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BEST AVAILABLE COPY STBEET EM STATE E0iTIOfJ ij The Arizona Republic Thursday, May 18, 1989 National News Briefs i m. i rtl 1' 3rfVM mSJM 7 A Mil Ethics measure advances WASHINGTON A House panel unanimously approved ethics legislation Wednesday that would restrict the post-government employment of judges, lawmakers and other federal employees to avoid conflicts of interest. The House Judiciary subcommittee included prohibitions forjudges and eliminated a provision banning former executive branch employees from "aiding and advising" former colleagues for two years. I "ST I II II I II i i i NY mayoral race widens NEW YORK Former U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani on Wednesday launched his mayoral bid, vowing to "take back our city from violent criminals" and saying his record against corrupt politicians, drug dealers and Wall Street cheats makes him the only choice for City Hall.

Giuliani, 44, who is seeking the Republican nomination, also promised to address the problems of home-lessness, drug abuse, inadequate education and health care, and racial polarization. Three other Republicans are in the race. Rudolph Giuliani Vows back our 1 city from violent criminals." United Press International Bobby Sundberg retrieves some items from the apartment of his mother, Pat, after it was destroyed by a tornado in Jarrell, Texas. Pat Sundberg said she and two other people survived Wednesday by huddling together in a closet. Twister kills 1, pair die in flood as violent weather rocks Texas Tanker's mate felt near death Spill queries focus on alcohol, fatigue The Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska The chief mate aboard the Exxon Valdez when it struck a reef in Prince William Sound and caused the nation's worst oil spill told investigators Wednesday he thought he would die in the accident.

"I don't mind telling you that at the time, I knew that my world would never be the same again," said James R. Kunkcl. "I never knew if I'd see my wife again." His testimony led off the second day of a five-day National Transportation Safety Board hearing into the cause of the March 24 accident, in which up to 10.9 million gallons of North Slope crude fouled more than 700 miles of shoreline. Capt. Joseph Hazelwood, who is charged with operating a vessel while drunk, will not testify.

Hazelwood, who exercised his right to protect himself against self-incrimination, faces trial June 20. The board's report on the cause of the accident will take up to a year to complete. Kunkel said he saw no sign that Hazelwood had been drinking. He testified that when he told the captain about the huge loss of oil, Hazelwood replied, "Well, this is one way to end a career." Wednesday's questioning of Kunkel focused on the crew's activities aboard the tanker, evidence the captain had been drinking, crew fatigue and Exxon policies. Kunkel said he sometimes worked 24 hours a day with little rest and considered the odd hours just part of the job.

And he suggested the long hours were not a serious problem. Kunkel described Gregory Cousins, the third mate who was in charge of the vessel when it ran aground, as "a very competent young man" who never complained of fatigue. Documents the safety board has released suggest the accident could have been a lot worse. The documents also detail drinking by the captain on shore. A jammed gauge led officers aboard the Exxon Valdez to believe the vessel remained stable, and as a result Hazelwood tried to rock the vessel free of the reef.

Also Wednesday, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation announced that the amount of shoreline with oil on it had at least doubled since Exxon submitted a cleanup plan May 1 promising to scour 364 miles of beach. The conservation department determined that 728 miles of shore in Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska are oily and need cleaning, spokesman Joe Bridgman said from Valdez. Insanity rejected in murder of sons Mich. A jury rejected an insanity "defense and convicted a man who killed his two young sons putting them into a red-hot foundry ladle. A Muskegon County Circuit Court jury found Bartley J.

Dbbben mentally ill but guilty of first-degree murder but in th Thanksgiving Day 1987 slaying of his sons, Bartley, 2, ynd Peter, 15 months. Dobben, 28, of Muskegon, was charged with putting the into a foundry ladle at the plant where worked. hurt in NY subway electrical blast strung to telephone poles, spent Vi hours trying to reach a woman whose car was swept off a bridge into a Dallas creek. The woman waited atop the car. "The car started rocking, and she got back into the car," Firefighter Dennis Ground said, "and at that time, the car fell into the creek.

It floated for a few minutes and went down." The woman's body was found a half-mile away. Also in the Dallas area, the body of a man was found in a truck that washed away in a Grand Prairie creek, said Bob Lange of the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office. Authorities asked about 500 people to evacuate north Grand Prairie because of floods, said Kathy Demmitt, at the city's emergency center, adding that many homes had ankle-deep water. Elsewhere, showers and thunderstorms were scattered across much of the Plains states, southern Missouri, Arkansas and the southern Rockies. A cold front moving into the Pacific Northwest produced showers in Washington, and a snow advisory was posted for the passes of the Washington Cascades.

Contributing to this article was The Associated Press. Mobley said. The twister struck Jarrell without warning from the National Weather Service, destroying a 15-unit apartment complex, said Alecia Neville, a Department of Public Safety dispatcher in Austin. "All we have left is our lives," said W.G. Schurhammer, whose apartment building was destroyed.

At least 23 people were hurt, none of them seriously. "Right now, it's estimated that 50 percent of the buildings in Jarrell or in the Jarrell area have been destroyed or damaged severely," Mobley said. Floodwaters in the Dallas area, which recorded nearly 6 inches of rain in less than 24 hours, sent hundreds of residents to shelters. Police, firefighters and others rescued scores of people from cars, homes and in one case, a tree. "I've been standing in water up to my elbows for the last couple hours trying to get a couple of gals out of a tree," said David Geeslin, Kennedale police chief.

He said that before the women were rescued, they were stuck in the tree for eight hours after their car was washed off a roadway. Another rescue attempt ended in tragedy. Firefighters, secured with ropes United Press International A tornado gouged a 7-mile-Iong, mile-wide path through a central Texas town Wednesday, killing a woman in her mobile home, authorities said. Two other people drowned in flood-waters as violent weather shook the state for a fifth day. Morning flooding in the Dallas-Fort Worth area swept the two drowning victims and their vehicles down swollen creeks.

Scores of south Dallas residents were evacuated, and 4-foot floodwaters rushed through a city street. In Jarrell, 40 miles north of Austin, a twister knocked 18-wheel rigs off the road and killed a 42-year-old woman sleeping in her mobile home about 4:30 a.m., State Trooper Tom Mobley said from an emergency command post at the Jarrell Volunteer Fire Department. "Her husband was with her. They were in bed. As soon as it hit, it threw him out in the yard.

She was entangled in the wreckage inside," Mobley said. The twister first came down about Vi miles southwest of town, then traveled along Interstate 35 for at least 7 miles, tossing aside 15 or 16 tractor-trailer rigs, Mobley said. "Trees, everything's broken off at the ground. Buildings are leveled at the foundation, or roofs (are) blown away," yukk. a section oi ran oeing removea irom a Jrpadbed pierced a mat covering the deadly third rail in a subway tunnel early Wednesday, sparking an explosion that burned 12 workers, two critically.

The accident occurred at 2:17 a.m. as workmen were 'changing a 26-foot section of rail about 300 feet from the nearest subway station, said Karen Gardner, a Transit pApthority spokeswoman. 'f Ir Gardner said the rail somehow slit the protective rubber ifiat covering the 600-volt third rail, which provides power 'l 'Sot subway trains, and exploded in a flash of fire. Stolen newborn recovered; woman held SACRAMENTO A newborn snatched from the crib ifi; his mother's hospital room last weekend was found by Ngdlice hidden inside the home of a childless woman 'suspected of the kidnapping, officers said Wednesday. Police, acting on an anonymous tip to a news-media crime-alert program, found the baby unharmed Tuesday night and arrested Mabel Elaine Cooper, 26, at her home in south Sacramento.

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