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Show WORLD Boaters, hikers MARINA DEL REY, Calif. Stuart Prince doesn't (AP) to demand Slobodan Milosevic's the largest outresignation burst of popular resentment against the autocratic nothing. And that could be a problem this weekend. The handheld satellite navigation devices in use all over the world could malfunction when the system resets its clocks as scheduled at 5 p.m. PDT Saturday. "I guess I'd just go east until I hit land," Prince, 39, said as he enjoyed a beer with a buddy on his docked boat and fiddled with his GPS receiver. "It's such a fantastic tool. Everyone is so dependent on it." Because of this possible glitch, the receivers may take longer to pinpoint a location, be off in their calculations or be unable to find a location, which is usually displayed on a map or in latitude and longitude. The reason for the problem Y2K-lik- e is that GPS receivers determine a location by using signals from three to 24 satellites. To account for variations in the Earth's orbit and rotation, they need the exact time, determined by counting the weeks since Jan. 5, 1980 up to 1,024. But GPS is reaching its maximum number of weeks, and time clocks on the locators are resetting to zero. Most receivers built since 1993 were designed to handle the rollover. Manufacturers have offered upgrades of older ones, but for the unprepared, GPS may turn into GRS Getting Rescued Saturday. GPS, originally designed for the military, has been used for at least a decade by aviators and boaters, who can easily become disoriented out in the n starting point in featureless terrain or bad weather. "VsfcTIS f ( )ri 1 v iiiiiK imTii mii ft ii 1 Shapovalyants also said industrial output would grow by up to 4 percent and that Russian exports would climb 6 percent in the next three years, according to the Interfax news agency. LyXr fit1 f t ; Yugoslavia (AP) Kosovo Albanian rebels rejected accusations they havy oivheM rated ongoing violence iu if ' ' PH1ST1NA. f s ' Kosovo and insisted Thursday that they have complied with a deadline U turn over weapons mm airnftiT iiiwhmi hiiiiimiii MIKK A PKTROVICThc Associalcd Prm No support: Demonstrators burn red torches in front of ihe Yugoslav Federai Parliament during an opposition rally in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Thursday. About 100,000 protesters chanting "resignations" and "Slobo go," rallied Thursday for Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's ouster in one of the biggest demonstrations in Yugoslavia. As the rally began in front of the domed Yugoslav Parliament building, a tear gas canister was hurled near the speakers' stand, triggering brief stampede. One man was carried from the scene, apparently injured. The rally continued despite the strong smell of tear gas. r The protest ended without other incidents as riot two-hou- police watched from inside the parliament building. Several opposition parties organized the rally, the first the capital in years. NATO bombing since the of Yugoslavia ended in June. They called for a transitional government of experts to replace Milosevic's regime. The emotional crowd carried banners reading "Slobo, Please Just Go" and "You Sold Out 78-da- y Serbia." They held placards reading "Resignations" and chanted "Slobo Go!" and "Red Bandits!" Authorities had launched a massive campaign against the rally, claiming it was intended as a celebration of President Clinton's birthday Thursday and in support of NATO's "occumeanpation" of Yugoslavia international the peacekeeping ing mission in Kosovo. Ivica Dacic, the spokesman for Milosevic's ruling Socialist Party, said he expected "nothing" to come of the rally because he claimed the opposition had no popular support. "People think of those who will speak at the rally the same way as they think of those who have bombarded Yugoslavia," Dacic said before the protest. WALLPAPER ' WAREHOUSE prnnnmv said Russia would spend $25 n and take in revenues of $32 billion in 2000, similar to figures for this year. According to Russia's 2000 draft budget, inflation is forecast at about 18 percent, while the average annual ruble rate will be 32 to the dollar. One dollar now sells for around 24.6 rubles. Russia's economy has been showing signs of at least superficial improvement since the economy plunged a year ago. HunterPouqlas "KID MIOOP and firebombs at the main Serbian Orthodox Church in the southwestern city of Djakovica, slightly wounding two Italian soldiers guarding it. In other attacks reported Thursday by NATO, a fire set in a Serb neighborhood of the capital, Pristina, spread to 20 houses on Wednesday before it was extinguished, while a uniformed KLA soldier was shot to death by a sniper outside the group's headquarters in that city. Ethnic violence persists in the presence of more than 40,000 NATO-lepeacekeepers who came June 12 after President Yugoslav Slobodan Milosevic accepted a peace deal to end his crackdown on ethnic Albanians. Most of the unrest has been revenge attacks on a dwindling Serb minority, prompting NATO and U.N. officials overseeing Kosovo to hint of a KLA role. Kosovo despite d OVER A 4 '1 000PATTE rlTT 1 RNSV FREE VSi , Yv ss 0REM - PR0V0 The predictions came as Finance Minister Mikhail Kasyanov ..unveiled the final budget draft for 2000. Kasyanov immm h ,. "LW. to grow 1.5 percent in 2000 Russia's MOSCOW (AP) 1.5 pershould by grow economy cent in 2000, Russia's economics i minister predicted Thursday. If the economy does grow, it would only be the second period of growth in the 1990s. In 1997, it grew by 0.8 percent. "The year 2000 may become a turning point in the economic development of Russia," said Economics Minister Andrei Shapovalyants. ty. to NATO peacekeepers. Kosovo The Liberation Army's statements came a day after attackers hurled grenades - Riiccian FnroractwawwMWM .mMww.... h fp v v (lb U flag-wavin- open. Now the devices are booming in the commercial market, often offered as a perk in luxury cars as a mapping device. Hikers use GPS to recall a favorite campsite or apply it trail of bread like a high-teccrumbs to get back to their f is ; Yugoslav president in years. The rally was a major test for the fragmented opposition in its efforts to unseat Milosevic, who has led his country into four disastrous wars that have left it in economic ruin. The people have stood up and will not sit back till the changes are made," opposition leader Zoran Djindjic told the g crowd. "Milosevic must go for Serbia to be free." "This time we'll go all the way. It's either him or us," said, giving the Djindjic Yugoslav president 15 days to resign before "the whole of Serbia will rise up." In an apparent attempt to keep people away, Belgrade police claimed Wednesday they had arrested a man with a "highly explosive device" and warned of possible bomb attacks at "massive public gatherings." The police statement was read several times on state-ruTV news, and parents were warned to keep their children inside during the planned rally. On Thursday, Serbian TV, under strict Milosevic control, also accused the United States of planning "terrorists actions" in Serbia, the main republic of Ptgt - propaganda, government 150,000 chanting demonstrators converged Thursday on Belgrade 30-fo- (- - Press BELGRADE, Yugoslavia Defying police intimidation and carry maps or charts when he sets sail off the Southern California coast. 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