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2 • The Red and Black • Friday, February 2, 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
TA prevents fire disaster, receives minor burns.
Microbiology teaching assistant Wafa Elcheikh suffered second
degree bums after preventing a burning flask from creating a fire
Thursday. Elcheikh said she was demonstrating the standard plate
technique for counting bacteria when she accidentally knocked it too
close to a Bunsen burner and it started burning. She immediately
took the flask and placed it in the nearest sink. A quick-minded
student placed a fire blanket on the flask, she said, and a nearby lab
coordinator took Elcheikh to the Gilbert Health Center where her
burns were treated. Elcheikh said, “I’m fine. I take off my bandages
tomorrow.”
Grad student wins creative writing honor for essay.
Ranee Kaur, a doctoral student in comparative literature, won top
honors Tuesday in the 11th annual Saeeda Peermahomed Creative
Writing Contest for foreign students at the University. Kaur, who will
graduate this summer, won with an essay entitled, “What’s in a
Name?” The essay is a self-analysis, she said. It’s about the complete
spiritual and personal transition from India to the United States.
West German graduate student Horst Gerbig finished second.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Pizza killing suspect may plead guilty.
Rockdale District Attorney Robert Mumford said Thursday he
expects 14-year-old Randy Dobbs Jr. to plead guilty Friday to the
murder of a pizza delivery woman — a case where the motive,
according to police, was just meanness. Dobbs, characterized by
schoolmates as a gun-obsessed chronic liar, is charged with murder in
the Oct. 25 shooting death of 20-year-old Carolyn Boswell, a part-time
Pizza Hut delivery driver. Police say Dobbs stayed home from school
that day, ordered two large pizzas delivered to his suburban Rockdale
County home, argued with the driver about the $19.75 bill and then
shot the woman through the head with a .357-caliber Magnum, one of
his father’s many guns.
ATLANTA (AP): Goals to reduce sex diseases not met.
Three of five major goals for preventing sexually transmitted diseases
by 1990 aren’t being met because of a historic increase in syphilis and
lagging education efforts, federal health researchers said Thursday.
The goals, part of the federal government’s 1990 Health Objectives for
the Nation, were set in 1979, aimed at reducing gonorrhea and
syphilis while raising awareness among doctors and young people.
Gonorrhea rates dropped as hoped during the 1980s, but syphilis is
soaring and education efforts are falling behind, the national Centers
for Disease Control reported.
SAVANNAH (AP): Savannah papers start magazine. A
new publication called Savannah Magazine is to debut in late April
with an initial press run of 12,000 copies. Editor Georgia Whitley said
Wednesday the magazine would be thought-provoking and often
controversial. “Our magazine will be a source of pride for all
Savannahians,” she said. “It will be both light-hearted and hard
hitting. It won’t be all pecan pie recipes and azalea gardening tips.”
The quarterly magazine is owned by the Savannah News-Press, but
will be operated entirely independent of the daily newspapers, said
Don Harwood, general manager of the News-Press.
■ NATION
WASHINGTON (AP): Troop withdrawals lead address.
President Bush, propelled by the political upheaval in Eastern
Europe and the Soviet Union, proposed a dramatic cut in U.S. and
Soviet combat troops Wednesday night in his first State of the Union
address. Bush also announced plans to withdraw all of the nearly
13,000 troops sent to Panama in an invasion to oust Gen. Manuel
Antonio Noriega before the end of February. Hours before he
delivered his address to Congress and a national television audience,
Bush telephoned Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on Wednesday
to advise him of his proposal to cut U.S. and Soviet forces in Central
Europe to 195,000 on each side.
CHICAGO (AP): Italian food gets mixed health rating.
The classic Mediterranean diet — high in olive oil and other
unsaturated fats — is linked with lower blood cholesterol, lower blood
pressure and lower blood sugar, say doctors who studied thousands of
Italians. At the same time, higher consumption of butter and other
animal fats — typical of the European-style diet of northern Italians
— is associated with higher blood cholesterol, blood pressure and
blood sugar, the researchers said. Monounsaturated fats, including
olive oil, have been associated with lower blood-cholesterol levels and
risk of heart disease. The study, published in Friday’s Journal of the
American Medical Association, suggests the benefits of olive oil and
other unsaturated fats may have a much broader range than
expected.
■ WORLD
MOSCOW (AP): Fast food takes Soviets by storm.
Thousands of queue-hardened Soviets on Wednesday cheerfully lined
up to get a taste of “gamburgers,” “chizburgers” and “Filay-o-feesh”
sandwiches as McDonald’s opened in the land of Lenin for the first
time. The world’s largest version of the landmark American fast-food
chain rang up 30,000 meals on 27 cash registers, breaking the
opening-day record for McDonald’s worldwide, officials said. The
Soviets, bundled in fur coats and hats, seemed unfazed, lining up
before dawn outside the 700-seat restaurant, the first of 20 planned
across the Soviet Union. The rush of customers was so intense the
company stayed open until midnight, two hours later than planned.
EAST BERLIN (AP): Reunification attempts continue.
East Germany’s Communist premier on Thursday appealed for
negotiations with West Germany to forge a “united fatherland” that
eventually would be neutral and governed from Berlin. West German
Chancellor Helmut Kohl welcomed the call to discuss reunification,
but rejected the call for military neutrality. East German Premier
Hans Modrow called for “a reasonable time horizon” for reunification
to be mutually determined, apparently hoping to gain control over the
galloping pace of events drawing the two Germanys together.
UGA TODAY
Announcements
• The Georgia Ice Dawgs hockey
team will provide bus rides for
fans to the matches against
Georgia State University tonight
and Saturday night. The fare is
$8. For more information, call
the Recreational Sports Office at
543-9779.
Meetings
• The Mathematics Education
Student Association will meet
Monday at 3:15 p.m. in Room 114
of Aderhold Hall.
• The Chemistry Club will meet
Monday at 4 p.m. in Room 334 of
the Chemistry Building. The
meeting will concern a trip to the
Eastman Kodak plant and the
Oak Ridge National Laboratories
in Tennessee.
Concerts/Exhibits
• Pianist Richard Neher, from
the University of Idaho, will
perform Monday night at 8 in the
North PJ auditorium. Neher will
rform works by Beethoven,
hubert and Ravel. The concert
is free and open to the public.
• “Prints and Works on Paper:
New Aquisitions” will be on
display at the Georgia Museum
of Art beginning Saturday. This
exhibit will be displayed through
March 11.
Items for UGA Today must be
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Include specific meeting location,
speakers title and topic, and a
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phone number. Items are printed
on a space-available basis.
Because space is limited, long
announcements are shortened.
Judge’s ruling pending on confession
The Associated Press
JONESBORO, Ga. — Attorneys
for a woman who admitted in a vi
deotaped confession of smothering
two of her children are trying to get
the videotape ruled inadmissible
as evidence in her trial.
“Sometimes I sit there and look
because there are their pictures,
because I know I did wrong and I
would do anything to have them
back, because I didn’t mean to hurt
them like that,” Martha Ann
Johnson said on the tape played in
Clayton County Superior Court.
Mrs. Johnson’s attorneys, who
contend the three-hour taped con
fession was involuntary, are trying
to have it ruled inadmissible as ev
idence. It was played Wednesday
for Judge Kenneth Kilpatrick, who
agreed to hear from the defense be
fore ruling.
“Without the confession, we
don’t have a case,” said Clifford A.
Stitcher, chief assistant district at
torney for Clayton County.
In the tape made last July, Mrs.
Johnson told Clayton County Po
lice Sgt. Ken Stewart that she
didn’t intend to kill 11-year-old
James William Taylor in 1977 or
11-year-old Jennyann Wright in
1982, but did so in hopes of getting
her estranged husband back.
Both were her children from pre
vious marriages.
Mrs. Johnson, whose four chil
dren died between 1977 and 1982,
was indicted by a Clayton County
grand jury last July for murdering
three of them, including Jennyann.
James William, the fourth child,
died in Fulton County. Despite the
confession, no charges have been
filed in that death.
Authorities dropped their inves
tigation into the children’s deaths
eight years ago, but reopened it in
January 1989 after an article in
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
detailed the case.
On the tape, Mrs. Johnson
denied killing her two other chil
dren — 3-month-old Tibitha Jan-
eele Bowen, whose 1980 death was
attributed to sudden infant death
syndrome, and 3-year-old Earl
Wayne Bowen, whose 1981 death
was attributed to “seizure disorder
of unknown etiology.”
“I just laid on her when she was
sleeping with me,” Mrs. Johnson
said of Jennyann, “because I
thought maybe it would get Earl
(S. Bowen, her former husband)
back. But I didn’t mean to do it. I’m
sorry.”
Of James William, she said, “He
was sleeping with me and I rolled
over on him. I didn’t mean to.”
Mrs. Johnson’s attorney, Colin
McDonald, criticized Stewart for
telling the woman that he was her
friend and could help her. Stewart
coaxed the woman for two hours
before she admitted the slayings.
W*yn« Jackton/The Red and Black
Early spring cleaning
Jeff Ball, a senior marketing major, took advantage of the warm sunny
weather Thursday to tidy up at Baxter Street Car Wash.
Statewide drug task force funding proposed
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Leaders of the Georgia House
announced a new initiative in their war on
drugs Thursday that would provide funding for
investigator-prosecutor teams to travel the
state and help prosecute major drug cases.
House Speaker Tom Murphy, D-Bremen, an
nounced the effort during a news conference at
the Capitol. He said it was proposed by the
state’s district attorneys and worked out during
a meeting at the Capitol that drew representa
tives from all major state and federal law en
forcement agencies.
He described the initiative as “a statewide
drug task force consisting of prosecuting attor
neys and officers to investigate” higher-level
drug dealers.
The program will consist of at least eight
lawyers and “we hope many more investiga
tors,” Murphy said, adding that it will be coor
dinated by the prosecuting attorneys’ council of
Georgia.
The teams will have statewide jurisdiction,
Murphy said, adding: “Of course, they’ll have to
indict in the county where they catch 'em. But
the prosecutors and investigators will be able to
cross county lines.”
The prosecuting attorneys’ council already is
providing some help to overburdened district
attorneys, Murphy said, “but now they’ll start
their own investigation and everything else.
They’ll be in from the beginning.”
House Majority Leader Larry Walker, D-
Perry, said the initiative developed from a
meeting between legislative leaders, the
Georgia Sheriff's Association, the Georgia Bu
reau of Investigation, Attorney General Mi
chael Bowers and many other organizations.
‘There was no dissent. There was unanimous
agreement that it was the thing to do. It was a
problem of such nature that turf was no longer
important,” he said.
Also, he strongly endorsed the anti-drug leg
islation, which targets middle-class users.
‘The bills in the General Assembly are going
to be very important; they might even be revo
lutionary. Georgia might be taking some steps
that nobody else has taken,” Bowers said.
The bills propose a string of non-criminal pe
nalties for drug convictions, including revoking
certification of doctors and lawyers, revoking
driver’s licenses, expelling students from state
colleges and making people with drug records
ineligible for scholarship aid, low-interest
housing loans and government contracts.
Bowers said some constitutional arguments
have been raised, but replied, “What constitu
tional right is there to smoke a joint or snort a
line of coke?”
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