Longview Daily News from Longview, Washington • 1

AREA'NEW ASTERS I Ann Landers A10 Classified Comics B4 Editorials A1 2 Lotteries A4 Northwest A5 Obituaries A4 Cat abandoned at pet store in zipped-up bag is house-hunting Jose Maria Olazabal hopes to continue his magic i PAGE B1 APRIL 10 1999 50 CENTS Tomorrow MOSTLY SUNNY LOWS IN MID-30s HIGHS NEAR 60 A2 Traveling squirrels get their nutty bridge back week spring recess and members are becoming increasingly vocal in addressing the crisis Rep Heather Wilson R-NM used the weekly Republican radio address today to demand that Clinton give Congress complete picture of the situation in the Balkans the effects of the bombing the military and non-military options and the risks of far our strategy has failed to achieve our political said Wilson an Air Force Academy graduate have not gotten the Serbs to sign the peace treaty And while we have not caused it we have certainly accelerated a humanitarian disaster the Balkans Our airmen and sailors and soldiers have done their jobs well But it is unlikely that airpower Tom Raum the associated press WASHINGTON (AP) Failure to win release of three US soldiers and continued defiance by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic are increasing calls in Congress for President Clinton to acknowledge that ground forces may be needed to fight the war in Kosovo wake up Europe is at war and we are in said Rep Steve Buyer R-Ind one of 11 lawmakers just back from a visit to NATO headquarters and American troops in Europe Nine of them sent a letter to Clinton on Friday urging him to abandon his opposition to a ground offensive The administration continues to oppose inserting American ground forces into the conflict but it said Friday it will soon send more warplanes into the area Congress returns Monday from a two- Longview city worker Thurman Pruett ventures where normally only squirrels dare Friday as he prepares to hang the new Nutty Narrows Bridge sign above Olympia Way City workers took down the novel span last month to refurbish it The of the bridge led to a tongue-in-cheek investigation by the irrepressible Sandbaggers to establish its whereabouts By midday Friday the spruced up squirrel bridge was back in place Please see TROOPS Page A2 A tear falls down the cheek of Blenta Dervijhalli 11 as her sister Qendreza 10 wipes an eye with her cap after they arrived at a camp near Kukes Albania today Serbian police forced the girls and their family from their home in Kosovo Polje west of Pristina ASSOCIATED PRESS Clinton growing into role as commander in chief ROGER WERTH THE DAILY NEWS Premier Zhu issues warning to US DEVELOPMENTS: Poor weather slows air assault today but many more targets have been hit PAGE AS Crisis strengthens faith of Serbs in Belgrade who flock to church on Orthodox Good Friday to pray PAGE A6 Refugees continue to pour into Albania and Macedonia with tales of terror PAGE B6 Kevin Galvin the associated press WASHINGTON When military commanders wanted to bomb the Interior Ministry in Belgrade some of President advisers resisted: a hospital stood just 200 yards from the target There as fear that civilians might be hit Some asked whether the ministry was an important enough target But the discussion stopped when Clinton spoke His judgment Benefits outweighed the potential cost The strike was ordered and NATO war planes reduced the ministry buildings to rubble on April 3 lack of military service and early clashes with the Pentagon have heightened scrutiny of his performance as commander in chief over the six years of his presidency As one of the most serious foreign policy challenges of his presidency unfolds Clinton remains a politician who prefers to lead by consensus But aides say experience has made him more comfortable with the military responsibih- Congress rather than substantive issues that had blocked a resolution of remaining differences The remarks were the bluntest and most combative yet from China's No 3 leader who is on a nine-day tour of the United States He specifically rejected US demands to let American firms buy controlling stakes in telecommunications companies and threatened to turn to European companies if Americans fail to seize the market openings offered by Chinese negotiators nized that more competition from foreign firms would stimulate the development of industries but he said opening up happen too lest if result in kind of turbulence we saw in southeast Asia over the past couple of are a developing he said have done all a developing country is able to Although Zhu pressed hard for a WTO agreement in the twm weeks leading up to his meeting with President Clinton Friday night he said are not insisting that this be signed here and He said he believed it was the fear of a backlash in Because of extensive demands on China in trade issue might wind up with Steven Mufson the Washington post WASHINGTON Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji Friday night lashed out at the Clinton administration for demanding too many concessions for China's entry to the World Trade Organization and warned you want too much too soon you might wind up with The Chinese leader speaking to the America-China Society said China recog Please see CLINTON Page A2 Please see CHINA Page A2 Never-married retiree still seeks heir so he can pass on family farm SATURDAY SNAPSHOT stood in the way find a woman I was interested in getting to know and try to talk to her be in a hurry to be somewhere he says still think about it possibly happen- he goes on and a clock ticks and the heat from a woodstove warms a cat and three new borns in a box If he had a son might not live to see him grow up but at least they could say be there for me if he Seeborg says prefer a woman of childbearing years if I was married never cheat on my wife Could be that makes me bonng I know He alks up his hillside through the bam by a brambled homestead cabin no neighbors in sight an old hay rake and a rooster crows from the chicken coop "People might think crazy for wanting kids at my he tells his visitor preparing to leave care If I was 100 1 think still want Dell Burner the daily news In the rolling fir and pasture near Longview hidden in a hollow a solitary man sees his future When John Seeborg goes the family homestead of 101 years will go with him He has no son to keep his name alive had no luck with women and never married But at 62 he hasn't given up a dream of saving Seeborg farm from the subdividers still love to get married and raise some kids of my he wrote three years ago in a letter long buried on an desk my heir is my nephew Kevin Rismoen of Monroe As much as I care for him (and he is family) he is not a Seeborg And the Seeborg Family Farm would cease to be the Seeborg The problem he wrote is women just seem interested in Last week Seeborg retired after 32 years as a lumber puller for Weyerhaeuser in Longview He is a quiet gentle fellow with a look almost boyish He doesn't drink smoke chew tobacco or cuss once every five or 10 years let a swear word he says He raises shorthorn cattle on 110 acres near Columbia Heights Road North and shares his home with two dogs three cats and some kittens Happiness would be finding woman crazy enough to marry me" always said I prefer tall slender blondes but I mind a short fat Seeborg says with a laugh a member of the LTnited Methodist Church in Longv iew and sings in the choir He took care of his mother Charlotte until she moved to a in Monroe She deeded the farm to him three years ago The faces of his forebears siblings nieces and nephews still cover the walls His father Hugo Seeborg grew up in this place where his grandfather Finnish immigrant Steffan Seeborg raised cattle apples BILL WAGNER THE DAILY NEWS John Seeborg needs an heir to keep the family name with the family farm and Italian plums after settling in 1898 A century later John Seeborg cradles hopes of keeping the farm alive just want to keep it in the family and get a good start on the next 100 he says Cruel twists of the lonely-heart 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