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WORLD IN BRIEF Pataca East the second-run theater at wkh Road wWdose Monday and first-run theater with discount priceSa MHWHnw WicMta Eagk The opening of Premiere Palace w91 bring the total number of first-ran movie screens in Wichita to 73 42 of them on the east side Re Washington welcomes IsraeTs new leader WASHINGTON Expectations are high as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak takes Us case for cautious Middle East peacemaking to President Clinton Tm eager as a kid with a new toy Clinton said The aim is to energize the peace process and as Barak flew to Washington on Wednesday on the Israeli Air Force 001 jetliner administration officials struck a coodUatoTy stance on the timetable for a pullback on the West Bank and on Us strategy for negotiations with Palestinian leader YasBer Arafat With the 1998 Wye River accord on hold along with its promised handover at a farther 111 percent of the West Bank to Arafat's Palestinian Authority Clinton is hoping for a breakthrough in Us talks with Barak which begin today No deal yet ta li Ireland BELFAST Northern Ireland Struggling to form a government for Northern Ireland within 24 hours British Prime Minister Tony Blair offered last-minute concessions Wednesday in hopes of winning sup port from ttie main Protestant party But Ulster Unionist leader Trimble speedily dismissed Blair's promises blunt response dampened hopes that Northern year-old legislature the only branch of government formed under terms of last year's Good Friday peace accord would elect politicians to 10 administration posts that have stood vacant for months U5 strikes back at Iraq INQRLK AIR BASE Turkey US warplanes struck 13 Iraqi air defense targets Wednesday in an intensifying campaign against Saddam forces But pilots flying out of this base in southeastern Turkey say key Iraqi batteries threatening Western planes lie below the 36th parallel just out of bounds under the postGulf War rules of engagement The air campaign being run out of Incirlik operates under much tighter constraints than NATO used in the Kosovo campaign NATO was operating a bombing campaign in Kosova In Iraq it is monitoring a nofly zone Only if the planes patrolling the no-fly zone are illuminated by Iraqi radar fired upon or otherwise overtly threatened can the US and British Mir caigo launch MOSCOW Kazakhstan lifted a ban Wednesday on launches from Russia'S main space center ending a standoff between the former Soviet republics that threatened to force the crew of the Mir space station to abandon ship early Russia had warned that unless a Progress cargo ship was permitted to blast off by the end of the week Mir would run out of food and water and the threeman crew would be forced to return to Earth After days of negotiations the two sides reached a compromise including a schedule for Russia to pay the $115 million it owes this year in rent for the space station yst over here so we didn't have to drive to the west McKenzie said Crockett said the change reflects plan to continue trying new strategies in the movie market It had nothing to do with attendance which West Kellogg and Ridge Road under the $2 second-run format rather than give up their rituaL 1 remember when we have a discount theater over here always say 1 wish we had a Palace a market for discount theaters and they predicted Palace West win continue to thrive The opening of Premiere Palace will bring the total number of first-ran movie screens in Wichita to 73 42 of them on the east side That include the many suburban movie houses such as the new ICE Clnemas-owned Royale 8 in Newton Premiere Palace which Crockett admitted was part of Warren's strategy to get a first-run theater of his own on the east side does not cancel plans fa the 26ecreen Chinese Theatres that Warren is planning to build on the east side The complex which would include restaurants is slated for construction at 21st Street and Greenwich Road But Crockett said that in recent meetings managers had discussed looking for a different location college student in Kentucky The most recent slayings were those of a TByear-old man and his 51-year-old daughter amd dead June 15 in Gorham DL Authorities interviewed Maturino Resendez weD into the night Tuesday He was told that be was entitled to legal counsel but declined police said Attorneys Allen Tanner and Rudy Duarte were appointed to defend Maturino Resendez Tanner said he is "very concerned that it until Wednesday a day after the arrest that the suspect was appointed legal counseL Tm not convinced that he's done anything yet all been charged with is burglary in Harris County" Tanner said looked very tired like he's been up all night and it looks like he's been questioned or badgered all night Knight Ridder News Service what we know about him is true and the DNA comes back then worst nightmare It makes a good case excelenL You got DNA hard to deny the one who did Devon Anderson Assistant Harris County District Attorney Evi in Ho Ga k' L' was good despite the popularity of home video he sail Stm some local theater owners have speculated that the discount format is dying In January the Diddnsonowned MaU Cinemas also a discount theater showing secondrun movies closed its doors because of low attendance: Jay Ingalls who owns and ICE Cinemas said the speed with which movies make it to home video is making discount movie theaters obsolete: By the time first-run houses finish showing films and second-run theaters pick them up the movies' video release dates are often only a month away kind of theaters pretty much already are a thing of the Ingalls sail But Crockett and Palace West manager Larry Robertson said still County were a state it would rank third in the number of people executed in the nation with 56 Virginia 167 After hiding out in Mexico Maturino Resendez surrendered to a Texas Ranger at an El Paso border station Tuesday in a deal brokered by -i t- DaS sstcr Ifs stin unclear why he turned himself in Mexico doesn't have the death penalty and doesn't return suspects to countries where they may face the death penalty But Mike Cox a Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman said Maturino Resendez may have feared bounty hunters: A $125JX)0 reward had been offered for his capture The reward money may go to his relatives who negotiated the surrender Texas' hold on Maturino Resendez also might mean Kentucky and Dli-nois officials never get to prosecute him Lexington Ky police SgL Mark Barnard said he hopes that is not the care if he gets the death penalty seven Barnard said 1 want him hi Kentucky" Maturino Resendez is thought to have traveled by hopping freight trains AD a the victims were killed near the tracks Investigators have said they have no idea what motivated the kiUings The killing spree seemingly started with the 1907 slaying of a 21-year-oid CHILDREN'S MUSlCArCOMEDYl CROWNOTTOWN 8207 Douglas 316-681-1 5M IIIMW MlllMI I II IIBMlSlif Vacuum 021 jttffiig PALACE From Page 1A win give away bee popcorn and drinks to every ticket holder but (toil expect anything large "This theater is still very new and very modem and for sane time considered making it a discount first-run said Ken Crockett general manager for American Cinemas Those attending movies at Palace East on Wednesday were among the first to learn of the change and some gave it a thumbs down Evelyn Bryant who drives to Palace East from Newton 19 to four times a month to see $2 movies said she was disappointed believe changing she said come all the way from Newton because ifS cheaper here We cant afford the ones in Another moviegoer Gail McKenzie of Valley Center often meets her friends at Palace East to see movies they missed the first time around They'D likely drive the extra miles to the eight-screen Palace West theater which will remain open at FUGITIVE From Page 1A executed 180 people by far the most in the nation since the US Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976 The raithopping drifter who turned himself in Tuesday after a six-week manhunt that made him one of the most wanted fugitives in America is also charged with two slayings in Illinois and one in Kentucky and is thought to be responsible fa five other killings in Texas During the manhunt the FBI referred to him by one a his aliases Rafael ResendesRamirez Until the murder charge was filed in Hughes Springs the only charge against him in Texas was burglary at the scene where Dr Claudia Benton 39 was killed Dec 17 in the Houston enclave of West University Place She was beaten in the head stabbed three times in the back and covered with a blanket Maturino Resenderfs fingerprints were found on parts from Benton's stolen car Police took a blood sample from Maturino Resendez on Tuesday night to determine whether his DNA matches samples found at the Benton crime scene or at several other crime scenes where DNA evidence was found DRUG From Page 1A months of AZT a therapy that cuts in half their risk of infection But that treatment can cost more than SLOOO far beyond what developing countries can afford Last year scientists discovered that giving far fewer AZT doses starting during labor could protect newborns although not as effectively as the treatment Americans get But even that AZT therapy was too expensive for many countries Nevirapine is a cheaper AIDS drug Although it works against the same viral target as AZT it stays in the body for a longer time crosses the placenta and even gets into breast milk US scientists working with doctors in Uganda studied 618 mothers Half got shot-course AZT The other half got a single dose of nevirapine during labor and their babies got a single dose within three days of birth The scientists hoped nevirapine would prove as good as but to their surprise it worked for better Just 131 percent of nevirapine-treated infonts became infected with HIV vs 251 percent of AZTfreated babies The United Nations estimates that L800 HIV-Infected babies are bom dally in developing countries In parts of subSaharan Africa the region hardest-hit by AIDS as many as 30 percent of pregnant women are in- Widespread use of nevirapine could prevent between 300JMJO and 400010 babies a year from contracting HIV CUSTOMREMOUNT Diamonds Precious Stones Rings Earrings Pendants J-HB-M-t-ft-S VKhta' Drnond 6old fterchail 1950 Ede Emerick a Texas Department at Public Safety DNA expert said that saliva and hair samples were also taken from Maturino Resendez She said the DNA analysis should be complete within a week or so Assistant Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson said such evidence should lead to an exceedingly strong case against Maturino Re She said that if DNA evidence bnks him to the Houston slaying prosecutors will probably seek the death penalty what we know about him is true and the DNA comes back then he's everyone's worst Anderson said makes a good case excellent You got ENA it's hard to deny the one who did it In a murder case you got a couple of defenses didn't do it you got the wrong or was I guess the third is Tm I don't know which one hell pick" After a prosecutor in Houston described the bloody scene of Widespread use of nevirapine could prevent between 300000 and 400000 babies a year from contracting HIV at birth health officials said at birth the NIH The new study has implications for American women too: If a woman goes Into labor without having had prenatal AZT treatment doctors could consider giving her nevirapine Faud said But Faud said there was no need to change the US recommendations until more studies are completed A study under way of UJS and European women will attempt to determine whether adding nevirapine to the longer and more expensive AZT therapy that they now take also would work better Nevirapine sold in the United States under the brand name Vira-mune appeared safe for infants But July Blow Out Sale killing Maturino an orange jail jumpsuit and handcuffs calmly asked state District Judge William Harmon if he could plead guilty It was unclear whether Maturino was charge or all of the him His admission of guilt was not an official plea because his court appearances were only to set bail and assign him a lawyer He was jailed without baiL In Texas a charge of capital murder can usually be filed only when there is evidence that a murder occurred during the commission of certain felonies such as burglary The decision of whether to charge also Maturino Resendez with capital murder in Benton's death rests with Harris County District Attorney Johnny Holmes whose county has notched the most deathpenaUy convictions in Texas Of the 480 people on death row in Texas 146 about one-third were sent there by Harris County If Harris scientists will follow the babies until they're 18 months Old both to look for possible longterm side effects and to see whether nevirapine also could protect against HIV in breast milk Babies bom healthy stiD can become infected through breast-feeding something no drag so for has 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