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2A Saturday, September 28, 2002 SUHtujs asctte NATION U.S. would give Saddam 7 days to agree to destroy weapons Saturday Pa- H. Associated Press The United States and Britain are proposing that the United Nations set a seven-day deadline for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to agree to disarm and then open his palaces to weapons inspectors, a Bush administration official and U.N. diplomats said Friday. President Bush backed the U.N.

effort, saying, "I'm willing to give peace a chance." The tough demands are coupled with a warning that "all necessary means" would be used against Iraq in the event of defiance, the officials told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Describing the proposed U.N. resolution as tough and detailed, the U.S. official said Iraq would be accused of being in "material breach" of U.N. Security Council resolutions and told it must agree to "full, final and complete destruction" of its weapons of mass destruction.

If Saddam meets the first deadline and agrees to disarm, he would then have to quickly provide the council with a detailed account of materials in Iraq's possession which could be used to manufacture banned weapons, U.N. diplomats said. The resolution was being circulated to attract the support of France, Russia and China the other three permanent council members with veto power. All three prefer giving Iraq another chance to have sites inspected before threats of force are leveled. Iraq agreed last week to allow inspectors to return after nearly four years.

AMERICA'S WALK FOR DIABETES: Jim Dutcher Trail, Two Moon Park entrance, Billings Heights. 8 a.m.-noon. Raises funds for diabetes research, programs to improve lives of people with diabetes. 256-0616. TEEN DRIVING CHALLENGE: Montana State University-Billings College of Technology, 3803 Central Billings.

10 a.m.-noon. Students from Senior, Skyview, West, Shepherd high schools compete in precision driving course to win grants for schools. Hosted by Montana Highway Patrol, State Farm Insurance. PARADE OF HOMES: Sites around Billings. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

View new homes by local builders. 252-7533. ARTS IN THE PARKS: Western Heritage Center, 2822 Montana Ave, Billings. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sixth annual showing of children's artwork produced by participants in Parks and Recreation Department's Summer Enrichment classes.

Up through Oct 10. Free. 256-6809. FALL FESTIVAL AND FIELD OF SCREAMS: Sartorie Farms, 1916 Hawthorne Lane, Billings. 1-5 p.m, festival includes hayrides to pumpkin patch, corn maze, animal displays, cow-milking contest crafts and more.

Dark-10 p.m.. Field of Screams haunted hayride departs every 30 minutes. Benefits March of Dimes and Parents Let's Unite for Kids. 245-9599. Billings Studio Theatre, 1500 Rimrock Road, Billings.

8 p.m. Local actors perform tale of Antonio Salieri and composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart $15. 248-1141. Check out Friday's Enjoy section in The Billings Gazette for a comprehensive list of upcoming events in Billings, central and Eastern Montana and Northern Wyoming. On television TOUCHED BY AN On Sunday, Bruce Willis saved the world from an asteroid in "Armageddon." In the season premiere of "Angel," Roma Downey and Delia Reese get to do the same.

7 p.m. on CBS. "AUSTIN CTTY Cuban salsa legend Ibrahim Ferrer of the Buena Vista Social Club performs. Highlights include "Chancullo," with Ruben Gonzalez at the piano. 10 p.m.

on PBS. fTT" Man in MOVE dispute found shot to death MAPLE SHADE, J. A man involved in a bitter custody dispute with a member of the Philadelphia radical group MOVE was found shot to death in his car Friday. John Gilbride was killed the same day he was scheduled to have his first unsupervised visit with his son. Investigators gave no motive for the slaying, but Philadelphia police Capt Bill Fisher, who knows the MOVE leaders well, said he does not believe the killing was connected to the dispute over the 6-year-old.

"I knew there was a lot of rhetoric and everything else, but keep it in perspective, it's a child custody thing," Fisher said. Gilbride, a 34-year-old airline employee, had been fighting with his former wife, Alberta Africa, a MOVE member, over visitation with their son. The boy lives with his mother in Cherry Hill, a few miles from Maple Shade. Meat company recalls beef because of coli MILWAUKEE A Wisconsin meat packing company said Friday that it is recalling about 400,000 pounds of ground beef that may be connected to an E. coli outbreak that sickened 40 people in three states.

Health investigators also are probing another E. coli outbreak that sickened 19 people in Wisconsin. It is not known if the outbreaks are related, though officials believe all the people got sick after eating ground beef. The most recent case was reported in mid-September. Officials learned of the first outbreak last month after 19 people who went on a rafting trip in northern Wisconsin fell ill.

While investigating the first outbreak, officials found another of a different strain. That outbreak hit 40 people in Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota. The meat company said its recall was a precaution. Remnants of Isidore dump rain on Northeast PIKEV1LLE, Ky. The remnants of Tropical Storm Isidore swept into the Northeast on Friday after leaving thousands of people without power in swamped communities across the South.

The storm left nearly 10 inches of rain in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee but largely spared the region's flood-prone mountains. By late afternoon, it was dumping rain on Pennsylvania, New York and parts of New England. Isidore hit Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula as a hurricane last weekend, killing at least two people. It was blamed for at least two deaths in the United States, in Mississippi and Tennessee, and millions of dollars in damage. President Bush on Friday afternoon declared disaster areas in 15 parishes in Louisiana, where Gov.

Mike Foster estimated at least $18 million in damage. Florida Panhandle counties said Isidore and a tropical storm earlier this month caused at least $20 million in beach erosion damage. Louisiana temporarily closed oyster beds on the southeast coast as a precaution because contaminants could enter the seawater from flooded rivers and bayous. Teacher earns S7.9M in computer glitch DETROIT A Detroit public school teacher's pay was enough to make Bill Gates or Donald Trump envious. Thanks to a computer glitch, the teacher was paid $7.9 million before taxes for 18 minutes of work.

The teacher, who wasnt identified, received $4,015,624.80 after taxes. Someone alerted the school district earlier this month, and the money was returned after six days, chief financial officer Ken Forrest said in Thursday's Detroit News. The error occurred when a clerk entered an employee number in the hourly wage field for the teacher's wage adjustment check. The district's payroll software didnt catch the mistake. "One of the things that came with (the software) is a fail-safe that prevents that It doesn't work," Forrest said.

The district has since installed a program to flag any paycheck exceeding $10,000, he said. People YOKO SETTLES OVER PHOTOS: Yoko Ono and a former assistant to John Lennon reached a settlement Friday in New York over his use of nearly 400 private family photos, ending a bitter dispute that stretched across two decades. As part of the agreement former aide Frederic Seaman issued a public apology to Ono, the late BeatJe and their son Sean. "I offer no excuses for my con 0FF 0 Saddam to give up his weapons of mass destruction before the United States acts on its own against Iraq. "I'm willing to give peace a chance to work.

I want the United Nations to work," Bush said at a Republican fund-raising event in Denver. But Bush said action must come quickly. "Now is the time," he said. "For the sake of your children's future we must make sure this madman never has the capacity to hurt us with a nuclear weapon, or to use the stockpiles of anthrax that we know he has, or VX, the biological weapons which he possesses." Sea Edward Kennedy, meanwhile, joined other senior Democrats in voicing reservations about putting the nation on a path toward war before a new, tougher round of U.N. inspections is launched.

Kennedy, said unconditional U.N. inspections must be given time to work, and that a largely unilateral American war "could worsen, not lessen, the threat of terrorism" by swelling the ranks of al-Qaida sympathizers in the Muslim world. "War should be a last resort, not a first response," he said in a speech to the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Congress hopes to take up a resolution next week giving the president the authority to use whatever means necessary, including military force, to eradicate the Iraqi threat to America Negotiations continue on the exact wording of that resolution, with Democrats saying they won't give the president open-ended authority and seeking to put more emphasis on a multilateral approach to the problem. Court papers quote speech by bin Laden BUFFALO, N.Y.

(AP) At an Afghan training camp attended by suspected members of a New York terror cell, Osama bin Laden declared before Sept 11 that there "is going to be a fight against Americans," prosecutors said in court papers filed Friday. The papers, in the case involving six suspected terrorists in Lackawanna, N.Y., said none of the men could give any details regarding any of the mosques or schools that they visited for what they said was religious training in Pakistan. Filed in federal court in Buffalo, N.Y., the government documents ask that the six men continue to be held without bail. According to the prosecutors, the men went to the Al Farooq training camp where "bin Laden told them in unequivocal terms that there 'is going to be a fight against When one of the six, Mukhtar al-Bakri, asked the trainers at the camp who he was going to fight "they would say Americans," said the court papers. In separate court papers, the detainees' attorneys describe the six men as victims of misinformation who pose no danger.

U.S. Magistrate H. Kenneth Schroeder Jr. said he would make his decision on bail by Thursday. John Molloy, Al-Bakri's lawyer, said his client didn't accept any of what he was told at the camp in Afghanistan.

"There was no showing in the government's proffer that Mr. Al-Bakri bought into any of the propaganda or was willing or able to put any of the training offered into practice." But according to the government "the only inference any reasonable person can draw from the totality of the evidence in this case is the defendants individually and collectively pose a risk to the safety of the community and therefore should be detained." The men, all in their 20s, lived just blocks from each other in Lackawanna, 5 miles south of Buffalo. They were arrested on Sep. 13 suspected of being part of a hidden terrorist celL They are charged with providing support to a foreign terrorist organization. nnno 1 KhlMMWaSBE I I SEAMAN Associated Press Sen.

Edward Kennedy, gestures during an address on Iraq in Washington Friday. Bush called French President Jacques Chirac to try to win his backing. But Chirac resisted, telling Bush he opposed demanding Iraqi compliance and threatening Iraq with military force if it did not Chirac, instead, urged Bush to back Chirac's own approach of two resolutions: The first would call for weapons inspections, withholding any threats until a second resolution if Iraq balked. While Secretary of State Colin Powell and other U.S. diplomats strive to gain approval for the resolution, the Bush administration is struggling to persuade Congress to authorize the use of force against Iraq.

Bush said the United Nations should have a chance to force I aiimpu pi- LAUNCH cut d' Associated Press The former silo will become the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in South Dakota. pie worldwide that the Cold War was won by strength and perseverance. Lt Gen. Robert C. Hinson, vice commander of the Air Force Space Command, said the missiles were so effective that they eventually were put out of business.

He added: "We celebrate that victory here today." The nation had about 1,050 land-based missiles at one time. The Air Force now has 500 Minuteman in missiles and 50 Peacekeeper missiles at bases in North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming. The Billings Gazette is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations and the Associated Press. Periodicals paid at Billings, Montana. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to P.O.

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Our fax number for press releases or letters to the editor is 657-1208. atil St JbfL 1 r) 7 Associated Press The missile launch key mechanism is seen at the deactivated Delta Nine Launch Facility near Wall, S.D. Nuclear missile silo to become historic site duct and ask only that you can find it in your heart to forgive," Seaman said in a statement read in court by Ono's attorney. "I now realize how much pain and embarrassment I have caused." Ono had sued over the rights to 374 photos Seaman took of Lennon's family, including many taken in the months before Lennon was shot to death in New York by a deranged fan in 1980. The settlement requires Seaman to surrender all rights to the photos and return any Lennon-related items still in his possession.

Seaman, 49, admitted he had exploited the Lennon legacy for personal profit ARNOLD OPPOSES STATUE PLAN: Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to terminate a plan to build a giant "Terminator" statue in his hometown. The Forum Stadtpark wants to build a 82-foot metal statue in a park in central Graz, a city in southern Austria. The statue, which would hold a giant globe above its head, would tower over the park's trees and more traditional statues. The project would cost about 5 million euro ($4.9 million) money that has yet to be raised. Angelika Reitzer, manager for the forum, said Friday that a letter from the 55-year-old actor, who lives in California, said "he was flattered but that he thought it would be better to spend the money on social projects and the Special Olympics." Schwarzenegger's third Terminator" film, erminator 3: Rise of the Machines," is scheduled for release next year.

SINGER NEEDS TRANSPLANT: Deep-voiced soul singer Barry White needs a kidney transplant due to complications from years of chronic high blood pressure, his record label said. White, 58, is undergoing dialysis treatment to stabilize his condition, Island Def Jam Music Group said in a statement Friday. The sinaert familv refused to fit I WALL, S.D. (AP) A former nuclear missile silo on the South Dakota prairie was turned over Friday to the National Park Service to be converted into a historic site that will tell the story of the Cold War doomsday weapons that were never used. For nearly three decades the 80-foot concrete hole on the edge of Badlands National Park, dubbed Delta Nine, housed a Minuteman II missile that could deliver a nuclear weapon to a Soviet target in 30 minutes or less.

The missile was scrapped after the Soviet Union's demise and the signing of a 1991 arms reduction treaty with Russia. At a ceremony on Friday, the Air Force transferred the silo and a nearby launch control facility to the National Park Service, which hopes to open the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site to the public next summer. "This site will be the first national park in the world whose primary purpose is to commemorate the events of the Cold War," said Marriane Mills of nearby Badlands National Park, which will adrninis-ter the site. Assistant Interior Secretary Craig Manson, who was the silo's launch control officer in the late 1970s, said the site will remind peo- WHITE say whether he is hospitalized or is undergoing treatment at his Los Angeles home. White is known for such romantic songs as "Cant Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" and "You're the First the Last My Everything." He had been working on a new studio album, said Sheila Richman, spokeswoman for Island Def Jam.

White was hospitalized in August 1999 for a blood pressure problem, which forced him to cancel several live performances with the group Earth, Wind Fire. RING SOLD: Elizabeth Taylor auctioned for $80,000 an emerald-and-diamond ring she received from Richard Burton as an engagement gift in 1962, with proceeds going to The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. More than 50 pieces from Taylor's renowned jewelry collection were on display at Christie's auc-' tion house Thursday at a party for the release of her new book, "Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry." The 70-year-old actress, who's been married eight times, writes about the personal meaning behind her favorite pieces, including dazzling diamond rings and extravagant necklaces studded with rubies and emer-iaJds. The benefit raised $258,000 for Taylor's AIDS foun- flation, which has distributed more than $8 million to AIDS organizations around the world since 1991. 57-1225 57-1289 57-1219 57-1471 57-1478 57-1240 57-1217 Billings, call (800) 762-NEWS.

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