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— Mate ir Jif “ r- ffriifi tsm T " r i I WorldNational Standard-Examine- r NATIONAL BRIEFS The Associated the National The remains were being sent to a in I lawau for possible identification The soldiers are believed to have served with the US Army’s 38th Infantry Regiment 2nd Infantry Division the US military command m Seoul said US officials said the remains were h discovered by a joint Korean search team within the last month along the Chong Chon River 100 miles north of Pyongyang the North's capital The US Eighth Army and Chinese communist forces fought m the area in November 1950 they said The recovery was the first of six joint searches scheduled for this year and the ble Press PANMUNJOM Korea - North Korea returned the remains today of what are believed to be six US soldiers killed ago during the Konearly a rea War About 30 visiting American veterans of the 1950-5- 3 Korean War saluted as the remains contained m aluminum caskets were handed over at the border village of Panmunjom Four North Koreans clad m civilian clothes handed each casket over to UN honor guards Once transferred the caskets were draped with UN flags as a military chaplain read verses from the Bi half-centu- ry NEW ORLEANS - The driver of charter bus that crashed on Mother’s Day killing 22 people had been fired twice in the last decade for marijuana use and tested positive for the drug shortly after the deadly wreck federal investigators said Custom Bus Charters driver Frank Bedell 46 lost bus driving jobs in 1989 and 1996 after tests showed he had used marijuana 3A Korean turns over purported Americans’ remains N Bus driver in fatal wreck tested positive for pot use Friday May 141 999 US Army laboratory US-Nort- 10th since collaborations began in 1996 In all the joint searches have yielded 35 sets of remains believed to be US soldiers Three have been identified More than 50000 US soldiers were killed in the war between the UN forces led by the United States and Chinese-backe- d North Korea About 8100 of them remain unaccounted for US officials said the remains of 1000 to 3500 missing American soldiers may be recoverable in North Korea Washington has said that recovering the US war dead from the Korean conflict is a key factor m improving ties between North Korea and the United States The leeway was the just of six joint searches scheduled for this year and the 10th since collaborations began in 1996 In all the joint seat ches have yielded 35 sets of ranains believed to be US soldiers Thiee haw been idaitifcd Transportation Safety Board said Thursday A federal investigator also confirmed that Bedell who has congestive heart disease kidney problems and diabetes tested positive for marijuana when he was hospitalized Sunday after the bus veered off a highway and plunged down an embankment It was not clear how long before the crash Bedell might have smoked marijuana or whether the drug contributed to the accident said NTSB investigator Ken Suy-dam “It’s another piece of the puzzle we have to put together” Suydam said Heart-liver-kidn- ey transplant performed CHICAGO - A Michigan businessman was adjusting to a new heart liver and kidney following an extremely rare operation performed last week Kent Slater 64 of Rockford Mich became only the second person to undergo such surgery m the United States according to the Virginia-base- d United Network of Organ Sharing which tracks all US organ transplants Slater needed the May 7 operation which took 14 hours because of the combined effects of rheumatic fever and a hepatitis C infection He also suffered from progressive heart failure which prevented vital organs from getting enough oxygen “I feel pretty good considering” he said University of Chicago Hospitals spokesman John Easton said Slater remained in serious condition early today Doctors considered it too early to say whether his body would reject the new organs Easton said triple-transpla- nt NBC’s ‘Homicide’ wool be back next fall NEW YORK - “Homicide: Life on the Street” has been killed off by NBC The last new episode of the critically ac- claimed show that has struggled all of its seven years with low ratings will be May 21 From its premiere in January 1993 the senes about a squad of Baltimore homicide detectives was never a ratings winner and fought for its life year after year Airing Fnday at 10 pm EDT it has clung m recent seasons to third place behind ABC’s “2020” and CBS’s cop drama “Nash Bndges” It won numerous honors 75 BEDROOM SETS Ef 100 Dining Room Tables with chairs d 600 Hail damage delays launch of Discovery CAPE CANAVERAL Fla -Space shutt'e Discovery is headed back to the hangar instead of into orbit next week because of hail damage to its giant fuel tank Discovery had been scheduled to blast off May 20 with 1 12 tons of cargo for the new international space station NASA is now targeting liftoff for no earlier than May 27 AMA says doctors’ & dentsi - discontinued! 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