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2 • The Red and Black • Thursday. January 18. 1990
BRIEFLY
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Crab season opened Wednesday. The
commercial crab-trawling season in Georgia’s territorial waters
opened Wednesday, with trawlers restricted to 4-inch stretched mesh
nets. The Department of Natural Resources said the larger net size
will not damage the nearshore shrimp which survived the recent
freezing weather. The department said most trawling interest likely
will center on whelks, or conch, because of a closing of state waters,
which extend to three miles offshore, to shrimpers after the damaging
freeze The commercial crab catch in last year’s season, which went
through May, was listed at 34,327 pounds valued at $13,000. Conch
landings by commercial crab trawlers for the same period were listed
at 351,000 pounds worth $176,000.
firm wants
Accounting
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Accounting
Today said Ernst & Young asked
the newsletter Wednesday to re
turn secret documents about the
accounting giant, which won a
court order halting their publica
tion at another newsletter last
week.
Accounting Today, a twice-
monthly newsletter based in New
York, said it had no plans to return
the documents and would publish
them in its Feb. 5 edition, mailed to
subscribers Jan. 30.
“We got a nice note from them
today, hand-delivered, to return
the documents and not to talk
about them," said Robert Crane,
Accounting Today editor. “We will
not respond. We will plan to go
ahead with what we intended to do
anyway.”
The documents, evidently leaked
by someone inside the Big Six ac
counting company, apparently con
tain sensitive details about
compensation to the partners of
Ernst & Whinnev and Arthur
Young, the firms that merged last
June.
Ernst & Young won a court
order Jan. 8 preventing Bowman’s
secret papers returned
... -TuHirp Shainswit’s order onlv an.
Accounting Report of Atlanta from
printing a front-page article con
taining the information, just as the
newsletter was going to press. A
hearing on that order by New York
Supreme Court Judge Beatrice
Shainswit was scheduled for
Thursday morning.
Ernst & Young officials did not
immediately return telephone calls
seeking comment on Accounting
Today’s plans. Carl D. Liggio, an
attorney representing the ac-
counting firm in the Bowmans
case, was in a meeting and un-
Judge Shainswit’s order only ap.
plies to Bowman’s. The accounting
firm would have to get another
order to stop Accounting Today
from publishing the material.
The case has attracted enormous
attention from news organizations,
which claim the judge’s order vio-
lated the constitutional guarantee
of press freedom. Ernst & Young
claims the issue concerns privacy
rights.
'You have to keep in mind that
accountants take confidentiality
very seriously,” Crane said. “l n
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ATLANTA (AP): Confession may be used as evidence.
Houston County prosecutors are asking the Georgia Supreme Court
to allow a courtroom confession by an 18-year-old murder suspect to
be admitted as evidence at his trial. Dwight Simmons, who is charged
with killing his great uunt and great uncle, said, “I’m guilty, I’m
guilty" in a first appearance hearing before Houston County
Magistrate Nick Lazaros last April. At the time, Lazaros was
explaining Simmons’ right to an attorney. Simmons did not have a
lawyer at the time, although he had asked for one about 30 minutes
prior to the hearing. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty
against Simmons in the April shotgun slayings of Bessie and Willie
Lewis in Houston County. A Houston County Superior Court judge
disallowed the courtroom statement, one of four statements Simmons
made in the two days following the slayings.
■ NATION
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP): Eruption causes delays. A
20-minute eruption at Redoubt volcano forced some flight delays and
cancellations Wednesday in Anchorage as ash and steam was
released six miles into the atmosphere. The Alaska Volcano
Observatory said the eruption late Tuesday was small but the 10,197-
foot volcano continued to shudder Wednesday. Pilots reported an ash
plume more than 30,000 feet in the air and lightning flashes during
the eruption. Ash fell as far away as Cantwell, 230 miles northeast of
Reboubt. Some airlines operating out of Anchorage International
Airport strid there were flight delays and cancellations because of the
possibility of running into ash in the dark.
WASHINGTON (AP): TV preachers may be taxed.
Religious items sold by television evangelists through the mail or at
crusade appearances may be taxed by states just like any other
merchandise, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The court said
such taxes do not violate religious freedom, and unanimously upheld
lower court rulings that forced the Louisiana-based Jimmy Swaggart
Ministries to pay $183,000 in back taxes to California. Most states tax
the proceeds of at least some mail order sales to their residents, but
California apparently is the only state that does not exempt religious
organizations. Other states searching for additional tax revenues now
could follow California’s lead. “California’s non-discriminatory sales
and use tax law ... imposes no constitutionally significant burden on
(Swaggart’s) religious practices or beliefs,” Justice Sandra Day
O’Connor wrote for the court. The tax at issue was imposed on the
sales of religious books, tapes and other merchandise sold by
Swaggart’s organization from 1974 through 1981.
BOSTON (AP): Study proves oat bran a hype. Contrary to
cereal ads and popular belief, oat bran does not lower cholesterol
levels, according to a study that challenges one of the biggest food
crazes of the 1980s. Critics were skeptical of the findings. The new
research concluded that people who eat lots of oat bran do indeed
have less cholesterol in their blood, not because of any special powers
of oat bran but because they eat less saturated fat and cholesterol.
Oat bran has been promoted as a health food largely because it is rich
in soluble fiber. Several studies have suggested that this kind of fiber
somehow removes cholesterol from the body. But this latest study
concluded that people’s cholesterol levels dropped just as much when
they ate food made with low-fiber white fiour and Cream of Wheat as
it did with heavy intake of oat bran, because fat consumption went
down.
GDANSK. Poland (AP): Walesa says plan could fail, a
desperate plan to jolt Poland into a free market economy is faltering
and will fail without a quick dose of foreign capital, Solidarity leader
Lech Walesa said. At the same time, he added, Poland must create a
climate in which outside resources could be put to use. Walesa, one of
several Polish leaders interviewed this week on the plan’s first
results, said, “We are like a car with four wheels running in different
directions, moving fast but slipping backward. Nothing can be done
from inside the car.” He added, “It is too slow and too little. This is
why I see this as blacker and blacker. W’e cannot reform our old
system within our own means. This is impossible without outside
help."
LONDON (AP): Government criticized for China photo.
Government officials were criticized Wednesday for using a photo of a
wounded Chinese student to illustrate a voter registration campaign.
The ad, published by the Scottish Office which governs Scotland,
showed a student being carried away prostrate on a delivery bicycle.
It was taken after Chinese troops crushed pro-democracy
demonstrators in Beijing on June 3-4. The picture appeared in
several Scottish newspapers in September above a caption that said:
“You’ll only have to give your name and address ” The Advertising
Standards Authority, an independent watchdog organization, said in
its latest report that it received complaints from people who believed
it was in “appallingly bad taste.” It said the Scottish Office defended
it ns being a reminder to the public of the importance of the right to
vote in a free society. But it believed the argument “did not justify
this deplorable approach.”
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• Circle K International will hold
its weekly meeting tonight at 7 in
Room 137 of the Tate Student
Center.
• The International Business
Club will meet tonight at 7:30 in
the Tate Student Center, Room
141. The Washington trip will be
discussed. Casual attire.
• The UGA chapter of the Golden
Key National Honor Society will
meet tonight at 6 at Rocky’s
Pizza. Current officers will
explain their responsibilities in
preparation for the upcoming
election of new officers.
Announcements
• The Sigma Nu fraternity will
be hosting a Red Cross blood
drive today from 1 to 6 p.m. at
the Sigma Nu fraternity house,
150 River Rd.
• There are tickets remaining for
the 1990 Hoop Hounds
basketball games. Season tickets
and a Hoop Hounds T-shirt can
be purchased at the coliseum for
$15.
• The UGA Psychology Club is
presenting an open forum on
I ‘The Future of Psychology”
j tonight at 6:15 in Room 111 of
the psychology building.
I Everyone is welcome.
• The Georgia Outdoor
■ Recreation Program will have
I Plaza Day at the Tate Student
Center today from 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. Program leaders will be
available to give information on
the various trips planned this
quarter. For more information,
call 542-GORP.
• Daniel Garber, professor and
chairman in Dhilosophy at the
University of Chicago, will give a
lecture titled “Cartesian Bodies"
tonight at 8 in Room 115 of
Peabody Hall.
• The LSAT practice test for pre
law students will be given
tonight from 6 to 9:30 p.m. in the
Kaplan Learning Center in the
College Square Building across
from the arch.
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