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Restaurant fire kills
29 in Chinese hotel
1 SHENZHEN, China — Thick,
black smoke from a restaurant
fire in southern China spread to
an upstairs hotel, killing 29 peo
ple — some suffocating and oth
ers leaping to their deaths trying
to escape.
Another 13 people were in
jured, at least two seriously, said
Li Xiaogan, a local government
spokesman in Shenzhen, a boom
ing city near the Hong Kong bor
der and the scene of some of
mainland China’s worst fires.
The fire started just before 2
a.m. in the Fatty Hotpot City
restaurant on the second floor of
a nine-story building.
Floods surge
in midwest
2DENISON, Iowa — Motel
guests and residents scurried
for higher ground early today af
ter as much as 10 inches of rain
caused flooding in western Iowa.
Rain tapered off after dawn,
but a flash flood warning re
mained in effect for parts of the
area.
Both the Boyer and East Boyer
rivers rose out of their banks after
a wave of heavy thunderstorms
rolled in from Nebraska.
Overnight rainfall amounts were
generally 5 to 6 inches, with 10.2
inches at Charter Oak, the Na
tional Weather Service said.
About 75 to 100 people were
evacuated from 45 homes and the
Park Motel in Denison.
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Boy, 13, charged with
killing girl
3 LIVERPOOL, England — A 13
year-old boy charged with
killing a 9-year-old girl appeared
briefly in court Wednesday and
was ordered detained pending
further proceedings.
The boy, who cannot be iden
tified for legal reasons, spoke
only to confirm his name.
But his attorney, Frank Dillon,
said afterwards that the boy has
denied the charge.
The body of Jade Matthews
was found July 8 on a railway
line. Police said she had been
beaten to death.
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Politics in Bosnia
still on shaky terms
4BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — A
top U.S. envoy trying to force
Radovan Karadzic from power in
Bosnia took his mission Wednes
day to Serbia’s president — the
one Balkan politician who could
do the job but has so far avoided
it.
Richard Holbrooke negotiated
the agreement last year that
brought peace and a 50,000-sol
dier, NATO-led force to Bosnia.
Now, he’s reportedly armed with
a threat to reimpose economic
sanctions if Serbian President
Slobodan ’ Milosevic doesn’t
deliver Karadzic, his former pro
tege.
Army investigates red
swastikas on doors
5FORT BRAGG, N.C. — In the
latest evidence of racism at
Fort Bragg, red swastikas were
painted in an Army barracks
where black soldiers live.
Swastikas were found spray
painted Tuesday on eight doors
inside a barracks for enlisted men
and noncommissioned officers
with the 950-man 7th Special
Forces Group. Black soldiers live
in six of the vandalized rooms;
the other two rooms are vacant.
Army investigators were trying
to determine whether the vandal
ism was racially motivated, and
if someone outside the unit could
have entered the building.
OJ Simpson civic trial
gets second judge
6SANTA MONICA, Calif.—
The judge who has heard pre
trial motions in the civil wrong
ful death suit against O.J. Simp
son was removed from the case
Wednesday, one day after he was
appointed to preside at the trial.
Superior Court Judge Alan
Haber of Santa Monica was re
moved because the defense did
n’t like him.
“Each party gets one pre-emp
tive challenge on a judge,” said
Rosie Ruiz, spokeswoman for the
Los Angeles County Superior
Court public information office.
A challenge filed by Simpson
lawyer Robert Baker said Simp
son believes he “cannot have a
fair and impartial trial before”
Haber.
Guard tries to break
into Stallone estate
7MIAMI — A night watchman
at Sylvester Stallone’s $8 mil
lion estate was stabbed and shot
early Wednesday in what police
believe was a foiled break-in
attempt by another security
guard.
Responding to a 911 call just
after 5 a.m., police found a blood
ied Corey Wade, 22, walking
away from the compound in the
trendy Coconut Grove area on
Biscayne Bay.
Wade, who was due at work at
7 a.m., told officers he had been
in a fight with a fellow guard and
had shot and stabbed him.
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Father mows son’s room;
charged with assault
BELTON, Mo. (AP) — A boy who wanted
to sleep rather than mow the lawn received
a rude awakening when his father started
up the mower in his bedroom.
Rickey Worthley woke up his son
Michael at 6 a.m. Saturday to mow the
lawn, but the 17-year-old told him to go
away, saying it was too early.
His father returned, this time with the
mower. He pushed it through the door and
started it up, cutting clumps from the bed
room carpet, said police Sgt. Randy Scott.
Michael threw a fan at the mower and his
father left. The boy called police, who ar
rested Worthley and charged him with as
sault. No one was injured.
Airsickness bags used
to prevent crash
MEDFORD (AP)— A quick-thinking pilot
used airsickness bags to help avert an acci
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dent after his plane’s electrical system and
radio died.
Daryl Dickerson scrawled notes on the
white bags and tossed them from the small
plane to people below as he and instructor
Ray Keough flew over the Grants Pass air
port in Merlin.
“Is our gear down and locked?” Dicker
son wrote. He asked people to cross their
arms if the wheels weren’t down.
“About 10 people crossed their arms,” he
said. “We knew we were in trouble.”
But Dickerson, 44, didn’t panic. He even
sent down a joke: “Send the bags back, we
might need them.”
He then headed for Rogue Valley Intema
tional-Medford Airport, which is equipped
to deal with emergency landings. On the
way, Dickerson and Keough dropped the
wheels manually.
They saw a steady green light at the air
port, giving them the OK to land. They land
ed safely Monday morning.
Sculptor depicts
nude politicians
ESSEX, Conn. — If President Clinton and
Bob Dole take time from their campaign
schedules to view a sculpture show, they
might find an issue they could agree on —
restoring the fig leaf.
The current Democratic and Republican
standard-bearers are depicted in an exhibi
tion of 28 bronze nudes that also shows
Ronald Reagan, House Speaker Newt Gin
grich and First Lady Hillary Clinton.
“That’s who we are underneath,” said
sculptor Nicholas Swearer, “Clothing adds
a layer of psychological protection.”
The lack of working models apparently
left much to the artist’s imagination.
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