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The agencies involved gave no motive for the attempted bombing. Senior resident FBI agent Jerry Hill said one arrest took place yesterday and the other today in the Gardnerville area. The men were charged with attempted destruction of a government building and the use of a destructive device in relation to a crime of violence. The bomb, a 30-gallon plastic drum, was found Dec. 18.

It reportedly was packed with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, the same type of ingredients used in the Oklahoma City bombing. Town waters down 'offensive' name SWTTOvrii '95 cn be (Urtnj peint far hvto wcrderful tone in Wstaisn IH SPITE OF BILL, BOD AJKD NEWT! This Us obviously not compttSmsivt, so nawng jew MWt e-meal la too bow othet iM KftWt SUM t.V WMOIISttft Ate youttetsure whiw vUtedofifIw wthsdligf WASHINGTON White House and congressional negotiators are inching closer to new talks on resolving the federal budget impasse, but the prospect of serious progress seems to be at least a day away. More than 280,000 federal workers remained off the job today, as did most of the people charged with getting the budget disagreement settled. White House press secretary Mike McCurry said Capitol Hill and White House staff met today for lengthy discussions. He said they were preparing a report to leaders of both sides on where budget agreement exists, where the sides are close and where they are far apart.

With federal workers increasingly restive and morale plunging, McCurry said Clinton "is very anxious to break this impasse and get the services of government restored." Clinton has been following the staff discussions closely and has been in "fairly regular contact" with Alice Rivlin, director of the Office of Management and Budget. The president, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole were not expected to meet until tomorrow. An administration official doubted enough progress could be made to get all federal employees back on the job by the opening of business next week. "It's not impossible, but hard. There are a lot of issues to be addressed and there's not much time," the official said.

Business Woman recants 'sex slave' claim MIAMI A woman who claimed two years ago that her husband turned her into a sex slave has recanted, saying she made up the story because she feared losing her two children in a custody fight Miami prosecutors today were trying to determine whether to file perjury charges against Mabel She told police two years ago that her then-husband aimed a loaded shotgun at her head, turned on a video camera and forced her to perform sex acts in their bedroom, nicknamed "The Dungeon. The allegations surfaced during a 1993 divorce proceeding between Jentsch and Steven Jentsch, 32. When her husband allegedly threatened to use the sexually explicit videotapes against her to win custody of their children, Jentsch responded by telling police that her husband abused her. Lawyers for her ex-husband have asked for his release from an eight-year prison term for sexual battery and kidnapping. A hearing is set for Jan.

28. Skydiver survives plunge ALLENTOWN, Pa. A skydiver who couldn't open his parachute plunged 3,000 feet into a snowy field and survived. Bruce Charles backup parachute partially opened just before he hit the ground. That and a foot-deep cushion of snow saved his life, fellow skydivers said.

Charles, 56, who jumped Saturday with the United Parachute Club, remained hospitalized today in guarded condition with injuries to his legs, hips and back. "He's good. He expects to jump again," said Dr. Frank Matrone, a physician and fellow skydiver who visited Charles yesterday. Yeast infection Rx works in 3 days WASHINGTON Women will soon be able to buy a nonprescription medicine for yeast infections that takes just three days to work.

Femstat 3 was switched from prescription-only to an over-the-counter medicine by the Food and Drug Administration last week. Every other OTC medicine for vaginal yeast infections requires seven days of treatment. Manufactured by Switzerland's Roche Holding the drug will be sold in the United States by Procter Gamble. The company said yesterday that Femstat would be on store shelves by spring. Femstat contains the antifungal agent butocona-zole nitrate, available by prescription since 1986.

Man shot by Christmas sniper dies EL PASO, Texas A driver shot in the head by a teen-age sniper on Christmas Day died after two days on life support. Alberto Tarango, 41, died yesterday at Thomason General Hospital, said Hudspeth County police. Ricardo Soto, 13, of rural Fort Hancock was being held at a juvenile detention facility. He was charged with deadly conduct and could face new charges as a result of Tarango's death. From Star-Bulletin news services This site Created by il Information ieivorh Associated Press Oommenist Pfesse jI i-nwl wfMiarf awy ri-r p- -fc-'-- Associated Press I company has set up a page on the Internet's World Wide Web to help visitors disappointed by closed tourist sites in Washington, D.C.

The site provides suggestions for 'having wonderful time in Washington in spite of Bill, Bob and Newt." The page's web address is httpillwww.bizinfonetlshutdown. Progress on the partial government shutdown seems to be at least a day away. AMA changes position on organ harvesting CHICAGO A suburban town is renaming its Adopt-a-Hydrant program after a family accused it of equating adopted kids with the lowly fireplug. Buffalo Grove, near Chicago, had offered adoption certificates to each child who agreed to keep one of the town's 2,100 hydrants clear of weeds and ice. Then along came Gerald and Maureen Knight, who were offended by the thought of dogs doing what they do to something that had been "adopted." "We felt it demeaned the whole adoption process," Gerald Knight said.

"Everybody gets to determine what offends you in America," said Knight, a high school teacher with three children, one of whom is adopted. "We're equating adopting children probably the most important thing we've ever done as a family with adopting a fire hydrant." town quickly agreed to rename the program, though some are still scratching their heads over the hydrant hubbub. "We want to remain sensitive to them," Phillip Versten, an aide to the town manager. I i .0 I The change means that the old AMA position, which opposes the killing of anencephalic babies so their organs can be transplanted, is back in effect. About 1,000 to 2,000 anencephalic infants are born in the United States every year.

Nine out of 10 die within a week. The problem for parents who wish to make something positive out of tragedy harvesting the organs so that another child has a chance at life is that once the anencephalic naturally dies of heart failure, the organs are useless. AMA's ethics committee has found itself under fire from its own governing body and some bioethicists. "The AMA is taking the chicken way out," said Gail Marell, who gave birth to an anencephalic girl in 1985 and then lost a battle to change the state's definition of death so future anencephalics could have their organs harvested. 1 But to ethicists such as Alexander Capron the AMA has wisely decided to "retreat" rather than stick to a stance that "was so far out of the accepted view of what's right." Scripps Howard News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif.

Backing away from a controversial stand in one of medicine's most wrenching ethical debates, the American Medical Association now opposes the killing and organ-harvesting of babies who are born without most of their brains and who face certain death. Since endorsing the harvesting of organs of anencephalic babies in a policy statement published in June, the PAGE ONE NEWS: Programming will explode on isle TV fii Inhinn Beginning Monday, local TV stations will carry Ulltilhlwl auliblllliy 28 hours of news each weekday. IVssktfay morning news shows Channel 12 a.m. 14 15 15:30 6 7 8 KHON (Fox 2) This Channel 2 Morning News Morning's Leslie Wilcox, Ron Mizutani, Business and Mary Zanakls kiTV4(AFift ABC World ASC World Good Morning Hawaii Good Morning 1 News News This Paul Udell, Kathy Muneno and America Now Morning TinyTadani KHNL 8 (NBC) NBC NBC NBC Hawaii News 8 Today Today Nlghtskte News at Lee Cataluna and Guy Hagi Sunrise KGM3 9(CSS) I I This Morning I i News New program KHNL repeats its previous nightly newscast at 1 a.m., and "Entertainment Tonight" at 1:30 a.m. Ll vkiiuj iiund ttiiwnd interest to the younger age group, Baker said.

Meanwhile, Moore, KHON's popular anchor, has publicly said he's worried about what the Fox programming will mean to KHON's news audience. Moore's absence at a recent KHON-Fox affiliation party emphasized his disdain for Fox programming. "There's enough hypocrisy in the world without going to a party pretending to be a fan of Fox programs," said Moore when asked to comment. "But it's also important to note that I'm as committed as ever to keeping the Channel 2 News number one." To replace the 5:30 p.m. NBC network news, KHON will broadcast a 30-minute show anchored by Moore and Kirk Matthews which will focus on national and international news using CNN and the Fox News Network resources.

In-depth local coverage will be left for the 6 p.m. show, which will remain unchanged, Baker said. The 5:30 p.m. KHON show also will contain daily segments on business news with Malia Mattoch, a Hawaii "newsmaker of the day" piece and a weekly feature with a local economist. Expanding KHON's 10 p.m.

news will allow more time for national, international and local coverage, Baker said. KHNL will keep its three weekday newscasts 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. intact. (KHNL's 9 p.m.

news also will be broadcast on KFVE.) However, the 6 p.m. newscast won't do as much national and international coverage since the program is preceded by the NBC news with Tom Brokaw. to sign off, prime time viewing, and the important local news slots. Some of these numbers may be meaningless in light of the affiliation change. KHNL, armed with the ammunition of NBC's prime time shows, is sure to increase its ratings in entertainment programming.

And KHNL president and general manager Doug Armstrong believes that programming will boost KHNL's news viewership. KHON, meanwhile, seems likely to drop in its prime time numbers, but will that affect its news shows? Will viewers switch from another station to watch Joe Moore? And just how important are "lead-ins" shows preceding newscasts in keeping audiences tuned to what follows? Robert Pennybacker, KHON's promotion manager, believes some shift in the ratings will occur. KHON's Baker is confident that viewers watching other stations will switch to Moore because that's what's happening now with the 10 p.m. news. "We expect that (viewership loyalty) to continue," he said.

Another consideration is demographics. Fox shows traditionally appeal to a younger audience than those who watch NBC programs, Baker and Pennybacker said. "This is a good challenge for us to have all these viewers for a change rather than just the traditional NBC audience," Baker said. "Now we have to work to keep (the younger viewers)" as well as the regulars. KHON will do more promotion for its news during prime time shows and report stories of FROMA-l The earlier show time for KHNL and KITV doesn't worry him.

"KHON found a new audience for the morning and it's just going to get better," Baker said. New KHON morning segments will include a weekly viewer call-in to Mayor Jeremy Harris and a physician, and news updates every half-hour. In the nightly news battle, the Joe Moore-led KHON team adds two half -hour programs one at 5:30 p.m., a half-hour before its 6 p.m. show, and at 10:30 p.m. after its 10 p.m.

broadcast. Why all the changes? One reason for KHON and KHNL is the sale this year of Channel 2 to SF Broadcasting Co. of Honolulu a joint venture between Fox and Savoy Pictures Entertainment. That deal made KHON the Fox affiliate and led KHNL to become the NBC affiliate. Who's getting the best deal in the switch? NBC provides its affiliates 17 hours a day of network programming, including three hours in prime time with such top-rated shows as "Seinfeld," "Frasier" and "ER." Fox provides about five hours of network programming daily, two hours in prime time.

Its high-rated prime time shows include "The Simpsons." "Melrose Place" and "The X-Files." KHON will continue to broadcast its popular syndicated shows, "Oprah," "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune." In the just-released Nielsen ratings for November, KHON easily remained Hawaii's No. 1 station, including viewership from sign-on Channel 1 5 p.m. 1 5:30 1 6 1 10 10:30 KHON (Fox 2) Joe Moore Joe Moore JoeMoore News and Kirk and Bob and Bob Extra: Joe Matthews Hogue Hogue Moore Km, APr GaiV Network Paula paula rvuvtiAcu; sprinkle News with Akanaand Akanaand and Pamela Peter Howard Howard Youn9 Jennings Dashefsky Dashefsky KHNL 8 (NBC) Dan Cooke Network Dan Cooke Cooke, and Heidi News with and Heidi Umbhau, Umbhau Torn Brokaw Umbhau and Robert Kekauia KGM3 9(CES) TeriOkfta Network TimTindall TimTindatl news with and Jade and Jade Dan Rather Moon Moon New program Program notes: Starting Jan. 1, NBC network programs now seen on KHON will be broadcast on KHNL, the new NBC affiliate. FOX network programs now seen on KHNL will be aired on KHON the new Fox affiliate.

Prime-time network programs will be aired at the same times and on the days as scheduled now. Syndicated programs such as talk and quiz shows will not switch stations. I FIRST NIGHT: 11 need to buy a button to catch the entertainment at New Year's Eve gala works to lure customers to its bars FROMA-l Night Honolulu, which was estab by unpaid volunteers. but the perimeters of the wide- which is hilled as a "celebration of arts and entertainment," Ryan said. Buttons which were $6 before Christmas now cost $8, and will be meha statue, where a play written by a lawyer will be staged.

Ryan said there are tours from Japan that are planned to include First Night. "This year, people from Sydney, Australia, will be here to see what we do with an eye to starting their own First Night. Of them all, we are the richest culturally." Planners make sure there is a cultural mix which this year includes Filipino, Samoan, South American, Tahitian, Chinese, Scottish, Indian and East European music. lished to give people a festive alternative to ushering in the New Year with alcohol. Honolulu was the 50th place to create the new tradition.

There are now 160 First Night celebrations around the world, Ryan said. The organizers this year face a challenge to keep First Night separate from neighboring alcohol-based New Year events. They are particularly careful about distancing the event from Aloha Tower Marketplace, which offers a carnival midway and midnight fire and restaurants. "Theirs is a very different mission," said Ryan. "Ours is to sell safety excitement without getting blotto.

We're not anti-alcohol, we're saying 'spend this time together, get high on each Ryan was irate at a newspaper advertisement seeking paid workers for the Aloha Tower Marketplace carnival which used "First Night" a title which the nonprofit organization owns. It also underscored the contrast with First Night, which is staffed "We're not the only game in town, it used to be we were. Parking garages used to open for us. They can't do that anymore, now that there are alcoholic events." First Night, which initiated the Honolulu Harbor fireworks display, has changed its grand finale. "We are moving the closing ceremony away from waterfront to the municipal grounds with the most wonderful laser lights show this tow has ever seen.

It's going to be marvelous," Ryan said. There are more performances ranging party have been pulled in, partly in response to complaints about the long distance to walk, she said. The outer limits will be Kumu Kahua Theater at Merchant and Bethel streets, Grosvenor Center courtyard, St. Peter's Episcopal Church on Queen Emma Street and the Honolulu Police Department lawn on Alakea Street. The State Capitol courtyard and lawns will be back in use, Ryan said, and a new venue will be a 1913-vintage courtroom in Aliiola-ni Hale, behind the King Kameha- 0 at Longs Drugs, Safeway and Liberty House, and at all Oahu military ticket offices, About 1,000 musicians, actors, dancers, poets, acrobats, clowns and others will present more than 250 performances starting at 2:30 p.m.

Sunday. This is the sixth year of First.