislature wanted drivers convicted of driving Tinder the influence jailed for their offenses when lawmakers passed a C983 sentencing treatment programs are not what the -Legislature envisioned when it enacted the statute," it said. County Commissioner Lawrence Dunn on Monday called the ruling "a 9al blow to the years of hard work and creativity in getting alternative programs accepted by the courts and the community." The ruling "could open up a real hornet's nest of problems for the xjtizens of Allegheny County and add to the already overcrowded jail population," he said.

firefighters filmed dousing parade spectators CORAOPOLIS Volunteer firefighters in Pittsburgh's suburbs were advised to hire lawyers after they were videotaped spraying parade onlookers with a high-powered water cannon. The number of Kennedy Township firefighters involved in last week's dousing is still in dispute, said Samuel Pasquarelli, the department's ajtorney. Television station KDKA reported at least five men were questioned about the incident Monday night. At least five people were slightly injured Wednesday in Stowe township when the Kennedy Township truck's cannon was trained on a iforch during a firefighters' parade. The party guests were throwing water Walloons at the firefighters' truck.

EPA to remove explosive chemical AMBR1DGE A federally funded cleanup crew prepared to remove 90 drums of an explosive chemical from an abandoned Beaver County steel mill. The crew was scheduled to start working at the Bollinger Steel plant in Ambridge, which is west of Pittsburgh, at 7:30 a.m. today, said Leanne Nurse, a spokeswoman for the Environmental Protection Agency. The workers were to assemble and remove the liquid calcium carbide, but first needed to withdraw gas that collected in the drums, Ms. Nurse said.The operation was expected to take two to three weeks, she said.

It has been funded by an arm of the EPA's Superfund designed for toxic waste removal at areas not designated as Superfund sites, she said. Heidnick murder lawsuit sent to U.S. court PHILADELPHIA A suit filed last year claiming the City of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Police Department were responsible for one of the Gary Heidnick murders was moved to federal court 0 Monday. The suit was originally filed in February 1989 in Common Pleas Court on behalf of Sandra Lindsay, one of two woman Heidnick tortured and killed between November 1986 and March 1987. The complaint claims that Lindsay's mother reported her daughter missing in November 1986 and soon after told police that Lindsay had known Heidnik and provided them with his address, first name and telephone number.

The suit states that police performed only a cursory investigation into Ms. Lindsay's relationship with Heidnik. Philadelphia attorney Neil Perloff, who is representing Lindsay's mother as administrator of her estate, said city attorneys asked for the removal, adding that he did not know why it would be sent to the U.S. District Court. The suit charges the city, police and six police officers with two counts of negligence, depravation of life and liberty and denial of equal protection of the law.

It seeks over S6 million in damages. Lindsay, who was mentally retarded, died on Feb. 7, 1987, after Heidnik beat her, fed her bread and water and hung her by the arm from a wooden beam in his basement. EACH QUESTION IS 10 POINTS rJOBLD'S DATELIHE LOCAL PEOPLE AHD GTORIES County Commissioners across the Central Susquehanna Valley are generally supportive of an emergency phone number plan. Under the plan counties can now tap residents for as much as $1.50 a month.

The emergency number being supported is 7. With opposition saying it will not stand in the way, the way now appears clear. for construction of a 90-bed in Upper Augusta Township. 8. Gov.

Robert P. Casey has appointed Harold F. Woelfel, Jr. as in Union and Snyder Counties. The post carries an annual salary of $80,000.

9. Union County Planning Director Fred Wilder was expected to tell county commissioners last Thursday that possible water contamination and increased traffic are major concerns tied to expanding 1. Appellate Judge David Souter speaks to reporters in Washington after President Bush announces his nomination to the Supreme Court The next formal step in tne selection process involves CARTOON OF THE WEEK University censors photos of nude women By The Associated Press HARRISBURG A photographer whose work, of female nudes was removed from an exhibit at Temple University's Harrisburg Center said he is disturbed by increasing amounts of censorship. Local photographer Cecil Brooks had three works removed from his show after a number of people complained that the photographs exploited women, The Patriot News newspapers reported Monday. The photographs were images of the female body reminiscent of landscapes.

Brooks said. All three showed pubic hair. Brooks said the photographs created "an abstraction from the normal figure study," and added, "I don't really see it as prurient or obscene in any way." "If a few people object to something, everyone is deprived," Brooks said. The photographs were included in an exhibit in the lobby, classrooms and hallways at the Temple Center. Brooks said Temple officials did not tell him about the move.

He said learned of the action when he visiSfd the center Friday. 2. Iraqi president Saddam Hussein initiated a tense confrontation with Kuwait, including massing troops on Kuwait's border. The stated issue is Z. 3.

The American Farm Bureau Federation launched a public relatons campaign to calm consumer fears concerning the use of agricultural 4. Activity on the part of the administration panel that oversees the bailout, the Resolution Trust Corp, is in danger of having to slow down considerably due to a 5. Archeotogists in Israel have discovered an ancient figurine, a pagan idol frequently mentioned in the Bible. Estimated to be about 3,500 years old, it is the first of its kind to be unearthed. 10.

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