Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 4, 1992 TAG: 9203040006
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Harry Veltman III, who is acting as his own attorney, argued in Santa Ana, Calif., that such jurors would be free from prejudice and hatred against him.
Veltman, 47, is accused of sending 60 letters to Witt in her native Germany, along with nude photos of himself. He could get up to three years in prison. The trial begins March 10.
Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Reba McEntire, Clint Black and Randy Travis were nominated for entertainer of the year by the Academy of Country Music Awards.
Brooks and Jackson led the nominations with five apiece.
Brooks was also nominated for best male vocalist, best single, "Shameless," and best album, "No Fences" and "Ropin' the Wind."
Jackson is in the running for best male singer and best single, song and album for "Don't Rock the Jukebox."
Black, Travis Tritt, McEntire, Trisha Yearwood, Ricky Van Shelton, Diamond Rio, Vince Gill, Billy Dean, Mary-Chapin Carpenter and Brooks & Dunn also got multiple nominations.
The winners will be announced April 29.
A New York judge threw out a $12 million lawsuit filed against model Christie Brinkley by husband Billy Joel's former business manager.
Frank Weber had charged that Brinkley interfered in his business relationship with Joel, and as a result he was fired.
But State Supreme Court Justice Edward Lehner said that Brinkley is immune from legal action in discussions with her rock star husband about matters affecting her family's finances.
> Books by Don DeLillo and Stephen Dixon were among those nominated for the 1992 PEN-Faulkner Award for Fiction.
The nominees are: DeLillo's "Mao II," Dixon's "Frog," "Extraordinary People" by Paul Gervais, "White People" by Allan Gurganus and "The Almanac Branch" by Bradford Morrow.
by CNB