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BS.cmai4^fbJMi^Wi'V The original item is avail,ble for research and additionaldigitizationorwithanyquestionsregardingaccessatspecial.collec…. (Local Hospital bill Oriticized Page 1B ?√φFiji hijacking foiled/8A ?√φ PTL raises $1 million/6A ?√φStars top Vancouver/1C Afternoon Edition No. 52 112 pages 25 cents f Sports Johnson named MVP Page 2C Tuesday, May c ??Donrey of Nevada, ?╟ Inc. LETTERMAN LETS LOOSE Paraplegic actress models for Playboy Associated Press SPARKS DEBATE ?╟÷ Ellen Stohi is shown as she appears in the upcoming July issue of Playboy Magazine. Associated Press CHICAGO ?╟÷ A pictorial on a paraplegic actress may have sparkeji internal debate at Play-?╟≤boy magazine, but the woman 'Who posed semi-nude for the pictures says the focus is on who she is, ndt that she is disabled. > Ellen Stohi, 23, a Student at ..?╟≤California State University-Ful-Jerton, is the subject of a planned 'eight-page layout in the July issue, said Playboy spokesman Bill ' Paige. I 1 >. ' Stohi is nearly nude or partially . clad in all of the photos except for a": one, which has her sitting fully i# clothed in her wheelchair. (The; magazine is to go on sale the first week in June. Stohi was studying acting when she broke five neck vertebrae m a 1983 automobile accident and was l temporarily paralyzed from the ' ; neck down. Her legs remain para- ?╟╓ ; lyzed. , ... r ' ?╟≤ .?╟úFor a while, I tried to sublimate my desire to act and model '?>. .by going to art school, but I came to terms with myself and decided T wanted to make a statement that I was a total woman,?╟╓ she / said in a telephone interview from a soundstage where she was making a videotape Monday, f ; ?╟úI realized sexuality is very es-?√ß sential to who we are,?╟Ñ she said. ...____-- -.......... " ?╟úAmerica is sol focused on* not, dealing with sex that We?╟╓re obi sessed with it. i. ?╟úI went to playboy because they handle; sek very well. It makes a statement people will lis-; ten^to^Sp ;~?*?╟ ?╟ She wrote to the magazine, suggesting the article, and part of her letter: is reproduced as part Of the feature,?╟Ñ said Paige, ?╟úShe wanted to sl\ow that her sexuality wasisfijlipart of her.?╟Ñ LiA'Stohl?╟╓s letter read, in . part: ?√ß?╟úSexuality is the hkrdest thing for: disabled persons tp hold pnto.?╟Ñ ?╟úI didn?╟╓t want tofbe treated specially when I approached Playboy, and I was happy When the first thing they asked me was ?╟ What do you look 'like? Are. you Playboy material??╟╓ I think iiam,?╟Ñ she said ?√ß>ili the telephone irit|rview.?╟  ; i ?╟úThe focus is on who I am, not the fact that I?╟╓m disabled,?╟Ñ she said. S . ?╟úIt?╟╓s the same way I feel about acting roles ?╟÷ if I can?╟╓t stand on my ability, don?╟╓t let fay disability get me in there.?╟Ñ | Her-views were echoed by Speed Davis, a spokesman for the National Spinal Corq Injury Association of Newton, Mass. ?╟úShe has the same fight to pose for Playboy as any other woman who thinks she has tlje qualifica- . ........................... tions,?╟Ñ Davis said. ?╟úIt?╟╓sa step forward for a disabled woman, and I see no reason to feel different about it because it is in a magazine like Playboy.?╟Ñ Davis said he thought the layout is a good opportunity* to educate the general public about sexuality among the disabled. r ?╟úTwo centuries ago, the disabled were hidden so other people couldn?╟╓t see them, and only seven or eight years ago the Easter Seal Foundation received a lot of negative comment when it skipped their usual ?╟ little girl on crutches?╟╓ poster and showed a young man in a wheelchair sitting in a park with his girlfriend in his lap,?╟Ñ he said. ?╟≤ ' .......... models rescued Bodies of two women found || I after agents free Nevada teens Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. ?╟÷ A team led by FBI agents smashed into a mobile home where they rescued two young models but found the bodies of two women, apparently their chaperones, authorities announced today. Officers who rushed the trailer late Monday night arrested Herbert James Coddington, 28, of South Lake Tahoe. He was booked for investigation of murder and kidnapping, FBI Special Agent Terry Knowles told a news conference. Knowles, in charge of the Sacra-?╟╓ mento FBI office, said Coddington may have known officers were outside his mobile home but was ?╟útotally surprised?╟Ñ when four agents burst through the door. Knowles, who, gave the command to rush the Tiome, declined to 'say whether C6ddmgton was armed. However, he said no shots were Bred. Knowles said the two girls were found apparently unharmed but ?╟úscared to death?╟Ñ in one bedroom and the two bodies in an adjacent bedroom. Models Alecia Thoma, 14, of Reno, and Monica Berge, 12, of Sparks, weren?╟╓t bound and ?╟úit was a fair assumption?╟Ñ that they were, present when the slayings took: place, Knowles said. The girls vanished on Saturday; in the company of Mayb^He* ?╟úMabs?╟Ñ Martin, 69, of Reno, Abd! her friend, Dorothy ?╟ ?╟ Dottffls?╟╓?╟╓; Walsh, 67, of Reno. .... ?√ß?√ß; ?╟≤ 5 The identities of the two women; and the cause of their deetjrs; weren?╟╓t released pending an autop*; syi but Knowles said it was ?╟úraa*1 sonable?╟Ñ to assume that the vie-! tims were the escorts of the two; -girls who had gone to Tahoe from; Reno, about 60 miles away, for-what they thoujght was a rideo||p*j ; ing session with a commercial pnO-; tographer. The four were reported missing by their fam$$S-a^r they failed'^ ^ I return Saturday night. The search; . involving as many as 50 officOrs-centered on the Lake Tahoe area. where eight local law enforcemefit* agencies assisted the FBI. ; Martin?╟╓s car was found Sunday- ; afternoon at Lampson Plaza,X a! South Lake Tahoe shopping cen:, ter. ' Death toll rises to 37 in attack on U.S. ship Associated Press WASHINGTON ?╟÷ The death tpll rose to 37 today in the missile attack on the USS Stark as White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker asked why a ?╟útrigger-happy?╟Ñ Iraqi pilot had launched a deadly missile into the Stark?╟╓s crew quarters. ?╟  ' l',\% ?╟ 'tV Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said the ship?╟╓s 185 other crew members ?╟úare fine,?╟Ñ but did not elaborate. Baker, interviewed on the NBC-TV show ?╟úToday,?╟Ñ said, ?╟úI think we should understand that free transit on the high seas, and the Persian Gulf is international water,1... is absolutely essential to the vital interests of the United States and the free world. -;?╟??╟úLwould certainly like to know why a trigger-happy pilot decided to fire on the basis of radar signals, why there wasn?╟╓t more identifica-tiom. He said the United States had listened in on radio communkfa- ; tions from the Iraqi Mirage fighter ; that launched the missile agsiiist the U.S. frigate in the Persian; Gulf, Baker did not elaborate, $'<. j Weinberger, testifying beforeXa I Senate Appropriations subcomrint- j tee, said the ship was carrying a i total of 2221 officers and sailors ?╟≤ when it was attacked by a single ; missile Sunday. Of the 37 dead, he said, 24 have J been identified and their families j notified. The remaining 13 have ] not been identified. ?╟╓ A Pentagon j spokesman said earlier that 15 sail- ; ors had bieeri washed overbqard or j were still trapped in the wreckage. I Weinberger did not elaborate cfa j the condition of the survivors, bfa ; yond saying they ?╟úare fine.?╟Ñ X ?√ß) He also said a board of inquiry : has been convened and will arrive ; Wednesday in Bahrain, where the J Stark is expected to arrive tow later today. Please see Hundreds of Letterman fans throng casino for show taping By Carol Cling ' Review-Journal ! Las Vegas, as some have ob- ?╟≤ served, is the kind of place where ?╟≤you lose track of time. Which explains why it was ?╟úLate Night?╟Ñ Monday afternoon at Bally?╟╓s hotel-casino as. NBC?╟╓s - ?╟úLate Night With David Letter-man?╟Ñ taped the first of four shows : from Las Vegas. ?√ß; Hundreds of die-hard Letter-man fans thronged the casino, ?╟≤ armed with precious tickets to the l! 2 p.m. taping. Still others waited faithfully in the standby line. One ;; forlorn fan, his ankle in a cast, limped around the vacant black- - 'jack tables with the aid of a cine, : hoisting a hand-lettered sign pleading for tickets. F Once inside Bally?╟╓s Ziegfeld Theater, audience members rocked out iiwith Paul Shaffer?╟╓s band and practiced their applause under the direction of ?╟úLate Night?╟Ñ announcer Bill Wendell until the show began. Letterman' fihally appeared, dressed in blue jeans and a yellow Hawaiian shirt emblazoned with pineapples, prompting a thunderous greeting prom the audience. ?╟úLas Vega^ audiences are thfe most beautiful audiences in the world,?╟Ñ Letterman gushed as a lighted, 30-foot ?╟úLate Night?╟Ñ logo pulsed above; him, setting the stage for gn hour of vintage Vegas. Feather-bedecked showgirls stalked the stage. (Letterman introduced one as a representative of the Las Vegas PTA.) Hans Pantar and his crossbow stalked Letterman, who declined tt/provide a target for the ?╟úJubilee!?╟Ñ sharpshooter. Rip Taylor bombarded the audience with confetti before taking the stage. The show also proved to be vintage ?╟úLate Night,?╟Ñ spotlighting such familiar faces as Larry ?╟úBud?╟Ñ Melman (alias Calvert De Forest) and Chris Elliott, decked out in a gold lame tuxedo to portray Skylark, a mythical Chris Elliot impersonator in the Silver Slipper?╟╓s ?╟úBoylesque?╟Ñ revue. The show?╟╓s nightly top 10 (?╟úfrom the home office in Scotts- dale, Ariz.,?╟Ñ as Letterman always notes) saluted the top ?╟únon-gambling activities in Las Vegas,?╟Ñ which included ?╟úSearching the desert fot insects enlarged by radiation?╟Ñ and ?╟úRewiring giant cowboy signs to give tourists the finger.?╟Ñ Another segment featured ?╟únew products with the Las Vegas touch ?╟÷ the one that says I don?╟╓t care how I spend my money,?╟Ñ Letterman said, introducing such items as a Wayne Newton chip : dispenser (becaiUse ?╟úcarrying yoUr winnings in one of those ugly plastic cups is so tacky?╟Ñ) and a Siegfried and Roy ?╟úBeyond Belief?╟╓ roach motel, ?╟úwhich magical- Please see LETTERMAN/4A Middleman tells of picking up cash Associated Press WASHINGTON - Robert W. Owen, depicting life as middleman in the ?╟≤ Iran-Contra affair, today testified about picking up envelopes stuffed with cash, attempting to arrange secret airdrops of weapons to Nicaraguan rebels and joking with Lt. Col. Oliver L. North about going to jail if discovered. ?╟úOn a couple of occasions, we would laugh .about it and joke,?╟Ñ Owen said when asked if there was any discussion about whether he might go to jail for his role in a . secret supply operation for the Contras at a time when U-SLi aid was banned. Owen recalled that North, an aide on the National Security Council, ?╟úsaid on several occasions he would always be the fall guy?╟Ñ if the secret arms supply effort be-_ Please see IRAN/4A Business Classified 20! Comics 2E Deaths 2B,; Living 1E Local/State ?√ß m Movies 5? ; Opinion 4B ! Showguide 3E < Sports mm Television 6E \ Variety 4E j Weather ; 2A: ?╟ Late Night?╟╓madness sweeps Vegas