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IN FOOD Crowds begin Windows 95 shopping. In Business 25 i i THE NEWSPAPER FOR TODAY'S TAMPA A THURSDAY AUGUST 24, 1995 an edition of the StfJetcrBburp ESttlCS Winning lunches Add some pizazz to your kid's lunch with just a dash of creativity and humor. Page 1D TropScal Stoirm Jemry crosses FDoorndla Behind it are several storms lined up across the Caribbean and Atlantic. No one knows where they will go. Top OFJLTHE JNews By CHUCK MURPHY TknM Staff Writer 1 ter produced some isolated heavy rains Thursday near Tampa Bay, but there were no reports of flooding or damage by Wednesday evening.

If it follows the predicted track and Jerry defied the experts Wednesday the storm should depart the state for the Gulf of Mexico from somewhere in Pasco or Hernando counties later today. "And if Jerry gets into the gulf and has a chance to develop further, look out," said state meteorologist Mike Rucker. "The gulf is very warm, and there could be a significant re-energizing of the storm." Jerry is the most pressing weather problem around Tampa Bay, but its development was just part of another extraordinary day of tropical weather in the Atlantic Tropical Storm Humberto became a hurricane early Wednesday with estimated sustained Please see STORM 7A Tropical Storm Jerry was moving across the Florida peninsula Wednesday evening and could bring as much as 8 inches of rain to parts of west-central Florida The 10th named storm of the 1995 hurricane season was born Wednesday morning off the East Coast It moved inland north of West Palm Beach around 5 p.m. and was expected to bring 3040 mph winds and lots of rain. Feeder bands wrapping around the storm's cen A AP Humberto, far right and Iris, second from right, queue up behind Jerry, which menaces Central Florida.

A depression sits over the Antilles. Coaster fops Busch Gardens expansion enta hospital A new roller coaster is the centerpiece of a $20-million, 7-acre area modeled on 1920s Egypt ft JW China finds activist guilty of spying. Story. 9A Local BUCS EFFORT: An Orange County sports group that wantsthe Tampa Bay Buccaneers to move to Orlando says it offered a helping hand on its own initiative, not because of contact from team owners. An organizer of the effort by the Orlando Area Sports Association says he doubts that Tampa taxpayers will want to pay for a new stadium and wants Orlando to be ready to step in.

Page IB TEAL SPEAKS OUT: One day out of prison, Bill Teal told reporters he wants to give something back to his community by playing basketball at St Petersburg Junior College. "I want to let them know you can fall and get back up," said Teal, 22, who served time for kidnapping and whose ketball scholarship at the junior college has caused controversy. Page IB DOLE IN FLORIDA: During a campaign trip to Orlando, Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole said this fall's Florida straw poll is more important to him than last weekend's in Iowa in which he tied with Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas. Page 4B in 4f xf By MARK ALBRIGHT Timet Stiff Wrltar 10 deat hs Problems at the G.

Pierce Wood mental hospital are so severe that two top administrators have been put on leave and a major overhaul has been ordered. Nation TAMPA Busch Gardens has done so well with its Kumba ride that it will open another roller coaster next June, this one with some gut-wrenching new twists. It doesn't have a name yet, but Busch Gardens' fourth roller coaster will be a state-of-the-art inverted ride, something akin to riding upside down on an out-of-control chairlift. The thrill ride will anchor a new 7-acre theme area called Egypt For the less adventurous, it also will offer a re-creation of King Tuts tomb, costumed characters, artisans and gift shops. With a cost over $20-million, ifs touted as the largest and most expensive expansion in the 330-acre park's history.

The investment is just another example of how the stakes are rising fast among Florida theme parks, all trying to inject something new to their mix. Anheuser-Busch Cos. recently completed several new attractions at Sea World. And Universal Studios Florida and Walt Disney World which has been on a building binge for 25 years have unveiled plans for two new theme parks at a combined cost of more than $4-billion in the next few years. In fact, Disney's new Orlando park will bear a striking resemblance to Busch Gardens.

So the challenge for Busch Gardens executives is simple keep expanding the Tampa park's i ii inn in mil i-rfSjL. 1 1 in .1 I PRESCRIPTION FACTS: Federal regulators want pharmacists to prepare easy-to-read pamphlets explaining prescription medications to patients. They hope efforts to better explain prescriptions can reduce the $20-billion annual bill for treating side effects and illnesses from improper use of medicine. Page 3A HART TO Gary Hart, whose presidential candidacy was derailed after allegations of adultery, is considering a run for his old Senate seat The Colorado Democrat says the political world has "grown up" since he was knocked out of the race in 1987 following allegations of an affair with Donna Rice. Page 3A HAGMAN TRANSPLANT: TV star Larry Hagman underwent a 17-hour liver transplant operation in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Doctors said the operation took longer than expected, but a hospital spokesman said everything was fine. Page 2B Sandusky Register photo by Terry Reimer Riders get a thrill on the Raptor, an inverted roller coaster at Cedar Point amusement park in Ohio. Busch Gardens plans to build a similar coaster to open next summer. Please see BUSCH 8A By CAROL A. MARBIN Jtmn Staff Wrttw Management and staff "failures" at an Arcadia state mental hospital may have contributed to 10 deaths in recent years, a review by state inspectors has concluded.

As a result of a five-month investigation by the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Service's inspector general, the two top administrators of G. Pierce Wood Memorial Hospital 1 were placed on administrative leave Wednesday. HRS's acting secretary, Ed Feaver, also ordered a "major overhaul" of the psychiatric hospital, which has residents from 16 counties, including Pinellas, Pasco and Hillsborough. The "review of G. Rerce Wood was one of the most thorough investigations of a state mental hospital in Florida history," Feaver said.

"Frankly, it uncovered serious problems that call into question the management of the hospital and the procedures it has in place to protect patients. "We will not tolerate sloppy supervision and staff neglect that endanger the lives of vulnerable people entrusted to our care." The results of HRS' investigation, contained in a 361-page report, cast doubt on the hospital staffs ability to perform its most basic functions, such as monitoring patients at risk of harming themselves or others. Among the investigation's findings: Staff members who were assigned to closely watch patients were not always told of their assignments. In three cases in which patients died, staff members didn't know it was their job to monitor a patient until after he or she had Please see HOSPITAL 14A Scientists: Island volcano ready to blow Reuters World Officials on Montserrat order half the island to evacuate. "We live in a danger zone," says one resident chance the volcano would erupt "I kept hoping that there would not be an eruption.

But we live in a danger zone," said Marie Bramble, 59, a lifelong resident preparing to board a flight to nearby Guadeloupe. "You discover you are sitting on a fiery pit" Officials and residents have been anxiously monitoring the long-dormant volcano since July 18, when it began spewing ash and hot gasses. On Wednesday, scientists told authorities they could no longer assure six hours' notice of a major eruption. "On the advice of the scientists, we have evacuated quite a large part of die island, roughly half the island, roughly two thirds of the population," said Gov. Frank Savage.

About 6,000 people from the southern half of the island, including all residents of the capital, were told to move to the north coast, where they will be housed in public shelters and a tent city. Montserrafs 11,000 residents also Please see VOLCANO 6A PLYMOUTH, Montserrat Sometimes you just have to get out of Mother Nature's way. For weeks the residents of this tiny British colony have gone about their business while keeping a wary eye on the long-dormant volcano that recently rumbled back to life. On Wednesday, authorities ordered the evacuation of two-thirds of the Caribbean island's people after scientists warned there was a 75 percent EDITOR FREED: An American editor of scientific journals held captive for nearly a year by Colombian guerrillas has been freed, possibly after his captors realized they would not get ransom. Thomas Hargrove's captors had asked for $5-million, but his employers, an agriculture aid group, didn't have the money.

BOMBING SUSPECT: The accused organizer of the bus bombing in Jerusalem that killed five people Monday was in jail before the bombing occurred. Israeli officials say Abdel Nasr Issa had been arrested Satur- day, but revealed nothing about plans for the suicide bombing of a bus on Monday. Page 2A TODAY'S WEATHER: Thunderstorms with a high in the mid-80s; rain chance is 80 percent Details, 10B INDEX Bombing took her sons; now she will fry again 4 y'" How to call UK Pag2A Vol.112 No. 31 6 sections IMS, Dm PufctahingCa. ing that killed Colton and his 3-year-old brother, she and her ex-husband, Tony, want more children.

The couple were divorced in December, but they live together in Oklahoma City and they plan to remarry. "We were never really apart," Tony Smith said. "We know that other kids aren't going to replace the ones we had," Edye Smith said. "As far as our mental state goes, itU help us out a lot We have a lot of love to give. We can't wait to have another baby." The doctor, Christopher Seeker, is a friend of a friend of an acquaintance.

She said Seeker told her there is a strong possibility the surgery will succeed and she will be able to get pregnant "It's something I know in my heart is going to be good for all of us," she said. Associated Pnn AUSTIN, Texas Edye Smith, a young mother who lost her two sons in the Oklahoma City boml ing, knows she can't replace Chase and Colton. But at 23, she isn't ready to give up on the idea of having a family. She will undergo surgery today to try to reverse the tubal ligation she had two years ago so that she can become pregnant again. A doctor and a hospital are offering their services for free.

"When I heard about this, it was just a gift from God. I just couldn't believe it" Smith said. Tve never been so excited about having surgery." Smith said she had her fallopian tubes tied the day after Colton was born in February 1993 because "I always planned to have two kids, and that was it" In the wake of the April bomb AnrVAbby 2D Astrology 7D Bridge 7D Business 1-6E Classified Comics 80 Crosswords 8B.7D Editorials 18A Entertainment 2B Jumble 7D Letters 19A Lottery 2A Movies 5, 6D Obits 4A.9B Parimutuels 7C Sports 1-8C Television 7D TimesLine 2A Weather 106 'V AP nil Refugees forced back to Zaire Rwandan orphans arrive at a new orphanage in Goma, Zaire, after being evacuated from Mugunga refugee camp, also in Zaire. As of Wednesday, 13,000 Rwandan refugees had been rounded up and trucked to the border in Zaire. They have been uprooted, sent back to the country they left in panic 14 months ago.

Another 133,000 refugees have refused to leave Zaire, and instead fled for shelter in more distant refugee camps. Page 20A After Edye Smith's two sons died in the bombing, an artist painted them as angels..

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