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Glitch Shuts Down Lottery Games Metroiowa, page'iiu DM A Des Moines, Iowa The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon Price 40 Gents in Stores 50 Gents in Coin Racks EESESEB Friday January 21, 2000 HIGH LOW "422 1S Sunshine mixed with some Changes in evidence processing and technology may have aided authorities. Page 6A were interviews and re-interviews and hours of surveillance. Everything from the crime scene was processed. We have videotapes and photographs. We have everything from that hotel room." West Des Moines police did not rule out Piper as a suspect in two other high-profile motel killings the 1997 stabbing and strangulation of Zurijeta Sakanovic, 21, a maid at the Budgetel Inn in Clive, and the 1998 stabbing of Mariana specify why Piper was charged with Lange's death after more than six years.

The Des Moines man came to the attention of police after a 1993 anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers. West Des Moines police said new tests were done on evidence using technology developed since the killing. Police wouldn't describe the evidence. The results implicated Piper, they said. Police confirmed DNA tests were done.

"DNA testing was just one part of many, many scientific tests that were done. It's only surrendered at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the West Des Moines police station shortly after a warrant was issued charging him with first-degree muraer. Piper, who police said was calm and cooperative, was being held at the Polk County Jail in lieu of posting a $500,000 cash bond. Piper is scheduled to appear today before Polk County District Judge D.J.

Stovall to ask that his bond be lowered. In an interview in the Des Moines Sunday Register, Piper said he was innocent and had DNA testing helps police make a break in the case. By FRANK SANTIAGO and DANIEL P. FINNEY Kmwstkr Staff Writf.ks West Des Moines, la. New technology developed since Patricia Lange was strangled in 1993 at the West Des Moines Holiday Inn led police to arrest the hotel's former maintenance chief.

Donald Piper, 38, accompa-nied by his lawyer, Lange Slain Piper Arrested one aspect of evidence," said Lt. Scott Wiegert. "This is a very complicated, involved case. It has been investigated off and on for six years. "We have lot of evidence.

It takes time to process and reprocess it all," he said. "Technology wasn't the only factor in this case. There was a lot of old-fashioned detective work. There were hundreds of man-hours involved. There clouds.

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cities. Page 4M Dove-hunting bill falls by wayside been harassed by police for months. He said constant surveillance ruined his life and cost him his job. Investigators declined to PIPER Turn to Page 6A Covering the Candidate A bill -1 Key 'anchors' committed to Court Avenue proposing a dove-hunting season in Iowa has been declared dead for this legislative 'c 2300 LEGISLATURE anchors. By JEFF ECKHOFF Khjstfr Staff Wriuh VJ there's a session.

Republican leaders in the House say support for the bill falls short of a majority. Page4M 1939 a good year for jobs in Iowa Iowa's unemployment rate averaged 2.5 percent for 1999, breaking a record low set the previous year. Monthly records were posted in February, September, October and November. The year finished with a 2.2 percent seasonally adjusted rate in December. Page 1 0S whole second wave of tenants we need to go after," said Steiner, president of Ohio-based Steiner Associates.

Plans for Si) in Steiner Developer 1 Des Moines' repeatedly delayed downtown entertainment complex has received commitments from a major national bookstore chain, three restaurants, a sports bar and an arcade-restaurant founded by Stephen Spielberg, city officials announced Thursday. Developer Yaromir Steiner said recent oral commitments from those companies, and from the AMC Entertainment movie-theater chain, mean more than 40 percent of the space in Court Avenue Station has been taken. Developers 1 if I I Court Avenue Station should be "90 percent certain" by the end of May, Steiner said. If that happens, construction on the $56 million complex would start late this Des Moines officials, who have long touted the entertainment complex for its potential to pump after-hours life into COURT Turn to Pate HA JT KOH NANDKI.IVTlIF RKCiiSTKR now must start firming up financing and recruiting smaller-scale retailers. George W.

Bush sips coffee as Sen. Charles Grassley shakes hands with Jack Newell, owner of a sundries shop "Now that we have these on Indianola's town square. The huge press corps following Bush crowds around the men. Story, rage 4A John Chrystal dies; step up tne pace he advanced peace Abortion dominates Democratic candidates higMight differences ican arguments By KEN FUS0N and THOMAS R. O'DONNELL Ri.asTr.K Sr.K Wiiums CAUCUS John Chrystal, an Iowan By jokn Mccormick and JEFF ZELENY KHilNTER Nr.UF W'NJThHS Pella, la.

It felt like whose passion for world peace and prosperity took him from the rural roads of Coon 'Angela's Ashes' fine but bleak The movie version of "Angela's Ashes" stays true to Frank McCourt's book about growing up in Ireland. It's bleak, but there is joy to be found. Page IT Nebraska's Kerrey will leave Senate Sen. Bob Kerrey announces that he won't seek re-election, opting instead to go back to private life and tend to his 'spiritual side." He is the lourth Democratic senator to announce retirement in recent months, complicating Democrats' hopes of retaking the Senate. Page 3A Rapids to the the Republicans' big tent halls of the Kremlin, died was collapsing in lowa Thursday, as presidential candidates sniped at late Wednesday at Iowa Methodist Medical Cen Bill Bradley lost friend, campaign co-chairman.

Page 5A undergoing chemotherapy. "He was at a board meeting a week ago," Tom Clirystal said. The body has been cremated. No services will be held. Mr.

Clirystal "objected to memorials," Tom Chrystal said. From farming and finance to publishing and politics, Mr. Clirystal ranked as one of the state's most influential men. He had a powerful desire for improving relations between the United States and the former Soviet The pursuit of that goal led Chrystal on frequent trips to Russia, where high-ranking officials sought out his expertise in agricultural In CHRYSTAL Turn to Pue 5A each other about abortion in their efforts to win over social conservatives heading to Mon Republicans planning to attend the caucuses think abortion should be illegal, according to an Iowa Poll taken earlier this month, so it isn't surprising that the five Republicans campaigning in the state Thursday trumpeted their views on the issue. Conservative activist Gary Bauer even suggested that Forbes has stolen anti-abortion rhetoric from his speeches.

But Bush, the GOP front-runner, was the biggest target. As he launched his final push in lowa before the caucuses, the Texas governor was repeatedly. Students have their say in state's first lowa Youth Mock Caucuses. Page 4A Gov. Tom Vilsack sets respectful example for other politicians to follow.

Page 1M Bill Bradley discloses more episodes of irregular heartbeat Page 4A ter in Des entrenched power. We knew all along that Iowa was a state that rewards entrenched power, and clearly that's what we're dealing with." "When somebody has the support of the president of the United States, who is loyal to him because he's loyal to the president; has most of the Democratic National Committee officialdom; has most of the Democratic Party fundraisers; has the backing of the leadership of organized labor and rides on Air Force II, that is entrenched power," Bradley said. He also- noted that DEMOCRATS Turn to By DAVID YEPSEN and JONATHAN R00S Rkihstkh Staff VVhitkks Democratic presidential candidates Bill Bradley and Al Gore sharpened their differences Thursday as they crisscrossed the state looking for votes in Monday's caucuses. The caucuses themselves became an issue between the two after Bradley said the meetings favor "entrenched powers" in the Democratic Party. Asked to explain why h(j is ti ailing Gore in the Bradley told reporters West Des Moines.

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Clirystal Chrystal Me 74 and Steve Forbes chose conservative territory for died of colon some of their stops, with cancer that suread to Ids liver, said his Bush speaking at Central College in Pella and Forbes touring a Chris brother and business partner, Tom. Mr. Clirystal continued overseeing Iowa Savings Bank of. Coon' Rapids, where he was president and chairman for almost-- 40 years, while tian pregnancy clinic in Cedar Rapids that works to reduce abortions. Roughly -COP turn to 4A () TliliWp DesMoinesRegister.com for local news and special projects, join us online DesMoinesRegister.comnews At Toddler baby fitter charged One-third of women abused Inside Ann Landers 2T Business 10S Classified 1W Cafnirs 5T By THOMAS BEAUMONT-.

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Dallas Mormm, Nfws Dallas, Texas At least one woman in three has been beaten, abused or coerced into having sex, usually by her husband or a family member, according to a new worldwide report on violence against women. The violence is so pervasive that it's found in virtually every culture, everywhere around the globe, the authors said. And in every one of those places, the victims almost always know their abusers. The report was issued by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the Center for Health and Gender Equity, a nonprolt group in suburban Wa-stitat C. Story, Page 3A A Des Moines toddler was ill' critical condition and his baby, sitter was in jail, Thursday night facing a charge of attempted murder, police said.

Joel Vasquez, the 21 -month-old son of Kristy Irwin, remained unconscious in Iowa Methodist Medical Center's intensive care unit late Thursday with acute head and abdominal injuries, Sgt. Barry Arnold said. Tifany Myer, 18, of Des Moines was charged with attempted murder and child endangerment. Myer had cared for Joel in recent months at her apartment at 454 S.E. Philip St.

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