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fgml RENTING DRESSES RIPPLING rrn fTTH MUSCLES DRAMATICALLY CUTS JLJ nciMw vwivimw occro Nightlife treats: Smokey, Santana Jay; pastries roulette COSTS OF FORMALS I HTZA NATIONAL TITLE. 3D -J! X) lLv zette-Jooma lfifiP Thursday 35 cents April 19, 1990 Nevada tries to check cricket invasion Nevada crickets Golconda I Winnemucca rLiL, Shoshone I fTT.4., MountainsK A area Il5 NyNEVADA Pjl CALIFORNIA NJ ARIZONA Partly cloudy, high 73, low 38 Wednesday's smog level: 33 (good) Today's smog forecast: good Complete weather report, back page Islamic Jihad says it will free U.S. hostage complain that the invasion of news people has kept them from coping with the invasion of insects. "I'm going to show (reporters) a bush and say, "There they are; you're on your We're trying to help the ranchers," said Martin Larraneta, district chief for the Agriculture Department in Winnemucca. The creatures in question are only See CRICKETS, back page By Cory FarleyGazette-Journal "The Cricket that Ate Nevada" doesn't have the ring of "Godzilla" or even "The Eggplant that Ate Cincinnati." But it's coming soon to a pasture near you.

Nevada's Mormon crickets have been featured everywhere from Time magazine to Alaskan television since early April, when they began to migrate out of the canyons where they breed. State Department of Agriculture crews RutMll YipGazette-Journal Tracl MMdGazette-Journal CRUNCHING CRITTER: Rural Nevada is coping with the pest. NICOSIA, Cyprus Pro-Iranian militants holding three American grofessors hostage in eirut said Wednesday that one would be freed within 48 hours, signaling a possible breakthrough in the Toyiri Waste back 10 Turner We drank more than half a case tortuous hostage drama. Their statement was delivered at dusk to a Lebanese newspaper and Western news agencies in Beirut, and accompanied by an authenticating photo of one of their captives, Jesse Turner, 42, of Boise, Idaho. Story, page 2A.

"4 4 Germans OK border freedom BONN, West Germany In their first-ever meeting, the interior ministers from the two democratic Germanys agreed Wednesday to lift all controls on personal movements across the inner-German frontier before the summer holiday period, which begins in early July. The decision, announced at a joint news conference held by West German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and his newly installed East German counterpart, Peter-Michael Diestel, will effectively erase a frontier that has separated the two German states since World War II. Top area industry sees big gains in new report By Susan SkorupaGazette-Joumal Washoe County's major tourism indicators all posted strong gains in February thanks to successful promotions and brisk convention activity, tourism officials said Wednesday. Officials revealed the gains under a new reporting system that combines figures previously reported separately and sometimes showing disparate results. In January, occupancy rates were up in one report but visitor counts were down in another.

(Details, page 6A.) In the new visitor counts for February, hotelmotel occupancy rates, room-tax collections and inbound air and automobile traffic totals in the Truckee Meadows and north Lake Tahoe all were up, the Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority reported. "I think it's a very positive indicator of all the effort and attention and of the health of Reno," said Phil Bryan, general manager of the Pep-permill Hotel-Casino and past president of the Gaming Industry Association. "We also had some pretty good weather in February. "We did blow out Presidents Day weekend," he added, "but it's a good sign that even with the snowstorm that weekend, our numbers are up dramatically." Bob Rusk, a hotel and motel owner and visitors authority board member, said the February figures look good, but he's surveyed several local motels and found their occupancy rates down for the past two weekends. "Business was strong a year ago during the same two weekends," Rusk said, "so you kind of have to wonder." Hotel-motel occupancy rates and visitor counts are vital measures of Washoe County's economic health.

The gaming-tourism industry See TOURISTS, page 6A Ml Soviets cut Lithuania's oil MOSCOW Soviet authorities on Wednesday night fulfilled their threat to begin economic sanctions against Lithuania and stopped the flow of oil to the republic's only refinery, Lithuanian officials said. Despite statements in the state-run media earlier in the day that Moscow had not halted delivery of energy supplies, officials at the refinery in Mazeikiai said the flow of crude oil was shut off at 9:30 p.m. local time. Story, page 2A. 1 Marilyn Nwt onGazette-Journal IN THE HOSPITAL: Nick Buganski, weekend crash survivor, describes events.

Las Vegas approves tower LAS VEGAS Vegas World operator Bob Stupak's plan to build a tower adjacent to his resort was approved Wednesday by the Las Vegas City Council despite objections from airport officials. Council members voted unanimously to approve the tower, which Stupak predicted would become a major tourist attraction. The Federal Aviation Administration had objected to the tower, saying it is 200 feet too tall. preliminary breath test for sobriety. Then Buganski failed it too.

But his cousin wasn't arrested. After telling the pair to "stick around" until Anderson's mother came to pick them up, sheriff's Deputy Gregg Lubbe left. After smoking a cigarette, so did the cousins. The fatal crash came five miles and a half-hour later. Now two are dead and the Sheriff's Department is investigating the incident for possible action by the District Attorney's Office.

See KILLER, page 6A He doesn't recall the violent collision between Anderson's 1972 Pontiac Firebird and a northbound car on Pyramid Highway. He knows his cousin and a passenger in the other car, Mark Coty, 16, of Sparks, are dead. And he knows the other driver, Alex Blincoe, 16, of Sparks, is in the same hospital, just as battered as he is. Otherwise, all Buganski knows about the crash is what he's read or seen on television or been told, he said from his hospital bed. Buganski said he does remember that after filling himself with beer Saturday, he was stopped on the way home.

His cousin failed a Survivor can't recall weekend killer crash on FVramid Highway By Phil BarberGazettJournal Nick Buganski can't remember the accident that killed his cousin and another teen-ager Saturday, but he recalls the beer that led to it. Grimacing in pain at Washoe Medical Center, Buganski, 25, said Wednesday that he and cousin Jaime Anderson, 19, "drank more than a half case, but less than a full case" during a Pyramid Lake outing. Tourism February highlights 19901989 Total visitors Avg. room rate $37.52 $29.11 Room tax $0.86 minion Hote 86.4 84.9 MoteHJJ 52.6 42.7 Total average 76.3 71.7 Sourer Rno-Spart Convwfon and WwrtAuttwiHr Mark NowlinGazette-Journal Supreme Court empowers judges to order tax hikes for desegregation Soldiers held in arms theft JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Police arrested three white soldiers and are seeking an official of a white supremacist group in connection with the theft of weapons from an air force armory, officials said Wednesday. Piet Rudolph, deputy leader of the ultra-right Boerestaat (Boers State) Party, is being sought for questioning in connection with the Easter weekend robbery, police spokesman Col.

Steve van Rooyen said. The weapons were taken from a safe at air force headquarters in Pretoria. Police said the three have been held since the theft was discovered. Wire service reports Bay area shakes on anniversary of Great Quake WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) A series of earthquakes jolted Northern California on Wednesday, the anniversary of the catastrophic Great Quake that devastated San Francisco, and triggered memories of last October's temblor that claimed 67 lives.

There were no early reports of injuries, and the only major structural damage from Wednesday's quakes was reported near the small San Benito County community of Aromas, where county officials said four houses were condemned after they fell off their foundations. The quakes, with preliminary measures on the Richter scale ranging from 3.3 to 5.4, were centered about four miles east of Watsonville, 90 miles south of San Francisco. California had quaking company, 3A Inside WASHINGTON (AP) Federal judges may order local officials to raise property taxes to pay for the racial desegregation of public schools, the Supreme Court said Wednesday. Although ruling unanimously in a Kansas City, case that judges themselves generally may not impose such tax increases, the court voted 5-4 empowering judges to tell school officials to do so. The justices said such orders even take precedence over state laws imposing limits on school property taxes.

Civil rights forces praised the decision. "It's a powerful reaffirmation that state laws may not impede the vindication of constitutional rights, the rights of schoolchildren," said Paul Holtzman of the Washington-based Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Civil rights forces praised the decision. "It's a powerful reaffirmation that state laws may not impede the vindication of constitutional rights, the rights of schoolchildren," said Paul Holtzman of the Washington-based Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. in other matters, the court: Ruled by a 6-3 vote that states may outlaw possessing or looking at child pornography even in one's own home.

The justices upheld an Ohio law, said to be the nation's most stringent, aimed at stamping out so-called kiddie porn by punishing those who buy the material, not only those who sell it. Ruled, 7-2, that an overnight guest in a private home enjoys the same privacy protection as the homeowner against unreasonable police arrests and searches. The decision struck down the murder conviction of a Minnesota man because he was arrested in a home where he was staying by police who did not first obtain a court warrant. Heard arguments in cases from Maryland and Idaho over the right of people charged with child abuse to at least one face-to-face confrontation with their: young accusers. Decisions are expected by July.

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