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rim SSE33K MARKET CRASH RAISING A RACKET FOR FUN Diana and Eddie Sanders have won TEACHES HARD Investors take it as a cue to re-evaluate 7 "Vi many racquetball portfolios. Money Monday. luumcuiienib, ou. 4 MAGIC DUMP CELTICS, 107-SS, 1C. I HX'Hy" i -i-r i hfni i i A iTTl 1 1 I rV mi i 1 St MONDAY, November 3, 1997 October was a good month for Mir, crew HEADLINES Wolf concentrates on science instead of danger TODAYS NEWS AT A GLANCE By Robyn Suriano FLORIDA TODAY CAPE CANAVERAL For David Wolf, the bottom line is simple so far, so good.

Bucs hand Colts a 31 -38 defeat first weeks aboard Mir, NASA officials are relieved their man is safe and sound. Wolf's two immediate were Spektr science module and cutting the station's power in half. Once again the crew including U.S. astronaut Michael Foale almost had to abandon ship. The station also suffered a string of other problems through late summer, such as repeated breakdowns of its main computer and life support systems that have since been fixed.

The never-ending problems caused the safety debate to continued right through launch day for shuttle Atlantis, which ferried Wolf to Mir and brought back Foale. See WOLF, 4A Rob Navias. "Wolf has had the opportunity to be inundated with nothing but science, which is what we like to see." The agency faced an outcry before Wolfs Sept. 25 departure when critics especially some members of Congress called for ending America's participation on Mir after two near-fatal accidents. The first occurred in February when a fire filled the outpost with smoke, nearly forcing its evacuation.

American astronaut Jerry Linenger was aboard at the time. Then, on June 25, a cargo ship slammed into Mir, puncturing its One montn into nis stay on the Russian space station Mir, Wolf is doing full-time science himself to experiments while his two cosmonaut roommates are carrying out repairs and doing routine work. Early this morning, the cosmonauts were to wrap up a five-hour spacewalk outside Mir in the first of two such excursions planned this week. The pair of walks are designed to do some work on equipment that removes carbon dioxide from Mir's air supply, and replace an aging solar panel on Mir's Kvant 1 module. With serenity marking Wolfs 1 work, something other American astronauts have not been WOLF able to do this year.

The reason is that after bat not as fortunate. "There are no problems, the systems are working to perfection," said NASA spokesman tling serious problems, Mir's crew enjoyed a trouble-free October, allowing Wolf to devote U.N. sends 3 to resolve Iraq dispute The Washington Post WASHINGTON The United Nations decided Sunday to send a three-man delegation to Iraq 'J ,1. If after President Saddam Hussein again aenea me world body by refusing entry to three U.S. arms jams.

Iraq also warned that continued u-z reconnaissance flights could be fired on by its guns. AP Secretary General Kofi Annan said tne learn will leave for Baghdad today. U.N. officials said the decision to send a high-level diplomatic mission to Iraq came after the United States dropped TAMPA BAY BUCCANEER Mike Alstott, top, goes up and over the Indianapolis Colts' defense for a touchdown early in their game on Sunday. The Bucs won, 31-28.

More coverage, 1C. NIT i -V I I 1 its objections to the move. The sources said tne United States went along on the understanding that the team mandate will be to remind Saddam of his obligation to comply with council resolutions NFL SCORES IV'- N.Y.Jets 19 Washington 31 Baltimore 16 Chicago 8 Buffalo 9 San Francisco 17 Miami 6 Dallas 10 Minnesota 23 Jacksonville 30 New England 18 Tennessee 24 Carolina 38 Arizona 31 Oakland 14 Philadelphia 21 Atlanta 34 Denver 30 St. Louis 31 Seattle 27 Cincinnati 38 Green Bay 20 San Diego 31 Detroit 10 Theresa Decapua, FLORIDA TODAY school has 23 portable classrooms. Overall, there are 603 at Palm Bay High class change.

The assistant principal students during a DINO COLONA, School, watches portables in Brevard County. Politicians seek solutions to statewide school space crunch SPACE: Next shuttle launch: Columbia on a 15-day research flight. Liftoff: Nov. 19 at 2:46 p.m. and not make any concessions or negotiate any way.

"We support the secretary general's mission," said Bill Richardson, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. "We strongly believe their mandate should be exclusively to underscore the Security Council's resolutions to enforce Iraqi compliance, and we don't think that these envoys should negotiate anything except Iraqi compliance." The sentiment among U.N. members is to seek a diplomatic resolution of Saddam's latest attempt to challenge the Security Council and break free of the stringent economic sanctions it has imposed on Iraq. But senior Clinton administration officials have refused to rule out a resort to military force if necessary, and Sunday top congressional leaders among them Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, and House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.

said that the United States must respond to Iraq in whatever manner is required. The impending dispatch of the mission comes as the United Nations seeks ways to deter Saddam from making good on his threat to expel by Wednesday the U.S. members of the U.N. Special Commission that was established by the Security Council following the 1991 Persian Gulf War to search out Iraq's hidden weapons of mass destruction. Sunday, for the second time in four days, the Iraqis turned away three U.S.

members of the team, who tried to fly into Iraq. And, in another escalation of Baghdad's defiance, Iraq's U.N. ambassador, Nizar Hamdoon, Sunday sent letters to Butler and to Richardson, warning them to cancel U-2 flights that had been scheduled over Iraq from this coming Wednesday to Friday. U.S. officials, while keeping the military option open, have said their first emphasis would be in cooperating with other Security Council members on diplomatic approaches.

But the comments Sunday by key congressional leaders appeared to increase the political pressure on the administration to act decisively. in Dortables since the fifth grade. Next rocket launch: An Air Force Delta 2 By Mary Shedden FLORIDA TODAY "They said they would go away. But I rocket with military navigation satellite from guess that not the case. The Brevard County School District Cape Canaveral Air Station on Wednesday.

SPECIAL SESSION ON EDUCATION If politicians really want to under Launch window extends from 7:08 to 7:37 p.m. predicts it could use between 5250 mil- World Wide Web: Computer users Interested million for renovations and new schools. Those figures were based stand school crowding, Jim Graham suggests that this week's special session convene in a cluster of portable classrooms. in space can access Florida Today Space 3 on a 1992 study conducted by the state Online at http:www.flatoday.comspace. Department of Education.

Snace Update: Florida Today's hot line car "Put a dozen in front of the Capitol," As needs from 1992 were met, new said Graham, a social studies teacher ries the latest on space program developments. Call 633-6397 in Brevard or 728-8118 in at Palm Bay High, where 27 of the bar problems have developed, keeping the district's facilities needs in that range. The projects identified in 1992 were what prompted a $350 million school Barefoot Bay Sebastian and enter code 4321. racks-like buildings are parked. "They should have legislators work in there.

WtATncR: Mostly sunny today with Teachers and students at Palm Bay highs in the mid-70s. Clear and cool tonight Dona reierenaum wnicn iuueu Siens of the critical need include: MORE COVERAGE INSIDE Lawmakers will be getting plenty of advice, 2A. point to portable classrooms and aging buildings as proof that the growing public school system is ailing. The problem is so chronic that some students can't remember attending a Florida school that wasn't battling a space crunch. "When I was little, I thought they were put up until they built new classrooms," said Amy Wagman, a Palm Bay High sophomore who has learned with lows in the lower 50s, 8A.

High and other Brevard County schools are well-acquainted with the Fifteen schools most of which are elementary schools are FLORIDA: Florida pet owners, veteri narians and exterminators are battling a topic of debate in Tallahassee whether Florida's schools are in need of new classrooms and improved crowded to the point where they are at least 120 percent over the original bigger-than-usual batch of feisty, hard-to-kill design capacity. ticks in South Florida, 6B. While some legislators remain NATION: Chinese President Jiang See SCHOOLS, Next Page unsure of a need, those in local schools Zemin receives red-carpet greeting from busi ness partners but faces hundreds of protesters outside his speech to political leaders and Hol Twister hits Volusia County lywood executives, 3A. Brevard buys more endangered land Prosecutors say they have not decided whether to fight if British nanny Louise Woodward's murder conviction is reduced to man i. Malabar'V Indian River 12 By Dan Klepal FLORIDA TODAY slaughter, 4A.

OPINIONS: Florida must do more to VALKARIA Eight missing protect its at-risk children and punish abus pieces of the endangered-lands EELS program buying 8 lots totaling 15 acres ers, 6A. I puzzle will be added to a lsu-acre tract south of Valkaria Road. Valkaria Airfield ta- i A I The Brevard County commis Man sioners last weeK auocaieo FLORIDA TODAY probably wouldn't have been able to be used because they are completely surrounded by scrub," Voltz said. "And it helped the program fill in some holes. It was a good deal for both sides." The protected land forms a canopy of scrub, wetlands and flatwood and is home to scrub jay and gopher tortoise.

The land eventually will feature walking trails and be open to the public. The EELs program was passed in 1990, when Brevard voters agreed to tax themselves a quarter-mill annually for 20 years to buy wildlife habitat around the county. A mill is $1 in tax for every $1,000 of appraised value of property. Birch said she is unsure when the county will close on the eight parcels. 'C l'it'x'V 1 Across Space Coast, 7B Money Monday, 1-1 0E Bridge, 5D Movies, 40 Classified, 1-10F Obituaries, 7B Comics, 6D Opinions, 6-7A Crossword, 5D People, 1-5D Dear Abby, 5D Recreation, 8C HannaLeaKrause, 1D Space Coast Report, 7B HELPI, 88 Sports, 1-8C Horoscopes, 50 State News, 9-10B Local News, 1-88 Television, 3D $64,500 for the purchase of eight parcels of land amounting to about 15 additional acres which will be added to a large section of land protected by the Environmentally Endangered Lands program.

It is a small yet significant purchase, according to EELs Environmental Specialist Anne Birch. "Each parcel is about 1.4 acres, and most are adjacent to lands already protected," Birch said. "Each lot had a separate owner. The importance is that these are pieces that are a part of the entire ecosystem." Birch said land management is easier when the land is a continuous parcel, rather than a patchwork. Commissioner Helen Voltz does not support the EELs program but said the latest additions made sense for the buyer and the seller.

"I felt like the county got a fair price, and the Individual lots AP JUDY MACKE stands in what was a bedroom of her homa in New Smyrna Beach after a tornado ripped through the area early Sunday. The twister destroyed or damaged more than 100 homes and injured 26 people. Story, 6B. WeatherM Milt Salomon, 8A 1 2 MUM mtmrnu.