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NationWorld as News Herald, Port Clinton, Ohio, Saturday, April 10, 1999 Natural disasters Storm kills 4, destroys hundreds of houses Fcrmsr Clyds nssn Is row Ash 1 i i i Skw, Jj -art AT Associated Press CINCINNATI Thunderstorms killed four people and destroyed hundreds of homes before daybreak Friday, sweeping down power lines and ripping trees up and roofs off. Manicured, half-acre yards in affluent suburbs were Uttered with piles of brick, broken two-by-fours and tattered roofs. Shopping center parking lots were strewn with broken glass, and sheet metal that had been siding was wrapped around utility poles. "Trees, huge trees, looked like some large mower with a rotary blade went through and sheared them all off," said Richard Tuten, mayor of suburban Montgomery. At least 42 people were treated at hospitals, most with bruises or cuts.

Jill Cole said her family could not return to their home in Montgomery. "I think it's a bulldozer job," she said. "It's like a war zone." The National Weather Service did not immediately determine whether it was a tornado that struck the area, forecaster Brian Coniglio said Officials were waiting to inspect the pattern of damage. The state Emergency Management Agency estimated 200 homes were destroyed in Cincinnati's northeast suburbs. The storm also damaged houses in a western Ohio county and flipped campers at a dealership near Daytoa The utility company Cinergy estimated that 200,000 customers lost power when the storm hit, and service was still out for 32,000 cus- Associated Press A man and woman hug as they search for belongings outside their tornado-damaged home Friday in the Cincinnati suburb of Blue Ash.

Airstrikes hammer Yugoslavia, bid for soldiers' release fails service News Herald reports Former Clyde city manager Dennis Aibrinck was busy with damage cleanup after heavy storms swept through southern Ohio early Friday morning. Aibrinck is now the service director in Blue Ash, a suburb of Cincinnati. He left Clyde in February 1996. Aibrinck was unavailable to comment Friday because he was tomers Friday afternooa Two people were killed in a house, and two in separate car crashes, the Hamilton County coroner said The State Highway Patrol said one victim, Donald E. Lewis, 38, of Blanchester, was killed about 5:15 a.m.

when his car was blown into a ditch along Interstate 275 north of Cincinnati. The second motorist, Charles Smith, 40, of Miami Township in Clermont County, was killed about the same time when he was thrown from his car when wind flipped it over, Blue Ash police Chief Mike Allen said The same gust flipped a semitrailer truck, forcing authorities to close southbound lanes of Interstate 71. Entire blocks were destroyed in Blue Ash and Montgomery, where many homes sell in the range. Roofs were torn off stores in shopping centers, and water spewed into the air from broken "struck hard at the Serb machinery of repression and at the infrastructure that supports it," including fuel and arms depots and armored military vehicles. But NATO's top general said it would be "very, very difficult" for the West to impose peace in Kosovo without sending in ground troops.

Gen. Klaus Naumann said deployment inside the province was a "theoretical possibility," but refused to speculate on what the alliance would decide. In Moscow, Boris Yeltsin warned NATO on Friday not to send ground troops into Yugoslavia and "make it their protectorate," saying: "We cannot permit that." A U.S. plan to house 20,000 refugees at a U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may be scrapped because refugees are being better cared for in Albania, Macedonia and elsewhere in Europe thanks to massive international relief efforts.

"It's possible it won't happen," said J. Brian Atwood, the administration's foreign aid chief and also coordinator for the U.S. relief effort in support of the refugees, of the Guantanamo plan. The Associated Press also contributed to this report. flfEUffOfJ out with crews since shortly attar the storms hit at 4 a.m., said Sua Bennett, who works in Aibrinck's office.

"We had some homes lest and a business area that was hard hit," Bennett said. "There are a lot of downed trees and phone poles down. (Albrinck's) crews are assisting with those kinds of efforts cleaning up trees and making sure people can get through." Aibrinck served as Clyde's city manager from July 1 992 through February 1996, when he took the position in Blue Ash. fire hydrants. Towering trees were uprooted or snapped off.

About 15 homes were damaged near Loveland, about 10 miles to the northeast, the Warren County Emergency Management Agency said. The storm also damaged houses and downed trees and power lines in Champaign County in west central Ohio. Motor homes and tent campers were damaged in Tipp City. The campers were turned upside down, and one was blown through the windshield of a car, said Ron West, general manager of the recreational vehicle store at the Dave Arbogast dealership. Gov.

Bob Taft declared emergencies in Hamilton, Clinton and Warren counties and made state crews available to help clear city and county roads, spokesman Scott Milburn said. Health department workers were offering tetanus shots to those exposed to flying glass and standing water, and distributing bottled water, he said Ottava County Ihzlp threap ncd Cross Since the crisis began, Ottawa I County residents have been cail-l ing the Ottawa County District I Office of the American Red Cross to find out how to help, said volunteer Audrey Morrow, I The Red Cross suggests do-I nations of money instead of sup-i pdes, she said. "If really easiest for the I American Red Cross to have the I money and buy whaf needed. I They can always use the money I and they sure need it "When you watch the pictures I on TV, a lot of people feel like I they have to do something and 1 that (donating money) is the best thing they can do she said. I Anyone interested in donating I to the refugees should write a I check to the American Red I Cross with Kosovo Relief written I in the memo.

Checks should be 1 mailed to the Ottawa County of-fice at 127 W.Perry St. Suite 1 104, Port Clinton 43452. I Also, anyone who wants to do- nate to the Cincinnati residents I who Jost their homes and busi-I nesses when a tornado touched down Friday can send checks to I the same location with a note in I the memo directing the funds to I Cincinnati. OEECIIHIlf 800-370-3498 http:www.cashatm.com At a glance Subaru recalls Forester and Legacy vehicles due to brake problem CHERRY HILL, N.J. Subaru of America Inc.

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Elizabeth Dole outlines abortion stance WASHINGTON Elizabeth Dole said Friday she supports the idea of a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion but feels the idea is politically unfeasible a position similar to one that has brought GOP presidential rival George W. Bush criticism from some conservatives. Mrs. Dole wrote in a letter to a supporter that she is anti-abortion. However, like Texas Gov.

Bush, she said she believes abortion should be allowed in cases of rape or incest, or when pregnancy might endanger the life of a mother. The former Red Cross president and Republican Cabinet secretary has been criticized by some in the conservative wing of the party for not having taken a position on the hotly debated topic. Her letter, released by aides, was written in response to a question by a supporter at an Arizona Republican Party event last week: "How can we preserve our ideals and our party, too?" "We must recognize that good and honorable people disagree on the subject of abortion," Mrs. Dole wrote. "We should agree to respectfully disagree." Mother sent to jail over truant daughter CANTON A second-grader's mother has been jailed a second time for repeatedly failing to get her daughter to school on time.

A judge on Thursday ordered Gladys Warren to serve the remaining 19 days of a 30-day jail sentence imposed on her last year. Warren, 45, was convicted twice last year of violating the city's truancy law, which holds parents responsible if their children don't show up for school. Canton Municipal Court Judge John Poulos ruled Ms. Warren had failed to meet probation terms, including a court-ordered drug and alcohol evaluation. School officials said Ms.

Warren's daughter was late to Gibbs School 31 times this school year. She also had five or six unexcused absences. Court records said Warren told school officials she was not a morning person or offered excuses that she overslept or "had to do her hair," The (Canton) Repository reported. Brooke Shields, Andre Agassi file for divorce LAS VEGAS Actress Brooke Shields and tennis star Andre Agassi are splitting up after two years of marriage, a publicist for the couple said Friday. The couple filed for divorce in Las Vegas, where they have a home, said publicist Mia Ricchiu-ti.

"We have the utmost love and respect for each other and will remain the best of friends," Shields said in a statement. Ricchiuti refused say why the couple decided to split up. Shields is the star of the NBC comedy "Suddenly Susan." Agassi won the gold medal for the United States in the 19 Olympics. The couple married in April 1997. gain the soldiers' release, along with heightened tensions on Yugoslavia's borders with refugee-swamped Albania and Macedonia, brought fears the conflict could intensify.

The Cypriot envoy, Spyros Kyprianou, said after meeting with Milosevic that Yugoslavia "cannot resort to any peaceful gestures" regarding the soldiers in light of the airstrikes. "The intensified heavy bombing of the last couple of days has made my humanitarian mission more difficult," Kyprianou said. "It is impossible to achieve any results in the present climate." The White House, which has demanded the men's unconditional release, was not surprised the Associated Press BELGRADE, Yugoslavia A barrage of NATO airstrikes across Yugoslavia on Orthodox Good Friday sent a fireball soaring from a fuel depot and choked nearby vineyards under black smoke. A Cyprus envoy blamed the bombing for a Yugoslav decision not to free three captured U.S. servicemen.

Western officials said the airstrikes, now in their third week, are beginning to take a toll on President Slobodan Milosevic's forces, cutting them off from supplies and decimating their infrastructure. But the failure of the mission by a former president of Cyprus to Area communities offer aid to war-torn countries Continued from Al The Red Cross also is accepting messages from local residents to be delivered to relatives in the Kosovo area. "Right now, we haven't been approached locally by any ethnic Albanians to do a relative search anything like that, but we are always on the lookout," said Davis. The service is available for local residents of Serbian descent as well, he added. "We are not aware of anyone in the community who needs to send a message, but if there are any, we would like to know." Davis said the Red Cross works talks failed.

"We did not have great expectations," said deputy press secretary Barry Toiv. Western leaders want Milosevic to accept a peace plan and allow 28,000 NATO-led troops, including 4,000 Americans, to be stationed in Kosovo to enforce it. They also want Yugoslavia to allow all ethnic Albanian refugees to return home. NATO allies have insisted the bombing campaign will continue until Milosevic withdraws Serb special police and Yugoslav army units sent to Kosovo as part of his 14-month crackdown on the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army. President Clinton said during the past several days of good weather, NATO airstrikes have U.S.

military is helping ease the humanitarian crisis by transporting more than 1 million meals and other supplies to the refugees. "We will continue to do all we can to help the victims of this tragedy," he said A U.S. emergency relief official Friday requested Americans donate money to help more than 400,000 ethnic Albanians who have fled Kosovo in the past three weeks to refugee camps in neighboring countries. "This is a human disaster and these people need our help," James Lee Witt, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said on NBC's "Today" show. second, respectively, in worldwide greenhouse gas emissions and must work together for a solution because of their impact on global climate change.

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