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Show THEW.ORLD New California wildfires erupt DIGEST POWER RESTORED IN SALT LAKE AREA, MOST OF WEBER COUNTY: Power was restored yesterday to most of the neighborhoods along the Wasatch Front that were left dark Friday and Saturday as tree limbs snapped under heavy snow and knocked down electrical wires. Utah Power spokesman Dave Eskelsen said crews finished restoring power to thousands in the Salt Lake Valley by yesterday afternoon, and were still working on about a dozen more outages reported in the Ogden area. Altogether, the outages may have left more customers without electricity than any other in history, he said. FORMER MAYOR, UTAH GOVERNOR L~ID TO REST: J. Bracken Lee, the anti-big government maverick who spent 32 years as Utah' s governor and mayor 0£Price and Salt Lake, has been laid to rest at age 97. About 300 mourners gathered Saturday to hear his family reminisce about his private side and political associates echo his long-held political motto: "Do it hones tly, do the best you can and let them holler." Lee died on Oct. 20 in Salt Lake City, 24 years after he retired as Salt Lake City mayor to live out his life quietly with his family. . KEMP CHASTISES FELLOW REPUBLICANS FOR ABANDONING DOLE: Calling Bob Dole a hero, Jack Kemp scolded fellow Republicans yest erday for appearing to abandon Dole in his "moment of need" to focus on keeping control of Congress instead. With Election Day looming and D ole still well behind President Clinton in Bob Dole the polls, Kem p also made another plea to - -- - - - Reform Party candidate Ross Perot, beseechi ng Perot to drop out and throw his support to Dole. "Ross, I beg you . You sh ould be supporting the one man who can bring about these reforms in America," h e said on CBS' "Face the Nation." Perot rebuffed a direct endorsement overture from the Dole campaign, saying that he is in here to stay. SOUTH OF THE SAILBOATS, ANOTHER ST. PETERSBURG SEETHES: It is sleepy St. Petersburg, Florida to some, a quiet retiree haven trying to land new businesses and such high-profile plums as the vicepresidential debate. But south of the city's Central Avenue is the other St: Petersburg: angry and seething neighborhoods where young blacks can't find jobs and police are openly jeered. The death of 18-year-old Tyron Lewis last Thursday resulted in a rampage that injured 11 and burned 28 buildings. "This goes deeper than just a shooting," Ernest Fillyau, one of two blacks on the C ity Council, said as he broke into sobs. "Th is incident hurts." FRENCH DIPLOMAT KIDNAPPED AGAIN IN YEMEN: A French diplomat abducted by Yemeni tribesmen was released Sat urday night, only to be kidnapped again yesterday. Serge Lefevre, first secretary of t he French Embassy in the Yem eni capital of San'a, was kidnapped twice by mem bers of the same tribe, said Fren ch Foreign Minist ry spokesman Yves Doutriaux. A Yem en securi ty source, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Lefevre - first kidnapped on Oct. 19 and held for a w eek in Ma'rib province - was taken again while on his way back to the capital. ~ LOVE LETTERS ARRIVE-41 YEARS LATE: Doris Spencer was a spirited girl on the verge of womanhood when Jim Irwin fell in love with h er. She had been a handful for the British n uns who cared for h er. But her rebellious charm had captured Jim's heart. The young suitor wrot e Doris love letters, and sealed them with a kiss. But the t ell-tale XXs - "kiss m arks" - on the s mall brown envelopes caught the attention Doris Spencer of the nuns long before D oris ever saw them. She didn' t receive the three letters until last month - 41 years after they had been written . I . SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - Two new started by a campfire. A fire n ear Rubidoux -in Riverside wildfires erupted yesterday in Southern County burned about 175 acres of low scrub California, killing one person and chasing and grass just north of Interstate 60, said people from their homes in the latest in a Vance Persing, a series of blazes spokesman for that have the U .S. Forest destroyed more Service. The than 100 houses. freeway The new fires remained open. crackled through One person brush in San was found dead Bernardino and inside the Riverside burning vehicle counties about "' that was blamed 60 miles east of ~ for starting the Los Angeles. S Rubidoux fire . Elsewhere in ~ The victim Southern g apparently was California, ~ trapped in the firefighters kept ~ car, said U.S. watch for Forest Service flareups in California Department of Forestry firefighters battle the spokesman previously flames of a 600-acre brush fire north of San Bernardino, Vance Persing. burned areas as Calif., early yesterday morning. N o other details wind gusted up were available. to 35 mph Continued gusty wind was forecast for through the region. Nearly 40,000 acres of Southern California, with a chance of land was covered with ash by the wee k-old thunderstorms. series of wind-driven fires. A brief storm on Saturday helped An evacuation order was issued early yesterday for neighborhoods clqsest to a 600- firefighters tame three fires, including an arson blaze in Ventura that threatened a acre fire just north of the city of San residential neighborhood. Bernardino. An undetermined number of Rain also helped tam e a blaze i n Torrey people left their hom es, said Lenore Will, a Pines State Reserve and the 14,720-acre Otay U .S. Forest Service spokeswoman. Moun tain fire, both near San Diego. However, the wind died down when t he In Northern Californ ia, a fire remained out flames got to within abo ut a quarter of a of con trol in t he scen ic Big Sur region . T he mile from the ho uses, then sh ifted away 4,400-acre blaze in Los Padres National from the neighborhoods. Forest was only 35 percent contai ned. Fire officials b elieved the b laze was Two killed in building collapse Death toll could rise in Egyptian apartment building It was not immediately clear what caused the CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A 12-story apartment building in suburban Cairo collapsed yesterday, collapse, police said. The killing at least two building was in Heliopolis, people and injuring 17, a residential police said. and The commercial death toll area on the could rise, east side of Cairo. T he since police said there front and side were more walls had than 40 fallen and only part of apartments in the the rear wall remained building ~ standing. and that not all ~ Debris was residents S piled up to were ~ about the accounted 8 level of the ~ fifth floor. for. Egyptian ~ Police and t elevision ~ ....;;.;_;,;~__:...- !::.__ _.!._.......;:___ _ _ _ _ _ ___:......:._:::::1...;.;..:;:;;.;;:;~..;J· i-- rescue Egyptian city workers and firem en look through the rubble of an workers were reported the apartment building that collapsed in the Cairo neighborhood of trying to structure Heliopolis yesterday. Two people have been found dead and m ore remove some of the also housed than 17 in;ured; however the death toll could rise, police say. - - -- - - - - -- -- - -- - - -- - -- - - --- concrete and an X-ray clinic and said patients could have been other debris searching for survivors. Sniffer trapped there. dogs were brought to aid in the search, and The building of concrete-block and plast er ambulances stood by to ferry injured to local was believed to be about 30 years old. hospitals. 4 |