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SPOKESMAN-REVIEW Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1992, Spokane, Wash. AF students study gulf war lesson) DIGEST REGIONAL FROM STAFF ANO WIRE Spokane schools program gets physical fitness honor it was like a business owner checking up with customers, he said. There werent any surprises, Chapman said in an interview Monday. Captured Americans were treated somewhat brutally by their captors, but not tortured like prisoners during the Vietnam War, he said.

relate to women crewmembers who are shot down with them. If a woman is injured and cant take care of herself, a man needs- to know what to do to take care of special needs, such as personal hygiene, of a woman, he said. With another man, hed know what to. do almost automatically. While the end of the Cold War makes a war against the former Soviet bloc less likely, turmoil around the world may actually expand potehtial military conflicts.

But combat crews will continue to receive some of the specialized training near the war i may be more time devoted to isolation training, which he described as being hours, rather than days or weeks. Some course details, particularly the parts which deal with withstanding captivity, are classified. To help evade capture, students are getting more intense training on basic shelters that are harder to detect, and how to improvise when making tools, Chapman said. Previously the school taught how to make a wide variety of shelters for survival in peacetime accidents as well as combat situations. Its more combat-oriented now, he said.

The increasing number of women on air crews is also prompting some training changes, Chapman said. Not only do women need to learn the same basics of survival and evasion as men, but men need to learn how to Spokane School Districts elementary and middle school physical education program recently made the honor roll of the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness. For the past two years, the council noted Spokane School District as a demonstration center for exemplary programs which foster healthy and physically fit lifestyles." By qualifying as a demonstration center for the third year in a row, the district made for the honor roll and became the first district in the country to receive the distinction. The physical education program coordinator is Gail Stolp. Seattle settles firefighters lawsuits SEATTLE The city has agreed to firefigh over the death of one firefighter filed and injuries to another in a 1989 arson blaze at a condemned lumber-company warehouse, attorneys said Monday.

The city will pay a $571,500 settlement in the death of Lt. Matthew Johnson to his widow, Esther Manship, and son Benjamin. The city also agreed to a $178,500 settlement for firefighter Wil-, liam Meredith, who was injured in the Blackstock Lumber Co. fire. Seattle attorney Mike Withey, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said it was the utter incompetence and neglect of the fire departments commanders which led to this tragedy.

Withey contends department commanders exercised poor judgment in sending Johnson and Meredith into the warehouse when other firefighters were attacking the fire from the outside. Johnson died in the fire and Meredith suffered carbon-monoxide poisoning, heat exhaustion and third-degree burns. Sex conviction may The biggest challenge was the isolation prisoners endured. The school already teaches students how to keep their minds occupied in captivity, to keep faith with themselves, their family, country and God, Chapman said. The POWs said theyd love to see the course longer, with perhaps a week of isolation (training), he said.

With the 17-day course already crammed with essentials, thats not likely to happen, he said. But there (t, itk 1 Vf. A.u "i Lamont Worden videotapes Ross King Show on Monday night. I dont hold it against him, said Worden. I just look at that as business.

Over the next few days, theyll call more than 4,000 Perot supporters on their lists to survey support, and send the results to the Texas billionaire's national headquarters in Dallas. But in the meantime, the campaign without an official candidate issued marching orders. They want a Perot yard sign on every block. Registrars in the headquarters to sign up new voters. People to call every radio talk show to discuss Perots concerns.

Local candidates to be grilled on economic issues. One candidate already hoping for support from many of the Perotistas By Jim Camden Staff writer As the U.S. military examines the lessons of the Persian Gulf War, the students at the Air Force Survival School can expect a new curriculum. It wont be a drastically different lesson than any other air crew member endures during the 17-day course at Fairchild Air Force Base, said Col. John Chapman, commander of the school.

But it will stress the kind of mental toughness that gulf war prisoners of war say helped them endure captivity in Iraq. It will also give them more training in how to evade capture after theyve been shot down. Chapman, who assumed command of the 3636th Combat Crew Training Wing at Fairchild in July, met last week with 16 former gulf POWs to discuss their experiences. In a sense, Ross Perot supporters confident By Jim Camden Staff writer Spokane area supporters of Ross Perot believe they have everything they need for a five-week presidential campaign, except a candidate. Thats just a minor detail they expect to be cleared up by Thursday.

He cant not get in and keep his integrity, said Lamont Worden, a co-chairman for the local campaign. He promised us a campaign if we got him on all 50 states. Monday evening, Worden cradled the remote control to a television set that held the rapt attention of about 35 Perot supporters gathered at the campaigns Spokane headquarters. Turn it up, said someone in the room straining to hear the once and perhaps future candidate on the Larry King Live talk show. Its at maximum, replied Worden.

They cheered as Perot derided Ed Rollins, a Republican campaign strategist who quit his campaign the day before Perot dropped out. They clapped as Perot promised to go to San Diego Sunday and take part in a debate with Democratic nominee Bill Clinton, even though President Bush has declined. Anyone who does not want Mr. Perot to run, raise your hand, said co-chairwoman Connie Smith. Silence.

Not a hand moved. Who does want him to run? Smith asked. The room erupted in cheers. Well take that as unanimous, said Worden. You all came tonight expecting a party, said Smith.

But well do it again Thursday night. Disappointed that Perot did not announce his candidacy Monday, Worden said he believed it was just a maneuver to gain maximum media exposure. Clinton lead Suff report Shadle Park High likes Bill Clinton. The Democratic presidential candidate scored a 32-point lead over President Bush in a mock election for students held Monday at the school. The margin between Clinton and Bush widened by 10 points since the first school election two weeks ago.

Ross Perot lost votes, dropping 1 percentage point. Students will vote two more times BELLINGHAM It could take two years to extradite from Canada a former preschool program coordinator convicted of molesting a 3-year-old girl, a prosecutor said. Michael L. Drake, 22, fled across the border to avoid prosecution, and is believed to be living somewhere in southern British Columbia. He was convicted of first-degree child molestation in absentia in Whatcom County Superior Court.

Deputy prosecutor Mac Setter said the conviction Thursday may aid efforts to extradite Drake, who is a landed immigrant in Canada and generally not subject to arrest on Canadian soil for crimes committed in America. The conviction may influence Canadian authorities on handing him over to the U.S. under the treaty, Setter said. But he added it would take at least one year, possibly two. Drake was preschool program coordinator at the Whatcom Family YMCA Feb.

26 when a maintenance worker found a notebook that described in detail the molestation of a 3-year-old girl in the YMCA gymnastics center. Police focused their investigation on Drake after the girls story corroborated part of the notebook story and implicated Michael. Defense attorney Pat Lakey contended that police, the girls mother and a doctor who examined the girl helped influence her answers. i 7 f' Staff photo by Colin Mulvany Perots appearance on The Larry is John Sonneland, a Republican candidate for Congress, who joined them to watch Perots performance on the talk show. The Spokane doctor has accepted the groups invitation to speak at forums and said he agrees with many of Perots ideas on campaign reform and cutting the deficit.

The main thing is change, said who is running against Tom Foley, the House speaker. The American public wants change and I cant understand why the nominees wont address that. But Sonneland said hed stop short of endorsing Perot for president: Im a Republican, and the Republican nominee is George Bush. in the country, Isitt said. Of 1,023 votes cast in social studies classes, Clinton received 53 percent to Bushs 21 percent.

Thirteen percent of students voted for Ross Perot, 5 percent voted for other candidates and 8 percent were undecided. For governor, the students gave Democrat Mike Lowry 35 percent of the vote. Republican Ken Eikenberry received 27 percent. Seven percent voted for other gubernatorial candidates and 31 percent were undecided. Arson suspected in REPORTS pay $750,000 to settle lawsuits aid extradition East Valley fire marijuana seized ni1t jiitrt Sheriffs deputies are searching for a1 14-year-old boy they believe set fire to illegally dumped trash in the woods off Sullivan Road behind East Valley High School yesterday.

The fire was reported and 5:10 p.m. when neighbors spotted a black plume of smoke rising out of the trees. That smoke was real dark, said Evelyn Odekirk whose mobile home was just beneath the fire. You should have seen all the quail and other animals all running down the hill. Firefighters had the fire contained in about 20 minutes.

Battalion Chief Dave Bergeson said the fire started in a large pit full of illegally-dumped trash. He said the thick black smoke was probably due to old tires in the pit. State Rep. George Orr, a Valley firefighter, was campaigning near the fire when it started. We called 911 and followed the truck to see if we could help, he said.

Orr ended up pulling hoses for his fellow firefighters. Odekirk said a lot of civilians came over to help fight the fire. I thought that was pretty neat. It made me feel very safe living here, she said. Sheriffs deputies had not found the boy who allegedly started the fire as of Monday night.

He is described as a white male with blonde hair wearing a shirt with blue stripes. i. zone. You cant target the (survival school) course to a type of war, or an area a war might occur, he Said. We dont teach the course for a single war.

Initiative for term limits gets touted Associated Press OLYMPIA The head of Ameri cans to Limit Congressional Terms on Monday praised Washingtons terim limits initiative, but warned that opi position from entrenched politicians like House Speaker Tom Foley makes its passage less than Former U.S. Rep. Jim Coyne, said the current heavy turnover in Congress and in Washington state politics has nothing to do with voters power, but reflects politicians-decisions to retire or seek higher office -The turnover this year is entirely ephemeral, he said. The point term limits is to shift the power back to the voters, not to maintain a system where the incumbents are there until they decide to leave. If we had not had a House banking scandal, had not had redistricting this year and had not this been the last year an incumbent could take their (leftover campaign) money afid run (into retirement), we would have had no real turnover.

The bank scandal has been likened to a 100-year flood. It wont happen again next year. It is not a permanent reform. 1 1 Coyne said his Langley, -based group would prefer a U.S. constitutional amendment to limit congressional terms, but that Foley and other leaders wont allow a vote or even committee hearings on the issue'.

'u There is no mystery they are not interested in term-limits because it would end their careers, he said. If enough states pass that could force Congress into action, he said in an interview. State voters turned down an initiative last fall that woutd have given the state the countrys toughest limits law. It would have turned out'vfhe whole House delegation, including Foley, after one more term, along with many state legislators. -Coyne predicted passage this time around, but said advocates should not be complacent because national polls show term limits to be wildly popular.

The new initiative is so different, he said. The initiative movement here practices what it preaches, 'and listens to the voters. Polls taken after the election showed that if it had not been retroactive, it would have passed. It now has a 10-state trigger and no retroactivity. He said Washington and Michigan have the strongest opposition forces'.

Foley, the states most powerful Democrat, is credited, or blamed, for defeating the measure last fall after it led in the polls for months. ELECTION, HI 6th Legislative Districts A tic- Sunset Elementary gym Airway Heights 46 candidates Staff graphic DELIVERY or sweet rice, Northsldd 325-9801. 1104 W. Wellesleyj mmCmi widens in Shadle vote Former county workers sentenced SEATTLE Four former King County employees were sentenced to 60 days in jail and ordered to pay a total of $80,000 for stealing $165,000 in cash register receipts from a county landfill. The four were fired from the Hobart Landfill near Maple Valley after solid-waste managers recorded them on video stealing from the cash register or taking money from customers and putting it in their pockets, according to court documents.

Robbie Griffin, Larry Spangler, Clifford Gabriel and Theodore Lyon each pleaded guilty in King County Superior Court to one count of first-degree theft. In addition to the restitution and jail time, each was sentenced by Judge Robert Lasnik Friday to 240 hours of community service. Griffin, 39, of Seattle, and Spangler, 45, of Kent, were cashiers at the landfill when they were video taped in 1990. Gabriel, 49, of Maple Valley, and Lyon, 50, of Sumner, were equipment operators, but spent much of their time helping the cashiers, according to court records. Coeur dAlene faces having feds declare air substandard Spokane County voters will decide Nov.

3 whether they want to reshape their local government and select 25 people called freeholders to propose changes. The freeholders' proposal would be put before voters in the future. $100,000 stash of The Citizens League of Greater Spokane and the League of Women Voters are sponsoring forums for the 128 candidates who want to be istn freeholders. Here is the schedule for this week, arranged by legislative district in which freeholders will! be selected. All forums are at 7 p.m.

Tonight i i Wednesday 7th Legislative' Districts before the Nov. 3 general election. Bushs decision not to debate Clinton may have caused some students to change their votes, said teacher Bob Isitt, who organized the project hoping to interest students in campaign issues. Isitt said it looks like a lost cause for Bush at Shadle. I dont think theres any chance (of Bush winning) in the school or branch.

It would have to be a really gross mistake, frankly, because obviously the state watches their monitors carefully, he said. If the designation is made final, Coeur dAlene will join Boise, Pocatello, Sandpoint and Pinehurst as Idaho cities below the standard. Coeur dAlenes violation is considered moderate as opposed to serious. State officials and a citizens advisory committee will develop a plan to improve air quality for particulates, which are dust, soil, soot and smoke, said Tulloch. To get off the EPA non-attainment list, the city must develop a plan within 18 months that satisfies regulators that the city will not violate the standards, even once, over 10 years.

We have a commitment from the state DEQ that they will help us come up with a plan that EPA requires. Were working very closely with them, City Engineer Jim Markley said. The non-attainment designation would apply to about eight square miles around the city, EPA officials said. Chambers, 325 Southeast Paradise. Colville City Council.

7 p.m., City Hall, S170 Oak. Riverside High cafeteria Chattaroy 10 candidates SUNNYSIDE, Wash. Police arrested one man and seized $100,000 worth of marijuana, including plants 10 feet tall growing in a com field behind a home. Sunnyside police served a search warrant on the home Friday night. Officers found four pounds of dried marijuana packaged for sale inside the home, as well as 96 plants from 6- to 10-feet tall growing in the com.

Another three pounds of sale-ready marijuana was found hidden in a barrel of livestock feed, police said. The man arrested faces possible charges of manufacturing marijuana and possession with intent to deliver, police said. The Washington State Patrol assisted in the search. Sunnyside is located in south central Washington, about 25 miles southeast of Yakima. Information on the charter process is available by writing the League of Women Voters, W315 Mission, Spokane 99201, or by calling By J.

Todd Foster Stiff writer COEUR dALENE The federal government has moved closer to declaring Coeur d'Alene a city that falls below national clean air standards. On Sept. 22 in the Federal Register, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed making Coeur d'Alene a non-attainment area because it violated standards for particulate matter in two 24-hour periods Feb. 9, 1989, and Oct.

4, 1990. This immediately brings to mind such things as wood-burning stoves, road dust and possibly some industry emissions, Ed Tulloch, state Division of Environmental Quality supervisor of monitoring and technical support, said of possible causes for the violations. The public has 60 days until Nov. 21 to comment before the dirty air designation can be finalized. If the public comment period yields a rare but acceptable excuse, such as that one of the monitors operated by the DEQ was faulty, the designation could be killed, said George Lauderdale, environmental protection specialist with the EPAs Seattle air STATE MEETINGS Today Pullman City Council.

7:30 p.m., Pullman City Hall, City Council 2 for Group honors Whitman professor SWEET SOUR DINNERS WALLA WALLA Whitman College associate professor Keith Farrington has been chosen the states Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Farrington, a sociology professor and member of the Whitman faculty since 1977, is among winners in 45 states announced by CASE on Monday. Farrington is a founder and coordinator of Whitmans Prison Research Group, in which faculty and students study life at the Washington State Penitentiary. CASE is an international association of colleges, universities and independent elementary and secondary schools. It began the professor of the year program in 1981 to recognize outstanding undergraduate instructors.

Mary J. Sansalone, a Cornell University associate professor, is the '1992 national winner. Enjoy two complete dinners including n' sour pork, chicken chow mein, fried fortune cookies, chopsticks and tea. SVdlleVl 922-6032 Mission at Pines I laTy-ft rft.