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2A Reno Garette-Journal Friday. September 26. 1 997 IN A quick read of personalities and news events of the day. Historic photos on display today In 1777, British troops occupied Philadelphia during the American Revolution. In 1914, the Federal Trade Commission was established.

In recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans. In 1960, the first televised debate between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy took place in Chicago. Tax flap: The county assessor says Bill Gates' new home on Lake Washington is worth more than $53 million.

America's richest man wants a second opinion. Microsoft co-founder, his wife, Melinda, and their 1-year-old daughter, Medina, moved in two weeks ago. Now Gates is questioning King County's appraisal, which could mean an annual property tax bill of more than $600,000. Like Gates, whose fortune is estimated at more than $38 billion, the house is unique. It took seven years to build the mansion on a wooded five-acre compound in a moneyed Seattle suburb.

Among other things, it has a trampoline room, a 20-seat theater, a 24-screen video wall, a dock for water skiing, two spas, a library and a reception hall for 1 00 people. nurse Clara Barton and actor Junius Brutus Booth, father of President Lincoln's assassin. John Wilkes Booth. The collection also features famous images of Lincoln and of the principal antagonists of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E.

Lee. Curators readily admit that no one can certify whether any of the 100 images were shot by Brady Dozens of techniciansmade the exposures and printed the photographs. "He arranged the pose, worked with the subject and he probably said when to click the shutter," said Mary Panzer, the Portrait Gallery's curator of photography. PIONEER: Photographer Mathew Brady, in an undated photo at left, created some of the best-known images of 19th-century America. Above is a detail from an 1860 portrait Brady took of Abraham Lincoln, who was elected president that year.

Associated Press IN PERSPECTIVE: CIVIL RIGHTS 'Forty years ago, they climbed these steps, passed through this door, and moved our nation. And for that we must all thank them. 9 President Clinton I t. if '--V iv St. mm hi 4 -rj.

SEPT. 4, 1957: Above, hecklers, including Hazel Bryan, at center, follow Elizabeth Eckford as she leaves Little Rock Central High School after being turned away by Arkansas National Guardsmen. SEPT. 25, 1997: At right, Central High juniors Andra Meredith, left, and Toshua Shelton hug. Tiiinnrnur rm ninj kir nl IfStPiifll SIS ilOB'SOS Photographic pioneer Mathew Brady created some of the best-known images of 19th-century America, but most of his work has not been seen together since Brady closed his Washington studio more than 100 years ago.

The National Portrait Gallery is changing that with a collection of portraits depicting generals and actors, poets and villains. Brady Portraits: Images as History, Photography as Art" opens today. Brady displayed almost all the photographs in his galleries to drum up business. Among them were pictures of newspaper editor Horace Greeley, poet Walt Whitman, showman P.T. Barnum.

novelist Henry James as a small bov. Civil War Shuttle lifts astronaut to Mir meeting CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Just hours after getting a controversial go-ahead from NASA, space shuttle Atlantis blasted off for Mir late Thursday with the next American to live on the ramshackle Russian space station. NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin approved astronaut David Wolfs four-month mission despite pressure to back out before someone gets killed on Mir, then flew down from Washington for Wolfs dazzling departure. Atlantis illuminated the sky as its booster rockets fired at 7:34 p.m.

PDT, right on time, and put the ship on a course up the East Coast and straight for a Saturday rendezvous with Mir. The space station was passing over Germany, on its orbit, when the countdown clocks hit zero. Wolf, who's not due back on Earth until late January, looked and sounded jubilant before liftoff. He shook his raised right fist in triumph and shouted "Happy New Year, folks!" en route to the pad. Hurricane Nora floods Arizona, Las Vegas YUMA, Ariz.

The remnants of Hurricane Nora blew through southwestern Arizona in a hurry Thursday, flooding some roads but failing to live up to warnings that prompted residents to lay down tens of thousands of sandbags. "I lived many years in Florida, and this is nothing," said Norm Lucken, who retired to Yuma two months ago. Flooded washes covered portions of U.S. 95 between Yuma and Quartzite, 80 miles to the north. Officials closed the section Thursday afternoon but reopened several hours later.

In the Las Vegas Valley, the storm had been expected to dump one to four inches of rain, but failed to live up to her predictions Thursday. But, rain still flooded streets and caused havoc in the metropolitan area. Campaign finance bill looks iffy, speaker says WASHINGTON House SpeakerNewt Gingrich predicted Thursday that legislation endorsed by President Clinton for overhauling campaign finance practices will not pass Congress. Gingrich also assailed the White House for a "pattern of illegality and illegitimacy" in raising money for Clinton's re-election campaign and called for the resignation of Teamsters President Ron Carey because of fund-raising illegalities in his bid to remain at the top of the union. Speaking to reporters, Gingrich called the Clinton-endorsed campaign finance bill written by-Reps.

Christopher Shays. and Martin Meehan, "the rong model going in the wrong direction." Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, meanwhile announced that the Senate ill begin debate today weeks earlier than anticipated on a nearly identical Senate version ritten by Sens. Russell Feingold, and John McCain, R-Ariz. HilHJVtnrrt Proposed national tests for mathematics should allow only limited use of calculators. Education Secretary Richard Riley said Thursday A would-be robber with a shotgun strode into a Jacksonville, diner.

Then, two customers one 69 years old and the other 81 pulled guns and start firing. A teen-ager was arrested later at a hospital, where he was seeking treatment for a gunshot wound. Police said the customers who opened fire won't be charged. Actress Julie London is 71. New Jersey Gov.

Christine Todd Whitman is 51. Singer Lynn Anderson is 50. Singer Olivia Newton-John is 49. Actress Mary Beth Hurt is 49. New guidelines suggested for British press LONDON No more paparazzi pictures.

No more gangs of reporters outside people's homes. No payments to children for stories. Reacting to the uproar over press intrusion following the death of Princess Diana, the Press Complaints Commission asked editors Thursday to voluntarily adopt "the toughest set of industry regulations anywhere in Europe." "Motorbike chases, stalking and hounding are unacceptable and editors who carry pictures obtained by them will be subjected to the severest censure," said Wakeham. "I have found that editors across the industry have been of the same mind times have changed and we want to change with them," he said. Troops end presence in Panama since 1903 QUARRY HEIGHTS, Panama As a drizzling rain muddied the ground, soldiers Thursday slowly lowered the stars and stripes for the last time at the U.S.

Army's base of operations for Latin America. The Southern Command's heritage here dates to 1903, when U.S. Marines arrived to protect the interoceanic railway that was later replaced by the Panama Canal. The command oversaw U.S. military operations throughout Latin America during the Cold War, was a staging ground for the 1990 U.S.

invasion that toppled Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and played a role in anti-narcotics efforts. Its days here have been numbered since 1977, when the United States agreed to hand over the canal and remove all troops from the canal zone by the end of 1 999. It reopens in Miami today. Southeast Asia still gasping amid haze JAMBI, Indonesia The smoke is so thick it stings the eves and burns the throat, making the simple act of breathing a chore. It's impossible to see beyond 50 feet and the sun seems to have disappeared.

All across Southeast Asia, people are struggling to cope with an unprecedented ecological disaster caused by hundreds of forest fires in Indonesia. The fires many of them deliberately set as a cheap wav of clearing land have been burning for months, creatinga cloud of smoke that covers an area more than half the size of the continental United States. Palestinians pursue radical Hamas group JERUSALEM Palestinian authorities shut down a kindergarten, a sports club and 1 5 other institutions run by Hamas and arrested 1 3 activists Thursday, in a new crackdown on Islamic militants. The Palestinians, however, also accused Israel of sabotaging peace by expanding Jewish settlements and warned the action would trigger more bombings. Palestinian police sealedWith red wax 16 Hamas-run institutions in the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile. Palestinian police in Qalqi-liya arrested 13 Hamas activists. The arrests brought to 33 the number of Islamic militants arrested by Arafat in the West Bank this week. The body of a Sioux Indian chief began the journey back to his tribal cemetery in South Dakota on Thursday, more than a century after his death in London it' il -3 li Jl B. tin Mar is X- 2- 4 8tt T1 i trr iVr j-bv.

Wt. Associated Press photos celebrating the 40th anniversary of the school on Thursday. WHERE IT HAPPENED: Students welcome President Clinton to Little Rock Central High School USA TODAY LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Forty years ago, nine black teen-agers walked up the stone steps of Central High School surrounded by Army paratroopers who escorted them through an angry, jeering mob. On Thursday, President Clinton and Arkansas Gov.

Mike Huckabee held open the school's polished wood-and-glass doors for the nine graying adults as thousands of people stood and applauded. Overcome by emotion, a tearful Minnijean Brown Trickey paused and reached out to the two men for support before passing the threshold. "They climbed these steps, walked through this door and moved our nation," Clinton said. "They persevered and they prevailed." The Little Rock Nine, who once had to use court orders and troops armed with bayonets to enter white-only Central High School, returned as heroes. The 40th anniversary commemoration at the now-integrated school became a forum for what remains to be done on race relations.

"Segregation is no longer the law, but too often, separation is still the rule," Clinton said. "We retreat into the comfortable enclaves of ethnic isolation." He decried the fact that many Americans live in single-race neighborhoods, attend single-race schools and forge friendships only with those of their own race. "Today children of every race walk through the same door, but then they often walk down different halls," he said. "Not only in this school but across America, they sit in different classrooms, they eat at different tables. Indeed, too many Americans of all races have actually begun to give up on the idea of integration and the search for common ground." In fact, the Arkansas NAACP boycotted the commemoration to protest problems with police brutality and city contracts with minority-owned businesses.

And in an apparent protest involving another divide in U.S. politics, a pair of trucks similar to the one used in the Oklahoma City bombing were parked outside two abortion clinics here Thursday, touching off bomb scares. No bombs were found. The speech was the latest in a series Clinton has given this year on race, an issue he has promised to make a focus of his second term. After describing the problem of the nation's racial divide, however, he didn't lit tjuq.

snom sjwsw JOY: At left. President Clinton stands Thursday with members of the Little Rock Nine on the front steps of Central High School. From left are Elizabeth Eckford. Ernest Green. Gloria Ray Karlmark and Carlotta Walls LaNier.

keep the black students from enrolling. In a historic confrontation that came to a head on Sept. 25, 1957, President Eisenhower dispatched 1.000 paratroopers from the Army's 101st Airborne Division. The troops escorted the nine students to school through crouds of protesters, some of whom spat on them or waved Confederate flags. "Today we come to say.

once and for all. that what happened here 40 years ago was simply wrong." Huckabee. Faubus' modern-day successor and a Baptist minister, declared. "It as evil and we renounce it." during ceremonies of the integration i Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who now is a Washington-based investment banker, said it was "gratifying beyond words to see we can come together on the same plot of common ground. Central High School, with the knowledge that we are fundamentally much more alike than we are different." Standing in the back of the crowd at the ceremony, watching quietly, was Hazel Massery.

She has publicly apologized for her role 40 years ago as a white student who joined in the harassment of the black students, captured in one of the incident's most famous photos. Also listening were hundreds of current Central High School students. "It was pretty brave of them." Jordan Bradford. 15. a sophomore who is hite, said of the Little Rock Nine.

"It's important because back in 1957 there was a screaming mob and nobody would let them in," said Miranda Pride. 16. an African-American junior who was wearing the blue-and-gold uniform of the school's marching corps. "They're being welcomed now." said her cousin. Vumica Pride.

1 5. a sophomore. detail solutions. Aides say that process ma begin at a meeting in Washington on Tuesday that Clinton will attend ith his advisory commission on racial reconciliation. The White House also is making tentative plans for the president to address a national hall" meeting on race in early December.

Clinton was II years old and attending a segregated school 50 miles away, in Hot Springs, when the integration of Central High School became a national symbol of the civil rights struggle. Gov. Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to.