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Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, Tuesday, April 26, 1994A3 NATIONWORLD Lancaster, Texas, hit by tornado; two killed Spy case plea deal arranged it friiii miff fry i Was I ir 'ft Jf I i 1 ryr- vi r. mzmmtm r. 7 Emergency personnel tend to' a woman injured Monday night when a tornado struck Lancaster, Texas. The Dallas medical examiner reported that there were two deaths in Lancaster. A tornado also struck DeSoto, another Dallas suburb.

(AP photo) DIGEST Nixon making his last trip back to California YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) The pattern of ruin and renewal that defined Richard Nixon repeats itself in his final journey. The same Boeing 707 that took the 37th president home after he resigned rather than face impeachment over the Watergate scandal was to carry his body to California from New York today for a lavish state funeral in the town of his birth. Nixon, who spent a political lifetime battling Democrats, will be buried Wednesday on the grounds of his childhood home. One of the eulogies will come from President Clinton, the baby boom Democrat who protested Nixon's Vietnam War policies as a student in Britain.

First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was a lawyer on the House Judiciary Committee as it considered impeachment charges against Nixon. Texas executes inmate, 41, for killing woman in 1982 HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) A man who told authorities he had been skinning rabbits when he was pulled over in blood-spattered clothes was executed by injection early today for stabbing to death a Houston bar manager in 1982. Larry Anderson, 41, went to his death less than two hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his plea for a stay of execution in a 6-3 vote. He had no final statement.

His executioners struggled for about 15 minutes to find suitable veins in his arms, which were scarred by drug abuse. At least one of the two needles was put in his wrist. Normally, the needles are inserted in the inside elbow area. Arabs, Israelis making plans for flying the friendly skies' NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) Arab and Israeli airlines are preparing for a new dawn in the Middle East's skies, the scene of savage air battles for nearly a half-century. A regional peace settlement is still some way off, but major carriers are drawing up routes between Israel and the Arab world that have been banned for 45 years.

Peace could also bring once-unthinkable cooperation between Israeli and Arab airlines, to help them compete with major airlines carving up global passenger traffic among themselves. Arab executives hail the potential for a major boost in tourism and, eventually, Arab-Israeli business ventures. Also noted: The stock market rallied sharply Monday as the Dow Jones industrial average climbed 57.10 points to 3,705.78. Interest rates on short-term Treasury securities rose Monday auction to the highest level in about two years. Home sales and prices rose in March, attributed to improved weather.

The World Bank reports living standards improving for many of the world's poor. WASHINGTON (AP) Prosecutors are on the verge of obtaining guilty pleas from veteran CIA official Aldrich Ames and his wife as part of a deal in which he would spend life in prison for spying for Moscow but she would serve only a few years, according to four sources familiar with the If a deal is reached, prosecutors plan to ask a federal grand jury in suburban Alexandria, to return narrow, formal charges against the couple later today, the sources, inside and outside the government, said Monday night. A government official said an indictment today was "a real possibility." A source out- -side the government said of the plea negotiations, "Nothing is final until it is final." Under the proposed deal, Ames, 52, would plead guilty and cooperate fully with U.S. investigations of his spying by describing how he operated, what he turned over and any help he received, according to the sources, who spoke strictly on condition of anonymity. Ames, who has worked for the CIA for 31 years, is the highest-ranking CIA official ever charged with spying for a foreign government.

Once head of counterintelligence in the spy agency's Soviet-East Europe section, he is accused of spying for the Soviet Union and then Russia from May 1 985 until his arrest Feb. 21. In return for his life sentence, Ames' wife, Rosario, 41, was offered a five-year prison term so she could get out and take care of their 5-year-old son, Paul, the sources said. Her resistance to a prison term has been the main sticking point in achieving a deal, the sources said. A narrow indictment, rather than a "throw-the-book-at-them list of many charges," would signal that a plea bargain had been reached and guilty pleas could be entered in open court Thursday or Friday, the sources said.

The sources said that if no indictment were returned today, plea negotiations would continue. Ames's attorney, Plato 'Cacheris, conferred with Ames "As soon as they said it, I knew. I felt a sense of panic I'd never felt before," Mrs. Thompson said in an interview Monday. It took three days for the Army to confirm officially that her husband was among the 26 victims of friendly fire that inadvertently knocked two Army Black Hawk helicopters out of the sky.

But already on April 14, the morning of the crash, military friends and neighbors were converging on the Thompson home to offer support. Museum comes in out of cold FORT GEORGE MEADE, Md. (AP) Turn off the highway, loop around a gas station and drive past a wooded no man's land. There, behind a chain link fence topped with barbed wire, you'll find it the museum that came in from the cold. The supersecret National Security Agency, the Department of Defense outfit responsible for code making and breaking, has opened the National Cryptologic Museum to pay homage to the agency's rich but hidden past.

Be assured, NSA isn't giv ing away the bank. "Every- thing in there has been declas- sified," said David Hatch, NSA historian and director of its Center of Cryptologic History. But the museum, just a short hop from NSA's headquarters, does offer a glimpse of how nations have tried to keep their secrets by communicating through codes and ciphers. It contains artifacts ranging from 1 7th-century books to an over-the-hill NSA computer, circa 1983. Japan's political crisis continues TOKYO (AP) When Tsutomu Hata became prime minister, he knew one of his toughest tasks would be keeping his fragile coalition together.

He was already deep into his first crisis today, his second day in office. His coalition's largest party, the Socialists, today reaffirmed its decision to break away, leaving the rest of the coalition without a parliamentary majority and no Cabinet. The internecine fighting is likely to further delay the passage of a budget for the current fiscal year, which began three weeks ago. recounted how he and a fellow officer were fired upon in March 1991 by a gunman stopped in a traffic incident. Bean said that he received fragment wounds in both legs and that his fellow officer Steve Whalen was killed as the gunman fired round after round at them.

Bean told Clinton he wanted the president to see what the weapon used in the attack, an AR-15, looked like. A Secret Service agent carried one over and gave it to Bean, who handed it to the president. Copter victim's wife remembers FORT MYER, Va. (AP) Col. Jerald Thompson, combat veteran of Vietnam and the Persian Gulf War, faced two more days of work in northern Iraq before going home.

If he knew he was about to face danger, he didn't tell his wife. His final mission involved a helicopter trip to introduce Kurdish villagers to his successor as co-commander of the international relief forces in the region. Eileen Thompson was at home in Fayetteville, N.C., when the first sketchy radio reports of disaster filtered out of Iraq. late Monday at the jail where he has been held since the couple was arrested. Cacheris refused to discuss the case, as did prosecutors and Mrs.

Ames' attorney, William Cummings. FBI agent Leslie Wiser has told a federal court that Rosario Ames admitted to FBI agents shortly after her arrest that she learned in 1991 that Ames was spying for Moscow. Wiser said government electronic bugging overheard her prodding Ames to take precautions when picking up money from the Soviets. Clinton stumps for gun control WASHINGTON (AP) President Clinton briefly held an AR-15 assault rifle as he stepped up a campaign" to ban such firearms. "These weapons were designed for the battlefield, not the streets of America," he said.

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