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Tuesday, March 11J
6 die in highway accident
LAS VEGAS (AP) — They are a common sight along busy Inter
state 15 —juvenile offenders in bright orange vests, picking up trash.
On Sunday, 45 of them were scouring the desert landscape when a
strip-club dancer who allegedly was driving under the influence careened
off the highway and slammed into the group,
killing six youths aged 14 to 16.
“They had no warning at all. The van ... just
wiped them out,” said Kirby Burgess, director of
the Clark County Juvenile Services program.
The driver, 20-year-old Jessica Williams, said
she had smoked marijuana two hours before the
crash, according to Nevada Highway Patrol
Trooper Michael Cooke.
Williams was treated for minor injuries and
then jailed on drug charges and six counts of
reckless driving and driving under the influ
ence. She remained in custody Monday, and it
was unclear whether she had a lawyer who
could comment.
Trooper Shane David estimated the van was
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warning at all. The
van ... just wiped
them out.”
such as removing graffiti and picking up trash, and can earn credits to
pay fines and restitution to victims.
The program earns the county $46,000 a year from Silver State Dis
posal Service, southern Nevada’s major trash hauling company. Some
of the trash that the young workers have to pick
up comes off of Silver State trucks making reg
ular runs between Las Vegas and a landfill 20
miles northeast of the city.
“We think because the program has been
very successful over the past 11 years, we will
continue,” Clark County spokesman Doug
Bradford said. “But we will take a look at addi
tional safety measures.”
Those might include placing cones to restrict
traffic in the lane closest to where the youths are
working, Bradford said.
Two clean-up crews were working at the time
of Sunday afternoon’s accident, one on the right
side of the highway — the group that got hit —
and one in the center divider.
— Kirby Burgess
Clark County Juvenile Services
program director
traveling 75 mph, the legal speed limit, when it ran off the road just north
of downtown Las Vegas.
County officials defended the program, which is used for youngsters
who have committed minor juvenile offenses — much different from the
so-called juvenile boot camps around the nation. They work on projects
Highway patrol Sgt. Steve Cabrales said passenger vans that had
brought the juveniles to the work area were parked, and one was on the
right shoulder with its emergency flashers blinking.
The accident occurred 11 days after another I-15 crash that killed eight
and injured five. That accident occurred 30 miles south of Las Vegas, af
ter the driver fell asleep, Cooke said.
Clinton visits South Asia, India
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The trip is an effort to better, renewpost-Cold War relations
NEW DELHI, India (AP) — President
Clinton’s mission to back South Asia away
from nuclear-tinged confrontation is beginning
wordlessly, at the simple mar
ble monument to India's apos
tle of nonviolence.
With the silent laying of a
wreath in homage to Mohan
das Gandhi on Tuesday morn
ing, President Clinton was
planning to let the imagery
speak for itself.
But after that was coming a
series of meetings at which
Clinton hoped to persuade reluctant Indian
leaders to ban nuclear testing and cool tensions
with Pakistan in their bitter dispute over the Hi
malayan territory of Kashmir.
Formally opening the first visit in 22 years
CLINTON
by an American president, Clinton was set for
a pomp-filled welcome at Rashtrapati Bhavan,
the presidential palace that was built as a grand
estate for British viceroys in the years of colo
nial rule. Then it was straight on to the Gand
hi memorial.
Clinton arrived in New Delhi on Monday
evening after a visit to Bangladesh that proved
something of a letdown when he canceled his
two major public appearances there due to se
curity concerns.
On the advice of the Secret Service, Clin
ton skipped a helicopter trip that was to have
taken him to a wreath-laying at the nation’s
most important memorial and to a remote vil
lage that had spent two weeks sprucing up in
eager anticipation of his arrival.
“We had specific information which led us
to the conclusion that traveling to the village was
inadvisable,” said Sandy Berger, his national se
curity adviser. Clinton would not discuss the
matter but, privately, officials said his safety
coiHd not be guaranteed flying 20 miles in a he
licopter over dense forests and rice paddies.
Instead, about 300 women and children
were bused from the village to meet Clinton at
the U.S. Embassy. Celebrating their climb to
ward self-sufficiency, he told them that “no
one should believe that poverty is destiny.”
“The village is highly disappointed,” said
Muhammad Yunus, a friend of Clinton and
founder of a bank that helped residents set up
businesses. “They all thought he would sit un
der the banyan tree and see a beautiful
Bangladesh village.”
Both the United States and India seek a
new, closer relationship after years of Cold War
estrangement.
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