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Show Friday, March 20, 1998, THE DAILY HERALD. Provo, Huh I - nation after a particularly ' severe season. for 'The Centers Disease Control and Prevention said 27 states still had outbreaks of flu through March 7 after a peak of 46 states last month. Most people became ill from Type A flu, specifically a strain called Sydney that was not the same as the strain combated by this year's vaccine. "It was not an optimum match and the protection has notbeen as good as it could be,"isaid Dr. Keyi Fukuda of the CDC's flu branch. ' gfesssisn MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) j "We "don't cry wolf If it's a 'real threat, the announcement By PAULINE AP "ILL AG A Associated Press Writer ATLANTA (AP) The flu is loosening its grip on the Lawyer waste a , - If James Earl Ray doesn't want to die in prison; he should admit he killed Martin Luther King Jr. despite his claims of innocence, a prosecutor said taken to mitigate the threat." Last week, it appeared a group of astronomers, the Astronomical have resolved to make sure International they're right the next time they Union, had cried wolf when announce the sky might be they issued an alert saying that an asteroid would pass within falling. and At a meeting this week in 30,000 miles of Earth on Houston, 15 astronomers from might even collide with it around the country agreed to Thursday Oct. 26, 2028, around form a committee that will use 1:30 p.m. EST. citThe next day, Yeomans its combined expertise to calculate the risks to Earth when an, ing new data said the asterasteroid looks, like a threat. oid would pass no closer than "This group would be 600,000 miles and had no charged with assessing the , chance whatsoever of hitting threat and reaching a consen- the planet. sus and a clearer plan for definAll parties seem to agree ing the nature of the threat," that the gaffe could have been said Donald Yeomans, a scien- avoided had the International tist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Astronomical Union and NASA communicated earlier. Laboratory. HOUSTON A week after coming off like Chicken Little with a Pfjl.D., some astronomers , ,, . . M l is- A calculations based on all the data available at the time. In Marsden's 40 years of tracking asteroids, the space rock was the first with the potential of coming so close to the Earth. He Donald Yeomans, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said he decided to make an announcement to try to obtain additional data. "It's in our best interest to "Within a matter of a day or Eleanor Helin of the Jet to get harmonious again," two, the situation will become try said Brian Marsden, the distin- far more clear and it will either Propulsion Laboratory immediguished Harvard astronomer become a nonevent or some ately called Marsden and said who made the IAU calculations. appropriate announcement will that based upon his data, she Marsden and Yeomans were be made but not until this had found 1990 telescopic astronomers the who committee's had a chance to images of the asteroid that among met Tuesday at Houston and chew on it for a bit," Yeomans could be helpful. decided to form the peer review said. Using those pictures and The committee members recent observations, Helin's-groucommittee. calculated the asteroid's When an astronomer discov- have not yet been selected, but ers that an asteroid could they are likely to include both new position and forwarded the information to Marsden and threaten the Earth, the com- Marsden and Yeomans. Yeomans. mittee will review the data and Marsden admitted the entire her colleague, do its own calculations to asteroid episode "left a nasty Yeomans simply beat Marsden to the punch by releasing the determine how serious the taste in my mouth." is. threat Marsden said he made his information, she said. "We don't cry wolf. If it's a real threat, the announcement will be made and steps will be taken to mitigate the threat." lbses from Freemen bogus checks total $1.8 million IRS 'says Thursday. will be made and steps will be - Agent Loretta Rodriguez told a federal Jordan, in eastern Montana's "Big court jury. Open." Associated Press Writer She said the IRS received 413 of the Freemen followers sent the bogus checks totaling $215.2 million, and tax checks for amounts exceeding the Montana BILLINGS, Mont. in 20 states received 145 total- taxes they owed, sometimes by thouFreemen leaders authored 3,432 bogus agencies $324.6 million. She did not detail sands of dollars, and requested refunds ing checks totaling $15.5 billion against a losses to private businesses. plus interest at 18 percent, single nonexistent bank account during All the checks were signed by three Rodriguez said. their operation, an Internal top Freemen LeRoy M. Schweitzer, Only two of the six Freemen on trial, Revenue ;; Service investigatory said' Rodney O. Skurdal and Daniel E. Elwin Ward, 57, of Salt Lake City and ": Petersen, she said. Edwin Clark, 47, of Brusett, Mont., are Thursday. Losses to the swindle totaled $1.8 Federal investigators have said some implicated in the bogus check operation. million, including $29,000 in refunds 800 people paid to learn the Freemen's Clark is charged with bank fraud by that Freemen followers around the financial theories in classes at their trying to deposit a $100 million country bilked from the IRS, Special remote farm compound 30 miles outside Freeman financial instrument in the But a lawyer for Ray said that is out of the question. "James E,arl Ray will never admit to a crime he didn't commit," William Pepper said from his office in London. Ray, 70 pleaded guilty in 1969 to killing King in Memphis on April 4, 1968. He was sentenced to 99 years in prison and has been trying to take back the guilty plea ever Garfield County Bank in Jordan. Ward is charged with submitting a $282,634 check to pay $143,241 in back taxes, but it was not honored. Fourteen top Freemen are scheduled for trial starting May 26. The six defendants now on trial are charged primarily as accessories for helping others in the remote farm stronghold avoid arrest. The other defendants are Jon Barry Nelson, 42, of Marion, Kan., and Steven C. Hance, 48, and sons James E. Hance, 25, and John R. Hance, 21, all' of' T Charlotte, N.C. , By TOM LACEKY th since. Page A5 ' Citiss economic fores WASHINGTON (AP) Move over, Mexico. If the New York City metropolitan area were a country, its production of goods and services would outstrip all but 15 nations, according to a study released Thursday by city and county leaders. Iri town seeking increased transportation money from Congress, members of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National Association of Counties released H report con- tending that metropolitan areas are the engine that drives the nation's economy. Among the findings,: Metropolitan areas produce more than 80 percent of America's employment, income and goods production. 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