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: Tue, 10 Nov 92 15:13:22 EST Message-ID: \SE A;TOP OF THE NEWS;NATION \BY FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS S=NEW STORY Ex-president's nephew jailed for theft attempt SAN FRANCISCO - A drug-addicted nephew of former President Jimmy Carter was sentenced to eight months in jail yesterday for attempted grand theft, his attorney said. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Raymond Williamson sentenced William Carter Spann, a 46-year-old heroin addict who is suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome, to serve the time in state prison, lawyer Louis Katz said. Spann, who had previous convictions, pleaded guilty to the charge after being arrested Sept. 29 in San Francisco. The sentence was part of a negotiated plea. Mr. Katz said Spann had been charged with "a street crime." He said Spann had "asked somebody for some money and the person said he felt threatened. [Spann] claims that he'd made a deal with the guy." S=NEW STORY Family doctor shortage looms, study warns LOS ANGELES - The United States has a severe shortage of family doctors and a surplus of specialists, a federal advisory panel warns in a report to be made public soon, according to the Los Angeles Times. The newspaper said the report of the Council on Graduate Medical Education urges that the imbalance must be corrected if major reforms are going to be made to the country's ailing health care system. The study is expected to be taken seriously by the Clinton administration, both because it has set health care reform as an early goal and because the head of the panel, Dr. David Satcher, is said to be on the short list for Secretary of Health and Human Services in the new administration, the Times said. The study found that only one third of all doctors in the United States today were family physicians, general internists and general pediatricians, compared with 50 percent in 1961. S=NEW STORY Ann Arbor OKs tax for women's shelter ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Ann Arbor voters increased their taxes to support a shelter for battered women. "It's a crucial statement by a community that domestic violence is a community matter and that it won't be tolerated," Safe House Executive Director Susan McGee said. The two-year special tax increase passed 69,321 to 45,174 on Nov. 3 in this community that is home to the University of Michigan. The property tax increase will cost the owner of a $100,000 home $24 over the two years. Shelter officials hope it will raise $2.4 million to $2.7 million. Miss McGee said the money will help Safe House move out of its current turn-of-the-century mansion and into new quarters. A children's wing and counseling offices are planned for the new center. S=NEW STORY Caravans to defy embargo against Cuba Church groups are collecting relief goods for donation to Cuba and bearing them in caravans to Mexico and a possible confrontation over the recently tightened U.S. embargo on trade with Cuba. Nine convoys totaling 45 trucks and cars packed full of bicycles, powdered milk, medicine and school supplies are en route to Laredo, Texas, where they expect to cross into Mexico on Nov. 20, organizers said yesterday. More than 100 volunteers are accompanying the caravans, which began Friday in northern cities. If they are not stopped, the goods will be unloaded at Tampico, Mexico, and put aboard a Cuban freighter for shipment to the island nation 90 miles off the U.S. shore, said the Rev. Lucius Walker of Pastors for Peace. He valued the goods at $100,000 to $250,000. He described the action as civil disobedience against unjust law. S=NEW STORY PBS station will delve into music videos NEW YORK - Public television is going to rock its sedate image by rolling out some contemporary musicians such as Keith Richards. The cable network VH-1, which programs music videos aimed at young adults, is joining forces with Chicago's WTTW public television station to produce a musical performance series beginning early next year. The series, "Center Stage," will be taped at WTTW's studio, introduced on VH-1 starting Feb. 14, then rerun on public television stations coast-to-coast next summer. Ten programs are planned initially. In addition to Mr. Richards, those featured include Neil Young, Michael Bolton and K.D. Lang. S=NEW STORY Churches called to support AIDS victims LOS ANGELES - Mary Fisher, the latest appointee to the National Commission on AIDS, pleaded for church support of those living with the AIDS virus. "For the HIV-AIDS community in America, the voice of God heard from communities of faith has been terribly muted," Ms. Fisher told Sunday worshipers at the Church of the Valley in suburban Van Nuys. "Temples should have raised high the roof beams to bring them in; churches should have shouted messages of grace from the rooftop," she said. "But what most members of the HIV-AIDS family have heard is whispers about their mortality and the hope that - like modern-day lepers - they will not get too close." Ms. Fisher, who spoke before the Republican National Convention last summer, was a longtime party activist chosen by President Bush to replace Earvin "Magic" Johnson when he resigned from the National Commission on AIDS. 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