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The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 1

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EMOTAKSB: Holyfield hangs on to titleSection 4- The Knoxville News Final Edition 00 33 Cento I yltwtesoeMadftMs RIYADH Saudi Arabia -New reaerve unita might be sent to the Persian Gulf fbr aup- Officer says be before UN force in place ate presence in the demilitarized Greindl told a news conference When asked when there would be a complete handover to the if peacekeeping mission the general said: "It wUl be not a mat- ter of days It it win be a matter of Hurt Marine reserve anxiously welcomes return of his buddies By Frad Brawn nmcnni bmn Wnw CAMP LEJEUNE NC Thera had been intense fighting and terrifying hours of getting through some of the most sophisticated military mine fields in the history of land warfare CpL Marshall Bowes 35 of Bean Station a mild East Tennessean doing his duty as a combat engineer with Delta Company of the 4th Combat Engineers Marine Reaerve Unit of Knoxville made it through the blaze of bulleti and thudding Iraqi missiles for four harrowing days during the Persian Gulf War in Kuwait However he came home from Operation Desert Storm with wounds from the Middle East after a trash fire exploded into his free and sent can shante into his evea head and lea He's had time to think about that since he got to eee DELTA page A7 whose familiea are facing financial hardship and want their aoldieri home congressmen said Friday Democratic Rep GV "Sonny" Montgomery of Mississippi who isthe leader of a congressional delegation looking into the matter said that the new reservists might be sent over on a volunteer basis Hundreds of reservists and National Guardsmen already have been shipped to the gulf in recent weeks or assigned stateside duty to help in the pullout They range from flight coordinators to cargo handlers As long as American forces are in the gun they win need support troops such as water purification specialists and doctors Even after the bulk of the troops are gone hundreds of tons of equipment win have to be Please see RESERVE pageA7 Bif AatocMid Pim KUWAIT CITY The commander of a United Nations peacekeeping force on Friday said his soldiers won't be fully deployed the i-Kuwaiti fbr weeks As a result troops may face an extended stay to care fbr refugees MaJ Gen Gunther Greindl an Austrian said some UN military observers were scheduled to arrive today in Kuwait City and would be sent soon to a buffer sons straddling the border "The moment we have military observers and vehicles available we win establish an immedi UJS military commanders have said they do not intend to abandon thousands of refugees in their care along a border strip of southern Iraq until the 1440 peacekeepers are in place and an aid organization is prepared to help the people who have fled chnl unrest in Iraq About 18JM0 US soldiers from the 3rd Armored Division remain in the Iraqi sector of the buffer zone Whim extends six miles in- PleiM see PEACE page A7 CpI Marshall Bowes of Bean Station and his wife Darla relax at splenic on New River at Camp Lejeune NC to get festival event off the ground WKXT drops news at 11 and fires 10 Changing trends ad slump cited By Vpd WKXT-TV Channel the local CBS affiliate eliminated its 11 pm weeknight news cut an weekend newscasts and laid off mow than 10 news employee Friday including 6 pun co-anchor Jennifer Julian Dm Bagwell one of the six owners called it a "reorganization due to a nationwide lump in advertising and a national trends way from late evening Rick Russo on sports and Lisa Stearns on Health-Watch Colvin Idol who does "CaU 8 fbr will continue that segment Idol and Maaur co-anchored the 6 p-m news Friday but none of the ststion'fe changes was mentioned Hammitt ana Stearns are on vacation but will be back on the air Monday Bagwell said The layoffs were effective immediately The station did have an 11 pjn newscast Friday The station experienced several techni- TELEVEKJN SUffinS Staten day evening COTS BACK broadcast in- chiding static and losing its video sporadically but it was not known if the problems were due to the lack or production staffers Bagwell said ail station employees were called to an afternoon meeting in which they were told in general terms that manges were coming He said those being laid off were told individually and in private "There was no easy way to do this" Bagwell said valued all our employees but the slump in advertising and changes in habits away from watching an 11 pjn newcast made it neces- Mease see TV page A4 Julian win be the most noticeable on-camera personality missing She had been co-anchoring the 6 pun news with Cheryl Ma-ur and Norman Hammitt both of horn were kept by the station husband Michael Nelson producer of the 11 pm news confirmed Friday afternoon that he also lost his Job One insider put the cuts at more than 40 percent of the news and production departments Bagwell would not give specific names of those beyond confirming departure saying he had promised the others he would not He said the 6 pjn news lineup will be Masur and Hammitt on news Don Canon on weather i rMnwl WWWwmIwI David Woods of Mount Pisoah Balloons of Asheville NC fills featuring 35 balloons from the Southeast will be today at 6 Friday for the Hot Air Balloon Rally on pm and Sunday at 7 pm The flights are part of the 1991 the grounds of Fort Sanders Parkwest Medical Center Flights bogwood Arts Festival nitk Specialists obtain a fingerprint from inside car of missing man OUS skeptical of Iraqi arms totalA5 cals that attach themselves to fin-: residue i result was "a hard forma KnaxvReBlue Jays fans ddnt kguB MB UauBp lODra mi ivraywi Stadkim OMaPPuVIVQ Friday night as IhelCJays knocked off Bkmlngfiam 4-3 in their home opener SportsCI fingerprints have beat reported hesria The disclosures came Friday afternoon after FBI agents end state investigators met in Knoxville to discuss Patrick's disappearance Patrick 52 a former associate of imprisoned banker Jake Butcher was reported missing after he failed to return home from Central City Ky where he met with business partner Ronnie Lee Curtis on Aprils Curtis has told investigators he tion of the print itself which can then be for identification Baugh said Baugh said the partial CASE OF print found in-ir i side the car VANISHED belong Knox Man to Patrick but that has not been determined" Two money bags found in the car are still bring analyzed but no Forensic specialists in Nashville have lifted a partial finger-: from Jade Patrick's car one after authorities said the ve-appeared to have been wiped clean of evidence William Baugh Jr agent in charge of the Knoxville said the partial fingerprint was found inside Patrick's 1990 Lexus LS400 sedan Baugh said "one clear latent was made visible through a tehnique using chemi- Weather Partly cloudy chance of showers High in the upper 60s low In the 40 DetribA7 Please eee PRINT page A4 Senator at bat again for threatened Oak Ridge research open but a subcommittee pinpointed HoGfield as the first to go if dollars are By Rank Mungsr 9 m3 nMivqwm mh rai proved I foil Sen short Sasser introduced appropriation bill last year The HoBfield facility is the most heavily used of the three heavy ton accelerators 99 into an helped keep the facility operating This move is a continuation of that effort Hdgaburaiu OAK RIDGE Sen Jim Sasser is using his clout in Washington to protect a research complex at Oak Ridge National Funding Struggle language in the Fiscal 1992 Budget "This is sort of a crucial year for us to said Dr Jim BaU director of ORNLa Physics Division "We have the particle aederaton) dosed down it would appear that Holifield is still the one at risk BaU said When the news spread last year that Hriifirid might be dosed scientists from universities and other research institutions around the country railed to its support Dozens of letters of support were sent to DOE and others showed up to testify at a committee meeting in Washington support in the midear physics community Is very strong" BaU arid "and Senator Sasser has been extremely supportive and spearheaded the effort to assure continued operation of HriifiekL very hopefoL the resolution last week and the Senate win consider it beginning Tuesday Hriifidd a 25 million-volt particle accelerator used in nuclear physics research has been threatened with closure for the past year because of a crunch in fonding for Department of Energy research facilities "The HoHfidd facility is the moat heavily used of the three heavy km Sasser said in a prepared statement "It brings research scientists from across the country into Oak Ridge and I think its continued operation is extremely imoortant" DOE wheriBkad the Nuclear Sciences Advisory to racom- from Resolution that recommends continued San Jbn 8aaaar D-Tem From a prepared statement mend which of the three accelerators the others are located at Armxine National Laboratory near Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California should be shut down in order to cut coat The committee eventually recommended keeping an three received enough DOE that if successful in getting through this particular budget shortfall then we can expect to have cooperation in fritura budgets" Ban is a member of the advisory committee that reports to DOE "If it comes down to having one (of at full funding of the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Oak Ridge and two similar research facilities in uftnois and California The Senate Budget Committee which Sasser chaira ap 2 si.

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