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U.S. Navy warships stopped two cargo ships, and crew members boarded one in the Gulf of Aqaba before allowing them to proceed to Jordan, according to shipping industry sources. It is believed to be the first time that a ship was boarded and inspected by the Navy since the economic embargo of Iraq began shortly after the Iraqis invaded Kuwait Aug. 2. Forty-seven dependents of U.S.

diplomats from the embassy in Kuwait arrived at Andrews Air By Terry Atlas Chicago Tribune DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein announced Tuesday that he will allow Western women and children to leave Iraq and said he is ready to talk- with President Bush and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Diminishing hopes for a diplomatic solution to the Persian Gulf crisis, however, the Baghdad government also defiantly tightened its grip on Kuwait by declaring the occupied nation to be Iraq's 19th province. Hussein's terms for the session with Bush and Thatcher a televised debate on the crisis "for the whole world to see" were rebuffed quickly by Washington and London. "It's sick. There is nothing to debate," said State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler.

Earlier in the day, Iraq said a 56-year-old American civilian had died, apparently of a heart attack, in the port city of Basra. He was believed to have been one of the dozens of Americans who were Force Base near Washington. Hussein allowed family members of diplomats from the Kuwait embassy to leave after they traveled to Baghdad, but ruled that the diplomats themselves had to stay behind. Five of the 52 allowed to leave Iraq chose not to make the flight home Tuesday. While promising to free some hostages, Iraqi authorities continued to round up more.

The State Department said nine Americans were seized Tuesday, bringing to 70 the number known to be in See Gulf; pg. 8 rounded up for use as human shields against a possible U.S. military strike at key Iraqi facilities. Early Wednesday in West Germany, at least 10 members of an American crew were killed when a U.S. Air Force C-S cargo plane that was involved in ferrying equipment to U.S.

forces in Saudi Arabia crashed and burned after takeoff from Ramstein Air Base. There were also these developments: In Washington, Bush met with about ISO members of Congress and told them no one should doubt "our national unity or our staying power" in Saudi Arabia. The Soviet Union criticized a U.S. decision to expel Iraqi diplomats from Washington, saying the move could escalate the rm ji TIT 2dD9 1MLTC Plainfield High School razed; Guard called out It. It By Bob Merrifield and Ronald Koziol A cluster of tornadoes raked a 12-mile path from Oswego to Joliet Tuesday afternoon, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 300 as the storm demolished subdivisions, collapsed a high school into a pile of bricks and tossed people from their homes into cornfields: At least 12 people were reported killed in the area of Plainfield and 8 in the Crest Hill area, Will County Coroner Duane Krieger said early Wednesday.

Krieger said there were unconfirmed reports of up to three additional deaths and no estimate of how many people were missing. Emergency workers said the death toll could rise as searchers made their way through fields and buildings that had been destroyed, and because some of those injured Searchers look for missing Crest Hill children. Sec. 2, pg. 1.

The path of destruction is 200 yards to mile wide. Sec. 2, pg. 2. Student athletes flee gym just before tragedy.

Sec. 2, pg. 1. were in extremely critical condition. On Tuesday night, dogs, bulldozers and helicopters 'were being used to search the rubble left by the deadliest twisters to hit northern Illinois since 1967.

A pilot who flew over the area shortly after the storm said he saw a single line of damage that stretched for 12 miles from Oswego, through Plainfield, across Interstate Highway 55 and into Joliet. The tornadoes spun rapidly out of a large, violent thunderstorm Se Tornadoes, PR. 14 Trioun pnoio by Frank Hkim Rescue workers and residents look for survivors at Crest Hill Lakes Apartments, where several people died In Tuesday's tornadoes. In seconds, homes turned into splinters mi I- mr. i 'J Vjanesville' 7 xfv 0 5 I Ftpckford Mich9 DUPAGE CO JL SftoJPathof WILL CO.

hUw Tuesday rk Vs -wteMr4yT''20 1 rePrted anything was left At shopping malls, merchandise and shards of glass lay in piles in parking lots. Trees had been uprooted nearby. Inside what remained of homes, people searched for the little' they could recover and boarded up what they couldn't Others searched for the living and aided the dying. Carl Bryant, who works just north of Plainfield, was driving into town when large hail began raining on his car. He made his way across the Du Page River bridge on Lockport Road, then parked under a tree and dived to the floor of his car.

He survived. But when the storm had passed, he found others had not On the bridge, he found a truck twisted and halfway blown off the bridge. The driver inside was dead. On the other side, he found a severely, injured woman trapped in her van, barely "I helped pull her from the car See Plainfield, pg. 2 By Bob Merrifield and David Eisner As Nancy Hawes drove up to her home in Plainfield's Peerless Estates subdivision Tuesday afternoon, her ears began to pop and she saw the sky darken quickly overhead.

"Suddenly the house was said Standing in front of the ruins Tuesday night, she pointed out the shards of wood driven into the rubber molding on her car, as the rancid smell of natural gas and destruction drifted through the neighborhood. "That's parts of people's houses," she said. The scene was repeated hundreds of times Tuesday after northern Illinois was hit by its worst tornado in 23 years. In Peerless Estates, smoke alarms wailed in piles of lumber that once had been homes. Along the shoulders of closed highways leading into Plainfield, scores of people walked toward their homes, sobbing, to see if 111 Plainfield High School demolished, fatalities reported 20 to 30 homes destroyed, jlE-Z! I fatalities reported wiivivnvvu 3 8 i Prton j7 lo Helahta Tnbun photo by Nancy Store The Plainfield fire station Is pressed Into service as a first aid station for patients who didn't need immediate hospitalization.

'Maniac on the loose terrorizes Florida campus CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Wednesday: Chance for a morning shower, then mostly sunny; high 82 degrees. Wednesday night Fair and cool; Tow 56. Thursday: Sunny and pleasant; high 78. The national weather report is In Sec. 2, pg.

11. By Mary T. Schmich Chicago Tribune GAINESVILLE, Fla. The bodies of a man and a woman were discovered here Tuesday, bringing to five the number of young people found slain since Sunday near the stately red-brick buildings and moss-draped oaks of the University of Florida campus. Afraid a serial killer is on the loose, students are spending their first week of classes buying dcadbolts and Mace instead of notepads and books.

"It's clear this part of the country has a maniac on the loose," said University of Florida President John From a distance, this usually tranquil community in the piney woods of north Florida appeared 1 ur' Beach, Fla. The young women, both freshmen at the university, apparently had been dead for two or three days. Several hours later, Christa Leigh Hoyt, 18, a student at Santa Fe Community College, failed to show up for her midnight shift as a clerk at the Alachua County Sheriffs Department. Her supervisor got worried. At 1 a.m., deputies found Hoyt dead on the floor of her secluded apartment, two miles from the previous murder site.

On Tuesday morning, the news got worse. At 8:30 a.m., a young man and woman were found slain in their apartment at the Gatorwood Apartments. They were identified as Manuel Tobada, 23, and Tracy Inez Paules, 23, both of Miami. Pau-f See Slayings, pqft 9 The victims (from left): Christina Powell, Christa Hoyt, Sonya Larson, Manuel Tobada, Tracy Paules. Nw See.

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Accompanied by police, they got a maintenance man to let them into Christina's apartment in the Williamsburg Village Apartments about 4 p.m. They found Christina dead in the living room. In the bedroom lay the body of her roommate, Sonya Lson, 18, of Deerfield many students, plans to leave town for a while. The macabre chain of discoveries began on Sunday afternoon. The parents of Christina P.

Powell, 17, of Jacksonville, alarmed that they had been unable to reach their daughter by telephone, traveled to and students outfitted in T-shirts, shorts and backpacks. Up close, however, the fear showed. "Everybody's walking around in a daze. They've got bags under their eyes. They're terrified," said Michelle Jones, a JP 9-year-old junior who, like I Classified ads are In Section 6.

normal luesday. ihe campus bustled with joggers, bicyclists.