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Scores: NBJU- Rockets 100 Wolves 83 Sports: Lynx pick all-star Tonya Edwards CI Variety: Saving felines from a fate that's all too final El Twins 8 Yankees 5 D-1 Sunrise: 5:57 JJIU Sunset 822 125th day, 240 until '00 Wednesday Minneapolis Edition DUDDJUHH MAY 5, 1999 500 NEWSPAPER OF THE TWIN CITIES 1 A line of tornadoes killed at least 43 people and injured more than 500 as it tore across Oklahoma and southern Kansas. 'f v. Few special tax breaks tucked into relief bills Incentives cover a broad range By Dane Smith 11 i mr irtrr tv inr ni it! Star Tribune Staff Writer rniii nil ii ii iijiiimH iiiiiiiiii 1 i Vyj VJfJ VjU Vif AssoctatedPress A resident of Moore, Okla, took what she could from her house. The Almost all Minnesotans are likely to get a sizable tax rebate and ongoing income-tax rate reductions from the Legislature. twister that destroyed it cut a 3-mVe-long swath.

I V7 I But tobacco quitters, school carnival organizers, metal casters and charitable gambling operations are among those who may be in line for a little extra relief. Little veins of gold lace the House and Senate tax bills under neath the mother lode, the largest across-the-board rebates and income-tax reductions in state history. Together, these tax code tweaks help explain why each of the tax bills runs to nearly 300 pages oflegal-size paper. -TV- TAXES continues oh A8 ALSO MSP Conferees agree to end auto emissions tests by March I. Bl New York Times A family walked through a devastated neighborhood Tuesday in Moore, where a tornado ripped more than 200 homes from their foundations.

Clifford Dodson, a Moore resident, said of his house: "It didn't collapse; it blew away." The tornado that hit Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City, was an F5, the strongest classification. Clinton open to diplomatic effort to end Kosovo crisis He also considers release of 2 Yugoslav soldiers From News Services WASHINGTON, D.C. President Clinton left for NATO headquarters in Belgium Tuesday after pledging to seize "every diplomatic opportunity" for ending the Kosovo conflict on NATO's terms. As Clinton was en route to Brussels, the White House said he was considering returning two soldiers to Yugoslavia after the release this week of three U.S. POWs in Belgrade.

White House national security spokesman David Leavy said Clinton has asked Defense Secretary William Cohen to review the issue. KOSOVO continues on A7 ALSOWSPfc Blackout brings war home to Belgrade. A6 Senate tables motion to approve ground war. A5 Killer twisters i Tornadoes destroyed entire neighborhoods in Oklaho-, ma and Kansas. The largest twister formed about 45 miles southwest of Wlchrta and HaysviUe: Five people killed and more than ij 100 treated hospitals.

At ii least 150 houses and 27 businesses damaged or destroyed mm KANSAS Wichita HaysviSe ALSO INSIDE; Stories from the survivors. A14 Judging a tornado's ferocity is tricky business. A15 Some tips to follow if a twister heads your way. A15 How tornadoes are ranked. A15 That particular tornado which was classified as F5, the most violent classification -r gouged the southern edge of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.

It wiped more than 200 homes over 8 acres in the suburb of Moore off their foundations. Officials said they expected the death toll to rise. By late Tuesday, officials still could not determine how widespread the damage was and how extensive the injuries were, although at least 1,500 buildings, both homes and businesses, appeared to have been damaged or destroyed in Oklahoma on Monday night. At least 200 buildings were hit in southern Kansas. TORNADOES continues on A16: Clinton declared disaster areas in Oklahoma and Kansas.

New York Times OKLAHOMA CITY Under clear skies, tens of thousands of residents across two states began to deal Tuesday with the aftermath of a series of monster tornadoes that killed at least 43 people, injured more than 500, destroyed more than 1,500 buildings and left behind mile after mile of twisted metal, denuded trees, crumpled cars and collapsed buildings. Standing in the rubble of their communities, they stared, shook their heads and joked ruefully, hoping to find some shard of their former lives that had escaped the devastation. A fierce line of storms roared across Oklahoma and southern Kansas late Monday, unleashing 76 twisters, including one that authorities said was at times as wide as a mile. Oklahoma City and moved north and east, cutting a path at least a half-mile wide. tLf rn TtelCity, Oklahoma A "'Midwest City I Haysvule.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma: 38 people killed, rv cludng 11 killed Bridge Creek. Nearly 2,000 houses destroyed in the Oklahoma City area. Counties designated disaster areas Law ton Moore Path of tornado Associated PressStar Tribune graphic 1 NEWS I 8 A lecture program at Gustavus Adolphus College is giving students a chance to meet some of the nation's top scientists. Learning from the luminaries I 1 ff Woman killed at megamall A woman apparently was stabbed to death inside an entrance at the Mall of America about 10 p.m. Tuesday by an acquaintance.

The suspect was arrested about 11:30 p.m. at an apartment building in south Minneapolis. Turn to Bl. By Jim Dawson Star Tribune Staff Writer if you want to talk to Philip Morrison about the likelihood of Einstein's old hangout, and have lunch with physicist and philosopher Freeman Dyson. Or you could enroll at Gustavus Adolphus College in St.

Peter, IB 1 vi A extraterrestrial civilizations or his work on the atomic bomb, you might fly to Massachusetts and drop by his office at MIT. Up the street, at Harvard University, you could ask Margaret Geller to explain her discovery of the soap-bubble structure of the universe. and wait for these scientists, widely regarded as among the best in the world, to come to you. Dyson recentiy finished a semester at Gustavus Adolphus, and Geller arrived two days ago for a week of seminars and lectures. The others have spent Please Information read Classifieds 612-673-7000 and Circulation 612 673-4343 recycle or 1-800-775-4344 Science weeks teaching at the school during the past couple of years.

III Jllll! Wednesday, May 5. 1999 Copyright 1999 Star Tribune Volume XVmNo. 31 6 sections If you're interested in complexity theory, you might head down to Princeton University in New Jersey, and chat with Phillip Anderson. When you're done, you could head over to the nearby Institute for Advanced Study, Star Tribune photo by Ann Heisenfelt Cosmologist Margaret Geller of Harvard University stands In the observatory Tuesday at Gustavus Adolphus College In St Peter, Minn. GUSTAVUS continues on All: Scientists are drawn by Nobel ties and a grant of more tiian $1 million.

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