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-V world Daily News Tuesday, June 20. 19955 A 4 P.M.To Tuesday Some passengers leave, others party tiinufiiffi k. I1 111 If rliv mm mm am mm mw m. MP Only! No Special Orders in an attempt to float it free. A dredge was being brought in to dig a path to the river channel.

Patti Young, a vice president for the Delia Queen which owns the boat, said it would be at least today before it is freed. Passengers are in no danger since the boat is grounded clear of the channel Some passengers clutched plastic cups of drinks and leaned against the rail looking out on the river as gawkers along the bank peered back through binoculars. Fishermen took time off to circle the spectacle. The riverboat's steam whistles piped out "Dixie" and "My Old Kentucky Home." "This is great," said Bob Carpenter, a Denver travel agent, as he stepped off the barge. "Where else would you like to be stuck? We bad good food, good entertainment This is something to talk about" The $65 million riverboat, christened June 2 with a 21-gallon bottle of Tabasco pepper sauce, was scheduled to begin its first cruise with paying customers on June 27 at a cost of up to $9,400 each for the 17-day trip.

The boat has Winona's Fastest Double Drive Thru AMOCiaMd Ptms Curious onlookers in Troy. watch a barge remove fuel and excess baggage from the American Queen which was stranded on the Kentucky shore of the Ohio River on Monday. 'Two of the Best' Assoosttd ftoss HAWESVULE, Ky. Passengers aboard a padcfievfaeekr mired on a sandbank whooped it up for a second day Monday, casing out, "We want more beer! to people ashore. Others on the maiden voyage of the American Queen, the largest riverboat ever built, hitched an unceremonious ride atop an empty barge to shore for a bus trip home.

About 100 of as invited guests, mostly travel agents and writers, headed for shore. The rest stayed aboard, along with the A free bar was opened as soon as the boat got stuck early Sunday. "It's been wonderful, a great vacation and on board it's still a great vacation," said passenger Linda McHenry, who stayed on board. The 418-foot boat a palace of fretwork and curlicues crowned with towering fluted stacks and a bright red paddlewheel remained firmly lodged in the mucky Ohio River bottom despite efforts to free it The American Queen, bound Briefly Privatization questions raised ELIZABETH, N.J. Immigration officials began an investigation two weeks ago into reports of poor conditions and mistreatment at a privately run INS detention center.

But over the weekend, the 300 immigrants took matters into their own hands, overpowering guards and trashing the converted warehouse. Police retook the building after nearly five hours with no serious injuries. But the uprising, which closed down the facility and forced the immigrants to be relocated, raised questions about the idea of "privatizing" detention centers and prisons. I "1 A from New Orleans to Pittsburgh for its inaugural cruise, was beached on purpose for a photo session Sunday morning, then got stuck as the river fell. It squatted near the shore about 130 river miles downstream from Louis 8 P.M.

Eat In Or Drive -Thru Ross Muir DRS BuwestEgafiirtg rcon- profits The American Research Corporation surveyed attorneys in the state of Minnesota and asked them "If a close friend or relative needed legal help in a certain area of law, to whom whould you refer them?" Ross Muir and Dan Heuel were recognized as superior by their fellow lawyers. Ross Muir was recognized in the area of accident and personal injury. Dan Heuel was recognized in the area of civil litigation and employment law. Their names are included in the Consumer Guidebook to Law and Leading Attorneys. If you are looking for the Dan Heuel room for about 436 passengers.

which is engaged in a legal battle with the IRS. "We're trying to do something worthwhile." But Harvey Dale, director of New York University's Program on Philanthropy and the Law, dismisses such complaints. "The non-profit universe is significantly less regulated and less accountable than either government or the for-profit sector," he said. "It isn't as though they're carrying any extraordinary regulatory burden." Owens' department has 1,000 staff members and a $123 million budget. He estimated 30 percent of the department's resources are dedicated to the nearly 3-year-old Coordinated Examination Program.

The program currently has 91 open cases: 46 involve health care organizations and 18 are colleges or universities, Owens said. Examiners have closed 35 cases, including 12 looking at health providers and three involving schools. In each of those cases, Owens said, the organization audited had to adjust its books. Some had to reduce reported operating losses. The program also should yield clues about bookkeeping in the non-profit sector that will enable the IRS to audit such groups more efficiently.

Associated ftess WASHINGTON The Internal Revenue Service is closely examining the nation's non-profit organizations to determine whether some charitable groups are cashing in on their tax-exempt status. A lot of money is involved. Nonprofits raise nearly $700 billion annually, about 10 percent of the gross domestic product, according to the IRS. To better understand how nonprofits operate and better police their fund raising, the tax agency has been sending specialized teams of agents to conduct line-by-line examinations of tax-exempt groups' ledgers. "We realized we were faced with an exceedingly sophisticated group of organizations," said Marc Owens, director of the IRS Exempt Organizations Division.

"There was some reason to be concerned what the ultimate goal of the organization was; whether you were really looking at a tax-exempt anymore." The service is particularly interested in the 15 percent of the estimated 1.1 million non-profit that account for half the sector's revenue. Hospitals and universities often fall in that category. So do two high-profile organizations targeted by die program the National Rifle Association and the American Association of Retired uiuuii suuiiiy rrusevuwr AO- Ft Vs I drew Ruotolo Jr. said Esmor was an example of "privatization at its worst" and demanded that the 1 facility not be allowed to reopen. I I 1 I M.t..

0 ville. Workers pumped fuel into a barge pulled alongside the Queen to lighten its load as the Army Corps of Engineers closed the locks and dam downstream at Newburgh, to raise the river We realized we were faced with an -exceed ingly sophisticated group of organizations. There was some reason to be concerned what the urtimate goal of the organization was; whether you were -really looking at a tax exempt anymore, Owens Persons. At issue in many cases is the distinction between tax-free royalties and business income unrelated to a non-profit's mission. Non-profit groups say growing missions and shrinking resources' require them to seek new sources of revenue, such as selling their mailing lists and allowing their logos to appear on credit cards and other products.

"If we have to pay taxes, it doesn't go to our non-profit's mission," said Louis Barnes, director of finance for the Sierra Club, stantial gains around Sarajevo last week, according to U.N. officials, and at least temporarily cut two Serb supply roads. The Bosnian army appeared to be shifting troops around Sarajevo to keep its offensive going. Like other recent government offensives, the campaign is likely to combine sudden attacks with periods of digging in and redeploying troops. Associated Press reporter Maud Beelman saw a large government army convoy in Kisel-jak, west of Sarajevo, moving south toward another government town, Tarcin, the staging point for attacks on a Serb supply road.

Bosnian soldiers prevented reporters from following the convoy to its destination. There was fighting all day north and northwest of the said U.N. press officer Jim Lan-dale. A Serb tank fired 15 shells from Serb-held Ilijas where the Serbs said three people died in government shelling Saturday on the government-held town of Visoko, Landale said. The Serb military command claimed Monday that its troops cut government lines on Nisic plateau northeast of Sarajevo.

Immigration and Naturalization Service spokesman Michael Man- 1 1 i 1 i uei saiu ine tismor uaseu i in Melville, N.Y., expects to re-1 open the facility within 45 days. Muir, Heuel, Carlson Spelhaug, P.A. Trial Lawyers for Southern Minnesota 404 Marquette Bank Building, Rochester, MN I 288-4110 1-800-282-4110 SerlhSi government claim successes OpenACD Without Lifting AFinger. Associated ftess SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Government forces battled rebel Serbs Monday for control of supply routes north of Sarajevo that are vital to the Serbs' siege of the exhausted capital. After a three-day blitz last week, the government appears to be settling in for a patient, summer-long push to take the strategic heights from which they could sever the rebel-held roads.

Both sides on Monday said they had captured or scattered enemy troops. But it was increasingly difficult to verify such claims, with both sides limiting reporters' and U.N. observers' access to strategic locations. Russian President Boris Yeltsin, meanwhile, said his country would not allow any more NATO airstrikes against Bosnian Serbs, who took more than 370 U.N. peacekeepers hostage after their ammunition dumps were bombed by NATO planes last month.

The Serbs released the last 26 hostages Sunday, and claimed they received promises of no more airstrikes. U.N. officials insisted that strikes remained an option. Government forces made sub But ttuotoio saw ne wouia go to court if necessary to block it, citing public safety concerns. Clinton, Teresa dedicate orphanage WASHINGTON Mother Teresa, with Hillary Rodham Clinton at her side, dedicated a shelter in the nation's capital for women and their newborns Monday with the goal of preventing abortions.

Sidestepping her disagreement with Mother Teresa on' abortion rights, Mrs. Clinton said the shelter "will grow to nave meaning in people's lives as lives here are saved and changed." Mother Teresa said she was "very happy" in the house and said that the babies would begin arriving "as soon as possible. Now that Mrs. Clinton has opened the house, they'll pour in." Hit-and-run wreck kills 8, all in 1 car BEAUMONT, Calif. A car jammed with 11 people crashed in flames after being hit from behind by a pickup truck with an allegedly drunken driver at the wheel.

Six children and two adults were killed. The driver of the pickup fled and was arrested after witnesses led officers to him, police said. The crowded car, a 1968 Plymouth Valiant, was struck on a freeway about 80 miles east of Los Angeles late Sunday. The car crashed into the center divider, overturned and exploded into flames, firefighter Stephen Thomas said. In addition to the dead, two adults in the car suffered minor injuries, and a 9-year-old girl was in critical condition with burns.

The two injured adults Were believed to be the parents of some of the victims, including children ranging in age from 6 months to about 13 years, police said. Gingrich: Suit has 'anti-religious bias' JACKSON, Miss. A woman fighting prayer at her children's school has a newfound opponent in House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who called Her federal lawsuit an example of "anti-religious bias." Gingrich told a town meeting in Roswell, this past weekend that such a lawsuit favors people with minority views at the expense of the majority. "What we've gotten into is a situation today where the ACLU finds one person filing a lawsuit, and so that one person is not uncomfortable, we make 3,000 uncomfortable," Gingrich said. (WelL) Actually, You Do Have To Lift One Finger.) Member FDIC i.

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"It's very deceptive: You don't know how strong strong is until you get to the second weekend." "Batman Forever" sold about $52.8 million in tickets over the weekend, breaking the 1993 "Jurassic Park" record of $50.2 million for a debut, Warner Bros. said. "Batman Forever" debuted in a record 4,300 North American movie theaters and was accompanied by Warner most diverse marketing effort yet, the studio said. The record opening and related media attention also help, but a marketing campaign can only create an awareness. The movie must deliver when paying customers take their seats.

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