'Intoxicated' Marine won't face charges for jumping fence

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal officials will not prosecute a Marine who was arrested as he allegedly tried to scale the White House fence because he thought he was at his base south of Washington.

The Secret Service said Cpl. Jebediah Morris, 21, of Enid, Oklahoma, was ''extremely intoxicated'' when arrested early Sunday and charged with unlawful entry. The U.S. Attorney's office decided yesterday to drop the charge leave any discipline to the Marines, U.S. Attorney's spokesman Kevin Ohlson said.

Rooney leads fight to defend his own spot on '60 Minutes'

NEW YORK (AP) - More than 6,000 people took ''60 Minutes'' commentator Andy Rooney up on his suggestion that they telephone the Associated Press in response to a TV critic's call for him to leave the show.

In a March 20 column, AP writer Frazier Moore called Rooney a ''chronic fuddy-duddy ... whose contribution is ending the show on a sour note.''

'''60 Minutes' would be better off without you,'' Moore told the 18-year veteran of TV's most enduring magazine show.

At the end of Sunday night's ''60 Minutes,'' Rooney put the AP's Rockefeller Center phone number on the screen and asked viewers, in effect, to vote on his future.

By midafternoon yesterday, the wire service's switchboard had handled more than 6,000 calls, with sentiment running ''overwhelmingly in Andy Rooney's favor,'' AP spokeswoman Tori Smith said.

Blood sample may establish paternity link in rape case

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - A judge yesterday ordered a fired nurse's aide to provide a blood sample to determine if he is the father of a baby born to a woman who has been in a comalike state for 10 years.

John Horace, 52, worked at a nursing home in suburban Rochester where the 29-year-old woman was raped last August, and two co-workers told investigators they saw him acting suspiciously in her room, prosecutors said at a hearing.

State Supreme Court Judge Charles J. Siragusa gave Horace two days to supply a sample of blood that will be tested to establish if there is paternity link. No charges have yet been filed.