Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, June 6, 1995                   TAG: 9506060151
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: C4   EDITION: METRO 
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IN THE NATION

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina's proposed program to help keep women out of The Citadel's all-male cadet corps would admit 20 women to another school in August and 100 the following year, state officials said Monday.

The Citadel will provide about $6.6 million to fund the $10 million women's leadership program at private Converse College in Spartanburg, said state Attorney General Charlie Condon. State taxpayers would fund the rest.

Federal courts have told South Carolina it must admit Shannon Faulkner this August or create an acceptable alternative program for women. Condon released details of the state's plan for the first time Monday.

- Associated Press

Report says Gramm helped free convicts

WASHINGTON - GOP presidential hopeful Phil Gramm on Monday denied a report that he helped secure the release in 1979 of a convicted drug dealer.

``Mother Jones,'' a San Francisco-based investigative magazine, reports in an upcoming edition that the Texas senator intervened in three cases involving convicted felons in the late 1970s, succeeding in obtaining the release of two.

Gramm said in a statement Monday that he ``had never heard of Bill Doyle, much less met or spoken with him.'' Bill Doyle is one of the ex-convicts the magazine mentions.

A former Gramm aide who lives in Dallas and is on vacation in Europe said in a statement released late Monday by Gramm's office that she had acted on her own when she helped Doyle.

- Cox News Service

FAA imposes limits on 2 helicopters

WASHINGTON - Federal aviation officials imposed new restrictions and ordered design changes Monday on two types of light helicopters.

The Federal Aviation Administration also called for more research and flight testing for the Robinson R22 and the Robinson R44, aircraft popular with police departments and flight training schools.

In January, the National Transportation Safety Board asked the government to ground the helicopters until experts figure out what caused four crashes that killed seven people in Germany, Switzerland and the United States last year.

In each of the four crashes, investigators suspected malfunctioning rotor blades, according to the NTSB.

- Associated Press