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NATIONAL NEWS A-3 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1 995 I 11 JQ DA tarns Bfis spes 1 I I i ill V'rV- i i lie 2) ft i rx Fatal fall of 3 still puzzling There were apparently no witnesses to the scene on the roof at Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) -The roof of the Wood Street parking garage offers a panoramic vista across the Wabash River valley. The view stretches past the dome of the Tippecanoe County courthouse and onto the wooded hillside beyond, blazing with fall color. The picturesque scene was the last ever seen by 11 -year-old Sean Kent, his brother, Kyle, 8, and their mother, Kathy Kent, before the three plunged to their deaths in an alley eight stories below. The tragedy Wednesday afternoon on Purdue University's campus left many unanswered questions, including whether the "It's the kind of information we provide to the Department of Defense in military situations," said Miller.

"It's one of the things we're good at." Chalmers said his agency has access to a wide range of sources. "I can call up the Air Force and say I need a U-2 spy plane," he said. In that case, the photos would be shipped to the CIA for analysis. The best available examples of what this cooperation produces computer-generated maps that use color codes to show the areas of greatest damage. A map of St.

Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands right after it was hit by Hurricane Marilyn in September showed areas of devastation as bright red and heavy damage as violet. A map of Florida's Miramar Beach area after it was hit by Hurricane Opal pinpointed flooding in dark blue and noted where a shore-front road was washed out and where another was blocked by sand and a third by debris. The map also showed the location of hospitals, churches and schools. Hurricane damage often bears an eerie resemblance to the havoc from bombing.

"We look for bomb hits," said analyst Ted Donaldson. "We look for these same kind of features." to help officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency determine which roads are open, which areas are flooded, where is the worst damage to housing. Mike Chalmers, a FEMA intelligence officer, said that when an earthquake struck Southern California in January 1994, CIA analysts came up with the fact that 23 languages were spoken in the hardest-hit area, information essential for communicating with victims. Sensitive to concerns about any domestic activity by the CIA, officials said more than once that when FEMA asks the CIA for help, the request is first scrutinized by the relief agency's lawyers and then is run by CIA legal counsel to make sure it is allowed under federal law. Miller wouldn't discuss all the tools at the disposal of the CIA.

Most of the data comes from photo reconnaissance by satellites and aircraft which is then analyzed and fed into computers. To complete the picture there is an element of what in the spy business is called HUMINT or human intelligence. In the case of disasters HUMINT presumably is what people are getting from news reports and conversations with local officials, as well as from the Internet. But the details fell within the area that Miller was unwilling to discuss. fi AP photo by Chns O'Meara COLUMBIA CREW MEMBERS walk out of the Operations and Checkout Building today for a trip to Launch Pad 39-B and a mission that has been scrubbed six previous times.

Lucky No. 7 works as Columbia blasts off Hurricane and flood damage reports give the agency a chance to serve a public role By Donald M.Rothberg Associated Press diplomatic writer WASHINGTON As Hurricane Opal bore down on Okaloosa County. the CIA was watching. The spy agency also had its eye on the Missouri River when it overflowed its banks last May. Using the same techniques it applies to assessing the situation on the battlefields of Bosnia or the Persian Gulf, the CIA is helping federal disaster relief officials get an accurate picture of the impact of natural calamities.

At a time when the agency is eager to improve its image, the CIA was delighted to talk Thursday about this kind of spying to a point. "I really can't get into a lot of detail about how collection works," said Connie Miller, head of the CIA's disaster response team. Natural disasters are an exception to the legal ban on domestic activity by the CIA. It uses its formidable collection and analytical skills Navy office? cleared of harassment WASHINGTON (AP) The highest-ranking naval officer to face court martial since World War II has been acquitted on all counts in a sexual harassment case. A jury of six male and two female senior naval officers on Thursday acquitted Capt.

Everett L. Greene, former head of the Navy's equal-opportunity office, which is responsible for handling sexual harassment complaints. Greene, 47, is a Naval Academy graduate and SEAL commando leader now stationed in San Diego. He had refused to accept the Navy's offer of a "nonjudicial" disciplinary procedure because he said he wanted a public trial. "I would say some good came out of it," Greene said today on ABC's "Good Morning America." "The Navy takes all allegations seriously regardless of the seniority of the accuser." Greene remains in position for promotion to rear admiral, but as with all flag officer promotions, the Senate Armed Services Committee must approve it first.

Greene had been at the forefront of the Navy's effort to combat sexual harassment after the 1991 Tail-, hook scandal in which sailors and 1 a safe flight. Scientists were stressed, to say the least, going into the latest countdown. They had been stocking and restocking Columbia with laboratory specimens since launch try No. 1 on Sept. 28.

Columbia is loaded with $101 million worth of science experiments. During the 16-day mission one of the longest shuttle flights ever -Bowersox and his crew will grow protein and semiconductor crystals, study fluids, set controlled fires and tend to potato plants. Researchers say the crystals could lead to improved medications and faster computers. In a fashion similar to what's planned for the international space station in the late 1990s, scientists at several U.S. sites will operate their instruments aboard Columbia by remote control.

In a shuttle first, one of Columbia's two huge cargo-bay doors will be partly closed to shield coolant loops from space junk. Both doors normally are kept wide open to let heat escape. The mission has at least one other first: Navy Cmdr. Michael Lopez-Alegria is the first Spanish-born person in space. They're due back at Kennedy Space Center on Nov.

5. tl boys had been pushed. They fell first, followed seconds later by their mother. Sfanwasan articulate child who smoothly em- talent show. Kathy Kent Kyle was a gifted student and soccer enthusiast.

Mrs. Kent, 44, was closely involved in their schooling in this city about 50 miles northwest of Indianapolis. At Murdoch Elementary School, former classmates of the boys wrote letters of condolence that were displayed in the school library. "We are sorry," one read. "I am still just absolutely shocked," said Dianna Chalk, principal at Murdoch, where both boys were students last school year.

"I talked to a school counselor today and one of the things he said that made sense to me was, you can't explain the illogical with logic," she said. Officials initially suspected it was a murder-suicide, but later said they were unsure what "There just aren'J enough pieces of information together yet," said Purdue spokeswoman Jeanne V. Norberg. Although witnesses saw the three fall from the top floor of the garage, investigators said no one had been found who saw what happened in the moments before their deaths. The Kents' minivan was found parked on the top floor of the garage, near the 3'-foot-high wall over which the three plunged.

The sliding door was open and Mrs. Kent's purse was inside. The boys' father, Thomas Kent, a delivery truck driver, was in seclusion, "having a tough time," said a next door neighbor, who refused to give his name. "They were really close to their kids." 47f 'hII If AP photo by Tyler Mallory NAVY CAPT. EVERETT GREENE, right, listens to his attorney, Lt.

Cmdr. William Little in Washington last week. Greene was acquitted Thursday on sexual harassment TIME SWEETEST nwwrnr si 17 ir Riot quelled at Alabama federal prison SWEETEST DAY OCT. 21 ONE DOZEN ROSES I I ARRWr.FH $2995 PaMr wrapped J. IS Bad weather and technical troubles had kept the seven astronauts earthbound for three weeks CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

(AP) -After six vexing delays, space shuttle Columbia and its crew blasted into orbit today on a science mission that will foreshadow life on NASA's planned international space station. The 4.5 million-pound spaceship rose from its seaside pad at 9:53 a.m., three minutes late because of a minor communications problem that was quickly resolved. The seven astronauts were thrilled to finally be on their way. "We can't wait to get to work," shuttle commander Kenneth Bo-wersox said. Columbia was three weeks late taking off because of bad weather and all sorts of technical trouble.

Its six launch scrubs tied a shuttle record, set by Columbia nearly 10 years ago. Low clouds and rain this morning almost forced a record-breaking seventh delay. NASA said the weather improved enough to allow others took refuge in the prison chapel after they heard a loud noise and saw a gang of inmates with baseball bats. Some inmates protected them in the chapel, where they stayed for 30 to 45 minutes before being rescued, she said. The prison houses more than 1,500 federal convicts just outside the city, about 40 miles east of Birmingham.

The prison was the site of a 10-day siege by Cuban detaine'es in 1991, also in the maximum-security unit. Phillips said Cubans were not involved in Thursday's melee. Brasher said the disturbance began in what is known as the "Alpha" unit, which houses maximum-security inmates. The rebellion in 1991 also took place there. Rickey Garrett was one of 250 people evacuated from a sports complex behind the prison about 7:30 p.m.

about an hour after city police said the riot broke out. The Talladega man said flames were visible from the road. Center Art Galleries-Hawaii in 1987. "Sothebry's and Christie's aren't interested in selling fraudulent art," Rademaker said. "So by default, I guess it kind of came to us." Not all the items are fakes.

About 150 original and limited reproduction works will be auctioned, including a limited edition reproduction of a Woody Woodpecker oil painting by the cartoon's creator, Walter Lantz. 2t 53? Florist and GiftsXThe "Valley Floral Leader 753 North Mnin Sr.Oslik.sh 533 South Commercial St.Neeiinli 231-2890 725-9966 Eight were injured and fires were set before control was regained early today TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) Inmates, some with baseball bats, fought with guards, broke windows and set fire to three prison buildings in a riot that started as a quarrel in a prison yard. Authorities, eventually regained control. Six staffers at the Talladega Federal Correctional Institution were injured, along with two inmates, said Rich Phillips, a Justice Department spokesman.

The riot began about 6:15 p.m. Thursday and was quelled shortly after midnight. Prison spokeswoman Corliss Morange said this morning that the prison had been quiet overnight; efforts were Under way this morning to assess damage. The disturbance started with a group of inmates arguing in a yard in a maximum-security area, Phil- Marines harassed and sexually abused female colleagues at a Las Vegas convention. Greene's accuser, Lt.

Mary Felix, worked in the Equal Opportunity-Division of the Bureau of Naval Personnel in 1993. She counseled callers to a sexual harassment hot line that was set up as a response to Tailhook. Greene was her boss. The charges against Greene were fraternization, sexual harassment and conduct unbecoming an officer TENNESSEE i Prison disturbance under control Birmingham Montgomery ALABAMA jl sv. FLORIDA 100 miles Gulf of Mexico 100 km AP lips said.

After scuffling with guards who tried to stop the fight, the inmates scattered throughout the prison, breaking windows and setting fires, he said. Of the eight people injured, one president of Koll-Dove Global Disposition Services. "We're not trying to put anything over on people. We're flat-out advertising them as faux." Koll-Dove hopes'the notoriety of one of Hawaii's most infamous art fraud cases will attract curious collectors. Among the offerings are phony Salvador Dali works, including a faked "Trojan Horse" sculpture and faux "Lincoln in Dalivision." All the Dali prints will be stamped for writing suggestive cards and poems to Felix and giving her small gifts.

Similar charges against Greene based on allegations by a female lawyer in the Navy office were dismissed last week. Greene, who is married and the father of three children, acknowledged writing to Felix over a 10-month period but insisted that he did nothing wrong and that Felix had misconstrued his concern for her well-being. inmate and one guard were hospitalized overnight, Morange said. She did not have their condition this morning; earlier, Phillips said the injuries were not life-threatening. The other six injured people were treated arid released.

Talladega Fire Chief Roy Johnson said it took up to 45 minutes before firefighters could enter the prison to battle flames because inmates had controlled areas of the complex. Ronald Jemison, a firefighter who entered the prison complex, said 50 to 60 armed guards with flack jackets helped control the riot. Three buildings had burned, but that sprinkler systems had prevented any from burning to the ground, he said. Fires knocked out power in part of the prison, and buses moved some inmates to the county jail, State Trooper William Brasher said. Sheila Anderson, who was working in the prison, told CNN she and "fraudulent" on the back.

Many still have the gallery price tags intact, showing prices of up to $45,000. Also up for sale are original and reproduced images from the pre-Surrealist painter Marc Chagall, and from entertainers Anthony Quinn, Tony Curtis and Red Skelton. The auction house is selling the phony art for the U.S. Postal Service, which seized the works in a wire and mail fraud case against LAST CHANCE TENT SALE! ALL REMAINING RESIDENTIAL LIGHTING BATH VANITY CHANDELIERS HALL FOYER OUTDOOR Auction house to sell fake Dalis from huge art. fraud case QUANTITIES LIMITED OCTOBER 19, 20 21 HOURS: THURSDAY 8-5 FRIDAY 8-5 SATURDAY 10-2 By The Associated Press Foster City, Calif.

If the price of infamy is high, auctioneers should rake in a fortune when 12,000 artworks mostly fakes from a huge Hawaiian art fraud case gp on the block Saturday. "There's actually some really, really terrific pieces of art here," said John Rademaker, vice crescent electric supply company wwju.