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Show THE N ATION U.S. DIGEST VAMPffiE CULT LEADER PLEADS GUILTY TO KILLING PARENTS OF CULT MEMBER: The leader of a teeo-age vampire cult - a young man who believed murder would "open the gates to hell" - pleaded guilty yesterday in Tavares, Fla., to killing the parents of one of his disciples and could get the death penalty. Rod Ferrell, 17, admitted taking part in Rod Ferrell the slaying of Richard Wendorf and Naoma - - -- - Queen, who were beaten with a crowbar in 1996. REAGAN REMEMBERED BY AIRPORT RENAMING: The H ouse voted yesterday to join the Senate in reoaming the capital's Washington National Airport to The Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, a day before the former president's 87th birthday. KEATING CONVICTION THROWN OUT AGAIN: A federal judge yesterday threw out Charles Keating's state securities fraud conviction for a second time, saying the man who became a symbol of the 1980s savings and loan crisis was "deprived of his due process rights" when the trial judge, Superior Court Judge Lance Ito, gave jurors flawed instructions LEWINSKY'S ATTORNEY ACCUSES STARR OF WANTING HER TO LIE: Monica Lewinsky1s attorney said yesterday he has a l etter from prosecutors confirming a deal to grant her immunity, and he accused them of trying to pressure her " into statements that are not true.' In a dramatic statement lastnight, attorney William Ginsburg flatly disputed Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr's remarks Bill Clinton earlier io the day that his office could not grant Ms. Lewinsky iromunity because his investigators had not been given a face-to-face interview with her. 1111 U.S. bulks up on forces in Persian Gulf WASHlNGTON (AP) - A third U .S. N avy aircraft carrier arrived in the Persian Gulf yesterday as 2,000 Marines on N avy ships with infantry and combat aircraft aboard headed toward the Gulf from the M editerranean Sea. President Clinton rejected any suggestion that the United States would take action to depose Saddam Hussein . "Would the Iraqi people be better off if there were a change in leadership? r certainly think they would be, but that is not what the United Nations has authorized us to do," Clinton said at the start of a White House meeting with British Prime ~ t e r Tony Blair. The extra firepower assigned to the Persian Gulf was designed to give more flexibility as Clinton contemplates using military force to compel Iraqi compliance with U.N. arms inspections. As expected, the USS Independence, the oldest ship in the Navy, arrived in the Gulf with its SO strike aircraft plus support planes to join the USS Nimitz and USS George Washington. Meanwhile, Iraq's Parliament met in emergency session yesterday on the crisis over U.N. weapoos inspections, while Amen.c an efforts to secure support foundered. China and France were balking and Russia declared it "shall not allow" a military strike against Iraq. Russian President Boris Yeltsin, directing unusually' critical remarks at President Clinton £or the second straight day, renewed warnings ~ llm!:i~!!iiti.--~ ~ ~ - Iraqui President Saddam Hussein met with Arab leaders yesterday to discuss Iraq's crisis with U.N. Secmity Council and the U.S. that threatened U .S. bombing raids against Iraq could spark a world war. "We must not allow a s trike by force, an American strike. I told Clinton about it: No, we shall n ot allow that," Yeltsin said in Moscow. China stressed its opposition to a U.S. attack in a 1etter to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine told Europe l radio that France would not participate. " ft would not resolve the problems," he said. Only Britain has given backing to using force against Saddam's government, if diplomacy fails. ------------ ---------11THE WORLD I WORLD DIGEST RESCUERS FIND FIRST BODIES FROM CRASHED PHILIPPINE PLANE: Working in a thick fog, rescuers found the first bodies yesterday from a D C-9 airliner that crashed high on a steep Philippine mountain ridge. Rescuers climbing down a deep ravine found 11 bodies today at the rainsoaked crashed site. They offered little hope that any of the 104 people aboard the twin-engine plane had survived Monday's crash in the southern Philippines. U .S. Embassy officials confirmed today that at least two Americans were on board the plane, but did not release their identities. TWO PIE SLINGERS FREED, MAIN 'PRANKSTER GIVES GATES' CREAMING TOP RATING: Belgian police today re leased a man and a woman who threw a cream pie in Bill Gates' face, saying ~ Gates declined to press charges. M eanwhile, · the prank's instigator said he was thrilled at the sight of the Microsoft Corp. chairman ~ --• standing on a Brussels sidewalk Wednesday "as Bill Gates if bolted to the ground, '' wiping cream off his glasses and face. Noel Godin is well-known in Belgium as an "entarteur'' - someone who throws pies in famous peoples' faces as a form of harmless disrespect. BALLOON HEADS FOR BURMA, CHINA'S FLIGHT PERMISSION COMES TOO LATE: China gave three European balloonists permission yesterday to cross its airspace, but it was too late to save their round-the-world dreams and they drifted toward a landing in Bunn.a. The adventurers gave up their attempt at the world's first nonstop balloon flight around the globe on Wednesday after China balked at granting them clearance. The Chinese said the slow moving silver balloon would have been a safety risk to aircraft. The team expects to land in Burma today or tomorrow - either in the capital, Rangoon or ip the ancient city of Pegu. Italy blaines U.S. Marines in deaths They went unheard," the priest said, echoing CAVALESE, ftaly !AP) - Italian military leaders residents' claims that their complaints about the and prosecutors said yesterday a Marine jet was off course when it swooped down into a ski resort ground-hugging U .S. military flights were ignored. and sliced a gondola cable, sending 20 people to All 20 people aboard the gondola died Tuesday their deaths. They accused the U .S. crew of when the Marine EA-6B Prowler flew through hiding a flight recorder from investigators. the valley just The regio n's above the top Marine treetops, ~!icing officer said the the cable about pilot was on 300 feet above course, but the the ground. The u.s. military plane continued said the he had on to the U .S. been flying the air base in route for the first Aviano, 60 time. miles to the Villagers, .,, east. schoolchildren, ~ In Rome, official delegations and @Defense 1-- Minister NATO's :S Beniamioo southern Europe Andreatta told a air commander ~ joint session of attended a ~ Parliament, and men1orial service l 00 yards from Unidentified m embers of the military team investigating the later, the the gondola cable car accident leave the tribunal of Trento, Northern Italy defens~ . f station. · WI·th I oca1 prosecutors yesterday. comm1ss1ons after a meeting b h h b o The mayor of . . ot . c a~ ers, Cavalese a resort of 3,600 in the Dolomites that the Jet flew under the cable at this Alpme Mountahls declared yesterday a day of resort. H e contended it was as many as six miles mourning. ' off its assigned course. "The skies are n ot for the most powerful or for " There would n ot have been any danger had the the m ost aggressive. They are for everyone," the plane kept to the·rules," Andreatta said. "What Rev. Lorenzo Casarotti told the 1,000 mourners. happened is incomprehensible." "Today there are 20 people crying out against Brig. G en. Guy Vanderlinden, the top-ranking those wh~ took over our skies. The people of Marine in the region, said information indicated Cavalese, officials have cried out about this. the pilot was on course. g |