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Best foot forward Area kickers have uplifting season, 1B Shreveport 90210 Local look-alikes for characters in popular show, Teen Times Secret's out Intimate apparel store opens KXi in Mall St. Vincent, 15A fy insiQE WEATHER a devastating wind' IS I I I I 3. A -4" 'i rain to check on their children at local day-care centers. Three or four people spent seemingly endless moments huddled in a drainage culvert to escape the storm. "It was such a devastating wind that it sucked windows out of every car here like popcorn," said Leamon Best, administrator of the Baptist Retirement Center.

None of the nursing home's 118 patients was injured. Twenty patients had to be moved to other rooms after the storm blew out dozens of windows. Maria Leichner and her family have spent the past two nights at Nob Hill Motel in Arcadia. Her home on Sycamore Street See ARCADIA, Page 2A k- Times photoMIKE SUVA The damaged First Baptist Church is framed through Its steeple, which was torn from the building and thrown across the street by the tornado. The steeple struck Bill Sims' truck and a car driven by a Minden woman before coming to rest.

has TCQiyoi) i 1 1 1 'it was such Cleanup tell horror stories day after twister dropped in. By CURTIS HEYEN The Times ARCADIA Narvie Mae Jacks has lived almost 40 years in the wood-frame home on Elm Street that her husband renovated before he died two years ago. And there the 73-year-old wid ow stayed Tuesday night, even after a tornado toppled a large oak tree into her living room. Her home was among 42 damaged by a twister that hit at 3:22 p.m. Tuesday.

Battling arthritis, Jacks spent ELECTION 92 President-elect: Arkansas governor calls for smooth, transition. By KAREN BALL The Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Bill Clinton appealed to foreign leaders Wednesday to cooperate with George Bush during the president's final two months in office, then turned his attention to planning the Democrats' takeover of the White House. Clinton said the "hard and vital task" of reviving the U.S. economy would be his top domestic priority.

"The task has already begun," the president-elect declared on the first day after his electoral landslide. The Democrat sought to quiet jittery financial markets with a promise that "we understand the need to pursue stability even as we pursue new growth." Clinton said his changes "will strengthen America's market systems, not weaken them." With Vice President-elect Al Gore at his side, Clinton sought to reassure world leaders there would be a smooth transition of power and no disruption of American foreign policy. Clinton said he would continue Bush's effort to broker Middle East peace and negotiate a START II arms treaty with Russia. "America has only one president at a time," Clinton said, speaking outside the Arkansas governor's mansion. "America's foreign policy remains solely in his hands." As world leaders offered con- toot: 4 1.

.1, 4 i -A i 1 4 4- 1 I Jt AP LaserPhoto Little Rock, Ark. precincts cast upwards of 95 percent of their votes for Clinton whereas some east and southwest precincts were giving Bush only 60 percent of their votes. "The black votes turned out stronger than ever before," said Frank Fulco a longtime Caddo Democratic leader. Rodney Grunes, political science expert at Centenary College, said many voters gave up on President Bush, not their party allegiances. MVP award Success story: 1B change Sunny CHANCE OF RAIN: HIGH TODAY: LOW TODAY: law low 60s 30s Details: 20A 3 CHESS: Despite playing with the advantage of white, Bobby Fischer fails to secure the final victory he needs to crown his return to competitive chess.

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"I had to stay here to catch the leaks and try to protect the carpet," she said. Arcadia Police Chief Willie Abnev could not coax Jacks to leave her home Wednesday morning. Buckets, pans and soaked towels still dotted the living room floor when the cold wind, rain and lack of electricity persuaded Jacks to seek shelter elsewhere Wednesday afternoon. Other Arcadia residents spent Wednesday trading similar horror stories and comforting one another as they began righting the wrongs wrought by Mother Nature. Frightened parents told of leaving their cars in the congested streets and sprinting in the Prospects for House, 6A OTB looks elsewhere, 6A Clinton HQ is quiet, 6A Amendments: Now what? 6A Staffers look to D.C., 7A Economy is first test, 7A GOP gains in states, 8A More Demo governors, 9A Changing House, 11 A gratulatkma, and tried to assess -any shifts Clinton would rrvke in foreign policy, the presidentelect used his first big step on the world stage to urge continuity.

"The greatest gesture of goodwill that any nation can make toward me during this period is to continue full cooperation with our one president, George Bush," Clinton said. The greatest mistake any adversary could make would be to doubt America's resolve during this transition." Later, Clinton met into the evening with his six-member transition team and other aides at the Arkansas governor's mansion to discuss policy and personnel decisions. Initial announcements were likely by the end of the week, aides said. One of Clinton's first decisions will be picking a transition director; campaign manager Mickey Kantor, campaign chief of staff Eli Segal and former Urban League director Vernon Jordan are some of the most widely mentioned names. Aides said picking a White House chief of staff was also high on Clinton's list.

GOP leader in Caddo Parish. "It's still there. I think it is more of a move to get something moving. The pendulum just changed." Conservative Democrats, who make up the majority of registered voters in Caddo, historically have voted for Republican candidates in presidential elections. But on Tuesday, Clinton carried the parish with 46 percent of the vote to George Bush's 42 percent.

Frazier, who said Clinton's from an afternoon high df 82 to 59 degrees by 8 p.m. The severe storms preceded a Wednesday cold front that brought a small amount of quick-melting sleet to the Shreveport-Bossier area. Looking ahead, Friday's and Saturday's highs and lows will remain in the 50s and 30s. Sunday and Monday will see highs in the 60s and 70s. if' V- 14 President-elect Bill Clinton turns a thumb up during a walk in Clinton's win in Caddo isn't a If If a.

if i if sea the midst of defeat. "We may fight each other, but we don't fight when it comes to going against the enemy," he said. A look at voting results in Caddo shows that Bush again carried the bulwarks of Republican support east Shreveport, southwest Shreveport. Canton carried the predominantly black (and predominantly Democratic) precincts in north and west Shreveport. Why Clinton won: The black happy for him," Mary Listach said.

Until the announcement of the award, there were some tense times in Natchitoches and Milwaukee. "I went to work to overcome the apprehension. I didn't sleep at all Tuesday night. I wanted to feel sure Listach political Caddo win was' "a complete surprise," doesn't believe the conservatives have gone liberal or that Republicans have gone Democratic. "Republicans and Democrats want out of, this quagmire, and what they're saying is we've had one president who's failed, get somebody else," he said.

Frazier maintains that the GOP state central committee's conservative core is stronger than ever and that the Republican Party is not unraveling in Observers: Votes were anti-Bush mostly. By ALISA ST1NGLEY The Times Bill Clinton's Caddo coup a Democratic first in 48 years doesn't necessarily signal a shift in philosophy here. "People don't change their philosophy," said Ken Frazier, a WEATHER Listach fields rookie BRRRRRRRRRRR! First freeze of '92 may hit tonight By SCOTT FERRELL The Times Nora and Mary Listach worried and wondered. Then, late Wednesday afternoon, the Natchitoches couple's worries were put to rest. Their son, Milwaukee Brewers shortstop Pat Listach, was named the American League Rookie of the Year.

Listach, who played his high school baseball at Natchitoches Central, was an easy winner with 20 of the possible 28 first-place votes. "We're very proud of him and want to hex it or anything like that," Mary Listach said. "I talked to my daughter-in-law (Lisa) Tuesday and she said Pat was like a cat on a hot tin roof. He went to work out in the weight room and run at County Stadium to get it out of his system. I knew he was a little edgy." The balloting showed there was little reason for the apprehension.

Listach won in a landslide. Bring your plants and animals inside because tonight may bring the first freeze of 1992, ushering in a cold but mostly dry weekend. Greg Story, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Shreveport, said tonight's low may reach 32 after an afternoon high of about 58. The cold weather arrived with a vengeance Tuesday, when temperatures dropped Business 15A Ann Landers 7C Classified 4B Sheinwold 7C Comics 6C Sports IB Deaths 14A Television 8C Editorials 18A Tell The Times 7C Entertainment 5C Weather 20A he would win it, but I didn't ARK-LA-TEX.