The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 1

Retired Gen Norman Schwarzkopf accepts Truman award Metropolitan GENERAL SALUTE OUTRAGEOUS OUTSPOKEN Joan humor grows even more caustic FYI THE KANSAS CITY STAR METROPOLITAN EDITION Tuesday May 9 2000 Ready! Set! Roll em out! OLD REFINERY SITE BARRIER CONSIDERED Pollutants worry Sugar Creek neighbors By MICHAEL MANSUH The Kansat Cfly Star For the first tune Amoco Oil and government officials arc considering a wall or trench to stop the underground flow of pollutants ofl the company's old refinery in Sugar (Trek In addition they have agreed to speed cleanup of the neighbor hood instead of waiting until all questions about the refinery's pollution can be answered regulators and Amoco officials said It probably will be a year before they settle on whether and where the wall should be built But its construction would appease resi dents who have been pushing for this tosdy step for years Over decades millions of gallons of petroleum have seeped from the refinery into the ground leaving a pocket of pollution beneath the refinery and the adjoining Norirdge neighborhood Sugar (reek and Independence residents have expressed concern about the slow pace of cleanup saying any fumes horn the seeping petroleum which contains the car inogro henme could jeopardize Ulllt MYTHS 'TV Kama Oty Mat at the kanuo speedway in Wyandotte County Official held a news conference at the new track to announce three rare In 2001 With Mur of confetti the NASC AR racer of led Hutton (right) and the Indy racer of Tddie Cheever It (left) rolled onto the Mage Monday Speedway events mean fast company for 2001 Three women document pollution on weekly hikes In Sugar Creek A-5 their health Amoco and government officials said last week split their investigation of the neighborhood and of the 430-acrc refinery site will focus off site because that's where we have the neatest potential for to harmful pollutants said Robert Aston the US Environmental Protection Agency's project manager for the Amoco site don't want to let the off site pollution wait while we answer all our on site questions" See AMOCO A-4 Special section inside A I page guide to NASCAR Winston Ciup racing rat ing rank among the fastest growing sports in America So it was no surprise that Monday's announcement left local officials beaming is one of the top five or so sports announcement in Kansas City history' said Kevin (ray president of the Kansas City Sports ommwston lt is like an othet major league franchise coming to Kansas ity" Tickets for the events are ex peered to go on sale this summer ence held in the track's garage NASCAR will hold its big show on the final weekend of Septem her It will atari with a Busch Grand National rare on Saturday Sept 29 and conclude with a Winston Cup rate on Sunday Sept 30 The IR1 will bring its open wheel brand of racing to the 15 mile speedway on July 8 A com panion race is being sought for that show With its television ratings set and only to the Nil Winston Cup By HM PI 01 FY The tiH City Slat Prom opposite ends of the same stage two barons of auto racing issued the orders Monday that Midwest auto rac ing fans have been waiting to heat NASCAR Mike Hel ton and the Indy Racing league's Tony Geotge said in unison start Wcu engines With that the 2001 schedule of racing at the new 1228 million speedway in Wyandotte County was unveiled in a news confer Sien a Leone capital descends into chaos See NASCAR A Kansas speedway 2001 race dates is Busch Grand National SEPT 29 Winston Cup SEPT 30 Indy Racing League JULY 8 Arrest made in Philippines in love virus case if we can retrieve it Foreign nationals and atd group were fleeing including hundreds of British citizens who pouted into one of the city's two main hotels hitching passport and suitcases and waiting for a British military inter to get them out A Sierra leonean woman who said rebel had killed her husband and four of their children last year waited in a hotel courtyard with her 9 -year old daughter a British citizen "I don't want to lose her son die said holding her daughter's shoul der as she wanted to send the girl away to safety The United Nation ordered the evacuation of most of its civilian staff Monday and Ji Secretary Cienerd Kofi Annan -merit saving he wa We RBBk A-4 By ALEXANDRA 7 AVIS The iHtrlitit Preti FREETOWN Sima leone Already badly frayed from a week of political violence Sierra leones capital began to rip along the seams Monday as a ratty turned to a shooting spree with rebel soldiers gunning down at least four pmtfprs The chaos that broke out at the demonstration at rebel leader Fo day Sank oh house quickly spi rated and soon heavily armed sol dier from al the country's factions cruised the streets of this West African coastal city gripping ma chine guns and hanging out the wndnw of then vehicles United Nation spokesman 4 i- Cjuwsnb 1 Acme i mvkj nitirarw 'wrra ijpcinfs peace queues had been dented' by the violence that mgs ed Monday It remains to be seen ed hy investigator and promised to TWn FBI agent accompanied the appear at the bureau headquar By OLIVER TEVES Tfcy lutldr trm IT the Several FBI local radio report said Ramrmr culprit may be a third person who lived in the couple's apartment the unemployed sister who recently graduated from a computer school that a serun ty firm has finked to the "kwe bug' stmt Investigators raided the apart merit in Pandaran a kvet ttsddr in the Philippines cooperating fit denied any involvement with the MANILA Phaqiptoe Phihp pine police arrested on Monday a bank empfowe who along with has girlfriend suspected of folks to the computer vims that overwhelmed networks around the world But relatives of the man Reomel ad they hefcew the real virus An investigator said Ramones had to mmain silent The virus has cawed a flood of e-mak with the subbed fate 'RjfATYlXr to course through See VTBtIV A 4 the search for the virus program met No one wa home at the rime of the raid but Ramones later returned and wa arrested agent from die National Bureau at lows tigmnn Hi prifrrend was contact diskette wires challenge for are The nrrhestr and the rib have a lot of potential Knnako Ho KC Srnphony selects new concertniaster By Hot WOBSLET TVs Inin Oty Stst Yean and applause um the death of i tnhnO Tsmnot Monday at SL Patrick' In NesvUniL A 2 See STMPHfm A-4 Knght Ridder).