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2AThk Dks Mhinks RkgistkrBTiksday. May 30," 1995 For the Record Poll: Most still favor strong water and soil regulations The public gives farmers high marks as environmental caretakers when compared with other industries. sf" -jrf aliiiiiMiiMiiisiiMaiiaMll ilnlima ilil ij iaiMlliaair-iwml MniUtaBBnwiiJ AftNOCtATH) PREMt bearing her son rajevo. Vedran, Monday in Sa- man Serb shell shift, strengthen POLL Continued from Page 1A loss of property value as a result of wetland regulations. The House version of the Clean Water Act also would turn the federal government away from requiring farm operations to control runoff of water and soil polluted by agricultural chemicals.

Instead, the revised law would use voluntary action to limit such pollution. Public Demand House Republican leaders said the new Clean Water Act is a result of a public demand for an end to excessive federal regulation. But the Gallup survey, which covered 1,250 people and was conducted last December and January, showed 42 percent of those questioned thought current wetland laws have "not gone far enough," and 38 percent said the laws are "about right." Fifteen percent of respondents thought current wetland regulations which many farm groups have called oppressive have "gone too far." Public support for tougher or existing laws on threatened and endangered species is almost as strong, with 75 percent of the respondents in the poll stating that current regu- lations either have not gone far enough or are about right. Not So Different The national poll results do not differ much from some surveys con ducted among farmers a situation that has led some analysts to ques tion the extent to which farmers are upset over federal water pollution wetlands and endangered-species el forts. The Soil and Water Conservation Society of America, located in An keny, conducted meetings with farmers in Iowa and six other states.

The organization said farmers gener ally favored government action to protect wetlands. There has to be some kind of pro gram to protect wetlands," an Iowa farmer told one gathering. Another Iowan said he favored government action because "Nobody else is going to protect them. 15-State Survey A 15-state survey last year by Ex tension economists at land-grant universities, including Iowa State University, found that while 47 percent of farmers disagree with govern ment restrictions on draining wet lands for agriculture, 32 percent agreed with the regulations. In this survey, 56 percent of farmers said they favor rules under which the government requires them to conserve soil and water resources in return for farm subsidies.

A survey of farmers conducted re cently by American Farmland Trust found that producers gave strong backing to mandatory soil and water conservation practices. A 1994 Iowa Poll bv The Dps Moines Register found that 65 per- ers in Bosnia Slavica Spahic qlasps the marker Vedran's name during his funera) Allies to BOSNIA Continued from Page 1A 50 miles southwest of Sarajevo. A statement issued after a five- meeting of the foreign minis -r from the United States, Kus- sia, France, Britain and Germany demanded the release of hostages in i V-the former Yugoslav republic and Serb leaders ould be held ac- peacekeejp I cent of Iowa farmers questioned said federal environmental policies were "about right" or needed strengthening. Thirty-three percent said there was too much emphasis on environmental protection. The new Gallup Poll found that 38 percent said all Americans should pay for protecting soil and water, and 36 percent said just farmers should pay.

At the same time, the public gave farmers high marks as environmen-. tal caretakers when compared with other industries. The Gallup Poll also found that I more than half of the Americans who were questioned for the poll said farming should be regulated in i some way. Also, the Gallup Poll indicates that about a third of the public backs vol- untary protection of the agricultural environment, although 53 percent said farmers who violate conservation rules should be fined or face the loss of the government agricultural subsidies. Car Thrown 600 Feet Tornado rips through town, killing three Great Barrington, Mass.

(AP) A tornado that flattened parts of this resort town Monday picked up a car outside a school and threw it hundreds of feet, killing three people inside, a school of ficial said. Two students and a staffer at Eagleton School were killed when the car they were sitting in was thrown 600 feet into the woods, said Bruce Bona, director of the school for the developmentally disabled. Their names and ages weren't imme-. diately available. In other damage, the tornado lev-.

eled a neighborhood in south Great Barrington, ripped up trees and forced the evacuation of a nursing home. At least 12 people were re ported injured. "I saw a big white gray thing and it hit like an explosion," said Charles Haddad, who was thrown 30 feet and briefly knocked unconscious when the tornado hit his four-story house. Haddad said the wind was so strong that it lifted his three-car ga- rage and smashed it into the ground, i The Timberlyn Heights nursine home was being evacuated after reports of a gas leak, Southern Berk-1 shire County ambulance worker" Robert Cronk said. Eleven people were treated for in-' juries at a nearby hospital.

Most suffered broken bones or cuts caused by flying glass. A person taken to an-1 other hospital with a fractured neck was reported in stable condition. Rescue units were being called from Connecticut and New York to help out. Ron Urban was driving eight miles easi oi ureal Barnngion wnen ne no-, ticed clouds swirling and a flock of about 30 birds fell from the sky. Two.

5, was killed Friday when a Bos- hit his family's apartment. airstrikes since November on Thursday and Friday, the Serbs' response was swift and brutal. They shelled the northern city of Tuzla and other areas nominally under U.N. protection, killing more than 70 civilians. And they quickly seized peacekeepers, chaining some to potential targets of NATO airstrikes.

By Monday, the Bosnian Serbs were holding about 370 peacekeepers hostage or restricting their movements, said Ivanko. Among the worst off were 22 French peacekeepers just north of Sarajevo who took refuge from the Serbs in three armored personnel carriers Sunday. It was not known if they had any water or food, he said. U.N. officials said they and about 140 other peacekeepers surrounded by the Serbs would eventually have to surrender.

In an otherwise "unproductive" telephone call, the Serb commander, Gen. Ratko Mladic, told Lt. Gen. Rupert Smith, the U.N. commander in Bosnia, that the hostages would no longer be chained, said Lt.

Col. Gary Coward, a U.N spokesman. On Sunday, Bosnian Serbs again shelled Tuzla, killing a man and wounding two other civilians. And Bosnia's foreign minister, Irfan Ljub-ijankic, died when a missile shot down his helicopter over Serb positions near Bihac. Croatian Serbs claimed responsibility for the attack.

countable for jheir well-being. nght tanks, said U.N. officials. U.S. Secretary of State Warren The crisis comes after years of in-r Christopher said the.

use of decision on the role of the U.N. mis- Marines were sent "as a precaution-W ary measure" and no decision had been made to send them into Bosnia. Whatever the result of these ma neuvers, the berbs showed no signs 0f blinking in the fourth day of their face off with the United Nations, NATO and world leaders. By late Monday they had upgraded their arsenal of more than 2W Iiphvv weapons around Sarajevo with 36 armored vehicles, includine six sjon in Bosnia, whose authority has severely eroded because its eoals were never cieariy aeiinea i i i i The mission demanded quick in structions from above. "How long we can stay in this situation is debatable," said U.N.

spokesman Alexander Ivanko. Personnel in Sarajevo were unimpressed with the decision to move troops toward Bosnia. "Unless there is a coherent political and military strategy, they might as well send pigeons," said a U.N. military official, who asked not to be identified. The possibility that Serbs would take lightly armed U.N.

peacekeepers hostage had prevented the United Nations from asking NATO to intervene against the Serbs for months. When NATO did carry out its first Corrections and Clarifications An employee at a Des Moines Hy-Vcc Food Store was incorrectly identified in a photograph on Monday's Schools page. She is Donna Ludlow, an employee in the meat and cheese department. The Register strives for accuracy and fairness Errors in our news columns will be corrected in this space Readers who believe the paper has erred may request a correction by telephoning the MetroIowa desk at (bl5) 284-8065 Lotteries Iowa Lottery Monday's $100,000 Cash Game: 9-11-19-22-29 Missouri Monday's winning numbers: Show Me 5 4-8-16-19-28 Pick 3 8-4-0 Minnesota Monday's winning numbers: Daily 3 9-6-9 bato-lt-26'34 Wisconsin Sunday's winning numbers: jauperCash 1-8-1 1-1446-25 Reader's Guide General company number 1 (515)284-8000 I- jR To start delivery or to report a service problem Call from 6 a.m." )tj 5 p.m. Monday-Friday; 6 a.m.

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One coupon per customer. f- y- power must remain an option" in battling the rebel Serbs, who have rejected proposals to negotiate with the Muslim-led government. However, French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette said the ministers had decided to step up diplomatic efforts by seeking to bridge gaps with Serbia-led Yugoslavia on a peace plan that would involve early recognition by Belgrade of Bosnia and a strengthening of border controls. U.S. Special Envoy Robert Frasure will return to Belgrade to try to conclude an agreement with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.

The U.N. Security Council will then consider a resolution on suspending sanctions against Yugoslavia. The diplomatic maneuvering came against a backdrop of intensified military preparations. France which has 3,800 in Bosnia, more than any other country was sending an aircraft carrier, the Foch, plus missile-launching frigate and two transports to the area. Britain said it would send up to 6,200 troops to Bosnia, with the first expected to arrive today in Split.

Britain already has 3,300 soldiers in the U.N. mission in Bosnia. About 2,000 U.S. Marines were being sent to the Adriatic Sea, where the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt also was headed. National security adviser Anthony Lake said the Iri the Quest for big cheese leaves at least 19 injured Cheltenham, England (AP) If you think hang gliding, sky diving and big-game hunting are dangerous sports, apparently you've never heard of cheese rolling.

In the annual cheese-rolling contest here on Monday, 18 of the approximately 20 contestants were injured four of them seriously enough to be sent to the hospital. And it can be a tough sport even on those seeking vicarious thrills. One spectator who tried to get a better view fell down and hit her head. The annual competition, in which contenders vie for a giant round cheese by rolling smaller versions down Cooper's Hill, left four contestants with broken arms and legs and 14 other were treated on the spot for sprains. Among those who ended the day unscathed was Darren Yates, 15, who won the big cheese.

Cheese rolling on Cooper's Hill is thought to date back to pre-Roman times when it was a fertility rite heralding the return of spring. 'si bounced off his windshield, and his car was blown off the road. i if S-Vi' i 'v WVl- News Monday. Hope, 92, attended the lay delivered to the wavy in 1997. Short Takes Gennifer Flowers says she doesn't have her heart set on being first lady.

"There's such a tremendous responsibility, along with a marriage and children," says the self-proclaimed adulteress in Bill Clinton's alleged past. Since she has about the same chance of being first lady as spontaneously combusting, does she contemplate that possibility as well? Jimmy Page could face a $1,000 fine from the Federal Aviation Administration after lighting up on a United flight from San Francisco to Portland last week. He tried to sneak a cigarette in the bathroom, but an alarm was triggered and authorities were waiting for him when the plane landed. Shakespeare alert: Oliver Parker, not Kenneth Branagh, will be directing the film version of Othello although Branagh will be playing Iago. Lawrence Fishburne will play the title character in a movie that will offer more "conversational" dialogue than Shakespeare imagined, London's Times newspaj-er reported Monday.

How about: "I just persuaded a guy to kill his wife book me on Ricki Lake." Another year older: comedian and boat label (see top left item) Bob Hope, 92; race car driver Al I'nser 5fi; and actress Annette Bening, 37. mti it Thanks for the memories and the boat A soda, cigarettes and a husband to go Beth Ketley and Gregg Farris were conveniently joined in holv matrimonv Saturday by the Rev. Edwin King, left, as family members watched TZ I Quick and Easy convenience store in Northport, where the bride works Farns, a beer salesman, met Kelley at the store nearly a year ago A sien on the door welcomed all comers: "Beth and Gregg's wedding. Saturday 1p Be Bob Hope and wife Delores, right, along with Navy Secretary John Dalton and his wife Margaret, left, admire a model of the USNS Bob Hope, a T-AKR 300 heavy sealift vessel, in Avondale, ing of the keel of the vessel, which will be The Tide That Wouldn Fi Hugh Grant knows that the title of his latest film, The Englishman Went Vp a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, is a marquee-buster. What would he have called the movie? "The Englishman who went up a hill in a Land Rover and came down a mountain in a Land Rover," he quipped in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly.

It seems that he did little actual climbing for the film. Doo-wop ditty bit Paul Simon is looking for just the right street-Vcorner doo-wop harmonizing for his Broadway show Tlie Capcman, tentatively scheduled to open in fall l99(i. He's holding a contest Wednesday at a New York theater for teen-age a cappella singing groups, the Daily News reported Monday. Three winners will split $10,000 and some of the singers may be invited to perform in the show, the ne wspaper said. 1.

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