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I hi ower still unavailable to many due to storm Astronauts say Experience good SPACE CENTER, Houston Endeavour's spacewalk-er- s said today that their successes jduring two excursions into the jshuttie cargo bay this week show that i astronauts are ready to become celestial construction ! J(AP1 Iworkers. Astronauts Leroy Chiao, Daniel Barry and Winston Scott ventured outside for a pair of two-ma- n on Monday and j space walks (Wednesday to test tools and techniques for building an internation- al Space station in a few years, i The three spent a total of 13 jhotjfs in the cargo bay, laying work j cable, building a portable "platform and trying out clamps, i connectors and brackets. Nearly 'every task and tool got a good review. j ; ' Former student.'-- ' Isues Nobel poet I ft'-- , BOSTON (AP) A woman is g suing Nobel poet I and playwright Derek Walcott, saying he threatened to give her a j failing grade unless she had sex i with him while she was a student ! at Boston University. ! Prize-winnin- Nicole Niemi, of St. Paul, j Minn., withdrew from the univer- sity's play writing program in 1994 of the alleged sexual j because advances, her lawsuit says, i Walcott, 66, won the Nobel ! Prize for Literature in 1992. He J could not be reached for comment at his home in St. Lucia, the j Boston Herald reported today. Larry Elswit, a lawyer for the " university, called Niemi a "frus--trate- d playwright" out to punish Walcott for not producing her j ! of blindfold rape -- ' NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The "Fantasy Man" faces up to 30 years in prison after a' jury convicted him of tricking -- so-call- ed women into having sex blindfolded by telling each one he was her boyfriend. Businessman Raymond III, 45, was convicted ilfbursday of rape by fraud and $ttetnpted rape by fraud. He is to t.jfcbsj?, sentenced in March. The jjciciihc imu uuimcu uic sca was Mitchell consensual. said Mitchell .Prosecutors called hundreds of women over 'fte.years, most of whom hung up Of the 30 women who jiljpjjrted Fantasy Man encounters police, eight said they had sex gOsj-Jjim- . . jwtH the caller. One woman has said she had with Fantasy Man twice a If&eek over two months in 1992 Jtfecause she thought he was her i$yfr'end- She said she discovered toe wasn't when her blindfold it sex. ' - By The Associated Press A blast of Arctic air and stinging wind swept across the Plains into the Midwest and South today, sending the temperature plummeting nearly 60 degrees , overnight. The storm dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas and knocked out power to thousands. ' Cities that saw record high temperatures on Thursday woke up to a deep freeze today. Moline, 111., fell to 2 degrees below zero, a drop; Chicago went from 61 degrees on Thursday to 10 today, with a wind chili reading of 21 degrees below zero! Indianapolis was 61 degrees on Thursday, and 4 degrees this ee morning. North Georgia saw temperatures fall from the 60s into the 20s. Ahead of the storm to the East, the mild weather lingered, melt- ing snow and sending rivers spilling over their banks. In the West, snow, ice and high winds delayed some flights and caused numerous traffic accidents. In North Dakota, 20 inches of snow fell in Wahpeton on 'Action tabled on pining policies affirmative action fight that jjWTude it back onto the agenda of University California regents did-n- Jfie, "t stay there long. Six months after voting to drop .affirmative action in hiring and Admissions, the regents postponed paction Thursday on a proposal to ""restore race and gender consider- V today. At least four deaths were blamed on the storm in Minnesota, which had the nation's low temperature of 44 degrees below zero, at Fosston. Morris, Minn., recorded a wind chill reading of 76 degrees below. Snowplows broke down when their heaters iwwf""MiTclLr jfafc' plum ."'' ' ", ,, mt 4,f ; tyw burned out. in rural Visibility was so poor AP Photo Clay County, N.D., that snow-plow- s were pulled off the roads, This road in Kearney, Neb., runs in front of the tures. The road was blocked by cars that could' highway department superintenhigh school where 300 students and faculty spent not be moved because of freezing rain, snow and h dent Lee Livdahl said. winds that ravaged the town Wednesday.Wednesday evening because of freezing tempera- iinwv.'- J 'pak- '. - 63-mp- -- Girl from apartment into man's arm western By TERRI LIKENS Associated Press Writer . CHICAGO Firefighter Bill Heenan was standing on a ladder five stories high as flames hot enough to bend steel tore through a and people below pleadhigh-ris- e ed with terrified residents not to jump. By sheer reflex, Heenan stuck out his left arm and snatched an girl from the air, saving her from a fall that could have killed her. Four people died and at least 60 were injured in the early morning blaze Thursday. The girl may have been thrown from a window to save her. "I stuck my arm out and somehow snagged her," Heenan said. "1 told her, 'Hang onto me, I'll hang onto you. We're not going to go anywhere.' She was crying but she did what I told her to do and I got her down." Hours later, cleaned Provo 655 E. 300 S. 1950 N. State Williams said. One woman broke her ankle and pelvis, said a North- jumps of soot and sweat, Heenan said: "Hero? Who's a hero? You just do what ; you got to do." He told of another child that fell this one out of reach. And he told of watching helplessly from his ladder as the parents of the girl ignored his pleas and window. from a sixth-flojumped Officials say the girl's mother vas one of the four people who died. The three others, including a boy, were found dead in the building. ;SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Thursday and the wind chill made it feel like 80 below zero in Fargo. "As far as I'm concerned, nobody should be leaving home or work or wherever they are," Fargo Police Sgt. Dean Mueller said. "To get out and get stranded is to risk dying." The storm dumped more than a foot of snow in parts of Minnesota, Nebraska, Michigan and Wisconsin, knocked out power to thousands of homes in several states and forced schools and offices to close. Many schools and businesses were still closed Firefighter saves year-old by reflex or Vtipped off. : v At least four people plunged from upper floors to escape thick, black smoke and the heat that buckled the building's steel beams. "They just hit the ground, one after another," witness Susan 10-sto- ry Memorial Orem SjsringviHe 340 S. Hospital spokeswoman. Witnesses said one man who jumped simply got up and walked away. Fire Commissioner Ray Orozco said the fire started in the fifth-floapartment of a heavy smoker who stored a rol!ed-u- p mattress, film and two tires in a walk-i- n closet. Winds of 40 mph gusting through broken windows fanned Now M&'m VISA Accepting: Prices Effective 3 Days Oniy: JANUARY 19, 20, 21, 1996 . . or the flames white-ho- t, Oooa-Oo- Classic, Oief Coke. ia Caffeine-Fre- e Coke, Sprite, Fresca, Barq's Root Beer, or Hawaiian Punch turning caulapartments into 1,500-degre- e drons, Orozco said. More than 120 firefighters fought for 90 minutes to get the blaze under control. They carried about 60 occupants down about a dozen ladders. Many of the injured suffered broken bones and smoke inhalation. The federally subsidized, 145-un- it building had' a history of building code violations, including missing smoke detectors. Its fire alarm system had been broken for at least four years, residents said, and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development had cited health ant safety violations as far back as September : ): 1994. .j-..HUD had scheduled inspections on Nov. 13 and Dec. 18 to follow up on earlier orders for repairs, but both were canceled because of the federal government 0 ' 12-1- 2 : Oz: Cans Soft ii shutdown. s, HUD Secretary' Henry in a statement, said: "At some point Americans should say 'enough is enough' when shutting down the government means making it impossible to perform functions such as housing inspections, which may' seem innocuous and unimportant until we understand that unsafe conditions can ' cost Cis-nero- NT Gentle 4-R- liceiio ' a msa man jrfiwi bmi b ' s183 ' Case of 24 C'nlc ' ' lives." .'. ations. "Some people didn't want to 'confront the issues at hand," said -- student regent Ed Gomez. 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