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A NEWS GUIDE TO NEW YORK THE NATION AND THE WORLD Business: Stocks plunge sharply amid inflationary concern 5B 'Saturday April 12 1997 XkK o' Bl Bi I Sa Wk W4 rj UH I wa wi jEy Bl waX Jr HK Wa hBII JKr IL jffiZf wa il JN Section Weather 2 future 3 Midwest flooding 4 S' Gannett Newspapers News in brief The Associated Press rdJ XfOi K9 WrB Irg WfrW LT 1 Deer in DC Three deersurprised Washington commuters and White House guards yesterday wandering city streetsduring morning rush hour traffic before bei ng corral led near the executive mansion Two of the deer including thisonestuckin a Wh ite House fence had to be put to death because they had been injured Washington Humane Society officials said The third deer trapped a block away was taken to a shelter and was expected to be released into the wild World irefighters save Shroud of Turin The Associated Press TURIN Italy irefighters rescued the Shroud of Turinfrom a burning cathedral early today salvaging the linen re vered by some Christians as the burial cloth of Jesus Dozens of Turin residents applauded firefighters as they took the silver and glass reliq uary holding the linen out of the Duomo the Italian news agency ANSA reported To reach the reliquary fire fighters had to break bullet proof glass protecting the lin en officials said The cause of the fire which broke out late last night was unknown There were no re ports of injuries Nation Clinton to fight for line item veto The Associated Press WASHINGTON President Clinton announced yesterday his administration will ask the Supreme Court to quickly re store the line item veto law struck down by a federal judge He said the veto power yet to be used is needed to help the of the huge federal budget Sponsors suggested the rejection of the law could make it harder to achieve a balanced budget agreement this year But oppo nents said they were delighted and voiced optimism that the Supreme Court would ultima tely rule the same way The only major provision in the 1994 GOP With embraced by Clin ton the law authorized the president to cut specific items in spending bills without re jecting the entire bills US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled the law violated the Constitution by giving the president powers belonging solely to Congress New York Scouts state agree bn Adirondacks land The Associated Press New York state and the Otetiana Council of the Boy Scouts of America made a deal to preserve the Massawepie Scout Reservation in the Adirondacks Gov George Pataki announced yesterday Under the pact the council has agreed to restrict future development on much of the privately owned 3600 acre camp property The state will acquire certain recreation rights on the St Lawrence County land which consists of forests lakes and wetlands Vanished jet still a mystery Pilot seemed in control Air orce says witnesses near Vail Colo report explosions The Associated Press WASHINGTON The pilot of a missing A 10 warplane apparent ly was in control of his bomb laden jet as it flew deep into the Colora do Rockies a mysterious journey last marked by reports of sions noise and an Air orce general said yesterday Despite an intensive nine day search for Capt Craig Button and his Thunderbolt aircraft Air orce officials at the Pentagon said they were at a loss to explain the actions Radar reports and of eyewitness sightings show the jet broke away from a three plane formation during a flight exercise on April 2 over Arizona and flew toward central Colorado until it would have nearly run out of fuel cannot say why he may have taken this said Maj Gen Donald Peterson the Air orce assistant deputy chief of staff for air and space at a Pentagon brief ing is a little bit Some 185 flights by dozens of aircraft ranging from 2 spy planes to Anny helicopters have searched for the 32 year old pilot and his plane Even satellites have been used but nothing has turned up Peterson said Severe weather in the ski region where the aircraft was last sighted have hampered search efforts but they will continue Peterson said He said the Air orce was oper ating under the assumption that Button could still be alive Witness accounts say the stubby aircraft easily recognized by its double rear mounted engines and twin tails was seen dropping through a break in the clouds Peterson said The aircraft appears to have flown a zigzagged path near Aspen and Eagle Colo had a num ber of reports of explosion noise and in a wilderness area near New York Mountain in Eagle Craig Button west" Searchers are battling weather in hopes of finding! Button and his i distinctive Thunderbolt jetJ similar to the one shown in this photo ile photo The Associated Press County where Vail and several other ski resorts are located That is where the search has been fo cused the general said The A 10 Thunderbolt was not carrying live rounds in its guns because it was on a training exer cise Peterson said the Air orce believed that the 500 pound bombs attached to the plane were not activated and would have re mained intact if the plane crashed Peterson said radar data and visual sightings indicated the plane took several turns as it flew over Arizona briefly over New Mexico and then over Colorado suggesting to him that Button was in control A senior Air orce official speaking on condition of anonymi ty said Air orce officials were looking into a theory that Button deliberately flew his jet into the Rockies The official said Button appeared despondent after his par ents visited him in March and that his mother had recently adopted an anti war religious faith However father has said repeatedly his son was in good health pleased with his assign ment balanced and Button was graded above aver age by his commander Peterson said He said he could not specu late as to whether Button had any personal problems or other reason to fly to the area or to take his own life speculate on family affairs Peterson said add ing all a little emotional about this This is a fellow pilot We are interested in finding the pilot first of all and his Peterson said there was no evi dence that Button tried to land the plane he did pass over several commercial and private airstrips Nor was there any evidence that he had responded to many at tempts to contact him by radio the general said Sarajevo prepares for visit PhotosThe Associated Press 'ife i 4 wlravl "I f' Mi 1 It HL 'j rttf 1 ES K' ww sZZ i I9 A young woman and two Roman Catholic nuns from Sarajevo's Heart of Jesus Cathedral choir practice hymns for Pope John Paul Mass tomorrow at Kosevo Olympic stadium The arrival today was antic ipated with great joy and intense securi ty US Army Staff Sgt Michelle Picard and her dog Cad search under the stadium seats for explosives 3 I JxwiKL 29 gap in wages fuels Inequity Awareness The Associated Press WASHINGTON The typical American working woman is paid 71 cents for each $1 earned by a man the Census Bureau says Over a lifetime that can add up to a gap of $420000 Sen Patrick Leahy Vt said yes terday money could have bought her a home educated her children and allowed her to set some money aside for retire he said He spoke at a news conference marking what President Clinton proclaimed as Pay In equity Awareness It was recognized with a series of for ums and rallies across the coun try reason here is that half the population of Amer icans faces lawful discrimination Leahy said hard to The pay gap is even greater for black and Hispanic women who census figures show earn 642 percent and 534 percent respectively of what men make The gap is widest in West Virginia where women make 59 percent of what men earn ac cording to a 1995 study by the Institute for Policy Re search The District of Columbia ranked No 1 in competitive sala ries with women in the capital typically earning 875 percent of what men make While the statistics are com pelling one researcher contends they are seriously flawed espe cially when comparing men and women who work the same jobs and share the same amount of experience and education you need to do if you want to show a wage gap is you need to look at women engineers with men engineers just starting out for urchtgott Roth said women have only recently started ob taining law degrees or medical licenses typically high paying professions She also said when women take time off work to have chil dren that tends to push them back on the wage scale But that argument sit with Sarah oulger When she left the Maine church where she had been pastor after more than 10 years of service the church offered her male replacement one third more money than she had earned allowed myself to be under oulger said the very nicest and most caring peo ple opt for inequity when they can and even the brightest and most educated women put up doing is averaging all men who work in any job with all women who work in any said Diana urchtgott Roth a fellow with the American Enterprise Insti tute for Public Policy Research with Killer reveal where he buried Sara Anne Wood Judge sentences Lent to 25 years to life The Associated Press HERKIMER NY Robert and rances Wood thought they would feel some peace to finally see Lewis Lent Jr sent to prison for the kidnapping and murder of their daughter But the parents of Sara Anne Wood felt only pain at sentencing in Herkimer County Court yesterday Lent walked out of court without saying where he buried body Judge Patrick Kirk sentenced the former janitor from North Adams Mass to 25 years to life in state prison Before handing down the sen tence Kirk said he often wonder ed whether he was capable of imposing the death penalty have answered that in the Kirk told Lent who is not eligible for capital punish ment The judge offered Lent a sec ond chance to reveal whe reabouts but only words were yes or no answers to the questions Sara disappeared in August 1993 while riding her bike to sum mer Bible school about a mile from her home in Norwich Cor ners a rural community about 15 miles south of Utica Her body has never been recovered and pros ecutors had hoped the 47 year old Lent would reveal its location in exchange for a transfer to federal prison which Lent had asked for The Woods tried a final time to persuade Lent to change his mind using stories about their daughter ana verses from the Bible to get him to repent While the Woods spoke Lent stared vacantly ahead nod ding only when they re peated their belief that Sara was in heaven He also grimaced as if near tears as mother recounted part of confession She detailed how Lent kidnapped Sara forced her into the woods struck her with a tree limb and buried her in a shallow grave without ever checking whether she was dead! Lent will never get the chance to serve his New York sentence He will be returned to Massachu setts where he is serving 'life without parole for the 1990 slay ing of 12 year old Jimmy Bernar do in Pittsfield Mass i Lent was scheduled to be sen tenced two months ago after he admitted in October to kidnapping and killing Sara But at the insis tence of parents Kirk agreed to a delay in the hope that Lent would disclose the wherea bouts of body 1 Lewis Lent Jr ws NYC to diplomats: Pay up or get out The Associated Press NEW YORK a concept that United Nations diplomats gathered here from 177 nations around the world seem to grasp: democracy in parking Mayor Rudolph Giuliani reit erated yesterday that the Unit ed scofflaw employees better get the hang of it or the world East Side home could become a theater Or a hotel Or apartments is an organization supposed to be founded on law and respect and what trying to do is beat New York City out of thousands and thou sands of he said Giuliani added that he would have no problem going down in history as the mayor who drove the UN out of New York mind if in fact we could develop that Giuliani said We couldhave who knows what could be Indeed One Manhattan real estate heavyweight said yester day that if the UN followed through on a vague threat to relocate the 18 acre riverside stretch would be worth $720 million The only comparable spot on the East River? Man said Barbara Corcoran of The Corcoran Group The US government howev er would have first claim on the UN property And State De partment spokesman Bums said it has no intention of losing the current tenants The city and its worldly guests have a history of strained relations The world body pro vides New York with an esti mated $12 billion a year in revenue but the city says diplo mats act above the law The relationship turned testy' again after an April 1 city crackdown on illegal parking by cars with the red white and blue diplomatic plates UN officials were not about to acquiesce Setting aside the civil war in Zaire and violence in the Middle East they voted to convene the General Assem bly on the parking issue This twist amused the mayor actually want to make the World Court into i Parking Violations he said yesterday City statistics showed that diplomats disregarded summonses last year up 11 per cent from 1995 Translation: They beat the city out of more than $6 million.