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Show I 'ASF- - A4 RiDAV. 1 AlGl SI 13. IW THE DAILY HERALD White GLOBAL ; BRIEFING Wolves kill another cow LOS ANGELES (AP) Mexican TUCSON, Ariz, (AP) gray wolves killed a cow within eastern Arizona's Apache National Forest, at least the second fatal attack on cat-ti- e this year, federal officials confirmed Thursday. The latest incident occurred within the territory of a pack of eight wolves, including five pups horn this spring, southeast of where biologists are rounding up members of a different pack for harassing livestock. The packs were among five released as part of a program intended to restore the wolves to the wilderness that was once their home. - CHICAGO (AP) Hundreds of downtown businesses, the Chicago Board of Trade and the federal courthouse were left without power for over an hour Thursday after a series of mechanical problems shut down A white supremacist charged with shooting five people at a Jewish community center told investigators he also killed a postal worker because he was not white and worked for the federal government, a prosecutor said Thursday. The account, based on an Filipino-America- REED SAXON The Associated Pirn Survivor: Mindy Finkelstein, 16, one of five people shot at the North Valley Jewish Community Center Tuesday reacts to a as question about her she was released from Kaiser Permanente Hospital Thursday. well-bein- Power outage hits Chicago saopiromniacnsl!: chaDSftril n alleged confession by Buford O. Furrow Jr., came after Los Angeles County prosecutors charged him with murder and five counts of attempted all filed as hate murder crimes. Federal prosecutors already had charged Furrow in the postman's slaying. The murder charges could bring the death penalty. After the charges were announced, a shackled and handcuffed Furrow was led into a federal courtroom for arraignment. Looking around at the crowd of mostly reporters, he smiled and said to his public defender, "They all like me." Chief Magistrate Judge Carolyn Turchin refused bail for Furrow, who has a history of mental problems and has had ties to hate groups in the Northwest. Furrow told investigators believed the postal employee, Joseph Santos Ileto, 39, was a good "target of opportunity" because he was not white and worked for the government, U.S. Attorney Alejandro Mayorkas said he Thursday. Furrow also told investigators that he thought Ileto was Hispanic or Asian. Ileto was shot "willfully,, deliberately, maliciously and with premeditation," 1 00.0(H) Gay ruling was is wondering rjNr PROVIDENCE, RI. (AP) Confusion has been sown among Boy Scout troops in some states over the organization's decision to let a gay Rhode Island teen remain in the Scouts despite a longstanding ban on homosexuals. The families FRESNO, Calif. (AP) of the 13 tomato pickers killed when their van slammed into a big rig on a narrow rural road filed a lawsuit Thursday, accusing the truck driver and two trucking companies of negligence. The complaint is one of the most aggressive legal actions ever taken to address the dangerous conditions workers endure on the way to the fields, an issue politicians and labor advocates have ignored for years, said their lawyer, Robert Perez. An average of 10 farmworkers die each year in traffic accidents, practically a summer ritual in farming areas in California and across the nation. Wagon train in Nevada A wagon DAYTON, Nev. (AP) train that left Kansas four months ago and made a brief stop in Provo in celebration of the California Gold Rush made its way through Virginia City and on Thursday was headed for Dayton, home of the first discovery of gold in Nevada. About. 20 core members have been making their way across the West as 2,300-mil- e part of the historic, California Gold Rush Wagon non-profi- t, Train. George Davidson, an attorney who has fought to protect the Scouts' right to ban homosexuals, argued Thursday the policy hasn't changed. O'fC Davidson said an excep- r'MT 4' tion in the Scouts' gay ban was made for the Rhode Island youth because he is because of icJ just a the circumstances in which 40 he admitted he is gay and his willingness to withdraw his " admission. But Davidson's remark could further cloud the issue, ,'7 J because it seems to leave the i Scouts without a clear-cu- t vjrIc national policy. A Rhode Island Scout r;. council, with the blessing of t obi national Scout leaders, on or. Tuesday issued a statement saying that "avowed homo- 'I.'V, sexuals" are not wanted in the Scouts. But the statement also suggested that Scouts who are covertly gay won't be pushed out. , The statement implies that the manner in which the Scouts learn a member is gay can supersede the organization's national ban on homosexuals. Scout officials in Oklahoma and Utah said .vof Thursday they don't know how the statement might apply to their councils. They are looking to the national organization for answers. Kay Godfrey, a spokesman for the Scouts' Great Salt i.ilLake Council in Utah, said the policy outlined in Rhode Island "is totally foreign" to r.iTi' .m.r him. "I've never heard of it and won't buy into it (being a policy) until I hear something from the national organiza' tion," he said. The national organization ICi' has not returned calls since f jV Rhode the Island hra t Narragansett Council issued the statement late Tuesday night. Davidson, an attorney for the Boy Scouts of America, argued the Scouts' policy on gays has not changed they IJ are still not welcome in the teen-age- r, I , f O m 7 JC'' J jI 7 r delays shuttle launch Farmworkers file lawsuit 'an:. has Scouts Secretary CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) NASA has delayed the launch of shuttle Endeavour so technicians can check its wiring to avoid problems similar those plaguing Columbia, NASA officials said Thursday. Endeavour was supposed to blast off Sept. 16 but now will not be launched earlier than October so technicians can remove radar equipment and check the shuttle's wiring. : . Action possible in spy case NASA ; Ileto was shot nine times in the chest and the back of the head, Mayorkas .n.jrr, said. ' i customers. WASHINGTON (AP) Energy Bill Richardson, citing a "total breakdown in the system," recommended disciplinary action Thursday against a senior official and two other employees of the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory because of failures in the China espionage investigation. Richardson did not identify the three, but said their "responsibilities were clear and that they failed to meet their responsibilities".in the investigation of alleged spying by a Los Alamos scientist, Wen Ho Lee. While the internal investigation also cited "systemic problems in the Energy Department's management of counterintelligence matters," no action was taken against any department headquarters officials. Nor were any former senior DOE officials singled out by name for criticism. i Toyota. Mayorkas said, in a quiet San Fernando Valley community about an hour after five people were wounded at the several t ransformers. Paul McCoy, vice president of Commonwealth Edison, said cables leading from two big transformers failed vQ4iesday night and Thursday morning at a substation just south of downtown, leaving 2,300 customers without electricity. A third transformer at the stat ion had failed Aug. 5. The utility is already under fire for an outage during July's brutal heat wave outage that affected about nearby North Valley Jewish Community Center. Furrow told investigators he saw Ileto standing in uniform next to his postal van and asked if Ileto would mail a letter for him. When he agreed, Furrow allegedly pulled out a gun and shot him twice. Ileto tried to run, and Furrow said he shot Dili' 'fU)P him in the back until Ileto UOV fell to the ground. Furrow i Jjn allegedly fled in a stolen irrlY DON RYANThe Associated Press Uncovered: John Kinman, from Kona, Hawaii, sits and goes over papers at the Willamettan nudist camp in Marcola, Ore., e Wednesday. Kinman, president of the Kona nudist camp, is in Marcola for the annual nudist convention at this secluded More more with and law are a this under brushes the and nudists the facility. lifestyle making siege, nearly 1,000 gathering this week in the Cascade foothills are spending much of their time strategizing a defense. 40-acr- Nudist greeted with cold shoulder government affairs division and a legal defense fund to stave off local and state ordiAt the nances that try to strip the MARCOLA, Ore. for hobby just a little too far. national convention "We've had laws that were American nudists, the brisk winds whistling through the so broad that we have had to naked volleyball games and step in at the legislature and topless horseshoe matches say, 'Do you realize that this weren't alone in casting a law would make the locker room at the YMCA illegal?'" chill. said Eric Schuttauf, coordinaMore and more brushes with the law are making this tor of government affairs. City laws that regulate the a lifestyle under siege, and the nearly 1,000 nudists consumption of alcohol at gathering this week in the strip clubs or keeps teens out of adult businesses leave Cascade foothills are spendnudist groups exposed to a ing much of their time stratewhole a defense. range of possible legal gizing wants to problems, Schuttauf said. "Every Bill "It doesn't play very well jump on us," Haller said as he floated when the family sits down on naked in the crystal-bluthe deck here for a tuna fish waters of the nudist resort sandwich and dad wants to have a light beer," he added, pool. "Back in the old days, no pointing to the lounge furnione seemed to care about us," ture where a he said. 'Now we're having to woman was stretched out with a good book. go to court to protect ourselves a lot more than we Cities such as San Diego used to." are also beginning to crack r The down on nudity in areas American Association for where it was once tolerated, Nude Recreation, based in such as Southern California's Kissimmee, Fla., now has a popular bare strip called By HANS GREIMEL The Associated Press e buck-nake- d 50,000-membe- are nature freaks or "Every wants to jump on us." do-good- er Bill Haller, nudist Black's Beach. After years of tolerating sunbathers in the buff, the city announced in June it would start enforcing a decades-olprohibition against nudity there. The AANR has even gone so far as to hire a Washington lobbyist, after Rep. Dave Weldon, sought to ban nude swimming and sunbathing at a remote beach along the Canaveral National Seashore. That effort last year failed. Then just last month, the lifestyle took another black eye when the FBI arrested the suspect in the murders of three sightseers at Yosemite National ' Park. They found their man Cary Stayner at a nudist colony near d Wilton, Calif. Members say the group focuses on wholesome fun for the whole family contrary to the stereotype that nudists free-stylin- g swingers. Nearly 92 percent of the participants are 35 or older, but even toddlers and teenagers come with parents to peel it off. Often, the lifestyle is passed down from generation to generation. To Linda Pace, the AANE's membership director, nudism feelis all about one's comfortable with ing body and learning to look beneath the veneer when judging someone else. Those values appeal to everyone self-estee- from factory workers, to corporate lawyers, she said, "It doesn't matter whether the color of your collar is blue or white, when you're not wearing one," she said. "We take off all those masks." d But even these nudists have their limit. As the unseasonably cold, temperatures moved die-har- " in and the skies turned slate-gramost of the delegates chose to shed their birthday suits in favor of sweatsuits. "We shed our clothes, not our common sense," Pace said. "Even nudists get cold." y, ; - c Scouts. But he also conceded exceptions can be made. vtPm. that i.q 1 |
