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US still reliable ally 1 yea's D-Day a USA TOOAYCNNGaflup Poti corblcted wtn Ls Atbnde newspaper France asus aduts crier court -es how reiatse an aty the United States woukj be a senous crse nvotvtng their country tody Top threat North Korea Amencans were asked which country today is the greatest threat to the naronai securty ot the Unced States Percentage saying these countries ara the top threat US sees Britain as top alfy Abuts tre wera ased i they thought other coufcs wood be retiabe aes a senous cnss nvotong our narco Percentage saying these countoes would be a re-are ay v'cs a man cf service and to his church his country his family his fellow men and women He was a strong but kind man a spiritual giant of the Utah' Republican Sea Orrin Hatch ontdSio( EaTa Beraon tamer agrteufcae ecrasary and preeoent of tie Mormon Crurcn no and yesterday age 9 Stories 1A 5A Great Britain France Germany Japan Russia Percentage saying the US would be reliable: 3 83 Great Britain Germany France ifcj jLjk itafr i A lOOOS Source NabonnKte tetectoone pons 1 1 005 duis in 969 1 France 981 Gemany tmi 936 G'eal Bntam Pot eUS conducted tor USA TOCAY CNN Dy the Gajp CVganaaiion Pos Fiance Germany and Great Bmam we-e conducted tor te Monoe An pot conducted tr May International briefs National briefs Adults spell for'money on eve of national bee The parents of this contestants give it their all in this first-time event The Associated Press Official says pay helicopter costs 1 WASHINGTON The senior administration official ho lost his job after taking a presidential helicopter on a golf outing relented today and said he will reimburse the government He insists he did no wrong David Watkins refused last week to pay the $1312966 it cost to fly the Marine helicopter carrying his golfing party and a second helicopter that accompanied them Several senior aides anxious to put the controversy behind them agreed pay the tab from their own pockets In a telephone interview from his Washington home Watkins said he decided to foot the entire bill could be a financial burden on some of those who were going to he said confirming information from a senior White House official who said change of mind would be announced by the White House today He remained unrepentant not admitting that I did anything said Watkins a millionaire from Arkansas still contend my actions were in performance with my The 55-mile trip to Camp David and Holly Hills Country Club near New Market Md became public after a Maryland newspaper published a picture of Watkins and two other administratien officials boarding a presidential helicopter with a salute from a Marine guard New stamp honors World War vets 2 WASHINGTON Postmaster General Marvin Runyon presented President Clinton with the first sheet of a new series of stamps honoring soldiers who fought in World Warn The 10 postage stamps released on Memorial Day commemorate key events of World War II includ-' ing the D-Day landing on Normandy France on June 6 1944 Runyon will dedicate the stamps at a ceremony aboard a US war- ship off the coast of Normandy on the 50th anniversary of D-Day The Road to series features nine mqjor events in the war in Europe and Asia The sheet shows a map of the world noting Allied victories and losses Arson kills four tourists at motel 3 METAIRIE La Four tourists died in a suburban New Orleans motel fire that investigators said yesterday may have been set by a man angry that he had been refused a towel fire at the Peacock Plaza Inn started in a first-floor laundry room authorities said Flames spread to the second floor where the bodies of four men who worked at the same landscaping company in Texas were found in one room Two other guests and 11 firefighters were injured in the fire More than half of the 80 rooms were occupied officials said Jefferson Parish spokesman John Fortunato said the fire was set after a man walked into a storeroom to get a towel and was told by a motel housekeeper to call the front desk instead No date or base was given for proposed new maneuvers which were to have sent some 250 US troops to Russia for a week in July to work with an equal number of Russian officers and soldiers Sen Sam Nunn D-Ga head of a delegation of seven US senators said the final decision would be up to the two presidents Although the maneuvers were aimed at helping prepare for future UN peacekeeping operations the idea of US troops coming to Russia so soon after the Cold War raised hackles Extremist Vladimir Zhirinovsky and others denounced the exercises as a sinister American plot to undermine Russia- Mom: Fay doing well wants to go home 4 SINGAPORE Jailed American Michael Fay flogged earlier this month for vandalizing cars spent his 19th birthday in good spirits but he wants to go home his mother said today She answered questiojjsTfom reporters after nfef second visit to Queenstown Prison since Fay was flogged with a rattan cane May 5 -She was accompanied during the 20-minute visit by Marco Chan stepfather and a young fhend of from outside Singapore Fay turned 19 yesterday and birthday greetings came from lots of people his mother said were not able to give him anything but I have purchased tapes and a baseball cap he asked she said seems fine The best news was that he was just making plans Three people apart from his lawyers and US Embassy officials are permitted to see Fay every two weeks is exercising and (said he) did 300 sit-ups today He looks good He lost some Mrs Chan said Fay who received four lashes also was sentenced to four months behind bars and has paid a $2288 fine With time off for good behavior he is due for release JUne 21 WASHINGTON Pity the contestants in this spelling bee Not only did they have to spell brain busters such as and but they also had to do it under the gaze of the best spellers in the land their children The parents of the kids in this National Spelling Bee battled into the wee hours of the morning in an orthographic showdown of their own It ended at 1 am when a trio of parents snared the crown and $750 each in cash and other prizes by spelling it from the Greek to Dr Steve Urban an internist from Amarillo Texas asked the judgein the 13th and climactic round Assured that it was the doctor rattled off the correct spelling of the abstruse word for an artistic wood carving His partners were Runi Niyogi of Willingboro NJ and Dorothy Leong of Littleton Colo Most of the 238 children who will compete tomorrow and Thursday had long since retreated upstairs to their hotel room beds when the inaugural of contest drew to a close The children must compete alone but the 192 par-entswilliijgtgj3iave-4h spelhngbee in vied in threesomes It took six hours and 241 words to sort out the winners The very first team bombed out on fieriness meaning full of emotion had lots of different ideas none of which were said Jan Van Oort of New Prague Minn With money at stake the adults gave it their all badgering the official pronounc-er to repeat words read them in sentences and give the language of origin Most of the parents breezed through opening rounds with such easy words as nefarious precipitately convalesce and rhetorical One team got tripped up by believe you got it Suyun Hong 13 of Primos Pa upbraided her mother Chris Hong really did not want to do laughed Ellen Friedman of Teaneck) NJ after bowing out on The Associate Press UNSUCCESSFUL Volunteers try to guide a California gray whale from San Tomas Aquino Creek near Santa Clara Calif The 26-foot whale that had wandered around the shallow waterways off JSan Francisco Bay died yesterday after three days of efforts by scientists police and volunteers to coax the animal into deeper water The 4-ton carcass was hauled from the creek with a crane last night so marine biologists could examine the whale and find out why it died 4 South Korean torces are put on alert 1 SEOUL South Korea South Kjtteajmt its armed forces and polioe on alert today as international pressure intensified on North Kora to allow inspectors to study its nuclear reactor But the hard-line Communist government showed no sign of relenting and renewed warnings that it would consider any economic sanctions an act of war South Korean officials said the military alert was part of preparations for President Kim weeklong visit to Russia beginning tomorrow Under the alert customary whenever the president is abroad the South will step up troop readiness and surveillance of North Korean military movements Kim also telephoned President Clinton- after the UN Security Council adopted a non-binding statement late yesterday urging North Korea to stop refueling its reactor in a way that could destroy evidence of its nuclear intentions North Korea claims its nuclear program is peaceful but its 15-month refusal to allow full inspections has heightened suspicions it is trying to build nuclear weapons Right-winger shoots at ex Japan PM 2 TOKYO A suspected right-wing extremistfired a shot former-Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa yesterday possibly out of anger over apologies for actions in World War II Police said the gunman who fired a single bullet in direction as the former prime minister was leaving a Tokyo hotel was believed to be a member of an extremist right-wing group and may have been politically motivated Japanese media quoted anonymous police sources as saying the attacker whom police identified as Masakatsu Nozoe claimed he shot at Hosokawa because while in office Hosokawa had made a point of apologizing for militarist past Police refused to confirm those reports Police official Kiyotaka Osaki said Nozoe 52 acted done Russia US drop joint-exercise plan 3 MOSCOW Bowing to pressure Russia and the United States dropped plans today for joint military maneuvers in Russia and said they hope to hold the first-ever such exercises on American soil instead Tucson Citizen A Gannett Newspaper CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO 4850 Park Ave PO Box 26767 Tucson Ariz 85726 Postmaster: 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battle over a new contract Yesterday 226 of the 494 uniformed officers scheduled to work the evening shift called in sick Day-shift officers were kept on overtime to fill in The overnight shift early today was more or less normal but again on day shift nearly half the officers had the blue flu The absences could cost Los Angeles more than $1 million a day in overtime the city estimates Man dies in ride on top of subway train 5 NEW YORK A man was killed in a Bronx subway tunnel while riding on top of a train Roberto Rodriguez 19 apparently duck when the train entered the tunnel from elevated tracks last night transit police said looks like he hit the overhang and possibly fell off the Sgt Luis Medina said DBITUARYH Elvera Burger wife of retired Chief Justice Warren Burger died yesterday in Washington She was 84 and had a heart condition Complied by Karen Saundere from wire service reporta OBITUAR)Oi Baron Marcel Bich who introduced the cheap throwaway Bic pens and later produced Bic 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evacuate people under their protection in Kigali UN convoys hadtaken out of Kigali fewer than 2000 of an estimated 35000 people sheltered in hotels churches hospitals and the national stadium Kabia said a UN team was dispatched today to investigate reports that 500 people had been killed in Kabgayi Tony Burgener spokesman for the International Red Cross in Geneva could not confirm the new massacre He said however that massacres have continued throughout Rwanda for weeks our camp in Kabgayi people are killed Burgener said havfe been in contact with the authorities tried to get some guards around the camps but nevertheless the massacres are People in the camps have told journalists that some are taken out of the camps every day sometimes at night and never seen again Journalists who have traveled to the Kabgayi area in the past week report thousands of people living in squalid fields and in at least three church compounds saw people in a big fenced AP photographer Joao Silva said after visiting Kabgayi were just looking at us through the In another camp he said children pushed struggling men through a crowd and then onto trucks children were laughing People in the crowd watching it were laughing and jeering and some of the boys were making stabbing apparently indicating what would happen to the men NAIROBI Kenya The United Nations today sent a team to investigate reports that 500 people were massacred in Red Crest refugee camps outside capital Arid the death of a UN peacekeeper killed today during shelling in the capital Kigali prompted officials to suspend all operations pending an investigation said UN spokesman Abdul Kabia Earlier in the day the United Nations protested to the warring Rwandan factions the continuing atrocities in the ethnic carnage that has ravaged Rwanda since a suspicious April 6 plane crash killed president Kabia said most of the people in the Kabgayi refugee camps 22 miles southwest of Kigali are 'i 1 4.