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April 9, 1997
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Rony Angkriwan, The Battaijon
, . £ . Ericka O'Malley, a senior finance
lOlt 101 major, tees off at the beginning of
' golf class at Penberthy Field.
Sandbags pile higher as
towns wait for more water
MONTEVIDEO, Minn. (AP) —Towns
along the lower Minnesota River
stacked sandbags and measured the
rising flood Tuesday while Montevideo
residents watched to see if they would
get hit a second time.
“People are worried ... but we’re tak
ing it as it comes,” said Myrtle Sherod,
who was helping her daughter run
Valentino’s Restaurant on Main Street,
protected by the levees.
Sherod turns 80 in two weeks. “The wa
ter had better go down by then,” she said.
Schools reopened Tuesday for the first
time since last week, and many businesses
on high ground also opened their doors in
this town 130 miles west of Minneapolis.
But 80 miles downstream, high school
students in New Ulm were hard at work
piling sandbags along the Minnesota.
The river rose 1.6 feet Tuesday at New
Ulm and is expected to crest there on
Wednesday. The National Weather Ser
vice said it does not have an official flood
stage for the city.
Farther downstream, below the point
where the Minnesota joins the Missis
sippi, a crest nearly 10 feet above flood
stage is expected Sunday at St. Paul, most
of which is on higher ground.
Although the Minnesota was receding
at Montevideo on Tliesday, a day after
cresting nearly 10 feet above flood stage,
experts warned that temperatures warm
enough to melt snow on Wednesday, with
a chance of more precipitation at week’s
end, mean the river could rise again.
“Multiple crests can occur, especially
with snow melt runoff,” said Mark Seeley,
a climatologist at the University of Min
nesota. “We could have another surge.”
The timing of the snow melt was com
plicated by record cold covering the re
gion since the weekend blizzard that
dumped the snow.
Bismarck, N.D., dropped to a record
low of just 3 above zero, while that state’s
western town of Dickinson fell to a
record 8 below. Watertown, S.D., where
many residents had returned home after
flooding eased along the Big Sioux River,
had a record low of 4, and Minneapolis-
St. Paul chilled to a record 11.
. Another problem was ice jams that
formed temporary corks, threatening to
rupture and release new flood crests.
Along the Minnesota-North Dakota
state line, a huge ice jam was lodged about
four miles south of Breckenridge at the con
fluence of the Bois de Sioux and Red rivers.
“I haven’t seen it, but from what I un
derstand, it’s about as far as the eye can
see,” said Jewel Jones, Richland County
emergency management director.
“It’s inaccessible,” she said. “The
Army Corps of Engineers came in and
checked it and said they couldn’t do any
thing with it.”
Floating ice on the Pomme de Terre
River tore a hole overnight in a levee pro
tecting the town of Appleton, about 25
miles from Montevideo, but volunteers
poured in from miles around and closed
the breach by morning.
iearch continues for Air Force bomber
PHOENIX (AP) — Capt. Craig Button took off
i$9 million Air Force attack jet last week for a
ictice run. Within minutes, the plane and its
enal of four 500-pound bombs were gone.
that is known for sure is that the A-10
underbolt was last spotted on radar over the
I r :i lorado Rockies — nearly 800 miles off course,
at was last Wednesday.
Did it crash?
Was it sabotaged?
Or did the pilot steal it, like something out of
|ec "• e movie Broken Arrow?
"Anything you can think of has probably been
okedat," said Staff Sgt. Rian Clawson at Davis-
ionthanAir Force Base in Tucson. “But the evi-
ence so far doesn’t indicate any of these wild
ypotheses, like he was trying to steal it, or he
^ went off to.TeWunde to go skiing.”
Die Air force rebuffs the idea that Button pur
ely veered the plane off course. But officials
owledged Tuesday that investigators are
king into Button’s background.
“The investigation... includes all aspects of the
^ me and pilot, anything to do with the situation,”
ot “ d Staff Sgt. Bret Zieman at Davis-Monthan.
People who live near the base consider anti-
COOtyernment or even cult activity possible.
It sounds fishy,” said Bob Jones, a customer
; amous Sam’s Restaurant and Bar. “He could
be part of a militia, for all anyone knows.”
Officials had theorized the pilot could have
become incapacitated and may have put the sin
gle-seat plane on autopilot. But radar and wit
ness accounts suggest the plane was being ma
neuvered and was not simply gliding.
The mystery began last Wednesday morning
about 90 minutes after Button’s plane took off in
formation with two other A-10s bound for the
“It sounds fishy. He could be
part of a militia, for all anyone
knows.”
Bob Jones
Customer, Famous Sam’s Restaurant and Bar
Barry M. Goldwater bombing range in south
western Arizona. The plane was carrying con
ventional, not nuclear, weapons.
One of the jets reported seeing Button’s plane
flying in the rear, but a minute later the lead pi
lot radioed Button and got no response. When
the other pilots realized the plane was missing,
they broke formation and began the search.
Initially, the search focused in Arizona, but it
shifted to Colorado three days later after author
ities checked radar records and witnesses there
reported seeing a low-flying plane.
Pentagon officials were looking into the time
Button spent at Laughlin Air Force Base in Del
Rio, Texas, where he was a flight instructor until
he arrived in Tucson in February to train on the
A-10, an ungainly anti-tank plane commonly
known as the Warthog.
Button’s relatives said they knew of nothing
suspicious involving the 32-year-old Massape-
qua, N.Y., native.
“He was A-OK, stable, didn’t seem to be under
any stress. But he was having to study hard,” said
the captain’s father, Richard Button, who had
trained pilots during World War II.
“We’re hoping he bailed out. There’s no evi
dence that he bailed out, but there’s no evidence
that he didn’t,” he said.
The last radar track showed the jet near the
12,467-foot New York Mountain near Edwards,
Colo. Button’s plane was fully fueled when it took
off, but it would have been nearly empty by then.
Tuesday’s search in the area was cut off in the
early afternoon by low and threatening clouds.
“In some instances, if a plane crashes it’s easy
to see, but not always,” LaMarca said. “If it crashed
and is now covered with snow, that makes it more
challenging. And no one saw it go down.”
ewly assertive Gingrich back on offensive
Washington — After weeks
the political defensive, House
eaker Newt Gingrich is reassert-
himself, hying to cement the
iport of conservatives, sketching
ind themes of “freedom and
th" to guide his party and envi-
®ing huge Republican gains in
d998 elections.
The Georgia Republican’s at-
ttpted comeback remains cloud-
by his as-yet-unpaid $300,000
Action imposed by the House last
Ater for ethics violations.
But with characteristic bravado,
Agrich looked beyond his current
■ttles when he spoke recently of
RA' Wing a follow-up to the “Contract
ith America” — in the year 2000.
Ad I believe we’re on the way,” he
id in a well-received speech to
BPAC, the political organization
it helped fuel his rise to power.
In a series of appearances over
past two days, Gingrich has spo
il out sharply against a string of
''orite conservative targets: the
Union administration, organized
labor, liberal Democrats and the
news media among them.
“It does not occur to me that a few
months of planning is a cause for pan-
ic,” he chided his
GOPAC audience.
Democrats dis
count talk of a Gin
grich comeback,
and a recent USA
Today/CNN poll
put his approval rat
ing at an abysmal 25
percent
7 Gingrich “I hope the
speaker stays out
there in public view,” said Rep.
Martin Frost, the Texas lawmaker
who chairs the Democratic cam
paign committee. “Every day he’s
on television our direct mail fund-
raising receipts go up.... He’s help
ing us recruit candidates.”
But Gingrich, according to
press secretary Christina Martin,
remains “committed to fulfilling
his role as speaker, and staking out
the vision for the party and for the
(conservative) movement.”
Gingrich’s re-emergence in pub
lic comes after months of criticism
from fellow Republicans and per
sistent speculation in conservative
publications about his possible
forced departure as speaker.
He has largely stayed out of pub
lic view since he admitted violating
House rules last winter. He was re
elected speaker, but nine fellow Re
publicans refused to support him.
And his recent suggestion that Re
publicans defer tax cuts until after
voting on a balanced budget plan
touched off widespread criticism.
Rank-and-file Republicans com
plained about the slow start-up to
the congressional session, and in one
memorable phrase, GOP Rep. Peter
King of New York wrote that Gingrich
had become political “road kill.”
Even before embarking on his
recent trip to China — a journey
that aides believe was a public rela
tions success — Gingrich reaf
firmed his support for tax cuts.
He also had lunch with mem
bers of the GOP freshman class in
an effort to satisfy them of his com
mitment to lower taxes.
“My sense of the freshman class
is that the speaker enjoys strong
support from our group,” said Rep.
Kenny Hulshof of Missouri.
Since returning from overseas
last week, Gingrich has scheduled
his first sit-down television inter
view in months, an appearance Fri
day night on Larry King.
He telephoned radio talk show
host Rush Limbaugh twice in two
days, once to criticize his conserva
tive critic, William Kristol.
As for the ethics sanction, Martin
said no decision had been made on
how to pay the $300,000 that Gingrich
was assessed as part of his agreement
with the ethics committee last winter.
Gingrich must decide whether to pay
out of personal funds, a step his wife,
Marianne, is said to oppose, or out of
some sort of political or legal defense
fund, a step that risks incurring the
wrath of fellow lawmakers. A combi
nation of the two also is possible.
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