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A16 THE PANTA6RAPH, Saturday, April 23, 1994 111. 1 1-1 -T IJJ.ll.f.l.J.I.U. LJJA1 IP'I 1 I 1 I a I Today, mostly sunny, breezv and warmer. High In the lower 70s. Southwest wind Increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight partly cloudy. Milder. Low In the lower 50s. Sunday, partly sunny, windy and warmer. High in the lower 80s.

ngor A chance of thunderstorms Monday and Tuesday. Highs in the 70s north and 80s south. Lows In the upper 50s and 60s. Cooler Wednesday with a chance of showers. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s.

Lows in the 50s to lower 60s. MINNESOTA WISCONSIN WA DUm 6782 7 ILLINOIS Columbia 6685 688 I Cerbondato 5584 Mtwaukas ITS 6481 I INDIANA lndl? aj I 5182 MISSOURI yk KENTUCKY WWW RAIN 1 31-50 77777 THUNDERSTORMS 51-70 SNOW 71-90 lllllllllllMCE I 91-120 OopyDgM iaMCMHWMwavlo.lne. 7 Sled. be High pressure centered over the mid-Atlantic region will result In sunshine from the eastern Plains to the Eastern Seaboard. Highs in the 60s and 70s will cover much of the Ohio Valley, Midwest and Northeast with cooler 40s and 50s for parts of New England.

Warm and humid highs In the 80s will be common across the South and Gulf states where scattered thundershowers will occur. A couple bands of showers and thunderstorms are foreseen from the northern Great Lakes into the western Plains, as highs will reach the 80s. Cool, showery weather will cover much of the West. State 1 World Sunday Flagstaff QreenBey Hartford SmM HonoaJufiSW) 'HoueKn(3531) 71 61 67 67 63 82 62 86 Chgo.OHr Partly sunny, windy and warmer. Low 52.

High 83. Southwest wind 1 5 to 25 mph. HI La Pro 67 34 00 49 40 00 SI 30 00 S8 32 00 84 40 00 es 35 oo 63 40 00 in- in Rocktord Spmgfld Monday 'sets lie Partly sunny. Thunderstorms developing late. Low 59.

High 81 South wind 20, gusts 30 mph. I Nation HI Pre Ot AJbeny.N.Y. 61 30 cdy Jackeome(3650) 84 Juneau 68 KaneasCy(3632) 88 Let Vegas 87 UttJe Rook 72 UAnoelee(3K3) 71 Mtrnpftlt 76 Meml(3S34) 63 Meuke(363S) 62 Mple-8t 87 Mobit 81 NashvNe36511 68 NewOrlentr3S62) 88 62 68 OMahorneClry 77 Omaha 89 Ortendo(3S53) 67 Phledekhle(3638) 82 Phoenix (3639) 96 Tuesday 39 27 49 31 72 63 40 69 88 46 44 84 66 68 47 .01 59 74 33 38 88 .07 63 60 47 49 .04 69 39 66 .43 44 71 31 43 37 61 .02 44 40 45 .04 49 46 56 59 .01 Mostly cloudy. Thunderstorms early and late. Low 62.

High 79. South wind 12 to 25 mph. Moonrlse Sunday 6:26 p.m. Moonset Sunday 4:54 a.m. Sunset today 7:42 p.m.

Sunrise Sunday 6:08 a.m. Albuquerque SO 66 dr Aeeraown 69 32 dr Amerieo 76 44 ody Khorage3547) 62 38 ody AshevrXo 74 48 ok ArJenta(3S22) 60 86 olr AflenUcCty 81 37 Auetki SS 83 ody Bemmon3823) S3 47 BWngs 74 SO Bkrnlnghem 63 69 ody Bismarck 74 40 ody BolM 68 60 ody Boton(3524) 67 38 eft BrownevUe S3 63 dr BuMo(3548) 60 31 dr 47 30 .02 Casper 81 63 ody ChartwKxvS.C. 81 66 .86 dr 84 48 .39 dr Wednesday dr dr dr 2f Hr 2 dr dr ody ody cdy Hr dr 2 dr dr ody dr "3 cdy cdy cdy cdy Hf dr 2f 2 Ooudy. Cooler. Occasional showers.

Low 55. High 66. Wind shifting northerly 6 to 1 5 mph. Pittsburgh (3540) Porttond(3SM) Providenoe RalelgtvOurriem Rapid Cdy Reno Friday HI Lo Wthr Amaterdem 88 37 dr Athena 76 57 cdy Aucklend 61 43 ody Bangkok 96 81 ok Barbados 87 76 ody Barcelona 61 48 ody Beijing 77 62 Bedut 77 64 dr Belgrade 81 60 cdy Berlin 64 43 ok Bermude 88 76 dr Bogota 68 46 dr Brlabene 76 63 ody Bruaaele 86 48 dr Budepeet 66 39 ody B'Akee 63 60 dr Ceko 104 77 ody Calgary 73 39M Ceracae 88 61 ody Copenhegen 64 39 ody Dhahran 99 72 ody Dhaka 90 88 Dublin 60 39 FrankM 84 48 dr Hong Kong 84 78 dr Istanbul 64 60 ody Jeruialem 72 65 cdy Uabon 61 50 London 61 48 dr Madrid 64 46 ody Manila 96 77 dr Mexico Cky 70 62 cdy Montreal 49 32 Moscow 48 28 dr Nairobi 77 69 ck Nassau 68 73 ck NewOeM 93 64 Nicosia 91 63 cdy Osaka 79 69 ody Oslo 48 36 ck Parte 88 41 ody Rio 86 66 ody Rome 63 60 cdy Sen Juan 68 73 ody Santiago 77 64 cdy Sao Paulo 64 63 ody Sapporo 60 39 cdy Seoul 88 57 ody Singapore 88 77 Stockholm 62 36 ody Sydney 75 66 ody Taipei 64 72 ck Tel Aviv 77 59 cdy Tokyo 73 67 dr Toronto 60 32 Vancouver 61 46 Vienna 68 46 dr Warsaw 83 37 dr Bloomlngton-Normal High Low Yesterday 65 39 Yesterday's record 891980 Today's record 891980 231910 Precipitation Thursday Chertotte.N.C. 69 66 dr April Avg.

for Year Cheyenne 73 47 CNceao362Sl 67 34 Yesterday None to date April to date 3.02" 3.81" 5.79" Cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms. Low 52. High 64. East to southeast wind 1 0 to 20 mph.

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Producers should make the most of this weekend with a threat tor frequent, heavy wetting next week. 63 41 WkmnoKADel. Weather updatee available on CITYUNE for some U.8. cltlee. Call 829-9000, then First FuH Last Waning New April 18 25 May 2 3-9 10 1st above.

enter the lour-dlgrl number lor the dty from NIXON fry, ill jfJl? -j ilc. recovery. Nixon was defeated by John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election after serving as a Republican congressman, senator and vice president He was elected the 37th president in 1968. In 1974, under the cloud of the Watergate scandal, he became the first president to resign.

Survivors include daughters Tricia and Julie, sons-in-law Edward F. Cox and David Eisenhower, and grandchildren Christopher Cox and Jennie Elizabeth, Alex Richard and Melanie respirator. He had left a living will, and several news organizations reported that it included instructions that he not be resuscitated. Nixon's stroke apparently was the result of a blood clot that formed in his heart and moved to the brain's middle cerebral artery. The blockage deprived this crucial cranial region of oxygen, damaging some brain tissue and causing the swelling.

Nixon had been working on his latest book when he was stricken. People lined up during the week at the Nixon Library in California to write down their wishes for his jFrom A1 bright side and unable to speak even before he slipped into the toma Thursday. ,1 In the hours after the stroke, doctors said Nixon was out of grave danger, alert and in good Spirits. He was moved out of intensive care briefly Tuesday, but returned two hours later when doctors discovered a swelling of ''the brain. ti Doctors sometimes try to reduce brain swelling after a stroke by 'using a respirator to speed up breathing.

Nixon was not put on a r.fi -n -s" LEGACY From A1 and nastiness. I think he'll be remembered for those things." Yet the Wesleyan professor also credited Nixon for creating the Environmental Protection Agency and, after the Vietnam War was concluded, exercising restraint in the use of U.S. forces around the world. "That was an outstanding policy and probably saved thousands of lives," Weis said, adding that Nixon was "far more liberal" than presidents Reagan or Bush. "Nixon was the height of the imperial presidency," Weis said.

"He was probably the most powerful president in history. But I call him the Darth Vader of American politics because although he had courage and intelligence, he succumbed to the dark side of power." Although McLean County has been a Republican stronghold for years, it appears Nixon never visited Bloomington-Normal. According to Pantagraph files, Nixon visited Melvin in May 1960 when he was vice president to participate in Les Arends Day, which honored the U.S. representative who served that district for 26 years. Later that year, in September, Nixon spoke to a crowd at Bradley University In Peoria while on his Nixon's life one of contradictions Pantagrapn Me phok WASHINGTON, D.C.

(AP) -'Richard M. Nixon was the 37th 'president of the United States and ''the only one ever to resign. An Richard Nixon appeared in Springfield Aug. 19, 1968, in the maiden rally of his first successful presidential campaign. ambitious and enigmatic political figure, he thawed relations with Communist world but could iever escape the stain of the Wa tergate scandal that drove him om office.

Nixon was president from Jan. Leadership Research Center, which honored Everett Dirksen, former U.S. senator from Illinois. About a month after that visit a U.S. Senate investigating committee learned that Nixon secretly had made tape recordings of conversations in his White House offices.

It was those tapes that provided evidence that Nixon was involved in the Watergate cover-up that precipitated his downfall. presidential campaign, which he lost to John F. Kennedy. As president, Nixon visited Springfield in 1971 to sign a bill establishing Abraham Lincoln's Springfield home as a national historical site. In June 1973, several months after beginning his second term as president Nixon helped lay the cornerstone to the Pekin Public Library and Dirksen Congressional .20, 1969 to Aug.

9, 1974, when he quit to avoid certain impeachment World remembers Nixon as statesman 'His farewell salute as he left -Washington would be one of the enduring images of the century. For nearly half a century, Nixon jaroused strong passions as a con-1 r'Jgressman, senator, vice president president, and even in his fbrced retirement To the end, he sought influence world affairs through extensive travel, books, articles and Speeches. Early on, he established a repu-l 'tetion as a communist hunter and political gutfighter. And yet he evoIved into the president who tjjforged links with China, pursued detente with the Soviet Union, and I $egan the U.S. withdrawal from the yietnam War.

ig A brooding and combative pres-I Jident, Nixon left behind a core of 4 Royalists who insisted he did noth-igng other presidents hadn't and i detractors who recoiled at the very supportive of Israel, he Was. aware of Egypt's importance in settling Middle East problems." Henry Kissinger, Nixon's secretary of state, said: "Richard Nixon was actually very idealistic. "His great hero among America.n presidents was Woodrow Wilson," Kissinger told CNN. "But he was Washington office complex that housed the Democratic National Committee. Agents hired by the White House broke in to plant wiretaps.

When the break-in came to light, Nixon and his closest aides tried to cover it up. Subsequently the term "Watergate" came to embrace a collection of official misdeeds. "While I was not involved in the decision to conduct the break-in, I should have set a higher standard for the conduct of the people who participated in my campaign and administration," Nixon wrote in one of his last books, "In the Arena." "I should have established a moral tone that would have made such actions unthinkable. I did not" That was as close as he would permit himself to come to confessing wrongdoing. At his side during a long, turbulent political career was his wife, the former Thelma Catherine Ryan, known by the nickname Pat She died of lung cancer on June 22, 1993, the day after their 53rd wedding anniversary.

Virtual exile The Nixons lived virtual exile in San Clemente, for more than five years after his resignation, then moved east in 1980 to be near their grandchildren, Jennie, Melanie and Alex Eisenhower and Christopher Cox. Nixon resigned after Republican lawmakers told him they could not win an impeachment trial in the Senate that he would become the first president ever thrown out of office. He had been president for five years, 201 days. "It has become evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough political base in the Congress," Nixon told a television audience of more than 100 million the night before. The whole nation, it seemed, was tuned in.

In the Kennedy Center In Washington, a performance of the Bolshoi Ballet was interrupted while TV sets were wheeled on stage. A month later, the country was torn when Nixon's successor, Gerald R. Ford, issued a pardon for all crimes that Nixon "committed or may have committed or taken part in," during his presidency. Ford noted that Nixon had become liable "to possible indictment and trial." "Next to the resignation, accepting the pardon was the most painful decision of my political career," Nixon said later. Fearing that Nixon would destroy evidence of wrongdoing, Congress seized the 8,000 hours of tape recordings and 42 million pages of documents created during his administration.

Nixon fought the rest of his life to keep some of them from public scrutiny. At first, the Watergate break-in on June 17, 1972, failed to get much attention and the White House appeared successful In deflecting responsibility. Not until March 1973 did details emerge that pointed to a cover-up reaching into the Oval Office. For the next 17 agonizing months, Nixon denied taking part in the cover-up denials that finally were contradicted by his own secret tape recordings when the Supreme Court forced him to yield them to Watergate prosecutors. The tapes confirmed the tales of extortion, cover-up and Intrigue related by Nixon associates, like counsel John Dean, to congressional investigators and special prosecutors.

Later Nixon would say his biggest mistake was in not destroying the tapes. also a realist He teit idealism am not prohibit, and indeed required, an understanding of the world as it was. And he patiently studied the world as it was and then put his Ideals into the service of his ysis, and that enabled him to be so consistent and to be so resilient Sen. Robert Dole, was one of many people who said Nixon's other achievements would eventually outshine the Watergate scandal that clouded his renutation. Nixon, who carved out a role for himself as an elder statesman after resigning in 1974, has been a frequent visitor to Russia, making 10 trips in 35 years.

In 1972, Nixon became the first American president to spend a night at the Kremlin. Since the 1991. Soviet collapse, Nixon has strongly urged the United States to support Russia's reformers, Including Yeltsin. In France, Nixon was admired for his realism, a French academic said before his death. "Nixon seemed an exception to American diplomacy, compared to Truman, Carter, Reagan.

He seemed the least ideological, the most cynical, and the French appreciate that," said Philippe Moreau de Farges, a researcher at the French Institute of International Relations. Tahseen Bashir, spokesman of former President Anwar Sadat of Egypt recalled: he was a president who had insight to the American role in the world and the need to. have balance to stabilize world affairs. While Nixon was By Associated Press Richard Nixon's foreign policy legacy was recalled abroad in the former president's final days. China called him an "old friend of the Chinese people" and Boris Yeltsin praised his "great political experience." The official Xinhua News Agency, in reporting his death late Friday, recalled Nixon's famed February 1972 breakthrough visit to Beijing that began the rap-prochment between the United States and China.

It noted that Nixon visited China several times later "as an old friend of the Chinese people." Nixon last visited China in April 1993, when he met with China's top leadership to stress the need to improve relations with the United States. The Russian president sent a telegram to Nixon wishing him a speedy recovery from a major stroke he suffered Monday. He praised Nixon for his efforts at "normalizing Russian-American relations" and his "great political experience." mention of his name. Yis-i-v i 1 TICKy LFICK I To those, he was always the JrJark-visaged "Tricky Dick" who microphones around the Office to record conversa-J (ions, who ordered taps on the telephones of suspected leakers, i formulated enemies' lists and llbid not hesitate to use the power of the government to retaliate opponents, and who was "helped plot the Watergate cover-up. Watergate got its name from the But Rep.

Ray Thornton, who helped draft the articles of impeachment that the House Judiciary Committee adopted against Nixon in 1974, said through a spokeswoman: "President Nixon did not distinguish between the nation's interest and his personal interest; he believed that any threat to either had to be crushed.".