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WorldNation 7A Tuesday, Sept. 1 1 998 Mist mini: Jin kwi. IB 1 Clinton tries to help" Russians cope tvith current economic crisis Former first dog Rex dies at 13 LOS ANGELES (AP) -former first dog Rex, who -made the Reagan White House his home, died Monday. He was I Rex died of complications 'an enlarged heart and will 5 be buried at Rancho del Cielo, Mobs stone shops for a second day JAKARTA; Indonesia (AP) -Shouting separatist slogans, j' stone-throwing mobs attacked Chinese-owned shops for a second day today in northern Indonesia. Riot officers shot and killed two people, residents said.

"I believe you will create the conditions of growth if but only if you continue to move decisively along the path of democratic, market-oriented constructive Ronald and Nancy Reagan's at Moscow State University 6f International Relations. He repeatedly said that Russia must "play by the rules" of international commerce. Clinton met earlier with Russian President Boris Yeltsin in the first session of a two-day summit unlikely to deliver sweeping agreements from the politically wounded presidents. With Russia'seiconomic tur- fnoil throwing the summit agerir da into uncertainty, Clinton addressed the crisis with frank ness, but offered no specific -ideas oh how the infant democracy could weather the tailspin of its currency. "I do hot believe it is by reverting to the failed policies of the do hot believe it is by stopping the reform process in midstream," he said.

Ninety initiates, mean while, Clinton traced America's own former ranch outside Santa were on the runlifter crowds Barbara in the Santa Ynez Mountains, said spokeswoman Joanne Drake. two centuries of democracy and aid "the road has not always been easy," referring to the Civil War, Great Depression and two world wars. Rex, a King Charles Cavalier spaniel born Dec. 16, 1984, came as a Christmas present in 1985. It was reported at the Better safe than sorry MOSCOW (AP) With a message of support but no financial help, President Clinton urged Russians today to "reject the failed policies of the past" in coping with their current eco-- nomic crisis.

"Given the facts before you, I have to tell you that I do not believe there are any painless solutions," Clinton told a new generation of Russian leaders Postmaster general says mail monopoly won't last WASHINGTON (AP) -It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your mail is? In the future you'll be able to find out, says Postmaster General Henderson. He announced Monday that his agency is launching an effort to create arnew "information to track the time that Rex was a gift from the president to his wife, but the dog was really a gift from commentator.William Buckley, Drake said. It's lights out for Mr. Toad's Wild Ride LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.

(AP) Despite. protests, despite the green T-shirts saying "Ask me why Mickey is killing Mr. Toad," despite hundreds of pleading postcards and letters mailed to Disney officials, Mr. Toad appears to be roadkill. A yearlong Internet and mail campaign to persuade Walt Disney World to keep Mr.

movement pf mail, stormed a prison Monday in the town of Lhokseumawe in the biggest riots since deadly unrest in May helped oust for- mer President Suharto. Mobs burned buildings and stoned military trucks. Even children looted stores. Two people died when security forces fired at young men who were hurling rocks, said residents who spoke on condition of anonymity. Police Maj.

Amnn Remico said a 14-year-old boy 27-year-old man died. But he did not confirm that police shot them. v'V: Vietnam's top dissident freed BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -1 Vietnam's best-Known dissident was freed today and flown to Bangkok, where he expressed a longing to return to his own country and keep struggling for democracy. At least two Vietnamese-Americans who had been jailed for alleged plots to overthrow the Hanoi government were also freed, Vietnamese officials Doan Viet Hoat, serving a 15-year sentence for publishing pro-dempcracy newsletters, wa's freed from Hanoi Prison' aniiputttn a'H1it to BanKu, 0 Usofficials said they accepted him for resettlement. Israel's surfing rabbi finds spiritualism TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) A former lifeguard-turned-rabbi says he has found an unusual way to reach Got: by surfing.

Rabbi Nachum Shifren, an Offfiodo'xJew 'who calls hTm--" self the "surfing rabbi," alter -Toad's Wild Ride apparently i i I 5 i 1 A A-om i i -ivtcA I A i fT 'i fp: 1 III iftt- 1 I "We will know, for example, wasn't enough. Or so say Mr. what class of mail it is, which Toad's champions, who claim the ride will be closed forever Sept. 8 and replaced with a Winnie the Pooh attraction. Ultra low-fat diet nay not help much 1 DALLAS (AP) Cutting back On fatty foods like cheeseburgers and fries reduces the risk of heart disease.

So cutting way ack is even better, right? I- Not necessarily according to -a report published Tuesday in Circulation, a iournalof the machine handled it, the date and time" it was processed and virtually any other piece of information that we or our customers require," Henderson said at the opening session of the National Postal Forum. That information will allow the post office to better track the movement of mail, handle transportation1 and delivery and r. cut costs, he the gathering -of major mailers and businesses that work with the post office! He did not specify how customers would be able to -track their mail. While details of the mail tracking system have not been finalized, computer access seems the most likely jnethod "Ultimately; Henderson said, should be able to access real-time information to determine when and where their mailings are." In launching the effort, Henderson appointed Jorman E. Lorentz the agency's chief technology officer, extrScting a promise that the project would be completed inunder five years.

At the session, Henderson Wearing head protection hoods, children at Tokyo's Kyobashi Tsukiji Elementary School chat during an anti-quake drill. Drills were held across the nation to test preparedness in the event of a powerful earthquake. The drills marked the 75th anniversary of the 1 923 Great Kanto Earthquake." 3 American Heart Association. Dr. Linda Van Horn, coauthor of the report, said researchers do not have enough ijata to say whether ultra-low-fat diets are generally better at fighting heartjiiseaseihan moderately low-fat diets." Van Horn, a professor at Northwestern University Medical School, said her team Reviewed all of the available-studies on ultra-low-fat diets and the data doesn't warrant "the AHA to take a more aggressive stance, Ms.

Van Horn said. The American Heart Association recommends that less than 30 percent of a person's calories come from fat. An ultra-low-fat diet contains, at most 15 percent of from The average American "diet contains 34 percent of calories from fat. The 30 percent target translates to 67 grams of fat for a person who consumes about nates between tlie study of Jewish law and mysticism and discovering it himself in the surf, he told Associated Press Television." Shifren, 47,. who moved from Los Angeles 20 years ago to" one of the most right-wing Jewish settlements on the West Bank, now offers surfing lessons to people seeking God with the help of Radioactive implants effective long-term prostate treatment ATLANTA (AP) Implanting radioactive FDA approves world's first vaccine against children's diarrhea WASHINGTOAP-Ameriban infants now have another vaccine taswallowThe Food and-Drug Administration has approved the world's first vaccine against the leading cause of childhood diarrhea.

Doctors say the vaccine, called RotaShield, should prevent thousands of American also noted that Congress is con- "'si'dehrig changes Ci the law When herhits the beach Tel Aviv, Shifren trades in his prayer shawl for a swimsuit. Gun pointed at wife of U.S. diplomat governing the post office. He forecast that the postal monopoly will eventually be ended. "It is my belief that we will not maintain our monopoly forever," said Henderson.who cer may be as effective oyer the long run as surgery and more effective than external beam radiation, a new study suggests-.

However some questioned the conclusion of the study. With brachytherap'ytiny seedsof radioactive are Jnjected into the' prostate tp shrink. the cancer from within. Patients treated with "this method run a lower risk of urinary inconti-- nence or impotence than with surgery, one of the most common ways to treat prostate canqer. dayJByway.L.

became postmaster general of reference, a Big Mac con- earlier this year. "In the future, preschoolers fr6m being hospitalized with severe BELGRADE, Yugoslavia diarrhea. But the vaccine's real promisee lies in (AP) A manjilmped into a car jJeydQpingCQuntrksereltheJntestinalifei tion called rotavirus kills up to 1 million children U.S. diplomat in Yugoslavia, every year. pointed a gun at her head and tains 31 grams of fatand a- looking put ahead, there are storm clouds." Whopper has 39 grams of fat.

The Postal Service "needs "Tho tViirtrr tVtof- tirili 'tifKoKliF limit tc ilea irt 1 1 tnn r-tlo V- i 3 rrt-o Fans clamor to buy JntilnowliQweveiUhere had heennoev-k developing countries, unfortunately, may be mic video newspaper reported today. The Dnevni Telegraf said Sharon Miles, wife of U.S. charge d'affaires Richard Miles, was stopped at a traffic light Monday afternoon in downtown Belgi ade when the young man got into her car. cost," said Dr. Karen Goldenthal, the FDA's Vaccine director.

"It'sgot to be incredibly cheap tp be implemented." Rotavirus is the leading cause of childhood diarrhea, attacking the lining of the small intestine. In severe cases, a child can experience 10 to 20 episodes of diarrhea in a single day, quickly getting dangerously dehydrated. About 75 per-; dence of the lohg-term value of brachytjfrerapy. -v Without a comparison group, such studies are unlikely to prove beyond doubt that aparticular treatment is better or worse than others. In this case, doctors did not directly compare brachytherapy with surgery in men who were the same age and had the same stage of disease.

The study looked at 152 men 10 years after they were treated with radioactive seedsand, in some cases, beams of radiation from outside the bodyFive patients couldn't be located 10 years Of the 147 others, 64 percent of the original number remained free of disease and had low levels of prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, ized," he said, and the agency and its customers need to get involved in that process. When it was founded, the post office was given a monopoly on delivering First Class mail to assure that servicer- -would be available to every American ata single Postal rates are scheduled to increase on Jan. 10 and Porras said the goal is to keep the priceof mail' steady at least-- '-through 2001. The man pointed his gun at cent of all children are infected before age the --the back, of Mrs. Miles' head a a iu .1..:.

i youngest get the health care u. ivc rotavirus-caused deaths in this countrv to no uul U1 uie ordered her to stop, hand over more than 40 a year. But 3 million AnieriCan children are sickened by rotaviftis annually. r-the keys and get out The man then-drove away in the BMW, which had diplomatic Mike Donavan tried so hard. He resisted seeing "Titanic" for months.

But then he and his date, Luz Ramirez, took a post-dinner stroll through Times Square in New York City. There they stumbled upon dozens of people gathered outside a Virgin Megastore waiting to buy the freshly released yideqyersion of the movie whenlt went on sale at 12:01 a.m. today. "We were just supposed to be having dinner," said Donavan, a 26-year-old bar- Reluctantly, he bought the video. Suddenly his streak was coming "tp ah though he insisted "Titanic" would put him to sleep.

I "I'll tape his eyes open," -answered Ramirez, a 27-year- old nurse's assistant. The frenzy to buy the tape, which many stores are selling jt for $20 or less, has led indus- trt nnnhrcto tn nrpilii't "Titanic." license plates.1. 26 homes destroyed in Southern California blaze Rebels denied safe passage in uongo IDAHb" ORE. Glascock Mountain fire i 6 Approximate lira area NEV. "QSacraniento CALIF.

front door and see the fire. All of the brushes near us were on fire," said Ethel Mier, stroking her husband's hand after their escape Monday night. "All we were able to grab was a picture of her and her father," Don Mier said. "And our medication," his wife added, her eyes' welling up with tears. r4- At least five other fires were burning in the county this morning, including a blaze about 18 miles west'of Juniper Flats.

The Juniper Flats blaze, which started Monday afternoon, was fueled by dry, dense brush) andi erratic winds. The cause was under although there had been lightning strikes nearby. In addition to the homes, 10 outbuilding's were destroyed, said Joanne Evansa spokes- woman for the California Department pf Forestry, NUEVO, Calif. (AP)- rFiref ighters i blasted water, af burning huildings but were unable tp control a fast-moving, blaze that tore through dry brush and destroyed 26 houses and mobile home3.2:u:'l'.' jJii; There were no reports of injuries in the fire, which was burning in the Juniper Flats area of Riverside County, about 80 miles east of Los Angeles. "We could just look, out Pur KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -Government-allied troops blocking a group of rebel lighters trying to flee western Congo, a government olfi'cial said today.

While a recent government offensive has largely forced rebels to abandon their positions in the west, they still con- trol several key- cities in east- pYn Coiigi and tiave vowed to" press on ith their Fight to top- -pie Kabila. 4-i 'Jupiter. Flts will easuy oecamcine niggesi-' -selling live-action-video of all -time. The Times Square Virgin store hadf 1,228 copies. fm i Riverside County pjVn blaze MEXICO MEXI.