Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 15, 1995 TAG: 9502160021
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-7 EDITION: METRO
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WASHINGTON - Public broadcasters say $92,000 of the taxpayers' money went into providing information to a senator who wants to eliminate federal funding for the industry.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other public broadcasting groups were responding to a questionnaire from Sen. Larry Pressler, R-S.D., who as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee controls the flow of federal funds to the industry.
CPB came up with the figure by estimating the time officials put into collecting the information as well as spending $15,000 in legal fees, CPB Chairman Henry Cauthen said Tuesday.
|- Associated Press
Most U.S. women using contraception
WASHINGTON - Fifty-nine percent of American women and teens in their childbearing years use contraception, and condoms are winning wider acceptance, a federal health agency reported Tuesday.
The National Center for Health Statistics said condom use increased from 9 percent to 11 percent, while use of the pill declined from 19 percent to 17 percent from 1988 to 1990.
The center said 71 percent of young, unmarried women used contraception the first time they had sex in 1988-90. At the start of the 1980s, a similar survey found only 53 percent of the women ages 15-19 used contraception the first time they had sex.
Among sexually experienced teens, contraceptive use declined from 61 percent to 58 percent.
- Associated Press
Clinic shooting suspect indicted
DEDHAM, Mass. - John C. Salvi III was indicted Tuesday on charges of killing two people and wounding five others in attacks on two suburban Boston clinics.
Salvi, 22, was arrested in Norfolk, Va., the next day, accused of firing 20 shots at a building housing a clinic there. No one was injured.
Federal authorities said they will put off prosecuting Salvi under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act until after his Massachusetts trial.
In Virginia, where he's charged with felony firing into an occupied building, officials have delayed prosecution.
- Associated Press
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