THE SELMA AL, SUNDAY, Nation Mrs. Clinton takes shot at plan's critics LAS VEGAS (AP) On her first trip this year to sell the Clinton health care plan, Hillary Rodham Clinton portrayed the plan's critics as privileged people who are out of touch with the real problems of their country. "You know, there are some people in Washington who say, 'Oh, there's no health care crisis," Mrs. Clinton told patients and their families at a Nevada hospital Friday. "I don't know where those people have lived," she said.
"I don't know who they talk to every day." Mrs. Clinton repeatedly cast critics of the Clinton plan as those with secure health coverage, who question the need for an overhaul because their own coverage insulates them from the fears and crises of those without it. President Clinton echoed that theme Saturday in his weekly radio address, saying the only people who say there is no health care crisis are "right here in Washington, where so many enjoy secure health benefits at reasonable cost paid for by the taxpayers." The key, Mrs. Clinton said Friday, may be 1 to make the privileged feel some vulnerability, and show them the benefits of caring for those who are worse off. "You know, people get sick and have accidents without any of us being able to predict it and they end up in the hospital.
And if they can't pay for it, we all pay for it eventually anyway," Mrs. Clinton said. California DMV busted for awarding license SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) A jury ordered the California Department of Motor Vehicles to pay $4.1 million to three people who were struck in a crosswalk by a driver who was legally blind. The Superior Court jury already had found the DMV negligent for granting a driver's license to George Lizarralde, 31, of Brea.
Lizarralde was rejected three times, but received the license on his fourth try in 1985 even though he flunked the vision test. His license was renewed in 1990. The jury reached a verdict Friday in a lawsuit. Lizarralde was dropped from the lawsuit earlier this month when jurors decided the state was liable. The award pleased Deborah Ann Mohr, 32, who was among the injured in the Aug.
4 4, 1991, accident. She suffered brain damage and walks with a cane. "I would give up every penny to be able to walk normal again, to have my memory back again, and to have things back to normal," she said. "I hope this makes the DMV more responsible about giving out licenses." Mohr was awarded $3.5 million for pain and suffering, lost earnings and medical expenses. Her then-fiance, Brian Barber, was awarded $494,690 and his son $153,939.
The award will be appealed, said Bill Madison, a DMV spokesman in Sacramento. Moriarty quits series because of censorship LOS ANGELES (AP) Actor Michael Moriarty, who attacked the Clinton administration for its get-tough campaign against television violence, has quit the series "Law Order" because NBC tried to shut him up, his publicist said. Moriarty quit after he was yanked from appearances on two other NBC shows, "Now" and "Today," publicist Gary Springer said. "When you get dropped from two shows on your own network within two days of one another, you know something's up," Springer said. "It's obvious to Michael that NBC is trying to 101 (19) Das 21 how boon sit censor him and his views." ed 01 box World African child-killer may be on loose again MITCHELLS PLAIN, South Africa (AP) The child-killer who has terrorized a coastal community for years may have struck as recently as the past week, police said Saturday.
Police have linked the so-called "Station Strangler" to the murders of at least 19 boys since 1986. When the killings appeared to have stopped in 1992, police surmised that the killer was dead or in prison on other charges. But 10 bodies have been found in Mitchells Plain, near Cape Town, since Jan. 20. Police spokesman Capt.
John Stirrenberg said a 12-year-old boy whose body was found Wednesday appeared to have been buried for no more than three days. The latest victims have ranged in age from 8 to 12 years. The strangler, who police say is the deadliest serial killer in South African history, is believed to lure his victims from railway stations before sodomizing and strangling them. The known victims were all from Mitchells Plain, a community of racially mixed descendants of blacks, whites, Malays and Hottentots. Frightened parents in Mitchells Plain have vowed to find and execute the strangler.
Police have urged residents not to become vigilantes. Nine deaths were linked to the Station Strangler between 1986 and 1992. Most of the victims were found buried in shallow graves with their hands tied behind their backs, and most had been sodomized and strangled. On Jan. 20, the body of an 11-year-old boy was found.
Tuesday, a firefighter stumbled on the graves of two 12-year-old boys while monitoring a bush fire near Mitchells Plain. The body of another 12-year-old boy was found Wednesday, and six bodies were found Thursday. Israeli-Palestinian peace deal may be near DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) Israel's Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and PLO leader Yasser Arafat met Saturday in a newly optimistic mood about reaching an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal soon. Despite earlier pessimism over prospects for a breakthrough, both men were upbeat as they met for evening talks in a luxury hotel. When asked when a peace deal would be signed, Arafat said, "Very soon." Peres said, "Fairly soon." The two leaders spoke during a break about a half-hour after talks began Saturday night.
One-on-one talks continued afterward. In a brief session with Israeli and Palestinian journalists before the meeting began, Arafat said the two sides were working "to put together the basic platform for an agreement this evening." Jordan diplomat assassinated in Beirut BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) A gunman shot and killed Jordan's second-ranking diplomat in Beirut on Saturday, the first assassination of a foreign diplomat since Lebanon's 15-year civil war ended in 1990. Police said an assassin with an apparently unarmed accomplice killed Naeb Imran Maaytah as he was driving out of a parking lot near his house in the seaside Raouche residential district at 9:30 a.m. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the assassination, and authorities would only speculate on the motive. The attack marked a blow to efforts to clean up Lebanon's image from the civil war years as a haven for assassins, kidnappers, bombers and hijackers.
The government has intensified its campaign to lure foreigners back in the past year, claiming Beirut is safe again. Positions Continued from page A1 attorneys said such action by the law appointed by the council council would be the result of following regularly scheduled personal bias and racial general elections. He said the discrimination, and they would seek August 1993 races that elected the damages for their clients. city's first black-majority city Pitts presented a 1990 opinion by council was a special election. then Attorney General Don Pitt's opinion met with heavy Siegelman in which he stipulates a criticism and harsh words from general election is the regularly council members Yusef Salaam, scheduled election by Alabama law.
Nancy Sewell and President Pro tem Pitts also submitted a copy of a Bill King July 21, 1993 letter from the U.S. "His (Mr. Pitt's) opinion is just an Justice Department discussing opinion," King said. "We hold voting procedures in which credence to the opinion of Judge Assistant Attorney General James P. Hand that the general elections were Turner referred to the Aug.
24 and on hold." Sept 14 races that elected the King said the council would council as "special primary and runcontinue to examine the legal off elections." aspects of the situations and did not Several council members also have a set timetable for a decision on rejected another opinion by Pitts that the subject. Robert Jacobs is entitled to retain his "There are some basic legal rank as sergeant after a two-year questions," he said. absence from the Selma Police "We are going to do the best thing Department. for the people that we represent." Jacobs returned to the force in Alabama law stipulates that in January as director of E911 cities having a population of more emergency communications line than 6,000, the city council upon after serving two years as state fire their first meeting after the general marshall. Pitts said there re was an oral election will elect a city clerk and agreement between Jacobs and city treasurer who will hold office Police Chief Randy Lewellen that until the next general election.
Jacobs could return at his former Ms. Miller and Ms. Ramsey rank and pay as soon as a position replaced former clerk Hugh A. 1 Wall, became available in the who retired in April of 1993. Wall communications division.
Pitts said had been appointed to the position the agreement was made because of by the council in October of 1992. his value as an officer. Jacobs was The then white-majority city council the officer in charge of setting up unanimously approved the and coordinating the E911 system. replacement appointments on the "I presented an opinion that there recommendation of. Mayor Joe was a binding agreement, even Smitherman.
though it was an oral agreement," Ward 8 representative Salaam Pitts said. made a motion to hire outside legal City policy allows only a two-year counsel on the issue. The motion absence for former employees to failed with only four members, retain their rank and pay. Salaam, Mrs. Sewell, King and Pitts said both Jacobs and Williams, voting for the motion.
Lewellen signed affidavits on the Councilman Mark West abstained agreement but they were left out of from the vote. the personnel file by accident. Attorneys for Ms. Ramsey and "It was a simple mistake," Pitts Ms. Miller presented letters to the said.
council threatening legal action if Another motion was made to they are removed from their obtain outside legal counsel but positions. failed by the same margin. West Ms. Miller is being represented by again abstained from the vote. John Kelly, and Ms.
Ramsey is The police department is currently being represented by John Pilcher facing a complaint by a black jail and Billy Faile. In their letters, the employee alleging racial Kilpatrick Continued from page A4 Kind, that commission is the responsibility of informing the reader. That includes offering new words. If the reader chooses not to turn to a dictionary for a precise definition, more's the pity. Still, though, he can get the meaning from context and inference." I cannot disagree with a word my critics say.
I was probably wrong in suggesting a guideline of 98 percent comprehension. Some lesser percentage of instant familiarity would be better. I surely would oppose any mechanistic rule of percentages anyhow. Writers must be informed by their own editorial judgment. Mr.
Smith said we should introduce our readers to unfamiliar words "from time to time." Other critics have used the words "often" and "frequently." Very well. How often is often? How frequent is frequently? From time to time (about twice a year), I rail against the use of foreign words and phrases. Yes, appropriately employed for a welleducated readership, an apt foreign phrase can add a touch of oregano to the sauce. The device fails when we cry "Voila!" and spell it "Viola!" I recall the society editor who described the bridesmaids' dresses. They were "cafe ole." Nothing is wrong with an occasional foreign phrase, but how occasional is occasional? There is no real disagreement between me and my "critics.
Of course a writer should seek to be clearly, or at least generally, understood. And of course a writer should seek the exact word instead of its inexact second cousin. Yes, now and then we should throw a brushback pitch, high and tight and inside, just to let the reader know who's boss. All I am urging is that we constantly ask ourselves, how now is now and how then is then? Kilpatrick is a syndicated columnist. caught ya' Reading those small ads again OS CRUISING Per Sunglasses Lomb by Bausch EYEMAX VISION Mon-Fri Mister 1522 Broad St VISA 872-2321 Abuse Continued from page A1 problems did not involve any offense against people, Morgan said.
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