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TUESDAY Keels aboard High school realignment Flowing Wells, Rincon, Sabino, Pueblo and Sunnyside are changing divisions Charter schools An idea that transplants well IB Strategy backfires Braves win; series returns to Atlanta Sports, ID Learn how to make car pooling safer Accent, 1C l3l S5ar mat Jkii Serving Tucson and Southern Arizona 1998 Final Edition, Tucson, Tuesday, October to U.N. demands Vol.157 No. 286 Milosevic Clinton issues kern warning By Robert Burns JThe Associated Press Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic Agreed yesterday to comply with U.N. jlemands to end his seven-month repression of Kosovo Albanians. His concession came shortly after 1-JATO ambassadors authorized the use of Jurstrikes against Yugoslavia if Milosevic failed to comply with U.N.

Security The president said NATO's decision marked just the second time in the alliance's nearly 50-year history that it authorized the use of force "and the first time in the case of a country brutally repressing its own people." "The international community is now prepared to act," he said. Clinton said Milosevic had agreed to allow a "robust" team of international inspectors monitoring both by land and air to see that Serb troops pull back, that refugees be allowed to return to their homes, and that other conditions of the U.N. Security Council be met. The Americans and Europeans want aw Wyo. student's death casts a pall over annual event A By M.

Scot Skinner The Arizona Daily Star Students at the UA yesterday expressed sadness and shock about the vicious killing of a gay University of Wyoming student. Matthew Shepard, 21, died early yesterday morning in a Colorado hospital, five days after he was kidnapped, robbed, beaten and strung up on a Wyoming ranch like a scarecrow on a fence. Two men, 21 and 22, face first-degree murder charges in Laramie, Wyo. Gay and lesbian students gathered on the University of Arizona mall yesterday for National Coming Out Day when "closeted" gays are encouraged to live an open gay lifestyle but the celebration had a somber undercurrent this year. "I was really upset about what happened to him," said Billy Gerald, 19, who signed a petition urging the 500 U.S.S1.00 In Mexico 39 Pages! The Associated Presi Canadian Capt.

Didier Toussaint makes sure a missile Is ready to go. Criminals' DNA is now in national database Wire reports WASHINGTON In a computer at a secret location, the FBI will open a nation- al DNA database today that advocates say could significantly reduce rape and other crimes by helping to catch repeat offenders earlier. The database, with a new generation of forensic DNA techniques, promises to be so efficient that some civil libertarians fear it will be expanded from people convicted of crimes to include almost everyone, giving the government inordinate investigative powers over citizens. All 50 states will be linked to an FBI computer here that contains genetic pre files of 250,000 convicted state felons and DNA profiles taken from evidence left at the scene of 4,600 unsolved cases, Dwight Adams, chief of the FBI lab's scientific analysis section, said yesterday. The states have collected another 350,000 DNA samples from convicted felons but have yet to analyze them and enter the genetic profiles onto the computer database.

"There's a backlog," Adams said. Although all 50 states have laws authorizing blood sampling of some convicted felons to obtain DNA profiles, eight states have not begun collecting the sam See DNA, Page 6A WEATHER Record-setter. Today will be most-; ly sunny with record highs. Tonight, should be mostly clear. Today's high is' expected to be 100, the low Yesterday's high was a record-tying the low 57.

Details on Page 7A. INDEX Accent 1-6C Bridge 2C Classified Comics 4C Comment Crosswords .2 Horoscope Money 4-8B Noon to Noon Obituaries Sports 1-6D TV listings Selfless donors Volunteers like Desert View High School assistant principal Ed Soto save lives with their donations of bone marrow. i jiii: So 13 Milosevic to halt the crackdown he launched Feb. 28 against the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army. Ethnic Albanians make up 90 percent of the population of Kosovo, a province of Serbia, the largest republic of Yugoslavia.

White House press secretary Joe Lockhart said the monitoring force would number about 2,000, including an unknown number of Americans. Any American participants would not include combat troops, Lockhart said. Clinton said his special envoy to the Balkans, Richard Holbrooke, had won a See MILOSEVIC, Page 2A Jeffry Scott, The Arizona Daily Star afraid to show their affection Aaron James McKinney, 22, could face the death penalty if they are convicted of first-degree murder. In the Tucson beating, one of the student athletes said in court that he and a dozen friends went to the Stonewall Tavern to "hassle queers and stuff like that." Several gay men were "hassled" that night, including the visitor from Lincoln, Neb. Heakin suffered a brain injury and died at 1:45 a.m.

on June 6, 1976. Control needs to enforce licensing laws more and stay out of breeding issues. "I don't think we need to impose or infringe on the rights of the breeders," he said. Dog owner Matthew Jellison said he was afraid the law would be arbitrarily enforced and would amount to "a hatred and discrimination toward anyone who has an unaltered animal." But Lisa Markkula, executive director of the Animal Defense League, said educa- See LITTER, Page 6A gives in Council demands to end the crackdown. President Clinton welcomed the commitment but warned that any backtracking would bring swift NATO strikes.

Clinton said NATO's political leadership took a dual-track approach: authorizing airstrikes, but also giving Milosevic a four-day breathing period. In those four days, international inspectors will try to verify that Milosevic has fully met his commitments. "Commitments are not compliance," Clinton said in a statement he read after a campaign fund-raising event in New York. "Balkan graveyards are filled with President Milosevic's broken promises." A candlelight vigil in memory of Matthew Shepard, left, will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday at the west end of the UA Mall.

passage of hate-crimes legislation in Wyoming. "It made me sick to think that there are people who could do that to another human being," said Bryan Parks, 24, who said he didn't dare come out until after he graduated from Amphi High School. Students and faculty quickly scheduled a candlelight vigil in memory of Shepard for Thursday See GAYS, Page 4A orientation. orientation. of the first cities to pass an anti-discrimination ordinance that included sexual orientation.

Four teens 15 to 17 were charged with first-degree murder in Heakin's death. But the charges were later reduced to involuntary manslaughter and the teens, tried as juveniles, were sentenced to probation. As a condition of probation, Judge Ben C. Birdsall ordered them to finish high school, to live with their parents until age 18, not to drink alcohol until city subcommittee, and the council hold another public hearing next month. The proposal calls for dog owners to pay $100 for every puppy litter born or advertised within city limits for sale.

Any advertisement for a dog 6 months or younger would have to include its litter permit number. If dog owners violate the proposed ordinance, they could be fined $300 to $2,500. In addition, licensing fees for dogs not spayed or neutered would jump from $20 mm I 1 Jarrod Hate-crime laws by state Maine 7 N.H. (Ky xTS kwiv AwrvkS lowi Kr-r-J' Pa. VI Conn.

Ark S.C. VUC. )fssi Hmaii --JX AT Source: The Human Rights Campaign Iff States with hate-crime laws that Include sexual States with hate-crime laws that exclude sexual States with no hate-crime laws. States whose hate-crime laws are unclear UK Ui Olson, left, and Victor Leonard are not Attitudes changed after 76 killing shocked Tucson By M. Scot Skinner The Arizona Daily Star Does anyone remember Richard J.

Heakin? The 21 -year-old was beaten to death in 1976 outside the Stonewall Tavern, a North First Avenue gay bar. The killing, coupled with the slap on the wrist given his teen-age attackers, was a turning point in Tucson's attitude about hate crimes. Within a year, Tucson became one age 19 and not to be out past 10 p.m. without their parents' consent. The attackers Charles J.

Shemwell, 17, Herman J. Overpeck, 15, Scott McDonald, 16, and Russell van Cleve, 16 were described in court as "good boys" from "good families." The judge declared that their "sincere remorse" was punishment enough. In Wyoming, there is no talk about probation in the killing of Matthew Shepard, 21. The two suspects Russell Arthur Henderson, 21, and to $30. Dogs caught running at large twice within the same year also would have to be altered.

Councilwoman Janet Marcus voiced concern last night that the proposal might be impossible to enforce, with Pima County Animal Control putting only one new officer on the street for it. "I think we need a little more creative thinking because it's a huge problem," she said. Mike Barrett, a dog owner, told the council he thinks Pima County Animal Council delays vote on controversial dog-litter fees By Jon Burstein The Arizona Daily Star The Tucson City Council last night pushed back a vote on a controversial proposed law requiring dog owners to pay a fee for every puppy litter. Council members opted to re-examine the issue in 30 days after they, along with a standing-room-only audience, listened to 3 8 citizens speak nine for the ordinance Jmd nine against. Councilman Jerry Anderson asked that the ordinance be scrutinized further by a.