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Mail Janua 3 i 19 9 8 Saturday Afternoon 5 0 0 ON A II Pea Fosmu Steelers scor I W' Basketball First Now Norfolk State? UH wary of letdown.C-1 Cn TVt 7:30 p.m., KFVE At first and hang on to beat Pats Pittsburgh's home-field advantage in the AFC playoffs was too much for the injury-riddled Patriots. C-l College Football Nebraska's 42-17 whompingof Tennessee threw the polls into a tizzy. So who is Number to ease With success under his belt, Clinton accepts smaller victories. B-l Police will extend their 24-hour patrol at Mayor Wright Housing By Jaymes K.Song and Rod Ohira Star-Bulletin 1 Police are patrolling the Mayor Wright Housing project in Kalihi around the clock, worried about repercussions following the fatal shooting there of an 18-year-old man by an off-duty officer on New Year's Day. Clinton urges Medicate for people 62-64 He will also propose restoring food stamps for immigrants Peace Corps call.

A5 Associated Press WASHINGTON President Clinton's next budget will include proposals to expand Medicare to offer benefits to tome people under age 65 and restore food stamp benefits that legal immigrants lost in the 1996 welfare overhaul, according to published reports. The Medicare proposal would permit people between 62 and 64 to pay up to 400 a month for health coverage, according to The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal That would mark the first time in Medicare's three-decade history that people under age 65 could obtain coverage. The plan would enable people who often cannot afford private insurance a chance to obtain coverage and repay the fees through a surcharge after they reach age 65, in order to spread the cost over more years, the Post reported today. The food stamp proposal would restore benefits lost through the 1996 welfare overhaul by some 800,000 legal immigrants who are not yet citizens. The change would cost roughly $2 billion over five years.

The administration is not yet sure whether the restored benefits should apply to all legal immigrants or only those in the country when the bill became law last August, the Post said. In addition, officials are looking at targeting the benefits toward the neediest groups, such as children, the disabled and the elderly. Both plans will be part of Clinton's fiscal 1999 budget to be formally un-PLEASE SEE CLINTON, A-7 Rell Sunn Cancer (ills Rell Sunn, surf legend Star-Bulletin staff Legendary female surfer Rell Sunn died at about 9 p.m. last night at her home in Makaha, ending a long bout with cancer. "I'm happy because she's not suffering any more," said Momi Kekaulana, her aunt.

Sunn was best known as being at one time one of the world's top-rated professional surfers. She had many affectionate nicknames, among them the "Queen of Makaha" and "Surfing's Sunny Ambassador." Surfing Magazine called her the "Gracious Lady of Surfing." Sunn was born in Makaha and began surfing when she was 4 years old. By the time she was 14, she was competing in surf meets and won her first of many contests when she was 16. She' helped organize the Women's Surfing Hui and the Women's Professional Surfing Association. In 1975 she founded the women's prof essional tour.

She ranked first in the International Professional Surfing ratings brief ly in 1982. An announcement of services is pending. INDEX' weaVt HER A 'J The shooting already has been connected to an attempt early this morning to run over two housing residents who exchanged words about the incident with two men, one of whom has been arrested for attempted murder in today's incident. "We have stepped up manpower because of potential problems and because the officer's family lives there," said Lt. William Kato.

The patrols began immediately after a Kalihi Valley Homes resident, identified by the medical examiner as Benedict Farewell Manupule, was shot and killed by the officer, who was visiting his mother. Police said they had planned to return to normal patrol strength but expect to remain longer because of today's develop-, ments. A man and a woman, both 28 and residents of the project, were standing on a sidewalk near the housing project at 12:45 a.m. when two males drove up and started arguing with them, police said. The suspects drove off but returned five to Another wonderful kept l': I minutes later and exchanged words with them again, in effect asking why they shot Manupule, according to police reports.

They then allegedly attempted to run over the victims, missed and drove away. Police said they were arrested after colliding with another vehicle at Waiakamilo Road and North King Street. The driver, a 19-year-old McCully man, was arrested on two counts of attempted murder and drunken driving. The passen-- PLEASE SEE KALIHI, A-7 Kennedy 1997 interesting Associated Press U.S. Rep.

Joseph P. Kennedy, gazes into the hearse containing the body of his brother Michael today outside Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville, Mass. Michael Kennedy was killed in a skiing accident Dec. 31, 1997, in Aspen, Colo. He was the latest of a number of Kennedys to fall victim to premature deaths.

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Details, A-2. Vol 87, No. 3 28 Pages. 3 Sections Copyright 1998 Honolulu Star-Bulletin All Rights Reserved Online http:starbulletin.com E-MAIL editorstarbulletin.com ii Weird, From Monopoly to a gorilla that nabbed a robber, the year gone by wasn't short on the unusual RAISE a glass this New Year to the fruit that closed down an airport, the penguins that wore sun cream and the dog that spent five days with its head stuck in a bubble-gum jar. If human foibles are more to your taste, crack the champagne for the butcher who minced his earnings, the woman who won a worst-infested house award and the Canadians who spent $110 to find out if they had bad breath.

It is time to greet the New Year with a toast to the weird and wonderful stories that found their way into the world's headlines in 1997. There was good news indeed in Singapore where it was announced that convictions for urinating in lifts had plummeted. Urine-sniffing detectors were given much of the credit Less successful was the first annual "Madrid Marijuana Cup" competition for best cannabis crop at a Spanish growers festival. The judges were in no condition to decide. One passed out completely.

Five Belgians, meanwhile, celebrated a world record for playing Monopoly under water for 30 hours. No one appears to have asked why. Turmoil on the world's stock markets may have had its unexpected side effects. A scientific expert in Israel suggested that stress from such occurrences can cause male sexual impotence adding new meaning to the phrase market downturn. PLEASE SEE WEIRD, A-5 By Jeremy Gaunt Reutert 0.