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THE REPORTER Page A4 Tuesday, May 4, 1999 Read by nearly 50,000 people daily Clinton WASHINGTON (AP) Russia's diplomatic offensive to bring peace to Kosovo is getting an unexpected boost from President Clinton. He is offering both a pause in the deadly NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and negotiations on a peacekeeping force for Kosovo. Clinton made the offer Monday with softer rhetoric than he has used since NATO began its air campaign March 24. The message is one that Russian mediator Viktor Chernomyrdin can take to Belgrade, the Yugoslav capital, with a little more leverage than the former BRIEFS Blood test could spot prostate cancer earlier DALLAS (AP) A new blood test combined with one already on the market could offer men a cheaper and less invasive way to determine their risk for prostate cancer, a new study says. Dr.

William J. Catalona, a professor of urologic surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis who conducted the study, said Monday the two tests also catch cancers earlier than the traditional timetable for biopsies. Every year, an estimated 184.500 American men develop prostate cancer and more than 41,000 die from it, according to the American Cancer Society. Early detection increases the chances of survival.

Used in combination, the blood tests could become an early alternative to surgery since doctors are cautious about ordering biopsies for patients with slightly elevated levels of cancer markers, Catalona said. Air Force bomb blamed in New Jersey forest fire BASS RIVER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) An errant bomb from an Air Force plane was blamed Monday for a forest fire that burned for a fourth day in southern New Jersey. The 1 bomb, which sends up smoke but no shrapnel, was supposed to be dropped on a target at the Warren Grove Bombing Range. It missed by miles and landed in a state forest, igniting a fire that has burned 11,000 acres or nearly 18 square miles in Pine Barrens since Friday, said Dave Harrison, chief of the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.

It was not clear what kind of plane dropped the bomb, or why it missed its target so badly. An official with the New Jersey Air National Guard's 108th Air Refueling Wing, which operates the bombing range, would say only that the mistake was under investigation. offers prime minister had on his two previous rounds of talks with President Slobodan Milosevic. There was no announcement, though, of Chernomyrdin's plans, nor did he inform Clinton. He was due to meet in New York City today, Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Clinton, meanwhile, was flying to NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, tonight for an update on the air war from NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana and then to Germany to meet with U.S. troops involved in humanitarian efforts and with some Kosovo refugees. pause in A senior U.S. official told reporters at the White House on night that the diplomatic process could take weeks. "It's not something that is going to result in some magical breakthrough," he said at a briefing held under rules that shielded the official's identity.

Emerging from the 90-minute Oval Office meeting, Chernomyrdin said, "We got closer to a diplomatic solution." He did not elaborate, except to say that he and the president discussed "the circumstances and the conditions" under which NATO would pause in its air assault on bombing Yugoslavia. "I am not trying to drag this out," Clinton said earlier, before meeting first with Chernomyrdin and then with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who secured the weekend release of three U.S. soldiers who had been held captive in Yugoslavia for 32 days. Clinton signaled his readiness to pursue a diplomatic solution even as the Senate was voting today on a move by Sen.

John McCain, and a bipartisan group of other senators authorize the president to widen the conflict. McCain, a 2000 presidential hopeful, conceded Debris, despair MOORE, Okla. (AP) Where houses once stood, there was nothing but garbage. Trees were stripped bare or ripped from the ground. Devastation stretched as far as the eye could see.

Jennifer Schantz clung to her young daughter in the front yard of where their home once stood. "We just bought this said Schantz, whose family wasn't home when the storm hit. "It's gone," said LeeAnn Richardson of her house. "We were just standing in there and looking at the weather on While others wandered stunned, one woman yelled, "Oh my God! Oh my God!" Richardson and 15 others family, friends, neighbors hid in a storm cellar as the tornado approached Monday evening. All escaped unharmed.

"We opened up and everything was gone," Richardson said. Rows and rows of houses simply vanished but for their cement foundations. Trucks were overturned, cars became twisted metal heaps. Natural gas leaked and downed power lines lay on the ground. Catherine Meyers tried to hide from the storm under a mattress, but it didn't help.

"I got hit four or five times on my head by something. I've lost a lot of blood," she said as she was treated of he didn't have the votes to prevail, complaining that Senate leaders had conspired with Clinton to give the crisis "short shrift." Clinton on Monday held fast to the four key U.S. requirements for ending the conflict in Yugoslavia: That Milosevic withdraw the estimated 100,000 Serb troops currently in Kosovo, a province of Serbia, the dominant republic in Yugoslavia. to Safe return of the hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees uprooted from their homes. Yugoslavia I Acceptance by Belgrade of an international security force to protect the refugees and Serb and other minorities in the province.

Restoration of the self-rule for the Albanians who, until a year ago, made up about 90 percent of Kosovo's 1.8 million population. At the same time, though, gestures of compromise surfaced in the president's remarks at a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi. who on a visit here pledged $200 million in assistance for refugees. AP photos Left, a tornado estimated at more than wide fills the sky near Newcastle, Monday evening. Below, a pickup truck is buried by the remains of the first floor of a two-story apartment building hit by a tornado in Moore, Monday.

are tornado's result "We were in the closet and calling in the name of Jesus I felt his arms come around us and saved us from that tornado." Theresa Jones 1 by a Red Cross volunteer. Her husband, Melvin, had an injured right knee and left wrist and bled from the head. He said he hid under a different mattress that was sucked out of the house when the roof blew off. "The first burst, it took it out of there. Part of the ceiling fell in on me and shaded me," Meyers said.

Neighbors hid in cellars or other enclosed areas. Loretta and Theresa Jones took shelter in a closet of their home. "We were in the closet and calling in the name of Theresa Jones said. "We heard it coming and whoa, whoa, Jesus we called on his name and I felt his arms come around us and saved us from that tornado. And I thank God for Amid the wreckage of Oklahoma City's suburbs, survivors looked for their missing loved ones.

At Del City High School's John Smith Field House, a woman bolted toward a chalkboard holding the names of those lost and found, then froze with tears in her eyes as she found no familiar names. "It doesn't mean they're gone, honey," a volunteer said, trying to comfort her. The sobbing woman added her family's names to the list of missing, then was guided to a seat on the bleachers. Next to her sat Floy Hopper, 76, and her 78-year-old husband, John, who were pulled from their bathroom by rescue workers. Mrs.

Hopper clutched a flashlight and cellular phone, all they salvaged from the wreckage of their four-bedroom house. "I can't see anything," said her husband, whose glasses were lost in the chaos. "We have what we got on." At Hillcrest Hospital in Oklahoma City, beds were set up in the cafeteria to help treat the more than 150 injured who were taken there. "It's been an incredible incident," said Sharla Findley, director of community relations. "It's the worst we've ever seen at the hospital." AP photo Evelyn Sons weeps as her husband, Lonnie, talks with a radio reporter Monday in southern Oklahoma City.

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