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1 IlMikn) Lorca THE NEWS IN By William C.Troti GAY FRIENDS: A homosexual anti-defamation group praised Phil Donahue and Bob Hope but condemned Andy Rooney of 60 Minutes" tor furthering homophobia. The Gay Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation known as GLAAD announced the nom inees for its first annual media awards and cited Donahue for continued good coverage and support of homosexual concerns while Hope was singled out for his public service announcement condeming homophobia. GLAAD nominated the television shows As The World Turns," Doctor, Doctor," "Heartbeat," Thirtysomethlng The Women of Brewster Place, L.A. Law and "The Tracey I UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL CELEBRITY PHILANTHROPY; The National Scholarship Research Service applauds celebrity-funded education. The organization recently released its list of top 10 celebrity scholarships: Eddie Murphys $25,000 writing fellowhip at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and Hampton Institute in Virginia; The Charles M.

Schulz Award for college cartoonists; David Lettermans scholarship at his alma mater, Ball State; the Spike Lee and Columbia Pictures grad program at New York University; Morehouse Universitys Oprah Winfrey scholarship fund; a $10,000 Howard scholarship started by PhyiiciaRashad and Debbie vaai Alien in their fathers name; Eddie Murphy the Vikki Carr scholarship for Mexican-Americans in California Lionel Richies endowment to the Tuskegee Institute business school the Laurel and Hardy Sons of the Desert Scholarship Fund for San Diego County students of comedy; and the $28 million from Bill and Camille Cosby. Vllman Show lor their positive treatment of homosexuality. Named for defamatory entertainment were the rock bands Skid Row and Guns Roses and comedians Andrew Dice Clay, Sam Kinison and Damon Wayans. ESTEFAN TO LEAVE HOSPITAL: Gloria Estefan, who suffered a broken back in a bus accident two weeks ago near Tobyhanna, is scheduled to be released from a New York hospital Wednesday and will get a special ride home. A hospital spokeswoman says Julio Iglesias will fly the pop singer home to Miami in his private plane.

Estefan, who was up and walking two days after the March 22 operation, has been signing autographs for staff and patients alike. Shes a very social person, says spokeswoman Mary Costello. booty begins in Va. Doeslty to jail NEW YORK (UPI) Convicted insider trader Ivan Boesky will be released Wednesday from a Brooklyn halfway house, federal officials said Tuesday; Boesky, 53, once a leading Wall Street wheeler dealer who pame to symbolize greed in the 1980s, could be released anytime After midnight Tuesday, said Merle Reams, case manager for jbe Federal Bureau of Prisons. will be on mandatory release supervision and will be reporting to a parole officer until September 22, Reams said I was sent to the Brooklyn Community Corrections Center on Brooklyns Bedford-Stuyvesant section Dec.

6, 1989, following his Nov. 6, 1988, release from the minimum security Lompoc Federal Prison Camp in California. Weightlifter guilty of murder N.Y. (UPI) A jury Tuesday convicted an imemployed weightlifter of murder charges in the slaying of a Long Island teenager whose nude, mutilated body was found stuffed in a garbage bag In the young mans basement. panel of nine men and three women deliberated for less than two days in Nassau County Court before announcing their verdict in the case against Robert Golub, 22, accused of killing his 13-year-old neighbor, Kelly Ann Tinyes.

Kelly Anns naked, battered body was found stuffed in a plastic bag in a storage area in the basement of Golubs Valley Stream home on March 4, 1989, about 24 hours after a neighbor reported seeing her enter the house The girl, who lived a just a few houses down the street, had been beaten, strangled, sexually mutilated and slashed with a World War I bayonet In what police described as a frenzied assault. Jurors were not allowed to consider lesser charges of first-degree manslaughter in the case against Golub because the judge ruled the brutal killing was "only consistent with second-degree murder. The short, stocky body builder, who consistently denied any involvement in the killing but never took the stand in his defense, stood impassively before the jury, showing no emotion when the verdict was read shortly after 4 p.m. Root enters innocent plea WASHINGTON (UPI) -Communications lawyer Thomas Root, a private pilot who survived a gunshot wound and bizarre six-hour flight dpwn the East Coast that ended with a crash into the Atlantic, pleaded Innocent Tuesday to fraud charges involving his business. Root, 37, of Alexandria, is charged with defrauding five prospective radio stations while representing them with the Federal Communications from June 1987 through September 1989.

In a 33-count indictment handed down last month, Root Also is charged with trying to obstruct a federal probe of his Washington law firm, Thomas L. Root, P.C. Root pleaded innocent to all charges and was released on a $200,000 unsecured bond. U.S. District Judge John Penn scheduled an April 23 hearing to set a trial date after Roots attorney, Eugene Propper, said there may be a conflict of interest in his representing Root.

Ryan White battles for life INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) As teenager Ryan White clung to life on a respirator Tuesday, President Bush and former President Reagan offered their prayers for the AIDS victim and his family. Elton John visited the youth Monday and Michael Jackson galled long distance. A medical bulletin Tuesday morning from the Riley Hospital for Children said White, 18, remained in critical condition -heavily sedated but in no apparent pain. He was admitted last Thursday with a respiratory infection. Kunin wont seek re-election MONTPELIER, Vt.

(UPI) Vermont Gov. Madeleine Kunin7 saying "it is time to move on to new challenges," announced Tuesday that she will not seek a fourth term in office. Vermonts first woman governor, surrounded by family, cabinet members and political aides, told reporters assembled in the Statehouse that she has gained a "new sense of purpose and come to the realization that holding high office is not the only way to create change. "I have reached the conclusion that I will not seek a fourth term as governor of the state of Vermont, Kunin said. "It is time to move on to new challenges.

an attorney for the group. Another Columbus-America attorney, Robert Trafford, said the other interests had made a reverse oceanographic Feature discovery by making a claim to the treasure through work in the court clerks office rather than at sea. Engineer Thomas Thompson, one of the leaders of Columbus-America, estimates the find to be worth $100 million to $400 million. Lawyers say it could be worth as much as $1 billion because a new chemical cleaning process brought many of the gold coins up in mint Condition, which wildly inflates their estimated value. Richardson suggested Thompson may have his original salvage effortlnto surrendered, but the British Broadcasting Corp.

reported ringleaders were apparently holding some who now wished to give up and leave the imposing red-brick complex. It showed footage of one masked prisoner brandishing a knife and leading onto the roof a second man, who'was stripped to the waist and had bound hands. Arens: Iraqi leader obstacle to peace JERUSALEM (UPI) -Foreign Minister Moshe Arens called Iraqi President Saddam Hussein an obstacle to peace in the Middle East Tuesday and urged nations to take necessary steps to halt the threat of chemical weapons. On Monday, Saddam threatened to use chemical weapons and wipe out half of Israel if any targets were attacked in Iraq. Israeli analysts believed Saddams threats were aimed at halting any pre-emptive strikes following the discovery in London of Iraq-bound components necessary to Phil Donahue the 1857 wreck of the Central America by some 33 mites after a federal judge issued a 1987 injunction protecting' a different location.

The side-wheel steamship sank in a hurricane 160 miles off of the North Carolina coast while carrying prospectors and a major gold shipment from California to New York. Thompsons group, which has spent more than $10 million, brought up more than a ton of the gold last summer. The' group believes two more tons of gold may still be doivn with the vessel. U.S. District Judge Richard B.

Kellam is overseeing the case in what is called admiralty or maritime coqrt. Kellam said Tuesday his chief concern is whether the insurance companies gave up their claim, as Columbiis-America alleges. trigger nuclear explosions. Israel destroyed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981, considered the most advanced element of Baghdads nuclear program. Italian authorities raid Mafia hideout MATERA, Italy (UPI) Police raided a mountain farmhouse in southern Italy early Tuesday and discovered a sophisticated underground Mafia hideout containing weapons and guarded by an electronic alarm system and dogs.

In the early morning raid by 40 paramilitary national police, officers arrested Riccardo Modeo, 33 and his --brother Gianfranco, 30, described by police as suspected zone bosses of the Ndrangheta, the local equivalent of the Sicilian Mafia. The brothers had been on the run since last summer and on Dec. 22 were sentenced in their absence to 22 years jail each for a gangland murder, investigators said. COPYRIGHT The Scrantonlan Tribune is protected under the federal Copyright Act. The publisher reserves the right to change the position of advertisements whenever the publication demands it.

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Stange. Production Manage Hearing NORFOLK, Va. (UPI) A complicated legal battle over sunken treasure worth hundreds of millions of dollars began Tuesday to determine who owns more than a ton of gold discovered off the Atlantic Coast. A group of Ohio researchers turned treasure hunters, who brought up the booty with the help of an underwater robot last summer, are pitted against nine insurance companies seeking a share of the loot. Lawyers for the Coiumbus-America Discovery Group argued Tuesday that outside claims related to the 19th century shipwreck are untimely and unwarranted.

The group seeks to show the gold cannot be claimed by insurers if they have no prjtor of covering items brought lip from, the ocean floor. The case hit some legal shoals in its opening moments World Line 33 dead, 75 injured by bombs in Punjab AMRITSAR, India (UPI) -Two bombs planted by Sikh separatists exploded Tuesday in adjacent districts of the Punjab state, killing at least 38 people and injuring more than 75 others as Hindus across India celebrated a major religious festival, police said. The second blast was by far the bloodiest of the two and ignited clashes between Sikhs and Hindus in Batala, 30 miles northeast of Amritsar, during which at least seven people were hurt, witnesses and police said. Police were forced to fire tear gas and bullets to end the confrontations and imposed an indefinite curfew on the industrial city to prevent new outbreaks of unrest, witnesses and police said. The bomb was wrapped in a package stowed on the rear rack of a bicycle that was TODAY Mostly cloudywitha chance of rain or snow showers.

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The device went off at about 3 p.m. as scores of Hindus marched by in a procession marking the birthday of Lord Rama, a major diety of the Hindu pantheon, police said. Prison rebellion continued in London LONDON (UPI) Rebellious inmates fought a pitched battle Tuesday for control of a wing of a Victorian-era jail on the third day of their occupation of the facility in a clash that left 13 guards wounded, reports said. The Home Ministry could not confirm numerous reports of fresh violence inside Strangeways Prison in Manchester, 200 miles northwest of London. It said 47 inmates continued the seige that began on Sunday, when hundreds of prisoners rebelled, expelling guards and torching buildings in a protest against living conditions in the overcrowded facility.

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