European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 18, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 9 strikes Good Luck As labor woes averted Atlantic City no. A the miss America pageant got a reprieve sat urday from a potentially disruptive strike when Casino hotel workers reached a tentative agreement with management. The workers who staged a raucous walkout eight years ago could have disrupted the traditional Boardwalk Parade. That would have threatened the pageant with double trouble since american indians also were protesting a contestant s use of an Indian burial scaffold in her dance routine. I can Tell you one thing for sure. There will be a miss America pageant on saturday night said pageant president Leonard Horn. A handful of american indians out raged Over miss South Dakota s Talent routine protested before her performance in thursday night s preliminary Competition. Police escorted her put of the auditorium afterwards. Kristi Lynn Bauer dances in Buckskin to music from the movie dances with wolves. Several Indian groups have asked Bauer a Blue eyed blonde who says she is part Indian to drop the routine. The Issue Here is you Don t do a dance routine in a cemetery Francis White Bird South Dakota commissioner of Indi an affairs said earlier Finis month. Bauer says she is honouring Indian culture. Heather Whitestone miss Alabama emerged thursday night As the favorite by becoming the 28th woman in pageant history to win both preliminary swimsuit and Talent competitions. Thirteen of the 28 have gone on Towin the Crown. If she won Whitestone would be the first deaf miss America. In both competitions other contestants had to Tell her that she had won the threat of a strike did t seem to faze her ,./-.-, -.".,.vij c / i Don t think miss America will die without room service Whitestone said. On tuesday local 54 of the hotel and restaurant employees and bartenders International Union rejected a five year Deal with the City s Casino hotels. But the Union which represents about 10,000 bartenders maids room service waiters food servers and other employees in All 12 of the City s casinos is recommending acceptance of a proposal to miss America contestant Kristi Lynn Bauer of South Dakota rehearses her dance Rou Tine thursday in Atlantic City no. The dance which features a burial scaffold prompted protests from american indians who urged her to drop the routine. Be presented to the membership today said the Union president Gene Hudgins. We Are not going to have walkouts and we won t have a strike he said. The sides have been fighting Over tips and fir Ings caused by sick Days or lateness. Hud gins would not give details of the live agreement. In 1986, a one Day walkout by about 10,000 workers led to chaos windows were smashed buses were vandalized and rioters taunted Casino patrons. All 50 contestants Are staying in Casino hotels and could be forced to Cross picket lines. Or son set to los Angeles a one of . Simpson s lawyers said Friday that it is too Early to decide if Simpson will testify in his own defense at his murder trial. There has been no final decision made Johnnie Cochran or. Told the associated press late Friday. Cochran denied telling the Washington Post that Simpson would take the stand. He is going to testify Cochran was quoted As saying in saturday s Post. He has absolutely nothing to hide. He wants to testify. He wants to keep the record straight Simpson has pleaded innocent in the june 12 slayings of his sex wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her Friend Ronald Goldman. Jury selection is scheduled to begin sept. 26. No one could be reached at the Post Early saturday to comment on the report. By taking the stand Simpson could allow prosecutors to question him about beatings that his sex wife reported to police and about statements Simpson made to investigators concerning his whereabouts on the night of the slayings. His testimony is now the main event trial lawyer Paul Hoffman said. If he did t testify the essential event was going to be the forensic  lawyers say there is always potential for backfiring when a defendant takes the stand. Prosecutors can intimidate and trip up defendants especially if they Are talkative. ". -.-.  the scariest thing a defense lawyer can do is put his client on the stand trial lawyer Harland Braun said. He just has to sit there and Pray because a defendant Whf los a poor witness can help get himself  in a related development the los an Geles times reported saturday that police disregarded state Law when they waited hours before summoning the county Coroner to examine the bodies rather than doing it immediately. Police spokesman it. 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He reasserted that he has not committed any ethics violations but said some travel records show he May have created the appearance of impropriety. Espy said his previous service in con Gress May have affected his Choice of destinations and events for which to make official travel. The records show visits to four Mississippi cities in his first month in office Espy said department attorneys would review All future travel schedules. Several commentators and friends of Espy have suggested that his service in Congress where travel and other gifts Are acceptable May have led to an incr pendent counsel s investigation of the agriculture Secretary for accepting gifts of trips and sports tickets. The Mississippi travel included fre quent weekend visits and often were stopovers on trips to other destinations the records show. Mississippi was the destination on other trips. Espy 40, who is divorced has two Chil Dren living in Mississippi. 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