Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 7

NATIONWORLD Monday, Aug. 30, 1993 Battle Creek Enquirer 7A Nation Torrential Iowa rain brings flooding back The Associated Press "We're not quite out of the woods yet." Dan Smith, National Weather Service forecaster protect it from the rising Raccoon River. Last month's flooding knocked the plant out of operation and left 250,000 residents without safe drinking water for several days. The Raccoon River was predicted to crest during the night at 22 feet, 9 feet above flood stage, but plant manager L.D. McMullen said he was confident the dike would hold.

The torrential rains Sunday fell on saturated ground and quickly swamped storm sewers and flooded streets and roads. "It was just a little more water than a city can prepare for," said Des Moines Mayor John Dorrian. About 400 houses in western Des Moines andOO in West Des Moines were evacuated, said West Des Moines Mayor Dino Rodish. The American Red Cross opened three shelters. Hundreds of volunteers spent the day filling sandbags.

Weather Service officials said latest deluge gave the city its wettest summer in recorded history. As of early Sunday, summer rainfall in Des Moines totaled 29.06 inches, breaking an 1881 record of 26.54 inches for June through August moisture. DES MOINES, Iowa Volunteers were back to filling sandbags and keeping a nervous watch on swollen rivers and creeks after yet another round of heavy rain added to record-setting summer flooding. "I'm sick and tired of this," said West Des Moines Fire Chief Randy Bracken. As much as 10 inches of rain forced hundreds to evacuate Sunday as crews rushed to protect Des Moines' water treatment plant for the second time this summer.

Flash flooding was reported along streams throughout the central part of the state, sending water back into homes and businesses still being cleaned from a deluge last month. "It just never stops," said Steve who stopped cleaning and started sandbagging at his Rocket Diner. "Unless the dike breaks, we'll probably be all right But I'm not taking any chances." Rain was in the forecast overnight, and another heavy deluge could spark more flooding, forecasters said. "We're not quite out of the woods yet," said National Weather Service forecaster Dan Smith. Officials sealed a levee around the Des Moines waterworks Sunday to Elderly man grew pot to pay back taxes NORTHBORO, Mass.

A 70-year-old man charged with growing marijuana in a greenhouse said he 'hoped to make enough money to -pay about $40,000 he owes in back taxes on his property. Police found 50 marijuana plants -and several pounds of the harvest-; ed weed packaged for sale in a raid I at his farmhouse Thursday. Dear Firth Squier pleaded innocent to a I charge of growing marijuana for jsale, and faces up to 17 years in prison if convicted. Police say father stabbed his children ROSEVILLE, Calif. A man recently released from a hospital fatally stabbed his two children, then took the bodies to a fire station and confessed, authorises" said.

James Hill, 35, of RanchoCordo--vawas being held on suspicion of killing Cari Hill, 8, and Eric Hill, 6. The boy was dead when firefighters found the body Saturday night in the back of Hill's pickup fruck. Cari died upon arrival at a hospital 'He told firefighters at the Rose-vflfe Fire Department that he stabbed the children, Placer County-Sheriff Donald J. Nunes said in a statement Fire engulfs observation tower U.S. soldiers raid United Nations post The Associated Press The Associated Press ize the objective of the mission, which involved more than a dozen helicopters, U.S.

Rangers and soldiers from the Army's Quick Reaction Force. Vegas World casino and hotel but were allowed to return a few hours later. Guest Gilbert Scheeringa of Tucson, said he heard two big explosions and looked out "to see flames falling past my window." The cause of the fire wasn't known, but Fire Chief Clell West said there was no indication of arson. The fire was fed by plywood construction materials and equipment inside the concrete tower. "We don't know whether the fire started at the top or the bottom," West said.

"It could have started in the middle and gone either way." The tower, which is about half completed, rises about 500 feet above the northern edge of the Las Vegas Strip. The finished version is to stand 1,012 feet high, and promotional material says it will be the tallest freestanding observation tower in the United States. Construction of the $32 million tower began in February 1992, and it was scheduled to open next summer. It is adjacent to Bob Stupak's hotel and casino, and is being built by Stupak's Stratosphere Corp. Gary Zahlen, Stratosphere's president and chief executive officer, said he didn't know if the fire would delay the tower's opening.

LAS VEGAS Flames engulfed an under-construction observation tower Sunday, forcing hundreds of gamblers to flee the adjacent 22-story Vegas World Hotel Casino. No one was injured. The fire broke out on the Stratosphere Tower about midnight and raged for three hours until burning itself out, fire officials said. Flames leaping into the early morning sky could be seen for miles, and Las Vegas Boulevard became gridlocked before officials closed it to traffic. Hundreds of guests evacuated the Asked if he would categorically say that the objective was not the capture of fugitive warlord Mo-hamed Farrah Aidid, Stockwell re plied: "No, what I'm saying is that I will not go into detail on the purpose of our operation." i 1 a.

.1 JJUL 11C UCU4ICU 11 LCXLUUUri. I examnle of how these nneratinns World Weak nicotine patches show promise MOGADISHU, Somalia It sure looked good. Elite American troops under the cover of darkness dropped from helicopters on ropes. They tied up people inside and forced diem to lie on the floor. It was quick, precise, the stuff of a recruiting commercial.

There was just one problem. They raided the wrong target In fact, they raided a building housing U.N. personnel. Three foreign U.N. workers and five Somali employees were briefly detained today in what the chief U.N.

military spokesman, Maj. David Stockwell, nevertheless described as "a successful operation." "They were searching a place they had every reason to believe was hostile and they acted appropriately until they determined otherwise," Stockwell said. The building's entrance is marked by a sign identifying it as a project office of the Development Program, one of many U.N. agencies operating in Somalia. Stockwell said the building was in an "unauthorized area." Stockwell declined to character- Gannett News Service Low-dosage nicotine patches combined with a spe should go" using "lightning speed and overpowering force." An Egyptian woman, who would identify herself only as the administrative officer of the raided U.N.

compound, said she and other foreign employees were tied up and forced to lie on the floor. No one was hurt in the action, and the woman said. The raid came after an earlier mortar attack by Somali militiamen on Mogadishu's old international airport, now a bustling military encampment Stockwell said three Rangers were slightly injured by flying gravel from the explosions, treated at a field hospital and released. Efrrst dam kills 242 in China "BEIJING Water poured like a waterfall over a breach in a dam in remote northwestern China, unleashing floods that killed at least 24.2 people and injured more than 330, officials said today. The dam of Gouhou reservoir tmrst after a day of rain late Friday County, 870 miles southwest of Beijing, said Wang Yi, an official at the Qinghai Provincial Foreign Affairs Office.

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