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Show MW)RLO A4 FRIDAY. OCTOBER 23. THE DAILY HI RALD GLOBAL BRIEFING Send overseas presents now and relatives overseas, the Postal Service urges. "Even in today's modern age some mail still travels by ship at surface rates," said postal consumer advocate Michael J. Shinay. Surface mail bound for Africa should be sent by Monday for Christmas delivery. For the Middle 5 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) tricks - A spec-- J tator got two days in jail for playing in Judge Nancy Coats' ', with a courtroom. The judge said she was startled ', when she saw the soaring I halfway to the ceiling Monday. I "It was like a bird flying in the I courtroom," she said. I She sent Charles Knost to jail for contempt for behavior I "totally inappropriate for a court- yo-y- o yo-y- o ', room." Knost, who was in the courtroom with a defendant, told the judge that he had just quit smoking and played with the yo-ywhen he got nervous. I I ', ! I o Set clocks back to standard WASHINGTON (AP) It's time for America to get back to the old j ; J standard. Standard time, that is. Remember the motto: Spring for-ward, fall back. Well, it's time to fall J back. J Set the clocks back an hour ' Saturday night. The official moment J is 2 a.m. Sunday, local time. J Exempt from the change are resi-dents of Arizona, Hawaii, the part of Indiana in the Eastern time zone, ! Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and American Samoa. J J J 1 2 killed in fighter crash MOUNTAIN HOME AIR FORCE Both crewmen BASE. Idaho (AP) ' were killed when their Air Force F- 15E Strike Eagle fighter crashed into 'the high desert of northern Nevada, Mountain Home Air Force Base con- firmed on Thursday. I I A Associated Press Writer spokeswoman said the identities of the pilot and crewman will not be released until their families are not- ified. The fighter attached to the 391st Fighter Squadron at Mountain Home was on a routine training mission late Wednesday when it went down near the border town of McDermitt, Nev about 80 air miles from the base in southwestern Idaho. NEW DELHI, India (AP) Two separate bus accidents have killed 40 ; people in India in the last two days, a I news agency reported. ' A bus hit an electric pole and I caught fire in southern India on ; Wednesday, killing at least 25 people J and injuring 12, Press Trust of India J news agency said. J ; Opponent missing in killing COOKE VI LLE, Tenn. (AP) - Ever ' since popular state Sen. Tommy Burks was found shot dead on his hog farm, his election opponent who changed his middle name to (Low ' Tax) has been missing. Late Thursday, Byron (Low Tax) Looper's lawyer said his client may ' soon be ready to talk to police about ; the killing. Lionel Barrett refused to comment on whether Looper has any knowl-edgabout the slaying of 6tate Sen. ) Tommy Burks, but confirmed he ( recently spoke to his client. He also ; declined to say where Looper has been staying since the killing Monday ' morning. ,' ', ', ' e 1 pairvassve Key elements of Mideast HEBRON, West Bank Pistol tucked neatly into the waistband of his tailored trousers, the Palestinian merchant weapons bemoaned the fact that handgun sales have been slow accord fall into place HSsJ That's partly because Yasser Arafat's Palestinian at Israel's insisAuthority tence has been trying to curb the spread of illegal arms. So this man's customers are leery of spending big money on an unlicensed gun that might wind up confiscated by being Palestinian police. But the main problem, the merchant said, is simple market saturation: Almost everyone in the Palestinian lands who wants a gun already has one. Illegal arms have been a key point of contention as Israel and the Palestinians struggle to reach a accord at U.S. brokered By BARRY SCHWEID Associated Press Writer n r;;l ikt'i ffkt t siY4jy MOT land-for-pea- talks at a retreat on grenade-launcher- s st l 'si I i'-- r sales. And the Palestinians have consistently demanded that disarming militants should work both ways: armed Jewish settlers, they say, pose a far greater threat to Palestinian civilians than vice versa. Settlers living in the West Bank and Gaza can easily obtain gun licenses. Many carry their weapons everywhere, and do not hesitate to use them when they feel threatened. A month ago, a settler shot Palestinian to a death and seriously wounded a second in the West Bank town of Beitunia. The settler said the youths stoned his car; witnesses said the boys were only walking home. dismisses Israel Palestinian complaints about armed settlers, pointing instead to repeated attacks against them. Two settlers were gunned Four WHARTON, Texas family members who were last seen leaving a wedding reception during a downpour over the weekend were found dead inside their car at the bottom creek of a murky, Thursday as the storm death toll in Texas climbed to 27. rain-swolle- n Justin Hartman, girlfriend, whose daughter and grandmother were among those who died in the car, fainted as workers pulled the Lincoln Town Car from the Salado Creek, where it was found in 10 to 12 feet of water. They were last seen Saturday night. A missing boy was also found dead. Floods have ravaged south and central Texas since the weekend, when as much as 2 deal. Still unresolved were U.S. a call for a timeout in Israeli settlement expansion on the West Bank and Gaza and the of a establishment Palestinian airport. Netanyahu, who had threatened to walk out on the talks Wednesday night, instead stayed on for the marathon negotiations with Arafat aimed at ending a stalemate in Mideast peacemaking. Under the agreement on the PLO covenant, the Palestine National Council, a de facto parliament, would assemble along with other Palestinian groups, Israeli KVAL AsstKMed Press and Palestinian sources said. The convocation would take Protest: A Jewish settler formal action to annul clauses unrolls a Torah scroll as he of the 1964 document th?t prays with others during a demonstration against promotes Israel's dismantling as a Jewish state. any Israeli troop withdrawal President Clinton wouftl from the West Bank. Left, the convocation, accordattend Clinton with meets President to the sources, who spolfe Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat ing condition of anonymity, on t at Wye River Conference center no was There immediate in Queenstown, Md., on confirmation from the White Thursday. Seated left to right in House or the U.S. summit background is Special hosts. Coordinator Dennis Ross, "We succeeded," a senior Senior Director for official told The Israeli Asian Affairs Bruce Riedel and Associated Press. Minutes translator Gamal Halel. later, Palestinian sources conVisitors are often shocked firmed the agreement on the covenant. by the sheer amount of fireNetanyuahu had made power on casual display in action of Israeli cities the streets by the Palestine National with Council a centersoldiers machine young shouleight-dafrom of the their piece summit, slung guns ders, settlers with pistols in declining to sign on to a furtheir belts. Even Israeli law- ther Israeli withdrawal from makers can get a parliament-issuethe West Bank unless Arafat wish. if gun they yielded to his demand. o WAKSHAVSKY-'Ih- road-blockin- g IT' f I? J Mid-Ea- I) Near-Easter- n BAKBAHA KINNEY IheAssociai down in August as they patrolled the remote West Bank settlement of Itzhar, and another was slain in April in a dispute with Palestinian shepherds outside the settlement of Maon. "What's happening in the territories may sometimes remind you of the Wild West," 1 Press said Simha Landau, a criminologist on the law faculty at in Hebrew University Jerusalem. If the Palestinian lands are awash in weaponry, so is Israel. There's little question the gun culture is a major factor on both sides of the dividing line. Missing family discovered in car at bottom of creek By PAULINE ARRILLAGA Associated Press Writer QUEENSTOWN, Md. -With key elements of a Mideast accord falling into place, Israeli and Palestinian leaders tentatively agreed Thursday night on a procefor the dure revising Palestinian charter to eliminate calls for Israel's destruction, diplomatic sources said. The agreement, reached in the eighth day of summit talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, removed a major hurdle in reaching a land-for-peac- e Maryland's eastern shore. Israel makes much of the fact that its army regularly seizes- large amounts of ranging from weaponry to handguns being smuggled in from neighboring Jordan and Egypt, or stockpiled in caches in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestinian security officials, though, claim they get little credit for what has been a serious effort to clamp down on illegal weapons 40 die in bus accidents i m lately. East, the recommended mailing date is Oct. 30 for items traveling by ship. The country's name should be written in capital letters on the last line of the address. Nov. 1 is the recommended deadline for military mail heading overseas by surface transport. yo-y- o legal gaoinis it F-- 3 By LAURA KING - WASHINGTON (AP) Its time to send Christmas packages to friends Man in jail for PfelesUnbn lands, Dun 1 y d Olympic track star's death blamed on epileptic seizure feet of rain fell, and damage Anderson, who waved off reshas been put at $400 million. cuers for most of the day Twenty counties have been before leaving by boat late in declared federal disaster the afternoon. Floodwaters By LARRY GERBER Associated Press Writer areas, making them eligible were covering the front steps home before for aid. Gov. George W. Bush of her said five more counties Anderson relented, heeding An SANTA ANA, Calif. should be on the list. pleas from a friend. epileptic seizure caused the "I'm used to being alone," death of Olympic gold medal The Colorado River topped she said. "But I'm tired of sprinter Florence Griffith 47 feet Thursday, surpassing t record set in worrying." the Joyner as she slept last Streets dry 24 hours earli1991. The river was expected authorities said month, er became swamps as the Thursday, putting to rest to crest today at 48.5 feet. In Wharton, 55 miles river swelled, surprising rumors that drugs conof southwest Houston, those who failed to heed ear- tributed to her death. Lt. Frank Fitzpatrick, authorities took boats and lier warnings to flee. "This homestead down head of forensic sciences for Army trucks into the Colorado's floodwaters to here, I've never seen it like the sheriff's office, said toxithis before," said Demetria cology tests showed she had urge people to leave. "This area's continuing to Frazier, who escaped before taken abouFone tablet each the take on water and it probably dawn with her brother from of will all day long," Fire Chief the house they share when painkiller Tylenol and antihistamine David Copeland said as he water began seeping inside. Benadryl, but Wharton County, Texas' "there was nothing unusual stood on a dry spot of land across from a neighborhood leading rice producer, was reel- in terms of drugs." Her death refueled talk swallowed by the river. ing from the damage, though Some were stubborn, farmers already had harvested about possible drug use, which her family angrily Ira Mae their first crop of the season. including one-stor- y 46.1-foo- d over-the-count- J denied at her funeral. Dr. Barbara Zaias saifl Griffith Joyner had a "cavernous angioma" on the front left part of her brain, a condition found in about 25 percent of the population. ; Many people with the condition live their whole lives without knowing they have it, but in others it can cause headaches and seizures, she ! said. Dr. Richard Fukumoto, chief of forensics for the Orange County Sheriffs-Corone- r department, sai3 Griffith Joyner had apparently been lying on her stomacji and the seizure possibly caused her limbs to stiffen and turn her head to the right, where her breathin was constricted by covers anjl pillows. POOR |