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Show DIGEST FORMER WEST VffiGINIA BEAUTY QUEEN GOES ON TRIAL FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER OF ROMANTIC RIVAL: Tracy Lippard, a statuesque blonde from Virginia, crowned her successor as Miss Williamshurg an d sang two songs on stage. Then, police claim, with pistol, butcher knife and lighter fluid, the beauty queen drove 250 Tracy Lippard miles on an alleged mission to snuff out her romantic rival. The alleged attempt in February was foiled by her target's father, a former Secret Service agent who put her in a headlock and wrestled her to the ground, police said. Lippard, a 23-year-old dentist's daughter with a dazzling smile, goes on trial today on attempted murder charges. STUDENTS &. SEX: THEY MIGHT WITH A STRANGER - AT A BIG PRICE: Some of America's top high school students say they would consider sex with a stranger - for a price. They want big bucks, a car, a dream job or admission to the college of their choice, according to a survey of more than 3,000 teens. The 25th annual survey of high achievers by Who's Who Among American High School Students found that one-quarter of the responding juniors and seniors said they had engaged in sexual intercourse. MOSCOW, CHICAGO SCIENTISTS CHOSEN FOR ISRAELI WOLF PHYSICS PRIZE: An American and a · Russian scientist will share this year's $100,000 Wolf prize in phys ics. Yoichiro Nambu, 73, and Vitaly L. Ginzburg, 78, were honored " for their separate work in the fields of superconductivity and theoretical physics," the Wolf Foundation announced yesterday in Jerusalem. U.S. WILL GO AHEAD WITH HEARING ON GM PICKU P SAFETY: Rejecting a request from General Motors Corp., the Transportation Department said yes terday it will go ahead with a public hearing on whether millions of G M pickup trucks should be recalled as fireprone. G M, which has vowed to fight a recall, had as ked that the hearing be canceled so that the automaker could take the iss ue straight to court . The Dec. 6 hearing prom ises to be a public relations disaster for GM, with appearances by families of crash victims and survivors of fiery crashes. CHINA PROTESTS SHELLING BY TAIWANESE TROOPS: Relations between China and T aiwan took another battering yesterday when Beijing strongly condemned Taiwanese shelling of a mainland village. China's state-run media said T aiwanese troops fired at least a dozen artillery shells Monday at the village of Tatou in coastal Fujian province, wounding four people. SEVENTEEN STATES CONTEST MCI'S PHONE DIRECTORY PLAN: One month after its start, MC I's long-distance directory service has run into opposition from 17 s tates, which contend it flouts a federal law and should be halted. Attorneys general from the states, including California, N ew York, Florida, Michigan and Illinois, filed a complaint Tuesday with the Federal Communications Commission, which enforces communications law and regulations. T he states said MCI's service violates a 1992 law that generally forbids companies from charging customers for calling toll-free "800" numbers. PLO LEADER WARNS PEACE PROCESS THREATENED BY LACK OF AID: Islamic militants are using poverty to gain influence and the peace process could collapse if donor nations don' t make good on aid pledges, Yasser Arafat said yesterday. The Palestinian leader said that less than $40 million, only 6 percent of the money pledged, has come through, while Islamic opponents of the peace process are receiving money from Iran, Arab oil states and private donors in the United States. Yasser Arafat I Serbian fighting rages on SARAJEVO, BosniaHerzegovina IAPl - Fighting convulsed Bosnia's northwest pocket yesterday, where dug-in government troops were trying to keep Bosnian Serbs from overrunning an internationally protected safe zone. A gravedigger takes a break and sm ok es a cigarette as he Fighting also exploded in the prepares a fresh grave in a Bosnian Muslim cemetery in Sarajevo. Majevica hills in northeastern Bosnia, site of a Serb-held TV tower, and near Mostar on the southwest front. Paul Risley, a senior U.N. spokesman, said NATO should have " full means" to keep Serbs claimed gains in both regions, but U.N. officials said the Muslim-led government army Croatian Serbs in check. NATO has launched air strikes on Bosnian appeared to have the upper hand. Serb targets five times because of violations In the north, Bosnian Serbs shelled Tuzla, another so-called U.N. "safe area," for a second involving U.N.-decreed "safe areas" or attacks straight day, killing one resident and wounding on U.N. personnel. The alliance wants to extend its mandate, currently limited to three. Bosnia, to cover shelling from Croatian Serb NATO was under pressure to respond to the land into Bosnia. fighting in the Bihac pocket in the northwest Risley said NATO and Croatian officials and to U.N. accusations that Serbs in discussed the "immediate extension of close neighboring Croatia were helping Bosnian air support" to Croatian border areas held by Serbs by providing artillery cover. The Serbs Serbs. Close air support can include air strikes. deny it. "We would like to see NATO have the The mostly-Muslim Bihac pocket is sandwiched between Bosnian Serb forces to the ability to respond by full m eans to such jcrossborder) attacks, should they occur," Risley said south and east and Croatian Serb rebels to the in Sarajevo. north and west. Bosnian Serb Gen. Manojlo Milovanovic, "in C roatian government and NATO officials charge of the Bihac assault, shrugged off any met Tuesday to discuss a possible air response NATO threat. to Croatian Serb interference in Bosnia's war. Angola~ warring factions agree on truce LUSAKA, Zambia (AP)- Angola's warring factions sign ed a cease-fire yesterday intended to allow their leaders to end the 19-year war this weekend. The truce reached afte r six hours of talks was the firs t agreed to by both sides since May 15, 1991. It cleared the wa y for further negotiations on final details of a peace accord for the southern African nation. The peace pact is to be signed Sunday in Lusaka, capital of neighboring Zambia. While a m ajor step toward halting one of Africa's longest and bloodiest civil wars, the truce represents only part of the formal peace plan. Throughout the war that began on the eve of independence from Portugal in 1975, peace overtures and treaties have repeatedly failed to stop the fighting. Under the plan signed by top generals of the government and the National Union fo r the Total Independence of Angola !UNIT A) rebels, fighting would stop Wednesday night. The truce would remain in effect until the peace treaty takes effect Nov. 22 at midnight. "From tom orrow at 8 p.m. (2 p.m . EST ), there should be no more hos tilities in Angolan t erritory," said Alioune Blondin Beye, the U.N. special envoy to Angola who m ediated a year of peace talks in Lusaka. "The Angolan people have suffered for 20 years," he said. "There is going to be no more killing in Angola." President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and UNIT A leade r Jonas Savimbi had been scheduled to sign the peace pact Tuesday, but continued fighting that included a string of government victories caused the rebels to balk. Storm Gordon continues sweep of destruction FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A drenching Tropical Storm Gordon swept the southern tip of Florida on yesterday, grounding a 506-foot freighter just off the beach and killing a pregnant m otorist. Gordon moved into the Gulf of Mexico off Key West with 50 mph winds and was expected to slow down for a day or so after dumping up to 8 1/2 inches of rain on South Florida. The storm knocked out power to 397,000 homes and businesses, but by late afternoon Florida Power & Light said only about 26,000 custom ers were still without power. At 4 p.m. EST T uesday, Gordon was 60 miles northwest of Key West and creeping northwest at 8 mph in the Gulf of Mexico. More than 100 people were killed in Haiti, and two each died in Jam aica and Cuba as the deadliest tropical storm of the season spun through the Caribbean . In Florida, Elena Quicano, 36, of Hialeah was killed Monday when she was thrown from her vehicle in a three-car collision and run over by a pickup at a traffic light broken by the storm, police said. She was seven months pregnant. Between thundershowers Tuesday, the sight of the grounded T urkish freighter Firat just yards from shore in Fort Lauderdale awed tourists and beachgoers. "We won't be able to do a whole lot until the weather clears," said Coast Guard spokesman Bill Marks. T he ship, carrying 2,400 tons of steel, ran aground before dawn with a crew of 29 but |