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■ STATE
LAWRENCEVILLE (AP): Gwinnett to vote on MARTA.
Nineteen years after voters in Gwinnett County said no to N1ARTA,
the county is drawing closer to voting on the transit Question again A
group of business leaders Tuesday formally asked the Gwinnett
County Commission to approve a referendum on whether the county
northeast of Atlanta should join the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid
Transit Authority. Commission Chairman Lillian Webb said she
expects a formal vote on the matter within the next few weeks Her
opinion on the issue: “Let the voters decide and move on.” A
referendum would likely call for Gwinnett residents to pay a 1
percent local sales tax for MARTA service, as do residents of Fulton
and DeKalb counties.
POLICY
From page 1
Dr Edward Bennett, a Sa
vannah veterinarian and 1989 vet
school graduate, said Wednesday
in a telephone interview he never
thought there was much of a
problem understanding An.
"At first I had to get him to re
peat things sometimes,” he said.
'But after about two days I accli
mated and could understand him
just fine.”
Bennett gave an example of An’s
Imgusitic quirks ‘He would say, 'It
is a tin muscle,’ when what he was
trying to communicate is, it’s a
‘thin’ muscle.
“I met An prior to my freshman
year because I wanted help pre
paring some bone specimens,” he
said ‘An really helped me out then
and he really enjoyed helping
The vet school’s program is ex
tremely stressful and it was very
inspirational to see him working so
hard and taking such pride in his
work.”
An received a special recognition
award in 1986, which hangs on his
office wall. The award was voted on
by students
An said some problems evolved
between him and his superiors be
cause as a lab technician he isn't
supposed to partake in instruction
at all. He said he wasn’t aware that
answering questions and helping
during labs was prohibited.
“But now I don’t do that; 1 go in
there during lab,” he said, pointing
to his office across the hall from the
lab area.
“1 know it’s hard for him," Ben
nett said, “because there he is with
a master's from Cornell and he
can’t share his knowledge as much
as he would like to.
“But in spite of that he main
tains dignity and pride in his job
and he’s always, always smiling. ”
Vet school faculty involved in
the grievance proceedings declined
tocomment, including Dean David
Anderson and An’s immediate su
pervisor, Dr Royce Roberts, who
made the decision to terminate
mm.
An’s complaint, filed with the
Clarke County Superior Court last
week, will go to court June 22. Hia
final appeal with the campus-wide
grievance committee will be sched-
uled after the court makes a deri
sion on his complaint.
“I believe in the president of
UGA, Charles Knapp, who will
hopefully step in when he finds the
truth of this case,” An said,
pointing to an editorial on cultural
diversity written by Knapp and
published Tuesday in The Red and
Black.
Knapp was out-of-town
Wednesday and unavailable for
comment.
DANIELSVILLE (AP): Animal cruelty charges dropped.
Charges were dismissed against 56 men accused of cruelty to animals
after a ra:d on a cockfight in Ha a year ago More than 200 people
* ere arrested in the raid on May 6, 1989. Henry Nathan Howze of
Camming appealed the case in Superior Court, saying his r.ghts had
oeen violated and his attendance at the cockfight as a spectator did
rot constitute cruelty to animals. Judge William Grant dismissed the
charges against Howze. and charges were dismissed this spring
against the 55 other men who had pleaded not guilty. Bonds of $200
that 54 of them had chosen to forfeit in lieu of a court appearance
were refunded.
ATLANTA (AP): Soviet Union could be a huge market.
A top Soviet development executive warned American counterparts
Wednesday that if they don’t get or. board, they may miss the
business explosion in the Soviet Union. “In a year, there may no: be
any room for anyone else.* said Andrei Stroyev. chairman of
Perestroika Joint Venture, the first Soviet-American real estate
development company. He was speaking to about 200 business and
government officials at a University of Georgia forum in Atlanta. “If
there are still more delays — if a year from now people in the United
States are still afraid of doing business in the Soviet Union — we can
say that the United States is losing a major market,” Stroyev said.
The Germans are there. Italy and Austria are there Finland is
there The Europeans are moving very fast."
SAVANNAH (AP): Manager throws grease on suspect.
A Kentucky Fried Chicken assistant manager fired for throwing hot
g-ease or. a robbery’ suspect said he didn’t feel he could wait for police,
who had not arrived in rime to catch the suspect three days earlier. “I
regret losing my job, but I don’t regret throwing grease on him,"
James Hampton, 45, said. “If I earned a gun I would have shot and
killed him.* Hampton said he was working in the hack of the
restaurant Monday when he recognized a customer as one of three
m.er. who robbed him and another employee or. May 4. Hampton took
about a gallon of 362-degree grease from a fryer and tossed it on the
man, who ran out of the building. Ponce said the man was found
about 40 minutes later with open bum wounds on his chest. Police
said they do not plan to charge Hampton in the grease-throwing
incident.
WASHINGTON (AP): Man attacks Quayle with paper.
Vice President Dan Quayle was struck in the heap Wednesday with a
rolled up batch of papers thrown by a man who shouted to him as he
got into his limousine on Capitol Hill. The vice president was not
hurt, and was taken away in his limousine, said his press secretary,
David Beckwith. The assailant was caught by Secret Service and
Capitol police officers Secret Service spokesman Allan Cramer said
Mwenea Sikuzote of St. Thomas, V.I., had been charged with
assaulting the vice president. *The guy shouted ‘I have documents,’
and proceeded to throw some,” as the vice president emerged from the
Hart Senate Office Building from his weekly lunch with GOP
senators, said Beckwith.
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP): Police study bombing link.
Authorities investigating two mail bomb assassinations in the
Southeast are reviewing the case of three Idaho white supremacists
accused of plotting to bomb a gay disco in Seattle, a newspaper
reported Wednesday. The case comparison is a routine step to
determine if there are similarities between the slayings of an
Alabama judge and a Georgia attorney and the alleged pipe-bomb
conspiracy in the Northwest, The Spokesman-Review reported. One
of the three men accused in last month’s Seattle bombing plot, Procter
Baker, was indicted in Idaho in 1981 on a charge of mailing a death
threat to Clarence Seeliger, a Superior Court judge in DeKalb
County, Ga., near Atlanta. Prosecution of Baker, 57, was suspended
after he admitted mailing the letter and was placed on pre-trial
diversion, a form of probation, court records snow.
CLINTON, Tenn. (AP): Nuclear activists’ trial delayed.
The criminal trespassing trial of two protesters arrested during a
1989 Hiroshima Day demonstration at the Oak Ridge nuclear
weapons plant has been rescheduled for October. Bonnie Kendrick,
36, of Falls Church, Va., and Kathy Brown, 27, of Savannah, Ga.,
were scheduled to stand trial Thursday in Anderson County Circuit
Court. But Circuit Judge James Scott agreed to a defense request to
delay the proceedings until Oct. 3. The two were arrested Aug. 6,
1989, during a protest against the continued production of nuclear
weapons at the Department of Energy’s Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge,
which they argue violates international law. Kendrick has said she
intends to call expert witnesses on the environment, health and
military and international law to testify.
■ WORLD
TURNBERRY, Scotland (AP): Summits discuss NATO.
U S. Secretary of State James A. Baker III on Wednesday presented a
Soviet proposal on Germany’s military future to the 15 U S. allies in
NATO as having the potential to break an East-West deadlock. He
then flew to this small town on the western coast of Scotland where
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had invited the NATO foreign
ministers to meet on Germany and other East-West issues. Baker will
see Thatcher on Thursday and confer with the foreign ministers
through Saturday. A month from now President Bush and the heads
of the 15 governments will meet at a NATO summit in London. The
key issue in all these sessions is the impending union of East
Germany and West Germany and its admission into NATO. The
Soviet idea is to have NATO and the Warsaw Pact, which begins a
meeting Thursday in Moscow, exchange political assurances.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• Circle K International will
meet tonight at 7 at the Western
Sizzlin Restaurant.
• The Northeast Chapter of The
Compassionate Friends will
meet Monday, June 11 at 7:30
p.m. at Holy Cross Lutheran
Church, 800 Westlake Drive.
Anyone who has experienced a
loss of a child is invited.
Lectures/Services
• She Zhixiang, Director at the
Chinese Academy of Science, will
speak today 2:30 p.m. at the Tate
Student Center in Room 142. The
topic is “Environmental Impact
of China’s Three Gorges Dam
Project.” The public is invited.
• RJ. Eason, field investigator
from the Office of the
Commissioner of Insurance, will
help anyone with insurance
questions or problems on June 12
from 9 to 2:20 p.m. at the Clarke
County Courthouse, 5th floor,
rhere is no fee for this service.
• Lief Carter, of the University
Department of Political Science,
will speak June 14-15 at 12 p.m.
at Park Hall in Room 261. Tne
topic is “Conversations About
Wagner’s 'Ring'” The public is
invited.
Performances
• A benefit for the Blue Plate
Special literary magazine will be
held tonight at 9 at the
Downstairs. Local writers will
read their works and the
Missouri Breaks will perform.
j Admission is $3.
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speaker's title and topic, and a
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Father of drunk driver victim will press criminal charges
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
S’aff Wnte'
The father of a sophomore at
Stephens College in Columbia,
Mo., said he hopes the case against
the University student who hit his
daughter while driving drunk will
help other students realize the
dangers of drunk driving.
Len Roberts, father of Dawn
Roberts, said the case against Pat
rick Schlottman, a Kappa Sigma
fraternity member enrolled in the
business school, wouldn’t help his
daughter but it might serve as an
example for other students who
drink and drive.
Last Saturday Schlottman drove
into three pedestrians in the River
Road perimeter parking lot while
drunk. Two of the pedestrians,
both visitors from other colleges,
were hospitalized. The other, ju
nior finance major Terry Kennedy,
received only a bruise.
Schlottman has been charged
with driving under the influence,
reckless driving, driving too fast
for conditions, and serious injury’
by vehicle.
Mr. Roberts, chairman of the
Board of Directors for Shoney’s Inc.
said although he isn’t interested in
trying to pursue a civil case against
Schlottman, he wants to see the
criminal case carried out in full.
“Patrick James Schlottman is a
name I will remember for the rest
of my life," he said Tuesday from
the intensive care waiting room at
Athens Regional Medical Center.
This case will not be swept under
the rug.
“He hit the wrong kid. Being the
chairman of a major corporation
you have connections” he said.
Dawn Roberts is still in the neu
rological intensive care unit of
ARMC. Her mother said last
Wednesday that she was in a light
coma and on a respirator. Doctors
are unsure whether she will fully
recover. Her father said Tuesday
there has been no change in her
condition.
“She’s not the same daughter I
had," he said. “She may never be."
Schlottman declined to com
ment.
Nicholas Sucan, a junior ac
counting major who was also hit by
Schlottman, is now out of North-
side Hospital in Atlanta. Sucan
was released from St. Mary’s Hos
pital in Athens last Monday after
being treated for various leg inju
ries only to check into an interme
diate, or less serious, ICU at
Northside Wednesday.
Last Thursday Sucan was still in
the hospital, but out of intensive
care and declined comment on why
he went back into a hospital or if it
was related to the accident.
■ CORRECTION
An article in Wednesday’s edition of The Red and Black con
tained incorrect information. India is predominantly Hindu and
Pakistan is predominantly Muslim. India's population is about
83 percent Hindu and about 11 percent Muslim.
It is the policy of The Red and Black to correct errors of fact
that appear in its news columns. Corrections usually appear
on page 2.
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