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Reno Gazet RNAL 35C WEDNESDAY. OCT Journul is primed using rec ycled paper. i7i 11 TE-JOU a ii fimt rail 1 JUU HIGHLOW nnoooo easure A 0 -SB Island blast 4 Jblow away past a LIVE SEA BATTLE: Treasure Island resort in Vegas Tuesday. Demolition, man $33 billion off projection: Congress gets first peek at document today. Here is how Controlled Demolition Inc.

will implode the Dunes Hotel tonight in Las Vegas. Mirage Resorts Chairman Steve Wynn is scheduled to throw the switch at 10 p.m. sign will be "hit" by cannon Three seconds later, the fire flash charges the British ship at Treasure will be detonated. As the fire clears, red falling west as white flashes flashes will occur, followed by the detonated. implosion of the structure.

QThe entire Treasure iirwj will last 35 to An "Caesars 2Sk. ace Xfl C.uJ, rvQ- Upper-Evel explosives ZZZ7l sft Explosives placed on the 4th, 8th, 15th and 1 vyyf 19th floors will weaken the structure and II majnQ fait once lower supports are gone. mJSS 4hL section will then wfjML llWW yA'i' A collapse. fl -SsJ uir TmL Casino ij I Mortars will be fired from the roof of the Oasis Casino and the port cashere. Mortars will be fired off the lowrise structure.

The charges will be placed in the basement, 1 st, 2nd, 4th, 8th, 15th, and 1 9th floors and will go off over an 8.5 second interval. Charges are placed on so many floors to ensure the appropriate movement and fragmentation. The more fragmented the debris the faster its removal from the site. Ground- level explosives Moles drilled at even distances into the columns to secure sticks of Atlas Power Primer. Loose sand, chain-link fencing and a textile fabric hold the explosives in place.

Source: Las Vegas Sun, Gazette-Journal research Dunes '1 I Pi npl Jjf 0 Dunes fire from Island, are fSJ -w I S3 gallons create flashes nn ZOYpod Today: fSg Plenty of tjl22 sun. 12A Allowed Gathering speed: CalTrans officials gather public input on plan to extend rail service from San Francisco Bay area to Reno and Lake Tahoe. 6B Keeping it simple: Chef Bette Nyswonger keeps Nevada's first family satisifed with family favorites such as meatloaf and mashed potatoes or a steaming pot of soup. 1E Ntwi Briefing Opinion Lottery Weather Navada Obituaries Business Markets 1-1 2A 2A 11A 12A 12A 1- 3B 2- 3B 4-6B 4B Classified Sports Lifestyle Dear Abby Food TV watch Comics Crossword Horoscope 1-12C 1-6D 1-8E 2E 3-4E 6E 7E 7E 7E A story in the Reno Gazette-Journal's Oct. 22 editions about the National Bowling Stadium included a misquote.

The International Conference of Building Officials wrote in a report that a ventilation system for the parking garage is needed. Jay Milligan, convention authority director, said the system is not a safety issue and the ICBO is just a trade organization. His correct quote: "It would be like asking the NRA (Nevada Resort Association) about an anti-gaming permit." RENO GOVERNMENT Council OKs snow removal plan By Susan Voyles GAZETTE-JOURNAL An expanded fleet of snow plows will be under written orders for the first time this winter under a plan adopted by the Reno City Council on Tuesday. The snow removal plan calls for major arterials and streets with hazardous grades or curves to be attacked first. Then streets around schools, on Citifare bus routes, and school bus routes with curves or grades will be hit next.

Then the last priority is to finish the school routes. City troops and equipment stand ready after the disastrous winter of 1 993 when un-plowed city streets turned into packed ice after one storm after another swept See SNOW on page 4 A First in line: Map shows priority streets. 4A 73-year-old rrPi (ol mi proposes cutbacks WASHINGTON President Clinton recommended to Congress Tuesday that it "save" $9.1 billion by cutting pork and waste or overhauling inefficient federal operations. he more than 40 proposed cuts dug up by Vice President Al Gore's "reinventing government" commission to root out waste, fraud and misman B. Clinton agement will be augmented by an additional $1 billion in proposed reductions that are to be made later this week.

In addition, Clinton proposed changing how the government buys everything from ash trays to guidance systems for bombs a move officials said would save up to $5.6 billion next year and $22.5 billion over four years by simply buying goods and services readily available to everyone instead of specially ordering them. In all, the savings would go to lower the budget deficit by some 1 0 billion next year and provide $5 billion for the 50,000 additional police officers the president proposes putting on the streets of the nation's cities in his anti-crime bill. "I want Congress to pass this crime bill and pass the savings I've asked to help pay for it," a tough-sounding Clinton said in announcing he was sending the proposed cuts to Capitol Hill. Among the big-ticket cuts Clinton proposed were: Saving 1 .64 billion by closing some 1,200 Agriculture Department field offices. Permanently ending the federal subsidies for wool and mohair, and honey, for savings of $701.5 million.

Congress voted earlier this year to phase them out. Closing the Defense Department's University of Health Sciences because medical personnel can be trained at a lower cost at non-federal institutions. Savings: $105 million. Streamlining Department of Housing and Urban Development operations and consolidating field offices to save 1 67 million. Consolidating satellite programs run by NASA, the Defense and Commerce departments to save $300 million.

Gannett News Service Clinton The Dunes i '-ou, exPosions followed by huge base-xOJ fireballs created by aviation fuel n- will go up the building's east face. WASHINGTON (AP) President Clinton's health reform proposal postpones until 1998 its goal of universal coverage for all Americans and would slap limits on the subsidies for small businesses and low-income workers, White House officials said Tuesday. The 1 revised plan will also fall $33 billion short of the deficit reductions Clinton had hoped for earlier, officials said. The plan, which the president and Hillary Rodham Clinton will personally deliver to Congress today, includes $161 billion in subsidies over five years for small businesses and low-income families to help pay for the health insurance all will have to buy. Budget director Leon Panet-ta said those subsidies would be capped ing an open- H.Clinton ended entitlement and that the president would have to ask Congress for more money if there was a shortage.

The Clintons were to pass the detailed legislative blueprint to Democratic leaders of Congress in a ceremony in Statuary Hall, five weeks after the president first outlined his Health Security Act in a major address to the lawmakers. Clinton would require all employers and employees to buy health insurance, with employers picking up 80 percent of the premiums. He hopes to guarantee coverage for all Americans and legal residents while slamming the brakes on health care inflation. More than 200 members of Congress have already signed on to rival health care bills, and no action is expected on Capitol Hill until well into 1994. The revised Clinton blueprint retains the controversial $124 billion in Medicare savings, but officials said delaying universal coverage for a year will reduce the Medicaid savings to $65 billion from $1 14 billion earlier.

Leon Panetta, the budget director, defended the new financial estimates as "credible." Clinton has argued that without a sharp slowdown in health inflation, the federal deficit would spiral back up later in this decade. But his economic advisers had vowed to sacrifice further deficit reduction before raising taxes any more for health reform. In the original draft, Clinton's health plan would have lowered the deficit by $9 1 billion between now and the year 2000. Panetta said the deficit-reduction figure now is $58 billion. Options: Indian tribes to have several choices under Clinton health care plan.

8A "I SI 50 linear feet of RL1 200 lead-sheathed, liner-shaped charges used to cut the steel legs of the 18-story tall Dunes sign. 18,000 feet of 18-grain detonating cord used to connect the pyrotechnic explosion sequence. 185 lbs. of black powder and 550 of aviation fuel will be used to the "fire flash." Miscellaneous special effects charges will generate red and white and noise effects during the implosions of the Dunes. Bryan AllisonLas Vegas Sun and Paul HornGazette-Journal Dunes a casualty of new LAS VEGAS (AP) The new $450 million Treasure Island me-garesort opened with a bang Tuesday night, the prelude to a bigger blast 24 hours later when a piece of Las Vegas history is reduced to rubble.

Gov. Bob Miller and hundreds of invited guests in attendance watched a fiery sea battle between pirates and the British in the lagoon in front of the resort that ended with the sinking of the British sailing ship. "Who but Steve Wynn could sink a ship in the desert," Miller said of the Mirage Resorts Inc. chairman. Wynn, with some costumed pirates behind him, told the audience the sea battle was easy to dream up but hard to actually I Vegas is ready: Residents, tourists all atwitter over demolition extravaganza.

4A make happen. "With a little bit of luck, we're going to make you gasp," he said. "We're going to put a smile on your face tonight." Treasure Island is the second giant hotel-casino to open here in 1 1 days, with resort owners betting $1.9 billion that this city, built on high rollers, can court families as well. The pirate-themed, Treasure Island was to open with a party for VIP guests, then to the general public later Tuesday night. The two 90-foot, 1 8th century sail Vegas era ing ships that will battle seven times daily at a seaport village that sweeps across the front of the 36-story resort.

"As a company, it's our best work," Wynn said. Down the Las Vegas Strip, demolition experts were making final preparations for tonight's planned implosion of the 23-story Dunes Hotel tower, a pyrotechnic extravaganza that is expected to draw a crowd of 250,000 spectators. Both events are productions of Mirage Resorts the gaming company that bought the financially-troubled Dunes last year and closed the resort in January. Mirage Chairman Steve Wynn See TREASURE on page 4A he inched his way up to the edge of the travel lane. After an estimated 20 motorists either ignored him or didn't see him waving, two men in a pickup truck stopped.

Holder said they called the Nevada Highway Patrol with a CB radio. The trooper later identified the good Samaritans as William Thomas and Richard Bessette, both of Carson City. Meanwhile, the NHP stopped Satterfield 20 miles away to tell him what had happened. "He was bawling like a kid. He probably hurt more than I did," Holder said of his hunting partner of 20 years.

Holder's wife, Ann, said "The day after the accident, doctors didn't give us much hope." His survival, she said, had much to do with his bullheadedness. won't let getting run over kill him Accident: Friend unknowingly drove off with Vallejo man under his truck. towing problem, but obviously misunderstood what they would do about it. Holder, suspecting a loose bolt, crawled underneath. Satterfield got back into his motorhome and started driving again.

"I screamed out," Holder recalled. "I don't know if two wheels ran over me or what. I tumbled." The towed pickup truck broke his pelvis, started internal bleeding, cut his head and sliced open one arm as if it were a meat fillet, he said. "But, I didn't feel any pain." However, he couldn't get up. And he was too far from the pavement for passing motorists to see.

Holder said to himself, "I'm going to die right here if nobody stops." But he decided, "Until I die, I'm going to fight." With one good arm and his knees, w-L I ingly drove over him by the side of Interstate 80 and disappeared down the highway. Holder was driving a pickup and Cletis "Joe" Satterfield, 52, was driving a motorhome on an elk-hunting trip to Elk City, Idaho. They pulled off the side of the road, two miles east of Fernley. "I was pulling a luggage trailer and he was pulling a pickup. I noticed his truck was swaying, and I blinked my lights for him to stop," Holder said.

They discussed Satterfield's By Phil Barber GAZETTE-JOURNAL Three weeks ago, 73-year-old Obie Holder of Vallejo lay crushed and dying on a dark Nevada highway. But thanks to a passing motorist, Washoe Medical Center's trauma center and simple bullheaded-ness, Holder is recovering and waiting to go home. At the hospital Monday, he talked about the unusual Oct. 7 accident in which a friend unknow Tim DunnGazette-Journal AT WASHOE MED: Obie Holder, 73, with wife Ann, recounts talking to his buddy after the accident in which his friend ran him over. i1.