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: Sun, 8 Nov 92 15:50:37 EST Message-ID: \SE A;AMERICAN SCENE \BY FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS S=NEW STORY Falwell may resurrect Moral Majority LYNCHBURG, Va. - The Rev. Jerry Falwell said he may resurrect the Moral Majority if President-elect Bill Clinton turns out to be "the reincarnation of Jimmy Carter." Mr. Falwell said he has had "a tremendous amount of contact" by mail and telephone from people urging him to revive the conservative organization he founded in 1979. "No decision has been made," Mr. Falwell told the Roanoke Times & World-News in a story published yesterday. Organizing a new Moral Majority "would be a last resort," he said. Mr. Falwell said he would watch carefully to see if Mr. Clinton extends abortion rights, supports homosexuals in military service and public office, dismantles the military or takes an anti-Israel stance. S=NEW STORY Moynihan predicts capital gains tax cut Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, said yesterday that he thought the next Congress would cut the capital gains tax as part of an overall economic program in the Clinton administration. President Bush had sought such a cut, but was regularly rebuffed by Congress. Mr. Moynihan, New York Democrat, said, however, that he thought the new Congress would go along with a cut in the capital gains tax, which generally would benefit the rich, as part of a program that increased other taxes on the wealthy. He said on the CNN show "Evans and Novak" that raising taxes on people making more than $100,000 a year could be tied to cutting the capital gains tax to 15 percent from the present 28. S=NEW STORY Police find body of kidnapped woman PISCATAWAY, N.J. - The body of a woman who was kidnapped when she stopped her vehicle at a traffic light was discovered yesterday, the police said, not far from where she was seized four days ago. Gail Shollar, 35, the mother of three children, was the subject of an intense search that involved 500 volunteers, helicopters and dogs. An off-duty firefighter found the body, which was submerged in a marshy area behind a lumberyard. She died from multiple stab wounds, Middlesex County Prosecutor Robert Gluck said. Her husband, Robert, had made several tearful pleas on local television since his wife failed to return from a shopping trip Tuesday night. The couple's 3-year-old daughter was with her mother at the time of the abduction and was found unharmed outside a nearby day care center hours after the kidnapping. S=NEW STORY Fire damages movie sound stage LOS ANGELES - A fire yesterday damaged a sound stage at Universal Studios, two years after an arson blaze destroyed sets from some of the studio's most popular movies. The fire broke out in insulation in the attic of Sound Stage 12 at the sprawling movie lot about 10 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, said fire department spokeswoman Clyde Taylor. Its cause was under investigation. Universal's back lot was severely damaged on Nov. 6, 1990, when wind-whipped flames swept through four acres of movie sets, including those for "The Sting," "Back to the Future" and "Dick Tracy." A studio security guard was convicted of setting that fire by igniting a can of paper with a cigarette lighter. S=NEW STORY Guam holds balloting, goes for Clinton AGANA, Guam - As the nation goes, so goes its territory of Guam, or at least in this year's presidential election. In balloting delayed from Tuesday to yesterday because of Typhoon Elsie, Bill Clinton easily outpolled President Bush, 9,184 votes to 6,086, the Pacific Daily News reported. The votes don't count in the national balloting, however. With all but a handful of write-in ballots counted, the Democrats' challenger for nonvoting delegate to Congress, Robert Underwood, defeated four-term Republican incumbent Ben Blaz by a 57-43 percent margin. Mr. Underwood received 17,911 votes to Mr. Blaz's 14,522. Turnout for the territory's 46,680 registered voters was about 70 percent. S=NEW STORY FBI: N.Y. chief judge threatened ex-girlfriend NEW YORK - The chief judge of the New York state Court of Appeals was arrested yesterday for trying to extort money from a former girlfriend by threatening her and her daughter, federal officials said. FBI agents arrested Judge Sol Wachtler on the Long Island Expressway, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Judge Wachtler, 62, was accused in a criminal complaint of making threatening calls to a New York woman after their relationship ended. The woman and her 14-year-old daughter received sexually explicit letters, and the girl was threatened with kidnapping, the complaint said. Authorities said the woman was ordered to pay $20,000 in exchange for "embarrassing" tapes and photographs, purportedly of her and her new boyfriend. Judge Wachtler, a liberal Republican frequently mentioned as a potential candidate for governor, is married and has four children. S=NEW STORY Teen-agers charged in school bus attack FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Eight teen-agers were charged for assaulting an 11-year-old girl on a school bus, the police said. Fort Lauderdale police spokesman Ott Cefkin said two boys, aged 13 and 14, were charged Friday with sexual battery after they told the police they ripped off the girl's underpants during the Oct. 29 assault and molested her. Three boys and two girls were charged with simple battery. The police said the teen-agers slapped, punched and kicked the girl during the bus trip home. All are students at Rickards Middle School. A 15-year-old Fort Lauderdale High School student who boarded the bus through the emergency exit also joined in the attack and was charged with battery and burglary, the police said. The police said the teen-agers picked on the girl because she is Haitian. S=NEW STORY Thief's turnaround heartens couple UNIONTOWN, Pa. - Tangled strings of Christmas lights stolen from a couple's front yard tree three years ago were returned with a neatly composed note. "These were taken years ago. Sorry. I am returning them," said the note, left last week on Carolyn and Larry Fisher's porch. "I don't know whether it was out of conscience or not," Mrs. Fisher said. "I do know one thing - they are a tangled mess. Maybe that is why they brought them back." The three strings of lights, which cost $20, were in a paper bag. They still work and will be returned to the pine tree. The thief's turnaround was heartening to Mrs. Fisher, who said she has no hard feelings. S=NEW STORY University compiling list of useless words SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. - Don't tell Lake Superior State University to "get with the program." And don't suggest a "viable alternative" to that phrase, either. The school has been compiling a list of useless and overused words and phrases since 1976, releasing annual recommendations on those it feels should be banished from the English language. Along with the aforementioned cliches, other banned phrases include "angst ridden" and "cautiously optimistic." A university spokesman says it receives hundreds of entries each year. The deadline for this year's list is Nov. 30. Lake Superior State will publish it's "All-Time Dishonor List of Words Banished From the Queen's English" in January. 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