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Show A4 THURSDAY, MAY 13, 19 THE DAILY HERALD i Senate rejects new laws on gun sales Everest climber rescued NEWDELHI, India (AP) Teams. of mountaineerscarrieda frostbitten Ukrainian climber on a stretcher down vertical Is ofice and ac 88 vaping crevasses in a daring midnight rescue just below the summit of Mount Everest Therescue Sundaynight on Everest’s north face in Chinese Tibet was reported late Tuesday by a U.S. team viasatellite phone and e-mail to its Seattle-based Internet Website, www.everest.mountain- zone.com, Oneunidentified climber of the three-man Ukrainian team was missing and presumeddead. He would be By DAVID ESPO. The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Republican-controlled Senate rejected fresh restrictions on sales at gun shows Wednesday in Congress’ first sale: at gun shows. The dey opments marked a victory for the National Rifle Association and a defeat for gun control advocates, who had claimed that the shooting deaths at Columbine High School in vote on gun control since Littleton, Colo, month’s shooting spree in a Colorado high school Instead, on a vote of 53-45, the Senate signaled support for a system of voluntary in a string of violent episodes background checks on private the latest nation’s schools ve their cause fresh momentum. Instead. their young woman at a gun show But Sen. Larry Craig, RIdaho, countered that to procure their weaponry to commit the mayhem that they do,” argued Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who led Lautenberg’s proposal would impose fresh restrictions on “private citizens who come to the failed driveto close what he said was a “loophole” in lows the current law the private sales at gun shows without instant background checks. gun shows andengage in discussion citizens with other private and decide to exchange orsell their guns.” pect young as 14 as adults and providing tougher penalties. for In the wake of the Littleton shootings, the measurealso attracted Democratic gun control amendments as well as provisions crafted by Republicans to explore the The developments cameas the Senate debated legisla- connection between violence used in the Colorado shooting tion to stiffen prosecution of movies — andreallife. in music, video games and Politics the first person this year to die on the world’s highest peak. Groups attacks baby bottles in Russia WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer groupspetitioned the government anything but usual Wednesdayto remove a chemical from certain plastic babybottles that they say viding added funds to prose- cutors, makingit easier to try He saidthere was evidence plan was killed on a vote of that some of the weapons 7 spree had been purchased by juvenilecrime,largelyby pro- “There are many criminals whouse gun shows as a ple in leach into infants’ food The Food and Drug Administration respondedthat parents shouldn't be alarmed. The National Environmental Trust, in calling for safer bottles, cited studies that show bisphenol-A can leach out of plastic bottles when they're Yeltsin dismisses his top officials heated, particularlyif the bottles are By MITCHELL LANDSBERG old or scratched. A University of Missouri study sug- The Associat s male babies of pregnant mice exposed to this chemical haveslightly MOSCOW— dP ess Russia was plungedintoa grave political crisis Wednesday when enlarged prostates and lowered sperm production. President Boris Yeltsin dis- Eighth body found in slide missed the prime minister and Cabinet in an apparent HAUULA, Hawaii (AP) — The body of an eighth victim from the Mother's Day landslide at Sacred Falls State pre-emptivestrike on a parliament seeking to impeach Park was recovered Wednesday during i check by geologists trying to deter- the president. The sacking of Yevgeny mine whetherthe area was Primakov, safe ple lounging aroundapoolat the base of a waterfall Flynt will remove videos CINCINNATI (AP) —Prosecutors dropped obscenity charges against third time in just over a year that Yeltsin has ousted a pre- mier. J. PAT CARTER, he Assuctated Press a collision course with parliament, the dismissals threatened to disrupt the Kosovo Lost photos send victims searching Russia's husk of an economy andupsetthepolitical stability that Primakov had worked hard to achieve. The parlia- peace proc ment is agreed to stop selling hard-core sex The Associated Press last week as tornadoes killed 43 people in Oklahoma and MIDWEST CITY, Okla Chris Abbott couldn't stop statistics do not vwecount for the thousands of sentimental By KELLY KURT part of the plea bargain, the shop was fined $10,000, The agreement cameon thethird y ofjury selection in a trial that could have sent the Hustler magazine publisher to jail for 24 years. Prospective jurors had been warned they would have to watch as manyas 10 hours ofporn videos Prosecutors allowed Flynt, 56, and injured ng Wednesday as she talked about the photog uph shelost in a tornado. revealed tiny hands and feet It was the first picture to go ing obscenity. Hustler News & Gifts, which Jimmy Flynt manages, was. in her son’s baby book Although her son is safe, fined $5,000 on each count CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Hail damage to a fuel tank could delay space shuttle Discovery's upcoming launchto the new international space station Discovery's 15-story external fuel the scrapbookis gone. So Ms Abbott and her husband, hundreds. But the ikes suddenly swept away Ms. Abbott's te: hit the s she remembered the “That's the start of us family” she when we decided to be something.” softly at her Hardy added side. photographs and other mementos scat tered by the twisters had Hundreds of Terry Hardy, went to the First Christian Church, which is serving as a lost and-found site for tornado been delivered to the church, and more urrived Wednesday, sakes. The family escaped death in pink dres victims searching for photo: graphs and otherlost keep. tank was gouged during a thunder- woman stands in fresh snow, dressed ina long black coat of another era Church member Shauna Becker didn't’ know what to treasures andprecious keep: expect when she posted fliers It was a sonogram image taken by doctors who thought it would confirm an enor mous ovarian eyst. Insteadit his brother, Jimmy, 52, to substitute their bookstore for themselves in a plea of guilty to two counts of pander- Damagethreatens launch offering the church as old mother said she had to do. picked them up Wednesday, In Moore, Oklahoma City another suburb, 73- year-old) Thelma Pruegert was still picking through the heap of furniture, lumber and something when a 1971 pho: cars tossed where her house tograph of a man posing with his car blew into her yard I thought, what if that is someone's dad? she said “What if that’s the only pic once stood. She had recovered other people's. photographs from the pile, but photos of her 16 great-grandchildren ture they have of him?” remained missing, along with the wall where they hung. every Down thestreet, Barbara Sexton, 66, found her moth- The church will be open Tuesday evening for tornado victims who want to see whether their treasured Untold stories loomin the keepsakes are there mud-caked images: A grin On the first night. ning girl cradles a newborn a repository. But the 28-year son died in the tornado reco; nized his baby photos on a television broadcast and a man was reunited with his patch in her lap. Four bridesmaids from the Vietnam War, and a soberly family found a photo of a toward an unseen bride, A niece, A couple whose grand er's wedding picture plas tered against a wall. The res of her photographs escaped damage inside an antique trunk “I wa: said. “T real happy,” she our lives in there, patched in time for a May20 liftoff, NASA spokesman Bruce Buckingham said Wednesday Fur labels rejected BEVERLYHILLS,Calif. (AP) Voters in this city of the well-dre nd well-heeled rejected a measure Study: Children’s bedtime night lights may damagevision PHILADELPHIA (AP) Children who sleep underthe soft glow of a night light to keep the scary monsters Genetic and environmen tal factors such as nutrition and eyestrain fromtelevision suffer a very real andlifelong problem nearsightedness. Researchers at the vision. The Philadelphia study raises the provocative new merchants to attach labels explaining and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia say that how the animals died Measure A would have been the youngsters who sleep in dimlylighted roomuntil age their natural focus during the first of life such ordinancein the nation. With all eight precincts counted, the proposal had 1,908 votes in favor compared with 3,363 votes against issueof the journal Nature. “Just as the body needs to res this suggests that the eyes need a period of dark computer screens, are away may be more likely to thought to hurt people's ness.” said ophthalmologist and possibility that too much light prompts the eyes to grow excessively and skews Tuesday that would have required fur further damage set to begin impeach. mentproceedings Thursday, Yeltsin namedaclose ally, Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin, as acting prime minister, In his previousjob, Stepashin, 47, commanded tens of thousands of troops andpolice. Stepashin’s appointment as Primakov’s permanent replacement appeared to havelittle chanceof approval in the Duma, the lower house of parliament Yeltsin's maneuvering bewildered and angered his critics and — withlegislative elections set for December — left the country’s political future uncertain. “Weare prepared for any outcomebecausethere is no logic in the actions ofYeltsin and his Communi. Gennady reporters entourage,” Party leader Zyuganov told after the presi- dent's storm over the weekend, mostly near the top. Most of the 150 holes in therustcolored foam insulation can be Besides putting Yeltsin on Lost and found: Thelma Prugert hugs a teddy bear, that was given to her by a Salvation Army truck from Borger, Texas, Wednesday in Moore, Okla. Prugert lost her home in the tornado last week, but 13 people, three dogs and twocats survived in her stormcellar. Pruegert recovered other people's photographs from the heapof furniture, lumber and cars tossed where her house once stood. Larry Flynt on Wednesdayafter he videos at his Cincinnati bookstor by national television, was the son still reported missing from the rockslide on Sunday that sent giant boulders crashing down hundreds of feet onto dozens ofunsuspecting peo- announced Yeltsin in a somberspeech on enough to resume recovery efforts. The body is believed to be that of a California woman who is the only per- University of Pennsylvania 2 may be as much as five times morelikely to develop myopia, or nearsightedness. as they growup. when the eyes develop most rapidls The study of 479 children was published in Thursday's Dr. Graham E. Quinn, the study’s lead er, eye specialists Hos from author. many the most important of which is whether the pare: nearsighted or not myopia res rcher Donald Mutti of the University of California at Berkeley. Also, they said the studyis flawed because the institutions dis- researchers relied on infor- ture and incomplet They said the researchers had failed to take into account obvious risk factors, suchas heredity ents of nearsighted children missed the study “Ther re as prema other factors involved in childhood myopia mation supplied by the par: after several years. Nor did they account for other, stronger sources oflight that parents cannot control, such as a_ streetlight shining through a bedroom window. The68-year-old Yeltsin has a long history of firing aides, often because they appear to be overshadowing him. It was Primakoy, the former foreign minister and spymaster, who took thefall this time, losing the job he hadheld sincelast September, when he was monedto pick up the pieces after Russia’s economiccrash As snowswirled outside on an unusually bleak spring day, Yeltsin sat before a Russian flag at the Kremlin and told the nation that He had been forced to fire Primakovbecause the prinfp minister had failed recharge the economy. tp $ |