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News-Leader Friday, February 17, 1995 5A NATION Tornado kills girl, 2 men in Alabama N.Y. leaders make pact to revive death penalty proved within two weeks. Norman Siegel, head of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said his organization would challenge the law in court. "Today is a very bleak day historically for the state of New York," he said. Thirty-seven states have the death penalty.

The proposed legislation would let juries impose a death penalty, life in prison without parole or the current murder sentence of 25 years to life. The latter would be imposed if a jury deadlocks on the sentencing. Prosecutors could seek death sentences in cases of contract killings, serial murders, terrorist killings, murders aggravated by torture, the killing of a criminal witness, a police officer or prison guard, and murders committed during another felony, such as armed robbery. The Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. The governor and legislative leaders reached agreement on a plan to bring the death penalty back to New York, substituting death by injection for the electric chair last used in 1963.

Gov. George Pataki and lawmakers announced the pact Wednesday to restore capital punishment, a major campaign promise of the new GOP governor. "There is no question in my mind that it will be a deterrent," Pataki said. "It will save lives." New York's Legislature has adopted a death penalty bill for 18 straight years, only to see it vetoed by Democratic Govs. Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo.

State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said they expected the measure to be ap "There was A resident of Arab said no warning had come. The Associated Press ARAB, Ala. A tornado ripped across northern Alabama before dawn Thursday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 100. Teams looking for more victims in the rubble found a baby unharmed beneath two wrecked mobile homes. The dead included a 4-year-old girl, the coroner said.

About an hour before the tornado hit, lightning struck the office of the National Weather Service in Hunts-ville. The service's Birmingham office was able to issue a warning at 5 a.m., minutes before the twister raced through Arab, but police didn't have time to warn everyone. they give us a siren warning, but they didn't this morning," Arab resident Karen Berry said. "There was nothing." There was just the howl of the wind in the dark sending debris smashing through windows, tearing off roofs, pulling trees from the soil and demolishing homes and lives. In the aftermath, rescue crews searched for people possibly trapped in the wreckage, rain pounded flattened barns, pink insulation dripped from trees and yet more wind shook cars creeping over littered roads.

No more victims were found just one small miracle. "We found a 1-year-old baby under two trailers," fireman Robert Reynolds said. "He was sitting there, not making a sound." The last deadly funnel cloud that struck Alabama hit on Palm Sunday a year ago, killing 22 people, The Associated Press Arab, All, resident Diane Blackburn walks across the roof of her wood-frame home, which was tossed into a pile with three mobile homes on Thursday by a pre-dawn tornado that ripped across north Alabama. ANY MAKE ANY CONDITION FOX coiT if PAYING UP TO $1 0,000.00 CASH OLD NEW MILITARY ANTIQUE GERMAN WAR RELIC JAPANESE SWORDS DO NOT CLEAN Long Swords up to S2.500.00 Cash ea. Joppa, where about a dozen injuries were reported, and then moved on to Arab, some three miles east.

The tornado lifted Ricky and Dianne Fortenberry's wooden A-frame house from its cement foundation, carried it about 40 feet and dropped it on a trailer while the couple clung to their bed. Like the baby, the Fortenberrys escaped serious harm. "They had to dig us out," she said, standing atop the splintered rubble that had been her home and pointing to the mattress where she and her husband had been sleeping when the storm woke them. As she spoke, a little neighbor girl sat in a car nearby and cried. freezing rain that was causing problems.

Three people died in traffic accidents blamed on ice and police reported more than 200 crashes. Arab (pronounced AY-rab) is 30 miles south of Huntsville and has a population of about 6,300. The town's three dead were a girl and two men, all killed in separate locations, Marshall County Coroner Dempsey Hibbs said. Hospital officials said 66 people were treated Thursday morning, with 13 admitted and four transferred to Huntsville for additional care, and that they knew of 40 other people treated at two other hospitals. The tornado apparently hit a subdivision in the rural community of most in a church about 60 miles from Arab.

When the Huntsville weather service office went down, Birmingham took over watching the radar and the weather service said there was no delay in picking up the tornado and issuing a warning. To the west in Mississippi, thunderstorms plaguing the waterlogged north rumbled south and much of the state remained under a flash-flood watch. "We've had areas that received 5-plus inches of rainfall and any additional water will only make it worse," said Russell Pfost at the weather service office in Jackson, Miss. Northwest in Oklahoma, it was DAGGERS HELMETS MEDALS UNIFORMS FLAGS Short Military Swords up to SWORDS AND DAGGEPS IP TO $400 00 BUYING VETNAM WAR RELICS $400.00 Cash ea BRINQ TO UNIVERSITY PLAZA TRADE CENTER BUYING 2 DAYS SAT. 9am TO 5pm SUN.

9am TO 3pm FEB. 18-19 SPRINGFIELD GUN KNIFE SHOW SALE 625 E. St. Louis Springfield, MO Kemth Women smokers say they can't quit habit Statistics: Percentage of female smokers who reported signs of nicotine addiction, by age group, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control: Felt dependent: 12-24 years old: 74.8 25: 74.6 Unable to cut back or quit 12-24: 81.5 0 25: 77.8 Felt sick when tried to cut back or quit: 12-24: 35.4 25 34.8 The Associated Press ATLANTA About three-quarters of women who smoke say they want to quit but can't, federal health officials said Thursday. In a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study involving more than 7,000 female smokers, about 73 percent said they wanted to quit and 75 percent reported at least one sign of addiction.

Of those who said they had tried to stop smoking in the past year, 80 percent said they failed. Only 2.5 percent of all smokers successfully quit each year, and the rates are about the same for women and men. About 22 million of the nation's 48 million adult smokers are women. "Quitting smoking may be the most important thing women can do to improve their health," said Dr. Wanda Jones, acting director of the CDC's Office of Women's Health.

Unpublished figures from the CDC show that about three-quarters of male smokers also say they want to quit but can't, according to Michael Eriksen, director of the CDC's office of smoking and health. To determine addiction, the CDC asked women whether they needed or were dependent on cigarettes; needed to smoke more to )JD Ml tmms if I L. Ji 'j ----M SSfes1 i'l iff Wit 7 ji iii iimtiimiirJ get the same effect; felt unable to cut back even though they've tried, and got sick when they did so. A third of the women smokers said they felt sick and suffered withdrawal symptoms when they tried to cut back or quit The CDC said the study may have underestimated the number of women addicted because there are many other measures of dependency the survey didn't examine. The study was based on 1991 and 1992 surveys of 7,137 female smokers, age 12 and older.

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