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(I A10 ELKO DAILY FREE PRESS, Elko, Nevada Friday, May 1, 1998 News Capsules administrative law judge determines the state is guilty of a wrongful act That decision must come by July 1, Rep. Kendrick Meek, a Miami Democrat and one of the sponsors of the bill, clutched Lee in a tearful bear-hug following the final tally and his friends belonged to one crew and the victims to another. "My brother would be happy," Azo-car's brother, Abel Azocar, 19, said. "I hope they charge him as an adult and not as a juvenile." The case was to be reviewed by prosecutors in the juvenile division of the District Attorney's office, police said. If i (AP PholaC'lurln Dharipali) Eight-year-old Fuad Hilmi, right, suffering from dengue fever, is fanned by his mother as he lies in the hallway of Tarakan Hospital in Jakarta.

Hospital wards in the Indonesian capital are at over-capacity as the number of dengue patients seeking treatment increases by an average of 200 a day, already killing 60 in Jakarta this year so far. Southeast Asia grapples lvith deiigi Boy dies LOS ANGELES (AP) A 2-year-old Japanese boy awaiting a heart transplant died of heart failure, a week after arriving in the United States, hospital officials said. The boy died 12:30 a.m. today at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, said nursing supervisor Denny Rubianes. He was brought to the hospital on Monday.

The boy's name could not immediately be confirmed, Rubianes said. The Kyodo News agency identified him as Mutsumi Nagatani of Nagoya. At 10 months old. he was diagnosed with adiopathic cardiomyopathy, a heart pump disorder. He died of heart failure.

Rubianes would not say when the heart transplant surgery was scheduled to take place. Early this morning, the boy suffered a fever and then a seizure due to heart failure and died despite efforts to resuscitate him, Kyodo News agency said. Delayed justice TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Two black men who spent a dozen years in prison for murders that another man confessed to were awarded $500,000 each by the state Legislature. The Republican-controlled House approved the awards versions of which had languished in both chambers for nearly two decades with just one day remaining in the legislative session.

The men had been pardoned in 1975. Gov. Lawton Chiles is expected to sign the payments, which also would include $125,000 in legal expenses for Freddie Pitts, 54, and Wilbert Lee, 62. The payments would be made if an finds knife old ne LOS ANGELES (AP) A construction crew found a folding-blade knife in OJ. Simpson's former neighborhood, but police said the knife liftkHtekBfcns-tf -hts-ex- Construction Shooting arrest POMONA, Calif.

(AP) A 14-year-old boy has been arrested for investigation of killing two youths and wounding a third in a skirmish that turned into a deadly gunbattle behind an elementary school, police said. The Pomona boy, whose name wasn't released because of his age, was arrested Thursday at. a home in Fontana, Sgt. Gordon Jones said. Hector Manuel Lopez, 14, and Andres Azocar, 17, were shot dead Tuesday evening at Philadelphia Elementary School.

School was not in session. A 15-year-old boy, whose name wasn't released, was treated at a hospital for a leg wound and released, Cpl. Robert Bocanegra said. Police said the youths had agreed to meet at the school to fight because they were members of rival groups identified as "party crews," groups of youths who like to socialize but aren't necessarily gangs. The suspect Join 'Hi.

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Pac kages stin ting at Pomee(e 616 Commercial St. KIko, NV 'HO JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Sprawled on cots donated by the army, dozens of listless, feverish children line the corridors of a Jakarta hospital, victims of the worst dengue fever outbreak in years. Mothers fan the still air enveloping their young ones, whose IV bags hang from nails hammered into the wall. At night, medics let family members stretch out on straw mats on the floor. The mosquito-borne disease has hit Indonesia hard this year, killing 487 people, 60 of them in the slum-packed, sweltering capital.

It has thrived elsewhere in the region, too: Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand have all reported a surge in cases. Dengue is reaching the peak of a roughly five-year cycle in Southeast Asia, striking people with low immunity levels. Once this outbreak ebbs, experts say, more people will be resistant to the viral disease and the cycle will begin again. There is some speculation that El Nino, the weather phenomenon that spurred drought in Southeast Asia and Latin America, has hastened the spreadof dengue fever by toying with weather patterns. "Maybe it's El Nino, but nobody's sure about that" said Dr.

P.R. Ar-bani, an Indonesian doctor based in the regional office of the World Health Organization in New Delhi, The striped Aedes aegypti mosquito, carrier of the dengue virus, then huddled in prayer. "This is a bittersweet moment for Mr. Pitts and Mr. Lee and those who believe this bill should have passed 20 years ago," Meek said.

Pitts, 54, and Lee, 62, twice were convicted by all-white juries of murdering two white attendants on Aug. 1, 1963, at a gas station in Port St Joe, a small Florida Panhandle fishing and paper mill town. They were on death row for nine years. The original conviction was thrown out after a white man, Curtis "Boo" Adams, admitted to the crime. During a retrial, however, the confession was ruled inadmissible, and Pitts and Lee were convicted again.

Then-Gov. Reubin Askew pardoned Pitts and Lee in 1975, citing substantial doubt about either man's guilt. Bank shooting CARMEL, Ind. (AP) Penny Schmidt was just doing her job when she told a man his loan application had been rejected. She even went a step further: As the man left the KeyBank branch in this affluent Indianapolis suburb and headed out into the morning rain Thursday, she followed to offer him an umbrella.

Antione Whitehead went back into the bank and gunned her down, shot three other workers and took an undisclosed amount of money, police said. A manhunt ended about six hours later when Whitehead, crouched in a tree top two blocks from the bank, shot himself to death as police moved in. The shooting was followed less than an hour later by a bank holdup a few miles away in Indianapolis. A suspect in that robbery was critically injured after he was shot by police. The FBI said the two robberies apparently were unconnected.

CFew in Former LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman and then-partner Brad Roberts said they saw an empty Swiss Army knife box in Simpson's bathroom while they were investigating the kiTlirigs'. Detectives Tom Lange and Philip Vannatter. who also investigated the case, said they never saw a Swiss Army knife box. On Thursday, Fuhrman told listeners of his weekly radio show on KXLY-AM in Spokane. there was a "high probability" that the knife found was the weapon used in the murders "unless they can explain it some other way." He said he believes the murder weapon was a lockback Swiss Army knife with a serrated blade, which he said was the type that was excavated.

Alba said he didn't know if the newly found folding knife was a Swiss Army type. Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were knifed to death on June 12, 1994. Jurors in a criminal trial acquitted Simpson of murder charges in 1995, but jurors in a civil wrongful death trial last year held him liable and ordered him to pay $33.5 million in damages. The weapon used in the killings was never found. Several knives have been found in Simpson's former neighborhood over the past few years, but technicians couldnt find any blood, hair or any other evidence to link them to any crime, Alba said.

Fuhrman said a lack of evidence wouldn't be surprising, given the passage of time. He stressed he didn't know how deeply the knife was buried. Simpson moved from Brentwood last year, the home was sold at a foreclosure auction. ighborhood and, heft flourishes during rainy seasons but can breed in water-filled plastic bags and cans in dry weather too. Rains came late to the region because of El Nino.

One mosquito bite can inflict fever, joint pains and chills for weeks. Another virus strain causes hemorrhaging and even death. Children are especially susceptible, and there is no vaccine. At Tarakan hospital in Jakarta, 12-year-old Faisal sat cross-legged and drowsy on a cot as his father, Warto, described how the boy awoke sick from a nap at home nearly a week ago. "He said to me, 'I have a and suddenly his temperature got higher and higher.

I took him straight to the hospital," said Warto, a tailor. A few days back, Faisal was bleeding from the nose, but now he is recovering. Warto said two people in his neighborhood died recently of dengue fever. City blood supplies for transfusions are running low. As a last resort, hospitals may ask the military to loan tents and mattresses to set up field clinics.

"They can manage, so far," said Dr. Thomas Suroso of the Health Ministry. However, this year's outbreak Is expected to peak as late as July. The crisis is an extra burden on a health system short of cash because of Asia's economic crisis. Prices of medicine and hospital equipment have shocked television viewers when what started as an uneventful standoff suddenly came to a bloody end beneath a swarm of news helicopters.

Jones' truck suddenly burst into flames, possibly from a Molotov cocktail, and he threw himself out of the cab with hair and clothing on fire. A dog he had been petting on the seat next to him was left behind, Writhing in pain, Jones rolled on the ground, pulled off his burning pants and underwear, then climbed onto an overpass sidewall as if to jump. He instead stepped down, returned to the flaming pickup, grabbed a shotgun from the bed and shot himself. Some TV stations rapidly pulled away from closeups of the drama but several still showed the grisly scene. At a Burbank Airport terminal, there were shrieks and gasps of horror in a crowd that had gathered around a television set Several Man distraught over BLMOs commits suicide on freeway soared.

At least 17,922 Indonesians have been infected this year, a 36 percent increase over the same period in 1997. Elsewhere in the region: Dengue fever took 31 lives in Thailand in the first three months of 1998, three times as many for the same period in 1997. Thai officials fear the worst dengue outbreak in four decades. More than 3,880 people have been infected in Vietnam this month, an increase of 13 percent over last April. At least 39 victims have died this year.

Singapore has reported 1J01 cases, double last year's rate. In Malaysia, dengue cases have risen 6 percent since last year, although the number of deaths has dropped from 13 for the same period in 1997 to one this year. In late 1997 and early this year, there were larger than normal outbreaks of dengue fever in the Australian coastal city of Cairns as well as Fiji and other South Pacific islands. In nations where dengue fever is endemic, officials regularly urge people to empty stagnant water from old tires, trash cans and flower pots. President Suharto of Indonesia has ordered a similiar campaign.

Fumigation teams go door-to-door in neighborhoods of Jakarta, a city of 10 million people where crowded slums with open sewers offer mosquitoes a plethora of places to breed. mothers covered their children's eyes. Ms. Jones said her 40-year-old brother was a passionate man who had bad experiences with a health maintenance organization about 10 years ago. "My brother was almost killed by an HMO," she said in a telephone interview.

"He went to an HMO complaining of severe pain in his side and other flulike symptoms. He was sent home. His appendix burst" She said it was only at the time of the suicide that Jones' best friend told her Jones was HIV-positive. "I believe this is a direct result of him being mistreated once again," she said. "It may sound selfish of me to say this, but I would rather this happened than to have to watch him die because he's not been properly treated." Jones, an air conditioning and refrigeration maintenance technician, had recently quit his job, she said.

He was also a trained emergency medical technician and an Air Force veteran, she said. His last job was at the Renaissance Hotel in Long Beach. Neighbors of Jones, who lived in a Long Beach house wedged between two apartment buildings, said he was reclusive and usually was seen walking or playing with his dog. "I can! believe he killed himself. I cant believe he killed his dog," said neighbor Don Lee.

A golfer, surfer and skiier, he was also a hunter. Ms. Jones said she recognized the gun as one he had owned for several years. She hadn't seen her brother in about a month, and last spoke to him on his birthday, April 15. Jones was one of three children.

Another brother lives in New York. Their father is dead and their mother, who lives in Southern California, saw much of the incident on TV, Ms. Jones said. His sister said the banner reminded her of another time that he voiced his frustrations publicly. She said he made a freeway banner because he was angry at the role of white LAPD police officers involved in the beating of black motorist Rodney King.

Thursday's drama unfolded on a connector bridge between the Highway 110 and Interstate 105, about 8 miles south of downtown. CIMARRON WEST IS PROUD TO The Traditional Mothers Day Sale LOS ANGELES (AP) Daniel V. Jones was a passionate man who believed strongly in making a statement going so far as to take his own life to make a point. On Thursday, Jones set himself on fire in his truck and then shot himself to death on live television after he stopped on a freeway overpass, fired a shotgun and unfurled a banner accusing HMOs of being "in it for the money." Jones' sister, Janet Jones, 38, said her brother was very passionate about wrongdoing, which might explain why he chose to end his life so publicly. "That's what he wanted, for it to mean something," she said.

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