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Howard Cosell dies at 77
NEW YORK — Howard Cosell, whose caustic “tell it like it is”
personality made him the world’s most celebrated sportscaster and
turned “Monday Night Football” intoanational institution,died Sunday.
He was 77.
Cosell, who underwent cancer surgery in 1991, died of a heart
embolism at New York University’s Hospital for Joint Diseases, grand
son Justin Cohane said. "
He was the strident, colorful voice of ABC radio and television from
1953 to 1992. It was a period of phenomenal growth and change in
America’s pastimes, spurred by television’s cascading millions and
increased greed among athletes and promoters.
He is survived by two daughters, Jill and Hilary. His wife, Mary Edith
Cosell, died in 1990.
ATLANTA—After a second night of looting and traffic jams, the
huge Freaknik street party slowly dispersed Sunday as revelers made one
last cruise around the rainy city before heading home.
Freaknik was expected to draw more than 200,000 black college
students and other youths downtown Atlanta, but students who
attended said about half that number came this year.
The large crowds, traffic jams and unruly behavior in past years led
officials to close off 200 blocks and crack down on lawbreakers. But
police efforts didn’t prevent trouble over the weekend.
Revelers Friday night ransacked 11 stores near Underground Atlanta,
a downtown shopping and entertainment complex.
Freaknik party ends
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Other charges were expected to
follow. The government has said it
will seek the death penalty.
Brothers Terry Lynn Nichols, 40,
and James Douglas Nichols were or
dered held as material witnesses.
“We have at least, one and there
could be others,” said Weldon
Kennedy, FBI agent in charge of the
investigation. “There is much work
left to be done.”
CBS Radio reported that authori
ties were focusing on Terry Nichols as
a possible suspect and were looking
far as many as three additional peopled
No sources were cited for that infor
mation.
Clinton prays with nation,
mourns bombing victims
OKLAHOMA CITY — Presi
dent Clinton led an anguished na
tion Sunday in prayers for victims
of the federal office building bomb
ing. He also outlined a series of
broad steps to give the government
new powers to fight terrorism.
Clinton said the bombers should be
executed.
“If this is not a crime for which
capita] punishment is called, I don’t
know what is,” Clinton said in an
interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes”
after presiding over a nationally
televised memorial service.
Clinton also directed his admin
istration to replace the office build
ing devastated by last Wednesday’s
blast and appointed Attorney Gen.
Janet Reno to oversee a 60-day
high-level review of the vulnerabil
ity of federal buildings. There are
more than 8,000 such structures in
the country.
He said Americans may have to
exercise some “discipline” in their
freedoms in order to allow law of
ficers to prevent terrorism at home.
On a day he designated a na
tional day of mourning, a solemn
Clinton told a nationally televised
memorial service: “Those who are
lost now belong to God. Someday
we will be with them. But until that
happens, their legacy must be our
lives.”
“In thefttfce of death, let us honor
life,”he told Oklahoma City mourn
ers.
Clinton also denounced para
military groups and those who glo
rified the Branch Davidian cult
members who died in a bloody
standoff with federal agents two
years ago.
“Those people murdered a bunch
of innocent law enforcement offi
cials who worked for the federal
government,” Clinton said.
He said there are potential prob
lems in trying to crack down on
paramilitary organizations.
“I don’t want to interfere with
anyone’s constitutional rights,” he
said. However, he said that no one
has the right to violate laws against
life and property.
Among the steps announced on
Sunday by Clinton:
•Legislation to establish a Do
mestic Counterterrorism Center to
be headed by the FBI; creation of a
special fund to be used for infiltrat
ing suspected terrorist organizations
and other means of combating ter
rorism.
•Legislation to give the FBI in
creased authority to comb through
hotel and motel registers and to
search phone logs, greater access to
credit card records.
•Pressing for passage of the
administration’s Omnibus Counter
terrorism Act, which would give
the government more power to fight
terrorism greater authority to pro
tect the confidentiality of sources
in official proceedings. This provi
“In the face of death,
let us honor life, ”
m
PRESIDENT CLINTON
sion has been criticized by civil
liberties groups.
“We have got to take steps ag
gressively to shut it (this kind of
violence) down,” Clinton said.
“I’m going to do everything in
my power to do just that.”
Before flying to Oklahoma,
Clinton and first lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton planted a dogwood
tree on the South Lawn of the White
House in remembrance of the chil
dren who died in the blast last week.
“Today, our nation joins with
you in grief. We mourn with you.
We share your hope against hope
that some may still survive,” Cl inton
said at the memorial service. He
shared a platform at the Oklahoma
State Fairgrounds with the Rev.
Billy Graham, the evangelist.
“We pledge to do all we can to
help you heal the injured, to rebuild3-i
this city, and to bring to justice those
who did this evil,” Clinton said.
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Right-wing extremist stabs
Japan senior cult leader
TOKY O—As police and dozens of report
ers looked on, a right-wing extremist on Sunday
ambushed and fatally stabbed a senior leader of
the doomsday cult suspected in the lethal nerve
gas attack cm Tokyo’s subways.
The attack occurred as Hideo Murai, 36,
head of the Aum Shinri Kyo (Supreme Truth)
cult’s “Science and Technology Ministry,” was
returningto the cult’s Tokyo headquarters Sun
day night. Murai was erne of the five top leaders
of the cult.
Murai underwent surgery, but died of blood
loss and internal injuries several hours later,,
according to a hospital spokesman.
The stabbing was the latest chapter in a wave
of violence that has deeply shaken Japan, which
has long taken the safety ofits streets as a matter
of national [Hide.
Reporters mid TV crews have been staked
out in front of the cult headquarters for days,
and several networks broadcast video showing
a man pushing through the throng and slashing
at Murai.
The attacker dropped his bloody weapon, a
long-bladed kitchen knife, in the melee that
followed and was arrested. Police identified
him as Hirpyuki Jo, 29, a member of a rightist
organization.
Japan’s state-run television network, NHK,
said Jo told police he wanted to punish Murai
because of trouble caused by the cult .
The cult has denied any connection with the
Tokyo attack, which killed 12 people, or with
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two cases last week in which hundreds of people
complained of stinging eyes and sore throats at
a train station and shopping center in Yokohama,
just south of the capital.
Y et the cult has beat the focus of an intense
police investigation since the March 20 subway
killings.
Japanese media reported over the weekend
that police were planning to round up top lead
ers of the cult — including founder Shoko
Asahara—as early as Monday in connection
with the subway attack, and reporters had been
staking out Aum facilities around the clock.
Pol ice have conducted daily searches of cult
compounds since die subway killings and dis
covered tons of chemicals and equipment that
could have been used to produce sarin, the land
of nerve gas used in the subway attack.
Reports quoting anonymous police sources
said that officials have also uncovered evidence
ofrifle production facilities, biological warfare
labs and even plans to purchase nuclear weap
ons from Russia.
Ten days after the subway attack, Japan’s
top police official, who was responsible for the
investigation, was shot and nearly killed as he
left home for work.
And, as Parliament passed a law banning the
possession of sarin last week, hundreds ofpeople
were sickened by toxic fames released at a
major train station just south of Tokyo. Nearly
two dozen more were hospitalized in a similar
incident at a shopping center near the same
station Friday.
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a story dealing with welfare
debate in the Legislature
erroneously reported that the
bill capped welfare benefits to
mothers after two children.
The bill caps additional welfare
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pregnant within ten months of
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