6 The Daily Collegian A brief look at our world Man ordered to vacate his tepee sweet tepee PENN HILLS (AP) Forget the wind. Forget the snow, the ice and the freezing tempera tures. Bill Reinstein is returning home to his tepee of tarps, blan kets and clothes at least for the next 30 days. District Justice Ernest D'Achille decided yesterday that Reinstein's tepee in a Pittsburgh suburb of manicured lawns and fast-food restaurants violated health and safety codes. Despite Reinstein's pleas, D'Achille ordered the 61-year old former police officer to vacate his property within 30 days the amount of time Rein stein has to file an appeal. "There's no way I can make a ruling other than what I did," D'Achille told him. Reinstein refused help from a court-appointed attorney because he felt the • public defender was "on the side of the municipality." "I think you grow old in a home," Reinstein, 61, said follow ing the hearing. "The aging process is working on me day by day. I think if I would stay in my tepee, I could hold off the aging process by the struggle it takes to get up. Execution scheduled at Rockview today HARRISBURG (AP) Attor neys for a man convicted of rap ing and strangling his girlfriend appealed yesterday to state and federal courts to block his sched uled execution. As word of the new execution schedule was issued, the Penn sylvania Post Conviction Defend er Organization fought to keep George Edwards from dying by lethal injection at 10 p.m. today at Rockview state prison. He had been held at the state prison in Pittsburgh. Edwards, 36, was sentenced to death for the June 1984 rape and strangulation of his girlfriend, Debbie Prislupsky, at Lake Henry. ligitr- •••‘:'::::: ....i ... : .. : . ...::''' 144 ...- • r .--- • •-•••,..... H.......:-.::•-•:;..4::Ifi, World's oldest seed germinated in Calif. LOS ANGELES (AP) Scien tists grew a tiny green shoot from a 1,288-year-old lotus seed from China. It is believed to be the oldest seed ever germinated, and it may yield clues to how to slow aging. "This sleeping beauty, which was already there when Marco Polo came to China in the 13th century, must have a powerful genetic system to delay its aging," said Jane Shen-Miller, a plant physiologist at the Univer sity of California at Los Angeles. "It's unbelievable it could sleep for thousands of years and in four days a little green shoot emerged." The research, reported in the November issue of the American Journal of Botany, began in 1982, when Shen-Miller obtained seven brown, oval-shaped lotus seeds. The seeds came from a dry lake bed that had once been the site of a lotus lake cultivated by Buddhists who consider the flow ering plant a sacred symbol of purity. Green kitten keeps experts perplexed COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) Something's green in the state of Denmark. It's a kitten, much to the puz zlement of veterinarians who've tried to wash out the cat's grass green tint. "Experts from the university hospital said that the color also appears in the hair follicles," Pia Bischoff, the kitten's owner, said yesterday. "It could be a metabo lism defect." The two-month-old feline, called Miss Greeny, is all green except for a gray spot on the back, she said. Samples of the kitten's green hair have been sent to Copenhagen's university hospital for testing. Pa. court blocks $2O million of allocations By RICH KIRKPATRICK Associated Press Writer HARRISBURG The Legislature violat ed the state constitution with procedures it used to enact the 1995-96 state budget, Com monwealth Court ruled yesterday. However, the court refused to overturn the bulk of the roughly $l6 billion spending plan. Instead, the court permanently blocked the state from spending roughly $2O million for individual programs that were to replace the controversial walking around money or WAMS grants. The court did exclude from its ban about $36 million for the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency and spending for several other state-government related commissions. Moreover, the court directed the Legisla ture to stick to what the framers of the con stitution intended that the main budget bill be in a properly titled bill and consid ered on three separate days by both the House and Senate. The ruling seemed to put limits on the sometimes ad-hoc ways leaders have devised to quickly move the state's main spending plan from the private leadership deliberations to final passage by the rank and file. Serial slaying suspect nabbed By MIKE EMBRY Associated Press Writer WACO, Ky. A smooth-talking drifter suspected of strangling or stabbing at least four women in a cross.-country string of slayings was captured yesterday after a high-speed chase on a rural Ken tucky highway. 4 Glen Rogers, 35, was forced off the road by more than a half-dozen police cruisers after the chase. He is wanted in the killings of at least four women three of whom had reddish hair in California, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida in the past two months. Authorities believe he may have committed three other killings in California. Rogers also is wanted for questioning in the death of a 73- year-old Ohio man whose decom posed body was found last year tied to a chair in an abandoned cabin that Rogers' family owns near Beattyville, Ky. Police said he made little effort to conceal himself, boasting to friends about at least one killing and driving a victim's car. He is wanted for the following murders: ■ Sandra Gallagher, 34, a bar maid in Van Nuys, Calif., who was found raped and strangled in her burning pickup Sept. 29. ■ Linda Price, 34, of Jackson, Miss., who was found stabbed to death in her bathtub on Nov. 3. ■ Tina Marie Cribbs, 34, a motel maid, who was found stabbed Nov. 7 in a motel where Rogers stayed in Tampa, Fla. ■ Andy Jiles Sutton, 37, whose slashed body was found Thursday on a punctured waterbed in her apartment in Bossier City, La. Dateline The ruling came on a suit filed last sum- sion was made in a vacuum without any mer by Common Cause, the citizens' lobby. understanding of the amount of precedent "I'm very happy about it and I think it's a that had been developed," Mac Nett said. great victory for open and accountable gov- He said he expected an appeal will be filed ernment," said Eric Schnurer, attorney for with state Supreme Court. Common Cause. Commonwealth Court agreed with Com- Stephen Mac Nett, counsel to Senate mon Cause that the Legislature violated the Republican leaders, said the ruling was constitution by not considering the budget "stunning." He said this year's budget bill on three separate occasions. process was "functionally, no different Moreover, the court agreed that it was than" what has been used for over 30 years. improper for the main budget bill to list "To that extent, it appears that the deci- appropriations to entities that are not under Israeli opponents pledge civility By DAN PERRY Associated Press Writer TEL AVIV, Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres and his main right-wing rival agreed yes terday to restore "restraint and civility" to the bitter political debate that cost Yitzhak Rabin his life. But Peres quickly signaled his determination to continue and even accelerate the slain leader's policies by handing the . West Bank town of Jenin over to PLO rule a week early. "We must continue with the peace process. This is what Yitzhak wanted," he told the Knesset, gathering in special ses sion to honor Rabin. "We will make a deep, truthful decision." Addressing a Plenum that was full except for Rabin's empty seat, Peres said: "Only a difficult choice for our generation will (enable) a democratic and Jewish Israel for the next." "There is no peace for free." Peres spoke hours after the army pulled out of the town of Jenin as specified by the West Bank autonomy accord Rabin signed with PLO chief Yasser Arafat in September at the White House. Thousands of Palestinians lined the streets to welcome arriving busloads of PLO troops. The move strengthened assess ments that Peres will move even more vigorously than his prede cessor toward a final settlement with the Palestinians and peace with Syria. This wouldwould likely require Israel to give up the strategic Golan Heights, captured in 1967. He was likely to promote Inte rior Minister Ehud Barak to the effective No. 2 position in the Cabinet as foreign minister, party sources said. Barak, a popular and articulate former army chief who is Israel's most decorated soldier, would give the Peres Cabinet the kind of security credentials that enabled Rabin who led Israel's army to victory in 1967 to take risks for peace. ided Press Palestinian police officers wave flags as they are mobbed by cheering crowds in Jenin. Thousands of Palestinians welcomed the police officers after Israeli soldiers pulled out just before dawn. Coßogdan Graphic/Benjamin Scanlan and Meta Yadkin Reports place death toll from Nigerian airplane crash at 77 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAGOS, Nigeria A Nigeria Airways plane carrying at least 129 people crashed yesterday in north ern Nigeria, and news reports said 77 people were feared dead. . . It was one of the worst airline crashes in the history of the West African nation, which already has a poor aviation record. Tina Abia, a spokeswoman for Nigeria Airways, confirmed the Boeing 737 crashed at Kaduna air port about 7 a.m., but refused to give further details. The plane was flying from the central Nigerian city of Jos to Kaduna, 400 miles northeast of Lagos. Reporters in Kaduna said author ities told them the jet skidded onto the runway and then attempted to make' a sharp right onto the taxi way. But the turn was to? sudden and the plane's right wing hit the ground and burst into flames. At least 52 survivors jumped out before the plane exploded, includ ing the pilot and co-pilot. It was not Tuesday, Nov. 14, 1995 the direct control of state government. Commonwealth Court in August had tem porarily blocked spending for those pro grams. Common Cause had argued that the spend ing plan was developed as an amendment to a separate, unrelated piece of legislation, which then was presented to lawmakers for an up-or-down vote. Legislative rules prevented the budget from being amended before the final vote. Despite ruling in Common Cause's favor, the court rejected the group's request that the budget be ruled invalid. "No immediate purpose would be served by enjoining these essential payments, but rather, such an order would produce chaos in state government with the immediate potential to harm the citizenry of the com monwealth," said President Judge James Gardner Colins. Attorneys for the governor and treasurer had argued earlier this year that the budget process was conducted legally and funds properly spent. Gov. Tom Ridge's spokesman, Tim Reeves, said the Governor's Office had not yet seen the ruling and did not have an immediate comment. Legislative leaders were not immediately available for comment this morning. known exactly how many people were on the plane. Air traffic controllers told reporters no distress call had been received prior to the crash. They said dusty winds that blow south from North Africa to the Atlantic may have caused poor vis ibility. The plane was the fourth Niger ian airliner to crash since June, a record that has renewed concerns about the condition of Nigeria's aging aircraft. Many of the coun try's airport facilities and runways do not meet international safety standards. Nigeria Airways pilots went on strike in 1993, saying the planes weren't serviced regularly and were not safe to fly. In August, the government ordered a major reorganization of the national airline, firing its entire management. Directors of airport and civil aviation authorities were also sacked. A month later, more than 600 air port employees were fired for dis ciplinary problems or because they were deemed too old to work.
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