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NATION NWS Wednesday, October 18, 2000 3A MISSOURI GOVERNOR'S DEATH Tragedy stings Democrats Digest Sun-Sentinel wire services "WASHINGTON Scldiars of fashion to den black berets In a symbolic fashion statement, the chief of the Army i said Tuesday that the beret for decades the distinctive headgear of elite Army units will become standard issue for all soldiers. Soldiers who now wear the fold-up "overseas" cap, the saucer-like "service" cap or the baseball-style "battle dress uniform" cap will instead wear a black beret. Helmets will still be worn in combat. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki said in a surprise announcement that the change will take effect on June 14, the Army's birthday.

we wear the black beret it will say that we, the soldiers of the world's best army, are committed to making ourselves even better," Shinseki told the annual convention of She Association of the U.S. lArmy, a booster organization. He said the beret would be a "symbol of unity." NORTHEAST Indictment issued pin doctor's slaying "BUFFALO, N.Y.-Afederal grand jury on Tuesday indicted fugitive anti-abortion activist James Kopp in the 1998 sniper killing of an abortion provider, PAYING RESPECTS: Tamara Stone of Columbia, Mo, and twin daughters Ann and flowers to pay their respects Tuesday at the Governor's Mansion in Jefferson City, Mo. Gov. Mel Camahan, the Democratic candidate in one of the most hotly contested US.

Senate races in the country, was killed when the plane shuttling him to a campaign rally crashed in rainy, foggy weather. The Cessna 335, also carrying Carnahan's son, Roger, and campaign adviser Chris Sifford, 37, went down Monday night 25 miles south of St. Louis. AP photoEd Rtinkt I miin.i UMUJIk 1 1 -firtir U.S. Senate race put in confusion ByEUINEiPOVICH NEWSDAY ST.

LOUIS The death of Missouri Gov. Mel Camahan in a plane crash threw the state's Senate race into disarray and cut the already longshot chances of Democrats to take control of the chamber after Nov. 7's elections, experts said Tuesday. Carnahan's twin-engine Camahan plane went down Monday night in rain and fog south of St. Louis en route to a campaign rally, killing Camahan, 66, his son, Roger Camahan, 44, who was piloting the plane, and an aide, Chris Sifford, 37.

No one else was on board. Camahan, a Democrat, was running a neck-and-neck Senate race against Republican incumbent Sen. JohnAshcroft. Democrats were hoping Wilson that a Camahan win would put them on the road to recapturing the Senate that the GOP now controls, 54-46. This makes it tougher for Democrats," said Jennifer Duffy, Senate analyst for the Cook Political Report, which tracks congressional races.

"Now they have to hold onto all of their seats and then pretty much they have to run the table on all the Republican seats." That would mean Democrats would have to win close Senate races in Florida, Delaware, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Montana and Washington, she said, as well as hold onto the New York seat occupied by Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the Virginia seat occupied by Chuck Robb, a Democrat, who trails in polls. Pollster John Zogby, who has POWER PLAY: Astronaut Bill McArthur installs a power-regulating device during a third straight day of exterior work on the international space station on Tuesday. The device on the truss of the space station will regulate power for solar panels that will be installed in November. AP photoNASA TV I TV ads, many of which had been highly critical of Camahan, in what had been one of the most negative and nasty Senate campaigns in recent memory. "Gov.

Camahan and I shared a common concern for Missouri's families," Ashcroft said in a statement posted on his Web site's homepage. "This is a time for unity and common purpose in our state. During this time of mourning, I have directed that all campaign activities cease." implications for the presidential race as well, analysts said, because it could depress voter turnout in the pivotal state of Missouri, which both candidates need to win. Conversely the death could bring out a sympathy vote, they said. Both Republican presidential candidate George W.

Bush and Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore were in St. Louis for the third and final presidential debate, which went ahead as scheduled after Jean Carnahan, the governor's widow, said her husband would have wanted it that way. The death prompted Ashcroft to suspend his campaigning, cancel his appearances and pull all of his conducted Senate polls in Missouri, said he thought Camahan "had a chance of winning. I had him ahead by a point." He said while "nothing is impossible" in terms of the Democrats' chances in the Senate, "it was very, very, very difficult, and it's more so now." Unexpected deaths had scrambled other Senate races in the last year. In July, Republican Sen.

Paul Coverdell of Georgia died after a stroke and Democrat Zell Miller was appointed in his place, improving the chances of Democrats to take control. And last October, retiring Sen. John Chafee, died of heart failure, permitting his. son, the Republican candidate, to be tapped as his successor and to run as an incumbent. Under Missouri law, Carnahan's name will remain on the ballot because the deadline for changing the ballot passed on Friday, state officials said.

If Camahan were to win the election posthumously, Gov. Roger Wilson, a Democrat and the former lieutenant governor who arly Tuesday stepped into the governor's job, would appoint a cessor to serve until 2002, when a new election would be held. Secretary of State Bekki Cook said there is nothing the state can do about changing the ballots because the deadline has passed. Carnahan's death could have STATION Information fromThe Associated Press was used to supplement thisreport INTERNATIONAL SPACE Michael forms as hurricane; no U.S. threat The two-count indictment charges Kopp, 46, one of the "FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives, with using deadly force to prevent Dr.

Barnett Slepian, 52, from providing reproductive health service and 5 using a firearm to commit a crime of violence. The indictment, returned as the grand jury's term was about to expire, supersedes a federal complaint filed in May 1999. Hate symbols guide available online rVFW YORK The Anti- I Defamation League has devised an online guide to hate symbols, logos and tattoos to help parents and teachers identify warning signs in their communities. The guide was to be launched tociay on the ALU's Web site. Unlike a companion print i edition, the ADL's Web site will be continually updated with new syttibols and groups.

I As much as those groups use "the Internet to recruit people, we Jieed to use the Internet to counter them," said Marilyn Mayo, author of the ADL's Hate on Display guide. The ADL site, www.adl.org, will feature common symbols such as swastikas, as well as less-known 'ones, such as the inverted cross, used to signal the denial of Christianity. SOUTH ITV anchor faces child-porn charge TV anchor has been arrested an2 accused of buying photos of 'nude children. Gerry Grant, 41, the weekend anchor at ABC affiliate Kb AT, was released from jail Tuesday bail. He was arrest-ed Monday night at a motel and charged with possession of child I pornography.

said they jj watched Grant buy four sexually explicit photos of I thlldren between ages 6 and 12. WEST Dad pleads cuilty I in his son's death iALTLAKECITY-A I father who pumped Freon gas I into his son's bath to entertain I the boy with the bubbles I oleadedeuiltv to child-abuse homicide in the boy's death, With Monday's plea, Michael Jeffrey Bunting, 3 1, avoided a trial on murder charges. ft milling IUU1U gci ULf iu vsirc in nrienn at cuntpnrintf 1 Dec. 8. I i The boy, 4, was asphyxiated I last year after his father, an air conditioning installer, used a pressurized Freon canister and ta hose to make bubbles in the jj youngster's bath.

"It was a terrible accident," defense attorney Ed Moitgomerysaid. it By KEN KAYE STAFF WRITER The mean season may be winding down, but it isn't over. Hurricane Michael sprang up in the Atlantic on Tuesday, becoming the 13th named system of the season. It poses a slight threat to Bermuda, but more likely is only a maritime nuisance. On Tuesday night, Michael, the eighth hurricane of the '1 L.

in Humane Michael jlp.in. Tuesday: 30.SN, 70.8 Winds: 75 mph Moving: NNE I mph Setting up for solar energy season, was about 380 miles southwest of Bermuda with maximum winds near 75 mph. It was meandering north at 3 mph toward Nova Scotia, where it could hit with squally weather as a deflated storm. Both the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration and noted hurricane expert William Gray had forecast at least 11 named storms and 40 I STATES a AttontkOctan I i 2" Fort Huderdal -tteUt. Ml at kkayesun-sentinel com three-foot tool box to the truss and filled it with three dozen hand tools.

The implements will be used by Endeavour's crew to install the solar power module. Astronauts Jeff Wisoff and Mike Lo-pez-Alegria will conduct the mission's final spacewalk today. Much of the excursion will be dedicated to a flight test of the back mounted jet pack worn by all spacewalking astronauts assigned to station assembly work. The jet packs were designed as a rescue device for a spacewalker whose two safety tethers are inadvertently severed. During today's test flight, Wisoff and Lopez-Alegria will remain leashed to Discovery's robot arm as they scale the station, dive off and attempt to slowly fly about 50 feet toward the shuttle's airlock.

This test flight is kind of like flying a new airplane," said Wisoff. "You don't want to ever use your parachute, but you want to know it works if you have to. That is really what the jet-pack is. It's a parachute in space." caped his grasp. It ricocheted off the station and Discovery's 50-foot-long robot arm before floating off to join thousands of small pieces of junk circling the Earth.

On Sunday, McArthur and Chiao teamed to hook up electrical power and communications cables to the largest of the the two new station components deliveredby Discovery. Theboxy, aluminum girders that NASA calls the Z-l truss will serve as the foundation for the American power generator that is being prepared for a Nov. 30 launching aboard the shuttle Endeavour. Once the new power module is latched to the top of the truss, astronauts will unfurl its 220-foot long solar arrays. Tuesday, the two spacewalkers clamped two, 130-pound electrical power converters on the new truss.

The converters will lower the 1 60 volts of power generated from the sunlight gathered by the arrays to 124 volts for use aboard the station. jChiao and McArthur also fastened a Astronauts getting the girders ready By MARK CARREAU Houston Chronicle Spacewalking astronauts from the shuttle Discovery floated outside the international space station on Tuesday, preparing the orbital outpost for the upcoming addition of a large American solar-power module. The seven-hour spacewalk was the third of four planned during Discovery's waning space-station assembly mission. It was the second for astronauts Bill McArthur and Leroy Chiao. "It's just amazing to look at your feet and see clouds going by," said McArthur as the two men floated from Discovery's airlock for Tuesday's 240-mile-high encore.

His exuberance was momentarily dashed when a coffee cup-sized, aluminum shuttle airlock valve cover es seven hurricanes this year. An average season has about 10 named storms, of which six are hurricanes. While 13 storms may be above normal, many of those were marginal in strength, said hurricane specialist Rich-ardPasch. What is unusual about Michael: It is of "non-tropical origin," meaning it didn't grow out of a low-pressure wave over warm waters, he said. "This was essentially a cold front, along which a tropical depression developed," Pasch said.

While the United States likely won't be threatened by a powerful hurricane bom near Africa this late in the season, storms still may form in the Caribbean or the Gulf of Mexico. "It's October," Pasch said. "It's still hurricane season." Ken Kave canbe reached 954-385-7911..