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Show 'As III RSIMY, MM MHI R I. THE DAILY HERALD (www.heraldextra.com) Woman pulled from Turkey quake rubble WUNLD BRIERNQ Jury begins deliberating The jury in JASPER, Texas (AP) the case against the third white man iinvsted in the dragging death of a , black man began deliberating Wednesday after a prosecutor ridiculed , Shawn Allen Berry's claim that he was ,. just a horrified bystander. . j IVosecutor Pat Hardy disputed J Jerry's claim that he wasn't driving , i;when James Byrd Jr. was dragged behind a pickup truck down a country And Hardy said Berry knew exachis friends had in store for Byrd. what tly "If I sound blase about some of this, seri-- j ',. please don't think I'm not deadly , ijUis about this case," the prosecutor jury. "It's hard to K,told the ...keep from getting that way when you're lied to and it's easy to see." Berry, 24, could get the death penalty if convicted in the murder and Byrd, 49, was chained by the ;, ankles and dragged to pieces last year jn one of the nation's ghastliest racial in decades. primes 4, ,' j -- all-whi- Minister defrocked JTu GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) A United Methodist pastor who set off controversy three years ago by holding a lesbian wedding was defrocked Wednesday for officiating at a marriage of two men. The case against the Rev. Jimmy Creech was the second test of a United Methodist ban on homosexual marriage. A jury of 13 Nebraska ministers imposed the penalty after unanimously convicting Creech of violating church A defiant Creech, 55, predicted after the verdict that it would "widen the wound of the soul" of the law. church. Trump launches site ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) New York developer Donald Trump launched a campaign Web site Wednesday run by Gov. Jesse Ventura's Web master in another sign of their allegiance and Trump's presidential intentions. "Donald J. Trump may be the expebusinessman rienced, decisive can-dAmerica needs as president in the new millennium," the site reads. At the site, visitors can read about Trump's plan to eliminate the national debate or his background, make a donation or volunteer. Roger Stone, head of Trump's presidential exploratory committee, said the site "very definitely" was a sign that the developer would enter the race for the Reform Party presidential nomination. Phil Madsen, the creative force behind Ventura's Web site, said his Trump," an goal is to develop o www.donald-jtrump2000.co- "E-tea- online community. He performed a similar feat for Ventura, mobilizing 8,000 subscribers in the final days of the 1998 gubernatorial campaign. Kids favor TV NEW YORK (AP) The typical child between the ages of 2 and 18 consumes an average of 5.5 hours of media daily outside school, with television the clear favorite ahead of computers, video games, music and reading, according to a study released Wednesday. The Kaiser Family Foundation, an independent health care philanthropy, examined media usage by 3,000 children across the country between November 1998 and last April. The study breaks the total down as follows: 2 hours, 46 minutes of television; 49 minutes of computer games and other computer uses; 48 minutes of recorded music; 44 minutes of reading; and 39 minutes of radio. 5.5-ho- Missionaries accused MOSCOW (AP) Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Alexy II accused foreign missionaries on Wednesday of feeding psychedelic drugs to young people as a tool for winning converts, a news agency reported. Alexy II frequently speaks out against foreign missionaries in Russia, who he feels are winning souls from his traditional flock of followers. DUZCE, Turkey (AP) Four days after being buried in rubble by a devastating earthquake, a woman was pulled barely conscious from the remains of her apartment house Wednesday, even as rescuers prepared to end their search for survivors. Sefa Cebeci, 42, was buried 105 hours in a mountain of crumbled concrete that was once a Discovered by building. Israeli rescuers and ferried by helicopter to Istanbul, 130 miles to the west, she faced amputation of her crushed right arm and was fighting six-stor- y Lenny for her life. "Her condition is still critical due to kidney malfunction. We are doing our best," Dr. Emre Gorgun said by telefrom Istanbul's phone Cerrahpasa Hospital. Despite the miraculous rescue, search teams continued packing up, saying no one else is likely to have survived amid the rain and winter cold. Some 550 people were killed in the Nov. 12 quake. "The estimation is now that they can't find any more survivors," said Gilad Cohen, spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Ankara. "The work now is to take out bodies." He said an Israeli army medical team would stay. The last time shouts of "survivor" went up was on Saturday. Cebeci was the 22nd person pulled alive from the rubble. Twenty-on- e people in the complex perished, including her husband, whose body was found near hers only an hour before her rescue. "We knew we would find people under there. We didn't know if they would be alive or dead. It was just chance," said lator working with the Israeli team. Hungarians, Turks and Americans were among the volunteers digging through the ruins of Duzce, the town hardest hit when the 7.2 magnitude quake struck northwestern Turkey, killing 200 people in this town of 70,000 alone. In August, a 7.4 magni-tudquake that rocked the same region killed an estimated 17,000 people and weakened structures that went down with the latest e temblor. Late morning Wednesday, Hasan Aksu, a Turkish trans tan irons gmm: Hurricane bears down on more islands CHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) Hurricane Lenny battered St. Croix with its 150 mph winds Wednesday, damaging homes and hurling boats on to the shore. The monster storm then roared toward a string of Dutch and British islands. Just 5 mph shy of a Category 5, the highest hurricane rating, the storm's powerful winds killed at least four people from South America to the northeastern Caribbean. St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands bore the brunt of its fury as the eye passed on an course unusual 20 miles south just Wednesday afternoon. "My yard is completely flooded out, the telephone lines are whistling and the rain is beating against the house," said Anthony Lewis of Frederiksted, St. Croix's town. He said he spent the morning bailing water out of his house. Hundreds of tourists in the region were stranded as airlines canceled flights and airports closed. Feeding off the warm Caribbean waters, Lenny's winds strengthened to 150 mph Wednesday, making it a Category 4 hurricane capable of extreme damage. The storm loomed about 70 of St. miles southeast Maarten Wednesday night, drifting slowly but expected to head to the northeast, and the open Atlantic, later in the night. Hurricane winds extended 60 miles from its center and winds tropical storm-forcanother 185 miles. The eye was expected to pass close to the Dutch territories of St. Maarten, St. Eustatius, Saba and the British island of Anguilla. Wednesday morning a St. Maarten man was killed when the garden wall of his hillside home collapsed on him because the ground was saturated with rain hours before Lenny's arrival. Anguilla was drenched with inches of rain several Wednesday afternoon and its beaches were eroded by sea swells of up to 12 feet throughout the day with worse expected as Lenny neared. Lenny's lateness in the season and easterly path left even experienced observers agape. Hurricanes are rare in November and all such storm Ini Qui if Jj. ii Jfe elf - v rv- , LJ h f I west-to-ea- i - ft secon- d-largest east-northea- st e ii v&s . s i r LYNNE SLADKYThe Associated Braving the storm: A man walks his dog despite heavy rain from Hurricane Lenny Puerto Rico on Wednesday. generally travel in a westerly direction. "It's unheard of," said veteran meteorologist John Toohey on San Juan's WOSO-Aradio. "This is a event." The storm's first winds cut power and telephone service to many St. Croix homes. It ripped up trees and debris that blocked roads, kicked up dangerous waves that bat- tered the shore and carried a steady rain that flooded extensive areas hours before the main impact was expected. Police chief Novell Francis ordered people to stay home. The curfew is still in effect and we are enforcing it," he said. The Federal Emergency Management Agency sent medical teams ahead of the storm and its director, James Lee Witt, told reporters that damage assessors would fly in at first light Thursday. "Well be there, we'll be on the ground to help them," he promised. Battering waves smashed sea wall at over the Frederiksted, tore away the wooden fishermen's pier and a small part of the concrete Ann Abramson Pier where cruise ships dock. In Christiansted, St. Croix's main town, the boardwalk was submerged and winds tore part of the roof off the newly renovated King Christian Hotel. A curious tourist who went out to get a closer look at the high surf was swept away and clung to a rock outside a beach resort for more than an hour before divers rescued him, authorities said. A half dozen people suffered fractures and other injuries when they were hit by waves on St. Kitts concrete pier. Storm surges in Grenada swept away four houses, washed away asphalt in Press San Juan, roads, damaged runway lights at the airport and flooded roads and the business district. U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Charles Turnbull declared a state of emergency Tuesday night, installed a curfew to prevent looting and deployed the National Guard. He also asked President Clinton to declare St. Croix a disaster area, making it eligible for federal emergency funds. In San Juan, the Puerto Rican capital, a few motorists sped down highways usually choked with traffic and tooted their horns in delight after the storm passed. There was one fatality: a man who fell off a ladder he was using to board up windows against the storm. On Tuesday, Lenny passed south of Haiti and the Dominican Republic and was blamed for damage as far off as South America. h..,,.h.,iini ,J'i.,ii,.Atmiii. another aftershock struck the area. Mud 8 inches deep quivered like gelatin on the sidewalks when the temblor rolled through Duzce. Vendors selling sesame-coatepretzels struggled to keep the snacks stacked on their heads. Mark Lucas, a member of the U.S. team working in Duzce, said the Americans were considering wrapping up operations shortly. "We're willing to risk a life to save a life, but we're not willing to risk a life for a body," said Lucas, a volunteer firefighter from Fairfax, Va. d Woman critical after brick attack A NEW YORK (AP) Texan who moved to New York a year ago was fighting for her life Wednesday after a deranged man bashed her in the head with a brick in a random, unprovoked attack in the middle of the day near Grand Central busy Terminal. Nicole Barrett, 27, underwent brain surgery and lay in critical condition at Bellevue Hospital. Her parents arrived from Dallas and met briefly with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who said: fWe're praying that she makes it." Ms. Barrett, who was on her last day of work at the Taylor Grey temp agency, was returning to her Madison Avenue office after getting a haircut Tuesday afternoon when a man slammed a paving stone into the back of her head, muttered something and fled into the crowd on 42nd Street. "He just came out of the blue and assaulted her," Police Commissioner Howard Safir said. As Ms. Barrett collapsed in a pool of blood, several chased the bystanders attacker without success. Safir said the attacker may be a homeless man known to frequent the area. Giuliani announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the attacker. Police were offering a $1,000 reward. The attack was the latest of several random violent incidents this year in the city. In January, a woman was pushed to her death in front of a subway train by a released mental patient. Three months later, a man lost both his legs in a similar attack. And in June, a man was fatally stabbed outside his home by a mentally ill woman. Ms. Barrett had come to New York from Dallas a year ago, accompanying a friend who had landed a job in the city. The pair took an apartment in Queens, with Ms. Barrett commuting each day to ' her temp in job Manhattan. She had just landed a position as an office manager in Queens. The friend, Stacy McGlaun, said they had only recently felt their move was the right one. "The ironic thing is we were just starting to feel comfortable here," Ms. McGlaun said. "We were just starting to think New York wasn't as ' bad as people think." , full-tim- e i fir in (il, SjM. 1 |