European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1942-1992 vol. 51, no. 35 36c Friday May 22,1992 d 8693 a Murphy Brown tempest in a to pot Quayle s baby talk brews confusion actress Candice Bergen portraying the character Murphy Brown cradles her Newborn to baby. By Rick Hampson the associated press new York a headlines screamed about it. Talk shows buzzed about it. Men and women argued about it. And the White House seemed not to know what to do about it. The crackdown in Thailand the Juk autopsy Johnny Carsons impending retirement a All took a Back seat to vice president Dan Quayle a claim that. Television character Murphy Browne a giving birth to a child outside Wedlock mocks a the importance of  a Murphy has a baby. Quayle has a cow crowed the Philadelphia daily news. A Quayle to Murphy Brown you tramp a blared the new York daily news. A Dan raps Murphy a flaw a punned the Boston Herald. On tuesday in a speech on the causes of the los Angeles riots Quayle said Quot bearing babies irresponsibly is wrong. Failing to support children one has fathered is  he continued a it does no to help matters when prime time to has Murphy Brown a a character who supposedly epitomizes today a intelligent highly paid professional woman a mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and then calling it just another a lifestyle  on wednesday White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said that Quayle had a Point but he also Quayle praised the shows a pro life values for showing a prominent character deciding against an abortion. Quayle a who admitted he does no to watch the show a said Fitzwater was wrong that the show see tempest on Page 2 Coleman executed pleading innocence Jarratt a. Apr Roger Keith Coleman died in the electric chair for the 1981 rape and murder of his sister in Law proclaiming his innocence to the very end. Coleman who had pleaded his Case on talk shows in newspapers and magazines As Well As in courts was executed late wednesday night minutes after the . Supreme court rejected his final Appeal. A an innocent Man is going to be murdered tonight a said the 33-year-old Coleman strapped in the chair As a Krison chaplain eld his typewritten final statement for him to read. A when my innocence is proven 1 Hope America will realize the injustice of the death penalty As All other civilized countries  in a last ditch move hours before he was to go to the electric chair Coleman offered to take a lie Detector test a something he had refused to insh>kj4x01 a y Mccoy do for years a and failed. Gov. L. Douglas Wilder who rejected clemency monday said he might have changed his mind if the test showed Coleman was telling the truth. Coleman was convicted in 1982 of killing Wanda Mccoy his wife a sister who was found raped stabbed twice and nearly beheaded in her Home in the southwestern Virginia town of Grundy. He was linked to the crime by semen and pubic hairs found on the victim and by spots of blood Matching her Type on his pants. Prosecution witnesses included a Jailhouse informant who said Coleman told him he raped the woman. During appeals a Dan test a conducted on semen by an expert hired by the defense a showed Coleman was among 0.2 percent of the population who could have committed the crime. His lawyers said the expert misinterpreted the results. The genetic evidence proved damaging anyway in rejecting an Appeal last week . District judge Glen m. Williams cited the findings. Coleman a attorneys also argued that he did no to have time to commit the crime that tests showed semen from two men was found in Mccoy that another Man bragged about murdering her and that there was no Coal dust found at the scene though Coleman a clothes were dirty from work. Coleman see Coleman on Page 2 Roger Keith Coleman is led away after he failed a lie Detector test a an innocent Man is going to be murdered a he said before being executed. Us airline food Lane truth see pages 14-15 ethnic conflict spreads in former soviet Asia Moscow apr the Magorno Karabash conflict has spread with fighting breaking out in a predominantly azerbaijani enclave of Armenia that Borders Turkey the itar Tass news Agency reported thursday. Tehran radio reported wednesday night that 470 azerbaijanis were killed or wounded in clashes in Nash Chevan in an escalation of the 4-year-old War in the caucasus mountains. It did not say How Many were dead. The popular front of Azerbaijan said 20 people were killed and about 100 wounded in fighting thursday according to the Nezah Ishimaya gazeta news service. _ ,. The outbreak of fighting in Nash Chevan follows decisive armenian Vic see conflict on Page 2