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A6 Hi utaDUcsKUuW'iov Kv 1 5 1994 From the Front Page KERRIGAN: Mon arrested in attack 'V EX -'v-'--TWr 1 i ft 1 ft r' A hmkM I -iif 'V 'TW'' I i First lady charms city in tour with Naina Yeltsin Asynuw Pm MOSCOW Hillary Rcxfitam Gintist diarmed sick kid expet tint mom and ilie baliushkn in tlw strret yrsterday as she didu-d llinxigh the city in a snowstorm with Iht fellow first lady Clinton and Naina Yeltsin wife of Russian lYmrimt Ikri Yeltsin sympathized with a trio of sick pre-teen and sat through part of a childbirth class at Hospital fig I Vane and Charity "What hare we here?" asked Clinton at one point smiling but momentarily startled by Ilie siglit of a stuffed nvH of a pelvis in Cdiatneian Olga Tryamna'i tnd SI sat attentively surrounded by pregnant women and their husbands as the dexter pushed a rubber doll through the stuffed pelvis "Hitt's the little one were Urn wailing Ur so kmgT Tryanina announced triumphantly as the head emerged followed quickly by a model of a placenta Ginton visited St Basil Cathedral on Rid Square and lunrixd in the Tsarina's Chamber in the Kremlin a kiw-crilinged room painted with religious scenes Earlier as Ginton emerged hatless into the swirling snow and disappeared into her limousine a group of Russian women in doth oats and scarves huddled nearby noses red and running from the odd "Thank you" said one 70-ycar-old woman not forgetting From Paoc ONE what if any rede Harding played in the dubbing of Kerrigan which knocked her out of the U-S Figure Skating Uiampinnsliips in IVtmit last wrrk "She was always bring looked at and she Mill one official close hi the invniiinitiA nakl Hording said curlier this week tliat any rioim she was involved is but was not available fur furtlxr comment yrMrrtlay If national champion Harding de mg back (xit of competition official will attempt to persuade her to back out Ur the good of the team The US Figure Skating Asso-nation said in a release that it wixild conidr removing Ibirding from tlw Olympic team if slw i found to have Urn involved in the attack Although Harding ha mg been chargi-d in the case NBC Ni-w ha repirted that her bodyguard Shawn Eric Eckardt has implicated Ut in the "planning and of the attack on Kerrigan I hireling and her exhusUind Jeff Cilkmly who reconcikd after thrir Aug 28 divorce were seen togiilier U-aving thrir Uxne outside PixtLind Ore yesterday but they did mg respond to questions Hap ding later met with attorneys Robert Weaver and thn Kovack Weaver said: "I really cant speak to what Mr Eckardt may or may not have said I do know that there are no charges outstanding That was confirmed to me an hour ago in a meeting 1 had in the district attorney's Meanwhile the man accused of attacking Kerrigan surrendered to authorities yesterday becoming the third person to be arrested in the alleged plot to injure Kerrigan Shane Slant 22 of Chandler Aril surrendered to the FBI in Phoenix He is expected to be taken to Hurtland to face charges of coaspiring to commit assault Authorities in Hurtland and Detroit say more arrests could be made Eckardt 26 of Portland has confessed to conspiring to injure Kerrigan and is cooperating with SUMMIT: Yeltsin Clinton end visit with agreements From Paw ONE market enmumy wtute cwhii sting tin imp u1 of changi on ordinary dtirns Tltr uuti'niii Nubian and U-M offnvil (taut rrfiivtrd a wgnifuant rvuluium in thr rtLrwm-biup fctT tx-youl the ti-mirs of thr Cold War and the Marry-ryrd of the hrM yntr of pi-are Yeltsin in tlte only significant public dih-igrivnaiit r-jytl the admission of Katttrm Eumpran enuntnr to thr North Atlantic Treaty Organization unless Husnu joins at thr same time "Admitting us one by cme is no gid" Yeltsin said "I am against that" lie tuid NATO should invite Russia and all othrr Eastern Euro-pean cuuntru-s to join the alliance at the same time an approach NATO knclit rejected at their summit meeting in Brussel Belgium earlier this week official shrugged off the dispute saying it would not get in the way of other dealing with Russia Clinton made a determined Biiblic show of suppert Ur hi ussinn "partner" as he rrpeatedly dubbed Yeltsin talking up hi reforms and expressing respwl for Russia's greatness both in offuial public meetings and in event designed to reach tut to average Russian lie paid hi respect to the war dead at the Tomb of the IUnknown Soldier attended a hemal Kremlin dinner and accrpted an invitation to stay overnight in a guest apartment inside one of the Kremlin palaces a tribute extended only to one other U5 president Richard Nixon And Clinton led Russia's first live TV halL" The format was a familiar one fur Clinton and one in which he clearly felt at case especially after a few questions in English What would he like historians to say of him? would like them to say I reshred a sense of hope and optimism to Would he play the saxophone? I played for President Yeltsin last night I have a quota one saxophone play per country1) Would he change places with Yeltsin? I like the job I Students sat transfixed as Gin-ton wandered among them picking questioners himself bantering easi- Aica-io President Clinton shook hands with Alexander Fyodorov 13 yesterday after he asked how Clinton got the idea to be president ly with tlwtn and intnaluring hi wife Hillary who arrived in Mi-cuw yesterday with their daughter Cheka Alexander Fprifov 11 retailing a picture of CTintim shaking hand with lYtshlrat John Kennedy asked hw old Gintixi was when he "go the idea to lactam the president of the United Clinton called the boy to him: up here Come shake hand with me and maybe ytxi'U be At their summit Ginton and Yeltsin: Joined Ukraine President Leonid Kravchuk in signing a three-way agreement to dismantle the 1JS0U nuclear weapons Ukraine inherited trim the firmer Soviet Union The first 300 warheads are to be destroyed within 10 months Agreed that as of May 30 the United States and Russia will aim their strategic nuclear missiles away from all countries Issued a joint statement on Shan Mlnoaka Stant was charged yesterday in the attack on Kerrigan authorities He ha implicated Harding's ex husband Ji ff GilJooly but Gilkxdy has mg Urn charged and ha denied any involvement Eckardt and Derrick Smith 29 were arraigned yesterday in Muli-nomah County Circuit Court and are being held on S3D0H0 Umd Smith (jf llnx-nix is Stant' uncle Smith allegedly drove tlie getaway car Ur Stant in Detroit Miuk McKnight said hi client Eckardt ferl "remorse guilt and even anguish" fur hi role in the attack McKnight confirmed that hi client "ha made a statement a to his involvement" with GillixJy Eckardt has admitted hiring Stant and Smith to carry out the attack fur $100000 but the money was never paid He also tried to hire another Itartland man to kill Kerrigan or break her k-g for StiSlua The man refused Kerrigan is recovering from the injury and says she will be ready to skate in the Olympic One her a aches Mary Scot void said Kerrigan could start light skating workouts as soon as today Kerrigan spoke to reporter outside her home near Boston yesterday but refused to discuss the arrests Asked how she felt about bring at the Olympic team with Harding Kerrigan said: "I have nothing to say to Thf Washington Post contributed to this report 7 ary roads When it gets this cold the salt and calcium chloride the city uses to dear roads is ineffective -Urban County Government spokeswoman Marianne Blodgett said die city is exploring other options to add traction to the roads such as gravel City workers will be on call the entire weekend to dear hazardous roads Herald-Leader staff writer Tammy Gay contributed Not eveiy business will close for holiday president of Russia someday" Hut the (tire of Gintun's message was an earnest plea to the Russians not to lose faith me say that I think this ha been in some ways the most difficult period of all for you be-cause you hare taken a lot of risks you have made a lot of changes already and yet the changes hare not been felt tangibly in the lives of most ordinary citizens in the country" he said Agreements human rights vowing to combat all forms of intolerance including both anti-Semitism and discrimination against Russian by former Soviet captive states in the Baltics such as Lithuania and Latvia Signed a contract committing the United States to purchase $12 billion in highly enriched uranium from Russia over the next 20 years Agreed that Russia must press full speed ahead with its economic reforms while trying to Some local businesses will be dosed including Bank One But the bank will hold an open house at its downtown location to marie the grand opening of its Community Development Center The center offers a new loan program geared toward low- and moderate-income people and businesses said marketing director Bob Smith "We drought it would be nice to have (the reception) on the same day in honor of the Smith said Bank One is one of the corporate sponsors of a inarch that Will begin at Lexington Civic Center at 10 ajn Monday The march is one of the big events coordinated by the University of Kentucky and the Urban County Government said John Scharfen-berger a spokesman for die university UK will be closed Monday "giving all students and employees a chance to celebrate the life of Scharfenberger said said "I personally think it is important to recognize his Slone said adding that his schools do that through lessons in die classrooms instead of taking a day off Coleman agreed that learning about King in classrooms is impor- tant and said he thinks teachers are doing a good job of that He also thinks schools that have the day off should encourage students to write essays about King on Monday His Justice Resource Center in fact is sponsoring an essay contest for stiidents in Jefferson and Shelby counties This marks the second year expected to be part of recommendation to the court in February Foley said the Kincaid estate wants to keep the stations and will Kentucky Central object to the FCC if Stephens rec- ommends they be sold The filing does not affect WVLK-AM and FM radio in Lexington also owned by Kentucky Central Stephens took bids on the TV and radio stations and announced the high bidders in October They were Gray Communications Systems Inc of Albany Ga for the television stations and IIMH Broadcasting Inc of Lexington for the radio stations HMH is a partnership headed by Ralph Haiker vice president and general manager of the radio stations In other matters relating to Kentucky Central a hearing will continue Tuesday on a motion filed by Stephens in Franklin Circuit Court to disqualify Atlanta lawyer Chris Trower as the attorney for Donald and Dudley Webb The continuation came after two hours of testimony yesterday Stephens contends that Trower and his law firm Sutherland As-bill Brennan should be disqualified because of a conflict of interest He sakl Trower signed a confidentiality agreement and obtained information from Kentucky Central before he became the attorney Some of the information pertained to Webb-related properties that obtained loans from Kentucky Central Trower was waking at the time for a company interested in bidding on Kentucky Central No bid was submitted from Page ONE first round The amount was not disclosed The Greensboro NCL insurer was expected to bid in the second and final round which closed at 5 pm yesterday but state officials would not confirm that Jefferson-Pilot had bid Card Czirr spokeswoman for the Cabinet for Public Protection and Regulation and the Insurance Department said Stephens expects to announce the name of the high bidder by late next week Stephens who took over Kentucky Central 11 months ago as the Lexington insurer did toward insolvency has not decided whether Kentucky Central will be sold He is scheduled to recommend to FTanklin Circuit Court by Feb 11 whether to sell or rehabilitate the company Meanwhile the estate of the late Garvroe Kincaid which controls a majority of the voting stock in Kentucky Central has filed an administrative protest with the Federal Communications Commission over the possible sale of WKYT-TV (Channel 27) in Lexington and WYMT-TV (Channel 57) in Hazard The protest had to be filed this week to meet a federal deadline said Michael Foley a member of the advisory committee for the cushion their social impact by providing more job retraining and other services to people affected harshly by the transition from communism to a market-based economy Launched a $100 million Fund for Large Enterprises to promote private-sector development in Russia Agreed to meet in July at the G-7 summit of most developed nations in Italy and that Yeltsin would make a state visit to America in the autumn School closings These school districts will have classes as usual Monday the day Martin Luther King birthday is observed Sane districts may be closed because of the weather Boyd County Carlisle County Ginton County Estill County Fairview Independent in Boyd County Greenup County Johnson County Lawrence County Lee County Leslie County Magoffin County Matin County McCreary County Morgan County Pike County Raceland Independent in Greenup County Rockcastle County Wayne County Wiliiamstown Independent in Grant County Martin County will have an in-service day for teachers because of inclement weather Souice: Stata Education Department report compiled Jen 3 Coleman has spread his message encouraging districts to observe birthday with a holiday He plan to stop his drive until all 176 districts declare die day a holiday going to keep he said going to go all over the British prime minister gets settlement in suit LONDON (AP) Prime Minister John Major settled a libel suit yesterday against a satirical magazine that said he had an adulterous affair with a caterer KING: Holiday not celebrated in all schools from Page one districts to change plans and cancel classes But only 51 districts have classified the day as a holiday records show and what Coleman wants to change "Dr King just about black folk he was about all kind of Coleman said Coleman whose Justice Resource Center is based in Shelby-ville sent out letters commending districts celebrating the holiday and urging the others to "fully it as a holiday rather than an in-service day or a day that simply wasn't scheduled on the school calendar Coleman also wrote to state school board Chairman Joe Kelly urging him to use his influence with school districts Board member Gary Stewart of Louisville said the state board passed a resolution last year encouraging school districts to observe the holiday but left it up to districts to decide how to observe it "If the schools are open we would strongly urge them to have special commemorative activities and devote the day to his Stewart said Williamsburg Independent Superintendent Jim Simpson said he thinks his district was die first in his part of the state to recognize die holiday by not having school "We emphasize the importance of recognizing diversity in our Simpson said believe Dr King made a significant contribution and die school and this district in particular needs to recognize Johnson County Superintendent Frank Hamilton said his district tries to avoid taking too many days off because bad weather leads a lot By Erica Patterson HouiDtEMSt Stmt Writer The Rev Martin Luther King Jr's birthday may be a day off for some people but for othos it will be a day of business as usual Lexington businesses that will open Monday the day King's birthday is observed include Long John and Dairy Mart At Dairy Mart store hours vary by site spokeswoman Lisa Tizzute said "Generally we do stay open for the convenience of our customers" she said Lexmark International Inc will be open but a notice on die bulletin board there offers employees the option to take the day off spokeswoman Jennifer Richard said Employees who do not want the whole day off can get paid time off to attend celebration events Richard said Saint Joseph Hospital employees also have the option to take the day off of days off anyway School has even been open on Memorial Day he said "We try to have school as many days as possible" Hamilton Superintendent Bill Slone said Martin County had planned to hold classes as usual but will have an in -service day for teachers instead 1 because the weather has been so bad Slone said a committee of community representatives decided what days to commemorate as holidays and die panel pick Monday Martin County has no minorities and that might have been part of the reason why he COLD: Temperatures plummet From Page ONE propane heating oil and kerosene: "Supplies of residential heating fuels have been depleted as a result of severely low temperatures and resupply is urgently needed to protect public health and Jones said The tumbling temperatures combined with icy and snowy roads have made for some tough driving on subdivision and second.