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Mail contractors indicted for tampering
PITTSBURGH (AP) When people started finding rifled-through
letters and packages along roads, in parks and in garbage bins, postal
inspectors got their first clue that a mail contract had gone awry.
A federal grand jury has indicted two owners and one employee of T
& F Transport in Zelienople on mail-crime charges, postal inspector
Kenneth Newman said yesterday.
Barbara Lou Feather and Susan Lee Terner, the company's owners,
are charged with obstructing delivery of about 430,000 pieces of mail,
possessing embezzled mail and conspiracy.
Feather; 52, and Terner, 42, both of Valencia, are accused of failing
to deliver mail that filled three trailers.
They hid letters from eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Delaware on someone else's property rather than delivering it to
Kansas City, Mo., where it would have been shipped to other midwest
ern cities, Newman said.
If convicted, Feather and Terner could spend more than 16 years in
prison and be fined about $750,000. They did not immediately return
phone calls seeking comment.
Coach sued for giving student pregnancy test
EMMAUS (AP) The mother of a high school swimmer has filed a
lawsuit that accuses the school's swim coach of forcing her daughter
to take pregnancy tests in front of teammates.
In addition, the federal lawsuit filed Wednesday claims Emmaus
High School swim coach Michael Seip urged team members to shun
Leah Gruenke when the tests showed she was pregnant.
Seip denied forcing the student to take a pregnancy test or telling
team members not to talk to her.
Joan Gruenke is seeking more than $225,000 for mental anguish she
says the coach caused her and her 17-year-old daughter.
Leah Gruenke, who will be a senior this year, was pregnant when the
four pregnancy tests were taken March 5 and 6, the lawsuit said. She
gave birth July 3.
Joe Kennedy decides not to run for governor
BOSTON (AP) Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy 11, battered by bad news
about himself and, his family, has decided not to run for governor, The
Associated Press learned yesterday.
Kennedy, 44, began calling political allies yesterday morning to tell
them of his decision, said a source, who spoke only on condition of
anonymity and declined to give the reason for Kennedy's decision.
The Democrat planned to make the announcement during a news
conference yesterday afternoon in his congressional district.
His office refused to comment on the purpose of the news confer
ence. His top political advisers, including political consultant Michael
Goldman, did not return calls.
Although Kennedy has never formally declared his candidacy, he
o4pOimmesid he planned to run.
ikeimedy ) the , eldest son of the late Robert F. Kennedy, had been.
viewed as the prohibitive favorite in the race as recently as a year ago.
Members of his family have gone 18-for-18 in general elections in
,Massachusetts over the past SO years, and Kennedy was re-elected to
Congress in 1994 with only token opposition.
Throughout the year, however, Kennedy has been battered by nega
tive publicity that has undercut his standing in the polls.
Adult newspapers seized from machines
PHOENIX (AP) Law enforcement officers in black ski masks
seized hundreds of copies of an adult newspaper in raids stemming
from a new law that restricts the sale of sexually explicit publications
from public racks. The publisher of The Beat said that seizing copies
of his newspaper from sidewalk vending machines was a violation of
his constitutional freedom of expression, a position backed by at least
one First Amendment expert.
"I'll just put it on the streets for free. What are they going to do
seize the sidewalks?" said publisher Jerry Evenson.
Bill Fitz Gerald, a spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney's
Office, disagreed. "This is not a First Amendment issue," Fitz Gerald
said. "It has to do with the distribution of pornography and its avail
ability to minors." The raids Wednesday of 15 sites in Phoenix and the
surrounding suburbs stem from a law that took effect July 21 making
it a felony to sell or display sexually oriented material harmful to
minors except via access-card or token-activated machines.
German, French leaders discuss currency
BONN, Germany (AP) Seeking fresh momentum toward a Euro
pean currency, Germany and France pledged yesterday to work for a
stable euro that will start on time in 1999.
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Chancellor Helmut Kohl won the commitment in talks with French
premier Lionel Jospin, whose 3-month-old Socialist government has
stressed reducing high unemployment over cutting spending to meet
the strict fiscal criteria set to qualify for the euro.
Both countries face potential budget deficits this year above 3 per
cent of gross domestic product, which is the limit laid down in the
treaty for monetary union.
But Kohl and Jospin, on his first trip to Bonn since taking office,
agreed that introducing the euro "according to the timetable with
strict respect for the stability criteria" is essential for Europe's com
petitiveness in the global economy, Kohl spokesman Peter Hausmann
said.
"Germany and France are committed to the agreements without
reservations and will do everything to meet the conditions for intro
ducing the euro," Hausmann said.
Jospin's government last month announced new business taxes after
a government audit showed France's budget deficit running at 3.5 per
cent to 3.7 percent of GDP.
France has conceded it still will probably not meet the 3 percent tar
get, but wants to start the euro on time. Paris has been irritated by
calls from some German politicians for delaying the euro if the French
don't make it.
Most forecasts say Germany won't make the 3 percent limit either
but Kohl insists it will.
Victims of forced sterilization speak out
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) A Belgian woman says no one listened
when she complained about being sterilized against her will.
Women who were deemed physically or mentally inferior and were
sterilized are now speaking out, after revelations in Sweden drew
attention to government programs that were common in many parts of
Europe. In Belgium, Ingrid van Butsel spent her life in orphanages and
state housing. She married in 1985, but only after the regional govern
ment without giving a reason pressured her into a sterilization
operation.
"I could not believe my ears. I wanted children, but they said I was
unsuited to raise children. I had a choice: I could marry if I had myself
sterilized (or) they would send me to a psychiatric hospital," van But
sel, 40, said in Wednesday's Daily De Morgen.
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