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RUN for life Pago C1 Bloomington-Normall, Illinois 50CI 32 pages, 4 sections Monday, May 29, 1995 Quate Kl 'l ft tDiousandl Russians fear the worst MOSCOW (AP) As many as 2,500 people remained trapped under the debris of wrecked buildings and many were feared dead after an earthquake flattened a town on an island in Russia's Far East At least 160 bodies were recovered by early Monday and the death toll was sure to rise. Rescue workers reported hearing moans from under the rubble in the town of Neftegorsk, which bore the brunt of the 7.5-magnitude quake that belted Sakhalin Island early Sunday while most residents Slept The ITAR-Tass news agency reported Monday that 300 people were confirmed killed in the quake, with around the same number hospitalized. The report could not be independently By early Monday, rescuers had recovered 160 bodies, including those of 11 children, and found 200 people alive in the ruins, said Russia's Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu. The ministry said rescuers had taken at least 144 people to the hospital after one of Russia's strongest quakes ever. The casualty toll was expected to rise as rescue teams combed the remote Pacific island site.

Eleonora Budrina, a Moscow-based spokeswoman for the ministry, said Sunday that 2,500 people were unaccounted for in the town and many were feared dead or injured. The quake, which struck the large Pacific island at 1:03 a.m. Sunday local time, was centered See QUAKE, back page Brother's memory at rest By Knight-RidderTribune service Memorial Day weekend once will again see Patsy McNlven visit Green-Wood Cemetery and stand before a white military tombstone that marks an empty grave. The tombstone bears the name of Patsy's brother, a poet turned helicopter pilot who was declared missing in action a quarter-century ago. Just this month, a communique from the Army informed her that a Vietnamese farmer named Thao Lao may have found her brother's dog tag.

"Mr. Loa stated that he found a dog tag, a ring, a tooth and some bone fragments," the communique said. "Dog tag possibly correlates to REFNO 1578-0-02. However, in- dividual's last name is spelled in-' correctly." REFNO 1578-0-02 is the case number for Patsy's brother, Capt Michael O'Donnell. The surname on the dog tag was "ODD-ONNELL," and the Army seemed to think the metal disk might be a forgery.

"We do not believe Mr. Lao is trustworthy," the communique said. Correct number Patsy figured that Lao might have somehow come up with her brother's name, but would have a hard time getting the right Social Security number. She went down to the basement and took out a cardboard box of her brother's papers to check the digits reported to be on the dog tag. The most precious papers in the box are her brother's writings.

A poem he wrote on New Year's Day 1970 is among the very best ever written about war, and to read it is to know his pain on losing com-! rades. On March 24, 1970, Michael took off from Kontum village in UH-1H helicopter 68-MC152P2. He flew from Vietnam into Cambodia and swooped down to rescue an eight-man recon team that was surrounded in a marshy ravine. His last words over the radio carried the exhilaration of a poet risking all to save more comrades from being lost 1 -jjjj Cigarette recall going unheeded Tho PantagraphSTEVE SMEDLEY Roller tubing? Amy Brown, 9, skated down the sidewalk on Locust Street on Bloomington's west side Sunday afternoon. Amy, a daughter of Gail Brown and Mark Kaufman, may look confused by her outfit, but said, "I just do It for the fun of it." Her friend, Melodee Peak, 5, daughter of Larry and Marilyn Peak, looked on.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) What if the nation's largest tobacco company called for a nationwide recall of about 8 billion cigarettes and inobody listened? Despite Mailgrams to vendors and despite a legion of company officials dispatched to collect the pigarettes, smokers and retailers alike seemed unruffled or unaware of Philip Morris USA's recall announcement Friday. While big grocery chains like Safeway in northern California pulled packs of Marlboro, Virginia Slims and Merit from their shelves, many smaller vendors around the country didn't They said nobody told them they should. "As far as business is concerned, We're not going to do anything until we hear from the company," said Raja Chamoun at AD Tobacco in San Francisco. "If we take Philip Morris cigarettes off the shelves, $te store would be empty." 'v. Mike Zeidan, owner of Michael's Mosquito invasion likely Pit Stop in San Francisco, took the same approach.

"I've heard the reports," he said. "But nobody told me not to sell them. You'd think you would hear from Philip Morris. But I didn't hear anything, so I didn't do anything." Philip Morris issued a statement Friday afternoon, at the start of the long holiday weekend, saying it was recalling an estimated 8 billion cigarettes because of possibly contaminated filters that could cause wheezing and eye, throat and nose irritation. The company expects to personally contact all 370,000 retailers nationwide by week's end, but there's no need to wait, he said: "Retailers should be pulling product off the shelf and waiting for the sales reps to get there." The company has sent Mailgrams See SMOKES, back page Wet weather creates a buzz By KURT ERICKSON Pantagraph staff Mother Nature has measured out the water and is turning up the heat hoping to pull an endless supply of mosquitoes out of her oven.

Betty Crocker would be proud. After heavy spring rain, the buzz among insect experts is that conditions in Central Illinois are ripe for a summer of swatting, itching and irritation. Although temperatures have been relatively mild a condition that has kept bugs mostly dormant oncoming warmth will complete the recipe to hatch a bumper crop of mosquitoes. "We're set up to have a tremendous mosquito population beginning" this week, said Phil Nixon, an tension entomologist with the University of Illinois. "It may be much larger than usual." See BUZZ, back page See MEMORY, back page osnian leader dies in attack HUNGARY SLOVENIA -Zagreb Serbs capture more U.N.

peacekeepers CROATIA xW 4l if A ti 1 TLJa. Sarajevo AS (montenegrs, Wfidetail Talbania SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Henegovina (AP) Bosnia's foreign minister and three colleagues were killed Sunday when rebel Serbs shot down their helicopter near the Bosnian-Croatian border. Serbs, defying escalating global condemnation, also seized more U.N. peacekeepers. Croatian Serb forces claimed responsibility for downing the chopper, the Croatian Serb news agency ISKRA reported.

The helicopter had traveled 10 miles from the besieged Bosnian government-held enclave of Bihac when it crashed just across the Croatian border. Bosnian Serbs, confident U.N. hostages would shield them from a repeat of last week's NATO air raids on ammunition dumps, seized 33 more peacekeepers, all British, near Gorazde in eastern Bosnia. Five of the captured peacekeepers were later in 1 1 -lr 1j Commandos prepare raid BONN, Germany (AP) American, British, French and Canadian commandos are preparing for possible raids to free U.N. peacekeepers held by Bosnian Serbs, the German newspaper Die Welt reported Monday.

The Serbs are holding more than 300 peacekeepers to prevent more NATO bombing attacks like the ones that hit ammunition depots near the Bosnian Serb headquarters outside Sarajevo last week. Die Welt's report, which named no sources, said the United States had sent a Special Forces commander to Italy, where teams of British SAS and Canadian commandos also were preparing for an operation to free hostages. French marine commandos are aboard the aircraft carrier Foch, which left for the Adriatic on Sunday, according to the report in Die Welt, a conservative paper that generally reflects the position of See RAID, back page El Serb-held Croatia Bosnian Serb 1 Government-Croat federation AP The PantagraphSTEVE SMEDLEY To the dogs Diana Zbornak of Camp Point, center, prepared to show "Georgia," a standard, poodle. The dog won Best of Variety and New Champion Sunday at the 1995 Annual Heart of Illinois Cluster Dog Show, which continues today at the McLean County Fairgrounds. See schedule of today's show on Page A5.

jured in a car accident Bosnian Serb TV said. By nightfall, the Serbs held 317 U.N. personnel, the U.N. said, including more than 200 peacekeepers, most of them French, who were surrounded near Sarajevo and 30 U.N. monitors, some of whom were chained to potential NATO targets.

As the Serbs upped the stakes, frustrated U.N. officials demanded their masters in the world's capitals tell them what to do; stand tough or back away in the most humiliating retreat of the United Nations' 50-year history. "We hope that we will get some guidance and backing," said U.N. spokesman Alexander See BOSNIA, back page C5 I D2 jZf' Abby Business Classified Comics C8 Sunday to become the first Canadian to win the Indianapolis 500. He took the lead with 10 laps remaining when Scott Goodyear was penalized for passing the pace car during the last caution period.

Story on Bl Twenty-SOmtrthlng entrepreneurs Jeff Maslouski and Erik Nelson borrowed money from their parents, charged thousands of dollars on a credit card and logged thousands of hours in sweat equity to open Sinewave Studios, 1101 W. Market St. Story on Dl while his mother, Mary Beth, makes her spelling bee debut Tuesday. Story on A3 A public hearing at 4 p.m. Wednesday will review a request from Don and Janet Sutton to develop Empire Center, a five-lot commercial development on about seven acres near the Internal Revenue Service facility.

Story on A3 Jacques Vllleneuve used caution under caution Partly cloudy, cooler. A 30 percent chance of rain. Details on back page Republican lawmakers' failure to reach agreement on worker's compensation changes before they adjourned Friday brought criticism from business groups but cheers from unions and lawyers. Story on A2 County governments in Central Illinois would be minimally impacted by an early retirement plan on Gov. Jim Edgar's desk.

In McLean County, an estimated 25 employees at least SO years old and with 20 years of service might be affected. Story on A2 National Guardsmen from Central Illinois along with volunteers and prison inmates sandbagged furiously on the shores of the Illinois River where the water had risen to critical stage by Sunday and had yet to crest. Story on A2 Noah Lauricella, a seventh-grader at Dwight Elementary School, will participate in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee this week in Washington, D.C., B6 C1 C6 C5 A8 1 Deaths Focus Entertainment Horoscope Opinion Sports IoTtItTeTrT The past week's winning numbers Lotto jackpot: $15 million Call The Pantagraph News Hotline for updated news stories from the newsroom. Call 829-9000 enter 1500 Km rMO WMSn mm 1 ESSSm mmm irmm i imm I 743 Plck3 7-6132-643 -3342-337 -074 2-591 1-511 2-406 6626 PlCk 4 2-3032 2-4013 75522-4640 1-3691 2-4134 -2076 2-8050 1-2970 2-7659 Little LOttO 414182325 3812 1724 2 4 17 2029 I LOttO I 1 2 15 27 29 37 33 36 39 40 48 49 Pantagraph main phone number: (303) 829-9411 The Pantagraph uses recycled paper and soy Ink A I 1 Copyright 1N9 TIm Pantagraph.