Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 15:30:30 EST Message-ID: \SE A;NATION;AMERICAN SCENE;EAST S=NEW STORY FBI investigating state GOP chairman HARTFORD, Conn. - About 18 current and former Republican legislators were interviewed by federal agents in an investigation of alleged influence-peddling by the state GOP chairman, party officials said. U.S. Attorney Albert S. Dabrowski said the interviews Tuesday were part of a wide-ranging investigation into alleged financial fraud and public corruption. Several lawmakers said they had been questioned about their 1989 vote on a bill that benefited a bank. All of them, except state Republican Party Chairman Richard Foley, who was a state representative that year, said they were told they were not a target of the investigation. Mr. Foley denounced the investigation at a news conference Wednesday and challenged Mr. Dabrowski to release the documents the FBI seized from his home and any affidavits that might implicate him. S=NEW STORY Guard suspends search for missing yachtsman NEW YORK - The U.S. Coast Guard yesterday called off its search for a veteran yachtsman who disappeared while crossing the Atlantic ocean on a solo trip. Skipper Michael Plant, 41, from Minneapolis and based in Jamestown, R.I., left New York Oct. 16 on what was expected to be a two-week crossing on the S.V. Coyote to Les Sables d'Olonne, France. He had planned to take part in a solo round-the-world yacht race due to start there Nov. 22. Mr. Plant, a highly experienced sailor, has three times circumnavigated the world single-handed. Aircraft from the Coast Guard, the U.S. Navy and the Canadian coast guard had scanned 200,000 square miles over six days, but found no trace of the yacht. The yacht was last spotted by a freighter four days after it left New York. Mr. Plant radioed the freighter that he had lost electrical power but planned to continue his voyage. S=NEW STORY Undercover cop shot by fellow policemen NEW YORK - An undercover officer was shot and seriously wounded at a subway station by two fellow policemen who mistook him for a holdup man and fired up to 21 rounds, police said. Officer Derwin Pannell was shot in the neck Tuesday night as he and his partner tried to arrest a fare evader, Transit Police spokesman Al O'Leary said. Two of the shots were blocked by Officer Pannell's bulletproof vest, Mr. O'Leary said. An organization representing black police officers told black transit cops to refuse any undercover assignments until a new training program is devised. Mr. Pannell is black; the officers who shot him are white. "We need our transit cops to know that the black guy wearing Adidas sneakers and a backwards baseball cap might be a cop," said Transit Police Officer Eric Adams, vice president of the Grand Council of Guardians. Transit Police Chief Michael O'Connor agreed to let Guardians members shape a plainclothes training program. And any black or Hispanic officers who refuses undercover assignments will be allowed to patrol in uniform, Mr. O'Leary said. S=NEW STORY Turkeys to eat on Thanksgiving TRENT, Pa. - Six turkeys at an animal shelter will be on the right side of a Thanksgiving feast on Sunday. The menu won't include any you know what. Green Acres Sanctuary Inc. is giving a meal of raw cranberries, pumpkin pie and greens for the turkeys that live at the shelter. "Turkeys really do like pumpkin pie," said shelter President Carole Morton. The shelter is selling tickets for humans to partake of a more extensive vegetarian meal to raise money for the shelter for animals rescued from abusive or neglectful owners. The turkeys and other animals at the shelter are available for adoption. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM