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I "Vrf i 4 5 i 1 5 i I iP 11 4 SPORTS ID leant hmdw MIAMI 1 GAME FROM ELIMINATION KNICKS LEAD 3-1 ID THE WEATHER Clouds and sun 8671 Details page2R FINAL The Foremost Daily Newspaper of Florida 87th YEAR No 164 Copyright 1997 The Miami Herald 35 Cents For home delivery call 305 350-2000 TUESDAY MAY 13 1997 Hit-and-run tornado rakes Miami Beach Witnesses awestruck by power a RESPONSE FROM INSURERS SA WHAT TO DO THE NEXT TIME 8A OFFICE TOWER VIEWPOINT IB PRAYER ON A CROWDED BUS IB By FRANCES ROBLES GEOFFREY TOMB And ANDRES VIGLUCCI Herald Staff Writers A towering tornado ripped its way through the middle of Miami Biscayne Bay and Miami Beach right after lunch Monday smashing cars and windows tossing trees skyward and scaring the dickens out of thousands of people who were transfixed by the uncanny sight No one was seriously injured Damage although spread across a wide swath was mostly minor with some glaring exceptions: The twister peeled the roof off an old stucco apartment house in East Little Havana leaving a number of families homeless But for many of those who witnessed its sudden appearance and relentless progress the tornado was something to marvel at a rare close look at monumental power had a funny feeling in my ears like when the barometer drops during a said Robert A Smith a science fiction writer who was at home in PLEASESEE TORNADO 8A 1 I tl Kiv 1 fit" I BtrJ i fir i xtt 1 ISL1' a iii- I i jagf 11 -v SSsSsr? ARTHUR HARVEY For The Herald ONCE IN A LIFETIME: A construction engineer and photography enthusiast took this shot from the 27th floor of a condominium project on Brickell Avenue Details 8A Seven presumed dead in blizzard on Everest feat: Havana to Key West in 24 hours TRAGEDY HAUNTS CLIMBER 1C By BINAYA GURUACHARYA Associated Press KATMANDU Nepal Nearly a year to the day after nine climbers perished on Mount Everest the deadliest 24 hours in its history seven more mountaineers have disappeared in the blinding white whirl of a blizzard Howling gusts and snow had trapped the climbers all presumed dead just 650 feet from the summit of the highest peak Sue Kelly a spokeswoman for a New Zealand expedition also on the mountain said debated whether crossing into US waters was as good as actually reaching land Maroney decided to try again what was out there from the last time helped me in prepping my mind and mental said Maroney whose previous 38-hour attempt was marred by stormy weather and seasickness have to go in there happy and relaxed because you are going to be by yourself a long While Maroney is the first PLEASESEE SWIMMER 8A The missing climbers included three Russians from a Khazak-stan expedition one German and a Sherpa guide Kelly said American guide Todd Burleson writing to the Mountain Zone Internet site from a base camp on Everest said another climber was South Korean The nationality of the seventh climber was unknown more we climbed the worse the weather became lots of snow accompanied by said Sgt Sunardi an Indonesian climber who turned back because of perilous conditions sky became dark vis- PLEASESEE EVEREST 9A By MARIKA LYNCH Herald Staff Writer KEY WEST With Madonna songs and Seinfeld episodes as her muse a 22-year-old Australian on Monday became the first woman to swim the shark-infested Florida Straits landing on a craggy Key West beach 24 hours after leaving Havana Her arms red with jellyfish stings Susie Maroney climbed ashore just after noon a stark contrast to her attempt a year ago when she fell 12 miles short of US soil That attempt was mired in controversy as experts MARIKA LYNCH Herald Staff AT THE FINISH: Dr Michael Stein helps Susie Maroney ashore at Key West after her 1 12-mile swim from Havana INSIDE McVeigh considered suicide attack in Oklahoma City buddy testifies Star witness says bombers meant to spark against government Ooops! This the airport The right but the all wrong A Boeing 737 with 59 people aboard is landed by mistake on a World War Il-era strip about 4'2 miles from the Corpus Christi Texas airport 3A A new outlook for Miami Getting territorial over parking STATE COLLEGE Pa (AP) not your paranoid imagination after all: People exiting parking spaces really do leave more slowly when waiting for the spot called territorial behavior and once again shows that we evolved as much as we might like to think our ancestors we humans still defend Penn State sociologist Barry Ruback said The study found that on average drivers took 322 seconds to pull out of a spot after opening the car door If someone was waiting however it took almost seven seconds longer And honkers were forced to wait just under 43 seconds The oversight board on finances takes two important steps: It endorses the five-year recovery plan and names banker Adolfo Henriques as its new board chairman IB Bullish Dow rockets to record high The word on Wall Street is that the government reports coming out on the economy this week will be rosy In anticipation stocks soar to a record 729275 reading on the Dow 7B alleged motives and plans for carrying out the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in the United States the April 19 1995 bombing of the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in which 168 people were killed and about 500 injured McVeigh could face the death penalty if found guilty told me he wanted to do it at 11 am because everyone would be getting ready for said Fortier who has pleaded guilty to lesser charges in exchange for his testimony Fortier said he cased the building with McVeigh in December 1994 and asked McVeigh about all the people in the building McVeigh he said told him that PLEASESEE McVEIGH 9A 10 133 By LOIS ROMANO Washington Post Service DENVER Timothy McVeigh was so determined to blow up the federal building in Oklahoma City that he considered driving the truck packed with explosives through the front door on a suicide mission according to a former Army buddy who also said he cased the site with McVeigh Michael Fortier 28 testifying in chilling detail before a federal jury here said that when he raised concerns about innocent government workers being killed in a bomb attack McVeigh 29 told him their deaths would be justified because were part of the evil Fortier provided the court with the clearest picture so far of I I THE INDEX ACTION LINE 2A HOROSCOPE 5C BUSINESS 78 KLEINBERQ 11A CLASSIFIED SO LANDERS SC COMICS 4C LOCAL IB CROSSWORD SC MOVIES SC DEATHS 48 SPORTS ID EDITORIALS 10A ADON TAFT 2C FLORIDA SB TELEVISION 3C i il 77785 3333 The Miami Herald Publishing Company CNN JUST THINK TIM HAD IT IN Michael Fortier SLOTS mfrn 1 jJL I ujl JLA 0L.