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I WoddNatfai 3A WEDNESDAY, June 17, 1992 Iowa City Press-Citizen Tornadoe's fury AT HOME Michigan court strikes down 'drug lifer' law LANSING, Mich. The state Supreme Court has struck down the nation's toughest drug law, ruling that a mandatory term of life in prison without parole for drug dealers is unconstitutionally harsh. In its 4-3 opinion Tuesday, the high court said all those sentenced under the 1978 Michigan law would be eligible for parole after serving 10 years. It said that standard should be used in the future. About 160 people have been sentenced under the "drug lifer" law.

"The defendants in this case have been punished more severely than they could have been for second-degree murder, rape, mutilation, armed robbery or other exceptionally grave and violent crimes," the majority wrote. Perot trusted most with economy NEW YORK Americans who think Ross Perot is the presidential contender best able to handle the economy outnumber those holding the same view of President Bush and Bill Clinton combined, an Associated Press poll found. Only one-third of those who generally think of themselves as Republicans say Bush could deal best with the economy, and only one-third of Democrats say the Clinton could do best. But half those who call themselves independents put faith in Perot on the economy. Overall, 42 percent of those polled chose Perot as the best person to handle the economy, compared with 19 percent for Bush, 18 percent for Clinton, and 21 percent uncertain.

ABROAD Ark Project seeking POWs in Russian camps MOSCOW A U.S. group said today it is stepping up the search for American prisoners-of-war following President Boris Yeltsin's assertion that some Americans were taken to Soviet labor camps in the 1950s. Among those sought by the Ark Project is 1st Lt. Robert Martin, who was captured by North Korea during the Korean War and ordered imprisoned for a year for striking an interrogator, said spokesman Boris Yuzhin. Yuzhin, the organization's associate director, said he had no further information about Martin, and could not say whether he was taken to the Soviet Union or was interrogated by Soviet officers during his captivity.

The Ark Project is a non-profit organization that searches for U.S. POWs and missing soldiers. It is looking for any survivors among the up to 20,000 U.S. POWs that a 1991 U.S. Senate report claims were taken to the Soviet Union after 1945.

Yuzhin said the Ark Project will search a number of prison camps in northern Russia's Pechora region. The city of Pechora has two labor camps, and there are many more in the surrounding area, most of them built during Josef Stalin's era. Israel's Rabin attacks Shamir JERUSALEM In their only pre-election debate, Yitzhak Rabin accused Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir of building unneeded settlements in the occupied territories while Shamir expressed confidence on getting U.S. loan guarantees. Both leaders appeared to moderate their stands in the televised debate Tuesday, and they left open the possibility of a joint coalition government if their parties fail to win a majority single-handedly.

While some opinion polls give Rabin's center-left Labor party a lead, others point to neither side getting enough votes in Tuesday's ballot to form a coalition. Mexico resumes anti-drug efforts MEXICO CITY Mexico says it has temporarily resumed joint anti-drug efforts with the United States after receiving assurances that Washington will not act on a Supreme Court ruling and seize more suspects across the border. Mexico had halted cooperation Monday night out of anger at a ruling by the U.S. court that a suspect who was kidnapped in Mexico could be tried in the United States for the torture-killing of U.S. drug agent Enrique Camarena.

The suspect, a Mexican doctor, was spirited across the border for trial. On Tuesday, after a series of meetings between U.S. and Mexican officials, the administration of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari "temporarily" agreed to continue cooperating "in order not to allow this period of negotiations to interrupt the intensive programs of coopera- tion in the fight against narcotics," a Foreign Affairs Department statement said. An agreement two years ago allowed up to 60 U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents to work in Mexico and 60 of their Mexican counterparts to work in the United States.

Jit e.J.J Associated Press Dale, Lynette and Mary Lingen salvage some of their belongings after a tornado destroyed their home in Chandler, Minn. Tuesday night. Dozens injured as twisters rake Midwest i-V'V' i By Mark Neuzil Associated Press Tornadoes hit four Midwestern states, leveling a housing development and scattering hazardous farm chemicals in one Minnesota town. About four dozen people were injured. "I thought we were going to die," said Dan Gunnink, a resident of Chandler, who lost his house.

"We thought it was all over. We were praying for our lives. Severe thunderstorms unleashed numerous twisters along with heavy rain Tuesday afternoon through Tuesday night in Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa. A tornado was reported early today near Omaha, Neb. Tornadoes also raked the region on Monday.

The National Guard was sent into Chandler, Olivia and Clark- Chandler's tornado siren was repaired three days earlier. "Boy, did we need that thing," said city clerk Al Vis. "We would've had dead people like you wouldn't believe." In Lake. Wilson, authorities said they freed a man and a child trapped in a car that was picked up and blown a quarter-mile. Both were hospitalized.

Four people were injured, one critically, when their farmhouse near Leota, was destroyed, said Laurie DeBates of the Pipestone County sheriffs department. In Fort Thompson in central South Dakota, a tornado destroyed six houses and 10 mobile homes, Gov. George Mickelson said. Seven people were injured, none seriously, hospital officials said. field, all in southwestern Minnesota, to help local authorities with the cleanup.

An apartment building and 25 to 30 homes in a new Chandler housing development, some still under construction and not yet occupied, were destroyed or damaged, as were at least six businesses downtown, said Harvey Bruxvoort, who lives in the town of 300 people. "It resembles an atomic bomb blast," Bruxvoort said. "Trees are left with no leaves." Chemicals leaked from storage tanks that were destroyed, authorities said. Officials worried that the pesticides and fertilizer might contaminate Chandler's water supply. Twenty-five people in Chandler were hurt, including 1 1 who were hospitalized.

Six people were injured in Clarkfield, a town of about 925 people. en il, Kids of drinking mothers injured more often Associated Press Police carried away a child during an abortion protest in Milwaukee Tuesday. Of the 99 people arrested during the demonstrations, 32 were juveniles, including 15 who were between the ages of 9 and 14, authorities said. Abortion protesters arrested MILWAUKEE More than 100 abortion opponents, including 32 youngsters, were arrested as they tried to block access to two abortion clinics during the first day of a planned six-week protest. About 700 people demonstrating on both sides of the abortion issue gathered at the clinic on Tuesday.

Seventy-three adults protesting abortion were arrested for trespassing and disorderly conduct. Thirty-two youths ages 14 to 17 face disorderly conduct charges, Police Chief Philip Arreola said. "I'm not protesting. I'm saving babies," said Jan Gautsch, 13, one of those arrested. Dr.

Paul Seamars of Wisconsin Women's Health Care Center, the site of Tuesday's largest protest, said he saw all of his scheduled patients. Third-grader gets pregnancy test HOLLYWOOD, Fla. A third-grader's parents say their potbellied daughter was taken from class and given a pregnancy test without their consent. The child, a 10-year-old whose name is being withheld, was asked by a volunteeer at Colbert Elementary School in May to urinate into a cup, said the parents' attorney, Lawrence S. Ben.

The pregnancy test was negative. Ben on Monday sent the required notice to the Broward County School Board of the parents' plans to sue. He said the test violated the girl's civil and privacy rights. The lawyer for Doreen Biggs, the volunteer alleged to have conducted the test, said she had good reason to think the third-grader needed help. "She did what she felt was in the best interest of the child," attorney Larry Davis said.

Souljah fires back at Clinton Study says children may not be getting adequate supervision Associated Press Associated Press Protesting Yeltsin million U.S. children live with an alcoholic parent, and 18.1 percent of U.S. adults report having lived with an alcoholic or problem drinker when they were children," the researchers noted. Their study was based on data from 1990 Census figures in the National Center for Health Statistics' Alcohol survey. Children of problem-drinking women had only about half the rate of motor-vehicle injuries as children of non-drinking mothers.

However, they had substantially more injuries involving bicycles, skateboards, roller skates and dog and insect bites, said the researchers, led by Polly E. Bijur of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. hood of serious injuries as children of non-drinking parents. Children of problem-drinking mothers are 2.1 times as likely as children of non-drinking mothers to get hurt badly enough to need hospitalization, a day home from school or at least a half day in bed, the researchers said. The reseachers studied data on 12,360 U.S.

households. Results were reported in today's Journal of the American Medical Association. The authors couldn't fully explain the higher risk linked to drinking mothers, but speculated they are less likely to provide a safe physical environment, including adequate supervision and role modeling. "It has been estimated that 7 CHICAGO Children of women with drinking problems suffer twice as many serious injuries as youngsters of non-drinking mothers, including injuries from skateboard accidents and dog bites, a study says. Problem drinking among fathers had little apparent effect on children's injury risk, except when the mother was also a problem drinker, the researchers said.

When both parents drank, children had 2.7 times the likeli- Cole cites irreconcilable differences for divorce Russian militiamen drag away Communist and Russian Nationalist supporters from their camp outside the state Television Tower in Moscow this morning. The man wearing the old Czarist emblem is a Nationalist Party supporter protesting biased television broadcasts and Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin's economic reforms. Sarajevo again under heavy fire SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Heavy shelling shattered the pre-dawn calm of Sarajevo early today, with Serb gunners opening up from the hills around the city and trading mortar fire with the town's Muslim-led defenders. The rattle of machine-gun fire began late Tuesday around the burned-out shell of Bosnia's parliament building, shattering a cease-fire that had somewhat stilled attacks on Sarajevo since early Monday. Around dawn today, heavy shelling thundered around the city center.

Today's shelling set at least five buildings ablaze, Rasim Borcak, a journalist for Bosnian TV, reported from the area of the TV building. Serbs from the Lukavica barracks in the west of the city opened fire from tanks near the city's airport, kept closed for the past 2 Vi months by Serbs who have prevented relief air convoys bringing food to desperate residents. Bosnia's Croats and Slavic Muslims, who together make up about 60 percent of Bosnia's population, voted overwhelmingly for independence on Feb. 29. Bosnian Serbs boycotted the vote and are trying to carve out their own state with help from the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army.

From news services Rapper Sister Souljah fired back at Democratic candidate Bill Clinton Tuesday, dismissing his charges that she promotes racial hatred and saying she's been used and misunderstood. Clinton "lacks moral wherewithal, intellectual comprehension, spiritual depth and is about as belie v- LOS ANGELES (AP) Natalie Cole has filed for divorce from her husband, music producer and arranger Andre Fisher. The Grammy- About people 'Romper Room' host sends abortion message SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) Former Romper Room host Sherri Chessen says she hopes a new movie will draw attention to abortion rights. Chessen was denied an abortion when she decided to have one in 1962 after discovering a tranquilizer she had been using contained a drug that caused severe birth defects.

Abortion in Arizona at was legal only when a mother's life was in danger, so Chessen had the abortion in Sweden. "I wish that instead of picketing, abortion protesters would donate four hours of their time to baby-sit for a welfare mother," she said in Tuesday's The Arizona Republic. The HBO movie, starring Sissy Spacek, airs Saturday. stores to stop selling rapper Ice-T's album containing the song Cop Killer. "It calls for coldblooded, premeditated murder" of police, Hunt said Tuesday.

The song, which includes the lyrics "Die pig, die," is on the Body Count album. Ice-T has said the lyrics reflect the reality of blacks' relationship with police. Woman claims Idol attempted to rape her PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -A woman is suing Billy Idol, claiming the rocker tried to rape her and burned her with a cigarette in 1985. The lawsuit by Cheryl Thompson, 30, seeks unspecified damages for injuries she said she suffered in five attacks over several months in New York and Los Angeles.

Cole winning singer fah ae as Pmocchio," sne sa'd SOUIJan after a New York press con ference. She is scheduled to appear Wednesday on NBC's Today. Souljah whose real name is Lisa Williamson denies suggestions that she's racist. "Black people can't be racist. You have to be backed up by a system of power," she said.

"I have not ordered the National Guard into anybody's community. I do not own a gun. I've never shot anybody. I do not have any criminal record. I have never cut anybody.

I've never invaded Grenada, Panama." From news services cited irreconcilable differences in her divorce petition Monday. The couple married in 1989 and separated June 1. They have no children. Governor wants Ice-Ts album off the shelves MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) Gov.

Guy Hunt wants record.