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EVENING 2 Chicago Tribune, Thursday, March 25, 1999 r- ft. EtmMMiii iiinmimiiiMiMi una id We're going to systematically and progressively attack, disrupt, degrade, devastate and ultimately, unless President Milosevic complies with the demands of the international community, we're going to destroy his NATO commander Gen. Wesley Clark. 'We went past it and my partner said, "Oh, my God, are those all bodies in the road?" And I said, "I believe they DanWichser, a paramedic called to the scene of an overturned van carrying 14 young people near Janesville, Wis. Six passengers were killed.

PRESIDENT CLINTON, DESCRIBING NATO'S MISSION IN LAUNCHING AN AIR ASSAULT ON YUGOSLAVIA: 'In short, if President Milosevic will not make peace, we will limit his ability to make QUOTES OF THE DAY Construction worker recalls horror of being buried in sewer trench rp ri By Rachel Zoll Associated Press Quadruple bypass surgery performed on Johnny Carson Johnny Carson underwent successful quadruple heart bypass surgery and doctors expect him to recover fully, a hospital spokeswoman said. Carson, 73, was taken from his Malibu home to Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, at 3:30 a.m. Friday and doctors performed the surgery a few hours later, Lindi Funston said. "The operation went very well and his heart is fuhc'tioning normally," Funston said Wednesday. She said Carson had the surgery to treat coronary artery disease and he is expected to be released in a few days.

Carson Productions spokesman Jeff Sotzing confirmed the information released by the hospital but refused to disclose additional details. Carson retired as host of NBC's 'Tonight Show" in May 1992. He was host of the late-night program for 30 years before Jay Leno took over. out!" hart 1 atch had was the only warning Darby Patrick before the walls of a sewer trench Reuters 'The prayers of peace-loving people around the world are with the brave men and women and their Hillary Clinton, addressing the crisis in Kosovo on Thursday during her visit to Africa. Above, the first lady arrives at Tunis' Carthage Airport in Tunisia.

Missing atheist's former office manager arrested former office manager for missing atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair has been arrested on a firearms charge, and a lawyer says he has been told by a federal prosecutor that the man has been implicated in her murder. David Roland Waters, 52, was arrested Wednesday by agents from the FBI, Internal Revenue Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and charged with being a felon in possession of 119 rounds of ammunition, said Daryl Fields, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in San Antonio. The arrest Wednesday came as federal agents in Chicago, Ft. Worth and Michigan questioned three other people about the mysterious 1995 disappearance of O'Hair, the San Antonio Express-News reported.

Waters' lawyer, Patrick Ganne, said federal officials told him Waters was being implicated by others who were questioned. "I've been in touch with the assistant U.S. attorney, and he said a bunch of people are rolling over on him and implicating him in the murder of the O'Hair family," Ganne told the Express-News. Federal prosecutors declined to discuss the allegation. They have not even said whether they think O'Hair was murdered.

O'Hair, the founder of American Atheists first gained fame when she took credit for a suit, already filed, that ultimately removed the Bible and sponsored prayer from public schools in the early 1960s. She would be about 80 now if still alive. She disappeared, along with son Jon Garth Murray and granddaughter Robin Murray O'Hair, in September 1995. A hasty note was found on their Austin office door telling staffers an emergency had arisen. All three vanished along with $500,000 in gold coins.

It was just something I had to stand up for 18-year-old Charles Rice, who battled school administrators in Pierson, for the right to wear a red floor-length evening gown to his high-school prom. 'Jim told me "You can just say you had a sexual affair with Susan McDougal, testifying to a Little Rock, jury that her ex-husband tried to persuade her to say she had an affair with Bill Clinton so Kenneth Starr's office could 'get' the president. collapsed on the 27-year-old construction worker as he was installing pipe. He was under 5 feet of dirt, sure he was going to die. What followed was an unimaginable 15-hour ordeal for Patrick, trapped in the crushing soil and getting colder by the minute.

For four hours, he 5 could breathe only through a 15-inch pipe he grabbed just before the walls gave way. On Wednesday, in his first interview since the Dec. 14 accident in Chattanooga, Patrick recalled the terror he felt as volunteers worked feverishly to free him. Uncovered first was his face, then his head, a shoulder, then an arm. "I was scared to death," Patrick said.

"I remember thinking I could die any time." 'I didn't want my Patrick spoke while wife to be alone. undergoing therapy at the Shepherd Center I flldn want my rehabilitation hospital in boy to be alone. Atlanta. His left leg was amputated at the hip and his 1 Jusl nem on' right leg suffered serious Darby Patrick nerve damage. Kidney, liver 1 and respiratory failure left him 28 pounds lighter.

He now uses a wheelchair and must relearn how to dress, bathe and get into and out of bed. A speech therapist is checking to see if he suffered any brain damage. He has nightmares about being trapped i underground. "It haunts you a lot," Patrick said, struggling to find a comfortable position in his wheelchair. Patrick was part of a five-man crew laying pipe' along a highway when the trench collapsed.

"My first words were, 'Darby's said Phillip Wills, who was operating the backhoe. "Then we heard him yelling." Patrick was completely buried for hours, surviving thanks to the pipe until his face was cleared. "I could barely move a muscle," he said. Rescuers pumped oxygen and medicine to him and he fell asleep, alarming the crew members who thought they had lost him for good. They talked to keep him awake, mostly asking how he was feeling.

Above ground, a bitter wind whipped through the site, and Darby felt the cold where he was trapped. He asked for his wife, Julie, and for his boss, Wills, but it wasn't safe for them to come close. Wrapped in blankets, Julie Patrick stood on the edge of the trench, occasionally returning to a nearby building to pray with the Baptist missionary who had stopped to offer support. At times, Patrick joked with his rescuers. "I guess later I wasln shock," he said.

"I thought I was OK." When he was airlifted to Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga, his doctors gave him only a 10 percent chance of survival. "I said when this happened, if anyone can survive, Darby can," said Wills' wife, Betty, who has known Patrick for 12 years. But a week after the accident, his body began to fail. One night, his head filled with fluid and swelled and a nurse said he likely would die before morning. "That's when I lost faith," Julie Patrick said.

"But I wouldn't cry in front of him. I would turn around and wait until I left the room, then I started 1 crying." But Patrick survived, fighting off infections. His doctor has set a tentative release date of May 7. He'd like to work again, and he wants to swim in a favorite lake near his home, take a vacation and spend time with his 17-month-old son, who has been clamoring for his attention. On May 17, he and his wife celebrate their second anniversary.

Patrick said it was the thoughts of his wife and his child that helped sustain him. "I didn't want my wife to be alone. I didn't want my boy to be alone," he said. "I just held on." 8.9 billion. 'I was all over the place today.

I put my equipment on wrong and everything. I haven't had butterflies like that for years Chris Chelios, on his first day as a Detroit Red Wing. United Nations estimate of the world's population by the year 2050, up from nearly 6 billion this year. 'Some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue. We've been the statue the last two Dickey Simpkins, bemoaning the Bulls' performance in their last two games, which they lost by a combined 52 points.

'The community will be satisfied when the lights stay Flossmoor Village Manager Peggy Glassford, on ComEd's promise to improve service reliability. Woman who allegedly sought death jailed in beach attack A German woman attempted to attack a 4-year-old girl on the beach and said she came to Florida planning to kill someone because the state has the death penalty, according to investigators. The child, who was visiting from New York, survived when a bystander pulled the girl from the knife-wielding woman Wednesday. Angela Ursula Lehmann was being held in the Lee County Jail without bail on a charge of attempted first-degree murder. Deputies said Lehmann told them about her death-wish plan, saying she headed to the Ft.

Myers beach on Wednesday in search of a victim. Erica Roza of Milton, N.Y., was in the water with her 8-year-old cousin, Deanna Baker. That's when police said Lehmann spotted Erica and headed for her; holding a 10-inch filet knife. She pulled Erica into deeper water, telling Deanna 'If you call the police, I'll kill her." The girls and other children around them started screaming. Lehmann, 33, started dunking the child under the water about 50 feet offshore, authorities said.

The children's screams alerted their mother, Kelly Roza, and a bystander, Gary Angotti, vacationing from Indiana. Angotti swam out and pulled the girls away. Other bystanders ran to a nearby sheriffs substation and got deputies. Erica received only small cuts on her chin and thumb. 'Definitely a roller-coaster Blackhawk Tony Amonte, after losing to Pittsburgh 5-2 and having leader Chris Chelios traded all in one day.

'I just kept thinking, well, how, how, did I get back Ex-Death Row inmate Anthony Porter, who spent Tuesday night in Cook County Jail after his daughter and her mother accused him of domestic battery. HZK 1 1 want to help set a climate for political change outside of a rat race in a media money-driven Rev. Jesse Jackson, after formally bowing out of the Democratic presidential race. "A Woman's Place." The documentary profiles three women in South Africa, India and the U.S. who have dedicated their time to improving the lives of women by making tradition and justice see eye-to-eye.

1 pray for everyone. I believe in God and I believe there's a God for everyone whether you cross yourself or kneel Mary Markovic, a member of the Holy Resurrection Serbian Orthodox Church on the Northwest Side who has a cousin in Belgrade and a sister -in-law in Pristina. Midday Illinois Lottery Thursday, March 25, 1999 Pick 3: 595 Pick 4: 2878 Earlier winning lottery numbers from Illinois and other states are on Page 4 of the Tribune inside. "Turks." Mike creates trouble with the neighbors when he identifies their son as the suspect in a girl's murder..