| Show Standard-Examin- national er Saturday May 202000 3A Giuliani confirms decision to end race and put ‘health first! or NEW YORK - Battling pros- tate cancer and with his personal life in turmoil Mayor Rudolph Giuliani dropped out of the Sen--' ate race on Friday stunning the world and abruptly halt-ing an engrossing campaign against first lady Hillary Rodham ! Clinton The Republican mayor said he had agonized over the decision for days “Eve decided that what I should do is to put my health first and that this is not the right time for me to run for office” he said haltingly’ T stayed up last night - I don’t usually sleep ' much and I slept less last night -gping back and Jforth - what’s the right decision -- and I believe this is the right decision”-politica- l jje addad “You realize you a Superman and you are jusi a human being’ Giuliani 55 appeared uncharacteristically nervous and introspective as he made the announcement at a packed City Hall news conference He spoke in a softer less certain voice that he has adopted since announcing arate from his wife his knowledged relationship with that he had prostate cancer three weeks ago throwing his race against Clinton into question ' Giuliani said he expected to have the strength to carry out his duties as mayor but it was uncertain whether his ability to govern would be hurt by any political fallout from his decision to leave the Senate race or the turmoil in acan- other woman Clinton said she spoke with the mayor shortly after his announcement ' “I called him at the conclusion pf his announcement to wish him well to tell him that I knew this : was a difficult decision and I cer-hthat he personal life tainly hope and pray “I thank God that it gives mp'"’ will have a fill! and speedy another 18 months to be ry” she said ‘ Giuliani’s departure from the the mayor of New York City”' Giuliani said In his speech and' race propels Rep Ride Lazio a replies to reporters’ questions he relatively unknown Long Island never mentioned his plans to sep- - congressman to the top of a list ‘ is ‘ recov-real- ly 5 - of Republicans hoping to replace him in the battle for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan Among the others who might now mount a challenge for the Republican nomination are Rep Peter King also of Long Island The state GOP nominating convention is May 30 Giuliani’s decision caps an extraordinary 22 days for the mayor that started April 27 when he disclosed that he had treatable pros- tate cancer and was unsure whether he could Continue running for Senate A few days later when news papers began reporting sightings of him at late night dinners in the company of a woman who was not his wife the mayor acknowl- - edged that the woman Judith Nathan 45 was his “very good friend” v Next on May 10 Giuliani shocked the political establishment - and his wife television personality and actress Donna Hanover - by announcing that he was seeking a legal separation from her after 16 years of ‘ NH governor vetoes death penally repeal The Associated Press - CONCORD NH - The vetoed a bill Friday that would have repealed the death gov-em- or penalty something no state has done since the US Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976 The veto by Gov Jeanne Shaheen which was expected came a day after the Senate passed the measure 0 “Our statue is designed to make the carrying out of the 14-1- death penalty extraordinarily difficult” Shaheen said citing safe guards that include automatic appeals “There are some murders that are so brutal and heinous that the death penalty is the only appropriate penalty” she said She cited the 1997 case of loner Carl Drega who tracked down and killed a judge a man who tried to save her and two state troopers She noted that Drega’s property was extensively booby-trappe- d with explosives “de- signed to kill and maim countless people” “If Carl Drega had not been killed that day I believe an in dictment or capital murder would have been appropriate for his brutal murders” Shaheen said The Senate vote fell short of the 16 votes needed to override a House apveto The proved the repeal in March 3 also well short of the necessary for an override New Hampshire’s Legislature was just the second to vote to repeal the death penalty since the Supreme Court’s 1976 decision A repeal passed in 1979 by Nebraska lawmakers was vetoed The Legislature’s vote was largely symbolic No one is on death row in New Hampshire and hasn’t executed anybody in 61 years It had the lowest murder rate in the nation in 1998 In vetoing the bill Shaheen brushed ofT appeals from former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalyn and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu “As you know there is no evidence that the death penalty deters heinous crimes” the Carters cold-blood- 400-memb- er 191-16- two-thir- ds wrote New computer virus not spreading as fast as first The Associated Press The FBI NEW YORK launched a hunt Friday for the author of a new computer virus that’ is sneakier and pore de- structive than the “Love Bug” tlfat infected millions of machines around the world two -- weeks ago The new virus called “New-Love- ” penetrated thousands of computers around the globe Thursday and Friday causing them to crash But it didn’t spread with the lightning speed of the Love Bug because many companies employed safeguards that had been put in place against the Love Bug “In this perspective Love Bug a very positive wake-u- p call” said Gene Hodges at the software company Network Associates Inc in Santa Clara was Calif In Washington the FBI opened an investigation The two viruses are similar But and both spread via ail the Love Bug was given away by the “ILOVEYOU” subject line that carried it of the while NewLove changes subject lines every time it is sent t “This makes the virus more difficult for users and programs to detect” Attorney General Janet Reno said NewLove is also more destructive because it erases almost all files on a computer it infects and causes it to crash The Love Bug targeted only a few files “Two weeks ago we all got some love mail Today we’re getting hate mail This is a very nasty one” Said Simon Perry at software company Computer Associates International Inc in Islandia Estimates of the damage caused by the Love Bug range up to 510 billion mostly in lost work time The NewLove virus is expected to total much less US companies were quick to take protective measures a marked difference from their reaction to the spread of the “Love i Bug” anti-vir- us Columbine to graduate nine wounded in assault Tf Associated Press - LITTLETON Colo Columbine High senior Richard Castal-d- o is ready to move on “Man there were a couple of good times But I’m just glad it’s over” said Castaldo one of nine Columbine High seniors wounded in last year’s attack who are scheduled to receive diplomas today during commencement Classmate Pat Ireland whose rescue from a window of the school library was shown on national television and Anne-MaHochhalter who was paralyzed as a result of her wounds also will graduate Three students killed in the attack Cassie Bemall Corey and Rachel Scott would have graduated this year ne De-Pobt- er The ceremony at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater is closed to the public at the request of students and teachers said Jefferson County School District officials In all 435 students will receive degrees “I feel Lke it’s a big accomplishment that I’m even able to accept my diploma because I came so close to not being here It’s a warm fuzzy feeling I get inside" Hochhalter told The Den ver Post The ceremony will mark the end of another tragic year at Columbine In October Hochhalter’s mother Carla Hochhalter asked to see a gun at a pawn shop loaded it on the spot and used it to kill herself Relatives said that she suffered from depression and that the massacre and her daughter’s grave injuries were more than she could handle In February Nicholas Kunsel-ma- n 15 and his girlfriend Stephanie Hart Grizzell 16 were shot to death in a sandwich shop near the school The case remains unsolved Just a week after marking the first anniversary of the attack Columbine basketball star Greg Barnes hanged himself Barnes had witnessed the fatal shooting of teacher Dave Sanders and lost a friend Matthew Kechter in the school rampage that left IS dead including the two student gun- men In a statement parents Mark and Judy Barnes said their son was depressed by the end of basketball season and the anniversary of the bloodbath Tampa blaze accidentally set officials say V? V l The Associated Press TAMPA Fla - A fire caused by a construction accident destroyed a $30 million luxury apartment complex and a post office Friday in historic Ybor City HUGE BLAZE: Construction workers (above) watch as heavy flames shoot from the site of a luxury apartment project that was under construction in Tampa’s historic “There’s nothing left" said Tampa Mayor Dick Greco “Just bits and pieces of steel and smoldering nothing Gone” Fire Capt Bill Wade said officials believe the fire started wheu a forklift hoisting building materials at the complex snagged a power line Construction worker Rolando Contreras said the wire whip through the air shooting out fireballs the size of basketballs The fire hit hard at what was to be one of the gems in the redevelopment of the old section of Tampa' east of downit detown The Park at Ybor City a velopment was scheduled to open at the end " ' of the year The fire also came at a time when the city was on edge from a string of arson fires in parts of Ybor City and neighboring Tampa Ybor City Fla Fnday (Left) Firefighters arrive -making on the scene of the roanng fire 454-un- The Associated Pres Heights ' Five firefighters and a postal worker were injured although none seriously “The heat was so bad it was blowing you back” said Kara Hannar a letter earner at the post office just a few hundred feet from where the fire started San Francisco race drawing more runners without a stitch the did San Franasoo Examner - It’s SAN FRANCISCO the only time you can suut buck naked for miles across San Francisco and not find yourself wearing jailhouse orange at the end of the day The annual Examiner Bay to Breakers run which will be beld Sunday is famous ’round the world for the goofy costumes its participants wear But each year a growing number of the race's runners shed their costumes and hit the road wearing nothing more than running shoes socks and maybe a baseball cap Nude runners come from as far away as Australia and Algeria or as close as Berkeley and Burlingame to participate in the race that stretches 7 miles from one side of the city to the other 80000-plu-s Some runners have said that the Bay to Breakers provided them first nude public experience “Running nude and unpunished across 8 miles through the streets of a major city was something I had to try” said Mike Mannaci in a posting on a Web site devoted to nude running For 364 days of the year public nudity in San Francisco is against the law But on race day police tend to look the other way jock straps or thongs But in an increasing number of men and women began jogging bare or even painting decorations on their naked bodies “Public nudity is against the But when you're keeping of 80000 runners and another 50000 people watching them we have other things to worry about first" said police spokesman Sherman Ackerson About 25 years ago folks began showing up in the race in the barest of essentials often in Web site devoted to the “Bare2Breakers” race The group responsible for the Web site for years has given hats to nude runners and on Sunday also will give to all naked - or not law track mid-198- Some guys have gone naked except for a rubber mask over their faces The masks of presidents have been popular especially Nixon Reagan and Clinton (but Elvis is still king) The idea of running the Bay to Breakers in the buff has become so popular that there is a finishers not include a real name Estimates put the number of nude runners in recent years from 100 to 300 (Shoes socks and fanny packs don’t count as clothing on Bay to Breakers day) Most clothed runners take the show of skin in stnde Few complaints have been received by city officials or race organizers But one nasty letter last year got Mayor W'llhe Brown’s atten-no- n “My daughter was shocked when as the race got under way a big percentage of the participants had NO CLOTHES ON" Cleo Clancey of Garden Valley “It gives us something to Idaho wrote “She said borne" wrote one partici- - third of the runners were in this one-we- ar pant in an Internet posting that state of nakedness" - |
