European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday october 4, 1991 Bushes look on As Brooks wins Fop country award Nashville Tenn. Apr Singer Garth Brooks was voted entertainer of the year and won three other awards from the country music association on wednesday with president Bush and the first lady watching from the second Row. Brooks 29, was honoured for the single friends in Low places the album no fences and the no. 1 video for the Thunder Rolls. Under music association rules the video award was presented to director Bud Schaetzle. A a it a funny How a Chubby kid can just be having fun and they Call it entertaining a said Brooks a former Boot store manager. Vince Gill a Tenor with pitch perfect delivery won or shared three awards including male vocalist of the year. Gill 34, shared song of the year honors with Tim Dubois his co writer on when 1 Call your name. Gill also shared vocal event of the year which went to fiddler Mark of Connor and the new Nashville cats featuring Steve Wariner Ricky Skaggs and Gill. A a in be come a Long Way from three chords and of Shep the first song i Ever Learned a said Gill former Lead Singer for the pop group pure Prairie league. Of Connor was voted no. 1 musician. Bush a longtime country music fan was seated with his wife Barbara and country stars Crystal Gayle Roy Acuff Larry Gatlin and his Brothers Steve and Rudy. The Bushes received a standing ovation As they entered the grand Ole opry House and at the end of the show when they took the stage. Tanya Tucker who gave birth to a son earlier wednesday won female vocalist of the year for the first time in four years As a finalist. Tucker 32, known for her songs Delta Dawn and Down to my last Teardrop was at an undisclosed Hospital. She and the baby named Beau Grayson were in Good condition. A i was sitting Here watching a she said from her Hospital room. A i had no idea id the judds a Mother daughter duo were voted vocal duo of the year for the fourth straight time in their Farewell awards show together. Naomi Judd is leaving the concert circuit in december because of hepatitis while daughter Wynonna launches a Solo career. The husband wife songwriting team of Boudreaux and Felice Bryant who composed such hit records As All i have to do is dream and Bye Bye love was chosen for the country music Hall of Fame. Boudreaux Bryant died in 1987 at age 67. Felice Bryant 66, who is still Active As a composer accepted the award. The Kentucky headhunters wearing future farm Singer Garth Brooks tips his hat to the audience after winning the award for single of the year. He also won three other awards including entertainer of the year. Ers of America jackets won Best group for the second straight year and million Selling Singer Travis Tritt was voted the horizon award As the most promising newcomer. To Walker Meador the retiring executive director of the country music association was Given a special award of excellence. Finalists for entertainer of the year the top Honor were Reba Mcentire Clint Black Gill George Strait and Brooks. Strait won the Honor the last two years. Up for Best male vocalist were Black Brooks Strait and Alan Jackson. Black won in 1990. Other finalists for top female Singer were Patty Loveless Kathy Mattea Mcentire and Lorrie Morgan. Winners were chosen by the 6,000 voting members of the music association mostly singers musicians songwriters and others who make their living in country music. 7 arrested in Wichita clinic Wichita Kan. Apr police arrested seven antiabortion activists wednesday who entered a clinic behind a patient and began shouting and singing. The seven including a juvenile entered Wichita family planning inc. After an employee unlocked a door to admit a patient police capt. Jack Leon said. The clinic commonly keeps its doors locked. Six or seven patient were in the clinic at the time but no abortions were being performed and no doctors were present a clinic spokeswoman said. The clinic also provides birth control and family counselling As Well As conducting tests for pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. For seven weeks this summer police and Federal marshals made More than 2,600 arrests of about 1,700 people at Wichita a three abortion clinics. Wichita family planning is one of two clinics protected by a Federal court order prohibiting blockades at clinic entrances. The order also bans the harassment or intimidation of clinic employees and patients. An incident at Wichita family planning about two weeks ago resulted in 12 arrests including that of the clinic director who scuffled with two protesters. Three of the people arrested in that incident were sentenced to up to 150 Days in Federal prison for contempt of court. Leon said those arrested wednesday would be charged in municipal court with trespassing then would be taken to Federal court for contempt of court hearings. House members also lax in food Bills by the new York times Washington a two Veteran members of Congress have charged that Many of their colleagues owe thousands of dollars in Long overdue Bills in House restaurants. If the members done to pay up the debts should go to a collection Agency and the names of delinquent members be posted said rep. Pat Roberts r-Kan., and Mary Rose Oakar a Ohio. They made the proposal wean Day in a letter to the House administration committee charging that $667,416 had been owed on june 6 to service America a company that ran the restaurants until August. Roberts said in a later interview that Only $255,000 remains unpaid now. Oakar said that the Bills had not been audited and that she did not know How much is owed now. The charges follow on the heels of a general accounting office report that found lawmakers wrote 8,331 bad checks that were covered by the House Bank during the year ending in june 1990. In a related development it was disclosed that a member of the House leadership was helped by the Bank a practice. Rep. Newt Gingrich of Georgia Republican whip said three of his own checks had been a in questions during the same period As the Gao study. The window of the testing the limits clinic. The building in which the posters were displayed also houses a Eav bar Ana is in a District with other posters for Safe sex not deemed obscene from wire reports Oklahoma City a a judge wednesday acquitted a doctor charged with obscenity for displaying explicit Safe sex posters in the window of an aids clinic. One of the posters shows two naked men one wearing a condom. The other poster displays a Side View of two men exposed in the hip area locked in an implied sexual embrace. Assistant City attorney Michael Porter had argued that posters promoting the idea of Safe sex did no to have to contain such explicit material. But municipal judge Emily Kaye Lonian noted that a More graphic photograph is made available to Public health educators through a government Agency. That photograph shows an erect Penis with a condom on it. Or. Larry Prater a psychiatrist was charged after vice officers saw the posters displayed in w the limits clinic. 1 Lich the Post Gay bar Ana is ii Gay bars Ana a Gay Motel. A Safe sex is hot sex a one of the posters says. The other advises people to a get carried away with Prater called his acquittal a a Victory for aids educators who feel it is necessary to promote explicit sexual information on the dangers of the he said the posters Are attractive and promote the idea of health care for homosexuals. War apology sought Indianapolis a a world War ii commemorative group said wednesday that Japan should formally apologize to the United states for bombing Pearl Harbor in 1941. Although Japan surrendered in 1945 to end the War the nation never issued apology for its dec. 7,1941, attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United states into the War. The demand for an apology was made during a news conference by the world War ii National commemorative association. It said rep. Dan Burton r-ind., would insert a Resolution into the congressional record calling for Japan to apologize. The associations chairman Elbert Watson said that following an apology veterans of the War from both nations should be encouraged to meet this year to share stories and promote historic research. Coors agrees to Fine Denver a Coors brewing co. Has agreed to pay a $211,000 Fine stemming from pollution in a Creek that killed thousands of fish the company said wednesday. It was the third Coors settlement arising from the pollution in the Creek that passes through brewery property. A this is the final agreement related to issues related to Clear Creek a said Becky winning a Coors spokeswoman. In the first of two incidents the Creek was contaminated with Silver Mercury and Copper waste from january 1990 to april 1990. In May 155.000 Gallons of diluted Beer and untreated sewage spilled into the Creek killing about 13.000 fish along a 5-mile stretch. The latest agreement was reached with the state department of health. Previous agreements were with the Sierra club and the state division of wildlife. In the agreement with health officials Coors pledged to eliminate the sources of the spilled metals or to build a treatment Plant for them by March 1993. Defense Bill of d Washington a the House on wednesday approved a Bill extending for three years the defense production act which allows the president during National emergencies to require companies to give priority to defense production orders. The vote was 419-3. The Senate passed a version of the Bill last february. Negotiators from each chamber will meet to reconcile differences Between the two Bills
