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Show Page A2 - THE HERALD. Provo. Utah. Monday. March 1. 1993 Airdrops for Bosnia cht‘ASOsdeliveringaidtoBosriia do MtgoutotheinMainAier'n GermanyTheairdropis'nbndedbhelp100,000laisirnsineastemBosriaDrope are ntadefromhighathannorrrtalalitides.Tl'teaidslwld landoubirbtarmtareas andbeacoesibletomiousetinicgrwps. Kids adjusting after being trapped in blast By CATHERINE CROCKER Associated Press Writer NEW YORK — Five-year-old Sophronia Sallard moans and shakes in her sleep. Her classmate. Dena Ortiz. puts her hands over her ears and runs away when grownups start talking about “The Tower." The kindergartners were trapped for five hours iii an elevator in the World Trade Center after Friday‘s bomb blast. Now they 're back home playing video games. cuddling their favorite dolls and eating candy. Length: 1061t1tn.(3233m) Cargo capacity: 42.000 lbs for low velocrty airdrop Wingspan: 132 11.7 in. (40.41.71) Altitude: The normal altitude tor ‘°*°°° accurate air drops from a C-130 is 1.0001991.To avoid anti-aircraft fire, it has to fly at an altitude over 10.000 feet. 1,000 But their worlds were cruelly shaken by the explosion that ripped through the parking ga~ rage under the world-famous twin towers. Celenia Colon. also 5. has bounced back from the ordeal with a bright-eyed self-assurance that warms the heart of her mother. Maria. She's playing with her troll dolls and smiles happily. But she. too. seems confused and angry about what happened in that BOSNIAHERZEGOVINA pitch-black elevator. She talks about "getting in trouble" because her mother didn't come on the field trip. “She wanted me to go with her,“ Mrs. Colon explained Sun— day, as her daughter leaned close to her on the sofa in their small but tidy apartment in a housing project near Coney Island. The three girls were among 17 kindergartncrs from PS. 95 in Brooklyn who were trapped with their teacher. Anna-Marie Tesoriero, in the elevator Friday. A class of fifth graders from another Brooklyn school and several tourists were also with them. The 5-year-olds had visited the observation deck on one of the llO-story twin towers and were headed back down to the lobby at 12:18 p.m. when the elevator stopped, the lights went out and there was the smell of smoke. "You couldn't move. You couldn‘t see. You were in total pitch black." said Mrs. Tesoriero. Her little charges whimpered. utes later. making the coffin—like Some cried. Others called out for their mommies. Several threw up. There were complaints of stomach aches. A few. like Sophronia, had asthma. Some. like Celcnia. fell asleep on their coats. Much of the time. the little group sang. Mrs. Tesoriero and her assistant. India Fishon. led them in Barney’s the dinosaur's “I Love You" theme song. They also sang the Thanksgiving song “A Turkey Ran Away. " Sometimes they prayed: "Thank you for the food we eat. Thank you for the world so sweet. It grew hot in the elevator. The smell of smoke made it stuffy. The children worried out loud about seemingly little things that took on huge significance for them — like missing the bus that takes them home from school or losing their coats. their teacher said. Several hours after the start of their ordeal. the lights went on —only to go out again a few ‘min- darkness even harder to bear. Fi— nally. around 5:30 p.m. . the class heard the sound of voices and axes breaking through the ceiling ofthe elevator. Soon a flashlight shone on them. It was Fire Lt. James Sherwood and Lt. Michael Podolak of the Port Authority police. ' “The firemen saved us." said Celenia. “They picked me up and my shoe came off. And Mrs. Tesoriero and Miss Fishon said not to worry about my shoe. I was crying a little." Down on the ground. the children boarded a bus back to their school. where their families were waiting for them with hugs. kisses and lots oftears. Dena‘s mother. Shirley Perez. says her daughter still seems very troubled by the ordeal. “She won‘t watch TV. She doesn't want to talk about it. Normally she is in bed by 10. Now she has been staying up late and rising early." Court agrees to review sexual harassment case. APII-Iarltei Faith By RICHARD CARELLI Associated Press Writer AIRDROP: (Continued front Page Al) said he was confident “we were very. very accurate. " Alemka Lisinski of the UN. High Commissioner for Refugees in Zagreb. Croatia said the first run targeted only Cerska. warn residents to avoid falling packages. About 5.000 people have died of hunger and cold this winter in northern and eastern Bosnia. according to unconfirmed reports. More than 100.000 people have died or are missing since Bosnia‘s majority Muslims and Croats voted Feb. 29. 1992 to leave Yugoslavia and Bosnian Serbs revolted. Secretary of State Warren Christopher said on NBC that the airdrops “may last longer than a few days if we see that it's neces— sary.” He said they pose only mi— nor risks and "there is a greater risk deem the road if we do nothing." Each plane carried nearly 15.000 pounds of food and medicine. including thousands of military food rations. Loranger said each plane dropped 6.912 meals and medical kits for 5.000 people. "I felt real good about doing it. My heart kind of skipped a beat." the missions lead pilot. Capt. Peter Schweyher. told reporters today. He said sonte ground fire was seen in the distance but was not directed at the planes. Serb fighters are known to have shoulder-fired surface-to-air mis— siles. anti—aircraft guns and other weapons that US. military planners fear could be used against the C-l30s. Nenad Unukic. a radio operator in Zagreb. said officials in Cerska and two other encircled Muslim towns — Gorazde and Zepa told him by radio that by mid-morning no aid had been found. Gen. Ratko Mladic. commander of Serb forces in Bosnia. said aid was dropped over Cerska and some landed "where it was not intended.“ Asked whether it fell on the Serb side of the front line. Mladic said. “Something like that. " Fadil Heljic. a Zepa information official. said over hant radio. "Many people have watched the sky but nobody saw anything.” He said residents feared aid had drifted into Serb—held lands. or even over the Drina River into Serbia proper. “But we still hope that some of the medicine and food landed in some remote parts” of Bosnian government-held territory. Heljic said. Many of the advance leaflets dropped a day earlier also had not Meanwhile. in the Bosnian capibeen found. The leaflets were tal of Sarajevo. a UN. spokes— meant to explain the airdrop and man. Cmdr. Barry Frewer. said fighting was the worst since embattled government forces called a n O n l.l unilateral cease-fire Feb. 20. The following information is taken front the Wasatch Front air pollution report compiled by the Utah Division of Air Quality. The complete report is available by telephone at 1-800-228—5434. Air quality as of 8 a.nt. Monday was as follow s: Wood Burning Today is yellow in all Utah County areas. arid burning is discouraged. Also. the unnecessary use of motor vehicles is discouraged. to help reduce emissions. Residential Areas UTAH COUNTY ........ moderate Salt Lake County ........ moderate Weber County ............ moderate Downtown Areas PROVO .................... moderate Salt Lake ........ ’........... moderate Ogden ...................... moderate Overall \ir Clarity The air quality for today was moderate in all areas along the Wasatch Front. CLINTON: (Continued from Page Al) stimulus package is a $15 million pilot project to train community service leaders. the first stage of implementing the broader program. In an essay published Sunday in The New York Times. Clinton said "national service is an idea as old as America. ” In addition to the Peace Corps. he compared his plan to Lincoln‘s Homestead Act. which gave pioneers title to land they settled. Truman‘s GI Bill and the Peace Corps. Middle—class voters squeezed by skyrocketing college tuition costs rallied behind the proposal during North Provo ....co ..... 22 ..... good Lindon ..... pa ..... 85 ..... moderate Downtown Provo . .co. . .22 . . . good The Scale 050 good air: 51-100 moderate; BOMB: (Continued from Page Al) said they found traces ofnitrate. an ingredient in dynamite. at the blast site. A federal official. speaking on condition of anonymity. told The New York Times the bomb apparently consisted of 500 to 1.500 pounds of conventional dynamite and not plastic explosive. 101-199 unhealthful: 200—299 very gnhealthful: 300 and above haz- The Daily News. quoting an intelligence source it didn‘t identify. Iardous. reported today that the bomb was made of an inexpensive mixture of fertilizer and fuel oil. The combination of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil is known as ANFO and has been used commercially since Abbreviations 'co = carbon monoxrde .01 = ozone ‘ so = sulfurdioxide pa = particulates Note The Utah County residential area reading is taken from the Lin— don monitorin station. ~ The State 0 Utah has identified the following as primary sources of pollutants in Utah County: co = vehicles; oz 2 vehicles and gas vapo‘s: and pa = heavy industry. WASHINGTON — The Su— preme Court set the stage for a key ruling on sexual harassment on the job as it agreed today to decide whether workers who sue must prove they suffered “severe psychological injury. “ The justices said they will re— view the appeal of a Nashville. Tenn. woman who says her boss denteaned her verbally. and once jokingly suggested they go to a local motel to “negotiate your ‘tices. the court left intact a Michi~ raise. gan Supreme Court ruling that The lower courts threw out the threw out a $1 million judgment woman‘s lawsuit. saying she was against the Enquirer and News in merely offended. not psychologi- Battle Creek. cally scarred. by her boss' crude The Michigan court held that an conduct. article reporting the arrest of a rape The court‘s decision. expected suspect “was not materially false" in 1994. will clarify the definition even though the man was never of illegal sexual harassment. which formally charged. STANDOFF: (Continued from Page Al) At least 16 other ATF agents and three cult members. including Koresh. were injured. the ATF said. The assault came one day after the Waco Tribune-Herald began publishing a series on the cult. quoting former members as saying Koresh may have abused children of group members and claimed to have at least 15 wives. Authorities said about 75 people were at the compound. but Koresh said there were many more. including children ofall ages. The justices also decided whether to allow damage suits in federal court by people who say they were targets of malicious prosecution but were never jailed by the police. The court said it would consider Kevin Albright's argument that he be allowed to sue Macomb, Ill.. and a city police detective under a federal civil rights law for false charges. Killorin said the assault had been planned for several weeks. lot of babies these past two years. He said his agency had people It‘s true that I do have a lot of working undercover within the children and I do have a lot of sect and had been told some cult wives." In past interviews. Ko- members were being held against resh has denied he had more than their will. Authorities believe the cult got a phone tip as the agents one wife or two children. He told CNN he would release moved in, Killorin said. The ATF identified the dead two children each time KRLD broadcast a lengthy statement on agents as Steve Willis, 32. of his religious beliefs. The statement Houston; Robert J. Williams. 26. was played several times more of Little Rock; and Conway LaBleu. 30, and Todd McKeehan. through the night. Shortly before 2 am. today. a 28, both of New Orleans. The Branch Davidian sect woman who claimed to be Koresh's mother called KRLD and claims to be an offshoot of the said in a halting voice: “All I want Seventh-day Adventist Church. to say is I love you and God bless but that denomination has re— nounced any connection to the sect you." “There are a lot of children here.“ he told CNN. ”I’ve had a munity service peaks. the campaign. “Unless the mechanics are such The economic package Clinton unveiled earlier this month con- that we can’t implement the servtains the first money for the pro- ice program. which I don’t believe gram: $9.5 billion over the next is the case, I would expect us to be five years. starting at just $98 mil- well beyond what you would call a lion in the fiscal year that begins pilot program as soon as we imple— Oct. 1 and building to $3.4 billion ment it." he said. in the fiscal year the begins Oct. 1. In his national radio address Sat1997. urday. Clinton said the program Critics say government should not try to force service on youth in will give “hundreds of thousands a chance to pursue return for college aid. Some labor of students higher education. " unions worry that service jobs will “Everyone with the desire to take away public employee posiserve will have the opportunity and tions. Denying that the program was will meet social needs that for too falling short of his campaign prom- long have gone unaddressed.” he ises. Clinton said last month that it said. would take six years before the But the program he plans now number of young people choosing would cover up to 150,000 youths to repay their loans through com- a year at its peak. 1955. the News said. It "is not the signature of any one terror group." the News quoted the source as saying. Americans and foreigners were being sought by investigators for questioning. a senior law-enforcement official told the Times. Computer checks of license plate numbers. or partial numbers, recorded entering the garage on the day of the blast have provided some significant leads. Fox told the Times. Fox said witness accounts suggest a pattern of suspicious movements and irtdicatc that conspirators may have used more than one vehicle in the operation, the Times reported. One theory being investigated was whether terrorists from the Middle East planted the bomb to avenge Iraq's less to the United States and allied forces in the Persian Gulf War. the New York Post reported today. Determining what type of explo- More than 60 telephone calls from people claiming to represent everything from nationalists in the former Yugoslav republics to Colombian drug lords — have been received since the blast. Tapes from the calls will be analyzed for accents and other clues that might lead to those responsible. The explosion two floors underground was in a strategic location that knocked out power. communications and security systems. Port Authority executive direc- tor Stanley Brezcnoff told reporters Sunday that a study done in 1985-86 had recommended that parking lots underneath the World Trade Center be closed to the public because they were vulnerable to sive was used and how it was triggered will help investigators trace a bomb attack. its source. If it was a car bomb. Brezenoff said the recommendaauthorities will attempt to reconstruct the vehicle. just as they do tion was rejected because it was felt parking was needed for the when jetliners are bombed. “The work could take months. “ huge complex. But he said restricsaid James Fox. head of the FBI’s tions on parking would be reconsiNew York City office. “(But) we never give up. Whoever did this. dered now. A shaken city. meanwhile. we will catch them. even if it takes beefed up security at airports and at buildings public and private. 20 years.“ toward Ms. Harris. Her lawsuit said Hardy made sexual comments about her cloth— ing. asked her to retrieve coins from his front pockets, threw coins on the floor and asked her to bend down and retrieve them. and once told her. “You‘re a woman, what do you know?‘ ‘ ' Hardy also was accused of once saying to Ms. Harris. “Let’s go to the Holiday Inn to negotiate your raise. " but lower courts concluded that Ms. Harris knew the comment was meant as a joke and took it as such at the time. The court’s review of the standards for proving sexual harassment will focus on the case of Teresa Harris. who worked as a rental manager at Forklift Systems Inc. in Nashville for over two years Hardy did not deny most of the before she quit in October 1987. conduct alleged. She then sued Forklift‘s presi— “I believe that Hardy is a vulgar dent. Charles Hardy. over alleged man and denteans the female emsexual harassment. ployees at his workplace." U.S; Hardy repeatedly engaged in Magistrate Ken Sandidge III said what a federal judge said was when recommending in 1990 that “sex-based derogatory conduct,” Ms. Harris” suit be dismissed. ' ' or Koresh. The sect moved its base from Los Angeles in 1935. the year after it was formed in a dispute over interpretations of the Bible. “If the Bible is true. then I’m Christ." Koresh told the newspaper. “But so what? Look at 2,000 years ago. What's so great about being Christ? A man nailed to the cross. A man of sorrow acquainted with grief. You know, being Christ ain't nothing. ” F0T0 PASSPORT PHOTOS Top Quality 2 for $695 2250 N. UNIV. PKWY. - 377-7997 Built) wrath 1555 North Freedom Boulevard. PO. Box 717. Provo, Utah 84603-0717; .’ Eononl Information 313-6050 Facsimile 313-5489 Kirk Parkinson ....................... ............................. 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