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sc Thursday January 13, 1994 FIRST EDITION HALL OF FAME: Steve Carlton is the lone addition to Cooperstown SPORTS 1C Clinton agrees to special prosecutor NATION 3 A Mostly cloudy High: 30. Low 15. Details 2A 1 STTD nn a lllTTTla mTlTl (nTiFP WJyw swr-jw-frrcvjw 'SS' tit lii ULM j- Msi -wt4i Am-Uji ama.11- Hissing 1 2-year old" nn)u nts 'Army' of volunteers joins police near lake in Adirondacks c-4 'if By MICHAEL KILL The Associated Press RAQUETTE LAKE Volunteers armed with shovels Wednesday joined police and National Guard members in the meticulous search for a missing girl believed buried in the Adirondack Mountain backwoods by a suspected serial killer from Massachusetts. State police Maj Kenneth Cook said he remained confident that the 3-day-old search would turn up traces of Sara Anne Wood of Frankfort. Searchers converged on the remote plot of woods Monday based on statements made by the chief suspect in the case, Lewis Lent Jr.

of North Adams, Mass. Cook also confirmed that Lent provided police with a V.1 ,1 a i 1 I 'ST" i i I map of the area. Prospects of flying Lent to the search site in the near future were dim, Cook said. However, he said the suspect's lawyers were sent an aerial photograph of the site near Raquette Lake, a hamlet about 90 miles northwest of Albany, in hopes that Lent would pinpoint a spot to concentrate the U- '1 Vtwfc Sara Anne Wood Missing since Aug. 13 CHUCK HAUPTPRESS SUN-BULLETIN Volunteers helping in the search of 12-year-old Sara Anne Wood at Raquette Lake pull a tarp loaded with snow from the woods Wednesday.

They were moving it to a clearing so state police could shift through the snow for clues. Since late Monday, they've been working at removing as much as 30 inches of snow from a section that measures approximately 50 yards by 50 yards. Sara Anne disappeared Aug. 1 8 from near her home in Frankfort, a short distance east of Utica. TASK FORCE Seachers sift btiow mooot am search.

Cook described the search as a "full-court press." Roughly 100 searchers had cleared almost all of the nearly 3 feet of snow covering the acre search site by late Wednesday. More snow was in the forecast. "You have up to 30 inches of snow we're removing and anyone who's shoveled a driveway knows how that is," said state police Capt. Ronald Tritto. The painstaking process involved shoveling and sifting through snow and soil.

The FBI planned to fly in radar ground-imaging equipment from its headquarters in Quantico, to aid in the search by today, Cook said. The equipment is used to find objects underground, he said. Cook said the search would continue for several days or even beyond. "This is bull work," Cook said. "We're working until they just can't do it anymore." Thirty members of a National Guard maintenance unit from the U.S.

Army See VOLUNTEERSPage 5A bers grew as a busload of National Guard volunteers from Watertown arrived to help. This is how the operation went and is expected to continue: Volunteers, including the guardsmen, shoveled snow onto large, plastic ground sheets, which were then dragged to the edge of the clearing, where troopers, armed with shovels and rakes, combed it for debris. The snow was then shoveled onto wire mesh screens and sifted in search of smaller bits. Finally, sifted snow was pushed away by a front-end loader into ever-growing mounds on the periphery. See SEARCHERSPage 5A The search is centered on a clearing at the end of a 50-yard logging trail near the Sagamore Lodge and Conference Center.

It is off Sagamore Road and about three miles from Route 28. South Inlet Stream flows nearby. It is a spot favored by summer campers and, in the fall, deer hunters. Since late Monday, it has been aswarm with state police, forest rangers and volunteers addressing the staggering task of removing as much as 30 inches of snow from a section of the clearing that is approximately 50 yards by 50 yards. As many as 100 police and volunteers worked from daylight to nightfall Tuesday, and Wednesday their num By DAVID ROSSIE Associate Editor RAQUETTE LAKE State police searching for the remains of Sara Anne Wood near this Adirondack Mountain community are giving new meaning to the term "sifting through evidence." In fact, troopers are sifting through snow in hopes of finding'evidence in the snow, thousands of cubic feet of it.

What they are looking for is evidence that might help confirm the statement of a Massachusetts man that the 12-year-old Utica-area girl's body is buried in a clearing off a road just south of Raquette Lake. Sara Anne vanished last August. COMPUTER GIANT IBM patent 'crown9 boosts U.S. global woman Nancy Woytek. IBM said it's not spending more on research, but the money it spends is going toward inventions that have a better chance of turning up in products.

IBM's recent push for productivity gains while shedding tens of thousands of jobs is driven by Chairman Louis Gerstner's imperative that selling more products must drive everything IBM does. By winning U.S. patents, corporations generate an important source of future revenues by getting royalties. Staff Writer Laurie A. Luebbert contributed to this report Management.

Japanese companies still hold seven out of the top 10 positions for the second year in a row, according to IFI-Plenum Data the research company that released the figures Wednesday. But the inventiveness surge at IBM was viewed as a breakthrough. IBM said its 1,088 patented inventions last year up 27 percent from 851 U.S. patents awarded in 1992 when it ranked No. 6 included high-repetition lasers, a folding computer keyboard and an environmentally safe solvent.

Many of the new patents were for software-related inventions. IBM Federal Systems Co. in Owego recorded seven patents in 1993, said spokes From staff and wire reports NEW YORK Thomas Edison would be proud. For the first time since 1985, an American company IBM Corp. ranks first in inventiveness, winning the most patents from the U.S.

government in 1993. With Eastman Kodak Co. No. 4, experts in international competition say the new rankings are the latest indication that U.S. innovation has cracked Japan's seemingly indomitable lead.

"This is significant. This means that the United States is back in the race to compete effectively in the global market," said Douglas Lamont, professor of international business at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of KERRIGAN INJURY Winning numbers N.Y. DallyNumber: 4-9-1 eport: Man admits role in attack N.Y. Win 4: 0-3-8-2 N.Y. Pick 10: 1-8-10-1 1-1 2-1 6-26-32-37-46-47-51 -57-60-61 -63-65-69-75-77 N.Y.

Lotto: 2-3-8-14-17-54 Supp: 21 Pa. Dally Lottery: 8-8-3 Pa. Big 4: 9-8-7-0 Carved art Wildlife Wood Carvings by the members of the Susquenango Woodcarvers Guild are on display until March 11 at Finch Hollow Nature Center, 1394 Oakdale Johnson City. VJf Index Business 8B Classified3B, 5-1 0C Comics 4D Community 1-4B Crossword 5D Landers 30 Living 1D Movies 3D Nation 8A Obituaries 4B Opinion 12-1 3 A Sports 1-5C State 4B Stocks 6-7B TV 2D Washington 3A Weather 2A World 6A also said the investigation was "progressing satisfactorily." He would not comment on whether anyone confessed. "People have been interviewed by the FBI.

The contents of those interviews will not be shared at this point," A Portland minister went to the FBI after hearing a tape recording in which the two men allegedly spoke with a "hit man" from Arizona about attacking Kerrigan, a private investigator said Wednesday. The Oregonian newspaper reported Wednesday that the FBI was investigating Eckardt and Harding's husband, Jeff Gillooly. Harding, who won the U.S. championship at the trials, has denied any link to the attack. Even though Kerrigan was knocked out of the championships, the International Committee of the U.S.

Figure Skating Association named her to the U.S. Winter Olympics team anyway, along with Harding. The Olympics will be held in Lillehammer, Norway, February 12-27. The Associated Press A bodyguard for Figure skating champion Tonya Harding has admitted being involved in the attack that knocked rival Nancy Kerrigan out of the national championships, NBC News reported late Wednesday. The NBC Noivprogram, citing anonymous sources, said Shawn Eric Eckardt confessed to being involved in the Jan.

6 attack at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit. A man struck Kerrigan with a club after a practice session, severely bruising her right leg and forcing her to withdraw from the competition. The attacker escaped. NBC also quoted unidentified sources as saying the club was recovered a trash bin behind the arena where Kerrigan was attacked.

Earlier Wednesday, Eckardt said allegations he was involved in the attack were "absurd." Detroit's deputy police chief, Benny Napoleon, said Wednesday that no arrests had been made, but Admission is free. Call the center 71(1 4 OK Ol I fc7" (Ld I IUI Ol I appointment. Questions or comments? For matters regarding world, national and state news call the News Desk at 798-1184 Fax: 798-1113. Tonya Harding Skater denies knowledge of plot 4.