Show Mi1 The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday May Jl Microsoft scraps disputed merger SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft Corp called off its proposed i'L -- IH hiu- - h iv fi r'1 ll'i 1M t r-- VI r -- iu L 11 1 It n-- ' would have been the biggest software mciger ever “It's unfortunate that after such a broad government review the merger faced additional months of uncertainty in the courts" said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates a National Rifle Association was chastened after a wecklong battle with President Clinton and former President Bush there was little evidence at its annual meeting ' ''x t :l V' ‘I r£ ” 'W k - - - The nation's largest organization was expected to retain its hard-lin- e leadership in its annual election And on the convention floor concern about the NRA's battered image was focused on what members perceive as a hostile news media — not on leaders who have comd plained about government thugs" NRA members at least those attending the annual meeting seem largely behind the leadership team headed by Executive Vice President Wayne LaPicrre who wrote the statement that angered Ginton and Bush And almost universally they believe they have been misunderstood unfairly labeled “gun nuts" and judged guilty by association of the bombing of the goals could not wait until the government's lawsuit was resolved’’ Scott Cook chairman of Intuit said: “The delays caused by the government’s prolonged review and litigation would cost both companies valuable time" In its suit filed in San Francisco v I V I 'v C i -- tel it hangs on the wan outside a meeting of the Nevada State Assembly's An alien poster Nevada encounter tourism committee Friday in Las Vegas A bill to rename state Route 375 'Extraterrestrial Alien Highway' to exploit numerous alleged UFO sightings in the remote desert region was passed by the committee lai ti : ri Ji Jiii‘ :ri' -- V -- 10 vil 10 Midwest breaking out the sandbags HARTSBURG Mo (AP) — Conjuring memories of the '93 floods sandbags and volunteers were out in force Friday as the Missouri River roared toward crests up jo 16 feet above flood stage and the Mississippi crept up the steps to St Louis1 Gateway 400 D ear " roar v St Joseph pro- - claimed after his community built a levee of crushed rock and sandbags in a dozen-hospan ending at daybreak Friday “We’re still dry’’ Pitching in is just “part of living around” the Missouri volun teer Kevin Nahlcr added To the cast workers put up 17 21ft ft !br uri -- IK Hi no i :i ui ft federal building in Oklahoma to help save their houses” said Paul Brauch sweating over a sandpilc just two weeks after his own family got flooded out With high crests expected along c a stretch of the Missouri from Boonvillc cast to St Charles where it flows into the Mississippi officials ordered people in e areas to get out flood-pron- Jefferson Qty 23 “Some aren’t leaving 32ft ft of course but a lot of them left even before notification They've been ur (it far-fetch- ed 2(Xl-mil- IWSMlP here” Hartsburg Mayor Mike Rodemeyer 2xr O B oo &vr stg$' end flood dsptfco Arch ‘We're still Rain totals trough May 18 1995 The flood threat in the Midwest through it before" said Petra Haws emergency management spokeswoman for St Charles another section of St Louis’ Madison and St Clair where officials said 1200 people were forced from their homes Down river in Kimmswick Mo an army of volunteers was filling and stacking sandbags “I came over to help others and deaths have been blamed on the high water Across the Mississippi Federal Emergency Management Agency officials set up a command post in Collinsville 111 to assess damage in two of the worst hit counties: floodwall as the Mississippi continued its slow rise under bright sunshine This week’s storms have forced rivets and creeks across the Midwest beyond their banks Two lIMkons -- 1989 nv ni i 'J n- - re T 1991 26 127 1992 County As for those crests due this weekend Army Corps of Engineers spokesman George Hanley was succinct: “Bad Bad Super bad” 1993 rr 1994 29 19 1995 'Figures rounded In u one counterpoint to the vailing altitude someone led stacks of mock advertisements on tables in the convention cenici They show a profile of Oklahoma City bombing suspect imolliv McVeigh with the familial Inc line: “I Am The NRA" I City “This thing down in Oklahoma City had nothing to do with guns: it had nothing to do with militia really" said Donald Gadhaw a retired chemist who lives in King-ma- n Ariz and has been an NRA member about six years Like everyone else here Gad-basaid he abhorred the bombing and resented any implication that the NRA shared responsibility “There's a lot of good honest American citizens who are not d gun nuts” he said of the estimated 20000 people attending the annual gathering w wild-eye- A Time-CN- poll touml that N 17 percent of American gun nwiicix say they are in overall agiccmcnl with the NRA — down 211 percent from a survey taken in Dcccmlvi 1989 which found f7 pciccul overall support for NRA positions But only one in live gun owucis surveyed think federal agents use “storm trooper tactics to take pco pie's guns away” according in the nationwide telephone (Mill ul (IH gun owners taken May 7 x 1 upamemdtr I mm in Business OtahStBtB The 1993 floods claimed 48 lives in nine Midwest states and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage Oiw-di- y Conference on Proven Success Strategies for Women-owne-d Businesses NEW YORK (AP) — The police department 'already contending with corruption scandals and record numbers of suicides warned officers attending a memorial ceremony in Washing- 1 How toSelup and Operate a which was attended by widows and relatives of dead officers from ment’s "Tailhook” scandal around the country Washington police also are inves“To take an event that is tigating Detectives will review hotel designed to honor the memory of registries to try to identify city police officers who have given and desecrate it I officers accused of participating in' their lives last weekend’s high jinks Police can’t imagine what they were Commissioner William Bratton thinking” New York Mayor said Friday Rudolph Giuliani said So far no one has been arrested New As many as 400 York officers had traveled to the or disciplined and no officer has capital for a vigil for slain col- come forward to describe what he leagues held at the National Law saw Washington Police Chief Enforcement Memorial President Fred Thomas said Friday that no Clinton joined an estimated 8000 formal reports had been filed officers for Monday’s ceremony regarding the allegations ics are calling the police depart- ton DC to leave their guns pi 'i 13 1990 A i: at members “jack-booic- AP photo VM ion National Rifle Association membership is rebounding after a slump in the early 1990s gun-owner- s’ A' 0 It was Microsoft’s decision to call it off and Gates and other Microsoft executives told him about it Friday Cook said “They were uncomfortable proceeding with litigation because of the timing We were comfortable with the litigation because we thought we would win” Cook said “And frankly I’m disappointed d NDA Saturday L- i ng PHOENIX (AP) — ir the ‘ on it industry experiencing lots of change Progress toward realizing our fast-pace- U iA Page 5 gun-righ- ts Meeting would likely lead to higher prices and less innovation in the growing market for personal finance software Microsoft is the world's largest producer of computer software Intuit based in Menlo Park Calif is the leading developer of personal finance small business accounting and tax preparation software Microsoft will pay Intuit S4625 million for canceling the deal Cook said adding that his company already spent about $4 million the popular Quicken personal finance program The deal announced seven months ago "This is Tourism that division contended Microsoft’s takeover of Intuit merger with Intuit Inc on Saturday rather than endure months of antitrust litigation with the Justice Department The government sued 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