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Tha Accu-Waathar fonacast for noon today ast fornoon today i i 1 Si TV L- v' yf I-V-V-n MyWVv' I-'V r-J J- yg jmamm wuiff Nutr MlMM liji mm-it ww xmomh aw imt ikv raiM BMd Mpwaw IWH wmpwaMa YiaiaiditrM liiipM WriiUri NMW pteW tWt Trimnmrt I Ra UA- ikmmmiimhmMiW 'i MWI WiTIWWF-LMdOlM -rlA wwrmiuii war mm a ikbriilkltaiMl pwaaawmaiwww IIMINnMIlflUIValM aina manna mirri 'J awnwwa- mamwwiia awa-a UMM Wpa lamWi 'sfi i Yesterday's temperatures 1 High 76 Low 54 MMM 2 As of 8 aLm 'vYMtCldy inHMMHHW 0 rjBInce July 66 Last yehr to data '173 AvaragauL 74 Agricultural pwmjsslm bum diy Sumfaa aat today 6:18 mJ 5:05 pm 1 Sunrlaaf aat tomorrow 630 am 5:04 pm 'jfiHf 6 ri-W rr a twff Vrir-v y3- OaWiJIC ONiMH Xaatardays tpniparatuma ra E3 ttSr awwr pr-raowoo 71 41 -tWJ ir a a i 123 awl mom urn a -1-1 a "1 1 5 ti litrint' a 2 NmMM 61' Jl tW lew hm nmoomm a a a 5 atnYMCW 46 ar jii NtriMLW 64 41 07 5 Ottawa ot tw awMa am a -2 mm sm MaWWW -47 trir Cttatw tinS ri Extended loraeaafc i CENTRAL CALIFORNIA A chanea of ahowara north Friday otlwiwlaa cloudy Lowa uppar 20a 1 mouffylna to mkMOa ooaat Hiflha 50a mountalna to 70a aoutham vallaya A chanea of rain north Saturday Partly cloudy aouth Lowa uppar 20a to mkSOb Hlgha 60a to low 70a Partly cloudy Sunday law a ttr MLriaCW' 44- ttr ImJmrM 71 ttr lawPt ttr (4 0 ttr MO ttr ttr aa ttr a a ttr ttr 0 6' 44 -y ttr 77 47 ttr 44 ttr 76 47 JN it 41 tt( it a wm iw Mpa i tpptr WitNriM It tomr IW Wnrin Ut Atgrim Ltm NMMtrir rip a at it 74 4 Prim Caring 16 61 Economy: New report UZiAGM safer Man kills six in Australia I sr-vdg rffif i ir O' SYDNEY Australia AP) A man went on a shotgun rampage through three coastal towns Tuesday niit killing his former girlfriend her father and pregnant sister and three others before surrendering police said Another man was badly Wounded in the hourlong assault The stocky 45-year-old gunman whose name was not released was charged with murder and scheduled to appear in court Wednesday Neighbors said they heard shouting then Shots shortly after 9 pm at a house in Terrigal a surfing resort 40 miles north of Sydney Tnriite ambulance workers found the former girlfriend Kerry Gannon 23 dead in a living-room chair Her 18-year-old sister Lisa fin mum had been killed in a bedroom Neighbor Burt Clarke said the sister married to a policeman was about eight months pregnant The dead body of their 43-year-old father Thomas Gannon was outside in the road along with a 23-year-old man Christopher Gall who was shot in the face Gall was hospitalized in serious but stable condition Police say the gunman had driven to Bateau Bay about six miles north of Terrigal by the time they arrived There about a half-hour after the first fimnHngs he killed 27-year-Old David Baker they reported Two more people were shot about 10 pm at Wyong nine miles north of Bateau Bay police said Ross Smith 35 whs dead at the scene His 25-year-old girlfriend Leslie Read died later at a hospital a man walked into the police station at nearby Toukley just before 11 pm and gave himself up a police spokesman said Officers seized a shotgun 6jV APLMrplioto (From page Al) is based on solid evidence not on our assumptions We go by the book and we call it like we see he said Even economists who stopped short of questioning toe integrity of the statistics said they may simply represent a continuation of toe stop-andfio pattern that has characterized toe economy since the start of the recession in July 1990 cannot be taken as a sign that toe economy is all of a sudden snapping out of the doldrums" said Bruce Steinberg of Merrill Lynch in New York Although toe administration touted consumer spending far building up toe economy another report issued Tuesday said American consumers confidence in toe economy declined in October for the fourth consecutive month to the lowest level in eight month That report came from The Conferrace Board a private business organization in New York Meanwhile toe Labor Department said American wages salaries and benefits rose 35 percent in the year ended Sept30 the smallest increase in five years Later this week the Commerce Department will wiMMi figures on personal income durable goods orders and new home sales in September But report dealing with toe economy as a whole amounts to toe last economic report card of toe Bush administration The latest quarter marked toe fourth best GDP showing of George presidency but it still left his administration with paltry average annual growth of just 08 percent Still the latest spurt put toe total of goods and services produced in the United States at an annual rate of 6492 trillion just above toe 649 trillion high- water mark reached before the recession To economists that marks an important milestone: the end of the recovery and the start of a new expansion But they noted that the six-quarter recovery was the longest on record since the Depression trouble is from the standpoint of many peo-Me this has been a statistical rather than a real said economist Norman Robertson of Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh "The reason for this perception is the lack of job growth and that morethan any other factor accounts for the grumpy mood in the Analysts said bettertoan-expectod report the Federal Reserve has little reason to lower interest rates any time soon But bond prices rose after it was released because traders believed it lowered the chances for a deficit-ballooning package of tax cuts and spending when the new president takes office The GDP rebound from the second quarter was attributed largely to a resurgence in consumer pending at a 34 percent annual rate It had surged 51 percent in toe first quarter but then edged down 01 percent in the second Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton waves to supporters Tuesday As he arrives at the Riverwalk Amphitheater in Augusta Ga Clinton seeks Southern clincher of dollars on campaign ads Clinton leading in all the polls was glRd to take die high road denouncing this name calling and TAMPA Fla (AP) While President Bush seized on news of trcnger4hanexpected economic growth Tuesday as a welcome tonic for his ailing campaign Bill Clinton sped through' die South toiling supporters who seemed ready to begin celebrating more Dunes Hotel to close Not that he was above all name-calling Jn Augusta Ga and again in Tampa he gave Ms dramatic version of political appointees at the State Department going through his records and then Ms late at night then declared to cheers and laughter: running mate former Vietnam prisoner of war James Stockdale said in an interview with The Idaho Statesman in Boise that anti-war demonstrations by young Americans such as Clinton hurt the war effort lyxriing Hmnwwiifa of American lives and prolonging the captivity ofPOWs Dan Quayle joined a Bloomington HI crowd in laughingly tossing around waffles symbolizing GOP charges about changeability He had a tougher moment earlier in an interview with when toe vice president asserted have been pushing toe idea that George Bush is going to make matters much much The third man in the race independent candidate Ross Perot stayed out of sight after two days of appearances in which he ae- cused the Republicans of plotting against him and his family Bush said of Per allegation that Republicans were pbwMg to disrupt Ms daughter's wedding little he said of spending tens of millions bet it's the only time those three pniitv-al hacks have worked till 10 p-m the whole time Bush has been CARSON CITY Nev AP) The financially troubled Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas plans to close in the next 60 to 90 days the state Gaming Commission was told Tuesday Richard Goeglein head of a transition team that will help run the hotel-casino in its final months said the move was ordered by Dunes owner Masao Nangaku under federal law the 1400 workers must either be given a 60-day notice of closure or 60 days pay Sumitomo Rank Ltd a Japanese bank that holds the mortgage on the Dunes loaned Nangaku 61577 million to buy the Dunes at a bankruptcy auction in 1987 The property has been losing 62 million a month and Nangaku still owes the bank $90 million Mirage Resorts Inc Chairman Steve Wynn announced earlier this month that he had signed an agreement to buy the Dunes from Nangaku Wynn is facing a Nov 23 deadline to exercise his option to buy the property As the 4ampalgn moved into Us final days all the vice presidential candidates were out cam- BllSGS: Traffic safety on mountain roads questioned Sharpshooter kills fugitive (From page Al) After answering repeated phone calls from tour bus 1vwnpamp Chau projected Ms losses alone could-reach 6306000 over the next year For the Chinese New Year period of Jan 23-25 as of 5 pm Tuesday cancellations had been received for 220 busloads of tourists most of them from Asia Several of the affected business owners joined forces at regular meeting of toe Mariposa County Board of Supervisors where Supervisor Art feet wide is able to negotiate toe roadway without crossing over the double-yellow line Cobb said Timing of toe enforcement after Mat announcement by Cattrans and Amtrak that Merced was hrtng made the hub for buses connecting with passenger train brought forth theories from several Merced businesses The denied by park rangers placed Fresro business leaders as pressing the Park Service to begin the crackdown at toe Highway 140 entrance because Highway 41 out of Fresno is much wider at toe park boundary wigg gaid all buses being used in toe Highway 140 Express route are less than 35 feet in length and easily able to negotiate the road without crossing the line dent Michael Finley The crackdown followed forwarding by Andrew to Finley of an analytic report of several serious crashes lung the narrow stretch of roadway constructed in 1926 by prison labor However John Foimiroo director of the state Office of Tourism said Finley in a telephone call to the capital refused to soften the enforcement Mike Lynch chief of staff for Rep Gary Condit D- Ceres said Ms office was starting a probe The hazards are caused by 8V4-footwide and 45f oot- long buses operating on a roadway tint at some points is slightly more than 9 feet wide said Rick Cobb an operations manager for Yoaemite Gray Lines Gray thw because it purchased buses tint are 8 for an impromptu hearing flnimty supervisors in the meeting reacted by ordering fyrty Administrative (Mice John Mo- (imunan to draft a protest letter to Park Superinten DURHAM NC AP) A man who escaped from a jail Tuesday took four people hostage at pinpoint at Duke University and held authorities at bay for two hours before a police sharpshooter fatally wounded him The hostages injured TV gunman fired several shots in the direction of police bystanders and a television camera from the fourth-floor window of Baker House part of the Duke Medical Center complex He threatened to shoot a hostage unless he was given a getaway vehicle and demanded that police leave the area He also was seen at the window holing a gun to a hostage's head witnesses said The standoff ended when a police marksman fired from a parking deck about 15 yards away and struck the gunman in the face police said The gunman identified by police -as Ricky Lamont Coffin 23 was taken to Duke Medical Center where he died in an operating joom said Deborah Simpkins a hospital spokeswoman Electricity: Family says utility poles are to blame for surges wia KAid an engineer will be sent out to inspc stove Lewis said an engineer will be sent out to inspect toe situation Possibly electricity to toe Friesen tame can be supplied away from toe 115J)dO-vdt lines he said But the Friesens are still worried know what it has done fa toe Bob Friesen said spend lots of nights tare not sure if going tote here in the On Tuesday they discovered Their refrigerator (tad This week a dumber and a dectridan will te-in-specting tte house Askfed why they more Bbb Friesen said kind of like it tare Jwt want to get electrocuted in the process i said sn set of God God might have sent tte rate but nrt tte (From page Al) water heater and the gas lines to the' The dectrkdtvtenitea awood pole it catches on fire' aome of the casualties from flat power surge Pat and faiia MwflinB Hm top wires onto toe bottom FYlescn JS9 said the first incident between surge which jumps toe safety valvra and pumps all time 64500 worth ofdamage Stageintoffir home the Friesena said She said tffi submitted elalmsb todnT PtooneTnot even utility officials has been able to pay a penny" TJe 1 insurance aaniain ihw tiiia ta nniy happening at the Friesens State Farm took care Of it The first Incident occuned about eight years ago "PGfcE is not paying for the josses Up Mart of The Friesens came hqpe to a flooded master bed- God PGftE is not an insurance-contyany lewis mm Alter gutting away part of a wall they finally said the leak'They tore up the bedroom floor to However he skid TVe do accept find the Wt of electricity tad burned toe ty to improve tta situation out there We dont want main this to happen The satellite dish in tte back yard also suffered Lewis tetoeytaof tote -JSim occurring at toe Friesen home although the Frie- tawwd Jm The UiMiPddSTZ Decco: V-9 -K -Z 4-A Daily 3: Three Five Eight Fantasy 13 20 24 26 27 aW 1.