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I ISU Moves Into Tie Atop Big 12 gg sports, Page is A Des Moines, Iowa The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon Price 40 Cents in Stores 50 Cents in Coin Racks DM SetMer ii ii a i Wednesday February 9, 2000 HIGH LOW 50 36s Partly cloudy and mild. Details, 2M Today Ward discusses Maytag rumors Such attacks are an expensive form of vandalism but do not threaten sensitive data such as credit card numbers. one of the world's most popular Web sites, and continued Tuesday, temporarily crippling at least four other major sites, including Amazon.com, eBay.com and Buy.com. By Tuesday night it had spread to a leading media site, CNN.com. Security experts and the companies themselves said the nature of the attacks seemed too similar to be coincidental.

focusing on computer security and hacking issues. It "is unthinkable" that copycat groups of hackers could gain quick access to the number of computers used to direct the attack, he said. Levy said he expected to see a substantia response from he FBI in the coming days. HACKERS Turn to l'uae 7 A required to take down these sites, it would have been difficult for a copycat who witnessed Monday's attack on Yahoo to have instantly followed suit in such similar fashion. "I have no doubt these are coming from the same individual or group," echoed John Vranesevich, the founder of antionline.com, a Web site From Kmhstkh Wire Skkvicks San Francisco, Calif.

Hackers mounted what appeared to be coordinated attacks on the world's largest electronic commerce sites Tuesday. The attacks, which opened a window on the widespread vulnerability of the Internet, began Monday with a three-hour assault on Yahoo.com, assault and take down some of the world's most heavily enforced sites. Levy said the evidence suggested the attacks were related. Significantly, he said, given how many resources were Elias Levy, chief technology officer for SecurityFocus.com, which researches computer security issues, said the scope of the attacks was rare, if not unprecedented. He said the attackers had managed to The company's chairman says in a letter that Maytag will not move for personal reasons and that he likes Edna Griffin, 1909-2000 She loy meet living in Iowa.

Page 1 0S Pat--' a day after treatment lit -1 i- I Magician Henning dies of liver cancer Doug Henning, 52, with his shaggy hair, bushy mustache and tie-dyed shirts, helped revive a genre that had lagged in popularity for decades. Page SA Duis Vilsack Battered girl was given a prescription for diaper rash, her grandmother says. By MARK SIEBERT Rkiiistkk St.wk Wkitkk Shelby Duis, suffering from injuries revealed later in an autopsy, visited a Spirit Lake doctor's office the day before she died, the child's grandmother said Tuesday. Authorities confirmed that a visit was made, the reason for which was unclear. Shelby's doctor declined comment, citing patient confidentiality.

Duis is the IT St The governor's story of abuse changes the political tenor of the case. Page 7A 4 V. i Wfc. r. i A Tin a i Kkuistkh Mi I'ihito Edna Griffin, known tor a lifetime of humanitarian work, died Tuesday at a Des Moines nursing home.

whose brutal death has ignited Spirit Lake A a statewide debate over child-abuse investigations and confiden I DES MOINES ard for me It AM was no "Her appointment was at 5:15 with the doctor to make arrangements to get some blood work done," Moritz said. Moritz defended her daughter, who is in Dickinson County Jail awaiting trial on first-degree murder and child endangerment charges. "Isn't it funny that a brother living with her never had a black-and-blue mark, ever? Why people would think she would beat her daughter is more than I can understand," Moritz said. "She loved those kids." Watkins' boyfriend, Jessie Wendelsdorf, also is charged in the case. For weeks angry residents have criticized how CHILD Turn to Page 7A Chiefs' star Thomas dies after accident Derrick Thomas, 33, a linebacker with the Kansas City Chiefs, was a nine-time Pro Bowl player.

Page 1S State to consider Eddyville cpticn :0 scan tiality laws. She died in her home Jan. 4. An autopsy revealed she suffered broken ribs, broken hands and numerous other injuries, some of them weeks or months old. The day before her death, Shelby's mother, Heidi Wat-kins, took her to a local physician to set up an appointment, said Frances Moritz, Watkins' mother.

By DANA BOONE Khiistkk Stakk Writkk DES MOINfcS The state will study an alternate route for a highway bypass of (Eddyville 0 M's 200 1 RS Murder suspect charged with witness tampering ft- Eddyville. Construction of the road, scheduled to begin in 1997, has been repeatedly delayed. Page 1M Correction A story Sunday incorrectly reported where new incentives offered by the Army are available in Iowa. Prospective recruits can sign up at any local Army recruiter in the state. made.

She said people have to keep working together for change. "It was not hard for me to stand up," she said of her fight against racism. "I felt if things didn't change, the world would come to an end." Griffin founded and led a chapter of the Iowa Congress of Racial Equality. She organized Iowans to attend the Rev. Martin Luther King 1963 march on Washington, D.C., and helped start the former radio station KUCB.

A plaque in her honor is at the site where Katz Drug Store once stood at Seventh and Locust streets. Last spring, Des Moines Mayor Preston Daniels proclaimed May 15 as Edna Griffin Day. Mary Jane O'Dell said her friend of more than 25 years deserves recognition. They met when O'Dell interviewed Griffin and her husband, Stanley, in 1976 for Iowa Public Television. "She was such a joy," O'Dell said.

"What a wonder she was. What a wonderful soul she had." O'Dell said Griffin's triumph over Katz Drug Store is the equivalent of what Rosa Parks did to end discrimination in the South and it came seven years earlier. GRIFFIN Turn to 'c 6A Edna Griffin, an Iowa civil-rights pioneer, died Tuesday morning at the Ramsey Home in Des Moines. Griffin, 90, is best known for her fight in 1948 against Katz Drug Store in downtown Des Moines, which refused to serve blacks at its lunch counter. Griffin staged sit-ins, picketed in front of the store and filed charges against the store's owner, Maurice Katz.

He was fined, and the Iowa Supreme Court made it illegal to deny service based on race. Griffin's son, Stanley Griffin said his mother spent her life working tirelessly on behalf of others. "She has been a champion for everyone," Griffin said. "She's a person who would help anyone in need. That's what I love about my mother." On Saturday, Griffin was inducted into the Iowa African-American Hall of Fame.

She's a member of the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame and received the Christine Wilson Medal for Equality and Justice. She received the George Washington Carver Meritorious Award for Race Relations and an honorary doctorate Iff Corrections' Fifth District. Police said Piper went to Diane Kay Ellis' home in the 2800 block of East Walnut Street about noon Tuesday. He walked into the house through an unlocked door and pleaded with Ellis, 38, not to testify against turn, police said. Piper also allegedly tried to intimidate Ellis, hoping that she would recant what she had previously told investigators about him.

PIPER Turn to Pufie 6A By MAGGIE O'BRIEN Kkiiistkr Stakk Wkitkk The man accused in the 1993 murder of Patricia Lange at a West Des Moines hotel was arrested again Tuesday for allegedly trying to persuade a Des Moines woman not to testify against him in the case. Donald Piper, 38, was charged with tampering with a witness and trespassing. Authorities plan to ask a judge today to revoke his bond, said Gary Sherzan, assistant director of the Iowa Department of On The Web GARY FANDKITiif. In 1998, Griffin was honored with a plaque at the site of the drug, store where she was refused service from Simpson College. In an interview with The Des Moines Register on Jan.

25, Griffin said she was pleased with the progress blacks have DesMoinesRegister.com Explore the history of civil rights in Iowa at: DesMoinesReglster.com extrascivilrights METRIC-TORN EXTREMIST UT NMEi Bush wins in Delaware W.D.M. site picked for shopping center LETTERS, WU Ann Landers 2T Business 10S Classified 1W Comics 5T Crossword 4T Editorials 8A Lotteries 2A Movies 2T Obituaries 8M Sports Roundup 5S TV Guide 4T Wilmington, Del. One week after a stunning loss to John McCain, Texas Gov. George W. Bush came back to win Delaware's Republican presidential primary Tuesday.

McCain, however, finished a strong second in a state where he did not campaign. The Arizona senator, who skipped Delaware to focus on the Feb. 19 South Carolina primary, attributed his showing to momentum generated by his defeat of Bush in last week's New Hampshire primary. With all 28 precincts reporting, Bush had 51 percent of the vote and McCain 25 percent. Publisher Steve Forbes, who won Delaware's primary in had 20 percent, and former ambassador Alan Keyes had 4 percent.

Related stories. Page 4A development at 74th Street and E.P. True Parkway. Den Adel said company officials have hired an architect to begin designing the center; General Growth has an option to buy 200 acres in the planned community. Joshua Smith, Waukee's development director, had put together a proposal for construction of the mall on a site north of Interstate Highway 80 in rural Dallas County.

He could not be reached Tuesday. Clyde Evans, West Des Moines' community development director, said a deal hasn't been signed, but "we're very optimistic." Nordstrom's, Dillard's, Abercrombie Fitch and Pottery Bamhave been mentioned as possible tenants. By GENE ERB Kk.istkr 111 siks Writkk A shopping center will be built in West Des Moines if developers of the $300 million project can complete negotiations with key department stores, a General Growth Properties Inc. official said Tuesday. General Growth's selection of the West Des Moines site ends a battle between Waukee and West Des Moines that began when Waukee tried to lure the center away.

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