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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, July 23, 1993

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Friday july 23,1993 Northern exposure nabs 16 emmy bids los Angeles a cd so offbeat comedy drama Northern exposure snared a leading 16 nominations thursday Tor the 45th annual primetime emmy awards. Lbs was the top network with 92 nominations. Abc was second with 80 nominations followed by a tie Between Abc and Home Box office with 55 each. Pcs had 38 nominations while pox broadcasting co. Came away with 10. Winners selected by panels of directors actors and writers will be announced at ceremonies in september. A Northern exposure was nominated for Best drama and received nominations for Lead actor Rob Morrow and Lead actress Janine Turner in the drama category. Also nominated from the show were John Cullum and Barry Corbin As outstanding supporting actors in a drama. Nominated As supporting actresses were Cynthia Geary and Peg Phillips. Among the leading shows there was a second place tie Between citizen Cohn a movie about the life of attorney Roy Cohn and the Abc comedy series Seinfeld each with 11 nominations. Following them were three other to movies Stalin with 10 nominations and barbarians at the Gate and Sinatra each with nine. Joining Northern exposure in the Best dramatic series category were abcs Home front no cd a 111 Ely away Abc s Law amp order and cd so picket fences. Two of the series Home front and 111 Fly away were critically acclaimed but were cancelled by their networks because they failed to attract Large enough audiences. Best comedy series included no cd a cheers which wrapped up its 11-year run this past season. The Janine Turner was nominated for Lead actress in the drama category for her role in the popular series a Northern  eight nominations the series received put it within striking distance of overtaking the Mary Tyler Moore show As the most honoured series. Cheers Al ready has 26 emmy and Mary has 29. The Simpsons which for the first time was allowed to compete with comedies such As cheers rather than solely with animated shows failed to get nominated for comedy series but did get two bids outstanding individual achievement in music composition in a series and sound mixing. Other nominated comedy series were abcs Home improvement Hobs the Larry Sanders show cd so Murphy Brown and no cd a Seinfeld. Nominated drama series actors besides Morrow were Sam Waterston for 111 Fly away Michael Moriarty for Law amp order Tom Skerritt for picket fences and Scott Bakula for no cd a quantum leap. Nominations for leading dramatic actress in a series went to Regina Taylor for 111 Fly away Angela Lansbury for cd so murder she wrote Kathy Baker for picket fences and Swo Osie Kurtz for abcs Sisters. Nominations for Lead actor in a comedy series went to Ted Danson for cheers Tim Allen Tot Home improvement Garry Shandling for the Larry Sanders show John Goodman Tor abcs Roseanne and Jerry Seinfeld for Seinfeld. In the Best comedy actress category Roseanne Arnold got her second consecutive bid. Other nominees were Marion Ross for cd so Brooklyn Bridge Kirstie Alley Tor cheers Helen Hunt for no cd a mad about you and Candice Bergen for Murphy Brown. A total of 366 nominations were announced in an Early morning ceremony at the Academy of television arts amp sciences Headquarters. The hosts of the Brief ceremony were actors Charlton Heston and Sharon Gless. The tonight show with Jay Leno in its first year with its new Host earned a nomination As Best variety music or comedy series. Cia a As new York a Sheik Omar Abdul Rahmann a seven applications to enter the United states were reviewed by the Cia but Only once was the Muslim cleric rejected because of suspected terrorist tics a newspaper said thursday. The disclosure in the new York times cited unnamed Federal officials in revealing extensive Cia involvement in the egyptian radicals obtaining a . Visa on up to four occasions. Questions about How Abdel Rahman entered the country arose after some of his. Followers were arrested in connection with the world Trade Center bombing feb. 26 and an alleged plot the Fri deterred last month to blow up several new York City landmarks. Abdel Rahman 55 and Blind was tried and acquitted in connection with the 1981 assassination of egyptian president Anwar Sadat. He also was charged with inciting a 1989 riot in Egypt. He is now in a Federal prison in Otis Ville n.y., facing immigration charges. He has not been charged in either new York bombing plot. An immigration court rejected his Appeal for Asylum and ruled that he was deportable. Egypt has asked that he be  associated press reported on july 12 that the . Government had concluded that a Cia officer working at the . Embassy in Sudan blundered unwittingly in letting Abdel Rahman into the United states in 1990. The Sheik was known to . Coun Ter terrorism officials because of his support of radicals in Egypt. In 1987 he was put on a list of 2.7 million foreigners ineligible for entry into the United states. Clinton administration officials blame government blunders for his subsequent admission to the United states. The classified report outlines the Ciao a failure to identify Abdel Rahman As a potential threat in six of the seven cases the times said. Agents rejected Abdel Rahmann a applications twice but for other reasons including failure to provide the address of a . Sponsor and the. Lack of a round trip ticket the newspaper said. In another development regarding the alleged terrorist plots the brother of Ibrahim Elg Browny a suspect in the foiled bomb plot and the world Trade Center bombing has been arrested for using a fake passport. Mohamed Aly Abdu 45, also known As Mohamed Elg Browny was charged with using a lebanese passport obtained with false information Federal prosecutors said. Abdu lives in new York but was to be tried in Virginia where the alleged passport incident occurred. Like others charged in the bomb plots Abdu worshipped at the Abu Bakr mosque in Brooklyn where Abdel Rahman preached the times said. Robbery drives car jackets study says by Tom Incantalupo new Day new York a so you think you re an unlikely target for a carjacking because that smoke belching Roach infested Heap you re driving with the four dented fenders and no radio is so ratty that no one else could possibly want it because you done to even want it Well you might be wrong especially if unlike your car you look prosperous. In its first analysis Ever of the crime of carjacking the new York City police Auto crime division has concluded that in most cases its just another Way to Rob people of their watches and wallets and whatnot a an alternative to mugging a pedestrian that carries the fringe Benefit of a ready getaway car. A the carjacking is incidental to the robbery of the person a said the divisions it. Robert Martin who did the analysis by reviewing 2,143 reports of gunpoint carjacking last year. In some cases he said the carjacked a a main idea is to obtain a car to use in another crime. But in Only about 10 percent of the carjacking police believe the principal motive was to sell a car intact or for parts so contrary to popular misconception the most popular cars among car Ackers in the City Are the very Ordinary cars that most people buy Chevrolet Fords Toyota and hondas. Cadillac is 10th Down on the list Mercedes Benz is 11th. Of course since there Are far fewer Cadillac and Mercedes on the Road than Chevy your chances statistically of being carjacked might still be a Little better if you have Nice wheels. The divisions analysis also found that carjacking in which target cars were forced to the Side of the Road while frightening Are not the Norm. A the majority Are very straightforward Quot Martin said. A a person approaches with a gun usually when the car is  to put it All in context new Yorkus carjacking total is a lot lower than los Angeles county a which has the second highest level in the United states 4,671, behind san Juan puerto Rico. New York City a conclusion about the motives and automotive preferences of car Ackers mirrors that of the National insurance crime Bureau a group supported mostly by the insurance Industry to fight car theft. Spokesman Greg Tanski says carjacking has its roots in Stagecoach robberies. A the motive for robbing the Stagecoach was not to take the Stagecoach a said Tanski a but to Rob the  Hunter recovering from Accident with Spear Dayton Ohio apr a Frog Hunter tripped and impaled his head on the Pitchfork like instrument he was using to Spear the animals. Jim Campbell a 33-year-old Lover of Frog legs was in fair condition wednesday after two barbed prongs from the 6-foot-Long gig were removed. One prong entered his Cheek and came out just below his nose after Campbell stumbled on a log saturday. The other prong entered below his Chin and exited from his forehead narrowly missing the Eye. A another Inch or two and it could have entered his brain a or. H. Stanley Jenkins said. As Campbell was being prepared for surgery a Frog jumped out of his Pouch in the emergency room. A there we had this Frog hopping around in the or and the doctors and techs hopping around after it Quot Jenkins said. A a it a the first time we be Ever had a Frog in the   
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