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A-8 Friday. November 4. 1994 Strtivftllllptin THE NATION tsPsms: dlntonioi -t 4 leliveredV- 'We Siave 4 Associated Press crats can't take credit for the nation's economy. "We handed the new administration an econo my that grew," Busn asserted. Meanwhile, in an interview with a San Francisco radio station, Clin.

I I r. 4 Jobless rote hits 5.8 percent C-l Associated Press DULUTH, Minn. President Clinton today seized on a report showing unemployment at a four-year-low to assert "we have delivered" on the U.S. economy. We are moving In the right direction.

We don't need to turn back on this now," Clinton said at a rambunctious rally for Democratic Senate hopeful Ann Wynia. On a cross-country campaign blitz leading up to Tuesday's midterm elections, the president accused Republicans of being willing to sacrifice economic progress for partisan gain. He called the so-called GOP "Contract With America" to balance the budget and cut taxes "the economic equivalent of a hat trick." He said it would put the economy "back in the ditch." Earlier, speaking with reporters, Clinton said Republicans who refuse to give him any credit for the recovery "are playing to the, worst instincts of the American people." But, during a campaign stop in Omaha, for Republican candidates, former President George Bush said Clinton and the Demo- I 1 ton disputed a suggestion that his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, was stepping aside as the administration's main point person on health care because her efforts had become too high-profile. No. I don't think that's right at all," he told KGO Radio hi one of a series of interviews he did here in advance of his weekend campaign swing through California.

Clinton said he would renew efforts next year to win approval of health-care reform. "And I just need to go back at it in a way that is less vulnerable to the interest groups attacking it," he said. Today's Labor Department report in Washington that unemployment fell to its lowest level in four years gave the president new ammunition as he seeks to highlight his own accomplishments. It's clear that progress has been made," Clinton told reporters. "America has been growing the economy.

More than five million jobs have been created in the last 21 months. We have delivered what the American people have long wanted." lJ Associated Press Susan Smith covers her face as she is escorted from the York County Detention Center in Rock Hill, S.C., today on her way to Union, S.C., for her arraignment on charges of murdering her children. 2-B i WS TCre BMW mvm Change of air travel plans saved mother and her son or sank, aaitopssf Ms Military recruiters had a good year, but. WASHINGTON It's been a good year for military recruiting, but attracting qualified candidates may get tougher because young people aren't as interested in joining the ranks as in the past, Pentagon officials say. "That's worrisome," Edwin 1 Dora, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, told reporters yesterday.

The percentage of young people 16 to 22 years old who say they are "very likely or "likely" to enlist i has dropped from around 30 percent to 25 percent over the past several years, Dorn said. Dorn said the Pentagon was able to meet its recruiting goals for fiscal year 1994 and also scored the third-best year since 1972 in terms of high-quality recruits. Mistaken identity in Feinstein case? SANTA MONICA, Calif. The Guatemalan housekeeper whose employment for Sen. Dianne Feinstein has come under scrutiny in her race for re-election said today she had documents allowing her to work legally in the United States.

"Yes, I was legal," Annabella -Paiz said in a telephone interview. A newspaper published by strik-, ing San Francisco journalists reported yesterday that Paiz worked for Feinstein without a 1 work permit in the early 1980s, though that wasn't illegal then. The report resulted from a case of mistaken identity, the Immigra- tion and Naturalization Service said late yesterday. An INS spokes-l man, said the Annabella Paiz who lacked the work permit was a different person from the Paiz who worked for Feinstein. The INS was still investigating.

12 hurt when grenade explodes at school FOLKSTON, Ga. Weeping students talked with counselors and some went home today from the high school where 12 teen-a- gers were Injured by shrapnel from a grenade that exploded as a classmate passed it around. Gregory Douglas brought the 40 mm rifle grenade to music class at Charlton County High School yesterday and 16-year-old Shannon Chesser dropped it The device spit shrapnel at a dozen students in a blast felt a quarter-mile away. Chesser was in critical condition today. Two of the injured students were in serious condition and six, including Douglas, were in fair condition, hospital officials said.

Four were treated for shrapnel wounds and burns, then released. Douglas' stepfather, who used to work at nearby Fort Stewart, told police he brought home the grenade and four or five more. 12 jurors picked for Simpson trial LOS ANGELES They look more like his fans than his peers. One juror in the O.J. Simpson trial drives a Pepsi truck.

Two others work for the post office. There is an insurance claim ad-. juster, a flight attendant, a courier, a job counselor, a teacher and an Amtrak manager. 1 About the closest any of the 12 jurors come to being a peer of the millionaire football star and actor is a man who works in quality control for Hertz the company for which Simpson was a spokesman. Legal analysts said Simpson should be pleased with the panel selected yesterday.

Eight jurors are women, four are men. Eight are black, one white, one Hispanic and two of mixed race. Simpson is accused of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown i Simpson, and Ronald Goldman. The task of finding 15 alternates begins Tuesday. From Star-Bulletin news services American Airlines never collected the fee.

"They just looked at me funny when I checked in at Chicago," she said. "I was waiting for them to say, 'You owe us But the woman just told me to go right on the flight" Peterson didn't learn the fate of Flight 4184 until she got home in Santa Barbara. Her husband, who knew she had switched her plans, greeted her and their son Christopher in the driveway. "I told her she would have been kiUed," said Eric Peterson. "She thought it was a bad joke and I was making it up." Peterson said she kept asking her husband "You're kidding, right?" "But then I saw his face and I knew he wasn't making it up I grabbed hold of him and hugged him and my son." "It's hard to describe the feeling knowing you could have lost your whole family," he said.

"My son, and my wife, who is two months pregnant It's been an emotional roller coaster ride Associated Press LOS ANGELES When the airline said there would be a penalty to change her flight plans, Maria Peterson agreed to pay. She didn't know it was the price of her life and that of her 2-year-old son. The Santa Barbara woman had been booked on American Eagle Flight 4184, which crashed Monday en route from Indianapolis to Chicago, killing all 68 people aboard. Peterson, in Indiana for a friend's wedding, changed her plans after the bride and two other friends convinced her to drive with them to Chicago instead of flying. Dropping one leg of her flight she still needtxl to catch an American Airlines flight from Chicago to Los Angeles wasn't easy.

"The airline people gave me a hard time," she said. "They said if you don't use a portion of the ticket, it voids the whole thing. After arguing with a supervisor, she wrangled a deal for the $35 penalty. CNN, citing an unidentified source, said Smith became a strong suspect when police found a letter from a boyfriend telling her he wanted to be with her but he "did not want any kids around." WIS-TV in Columbia said it received a letter today from a lawyer representing a Tom Findlay of Union, identifying Findlay as the boyfriend. The statement said Findlay broke off the relationship with Smith on Oct.

18 because he was not ready to assume the responsibilities of being a father, the station reported. It also said he knew nothing about the killings. The Smiths filed for divorce in September. She was granted custody of the two children and her husband had visitation rights. Prosecutor Pope said Smith's confession led police to her car yesterday afternoon.

It had been driven of a boat ramp. David Smith's mother, Barbara Benson of Garden City, said her son is devastated. "He's locked in a room and he won't even talk to his father." "If she didn't want those children, she could have given them to me or any other mother in Union," said Karen Huss, who has two young children. "We would have taken them." Long, where a car with two small bodies was found. Emotions were high as Smith, 23, was driven from the York County Detention Center in Rock Hill, where she was held overnight, to the Union County courthouse for her hearing on two murder charges.

"Hold your head up! You're a baby murderer!" shouted Gloria Smith, one of those in the pack. After coming to the courthouse, though, Susan Smith opted not to attend a brief hearing. Her law- yer, David Bruck, waived her right to a bond hearing and Cir-; cuit Judge Larry Patterson saidi she would remain in custody without bond. Solicitor Thomas Pope," the prosecutor, had said he would consider seeking the death penal-; ty against Smith. Authorities said they don't be- lieve anyone else is involved.

They noted that they had not completed their investigation but said it did not appear Smith's estranged husband David or others would be implicated. "I would say it does not fit the scenario for anyone else to be involved," said Robert Stewart, chief of the State Law Enforcement Division. Officials have not discussed a motive in the killings. Associated Press UNION, S.C. An autopsy showed that two young boys were alive in their mother's car and they drowned once it hit the lake where they were found, a sheriff confirmed today.

The autopsy on 3-year-old Michael Smith and 14-month-old Alex was completed early this morning at the Medical University of South Carolina at Charleston. Sheriff Howard Wells would not directly confirm today what it showed. But when a reporter asked if it was accurate to say Michael and Alex were alive when the car entered the water, he responded: "Yes, that's an accu-; rate statement." Their mother, Susan Smith, had spun a heartbreaking tale of being dumped on a lonely road by a carjacker who abducted her two sons. Today, she was jeered by spectators and covered her face as she headed for the courthouse. Smith whose tearful pleas for her sons' return inspired a nationwide vigil, confessed to killing the two boys, according to an arrest warrant.

And the nine-day search by authorities and hundreds of volunteers ended where the mother's story began: at Lake John D. Small town's grief tups to anger Army cadets punished for fondling acts Reuters NEW YORK Three cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point have been demoted and lost their places on the school's football team as punishment for on- dling women cadets, the Academy said today. A disciplinary panel threw out cases against two other members of the Army team alleged to have "inappropriately touched" women cadets during a pep rally last month because of insufficient evidence, the Academy said. Fifteen women reported their breasts were brushed on Oct.

20 when 600 cadets, including 51 women, raced past the football team in a "spirit run" two days before a big game. "Three cadets have each received 33 demerits, 80 hours of walking punishment tours and 90 days restriction to the grounds of the Military Academy," the West Point statement said. Director of Public Affairs Lt Col. Don McGrath added that as part of the restriction, the players were barred from intercollegiate athletics and that their rank of corporal was being reduced to private. He said the rank can be reinstituted after the restriction period.

He said the "walking punishment" involved marching back and forth for hours with a rifle on the shoulder. The punishments ordered by the Regimental Board, the most serious disciplinary board for the Corps of Cadets, were close to the maximum of 90 days restriction and 90 hours "walking punishment" for such of fenses. On Oct. 25, Smith said an armed man jumped into her car at a stoplight, ordered her to drive several miles, then forced her out and drove off with her two sons still strapped in their safety seats. But Smith confessed yesterday, according to an arrest warrant.

Her car was pulled out of John D. Long Lake, the bodies of two children in the back seat. I Neighbor David Gibson, summed up the town's mood: "It drains you. The whole county's been used." The crowd around the county courthouse gasped as Sheriff Howard Wells said Smith would Associated Press UNION, S.C. Wrung but by a week of worry and heartache, residents of this town were devastated by news that Susan Smith had been charged with killing her two young sons.

1 think she deserves an Acade-' my Award for her acting," said Julie Hart feel, like I've lost two children," she continued. "Our hearts have been with that family for nine days now, and we kept the faith that the children would turn up alive. Tonight, Union County is filled with broken hearts." be charged. Toni Home, who had worked with Smith, cried on a friend's shoulder. I can't describe what's going On in my mind right now," Home said.

"Susan was always a very outgoing person, always smiling and laughing. It's just so hard for me to believe." Others weren't so kind. i "I just wanted to get to her and slap her," said Tommy Byrd. "She had no right of doing that to her two kids. The other thing that gets me is she stood up there and put on a show knowing what she did.

It feels like somebody just stabbed a knife through my heart." FROM PAGE ONE KHNL-TV: Station plans digital news operation on air in 1995 KHNL will use state-of-the-art technology to present the news news and local programming," Armstrong said. Craig Marrs, president of Northwest Cable News, a division of the Providence Journal, will serve as the station's news consultant. Marrs formerly them will have Hawaii ties. The station now has 75 employees. Armstrong said it's too early to talk about what the news operation will be like.

Still to be decided are the number of daily news served as a consultant at KHON, Armstrong said. KHNL now shares an building at 150-B Puuhale- The news operation will entail doubling KHNL's staff broadcasts, as well as the structure of the newscasts. Backed by its parent company, the Rhode Island-based Providence Journal Digital will bring videotape editing to desktop computers wisdom in investing in old video-tape-based Arm-) strong said. However, KHON's Rosenberg countered that "buying digital equipment is one thing and hav-, ing talent to run it is another." Despite speculation about an-1 chors and reporters from KHON, KITV4 and KGMB-TV, including former KGMB anchor Bob Jones, joining KHNL, Armstrong said he has not spoken to anyone about a news job. The station, however, is expecting "an avalanche" of appli- cations once ads begin running, he said.

The news operation will entail doubling KHNL's staff, building a news studio, possibly relocating from quarters on Puuhale Road, and purchasing equip-. ment, cars, vans, etc. In another words, starting from scratch. The Providence Journal Co. is 1 one of the 20 largest media com- panies in the nation and has TV stations in Seattle; Spokane; Portland, Charlotte N.C.; Boise, Idaho; and Louisville, Ky.

"The company believes in Star-Bulletin staff When KHNLrChannel 13 begins broadcasting its news program sometime next year, Hawaii viewers will be watching the end product of the latest technology in television production. Douglas L. Armstrong, president and general manager, says the station plans to be the first in the nation to use "nonlinear" technology that allows editing to be done on a desktop computer and eliminates the need for video tape editing. Editing on video tape is a time-consuming process," he said. "With disk-based video and editing, our reporters and photographers will have the luxury of staying with a story longer and be able to gather more facts and information.

Stories will become more meaningful" Nonlinear editing is "at least three times faster" than video tape editing, he said. The advanced pro FROM PAGE A-1 NBC tie although Rosenberg said he expected to be affiliated with the network "through the fall." As for KHNL entering the news market Rosenberg said he expects, "in a number of years, they will carve a niche for themselves. But starting off, it will be difficult," he predicted. "News is a real habit-viewing thing. It will be very difficult to attract viewers right off." For his part, Armstrong said it would take at least six months to complete plans, build a studio, buy equipment, design the news format and hire staff.

Beginning Monday, KHNL will run ads in national broadcast magazines looking for everything from a news director and executive producer to reporters, photographers and anchors, Armstrong said. He expects to hire between 40 and 70 people, hoping many of cess allows reporters "to be more creative, informative and understandable," he said. Editing on a computer allows fast cutting and pasting and graphics insertion "in a split second," Armstrong said. "The computer can match the speed and decision making of the reporter using if he said. "Editing is as fast as you can use a mouse." Disk-based video has not been widely integrated into television news because it's expensive and the technology requires massive storage capacity, Armstrong said.

According to the April issue of Broadcast Engineering, 1993 marked the start of a new era in broadcasting when tape-based library systems were replaced by disk-based units. The system was made possible by a combination of technological advancements including dramatic increases in the speed and storage capacity of computer disk drives. Road with KFVE, Channel 5. King Broadcasting Hawaii, another division of the Providence' Journal, owns KHNL, but operates KFVE through a brokerage' agreement with its owners, who are based on Guam. KHNL provides the program-, ming and advertising for KFVE- Armstrong said the change in affiliation should not affect KFVE, which 'now carries Uni-i versity of Hawaii sports.

Star-Bulletin writer Tim Ryan, contributed to this report KHNL has "made a commitment to be the first digital news operation in the United States," he That multimillion-dollar in-, vestment he declined to give any figures will include pur- chasing "nonlinear" equipment that would bring videotape editing to desktop computers. "Nonlinear editing is very expensive, but we do not see the.