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i Ji' fV 1- extensive damage fTH'- 1 uC 'lZL l150Km I ucean I I 1 APWm.J.Casteilo I I.4 IX 4' ..1 PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) A tornado charged through this historic city Friday, toppling buildings and killing at least three people in a shopping mall that witnesses said was sliced open. Nearly ISO people were hurt. The storm devastated this economically depressed city's most precious quarter, known as Old Town Petersburg, which has several Civil War-era buildings that withstood Union troop barrages in 1864-65. Policeman M.L.

Clarke said "one large tornado" touched down about 1:30 p.m. at the Southpark shopping mall just outside the city limits in Colonial Heights. Three people inside the mall's Wal-Mart store were killed, including one who died at a hospital Friday night, authorities said. Two people in Colonial Heights were still unaccounted for late Friday, and authorities searched door-to-door through the area. Authorities said 148 people were sent to area hospitals with various injuries, which included broken bones and head and neck problems.

The storm cut a swath through the Wal-Mart discount department store, from front to back. "The lights went out, then came back on, and immediately the roof started caving in," said Pam Barden, who was shopping in the store. "People were screaming and crying." Mike Johnson said he was driving into the parking lot when "everything started collapsing." He said he helped pull TORNADO STRIKES: Firefighters look through the rubble of a Wal-Mart store in Petersburg, on Friday. A tornado collapsed the roof, killing at least three people in the store. The tornado toppled buildings through the historic city.

ap He didn't know of any injuries. "It's taken a lot of roofs off, and a lot of trees are across apartments," Brown said. In Petersburg, South Side Station, an old train depot converted into a flea market, was leveled but no one was hurt, said Charles Patton, whose family owns the building. The flea market is open only on weekends. "You think about the historical aspect of the building," Pat-ton said.

"It's lasted 150 years and all of a sudden, it's gone in 10 seconds." NATIONWORLD GirPs psyche is the battleground that incident, said state police Sgt. Robert A. Johnson. Tornadoes were also reported in several other parts of the state Friday afternoon, including the counties of James City, Surry and Sussex. At Langley Air Force Base, two planes and several buildings were damaged and one person slightly hurt, said Sgt.

Mike Brown, a base spokesman. But hardest hit was Petersburg, where City Manager Valerie Lemmie estimated damage at $10 million. "The Old Town district of 1 Mexican riot's aftermath spreads three people from the rubble. Ambulances and hearses' were summoned to a triage center in the mall parking lot. Gov.

L. Douglas Wilder activated the National Guard before heading from the capital in Richmond by helicopter to survey the damage, said spokeswoman Lisa Katz. The Army sent at least three helicopters to help with evacuations. Tornadoes are uncommon in Virginia, where the last one hit near Augusta Springs in the Shenandoah Valley in 1989, killing two people. No tornado warning was posted until 1:35 p.m., about five minutes after the twister smashed the area.

As the tornado crossed the James River to the north of Colonial Heights, it threw up a wall of wind and water that knocked down two tractor-trailers on the Interstate 295 bridge across the river, authorities said. A third truck collided with the first two, and two smaller trucks were flipped over by the wind. Five people were hurt in the Twiggs' parental claims to her; the Twiggs want the right to visit the daughter they barely know. Being tugged one way by the Twiggs and the other way by her emotional attachment to Mays, has created hellish "night terrors" for Kimberly, Ritt said. She told him about dreams of living in a glass house with exploding windows that cut and maim her and her father.

"Kim was feeling she was going to lose it all her psychological parent, her father. She was very fearful her father was going to be destroyed," Ritt said. The teen-ager already has lost a normal childhood. Switched at birth in an unexplained way at a Wauchula hospital, Kimberly went home with Bob Mays and his first wife, Barbara. The Twiggs left with the sickly child they named Arlena, who died of a heart defect at age 9, soon after the Twiggs learned she was not their biological daughter.

She seems to have given up hope of ever living in obscurity again. She enters and leaves the Sarasota County Courthouse every day in a crowd, micro- Psychologists probe mind of youngster at center of Florida 'baby-swap' case called cause for concern LONDON (AP) Russia? nuclear-powered submarines and icebreakers poseTa greater danger of nuclear accidents than its atomic power plants, according to Jane's Intelligence Review. Naval reactors are more accident prone because their design is often more dangerous and they suffer from poor maintenance, writes Tomas Riea, an expert on post-Soviet security at the Graduate Institute of International Affairs in An article by Ries in the review's August edition says odds also are higher of an accident on a nuclear vessel because there are far more reactors on ships. Russia operated 228 nuclear submarines and seven nuclear icebreakers in early 1993, containing a total of 404 nuclear reactors, according to a Russian government report obtained by Greenpeace. The nuclear submarines often carry nuclear weapons, which can amplify the scale of an accident, Ries wrote.

He noted the case of the Komsomolets submarine which sank in the Norwegian Sea in 1989 with its nuclear reactor and two nuclear-tipped torpedoes. "These reactors are more accident prone because of a lack of funding and mainte nance," Paul Beaver, senior publisher of Jane's publica tions, said in an interview Friday. townfolk, and the state judicial police chief, Jose Rivera Rueda. He disbanded an elite unit of the state police and surrendered six state judicial police involved in the clash into the hands of local vigilantes, il1. Many state police were on strike Friday over the decision to hand over their colleagues, said reporter Miguel Angel Reyes of El Sol de Cuer-navaca.

Newspapers published various versions of how the Hot began ranging from a taxi accident to a squabble between two drunks. until a successor is named. The 61-year-old Whitmore joins chief executives from a host of large industrial companies such as General Motors, IBM, and Westinghouse, who have also been kicked out Jn favor of company outsiders. In a statement, Kodak's directors credited Whitmore with reducing debt, improving cash flow and streamlining the company's businesses. lie became chief executive jn June 1990.

Nashville, according lo Sandy Sykes, sister of the pUot, E.W. "Butch" McLaugh- Baker identified the dead as McLaughlin, 40; passengers Kevin Kropf, 29: Ronald O. Hostetler, 41; and Hostetler's three children, Alan John. IS; Eugene Ray, 14, and Robert David, 11. for storm country before dawn Saturday.

Roads were clogged with people heading home, gasoline stations were jammed with motorists topping off their tanks and grocery stores were cleaned out of biscuits, sardines and other canned goods. At 8 p.m. CDT Bret was centered at Latitude 10.3 North and Longitude 58.4 Waft, about 170 miles eastDbf Trinidad. The storm was moving westward at about 21 mph with winds of nearly 60 miles an hour. CUERNAVACA, Mexico (AP) A late-night village scuffle escalated within hours into a riot that killed five people, forced the state's attorney general and police chief to step down and prompted a police strike.

Morelos state officials tried to determine Friday what set off Thursday's predawn clash in Jonacatepec, 30 miles southeast of Mexico City, that killed two police officers and three civilians. After a day of rioting, Gov, Antonio Riva Palacio late Thursday suspended Attorney General Tomas Flores Allende, who had been held hostage for hours by angry Kodak Co. fires its chairman A LIGHTER MOMENT: Kimberly Mays, the 14-year-old girl that was switched at birth in a Wuchula, hospital, hugs Robert Mays during her divorce trial Friday In Sarasota, Fla. Kimberly is trying to sever all ties with her biological parents and continue to live with Robert, the man who raised her from birth. ap By JEFF KUNERTH KNIQHT-RIDDER NEWS SERVICE SARASOTA, Fla.

Kimberly Mays is the reluctant center of attention in the courtroom, bent intently over a yellow note pad while the parade of psychologists and counselors publicly dissect her psyche. They reveal her secrets, her dreams, her "night terrors" and her fears. Mays has an attention deficiency disorder and mediocre grades in school. "Mays is "needle phobic." Mays is insecure. Mays has an identity crisis.

Mays suffers from "developmental blockage" and is experiencing a strong "adjustment reaction." Friday, it was Sarasota psychologist Lawrence Ritt the sixth expert on 14-year-old Mays' mental landscape to testify in the past five days. On Monday, it will be court-appointed psychologist Herbert Goldstein. The psychology of Mays is the centerpiece in the legal turf war between her biological parents Ernest and Regina Twigg and her "psychological parent" Robert Mays. Kimberly has asked Circuit Judge Stephen Dakan to sever Petersburg is for the most part destroyed," said Brian Some, a photographer for The Progress-Index newspaper. "There are some storefronts standing and a couple of buildings look for the most part flat Old Town Station is leveled." The twister also hit a 15- to 20-block area of nearby Hopewell, causing heavy damage to apartment buildings, said Bob Brown, the city's emergency services coordinator.

He said 50 to 100 people were being evacuated to the Hopewell Community Center. py. To be normal not exceo- I tional, not extraordinary is her biggest wish. She wants the psychologists to stop prying off the top of her head and digging around inside her psyche. She wants the lawyers to stop making her cry.

She wants the Twiggs and the reporters to go away. And she wants the world to stop looking over her shoulder at her drawing of the red flower on the yellow note pad. to Serbs any action against Serb positions in Bosnia. Parked on the runway were huge AWACS and C-130 flying command posts and sleek F-16 and F-18 fighters. Marine Maj.

Mark Places of Elmhurst, stood in front of his F-18D. He said he had never flown in combat but shrugged off a question on whether that made him nervous. "It's part of the territory," he said. "You constantly train for that." Lt. Col.

Denny Rea, with the Air Force 52nd Tactical Fighter Wing, said it would take about 30 minutes to fly to Sarajevo. Asked about Serb air defenses, he said he assumed they had old Soviet surface-to-air missiles. But he acknowledged that they could have shoulder-fired U.S. Stinger missiles. ROCHESTER, N.Y.

(AP) Eastman Kodak Co. is looking for a new chairman after directors fired Kay R. Whit-more Friday, saying he failed to cut costs or boost profits fast, enough to satisfy investors. The board asked Whitmore to step down and hired an executive search firm to find a replacement from outside the company, Kodak said Friday. Whitmore will remain chairman of the nation's best known photography company Arkansas plane crash kills 6 Christopher issues a warning Fihones hanging over her head ike cranes, cameramen backpedahng.

unce sne wanted to be a movie star; now, she wants to be unknown. The world already knows more than she wants it to know. It knows she almost failed third grade, she sometimes lies, her best friend's name is Lisa. It knows a $6 million settlement with the Hardy County hospital that mixed up the Twigg and Mays babies has made her a millionaire, but no less unhap cute it probably would come at a later, separate meeting. The White House said Thursday's Serb offer to withdraw forces from two strategic mountains overlooking the Bosnian capital did not go far enough.

In fact, on Friday, Bosnian Serbs balked at easing the siege of Sarajevo, failing to reach agreement on handing over their strategic mountain positions to the United Nations. Christopher stopped In Italy en route to Washington from a five-day mission to the Middle East to try to get the peace process back on track. He met here with crews of planes that would take part in NATO action likely if siege of Sarajevo isn't lifted DELIGHT, Ark. (AP) Six Eeople. Including four mem-ers of a family, died Friday when a single-engine plane crashed during bad weather.

The plane went down in the woods about 10 miles south of Delight, in southwest Arkansas. The plane was en route from Lincoln, to Caribbean braces PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) Army troops went on alert and islanders braced for flash flooding from Tropical Storm Bret, which bore down on the Caribbean with winds up to 60 mph. Storm warnings extended from the Windward Islands to the Venezuelan coast. In Trinidad and Tobago, a hilly two-island nation off the Venezuelan coast, shops and banks closed early as its 1.3 million inhabitants bought candles and bottled water. Bret was expected to hit the AVIANO, Italy, (AP) Top U.S.

and NATO officials sent a strong signal Friday to Bosnia's Serbs to halt their seige of Sarajevo or face swift military action. "We're ready to take the action that needs to be taken," said Secretary of State Warren Christopher. Christopher flew to this U.S. Air Force base for a briefing from NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner, U.S. General John Shalikashvili, the alliance's top military commander, and U.S.

Admiral Jeremy Boorda. the commander of NATO air operations in Bosnia. At a news conference, Woerner said a final decision on military plans will be taken next week. "The military operation is ready," said Christopher. "I would say to the Serbs they would be very unwise to depend upon any indecision," he said.

A NATO source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the alliance was drafting a plan that envisions military action against the Bosnian Serbs but that thus far the blueprint had not reached the top military level. The NATO military committee will meet Saturday and the alliance's governing body, the North Atlantic Council, will review the plans at meeting Monday. In Washington, officials at the White House and the Pentagon said they hoped the military plan would win approval at Monday's meeting but that a final decision by NATO to exe.