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Show TH·E NATION In Iowa, television is a blur of ads U.S .. DIGEST SHOOTING ERUPTS AMONG RIVAL TEXAN GANGS AT PARTIES IN SAME COMPLEX: A disagreement between two rival gangs escalated into gunfire at an apartment complex early yesterday in Pasadena, wounding 16 people.Eight people were hospitalized, including two 19-year-olds in critical condition . The others were treated and released from hospitals.The wounded members of the Pasadena Homies and Latin Kings ranged in age from 14 to 22. Nine were male and seven female. .-...~~~~BRONZE MEMORIAL TO OKLAHOMA BOMBING VICTIMS UNVEILED: As she pulled the canvas off a 7-foot bronze sculpture of a boy gazing toward heaven, Jannie Coverdale nodded in satisfaction Saturday at the memorial to the children killed in the Oklahoma City bombing. 11As long as I know people haven't forgotten our children, it helps," said Coverdale, whose two grandsons were killed in tµe April 19 explosion. REPORT SAYS CIA OFFICER MAY HAVE HELPED SUSPECTED TERRORISTS ENTER U.S.: A former CIA officer who helped a source secure U.S. visas in re.t um for inside information on an Egyptian terror network may have helped suspected terrorists enter the United States, the Los Angeles Times reported. The unidentified agent, who used the name Robert Cleare while working in Cairo, was assigned to penetrate the organization of Sheik Omar AbdelRahman in the 1980s. Abdel-Rahman was sentenced' to life in prison last month in New York for conspiring to bomb the United Nations, FBI offices, two tunnels and a bridge in an effort to force a change in U.S. policies in the Middle East. DES MOINES (AP) - Not even late-night Des Moines caie with her husband: "Please, reruns are safe from Steve and Bob and Pat and please, let it end soon." Phil and Lamar and Dick right now in Iowa. It will after tonight's caucuses. But there' s lots of TV to go before then, and the candidates Sam and Diane and the gang at "Cheers" had are busy filling it. just met Carla's new boyfriend late Satu rday when Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole popped So much regular ad time is taken, in fact, that on screen, wearing a windbreaker and talking to Forbes instead bought half-hour chunks this farmers . weekend to talk about his past and his plans. The half-hour segment aired at 5:30 a.m., 8:30 Minutes later, it was a stark black and white shot of a woman carrying groceries and worried a.m. and noon on Sunday in Des Moines, sandwiched around news shows . about welfare. " Do you really know Steve Forbes?" the ad asked. " More liberal than you Forbes didn't neglect his shorter ads, either. think." By 8 a.m. Sunday on On the next NBC, both Forbes and former Tennessee Gov. commercial break, the Coke deliveryman tried Lamar Alexander had to sneak a Pepsi from a run ads criticizing Washington politicians case. Then it was and other insiders. Forbes on screen with a At 8: 15 a.m . on the picture of former same channel, Indiana President Reagan: " Our Sen. Dick Lugar told best days are ahead," Iowans, " Take a stand Forbes said. Back to Cheers. Then: against negative ads." "Do You Really Know :;ii At 8:42, Pat Buchanan Steve Forbes?" Tum to promised not to send another station and American jobs overseas. At 8:43 a. m., seconds later, "Do You Really Know Steve Dole was in his Forbes?" Satellite uplink trucks Lipe Keo Way loll yes .....:te::.r_d..; ay :...-- windbreaker again, Buffeted by a in downtown Des Moines in preparation for talking to farmers. seemingly never-ending Monday's caucases around the state. At 9 a.m., Lugar was stream of GOP back on negative ads. presidential ads, Iowans can hardly wait to "get At 9:01 , Texas Sen. Phil Gramm walked his dog and said he believed in an America with less back to dog food again," Des Moines Register editor Dennis Ryerson joked yesterday on government. NBC's "Meet the Press." • Switch over to a Top Gun rerun to escape? Echoed Loma Haynes, eating at a downtown Forbes beat you there, talking about the flat tax. ~2;;;;:.i.i~iiii THE WORLD WORLD DIGEST PERES TO ANNOUNCE EARLY ELECTIONS, NO DATE SET: Prime Minister Shimon Peres, riding a wave of popular support, announced yesterday that he would dissolve parliament and call early elections. "I have decided to bring up the elections and hold them at the earliest date permissible by law," Peres told a news conference. Election Shimon Peres dates under consideration are May 21, May 28 and June 4, officials said. The vote was initially scheduled for October. Peres urged the opposition to conduct a "restrained," non-violent campaign that will prove to the world that Israel "has returned to itself" after the shock of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination three months ago. JAPANESE RESCUERS GEAR UP FOR NEXT ATTEMPT TO DISLODGE BOULDER: Rescuers blasted the side of a mountain with dynamite yesterday in an attempt to reach some 20 people trapped in a collapsed highway tunnel at Furubira, but the explosion failed to dislodge the boulder, about the size of a 20-story office building. Hopes were fading late last night, more than 36 hours after the accident, that anyone would be found alive. Residents of this small, northern Japanese fishing village could only wait as rescuers prepared for a second blast attempt. BOMB ROCKS BAHRAIN HOTEL: A bomb exploded outside a luxury seafront hotel in Manama, Bahrain, on yesterday and an Islamic organization claimed responsibility. Three people were reportedly injured. The blast followed weeks of antigovernment unrest in the Persian Gulf island-State, a financial hub in the region and a key U.S. Navy base. I Truth about Bosnia's · • war crimes emerges BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) A Bosnian Serb colonel defies the world to find proof that his comrades are guilty of systematic war crimes. "Let them come," he says. Is his dare based on a clean conscience? Or on a cocky hope that evidence of horrific mass killings will go undiscovered? The final truth has yet to emerge. It is like a ghastly jigsaw puzzle, coming together piece by piece. The numbers are dizzying perhaps tens of thousands of victims, buried in up to 300 mass graves across Bosnia. The hunt for evidence by the international war crimes tribunal and Bosnian government investigators is intensifying. Suspected mass graves are likely to be exhumed this spring. Tukic Sabahudin, a 19-year-old soldier in the B0s11ian government arm y, peers through a gaping hole in the wall of a secondary school in the separation line near the town of Gradacac yesterday. Bangladesh officer killed in gunfight with students CHITIAGO NG, Bangladesh (AP) - Student demonstrations against upcoming elections grew more violent yesterday, escalating into gun battles and rioting that killed a police officer and injured 100 people, officials said. Students exchanged gunfire with police in the southeastern port of Chittagong. Mohammad Basir, the third police officer killed in Bangladesh in a week, was trying to break up a protest by 500 students demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia. Basir suffered gunshot wounds during the gunfire and died in a hospital, colleagues said. Students smashed at least 50 vehicles and damaged several government offices in the city. Police arrested 300 people, mostly students. Thirty students were injured when police beat them with clubs, officials said. Nationwide strikes and protests have disabled Bangladesh for two years. The main opposition parties have threatened to thwart Thursday's voting if the prime minister does not step down and allow a neutral caretaker administration to supervise the next elections. In Sirajganj, 65 miles northwest of Dhaka, rival groups hurled stones at each others, injuring at least 70 people. They attacked and damaged several shops and vehicles, officials said. |