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Saturday, July 16, 1994 Page 5A fllrje nmston jBtar Bishop tip .1 VS I 1.1 1 0m iv" IRA gunmen shoot four in police car BELFAST, Northern Ireland Gunmen believed to be with the Irish Republican Army shot at an unmarked police car Friday, wounding three officers and a pro-IRA politician they were escorting. A passing motorist also was wounded in cross-fire, but more than SO Scottish and Dutch tourists escaped unharmed. The ambush occurred on the main road near Ballygawley, about 60 miles west of Belfast. Police were driving Pat Trainor, an elected member of the IRA-supporting Sinn Fein Party, to Belfast for questioning about "serious terrorist offenses" when the gunmen struck, a police spokesman said. Trainor was shot in the hand.

The wounds sustained by the three police officers were not life-threatening, police said. Luxembourg premier named head of EU 1 BRUSSELS, Belgium European Union leaders ended a stalemate over a new chief executive Friday by tapping little-known Premier Jacques Santer of Luxembourg for the job. tow embarrassing Oldtown, volunteer firefighters use water from a damaged fire truck, left, to battle a fire that gutted their station and damaged all five of their sentence that the prison's warden offered him a thinly disguised chaplaincy, complete with his own home and car. But jail didn't seem like where he belonged anymore. After graduation and ordination, he returned to pastoring and started a family.

While his two children began to reap the early benefits of socialism free schools and health care they were also experiencing the down side. Christians could not study psychology or psychiatry, they couldn't be leaders in the factories and they couldn't worship outside the walls of existing churches. Those were among the grievances Aho brought to Castro's attention in 1990 during a meeting of 75 church representatives from the country's 50 denominations. Since then, all of the obstacles he listed have been done away with, one by one. "(Castro) said, well, you're right.

We have to change that," recalled Aho, who believes he was diplomatic in saying, "Well, you haven't thrown us to the lions at least." CASTRO'S hard line against Christianity already had softened somewhat in 1984, Aho said, when the Rev. Jesse Jackson visited the country and spoke in Aho's church. Castro was in the audience the first time he had ever been seen in a church and the event was broadcast nationwide. Aho would like to see the Christian message reach television consistently. Cubans already are visiting the United States to learn video technology for when the time comes, he said.

1 NEW SHIPMENT Summer 5 HOES WsNATURAUZER LIFE STRIDE up 4 foPEie days SHOE BOX anlAAb Chnnnlntf trucks Friday. Three men returning from work reported the fire and were able to kick in several doors and drive the burning fire trucks away. 0 From Page 1A And because renovating the outside of a church building was illegal for more than 30 years (it was OK to refurbish the inside), the existing ones need a great deal of work. Aho, who returns to Cuba on Monday, brought his call for aid Friday night to the graduates of the Southern Institute for Appropriate Technology near Wedowee. The center is a training ground for missionaries who want to bring water pumps, in addition to bap tisms, to developing countries.

BEFORE delivering his commencement address, Aho said through interpreter Kathy Corson Bryson of Wadley that he doesn't mind sharing his story with yet another reporter. He's made speaking trips to the United States almost every year since 1983. Last year he met with congressmen in Washington, D.C, to discuss the difficulty imposed on the Cuban people through a U.S. embargo on everything from medicine to faxes. The difficulties brought by the embargo are getting worse and are worthy of comment, Aho said, but this trip is more religious than political.

His story, though, makes it clear how the two realms intermingle. After Cuba became a Marxist-Leninist state in 1961, 61 of the 70 Cuban Methodist preachers left the country, along with half of their 5,000 congregants. Young Aho was one of nine pastors who shrugged off advice to leave and the warning that prison was inevitable. The church Aho pastored had a large number of children, which to the government meant "future Marxists" not to be contaminated with Christianity. After landing in prison, Aho came to a realization already written down for him: "If someone wants to follow the Lord, he must deny himself, take up his cross and follow Christ," he said.

"I understood that Cuba was the place for me, and not in Miami." IN PRISON he began to preach to the other inmates, many of whom had been ready to end it all. They spent long days harvesting sugar cane under the sweltering sun, but when the sun went down Aho led them in worship. So good was' prisoner morale when Aho had completed his Mattress Feature- The Only The IS Notion Bed rest little good for pregnant women NEW YORK Doctors tell nearly one in five pregnant women to stay in bed for a week or more, but a study has found little evidence this prescription does any good. Bed rest disrupts women lives and costs more than $1 billion a year in lost wages, lost productivity 1 around the home and hospital costs, the study said. It may also present its own medical risks, such as blood Iclots, researchers said.

Prescribed for a variety of con ditions, bed rest is usually done at Ihome and can last several months. "In nearly every case when it's been studied, there is no proof of benefit," said Dr. Robert enberg, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. and his co-authors conclude the July issue of the journal bstetrics and Gynecology that doctors should cut down sharply on prdering bed rest and that further studies should be done to see if it really helps. Dean Witter heir money launderer FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.

David Witter, grandson of Wall Sheet's Dean Witter, has pleaded guilty to laundering $113,000 for Center WHd'f Mart CMtfcrtabl MttrM, AVAILABU AS AN ADJUSTABLI BID. The 12 leaders unanimously endorsed Santer, 57, a compromise candidate, after Britain threw the group into turmoil last month by unexpectedly vetoing a previous candidate, Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene. Santer succeeds France's Jacques Delors, who steps down in January after 10 years as president of the EU executive agency, the European Commission. The bureaucracy runs the EU's daily affairs. As chief executive, Santer will become one of Europe's top political figures, wielding much influence over the pace and direction of integration during the next five years.

Compiled from wire reports. Talks From Page 1A border south of the Dead Sea on Monday. Jordan television showed pictures of workers setting up the tent and prefabricated buildings. Christopher, Peres and Jordanian Prime Minister Abdul Salam Majali are to meet in Jordan on Wednesday to prepare for the summit. "BASICALLY, we are talking about an end to the state of war, and the beginning of a state of peace, about economic development and the ways to reach these objectives," Peres said on Israel army radio.

Israel and Jordan had agreed on an agenda for negotiations Sept. 14, a day after Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed their outline accord for Palestinian self-rule. However, Hussein delayed a final agreement, hoping to move in step with the Syrians. Despite a Clinton summit with Assad in Geneva early this year, the Israeli-Syrian talks stalled. The key issue is the extent of Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed.

Rabin has said he was ready for significant territorial compromise, but the Syrians want all of the Golan back. Assad has rejected Israeli requests for a meeting with Rabin or for a secret back channel to get the talks moving. Children's Ultra PmnknnPUIiiwDip Chiropractic ManreM Coil Muhdlaaic Hi hntnprfr Unk- IVm Sum fcMra Lone. 440 juk FuilSueEjrrralKwMOGo QUMnSte720CoiU CMrMffwtit AwtlnHn. Springwall Sfcirlngwalf ride Hipponi lor realercdiettppon Alrlei htinxr fof benrr Hanu.

Yrurmnn 1700 Hwy 78 East Oxford, Alabama 831-7663 1-800-239-2552. IbittaG'iiQS AMOdaMd Pratt boy," said Mike Minyon, who helped grab the boy, Gregory, and drag him ashore. "That was the last I saw her." Mrs. Hoffman's body was discovered about three hours later. With the thunderstorm apparently hampering her vision, Mrs.

Hoffman drove past a "no-outlet" sign about a mile from her home in suburban Philadelphia and into Crystal Lake, which was an estimated IS feet deep. "There was nothing to stop her," Kite said. "The lake had overrun its banks and the curb was covered. She went right over the curb and then the current swept them in." Senate passes slim foreign aid budget WASHINGTON The former Soviet states will receive less U.S. aid this year as part of an austere foreign aid bill passed by the Senate today.

The bill, approved by an 84-9 vote, provides $13.7 billion for worldwide aid programs in the fiscal year starting in October. That's $630 million less than the 1994 foreign aid budget and $340 million less than the amount requested by the administration. The Senate bill must now be reconciled with the House version, which passed earlier and contained $69 million less in foreign aid. Compiled from wire reports. at Forestlawn Gardens with the Rev.

E.E. Miller officiating and K.L. Brown Funeral Home of Jacksonville in charge. The family will receive friends at the funeral home today from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Mrs.

Owens died Wednesday at Regional Medical Center. Survivors include a daughter, Patsy Ann Forsyth of Jacksonville; a sister, Lucille Reaves of Golden Springs; two brothers, Rick Bonds of Oxford and Earl Bonds of Weaver; a grandchild and two great-grandchildren. Mrs. Owens was a Calhoun County native and lifelong resident. Richardson Services for Marie Richardson, 68, of 407 Tillman Anniston, will be Sunday at 2 p.m.

at the Chapel Hill Chapel with the Revs. Gerald Clark and Charles Glover officiating. Burial will follow at the Anniston Memorial Gardens with Chapel Hill Funeral Home in charge. Visitation will be at the funeral home today from 6 to 9 p.m., Mrs. Richardson died Thursday at the Regional Medical Center.

Survivors include her husband, Hubert Richardson; a daughter, Patricia Parish of Anniston; a son, Wayne Richardson of Eastaboga; seven sisters, Lera Martin of Ecorse, Iva Dean Patterson of Oxford, and Jerrie Patterson, Billie Joyce Patterson, Shirley Davis and Katherine Bice Underwood, all of Pell City; two brothers, Fermon Bice of Alexandria and John Bice of Michigan, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Pallbearers will be Jeff Richardson, Chris Connell, Roman Lee, Jody Connell, Doug Ward, Mike Bice, Calvin Grabitt, Mike Owen and Jonathan Owen. Mrs. Richardson was a native of Raeland and a resident of Calhoun County. She was a housewife and a member of the Calvary Temple Assembly of God.

Summerlin Services for the Rev. W.E. "Bill" Summerlin, 95, of 1716 Johnston Drive will be announced by Miller Funeral Home. Mr. Summerlin died Friday at the Regional Medical Center.

federal agents posing as drug dealers, i Witter, 45, could get up to 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine at sentencing Sept. 30. He pleaded guilty Thursday to laundering money he received from Internal Revenue Service agents in 1992. Prosecutors said Witter moved the cash to accounts in the Cayman Islands and Austria, 'and then was to receive a fee for investing the money in the United States. Witter is an independent broker in Palm Beach Gardens and has no connection to the brokerage firm founded by his grandfather, who died in 1969.

Mother pushes son to rescuer, drowns TRENTON, NJ. Caught in currents after accidentally driving into a rain-swollen lake, Victoria Hoffman struggled to keep her head above water while clutching her 7-year-old son. In a driving rain and growing darkness Thursday night, Mrs. Hoffman screamed for help, j. Minutes later, she shoved her son 1 toward a rescuer before she was suddenly pulled under water to her death.

"I hollered 'Can you and she said but that she couldn't because she was holding onto the Annie Glover, formerly of Jacksonville, will be announced by Ervin Funeral Home. Mrs. Glover died Friday at the Georgia Baptist Hospital in Atlanta. Greathouse Services for Manuel W. Greathouse of Lineville will be Monday at 2 p.m.

at the New Hope Baptist Church in Barfield with the Revs. Larry Heard, Robert Welch, Marvin Hand and C.R. Staples officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery with Garrett Funeral Home in Mr. Greathouse died Tuesday at the Baptist Medical Montclair Center in Birmingham.

Survivors include two brothers, Jesse Greathouse and Charlie Greathouse, both of Lineville; two sisters, Leola P. Short of Pittsburg, and Doris Dobbs of Chicago; two brothers-in-law and four sisters-in-law. Mr. Greathouse was a farmer and a butcher and was retired from Wellborn Cabinet Shop. He was cemetery chairman of the New Hope Baptist Church, where he also served as a deacon.

Johns HUNTS VILLE Graveside services for Anna Louise Johns, 86, of 1309 Woodmont Hunts-ville, will be Sunday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Penny Drummond officiating. Burial will follow at the Pine Hill Cemetery in Talladega. Mrs.

Johns died Thursday at Medical Center Hospital in Hunts-ville. Survivors include two daughters, Christine Fields of Madison and Leona J. Crouch of Huntsville; a son, Huey Johns of Gardendale, four grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. Mrs. Johns was a native of Anniston and lived in Calhoun County most of her life.

She was a member of the Clairmont Springs Baptist Church. Owens Graveside services for Sara Linda Owens, 66, of 1 10 Brown Anniston, will be today at 11 a.m. 3rd Sunday Special 278 By Pass 1 7 915 Noble Street Piedmont, AL A Anniston. AL Ladies' Dress Shoes National Brand Names prs. for $21.00 lpr $11.99 Attention Men Sunday Only 10 Off Western Boots Dress Shoes Sunday Open 1-5 iju II Barrett RANBURNE Services for Mae Barrett, 91, of Ranburne, will be Sunday at 2 p.m.

at the Ranburne Baptist Church with the Revs. Ray Runyan and Jerry Wolf officiating. Bdrial will follow at Ranburne Cemetery with Dryden Funeral Home in charge. The family will receive friends today from 4 to 9 p.m. at the Dryden Funeral Home Chapel.

Mrs. Barrett died Friday at her home. Survivors include two daughters, Nell White of Ranburne and Avis Arlington of LaGrange, three sons, Bobby Barrett of Hogansville, and Billy Barrett and Griffin Barrett, both of Ranburne; a sister, Verta Lowery of Bowdon, 18 grandchildren, 39 great-grandchildren, and 18 great-great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Dewayne Barrett, Gary Joe Barrett, Eugene Arrington, Karey Arrington, Tommy Jack Nolen, Ronald Loggins and Jimmy Daniel, i Mrs. Barrett was a lifelong resident of Cleburne County and a member of the Ranburne Baptist Church.

She was the widow of Mancel Barrett Frye JACKSONVILLE Graveside services for J. Henry Dean Frye, 77, of 505 2nd St. N.E., Jacksonville will be Sunday at 2 p.m. with the Truman Norred officiating. Burial will follow at the Jacksonville City Cemetery with K.L Brown Funeral Home in charge.

The family will receive friends today at the funeral home. Mr. Frye died Friday at his home. Survivors include three sisters, Shirley F. Edmunds of Tuscaloosa, Alice F.

Barnwell of Oxford and Barbara D. Bowman of Moody. Pallbearers will be Billy Joe Chancy, Homer Barnwell, Fred Hill, John Coppock, Dewitt Doss and Carl Bragg. A native of Etowah County, he was a resident of Calhoun County most of his life. He retired from the City of Jacksonville Water Department after 25 years of service.

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