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(AP)| dsper is j>: t lore ominc.: | I amoro.i I soft sic-1 throujiil new bi love pc; “It's lay dor bad go') and sf„ m tendet 1 said Pa; |) tough| I vas written i | est of Love.' divorced P st support! nis 1991 olenty to s«| heart. )e wonderft some sortd tool to teact ach other," ■ ’s USA Today By JED By Michael ir rteuP \r x "TOCT) yo<a 1 W/ti i BuNCrt Of m By Quatro Cows mremxrJ] Lottery-winning town cherishes dollars, blessings ROBY, Texas (AP) — Don’t ex pect to see exotic sports cars zip ping into Terry Gin’s gravel parking lot or contractors building a subdi vision of mansions, even if 7 per cent of the townspeople are on their way to becoming millionaires. They’re thinking about sudden solvency after winning a $46.7 million jackpot. “Some of these people didn’t know if they’d be able to farm again next year,” said Peggy Dickson, bookkeeper at the local cotton gin and organizer of the spur-of-the- moment lotto pool, which included 41 of Roby’s 600 or so residents and two from nearby Sweetwater. Many of the shareholders have debts to pay. Four straight below- average cotton crops and abysmal cattle prices have de pressed Roby and scores of Texas towns like it this decade. “I’ve seen two new pickups around town,” said Rex Beauchamp, who plans to dedi cate part of his bounty toward the Circle D convenience store he opened last summer. “And once we get all the paperwork done, I’ll probably buy one myself.” “It’s really better the way it worked out,” Beauchamp said as he rang up a traveler’s root beer purchase. “Nobody really is rich here. Just well-off.” When Dickson decided Tues day morning to create a lottery pool in anticipation of the state’s second-largest jackpot, 41 others felt they had little to lose by chip ping in $10. Jim Carson, owner of Sweetwa ter’s Longhorn Liquor Store, tossed in a tenspot of his own and 20 ex tra “good luck” tickets, giving 43 gamblers 450 chances to win. No Texas town might have needed this more than Roby, bank vice president John Davis said. “It’s kind of like good Lord looked down and said, ‘Here’s 43 people that need help,”’ he said. “It couldn’t have happened to any better group of people.” Thousands protest actions of Serbian president I BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) — Authorities imuzzled two independent radio stations Tues day and lashed out fiercely at the growing op position to Slobodan Milosevic, even as more ihan 100,000 protesters rallied against the Ser bian president and sharpened their demands. I Demonstrators hurled snowballs at the state- ||m media buildings in the 15th straight day of protests against Milosevic and his decision to ftnul Nov. 17 local elections that appeared to ifp.r tpaJ- have been won by the opposition. Police still I /l. 6GB/S®pt their distance, but one report said reserve police officers were being mobilized nationwide, isplay/terf Milosevic’s propaganda machine, which at jst ignored the protests, went on the offensive, ■smissing the demonstrators as terrorists, van dals and a “handful” of desperate people. Minutes before the protesters were to be gin their march through the capital Tuesday, independent radio station B-92 and the stu dent-run Radio Index went off the air. A government ministry statement said B-92 had been shut down for operating without per mission. The station, always critical of Milose vic’s autocratic rule, had applied several times — without success — for an official frequency. Authorities began jamming B-92’s signal more than a week ago. Radio Index, which could only be heard in central Belgrade, had its signal jammed on Tuesday. The two stations had been the only ones to broadcast direct reports of the anti-government protests. Their silencing left many Serbians de pendent on foreign short-wave services for in dependent reporting on the demonstrations. “Now Serbs are under a total media block ade,” said B-92’s news director Veran Matic. “Milosevic is afraid of the truth, and he’ll try to hide it as long as possible.” The station used its own Internet site to re port the shutdown, and Matic said workers also would print leaflets and set up loud speakers to get out the news. The station is negotiating with the Voice of America and other international broadcasters to carry its programming, he said. 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