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Yeltsin delays choice for prime minister I MOSCOW (AP) - Boris Yeltsin hesitated Tuesday over ramming through his unpopular choice for prime minister, while opposition and religious leaders warned hat the polit ical standoff could spark civil war in Russia. The nation^ top clergyman, Akxy n, expressed fears of unrest, praying publicly before Russia^ holiest icon for divine protection against “misfor tunes, sorrows and internecine war” Yeltsin conferred with top aides at his country home amid growing spec ulation that he may choose a compro mise candidate to stave off a show down with the Communist-dominated lower house of parliament, the State Duma. Up to now, Yeltsin had insisted that acting Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin was his only choice, but the Duma on Monday rejected Chernomyrdin for a second time. Yeltsin, who is known for trampling his political opponents, has compro mised before in the face of popular anger, which has been building rapidly. The president has one more chance to win parliamentary approval for his prime ministerial piclL If the Duma refuses to confirm the candidate, Yeltsin must dissolve die legislature and call parliamentary elections within three months. Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said Ibesday that if Yeltsin continued to demand approval of Chernomyrdin, Russia’s crisis would deepen. “A mistake for die president and his team can cost the country’s civic peace. This is a very high price,” Zyuganov said. He added that disbanding the Duma would be tantamount to dissolv ing the Russian Federation and added: “I am afraid that would end in fighting throughout Russians expanses.” It was typically incendiary talk from Zyuganov, who has piled all the blame for Russians crippling economic crisis on Yeltsin and his government - and none on the Duma, which has con tinually blocked economic reforms that might have strengthened theecon omy. Among stalled measures are a Dow Jones rebounds NEW YORK (AP) - The Dow industrials gained a record 380 points on Tuesday, vaulting back into positive territory for the year, amid hopes the Federal Reserve will protect the econ omy from a spreading financial crisis abroad. The Dow Janes industrial average surged 5 percent higher; rising 380.53 to 8,020.78, a record one-day point gain that nearly wiped out last weekls losses. The buying frenzy followed a speech Friday evening by Alan Greenspan in which the Federal « Fart of me says the forces of light and reason have returned and the market should be going up." JOfiBAmPAGLlA strategist al rally that began overseas on Monday while U.S. markets remained closed for Labor Day. Greenspan’s speech Friday night marked a shift in Fed thinking. Until now, Fed officials had maintained feat inflationary pressures were too strong reserve cnauman signaled mat me central bank may cut interest rates to of&et the drag fiom economic turmoil gripping Asia and Russia. “Part ofme says the forces of light and reason have returned and the mar ket should be going up. But the other part of me says left not get back to irrational exuberance,” said Joe Battipaglia, chief investment strategist atGnmtal&Co. The leap back above 8,000 came just a week after a steep selloff, includ ing a 512-point plunge last Monday that pushed the Dow below this yearls starting point, 7,90835, and as low as 7,400. But even with its sizable bounce, the Dow is stiU about 1300 points, or 14 percent, below the record of9337.97 set less than two months ago on July 17. Tuesday^ rise eclipsed the Dowfe record337-point bounce on Oct 28, a day after its record plunge. /-heavy Nasdaq *1 oercent d 94.34 points to joined a gjob AM HAAH VVUMU J IV A MW A AAV VT UVIIIftllU with acut in the central bank’s lending rates. - But with die trouble abroad now hitting closer to home, threatening to engulf Latin America and Canada, Greenspan said the Fed is growing more worried about the impact on the US. economy. Some analysts saw danger in the Dcwfc dizzying climb. Bill Meehan, chief market analyst for Captor Fitzgerald, warned that Tuesday’s rebound could be a "bear market trap” for investors if they "believe that worst has been seen. It builds confidence again andgets them to put cash into the market and watch it «-— “Civil war is the most terrible thing that the current political crisis could bring Russia, because blood always divides.” Jutasn Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church radical overhaul of Russia k tax collec tion system, new legislation on land ownership and laws that would force businesses to declare bankruptcy sooner The possibility teat Russia’s eco nomic and political crisis could spill ova-into violence was on the minds of others as well . Alexy II, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, prayed for peace before a revered icon, OarLady of Vladimir, in a central Moscow museum. “Civil war is the most tenibie thing that the current political crisis could bring Russia, because blood always divides,” Alexy said. Presidential spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky said Yeltsin was unlikely to name his candidate for prime minister before today. There was rampant speculation in the Duma that the president was trying to find a way out of a confrontation that could end in the legislature k dissolution. Lawmaker Yelena Mizulina said Tuesday that the Duma would put impeachment on hs agenda if the pres ident named Chernomyrdin a third time. If the Duma votes for impeach ment proceedings, the constitution baislfettsin from dissolving the body. Colorado teen-agers allegedly killed five ■ Police arrested one boy and found the other dead in a field 10 miles from Aurora, a Denver suburb. AURORA, Colo. (AP) - Two teen-agers carrying shotguns and wearing bandannas over their faces allegedly killed five people in two homes a few blocks apart. Then one of the boys apparently finished off the other, police said. The surviving suspect, a 17 year-old whose name was not released by police, was booked Tuesdav on six counts of first were not hurt Witnesses told officers that Michael Martinez, - I S, and another teen-age boy strode down the street walked into the home and opened fire. Then they walked out . About the same time, police received a Call of shots fired at a townhouse complex six block away. There they discovered the bodies of two teen-age boys in one townhouse. Police didn’t release their names or ages. Clues at that home led police to Martinez’s body in a field about 10 miles from the Aurora neighbor hood. He had been shot several times. Stef said investigators believe Martinez was killed by the 17-year old suspect, but “we don’t know why.” Both Martinez and the 17 year-old had juvenile records. Police went looking for the 17 year-old after interviews with wit nesses, but he wasn’t caught until he called police around 5 a.m. Tuesday to report a suspicious car prowling the neighborhood - a police car. The call was traced and the boy was arrestedat his home. Police said the five youths were all acquaintances; and that some degree murder. All six victims and the 17-year old boy knew each other. But police were unsure what triggered the killing spree, one of the worst ever in this Denver suburb. “The motive is really the $64,000 question,” police spokesman Bob Stef said. “We don't know if it was out of anger, revenge, involving someone else.” Nej^pbott. called police Monday afternoon after hearing shots and screams at a two-story blue home with white shutters. Inside, police found the bodies of Penny Media, a woman in her 30s; Greg Media, believed to be her 18-year-old son; and his 16-year-old girlfriend, Marissa Avalos. Penny Media's 6 year-old girl and 9-year-old boy OVWUUVU OVUW1 u/gvuivi. Anival Morales, whose nephew was among the victims, said with tears welling in his eyes: “He was a good boy. His best friend killed him. I don’t know why.” Jacob Tilley, 19, who attended high school with Martinez, described him as someone who tried to be a tough guy. “Nobody took him seriously,” Tilley said. “I think most of it is just wannabe stuff.” Several neighbors said hat fami ly members at he blue home kept to themselves, but noisy fights often could be heard inside. Stef said police responded to four previous calls et he house regarding family violence late last year, but he police spokesman would not give details. The crimes occurred on an other wise lazy afternoon in the middle class neighborhood where most resi dents know each other and often socialize. ■*■———■ ■■ . ——' I I .. ■■■■ T- -1 py Erin Gibson dud Lorenz Bryce (Bean ' Brad Davis £> SareyKerber Cliff Hicks Sam McKewon ' Bretsckait^ ./.v:r; a Dime Broderick RyanSoderiin Matt Miller Naacy ChriatHiaen Matt Haney Gregg Sterna Amy Burke DanShattil (Beard leeaica Hofmann, narirwi—ae' (402)4664404 DuAllarwtAital A Q/aWam AflyHCr* -■ 1/OD WutODf . v (402)473-7248 il ifrriliring Maeagl i NickPartsch, (402)472-2389 Asst Ad Manager: Andrea Oeltjen ClaedflrId Ad Manager: Mami Speck Flight-data recorder found HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) - I>ivers have retrieved Swissair Flight 111* flight data recorder despite an emergency that endangered their lives, but experts say the “black box” contains no information from the final six minutes of the doomed flight Crash investigators had high hopes after the data recorder was recovered from the ocean floor Sunday. But laboratory examinations on Monday revealed that there was no data from the last minutes right before the MD-11 jumbo jet {dunged into die sea off Nova Scotia late Wednesday, killing all 229 people aboard. \fcGerden,1hechiefcrashmves tigator, said the data recorder stopped once the plane - which Clashed on a flight from New York to Geneva - dropped below 10,000 feet altitude. A power failure seems probable, he said. The data recorder, found at a depth of 190 feet, nearly dkfci't make it to thC surface. Navy Capt. Phil Webster said one of the two divers developed a leak in his suit, and the pair had to make an ascent much more rapidly than is considered safe. One of the divas became ill from the rapid change in pressure. Both were put in a decompression cham ber, then taken to a hospital. Both were recovering at home, Webster said. Serb offensive launched PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - Serb forces reportedly launched a new offensive against separatists in western Kosovo on Tuesday, a day after U.S. envoys failed to persuade Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to halt the attacks. Serb forces also accused ethnic Albanian rebels of mass executions of Serb civilians and showed reporters the bodies of some of die alleged vic tims. For their part, ethnic Albanian vil lagers said at least 19 people were killed in die last few days and report ed Serb troops looting and burning homes in villages near die border with Albania. Aid Workers have warned of an increasing humanitarian disaster in Kosovo, a southern province in Serbia, one of the two republics that make up Yugoslavia. Hundreds have been killed and an estimated 230,000 villagers have been forced from their homes since Milosevic launched a crackdown in February against die separatist Kosovo Liberation Army. natinnaligm firing DUNDEE, Scotland (API - Prime Minister Tony Blair’s bold experiment in giving Scots their first parliament in three centuries has backfired. Support for independence-seek ing nationalists is surging, and Blair’s Labor Party is in deep trouble in Scotland, its traditional stronghold. In opinion polls, nationalist pop ularity is at record levels, boosted by rapid disenchantment with Britain’s first Labor Party government in a generation ami by a sense of increas ing confidence - critics call it fool hardiness - about Scotland going it alone. The harder Blair’s government tries, the better jt gets for the Scottish National Party, now runnmg neck and-neck with Labor in opinion polls.