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ooOsiGjoQruo 86 pages, 5 sections THURSDAY, August 27, 1998 Bloomington-Normal, Illinois Special section inside First day of school sees tears, art smocks 5j Kappa eyes strip club restaurant By PETE FALCONE Regional news editor KAPPA Negotiations are under way to bring a new $600,000 building with separate facilities for a family restaurant and adult entertainment to the current Kappa Tap Grill site, The Pantagraph has learned. In exchange for allowing the strip club to continue, the village would receive 3 per- i cent of the businesses' revenue ayaJaajaaaaaaJ 2 percent from a new enter- Tpp.qpr-S dpniec tainment tax-and 1 percent in rs denied sales tax. The village also will hcluor "cense seek assurances that "quality" Back page business is conducted in the community of 150 people who have struggled with what to do about two strip clubs in their tiny town. Negotiations between attorney Leo Ghantous, who represents owners of the proposed facility, and village attorney Martin O'Connor have centered on the new building in exchange for guarantees of an upscale business with upscale clientele, The Pantagraph has learned. "If they are willing to sit down and talk to us about allowing us to remain in business, we have no objection to paying an additional tax," Ghantous said See KAPPA, back page 3 1 IV 3 I Samantha's mom, Faye, has two kindergartners to look after, as Samantha's brother, C.J., also begins school, but in Mrs.

Wolfe's class. "It's not a new experience. But this is my baby," she says, pointing to C.J. Not only is this his first day of kindergarten, it's his first day as a 5-year-old. "But I look forward to having a few hours to myself at home." Suddenly, Samantha is back, clinging to her mother's leg and worried because she doesn't know where she is supposed to stand.

They leave to find Mrs. Meeker's cone. C.J. doesn't have anything to say yet, staring down at his black gym shoes, which happen to be on the wrong feet. Meanwhile, Jerica Watkins, 5, predicts good things are in store for the year.

"I like being in school. I want to learn alphabets and numbers," she says. She also remembers what her mother told her before heading to Mrs. Meeker's class: "No fighting. Pay attention.

And if I don't, I can't go outside." See SCHOOL, Page AS By PAIGE FUMO Pantagraph staff Three orange cones lined up on the Irving Elementary School playground Wednesday mark the spot of a monumental occasion for about 45 of the Bloom-ington school's 450 students: the first day of kindergarten. Mild chaos reigns as 5-year-olds begin learning the routine of school, which starts by forming lines behind the cones, one for each kindergarten teacher. Cameras snap, shoes are tied, last-minute instructions are delivered, and tears parents' and children's are dried. Kaileigh Ayers is excited, especially because her best friend, Samantha Bradford, will be with her in Mrs. Meeker's class.

As Kaileigh rapidly explains that she has to bring a smock to school "in case we paint," that younger sister Brooke didn't want her to go to school, and that she has a new kitten, Samantha bounces up an'd grabs Kaileigh's hand. Standing quietly behind Kaileigh is her father, Harry. "This makes me feel old," he says. The PanlagraphLORI ANN COOK Aaron McGuffin tried to get some reassurance from his father, Delaney, as kindergarten students lined up for the first day of school at Irving Elementary School in Bloomington. Bonn 1 EaRfiraraPTonMEP L.I Ra The anatomy of a HURRICANE How hurricanes develop in the Atlantic Ocean: Hurricane dissipates Atlantic Ocean over land.

Thunderstorms begin growing in an area over the tropical Atlantic. Acting like a machine, a hurricane converts warm ocean air into destructive storms that can produce winds over 1 55 mph. UjLulaJU By Knight Ridder Newspapers WILMINGTON, N.C. Drilling ashore at a place with a dreadfully accurate name, Hurricane Bonnie blasted Cape Fear and surrounding cities Wednesday. Then, it virtually stalled in place, pummeling the region over and over, deep into the night.

It was the third time in two years that a major hurricane assaulted the same people in the same spot. A wall of water crashed into seaside homes and raced up Winds top 74 mph, becomes a hurricane. I Winds reach i 39 mph, Thunderstorms swirl, become classified as 5 tropical storm. a tropical A look at the inside of a hurricane: A depression. Wind flowing from the center of the storm curves counter clockwiser narrow In the storm's center air sinks i at 20 to 40 feet per minute, i and calm winds.

rivers. Winds gust-ing to 130 mph splin More coverage Page A7 V3 Cirrostratus clouds cap the storm. I The storm surge Warm humid aftj is larger at the riant sidel Bands of thunderstorms spiraling around the center make up the hurricane, ranging 3 to 30 miles wide and 50 to 300 miles long. Review of King death ordered WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) Attorney General Janet Reno reopened the invesj tigation of the 30-year-old assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

on Wednesday, focusing on two allej gations of a conspiracy beyond James! Earl Ray. i The limited review announced Wednesday stops well short of the nai tional commission sought by the civi rights leader's widow, Coretta Scott King. Nevertheless, she welcomed the probe "as a first step towards revealing the truth." "I hope this inquiry will open a wider investigation of all pertinent leads," she said. "When this is accomplished, our family and the American people will at last have the satisfaction that all rele; vant evidence has been fully In a brief written announcement, Reno said, "We hope this review will provide answers to new questions that have been raised about a tragedy that still haunts' our nation." She promised a report orf the findings. Despite a narrow initial focus on sepa rate allegations by a retired FBI agent and a former Memphis, bar own er, "the evidence gathered by the inquiry will be followed wherever it may the Justice Department said.

In meetings last spring with Reno and See KING, back page Announcement response mixed By SHARON K. WOULFE Pantagraph staff The Justice Department announcement that it will review the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. got mixed reviews Wednesday from commu: nity leaders. "I am not sure how to react. I am not sure any good is going to come out of any further investigation," said Leonard Bell, who is vice chairman of the Bloomington Human Relations Commission.

"It is always good to know the truthi but at this point, how do you know what is true? People are coming up with new evidence. Where was this evidence 30 years ago? I am most puzzled," Bell said. "The question is, 'Was that information known 30 years ago and not followed up "If the answers are available, you should go after the answers." See RESPONSE, back page spirals inwara i speeding up Winds spiral upward in the eye wall, a thick layer of clouds surrounding the calm eye. of the eye as it approaches land as it moves toward the center. SOU RCEiThe Weather Book; The Oceans Atas; AP research The satellite view showed Bonnie at 4 p.m.

Wednesday. tered trees, sliced power lines, transformed billboards into kites. Torrents of rain slashed horizontally, like bullets. No immediate word surfaced concerning casualties, but some injuries seemed inevitable. "I can see the trees bending over," said Joanne Nemeti, a Miami native who now lives in Castle Hayne, N.C, near Wilmington.

"It's pretty bad, and we haven't had the worst of it yet." Quite true. Bonnie's eye the central core of the powerful, 400-mile-wide storm crawled through the well-populated lowlands Wednesday night. Forecasters worried that Bonnie could stall over eastern North Carolina until tonight or even longer. "This could create an enormous flood problem," said Ed See BONNIE, Page A7 U.S. has long fascination with hurricanes more than $30 billion.

Just a few years earlier, Hugo left more than $7 billion damage in its wake after slamming into South Carolina, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and other Caribbean islands. Those storms, like today's, arrived after days of warnings, resulting in relatively low death tolls 26 for Andrew and 56 in the case of Hugo. It wasn't always that way. WASHINGTON, D.C.

(AP) With Hurricane Bonnie battering North Texas flooded by Tropical Storm Charley and Hurricane Danielle gaining strength, Americans are being firmly reminded of the impact such storms can have. The nation's most vivid recent images are those from 1992's Hurricane Andrew, which demolished large sections of South Florida and Louisiana and set a record as the nation's costliest hurricane, with damage of On Sept. 8, 1900, a hurricane struck Galveston, Texas, without warning, leveling the city. The total number of people killed has never been determined, but estimates range from 6,000 to 12,000. The earliest hurricane report comes from Christopher Columbus, who encountered a tropical storm on his second voyage to the new world on July 16, 1494.

See LONG, Page A7 Libya to turn over Lockerbie suspects for Netherlands trial put on trial if they were willing to go themselves; they did not accept the idea. A Clinton administration official said: "If this means that the Libyans are willing to turn over the two suspects to Dutch authorities, we would consider this a positive development." Both side involved would see a trial in the Netherlands as a victory. Libya has demanded a trial on "neutral" ground, and has sought an end sanctions imposed in 1992, which the agreement is expected to bring. CAIRO, Egypt (AP) A decade after Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Scotland, Libya on Wednesday issued a qualified acceptance of a U.S.-British compromise to try two suspects in the Netherlands, urging that U.N. sanctions against Libya be lifted.

The Libyan Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it "announces its acceptance of the development in the positions of the governments of the United Kingdom and the United States" and "stresses the necessity to lift the sanctions." The suspects cannot be extradited from the Netherlands. If found guilty, they would serve their sentences in the United Kingdom. In its statement, Libya urged the United States and Britain not to impose conditions which might block the trial." The compromise plan, a decade in the making, comes after Britain and the United States had long insisted the trial be held in one of their territories. For its part, Libya previously suggested that the men could be Two Libyan suspects Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah are accused of planting a bomb aboard the plane, which blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988, killing 270 people.

Among the dead were 189 Americans. The statement made no specific reference to the handing over of the suspects. Under the U.S.-British plan, the two men would be tried in the Netherlands, but under Scottish law and by a panel of three Scottish judges. J- Clarence Brunenmeyer, the lone living member of Washington High School first tootball team, and many ex-players are expected to attend the opener of the 75th anniversary season Friday. Story on Bl Area cross country teams' preparation for the fall season has begun.

Bloomington's Christin Wurth and Eureka's Heidi Knapp are the top returning area girls, while Prairie Central's Ryan Young will be looking to defend his Class A boys title. Story on B2 Illinois Power failed in its attempt to have a lawsuit over the value of the Clinton nuclear power plant dismissed, when Circuit Judge Frank Lincoln of Tuscola heard and denied the request. Story on A2 Steve Noe has received enough money to move his mobile home from Normal to Bloomington, thanks to donations he received after a story in The Pantagraph, but some work remains. Story on A3 Plenty of sunshine. High 85.

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