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Irene Smith, a spokeswoman for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, said it will register between 3.1 and 3.4 on the Richter sale but that "there will be no adverse effects to surrounding facilities either on or off the Nevada Test Site." Tegnelia described the ground-level blast, dubbed "Divine Strake," as an experiment to assess so-called bunker-buster weapons currently in development. The test "allows us to be able to predict how well they can work against granite, hard structures." A strake is a strip of planking along the side of a boat or a device on an aircraft's fuselage for controlling air flow. Defense Intelligence Agency and Central Intelligence Agency officials have testified that potential adversaries such as North Korea and Iran increasingly burrow their secret weapons and command centers into well-protected underground bunkers. The June test "represents to us the largest single explosive that we could imagine doing conventionally to. solve that problem" of destroying underground bunkers, Tegnelia said.

The huge explosion 85 miles Neal Blaisdell Exhibition Hall 8:00 pm Admission: FREE mm immmwwmmhw "The First Step To A Beautiful Home" 8-5 Sat. 9-2 Sun. Closed QC3 727 Waiakamilo Rd, Bay Bl-2 OJj" If 1 I -z smim The June experiment will be used to build weapons to destroy underground bunkers By Eric Rosenberg Hearst Newspapers WASHINGTON The Pentagon plans to explode a massive 700-ton conventional bomb on June 2 at the Nevada atomic test site as part of a U.S. military program to develop weapons for destroying underground enemy bunkers. The blast will be one of the largest explosive tests since the end of the Cold War.

"It is the first time in Nevada that you'll see a mushroom cloud since we stopped testing nuclear weapons," James Tegnelia, head of the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency, said Thursday. North Carolina starts up lottery State law earmarks at least 35 percent of lottery proceeds for educational purposes By Gary Robertson Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. Jean Davis wanted to add a little excitement to the gathering at her house Thursday night, so she slipped in to a local grocery. She found just the ticket or rather, a dozen $1 lottery tickets, enough to give one to each guest. "I'm actually having a lottery party," Davis said.

"Everybody's going to be scratching lottery tickets, and whoever wins is going to take the rest of us to dinner." Lottery officials also had reason to celebrate. People like Davis helped retailers sell at least $6.5 million in tickets by midafternoon on the first day that the state lost its label as the only East Coast state without the games. "We're very happy with these numbers," said lottery executive director Tom Shaheen, who estimated that sales would reach more than $10 million for the entire day. Attracted by the promise of $400 million annually for education and spurred on by Gov. Mike Easley, the General Assembly narrowly passed a lottery last summer, following the lead of 41 other states and all of its neighbors.

"Why should we be giving our money to Virginia, South Carolina and Tennessee?" Sarah Haynes asked after buying 40 $1 tickets at a gas station north of downtown Raleigh. She was wearing a jacket emblazoned with the logo of an out-of-state casino. "Taxes are already too high." MORE. THAN 5,000 retailers statewide began selling tickets at 6 a.m., shortly after State Board of Education Chairman Howard Lee bought the ceremonial first tickets at dawn. "This is fantastic," Lee said, holding up the tickets at the lottery's Raleigh office.

"This is a great day in the state of North Carolina." By midday, Lee had given his five $1 tickets to North Carolina Teacher of the Year Wendy Miller, who won $10 that she then gave back to the state. At least 35 percent of the i Washington plans to alert the Russian government beforehand to explain that the seismic activity is not a nuclear test, Tegnelia said. The U.S. atomic bomb that destroyed Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 had an explosive yield equal to 22,000 tons of conventional explosives. Any mushroom cloud kicked into the atmosphere by the June explosion would be free of radioactive debris because the bomb is not a nuclear weapon and the ground where the explosion will occur was never used for atomic explosions, Smith added.

During the Cold War, testing of such massive conventional bombs was more commonplace. In tests at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, for example, the military exploded 4,744 tons of explosives in 1985. Casino thief wins 5 years in prison Associated Press LAS VEGAS A former armored car driver who drove off with nearly $2.95 million from a Las Vegas casino and spent more than a decade in hiding was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison. Heather Tallchief, 34, told a judge she accepted responsibility and wanted to make amends for the October 1993 heist from the Circus Circus hotetcasino. Tallchief fled to the Netherlands after the theft.

Her former boyfriend, an ex-convict, remains a fugitive in the case. The money has never been found, and Tallchief contends he has it. In court Thursday, she promised to reimburse Loomis Armor Inc. and its insurance carrier with any money earned from a Hollywood movie deal based on her story. But she said she wanted most to establish an identity and a future for her son, now 1 1 and living in Amsterdam.

"If I have a life's achievement, that kid's it," she said. Tallchief surrendered in September and pleaded guilty in October to bank and credit union embezzlement and passport fraud. Before handing down the sentence, federal Judge Philip Pro listened to nearly a full day of testimony about whether Tallchief had been "brainwashed" into the crime by her then-boyfriend, Roberto Solis. The defense also played a video with testimonials from friends who knew Tallchief as Donna Eaton when she was hiding in Amsterdam. "But I see this case really, painfully, for what it is," the judge said as he chose the maximum five-year, three-month sentence under federal sentencing guidelines.

With time already served and good behavior, Tallchief could be out of prison by the end of 2009, said her lawyer, Robert Axelrod. U.S. Attorney Daniel Bog-den said prosecutors were satisfied with the sentence. Tallchief maintains that she left Solis, the boy's father, after the couple had arrived in the Netherlands. Her lawyers say Solis has the money and that Tallchief does not know where he is.

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Across the state Thursday, early customers bought lottery tickets along with their coffee and snacks. When Brian Regling stopped at a Raleigh convenience store, a clerk and the store manager were still reading instructions about the game. "It's been too long coming, that's for sure," said Regling, who with a friend Tim Bradford scratched off a losing ticket. On the Net N.C. Education Lottery: www.

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