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EASY DOES IT Missouri and K-State win handily in Big 12 basketball Sports Section Bob Dylan and son Jakob Dylan are among the winners Nation A3 The Kansas City Star 500 METROPOLITAN EDITION THURSDAY February 26 1998 wwwkcstarcom El Nino takes its toll Senator criticizes Iraq deal INSIDE STAR Agreement gives too much away Republican leader Trent Lott says Retailer makes high-level changes has replaced the head of its Kansas City area stores as part of a management shake-up in its Midwest division B-l By ROBERT A RANKIN Knight Ridder Newspapers The Chamber Greater Karuas City Chamber of Commerce A new look for 1998 The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce has a new logo to replace one it has had for at least 25 years B-l WASHINGTON The agreement to reopen Iraq to weapons inspections came under heavy fire Wednesday from Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and a former top United Nations inspector who denounced the deal as But top Clinton administration officials said UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has clarified key details that had worried them and they are now confident the accord does not weaken the UN weapons-inspection regime received assurances that satisfy us that very much protect the of the United inspection agency said a senior White House official who asked not to be identified Meanwhile Annan has appointed a former Sri Lankan ambassador Jayarftha Dhanapala to head a new team of weapons inspectors and is expected to make the announcement today according to an official close to Annan In a Senate floor speech Lott a Mississippi Republican attacked the agreement negotiated by Annan as See SENATOR A-9 Col 1 Starr attacked from all sides over subpoena By DAVID GOLDSTEIN Washington Correspondent PAT CARTERThe Associated Press by the swarm of tornadoes that swept central Florida Monday President Clinton visited the area Wednesday A truck and chair sat amid the rubble of a home hit by a tornado in Sanford Fla At least 38 persons were killed Wagering hits all-time high Gamblers in the Kansas City area fed riverboat casinos a record sum in January B-l Clintbn comforts the survivors From Star News Services fct: ip This is one odd bird A turkey named Henrietta pecks at car windows for food and attention at Wyandotte County Park C-l KISSIMMEE Fla Quoting from the Bible and stroking the hand of a shaken survivor President Clinton mourned lives lost to Florida tornadoes and pledged federal help in rebuilding by brick home by The president then left for California where the worst El Nino storm of a stormy winter spawned torrential rains tornadoes mudslides and flash flooding that killed at least nine As high tides battered the beachfront Wednesday residents of Del Mar Calif piled up sandbags and tarps to try to protect their homes Erosion and mudslides were threatening beachfront homes Elsewhere miles of beaches were awash in sewage Feathered friends stolen Burglars steal three birds worth several thousand dollars from a TTorthmoor pet store C-2 Consumers in KC and around the country can expect to see higher fruit and vegetable prices because of storm damage A list of the people killed Monday in storms See Page A-8 persons With the El Nino weather phenomenon spawning tornadoes in once-unlikely regions the president voiced interest Wednesday in an early warning system that could use existing US satellites to forecast freakish weather trying to figure out is whether we can get some sort of satellite system (to act as a) buzzer system with DENIS POROY The Associated Press WASHINGTON Since Monica Lewinsky became part of his investigation into the White House independent counsel Kenneth Starr has shown a knack for grabbing live wires First he decided to pursue the salacious allegations against President Clinton Then he hauled the former White House mother before the grand jury And trying to get Secret Service agents to testify against the man they guard But decision to subpoena a White House aide to testify about his contacts with the press over the Lewinsky matter has sent sparks flying throughout political legal and journalistic circles Former federal prosecutors said Starr had used bad judgment and looked vindictive First Amendment experts and journalists worried that the subpoena could create a effect on the daily commerce of information between reporters and their official sources think there has been an overreaching and now Starr has gotten his tentacles reaching out in all sorts of said Sandy Davidson a First Amendment expert at the University of Missouri-Columbia Even some of the harshest critics were See A-12 Col 1 Police identify body of woman found in river Weather Recent El Nino effects 1 The second-warmest January ever in Kansas City 2 A swarm of tornadoes cut a swath through central Florida early Monday 3 A series of storms has pounded the West Coast for weeks i 2 4 68 10 12 2 4 68 THURSDAY AM THURSDAY PM CLOUDY COOLER Forecast D-10 I bells and whistles to make sure people get advance he said In Florida Clinton toured the most-damaged areas and met with survivors are praying for you and pulling for you and whatever it is within our power to do to help you return to normal lives we will Clinton said A $3 million Labor Department grant for temporarily unemployed Floridians marked the first of millions of dollars in federal aid to the state in response to the twisters that cut through central Florida on Monday killing at least 38 persons with winds of up to210mph Clinton whose helicopter circled low three times over the Winter Garden area outside Orlando held his chin in his left hand as he viewed the aftermath: an upended ranch-style house its lower half dissolved into a wreck of shards shoved into the ground an American flag fixed to a stubby pole in the lawn outside a flattened home He said his own home state Arkansas is too familiar with random deadly power matter how many of these 1 have seen over the last 20 years I think anybody can fail to be moved and awestruck by the lives and the treasures See CLINTON A-8 Col 1 4 Floods and mudslides have plagued Latin America from Mexico to Bolivia 5 Normally the city in America" Hilo Hawaii has received barely half an inch of rain so far this year 6 An expected busier-than-usual hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean in late summer turned out to be milder than average Opinion Tobacco company executives have difficulty pronouncing the word Section By BILL GRAHAM Staff Writer Departments Vol 118 No 162 7 sections E-4 Lotteries C-2 Advice Business Classified F-l Puzzles E-6 F-3 Comics E-8 Sports P-1 Deaths C-4 5 StarTouch E-2 FYI E-l TV E-10 Horoscope E-8 UPN expects trek to take it to Channel 29 When women started disappearing from Independence Avenue two Kansas City police officers began taking pictures in the event they might need to identify the next body found in the Missouri River Maria picture was in their book Now police want to know whether her death was related to her connections to an area of Independence Avenue known for drugs and prostitution Eight other women have been pulled from the river in the last year and a half Of those five had ties to Independence Avenue listing in the book does not necessarily mean she worked in prostitution police said the worlds of prostitution and drugs have parallels" said Officer Russ Dykstra department spokesman Woods whose body was identified Wednesday was found Sunday in the Missouri River A law enforcement task force will begin investigating the death today Woods 32 had not been reported missing to police Her last known address was near Independence Avenue said Lt Steve Wright of the Clay County Department Wright said the early investigation had found no in- See BODY A-ll Col 1 By AARON BARNHART Television Writer Photo at top: Herd driver statue Allis Plaza with the WB network expires Sept 1 The WB-UPN swap is similar to the one that WDAF Channel 4 and KSHB Channel 41 underwent in 1994 when they exchanged NBC and Fox affiliations Potentially millions of dollars in revenue and the survival of WB and UPN fledgling TV networks started in 1995 are at stake The KSMO-WB pairing is the latest in a series of deals orchestrated between Baltimore-based Sinclair Broadcast Group which bought KSMO in 1996 See UPN A-10 Col 1 broadcast officials said Wednesday Fans of such WB shows as the Vampire however will not have to worry about losing their programs as did UPN viewers The owner of KSMO is in talks with WB to become its new affiliate in Kansas City The transition from Channel 29 to Channel 62 is expected to be seamless Because no deal has been signed the arrival date fpr UPN on KCWB is unknown But industry sources indicated Wednesday that it could happen within a few weeks affiliation agreement For fans of the television shows Trek: and it will be a relief for viewers of the Vampire and Jamie Foxx perhaps an irritation The UPN network will soon bring and its other shows back to Kansas City after vanishing from KSMO Channel 62 on Jan 16 But its new home will be KCWB Channel 29 the current home of the WB network y- I Information for Lift Knight Ridder) A JU.