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Show A4 SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1999 Hee Courtblocks EPA's tougher air quality requirements ‘ By H. JOSEF HEBERT Crying for mummy Associated Press Writer MANILA,Philippines (AP) — The 500-year-old mummified remains of a tribal folk hero were turned over Friday to a Philippine governor, who is still seeking the return of about 80 mummies stolen from the northern province. Gov. Raul Molintas of Benguet province said a short tribal prayer after National Museum officials presented him with the elaborately tattooed mummyofApo Annu, a revered leader. The mumnyywill be taken back to its burial cavein thevillage of WASHINGTON appeals court A blocked federal the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday from imposing tougher air quality requirements the agency are neededtoprotect people withrespiratory problems and children Theruling by a three-judge panel, acting on a lawsuit by a numberof industry groups, w: majordefeat for the Clinton admin ion, which has viewedtheair regulationsas oneofits top environmental accomplishments, Although the EPAsaidit will ask the Justice Department to appeal, the ruling halted any further enforce- scienceand weretoo costly. But two of The regulations imposed much ment of rules imposed in July 1997 that require states to dramatically reduce the amount of ozone,or smog, and microscopic soot they mayallow in theair. The administration is “deeply disappointed” by the ruling, said White House press secretary Joe Lockhart. “Wewill continue to do everything in our powerto ensure that the American people are adequately protected the three judges concluded the EPA tougher health standards for smog, failed to justify the pollution levels it causing ozone and opened the wayfor the first time for regulation of microscopic soot. The tighter standards put hundreds of counties in violation of federal air quality standards. selected as minimum requirements to protect public health. The agency “construed(sections of) the Clean Air Act so loosely as to render them unconstitutional delegations of legislative power,” wrote against ... harmful air pollutants.” Judges Douglas H. Ginsburg and Stephen F. Williams. Judge David S. Tatel, the other two judges in The three judges ofthe U.S, Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected claims by the industry groups that the regulations. were based on incomplete and poor decision, neverthele sued a strong dissent onthis key point. The EPA, in fact, used “reasonable explanations”for setting the standards it chose, wrote Tatel. broad array of industry groups, fromelectric utilities to trucking cory panies, vigorously fought the regula tions, arguing they would require costly pollution reductions while the health whojoined me of the benefits had yet to be shown. The EPA has argued that current ozone and soot standards do not protect certain segments of the population, including small children, the elderly and people; with respiratory ailments. Nabalicong next week. Residents who belong to a tribe called Kankanay believe its return willlift a curse that brought droughts, earthquakes and famineto their land after the What’s status p mummy was stolen. of Kosovo conflict? No morning-afterpill LITTLE ROCK,Ark. (AP) — WalMart, the nation’s largest retailer, hasdecided nottosell the morning- By ANNE GEARAN after pill at its 2,400 pharmacy coun- Associated Press Writer ters. Wal-Mart, with a largepartofits WASHINGTON — After more than seven weeks of bombing, NATOairstrikes in Yugoslaviaare intensifying daily. The military alliance has racked up tens thousands of _ sorties and dropped more than, 10,000 bombs. NATOleaders contend they are winning, but they also say the struggle to contain ethnic terror in the Serbian province of Kosovo could continue for many weeks to come. A look at Kosovo by the ‘/, numbers: Q: How manyforces are involved in the conflict and humanitarianefforts? : A: About 31,200U.S.forces, including 18,100 at land bases. customerbase in conservative, smalltown America, said Friday that the decision had nothing to do with ethi- cal concerns,Instead,it said it concluded that the emergency contraceptive might not sell well enough to makeit worth theeffort. Family planning advocatescriticized the move,saying that some women, particularly those in small towns where Wal-Mart haslittle competition, would havegreaterdifficulty finding the drug. Hollywood bucks for Clinton LOS ANGELES(AP) — Less than a week after complaining about too muchviolence coming out of Hollywood, President Clinton will attend a Hollywood fund-raiser this weekend to generateat least $2 million for congressional Democrats. Hollywood is in the middle of an often-partisan debate over how to respond — and whoto blame — for last month’s high school massacre in Littleton, Colo. Clinton’s attendancepoints to the influence the entertainment industry DARKOBANDIC The Associate: War games: Troops from the 82nd Airborne division move after disembarking from a Chinook helicopter, followinga live-fire light artillery exercise at the Rinas airbase on Tirana’s airport on Friday. U.S. light artillery units will support Apache helicopters’ attacks against Yugoslav military in neighboring Kosovo. Yugoslavia says bombs kill dozens enjoysin politics and its deep pockets comeelection time. Sears penalized CHICAGO(AP) — Sears, Roebuck & Co. has agreed to pay a $325,000 penaltyto settleallegationsit violated child labor laws by letting teen- of ethnic Albanian refugees and killed dozens claimed. Reporters were shown a devastatedscene of charred bodies, wrecked tractors and terrified survivors. In addition to paying thefine, the department store company agreed to audit its more than 800 major stores for problems each year. Extinct or not extinct WASHINGTON(AP) — Advances in genetic technologywill allow scien- tists to determine whethera fish alreadydeclared extinctisstill alive after all, a government scientist said Friday, Thebluepike, once Lake Erie’s most popular catch, was declared extinct in 1983, having been virtually wiped out by the late 1950s because ofover-fishing. But a closerelative, the walleye,is still around. Recently, a blue-colored fish closely resembling the blue pike started appearingin smaller lakesin Canada. Mother shoots children NASHVILLE,Tenn. (AP) — A womanwhosuffered hallucinations and thought everyone was out to get her shot her three children to death, thenkilled herself. Thebodies of the children, ages 4, 5 and7, were found on a bed ‘Thursday evening. Their mother, 28- year-old Tonya Avery, lay dead on the {floor nearby. All four had been killed ‘with shotgun blasts. Maj. Gen. Charles Wald said early the destruction depicted on SerbTV did not appear to be Friday, Yugoslav authorities gation found 227 children were work- King said Friday. the attack was with cluster bombs, but the Media Center later said laser-guided missiles hit the convoy. At the Pentagon, Air Force BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — NATO bombshit a convoy agers operate heavy machinery or work too manyhours. A US.Labor Departmentinvestiing at Searsin violation of child labor law, department spokeswoman Susan Serb TVinitially reported By CANDICE HUGHES — Associated Press the result of a cluster bomb Hesaid the TV images did not show impact marks on NATOsaidit was investi- the ground that bombs would cause. gating the claim, while the State Department urged skepticism on Serb reports that blamedtheallies for the attack on the Kosovo village of Korisa until the facts are known. Officials at NATO headquarters, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there AMEL EMRIC The AssociatedPress From their tent: Ethnic Albanian Kosovar refugee children of Bujanovac — from left to right, a sister and two brothers Aida, Imram and Ersan Selimi — wait for breakfast in their tent at was no immediateindication the Dragunja refugee center near Tuzla, Bosnia, on Friday. About 160 refugees, mostly from Kosovo, live in this tent city, According to the UN, there are about 18,500 refugees from Kosovo currently in Bosnia. that allied aircraft were involved. NATO conducted intensive attacks in the area, but theofficials noted Serb shelling near the village as well. ByFriday evening. 79 bodies hadbeenfound, the Serbrun Media Center in Kosovo reported, adding the toll couldrise as searches contin. ued. Sixty-one people were injured, it said. cluster Theethnic Albanians had emerged from weeks of hiding in woods and stopped overnight in thevillage near Prizren when the bombs struck, some survivorstold the scene by Serb authorities. An Associated Press Television News crew saw dozens ofbodies, including thoseoftwochildren, burned beyondrecognition andlying near two craters beside a road. Tornado victims ‘don’t want everyone’s scraps’ in Europe and 13,100 aboard'' ships in the area. NATO spokesmensaythey do not keep a similar tally for the other 18 allies. Q: What areallied loss- es? A: No U.S. or NATO mili tary personnelhavedied in combat, but a two-man U.S. crew died in the May 5 crash of an Apache helicopter dur- ' ing a trainingflight in Albania. On March31, Serb forces seized three U.S, servicemen whowerepart ofa regional peacekeeping forcein Macedonia. They werefreed | May2. An F-117AStealth fighter was shot down March27, and the American pilot was res- ;, cued. Other planes have been, damaged by Serb anti-air; craft fire, and a second Apachewaslost in a separate training accident. Its crew survived. Q: How many planes are’ involved? A: There are 645 US. planes and 277allied planes.’ In addition to the Air Force, ,- the U.S.contingent includes “4 planes from the Navy, Marine Corps and Army. Among them are the Air Force’s F-15E Strike Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, B-52 bomber, B-2 bomber and A-10 Thunderbolt; the Navy’s F-18 Hornet and F14 Tomcat; the Marines’ AV-8) Harrier jet and the Army's AH-64A Apacheattack helithe Salvation Army warns By RACHEL ZOLL could AssociatedPress Writer OKLAHOMA CITY — Stop sending used underwear. Please. And no more tweezers. “We have enough for the nation,” American Red Cross spokeswoman Elizabeth Quirk says And single shoes with no match? Thanks, but no thanks. People sending donations for the Oklahoma tornado victims are creating what become a “disaster within a disaster” by emptying their closets instead of opening their wallets. The destroyed thousands of homes. About 30 truckloads of don’t want everyone's scraps,” Salvation Army spokeswoman Kelly Drawdysays. “Getting used underwear — that’s a morale issue.” Thetwisters May 3killed 44 people in Oklahoma and five in Kansas and Catholic Charities disaster coordina- bat sortie is one flight by one and the Salvation Armyis tor. “We're not in the middle atreraft, escort planes as well of a desert. We're in the mid- as the planes that attack tar- struggling to find enough dle of an urban area in a help. well-settled state. If it’s not Insidethe bags ofclothes, volunteers have found worn here, we'll goto Dallas to buy ing suppl ue I Q: How manyflights about 200 volunteers a day, everything, they ing with clothes, furniture, food, diapers, toys and clean- say they need to see combat. The unloading requires money,not cast-offs. “When people have lost poor condition no one would want them. And even many copter. The Apaches have yet have theallies made? A: NATOplanes have made more than 20,000 sorties over Yugoslavia, of which about 14,000 were combat missions, with 5,000 actual bomb-droppingruns. A com- donations arrive daily at the Salvation Army arehouse here, where a space the size oftwo football fields is burst- relief agencies underwearanditems in such of the new items are not ential. ‘With . you can buy what is needed at the moment and you can buy only what you need,” says Bob Waldrop, it.” MPRA: Gey gets. Q: How many bombs and missiles have been used? A: About 10,000. |
