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FORECAST TODAY TUESDAY Mostly sunny with a Partly sunny with a s. chance of storms late chance of storms late High 86 High 87 ; Monday Low 65 Low 6 5 July 24, 1 Weather Details 16D mm* PINAL / VOL. 113 NO. 196 THE NEWSPAPER OF EASTERN IOWA CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA 50 CENTS Eastern Iowa carries a torch for Olympic flame By Val Swinton relations bonanza for will pass through all Gazette staff writer Cedar Rapids. quadrants of the city. • Free 1996 Olympic Torch Relay route Cedar Rapids landed an Olympic plum maps are available to consumers from the Sunday when the Atlanta Committee for "It's a great opportu- • The 1996 Olympic Torch Relay City officials found OLYMPIC RUN nity for us to showcase travels through 42 states and out last week they had Coca-Cola Co. by calling 1-(800) • the Olympic Games announced the city Washington, D.C. 4-96-COKE. would be an overnight stop for the 1996 Cedar Rapids and East- been tabbed for an MINN. Austin ern Iowa to the rest of • The flame is carried by 10,000 Olympic Torch Relay. overnight stop, the only • the nation and, in fact, torchbearers. discuss the torch relay. Margaret Filber, The, flame will pass through Cedar • It travels an average of 182 miles overnight stay by the the rest of the world," torch relay in Iowa. who chairs the Iowa City organizing • • Rapids, Iowa City, Waterloo, Cedar Falls he said. a day; 14 miles per hour; 13.5 hours a committee, said it is appropriate the and Keokuk on its way through Iowa in day. The torch relay is ten- CedaWaterlS\r Fallot / National and interna- • Each runner will carry the torch tatively scheduled to torch should pass through Iowa City Cedar Rapids • Map of U.S. route, 2B tional media will ac- about one kilometer. arrive at 9 p.m. May 30 during Iowa's sesquicentennial year and company the torch re- and depart about 8:30 she said she hopes the Iowa City route Iowa City « May 1996. The exact route has yet to be lay in a 30-vehicle convoy that includes a.m. the next day. The city withheld an will include the Old Capitol. determined. three semi trailers full of equipment and announcement until an official announce- Keokuk" United Way chapters are playing an Matt Paul, assistant to the Cedar Rap- material, he said. ment was made by the Olympic commit- tee on network television on Sunday. integral part in the torch relay and the ids mayor, said the overnight stop will Cedar Rapids has allocated $10,000 out United Way of East Central Iowa is in M0. attract a crowd larger than that brought of the hotel-motel tax fund to pay for the Iowa City officials said they would charge of planning the Cedar Rapids Hannibal in by RAGBRAI and would be a public event, which will include a parade that have a brief meeting at 9 a.m. today to event. Gazette map U.N. combat unit sent to Sarajevo SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzego- an Muslims, to put off a vote on ISSING PERSONS vina (AP) — In a new get-tough the issue. Panetta said that, if approach, the United Nations the arms embargo bill "came to ordered the first combat unit the president in a kind of Guy Heckle has been missing for 22 years. from its rapid reaction force to straight, unilateral lift form, the Sarajevo on Sunday to take out president would veto that, and I Jodi Huisentruit has been missing about a month. any rebel Serb guns firing at think we could sustain it." As time passes, leads run into dead ends. Hope peacekeepers. About 800 British and French The order came after Bosnian troops were ordered into Saraje- fades. But the need for answers remains. Serb shells killed two more vo, along with heavy artillery. French peacekeepers and An advance party left Sunday wounded four others. But the evening, but the main convoy deployment was delayed when remained in the central town: of Bosnian army commanders said Vitez, about 40 miles from Sa- it would inter- ^__ rajevo. fere with their More shells own military Word that the new force were fired on operations. was coming seemed to government- In Belgrade, have little effect on the held parts *of generals from Sarajevo, kill- the United Serbs, who attacked "safe ing at least States, Britain areas" all weekend. two civilians, and France de- wounding ,111 liyered an.jd.ti-. -.... —, more and leav- matum to Bosnian Serb com- ing streets deserted. There were mander Ratko Mladic, warning no plans to use the rapid reac- that any attack on the eastern tion force to protect civilians Vin U.N. safe area of Gorazde would the capital from Serb fire. draw airstrikes. Rebels also stepped up an of- The envoys also told Mladic fensive on another "safe area," that attacks on four other re- the northwestern enclave of Bi- maining "safe areas" in Bosnia hac, forcing government soldiers "cannot be tolerated," said and refugees to flee. And the White House spokesman Mike Muslim enclave of Zepa in the McCurry. east was shelled for a third The ultimatum was designed straight day. to give the Bosnian Serbs formal There was n o NATO response. notice of an allied plan, ap- A huge explosion rocked the proved Friday in London, to Serb stronghold of Pale, just take tougher action against Serb outside Sarajevo. A NATO plane aggression, specifically in Gor- had earlier flown over the town, azde. but U.N. and NATO officials White House Chief of Staff denied any bombing raids had Leon Panetta, on CBS' "Face the been carried out. Nation," urged Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., who For updates on this story has led efforts in Congress to lift ^==? call 363-7000 or 337-7000, the arms embargo on the Bosni- category 2522. Gazette photo by Chris Stewart Nancy and Howard Heckle of Cedar Rapids hope that someday the remains of their son will be found. DEA agent opens fire at BRIEFLY GUY HECKLE Top-heavy topless bar housing market HOUSTON (AP) — A federal A shortage of affordable 'Not knowing is hard' drug agent's bachelor party at a housing in northeast Iowa topless nightclub turned violent has officials seeking solu- By Cindy Hadish City television station KIMT, has early Sunday when he got into a tions. Details on page IB. Gazette staff writer been missing since June 27. Police gunfight with bar managers oward and Nancy Heckle believe she was abducted. over a $5 cover charge. know the agony of searching The Heckles, 1505 48th St. NE, said When it was over, bridegroom Incomes slip, I for a missing loved one. watching the progress of Pete Sinclair, a Drug Enforce- problems grow The Cedar Rapids couple, whose Huisentruit's case through the ment Administration agent, was Though Iowa remains son disappeared 22 years ago, say media brings to the forefront hospitalized in fair condition one of the best states for they sympathize with the family of memories of their son's with two bullet wounds, and children, a report finds Jodi Huisentruit, as the search for Guy Heckle disappearance. Jodi Ritz Cabaret owner Stavros Fo- some problems on the rise. Missing since the missing newswoman approaches tinopoulos was hospitalized in Details oh page 5B. Feb. 3, 1973 the one-month mark. Guy Heckle — 11 years old at the Huisentruit time — disappeared Feb. 3,1973, on Missing since poor condition after taking five "It seems we're living in perilous a Boy Scout outing near Toddville. June 27, 1995 bullets from Sinclair's 9 mm pistol. C.R. district times," Howard said. "I just can't His jacket was discovered snagged **Very few help but feel for her folks. I know (( Sinclair, 28, was aboard a publishes wages on a log in the Cedar River. No We're still in rented bus with 40 members of days go by that what they're going through." Gross wages for Huisentruit, an anchor for Mason • Turn to 6A: Heckle limbo. There's his bachelor party when they employees of the Cedar I don't think of made Ritz Cabaret their "third Rapids School District for . been no or fourth" stop of the night, him. But you resolution. ... the last fiscal year, Legal JODI HUISENTRUIT police spokesman Fred King notices, page 5D. have to get on You just feel said. with your When the party was told of like a puppet the $5-per-person cover charge, INDEX life." Case reaches critical point on a string. the revelers began returning to .. 3C By Cindy Hadish the bus, King said. But Sinclair Births 5B Health....,.,: Howard Heckle Doug Merbach, 11D Horoscope , 1 5 0 ' s the search for missing news- • Impact on local anchors, 2B lingered and got into an argu- City Briefs ..8D 5-7D of Cedar woman Jodi Huisentruit news director ment with Fotinopoulos, 38, and CITYLINE .. 5A .., 5B ' Rapids, nears the one-month mark, it of KIMT-TV in the club's manager, Lynn Clay- Movies 6B A Because of Huisentruit's reputa- ton Turner, 39. .. 2C Notebook .,, 5B Guy's father joins other long-term cases in Iowa tion for reliability, teamed with evi- Mason City Computers. .. 4C People ,, 6B ' that remain unsolved. Sinclair fired first, and his Crisscross.. 13D TV .. 6B. dence found near her car after she Crossword. did not show up for work at 4 a.m. gun is missing, said Donald Fer- 12D Volunteers ... 2B "We're still in limbo," said News rarone, DEA agent in charge in 14D Weather..,.