NATIONAL BRIEFS
MIT most expensive
NEW YORK (AP) — Massa
chusetts Institute of Technol
ogy has replaced Bennington
College of Vermont as the na
tion's most expensive college,
with total expenses nearly
$23,000 a year, a survey shows.
Overall, college costs this fall
rose an average of 5 percent to
8 percent, continuing a six-year
moderating trend, according to
the annual College Board sur
vey released Wednesday.
But with a possible recession
and resurgent inflation, some
college officials fear tuition
may climb more sharply in the
next few years.
Clean air jeopardized
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres
ident Bush is warning that
hard-fought clean air legisla
tion may fall apart unless Con
gress steps up efforts to work
out a compromise.
The president Wednesday be
moaned the slow progress of
House-Senate negotiations on a
final clean air package and of
fered a compromise proposal
"to help break the logjam that
once again has appeared."
House and Senate members
have been struggling since ear
ly July to resolve differences in
separate clean air bills that won
overwhelming approval in each
chamber earlier this year.
Souter has majority
WASHINGTON (AP) - A
clear majority of the Senate ju
diciary Committee is backing
the nomination of judge David
Souter to the Supreme Court.
As the committee met
Wednesday to vote on Souter’s
confirmation, the only question
was how big a majority he
would get, Ten of the commit- f
tee's 14 members had endorsed I
President Bush’s nominee by
Wednesday night, and none
had come out against him
Souter, 51, who spent 12
years on the New Hampshire
bench before joining the federal
appeals court in Boston this
year, would b«! the 105th Su
preme Court justice if con
firmed by the full Senate.
Gunman acknowledges shots
NEW YORK (AP) - Subway
gunman Bernhard Goetz, con
tradicting the defense that got
him acquitted in 1987, conced
ed he stuck his gun in a
wounded teen-ager’s ribs and
shot him. telling the victim:
"You don’t look too bad, here’s
another."
Goetz, in a deposition re
leased Wednesday, also under
cut defense attorney Barry Slot
nick’s assertion at trial that the
gunman never hesitated be
tween shots when he opened
fire on four young men in a
subway car in 1984.
Goetz, who is white, also ac
knowledged making racist
comments before the day he
shot the black teen-agers.
jury selection continues
CINCINNATI (AP) - Defense
attorneys sought to expose bias
toward homosexuals in ques
tioning potential jurors at the
nation's first obscenity trial of a
museum and its director.
The Contemporary Arts Cen
ter and director Dennis Barrie
are charged with obscenity and
displaying nude photos of chil
dr«n in an exhibit of pictures
by Robert Mapplethorpe, a gay
man who died of AIDS last
year
Municipal )udge David
Albanese pledged to seat a jury
today, saying the process be
gun Monday had already gone
on too long. By Wednesday,
lawyers had rejected night pro
spective jurors and tentatively
seated seven.
Potential jurors must distin
guish between art and obsceni
ty in weighing the charges over
seven of the 175 photos from
the exhibit One photo shows a
man urinating into another
man's mouth. Others show anal
penetration with objects and
other homosexual or sadomas
ochistic images.
On Wednesday, the defense
persuaded the judge to remove
two prospective jurors who ad
mitted they were prejudiced
against homosexuals.
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