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Show HL DAILY HERALD Senate Republicans rethinking gun control votes Titanic menus sold By DAVID ESPO. AssociatedPress Water LONDON (AP) — Two menus from theTitanic sold Thursdayfor $47,800 at an auctionof items from the luxury liner that sank in 1912. Christi aid Richard Mintzer of New York paid $31,300for afirst class passenger menufromthe ship's Cafe Parisien, while a crew menu from the vessel was sold for $16,500. Thepassenger menusurvived the disaster after oneof the 700survivors out of the 2,200 crew and passengers put it in his pocket as a memento. $19.8 million Van Gogh NEW YORK (AP) — A van Gogh landscapesold for $19.8 million during thecity's third consecutive day of high-profile art auctions. Nearly $66 million worth of Impressionist and 19th-century work was sold Wednesdayat Christie'sfirst “It’s the most Swiss-cheesybill I’ve ever seen.” WASHINGTON Senate Republicans retreated under Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y pressure Thursday on the politically volatile issue of gun control, calling for fresh restrictions on sales at gun shows less than 24 hours after rejecting them Democrats swiftly denouncedthe offer, saying it contained numerous loop: holes that would leave guns too readilyaccessible to crim inals and others who should n't posse: them. “It’s the cheesy bill I've Swi ever seen, aid Sen, Charles Schumer, D-N. Still, the development most underscored the change in the gun contro! debate in the wake of last month’s shoot ings at a Colorado high school And gun control advocates claimed on long-sought vic tory during the day when Senate agreed to prohibit the importation of hig capacity ammunition clips that were a proposal by Sen. John the shooting spree at the Ashcroft, R-Mo., to ban juve. nile possession of semi-automatic weapons and high voluntary system of back- capacity ammunition clips. That vote was 96-2 The maneuvering came as some Republicans expressed concern about the outcome of a se s of votes Wednesday relating to so-called private Idaho, said all sales at gun shows would be subjected to the instant background te checks, B lo Craig, a member of the National agreed to NRA said anyway,” Feinstein, omitted from a 1994 assault measure was rejected, 59: with most all votes in opposition cast by For his part, P Clinton charged that a“: row majority of the Senate (had) voted to preserve the dangerous gun show loophole” less than a month after Republicans. “The no and it passed said Sen, Dianne D-Calif The Senate also the weapons ban. An effort to kill sales at gun shows. “There was a lization that there was a loophole that hadto be closed,” said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz Columbine High School. Those votes established a ground checks for so-called private sales at gun shows, rather than the mandatory ks required of licensed Under the revised GOP proposal, Sen. Larry Craig, R- Rifle Association board of directors, said the organization had “grudgingly" agreedto thechanges. Craig described the changes as a “clarification” and an attempt to build on “the accomplishments we had be 3 te made” on Wednesday Some Democrats offered a different description. “He got caught weakening the gunlaws. A lot of people here got sucked in and got upset,” said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif, referring to Republican senators. Vasectomies don’t stop evening saleat its new North L.A. monkey American headquarters in Rockefeller Center. The 1888 van Gogh painting, “La business Roubine duRoi,” depicts a canal at Arles wherelocal women washed their clothes. Thirty-six of 40 lots sold for $65.9 million, including seven By DEBORAH HASTINGS works by Monet. Associated Press Writer Hail damages Discovery LOS ANGELES — There's some real monkey business going on at the Los Angeles CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space shuttle Discovery’s flight to the Zoo. The new spacestation will be delayed at ectomies. “The zoo has never had this much publicity about anything,” zookeeper Vicki Bingaman said. In the past anda thirdis pregnant. DNA airing May21, will beits last new episode. Fromits premiere in January 1993, theseries, about a squad of Baltimore homicidedetectives, was never a ratings winner and fought for its life year after year, Airing Friday at 9 p.m. local time, it has clung in recent seasons to third place behind ABC's “20/20” and CBS’ cop drama “Nash Bridges.” Deadly flu season there are about 20,000 deaths, and about 30,000 when the Type A-H3N2 virus hits, as it did this year, the CDC said, smoke Driver’s career up NEWORLEANS (AP) — The driver of a charter bus that crashed and killed 22 people was fired from bus companies in 1996 and 1989 after testing positive for marijuana four times, authorities said Thursda A federal investigator also con. firmed a report that Frank Bedell, 46, testedpositive for marijuana whenhe was hospitalized Sundayafter the bus veeredoff a highway and plunged into an embankment ; ers. 7 The real mysteryis this: Three of the four adult » males is our plan with Kosovo and By CANDICE HUGHES to submit a list of costs in lives and time. More strikes late Thursday AssociatedPress Writer BELGRADE, Yugoslavia again damaged Serbia's elec- — Smiling and waving to the cameras, about 120 Yugoslav troops left Kosovo in a convoy of buses andtrucks Thursday in what Western authorities said was an insignificant counter widespread disbelief of a Yugoslav withdrawal orderlast Sunday It’s the easiest thing in the world to put a few tanks on the border, invite a TV crew and say‘look I'm with drawing,’ and as soon as the TV crew goes back to Belgrade, the tanks just go back over the border,” NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said in Brussels, Belgium Yugoslavia, meanwhile, said more than 1,200 people have been killed and 5,000 hurt by NATO airstrikes over the past seven weeks, the U.N.'s top human rights offi cial reported after being leader snubbed by Yugosl SlobodanMilosevic. There no way to inde. pendently verify the num bers, though Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic told the United Nations on April 24 that about 1,000 people had been killed and thousands hurt by NATO airstrikes U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson said Jovanovic reported the newtoll duringa mecting in Belgrade but that Milosevic refused to see her. As foreign reporters saw the military convoy leave Kosovo, a Serb army officer there blamed constant NATO. bombing for the “slow pace” of withdrawals since Yugoslavia announced a partial pullout The Pristina Army Corps commander, Gen, Vladimir Lazarevic, told reporters brought 130 miles south from Belgrade that “a certain amount of time” would be needed to bring the forces back to their barracks as ordered In Washington, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Richard Bridges 1 “a withdrawal of 120 troops does not come close to meeting NATO's five condi- for rebels in Kosovo and that held small pockets of land throughout province the “In some cases, they've retaken ground from the Serbs.” said Adm. Sir Tan Garnett, Britain's joint chief of operations. The Yugoslav military had explained its initial troop withdrawal announcement aiming the KLA was saten sexual and 4-year-old Glenn, they., are known to have a 1 percent failure rate “Chimps are very resilient. It wouldn't surprise me if they found some way around” their vasectomies, Bingamansaid. Charles Sedgwick, are the Sedgwick said. In both Wat much Sch ten chance that the fathers. He said there screamed over Nis, bombing main roads and the local TV building, the pri vate Beta news agency reported. A security guard was injured Nis Mayor Zoran Zivkovie, a leader of the opposition Democratic Party, urged Milose » “proclaim what out with heayy weaponry and that Milosevic’s fotces often are Sedgwick thinks Toto or perhaps the youngsters are have been rare cases of The chimps at a the Log Angeles Zoo have sex every White House press secre: tary Joe Lockhartsaidit fell far short of NATO's demands day, Sedgwick said. The zoo started trying to curb its staged, many and “will not fool forr Eve ter leac young chimps impregnating a female. rotated in and out of Kosovo. for a complete withdrawal, that the pullout was carefully Ber would flage Soon afterthe troop de Merdare, saying there was no witne ed by reporters, evidence of a large-scale pull Ho humans and chimps, the tubes that carry semen are severed, and “there’s not ' since March NATO + lanes ed Dey Das Der Rey mer in people, except that chimps are much more prodigiously endowed,” spontaneouslyreattach.” ture logi pat ame as vasectomies were Western officials immediately skeptical about soldiers in berets and camou leaving mel the zoo’s director of animal health sciences, thinks she’s wrong. “Vasectomi in chimps tic whichinclude a return of 780,000 ethnie Albanian refugees expelled from Kosovo uniforms a a were considered too young to. breed. Bingaman thinks the vasectomies may havefailed. in humans between the KLA and Serb shown interest in anyone but him: self. As for 2-year-old Ripley Vasectomies cause short circuits. In London, British officials said there heavyfighting Leaving? Yugoslav army soldiers board a truckin the village of Merdare, some 25 miles northof Pristina on Thursday. In the first visible sign of Yugoslav army troops withdrawal from Kosovo, a convoy of 250 soldiers in buses passedthrough Merdare, on the administrative Kosovo-Serbianborder. never special graphite bombs that don’t destroy the grid but military stronghold in south ern Serbia. The pullout was evidently a public bid to had vasectomies in _ 1996. And Toto, who is 45, ~ has trical power grid, knocking out powerin several districts of Belgrade and Novi Sad the three largest Yugoslay cities. Since May 3, the allied planes have been dropping move and possibly a sham The soldiers broke into grins for foreign reporters who weredriven to Merd: on the main road to Nis, a ATLANTA(AP) — TheU.S. flu season was apparently deadlier than usual this year, the government reported Thursday. The flu seasonruns from October through mid-May. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not know yet how many people died this season fromtheflu However, in an averageflu season, ; Serb troops seen leaving Kosovo tests to determine the father — or fathers — cannot be done for months, until the’ babies are old enough to be separated from their moth- chimppopulation about eight =. years ago because theenclo: sure was getting too crowded and chimps aren't an endan- gered species. ae semndianibinen Sveaeae Wesente SANee mania VISAR KRYEZIU The Associated Press Onpatrol: Bono Beretti, a member of the French Foreign Legion's 3rd Cavalry Regiment, inspects the border between Macedonia and Kosovo in the village of Lojane, some 25 miles east of Skopje, Macedonia, on Thursday. de’s” seventh-season finale, three months, = twochimps have given birth © this point.” NEW YORK (AP) — NBChas us ed the kind of excitement zoos lust for. “We'll take the amountof timeit takes togofix the vehicle correctly,” shuttle processing director Dave King said following Thursday’s decision. “Wethink that’s a week to 10 days at rubbed out the critically acclaimed M in n't NI No one is quite sure why it’s happening, but it’s creat- earlier than May27. but low-rated “Homicide:Life on the Street.” It won't be on NBC's fall schedule, the network announced keep apableof breeding have had back to the hangar this weekend for repairs, with liftoff targeted for no ‘Homicide’ axed chimpanzees getting pregnant, even thoughall the males thought least a week so technicians can patch holes carvedinto the fuel tank by hail. 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