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2A The Herald-Palladium, Benton Harbor-St. Joseph. Michigan, Saturday, July 5, 1 997 NEWS DIGEST SIM The AccuWeather forecast for noon, Saturday. July 5. Bands separate high temperature zona tot tie day.

YDS 60s state will speak out and we'll have hearings. Voters need to continue to put more pressure on law mak-ers. All 39 votes to free the proposal from committee were cast by Republicans. The bill, inspired by the 1996 slaying of a Bloomfield Hills doctor, Deborah Iverson, requires a two-thirds vote of the House and the Senate to place the issue before the voters. If the Legislature approves the bill, the death penalty would appear on the 1998 ballot.

60s W97 AceuWaalhar. Inc. E3 E3 WEATHER By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN Today, mostly sunny. High in the mid-70s. West wind 10 to 15 mph becoming southwest during the afternoon.

Tonight, increasing cloudiness. Low in the mid to upper 50s. Sunday, mostly cloudy. High in the mid-70s. LAKE MICHIGAN Today, west winds 10 to 15 knots becoming southwest.

Waves 1 to 3 feet ToHight, southwest winds 10 to a shower. Waves 2 to 4 feet EXTENDED FORECAST Lower Penii.ii.ila Monday, partly cloudy. Highs in the mid to upper 60s north and in the lower 70s south. Lows in the mid- to upper 40s north and around 50 south. Tuesday, partly cloudy.

Lows in the mid- to upper 40s north and around 50 south. Highs around 70 north and in the lower to mid-70s south. Wednesday, partly cloudy. Lows in the mid-to upper 40s north and in the lower to mid-50s south. Highs in the lower to mid-70s.

WEATHER PICTURE The Wealrier E'sewtieV -Friday Temperatures rdcate prevous day's rugh and overnight towto8 33pm. EOT COLO WARU STATIONARY Prttun SEE! EZ3 man low showers mm t-stohus nufnies snow ice sunny pt clouoy clouoy Anti-Muslim leaflet triggers outrage 1 NABLUS, West Bank Outraged by a Jewish extremist's anti-Muslim leaflet, 30,000 Palestinians thronged the streets of Nablus on Friday, for Israeli blood and burning an effigy of an ultra-Orthodox Jew, "We want more attacks!" the crowd chanted to beating drumsin a rally organized by the Islamic "militant group Hamas. The leaflet, pasted on Arab shop doors in the West Bank town of Hebron last week, has ignited a week of dashesbetweenalestiniaastone throwers and Israeli troops. It depicted the Muslim prophet Mohammed zz a pig stomping on the Koran, uie Muslin: book. The Jewish extremist who drew the caricature was indicted Thursday on charges that could put her behind bars for 24 years.

But the indictment did little to appease Palestinians. Spy Pollard wants to be traded JERUSALEM (AP) Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard wants to arrange a spy swap scheme between the United States, Israel, and Russia that would result in his release, his lawyer said Friday. According to attorney Larry Dub, Pollard would be' released in exchange for a Russian, scientist im-prisoned in the United States for Israel, in turn, would free seven Russian spies. Final score: Russia, eight spies; Israel, one. U.S, 'zero.

"There are talks on the way," Dub said. "The Russians are very serious about it. The question is whether the Israelis and Americans are serious." Pollard, a former U.S. Navy analyst and South Bend, resident, was caught in 1985 passing military secrets to Israel and is serving a life sentence in the United States. New York Cy 86 75 Cdy OuahomaCly 80 60 1.19 dr Omaha 73 54 cdy Orlando 97 79 1 01 cdy Phiadeiph 91 71 cdy Phoenu 111 77 dr San Francsco 68 57 cdy San Juan.P 92 77 cdy Santa Fa 81 55 St Ste Mane 60 49 cdy Seanie 87 57 cdy Snreveoort 92 75 cdy Sour Fans 71 45 cdy TampaSt Ptrsbg 93 81 32 cdy Wasiwigton.DC: 94 72 clr Flint searches for missing child FLINT, Mich.

(AP) Hundreds of volunteers resumed their search Friday for a 4-year-old girl missing since Tuesday, police said, Jessica Phelps was reported missing around 7 p.m; Tuesday while her mother showered, The Flint Journal reported. Tamara Kinney said she last saw her daughter playing by herself near their house. Flint Police Capt. Thomas L. Peek said officers have talked to hundreds of people and followed dozens of leads but have come up empty.

Police have seized video surveillance tapes from several area stores but those tapes have not produced any leads, Peek said. By Wednesday, hundreds of volunteers had combed stretches along Kearsley Creek and the Flint River. Volunteers showed up with horses and search dogs. One man donated a helicopter while another man scoured the area in his tractor. "What you have here is every parent's nightmare," Peek said.

"I'm not at all surprised at the number of people that came out." Death penalty bill stuck in committee PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) Law makers have defeated a Republican proposal to remove from committee a proposal on establishing the death penalty in Michigan. By a 64-39 vote Thursday, legislators refused to free the proposal from the House Judiciary Committee, where it has been since January, for debate on the House floor. The bill -would let voters decide if the death penalty should be allow for people convicted of first-degree murder: Detroit Democrat Ted Wallace, chairman of the judiciary committee, said the issue has not been sufficiently discussed in the committee. Rep.

Michael Goschka, R-Brant sponsored the move to extract the bill, but said he was not disappointed by the vote because it forced lawmakers to state publicly their position on the issue. "We've taken the debate, finally, from the kitchen and the workplace and the -streets of everyday people to the Michigan House," Goschka told The Oakland Press of Pontiac in a story Friday. "It's no longer time to debate it People are on Hopefully people around the Natjonai Temperature Extremes lor Fnday Hign 117 at Lane Havasu Cy. Ant Low 32 at Stanley. Idaho rd cases mssng rtormation.

he wants TEMPERATURES Readings Fri. 9 a.m. to 1 1 p.m. 9 a.m. .55 6 p.m....i....56 53 9 p.m.....,:..54 3 p.m 52 1 1 p.m 49 High, 60 at 5 p.m.; Low, 49 at tl p.m.

Phoenix suburb may include something even more important first proof that human beings were here at least 10,000 years ago, when mammoths became extinct. Alongside the remains was charcoal and some unrelated mammoth bones, possible evidence of an Ice Age "kill site" where animals were hunted for food. Invitation to tryst proves to be costly GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) A couple trying to add a little variety to their love life sure propositioned the wrong guy. Pamela Burgoyne, 50, was wearing only high heels when she asked the man walking by her motel room to join her and her partner in bed.

Inside the room, lying naked on the bed, was Robert Kaprive 47. The man she asked was South Greensburg's Police Chief M.C. "Sonny" Rabasseau. Ms. Burgoyne and Kaprive pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct Thursday, and each paid a $300 fine.

Postuepedic Support Only from Sealy MATTRESS SALE SEALY FIRM Crisis shadows Bosnian parliament PALE, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) Bosnian Serb lawmakers tried Friday to unseat the president, who dissolved parliament because she said it was taking orders from war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic. But parliament still was short the deputies needed to make major decisions as it opened its session during the most serious Serb leadership crisis since the Bosnian war ended. President Biljana Plavsic issued the decree dissolving parliament Thursday, but allies of Wartime leader Karadzic, who dominate the lawmaking body, refused to recognize the move. Yeltsin says economy turns corner MOSCOW CAP)' Rus econ- omv as rcrroea the con after six years of decnnT? esident Boris Yeltsin declared Fridav. He then sent his (ides ibling by prom- ising to en wage crisis in three months spinal meningitis kills Marquette teen MARQUETTE, Mich.

(AP) A local youth has died from spinal meningitis, and health care officials are on guard for more cases of the infection. The death was the first of its type in Marquette County in the last 10 years, said Dr. Randy Johnson, executive director of the Marquette County Health Department. State law prohibits officials from releasing the name of the youth, who had been ill less than 12 hours before dying Monday at Marquette General Hospital from a particularly virulent form of the disease known as meningococcial meningitis. "That's the type that often kills when people come down with it," Johnson said.

"There are probably 10 or 15 kinds of bacteria that can cause meningitis. There are even some viruses that can cause it" LOTTERIES Friday MICHIGAN Midday Daily Lottery: 2-t-T Midday Daily-4: 8-8-3-7 Oaily Lottery: 9-4-0 Oaily-4: 6-6-7-2 Cash-5: 18-24-25-31-39 Keno: 5. 10, 11, 14, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 30. 35, 42, 48, 51 53, 54, 55, 57. 64, 67.

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Mammoth's remains found in Arizona CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) Construction crews have come across the remains of a woolly mammoth, and a geologist said charcoal found at the site may show that humans were here that long ago. Machines digging a sewer trench had already tunneled through the middle of the skeleton when a city building inspector noticed curious white objects stuck in the clay soil. "I'm sure there were many more sites like this that were just covered up because construction crews don't recognize them," Arizona State University geologist Brad Archer said of a region where construction is rampant Though a tusk was sliced in half and some bones were chipped by the digging, 'Archer said the remains discovered Thursday in this II JF-ltXM vj.tvoiSL in Hoaitrl autmciuco Ofu.ca per mo ($199 Sale Price) Free Classes "Zig Zag, Blind Hem, Button Hole, Mending, Applique And More Free Arm For Versatility A Super Value For Any Budget Local Expert Service No MachineSent Out Of Town Our complete stock of Janome-New Home computer sewing machines and Sergers are on sale now. Come in while the 1001 Main St.

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