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Page 6A Nursing home care has improved some fr J4IUJ1 i pwj Page 8A Parrot seems to understand what its sentences mean Sports page 1 IB Ml Mercer baseball Jm in state of decline 4M Macon Selegrapl) xcius OUR 164th No 144 Telegraph Publishing Co 1990 MACON GEORGIA THURSDAY MAY 24 1990 GEORGIA EDITION 4 40 25C 1994 Super Bowl to be played in Atlanta The AteocieM PrM IRVING Texas Atlanta was awarded the 1994 Super Bowl by National ootball League owners Wednesday Atlanta plans to have a new domed stadium built by that time It will be the first Super Bowl for the city The next three Super Bowls are at Tampa la in 1991 Minneap olis (1992) and Phoenix (1993) The $210 million downtown Georgia Dome which will seat 70500 making it the third largest dome in the NL is scheduled for completion in 1992 Super Bowl will identify Atlanta and Georgia around the said Gov Joe rank Har ris "It will also help us in a bid for the Olympics in 1996" (See BOWL page 8A) bailout cost takes By RA Zaldivar Knlght Rldder Newspapers WASHINGTON Bailing out the scandal bat tered thrift industry will cost American taxpay ers tens of billions more than previously thought Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady said Wednes day Brady gave the Senate Banking Committee new Bush administration estimates that put the losses in the rescue at between $89 billion and $132 billion The project ed losses were $50 billion last year when Congress approved the bailout plan The new estimates are just that Brady cautioned that the number of failed thrifts the government may ultimately have to take over is Nicholas Brady are dealing with a mov ing target made greatly more expensive by a weakening real estate market and constantly changing economic Brady said in a prepared state ment What to do about costs is a major issue in the current budget negotiations between the administration and Congress The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that costs will add $50 billion to a huge leap $60 billion to next deficit pushing it into the $200 billion range To date the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) the agency Congress created last year to manage the bailout has taken over 423 thrifts of which 93 have been dissolved or sold to new owners Brady said 299 institutions are likely candidates for government takeover and 315 others are potentially in trouble The $132 billion estimate is based on the failure of about 1000 thrifts said William Taylor president of oversight board The agency could run out of money by the end of this year or early next year Brady said The 1 (See BAILOUT page 8A) ROBERT SEAYMacon Telegraph and News ss9ShMSIB09H 1 4 Members of the Hazlehurst community file into the Southside Baptist Church for Rhonda funeral Here are the nine weapons law would ban The plan would ban the import of: Norinco Mitchell and Poly Technologies Avtomat Kalashikovs Action Arms Israeli Mili tary Industries UZI and Galil Baretta AR 70 (SC 70) abrique Nationale AL LAR and NC Steyr AUG It called for a prohibition on domestic manufacture of: INTRATEC TEC 9 Street Sweeper Striker 12 Colt AR 15 and CAR 15 MAC 10 and MAC 11 Senators vote to keep restrictions on 9 weapons as part of crime bill By Mike Robinson The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Senate responding to appeals from police voted Wednesday to maintain restrictions on nine semiautomatic weapons as part of its omnibus crime bill are too many bullet holes in blue suits There are too many women weeping over coffins There are too many children without said Sen Dennis DeConcini Ariz The 52 48 vote came as a sharp defeat for thfe National Rifle Association which had lobbied to kill the curbs in the wide ranging bill Officials of the raternal Order of Police and other law enforcement groups had called on the Senate to support the restrictions Sen Orrin Hatch Utah failed in his effort to delete the curbs from a larger crime bill that among other things calls for the death penalty for 30 federal crimes The narrow margin prompted critics to call for a quick second vote in an effort to reverse the decision The Senate voted 50 49 not to reconsider On the initial roll call nine Republicans joined 43 Democrats in upholding the curbs while 12 Democrats and 36 Republicans sought to delete them The Bush admiriistrauon opposes the restrictions which would bar the import of five foreign made assault weapons and outlaw US manufacture of four others Sens Sam Nunn and Wyche owler of Georgia both Democrats voted Wednesday in favor of the restric tions sense has to come in said Nunn who said he has been a hunter most of his life but never seen a hunter with one of have any meat left if you used (See WEAPONS page 8A) Study: at makers grow fat muscle makers stay trim By Daniel Haney The Associated Press BOSTON A study helps explain one of injustices why some people can eat with abandon and stay slim while others put on weight with the slightest dining no no The answer is individual differences in what the body does with unneeded calories Some folks tend to store them as fat others lay them down as muscle Since building lean tissue uses up much more energy than storing fat fat makers grow fat while muscle makers stay trim Many people seem to fall somewhere between these two extremes The findings come from a unique experiment Doctors put 12 pairs of identical twins on diets in which they ate 1000 more calories each day than their bodies needed and they got almost no exercise When it started all were slim men in their early 20s with no family history of obesity After 84 days they had all eaten 84000 excess calories but some had grown fat while others stayed relatively trim The man who gained the most weight put on 29 pounds and stored up every extra calorie somewhere on his body The man who gained the least added 9 pounds and stored only 40 percent of the extra calories demonstrates for the first time that for a given amount of calories you have differences in the response to the surplus of (See AT page 8A) Community says goodbye to slain teen By Audrey Post Macon Telegraph and News HAZLEHURST signs and black bows hung on the front doors of many Hazlehurst businesses Wednesday afternoon as the com munity shut down to pay its last respects to Rhonda Sue Coleman The 24 hour Piggly Wiggly gro cery store where the 18 year old high school senior had worked part time locked its doors for the funeral Several pews were reserved in Southside Baptist Church for her co workers Across the aisle was the section reserved for classmates at Jeff Davis County High School a senior class still grieving for one of its own killed in an auto accident several weeks ago Mourners lined the walls of the sanctuary two and three deep with the overflow spilling out into the vestibule And while the two ministers offi ciating tried to help the almost 1009 people inside the church deal with the question of investigators were outside continuing to work on Police officers and sheriffs depu ties roamed the jammed parking lots of the church and nearby businesses looking for a dark col ored short bed pickup truck Cole killer is believed to have been driving Coleman was abducted a week ago while on her way home after making decorations for graduation Her car was found just off the road the door open the engine running the headlights on and her purse on the seat Her body was found in a wooded area three days later and authorities say she apparently was killed the night she disappeared Authorities believe she knew her killer apparently they also believed the killer might have attended the funeral will be a day of judgment and this will be the said the Rev Robert Wigley as he held a Bible aloft know some of you are feeling sadness some of you pain some of Rhonda Sue Coleman you anger and some of you all of them mixed said Wigley also a teacher at Jeff Davis County High School OK But got to find some way to deal with it got to let it he said Coleman herself had had trouble dealing with grief and the recent death of classmate Jason Wooten In an excerpt from her senior English journal which was read at the beginning of the service she had written about her frustration I just under stand she had written In trying to come to terms with Woo death she came back to the question: Wigley and the Rev Wayne Ben nett uncle both turned to Scriptures to try to find an answer to the of the young death Bennett also said that perhaps everyone hurt by Cole death would gain some com passion for the rest of the world Bennett said he had seen televi sion news reports of senseless kill ings elsewhere but his reaction had been somewhat detached we can all begin to feel and pray and sympathize with oth ers who go through Robbery suspect arrested after he snatches a pistol from holster By Mike Billlps Macon Telegraph and News A tense struggle for a Macon police gun ended without injuries Wednesday afternoon after officers chased down and arrested a man suspected of robbing a south Macon post office The burly suspect snatched an gun out of his holster after a struggle and pointed it at him and another officer as they dived for cover But the gunman dropped the revolver into a swimming pool seconds later when a police ser geant got the drop on him police Chief Jim Brooks said told her got my gup Shoot Officer Jim Johnson later said Johnson was yelling to Officer Latease Albritton who was unable to draw before the suspected robber pointed gun at her As Albritton and Johnson scram bled for cover Sgt Bennie Gibson came up from behind the gunman and ordered him to drop the pistol The man tossed the pistol into the pool and gave up Brooks said The suspect had a 22 caliber revolver in his front pants pocket and more than $1000 in cash stuffed under his shirt when he was caught Sgt Dale Merritt said The man carried no identification and refused (See HOLDUP page 8A) 1 Good morning! Ann Landers 7B Business 8D Classified 4C Comics 6B Deaths 3C Editorials 10A Georgia Living 1C Horoscope 7B Letters 11A Markets 6D Movies 3D People 3A Sports ID Television 4B Today's word Adage old saying prov erb Look for this word in the story could be this on page 1C Soviets to vote on economic shift that could cost millions their jobs By Ann Imse The Associated Press MOSCOW The government will lay its future on the line in the Soviet first national referendum in which voters will consider a shift to a market economy that could cost tens of millions of jobs officials said Wednesday The government believes it must have clear public support before starting the potentially destabilizing five year reform plan irst Deputy Premier Yuri Maslyukov told a news conference the program is not approved it is my opinion the government should Maslyukov said referring to the Council of Ministers led by Premier Nikolai I Ryzhkov It was unclear whether the public would endorse the reforms which would double food prices Jan 1 1991 lead to widespread closures of inefficient factories and eventually allow private ownership of most businesses Ryzhkov was to present the plan Thursday to the Supreme Soviet parliament where some radical re formers were planning to seek his resignation He survived a similar no confidence vote last fall No Soviet government has ever fallen because of either a referendum or a parliamentary vote although prime ministers have been forced to resign by the Communist Party leader Even if the government falls Soviet law guarantees that Mikhail Gorbachev would continue the four year' presidential term to which he was elected by the Congress of Deputies this year He is also general secretary of the Communist Party traditionally the top Kremlin job But Gorbachev has balked at standing for popular election and defeat of the referendum would throw the future wide open Maslyukov said the public refuses to consent to the price rises then perhaps we will have to resort to round table Maslyukov said referring to talks that led (je VOTE page 8A) i Sports page 1 IB Page 6A Page BA.