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Class A STATE BOYS TOURNAMENT Custer 76, Red Cloud 56 Lennox 53, White River 48 FULL COVERAGE. ID CONTENDERS Eight candidates want school board slot 1 OTHER WORDS People can worship in native tongues 5 A The Saturday March 13, 1993 "fc 1 993 Argus Leader 35 Sioux Falls, South Dakota' A Gannett Newspaper MBTOllOIn) ase closing no IFW If list includes 31 key sites Accident site I4 mile easFpf Lake Andes Lake Andes pair believed to have died elsewhere 1 1 or3 By CARSON WALKER Argus Leader Staff LAKE ANDES A Lake Andes couple most likely did not die in the ditch where their bodies were found this week, but early autopsy results show the two died of exposure, a prosecutor said Friday. Officials found the body of Arnold Archambeau, 20, on Thursday about 15 feet from where the body of Ruby Ann Bruguier, 19, was found Wednesday floating in several feet of water in a ditch about one-quarter mile east of Lake AJ The two disappeared Dec. 12, f23CV -i jm. 1992, after the car in which they were riding left the road and rolled onto its roof.

The bodies were found about 75 feet from the accident site. "We're certain those bodies were not there at the time of the accident." said Tim Whalen, Charles Mix County State's At- Lj1 Argus Leader photo by Bill Haines. Graphic by LINDA SMITH Approximate locations. Ellsworth staff to grow by 240 By TERRY WOSTER Argus Leader Staff Ellsworth Air Force Base will gain bombers and personnel in a military shuffle that will close four other air bases, a spokesman for Rep. Tim Johnson said Friday.

"Preliminary information suggests the changes will be good news, a plus for Ellsworth," said John Devereaux, Johnson's press secretary. "The consolidation will mean a net increase of 240 military personnel at the base." Air Force bases will close in Florida, Michigan and Ohio, and an Air Force Reserve station will close in Illinois, Devereaux said. Ellsworth will lose some of its KC-137 tanker airplanes to a Louisiana base but will add B-l bombers from the Air Force base in Grand Forks, N.D. Johnson's office hasn't been told how many aircraft will be involved in the shuffle. A spokesman in the public affairs office at Ellsworth said the base is just beginning to receive word of the changes.

"We don't have anything we can comment on yet, and it's going to be pretty dynamic for a couple of days, I expect," Sgt. Jack Siebold said. Air Force plans show that 263 military personnel and 11 civilians at Ellsworth will be transferred to other bases, while 503 military and 10 civilian personnel will be moved in, Devereaux said. "All of the congressional delegation has consistently told the Defense Department that Ellsworth has a vital mission and that it has the capacity to increase that mission," he said. "This seems to indicate an increase is coming." WASHINGTON (AP) Defense Secretary Les Aspin proposed closing 31 major military bases and cutting operations at 134 others Friday.

Aspin acknowledged the pain to local economies but said the cuts were inescapable in paring the post-Cold War military. California, a big loser in two previous rounds of closings, was hardest hit in the new list. South Carolina and Florida also sustained severe blows, primarily in the loss of Navy installations. The Navy would be hurt the worst. Major sites on the list included Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California, the Charleston Naval Shipyard in South Carolina and the Naval Training Center in Orlando, Fla.

Also included were hurricane-ravaged Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base in Michigan, Fort McClellan in Alabama and the Navy's home port in Staten Island, N.Y. Several Republican senators suggested politics played a part in the recommendations and promised a fight. Aspin said his closure and cutback proposals will cut 57,000 civilian and 24,000 military jobs over the six-year implementation period. He estimated that the changes, coupled with previous base closures in 1988 and 1991, will translate to annual savings of $5.6 billion.

President Clinton has proposed cutting the Pentagon budget to $250 billion annually, down from the Reagan-era highs of $300 billion in the late 1980s. Aspin said in a statement the closures were necessary to keep pace with such budget cuts and troop reductions after the end of the Cold War. Still, he acknowledged the closings "will hurt local economies." He said, "The administration recognizes its responsibilities for parallel efforts to stimulate economic growth in the affected communities." Clinton announced on Thursday a five-year, $20 billion program to ease the pain of military cutbacks. The independent Base Closure and Realignment Commission has until June 30 to accept or modify Aspin's recommendations before forwarding them to Clinton. Commission chairman Jim Courter pledged a "thoroughly independent and completely open" review of the proposed closures.

ITie president must approve or reject the commission's recom- torney. Despite the bizarre circumstances, more details are needed before the case is considered foul play, Whalen said. Although he can't say how the bodies got there, Whalen said it's unlikely the couple died where they were found. "I don't believe that they did for two reasons: One, they weren't there. Two, all of a sudden the bodies show up March 10 and 11.

Their manner and time of death is still under investigation." After the accident and several times since, authorities, volunteers and family members searched the area. Whalen said Minnehaha County Coroner Brad Randall conducted autopsies, and until he receives the final autopsy results, details of the case won't be released. Officials have interviewed people about the case since Bruguier's body was found, but they don't have any suspects, he said. Archambeau lived with an aunt, Karen Turtle of Lake Andes, since his mother died seven years ago. "I'm relieved we got his body back.

We didn't know if we would see him again," she said. "I have questions, but there are no answers. is peace of mind for all the family. There has been rumors for three months, but there hasn't been any facts." Bruguier and Archambeau were not married but had a 19-month-old daughter named Erika Marie. The three of them were staying with Turtle when the couple disappeared.

Lake Andes is 123 miles southwest of Sioux Falls. The town of 846 is a mix of white and Indian residents, primarily from the Yankton Sioux tribe. Ken Honomichl, Archambeau's Mystery See 2A Ruby Ann Bruguier Body found Wednesday Arnold Archambeau Body found Thursday mendations without any changes before sending them to Congress. Among the states with significant gains are Illinois, which would add 7,127 military jobs and 1,919 civilian; Georgia, 4,858 military jobs and 67 civilian; Missouri, 5,670 military and 150 civilian; and Washington, 5,120 military jobs and 473 civilian. All four states went for Clinton in the general election last year.

In another announcement Friday, Aspin said he had halted the effort to choose regional accounting centers for the Jf Argus Leader photo by BILL HAINES Karen Turtle Archambeau's aunt Tracy Dion Third passenger in the car Above is the car that Arnold Archambeau, Ruby Ann Bruguier and Tracy Dion were in Dec. 12 near Lake Andes when it left the road and rolled onto its roof. Archambeau and Bruguier had been missing since then. Their bodies were found this week. Partly cloudy High Low Yeltsin, Russian Congress struggle to retain powers Q.O 20 munist councils of the former Soviet Union.

Such threats were designed to heighten tension in the Congress and they appeared to work. Chilled by warnings of a political collapse, the depu I -rtP A Today: Partly cloudy. Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph. Tonight, fair skies. Sunday: Partly cloudy.

High upper 20s. Monday: Chance for snow showers. Low 5 to 10. High in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Tuesday: Dry.

Low 15 to 20. High 25 to 30. Wednesday: Dry. Low 5 to 10. High in the lower to mid 20s.

Full report. 2A Boris Yeltsin City in India hit with 1 3 bombs BOMBAY, India (AP) A synchronized series of car bombs rocked India's commercial nerve center on Friday, spreading panic in a city that had been recovering from Hindu-Muslim riots. Up to 200 people were killed and 1,100 wounded. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the 13 bombs, which detonated over a 75-minute span from the southern financial district to the northern suburbs. There was no evidence to suggest the blasts were related to the Hindu-Muslim violence that swept India in December and January.

Thunderous explosions shook skyscrapers, set fire to the nation's largest stock exchange, gutted the ground floor of India's international airline's headquarters, blew apart a passenger bus and damaged three hotels. "There is panic in the whole of Bombay," said stockbroker Harpreet Kaur. Chief Minister Sharad Pawar of the Maharashtra state, summoned reinforcements of paramilitary troops, fearing another burst of bloodshed. Shortly after the blasts, scattered Hindu-Muslim violence broke out in the city. Pawar refused to say who he suspected in the bombing wave.

But he said, "There has to be perfect planning" for this kind of attack. MOSCOW (AP) A weakened Boris Yeltsin fought back Friday against hostile lawmakers who slashed his powers and imperiled his reforms, and his aides warned of "revolution." The nervous Congress did agree to reconsider Yeltsin's revived proposal for a referendum on who should rule: the president or parliament. In a major setback to the president, however, lawmakers gave final approval to a resolution repealing the extra powers they granted Yeltsin last year. Yeltsin stormed out of the Grand Kremlin Palace, where the Congress of People's Deputies met for a third day in emergency session. He says he needs the powers to carry out market reforms opposed by Congress, which consists mainly of former Communist Party members.

Yeltsin's spokesman, Vy-acheslav Kostikov, said the country was "on the verge of absolute power by the Soviets," the Com- inside ties agreed to reconsider the referendum and extended their emergency session to today. In smoking rooms and lobbies, deputies debated whether Yeltsin had the right or strength to dissolve the Congress. Yeltsin's aides said that if denied a referendum, he would carry out a non-binding plebiscite anyway. Outside the Kremlin, a few hundred people turned out in demonstrations for and against Yeltsin. Western leaders, including President Clinton, voiced support for Yeltsin and his reforms.

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