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. I V\J_Vl^LV PRECISION POWER CLARION PIONEER SHERWOOD INFINITY precision w96 PN^ON^207 rKEBSEP^E9ir *‘C* *»* —SSL. •s^gSiSi N university ; ",0 F O R ICON/