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The Edmonton Journal, Thursday, August 1 2, 1 999 A5 World Sather's Son Escapes Twister Pakistan opens fire on Indian jet fighter 'Jf i- -lLL Associated Press The Assc Tents set up for a convention lie shredded after a tomado swept through downtown Salt Lake City killing at least one person and injuring about 1 00 The ft Life ToiTuiia Gift David Orr For Southam Newspapers Delhi Pakistan admitted opening fire on Indian jet fighters near the border Wednesday but denied firing at Indian helicopters carrying journalists. Accusations and recriminations between Islamabad and Delhi accompanied a real fear of war after Indian jets shot down a Pakistani patrol plane on Tuesday killing 16 people "Two Indian jet fighters tried to enter this area but were forced to run after we fired at them," said Brig. Rashid Qureshi, discussing the Wednesday incident Journalists aboard three Indian helicopters approaching the site where the Pakistani plane came down reported seeing a flash and a trail of smoke from what appeared to be a surface-to-air missile. The helicopters took evasive action and returned to an Indian air base Indian Group Capt S. Bhangu said that from the cockpit he saw a missile flash coming from the direction of the Pakistani border and immediately the three helicopters veered away Pakistani soldiers were digging in at the crash site, placing anti-aircraft missiles and machine-guns in the area.

About 100 Pakistani troops were at the crash site, 95 km east of the port city of Karachi. As each side accused the other of aggression, there were fears the incident could lead to armed conflict India and Pakistan, which have fought three wars in the past 52 years, have both put their armed forces on alert India insists the naval reconnaissance plane entered Indian airspace over the state of Gujarat and was shot down after refusing to comply with orders that it land in Indian territory. Pakistan denies the accusation, saying that its naval patrol aircraft was on a routine flight over southern Pakistan. Wreckage from the downed aircraft was located on both sides of the international border, but Pakistan accused Indian forces of sneaking into its territory to recover debris to prove the plane was shot down over India. Qureshi, who was accompanying journalists from the Pakistani side to the crash site said: "The place (where) we are standing is Pakistani territory Had it been India, Indian troops would have been here" He said the crash site was about 45 km southeast of the town of Badin and about 1.5 km from the border with India.

Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was among those shown parts of the wreckage Wednesday in Delhi. Parts of a wing, the cockpit and the plane's hydraulic system were on display According to the Indian government the Pakistani aircraft was hit in the port engine and continued to fly towards Pakistan as it lost height and entered a cloud bank. "I watched the tomado pass right over us. I watched that building come down and it was literally like a giant fist pounded it down. The entire structure just collapsed instantaneously.

It was like, and it was down." Tony Surrendi inthehoteL After the tornado passed, Surrendi offered first aid to the injured until paramedic crews arrived. He said many people were badly cut by shards of flying glass from windows that exploded from the tornado's pressure. "There was a girl with glass shards in her arm and she was screaming and running around in circles until someone went and got her and helped her" There were about 50 people in the pavilion when the tornado struck, he said. Surrendi, 29, who now lives in St. Albert, said he knew to take shelter in the door frame because he survived the Edmonton's killer tornado in 1987.

At that time, he was a 17-year-old working at a plastic's plant on 34th Street In Salt Lake City, power lines were ripped down, roofs torn off, windows blown out and shards of glass were tossed everywhere. Helicopters landed in the streets to ferry the injured to hospitals. Utah's governor declared a state of emergency Robert Stock of Toronto, a sales representative for a rock-climbing company, said he saw the roof of the Delta Center lift up when the tornado passed over. "It peeled it right back, just like an orange peeL" A severe thunderstorm watch was issued at 12:48 p.m.; the twister touched down about seven minutes later "We saw what was going on," said David Toronto, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service "But to look at it and say there's a tornado and it's going to hit downtown we didn't have that information because of the rapid development" The tornado was classified as a low-end F2, which has winds of between 175 and 240 kilometres per hour The fatality was the first recorded tornado-related death in the history of Utah, which averages two tornadoes a year. The Associated Press A funnel cloud moves across the sky near the University of Utah in Salt Lake City Charles Rusnell Journal Staff Writer and The Associated Press Salt Lake City Three Edmonton people survived a tornado that destroyed the display pavilion in which they were working Wednesday The black, swirling funnel cloud tore through the downtown area of Utah's capital, tossing trucks and trees and obliterating tents set up for a convention.

At least one person was killed and 100 injured after the tornado touched down. Tony Surrendi, Shanon Sather, son of Oilers General Manager Glen Sather, and Holly Cartwright were in Pavilion Two next to the Windham Hotel for a major outdoors recreation show when the tornado struck about 1 p.m.. Their company, North Peace Canada, manufactures and distributes a line of camping tents. Surrendi, reached at his Salt Lake City hotel late Wednesday, described what happened. "It started to rain and then hail really heavily and it was making a terrible racket on the pavilion, which was essentially a plastic tarp supported by steel girders.

Shanon and I decided to go over to the south exit door and check it out We were probably 10 feet away when a guy at the door started running and yelling, "tornado! tornado!" Surrendi and Sather turned and ran for the north exit as the tornado bore down on the pavilion. Surrendi made it to the exit and dove face first on the floor in the door frame. Sather took shelter under a stairwell. "I was just trying to hold on," said Sather. "I didn't know if I was going to get sucked up by the funnel cloud or what.

I could see debris flying everywhere. There was metal and wood and glass flying past" Surrendi estimates only 10 seconds elapsed from the moment they started running until the tornado struck. "I watched the tornado pass right over us," Surrendi said. "I watched that building come down and it was lit erally like a giant fist pounded it down. The entire structure just collapsed instantaneously.

It was like, and it was down." The swirling, sucking wind literally shredded the pavilion and plucked display booths and their contents from the floor, swirling them in a deadly circle Surrendi was smacked on the back of the head by flying debris. After the tornado passed, he worked to free several people who had been pinned by pieces of felled girder Then people started screaming that the tornado was coming back. Surrendi and the people he had freed sprinted for shelter in the Windham Hotel across the street. Cartwright had been at the company's display booth in the centre of the pavilion when the tornado warning was sounded. She made it to safety More World '4j stories pages A11 and E11 i I Supremacist Confesses 'i i I Shootings meant as 'wake-up call' The Associated Press Las Vegas The white supremacist J0 wdiiicu ill uic aiiifuimg ui live people at a Los Angeles Jewish community centre fled to Las Vegas in taxis, walked into an FBI office and confessed Wednesday, saying he wanted his act to be "a wake-up call to America to kill Jews." If it Si I 'i II District Attorney Craig Hum said he planned to file a warrant charging Furrow with five counts of attempted murder, which would allow authorities in Las Vegas to hold him for extradition.

Federal prosecutors intend to also file charges against Furrow in the slaying of Joseph Ileto, 39, a postal worker who was killed about an hour after the centre shootings Tuesday Ileto had just delivered mail to a home and was returning to his truck when he was shot several times. Early indications are the community centre gunman acted alone when he strode into the centre's lobby and opened fire with a semi-automatic gun firing 70 shots. The gunman evaded police and Furrow allegedly hijacked a Toyota at gunpoint about 20 minutes later leaving behind a van full of ammunition. The wounded from the community centre included a five-year-old boy who was hit in the abdomen and leg. He was in critical condition Wednesday and given a fair chance of recovery Also hurt were the centre's 68-year-old receptionist Isabelle Shalometh; two six-year-old boys and a 16-year-old counsellor at the centre's summer camp The boys and the counsellor were in stable condition Wednesday; Shalometh was released from the hospital Tuesday night 4l IHwtifiHir il-'.

lift -fji (. iiHJ' 'lt vif! (ill i.l.H f. t.j Buford O'Neal Furrow Jn, 37, also will be charged in the slaying of a postal worker who was shot Tuesday near the community centre authorities said. Furrow said little during a closed-door court appearance and waived extradition to Los Angeles, said his lawyer. After the hearing, he was put on a helicopter bound for Los Angeles.

As he was led out of the courthouse, a man shouted at Furrow: "You are a coward! You are a coward!" Furrow smiled, then was hustled into a car Furrow has ties to hate groups in the Northwest and had tried to commit himself to a psychiatric hospital last year. He was a member of the Aryan Nations in 1995, said Mark Potok, a researcher with the Southern Poverty Law Center, which maintains a database of white supremacists. "To these kinds of demented and warped minds, having a few hours under the sun where the whole world is paying attention to you is really tantalizing," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the The Associated Press Buford O'Neal Furrow Jr. being led out of federal court in Las Vegas Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. Furrow told authorities he took two cabs for the 440-kilometre trip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, one to the California-Nevada line, the other the rest of the way An FBI source said Furrow walked into the FBI office and said: "You're looking for me I killed the kids in Los Angeles." Furrow assumed he had killed some children, said the source U.S.

President Bill Clinton on Wednesday said: "I can only hope that this latest incident will intensify our resolve to make America a safer place, a place of healing across the lines that divide us." Los Angeles County Deputy.