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Lyle Swensort, U.S. Marshal Alexandria Sioux Falls, was devasted by the tornado, which hit at 8:45 p.m., leaving most of the buildings in town damaged or destroyed. U.S. Marshal Lyle Swenson also arrived to assist in the disaster mission. "It is just a pile of rubble," he said, "I was deputy sheriff when the tornado hit Mitchell in 1962 and this is far worse than that one.

You just can't Tornado See 6A By DAVID KRANZ Argus Leader Slat) i A tornado that ripped through Spencer on Saturday evening killed at least four people and injured nearly half of the residents. Law enforcement officials say much of the town of 317 was destroyed by the twister, and search crews worked r-p Sioux FallsO J- Spencerj Tea I 1 v44L 1 8j Lennox I into the morning looking for dead and wounded. "I've never seen anything like it. It's pretty bad," said Davison County Sheriff Kim Moline. "We have fatalities.

I don't believe it is more than 10, but it is hard to say." The injured were taken to hospitals in Mitchell and Sioux Falls. Spencer, 50 miles west of Lynn SchiefelbeinArgus Leader Today's focus: Sioux Falls job market Affable Daschle earns respect of critics in party qi irrn Dura mm But GOP says he's 'too partisan' TV r-'-jP 1 F- rT7T 1 Hr- Lr; CI Todd McAtee 'Cow-town' image repels workers who live far away By MICHAEL RIDGEWAY Argus Leader Staff High-tech firms couldn't pay Microsoft researcher Matthew Turk enough to live and work in Sioux Falls. "I tend to like things cities have to offer the plays and music and the range of cultural opportunities," said Turk, who lives in the Seattle area. "My impression is that Sioux Falls would have a lot less to offer than I'm used to." Turk is among an elite group of technology experts who are propelling Microsoft to the outer limits of computer research. But if there are any Sioux Falls firms with lofty plans to recruit his talent, they can forget it.

To Turk, this little city on the prairie is part of a cultural wasteland in the middle of America, and in the middle of nowhere. His unflattering impressions of Sioux Falls is common among the hightech workers, Turk said. That's a problem for Sioux Falls companies, which are so short on hightech talent that they're relying more and more on their ability to draw workers from outside the state. "We're having to look Cow town See 3A By LARRY BIVINS Argus Leader Washington Bureau WASHINGTON When Tom Daschle was jockeying to become Senate Democratic leader four years ago, he was described by one pundit as a prototype for the next generation of politicians. "This guy could be the next poster child for the new breed of politician," Burdett Loomis, a University of Kansas expert on Congress, was quoted as saying.

Loomis saw in Daschle rare traits for a politician: uncommon patience and an unbridled willingness to hear what others think. Those characteristics have served Daschle well since he won by one vote the mantle of minority leader in December 1994. Erasing early doubts about his ability, the South Dakota senator has emerged as a crafty, credible and effective leader who has been able to unite a group known for being fractious to the chagrin of his Republican rivals. Using his political strategies, the Democrats and President Clinton have scored such victories as an increase in the minimum wage and $5.6 billion in disaster relief for 35 states, including flood-ravaged South Dakota. "He's an extraordinarily effective leader," said Norman Ornstein, a congressional expert at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

"By uniting the Democrats, he's made it difficult, if not impossible, for (Majority Leader) Trent Lott, to muster majorities to do things." Ornstein added that "he's Gannett News Service Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, shown at a news conference with Sen. Ted Kennedy, combines a 'nice-guy' approach with necessary toughness, according to his admirers. been able to do it without making Democrats appear to the country at large to be obstructionists, and he's been able to do it with a reasonable and calm and intelligent face." When it came time for a second term as minority leader after the 1996 elections, Daschle was uncontested and won by unanimous vote. Sen. Robert Byrd, who did not support Daschle's first bid, had this to say in nominating Daschle for a second term "I am here today to tell you that I was totally wrong about this young man.

He has steel in his spine, despite his reasonable and honest demeanor." President Clinton lauded Daschle's leadership during a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee dinner in March. "I want to say that it would be impossible for me to do my job if it weren't for Tom Daschle," Clinton said. Daschle See 7A Val Hoeppner Argus Leader Jeff Briden, engineering project manager at Sencore, works with a spectrum analyzer used to test cable television equipment. Briden was recruited by Sencore from a job in Ventura, in 1991. Sioux Falls companies have formed a cooperative designed to attract highly skilled workers such as Briden to Sioux Falls.

Shortage could stymie area's robust economic growth mation technology jobs. Against such odds, the companies in the Sioux Falls Recruiting Cooperative understand they have a better chance together. The companies will share the financial burden of costly national recruiting efforts a strategy they hope will spread their sales pitch of hot job prospects to more corners of the country Job market See 3A By MICHAEL RIDGEWAY Argus Leader Stall Thirteen local companies have put aside their recruiting rivalries in the hope that by working together they can attract far more information-technology workers to, the Sioux Falls area. This coalition of local banks, manufacturers and hospitals dubbed the Sipux Falls Recruiting Cooperative is latest troubles." While the labor shortage is pinching companies nationwide, South Dakota employers say they're at a disadvantage in the frenetic scramble for the nation's far-too-few techno-savvy workers. South Dakota is known more for its cows than for its computers, and companies here find it difficult to compete with metro areas awash in high-profile infor response to a high-tech labor shortage that, if not corrected soon, could hobble the city's galloping economy.

"The people we are recruiting are without a doubt the toughest people to recruit in the nation," said Paul Spannknebel, human resource manager at Sen-core Inc. "This is our chance to move' forward with a solution and stop crying about our recruiting Pakistan bolsters hand with more nuke tests Mir computer fails 3 days before launch of shuttle STUDENT PROTEST: A high school girl in San Diego who doesn't believe in God and says the government is corrupt is fighting for the right to skip the Pledge of Allegiance. Story: Page 1 0A INDEX 94 pages 7 5A 3G Movies Ann Landers National 4-10A Business Classified 6-8B; ads Y'-j Obituaries 3C Opinions 10-11C Sioux Empire end of World War II but U.S. intelligence sources speaking in Washington said the actual figure was closer to 2 kilotons. While Pakistan didn't announce a moratorium on testing, the foreign secretary said it "has completed its current series of tests." Saturday's nuclear explosion followed a series of blasts by Pakistan on Thursday.

Pakistan said there were five tests on Thursday; the United States said it counted only two. "Our decision to exercise the nuclear option was an expression of self-defense," said Ahmed. All the tests were conducted Underground in the Chagai hills of southwestern Baluchistan province. "Today we have proved our credibility. There are no doubts left any more," he said.

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -Seeking to extinguish any doubts about its nuclear capabilities, Pakistan set off another blast Saturday and then tried to ease global concerns about a runaway arms race in South Asia. As with Pakistan's earlier tests on Thursday, the world reacted with shock and condemnation. But Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Shahmshad Ahmed said other nations have to adjust to a new reality, one in which both India and Pakistan have the capacity to launch nuclear weapons. Immediately after its nuclear blast Saturday, Pakistan offered talks with India to resolve a dangerous dispute over Kashmir, which already caused wars in 1948 and 1965 and urged world leaders to help in that effort. Tension in Asia 11A "Genuine contribution to peace and security can be made by constructive engagement in the search for permanent solutions," most notably to the Kashmir, Ahmed said.

There was no immediate response from India to the offer. But the overtures from Pakistan did not dull the wave of criticism from around the world. "Both India and Pakistan need to renounce further nuclear and missile testing immediately and take decisive steps to reverse this disastrous arms race," President Clinton said in Washington on Saturday. Pakistan said Saturday's device was 18 kilotons the same size as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the Comics Inside cosmonauts and one astronaut also turned off nonessential equipment to conserve power. Officials at Kennedy Space Center said that despite the problem, the countdown would begin as planned.

It's the first time in five months that Mir's motion-control computer has crashed. Last year the most dangerous in the station's 12-year history computers continually shut down and caused power outages. "We've seen this several times before, so it's something that the flight control team knows how to deal with," Herring said. Russian space officials suspected the problem was with the computer's software and could be fixed quickly, possibly by tonight. By MARCIA DUNN Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

A critical computer shut down aboard Mir on Saturday, just three days before space shuttle Discovery's scheduled liftoff Tuesday on a ferry flight to the Russian space station. The computer failure disabled Mir's motion-control system, and the space station was orbiting Earth with its solar panels improperly aimed, NASA spokesman Kyle Herring said from Moscow. The panels must face the sun to generate electricity. j- Flight controllers told the three-man crew to turn on the attached Soyuz capsule so its thrusters could be used to steer the station and realign the panels. The two Crossword 7F Sports Life Stocks 2-5A Lottery results 1C TV Channels 1998 Gannett Inc.

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