Daily Sitka Sentinel from Sitka, Alaska • Page 2

Page 2, Daily Sitka Sentinel, Sitka, Alaska, Monday, October 7,1996 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR PA Golf Tourney Dear Editor: On Aug. 17, the Port Alexander Country Club held the 12th Annual. Troll Closure Open Golf Tournament. There were 54 men, women and children who played. Kevin and Karen Mulligan were unable to set up the tournament this year so concerned members of the community decided to keep the tradition going.

Because of the last-minute decision to continue tradition we were only able to hold the tournament for one day, bringing in a donation of $280 for the Pioneers Home in Sitka. Last year, $720 was raised. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our sponsors for this year and last who have helped to keep our annual Troll Closure Open a success. These sponsors are: Sitka Sound Seafoods, First National Bank of Anchorage, the -Channel Club, Murray Pacific, Winrose Enterprises, Marina Restaurant, Sitka Fuels Spenard Builders Supply, Sitka True Value, Mac's Sporting Goods, Stereo North, Westmark Shee Atika, Fleming Paint Center, Pioneer Bar, Air, The Celler, House of Liquor, Ernie's Old Time Saloon, Rock Rack, Potlatch House, Sea Mart Quality Foods, Russell's, The Ark Pet and Garden Center, El Restaurant, Ben Franklin Store, Rookies, White's Pharmacy, Fairweather Prints, Southeast Marine, Dewey's Party Trix Things," Vi's Apparel and Gifts, National Bank Bay view Restaurant, All iStar.Rent A Car, Fine Colors, Evergreen'Natural Foods and the Chocolate Moose. Port Alexander Country Club Sen.

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We do not run unsigned or anonymous letters ooen letters addressed to third parties or copies of letters. The Sentinel reserves the right to edit letters for clarity, length, libel and taste. If you do not want us to edit your letter, note that and we wiil return it should editing be necessary. Address letters to: Letters to the Editor, The Daily Sitka Sentinel, 112.Barracks Sitka, Alaska Bomber Suspect Loses Court WASHINGTON (AP) Un- abomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski today lost a Supreme Court appeal in his attempt to be freed from prosecution because of news leaks. The justices, without comment, refused to give Kaczynski a new chance to argue in a lower court that news, leaks so poisoned public opinion that the government should forfeit its right to prosecute htm.

"The government's conduct has made the word 'Unabomber' and the name Theodore Kaczynski interchangeable," his appeal contended. Although issuing orders in more than 1,500 cases today, the court granted full review in none of-them. The justices last week got a head start by granting such review to eight cases, including two on the validity of state laws banning doctor-assisted suicide. In other action today, the court: --Allowed public schools to continue making work a graduation requirement, rejecting the appeal of a former New.York high school student denied his diploma for refusing to participate'in such a program; --Passed up a chance to decide whether educators violate a federal law when they fail to stop students from sexually harassing other students. Tne court declined to step in to a case of outrageous conduct attributed to several junior-high boys in Bryan, Texas.

--Refused to reinstate former national security adviser Robert McFarlane's libel lawsuit against Esquire magazine ovec an article that, in effect, called him a spy for Israel. --In a White-waier-related case, rejected the appeals of former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and two others accused of plotting to hide profits from a multimillion-dollar cable television deal. --Rejected a challenge by five Wisconsin anti-abortion protesters to a federal law that protects access to abortion clinics. --Shielded federal judges in office since 1983 from having to pay certain federal taxes by, in effect, upholding a lower court ruling.

--Let stand a $750,000 libel judgment a Philadelphia dentist won against a newspaper that reported he had been charged fraud for submitting false claims' jfbr: welfare, V. Rejected the appeal of three disgruntled fans who say 'illegal deals between professional, leagues and cable TV networks up costing them more money in -cable-subscription 'rates Kaczynski, "arrested last April has -been in eight of the 16 bombings linked to the Unabomber and could face if convicted. He is being held in -a JUNEAU (AP) State Rep; Ivan Ivan just barely survived-a 'primary challenge in August, 23- year-old newcomer.by 56 Sattler hasn't given up trying to run the two-term incumbent out of Sattler has taken over as campaign manager for Willie Kasayulie, a prominent Native activist from the Kuskokwim River village of Akiachak who is running against Ivan as an independent in next month's general election. Ivan and Kasayulie bbth--spe'ak Yupik as well as English; andboth are" trying ttf hit every village Southwestern Alaska district. the district's 30 towns and villages, scattered across the tundra, are acces- by airplane or Sattler, a college srudeht, is 5 fryirig to throw 1,200 primary votes KasayiiiieV "I think Mary's jstrohg marice in the; primary election showed that people want a change out here" Kasayulie told the Anchorage Daily News.

Mary on: board will surely give me a big 4 Ivan disagrees. He said making too much of the close primary race; tie spent sumrner subsistence fishing arid "did not, do much AridVhe said he isn't worried effort; to her votes v. "Voters have their own minds arid people can't tell them who. to vote for," said I van, who was campaigning last week village of Napakiak. Ivan may be reaping a harvest he sowed two years ago when he became one of four rural Democrats who angered party leaders: by aligning with the House's Republican-led majority.

While most Democratic incumbents around the state were.unopposed in the primary, Ivan and the other three who joined the Republicans faced stiff challenges from fellow Democrats. All of the challenges fell short. Npw 'some Democrats are-trying to rielp Kasayulie, who has vowed to a GOP-coritrolled coalition. When Kasayulie held last weekend iri Bethel, Democratic Gov' Tony called 1 and-, spoke to the crowd through': a speakerphorie. The governor, who' had already helped steer $5,000 from a Democratic Party fund toward campaign, pledged another $5,000.

Kasayulie- said; Kribwles' support will have a big impact on the race because the governor is -popular in the mostiy Native meanwhile, said -tries governor should mind his own ''The governor, should be concentrating oh bthery biggef problems, like way to bpen.ANWR," Ivan said. should stay out of my race on doing more work statewide." Second Prosecutors said last they had found a diary kept by Kaczynski. contains admissions" to eachjof 16 explosions killed -three" people and wounded 23 since Last April, a federal judge in Montana refused to bar government prosecution of Kaczynski despite leaks about; the case by unnamed government officials. U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell called the news -leaks 'entirely regret- a 1 they were part of an intentional effort to prejudice the against Kaczynski.

The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it lacked jurisdiction to hear Kaczynski' appeal of Lovell's ruling. Kaczynski 's appeal to the Supreme Court was filed in April by his Montana public defender before Kaczynski was charged in the Unabomber attacks. The appeal said he should be given a chance. to prove "that the.

government's outrageous conduct denied fundamental constitutional rights," "The government's decision to vilify him in the national media with ih- criminating evidence, before charging him with any 'Unabomber' worked to forfeit the government's right to prosecute (Kaczynski) for such crimes," the appeal said. Justice Department lawyers said Kaczynski's appeal was premature. Grand jurors can consider information from nearly any source, and thus Kaczynski cannot show he was prejudiced by unauthorized news leaks, government lawyers argued. Florida Braces for Storm MIAMI (AP) Hurricane warnings were posted and evacuations ordered today along a broad but sparsely populated swath of Florida's west coast as fast-growing Tropical Storm Josephine surged toward hurricane strength. Authorities rushed to make preparations after hurricane warnings went up from the Anclote Keys, north of Tampa, to Apalachicola in the Florida Panhandle.

Winds of at least 74 mph are expected to hit the coast sometime tonight, accompanied by torrential rains, storm tides and possible tornadoes, forecastrs said. "We're having to scramble with the rapid intensification of the storm," said Mike Rucker of the state THE DAILY SITKA SENTINEL (USPS 146-160) Editorial, business and publication offices: Sitka, Alaska 99835. Published daily except Saturday, Sunday and holidays. Second class postage is paid at Sitka, Alaska. An independent newspaper published by Verstovia Corp.

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Emergency Management Division; Reports from an Air Force hurricane hunter plane indicated Josephine was nearing hurricane strength.at 8 a.m., said forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in.suburban Miami. At the time, Josephine was centered about 230 miles southwest of Apalachicola, with wind speed at .70 mph. It was moving east-northeast at about 23 mph and was expected to turn northeast. Just three hours before, the storm's wind speed was put at around 50 mph and it was moving at only 15 mph. "Josephine is expected to move onshore somewhere in the warning area tonight," hurricane specialist Robert Pasch said in an advisory.

"Hurricane hunters found a significant drop in the central pressure and indicated that an eyewall was beginning to form," said Pasch. An evacuation order effective at 11 a.m. was issued for beaches and barrier islands in the coastal counties in the warning area, Rucker said. "It will be mandatory for those along the beaches and barrier islands," he said. He had no immediate estimate of the number of people affected.

Most of beach towns in the warning area, which stretches along more than 200 miles of coastline, are small. People in low-lying areas prone to flooding and those who live in mobile homes are being asked to voluntarily evacuate, Rucker said. Rucker said the division was coordinating with school officials in the counties or arrange school closings. ANCHORAGE'(AP) fund Perrrianerit Fund could generate million nually toward closing the state's fiscal gap, a former permanent fund director argued Saturday at how to level the state's budgetary "We can close a major portion of the. fiscal gap without touching the permanent Daye Rose, who 'now heads a private investment 'firm.

Rose laid out his plan at a forum sponsored by Alaska Common Ground to examine several options to deal with the state's budget gap. Rose proposed using S3 billion in; the existing Constitutional Budget Re-serve Account as seed money for the new fund. "Convert the constitutional budget reserve fund into a capital- fund. Take that $3 billion that you now have, that will be expended in the next five years, and invest it in governmental and corporate and industrial America," he said. "Eight times $3 billion is $240 billion a you have a fiscal problem, you can reach it today in the simplest of terms." The Rose plan would require a constitutional amendment to reconfigure the reserve account into a savings ac- 'count parallel to the permanent fund.

He also urged the group to finance capital- infrastructure umproverrierit'- through bonding so, that those who use that infrastructure over a 20. or 3 6 year" period; are the ones paying for it. than. $100 million or "every year for capital think -he said. 'If bond" it, you don't have to spend or $200 million each You spend the debt service, whicrr is ah awful lot less.

And the folks who' pay' for it are the folks who use it in than a dozen speakers debated possible future of the state permanent fund, which "on Oct! 9 will distribute. Checks "$1,130.68 most of the state's residents. 'They also debated imposing income and sales Revenue officials Have isaiij that the state's constitutional budget reserve will be used up b.y the year 2001 if no changes are made. University of AlaskaL Anchorage Chancellor Lee Gorsuch, who gave an of all the proposed fiscal plans, said business leaders are worried that if the state's fiscal problems the strategy for closing the gap will become arid-development. "We have.

-to have a way for the economy to grow and be fiscally neutral," he said. Alaska Loses Appeal in Right-of-Way Lands Case WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Alaska's appeaHn.a right-of-way dispute between' and federal governments over land near the Parks Highway, the primary surface link between Anchorage and Fairbanks. The justices, without comment, let stand rulings that said federal courts lack the authority to second-guess the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM). when the dispute involves lands held in trust for an Alaska Native. The BLM granted a right of way to the state in 1961 for construction of the highway.

The construction project lasted from 1969 to 1971. In 19.71, Evelyn Foster applied for an allotment of land under the Alaska Native Allotment Act. The law allows Alaska Natives to get legal title to land they used for at least five years. Foster's request eventually was granted, but a section of her 130-acre tract overlaps with the highway right of way previously granted the state. The BLM decided mat Foster's preference right to the land took precedence over some of Alaska's claims to the land, and that decision was upheld by the Interior Department's Board of Land Appeals.

When Alaska sought a review of those rulings in a federal trial court, the judge said U.S. immunity under a federal known as the Quiet Title Act barred judicial review. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld dismissal of Alaska's lawsuit last year. The case is Alaska vs.

Babbitt, 951957. U.S. Climbers Killed in Nepal KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) Two American climbers died after an avalanche hit a Himalayan peak, U.S. embassy officials said today. The two, killed Friday, were the members of an American expedition to Mount Annapurna IV in northwest Nepal.

They were identified as Debbie Marshall, 31, of Glenwood Springs, and Rich Davidson, 46, of Los Alamos, N.M. The leader of the expedition, 54- year-old Cleve Armstrong of Lafayette, was rescued by a Nepalese army helicopter Sunday from about 17,000 feet up and taken to Katmandu for treatment. His injuries were not disclosed. Earlier reports said the climbers were missing. The avalanche occurred about 11 a.m.

Friday as the team worked on the most technically difficult portion of the climb, between base camps at 14,500 feel and 21,000 feet. Annapurna IV is 24,715 feet high. Marshall was an experienced climber who had climbed half the peaks in Colorado, her husband Chuck said in Denver. "She did Mount McKinley, and she did one mountain in Chile," he said. "And she was in the best shape that I ever seen her for this climb." Marshall was one of three women on the expedition, which would have put the first American women on the summit.

The expedition was sponsored in part by the Colorado Mountain Club and several Denver businesses to benefit the Rocky Mountain chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. Chuck Marshall and the couple's L-year-old child last heard from his wife on Sept. 16, the day the team left for Nepal. "It was supposed to be an easy mountain, very low risk," he said. "Debbie's not one of those who goes out and finds a dangerous mountain to climb." Annapurna IV is about 2,000 feet lower than its better-known neighbor, Annapurna I.

Armstrong, an optometrist, has led high-altitude climbs for two decades. Australian, Swiss Nobel Medicine Prize ByJEMHEINTZ Associated Press Writer STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -An Australian working in the United States and a Swiss scientist won the Nobel Prize in medicine today for work that gives direction for Designing vaccines and treating cancer, multiple sclerosis arid diabetes. The scientists, who showed an important way that the body targets invading germs, will share the million award; this year's prizes are richest ever. Peter C. Doherty, 55, of Australia, works at the St.

Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Term. Rolf M. ZinkernageL 52, heads the of Experimental immunology in Zurich, Switzerland. They discovered how immune cells called cells recognize virus-infected ceils. for elimination.

That opened the door to understanding how the immune system recognizes germs and distinguishes them from the body's own cells, the Karolinska Institute's Nobel Assembly said. The winners did their research in mice in the early 1970s at the John Curtin School of Medical Research in Canberra, Australia. "It's realy something. We're delighted, of course," Doherty told The Associated Press. The Karolinska institute called about 4:30 a.m.

and "the phone has been ringing ever since," Doherty said, said the work applies to AIDS because the cells he and Zinkemagel studied.probably keep the AIDS virus in check for long periods by killing infected cells. "This was a very central discovery about how cells work," he said. Doherty said he is continuing his studies of how cells fight disease. "A Nobel Prize is always a surprise," Zinkemagel told The Associated Press. He said he had not expect- ed to'win, was given about 15 years ago for similar; thought then; that-the subject had been he'said.

Zinkernagel's wife, eye specialist in and their three children study medicine there. Their son Martin, 21, told The As- Press he was the news. "I don't know much about my father's research. It is very complex," he said. In mice! Zinkemaget and boherty discovered that for a viriis-irifected cell to be by, a ceil, it must display'a cbmbinaiion; of signs: a trace of the virus that indicates me cell belongs to die The work our understanding of the development and normal function of' immune system," the Karolinska Institute said.

Apart from the work has guided attempts to use- system to hunt down and cancer cells 'that have escaped from tumors, it has helped scientists as they design to suppress harmful immune system attacks on the body's own tissue; ats 'seen in multiple sclerosis arid diabetes, the'in- stitute The Nobel given to those whose work is thought to-have benefited "mankind most, accordance with the will of Alfred 'Nobel, Swedish industrialist endowed the awards; The prize today kicked off a week of awards. The Nobel Prize in economics- will'. be: announced Tuesday and the chemistry awards on Weduesda final Nobel Prize, for peace, will be announced on Friday iri way. literature prize, announced Thursday, went to Polish-poet Wislawa Szymborska. WEATHER Sitka Forecast Nation's Temps Continued breezy tonight with showers possibly moderate to heavy.

Southeast winds 20 to 25 mph. Low in the middle 40s. Chance of showers 'near 100 percent. Showers likely Tuesday, with winds diminishing during the afternoon. High in the lower 50s.

Chance of showers 60 percent. Sitka Weather Temperatures ranged from 50 to 53 degrees and .55 inch of rain fell'dur- ing the 24 hours ending at midnight, the Sitka Flight Service Station reports. The barometer was at 29.82 and steady. Sunup was at 7:18 a.m. arid sunset will be at 6:20 p.m Alaska Summary High winds continued to whistle across Alaska's northeast and southeast overnight, while light snow dusted portions of the North Slope and rain soaked sections of the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutians.

Gusts to 40 mph were recorded at Middleton Island in the. Gulf of Alaska early today. Clouds covered most of the Interior overnight while skies were clear over Southcentral Alaska. Early morning lows ranged from the single- digits and the -teens- along the Arctic Coast to the 40s and 50s in the Aleutians and across the Panhandle. Alaska Temps Pro i A 1 ru Anchorage.clear -50 28 000 53 49 1 5g 19- "06 o'oi 38 '37.

Is i CoIdBay.drizzJefo '44 35 -53 45 53 ra Fairbanks.cloudy "45 QQQ 39 23 000 53 3, 0 50 45 TM 50 25 000 54 25 o'oo 52 45 Cbu lear 33 19 000 McGrach.dear 4 5 23 000 37 2 35 2 2 1 6 TM 37 Seward.missing 55 OOQl 53 49 Talkeetna.clear 53 32 57 47 JJJj Yakutat.rain 55 Jj yi Low, 3 below, at Arctic Village. Nation's Weather Skies were cloudy in the Northeast and rainy in the Southeast at daybreak, and clear in most other parts of the country. Tropical storm Josephine in the Gulf of Mexico was moving northeast packing 50 moh winds, and was likely to bring torrential rains to the Florida Panhandle. Winds could gust up to 50 mph, and up to 5 inches of rain and 3 to 5 foot storm surges were possible along the Gulf Coast. A cold front from Canada was pushing scattered showers south to Illinois, Indiana and Michigan.

Less than 1 inch of rain was expected in those areas. Another pleasant fall day was forecast in New England and the mid-Atlantic states, while the northern and central Plains shouid see clear skies and cooler temperatures. Fair skies and warm weather will prevail over the Rockies. Clouds and rain showers are possible in northern Montana. On Sunday, Josephine caused problems in Louisiana, where high winds and heavy rains combined with tidal floodina to strand 200 to 300 residents in Grand Isle, with high waters.

6 Temperatures indicate previous day's high and overnight. low to 8:34 a.rru HCTT. Hi to 'PrcOUk 59 37 cdy Albuquerque 76 52- -Vclr Amarillo '79 53 -cdy Anchorage 46 28 clr Asheville 59 49. cdy Atlanta fis Sfi n'j AtkmticCity 61 45 clr g3 6g Baltimore- 63 Billings" fig 45 cdv Btrmingham 67 .59 Bismarck. 60 '34 Boise 80 52 clr Boston 55 4 3 Brownsville 77 68 0 2 cdy Buffalo 66 48 cdy Burlington, Vt.

60 47 cdy Casper 76 31 ch- Charleston.S.C. 70 59 rn Charleston.W.Va. 69 40 clr Charlotte.N.C. 66 52- cdy Cheyenne 68 4 2 clr Chicago 76 53 cdy Cincinnati 72 45 i Cleveland 69 50 cdy 68 57 71 45 dv 55 Dallas-FtWorth 59 clr Dayton 72 45 cdy Denver 7 1 4 3 DesMoines 75 45 cdy Detroit 75 50 cdy Duluth 59 35 ElPaso 84 56 clr Evansville 73 45 dy Fairbanks 39 32 cdy- Pfgo 53 "cdy Flagstaff 72. -42.

GrandRapids 72 58 cdy GreatFalls 66 '39'- cdy 62 :47 cdy HanfordSpgnd 56 "'331 -clr Helena Honolulu .39 '-75 lr Houston si "6l," clr Indianapolis 46 cdy -68 57 clr Jacksonville 74 69 5.34 rn Junc au -50 ..45 .89 KansasCity 78 -'57 .01 cdy --s LasVegas 95 -68- ctr LittleRock 76 '57. cdy LosAngeles 34 64 cdy Louisville 74 47 Lubbocfc 78 51 Memphis .77 55 dy MiamiBeach 80 75 Midland-Odessa 78 54 lr Milwaukee 73 43 55 Mpls-StPaul 67 39 clr Nashville 74 59 cdy NewOrleans 57 63 .29 clr NewYorkCity 53 C( jy 66 59 cdy NonhPlatte 6 8 47 cdy OklahomaCity 7S 56 dy Omaha 73 48 C( Orland 80 70 81 Philadelphia 62 44 clr Phoenix jrji 75 Sn! bUr 66 40 Clr Ponlandjvlaine 53 37 i 53 Providence 54 35 dr Raleigh-Durham 66 50 cdy RapidCity 63 4J Q5 cdy ft- 88 42 ctr Richmond 45 cd Sacramento 95 59 clr SaltLakcCity 33 4 ian Antonio 35 SanFrancisco gj SanJuan.P.R. 86 cfc ta fe 75 clr oioiCMarie 2 4 ct, 68 53 cdy onrevcport 79 gn SiouxFalls 62 39 cd SySclTe 66 38 9dy Tampa-StPtrsbg 79 74 I opeka 78 59 cdv I UCSOH nc irt Tutsa 70 clr i "JQ Washington.D.C. 66 47 cdy TO i Wilkes-Barre fi 62 39 clr National Temperature Extremes: High Sunday 111 at Palm Springs, Calif. Low Monday 21 at Roseau, Minn..