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NATION WORLD PAGE A2 WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1996 WATERLOO-CEDAR FALLS COURIER Storms wreck about 600 homes in Kentucky "This thing was close If you are aware of a statement in a Courier story that requires clarification or correction, let us know as soon as possible. Call 291-1460 or toll-free 1-800-798-1702 to be connected with the appropriate department editor. Dara J. Frieling, 27, who was listed in the May 23 District Court Log, does not live at 1626 Robin Road, the address listed in court documents. A current address is not known.

Altrusa International of Waterloo meets the third Tuesday of the month at Sunnyside Country Club, not the third Thursday, as stated in Sunday's Lifestyles section. 4 A i HILLVIEW, Ky. (AP) Anna Herdt and her niece crouched in a bathtub, trying not to listen as a howling tornado blew their house into a pile of bricks. "The first thing I said was 'Thank you, because I don't know how I survived," Herdt said after riding out one of the tornadoes that wrecked hundreds of homes in the suburbs south of Louisville Tuesday night. "I'll remember that sound for as long as I live." About 600 homes were seriously damaged or destroyed by the storms, although miraculously, no one was killed and only eight or nine injuries were reported.

Gov. Paul Patton was traveling out of the country, but his office authorized the deployment of more than 60 National Guardsmen. Curfews were ordered for storm-stricken areas. One tornado touched down around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday near the Bullitt-Jefferson county line, and another hit around 6:55 p.m.

at Mount Washington, said John Bollinger of the National Weather Service in Louisville. State Rep. Allen Maricle had just picked his 7-year-old son up from a baseball game and was driving in the storm. The tornado picked up his truck and set it back down, he said. "We are so lucky," said Maricle, whose house was also damaged.

"This thing was close to a quarter mile long. I've been through a tornado before, but this was incredible." warr to a quarter mile long. I've been through a tornado before, but this was incredible." Kentucky Rep. Allen Maricle So did Lee Welker and his wife, Jackie, who huddled in the tub with their dog when the tornado tore off their roof and knocked down the walls of their home in the town of Pioneer Village. It took about a minute, "but it seemed like a lifetime," Jackie Welker said.

Tornadoes also touched down in Indiana and on the Kanawha River in West Virginia, where 13-year-old Harlan Casto said he "saw the river suck up into the sky." In Missouri, Gov. Mel Carnahan extended a month-old state of emergency after rains dumped boulders onto streets and flooded thousands of acres of farmland. In St. Joseph, the Missouri River crested more than 6 feet above the flood stage of 17 feet. The Frontier Casino riverboat was riding high during the holiday weekend, and special precautions were taken to keep people from slipping as they boarded on the wet, muddy steps.

Iowa $100,000 cash game 1-5-7-11-13 Illinois Pick Three Midday: 9-4-1. Pick Three Evening: 2-4-6 Pick Four Midday: 5-2-2-2 Pick Four Evening: 5-9-0-2 Est. jackpot: $12 million 2. AJ.itfA. AP PHOTO Greg Foley and his wife, Sheree, look over the remains of Greg's sister's home In Pioneer Village, following a tornado Tuesday that destroyed or severely damaged about 600 homes south of Louisville.

Hundreds of residents spent the night with relatives and at shelters. Many residents frantically tried to reach their relatives at a Baptist church, although most telephones were out of order. "It's a sad situation," said emergency medical technician Lana Sanders. Louisville, the streets were littered with power lines and trees. A pile of rubble stood in Herdt's driveway where a garage had been.

The house was a shell of bricks with no roof. Herdt and her niece, Linda Abel, took shelter in a bathtub as the home crumbled around them. "Right now, they're trying to call looking for husbands, wives, children." About 15,000 Louisville Gas Electric customers lost power in a 17-county area, and officials said it would take several days to restore electricity everywhere. In Hillview, about 20 miles south of Courier Published evenings Monday through Friday and Sunday mornings by the Waterloo Courier Inc. COUNCIL Emergency landing Space shuttle lands in Florida on schedule 138-No.

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The antenna, which was folded into a box the size of a kitchen table, was blown up to the size of a tennis court once free of Endeavour. Once Casper flew Endeavour a safe 400 feet away, doors on the satellite dropped open, and the CAPE CANAVERAL, Ha. (AP) Endeavour returned to Earth safely today, successfully completing a complicated 10-day scientific mission that released an inflated giant antenna and grew pure crystals in space. The space shuttle and its six astronauts glided through wispy clouds to an on-time landing at Kennedy Space Center at 7:09 a.m. EDT.

Patchy ground fog and low-level clouds had threatened to delay the touchdown, but these dissipated and Commander John Casper got the go-ahead to deorbit on schedule. A bright-orange sun hovered over the seaside launch pad Endeavour had left May 19. "Welcome back Endeavour from a most successful flight," Mission Control in Houston radioed shortly after touchdown. The landing on the Space Center's concrete runway appeared to be without incident. It came on the shuttle's 161st orbit of the Earth after it traveled roughly 4 million miles in space.

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"Military members were allegedly targeted (by the dealers) because of the relative ease with which they were allowed to cross borders," the Navy officials said. The first 14 arrests were announced by American naval officials in Italy on May 16, the day of chief of naval operations Adm. Jeremy M. Boorda's suicide. The Times did not say when the seven other sailors were arrested.

Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents were able to infiltrate the drug ring, which paid sailors thousands of dollars each to carry bags of heroin and cocaine across European borders. Investigators said they seized about 10 pounds of drugs and several thousand dollars. Most of those arrested were junior enlisted sailors, although officials said a lieutenant commander was also involved. There was no evidence to suggest that the sailors, who are subject to random drug tests, were using the drugs themselves, Navy officials said. AP PHOTO The pilot, center left, and co-pllot of a Martin Air Holland 767 examine their landing gear with blown out tires on a taxlway at Boston's Logan Airport Tuesday.

More than 200 people were on the trans-Atlantic Amsterdam to Orlando Flight 631 when navigational systems failed on the plane over the Atlantic Ocean, causing the emergency landing In Boston. There were no Injuries In the Incident. and expanded. After about an hour of measurements, the antenna was severed from the satellite and abandoned. It re-entered the atmosphere and burned up two days later.

In another test of less expensive equipment, the crew ejected a small, lopsided satellite a week ago to determine whether it could fly straight without jet thrusters. The astronauts visited the 80-pound, wastebasket-sized craft three times over five days to check its stability. cannot reach your earner, please call the circulation department and we will contact your carrier for you. Call our circulation department between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.

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In a precedent-breaking move, he also opened the way for compensation of veterans' children with inherited defects. Expenditures are expected to soar to much higher levels in the next century because of expected benefits to second-generation victims and because prostate cancer, which usually develops after age 60, was added by Ginton to the list of disabilities that may be tied to the powerful defoliant. The president has full authority to expand the list of eligible diseases for personnel who served in Vietnam. But he will need congressional authorization to provide compensation to children whose fathers may have transmitted some of Agent Orange's debilitating effects. Clinton announced his decisions Tuesday at a White House ceremony attended by officials of major veterans' groups and retired Adm.

Elmo Zumwalt a leading crusader for Agent Orange compensation. "These actions show that our country can face up to the consequences of our actions; that we will bear responsibility for the harm we do, even when the harm is unintended; that we will continue to honor those who served our country and gave so much," Clinton declared. In addition to prostate cancer, the president added acute and subacute peripheral neuropathy (a neurological disorder) to the list of eligible disabilities. His decision to break ground with first-time benefits to children was based on new scientific findings that Agent Orange also may have caused a type of second-generation congenital abnormality known as spina bifida. ins Girl found after two days alone in Yosemite YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif.

A 14-year-old girl survived two days in Yosemite National Park by using trees and rocks for shelter at night and sleeping only during the day. Ashleigh Wiggins, a high school freshman in nearby Fresno, was found by searchers combing an isolated area of the park Tuesday afternoon. "I kept praying and I saw those guys," Ashleigh said. "They asked, 'Are you I was really happy." Ashleigh, who was wearing jeans, a T-shirt and a sweat shirt to ward off cold, said she survived freezing nighttime temperatures by staying awake. "When the sun came out, it got wanner and I did sleep," she said.

Ranger Jessica Daskal said Ashleigh had hiking boots, some extra clothes, granola bars, water, a flashlight and gloves in a backpack. Ashleigh became separated from her mother, sister and cousin during a hike Sunday. Iowa soldier dies of injuries received in Bosnia fire WASHINGTON An Army soldier critically injured in an accidental fire in Bosnia earlier this month has died of his injuries. Sgt. 1st Class Curtis Wilson, 35, of Farnhamville, Iowa, was pronounced dead at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas on Tuesday, said Army spokeswoman J.C.

Been. Wilson and a fellow soldier, Pfc. Tiffany N. Frazier, 21, of Detroit, were burned in the fire May 7. Both were members of the NATO-led police force in Bosnia and were injured when gasoline-fueled kitchen stoves exploded.

Wilson was a member of the 92nd Military Police. The fire apparently started when a cooking stove exploded while being turned on to prepare breakfast, setting off a chain reaction that included small arms fire, firefighters said after the Wisconsin law targets motorists' loud stereos MILWAUKEE Motorists who blast music from their cars will now have to turn the volume down or face the possible confiscation of their expensive stereos, under a bill signed Tuesday by Gov. Tommy Thompson. Designed to provide more peace and quiet in neighborhoods, the new law will increase fines for cranking up tunes. If someone gets three tickets in a year, his or her car can be impounded while the stereo and speakers are removed.

"Some of those stereo systems can put out decibels higher than a jet engine. They rattle the windows," said Marleen Janson, chairwoman of the River Neighborhoods Association in Milwaukee, which asked state Rep. Antonio Riley, D-Milwaukee, to help put a lid on the noise. 2 pregnant students excluded from graduation ceremony LITTLE ROCK At Mount St. Mary Academy, an all-girls Catholic school, graduation is an intimate ceremony, where each senior stands to tell about her plans.

But for two pregnant girls, it was a day of exclusion. Because of their pregnancies, they were barred from participating in the commencement exercises. "I couldn't stop crying," said student Carmen Call, who was relegated to watching from the audience. "I was really angry. I wanted to get up there." She and her pregnant classmate were able to pick up their diplomas after the ceremony.

Mount St. Mary Academy has a policy that says the administration will decide the best way to give unmarried pregnant students their diplomas. Sister Deborah Troillctt, the principal of the 600-studcnt school, said the policy allows the school to consider the dignity and best interests of the student while upholding Catholic teachings. After all, she said, the school doesn't want to run the risk of bringing negative attention to a pregnant graduate. Compiled from Courier wire services Cityline is a telephone information service brought to you by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.

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Georgia militia members indicted in bomb plot MACON, Ga. (AP) A federal indictment charged three militia members with plotting to steal weapons, make bombs and find targets for political assassinations and demolitions in an anti-government "war." An attorney for one of the suspects accused federal informants of lying and misunderstanding loose talk by people who really posed no threat. "A lot of this is there is some tough talk in the militia movement and that's unfortunate. There's no one talking about initiating a war," said Nancy Lord. Lord represents Robert Edward Starr III, an electrician who was arrested with plumber William James McCranie Jr.

on April 26 after state and federal agents raided their rural homes southwest of Macon. They have been jailed without bond. The indictment, handed up May 15 and unsealed Tuesday, charged Starr, 34, McCranic, 30, and Troy Allen Kyser, 28, with conspiracy. Kyser, who evaded authorities for nearly two weeks, turned himself in late Tuesday and was being held in jail. Dole, Clinton win Kentucky, Idaho primaries By The Associated Press serious opposition, also was a dou- The suspense ended two months For the latest news: AP Network News: 2505 News Quiz 4510 NewsWatch 2510 Daily Headlines 2515 It's Your Business 1999 KCRG E.

IANews 2540 Lottery Report 2900 1 Local Headlines 2551 Weather updates: 24-Hr. Forecast 2000 i 5-Day Forecast 2007 For Financial News: Stockline 1000 It's Your Business 1999 i Mortgage Rates 1705 Commodities 1300 i Most Active Stocks 1510 For Entertainment: MovicLine 4200 1 Video Charts 4149 For Sports news: I Pro Sports 3015 1 College Sports 3025 AP Network Sports 3000 UNI Panthers 3120 aco. oie winner. Dole took Kentucky with nearly three-fourths of the vote and won all 26 delegates to the Republican National Convention. He won Idaho with about two-thirds of the vote.

Dole's domination of the process Is evident in the delegate count: For every delegate Buchanan has won, Dole has won 10. The lengthy primary season ends next Tuesday, with primaries in New Jersey, New Mexico, Montana and Alabama. Next week, the presidential primaries themselves will end. Meanwhile, Bob Dole keeps on winning. The Kansas senator, who hasn't lost a primary since late February and clinched the Republican nomination in mid-March, easily won Tuesday's primaries in Kentucky and Idaho.

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