Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky • 1

gwmmm Morchcad boy flics into comic books on wings of contest Today Page 3 JANUARY 15 1994 50 CENTS Sports Cl Genuine Risk's only son Genuine Reward has been moved to his owners' Virginia home Metro Final llusirwMi C8 Classified 06 Editorials A10 Loral Newt Section Lottery A2 Obituaries 02 Today Ann I-anders IS Comics 16 CroMWurds 19 BIT Movies 13 TV 14 precipitation less than 2U" Weather Pnge A 1 2 Vol 12 NO 12 1994 Lexington Kv Black coaches postpone boycott Justice Department offers help Russia summit ends mUi TW and empathy On Pago Cl UK Coach Rick Pitino explains his vision of a better college athletics system ball programs in its JiviMun I which includes the largest hair-year colleges and to impose higher academic requirements for nrhular-ship athk-tes Doth are cisisidered moves that would effwi mostly mimrity players because blacks represent 64 percent of the Divisioi I players Some form of protest during the Mason remains a possibility the coaches asst suit inn said SCE BOYCOTT A9 By Euion Almond Los Anctus Urns A boycott of college busketlnll games scheduled this weekend by the Black Duclies Association was averted yesterday when the Justice Department offered to mediate the dispute with the NCAA The NCAA did not immediately accept that offer The boycott had been expected during some of games which coincide with the anniversary of tlie Rev Martin Luther King birthday The coaches are protesting the decision not to restore a 14th scholarship in men's basket Georgetown Coach John Thompson left Rep KweisJ Mfume and Drake coach Rudy Washington talked to reporters Clinton uses live to back reforms By Do yu McManus and Paul Richter Lot amius Twrs MOSCOW President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin concluded their twoday Moscow summit with a blizzard of agreements on economic and security issues yesterday cementing what aides described as a new more realistic relationship between the United Stales and Russia In solemn Kremlin ceremonies the two leaders joined by Ukrainian president Leonid Kravchuk signed an accord to remove all nuclear weapons from Ukraine and agreed to stop aiming long-range missiles at any of the world's countries And the United States and Russia readied agreement on a series of steps designed to help Russia continue its progress toward a free SEE SUMMIT AS I I i Kentucky Chills Out Bitter cold is zeroing in on Lexington By Barbara Ward Herald-Leaoer Swf Winter Say hello to the Big 0 It's been more than four years since Lexington has been at or below zero degrees but this weekend has brought bitter temperatures back in force not only in Kentucky but also over most of the rest of the nation big punch of cold as National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Rieck puts it has blasted down from the North bringing with it bone-chilling lows "They are looking at the mid-20s in North Florida to give you some idea of how widespread this is" said Robert Szappanos of the weather service "We can expect to pay more for orange juice after this I'd Four winters ago Kentucky had a 14-day stretch of bitter a a ra AssocmdPws First ladles Hillary Rodham Clinton and Naina Yeltsin toured snowy Moscow yesterday Details Pago A6 Harding is investigated in attack on Kerrigan Inside skating is big money Page Cl Attack has made Kerrigan popular marketable Page C8 By Joe Swickard Knkmt-Rboer News Service DETROIT Tonya Harding is under investigation for possible involvement in the attack on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan last week law enforcement officials in Detroit said yesterday US Olympic officials hope that Harding withdraws from the coming Winter Games The Detroit officials said investigators are trying to determine SEE KERRIGAN AS cold In 1989 Dec 12-26 the average high was 174 degrees die average low 15 This cold snap with lows minus 5 to minus 10 and highs only in the teens should wane by Monday but until then we will flirt with some records The record for today is minus 11 set in 1891 For Sunday also minus 11 set in 1911 unlikely well break the coldest-ever record for Lexington minus 21 set Jan 24 1961 This is for from our typical January day when the average high is 39 and the average low 22 or 21 No significant ice or snow is forecast but even a light wind can make the cold seem odder Wind-chills last night were expected to hit 25 or 35 below zero Gov Brereton Jones issued an emergency riwlararinn relating to die delivery of heating fuels Jones suspended for one week regulations that limit the number of hours truck drivers can work if they are delivering fuels such as ally Hanes 19 of Frankfort a sophomore See COLD A6 at the University of Kentucky rode his Three 'high offers made for Kentucky Central significantly higher than the eight bids received in August when the first round of bidding ended am not disappointed with the number of bids because of the high quality of the bids Stephens said Jefferson-Pilot Life Insurance Co submitted the highest bid in the See INSURER A6 By Jim Jordan HerudLeaoer Business writer Three bids have been received for the life and health insurance businesses of Kentucky Central Life Insurance Co state Insurance Commissioner Dm Stephens announced yesterday He declined to name the bidders but said their offers were FMmm Anmmon HowjvLenxr bicycle on icy sidewalks on University Drive yesterday on his way to class Activist urges all schools Adams sentences rapist to 225 years ing holiday in prison evokes charge of racism On Page A6 Some businesses will be open Monday to observe By Tammy Gay And Lucy May HermoLemxr swv Writers Fewer Kentucky school districts will have classes on Martin Luther King Jr Day than last year but not enough will recognize Monday as a holiday said civil rights activist the Rev Louis Coleman Of the 176 echoed districts 19 had planned to have flanaea as usual compared with 67 Inside on Page A8 Kentucky farm organization says it will support the healthcare reform bill1' House leaders say changes can be expected in the bill that would allow local governments to write their own codes of ethics 3 abortion bills introduced yesterday in the Senate tences upset a civil rights leader and rights advocates Timothy Taylor Mitchell who got the 225-year sentence was -convicted on 15 counts of first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy kidnapping burglary and theft by unlawful taking for the sexual assaults that occurred between December 1991 and June 1992 By Robert Campbell HeraldLewer Stf WRITER Fayette Circuit Judge John Adams yesterday sentenced a man convicted of sexually assaulting two joggers and another woman to 225 years in prison However Adams delayed deciding whether to revoke the probation sentence of another convicted rapist Clark Gross IL The radically different sen last year according to a list compiled by Paul Hampton pupil attendance manager for foe state Education Department Icy roads likely will cause some of those seeking A6 SEE MITCHELL A8 Ti I.