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i Sunday Update Locah Glrl'a rape may Increase demand for criminals' records. HI Cualnsaai The business of owning a racehorse. El Issues i Smoking bans. F1 1 in 4 3 i.i CV 31 Robert's characlor docs In tha now movies, Something To Talk About. More on Southern Belles as seen on the Silver Screen, C1 Ca August 20, 91 st Year, 274th Issue Newsstand Price $1.50 LJ Sunny Det0ll9: Home Newspaper of The Adirondack Region Glens Falls, New York National media drawn to Tr avers V' i Mike Tyson came back in a fast and furious but unsatisfactory performance that was no fault of his by beating Peter McNeeley in the first round Saturday night at the MGM Grand Arena.

After McNeeley got up from a second knockdown, his manager, Vinnie Vecchione, jumped into the ring and stopped the fight When Tyson realized the fight was over, Tyson said, See story, Pago D3. By Matthew Crowley Staff Writer SARATOGA SPRINGS Almost everyone in the North Country, diehard and casual sports fan alike, knows about the Travers Stakes. The Travers, a mile-and-a quarter race for 3-year-old horses, has the money. Run on the main dirt track at the Saratoga Race Course, it's the richest race of the annual Saratoga meet, with a purse of $750,000. The Travers has the best field, attracting horses and trainers who've participated in the annual Triple Crown races: the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes.

And the Travers has the people. Probably no other single-day sporting event in northeastern New York state draws more people than the Travers. On Saturday, 43,079 attended the 126th running of the Travers, betting $6.58 million, the' second-highest total in the track's history. i But spectators weren't the only ones converging on Saratoga. The national media was too, publicizing the race for millions.

More than 100 reporters, technicians and analysts from television, radio and newspapers on hand at the track to watch Belmont and Kentucky Derby winner Thunder See Media: Pago A4 II. IwilRW I SOU out of prison, back in ring Joan K. Lentinl Jim McKay, right, interviews thoroughbred trainer D. Wayne Lukas, left, Saturday at Saratoga Race Course. si? ar Over Diplomats killed! bv 9f Wetlands Congress aims to pull the plug on most wetland protection ISy Seth AsmH-'-H Staff Writer The Environmerital Protection Agency estimates that 80 percent of the wetlands in this state would no longer get federal protection if Congress approves the Clean Water Reauthorization Act.

land mime U.S. officials were headed to peace talks By Srecko Latal Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Three top U.S. diplomats heading to peace talks in Sarajevo were killed Saturday when their armored vehicle plunged 100 yards off a muddy road and exploded. A French peacekeeper was also killed in the accident, and two Americans and two French peacekeepers were injured. Robert Frasure, a deputy assistant secretary of state, and Nelson Drew, a National Security Council aide, were killed instantly.

Joseph Kruzel, deputy assistant secretary of defense for European and NATO affairs, died at the scene of injuries he suffered in the crash, officials said. President Clinton said the deaths of the "immensely talented, patriotic Americans" would not halt U.S. peace efforts in the former Yugoslavia. "The thing that they would want us most to do is to press ahead, and that's what we intend to do," he said in Jackson, where he is vacationing. Nonetheless, the loss of expertise Frasure had been chief U.S.

negotiator for Bosnia since early this year dealt a severe blow to diplomatic efforts to end the war. Former President Jimmy Carter, who traveled to Sarajevo last December to try to end the war, said the accident was "a tragic loss to our country and to prospects for peace in the Balkans." Tucked away among roadways and shopping malls throughout the North Country is a system of harmless-looking swamps that are home to red maples, marsh grass, frogs, salamanders and songbirds. Insignificant at first glance, these numerous little bogs are at the center of a familiar struggle. Business vs. the environment.

Jobs vs. wildlife. Man vs. nature. Under a bill now pushing its way through Congress, small swampy areas such as those scattered throughout our region would no longer qualify for protection as federal wetlands.

In fact, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 80 percent of the wetlands in this state would no longer get federal protection if Congress approves the Clean Water Reauthorization Act. The act would not leave all wetlands unprotected. New York state's own regulations would pick up the slack for about half of those left exposed by the new federal law. But any wetland area less than 12.4 acres that did not meet the strict new federal guidelines would be fair game for developers wanting to build on top of them or farmers wanting to drain them. "It would be good for business, and that's what's wrong with it," said Ron Pesha, a professor at Adirondack Community College and adviser to the student environmental club.

"The concept that business comes first is a modern, human concept which simply does not fit in with our place in nature." Supporters of the changes, however, argue that federal officials are currently overzealous and arbitrary in their protection of wetlands. The new bill, they say, would provide structure and definition to the debate. "(Federal officials) have built their entire regulatory scheme on a couple of lines in the Clean Water Act, which talk about 'the waters of the United They've changed that into an exceptionally broad definition of wetlands," said Patrick Hooker of the state Farm Bureau. "No one is using any common sense in the use of this law." Ecological miracles Why all the fuss about wetlands in the first place? Because they're more than just swamps. They're complex, ecological bodies that serve us well, said Patricia Riexinger, wetlands program manager for the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

"We don't protect wetlands because we like cattails," she said. For one, wetlands help purify See Wetlands: Page A4 ine leader 01 tne u.2. negotiating team, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, said he and the other diplomats would fly back to Washington with the bodies, then continue their mission in Sarajevo. "Three brave, brilliant, fine American career government officials, who were devoting their lives to the cause of peace in this part of the world, have died in this accident," Holbrooke Monty Calvert Marsh grass and lily pads are but a small part of the wetland ecosystem. In a bill now wending through Congress, wetlands like this could have their federal protection withdrawn.

Holbrooke and other members of the team met Saturday afternoon with Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic, said State Department spokesman David Johnson. See Killed: Page AS Index Glens Falls suffragists claimed victory 75 years ago NamesNumbers.D4 Obituaries B6 Opinion F2.3 Puzzles C4 Restaurants Sports DM 2 Stocks Travel C3 Weatfef Weddings B4 Amusements E1-6 Classified F4-16 Highways Home C8 Issues Local news leery 3 you deny that women are included in the people?" The pro-suffrage crowd cheered him on. But within a month, an even larger crowd filled City Hall to hear a speech by Alice Hill Chittenden, the president of a group called the New York State Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage. Chittenden claimed it was unnatural for women to participate in the electoral realm, and she ridiculed the notion that the votes of women would have any practical effect in curbing corrupt politics or oppressive social conditio. "Democracy has nothing to do with the difference nature has imposed on the female Glens Falls Political Equality Club, a local pro-suffrage group organized in 1914.

Together with other like-minded organizations across the state, the club was attempting to rally support for a November 1915 ballot referendum that, if passed, would give New York's women the right to vote in future state elections. Suffrage, Wise told his audience, should be granted to women "as a matter of right and expediency" and a fundamental democratic right "Suffrage is a privilege and prerogative in a monarchy," Wise thundered. "But is it other than a right in democracy? Democracy means government by the people. And can By Fred Daley Staff Writer These days, it's hard to imagine a guest speaker capable of drawing nearly 1,000 people to the Glens Falls City Hall on a cold January night Elvis, perhaps, and precious few others. But on Jan.

11, 1915, what was then the largest crowd ever assembled at City Hall turned out to hear a lecture by Rabbi Stephen Wise. Wise was a supporter of what some then saw as a radical idea giving women the right to vote. The rabbi's lecture was sponsored by the and male," Chittenden argued. "Progress is based on natural laws and activities, and the two sexes are at distinct variance. If you give the franchise to women, you double all the elements in the electorate.

You will still have the honest and dishonest voter." Chittenden's arguments may seem a bit hollow from today's perspective, but she clearly had her supporters in 1915: On Election Day, the referendum on women's suffrage as soundly defeated in Glens Falls and across the state. Yet two years lateT, a similar referendum passed. And on Aug. 26, 1920, the Tennessee Legislature delivered the final See Victory: Page A7 Classified Ail 732-5844 Horaa Delhrery 761-6090.