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A2 Globe-Gazette Wednesday, FEBRUARY 25, 1998 Visit us Online UwystScTtrtt bt North laiva TAKE THEATER In Brief 0 Call For The Latest U.N. chief predicts success of inspection pact with Iraq QBE Movie Selections 357-2414 fine 4 uc IfffrM Adults $3 Children 1 2 Under $2.00 Downtown Clpqr lolce jlobegazette.com kV GQvjfMO NOMINATED FOR 14 OSCARS-BEST PICTURE "TITANIC" -pg 13- days to endorse the document Weston said, though it wasn't clear if such a resolution would threaten force if Iraq failed to comply, as the United States and Britain have done. A resolution endorsing Annan's accord isn't strictly required but would be "desirable in political terms," Spokesman Fred Eck-hard said. When asked what he hoped for in a council resolution, a visibly tired Annan replied: "I have done my work. I trust the council will do its duty." The United States and Britain called Tuesday for "a quick test" of the agreement, but it wasn't clear when such a test would come.

Inspectors would only request access to the eight presidential sites that had been declared off-limits if they had a reason and an "investigative trail" led them there, Eckhard said. view to the accord, and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, called it "a step in the right direction." But the United States is concerned about clauses that leave open the role of the UN. Special Cornmission, which carries out the inspections, and the composition of a new team of diplomats who would accompany the UNSCOM inspectors to sensitive sites, Richardson said. "We need clarifications on a number of issues, namely the importance of the U.N.

inspection team and UNSCOM having the key role in any agreement" Britain's ambassador, John Weston, said a key concern was that the "professional integrity of the inspection process remain intact and is at the center of this process." A Security Council resolution could be drafted in the next few UNITED NATIONS (AP) U.N. chief Kofi Annan predicted Tuesday that key nations would give his deal with Iraq their unanimous support. A wary United States said it was looking for clarifications and an early test of the accord that Annan said "I will defend anywhere." Annan returned triumphantly to the United Nations with an accord that he says meets the demands of Security Council resolutions: unfettered access to all sites suspected of harboring weapons of mass destruction. He acknowledged that the agreement needed further definition, as requested by several Security Council members, but predicted after his first council meeting Tuesday that it would have "unanimous and strong council support" and that Iraq would comply with it President Clinton and his top advisers gave a generally favorable Passengers subdue airline hijacker ANKARA, Turkey (AP) A hijacker proclaiming himself on a mission from God seized a Turkish Airlines jet Tuesday and demanded to be flown to Iran, only to be tackled by fellow passengers, Turkey's Anatolia news agency reported. After pummeling him, passengers handed the man over to security forces, Turkish television reported.

There were no injuries to any of the 62 passengers or five crew members. "I am a martyr of God," the hijacker, identified as 31-year-old Mehmet Dal, shouted as security troops took him from the plane early Wednesday. Castro re-elected Cuban president MEXICO CITY (AP) Cuba installed its newly elected parliament in Havana on Tuesday with the reelection of President Fidel Castro one of the first orders of business, the official Cuban news agency reported. The 71 -year-old leader was the only candidate for president of the Council of State the equivalent of national president. MUST END THURSDAY! NOMINATED FOR 2 OSCARS "ANASTASIA" (NO PASSES) -G-AT 1:454:15 ONLY Visit the Globe Online on the World Wide Web www.globegazette.com I Daily news and sports Latest AccuWeather forecasts Associated Press The Wire" Searchable classified ads Real Estate Extra Hot links to hot sites Globe Online hosted by NetConX Send us e-mail Send us an e-mail message, news item or Letter to the Editor: newsglobegazette.com CyberQ CYBER QUESTION: Do you think the Mason City Council should begin televising its regular meetings on cable TV? Why or why not? And if it does, will you watch? Respond online at Globe Online.

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Des Moines flow Open agent, testified Tuesday. "I accept my responsibility. I should have made sure everything was covered." But it was Meyers, who was not present in court Tuesday, who took the brunt of criticism not only from Parrish but also from Judge Mark W. Bennett and Assistant U.S. Attorney Pat Reinert.

Bennett ended up ruling that only 1.276 kilograms of methamphetamine could have "been reasonably expected" to be produced by the lab. If Bennett would have accepted Meyers' calculations, Honken's sentence of 24 years, five months could have been increased by as much as six years. Meyers testified that he didn't need to test the substance in the toluene can because his 27Vz years of experience as a DEA chemist told him that the substance smelted like toluene. More than once Tuesday, Bennett referred to Meyers' test as the "sniff test." "At the very least, it was incredibly sloppy," Bennett said, "and at worst, outright fraudulent." "Mr. Meyers has heard in no uncertain terms what I thought about the handling of (the toluene)," Reinert said.

SIOUX CITY A Drug Enforcement Agency chemist came under heavy criticism Tuesday during the final day of the United States of America vs. Dustin Honken sentencing hearing. John Meyers, who is based out of the DEA's laboratory in Chicago, testified at the hearing last week and admitted that he had not tested a can of a chemical substance called toluene or measured the contents of the can that was found when authorities raided Honken's home at 1104 16th St. N.E. in Mason City on Feb.

7, 1996. Toluene, a commonly used solvent in paint thinner, was the base ingredient that Honken's laboratory was using in a five-step process to manufacture methamphetamine. Meyers testified that, based on five gallons of toluene and notes found at the Honken home, the laboratory had a capacity of producing 5.6 to 7.4 kilograms of methamphetamine. "I assumed the chemists noted whether (the can) was full and had the substance tested," David Mizell, a DEA special Daily CyberBrief IBM plans to start selling PCs over the Web, joining the hip new realm of cyber selling. The move is designed to put Big Blue on a par with Dell Computer which stole a beat on its larger rival and now sells more than $4 million online daily.

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Sat. Mason City, IA 50401 Phone: 515-424-3758 receive only 15 percent off of his sentence for good behavior, meaning he will be imprisoned for almost 21 years. "It's a long sentence," Bennett told Honken, "but if a couple of these items had gone the other way, it would have been a mandatory life sentence. In my view, you are a lucky man today." Federal sentencing requirements are based on levels. The amount of drugs manufactured and the amount of drugs that can be potentially manufactured set the base level of the sentence.

Levels also can be added for items ranging from obstruction of justice to use of a firearm in the crime. Bennett ruled that Honken deserved a level 38 sentence, and he sentenced him to the maximum allowable sentence under the guidelines. Honken could have received as little as 19 years, seven months. Although the government spent hours trying to connect Honken with the disappearance of five people, including two potential witnesses in a 1993 drug charge, Bennett avoided ruling on Honken's role in the disappearances, his role in alleged plots to kill other witnesses and his role in a planned escape from the Woodbury County Jail. Instead, Bennett determined that Honken and co-defendant Timothy Cutkomp, Honken's boyhood friend who cooperated with the government in its prosecution of Honken, had manufactured 1.594 kilograms of methamphetamine in 1992-93 and had the ability to manufacture 1.276 kilograms of the substance in 1996.

Bennett also ruled that Honken had tried to obstruct justice when he attempted to conceal a hydrogen tank, an item needed in the final stage of a five-step process to manufacture the drug. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Pat Reinert and Steve Colloton agreed with Parrish to stipulate that Honken had a major role in the drug manufacturing process. Bennett set the base level for the drugs at a 36, two less than the government asked for and four more than Parrish requested. He added two levels for the obstruction conduct and lawyers agreed to add three levels for Honken's role in the offense.

But Bennett granted Honken a three-level reduction for "acceptance of responsibility," basing that decision on Honken guilty plea to the drug counts in June 1997. Both sides may appeal the decision to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis. "It's way too early to comment at this point," Parrish said. "Obviously, it was a tough, hard fight on the drug quantity issue, but the fact is that the sentences are basically guideline driven." "We've just heard the sentence jt BEFORE YOU LEAP INTO lotteries ONE OF THE NEW IRAs look into one of the free IRA Opportunity Seminars Iowa Lotteries Cash Game: 2-5-12-20-34 Daily Millions: Red: 5-21; White: 13-14; Blue: 14-19; Minnesota Lotteries Daily 3: 5-2-2 Gopher 5: 2-18-27-32-35; Bonus Ball: 28.

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"We believe the defendant was involved in this. We believe that he was ready to take violent actions again. (A maximum sentence) sends a message to this defendant and other defendants who are thinking about taking things into their own hands that that conduct is unacceptable." But Parrish said that "the court needs to consider his age. He can be rehabilitated. This is an intelligent young man." Honken spoke briefly before Bennett pronounced his sentencing and began by saying that "I wasn't expecting things to go this way (today)." He also told Bennett that "I let down my family, my children most of all.

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