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4 Hazleton Standard-Speaker, Thursday, March 12, 1998 Today at a glonco I i liiiavrcaainir. -r Thursday, March 12 AccuWcwhcr forecast for daytime conditions and high temperatures Around the world Temperatures indicate previous day's high and overnight low to 7:34 p.m. EST. Hi Lo Pre Otlk NY CANADA Scranton 22 Mostly sunny today and continued cold, with highs in the mid 20s. Northwest wind 15 to 20 mph.

Mostly clear tonight with the low around 15. Friday: Partly sunny. High in the upper 30s. Chance of rain or snow showers north Saturday. Rain showers south.

Lows in the. 20s. Highs in the 40s. Sunday: Fair. Lows in the upper 20s to low 30s.

Highs in mainly in the 40s. Monday: Fair. Lows in the 20s. Highs in the 40s. State College 25 I Philadelphia 1 30 I Pittsburgh 28 Harrisburg 30 I 1 fY NJ.

I In 1947, President Truman established what became known as the Truman Doctrine to help Greece and Turkey resist Communism. In 1969, Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman In London. In 1987, "Les Miserables" opened on Broadway. In 1994, the Church of England ordained its first women priests. Ten years ago: Rev.

Jesse Jackson won the Democratic precinct caucuses in his native South Carolina. Five years ago: Janet Reno was sworn in as the nation's first female attorney general. Thirteen bombs exploded in Bombay, India, killing more than 300 people. One year ago: Authorities in Los Angeles arrested Mikail Markhasev as a suspect in the shooting death of Bill Cosby's son, Ennis, almost two months earlier. Markhasev, who pleaded innocent, has yet to stand trial.

Today's Birthdays: Former AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland is 76. Former astronaut Wally Schirra is 75. Playwright Edward Albee is 70. Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young is 66. Broadcast journalist Lloyd Dobyns is 62.

Singer Al Jarreau is 58. Actress Barbara Feldon is 57. Actress-singer Liza Minnelli is 52. Thought for Today: "I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do.

Luck to me is something else: hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't." Lucille Ball, American actress-comedian (1911-1989). Via Associated Piass GiaptucaNel TheAccuWeathenforecastfor noon, Thursday, March 12. By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, March 12, the 71st day of 1998. There are 294 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 12, 1938, the "Anschluss" took place as German troops entered Austria, completing what Adolf Hitler described as his mission to restore his homeland to the Third Reich.

On this date: In 1664, New Jersey became a British colony as King Charles II granted land in the New World to his brother James, the Duke of York. In 1912, in Savannah, Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Guides, which later became the Girl Scouts of America. In 1925, Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen died. In 1930, Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi began a 200-mile march to protest a British tax on salt.

In 1933, President Roosevelt delivered the first of his radio "fireside chats," telling Americans what was being done to deal with the nation's economic crisis. In 1939, Pope Pius XII was formally crowned in ceremonies at the Vatican. In 1940, Finland and the Soviet Union concluded an armistice during World War II. Fighting between the two countries flared again the following year. Thursday's "Pennsylvania Cash 5" jackpot will be worth at least $200,000 because no player matched the five winning numbers drawn In Wednesday's game.

However, 164 players matched four numbers and won $375.50 each; and 4,919 players matched three numbers and won $13.50 each. 50S Lines separate high temperature zones for the day. Albuquerque 57 32 cdy Anchorage 33 20 cdy Atlanta 43 21 clr Atlantic City 35 24 cdy Baltimore 33 24 clr Boston 32 22 cdy Buffalo 18 10 .01 sn Chicago 22 14 clr Cincinnati 23 16 clr Cleveland 22 17 .01 sn Denver 32 6 clr Detroit 24 13 cdy El Paso 64 32 cdy Fairbanks 23 -17 clr Helena 38 19 clr Honolulu 85 70 clr Houston 63 30 cdy Indianapolis 22 15 clr Juneau 41 30 .16 cdy Kansas City 14 14 cdy Las Vegas 73 45 clr Little Rock 45 24 clr Los Angeles 87 58 clr Louisville 25 19 .05 clr Memphis 38 23 clr Miami Beach 68 49 clr Milwaukee 21 10 clr Nashville 33 19 .02 clr New Orleans 53 35 clr New York 32 25 cdy Orlando 59 41 clr Philadelphia 33 24 cdy Phoenix 83 53 clr Reno 65 35 cdy Richmond 38 25 clr Sacramento 73 48 rn St Louis 21 17 .05 clr Salt Lake 48 31 clr San Antonio 58 35 rn San Diego 78 55 clr San 70 49 rn Santa Fe 48 23 cdy Seattle 62 46 .02 cdy Spokane 54 40 cdy Syracuse 18 11 .04 sn Topeka 14 14 .01 cdy Tulsa 30 21 clr Washington 34 24 clr Sunset today 6:07 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:19 a.m. Moonrise today 5:49 p.m.

Moonset today 6:08 a.m. Minutes of sunshine 706 Full Moon is at 1 1 :34 p.m. The Moon undergoes a penumbral eclipse tonight which will peak about 1 1 :30 p.m. Around the region DAILY: 3-7-5 BIG FOUR: 3-1-2-2 CASH FIVE: 4-16-31-35-39 COLD WARM STATIONARY 1996 AccuWeather, Inc 85 YEARS AGO The introduction of the First Aid to the Injured Corps is proving a blessing to the workers in and around the coal mines. Pressure HL EE S3 EH EZ3 0 HIGH LOW SHOWCP.S RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICC SUNNY PT CLOUDY CLOUDY 97h Willow 7 FREE REFRESHMENTS! FREE HOURLY GIVE-A-WAYS! Rt.

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In the earlier settlement, the FBI agreed to purchase $1,166 million worth of annuities that will pay the 50-year-old chemist-agent annual amounts equal to the salary and pension he would have earned had he kept working until nor By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN Associated Press WASHINGTON The Justice Department agreed Wednesday to pay a $300,000 Privacy Act settlement to FBI crime lab whistleblower Frederic Whitehurst, who alleged the government spread false and derogatory information to discredit him. The government also agreed to speed the release to Whitehurst of 180,000 pages of FBI lab reports by examiners whose work he had criticized. After his reinstatement from a Privacy Act claims, which usually are settled for $5,000 or less, said Whitehurt's attorney Stephen Kohn. But Justice spokesman Bert Brandenburg said it was not the largest Privacy Act settlement because under an agremeent that was not writen into the settlement, more than $50,000 of the money was for Whitehurst's legal fees.

"The settlement payment sends a loud message that you shouldn't violate a whistleblower's rights to privacy," said Kohn. "It also is a second good step to addressing the problems within the FBI crime lab. They recognize the problems and are dealing with them." Justice Department spokesman Joseph Krovisky confirmed the settlement had been reached but had no comment on it. Whitehurst, a lab supervisor who was once the FBI's top bomb residue expert, complained for 10 years mostly in vain about lab practices. But his efforts finally led last April to a scathing 500-page study of the lab by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Brom-wich.

Bromwich blasted the world- renowned lab for flawed scientific work and inaccurate, pro-prosecution testimony in major cases including the Oklahoma City and World Trade Center bombings. Bromwich recommended major reforms and discipline for five agents that is still under consideration. But he also accused Whitehurst of making "overstated and incendiary" allegations of intentional misconduct that Bromwich's investigators did not find, and he recommended that Whitehurst be transferred to other duties. Whitehurst is completing a rebuttal to that report. In the settlement, Justice officials agreed that the Justice Department's Internet website, where Bromwich's report is posted, also will carry a notice of where to find electronically or write for Whitehurst's reply.

But the government refused to include an electronic link to Whitehurst's site. In exchange for getting 180,000 pages of lab reports sped to him under the Freedom of Information Act, Whitehurst agreed to limit his 1993 and 1995 FOIA requests to lab reports and trial testimony by 12 FBI examiners, including We'll Show You The some criticized by Bromwich, such as Thomas Thurman, David Williams and Roger Martz. He agreed to forego reports from foreign counterintelligence cases and agreed to refrain from new FOIA requests for three years. The FBI agreed to look again for documents responsive to his requests for several case files, including the Unabomber, World Trade Center bombing and Pan Am 103 bombing cases. The settlement did not, however, end a 1997 lawsuit Whitehurst filed jointly with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to obtain working papers from the Bromwich investigation and documents from the Justice Department's review of criminal cases to see if any defendants were harmed by faulty FBI lab evidence or testimony.

Whitehurst has become the founding director of the National Whistleblower Center's Forensic Justice Project and intends to use all the government documents as part of its monitoring work. The FBI has asserted that no prosecutions will be lost because of the lab problems. Justice Department officials have said none have been lost so far but the final outcome remains to be seen. Government witness lists were revised in the Oklahoma City bombing and other prosecutions and at least one count in another trial was dropped, all after word of lab errors or mistakes came out. BRYNMAWR In 1925, Bryn Mawr dropped its 28-year-old regulation barr-irg students from smoking on its college campus.

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