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A-12 Friday, Feb. 28, 1997 Sentinel Third former Clinton official Hard-luck skater Jansen and wife will divorce SPEEDSKATER DAN JANSEN, the hard-luck Olympian who finally won a gold medal in the 1994 Winter Olympics, has filed for divorce spurns funding subpoena trom nis wiie, nouin. The split was "very sad for all of us, for Robin and me and our families," Jansen said in Milwaukee on Wednesday. The couple married in 1990. The Jansens were the center of attention at the 1994 Olympic Games in Norway when Jansen won the gold medal in the evfint and skated a vintnrv ill assigned to the Senate investigation.

Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, said Democrats would try to block such a vote until Republicans set a date to vote on campaign finance legislation. The $4.5 million budget that Thompson's panel has received for the fiscal year beginning Saturday does not include extra money for the campaign-finance investigation. Besides refusing document subpoenas, Middleton said in a statement that he would also invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege to resist demands to testify in any congressional hearings held by House and Senate committees. Middleton said that the allegation he had "improperly solicited a $15 million campaign contribution in Taiwan has proved to be false and my sole accuser has recanted his own accusation." pires tomorrow," Thompson said. "We need to resolve this next week.

We are going to run out of money." Committee Democrats met Thursday night but did not change their position that $1.8 million is enough, according to Sen. John Glenn, the ranking minority member of the panel. Glenn said Republicans got themselves in a bind by placing "the cart before the horse. We should have had the resources before we started issuing subpoenas." Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, filed a resolution Thursday night to finance the committee at $5.7 million, indicating he wants to bring the issue to a head with a vote on the Senate floor next week. Under the resolution, another $800,000 would come out of the FBI's budget for use of 25 agents who would be temporarily By JAMES ROWLEY The Associated Press WASHINGTON A third former Clinton administration official refused Thursday to give Congress documents subpoenaed for investigations of Democratic fund-raising claiming a Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.

The refusal by former White House aide Mark Middleton to turn over documents came as the head of the Senate probe warned that a stalemate over his budget must be resolved quickly or there will be no money for the investigation. Sen. Fred Thompson, has proposed a $6.5 million budget for the investigation by the Governmental Affairs Committee that he chairs. Democrats insist that $1.8 million is enough and have threatened a filibuster. "The investigative budget ex Thorpe's medals returned THE FAMILY of Jim Thorpe is getting back some medals taken away from him as an amateur athlete in 1913 and it's all because of a high school research project in Reserve, Wis.

Thorpe won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon during the 1912 Amateur Athletic Union national championships and the Olympic Games in Stockholm. That feat has never been duplicated. But Thorpe, who died in 1953, was stripped of the medals a year later because he had played semipro baseball in 1909 and 1910. Both the Olympics and AAU committees restored Thorpe's amateur standing. The Olympic medals were returned to his family in 1984.

But overlooked were the AAU medals, which qualified him for the Olympics.Three Colfax High School students in a history class project on American legends discovered the oversight last year. Jansen lap carrying his oldest daughter in his arms. The daughter is named for his sister, Jane Beres, who died of leukemia just hours before Jansen competed in the 500-meter race in the 1988 Olympics in Calgary. Jansen skated in the event as his sister had wanted him to do but fell before the finish. In the 1,000 meters four days later, he fell again.

Get ready for Miracles SMOKEY ROBINSON THE MIRACLES are back together for only the second time in 25 years. Robinson left the group in 1972 for a solo career. They reunited for a 1983 television special marking Motown's 25th anniversary. Wednesday, Robinson and the other surviving original Miracles Claudette Robinson, Bobby Rogers and Pete Moore gathered in New York City to tape "Ooh Baby Baby" and "The Tracks of My Tears," two of their biggest hits. The performance was to be part of the Rhythm Blues Foundation's Pioneer Awards ceremony Thursday night.

Smokers Quote of the day "It's a shame that one guy can ruin your experience. With one act of betrayal, he's finished me off." DAVID FISHIR, 1 traveler from New Zealand. Story begins, PageA2. From Sentinel wire services Pesticide 'California uses more methyl bromide than anywhere else in the Kert Davies, researcher tell them to quit." Barsi did say the law could be a burden on law enforcement. "It's just too bad people won't follow the law on their own," he said.

The FDA is counting on states to enforce the rule, but has a backup plan to do some direct enforcement if necessary. Undercover stings, which could snare retailers selling to minors, may be on the way. "Starting (today), this is the law everywhere," said Jim O'Hara, a spokesman for the FDA. "If we find that a retailer is not complying, we can take appropriate steps to help that retailer come into compliance wherever he or she lives." The FDA rule was approved last fall by President Clinton and is among several crackdowns the agency plans in the next few years. The FDA plans to establish a $4 million pilot program in 10 states to help fight youth smoking, said Catherine Lorraine, the FDA's director of policy development.

Despite prohibitions against youth tobacco sales in virtually every state, government and university surveys show that teen-age smoking is on the rise. More than one in every five 8th-graders now say they smoke regularly, a 50 percent increase from 1991, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA has set up a toll-free number 1-888-FDA-4KIDS for people to report vendors who violate the ban. An alliance of tobacco companies, advertising agencies and store owners is seeking a court injunction blocking the rules. William Osteen, the federal judge ruling on their request in Greensboro, N.C., said during oral arguments Feb.

10 that he would decide in 5-10 weeks. His decision, whichever way it goes, will be appealed in a legal battle that could reach the Supreme Court and may last years. Sentinel wire services contributed to this report. in a newspaper advertisement if they participate in the county's program. "In our program, all employees sign a pledge that they will card those who are under 30," she said.

Frank Nava, who runs California's $2 million tobacco-control program, said the state has done 2,000 compliance checks and levied $150,000 in fines over the last two years. The youth "buy rate" last year was 29 percent, he said, down from 37 percent in 1995. "We're very aggressive, but a lot more needs to be done," Nava said. "Any help the federal government wants to give us to augment what we're doing would certainly be welcomed." Other Santa Cruz County sellers of cigarettes contacted Thursday support the new federal law, as well. "We think it's a great idea," said Karen Yost, who manages the Cigarettes Cheaper store on Soquel Avenue in Santa Cruz, a store devoted to tobacco products.

"One of the priorities in selling cigarettes in this fashion is to keep them away from kids." She added that no one under 18 is even allowed in the store. Zarko Radich, who owns Jack's Cigar Store in Watsonville, said he's willing to play along with the new regulations, even if it is an inconvenience. "It's inconvenient for people who don't know about the law," he said. "I try with some people and they don't want to tell me when they were born. I say, 'It's not my fault you look "It would be better with less rules, but if you have to do it, you just do it." Jim Barsi of Barsi's Liquors in Watsonville said the new law won't be much of a problem for his store.

"We've been carding them for four years," he said. Barsi said he quit smoking five years ago and supports the regulation. "There's a lot of young people involved in smoking, a lot of young girls," he said. "I sell a lot of cigarettes to young girls and I talk to them all the time. I Continued from Page Al ing the habit to begin with.

"If people in their teen years can make it through without smoking, they're likely not to start," said Natasha Kowalski, a health educator for the Santa Cruz County Health Services tobacco education program. "It's a good thing to require checks of people under 27." While many retailers contacted Thursday favor the new legislation, others like Don Boucher, who manages the 7-Eleven store on Laurel Street in Santa Cruz, feels it's simply another government intrusion into his business. "It just makes it difficult on us," he said. "It's not like we don't care. We do take that responsibility seriously and we do card.

But it's an inconvenience for older people we wouldn't normally ask. I hope we don't make people mad for nothing." Boucher said he has signs posted in his store detailing the new regulation and warning patrons that ID may be required to buy cigarettes. Boucher thinks his store does its part to curb smoking anyway and doesn't need the government to tell him what to do. He added that because his store is located near Santa Cruz High School, his employees are warned not to sell to minors. "It seems that it is one of those things that when you allow the government to regulate it, they'll screw it up," he said.

As part of the program, the FDA will employ teen-agers to work undercover in sting operations. It is not known if this method of enforcement will occur in California, or when it may be implemented. Kowalski said her office has been working with retailers for three years on ways to curb teen smoking. She said that according to a local survey done three years ago, 66 percent of stores sold cigarettes to minors. That figure was reduced to 13 percent last year.

"The merchants are willing to work with us," she said. Participating stores are even recognized Continued from Page Al "I think it's unfortunate they're trying to muddle legitimate science," said Dave Riggs, executive director of the Strawberry Commission. "There's been an extremely thorough review of the studies involved. The EWG is going to discredit anything that disagrees with their findings; it can be the word of God and it's still not enough for them." The EWG report said state standards for exposure to methyl bromide are far higher than federal standards, particularly for outdoor exposure. "Californians can be exposed to 13.5 times more methyl bromide on their front porches than in their living rooms," the report said.

But DPR spokeswoman Veda Federighi said the EWG calculations use the federal standard for long-term exposure, such as someone living near a Superfund site, while state standards are based on the nature of pesticide applications single events of relatively short duration. "If a federal level were stricter, we'd have to follow it," Federighi said. EWG researcher Kert Davies said that Federighi's analysis was flawed. "It says it right in the rules it's a one-day standard," said Davies. "By saying that it applies to hazardous waste sites and not agricultural fields, they're effectively saying it's OK to live next to a hazardous waste site for just a little while." The EWG also said the state has used inappropriate weather scenarios in models that estimate pect technology." "It was a state-of-the-art technology 10 years ago, but it isn't anymore," said Davies.

Federighi said department studies account for any pesticides that filters fail to collect, and said no one in the department knows where the EWG came up with the numbers it cited. "The Environmental Working Group has once again taken isolated pieces of material and made them into something they are not, and at other times seems to have pulled other pieces out of the air," Federighi said. "I don't know if their intent was to mislead, or if they just don't know what they're talking about," she said. Davies called the department's reaction "defensive." "We disagree with the whole system, and in this report we've punched a lot of holes in their system," he said. "There's no way they can debate what we've written in this report.

It's from their own papers and their internal memos." Dan Pellissier, a spokesman for the state Environmental Protection Agency, said the state's regulation of methyl bromide is rigorous. "For them to accuse us of not being strict enough is laughable," Pellissier said. methyl bromide exposure. Using the wrong scenarios reduces the size of the buffer zone needed around treated fields by as much as a factor of 10, the EWG report said. Federighi said the DPR's exposure models account for weather changes.

The model uses a standard weather factor, she acknowledged, but makes allowances elsewhere for the uncertainty of weather. Davies disagreed. "That's a totally inappropriate way to do an airborne toxic assessment," he said. "Their method does not account for a worst-case scenario application on a still day or an extra warm day when the fields are dry. They're rounding off the edges of the risk situation." The report also accused the DPR of using a charcoal collection filter which, the EWG said, department scientists had criticized as inaccurate.

In a peer-reviewed paper published in 1992, DPR scientists reported that the filters fail to measure at least 50 percent of the methyl bromide actually present. But the department's risk assessment, which was used to establish state standards for the chemical's use, was done using the charcoal filter, which Davies called a "sus 30-day temperature range irm Thursdays Satellite photo taken at 2:33 p.m. pst 100 Forecast for noon, Friday, Feb. 28. g0 Itsmpsrctures I 70 ili I 101 -Ol 10s 20i 30 40 501 60s 70s 80i 90l 100s 110 Bands separate high temperature zones for the day.

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HearMiign pii X--'. jfl 1 waves. nr Northern Sierra Nevada IA -i Northern Sierra Nevada The World Temperature and weather conditions from midnight to midnight on previous day. HI Lo WlfH Amsterdam 48 35 cdy Athens 66 44 cdy Auckland 73 62 clr Bangkok 95 78 cdy Barbados 84 75 cdy Beiing 41 33 cdy Beirut 59 44 coy Berlin 42 32 cdy Budapest 51 39 cdy B'Aires 80 71 clr Cairo 69 46 clr Calgary 31 22 en Caracas 78 66 cdy Dublin 53 35 cdy Havana 84 71 clr Helsinki 37 32 cdy Hong Kong 73 64 dr Istanbul Jerusslem 51 35 Lime 78 69 clr Lisbon 68 50 clr London 53 41 cdy Madrid 68 44 dr Manila 87 68 cdy Mexico City 78 51 clr Montreal 41 33 cdy Moscow 39 35 rn Nairobi 84 55 clr New Delhi 78 53 clr Oslo 42 35 clr Paris 48 39 clr Rio 86 77 cdy Rome 51 37 cdy SsnJuan 80 73 cdy Singapore 86 75 clr Stockholm 42 33 cdy Tel Aviv 64 46 Tokyo 55 44 clr Vencouver 46 33 cdy Vienna 42 39 cdy Warsaw 53 42 cdy Zurich 44 35 sn The Nation Previous day's high and low as of 5 p.m. POT yesterday.

HI Lo Pre Otlk Ml Lo Pro Ot Albany.N.Y. 61 38 60 cdy Juneau 32 30 en Albuquerque 50 36 .01 en Kaneaa City 32 27 .06 clr Anchorage 32 30 .09 mta Les Vegee 54 52 clr Atlenie 71 53 .72 Little Rock 58 42 .10 cdy Atlantic City 73 46 .13 cdy Louisville 62 58 .19 cdy Austin 69 44 cdy Memphis 59 49 .80 cdy Baltimore 76 48 .02 clr Mismi Beech 92 75 cdy Billings 32 21 .01 sn Milwaukee 34 33 .26 cdy Bismarck 14 -3 sn Mpls-St Pout 32 25 sn Boise 46 33 .03 cdy Nashville 62 57 .41 cdy Boston 59 42 .17 cdy New Orleens 59 58 .58 rn Buffalo 63 36 1.02 cdy New York 73 45 .09 clr Burlington.Vt. 40 37 30 cdy Norfolk.Vo 82 67 rn Casper 41 19 sn North Plstte 36 15 sn Chrlstn.S 83 63 cdv Okla City 61 34 cdy Chrlstn.W Va. 74 56 cdy Omaha 29 22 sn Chrlrte.NC 71 46 .04 rn Philadelphia 74 45 .13 cdy Cheyenne 40 18 sn Phoenix 68 45 .18 rn Chicago 35 33 .36 cdy Pittsburgh 67 43 .02 cdy Cincinnati 60 62 .10 cdy Prllnd.Maine 42 39 .56 clr Cleveland 62 42 1 85 cdy Prtlnd.Ore 48 39 .24 cdy Columbus.Ohio 64 45 .08 cdy Providence 59 43 .06 cdy Concord.N H. 42 35 .28 clr Raleigh 82 50 .06 Dallas 67 38 clr Rapid City 47 21 sn Denver 47 20 an Reno 38 34 .28 cdy Des Moines 29 23 .02 rn Richmond 79 50 .04 cdy Detroit 51 37 1.07 cdy St Louie 39 .46 cdy Duluth 21 18 sn Selt Leke City 35 33 .30 cdy El Paso 82 41 cdy Sen Antonio 61 42 cdy Feirbanks 30 19 sn Santa Fa 45 28 sn Fargo 19 -3 sn Seattle 46 38 .11 Flagstaff 27 26 sn Shrveport 68 40 cdy Grand Rapids 39 33 .41 cdy Sioux Falls 23 1 1 sn Great Falls 27 26 clr Spokane 37 27 .01 clr Hartford Spglk) 61 43 .08 cdy Syracuse 60 39 .88 cdy Helena 29 26 .01 dr Tampa 84 69 cdy Honolulu 81 67 .23 me Topeke 36 25 .12 clr Houston 63 47 cdy Tucson 66 36 Indianapolis 48 46 1 35 cdy Tulsa 47 34 clr Jcksnville 85 62 cdy Wash.

DC 77 48 cdy Northwestern California Mostly sunny with increasing atternoon clouds. Wind to 20 mph. Highs 50s. Lows in the 40s. sunny with a lew high clouds.

Highs 50s. Lows 20s-30s. Northeastern California Mostly sunny with increasing tT 12iJt il.lMi i i Mnrnino valley log. otherwise d2m atternoon clouds. Hiohs 40s to aaaaiaj-aja-al Northeastern California Morning valley log.

otherwise Mostly sunny with increasing afternoon clouds. Highs 40s to 1 i i i iii a i i Mostly sunny. Locally breezy In I Mostly sunny. Locally breezy In 60. Lows teens to 30s.

Los Angeles area the afternoon. Highs 60s. Lows upper 40s. Southern Calif, coastal areas Areas of morning low clouds and fog. otherwise mostly sunny.

Highs 50s-60s. Lows 40s. i R-7i a i 7 Iv 8:01 2.4 2:42 D.m.: 3.3 Moonrlte Moontat San Francisco Bay Area Partly cloudy. Highs in the 60s. Winds to 25 mph.

Lows 40s. Sacramento Valley Mostly sunny. Highs to upper 60s. Lows 30s. Increasing clouds at night.

10:07 a.mj 2:33 a.m.; 4.8 4:11 p.m.; 3.2 9:26 a.m.; 1.1 9:06 p.m.; 2.7 Sunrise Sunset 6:40 a.m.; 6:02 p.m. 6I-0S rt- -f.

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