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Post Office sets rules
to buy incorrect stamps
off the courtroom camera for jury
selection.
by just his initials. Yet the Con-
stitution requires that his case be
heard by a jury of his peers.
Judge Lance Ito was to begin
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have heard something about the
case.~Ito‘s task is to find people
who can set aside what they’ve
heard before and decide the case
on the evidence.
"You want someone on this jury
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independent.
Watkins has been waiting in the
wings, building up a nice cam-
paign kitty, in the past several
weeks as Keating and Mildren
went through the process of win-
ning their parties’ nominations.
Now Watkins is ready to begin
making his presence felt, starting
with a radio ad campaign this
week.
Watkins needs to get off the
mark early to reassure his early
supporters that he is viable.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — People
who want to buy a sheet of the in-
correctly printed Cowboy Bill
Pickett stamp need to mail their
order on Saturday.
Don’t send it in early. Theyll re-
turn it. Don’t send it in late. The
stamps will be all gone.
The U.S. Postal Service is sell-
ing 150,000 sheets of the Legends
of the West series of stamps that
include the wrong portrait of Pick-
ett, but buyers have to follow exact
rules, and be lucky, to get one.
The stamps had been intended
to honor Pickett, a rodeo cowboy
who worked for the 101 Ranch
near Ponca City, Okla., but the
1920s photograph used by the
artist who designed the stamp was
actually of Pickett’s brother, Ben.
Several million of the incorrect
sheets were destroyed after the er-
ror was discovered. Corrected
sheets will be placed on sale later.
But the poet office decided to
sell the 150,000 errors because a
few of the stamps had gotten into
circulation. The agency has a pol-
icy of never deliberately creating a
stamp rarity.
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Lloyd Noble
hosts Taylor
Singer/songwriter/guitarist
James Taylor will be in Nor-
man October 22 for an 8 p.m.
show at Lloyd Noble Center.
Reserved tickets go on sale
September 19 at the Lloyd
Noble Center Box Office and
all OK ticket outlet locations.
Tickets are $27.50 and
$23.50 and can be charged by
phone at 948-6800.
For more information, call
(314) 962-1345.
to.
The publicity issue is among the
thorniest. Anybody who walks
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The Haitians, picked up at sea while trying to flee
to the United States, volunteered to return after U.S.
officials visited their tent camps on the base, officials
said.
About 14,000 Haitians are being held on the base.
Since June, nearly 8,000 Haitians detained in Guan-
tanamo have returned voluntarily.
Hundreds of Haitians, emboldened by the deaths
of the armed men in the firefight with Marines, ran-
sacked police stations, carrying off guns, identity
cards, even musical instruments.
The Marines, meanwhile, backed off their initial
report that the Haitians fired first Saturday night,
touching off the deadly gunbattle outside the Cap-
Haitian police station.
"One of our patrols saw a gesture by an individual
with an Uzi machine gun. He took that individual out
and a firefight began,” said Col. Tom Jones, com-
manding officer of the Marine Air-Ground Task
Force.
"The lieutenant shot him when he made a gesture
to raise his Uri,” Jones continued. He said he could
Weather
Today, sunny. Highs in the
80s.
Tonight and Tuesday,
mostly clear. Lows in the up-
per 40s northwest to mid-50s
south. Highs in the 80s.
Tuesday night, partly
cloudy. Lows in the 50s.
For current time, tempera-
ture and weather information,
call 222-2233, courtesy of
Public Service Company.
Field trip
The West Elementary third grade class of Mrs. Crowder recently toured the Daily Express
facilities. Larry Shemely, Express Subscriber Services Manager, showed the students the
process of how an idea makes its way to the printed page. The kids are preparing to start a
school paper. (Express Photos by Chris Thruston)
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Mildren has picked up the sup-
port of Ms. Shedrick and state Rep.
Danny Williams, D-Seminole.
Williams got 11 percent in the
primary to help force a runoff. He
said his campaigning in the 3rd
Congressional District showed
him that Watkins is a force with
which to be reckoned.
Watkins is the predecessor of
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Millions of people are expected
to apply for the incorrect stamps,
though, and sales will be based on
the postmark on the order, which
cannot be before Oct. 1. No phone
orders or postcards will be ac-
cepted.
The price of a sheet of the
stamps is $8.70. Make checks or
money orders payable to
"Recalled Legends, USPS.”
Postal spokesman Robin
Wright said the process for select-
ing the winning buyers will go like
this:
All orders received will be en-
tered in a computer, which will
eliminate all duplicates, giving
each potential buyer one chance.
The computer will then issue the
stamps to people with orders
postmarked Oct. 1. If there are
stamps left, it will proceed to those
postmarked Oct. 2 and so on. If
more than 150,000 orders are
postmarked Oct. 1, the computer
will fill the orders at random until
all stamps are sold to people who
mailed them in on that date.
street celebrations.
The government issued a communique this
morning urging citizens to surrender their weapons
at Haitian army outposts. On Sunday, residents
turned over their guns to American forces in Cap-
Haitien rather than give them to the hated Haitian
military.
Few people were at the Port-au-Prince docks to-
day following an outpouring of support for U.S. sol-
diers Sunday evening. About 10,000 pro-American
celebrants massed around the airport to gawk at the
U.S. war machinery; one Haitian pushed a wheelbar-
rel containing a mock coffin for depised junta leader
Raoul Cedras.
Few of Haiti’s hated security forces were on the
streets of Cap-Haitien on Sunday, a day after a Ma-
rine patrol killed 10 Haitian gunmen in the first clash
with the U.S. troops that flooded to the country a
week ago to help restore the elected government.
An estimated 800 police, soldiers and ‘attaches,”
civilian gunmen attached to the army, have either
gone into hiding or fled, abandoning their police
headquarters and an army barracks.
A U.S. Coast Guard cutter, meanwhile, carried 221
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An
unusual general election cam-
paign for governor is officially
under way and it’s a handicap-
per’s nightmare.
Democrat Jack Mildren and
Republican Frank Keating have
scored impressive victories in their
bids to be chief executive and in
normal years one of them would
be a shoe-in in the general election.
But the 1994 race also features
a third candidate — Wes Watkins
of Stillwater— a Democrat turned
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CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) — U.S. Marines, now Haitian refugees from the US. naval base in Guan-
the only law in Haiti’s second-largest city, reduced tanamo Bay, Cuba, toward Port-au-Prince today. It
their patrols overnight in Cap-Haitien to discourage was expected to dock early this afternoon.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — He has About all they won't be asked to terracial marriage to the amount
no equal; that’s why so many peo- do is to answer questions about of publicity they’ve been exposed
Keating and Mildren already runoff drive to capture 59 percent
have proved that.                  of the vote Tuesday, with Ms.
Keating, former Justice De- Shedrick garnering 41 percent,
partment official, won the GOP The showing gave the Mildren
primary in a field of five without a campaign a lift, although the con-
runoff.                             ventional wisdom is that Watkins
Mildren, the current lieutenant may pull in enough Democratic
governor from Oklahoma City, votes to hand the election to Keat-
got 49 percent of the vote in the ing.
Democratic primary, not quite Keating grabbed 55 percent of
enough to avoid a runoff with the vote in the August primary,
state Sen. Bernice Shedrick, D- easily outdistancing state Sen.
Stillwater.                             Jerry Pierce, R-Bartlesville. Pierce
But he came back after a tough has endorsed the Tulsa Republi-
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eight alternates willing to spend 700 respectfully declined, saying who’s at least heard about the case,
up to six months of their lives on a thsy just can't carve out the last because you want a functioning
cause they won’t able to talk about, three months of 1994 and the first member of society,” Loyola Lan
possibly sequestered in a hotel far three months of 1996.               School professor Laurie Levenso
from family and friends, with the Ito alone will quiz the pool dur- said.
world watching and waiting for a ing what could be a month of jury     At a minimum, they will know
decision sure to be second-guessed selection,                           that Simpson, the 47-year-old
for years.                             Both the prosecution and do- football star whose fame extends
They’ll be asked to decide if a  fense contributed sample ques-  into show business, is charged
successful, likeable, handsome fa-  tions for the 50-page jurors’ ques-   with the slashing murder of ex-
thcr th ani. ’ Lse and lots of  tionnaire. The document’s con-  wife Nicole Brown Simpson and
friends who adore him is nothing  tents are a secrot, but it no doubt  her friend, Ronald Goldman.
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questioning the first of hundreds to cover jury selection was Associ-
of prospective jurors today, off- ated Press Special Correspondent
camera, in the most-watched Linda Deutsch, Ito decided.
murder trial in American history. Already, 1,000 people have
The goal is to find 12 jurors and been summoned to the jury pool;
We Saw
Jack Stidham, playing
fiddle with the Texas
Playboys at Lake Eufaula this
past Saturday ... Mary
Reding and Nancy
Calhoun, bringing home fifth
and third place, respectively,
in their classes Sunday from
the Wheathearts Contest at
the State Fair of Oklahoma ...
Caleb Miracle, keeping an
eye on his entry at the State
Fair ... Eva Stone, talking
about Tuesday’s Eastern Star
meeting.
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