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I A2 THE MORNING CALL, MONDAY, JULY 10, 2000 -1 1 1 I K- J. I I 1 1 Kuwait to increase oil export capacity KUWAIT (AP) Kuwait will work to raise its export capacity to 3 million barrels a day over the next three years, the director of the Kuwait Oil Co. said Sunday. Abdullah al-Toura told reporters a $650 million project to expand production was approved Saturday by the Kuwait Petroleum the umbrella company for all state-owned oil operations. The official declined to give an exact figure for Kuwait's present export capacity, but said it was the same as its production capacity, which is estimated at more than 2.2 million barrels a day.

He said the project, which would take up to three and a half years to be finished, will include expansion of export facilities in the south of the country, building a pump complex and increasing the number of piers. In the United States, gas prices dropped an average of 4.45 cents a gallon nationwide in the past two weeks, marking the first decline since prices began skyrocketing two months ago, an analyst said. The weighted average price of gasoline dipped to $1.6689 Friday, according to the DODGING SLAVERY Spike Lee: The Patriot' is complete 'whitewash' In a scathing letter to The Hollywood Reporter, filmmaker Spike Lee has slammed Mel Gibson's Revolutionary War epic "The Patriot" calling the film "a complete whitewashing of history." The outspoken African-American director of "Summer of Sam," "Malcolm and "Do the Right Thing" slammed "The Patriot's" makers for ignoring blacks and Native Americans. "For three hours. The Patriot' dodged around, skirted about or completely ignored slavery," Lee wrote in his letter published Thursday.

"How convenient was it for screenwriter Robert Rodat to have Mel Gibson's character not be a slaveholder?" Lee says the movie leaves out important historical details. "Let's not forget that two of 'the founding fathers George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, owned numerous slaves. The Patriot' is pure, blatant American Hollywood propaganda," Lee continued. MARRIAGE MADE ON ICE Kristi Yamaguchi weds NHL player Bret Hedican Actress Rosie Perez speaks at an AIDS summit in Cambridge, Mass. Kristi Yamagu-chi's singles days are over.

Yamaguchi, who won a gold medal in figure skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics, married hockey player Bret Hedican of the Florida Panthers on Saturday in an outdoor ceremony on the Kohala Coast in Hawaii. Yamaguchi, 28 first met Hedican, 29, BIT AINT ROSIE Actress-activist refuses to visit dying mother Actress Rosie Perez, an outspoken AIDS activist, recently refused to visit her estranged mother, who is dying of the disease, according to a report published Friday. However, Perez bristled at any suggestion that she had neglected her mother. "While it is accurate to say she is not the woman who raised me and we are somewhat estranged, I have always wished for her the best of health and continue to offer my support in that regard," Perez said in a statement. "As a strong AIDS activist I have pleaded with my mother to accept my assistance through whatever connections I may have within the AIDS community.

She has refused it" Perez said. "I have also offered her financial assistance, which was accepted." The Daily News reported that Lydia Perez has had AIDS for six years and now is near death. It quoted an unidentified nurse attending Lydia Perez as saying that Rosie Perez last visited her mother on New Year's Day, when she brought her a hamburger and fries from "I thought rock and roll was a different form of show business. I thought it unlocked something different about the human spirit and about the artistic process. And of course it didn't" Pete Townshend 55, guitarist and songwriter for The Who From Call news services when they both represented the Unit- Bret Hedican ed States in the Olympics at Albertville.

The two became reac-quainted three years later in Vancouver, British-Columbia, where Hedican was playing for the Canucks. Among the 300 guests at the wedding were fellow Olympians Scott Hamilton, Peggy Fleming, Brian Boitano, Ekaterina Gordeeva and Todd Eldredge. Inmates seize section 'of jail in New Mexico T1EERA AMARILLA, N.M. (AP) More than 50 inmates overpowered guards and held control of part a county jail for about 12 hours before surrender- ing to authorities Sunday morning. No injuries were reported at Rio Arriba County jail, and there were no es- ,1 capes, but the inmates did so much dam- age, the entire jail had to be cleared out, state police Sgt.

Greg Toya said. All of the inmates in the county jail, which houses 86, were transferred to the Santa Fe County jail, he said. The melee began as a fight among inmates in one of the jail's three "pods" at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday. When guards tried to quell the disturbance, they were overpowered, officials said.

Joya said two SWAT teams entered the jail about 7 a.m. and cleared out the entire facility. He said the inmates coop-; erated with law enforcement. Flag supporters rally at NAACP convention BALTIMORE (AP) Protesters waved the Confederate flag outside the NA-" ACP's national convention Sunday and defended the banner that the civil rights organization has deemed a symbol of slavery. -The protesters, members of three conservative groups, say the NAACP's 9-year-old campaign to have the banner removed from all public properties is an attack on Southern heritage and culture.

The Confederate flag was recently removed from atop the South Carolina statehouse dome after the NAACP called for a tourism boycott of the state. Protesters believed Georgia, which incorporates the Confederate flag into its state flag, was the next target. They warned that flags would not be lowered across the south without a fight. Kweisi Mfume, president of the Nation-'1 Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the protesters, who were "to some extent racist," were only hurting themselves and anyone who examined them closely would find them "repugnant." Women want to serve as AME church bishops (AP) Female members -of the African Methodist Episcopal Church say it's time to elect the first woman bishop in the denomination's 213-year history. As 1,800 delegates prepared for Monday's election of bishops at the church's general conference, a roomful of women active in various levels of the 2.3 million-member denomination said the AME Church should not be male-controlled.

5 they said the majority of the church's members are women and that women have served for years as pastors and as elders who oversee pastors. The group of activists introduced a resolution Friday asking the committee that oversees election of bishops to recommend electing a woman. Manslaughter charged in youth hockey fight READING, Mass. (AP) A man accused of a beating another father at a hockey game has been charged with manslaughter. Middlesex County District Attorney Martha Coakley said Sunday investigators have obtained a complaint and arrest warrant for Thomas Junta, 42, in the death of 40-year-old Michael Costin.

Junta allegedly beat Costin unconscious on Wednesday in a dispute over rough play in a youth hockey game, and Costin died Friday. Costin had been out on the ice with a group of youngsters, all about 10 years old, including his three sons and Junta's son. The hockey game was supposed to be non-contact, but police say Junta got agitated when things got rough and some of the players engaged in checking. the arrest warrant for Junta, who was originally charged with assault and battery, came after an autopsy by the state medical examiner's office concluded Cos-tin died of blunt force trauma. Coakley said Junta was charged with manslaughter because there was no indication of intent to kill.

$246,026 Cash 5 jackpot will go to single winner HARRISBURG (AP) One player matched all five winning numbers drawn in Sunday's Pennsylvania Cash 5 game and will collect a jackpot worth $246,026, a lottery official said. Acting lottery director Al Taylor said 120 players matched four numbers and won $405.50 each; 4,956 players matched three numbers and won $10.50 each; and 56,222 players matched two numbers and won $1 each. Lundberg Survey of 10,000 stations. Killer typhoons hit Taiwan, Japan TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) As a killer typhoon left Japan, another one hit Taiwan Sunday morning, cutting power, shutting down airports, and causing a grisly car accident that left one dead. In southern Taiwan, power outages in Taitung city and Pingtung county affected more than 3,000 homes, while authorities canceled flights, trains, and boats as the typhoon moved north at 17 mph.

Kai Tak came ashore packing with winds of up to 93 mph, Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau said. The storm brushed Taipei before moving off the northern tip of the island and into the East China Sea with 81 mph winds. Typhoon Kirogi killed five people in Japan, including two 11-year-old boys who were found drowned Sunday in a water-filled ditch. Bombs kill at least 7 in southern Russian MOSCOW (AP) Two bombs exploded at an outdoor food market and a department store in southern Russia on Sunday, killing at least seven people and wounding 18 others. The explosion at the market in Vladikavkaz, the regional capital of North Ossetia, came more than a year after a bomb at the same marketplace killed more than 50 people.

Russian officials blamed the March 1999 bombing on separatists from Chechnya, the breakaway republic that borders North Ossetia. Sunday's market bombing killed at least five people and wounded 16, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. An explosive device was placed under a car near the market entrance, ministry spokesman Vasily Yurchuk said. The other explosion Sunday, in a department store in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, killed two people and wounded two others. Domestic flight crashes in Mexico, killing 19 SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (AP) A twin-engine passenger plane crashed on a domestic flight from the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, killing all 19 people aboard, authorities said Sunday.

1 AeroCaribe flight 7831, carrying 17 pas- sengers and two crew members, crashed Saturday evening after it left the Chiapas' state capital of Tuxtla Gutierrez on a short flight to Villahermosa, capital of the neighboring Gulf coast state of Tabasco. The dead included four children, 13 adults, and two pilots. All but two of those aboard were be- lieved to be Mexican citizens, said Jose Ferroso, manager of AeroCaribe's main offices. Iranian leader Khatami to visit Germany today BERLIN (AP) Iranian President Mohammad Khatami begins a visit to Germany today, aiming to continue a slow warming of relations with western Europe and set the stage for German companies to revive once-booming business with Iran. Khatami's visit the first by an Irani an leader to Germany since the 1979 Islamic revolution has prompted heavy security measures by German authorities to keep The Morning Call's "A Change of Heart" is a community health project that educates people about heart disease and encourages them to adopt healthier lifestyles.

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