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2 A WJn-dy. My 31 1995 THE TENNESSEAN 3 WORLD IN 0 MINUTES COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY TOM SULLIVAN The SEC's success in sports mirrors its growing budget This is the time of year when the Southeastern Conference athletic departments are in Des-tin, enjoying the snow-white beaches, as well as the usual financial success of its member teams. But diversity within the SEC athletic departments Ole Miss has an annual athletic budget of $10 million while Florida's and Tennessee's is about $30 million is starting to present problems. On 1C. UPSET BRUIN? While the men's team of Arkansas and the women's team of LSU are favored to repeat again as NCAA track and field champs, there's a team from the West Coast that may just be good enough and deep enough to upset both perennial powers.

UCLA had several outstanding performances in sweeping the Pac-10 Conference championships, and now head into today's national quest at Tennessee's Tom Black Track with a certain confidence. On 1C. UJ- Hutus won't launch attacks from Zaire, president vows Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko pledged yesterday to bar Rwandan Hutus from using refugee camps in Zaire to launch attacks against their homeland's new government "Zaire will never be the base for the recon-quest of another land," Mobutu told a news conference in the western resort of Bad Kreuznach, Germany. Soldiers of Rwanda's former Hutu army continue to rearm and reorganize in Zaire, which has done nothing to stop the activity despite assurances to the Rwandan government EMBASSY AXED A man brandishing a Bible hurled an ax at the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark yesterday.

It landed on the pavement outside the building and no one was injured. Embassy security guards held the man, a 27-year-old Dane, until police arrived. The man appeared to be emotionally unstable and, after questioning, he was charged with vandalism and released. He was not identified. MALI MALADY An outbreak of cholera has killed at least 103 people and sickened at least 533 this month in Mali.

The outbreak started May 9 in the southern city of Mopti, then spread along a 300-mile stretch of the Niger River from Segou to Timbuktu, health officials said yesterday. They feared the spread was not contained. "All the country is at risk," said Dr. Las-sine Konate of the Health Ministry. Cholera, spread by food or water contaminated with feces, causes severe diarrhea that can fatally dehydrate victims unless they are quickly treated with fluids and salts.

AP Having a knack with snacks The kids come home from school and they crave a snack. Go ahead and let them, but be wise in what you select. Healthy snacks contain vitamins, minerals and energy in the form of calories without too much fat or sugar. Avoid snacks where the first few ingredients include sugars such as corn syrup of fructose or ones that are high-fat foods more than 30 calories per 100 calories from fat On ID. WIPEOUT Blayn Flannigan wipes water from his eyes after he took a spill while riding through a flooded park yesterday in Texas City, Texas.

Heavy rains fell across southeast Texas causing minor flooding. -IT Plot goes sour for 'hit man' Having fan with IRS refund Drug prices overexaggerated The government's inflation index exaggerated how fast prescription drug prices rose over the past decade, auditors said yesterday. The method that the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics used to gauge rising drug prices may have overstated the inflation by 23 to 36, the General Accounting Office said. The auditors cited three flaws: The sample the government checked did not include enough new drugs, the index failed to take into account savings from consumers' switching to generic drugs or other cheaper substitutes and it failed to measure product improvements. For those of you who had to dig deep into your pockets before April 16, you may not want to read any further.

For those of you who have gotten a refund, the fun part comes now: What to do with that annual windfall. But however tempting it may be to buy a new summer wardrobe or plan that island vacation, investment advisers suggest using at least some of the money to help tie up some loose financial ends that have lingered or ones that may appear in the future. On IE. TIME'S UP Investors will need to pay attention next week when the Wall Street securities industry shortens the settlement period for most trades from five days to three. The change is important for investors, who could face late fees and interest charges if they dont get their money or stock certificates to their brokers on time.

On IE. The judge and the hitchhiker Former state Appeals Court Judge Charles Galbreath was heading to the store and picked up a female hitchhiker. The passenger offered sex to the judge for money. The judge refused, and the passenger grabbed the judge's car keys and demanded $20. The judge paid and called the police.

Arrested was transvestite Lamont E. Hayes, 28 On IB. KICKED BACK A Franklin businessman and two Martin Marietta employees pleaded guilty to defrauding the federal government and violating the federal anti-kickback statute, prosecutors said. Frederick Raymond Isaacs, owner of Production Parts a Franklin consulting firm, will be sentenced along with Marietta employees Bobby Joe Vasquez and Carl Jennings Bryant on Aug. 15.

On IB. A man who police say was simultaneously hired by a high school principal and his ex-wife to kill the other was sentenced yesterday in Hamilton, Ohio, to 3-10 years in prison. Chris Brown, 19, admitted he tried to extort $1,500 from one of the two but said he never intended to kill anyone. Police said Clarence Wilkinson offered Brown $12,500 last year to kill his former wife, Melissa Frances. Brown then allegedly went to Frances and agreed to kill Wilkinson for $15,500.

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rOt more mrormauon Complete details available CJll 242-5511. every day In the A section. Serbs step up demands, may try to deal for peacekeepers Test scores by teacher won't be out till '96 3 were followed by three other transport aircraft bringing mine-clearing and engineering equipment and light cannons. Two thousand U.S. Marines and a French aircraft carrier also moved closer, off the Adriatic coast less than 120 miles southwest of Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital.

It was unclear whether the fortified Western presence would try to tame the Bosnian Serbs or help withdraw the U.N. mission. The foreign ministers of the United States, France, Britain, Germany and Russia the so-called Contact Group that oversees peace efforts in Bosnia opted for additional muscle. They urged U.N. commanders to strengthen and regroup peacekeepers.

At the United Nations, Security Council diplomats gave the plans their support "There has been a general unanimous reaction to support the strengthening of UNPROFOR and not to yield to pressure and blackmail by the Bosnian Serbs," Security Council President Jean-Bernard Merimee told reporters after a council meeting. UNPROFOR is the U.N. force in Bosnia. Robert Frasure, chief U.S. negotiator in the Balkans, was due in Belgrade today for talks with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic NATO Secretary-General Willy Gaes called withdrawal "a last resort," and NATO foreign ministers said air strikes remained an option to protect peacekeepers or U.N.

"safe areas." of about 370 U.N. soldiers held by the Serbs. He warned against adding more military muscle to the beleaguered U.N. mission. "The more soldiers you will send, the more violence you will get," Karadzic said.

Serb anti-aircraft gunners underscored his words by firing on two NATO warplanes over Sarajevo. They missed. But the West wasn't listening to Serb words or weapons. The vanguard of thousands of Western troops was arriving yesterday in an Adriatic port city less than 40 miles from the Bosnian border. Two transport planes landed at Split, Croatia, with an advance party of 36 British soldiers the first of up to 6,200 reinforcements.

They AP NATO Secretary-General Willy Claes, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher talk to an adviser at the NATO foreign ministers meeting in the Dutch town of Noordwijk. ability to test well, but I don't think that's a fair evaluation of a teacher's ability." The intent of value-added assessment adopted by the General Assembly in 1992, was to hold teachers, schools and school systems accountable for their performance. Last fall, the state put its money where its mouth was, rewarding schools with checks of more than $4,000 for meeting goals set by the state. The flip side of this accountability sanctions starts this fall.

School systems that do not meet standards face a probationary period, which could lead to the state removing the school superintendent or school board members. A panel of teachers, superintendents and principals spent the past year examining the method and found problems with test results, the way tests are administered, and the way instruction and testing work together. "We are not interested at all in stopping the process or evading accountability," said Kathy Woodall, president of the Tennessee Education Association. "We just want to make sure it's a valid system." This spring, the state comptroller's office called for a review of the value-added process. The office identified several other concerns, such as fluctuation of scores from year to year at both the district and school levels.

University of Tennessee statistician William Sanders defends the method he developed. He says he predicted there would be variations in the early years of implementation. U.S. considering sending GIs to aid U.N. forces or becoming hostages.

Administration officials refused to rule out the possi- billty of UJS. forces being used in a commandfrstyle raid to liberate the hostages, although U.N. leaders suggested that was unlikely. However, they emphasized that the UJS. commitment for the time being is to strengthen the U.N.

presence in WASHINGTON (AP) In a move that could put U.S. troops in the line of fire, the United States said yesterday it would consider dispatching ground troops to Bosnia to help redeploy or rescue outgunned and demoralized U.N. peacekeepers. "We've said that we will be there, we will be there to respond," White House press secretary Mike McCurry said. "We understand what our obligations are as the leader of the alliance, and the President would be prepared to act on that type of request" Defense Secretary William Perry said the only "contingency" that would involve sending U.S.

ground forces into Bosnia would be "as part of a NATO operation in order to extract U.N. forces that are In danger from the place that they are in danger." "That was the commitment that the President made," Perry said on PBS' McNeil-Lehrer NewsHour. "Even in that commitment, it has to be part of a NATO operation under NATO command control, and we would go to the Congress for support on that before we did It" Some 2,000 Marines, specially trained for amphibious operations, headed for the Adriatic Sea. The aircraft carrier, USS Theodore Roosevelt, carrying 50 warplanes, also was on station in the Adriatic. The Pentagon said the United States would consider a request to use UJS.

ground forces to help redeploy the peacekeepers to make them less vulnerable to attacks Bosnia and NATO's effort to protect the peacekeepers through more equipment and logistical support Perry said the United States has offered to supply helicopters, personnel carriers and night vision equipment, and airlift them into Bosnia. "I think it's very likely that we will be taken up on that offer." i TV show that helped capture murderer helped spare his life ,1 likely" cause of Woodson's death. The pathologist said It was possible that she could have been buried alive, since her denim jacket was found wrapped around her head. Shepherd told investigators Woodson lost consciousness when she ran, fell, and hit her head "on a rock or something" after he pressed her to have sex with him In February 1978 in a remote area several miles from his home. Shepherd told police that he tried to revive the girl and then, "when there was no response," decided to bury her.

The Supreme Court voted 3-2 to affimishepherd's first-degree murder conviction in the Wilson case, which means he still has a life prison sentence to serve. Two members of the Supreme Court, Justices Lyle Reid and Adolpho A Birch said they would have overturned the murder conviction because of the unusual way a jury was selected to try the Woodson slaying case. Circuit Judge Mayo Mashburn, who presided over both of Shepherd's trials, moved the Woodson case from Monroe County to neighboring Bradley County, and then selected a jury from residents of Coffee County, about 100 miles away, and had them taken to Bradley County for the trial. "This was not a change of venue, but a change of venire, a procedure unknowr to Tennessee," Reid wrote in a dissenting opinion. Neither Cleveland attorney Richard Fisher, the former 10th Judicial District prosecutor who took part in the Unsolved Mysteries program, nor Jerry Estes, the Southeast Tennessee area's current district attorney, could be reached yesterday for comment on Shepherd.

But state Attorney General Charles Burson, who handles appeals of criminal cases before the Supreme Court, said Estes has said he does not plan to ask a second jury to sentence Shepherd to death for the murder of Roxanne Woodson. Estes had delayed a decision on retrying the Clowers murder case until the Supreme Court ruled on the Woodson murder. The jury in the Clowers case sentenced Shepherd to a 99-year prison term, a fact that Shepherd's conviction in the Clowers case had been overturned and could no longer be used as an "aggravating circumstance" to justify imposing the death penalty in the Woodson case. That would leave prosecutors depending on one other "aggravating circumstance" that the murder of Woodson was "especially heinous, atrocious or cruel In that it involved torture or depravity of mind." Shepherd's lawyers contend that that section of state law would apply only if Woodson was still alive when Shepherd buried her about 100 feet from tis parents' home. I A pathologist teJfied during Shepherd's trial "in 1991 teat asphyxiation or suffocation was "the most.