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A3 Oshkosh Northwestern Sunday, August 27, 2000 A2 Sunday, August 27, 2000 Oshkosh Northwestern The Daily Briefing Northwestern Wire Services MONDAY From Charcoal to Cuddles What a difference a year makes for the Oshkosh Area Humane Society. By James N. Fitzhenry MONDAY Meet a Nifty Neighbor Local Scout earns Eagle Scout rank, named lodge chief. By Sandy Mickelson MONDAY Overcoming obstacles 15-year-old has been diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder. By Doug Zellmer State Boy Scout dies of carbon monoxide poisoning Rice Lake A 15-year-old St.

Paul, boy died this week from carbon monoxide poisoning at Tomahawk Scout Reservation camp where he was a counselor. Neal Kwong was found dead Nation Man Iplls three, then turns gun on himself 1 in his bed Tuesday alter 1 failing to show up for I breakfast at the camp near Rice Lake in north HJ: 1 WMM western Wisconsin. He was one of 15 staffers who Waterbury, Conn. A man went on a killing spree Saturday, gunning down three people, including a firefighter who was collecting money for charity, before shoot- Michigan: Daily 4-1-1 Daily Four 9-6-9-3 Rolldown 1-11-16-22-33 Lotto 3-7-22-26-31-44 Associated Press of the Statement of Mutual Principles at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Nigeria, Saturday. PRESIDENT CLINTON and Nigeria's President Olesugun Obasanjo joke following their signing 1 ing himselt to death, 1 police said.

The gunman knew all three victims but authorities hadn't determined Clinton looks to enhance democracy Miller while his neighbor was sitting in his car, dragged him out and shot him again before fleeing in the car. Flaherty said Cote had two guns, a 9 mm Glock and a 9 mm Tech. After shooting Miller, police said Cote drove a few miles to an intersection where four firefighters were collecting money from motorists for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Cote shot arid killed firefighter Jamie Quinones, 38, then fled, police said. About 15 minutes later, Maria Perez, 23, told an emergency dispatcher that Cote had shot and killed her mother.

Police arrived at the house and heard a gunshot. They found Cote dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on the second floor. The body of Maria Hernandez, 40, was found on the first floor. Sunday, Aug. 27 "Parade" 2 and 7:30 p.m., Weidner Center for the Performing Arts, 2420 Nicolet Drive, Green Bay.

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Abuja, Nigeria Calling Nigeria "a pivot point on which all Africa's future turns," President Clinton appealed to the leaders of this oil-rich nation Saturday to set aside political acrimony so that Wisconsin Cash 4 Life, Pick Three, Pick Four, Powerball, Supercash and Megabucks; and Illinois Pick Three, Pick Four and Lotto were not available at presstime. The numbers will run in Monday's Northwestern. stayed on an extra week to help close up the camp for the sea- son. Officials suspect that a gas heater in a cabin malfunctioned, Kent York, a spokesman for the Indianhead Council of the Boy Scouts of America, said Friday. The Ramsey County (Minn.) medical examiner determined the cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning.

Kwong, who became an Eagle Scout at age 13, had been a counselor at the camp all summer. York said Kwong's father, Gary W. Kwong, invited the entire camp staff to a memorial service this weekend. Former judge's behavior draws threat of jail time Milwaukee A former judge was threatened with jail for causing disorder in the court during why he targeted them. One victim was a neighbor and another was the mother of an ex-girlfriend.

"It appears to be some sort of domestic situation. All three victims are somewhat related in that they knew the suspect," Mayor Philip Giordano said. The shooting spree began when the suspect, identified as Mark Cote, 29, got into an argument with Brian Miller, 30, who lived in the same multiple family home as Cote, police said. Police Superintendent Edward Flaherty said Cote shot -r-1 their citizens can hit themselves from poverty and isolation. Standing in the cav State man definitely a straight shooter Wisconsin Rapids For the fourth time in a row, Jerry Blanchard, 56, of Saratoga, shot to the top of a national slingshot tournament held earlier this month in Chambersburg, 111.

He bested 30 shooters from eight states in two days of competition. After elimination rounds consisting of shooting ball bearings through playing cards and at targets and clay pigeons, Blanchard faced Richard "Blue" Skeen, a former champion from Virginia. "That's why I went back to the competition, because I was hoping to shoot against him again," Blanchard said. "The whole thing was a blast." He beat Skeen by one shot, he said. Blanchard's slingshot isn't a garden-variety type, but a modified hunter's version.

The weapon is accurate up to 60 feet and shoots projectiles at a speed of roughly 300 feet per second. Blanchard also won the contest in 1979, 1980 and 1984. He owns Jerry's Outboard Heaven and practices his skills in his shop with a cardboard target or aluminum cans. Word island south of Tokyo Saturday the latest exodus amid fears that a "fairly big" eruption could spout from a twin should be separated from her sister, even though she will die in the process and despite the opposition of the babies' parents. Bouteflika's government resigns Algiers, Algeria Wrestling to end a civil insurgency that has killed thousands of people, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, pictured, faced a new challenge Saturday when his 8-month-old government resigned.

The president, who accepted the collective resignation of his Cabinet after meeting with Prime Minister Ahmed Benbitour in the morning, immediately charged Ali Benflis with forming a new government. Benflis, who served as justice minister in the early 1990s, is considered a close aide of the president and headed his election campaign. The reasons for the Cabinet's resignation were not immediately clear. Benbitour, who has been prime minister since December 1999, had formed his government by tapping into five different political parties, apparently to unify the government behind President Bouteflika's efforts to end the bloody struggle by Islamic militants. Clinton opens teachers Web site Washington Trying to use the Internet to fill a teacher shortage, President Clinton launched a one-stop clearinghouse Saturday to help schools find qualified teachers.

"By logging on to www.recruitingteach-ers.org, school districts can find qualified teachers, and teachers can find out where the jobs are," Clinton said in his weekly radio address, recorded before his departure for Africa on Friday. Clinton said the Web site "will help us alleviate the national teacher shortage and to bring down class size." Clinton said a record 53 million students will fill classrooms Monday morning when bells signal the start of classes in schools around the country. "Unfortunately, thousands of school districts are struggling to find enough teachers to fill them," Clinton said. 3 reawakened volcano, a local official said. With Saturday's departures, almost one- 2 his own hearing.

Reserve Judge Willis Zick told former Milwaukee County High Court judge 2 Robert Johnson authorized the separation of the twins Friday. A 1 lawyer representing the Mandela: Africa has reason to envy Kosovo Johannesburg, South Africa The world's failure to take sufficient action in African conflicts leaves the continent with reason to envy Kosovo, former President Nelson Mandela says. Speaking Friday at the opening of the final seminar of the International Independent Commission on Kosovo, Mandela said the world has been reluctant to halt African conflicts. Though the Rwandan genocide is the most well-known example of such a failure to intervene, the international community similarly has neglected the conflict in Sierra Leone, Mandela said. "We are not suggesting that African conflicts can be subjected to the same template of conflict resolution or that the actions of Kosovo can simply be transplanted to the conflicts on this continent," Mandela said.

"We in Africa and Asia must, however, envy the readiness and willingness on the part of the international community to intervene and commit resources to the reconstruction of Kosovar society." Internet hoax sends tech stock plunging New York A network equipment maker's stock plummeted by more than 60 percent after financial news agencies picked up a bogus Internet news release on the company's earnings and personnel changes. Shares of Emulex later recovered when the compa- On this date: 1894, Congress passed the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which contained a provision for a graduated income tax that was later struck down by the Supreme Court. 1945, American troops began landing in Japan following the surrender of the Japanese government in World War II. 1967, Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, was found dead in his London flat from an overdose of sleeping pills. 1975, Haile Selassie the last emperor of Ethiopia's monarchy, died in Addis Ababa at age 83 almost a year after he was overthrown in a military coup.

Today's birthdays: Cajun-country singer Jimmy C. Newman is 73. Actress Tuesday Weld is 57. Actress Marianne Sage-brecht is 55. Country musician Jeff Cook (Alabama) is 51.

Actor Paul Reubens is 48. Rock musician Alex Lifeson (Rush) is 47. Circuit Judge Ralph Gorenstein to stop interrupting him as he presided over a hearing in third of Miyake island's 3,850 residents have left for other parts of Japan since Aug. 19, said local official Takashi Hasegawa. The exodus began a day after Mount Oyama threw up a five-mile column of ash mixed with volcanic rock Aug.

18. Eleven British soldiers captured in Sierra Leone Freetown, Sierra Leone Eleven British soldiers were seized by unknown forces in this "It's tasteless and inappropriate to exploit my illness and also takes advantage of my position as the mayor for advertising purposes. The message they're trying to deliver just makes sense in their own zealous, out-of-control thinking." Mayor Rudy Giuliani on campaign by PETA designed to publicize what it claims is a link between dairy products and prostate cancer Center auditorium Saturday for the members of two extended families who were camping a week ago when the nearby pipeline exploded. These deaths "shook the country," said the Rev. D.

Michael Lee of Victory Baptist Church. "It's sad that it takes a tragedy like this to bring the community together." The family members were killed when a pipeline owned by El Paso Energy Co. blew up along the Pecos River south of Carlsbad last weekend. The blast sent a 350-foot high fireball into the sky and billows of flame into the nearby campsite. Big fires combine into nation's largest Helena, Mont.

Wildfires have burned together in southwestern Montana's Bitterroot Valley and along the Continental Divide, forming the nation's largest fire ny denied the reports. 2 The shares plunged Friday to $43 from their previous close of 1 1 13.063 after the false ernous National Assembly chamber before a wood-paneled wall with gold letters reading "Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress," Clinton praised President Olusegun Obasanjo's leadership in stabilizing Nigeria, and told lawmakers they must develop a better working relationship with Obasanjo if their nation is to surmount "the wrongs and errors of the past." Obasanjo won office last year after death removed Nigeria's dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha, from power and led to a quick turn to democracy. One of Clinton's purposes in coming was to encourage a tender democracy to take root here in Africa's most populous nation. "The struggle to build democracy depends also on you, on legislators who will be both a check on, and a balance to, executive authority," Clinton said.

"Democracy depends upon a political culture that welcomes spirited debate without letting politics become a blood sport." The lawmakers seemed to take Clinton's words as a message for Obasanjo, who they say has treated them harshly since their body was established last year. They gave Clinton a rousing ovation, then spent the remainder of Clinton's speech either applauding, nodding approvingly or listening intently. Judge orders Siamese twins separated London A British judge has ruled that a two-week-old Siamese Gorenstein divorce case Friday. But Gorenstein said he would not be silenced, and Zick called in a bailiff. "I'm admonishing you not to interrupt, and you interrupt me a quarter of the way into my admonition.

Unbelievable," Zick said. "You cannot sit there and blow off your mouth. I'm going to put you in jail if you do that." Gorenstein, 60, a judge for 12 years during the '70s and '80s, has been representing himself in the five-year-long proceedings against former wife Roberta Caraway, an heiress to the Master Lock fortune. weaker twin, known publicly as Mary, is considering whether to appeal the ruling. Mary and Jodie not their real names were born joined at the lower abdomen Aug.

8 in Manchester, northern England. If they are separated, Mary will die. But without the surgery both twins are likely to perish. The operation was supported by the babies' hospital but opposed by trie parents, who cannot be identified for legal reasons. In written evidence to the court, the parents said: "We cannot begin to accept or contemplate that one of our children should die to enable the other one to survive.

That is not God's will. "Everyone has the right to life, so why should we kill one of our daughters to enable the other one to survive?" Residents flee island amid fears of eruptions Tokyo Two hundred residents boarded boats and fled a small wartorn West African 4 country, the British Ministry of Defense said Saturday. British forces lost con It is the policy of the Oshkosh Northwestern to promptly correct all errors of fact. For more information, contact Sean P. Johnson, city editor, at 426-6665.

4 group, a federal official said Saturday. And elsewhere in the West, potential evacua news circulated that the California-based company was restating its earnings, its CEO had quit and it was under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. "You'd like to think that all you need to do is continue to focus on your business, but unfortunately from time to time something like this happens," said Paul Folino, president and CEO of Emulex. The information originated on Internet Wire, a 6-year-old online distributor of press releases. CEO Mike Terpin said the hoax was perpetrated by someone claiming to be with a public relations agency representing Emulex.

Community mourns victims of pipeline blast Carlsbad, N.M. Friends and family wept openly as they filed past seven caskets adorned with flowers and graced by pictures of the 1 1 tact with the soldiers Friday around the towns of Masiaka and Forudugu, about 45 miles east of the capital, Freetown, force commander Brig. Gordon Hughes said in a statement. A radio message received from the group Saturday indicated they were being held against their will, a Ministry of Defense spokesman said later in London. "We believe they are all well," the spokesman said on customary condition of anonymity.

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