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cL 4 A e- A 44 4 1 k''': 4 -44'AIAllV AAA zAliakc- 0 rti: -s-i iityi-- -7 el fri0-As-vo 4 i 4e 1 04: 1 i-': 4-F- '4---- i --4'-: 4-- 4-4" By LIZ CLARKE And CHARLES CHANDLER Staff Writers True to his pledge to do "whatever it takes that's legal" Jerry Richardson is making a bold move to strengthen Charlotte's chances of getting an NFL expansion team Richardson who is leading the Carolinas' bid notified NFL officials on Thursday that he's revamping his stadium-financing plan one last time to offer a heftier payout to visiting teams In a letter to NFL officials Richardson withdrew his request for a five-year exemption from the policy that club-seat revenue be shared with visiting teams The Observer has learned Instead Richardson's offering to take that money roughly $32 million a year which he had planned to use to pay off $60 million in stadium debt and add it to the visiting team's guarantee starting with the Carolina Panthers' first game The result is that the Panthers are promising each home opponent more than $12 million more than twice the league average of $500000 and more importantly the richest guarantee among five cities competing for the two expansion teams that are expected to be awarded next week Baltimore and Jacksonville Fla are promising Jdst over million St Louis and Memphis slightly less Mark Richardson general manager of Richardson Sports de By HOWARD FRENCH New York Times PORT-AU-PRINCE Haiti Haiti's civilian government acting in concert with international oil companies blocked gasoline sales throughout the country Thursday in a move that could force a showdown with the nation's military The announcement Thursday that sales and deliveries of gasoline would be banned as part of the UN-ordered embargo on oil sales to Haiti set off last-minute panic buying as gas stations received instructions from oil companies to lock their pumps The measure enacted with the cooperation of Shell Texaco and Esso the three foreign companies that sell oil products in Haiti represented the first major action by the transitional government of Prime Minister Robert Malval to challenge the army since the UN ti's civilian government acting in concert with international oil corn- panies blocked gasoline sales throughout the country Thursday in a move that could force a show- down with the nation's military The announcement Thursday that sales and deliveries of gasoline would be banned as part of the UN-ordered embargo on oil sales to Haiti set off last-minute panic buying as gas stations received instructions from oil companies to lock their pumps The measure enacted with the cooperation of Shell Texaco and Esso the three foreign companies that sell oil products in Haiti the first major action by the transitional government of Minister Robert Malval to challenge the army since the UN sanctions went into effect Monday In Washington meanwhile the Defense Department said a Coast Guard cutter helping enforce the UN embargo fired warning shots across the bow of a Haiti-bound merchant ship Thursday after it refused to change course The ship had been ordered not to sail to Haiti because officers who boarded the ship were unable to inspect about one-third of the ship's cargo There were no reports of injury or damage to either vessel The sanctions were imposed when Haiti's military leadership refused to resign last week as agreed in the UN-brokered accord signed in New York City in July by the army commander Lt Col Raoul Cedras and deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide The agreement called for the resignaPlease see Haitipage 6A Guard cutter helping enforce the UN embargo fired warning shots across the bow of a Haiti-bound merchant ship Thursday after it refused to change course The ship had been ordered not to sail to Haiti because officers who boarded the ship were unable to inspect about one-third of the ship's cargo There were no reports of injury or damage to either vessel The sanctions were imposed when Haiti's military leadership refused to resign last week as agreed in the UN-brokered accord signed in New York City in July by the army commander Li Col Raoul Cedras and deposed dent Jean-Bertrand Aristide The agreement called for the Please see Haitipage 6A Presirepresented resignaPrime ic it :777 17 7 0 6o--T -40 -d 1 qt I 4 V2 '1 't' '41 40-Z1 j6611i I 1: 1 01 11 4 t'l i 1 1 '''L' 1' '4 1' 0 Ni' It tt'' CPW :4 tokikgli iI It 7 44U' 4- r-- Noti gr' (3- te 7:1 1 I1 a- 41 I -11--: 1A 4 0- 4 4---- 11 -4400' 3S? 41ertl 11'SVmog' "1 0 L44--- '1-4 0' 4- 4 iiA --T' )---- 4 440- wi li t- 4' '44'' c4 yrt-z 1 -1 k- ii- ---) i i -f kv '4144 rIA'' :11 A -j -4: 11t Sy 4 fz4 7 --41 --4 '11 4 1 '1 il 404' ep '4joa' ti 'f' 7 -i' i4' l' vlzt -i -P -144- 'i I 1 1 i 1 1 i I I i i I I 1 I 1 i i Please see NFLpage 8A TOM FRANKLINStaff A maintenance worker crosses Statesville's Cemetery The city got some of the rain that Cowles Drive which runs through Oakwood fell Thursday but is expected to be dry today Carolinas suffering through dry spell water use curtailed in some cities Bull roaming interstate caught killed 1 Associated Press Back to business: Traffic moves past heaps of garbage in Port-au-Prince Haiti There was activity on the capital's streets Thursday despite announcement of a plan to ban gasoline sales TI Rainfall In October Lj1 By MARY ELIZABETH DeANGELIS Staff Writer Rain rain come back and stay Please That's the refrain prayer and strong desire being echoed across the Carolinas where a drought has forced some municipalities to ban unnecessary water use This year 0 Last year 4" 3" 2 1 1" 0 1234 ci Genetic defect linked to aggressive behavior IL: Mani MO 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1314 15 16 1718 19 20 21 By JEF FEELEY Catawba Valley Bureau HICKORY They called him Rambo An escaped 1500-pound Charolais longhorn bull appeared out of the mists on 1-40 Thursday morning lowering his horns and charging eastbound motorists before leading Catawba County sheriff's deputies on a two-hour chase "This wasn't (the cartoon character) Ferdinand the Bull we are talking about here" Maj Richard Cannon said "This here was Rambo Bull" The bull on the loose since escaping from a cattle trailer Oct 14 was spotted on the highway near Sweetwater Road outside Hickory around 3 am Thursday Deputy Rodney Broome said The bull slated for slaughter at a stockyard had been living in the forest next to 1-40 for a week coming out at night to feed on 1 1 I 1 i i I i I I I 1 EZ Last measurable rainfall in Charlotte was 03 inches on Sept 16 Before that 126 inches on Aug 18 El 70 of NC lakes have levels lower than normal for October Ci About 80 of farmland soil sampled by agricultural agents shows very low moisture levels As of 5 pm FRANCOIS DUCKETTStaff Yes there were showers falling over Statesville rain pelting windshields in Rock Hill and high winds and a downpour blowing trees around in Charlotte Thursday But it's supposed to be sunny and cooler today And none of Thursday's drizzles showers or deluges made up for months of dry conditions that have lowered water levels to a point that's making some people very nervous "Water? What water?" Concord City Manager Leonard Sossamon said Thursday afternoon SOURCE National Weather Service "We pieced it together" said Dr Han Brunner a geneticist at University hospital in Nijmegen Holland "We are not used to thinking about this type of behavior in terms of genetic predisposition" The great-grand-uncle a teacher combing family history back to 1870 found the trait in cousins and uncles long dead and became convinced that heredity played a role There was an added puzzle: The women in the family seemed to be normal The men had shown various types of aberrant behavior With Please see Enzymepage 4A By HARRY ROSENTHAL Associated Press WASHINGTON Years ago the great-grand-uncle of a Dutch family wondered why so many men in his family were borderline mentally retarded and quick to pick a fight He even wrote a history of what he called the family's "mental debility" titling it "A Curious Case" From that modest start a team of genetic detectives now has determined the men were missing one form of an enzyme providing new evidence of a genetic contribution to some people's behavior for residents to water their lawns fill up their swimming pools or soak fall gardens At Lake Fisher Concord's main source of drinking water levels Thursday were nearly 10 feet Please see Rainpage 8A "We don't have any" Well actually Concord welcomed a steady downpour Thursday evening but the city remained under temporary restrictions imposed earlier in the week Until further notice it's illegal Please see Chasepage 9A 1 Black police chiefs firing has Tabor City on edge II This has caught us all off guard The races here have always had good relations" Sterling Hinson a white downtown shoe store owner DAVID FOSTERStaff fryFet Pl fi 0 tf so 17 0 0 1- FI tiL 4't4 43 41 5 1 xr fft -tilt 4 tw iZItit- l' VA ''Sailit-lit'lk 'it i tli Pa t- -Tt4 oh 13 I ill jct1144 1 DAVID FOSTERStaff "When 1 was a boy one of my daddy's best friends was a black man He'd come and eat dinner with us His wife and my mother cooked and carried on in the kitchen He and my father sat in the den watching TV We don't understand what's going on now" Tabor City smack on the SC border about 195 miles east of Charlotte is a lot like other small Carolinas towns a place where most know each other and each other's business Downtown By DAVID Steil Writer TABOR CITY Usually on the fourth Saturday in October this Columbus County town fills with crowds of 12000 people to celebrate yams The yearly NC Yam Festival has it all: A parade with beauty queens riding in convertibles Crafts booths and performers It all climaxes with the Yam Ball But for Saturday's festival some beauty queens have canceled So have some performers Even some convertible owners have with Klux Klan was driven from Columbus County in the early 1950s tensions divide the town of 2300 along racial lines "This has caught us all off guard" said Sterling Hinson a white downtown shoe store owner "The races here have always had good relations drawn their cars Many worry crowds will be thin Tabor City is on edge What started as a call for justice after the August firing of the city's black police chief is turning into something ugly something racial For the first time in anybody's memory since the organized Ku A city divided: Racial tensions in Tabor City have some worried that crowds will be slim at this weekend's Yam Festival A Please see Unrestpage BA Space duties: Business 10 Family lE Obituaries BC Delivery assistance 1-800-532-5350 HearingsPech After fixing Columbia's leaky toilet as- Classified 7C Horoscopes 4E People 3E moo Frt: 6-30 am 5 pm Sat Sun: 7 am noon paired customers: is pnrned in part Place a classified ad 1-800-532-5348 Dial Relay and specify on reodod PaPer m's tronaut Bill McArthur of North Carolina Comics 4E Ann Landers 5E Sports 16 Mon Thur: 8 6 pm Fri: 8 a 8 30 pm number as listed and le recyclable Contents el 993 fields questions on National Public Ra- Editorial 10A Local 1C IV oosc Story or photo idea 1-704-358-5040 Tioni 1 The Charlene Observer dioinext page Extra IF Movies 2F Weather Mon Fri 10 am tm empt Sat Sun: noon-midnight 1-800-735-2905 1 1 I I.