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Do you like to know secrets? Museum in Maryland is for you, A-12 Nation world Breakfast briefing The Orlando Sentinel, Wednesday, April 27, 1994 A-3 Serbs pull back, avert NATO airstrikes ai-BM i The belated response to NATO's demand for withdrawal from Gorazde will prevent the use of U.N. force. ASSOCIATED PRESS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1994 The 117th day of 1994 there are 248 days left in the year 2,074 days until the year 2000 and hats off to the health-care and social-service providers who are volunteering time and donating money to open Florida's first shelter for homeless tuberculosis patients in Orlando this summer. ON THIS DATE IN: 1521 Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magel-' Ian was killed by natives in the Philippines. 1805 A force led by U.S.

Marines captured the city of Derna on the shores of Tripoli. 1865 The steamer Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, killing more than 1 ,400 Union prisoners of war. 1897 A special commission recommended that Florida acquire 5,000 acres of the Everglades to establish a reservation for Seminoles. That action was never taken, though a state reservation was later established in western Broward and Palm Beach Counties. 1937 The first Social Security checks were distributed.

the U.N.-declared "safe haven," in which Serbs overran much of the enclave. Brutal shelling of the town crowded with refugees killed more than 700 people and wounded 1,900. The Serbs belatedly complied with a NATO deadline early Sunday to pull their troops and weapons back 3 kilometers, or 1.9 miles, from the city center. They were given three more days to move their heavy weapons back farther. Akashi said U.N.

military observers had visited more than 30 sites in the 12.4-mile exclusion zone on Tuesday and had found weapons at just two of them. At those sites, he said, the weapons had been immobilized. Before the deadline, U.N. spokesman Cmdr. Eric Chaperon said all known Serb weapons sites were clear of weapons.

Asked if that meant the Serbs had fully complied, he said it was possible that some have been moved elsewhere in the zone. U.N. and NATO military leaders meeting earlier Tuesday in Brussels, Belgium, had been resolute, saying the latest deadline must be met or airstrikes would be launched. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Bou-tros-Ghali also stood firm.

"If they will not withdraw then we will use airstrikes against them without any hesitation," he said. SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnian Serbs have effectively complied with a NATO deadline to withdraw heavy weapons from around Gorazde, averting the need for airstrikes for now, a top U.N. official said early today. NATO gave the Bosnian Serbs until 2:01 a.m. today (8 p.m.

EDT Tuesday) to withdraw their big guns 12.4 miles from the center of the eastern Muslim enclave or face airstrikes. The Serbs said they were in full compliance Tuesday night. "On the basis of information available right now and subject to further verification, I have come to the conclusion there is no need to ask NATO for airstrikes at this time," Yasushi Aka-shi, the chief U.N. official for former Yugoslavia told reporters in Zagreb, Croatia, shortly before the deadline expired. "There is effective compliance at this time," Akashi said.

The United ASSOCIATED PRESS Gorazde residents line up for water at the Drina River Tuesday. Bosnian Serbs destroyed the town's water purification plant during their attacks. 1947 It was "Babe Ruth Day" at Yankee Stadium as baseball fans, not just in New York, but across the country as well, honored the ailing star. 1965 Broadcast journalist; Edward R. Murrow died in Pawling, N.Y., at 57.

i 1989 More than students and workers calling for democracy and sang through! central Beijing. said that efforts would be made today to learn if the Serbs had fully complied, and both said airstrikes could be used in the future if the Serbs did not continue to comply. The NATO ultimatum was issued Friday after a three-week assault on Nations must consent to any bombing runs. A NATO statement early today also ruled out airstrikes for now, citing "evidence of compliance" with the alliance's ultimatum of Friday. But NATO and the United Nations Murrow MATTERS OF FACT Twisters smash towns in Texas, Oklahoma Secret code wasn't quite so ultimate COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS The crash of a Taiwanese plane carrying 272! people was the second-worst in Japanese aviation history.

The worst single-plane accident in any; country occurred Aug. 12, 1985, when a Japan' Airlines Boeing 747 crashed into a mountain, kill-! ing520. The worst crash involving more than one plane happened on March 27, 1977, at Tenerife in the! Canary Islands when KLM and Pan Am passenger; planes collided, killing 583. Related story, A-1 Three people died and hundreds of homes were destroyed in a fast-growing suburb of Dallas. ASSOCIATED PRESS MORNING PLANNER TODAY Acts from around the world are performing at this year's Orlando International Fringe Festival in downtown Orlando.

Shows begin at 5:30 p.m. and go until midnight. Admission ranges in price from $1 to $7. TONIGHT The Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival's Hamlet is being presented at 8 in the Walt Disney Amphi- theater in downtown Orlando's Lake Eola Park. Tickets are $6 to $25 at Ticketmaster outlets.

TOMORROW Saxophonist Candy Dulfer and her band, Funky Stuff, will perform at 8 p.m. at Dekko's in down- town Orlando. Tickets: $14 advance, $17 day of show. Details: (407) 648-8727. DOW JONES INDUSTRIALS 3,699.54 STOCKS WITH A STAKE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA the hall.

We could feel the wind through the floor." Ronnie Mitschke and his family took refuge in a master bedroom closet. "A house is now 2 feet tall," he said. "The more I think about it the more I figure I should be dead." The tornado occurred as storms stretched from Texas to the northern Plains. Another tornado ripped through Talihina, damaging houses and injuring at least six people. About 25 homes were destroyed in the town of 1,300 residents.

In Nebraska, a tornado hit the outskirts of Central City, ripping roofs off several buildings. Several were spotted in South Dakota By Tuesday morning, the weather on the northern Plains had reverted to winterlike conditions. Up to 8 inches of snow fell in northeastern Wyoming, and a foot fell in the Black Hills of South Dakota, closing some roads and schools. Blizzard conditions clogged roads across North Dakota, and Gov. Ed Schafer closed the state Capitol.

Estimates of property losses in Texas may reach $250 million, mostly in Lancaster but with some damage in surrounding communities, said Jerry Johns, president of the Southwestern Insurance Information Service. The tornado's path of destruction in Lancaster measured six miles long and a half-mile wide, said Robert White of the Texas Department of Public Safety. LANCASTER, Texas A business district dating back almost to the Civil War was left in ruins Tuesday after a tornado smashed through town, killing three people. As many as 525 homes were destroyed. "I think there's a lot of hard days ahead, a lot of them," Police Chief Mac McGuire said.

The twister struck this former cotton farming region Monday evening. The area has become one of Dallas' fastest-developing suburbs. The deadly weather moved north Tuesday to Gainesville 70 miles away. A tornado heavily damaged a triiler park and tore apart and other structures. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

In Lancaster, Rebekka Henderson, 19, was at home with her mother and younger brother when the tornado tore through her neighborhood on the edge of the town square. "We saw what was coming, so we closed ourselves off in an inside hall with the dog," she said. "Sirens went off. We were sitting with the dog, covering our heads. The house fell all around DOW I JONES I down I 52V Down V6 Anheuser 54Vfe Down Vi Barnett 45V6 Down 1V BellSouth 61 Down Disney 43 Up 1Vfe First Union 44 Down Gen.

Mills 52'A Down Harcourt 32V4 Up Harris 43 Up Hughes 28 Up Vh Martin 44 Down NationsBank 52 Down SunTrust 46 Down Tribune 63 Up 2 Winn-Dixie 47 Up NEW YORK The world's ultimate secret code, a 129-digit combination designed by mathematicians to take 40 quadrillion years to break, has been qracked in a mere 17 years. The effort took 600 people on five continents using 1,600 computers working for eight months to do it, scientists said Tuesday. The work was done by scientists and volunteers linked together by the Internet computer network. The problem was to factor a 129-digit number, breaking it into its component parts the way a molecule is broken into atoms. "It was like finding 8Vi million needles in a haystack," said Arjen Lenstra of Bellcore, the Bell Communications Research division, who coordinated the breaking of the encryption called RSA 129.

The cracking of the problem has implications for business and government security systems around the world that use long numerical codes to protect secrets held in electronic databases. "This discovery is important if you want to protect the code guarding something like the secret formula for Coca-Cola or nuclear weapons," said Ronald Ri-vest, one of the scientists who devised the code. Rivest said the solution to the problem did not mean that security systems will be easily overridden. Computer programmers in the future can use longer numbers in their security coding, particularly with improvements in chip technology, he said. Even so, Lenstra said breaking the code involved "the largest mathematical computation ever performed" and that RSA 129 represented "the longest and hardest number ever factored." Once the two numbers, which when factored (or multiplied together) produced RSA 129 were discovered, the scientists were then able to find a secret message encrypted inside the number: "The magic words are squeamish ossifrage." An ossifrage is a bird of prey that crushes the bones of its victims.

Rivest said the words were meant to be meaningless and were chosen at random. For updated quotes call (407) 872-7200, ext. 2002. Turn to today's Business section for full details. LUCKY NUMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS A row of homes and vehicles lies destroyed by a tornado in Lancaster, Texas.

Three people died and 525 homes were lost in the twister Monday night. Couple turn grief into push for tough boat law Lotto April 23 2-3-6-8-15 43 3 with 6 numbers $2,667,000 245 with 5 numbers $1,235 15,632 with 4 numbers $46.50 262,932 with 3 numbers $3.50 New Fantasy 5 April 26 1 -1 1 20 21 22 New Fantasy 5 April 25 3 -1 1 -14 -15 22 26 with 5 numbers $19,594.57 2,316 with 4 numbers $36 49,032 with 3 numbers $5 ASSOCIATED PRESS New Fantasy 5 April 22 14-16-21 -22-26 28 with 5 numbers 2.364 with 4 numbers $30.50 aCV 46,525 with 3 numbers $4.50 I if New Fantasy 5 April 21 2-3-9-10-12 30 with 5 numbers $14,128.48 2,364 with 4 numbers $30.50 50,998 with 3 numbers $4.50 en boaters off the water. Their bill passed on the last night of the legislative session, with the Senate voting 30-2 and the House 94-5. As soon as the governor signs the bill, it will: Apply Alabama's drunken-driving laws to boats. First offenders are fined a minimum of $250 and lose their license for 90 days.

Require children younger than 8 to wear life jackets on boats unless they are in a cabin. The current requirement is only that there must be sufficient life jackets on board for all passengers. Require the operator of a motorized boat or motorized skis to be at least 12 years old and have a valid license. joy. Gov.

Jim Folsom said he will sign the bill into law. The Robersons' boat was rammed Aug. 29 while stopped on the Warrior River. Their daughters, Ashleigh, 9, and Katey, 5, were killed and the driver of the other boat is awaiting trial on a manslaughter charge. After the accident, the couple from Midfield, a community near Birmingham, turned their daughters' bedroom into the office for the Alabama Better Boaters Association.

They joined the family of 4-year-old Lauren Archer of Birmingham, also killed in a boating accident last summer, in pushing the Legislature to test boaters and to get drunk MONTGOMERY, Ala. A couple whose children were killed in a boating accident turned tragedy into a grassroots campaign that will produce the nation's first law requiring adults to pass a test to operate a motorboat. Robby and April Roberson said the Legislature's passage of the boating safety bill Monday night means something positive came out of their daughters' deaths. "There is no way we will ever know how many lives will be saved because of this bill, but we know lives will be saved," Roberson said as he cried for New Fantasy 5 April 20 1 -3-6-13-22 19 with 5 numbers $24,508.51 2,286 with 4 numbers $34 46,525 with 3 numbers $5 Cash 3 Yesterday 0-5-8 Play 4 Yesterday 2-7-9-0 Cash 3 Past picks WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON 908 993 683 453 109 208 Play 4 Past picks WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON 8826 1370 2626 8254 4739 5052 Florida results (407) 872-7200, Ext 4000 NEXT SPACE COAST LAUNCHES KiiMBwaiaanft The Orlando Sentinel A TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1 1 8th Year No. 1 1 7 74 Pages The Orlando Sentinel (ISSN 0744-6055 incorporating the Sentinel Star, Orlando Evening Star, Orlando Reporter Star, Orlando Morning Sentinel and the Daily Sentinel) is published daily and Sunday by Sentinel Communications 633 N.

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