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Congress rejects term
limit amendment
1 WASHINGTON — The House
overwhelmingly rejected a
proposed constitutional amend
ment Wednesday to slap term
limits on members of Congress af
ter a debate marked by debilitat
ing infighting among supporters.
The vote was 217-211,69 votes
shy of the two-thirds necessary
for approval of the measure to
limit lawmakers to 12-years in of
fice — and fewer than it gained
two years ago.
“They’re eating their own. It’s
just bizarre,” GOP Rep. Christo
pher Shays, a term limits oppo
nent, exulted as supporters quar
reled among themselves over
whether six years, eight years or
12 years should be set as a limit
for House service.
In the end, none of the propos
als came close to amassing the
two-thirds needed to prevail,
leaving the issue dead for the
foreseeable future.
The final vote, for 12-year term
limits to be applied beginning af
ter ratification by the states, drew
the support of 180 Republicans
and 37 Democrats. Voting no
were 45 Republicans, 165 Democ
rats and independent Bernard
Sanders of Vermont.
“Internecine warfare” poses a
grave threat to the uphill drive for
success, Rep. Bill McCollum, R
Fla., mourned as the proposal
moved toward its preordained
doom.
Without a truce involving U.S.
Term Limits and other organiza
tions, he warned, “there will be
gridlock and people who are op
posed to term limits will prevail.”
The more fundamental divi
sions over the wisdom of term
limits were overshadowed in the
day-long debate, although they
surfaced occasionally.
“To adopt term limits is to play
Russian roulette with the future,”
argued Rep. Henry Hyde, a 12th
term Republican.
Goldman would forgo
millions for confession
2 SANTA MONICA, Calif. —
Fred Goldman said Wednes
day he would give up his hard
won claim to O.J. Simpson’s mil
lions if the football great would
admit he is a killer and sign a de
tailed confession.
“I don’t want to play games,”
Goldman told The Associated
Press in a telephone interview.
“But if he wanted to sign a con
fession with all the details of his
crime and broadcast it all over the
country and publish it all over the
nation, I would drop the judg
ment.”
Goldman is the aggrieved father
who never accepted Simpson’s
murder acquittal 16 months ago
and doggedly pursued him to civ
il court.
He added: “All I ever wanted is
justice. It’s never been an issue
about money.”
Simpson’s lawyer Robert Baker
said he was discussing the offer
with his client.
Colombian troubles
raise coffee prices
3 CHICAGO — There’s a differ
ent kind of jolt coming soon to
coffee lovers. That cup of joe soon
could cost more.
Too much rain in Latin Ameri
ca and a strike in Colombia have
sent prices for future delivery of
beans bubbling toward two-year
highs.
The nation’s top seller of regu
lar coffee — Folgers — already
has said it will raise prices seven
percent next month, and others
are expected to follow.
Coffeehouses could increase
prices five cents a cup by the end
of summer, and grocery stores
could raise prices by the end of
the month unless the wholesale
prices drop back, said Ted Lingle,
executive director of the Special
ty Coffee Association of America.
Among the 49 percent of Amer
icans who are coffee drinkers,
many are not about to give up that
daily fix.
“We just can’t do without it,”
Yvette Kukuk said as she sipped
a cup at a Seattle Starbucks.
University apologizes
for using Nazi book
4VIENNA, Austria — Vienna
University apologized
Wednesday for its involvement
with Nazism and announced a
broad investigation into whether
the bodies of Holocaust victims
were the basis for detailed draw
ings in a highly acclaimed, widely
used anatomy book.
“As a human being, and as a
representative of the University of
Vienna, I am ashamed by the uni
versity’s culpable involvement in
the horrors of Nazism,” universi
ty Rector Alfred Ebenbauer said.
“I regret that relatively little
was done in the past 50 years to
work through this dark chapter of
the University of Vienna, and that
working through certain events
now is more difficult.”
The atlas, “Topographical
Anatomy of the Human Being,”
was compiled by Eduard
Pernkopf, a leading Nazi who
headed the university’s medical
faculty after Hitler annexed Aus
tria in 1938.
Jackson might be new
father of a baby boy
5 LOS ANGELES — The self
proclaimed King of Pop and
his wife had a baby boy on
Wednesday, a television station
reported.
KNBC-TV, citing hospital
sources, said Michael Jackson’s
wife gave birth at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center. Debbie Rowe
Jackson’s due date was Valen
tine’s Day.
Medical center officials and
Jackson representatives said they
could not confirm the account.
“If that’s the case, I’m not
aware of it,” said Ron Wise,
spokesman for Cedars-Sinai.
A spokesman for Jackson’s MJJ
Productions said he knew noth
ing about Mrs. Jackson’s status.
“If and when Mr. and Mrs.
Jackson have something to an
nounce, they will tell us,” Bob
Jones said.
Security at the hospital was
tight, with at least six uniformed
guards in the lobby. Others stood
watch in the third-floor materni
ty ward.
Doctors and nurses leaving
Cedars-Sinai ignored questions
from reporters.
Audrey Kuttan, a celebrity im
personator who dressed like Jack
son, was the lone fan outside
Cedars-Sinai on Wednesday.
“I wanted to come out to sup
port him. I care for Michael Jack
son. He’s a great artist,” said Rut
tan, clad in black leather with
silver studs, black loafers, white
socks and sunglasses.
Early last November, Jackson
announced that Rowe, a nurse at
his plastic surgeon’s office, was
six months pregnant with his
child. The couple wed in Novem
ber in Sydney, Australia.
Jackson has denied a tabloid re
port by London’s News of the
World that the couple used artifi
cial insemination and that Rowe
was paid $528,000 to carry the
baby.
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