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WEATHER Partly cloudy, no rain expected High 77, low 60 Tanning Index 6 Details, Page A-14 Acid cloud The Manatee tion Commission take "the take" against update County Environmental Actold its attorneys to strictest action the county can Royster Phosphates Inc. Details, Page B-1 California ley to deal, MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL and Angels ink Finley signs pitcher Chuck Fina four-year, $18.5 million and acquires Hubie Brooks Chuck Crim in trades. Details, Page D-1 The Bradenton Herald VOL. 70 NO. 88 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1991 BRADENTON, FLORIDA 25 CENTS Burnside: Don't recall killing my wife The Bradenton Herald on Tuesday received a collect call from James Burnside about an hour after asking an official at the Jefferson (Ala.) County jail to tell Manatee County murder suspect James Burnside that The Herald wished to talk with him.

Jail officials said they could not confirm the identity of any caller from the inmate telephone. NICK MASON Herald Senior Writer James Burnside said Tuesday he followed his wife for two months, but he also said he does not remember killing her or shooting her coworker in a Bradenton shopping center parking lot in 1988. Manatee County murder suspect This time, Will takes the stand William Kennedy Smith painted his accuser as a sexually voracious woman who seduced him into sex twice in half an hour. JOHN DONNELLY Knight-Ridder Newspapers WEST PALM BEACH Softspoken and composed, William Kennedy Smith testified Tuesday at his rape trial that his accuser picked him up at a bar and seduced him twice under a full moon at the Kennedy estate. And he offered a "crazy woman" defense: He said the woman called him Michael at least three times, she asked for his ID, she talked nonsense and she "snapped" during intercourse when he called her Cathie a slip-of-the-tongue reference to Cathie Aime, an ex-girlfriend who attended the trial last week.

Disbelieving prosecutor Moira Lasch attacked his sworn testimony, suggesting that his ego couldn't handle rejection, that he must be a "sex machine" for attaining an erection 20 minutes after ejaculating and that his story did not SMITH To A-11 "My wife was not just to lunch (that day). I had been following her for two months. The man Otteni) was definitely running around with my wife." James Burnside, murder suspect "All that is completely blank to me," Burnside said when asked whether he killed his wife, Annette, 24, and shot her companion, David Otteni, then 44. Annette Burnside was stabbed 15 times with a butcher knife and Otteni, was shot in the torso with a 12-gauge shotgun just before noon Feb. 17, 1988, in the parking lot of DeSoto Center, 600 U.S.

301 Blvd. W. Burnside, 54, declined Tuesday to talk about his memory of that day. "I can't go into all that right now," he said. "I don't want any more bad publicity.

I will wait until I get down there and see what my attorney advises me." Burnside said he was convinced ASSOCIATED PRESS Rape defendant William Kennedy Smith responds to cross examination from prosecutor Moira Lasch on Tuesday. Smith said, "I'm Sniper kills 3 officers, sheriff's wife The suspect, an ex-military sniper, gave up after about 150 police hunted him for hours. Associated Press CALIFORNIA, Mo. A militarytrained sniper suspected of killing three law officers and a sheriff's wife surrendered peacefully Tuesday night after hiding for hours in a stranger's home, authorities said. He hadn't threatened that woman and she even made him lunch before he let her go and she contacted police, an official said.

Police had hunted door-to-door for the suspect, James R. Johnson, 42. Schools and businesses closed and residents of this central Missouri town stayed indoors because of what one person called a "grip of fear." The shootings began at Johnson's home Monday night and happened in four different places. Two victims were shot outside the Moniteau County Jail, By 2000, health care bill to reach $1 trillion a year Associated Press WASHINGTON Americans will be paying more than a trillion dollars a year for health care by the year 2000, a group that advocates changes in the nation's health laws said Tuesday. The Families USA Foundation said the average family now pays $1 out of every $8.50 it has for health care, compared with $1 of every $11 in 1980.

By the end of the century, the foundation's report said, the rate will increase to $1 of every $6 if present trends continue. "This health spending report is bad news for American families and their budgets and shows why health care is going to become a BUSINESS '92 outlook Economy cause for concern Details, Page A-7 WEDNESDAY Man without a country? Mikhail Gorbachev's role in the ever-disintegrating Soviet Union remains unclear. Details, Page B-8. Buchanan hat is in GOP ring Conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan took aim at President Bush on Tuesday, saying he intended to "take back my party" by challenging the Buchanan New president in Hampshire's Republican presidential primary in February. Buchanan, best known for his flamboyant persona on The McLaughlin Group and CNN's Crossfire, and for his newspaper columns, accused Bush of turning his back on conservatives.

Old Skyway blast shakes up Manatee It was the shot heard around Manatee County. Dynamite charges were detonated on a section of the old Sunshine Skyway Bridge about 10:10 a.m. Tuesday morning to break loose part of the structure. Lee Royal, a spokeswoman for the state. Department of Transportation, said the dynamite charge removed a steel section of the bridge weighing 1,500 tons and stretching more than 1,000 feet.

The Sunshine Skyway was closed to traffic for about 10 minutes. Cigarette's camel familiar to youths A cartoon character used to promote Camel cigarettes is as familiar to 6-year-olds as Mickey Mouse and has led to a sharp rise in smoking the brand among teen-agers, studies show. The studies found that the cartoon camel, called Old Joe and referred to in ads as a "smooth character," was recognized much more often by children than by adults. Herald staff and wire reports Bradenton Herald Business A-7 Classified D-6 Comics C-6 Crossword C-6 Dear Abby C-7 Deaths B-2 Florida B-6 Horoscope C-7 Local B-1 Lottery A-2 Movies Opinion B-4 People C-1 Sports D-1 Stocks A-8 Television C-8 Supplements: Montgomery Ward, Walgreens, Beall's, mart Give us a call: Main number 748-0411 News Room 745-7000 Classified ads 748-4400 Circulation 748-6666 his wife and Otteni were having ing her for two months. The was definitely running around with lunch "My (that wife day).

I not had just been followaffair. my wife," Burnside said, later say34205 ing he referred to Otteni. Teens have taken over The "I just hate the thought of losing Bradenton Herald. Once a my whole family because some guy month, that is. was out for a good time.

That is Our new monthly teen secwhat happened to me," Burnside tion, 34205, debuts today. It said. "(Otteni) was married and shows what teens are thinking had his own family. He totally de- and talking about. Teens about came with ideas and wrote stroyed mine." the stories.

Reached at work Tuesday night, Once a month, 34205 will Otteni declined to say whether he be just for teens. So if you're a was having an affair with Annette teen, turn to Page C-1. And if Burnside. you're not turn to it anyway. You'll learn why it's called 34205.

SUSPECT To A-2 Budget ax set to fall 000 Bailing out Florida compounded by state's tax structure. But a majority of the Committees in both the House and Senate approved their versions of cuts in the $29 billion state spending plan, setting the stage for a floor fight today. Associated Press TALLAHASSEE Florida lawmakers gathered Tuesday at the Capitol for a weeklong special session to slash the state budget because of a $622 million tax shortfall and consider a list of government reforms sought by Gov. Lawton Chiles. The special session was called after the state Supreme Court trimmed the powers of the governor and the Cabinet in making the' budget cuts.

The state's leaders also are trying to 000 solve revenue problems the and their bodies lay on the street for about eight hours because authorities feared that anyone going after them would attract more Outside the jail, an officer using a bullhorn warned his colleagues: "Suspect is a Vietnam veteran. He is experienced in sniper fire." A family dispute may have triggered the rampage, said John Weed, the former husband of Johnson's wife, Jerri. He said SNIPER To A-11. state's residents are sharply opposed to imposition of a personal income tax, currently barred under the state constitution. And Chiles says this is the time for cuts, not tax increases.

Budget-writing committees in both the House and Senate quickly approved their versions of the cuts in the $29 billion spending plan, setting the stage for a floor fight today. A conference committee will iron out differences, but both plans include sharp cuts of some $250 million in education and $140 million for the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services. The rest of the cuts are spread across a variety of government programs and agencies, and lawmakers plan to use $90 million in reserve funds to help offset the shortfall. No layoffs are contemplated. A Senate panel on Tuesday approved a proposed constitutional amendment guaranteeing open government records, but House opposition made its fate in a special session uncertain.

very significant issue in the 1992 elections," said Ron Pollock, executive director of the foundation. Total health spending by families rose from $155.5 billion in 1980 to $456.1 billion in 1991 and is expected to rise to almost $1.1 trillion in 2000, a nearly sixfold increase in two decades, the report said. Out-of-pocket expenses for doctors, prescriptions and other items are 32 percent, insurance premiums 17 percent, the Medicare payroll tax 9 percent and Medicare premiums 3 percent. Average family spending for health care increased 147 percent since 1980 while average family income was increasing 88 percent, the report said. Hero's welcome Former hostage Terry Anderson greets well-wishers gathered outside Associated Press headquarters Tuesday in New York to welcome him back from years of captivity chaired in a dark cell.

With Anderson are AP President Louis Boccardi, behind Anderson; former hostage the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, with white beard, and Anderson's fiancee Madeleine Bassil, front. Man at left is unidentified. Anderson was mobbed as he entered the normally placid AP building lobby. Details, Page A-3.

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