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Weather Today Mostly sunny Opinion State SPORTS during Ihc day. starting to cool off in the evening Brandon Wray assesses the Major school systems want Falcon football comes up good, bad and ugly of the more control over debt, short at Alabama, 21-7. Hi:Low 80s Lo:Mid 60s I990's. inflation. Wednesday Mostly cloudy during the day, Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 chance for rain in the evening. Hi:Mid70s Lo:Low 60s NEW Tuesday. September 3, 1996 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 83, Issue 147 Clinton may punish Iraq for incident Yalman Onaran "Our interest is in making sure The Associated Press that Saddam does not believe that unjustified behavior of this type SALAH AD-DIN, Iraq -- Iraqi is cost free," McCurry said amid troops pulled back from the increasing speculation that the northern Kurdish city of Irbil on president would order retalia- Monday, but not enough to satis- tion. "Our concern here is what fy the Clinton administration as Saddam believes he has gained it readied punishment for Iraq. from a strategic viewpoint." Refugees who fled to a nearby Pentagon officials said the town said they were terrified by preparations for any military the biggest offensive of Saddam steps ordered by the president Hussein's army since the Persian had been completed, but that no Gulf War. orders had been issued. "It was very frightening. Boom The 20,000 U.S. troops in the here, boom there. Taka-taka- Persian Gulf region were on high taka. We were scared to death," alert, and Gen. John Shalikash- said Sabira Hamid Hursid, who vili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs escaped with her four children to of Staff, traveled to Saudi Arabia Salah ad-Din, 20 miles northeast and Jordan. Saudi Arabia agreed of Irbil. to cooperate in any U.S. retalia- Iraqi troops did not allow re- tory action, Saudi sources said on porters to approach Irbil, where condition of anonymity. they were pulling out on Monday, The offensive also prompted leaving their Kurdish allies in the United Nations to delay its control. plan to let Iraq resume limited oil But U.N. workers there told sales despite sanctions. On Mon- The Associated Press that there day, oil prices in Europe jumped were still Iraqi tanks in fields sharply on the news; U.S. mar- three to six miles outside the kets were closed for Labor Day. city. Saddam's troops stormed Irbil, White House press secretary the main city in the Mike McCurry said the Iraqi U.S.-protected Kurdish "safe ha- redeployment "is not terribly ven" in northern Iraq, on Satur- significant because they still day. The Kurdistan Democratic have a significant force arrayed Party had asked Iraq for help in BG Newi phMo/Douf Kkrenoviky around Irbil." See IRAQ, page three. Testing points to sabotage of TWA 800 Pat Milton likelihood that the plane ex- ignited by another force. "The preliminary analysis in- vapors in the nearly empty fuel Flight 800 exploded 11 1/2 The Associated Press ploded because of a mechanical After using computer models dicates that if the center fuel tank could have become over- minutes after takeoff, killing all malfunction. While investigators to simulate pressure within a tank was to explode on its own heated and ignited, causing the 230 people aboard. Nineteen vic- SMITHTOWN, N.Y. ~ Prelimi- say they do not know enough to 747's center fuel tank, Boeing from an internal source, it would tank to explode. tims remain missing. nary testing by Boeing Co. indi- declare the explosion a criminal engineers estimated that 30 to 40 not do the kind of damage we In a separate experiment, Boe- cates that an explosion of the act, the possibility of an accident pounds per square inch of pres- have witnessed in Flight 800," an ing conducted a test flight in Cal- The approximate temperature center fuel tank alone would not appears more remote as the evi- sure inside the tank would be investigator familiar with the ifornia's Mohave Desert last in the test-flight fuel tank was have been powerful enough to dence mounts. needed to do the kind of damage study, speaking on condition of month with a 747 to determine if measured at 115 degrees, suffi- bring down TWA Flight 800, an National Transportation Safety that has been observed so far in anonymity, told the AP. a fuel tank could become over- cient to be ignited by an electri- investigator told The Associated Board investigators previously Flight 800, the report found. "This indicates that there must heated and explode because of a cal spark. But there is no clue Press on Monday. have determined that the center Testing indicates that an In- have been multiple things going spark. about what would have provided Those early findings tend to fuel tank exploded. But a critical ternal explosion of the tank, on in addition to the fuel tank ex- such a spark. The NTSB so far strengthen the theory that a question has been whether that caused by a malfunction, would plosion," the source said. The outdoor temperature was has not uncovered any plausible bomb or missile brought down explosion was the cause of the generate a third less pressure One theory that investigators 71, about the same as it was on answers in the fuel or electrical the jumbo jet, and to weaken the crash - or was a secondary blast, than that. have been examining is that the evening of July 17 when systems. Sing Me A Song Hurricane brushes by Massachusetts, islands Anne Wallace Allen relatively light, many businesses midday, it was about 560 miles The Associated Press had closed on what is usually one east of Nassau, Bahamas, with of their busiest weekends of the top sustained winds near 80 mph. CHATHAM, Mass. - Hurri- year - the last long weekend of "It could be off the coast of cane Edouard shied away from summer. Florida or bearing down on Flor- F^ • land at the last minute Monday, After driving almost straight ida in the next 72 hours or so," -^sJ^ giving only a glancing blow to said meteorologist Brian Maher northward over the open ocean Cape Cod and island communi- toward Nantucket, the hurricane at the National Hurricane Center ties that had been emptied of took a right turn early in the day. in Miami. 3OM2 «**■ .1 thousands of holiday weekend Its center got no closer than 80 Massachusetts Gov. William F. tourists. miles from Nantucket, where Weld lifted a state of emergency. The storm that once packed wind gusts peaked at 90 mph. Beaches were reopened to winds blowing at a steady 140 During the afternoon, gusts oc- swimmers in Rhode Island and mph was little more than an ugly casionally hit 60 mph. points south; two people had died day at the beach for the people Three to 5 inches of rain had in the storm surf along the New who stayed. fallen over Martha's Vineyard, Jersey shore last week. Edouard failed to produce any Nantucket and parts of Cape Cod, In North Carolina, where 10- to serious damage, although 35,000 and more rain was likely. to 40,000 customers were without 12-foot swells had chased people By S p.m., Edouard was headed from the beaches Friday, Labor power by early afternoon. A few northeast at 12 mph, and its houses and the Hyannis fire Day was hazy and warm and the center was about 225 miles fish were biting. "It's a good final station lost their roofs, and southwest of Halifax, Nova Sco- day of summer," said Ed Lore, several boats were lost. tia. Its maximum sustained J manager of the Surf City Pier. "I think we were lucky this winds were down to 75 mph, time," said Spencer Kennard of barely strong enough to be still At Boston's Logan Internation- Chatham, as waves slapped called a hurricane. al Airport, many flights were _J i Jatnci Plakyrrkc AIMCUU4 Pnu against a seawall across the On Its heels, Hurricane Fran cancelled Sunday night and oth- U.S. Sen. John Aahcroft, left, Joins William let Golden of the Oak Ridge Boys in singing "Elvira" street from his parents' 19th cen- was strengthening as it headed ers were delayed Monday be- prior to the Dole-Kemp rally In St. Louis Monday, Sept. 2 under the Gateway Arch. tury farmhouse. toward the Bahamas and the cause airlines had moved planes But while physical damage was southeastern United States. By elsewhere as a precaution. Opinion Page 2 Tuesday, September 3,1996 Perot should search tor Naked lunch for the nineties follow-through to promises Originally this column was elation concept. If God wiped out As a member of the media, I Fall is in the air. We're just coming off of the going to inspired by my several epi- the world with a flood a few thou- have spent a lot of time trying to last weekend of summer." Students, young and old, sodes of self-pity and rants of "I sand years ago, what reason is figure out why the press did what are back in classrooms or dreading the nearing day.