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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 08, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Monday August a 1994 to a dead cow is lifted from interstate 110 near downtown Bation Rouge la., on saturday morning. A truck car tying about 100 cows plunged off a ramp killing a passenger and Many of the cattle. Cattle truck crash kills Man prompts Stampede in City Baton Rouge la. A a truck carrying about 100 cattle swerved off a Bridge and crashed saturday killing a Man and sending Many of the animals stampeding through downtown streets. Jack Wingfield 60, a passenger died in the Carljr morning wreck. The Driver Kenny Clark 30, was hospitalized in critical condition. Both men were from Buckeye Ariz. Clark lost control of the Rig on the curved on ramp to the Mississippi River Bridge. More than a dozen cattle died in the crash but Many of the survivors bolted Down interstate 110 or off the interstate and through the state capital polite Cpl. Kevin Cavell said. They we running in and out through traffic and through town. People were waking up and find ing cows Hia heir front Yard he said. A veterinarian destroyed about a dozen cattle that had been badly injured. Police on horseback and on foot rounded up surviving cattle. They could t account for 14 animals by late sat urday. But Cavell had an idea about what happened. This in t the first time we be had this happen Cay Ell said. The last time we weren t Able to account for some because people were taking live cattle and having them  official backs a act Leader on settlement Baltimore a the chairman of then Acap s Board of directors said he did t know in and Vance about a settlement of up to $332,400 Between the executive director the Rev. Benjamin Chavis and woman who claims Chavis sexually harassed her. Nonetheless William Gibson said he would stand by Chavis. Several people on the 64-member Board which also was not told of the settlement have demanded that Chavis and Gibson resign. Gibson said Friday in a Telephone interview from his Home in Greenville s.c., that he did t find out that Chavis agreed to use the group s Money in the settlement until reporters called his Home the Day before the Story was made Public july 29. I was surprised he said. The Surprise motivate me to find out More  but Gibson defended Chavis reiterating his position that Chavis had full authority to Deal with the complaint from former a act employee Mary Stan Sel. In november Chavis committed the National association for the advancement of coloured people to pay ing Stansel up to $82,400 while he tried to find her an$80,000yearjob. He promised an additional $250,000 if no Job was found. Stansel sued Chavis and the Baltimore based a act in june claiming Chavis reneged on their settlement because he did t find her a Job. The lawsuit said the settlement was reached to avoid complaint by Stansel before the equal employment Opportunity commission alleging employment discrimination sexual harassment and wrongful discharge. It did not detail the claims by Stansel who worked Schavis special assistant for about a month Chavis critics said the settlement reflected irresponsible spending habits that have put the nation s oldest civil rights group $2.7 million in the red. The a act s Board is scheduled to meet aug. 20 to discuss the matter. The directors May consider Chang ing the group s Constitution to prevent a similar settlement from occurring in the future Gibson said. Gibson said he did t think the controversy would affect the group s fund raising abilities. The a act will survive. It has survived other crises Gibson said. It will continue to be the Premier civil rights organization in  however Greg Evans president of the Washington Oregon state conference of branches said in an aug. 1 letter to Gibson that he has instructed chapters in the two states not to Forward Money to the National office until Chavis office is audited. Simpson defense might include ice Cream new York a a cup of partially Frozen ice Cream was found near the bloodied bodies of Nicole Brown Simp son and Ronald Goldman raising new questions about when the victims were killed Newsweek reported. The defense May use the ice Cream to argue that the victims were alive later than prosecutors have contended making it impossible for o. J. Simpson to have killed his former wife and her Friend the Magazine said in its aug. 15 Issue. Nicole Simpson 35, and Goldman 25, were found stabbed and slashed to death outside her Brentwood  june 13. Simpson has pleaded innocent to murder charges. _ prosecutors have said Nicole Simpson and Goldman died Between 10 15 . And 11 .-on june 12.  but police found the cup with much of the ice Cream still Frozen near the bodies sometime after 12 10 . On july 13, unidentified defense sources told the mag Azine. The timing of the discovery would Sug Gest that Nicole Simpson and Goldman were _ alive after 11 . Because otherwise the ice Cream would have ,4flthe 60-degree weather. News week said. By 11 ,. Simpson was in Rou Tejo los Aji Geles International Airport for a trip to Chicago Simpson s limousine Driver has said. Messages left at the offices of  lawyers Robert Shapiro and Johnnie Cochran or. Were not returned saturday. Los Angeles police depart ment spokesman Don Cox said the department would not comment. Witnesses said they saw Nicole Simp son and her two Young children at a Ben & Jerry s ice Cream store in Brentwood after the three dined with family and friends nearby at the me Zaluna restau rant the Magazine said. Escapee surrenders after 16 i flip it Hartington neb. A life on the Lam was said. He also lived in an Venn nah r  Lif the a Wasno life for Richard Lunderman. So he surrendered after 16 years to Complete a prison sentence for Bur Glary. The fact that i be wasted 16 years like this. It s loss Lunderman said saturday one Day after getting off a bus from Colorado and surrendering to Cedar county sheriff Elliot Arens. He got tired of running looking Over his shoulder using aliases Arens said saturday. He just wanted to it behind  Lunderman was convicted of burglary but escape from the county jail in 1978 before serving his prison sentence of two to five years. Lunderman stole a car and fled to California Arens said. E als live i Arizona and Colorado. He had jobs married and had a son now 12, Al while living under an assumed name Lunderman said from jail in this Northeast Nebraska town. I met a lot of Good people i worked for. It never Felt right having to look them in the Eye and knowing i was lying to them Lunderman said. The sheriff said Lunderman will Only have to serve his original sentence. The statute of limitations has run put on the stolen car charge and the escape charge was dismissed in the Early 1980s, Arens said. When this is Over i will have opportunities i never had before said Lunderman 37. I be become very interested in drug and substance abuse counselling. This is a Field i would like to Pur sue he said. I -.-. Lunderman said he had been an alcoholic since hew Ull treatment for alcohol abuse and a recent visit with his family helped him make his decision he said. The Odds of Lunderman being arrested without sur rendering were slim. An arrest warrant expired years ago and the sheriffs office did t have records of Lun Derman Ever having been there. Authorities had come close to him once or twice he said. Lunderman is separated from his wife and does keep in touch with her but cares for his 12-year-old son who is now living with his Mother and Stepfather. Leif 8? of happiness ahead of me if work hard for it he said  
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