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153 Year No. 45 Chicago Tribune Dow close 10,519.84 500 1389.97 Up 94.63 Nasdaq 4418.60 4 w. Stock prices recovered a bit on Monday as investors looked for some bargains following last week's big selloff. Blue Chips were a feature as the Dow Jones industrials sparked buying interest after the recent correction. Other popular averages also moved higher, but the general list showed losers edging out winners.

AP photo by Elliott Minor Tom Pinson cleans up debris Monday from a tornado that earlier ripped through Camilla, Ga. actees topple all so Columbine students killed in restaurant 2 teens found shot to death in Subway shop near the school Associated Press LITTLETON, Columbine High students were found dead early Monday after a shooting at a sandwich shop about two blocks south of the school, still reeling from the worst school shooting in U.S. history. Investigators could not offer a motive but ruled out murder-suicide. A woman who worked at the Subway sandwich shop was driving by just before 1 a.m.

and noticed a light on inside. Since the business was supposed to be closed by 10 p.m., she stopped, went inside and found the bodies of a 15-year-old boy who also worked there and a 16-year-old girl, Jefferson County sheriffs spokesman Steve Davis said. Davis said both victims, students at Columbine, suffered, apparent gunshot wounds, but could not say if the wounds were the cause of death. He did not know whether investigators had recovered a weapon. Investigators were reviewing a videotape from a surveillance camera inside the restaurant but did not say what it showed.

The bodies of the victims were removed shortly after noon. Davis said autopsies would be done Monday or Tuesday. The victims were identified as Nicholas Kunselman and Stephanie Hart, who were dating, according to Courtney Scott, an 18-year-old cousin of Hart's. Her cousin was not at Columbine when two teenage gunmen opened fire last year, she said. She thought Hart was at the Subway to see her boyfriend.

J.J. Hodack, a 22-year-old store employee, said Kunselman often was assigned to shut down the restaurant at closing time. "Obviously, our boss trusted him. He's a good worker," he said. "I hope it was just a robbery," Hodack said.

"I've had way more than enough of this. This stuff needs to stop." The shop is in a small strip mall within sight of the school where two teenage students killed 12 students and a teacher on April 20 and wounded more than two dozen others. The two, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, then committed suicide. Columbine Principal Frank DeAngelis would not comment. Classes were in session Monday.

towns Tribune photo by Cart Wagner A busy day for deliveries: Juan Romero has his arms and mouth full of Valentine's Day notes and packages Monday as he loads his already stuffed yan to deliver the romantic gifts from, r'rW-LaSalle Flowers in downtown Chicago. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida also hit by storms many as 100 people, but had to send many of them to other cities because of a power outage. Three people, two of them children, were listed in critical condition at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital in Florida. Mitchell County is a rural area with about 20,000 residents, many who work in chicken processing plants, textile factories and at Autry State Prison, which is five miles south of Camilla. The county is dotted with small towns and farms, most growing peanuts, cotton or pecans.

High wind and hail also caused scattered damage in much of Alabama, and knocked out power to an estimated 22,000 customers. One or more tornadoes also destroyed at least four houses in the Florida Panhandle community of Sand Hills and damaged more than 40 others, officials said. No injuries were reported. In addition, lightning damaged three neighboring houses in Fort Walton Beach. Strong wind in thunderstorms also destroyed at least six houses in Arkansas and injured two people.

Trees and power lines also were down in parts of Mississippi and Tennessee, where one woman was injured by wind-blown debris. The stormy weather was part of a line of thunderstorms, showers and snow that pushed across the eastern third of the nation. By Monday morning, rain stretched along the East Coast from Florida to New England. Up to 18 inches of snow was possible in Maine by late Monday night Associated Press CAMILLA, Ga. Tornadoes slashed through southwest Georgia early Monday, killing at least 22 people and injuring more than 100.

The Mitchell County town of Camilla appeared to be hardest hit, with a tornado cutting a five-mile path through a housing development south of town. "It's like somebody took a bulldozer and leveled it," volunteer firefighter Mikie Newsome said. He and his father had watejied a large dark funnel cloud dip down abffut three miles from their house near Camilla, about 200 miles south of Atlanta. Newsome estimated that 50 to 60 homes were demolished, 90 percent of them mobile homes. Fourteen people died in Mitchell County, said Liz McQueen, a Red Cross representative working at a temporary morgue in Camilla.

Seven were confirmed dead in Grady County and one in Colquitt County. Only two victims, Marianne McClelland, 64, of Pelham, and Shannon HarrelL 28, of Camilla, had been identified by midday. Search and rescue teams went into the area to look for more dead and injured. "You just don't know until you turn over all the trees and houses and dig through the rubble," said Grady County Administrator Rusty Moye. Mitchell County Hospital said it treated as Trump: Reform Party 'a total mess' New York tycoon Donald Trump said Monday he won't run for president because the Reform Party is "self-destructing" and can't provide the support a candidate needs to win.

"You could only win the whole thing with a totally unified party," Trump said on NBC's "Today." After months of speculation about a possible candidacy, the colorful and controversial billionaire said he was dissuaded in part by the departure of Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, who had been an ally of Trump's. He also took a shot at former Republican Pat Buchanan, who is seeking the party's nomination, and his unlikely supporter, leftist activist Lenora Fulani. 'The Reform Party is a total mess," Trump said. "You've got Buchanan, a right-winger and Fulani, a communist, and they've merged." Trump said he would no longer consider running for president or vice president in 2000, even if Ventura or others got a new party off the ground.

"In a number of years I might consider it," Trump said. British, Irish map out new tactic The British and Irish governments, though divided over the wisdom of suspending Northern Ireland's power-sharing Cabinet, managed to map out a common new strategy Monday for quickly salvaging the Protestant-Catholic administration. Foreign Minister Brian Cowen led an Irish government delegation to Belfast, where Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson was back in control of the province after stripping authority from the 10-week-old Cabinet on Friday. Mandelson said Monday that Friday's latest report from the disarmament commission published too late to prevent his intervention may prove highly significant. The report said the IRA had indicated its willingness to put its weaponry "beyond use" but only "in the context" of other unspecified political developments.

Hungary bemoans cyanide spill A cyanide spill that polluted two European rivers will "poison the whole food chain" for years to come, a Hungarian environmental official said Monday. Zoltan Dies, the head of Hungary's environmental committee in parliament, repeated assertions that the spill that contaminated the Danube and Tisza rivers represents "the biggest environmental catastrophe since Chernobyl," the world's worst nuclear accident "The fact that heavy metals also got into the rivers means an even worse problem" than the cyanide, he said in a television interview. "It will poison the whole food chain." Illes spoke a day after the cyanide spill reached Yugoslavia's stretch of the Danube, leaving dead fish in its wake. Even as the poison diminished to non-lethal levels, Serbian officials said they would sue those responsible in an international court. COMPLETE MORNING TRIBUNE INSIDE High-tech toys: Toy companies are finding that it some doing to capture and keep the attention of computer-sawy kids.

In Business. After near-flawless firing, spacecraft orbits asteroid It for engineers to evaluate and confirm the rocket firing. It was "about perfect," Farquhar said. It missed the targeted energy thrust by less than 1 percent. NEAR will spend a year in orbit of Eros.

It will gather basic research that one day may help humans defend the, Earth against a "killer asteroid" like the one thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs. i Associated Press LAUREL, Md. After a near-flawless rocket firing, a robot craft Monday became the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid, settling into a Valentine's Day rendezvous with a space rock named for the Greek god of love. The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft automatically fired for 57 seconds and then sent signaled success to Earth. "The NEAR spacecraft is in orbit around the asteroid Eros," mission director Robert Farquhar announced as engineers in Mission Control cheered.

The NEAR rocket thrusters fired at 9:33 a.m. Chicago time, but it took more than 20 minutes 0 Golan Heights protest: Druze men hurl stones at Israeli police during a protest Monday calling for Israel to end its occupation of the Golan Heights. The protesters, from an Arab community faithful to Syria, withstood police tear gas attacks. ,4.