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We've had reports of cracks in the roadway and some bridges but.kiu closures," he said. Today's quake was felt as far away as the Palo Verde nuclear generating station 50 miles west of downtown Phoenix, Ariz. It also jolted residents in Palm Springs, Palm Desert, San Bernardino, Hemet, San Diego and downtown Los Angeles. The quake's epicenter was near Westmorland jn the Imperial Valley about 90 miles east of San Diego, said Russ Needham, geo-physicist with the National Earthquake Information Service at John Perrone, a senior at Incarnate Word Academy in Corpus Christi, Texas, stretches to collect a shoe that slipped off the foot of an IWA Highlighters drill team member during their high stepping routine at the fourth annual Kick-A-Thon held recently to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association. APLaserphoto Weren't playing chicken DENISON (AP) Two job center trainees who were struck and killed by a freight train Sunday near Deni-son probably were not playing "chicken," Crawford County Sheriff Don Stehr said today.

Initial reports said the two may have been playing on the railroad tracks when the accident occurred. Four other Job Corps Center trainees also were walking on or along the tracks at the time, authorities said. "I hear that supposedly it was chicken, somebody playing chicken. I can't come up with anything like that," the sheriff said. "According to the students, there wasn't any horse play, let's put it that way." He emphasized his investigation was incomplete and that he had not talked to the engineer of a Chicago and North Western train that ran over the victims.

Robust economy expands WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. economy expanded at a robust, annual rate of 4.1 percent last summer, even better than previously thought, the government re fighting in Sri Lanka Major quakes just 12 hours apart UOS ANGELES (AP) A strong earthquake struck the Southern California desert early today, knocking trailers off their foundations, damaging buildings and causing at least three injuries, authorities said. The quake hit at 5:16 a.m. and had a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 on the Richter scale of ground motion, said U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

The temblor the second strong quake in the area in 12 hours apparently hit the southern city of Calexico hardest, according to early reports. A roof eollapsed at a downtown business, a furniture store's wall caved in, and authorities investigated reports of three gas leaks, said police dispatcher Daniel Saenz. One person was injured, but he did not know the extent of the injury. "The U.S. International port of entry in Calexico has been closed" to guard against looting, -he said.

At least two other minor injuries were reported in the county area, including a pregnant woman who fell down her stairs COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -Heavy fighting broke out today between Indian peacekeeping troops and separatist Tamil rebels in eastern Sri Lanka after the soldiers trapped a large number of guerrillas in a marshy jungle, reports said. The United News of India reported from Colombo that the Indians were using helicopter gun-ships for air cover, the first instance of any such offensive air action. It was the I first major clash since" a 48-hour cease-fire declared by the Indians ended at worn At least one inmate was killed and there were unconfirmed reports of as many as five more deaths after Monday's uprising at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta. Helicopters dumped water on fires at the Atlanta complex. When a new fire started this morning, Spanish-speaking inmates could be heard over walkie-talkies shouting, "What's going on in the factory? What's Li Peng Heavy 'ft i mm? Grass ik.lM'itirknal HIUWI HU Product TriBions of dolars 3rd quarter (revised) $3.83 534.1 Souk: Off otCommm 6.14 feet People Regional news State Weather ported today.

The Commerce Department said the gross1 national product, the broadest measure of economic health, was climbing sharply in the three months before the stock market collapse, led by strong increases in consumer spending and business investment. The new figure on overall growth from July Cubbage Thanks for saving our lives' By DeeAnn Paisley of the Journal Many people have a lot to be thankful for this season but especially members of the Oszf oik family of Davenport who were saved from tragedy due to the efforts of several area citizens "In Iowa," said Shawn Oszfolk, 23, "people will go out on the river and pick you up." Oszfolk had first hand experience after a boating accident Sunday afternoon which left he and his father, Stephen, 53, and brother Baron, 21, overturned in the middle of theMissssippi River near the Louisa National Wildlife Refuge. All concerned have estimated the temperature of the water to have been about 40 degrees and at least two of the men were in the river for. 45 minutes to an hour. "It's a cold time of year to go swimming," said Teresa Rise, Route 5.

Rise was the first to hear of the accident when "the man (Shawn) literally fell into my house." Shawn swam to shore to get help after the accident. Rise called the Muscatine County Sheriffs Department. They notified the Louisa County Sheriff who in turn called out the Wapello fire and rescue unit and the Iowa conservation officers. But before any of the rescue vehicles could arrive Martin Cubbage, Route 5, was able to reach Please see page 4A Two paraded to public view ATLANTA (AP) Cuban inmates who seized a federal prison refused to release any of their reported 75 hostages today despite an offer to delay deportations, while other Cuban prisoners in, Louisiana paraded two of their 28 hostages to show they were unharmed Girl Scouts owe $14,500 DUBUQUE (AP) A Dubuque Girl Scout organization that was overpaid for a summer camp meal program has agreed to repa $14,500 to the Iowa Bureau of Food and The Little Cloud Girl Scout Council will pay back $806 every other month for the next three years to repay the money. An audit of the group food supplement program for low-income children attending summer camps showed the group received for more children than actually qualified.

dim mm a ties Golden, Needham reported a preliminary1 magnitude of 6.3 on the Richter scale. A strong earthquake that struck the area Monday night cracked windows and shook people in a wide area as far away as Las Vegas, 330 miles north of the epicenter. It registered 6.2 on the Richter scale, Caltech officials said, and was centered 11 miles northwest of Westmorland, a city of about 1,500 people. An earthquake registering 5.9 caused widespread damage in the Los Angeles area on Oct. 1.

The quakes today and Monday triggered a low-level emergency declaration at the San Onofre nuclear power plant on the coast, about 100 miles west of the epicenter, said Southern California Edison Co. spokesman David Barron. power because the militants usually are entrenched in populated areas and the peacekeepers want to prevent civilian casualties. The area involved today is uninhabited. The rebels, members of the dominant Liberation Tigers, of Tamil Eelam were taken by surprise by the troops and trapped, the residents said.

Also today, Indian troops in the northern Jaffna Peninsula raided a Tiger camp and recovered a large cache of arms, officials re-ported. State Department announced that Cuba had agreed to take back 2,500 refugees, most of them criminals or mentally ill, who had been in legal limbo in the United States since the 1980 Mariel boat-lift. 1 U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III offered a moratorium on deportations to Cuba if the inmates ended their uprisings and freed the hostages. engineer, has been called a conservative who believes in Soviet-style central planning.

He recently shrugged off that label as a "misunderstanding" and in public has always supported market-oriented reforms. Although ultimate authority in China comes from the Communist Party, the premier, as head of government, is responsible for running the economy and looking, after civil, public security and educational affairs. 7 a.m. Monday. Tamil residents in eastern Batticaloa district told The Associated Press that hundreds of Indian troops were pouring into the jungles of Punipanchakallam, an area 15 miles north of Batticaloa.

The residents said the Indians were tipped off about a planned rebel ambush of troop convoys in the area, triggering the attack. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity. Indian officials say that until today, troops have not used air going on in the The riot by Cuban inmates fearing deportation left at least 12 people injured. Eight Cuban prisoners were hospitalized in satisfactory condition today, five with gunshot wounds, authorities said. The rioting began Monday morning, two days after an uprising by Cuban inmates at the Oak-dale, federal detention center, left 31 The inmates revolted after the release Duostiages through September was revised from last month's estimate of a 3.8 percent summer growth rate.

Inflation, however, was a bit worse than initially thought. The GNP inflation index rose at an annual rate of 3.3 percent, compared to the previously calculated 2.7 percent. Fetus found at sewage plant DES MOINES (AP) Des Moines police are trying to find the mother of a 4-month-old fetus that was found at the city's sewage treatment plant Monday. State Medical Examiner Thomas Bennett said he was unable to. determine how the pregnancy had been termintated and that it was possible the baby died in the womb.

"There are more tests to do, but we may not know much more than we know right now," he said. The fetus was found by Richard Townsend, a sewage plant worker who said the fetus may have been flushed down a toilet. "I don't know how it could have ended up in the sewer accidentally," he said. "And I don't know how anybody could do something like that." The weather Tonight rain. Low in the upper 30s.

Northeast wind 10 to 15 mph. Rain chance 90 percent. Wednesday mostly cloudy. High in the lower to middle 40s. Outlook for Thanksgiving Day partly cloudy.

High in the 40s and low in the 30s. Temperatures recorded at Lock and Dam 16 Monday were high 52; low, 32. Zero precipita-tin. The lock's tailwater registered 3.08 feet this morn China names acting premier ing; the Muscatine gauge, For more weather information, please see page 4A. BEIJING (AP) China today named Li Peng, a 59-year-old technocrat, as acting premier to replace Zhao Ziyang, who left the post to become head of the Communist Party.

The standing committee of the National Peoples' 'China's legislature, followed Zhao's suggestion in appointing Li to the nation's most powerful government job. I Li, a Soviet-trained electrical Calendar 6-7B 4B Nationalworld update. 4A Tt A ttfc..