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WA S H I NGTON — Travelers of M i d d l eE a stern descent who we re deta i n ed att wo New Yo rk airports have be e nc l e a red of a ny connection with Tu e s-d ay’s te rro r i st atta cks, Sen. Joseph Bidensaid to d ay.

Biden was told by the FBI that about10 travelers we re qu e st i o n ed and fo u n dto have no connection to the atta cks, ac-c o rding to the senator’s ch i e f o f sta ff ,Alan Hoff m a n .

An FBI spokesperson, who spoke oncondition of a n o ny m i t y, indicated thesame. “We inve st i ga ted the incident inNew Yo rk and re s o lved it to our satis-faction,” the spokesperson said.

Biden, chairman of the Senate Fo re i g nRelations Committee, told CNN the ar-re sts we re based on suspicions that themen we re linked to the atta cks. Thoseconnections turned out to be “tota l ly, to-ta l ly coincidental,” he said.

One man was arre sted be c ause he wa sbe l l i ge rent, and the others we re mere lyd eta i n ed and qu e st i o n ed, Hoff m a na d d ed. A source with the Senate Fo re i g nRelations Committee said all but one ofthe group had been re l e a s ed .

Biden said there we re explanations fo rthe suspicions.

One man was originally thought to bet raveling with a fa ke pilot’s license.Biden said the man was a pilot who “co-i n c i d e n ta l ly had his brother’s identifi c a-tion as we l l . ”

“His brother happened to live in ana p a rtment comp l ex that was one inB o ston where some of these people hada c t u a l ly been. Tota l ly, tota l ly coinciden-tal,” said Biden, D-Del.

Biden added that others we re trave l-ing to a Boeing Co. confe rence, either be-c ause they wo rk for the airline manu-fa c t u rer or we re inv i ted .

‘ B l a ck boxe s’ re c ove red : M e a nw h i l e ,s e a rchers found to d ay the flight data andc o ckpit voice re c o rders from the hi-j a cked plane that flew into the Pe n ta go nand ex p l o d ed three days earl i e r, De-p a rtment of D e fense officials said.

The two “black boxes,” crucial to un-c overing details about the doomedflight’s last moments, we re re c ove red atabout 4 a.m., said Army Lt. Col. GeorgeR hy n edance, a Pe n ta gon spoke s m a n .

I nve st i ga tors in we stern Pe n n s ylva n-ia, where another of the four planes hi-j a cked Tu e s d ay went down, found thatplane’s flight data re c o rder Thursday.

R hy n edance said that the re c o rd e r swe re in the possession of the FBI andthat officials from the National Tra n s-p o rtation Safety Board we re prov i d i n gte chnical assistance in reading any datat h ey conta i n .

D i ck Bridges, deputy manager for Ar-l i n g ton County, Va., said the vo i c ere c o rder was damaged on the outs i d eand the flight data re c o rder was ch a rred .But he said the FBI still was confi d e n tthe data can be re c ove red from both de-v i c e s .

B r i d ges said the re c o rders we re fo u n d“right where the plane came into theb u i l d i n g . ”

Cruise passengers deta i n ed : T h eC o a st Guard deta i n ed two cruise shipp a s s e n gers to d ay as their ship ap-p ro a ch ed port after a fo u r- d ay trip, andthe pair was turned over to immigra t i o nand FBI age n ts .

L aw enfo rcement agencies and Carni-val cruise line would not say whet h e rthe detentions we re tied to Tu e s d ay ’ ste rro r i st atta cks .

I m m i g ration and Na t u ralization Ser-vice age n ts we re qu e stioning the de-ta i n ed people, whose names we re not

S a fety fo rces in the county are collectingm o n ey to help victims’ fa m i l i e s .

By PEGGY SINKOV I CHand AMANDA C. DAV I SV I N D I CATOR TRUMBULL STA F F

WARREN — To many, the fi re fi g h ters who re-s p o n d ed during Tu e s d ay’s te rro r i st atta cks diedp e r forming heroic acts .

But to those fi re fi g h ters, it was like ly a case of“ j u st answering another call.”

Orneil Heller, Wa rren Fi re Department capta i n ,made that sta tement Thursday during a praye rservice outside the fi re depart m e n t .

He said safety personnel on the scene of t h eWo rld Trade Center tra gedy we ren’t seeking no-to r i et y, but instead concentra ted on doing theirjobs the be st they could, Heller said.

“ We can’t begin to understand the loss and suf-fering their loved ones are now dealing with,” heex p l a i n ed during the cere m o ny to honor all vic-tims who died during the atta ck.

Call for unity: Standing in front of the fi re de-p a rtment, surro u n d ed by more than 50 fi re fi g h t-ers from surrounding depart m e n ts, Heller said it’stime for all Americans to pray to get h e r.

“ We know there is a God and we ask God to heal

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HONORING VICT I M S : A large U. S. flag is unfurled in the rotunda of the Mahoning Co u nty Co u rt h o u se to remember the Americans whol ost their lives in te r ro r i st atta c ks this week. A memorial se r v i ce for the victims took place Th u rsd ay afternoon at the co u rt h o u se.The flag is bro u g ht out on special occa s i o n s.

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LIGHTING CEREMONY: Wa r ren fi refi g hter Shawn Pe u ra ta kes the top off a ca n-dle as he and Lt. Paul Lamosek light it during a ce re m o ny at the South St re etstation. The ca n d l e, lighted Th u rsd ay, will burn until all fi refi g hte rs in NewYork have been either rescued or laid to rest.

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WA S H I NGTON — The nation on max-imum alert, President Bush is activa t i n gup to 50,000 members of the Na t i o n a lG u a rd and Re s e r ve in the aftermath ofthe te rro r i st atta cks, and the Senate vot-ed by a resounding 98-0 count to au-thorize milita ry fo rce to fight te rro r i s m .

Bush acted on the re c o m m e n d a t i o no f Donald H. Ru m s feld, defense secre-ta ry, who pre s e n ted the proposal dur-ing a Cabinet meeting at the WhiteHouse to d ay.

Bush had planned to announce them ove after the Cabinet meeting, but thep h oto opportunity was canceled at thel a st minute. Two government offi c i a l sfamiliar with the president’s plans saidhe still planned to go fo rwa rd with them ove .

P u r p o s e : T h ey st re s s ed that the call-up was not part of a milita ry mobiliza-tion aimed at the te rro r i sts who st r u ckWa s h i n g ton and New Yo rk on Tu e s d ay.I n stead, Ru m s feld wa n ts the troops, thel a rge st number called up since the 19 91Persian Gulf Wa r, to support air patro l sover New Yo rk and Wa s h i n g ton and re-main alert elsew h e re in the country.

The troops also would help withhomeland defense, the officials said,s u ch as re c ove ry and security effo rts inthe affe c ted are a s .

Air National Guard re s e r ve pilots aren e ed ed for fi g h ter jets that are on 15 -m i n u te alert at 26 bases across the coun-t ry to protect commercial planes.

Ru m s feld said combat planes are fly-ing over the New Yo rk-Wa s h i n g ton cor-ridor to protect flights .

No re s e r ve units from the MahoningVa l l ey have been called up as yet, ac-c o rding to a spokesman at the Yo u n g s-town Air Re s e r ve Station in Vi e n n a .

M i l i ta ry considera t i o n s : Bush pre-p a red for the call-up as the Pe n ta go nwe i g h ed how to era d i c a te the te rro r i stswho hit New Yo rk and Wa s h i n g to n ,along with the sta tes and orga n i z a t i o n sthat supported the te rro r i sts .

The milita ry st r i ke options go far be-yond the short - term cruise missile as-s au l ts of years past in Afghanistan andSudan and isolated airst r i kes aga i n sts i tes in Ira q .

O fficials have said, more ex p l i c i t lythan be fo re, that they are planning as u sta i n ed campaign — including large -scale milita ry options — to dest roy te r-ro r i st organizations such as those re-sponsible for Tu e s d ay’s atta ck on thePe n ta gon and Wo rld Trade Cente r.

C o mp l i c a t i o n s : As the Bush admin-i st ration be gan weighing st r i kes aga i n stte rro r i st havens in Afghanistan, defe n s eo fficials and milita ry ex p e rts said Thurs-d ay that major operations in the ruggedte rrain could re qu i re months of p re p a-ration and would pro b a b ly entail U.S. ca-s u a l t i e s .

B e c ause of a primitive infra st r u c t u reand the hostility of m a ny Afghanis, am ajor ground campaign would re qu i re alead time long enough to allow seve ra ld ivisions of t roops and their supplies tore a ch the region, ex p e rts pred i c ted. Ana s s ault by special operations fo rc e swould pro b a b ly lead to some U.S. casu-alties be c ause of the difficulty the unitswould face trying to wend their waya c ross the rugged, heav i ly armed re g i o n ,t h ey said.

And an air campaign, though easier ins eve ral re s p e c ts, would have marg i n a lvalue unless the U.S. fo rces had the kindo f t i m e ly inte l l i gence that it has ofte nl a cked about Osama bin Laden, ex p e rtss a i d .

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POLICE | Airport arre sts a false alarm

The $40 billion pack a ge wa stwice what President Bush hadre qu e ste d .

WA S H I NGTON (AP) — The Senatea p p roved $40 billion in emerge n c yaid to help the victims and huntd own the perpet ra tors of this we e k ’ ste rro r i st atta cks in New Yo rk andWa s h i n g to n .

The House was also voting on thespending bill, but wouldn’t announcei ts final ta l ly until after a noon me-morial service for the victims of l a stTu e s d ay’s atta cks .

The 96-0 Senate vote to d ay camej u st hours be fo re President Bush, ac-c o mp a n i ed by a contingent of NewYo rk law m a kers, was to visit the sitein New Yo rk where two hij a cked jetsra m m ed into the Wo rld Trade Cente rtowers, dest roying them. Anot h e rc o m m a n d e e red airliner was cra s h edi n to the Pe n ta go n .

S e n a te Minority Leader Trent Lot t ,R-Miss., lau d ed the ra p i d - fi re wo rkthat brought agreement on both thespending and a separa te measure au-thorizing use of fo rce. The Senate be-gan voting on that immed i a te ly af-ter approving the $40 billion.

“These are diffe rent times,” Lot ttold colleagues. “And we have got toact decisive ly. The American peopleexpect it of us, and they will acceptn othing less.”

“It is the down payment on pro-viding the re s o u rces necessary to re-build this nation,” said Rep. Dav i dO bey of Wisconsin, top Democrat onthe House Appropriations Commit-tee. The $40 billion pack a ge was dou-ble what the White House originallyre qu e sted from Congre s s .

D e l ayed vote : House plans to passthe spending bill Thursday night hadto be put off when the White Housea s ked for more control over how andwhen the money would be spent. “Itwas a principled debate about thep re ro ga t ives of the bra n ches,” WhiteHouse budget ch i e f M i t chell Danielssaid short ly after midnight when thet wo sides fi n a l ly shook hands on thep a ck a ge .

The bill provides an immed i a te$ 10 billion to be used to respond tothe atta cks, counter domestic and in-ternational te rrorism, increase tra n s-p o rtation security and repair dam-a ged fa c i l i t i e s .

A n other $10 billion would bemade available 15 days after theW h i te House informs Congress of aplan for its use. The remaining $20billion would be included in spend-ing bills for the fiscal year be g i n n i n gOct. 1.

Under the agreement re a ch edwith the White House, at least halfthe $40 billion will go to disaster re-c ove ry activities in New Yo rk, Vi r-ginia and Pe n n s ylvania, where afo u rth hij a cked plane cra s h ed Tu e s-d ay.

Members of the Islamic Cente rof Long Island will have th e i rsecond service for victimsto d ay.

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At the Dallas Baha’i Cente r, theywill re c i te a “Prayer for America.”

On the corner of Va l l ey and Hopy-a rd avenues in Pleasanton, Calif.,t h ey will wave flags and sing “GodBless America.”

At the Islamic Center of Long Is-land, N. Y., they will say prayers fo rthe dead and missing.

Ac ross the country, Americans ofm a ny faiths planned services andvigils to d ay, joining President Bushin a national day of re m e m b rance fo rthe victims of the te rro r i st atta cks .

“ We want people to feel emp ow-e red. We want them to feel positive , ”said Janis Mulhall, an eva n ge l i c a lC h r i stian organizing the memorial inP l e a s a n to n .

Mulhall has been scouring sto re sfor tiny American flags — buyingabout 300 so far — and plans to dis-

t r i b u te them to eve ryone who at-te n d s .

P ro c l a m a t i o n : In proclaiming to-d ay a national day of p rayer and re-m e m b rance, Bush urged communityg roups and places of worship na-t i o nwide to have noontime memo-rial services, ring bells and set asidetime for candlelight vigils. He alsoe n c o u ra ged emp l oyers to let theirwo rkers off to atte n d .

“All our hearts have been searedby the sudden and senseless ta k i n go f innocent lives,” Bush said. “Wep ray for healing and for the st re n g t hto serve and encoura ge one anot h e rin hope and fa i t h . ”

In Dallas, people will be asked tohold hands and sing at the Baha’iC e n ter and re c i te the prayer that aBaha’i leader wrote after he visitedthe Un i ted Sta tes in 1912. It asks Godto “confirm this reve red nation” and“ m a ke it precious and near to thee.”

“All the members who are movedto say prayers can stand and sayp rayers,” said Kambiz Ra f raf, a Baha’is p o kesman. The religion, with ro otsin Iran, focuses on spiritual grow t hand solving society’s ills.

All Americans: M e m bers of t h eIslamic Center on Long Island,st u n n ed by the many reve n ge as-s au l ts on Muslim-Americans sinceTu e s d ay, will have the second oft h ree services for victims of the at-ta cks on the Wo rld Trade Center andthe Pe n ta gon. They also will collectdonations for the American RedC ro s s .

“ We ’ re hurting, too, and we ’ re alsoAmericans,” said Arshad Majid, am e m ber of the cente r. “There we reMuslim lives lost in that building, aswell. We ’ re all human and we needto get to get h e r. ”

While Bush prays at the Na t i o n a lC a t h ed ral in Wa s h i n g ton to d ay,Lama Surya Das of the Dzogch e nC e n ter plans a Buddhist service inC a m b r i d ge, Mass. The pro g ram willinclude the loving kindness/com-passion med i tation prayer and thesix syllable jewe l - i n - t h e - l ot u sm a n t ra .

“It’s in memory of the victims andthe sufferings of all and a plea not top e r p et u a te even more violence,” Dassaid. “It’s a plea for re st raint, moder-ation and reason and healing andp raying for peace.”

The doctor was working in aclinic on an Indian re s e r va t i o nin New Mexico on Tu e s d ay.

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NEW CA STLE, Pa. — The FBI hasc l e a red an Arabic-speaking phys i c i a nwho was qu e st i o n ed as part of t h en a t i o nwide inve st i gation into te rro r-i st atta cks .

The bure au’s Albuqu e rque, N. M . ,o ffice re l e a s ed a sta tement Thursdaynight saying that the docto r, Dr.Basem Hussein, is not a suspect inthe inve st i ga t i o n .

Suspicious pack a ge: Wi t h i nhours of the te rro r i st atta cks in NewYo rk and Wa s h i n g ton, D.C., the Pitts-b u rgh FBI had called the Yo u n g stow nPolice Department bomb squad toa s s i st in ch e cking out a suspiciousp a ck a ge at Hussein’s apartment inThe Meadows, an upscale comp l exo ff M i t chell Road in Ne s h a n n o ckTownship. No bomb was found, ando fficials wouldn’t say what, if a ny-thing, had been fo u n d .

A spoke s woman at Jameson Hos-p i tal in New Castle said that Dr. Hus-sein had physician priv i l e ges therefor three to six months but left inJ a n u a ry 2000 .

Hussein also wo rked at AlleghenyG e n e ral Hospital in Pitts b u rg h ,w h e re he had a fe l l owship in neuro-radiology from July 19 97 to July 19 9 9 ,said spokesman Tom Chaku rd a .

C h a ku rda said fed e ral au t h o r i t i e smade inquiries at the hospital aboutHussein this we e k. He would not saywhat type of i n formation fed e ral au-

thorities we re seeking. Dr. Husseinalso wo rked for an Indian hospita ls ystem in New Mex i c o .

J e n ny Notah, spoke s woman for theNavaho Area Indian Health Service,said Hussein was sent to Shipro ck,New Mexico, by a te mp o ra ry sta ffi n gservice. He wo rked as a ra d i o l o g i stat a Navaho medical center fro mS e pt. 4 through Tu e s d ay, she said.

H a d n’t been seen: The manage rat the New Castle apartment com-p l ex told WPXI-TV in Pitts b u rgh thatshe ch e cked on the unit Tu e s d ay be-c ause she hadn’t re c e n t ly seen thetenant. The TV station re p o rted thatshe spot ted what she described asA rabic lite ra t u re, flight manuals andc o mp u ter soft wa re re l a ted to fly i n gc o m m e rcial airc ra ft in the apart m e n tand called au t h o r i t i e s .

I nve st i ga tors we re camp ed out onthe lawn near Hussein’s apart m e n tTu e s d ay evening and most ofWed n e s d ay waiting for fed e ra ls e a rch wa rra n ts to be issued .

T h ey ente red his apartment some-time Wed n e s d ay evening and hadc l e a red the area by 11:30 that night,neighbors said.

H o rdes of te l evision cameras, re-p o rters and gaw kers camp ed out onthe lawn in front of the comp l exWed n e s d ay night waiting for wo rdon the inve st i ga t i o n .

Police guard ed the front entra n c e ,permitting only re s i d e n ts inside.

T h e re we re few signs Thursdaymorning that fed e ral age n ts had vis-i ted the apartment comp l ex, onlysome discard ed ice on the lawn be-hind the search ed apartment and awa ter bottle left next to the ga ra ged o o r.

D A Y O F R E M E M B R A N C E

Coming to gether in praye r

In addition to ex p ressing sor-row over the U.S. victims,m a ny nations lost citizens oftheir own at the World Tra d eC e n te r.

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LONDON — For the fi r st time inBritish histo ry, and by order of t h equeen, the guards at Buck i n g h a mPalace played the “Star Spangl edBanner” on Thursday, a day on whichAmerica, still reeling from the dev-a station inflicted by its enemies,could be re m i n d ed also that it hasm a ny friends in the wo rl d .

Under a pre m a t u re ly wintry Lon-don sky, thousands of people whohad ga t h e red at the ga tes of t h epalace for the traditional changing ofthe guard cere m o ny joined in an im-p ro mptu singing of the U.S. nationalanthem. It was just one of m a ny ge s-t u res, great and small, inspired bythe to rrent of g r i e f and symp a t hys weeping Europe in the wa ke ofTu e s d ay’s te rro r i st atta cks .

To d ay has been declared an offi-cial day of mourning in Europe. Thee n t i re continent was to observe at h re e - m i n u te silence at 10 a.m., andspecial ch u rch services are planned ,u n d e rlining the depth of the bondsthat tie the Un i ted Sta tes to manycountries around the wo rld, and es-p e c i a l ly Euro p e .

Other countries: But most peoplecouldn’t wait until to d ay to conveytheir sorrow. Germans observed afive - m i n u te silence, Finnish ra d i ostations went off the air, and busesand trams in Denmark came to ahalt. Hungarian fi ret r u cks flew blackflags and Polish ones to oted theirhorns, a tribute to the fi re fi g h ters ofNew Yo rk.

In the Czech Republic, people litcandles at a vigil, and Po rt u gal de-c l a red two days of mourning. In Lon-don, thousands lined up in pouringrain to sign a book of c o n d o l e n c e sand lay flowers beneath a statue ofFranklin D. Ro o s evelt opposite theU.S. Embassy.

From Dublin to Moscow, Paris toWa r s aw, flags are flying at half-sta ff ,and the ga tes of American embassiesh ave been turned into imp ro mpt ushrines by people coming to layf l owe r s .

“This isn’t just America; it affe c tseve rybody’s hearts,” said Angela Dee,a London sto re dete c t ive who camealone to lay a single flower alongsidethe mountain of f l o ral tributes pilingup opposite the U.S. Embassy. Shek n ows no Americans. “It’s just so sad,so horr i fic,” she said.

I n ternational victims: A m e r i c a ’ st ra gedy is also turning into a gl o b a lt ra ged y. The Wo rld Trade Cente rh o u s ed a number of i n te r n a t i o n a lc o mpanies, and many fo reigners areamong the dead. At least 100 Brito n sh ave been confi r m ed dead, and sev-

e ral hundred are missing, makingthis Britain’s wo r st te rro r i st disaste r,as well as America’s.

One British comp a ny, Risk Wa te r s ,said 180 of i ts sta ff a t tending a con-fe rence on the 106th floor we re un-a c c o u n ted fo r. The Fre n ch bank Cred-it Agricole said 92 of i ts emp l oye e sa re missing. Three Chinese, 50B a n gladeshis, 40 Indians, 27 SouthKo reans, 85 Au st ralians, seven Ta i-wanese and six Zimbabweans areamong those missing.

American culture : E ven be fo ren ews of these casualties bro ke, peo-ple had been consumed by the ca-ta st rophe. The power and influencethat made the Un i ted Sta tes a ta rgetfor fanatics also makes it the countrym a ny people around the wo rld iden-tify with most, whether they havere l a t ives there, do business there oreven simp ly wa t ch te l ev i s i o n .

A TV diet of “Sesame St re et” and“ Friends,” consumption of C o c a - C o l aor even just the occasional visit tothe movies guara n tee that most fo r-eigners are like ly to be more fa m i l i a rwith U.S. culture than any other be-yond their own borders — and cer-ta i n ly more than most Americans arewith any single fo reign culture .

“I just want Americans to know wec a re,” said Paul Smith, 16, who wa samong those who wa i ted in line top ay re s p e c ts in London. “Also, thatwe ’ re with them, whatever they de-cide to do. This kind of thing, it’s gotto be sto p p ed . ”

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A continent shares America’s grief

re l e a s ed .No arre sts had been made about

t h ree hours after the ship docked ,a gency spoke s woman Judy Oriheulasaid. The agency did not initiate theb o a rding re qu e st, she said.

In Day tona Beach, about 240 milesn o rth, a strip club manager inte r-v i ewed by the FBI said that thre emen spewed anti-American senti-m e n ts in a bar and ta l ked of i m-pending bloodshed the night be fo rete rro r i sts st r u ck New Yo rk andWa s h i n g to n .

I nve st i gation widens: I nve st i ga-tors bro a d e n ed their inve st i ga t i o n ,s weeping into Germany and Canada.

German authorities have re l e a s edan airport emp l oyee deta i n ed in thecity of H a m b u rg in connection withthis week’s te rror atta cks in the Un i t-ed Sta tes, the fed e ral pro s e c u tor’s of-fice said to d ay.

S p o ke s woman Frau ke Sch e u te nsaid the man was re l e a s ed ove r n i g h t ,adding that his had been the only ar-re st in Germany — contra ry to re-p o rts in the German press of f u rt h e rd ete n t i o n s .

I nve st i ga tors in Hamburg deta i n edthe man, whose name has not be e nre l e a s ed, when they combed apart-m e n ts in the city the previous nightlooking for any evidence linked tothe atta cks .

Fed e ral inve st i ga tors said Thurs-d ay that three suspected te rro r i stsa b o a rd the hij a cked planes oncel ived in Hamburg and we re part ofan organization fo r m ed this year to

d e st roy symbolic U.S. ta rgets .German authorities, acting on tips

f rom the FBI, said they we re search-ing for another man as the inve st i-gation into Tu e s d ay’s atta cks spre a da c ross Euro p e .

The FBI search ed for possible sus-p e c ts who had recent flight tra i n i n g ,ties to the hij a ckers or their backe r s ,or atte mpted to enter the Un i tedSta tes re c e n t ly, according to four of-ficials who spoke only on conditiono f a n o ny m i t y.

Age n ts have been examining man-i fe sts of f l i g h ts that we re not hij a ckedTu e s d ay to find matches with peo-ple who fit this pro file, the offi c i a l ss a i d .

Continuing thre a t: The concernsa re also being driven by fresh inte l l i-gence sugge sting a continuing thre a t ,the officials added. The info r m a t i o n“ s u g ge sts we haven’t seen the end ofthis current threat,” one U.S. offi c i a ls a i d .

Signs of concern we re evident. TheC a p i tol was eva c u a ted for a suspi-cious pack a ge Thursday, and a secu-rity ring around the White Housewas widened .

A number of people qu e st i o n ed inconnection with the plot have be e na rre sted for immigration violationsand we re in the custody of the Im-m i g ration and Na t u ralization Ser-vice, the Justice Department said.

In Minnesota, the possibilitye m e rged that the FBI knew be fo reTu e s d ay’s atta ck of at least one Ara bman seeking the type of flight tra i n-ing the hij a ckers re c e ived .

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False reports and false hopesc o mpound the anxiety at th et rade center site .

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NEW YORK — Rescuers ra c i n ga ga i n st the clock in a despera te at-te mpt to find survivors in the Wo rl dTrade Center’s rubble fa c ed a newo b stacle to d ay: ra i n .

“ T h ree’s no qu e stion they ’ re ham-p e red by it,” said Mayor Ru d o l p hGiuliani. “But there’s still a st ro n ghope we’ll be able to find people, re-c over people and save them.”

Rescue teams have been diggingt h rough the massive ruins sinceTu e s d ay’s te rror atta cks, but hopeso f finding survivors are dwindling.T h e re are 184 confi r m ed dead, andm o re than 4,700 we re re p o rtedm i s s i n g .

The rain fell off and on, often heav-i ly, throughout the morning to d ay.

“The rain made the fo oting a littlem o re dange rous,” said Rich a rd Cop-po, a rescue vo l u n te e r. “We thoughtthat may be the rain would settle thed u st and make things bet te r, but ac-t u a l ly it st i rred it up.”

The entire financial district of l ow-er Manhattan has been closed sincethe atta cks, but Wall St re et plans toreopen Monday. The mayor also saidthe Sta ten Island fe rry, which serve sthe southern tip of M a n h a t ta n ,would resume service Monday.

Confusing re p o rts and wo rries ofn ew te rro r i st thre a ts have com-p o u n d ed New Yo rk’s misery anda n x i et y.

E c static re p o rts of re s c u ed fi re-fi g h ters proved wrong. Anxious re s-cue wo rkers fled and ret u r n ed on atide of conflicting re p o rts of c o l l a p s-ing buildings. Fa ke bomb thre a tsp o u red in.

“ T h e re was a lot of m i s i n fo r m a t i o nto d ay,” a grim Giuliani said Thursdayevening in a te l ev i s ed confe re n c e .“ T h e re we re false re p o rts of t wobuildings’ collapsing. We ’ ve ex p e r i-e n c ed a number false bomb thre a ts ,over 90.”

To the callers, he pro m i s ed pro s e-cution: “This is a wa r n i n g . ”

False hope: To d ay’s storm fo l-l owed a disappointing 24 hours. No

s u r v ivors we re found, only fa l s ehope. Re p o rts of five fi re fi g h ters re-c ove red alive in a buried SUV we rec a rr i ed by te l evision stations andn ews agencies, including The Asso-c i a ted Press. Authorities we re ec-static. But the sto ry wasn’t true.

The accura te re p o rt: Two fi re-fi g h ters had been te mp o ra r i lyt ra p p ed in an underg round air pock-et and fre ed by other rescue wo rk-e r s .

Vo l u n teers, already running ona d renaline and faith, we re eva c u a tedf rom a damaged office tower acro s sthe st re et from the Trade Cente rwhen the top 10 stories appearedu n ste a d y. Wo rkers fled, sprintingd own the st re et .

No buildings fell. Giuliani said in-spections Thursday found the build-ings still standing we re st r u c t u ra l lys o u n d .

At another spot, a chain of a b o u t100 wo rkers passed buckets of d e-bris. A shout went up — a search doghad heard somet h i n g .

“ Q u i et! qu i et ! ”Wheezing wo rkers lowe red their

b u ckets and turned .Seconds passed. A minute went by.Then, those at the front of the line

p i cked up their buckets, turned theirfaces, and went back to wo rk.

Pa i n staking effo rt: E nve l o p ed ina smoky haze, wearing surg i c a lm a s ks and in some cases re s p i ra to r s ,h u n d reds of men in hard hatsfo r m ed seve ral lines that snaked upthe rubble piles as they passed buck-ets of debris from one to another inthe painstaking effo rt to clear thea rea and find out what was be l ow.

S m o ke still billowed from the rub-ble, and just be l ow the peak of t h eh i g h e st pile of debris, flames we revisible. Fre qu e n t ly, the men in thelines waved their arms and called fo rqu i et so they could use a liste n i n gd evice if t h ey thought they had de-te c ted a sound coming from thes h a t te red re m n a n ts of the Tra d eC e n ter’s twin 110 - sto ry towe r s .Ne a r by mach i n e ry was turned off ,but the careful monitoring did notd i s c over any survivo r s .

M o re than 48 hours after the fa-miliar twin towers disappeared in at h u n d e rous collapse, it was the hopeo f s u r v ivors, however imp ro b a b l e ,that was driving the rescue teams. It

is an unspoken if dwindling hopea c ross the city.

Keep wo rking: The memory offallen mates now keeps hundreds offi re fi g h ters wo rking 20 hours a day,and they are joined by fe l l ow fi re-fi g h ters from Lebanon, Ill., New p o rt ,R.I., Ottawa, Canada, and elsew h e re .No distinction is made bet ween localand outsider save one: When re s-cuers come across the remains of afi re fi g h te r, only the New Yo rkers ste pfo rwa rd. They gather around thebody and wrap it and place it in ana m b u l a n c e .

“ I f yo u ’ re not a New Yo rk fi re fi g h t-e r, you just keep qu i et and fall back, ”said Chad Aloi, a vo l u n teer fi re fi g h t-er from Gaithersburg who haswo rked 24 hours in the smoke andd u st. “We let them go in and handletheir ow n . ”

As the ex h au sted rescue wo rke r sfeve r i s h ly wo rked at the southern tipo f M a n h a t tan, afte r s h o cks from thete rro r i st atta cks added to the dis-r u ptions to daily life here .

E vacuations: Wo rries spurredevacuations across the city — atG rand Central Terminal, the Po rt Au-thority Bus Terminal and CNN’s mid-town offices, among other locations.

Tens of thousands of re s i d e n ts inl ower Manhattan re m a i n ed home-less. From trendy TriBeCa to wo rk-ing-class Chinatown, inve st i ga to r st u r n ed the five - s qu a re-mile area intoa giant crime scene. Some lucky re s-i d e n ts we re allowed to ret r i eve a fewbelongings be fo re being hust l ed outbe c ause of s a fety concerns and pow-er outa ge s .

But at an armory, in hospitals andon the st re ets of M a n h a t tan, thou-sands of d i st raught families search edfor the missing.

A l m o st eve ry sentence be gan thesame: “Have you seen ...”

And nearly eve ry plea ended thesame: “If you know anything, pleasecall ...”

D r iven by desperation, more than2 , 5 00 people stood in line at the ar-m o ry on 26th St re et and Lex i n g to nAvenue, waiting to comp l ete miss-ing-persons re p o rts. At St. Vi n c e n t ’ sH o s p i tal, where many of the victimsf rom Tu e s d ay’s Wo rld Trade Cente ra t ta cks we re ta ken, re l a t ives wa i tedto find out if their loved ones hadbeen admitted .

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Rain hampers re c ove ry effo rtsAfghans had defe a ted powerful in-truders for more than 1, 000 ye a r s ,said the country “may be the wo r stplace on Earth to do one of t h e s et h i n g s . ”

Pe n ta gon officials said that ove rthe past seve ral years they haved ra fted various plans for possible op-e rations in Afghanistan be c ause oftheir concerns about bin Laden andother te rro r i st groups in the country.And U.S. inte l l i gence has some fa-miliarity with the region be c ause ofthe aid the U.S. government offe redAfghan re bels in their fight aga i n stthe Sov i et Union in the 198 0 s .

Yet they ack n owl ed ged that anye ffo rt would be hindered by a short-a ge of usable airfields, poor ro a d sand faulty communications and util-ities. Even the difficulty of local di-a l e c ts will make it tougher fo rg round fo rces to make their wayt h rough the country.

Neighboring nations: A n ot h e rm ajor obstacle to a milita ry cam-paign is America’s poor re l a t i o n s h i pwith most of A f g h a n i stan’s neigh-b o r s .

Sta te Department officials, includ-ing Secreta ry of Sta te Colin L. Pow-ell, have spent long hours this we e kt rying to persuade the Pa k i stanis toc o o p e ra te with the new counte rte r-ro r i st effo rt. But though the Pa k i sta-nis have sought to appear coopera-t ive, ex p e rts pred i c ted that it wo u l dbe difficult to persuade them to al-l ow the Un i ted Sta tes to open anystaging base in their country for am i l i ta ry effo rt in Afghanista n .

“I have to be l i eve they would beve ry unenthusiastic” about permit-ting use of their te rr i to ry as a basefor a milita ry st r i ke, said Te re s i ta

S ch a ffe r, a South Asia specialist andformer U.S. ambassador, even thoughthe Pa k i stanis are under st rong pre s-s u re now to help the Un i ted Sta te sa ga i n st te rro r i s m .

E x p e rts said they thought that theU.S. government’s fi r st choice wo u l dbe to have Pa k i stan pre s s u re the Ta l-iban into fo rcing withdrawal of b i nLaden’s net wo rk from Afghanista n .I f that effo rt we re to fail, U.S. specialfo rces could be sent to Afghanista nseeking to kill or capt u re bin Ladenand other key fi g u res in his net wo rk.

But ex p e rts said the long dista n c e si nvo lved and rugged te rrain wo u l draise risks for the special fo rces andthe helicopters that would carryt h e m .

“ Yo u ’ re taking chances with thoselong distances and possible mainte-nance problems,” said ret i red MarineLt. Gen. Anthony Zinni, the last com-mander of U.S. fo rces in the MiddleE a st. The capabilities of special fo rc e su n i ts are bet ter than they we re in1980, when President Carter’s com-mando mission to rescue Ira n i a nh o sta ges fa i l ed. Yet, he added, “yo uface the same sort of c i rc u m sta n c e s . ”

Additional opt i o n s : M i l i ta ry ex-p e rts said that if the Pe n ta gon doesn ot want to go with a small specialfo rces unit to try to tra ck down indi-vidual te rro r i sts, the next be st ch o i c ewould be to go with a ve ry largefo rce, of p e rhaps seve ral div i s i o n s .That is need ed, they said, so that thet roops would have all the fo rce pro-tection and logistic support need edin the difficult env i ronment ofA f g h a n i sta n .

“ You can go small, or you can gobig, but you don’t want to have afo rce that’s in-bet ween,” said ret i redA r my Lt. Col. Ralph Peters.

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By JoANNE VIVIANOV I N D I CATOR STAFF WRITER

CANFIELD — Anna Kasten showsb l a ck- a n d - w h i te photos that tell thesto ry of the day her fa t h e r, a heli-c o pter pilot, was shot down as hes e r ved America during the Ko re a nWa r.

She also recalls the day, when shewas 7, that she learned her uncle hadbeen killed while serving in Vi et n a m .

M ay be that’s why her patriot i s mhas her flying 23 flags and twobuntings at her home on We st MainSt re et .

Or may be it’s be c ause she and hus-band Kraig feel safe in a neighbor-hood where their ch i l d ren can ridetheir bikes in the st re et. May be theya re thankful that their ch i l d ren cang row up and become anything theywant to be .

Additional meaning: But theflags have even more urgency nowas the Kastens — like much of A m e r-ica — search for some way to shows u p p o rt for their country and con-cern for victims of the Tu e s d ay te r-ro r i st atta cks in New Yo rk City andWa s h i n g ton, D.C.

“I do think people are patriot i c , ”Anna said. “I think something likethis happens and it re a l ly pulls themto get h e r. ”

Signs of p a t r i otism are popping upall over the Mahoning Va l l ey, fro mcars and semi-trucks with flags wav-ing from antennas to business signsthat have sto p p ed adve rtising to say,“God Bless America,” “One Na t i o nUnder God. Indivisible,” or “PleaseP ray for Fe l l ow Americans.” News-papers are running cut-out flags. Ra-dio stations are playing patriot i cs o n g s .

H o m e owners, schools, gove r n-ment offices and business are hang-ing patriotic decals in windows, fly-ing new flags and raising banners.

At Hayes Middle School in Yo u n g s-town, pupils have cra fted a 12 - by- 5 -fo ot flag with painted stripes andw h i te construction paper stars. Itreads “God Bless America.” Te a ch e r sl a m i n a ted the flag and it hangs out at h i rd-floor window.

“It’s so big. It’s to u ching,” saidte a cher Denise Zord i ch. “We ’ re hop-ing it inspires eve rybody to hang outtheir flags.”

Pupils at Hayes, fi fth through eightg raders, have always said the pled geo f allegiance each morning be fo reclasses sta rt .

“The kids, they still have such bigh e a rts,” Zord i ch said. “As much asthe people who did this want us tofall apart as a nation, it makes us

st ro n ge r, even in our communities.”Buying the flag: At the We ste r n

Re s e r ve Flag Co., 73 01 We st Blvd., ane st i m a ted 800 flags — ranging in sizef rom 4-by- 6 - i n ch to 6-by- 10 - fo ot —we re sold by 2 p.m. Thursday, saidC a t hy Lind, comp a ny president. Shesaid it is about a te n fold increase insales; about the same amount wa ssold during the two we e ks aro u n dJ u ly 4. She said the comp a ny is near-ly sold out and suppliers are say i n gthat placed orders may not be fi l l ed.

Lind is also president of t h eYo u n g stown Area Grocers Associa-tion, and all flag sale pro fi ts go to theassociation’s college sch o l a r s h i pf u n d .

She said her traditional custo m e r sa re senior citizens and war vete ra n s ,but “now we ’ re seeing eve ry b o d y,f rom local businesses who have nev-er displayed a flag to young peopleand mothers bringing in their ch i l-d re n . ”

She said the show of p a t r i otism is“long ove rd u e . ”

“ L et’s hope it lasts long after and

people realize how lucky we are tobe here,” she added .

At Wa l - M a rt sto res nationw i d e ,m o re than 200 , 000 American flagswe re purch a s ed on Wed n e s d ay, saids p o ke s woman Sharon We be r. Morethan 115 , 000 Americans bought flagson Tu e s d ay. That comp a res to 10 , 000flags sold on Sept. 13, 2000, she said.

B u t ch Luke h a rt of M i n e ral Ridgehas hung a “God Bless America” ban-ner in front of the Tr i u mph Au toGlass sto re he manages in Board m a n .He’s hung an identical sign in hisya rd at home, decked out with lights .He said the te rro r i st atta ck has awa k-e n ed American patriot i s m .

“It just took a little shot in thearm,” he said. “Eve rybody’s going tora l ly behind any decision that’smade. ... You can’t come into ourhouse and push us aro u n d . ”

S h owing support: At Life -Ti m eTr u ck Pro d u c ts Inc. in Canfield, wo rk-ers have hung a flag above a wa re-house and hoisted up a banner re a d-ing, “God Bless America. Pray for theVi c t i m s . ”

“Our emp l oyees said, ‘What canwe do?’” said owner Shirl ey Fre ed -Matula. “We all had a big desire todo somet h i n g . ”

Besides the banner, the comp a nywill introduce new “God Bless Amer-ica” mud flaps with an American flagand eagl e .

She said he tra gedy has st i rred upp a t r i otism and Americans’ re a c t i o n swill show young people what patri-otism re a l ly means.

Struthers High School st u d e n ts areplanning a salute to America at 7tonight, be fo re the varsity fo ot b a l lgame. Choir student Amanda Cap-p i t te, a senior, said st u d e n ts will pullout a flag nearly the size of the fo ot-ball field and unfurl it across theg r i d i ron as the band plays patriot i cmusic.

“A lot of people have put their live son hold,” Cappitte said. “We thoughtwe should do something out of re-s p e c t . ”

A r m ed fo rc e s : Pa t r i otism is alsoa l ive and well at the Navy re c r u i t i n gc e n ter in Boardman, said ChiefR i ch a rd Delisio. He said calls and vis-i ts to the center have incre a s ed five-fold. While he may have re c e ivedt h ree or four inquiries per day be fo rethe tra ged y, he now re c e ives 20 orm o re. Many are vete rans who wa n tto return to serve. Others are yo u n gpeople, both men and women, wa n t-ing to enlist .

S eve ral local radio and te l ev i s i o nstations plan a “Celebra te America”gathering at 3 p.m. Saturd ay atSouthern Pa rk Mall. The event willfe a t u re music, speakers, prayer anddiscussion. Personalities fro mW Q X K-FM 105, WYFM-FM 103 andW H OT-FM 101; and WKBN-TV 27 ;will serve as hosts. Also part i c i p a t-ing is WYFX-TV 17 / 6 2 .

B a ck at Kasten’s home is an exa m-ple of the American dream. The cou-ple purch a s ed a wonderful home;K raig is a skilled trades painter at GML o rd stown and has sta rted his ow npainting contracting business; theyh ave four ch i l d ren — two boys, twog i rls — ages 9 through 22.

Anna has given the yo u n ge std au g h ter a small flag to decora te herl o cker at school. She said she neve rthought her ch i l d ren would see awa r.

Yo u n ger ge n e ra t i o n : K raig, 40,said he’d be willing to fight for Amer-ica if felt he could help. But whatabout the couple’s 19 year old son?”

“It would sadden me, but I wo u l ds u p p o rt him,” Kraig said.

As for Anna, her fi r st reaction, shesaid, would be to find someone fo rhim to marry.

Then she pau s ed and sighed .“ We ’ ve had fathers, gra n d fa t h e r s

and gre a t - g ra n d fathers fighting fo rour fre edom,” Anna said. “And hewould be honoring them to go andfight for what they fought fo r. ”

The year I gra d u a tedf rom high school, in1985, I atte n d ed theg raduation cere m o ny of afriend from Bristo lv i l l e .

B a rry Barbe was an ex-cellent singer and wa schosen to sing to hisc l a s s m a tes of B r i sto lv i l l eHigh Sch o o l .

B a rry had picked a hip,popular song of that time.

His music inst r u c tor insisted on a diffe r-ent selection.

I re m e m ber his being pert u r bed with histe a cher at the time. He wa n ted to sing thesong he had chosen.

She told him, “This is the gre a te st hopeyou can give your classmate s . ”

B a rry sere n a d ed his classmates out intothe wo rld with, “Let There Be Peace OnE a rth.”

L a ck of s i g n i fi c a n c e : Being young, un-wo rl d ly and spoiled, pro b a b ly not one ofthe st u d e n ts in the Bristo lville au d i to r i u m ,mys e l f i n c l u d ed, understood the signifi-cance of B a rry’s song.

Our lives, up to that point, had no memo-ries of the rava ges and sacrifices of wa r.

We knew of these horrors. Most eve ry-one had re l a t ives who had fought in ourc o u n t ry’s battles. We had heard the sto r i e sand seen the movies.

But we looked at them as “stories” and“ m ov i e s . ”

Our only knowl ed ge of h a rd times camef rom gra n d p a re n ts reprimanding us whenwe didn’t finish all the food on our plate .

“During the Depression, we didn’t havea nything to eat,” they told us. Tales of d a n-delion soup and wa te rc ress salads fo l-l owed. We ro l l ed our eyes and angrilyst u ffed the food into our mouths.

S p o i l ed kids: “Crisis” in the ’80s was notgetting the car for the night, not having ac e rtain label on our jeans.

We st ro l l ed out into the wo rld, often dis-t u r bed with the harshness of it and some-times pouting over its u n fa i r n e s s .

A ge n e ration be fo re, we would have be e nwaving go o d bye to our classmates as theywent to fight overseas.

I never heard a sto ry from a vete ran com-plaining about how u n fa i r that wa s .

D e s e rt Storm brought a reminder of o u rf re edom. But our day- to - d ay activities we ren ot affe c ted.

The speed in which we conqu e red thate n e my added to our be l i e f o f America’s in-v i n c i b i l i t y.

A decade of a bull sto ck market and lowi n te re st ra tes has our ge n e ration living theAmerican dream.

Our lives have been spent enjoying the

f r u i ts of the labor that ge n e rations be fo reus made possible.

B e c ause of their sacrifices, our ge n e ra t i o nhas had the priv i l e ge of g rowing up in a timeo f peace and pro s p e r i t y.

I don’t be l i eve we ever fully understo o dthe priv i l e ge .

We are beginning to understa n d .Reality sets in: The eve n ts of the past

few days have brought the precious fra g i l i-ty of that dream to re a l i t y.

Our eyes have been opened to howqu i ck ly the dream can become a night-m a re .

In one insane moment, our focus and di-rection have been ch a n ged .

Our ge n e ration has been called to action.J u st as the men and women of ge n e ra-

tions past fought to establish and mainta i nthis democra c y, so must we rise to pre s e r vei ts future .

Some of this ge n e ration will be called

upon to determine a plan of action. Otherswill be re qu i red to implement the actions.

M a ny will give time and money. Somem ay be called to give their lives.

It is time for our ge n e ration to re p ay theg i ft of f re edom we have been given andh ave so rich ly enjoyed .

We must stand at our borders, patrol ourskies, and police the oceans re l e n t l e s s ly top re s e r ve our precious libe rt y.

We must rise out of the rubble with a re-s o lve that the Un i ted Sta tes of America willp reva i l .

T h e re will be no fa l te r i n g .Not in this ge n e ra t i o n .Not on our wa t ch .We will do whatever it ta kes to pass the

g i ft of f re edom on to the next “spoiled, un-wo rl d ly” ge n e ration.

A l ways, with the hope of peace on Eart h .

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G A I L W H I T E

A ge n e ration learns that fre edom has a price

A rea’s patriotism is alive

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SHOWING SUPPORT: Bill Pa sto r, an employee of Life -Time Truck Pro d u c ts, Inc., in Ca nfield, hangs a banner Th u rsd ay to show support for the fa m i l i es of those killed in Tu esd ay ’s te r ro r i st atta c ks. The banner was hung on the fro nt of Life -Time Tr u c kP ro d u c ts’ building on sta te Ro u te 224.

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ONE NATION, INDIVISI-BLE: K raig and AnnaKa sten, to p, stand nea rsome of the 23 fl a g sand two buntings theya re displaying at their1 02-yea r-old home onWest Main St re et in Ca n-field. Th ey are amongm a ny Mahoning Va l l eyres i d e nts ex p ress i n gtheir pa t r i otism thro u g hby displaying flags inthe wa ke of Tu esd ay ’ste r ro r i st atta c ks in NewYork City and Wa s h i n g-ton, D.C. Lef t, the Ka s-te n s’ sta rs-a n d - st r i p esb u nting is clearly visibleto moto r i sts drivingd own West Main St re et.

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PUPILS’ EXPRESSION: A large American flag and sign made by pupils hang fro mw i n d ow of Hayes Junior High School in Yo u n g stown while the American flag inf ro nt of the school is being fl own at half- sta ff.

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One student hopes the vigilst re n g thens her praye r s .

By PAUL WHEAT L E YV I N D I CATOR STAFF WRITER

YO U NG STOWN — Hundreds ofpeople, most of them Yo u n g stow nSta te Un iversity st u d e n ts, ga t h e redT h u r s d ay night for a candlelight vig-il despite bone-chilling ra i n .

S p o n s o red by YSU student gov-ernment, the event was supposed tobe an outdoor affa i r, but was movedinside to the Christman Commons —a cafeteria area situated near dormi-tories — be c ause of u n c o o p e ra t ivewe a t h e r.

Rain didn’t dampen the mood ofst u d e n ts, who said they atte n d ed tos h ow their support for people inNew Yo rk and Wa s h i n g ton, D.C., andfor those who lost loved ones afte rTu e s d ay’s te rro r i st atta cks there .

“I think it’s a good way to bringeve rybody to get h e r,” said st u d e n tB rent Code, 20, who comp a redbringing to gether a college camp u sto bringing to gether the wo rl d .

Religious leaders led the crow dt h rough prayers be fo re lighting can-d l e s .

O rganizers we re shocked by the

turnout. Candles and holders we red i st r i b u ted to the crowd by st u d e n tgovernment members. Black ribbonswe re also dist r i b u ted in re m e m-b rance of the victims.

St u d e n ts’ thoughts : “I’m re a l lyp roud of America,” one st u d e n t

leader said to the crowd. “Especiallythis part of America for coming heretonight despite the ra i n . ”

Nine st u d e n ts from the 4-Eastfloor of Lyden Hall atte n d ed. Ab beyB e a ch, 19, a freshman on the floor,said the gathering gave her hope that

things will get bet te r.“It still feels like a dream, that

none of this is going on, and eve rychannel we turn on feels like am ovie,” she said.

B e a ch’s floormate, Leigh Donate l-la, 18, said she thought the vigilwould help her prayers be heard .

Their other floor mate, LindseyWillman, 18, simp ly found value ingathering so many diffe rent peopleto gether despite their diffe re n c e s .

“ We have to come to gether and bea community,” she said.

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Nobody doubts that Congre s scould pull the arena money top ay for the high cost of te r ro r-i s m .

By ROGER G. SMITHC I TY HALL REPORT E R

YO U NG STOWN — Officials alwaysk n ew fed e ral funding for the pro-p o s ed dow n town arena pro j e c tcould be one national disaster awayf rom coming apart .

Tu e s d ay’s atta cks red e fine theterm d i s a ste r.

“The wo rd c a ta st ro p h e p ro b a b lypales,” said the Rev. Edwa rd P. No ga ,an arena board membe r.

Local officials said Thursday thereis good reason to fear that the pro j-ect could be in jeopardy when num-bers like $20 billion for security andre c ove ry costs are bandied .

Te rrorism costs, combined with as l owing economy and a tre a s u ry gut-ted by tax cuts, makes the pro j e c t ’ s$26.8 million ripe for recall, saidb o a rd member Gil Pete r s o n .

“I think there’s a real chance itcould happen. I re a l ly do,” he said.

C o n g re s s : The money is safer thana routine fed e ral grant be c ause Con-g ress made the appropriation, boardChairman Leonard Sch i avone. Pullingthe money would ta ke an act of C o n-g re s s .

But no arena board membe rd o u b ts that could happen in a heart-be a t .

Other fed e ral funding for the are a ,s u ch as $2.5 million set aside for re -opening Fed e ral Plaza, is in jeopard y,too, said Claire Maluso, an boardm e m ber and aide to U.S. Rep. JamesA. Tra ficant Jr. of Poland, D-17 t h .

The city hasn’t drawn yet on thefi r st $1.8 million of the arena gra n t ,

said Jay Williams, dire c tor the cityCommunity Development Age n c y,w h i ch handles fed e ral money. Thecity has been fronting the money andexpecting reimbursement and thatfi r st transaction should happen in aweek or two, he said.

L a n d : Buying land bet ween theM a rket St re et and South Ave n u eb r i d ges for the arena could happensoon, to o .

No n etheless, even spending a fa i rp o rtion of the money doesn’t ke e pthe money safe with needs of t h i smagnitude, board members agre ed .

Until something ch a n ges, howev-e r, the project will press ahead.

Also Thursday, the board :•A p p roved a conflict of i n te re st

p o l i c y. The policy says the board will not

do business with other members ore mp l oyees, their spouses, ch i l d re nor nonp ro fit businesses where anym e m ber has an ownership inte re stor is an offi c e r. The prohibition ex-tends to subcontra c to r s .

• D e c i d ed that picking a project di-re c tor will be done by the entireb o a rd rather than a committee be-c ause the choice is imp o rtant. Appli-cations are being accepted thro u g hthe end of the we e k.

• Took a moment of silence to re-m e m ber victims of the te rro r i st at-ta cks .

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The woman said she could seedebris raining down outsidethe building.

V I N D I CATOR STAFF REPORT

D e s p i te wa l k i n gan est i m a ted 12 0New Yo rk Cityb l o cks in highheels, lugging al a ptop comp u te r,E sther Wa s h b u r nconsiders herselfto be ve ry luck yd e s p i te her blis-ters and bruises.Washburn, 27, aniece of J a n et and

Tom Williams of C a n field, is a salesengineer for KANA Soft wa re and wa sin the lobby of Wo rld Trade Cente rBuilding Two (South Tower) whenthe No rth Tower was st r u ck by a hi-j a cked jet Tu e s d ay morning.

The Un iversity of Indiana gra d u-a te, whose pare n ts, the Rev. Philipand Nancy Washburn, live in Scars-dale, N. Y. (about 15 miles north ofM a n h a t tan), was making a sales callat the Trade Cente r.

“I was sch ed u l ed to meet with ap ro s p e c t ive client at 10 a.m. on the32nd floor,” said Washburn, whoseo ffice is in the midtown section ofM a n h a t tan. “It’s unusual for me to be

in the financial district” in lowe rM a n h a t ta n .

Begins her day: Washburn to o kthe subway from her apartment onWe st 76th St re et to the Wo rld Tra d eC e n te r, arr iving about 10 minutes be-fo re the atta ck.

A fter buying coffee in the malla rea under the lobby of the 110 - sto-ry building, she wa l ked up to the lob-by and was waiting for a colleaguen ext to the security boot h .

P l a stic photo ID cards are re qu i redfor all visiting sales re p re s e n ta t ive s .“ T h e re’s a lot of [ red tape] invo lved ingetting into that building,” she said.

When the building be gan to shake ,“ We thought it was a bomb,” Wa s h-burn said. “It wasn’t until we got out-side that we heard about a plane.”

Washburn said that as she gl a n c edout the neare st exit, she could see“ raining debris outside,” so securitypersonnel sta rted herding people toa n other exit across the building.

“The immed i a te assumption wa sthat it was a bombing,” said Wa s h-burn, noting a ch a otic scene in whichsome people we re walking and ot h-ers running.

While walking, Washburn usedher cell phone to call the sales re p-re s e n ta t ive she was to meet and left“a panicked voice mail.”

“It was ve ry scary,” she said, so shec a l l ed her fa t h e r, who was unawa reo f the atta ck. “I had a fra z z l ed mo-ment, so he told me to stay calm, to

wa l k, not run, and to keep my head.It was nice to feel that I was withsomeone, but it pro b a b ly wasn’t asgood of an experience for those onthe other end of the cell phone.”

Exit closed: The fi r st exit she wa ssent to was closed off, creating morechaos among those looking for a wayo u t .

Washburn ret u r n ed to the lowe rmall area and found an open ex i t .She went to an adjacent building andwa t ch ed te l evision news re p o rtswith others.

She not i c ed a va r i ed re a c t i o namong those outside. “Some we retaking photos, some we re running,some we re cry i n g . ”

Washburn decided to walk east to-wa rd the East River away from thec o n ge stion of the trade cente r. “Yo ure a l ly can’t get too far walking we st .Walking towa rd the wa ter just mades e n s e . ”

She had gone about two blockswhen the tower she had va c a ted wa sst r u ck by a second hij a cked jet .

“My fi r st thought was ‘Oh God, it’sl i ke a wa r. It’s a nightmare . ’

“I don’t know exa c t ly what a bombsounds like, but it was one loudboom,” Washburn said of the secondi mpact. “With the second one, yo uk n ew it was an atta ck.

H e a rd about plane: “ People whol ived in the nearby buildings we recoming outside and said they heardf rom news c a sts that it was a plane,”Washburn said. “We fi g u red it musth ave been a small cra ft [off c o u r s e ] .No one imagined it was anything thesize of a jet . ”

Although her father had sugge stedthat she “could st i ck around” to help,Washburn chose to fo l l ow thest ream of people heading east, thenn o rt h .

An avid runner since high sch o o l ,she wa l ked passed Chinatown andthe East Vi l l a ge in her exodus to mid-town.

“I was dialing consta n t ly.” But shecouldn’t get phone service, she said.She eve n t u a l ly tried calling her par-e n ts from a pay phone but couldn’tget through be c ause of the ove rl o a do fc a l l s .

She said the panic was pro b a b ly

worse for those trying to call peoplein the city. She considered ditch i n gher laptop during the long tre k, butshe didn’t.

Once in midtown, she learnedf rom someone carrying a Wa l k m a nte l evision that the towers had col-l a p s ed .

She ret u r n ed to her apartment onWe st 76th St re et around 2 p.m., andshe called her pare n ts, then wa t ch edthe news .

“I’m sure they spent the re st of t h ed ay wo rr i ed, wondering whether Ist u ck around [to help],” Wa s h b u r ns a i d .

G ot out: In the evening, she andher siste r, Susan, went to Grand Cen-t ral Station and took a commute rt rain to Scarsdale.

“It was like walking through ag h o st town,” she said of their tre kf rom We st 57th to 42nd. “But fo rt u-n a te ly, there we re a lot of p o l i c ea round. The trains we re limited andve ry crow d ed . ”

Washburn said she’s not surewhen she will return to Manhatta n .“ E ve rything is shut dow n . ”

The Washburns don’t know yet ifa nyone they know was killed in thea t ta ck, but they won’t be surprisedto find out if someone from Scars-dale, an affluent community that ishome to many business people whowo rk in Manhattan, are victims.

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An Army Corps of Engineerss p o k e s woman said eve r y th i n gthat needs to be done is beingd o n e .

By DENISE DICKV I N D I CATOR TRUMBULL STA F F

MINERAL RIDGE — Area wa ter ande n e rgy providers are mum aboutwhat if a ny security measures arebeing ta ken in the wa ke of t h i sweek’s te rro r i st atta cks .

Some re p o rts have speculated thatte rro r i sts might ta rget wa ter sourc e sand power plants in the Un i tedSta tes.

“ We have a heighte n ed awa re n e s so f what’s going on and we ’ re ta k i n ga look at other options,” said Dav i dTa b a k, ch i e f engineer at the Mahon-ing Va l l ey Sanita ry Dist r i c t .

He declined to elabora te .M VSD supplies wa ter from Mean-

der Re s e r voir to about 300 , 000 cus-tomers in Mahoning and Tr u m b u l lcounties through member citiesNiles and Yo u n g stow n .

During Gulf Wa r: Tabak said U. S .

i nvo lvement in the Gulf War pro-d u c ed similar actions at the fa c i l i t y.

A spoke s woman for the U.S. ArmyCorps of Engineers in Pitts b u rgh hada similar re s p o n s e .

“ We can’t re a l ly comment on se-c u r i t y,” said Liane Fre edman. “Eve ry-thing that needs to be done is be i n gdone.”

The Army Corps oversees Berl i nRe s e r voir in Mahoning County, Mos-qu i to Lake in Trumbull and theM i chael Kirwan Re s e r voir in Po rta ge .

Power plants: Fi r st Energy com-p a ny opera tes 16 power plants inOhio and Pe n n s ylvania, including thePe rry Nuclear Power Plant in Pe rry,Ohio, and the nuclear plant in Ship-p i n g s p o rt, Pa .

“ We have ta ken additional steps toenhance security at all of our fa c i l i-ties including the nuclear fa c i l i t i e s , ”said Ralph DiNicola, comp a nys p o ke s m a n .

He declined to detail those ste p sbut said the comp a ny has ste p p ed upsecurity many times for a va r i ety ofre a s o n s .

“ We ’ re in contact with fed e ral andsta te authorities,” DiNicola said.

“ We th o u g h t it was a bomb. It wasn’t until we got outsidethat we heard about a plane.”

E sther Wa s h b u r nWas in World Trade Center Building Two

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M VSD, other plantsta ke security measure s

“I th i n k th e re’s a re a lchance it could happen.”

Gil Pete r s o nA rena board member

H u n d red sga t h e rfor vigilat YS U

“It still feels like a dream, that none of this is going on,and every channel we turn on feels like a movie.”

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ST U D E N TS GAT H E R : Duane Shave rs of Wa r ren, a freshman at Yo u n g stown Sta te Unive rs i ty, sings “Amazing Gra ce” with other YSU stu d e nts during a ca n d l e l i g ht vig-il. The eve nt took place Th u rsd ay night at Christman Commons on ca m p u s.

PRAYER: Joe Long, YSU stu d e nt body pres i d e nt, Mollie McGovern, ce nte r, and Alyssa Finamore, both YSU se n i o rs, pa rt i c-i pa te in the ca n d l e l i g ht vigil for those lost in the te r ro r i st actions in New York City, Wa s h i n g ton, D.C., and western Pe n n-sy l va n i a .

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SURREAL CITY: Pe d estrians wa l kt h rough the ash-cove red st re ets ofN ew York after the atta c ks on the nea r-by World Trade Ce nter towe rs. The pic-tu re was shot by John Labriola, whohad an offi ce on the 71st floor of one ofthe buildings. He escaped with no in-j u r i es.

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The airport has beefed up

security with concrete barriers.

By STEPHEN SIFFV I N D I CATOR TRUMBULL STA F F

V I E N NA — The Fed e ral Av i a t i o nAd m i n i st ration lifted the re m a i n i n gre strictions on airc ra ft travel at 11a.m. Thursday, allowing st ra n d edp a s s e n gers across the country to be-gin their trips home.

M o re than 100 bagga ge-laden cus-tomers wa i ted in the usually sleepyYo u n g stow n -Wa rren Regional Air-p o rt as crews pre p a red their jets —u n ex p e c ted ly gro u n d ed since te rro r-i st atta cks Tu e s d ay — to continuef l i g h ts to their sch ed u l ed dest i n a-tions.

Security at the airport was height-e n ed, with additional officers fro mthe Vienna Police Department join-ing the one police officer usually on

d u t y. O fficials pre s e n t: A i rline offi c i a l s

wearing badges from Cleve l a n dHopkins International Airport di-re c ted travelers through the airport ’ slone metal dete c to r. The line wa ss l ow, but no unusual searches or se-curity ch e cks we re in ev i d e n c e .

“I’m just so eager about get t i n ghome I’m not thinking about [be i n g ]s c a red,” said Nicole Ya m a m oto, ajunior at the Un iversity of C a l i fo r n i aat Santa Cruz, who said she was nor-m a l ly afraid of f lying. Her flight, aTWA originating in Boston, re s u m edi ts trek to St. Louis midafternoon.

“ No one has said what is going onin St. Louis,” said Ya m a m oto, whoseoriginal plan was to catch a connect-ing flight to San Francisco. “No onehas given me any idea yet . ”

C rews continued placing highwayb a rriers on the median strip sepa-rating the airport parking lot fro mthe airport even after the fi r st of s i x

st ra n d ed jets, an empty AmericanA i rlines Saab 340, departed for Al-b a ny, N. Y., at 11:30 a.m.

The next flight out was a C-13 0m i l i ta ry airc ra ft based in Minneapo-lis, which was dive rted to theYo u n g stown Air Fo rce Re s e r ve Sta-tion Tu e s d ay, a base spokesman said.

A Continental DC-10 going fro mHonolulu to Newa rk, carr i ed only 48p a s s e n gers, about one-third then u m ber that disembarked Tu e s d ay.M a ny found their own way home bycar or bus.

Good place: “ O f all the places tostop, we we re happy to stay here , ”said Miriam Settles, a money man-a ger from No r fo l k, Va., be fo re re-b o a rding the plane to Newa rk withher husband, an Air Fo rce maj o r.T h ey re a s o n ed that it would havebeen much more difficult to be st u ckat a major airport .

“ We we re luck y,” she said.

Travelers caught off guard by

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i t i n e raries without incurring

p e n a l t i e s .

CH I CAGO — Un i ted Airlines willa d vance $25,000 to families of v i c-tims on board the two Un i ted jet l i n-ers hij a cked and cra s h ed by te rro r-i sts Tu e s d ay morning, and will re-fund tickets of p a s s e n gers re s ch ed-u l ed for travel through Sept. 25.

Ac c o rding to the comp a ny’s We bs i te, Un i ted will pay “an initial sum of$ 2 5 , 000” to help meet the immed i-a te needs of families who lost lovedones on board Flight 175 and Flight9 3 .

Flight 175, a Boeing 767, left Bosto n

at 7:58 a.m. headed for Los Ange l e sbut was dive rted to New Yo rk, whereit cra s h ed into the south tower of t h eWo rld Trade Center at 9:03 a.m.Flight 93, a Boeing 757, left Newa rk,N.J., en ro u te to San Francisco at 8:01a.m., was dive rted south and cra s h edin rural southwe st Pe n n s ylva n i a .

Flight 175 had 65 people on board :56 passengers, seven flight atte n-d a n ts and two pilots. Flight 93 had45 people on board: 38 passenge r s ,five flight atte n d a n ts and two pilots .

Refunds offe red: Pa s s e n ge r sre s ch ed u l ed for travel through Sept .25 — any itinera ry wo rldwide — maychoose to have their tickets re f u n d edwithout penalty.

Those holding tickets for domes-tic travel through Sept. 25 may post-pone their trips or ret i cket to a new

i t i n e ra ry, the release sta tes. Diffe r-ences for lowe r- p r i c ed fa res will notbe re f u n d ed, but passengers will beresponsible for diffe rences if fa res areh i g h e r. They will not pay penalty orservice ch a rge s .

The same is true for passenge r sholding tickets for international trav-el. Ti cket holders may postpone theirtrips or ret i cket to a new itinera rywithout incurring penalty or servicech a rges. They will not re c e ive re-funds for lowe r- p r i c ed fa res but willbe responsible for diffe rences inhigher priced fa res. Pa s s e n gers areu rged to ret i cket by Sept. 25 andm u st comp l ete travel by Sept. 30.

I n formation about arra n ge m e n tsfor American Airlines passenge r scould not be obta i n ed .

A round the Re g i o nSt. E’s: Rumor is fa l se

YO U NG STOWN — Contra ry to ru-mors, no resident doctor at St. Eliz-a beth Health Center was fi red andt u r n ed over to the FBI for makingi n a p p ro p r i a te re m a rks about te r-ro r i st atta cks in New Yo rk andWa s h i n g ton, D.C., according to amemo fa xed to The Vi n d i c a to r. Theh o s p i tal wa n ted to re p o rt all thefa c ts to emp l oyees via the memo,said Chris McCart y, dire c tor ofc o m m u n i c a t i o n .

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M o s que at 1670 Homewood Ave .has re qu e sted periodic ch e cks bypolice. In response to the re qu e stmade Thursday, Police ChiefR i ch a rd Lewis assigned a patrol carto ch e ck the area eve ry half-hourand a sergeant to ch e ck eve ry hour.

Racial slurs allegedGIRARD — A 46-ye a r-old Niles

man has been accused of m a k i n gracial slurs aga i n st a conve n i e n c esto re opera tor of A rab descent.

Wa l ter J. Kre z e c z owski Jr. ofNo rth Glenwood Avenue wa sch a rged Thursday afternoon witha g g rava ted menacing.

Sami Sahle told police Kre z e c-z owski wa l ked into his No rth Sta teSt re et sto re Tu e s d ay afternoon afte rthe te rro r i st atta cks and maderacial comments towa rd him. Sahletold Kre z e c z owski not to patro n i z ethe sto re .

A municipal court spoke s wo m a nsaid an arre st wa rrant will be is-s u ed to d ay for Kre z e c z ows k i .

Memorial ce re m o nyST RUTHERS — A candlelight cere-

m o ny in re m e m b rance of t h o s ek i l l ed in the te rro r i st atta cks willp re c ede tonight’s St r u t h e r s - Raye nfo otball game at Struthers Sta d i u m .Fans and players will re c e ive can-dles, which will be lighted at 7 p.m.

Te l ethon plannedYO U NG STOWN — News Channel

33 and ClearChannel radio wills i m u l c a st a te l ethon from noon to 7p.m. Saturd ay to raise money fo rthe victims of Tu e s d ay’s te rro r i sta t ta cks. The money will be addedto a re l i e f fund esta b l i s h ed byW YTV and Fi r st Place Bank.

Half shifts at GMLO R D STOWN — Wo rkers at Gen-

e ral Motors’ Lord stown AssemblyPlant are wo rking half s h i fts to d aybe c ause of the National Day ofP rayer declared by President Bush.John Mohan, shop chairman ofUn i ted Au to Wo rkers Local 1112said the plant is sch ed u l ed to re-sume normal operations Monday.

Few attend fo r u mYO U NG STOWN — A public fo r u m

to discuss te rrorism in the afte r-math of Tu e s d ay’s atta ck, in DeBar-tolo Hall at Yo u n g stown Sta te Un i-versity on Thursday afternoon, did-n’t attract much attention from st u-d e n ts. About 10 st u d e n ts satt h rough the hour-long discussions p o n s o red by Campus Minist ryp ro g rams. About 25 faculty mem-bers and concerned citizens atte n d-ed the eve n t .

Blood donations needed BOARDMAN — Despite collecting

m o re than 3,200 units of b l o o dsince Tu e s d ay in northern Ohio, of-ficials of the American Red Cro s sNo rthern Blood Services Region saythe need for blood is ongoing. Offi-cials said our area has an opt i m u m ,t h re e - d ay supply of blood in allblood types and re qu e st that peo-ple donate over the next fewwe e ks, rather than the next fewd ays. The Mahoning Chapter of t h eRed Cross is sch ed u l ed to collectm o n eta ry donations and sign upn ew vo l u n teers at the SouthernPa rk Mall’s main concourse from 10a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturd ay and 11 a.m.to 6 p.m. Sunday.

The blood drawing sch ed u l ed fo r10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to d ay at YS U ’ sM et ro College at the East wood Mallwill now be held at the East wo o dExpo Center at the site of the Fa l lHome Remodeling and Decora t i n gS h ow. Those donating blood will bea d m i t ted to the exhibition fre e .

Red Cross driveS H A RO N, Pa. — The Mercer Coun-

ty Chapter of the American RedC ross has ex p a n d ed its emerge n c yblood drive to help those injured inthe te rro r i st atta cks in New Yo rkCity and Wa s h i n g ton. Those wish-ing to donate can visit Sharon HighS chool on East Sta te St re et bet we e n11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday or theKeystone Blind Association on

Sta m b augh Avenue bet ween noonand 6 p.m. Tu e s d ay. A spoke s-woman said blood isn’t the onlything the Red Cross needs. Mone-ta ry donations are also imp o rta n t ,and ch e cks should be made out tothe American Red Cross Disaste rRe l i e f Fund and can be mailed ord e l ive red to the ch a pter office at247 S. Oakland Ave., Sharon, Pa .16146.

Wa r ren prayer se rv i ceWARREN — A prayer service is

being planned for 4:30 p.m. to d ayon Courthouse Squ a re to answe rP resident Bush’s call to make to d aya day of “ p rayer and re m e m-b rance.” The Wa rren G. Hard i n gHigh School choir is sch ed u l ed top e r form, and an ecumenical gro u po f religious leaders will attend, saidsta te Sen. Tim Ryan, D-32nd. He iso rganizing the event with Wa rre nM ayor Hank Ange l o .

Honoring fe l l ow offi ce rsCAMPBELL — City police offi c e r s

h ave placed black bands around theb a d ges they wear on their uni-forms. Officer Ed Sharshan, admin-i st ra t ive assistant to the chief, saido fficers wear the bands to memori-alize police and fi re fi g h ters whol o st their lives responding to theWo rld Trade Center tra gedy in NewYo rk City. He said the bands alsos h ow support for emergency per-sonnel still digging through rubblein the city and at the Pe n ta gon inWa s h i n g ton, D.C. Also in Camp be l l ,all full-time fi re fi g h ters have com-m i t ted themselves to assist in dis-a ster re l i e f i f c a l l ed upon, said fi re-fi g h ter Frank Kotsol. Mayor John E.Dill said the city would send fi re-fi g h ters if n e c e s s a ry.

Fra ternal Order of Police Lodge28 also has asked Yo u n g stown Po-lice Department officers to wear ab l a ck band on their badges. “As po-lice we never know just where wewill be called to at any moment. Letus be gra teful that we did not re-c e ive that call,” FOP President Pa t r i-cia A. Garcar wrote in a let ter to allm e m be r s .

Co m p l a i n ts to policeST RUTHERS — Police re c e ived

five comp l a i n ts Tu e s d ay re l a ted toc u stomers lining up at gas pump sin the wa ke of te rro r i st atta cks inNew Yo rk City and Wa s h i n g to n ,D.C., police re p o rts show. At about8 : 15 p.m., the owner of Rip’s Tave r non Yo u n g stow n - Poland Road re-p o rted that vehicles we re parked inhis lot as they wa i ted to get gas at an e a r by sta t i o n .

Less than 15 minutes late r, offi-cers we re re qu e sted at Morgan Oilon Lowe l lville Road. At about 8:50,police re c e ived a complaint of at ra ffic jam at the Shell station at5 810 Po l a n d - Struthers Road. Ane mp l oyee of the Fa st Check Fo o dM a rt there called police at about10:30 to re p o rt a fight. Officers dis-c ove red ira te customers waiting atthe gas pumps. Short ly be fo re 10p.m., the Kwik Fill on Yo u n g stow n -Poland Road re p o rted to police thatcars we re lined up as emp l oye e swe re trying to close.

Gas prices sta b i l i zeS H A RO N, Pa. — Gas prices we re

b a ck to normal Thursday at the Fu-e l M a rt gas station on U.S. Ro u te 62in Bro o k field Township. The sta-tion, at the direction of i ts corpo-ra te owners, ra i s ed prices twiceTu e s d ay. Regular gasoline jump edf rom $1.55 to $1.99 per gallon dur-ing the course of the day. Fu e l M a rtis ow n ed by Po rts Pet roleum Corp.Stan Goleb Jr., station manage r, saidthe decision was made to lower theprice back to $1.55 at 11 a.m.Wed n e s d ay after a nearby comp et i-tor did the same. Meanwhile, ot h e rstations in the Shenango Va l l eyc o n t i n u ed to hold their ga s o l i n eprices, and seve ral re p o rted get t i n gin new supplies of fuel for theirc u sto m e r s .

F i refi g h te rs vo l u n te e rST RUTHERS — Mayor Daniel C.

Mamula said city fi re fi g h ters havevo l u n te e red to assist with disaste rre l i e f in New Yo rk City and Wa s h-i n g ton D.C. Those who are tra i n edin such effo rts would be sent ifn e ed ed, Mamula said. Other fi re-fi g h ters have offe red to cancel va-cations to fill any voids in sch ed u l-ing that might result if the citydoes send personnel out of sta te .

P ro g ram changeC U YA H O GA FA L LS — Lega c y,

w h i ch planned to perform a fa m i lyp ro g ram Saturd ay at Blossom Mu-sic Cente r, has ch a n ged its purposeto a “Sacred Assembly” in the wa keo f Tu e s d ay’s atta cks. The list of p e r-formers and speakers is also un-

k n own due to air travel delays .G a tes open at 10 a.m. Ti ckets are$ 15. Call (440) 74 6 - 2 2 00 .

C r u i se ca n ce l e dYO U NG STOWN — New Begin-

nings Outre a ch Ministries has can-c e l ed the Gateway Clipper DinnerCruise to d ay, due to the te rro r i sta t ta cks Tu e s d ay. Refunds will beg iven next we e k. People shouldbring their tickets. For more info r-mation, call (330) 74 3 - 9 910 .

P ro g ram post p o n e dP O LAND — Holy Fa m i ly Pa r i s h ’ s

ga rden guild has post p o n ed its “Artin the Garden” pro g ram set for thisS u n d ay. It has been re s ch ed u l ed fo rnoon to 5 p.m. Oct. 7. The event hasbeen re n a m ed “Gallery in the Gar-den: An Art Fe st ival.” It will alsofe a t u re herbal teas and homemadep i e s .

VA fa c i l i t i es stay openWA S H I NGTO N, D.C. — Secreta ry

o f Vete rans Affairs Anthony J. Prin-cipi has dire c ted the VA to adopt aspecial “continuity of o p e ra t i o n s ”plan be c ause of Tu e s d ay’s te rro r i sta t ta cks. Under the plan, all VA fa c i l-ities remain open to provide carefor vete rans and to provide med i c a lb a ckup when community re s o u rc e sa re ove rw h e l m ed .

The VA’s headqu a rters near theW h i te House was eva c u a ted Tu e s-d ay morning and key manage m e n tpersonnel shifted to an undisclosedl o c a t i o n .

VA facilities in northern Ohio in-clude the Louis Sto kes VA Med i c a lC e n te r, Bre cksville, and Wade Pa rkM edical Cente r, Cleveland; and out-patient clinics in Yo u n g stown, Wa r-ren, East Liverpool, Akron, Canto n ,C l eveland, Lorain, Mansfield, NewPhiladelphia, Painesville, Sanduskyand Rave n n a .

Fund for victimsYO U NG STOWN — The Nav y

League of the Un i ted Sta tes has es-ta b l i s h ed a fund for milita ry vic-tims of Tu e s d ay’s atta cks. Theleague is a 75,000 - m e m ber civ i l i a no rganization that supports seas e r v i c e s .

The Navy League Life Ring Fu n dwill assist milita ry victims andtheir families. Donations can besent to Navy League Life Ring Fu n d ,P.O. Box 656, Merr i field, Va. 22116 -0656. More information is ava i l a b l eby calling (800) 35 6 - 576 0 .

N ew Ca stle memorialNEW CA STLE, Pa. — A go l d -

f ra m ed picture of the Lower Man-h a t tan skyline accomp a n i ed by ab o u qu et of f l owers lies beneath aflagpole in the center of d ow n-town’s Ke n n edy Squ a re as am a ke s h i ft memorial to the victimso f te rrorism at the Wo rld Tra d eC e n te r. With the U.S. flag flying ath a l f - sta ff a b ove it, a hand-let te redc a rd b o a rd sign atta ch ed to the pic-t u re urges passers-by to “Pray fo rT h e m . ”

Ra ce to run as plannedC L E V E LAND — The Komen Ra c e

for the Cure will ta ke place asp l a n n ed Sunday at Wade Oval inUn iversity Circle. Officials of t h eNo rt h e a st Ohio affi l i a te of the Su-san G. Komen Bre a st Cancer Fo u n-dation said they wa n ted to give thecommunity a positive event to fo-cus on in the aftermath of Tu e s-d ay’s cata st rophe. The race will in-c o r p o ra te a moment of silence anda performance of the national an-them be fo re race eve n ts begin. Latere g i st ration is sch ed u l ed for 7 a.m.

Special se rv i ceAU ST I N TOWN — St. Anne Ukra i n-

ian Catholic Church will have a di-vine liturgy at 8:30 a.m. next Fr i d ayfor those injured or killed in theplane atta cks, and to comfo rt thed i st re s s ed .

Co u rt h o u se on alertM E RCER, Pa. — Mercer County

C o u rthouse remains on high alertdue to national te rro r i st atta cks, al-though those entering the court-house did not have to pass thro u g ha metal dete c tor Thursday, as theydid the previous two days. GeneB renneman, county commissionchairman, said Thursday that al-though the Mercer courthouse wa sn ot closed, only one entrance wa sopen and those entering had topass through metal dete c to r sm a n n ed by deputy sheriffs. In addi-tion, he said, 24-hour security hasbeen incre a s ed. Commissionersalso ch a n ged plans to conductT h u r s d ay’s meeting at Gre e nv i l l eHigh School be c ause they felt theyshould stay close to the court h o u s e ,B renneman said.

FIREFIGHTERS | S ay prayers for fallen breth re n

P L A N E T R A V E L

A i r p o rt opens with more security

the pain be c ause man alone can’t,”Heller said. “We are indeed one na-tion under God and may God blessA m e r i c a . ”

The fi re fi g h ters also lighted a can-dle that, Lt. Fel Romain said, will re-main aflame until all fi re fi g h ters areeither re s c u ed or laid to re st .

“ We send our prayers to all thefamilies of the victims,” Romain said.

Ready if n e ed ed : M ayor Hank An-gelo said 11 city fi re fi g h ters are will-ing to go to New Yo rk to vo l u n teer assoon as they are need ed .

“ We can send 11 and still be able too p e ra te our depart m e n ts,” Ange l osaid. “If we could send all of them, Ibet all would go. They all want toh e l p . ”

Lt. Jeff Younkins said he vo l u n-te e red to go and spoke with a unionre p re s e n ta t ive for New Yo rk fi re-

fi g h ters, who said officials are try i n gto bet ter organize re l i e f e ffo rts .

Additional personnel are not need-ed at this time, but may be in the fu-t u re, Younkins said.

The grim task of a s s i sting cleanupand rescue effo rts would be grue-some and phys i c a l ly challenging, butd e fi n i te ly wo rth it, Younkins said.

The candle’s flame re p re s e n ts fi re-fi g h ters’ continued hope and fa i t hthat their missing New Yo rk coun-

te r p a rts will turn up safe, he added .Collecting funds: B e c ause of t h e

deaths of fi re fi g h ters and police offi-cers in New Yo rk City, Tr u m b u l lCounty police and fi re personnel arecollecting money for the victims’fa m i l i e s .

“So many of our fe l l ow police andfi re officers have lost their lives dueto the deva stating eve n ts that haveo c c u rred over the past few days , ”said Jeff rey Fo rd, a 911 dispatcher or-

ganizing the collection. “It is at remendous loss when it is one ofour own, but stop and think aboutlosing your whole department — notk n owing where they are or if t h eya re alive or dead. Think of their fa m-ilies, especially the ch i l d re n . ”

The money will be given to the lo-cal ch a pter of the American RedC ross, which will make sure them o n ey gets to those in need, saidTim Gladis, 911 dire c to r.

Continued From A1

When I am called to duty, God, Wh e rever fl a m es

m ay rage; Give me the st rength to save a life,

Wh a tever be it's age; Help me embra ce a litt l e

child befo re it is too late; Or save an older per-

son from the horror of that fa te; Enable me to

be alert and hear the weak est shout; And quick-

ly and efficiently put the fi re out; I want to fi l l

my calling, to give the best in me; To guard my

friends and neighbors and protect his pro p e rty ;

And if acco rding to my fa te I am to lose my life ;

P l ea se bless with your protecting hand my chil-

d ren and my wife.

F I R E F I G H T E R ' S P R AY E R

Un i ted Airlines will comp e n s a te victims’ fa m i l i e s

Rebecca Koborie worked on

the 97 th floor of the fi r st Wo r l d

Trade Center tower hit by a

h ij a cked airplane.

By HAROLD GW I NV I N D I CATOR SHARON BUREAU

S H A RO N, Pa. — John Koborie maybe going to New Yo rk City to look fo rhis dau g h te r, missing since Tu e s d aywhen a hij a cked airliner slammedi n to the Wo rld Trade Center whereshe wo rked .

Koborie and his wife, Julianne, ofTrumbull Drive, last spoke with theird au g h ter two we e ks ago and havebeen unable to contact her since thete rro r i st atta ck that dest royed theWo rld Trade Center in Manhatta n .

Re becca Koborie, 48, who now

l ives in New Jersey, was last seen bya neighbor leaving for wo rk Tu e s d aym o r n i n g .

E mp l oye r: She was emp l oyed byMarsh Inc. Insurance Agencies andwo rked on the 97th floor of t h eWo rld Trade Cente r.

Her office was in the tower st r u ckby the fi r st airplane, her father said.

“All we heard is that she’s missing,but we already knew that,” Ko b o r i esaid, explaining that he and his wifegot a call from their dau g h ter’s em-p l oyer telling them she was amongthe missing and that they mightwant to go to New Yo rk to look fo rh e r.

Koborie said he planned to call aNew Yo rk missing person hot linen u m ber prov i d ed by his dau g h te r ’ se mp l oyer to d ay to begin search i n gfor her. Depending on the re s u l ts ofthat call, he may go to New Yo rk City,he said.

Public pleas: I f he does, he will beamong hundreds of people wa l k i n gthe st re ets of M a n h a t tan carry i n gp i c t u res of missing loved ones andasking for help in finding them.Some of them have managed tom a ke their pleas on national te l ev i-sion while being inte r v i ewed by re-p o rters on the scene.

Fa m i ly and friends have be e nch e cking in but no one has heardf rom Re becca and no one has be e nable to re a ch her, Koborie said.

During a telephone conve r s a t i o nwith his dau g h ter two we e ks ago ,she told him she planned to comehome for a visit Oct. 17, he said.

She only gets back to Sharon onceor twice a ye a r, he said, noting shel a st visited for two we e ks in Fe b r u-a ry when he underwent surge ry.

Re becca Koborie, who is divo rc ed ,has no ch i l d ren. She is a 1971 gra d u-a te of S h a ron High Sch o o l .

Eleanor Salter’s daughter wa sworking in the World Tra d e

C e n ter’s South Tower duringTu e s d ay’s atta ck.

By NORMAN LEIGHV I N D I CATOR SALEM BUREAU

SALEM — Eleanor Salter sayseve ryone is re m a rking on her com-p o s u re in confronting a mot h e r ’ swo r st nightmare, a missing ch i l d .

In Salter’s case, it’s her dau g h te rCatherine Salte r, 36, who cannot befo u n d .

The 1982 Wellsville High Sch o o lva l ed i c torian was last heard from asshe pre p a red to flee the office inw h i ch she wo rked on the 92nd flooro f the Wo rld Trade Center’s SouthTowe r.

The 110 - sto ry st r u c t u re was thesecond of the twin buildingss l a m m ed into by a hij a cked airl i n e rTu e s d ay morning.

E mp l oye r: Catherine, an offi c em a n a ger for Anon Corp., a law fi r m ,has been missing since the horr i fi ca s s au l t .

“I have a st rong faith in God,”Eleanor Salter said this morning asshe ex p l a i n ed her comp o s u re in

handling the to rt u rous days she’sspent wo rrying about her dau g h te r,one of six ch i l d re n .

“ We ’ re still waiting. We ’ re st i l lhoping,” said Salte r, who lives inRo gers and is a cashier at East Liv-erpool City Hospita l .

D e s p i te Tu e s d ay’s eve n ts, she hasstill been re p o rting for wo rk.

“I come to wo rk be c ause the peo-ple here at the hospital are ve ry car-ing,” Salter said.

But despite the support she’s get-ting from fa m i ly and co-wo rke r s ,the waiting is diffi c u l t .

“The st rain of n ot knowing is re-a l ly eating me up,” Salter said.

Seeing the images of the plane’si mpact, the fi reball that fo l l owedand the building crumbling to theg round “tears your insides apart , ”she added. “It’s like somebody to o keve rything out of me. I don’t fe e lwhole any more . ”

L a st conve r s a t i o n : S a l ter hasl e a r n ed from fa m i ly members thatCatherine’s former boss calledCatherine moments after a planes m a s h ed into the Wo rld Trade Cen-ter’s No rth Towe r.

Catherine told him they we reevacuating and hung up. About 18m i n u tes late r, Un i ted Airlines Flight175 hit the South Towe r, damaging

floors 87 through 93.S a l ter is praying Catherine fo u n d

a way to get out.Her boyfriend is in New Yo rk

s e a rching for her, hoping to find heramong the survivors, Salter re l a ted .

Catherine was tra n s fe rred fro mAnon’s Cincinnati office to its NewYo rk operation in January 2000. Shewas thrilled at the opportunity towo rk in the city, Salter re c a l l ed .

She described her dau g h ter aswarm, caring and fa m i ly- o r i e n ted .“She’s just a be autiful person,”S a l ter said.

She last saw Catherine at a fa m i-ly gathering in Octo be r.

“I hugged her and kissed her andsaid I loved her,” Salter re m e m-be red .

In the days since the assau l t ,S a l ter has been trying to grasp thea c ts of te rror that have claimed som a ny live s .

“All they ’ ve done is unite thisc o u n t ry to the point where it willgo to war over it,” Salter said. “Idon’t want wa r, but I don’t want thishappening aga i n . ”

Tu e s d ay’s acts “cannot go unan-s we red,” she added .

S H A R O N , P A .

Man’s dau g h ter remains missing

S A L E M

A mother holds on to hope

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MAHONING COUNTY

Marriage licensesR i c h a rd L. Sta cy, 34, of 14674 Yo u n g stow n - P i tts-

b u rgh Road, Pete rs b u rg, and Michelle P. Day,31, of 2660 Columbiana Road, New Springfi e l d .

B ryan A. Ladd, 36, of 327 Re b e cca Ave., Hubbard ,and Cristina M. Ko b u s, 29, of 2415 Tr u ss i tt Ave. ,Yo u n g stow n .

D avid A. Wi l l i a m son, 28, of 1069 Mt. Jackso nRoad, New Ca st l e, Pa., and Teri L. Black, 25, ofsa m e.

Dominic DiNello, 31, of 545 Wi l cox Road A, Au s-t i n town, and Tra cy L. DiPa squa, 29, of 859 0C h este rton Drive, Po l a n d .

William J. Craven Sr., 57, of 1348 Powe rsd a l eAve., Yo u n g stown, and Anastasia Bo n etti, 29,of sa m e.

D i m i t r i os Kavo u ra s, 24, of 448 Sa n d e rson Ave. ,Campbell, and Stacie N. Va rga, 25, of 41 Wa l n u tSt., St r u t h e rs.

G e o rge H. Wray III, 27, of 2144 Thomas Ro a d ,H u b b a rd, and Ca r i sa L. Neider, 33, of 616 1/2Elm St., St r u t h e rs.

Divorces askedJ eff rey Liller, 60 Steel St., Yo u n g stown, vs. Sher-

ry Liller, 60 Steel St., Yo u n g stow n .Flo Etta Kidd, 153 W. Delason Ave., Yo u n g stow n ,

vs. Darryl E. Kidd, 73 E. Judson Ave., Yo u n g s-tow n .

Tu n i esha M. Gibson, 417 Falls Ave., Yo u n g stow n ,vs. Ro d n ey L. Gibson, 642 Ca ssius Ave. ,Yo u n g stow n .

Gail D. Minotti, 2509 Oa kwood, Yo u n g stown, vs.Herman J. Minotti, 2324 Roy St., Yo u n g stow n .

Diane L. Gre e nwa l t, 5013 Wi n t h rop Drive, Au st i n-town, vs. Lloyd D. Gre e nwalt Sr., 38 61 Cu m b e r-land, Au st i n tow n .

New complaintsLeland W. Scott vs. Sheriff Randall We l l i n g to n ,

h a b eas co r p u s.Wendy St ro n g - M i l eto vs. Yo u n g stown Th e r m a l

LP et al, money.M i tchell G. Tu c ker vs. Guardian Indust r i es Co r p.

et al, wo r ke rs’ co m p e n sa t i o n .S ky Bank vs. Raymond L. Harper III, money.JCI Inc. vs. Village of Andover et al, money.John R. Collins et al vs. Western Rese rve Hea l t h

System et al, money.Co n se co Finance Se rvicing Co r p. vs. Julia Mye rs

et al, fo re c l os u re.Thomas A. Mock, admin. vs. Deanna M.

Th e o d o re et al, money.Bo b by D. Asso c i a tes et al vs. Willie E. Harris et

al, money.M a ry R. Gianakos et al vs. Keith Tincher et al,

m o n ey.H u n t i n g ton Mall Co. vs. Ronald Fo rth dba Co l o r-

fl ow, money.The Marion Plaza Inc. vs. Joseph E. Gehl, money.Ca fa ro Co. vs. Jewe l ry Repair Ente r p r i ses Inc. et

al, money.A l te g ra Credit Co. vs. William C. Wi l son et al,

m o n ey, fo re c l os u re and re l i ef.S ky Bank et al vs. Pa n g i o’s Su p e r m a r ket Inc. et

al, money.Wells Fa rgo Bank Minnesota NA et al vs. Daniel

L. Deemer et al, money, fo re c l os u re and re l i ef.N o r west Bank Minnesota NA vs. Mark Mallen et

al, fo re c l os u re.S ky Bank vs. Pa n g i o’s Su p e r m a r ket Inc. et al,

m o n ey.Bank One NA et al vs. Helen J. Riley et al, fo re-

c l os u re.P hyllis Spagnola et al vs. Bu rger King Resta u-

rant et al, money.Double F Investment et al vs. Judith A. Ca rso n ,

m otion for pre l i m i n a ry injunction.Pa tsy Valentine Sr. et al vs. Mary Ann Ca r-

nathan, money.Stephen Eubank vs. C. James Co n rad, admin.

BWC et al, wo r ke rs’ co m p e n sa t i o n .Felicia B. Soltis vs. Dennis S. Allen, money.Yo u n g stown Chiro p ractic et al vs. Ardeon Re e d

et al, breach of co n t ra c t, fraud, co n s p i ra cy tocommit cre d i tor fraud et al.

Ra i n b ow Re n tals Inc. vs. Gerri Bu t l e r, possess i o nof pro p e rty.

Ralph Cooper et al vs. Donald E. Domokur et al,m o n ey.

F i rst City Bank vs. Mark Mallen et al, money.C h a rter One Bank FSB vs. John T. Hall et al,

m o n ey and fo re c l os u re.Judith A. Jackson vs. Po u l a kos Ba ke ry Inc. et al,

wo r ke rs’ co m p e n sa t i o n .Sta cey May h ew vs. Anthony Pesa, money.Docket entriesSta te of Ohio vs. Regina J. Wi n p h r i e, violation of

terms of co m m u n i ty co n t rol; se n te n ced to 10months on each co u n t, to be se rved co n cu r-re n t l y.

Sta te of Ohio vs. Charles Gruber, violation ofco m m u n i ty co n t rol; to enter and co m p l etep ro g ram at CCA .

Sta te of Ohio vs Antjuan A. Ad k i n s, se n te n cesuspended; two yea rs monito red co m m u n i tyco n t ro l .

Sta te of Ohio vs. Nathan Rowe, two yea rs moni-to red co m m u n i ty co n t rol to be co m p l ete d .

Sta te of Ohio vs. Shirley North, defendent toe n ter and co m p l ete residential pro g ram atCCA; drive rs lice n se suspended for sixm o n t h s.

Sta te of Ohio vs. Charles Winphrie III, se n te n ce dto six months on each co u n t, to be se rve dco n cu r re n t l y.

Sta te of Ohio vs. Wayne M. Dunning, two yea rss u p e rv i sed probation, and entry and co m p l e-tion of day- re p o rting pro g ram at CCA .

Sta te of Ohio vs. James F. Skinner, se n te n ced to1 yea r.

Sta te of Ohio vs. Ronald P. Wy m e r, 4 yea rs su-p e rv i sed co m m u n i ty co n t rol and co m p l et i o nof up to six months residential pro g ram atCCA .

Sta te of Ohio vs. Ramon Ec h evest re, se n te n cesuspended; 3 yea rs pro b a t i o n .

Sta te of Ohio vs. Jovan D. Lew i s, alleged pro b a-tion violation; se n te n ced to 7 months; uponre l ea se must re p o rt to APA .

Sta te of Ohio vs. Shawn M. Bell, se n te n ced to 18

m o n t h s.S h e r ry L. Elkins vs. Gre e nwood Chev ro l et Inc.,

settled and dismisse d .M a ry F. Grover vs. Inte g ra ted Health Se rv i ces et

al, default judgment for plaintiff.D e b o rah Hall vs. Ron Joy Nursing Home et al,

d i s m i sse d .A m e r i q u est Mortgage Co. vs. Summer Ra t l i ff et

al, sheriffs sa l e.D avid Dilla vs. Weather Lock Inc. et al, sett l e d

and dismisse d .Vicki Ro m es b e rg et al vs. Steven K. Se re d n es ky

J r. et al, dismisse d .A l vena D. Wi n estock vs. Co r rections Co r p. et al,

d i s m i sse d .O wen Barham vs. USX Co r p. et al, dismisse d .G u a rdian National Acce pta n ce vs. Lisa M.

Reynolds et al, judgment for plaintiff.Bank One National Assoc. vs. Erika Bunch, fo re-

c l os u re.ABN AMRO vs. Joseph W. Cole et al, fo re c l os u re.F i rst Resolution vs. Kathleen Shelton, judgment

for plaintiff.Free Gospel Church vs. Harvey Minich, judgment

for plaintiff.Shannon Long et al vs. Armand L. Minotti D. O. ,

d i s m i ss Armond Minotti D. O. only; ca se re-mains pending.

Ve r n etta Johnson et al vs. P and M Invest m e n tInc., dismisse d .

Real estate transfersG e o rge Richie to James J. Shank et al, Jackso n

Tw p., $95,0 0 0.Ethel M. Ste p h e n son to Joseph A. Dambrogio et

al, Poland Vi l l a g e, $112,0 0 0.Ro b e rt J. Moderalli to Bruce B. Horning et al,

Bo a rdman Tw p., $355,0 0 0.Rose M. DelSignore to Andrew A. Horvath et al,

Yo u n g stown, $8 0, 5 0 0.Joe Koch Co n struction Inc. to Richard S. Miller

et al, Au st i n town Tw p., $124, 855.G a ry A. Ba g g ett to Morris Popio et al, Yo u n g s-

town, $49,0 0 0.Connie Jackson to Kendall Invest m e n ts Inc.,

$5,0 0 0.Sitler Co n struction Inc. to Ruth N. Craig, Beave r

Tw p., $145, 5 45.Th e resa Pangio to Thomas Inchak, Au st i n tow n

Tw p., $52 ,0 0 0.G re g o ry S. Gibson to Michael Simon, Po l a n d

Tw p., $32 , 5 0 0.Lillian J. Williams to Mary Ann Gomez, Bo a rd-

man Tw p., $105,0 0 0.M et ro p o l i tan National Bank to Ro b e rt L. Newe l l ,

Yo u n g stown, $8 , 5 0 0.Daniel T. & LuAnn Hungerman Tr u st to Charles

D. Lasky et al, Poland Tw p., $278 ,0 0 0.Zel Bush et al to Marg a ret A. Co nfe r, Po l a n d

Tw p., $109, 5 0 0.G. R. P.L. Ente r p r i ses Inc. to Glen Sa n te l i ces et al,

Ca nfield Tw p., $277,702 .R i c h a rd Pezel et al to Bruce G. Hayes et al,

Bo a rdman Tw p., $8 4, 5 0 0.M a ry Jo Sauline to Dorot hy Ste l l m a r, St r u t h e rs,

$87,0 0 0.D avid C. Beil et al to Christopher Johnson, Au s-

t i n town Tw p., $131 ,0 0 0.Ro b e rt St. Clair et al to David C. Murphy et al,

Yo u n g stown, $2 1 ,0 0 0.William German et al to Thomas R. Eckman et al,

Poland Tw p., $133,9 0 0.Mashburn Tree Se rv i ce to George Jeges et al,

St r u t h e rs, $32 ,0 0 0.Cynthia Clapper to Thomas Huff, Milton Tw p. ,

$ 65,0 0 0.John Pelini to Ann Marie Martin, Bo a rd m a n

Tw p., $63,0 0 0.Mohamad Almasri et al to Ro b e rt A. Tedde et al,

Bo a rdman Tw p., $202 ,0 0 0.Ro b e rt J. Fredorn et al to William S. Herrutka et

al, Craig Beach Vi l l a g e, $89,0 0 0.Edwin J. Stu p ka to Ronald G. Gordon, Yo u n g s-

town, $8 0,0 0 0.J ose M. Reyes et al to Travis F. Bi tte cu ffer et al,

Au st i n town Tw p., $114,9 0 0.Sa n d ra A. Rigelsky to Anto i n ette D’A p o l i to,

Yo u n g stown, $66,500.U.S. DISTRICT COURT

Bankruptcies/Chapter 7J oshua C. Massek, 8026 Glenwood Ave., Bo a rd-

man, sa l es, Home Depot; liabilities, $23,9 9 9 ;a ssets, $8 , 69 0.

Steven E. and Beth Ann Pe rcy, 186 E. Ore g o nAve., Sebring, he: labore r, F.E. Sc h u m a c h e r;she: homemake r; liabilities, $7, 23 4; assets,$ 1 .4 0 0.

Joann L. Mitzel, aka Joann Sakmar, aka JoannAbighanem, 27 Riverside, Poland, clerk,Schwebel’s; liabilities, $31,168; assets, $1,600.

Timothy E. Walker, 7400 West Blvd., Apt. 229, Board-man, clerk, Giant Eagle; liabilities, $10,877; assets,$460.

Kim L. Brown, P.O. Box 134, North Lima, technician,Chem-Dry; liabilities, $41,968; assets, $1,960.

Ralph A. Zupo Sr. and Nancy M. Zupo, 4043 Jeffer-son Court, Youngstown, he: disabled; she:sausage maker, DiRusso’s Sausage; liabilities,$111,601; assets, $59,255.

Paul E. Andrws and Kathleen D. Andrews, 7381 W.South Range Road, Greenford; he: none; she:server, Pepper’s Restaurant; liabilities, $72,183;assets, $64,230.

Terri J. Modarelli, 470 Brandon Ave., Struthers, stu-dent, liabilities, $26,977; assets, $3,100.

Cheryl J. Triggs, 546 W. Warren, Youngstown, labor-er, BJ Alan Co.; liabilities, $47,362; assets, $1,045.

Robert H. Partlow Jr., 8422 Colwyn Court, Apt. 1,Boardman, none; liabilities, $91,186; assets,$81,025.

Robert T. and Sherry A. Lippiatt, 11460 Smith Gosh-en Road, Beloit, he: horse trainer; she: bank man-ager, First Merit Bank; liabilities, $382,377; assets,$176,853.

Christopher S. and Kim L. Flak, Boardman, he:deputy sheriff, Mahoning County Sheriff’s Dept.;she: per diem nurse, Center for Dialysis Care; lia-bilities, $260,982; assets, $205,021.

Bankruptcies/ Chapter 13Elinor J. Ste p h e n son, 118 Lemans Drive, Apt. 1,

Bo a rdman, machine opera to r, American Pa-p e r; liabilities, $19, 8 85; assets, $7, 230.

C O U RT S

Na t i o nWo rl d

digestN ATO official increa sesp ress u re on Mace d o n i a

S KO PJE, Macedonia — NATO ’ ss m o oth operation to collectweapons from ethnic Albanianre bels has ra i s ed hopes for an en-during peace in Macedonia andb r i g h te n ed a “black week” of te rro r,the alliance’s ch i e f said to d ay. “Thishas been a black week for thewo rld. The eve n ts in New Yo rk andWa s h i n g ton cast a shadow not justa c ross America but across theBalkans as well,” NATO Secreta ry-G e n e ral Lord Ro be rtson said on ar-r iving in Sko p j e .

“And yet the people of this coun-t ry are embarking on a histo r i cve n t u re here in bringing peace andsta b i l i t y, so there could be a tinyray of sunshine from Maced o n i athat might break the blackness ofthis te rrible we e k,” he said. Ro be rt-son’s visit was inte n d ed to incre a s ep re s s u re on the Macedonian gov-ernment to honor a peace planmeant to end the crisis in the tro u-b l ed Balkan country.

Sea tt l e -a rea to u r i stskilled in plane cra s h

TO H O K U, Mexico — Sixteen Seat-t l e - a rea to u r i sts on a Caribbe a ncruise died during a side trip to vis-it Mayan ruins when their planec ra s h ed in the eastern Mex i c a nsta te of Yu c a tan. Three Mex i c a nc rew members also died. Soldiersb a rred access to the accident site ,but photos showed the tail was theo n ly surviving piece of the twin-engine LET 410 turboprop plane,w h i ch cra s h ed Wed n e s d ay night.

The to u r i sts we re on a cruisea b o a rd the Maasdam for Un ive r s i t yo f Wa s h i n g ton fo otball fans whop l a n n ed to attend Saturd ay’s ga m ea ga i n st the Un iversity of Miami inthe Ora n ge Bowl, according tocruise opera tor Holland AmericaLine. The game was post p o n ed be-c ause of Tu e s d ay’s te rror atta cks .“This is a te rrible tra gedy for thel oved ones and friends and our en-t i re community,” said A. KirkL a n terman, the line’s ch a i r m a n .

Lee sa t i sfi es plea dea lALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Wen Ho

Lee has comp l eted terms of a pleaa g reement that was re a ch ed oneyear ago after a bungl ed gove r n-ment inve st i gation into ch a rges hem i s h a n d l ed to p - s e c ret info r m a t i o n .Lee was set free a year ago Thurs-d ay with a judge’s apologies in acase that st i rred a nationwide de-b a te about national security.

But Lee’s fre edom had limits. Hehad agre ed to be available for theensuing year to answer FBI qu e s-tions. At 12 : 01 a.m. to d ay, Lee wa so ffi c i a l ly free of the const ra i n ts “Dr.Lee has fully honored his agre e-ment,” defense atto r n ey John Clinesaid. Now Lee should be able to getb a ck to normal, said defense law ye rNancy Hollander.

“He’s got his ga rden up and run-ning again. He’s fishing. He’s writ-ing, cooking his meals for his wife .He’s kind of in many re s p e c ts backto his routine,” Hollander said in ani n te r v i ew looking back on the lega lt w i sts that ke pt Lee jailed for ninemonths in solita ry confi n e m e n t .Lee also lost his right to vote afte rthe ordeal, but a New Mexico lawthat took effect July 1 re sto red hisvoting rights, Hollander said.

Associated Press

Report shows homicide and

heart disease cause blacks to

h ave a shorter life ex p e c ta n c y

than white s .

AT LA N TA (AP) — Life ex p e c ta n c yis about six years shorter for blacksthan whites, and homicide is a lead-ing contributor to the racial gap, agovernment study said.

Homicide adds about seve nmonths to the gap, the U.S. Cente r sfor Disease Control and Preve n t i o nsaid in what it called the fi r st re p o rta n a lyzing life ex p e c tancy by race andc ause of d e a t h .

O ve rall life ex p e c tancy is about 75years for whites and 69 years fo rb l a cks, the CDC re p o rt said Thursday.

Fa c tors: H e a rt disease and cancerwe re the leading causes of the dif-fe rence bet ween the two races. Lifeex p e c tancy for whites with each ofthose diseases was more than a ye a rl o n ger than for blacks, the CDC said.

Health officials ex p e c ted thatm u ch be c ause heart disease and can-cer are the nation’s two leading cau s-es of death ove rall, and medical ex-p e rts have long said that blacks of-ten suffer from poorer medical care .

The next leading cause of the dif-fe rence was homicide, which ra n ksj u st 13th on the ove rall list of c au s e so f death for Americans.

“It’s pretty dramatic,” said Dr.LaMar Hasbro u ck, an epidemiologistin CDC’s Division of Violence Pre-vention. “We we re surprised to seethat homicide is such a major play-e r. ”

I mp rove m e n t: L i fe ex p e c ta n c yhas been rising for decades in theUn i ted Sta tes and other major in-d u st r i a l i z ed nations. It is a key meas-u re for public health officials, as we l las for gove r n m e n ts trying to fi g u reout how much money to devote topensions, health pro g rams and ot h-er social spending for the elderly.

St ro ke, HIV, diseases among new-borns and moto r- vehicle crashes allk i l l ed blacks more often or at ayo u n ger age than whites, makingsmaller contributions to the life s p a ngap. Only suicide, more commonamong whites than blacks, narrowedthe ga p .

Health officials said the re p o rtc a l l ed attention to the need to ex-amine which violence-preve n t i o np ro g rams aimed at youth are n ’ two rking and get rid of them. A CDCre p o rt published last year said blackswe re killed six times as often asw h i tes in homicides.

“When yo u ’ re talking about a de-c rease in lifespan, it’s a larger imp a c tthat homicide can make,” Hasbro u cksaid. “Yo u ’ re talking about fo l ks dy-ing bet ween ages 15 and 34, for them o st part, not in their 50s and 60sand 70 s . ”

THURSDAY’S DRAWINGS

OHIONight draw i n g s :P i ck 3, 5-8-5P i ck 4, 9-0-7-1B u ckeye 5, 1-12 - 16 - 18 - 19

D ay draw i n g s :P i ck 3, 7-6-7P i ck 4, 9-2-6-4

PENNSYLVANIA D a i ly Nu m be r, 0-8-5Big 4, 0-3-9-8

Cash 5, 2-3-6-7-13

St. ElizabethMark and Claudia Harshman, 6055 Lakev i ew,

H a n ove rton, girl, Se pt., 13.B rent and Bobbi Jo Bre g a r, 46007 Riffle Ro a d ,

N ew Wa te r fo rd, girl, Se pt. 13.Scott and Kimberly Ruark, 1851 Oles Ave. ,

Yo u n g stown, boy, Se pt. 14.Beverly Lyda and Ro b e rt Gra fi u s, 1375 E. Middle-

town Road, North Lima, boy, Se pt. 14.Forum Health NorthsideJim and Jill Cu c kovich, 1600 Salt Springs Ro a d ,

Wa r ren, girl, Se pt. 13.SalemD a r ren and Cari Fra n tz, 315 Va l l ey Road, Sa l e m ,

b oy, Se pt. 13.S h awn and So n d ra James, 4875 Union Ave. N.E.,

H o m ewo rth, girl, Se pt. 13.

L O T T E R Y R E S U LT S

C D C

L i fe spanracial ga pis fo u n din st u d y

B I RT H S

A PACHE JUNC T I O N, Ariz. (AP) —Ro ry Coriell wa n ts to keep liv i n gwith his gra n d p a re n ts in their Ari-zona ret i rement community, but hisa ge might get in the way.

The 16 - ye a r-old sta rted living withhis gra n d p a re n ts after Ore gon ChildServices sent him there. The age n c yste p p ed in be c ause Coriell was run-ning away from his adopt ive fa t h e r;his mother died of cancer in 19 9 5 .

L a st we e k, Montessa at GoldC a nyon gave Coriell and his gra n d-p a re n ts the ultimatum: Va c a te orfind a new home for the te e n .

The community re qu i res that allre s i d e n ts of a dwelling be at least 18 .Rules also re qu i re that at least onepermanent resident be 55 or more .

“It’s pet t y,” Coriell said. “It’s im-

m a t u re . ”M a rk Keith, regional manager fo r

C a l -Am pro p e rties in Encino, Calif.,re fe rred qu e stions to atto r n ey Dou-glas Nelson, who wasn’t available fo rc o m m e n t .

Gene Bumga r n e r, 69, had askedthe owners to allow the teen to livewith them until he turns 18, pointingout the circ u m sta n c e s .

T h ey re c e ived only a cert i fi ed let-ter from an atto r n ey giving them 30d ays to va c a te their $100 , 000 homeunless Coriell leave s .

Similar cases arose in Arizona in1996 and 19 97 at communitiesw h e re two 16 - ye a r-olds lived withg ra n d p a re n ts. The teens we re told tol e ave, but re strictions we re late rch a n ged so they could stay.

Teen told to leave ret i rement community

Summary of police activity:

BOARDMAN

Sept. 4B reaking and entering: A vehicle was bro ken into

in the 4000 block of Market St re et and va r i o u si tems we re stolen from the glove box .

Criminal damaging: The front window of Pa g e rsP l u s, 4605 Market St., was smashed.

Criminal: The front window of Nydic Open MRI,1 4 49 Bo a rd m a n - Ca nfield Road, was smashed.

A r rest: A 31 -yea r-old Yo u n g stown man was arrest-ed at Dunkin’ Donuts, 6041 Market St., andc h a rged with driving under suspension.

Criminal damaging: Someone did $1,500 wo rth ofdamage to wiring at a home in the 800 block ofM ay field Drive.

Criminal damaging: Someone put a hole in dry wa l land damaged a phone re ce i ver in a home in the1000 block of Bo a rd m a n - Poland Ro a d .

Criminal damaging: A plast i c - g l a ss door of Jay ’s,68 Bo a rd m a n - Ca nfield Road, was damaged by ap e l l et.

Th eft: An in-dash radio was stolen from a ve h i c l ep a r ked in the 6000 block of Applecrest Co u rt.

Th eft: A bank deposit belonging to Living Natu ra l-ly Health Fo o d s, 1449 Bo a rd m a n - Ca nfield Ro a d ,was sto l e n .

Th eft: A 17-yea r-old North Lima woman was arrest-ed at 5-7- 9, 7401 Market St., and charged witht h eft.

B reaking and entering: Someone did $300 wo rt hof damage to door locks and stole a fa ce p l a te ofa vehicle parked in the 4000 block of HillmanWay.

Sept. 5Criminal damaging: A window of Neuman’s Clea n-

e rs, 5315 Market St., was smashed.Th eft: A trailer was stolen in the 20 block of Ar-

lene Ave n u e.Criminal damaging: The windshield of a vehicle in

the 400 block of Bo a rd m a n - Ca nfield Road wa ss h a tte re d .

Sept. 6Th eft: A $600 snow blower was stolen from a

g a rage in the 1000 block of Basil Ave n u e.B reaking and entering: Someone did $300 wo rt h

of damage to the front door of Fu n co Land, 403Bo a rd m a n - Poland Ro a d

Th eft: A man stole 48 packs of cigarettes, six ros-es, and a red basket from Giant Ea g l e, 1201 Dora lD r i ve.

Sept. 7A r rest: A 30 -yea r-old Bo a rdman man was arreste d

in the 3000 block of South Avenue and charg e dwith ro b b e ry, fleeing, res i sting arrest, and unau-t h o r i zed use of a ve h i c l e.

Th eft: A checkbook was stolen from a home in the5000 block of Yo u n g stow n - Poland Ro a d .

Th eft: A man stole two pairs of Nike shoes fro mJ.C. Pe n n ey , 7401 Market St.

A r rest: A 26 -yea r-old Yo u n g stown woman was ar-rested in the 400 block of Ferndale Avenue andc h a rged with theft by dece ption, passing badc h e c ks, and fo rg e ry.

Bu rg l a ry: A CD changer and spea ke rs we re sto l e nf rom a home in the 4000 block of Sc h e n l ey Av-e n u e.

Th eft: A woman stole $302 from the re g i ste rs atMH Development Inc., 71 41 Ti ffa ny Bl vd .

Suspension: A 19-yea r-old Yo u n g stown man wa sa r rested on Southern Bo u l eva rd and charg e dwith driving under suspension.

Sept. 8Bu rg l a ry: Two window panes of a home we re

smashed in the 4000 block of Market St re et.A r rest: A 17-yea r-old Bo a rdman man was arreste d

in the 7000 block of West Bo u l eva rd andc h a rged with criminal tres p a ss and being an un-ruly juve n i l e.

A r rest: A 35 -yea r-old Yo u n g stown man was arrest-ed at the Microtel lot, 7393 South Ave., andc h a rged with ca r rying a co n cealed weapon, pos-session of co ca i n e, and drug para p h e r n a l i a .

Th eft: A fi re extinguisher was stolen in the 6000block of Applecrest Co u rt.

Th eft: A man stole $50 from a purse at a home inthe 4000 block of Ca scade Drive.

Au to theft: A 1995 BMW was stolen in the 4000block of Wi n d sor Ro a d .

A r rest: A 35 -yea r-old Bo a rdman man was arreste din the 5000 block of Aravesta Ave n u e, charg e dwith possession of a crack pipe.

Th eft: Someone stole a bottle of dete rgent fro mK m a rt, 1209 Bo a rd m a n - Poland Ro a d

Sept. 9B reaking and entering: Someone bro ke into a ve-

hicle in the 4000 block of Bro o kwood Ave n u eand stole 70 CDs, an equalizer and a CD playe r.

Th eft: A lawn deco ration was stolen from a ya rd inthe 600 block of Angeline Drive.

Th eft: Someone stole $42 through the ATM at FirstP l a ce Bank, 4005 Hillman Way.

Th eft: A cell phone, backpack, wa l l et and a bankca rd was stolen in the 400 block of Bo a rd m a n -Ca nfield Ro a d .

Bu rg l a ry: Someone bro ke into Mahoning Va l l eyH eating and Air Conditioning Inc., 97 Ka ra g oAve., and stole two air co n d i t i o n e rs, two high ef-fi c i e n cy units, cu r re n cy and fi ve saws.

B reaking and entering: Someone bro ke a windowof a vehicle parked in the 70 block of Le m a n sD r i ve and stole a radio and radar dete c to r.

Sept. 10Criminal damaging: Pro j e c t i l es we re shot thro u g h

t h ree windows at Se cond Sole At h l etic Wea r, 755Bo a rd m a n - Ca nfield Ro a d .

Th eft: A man stole $263 of rolled coins from ShellTrue North, 51 35 Market St.

Th eft: A $2 ,000 engagement ring was stolen fro ma home in the 5000 block of Rosewood Ave n u e.

Criminal damaging: Someone did $338 wo rth ofdamage by throwing eggs on a vehicle andslashing four tires in the 4000 block of SimonRo a d .

A r rest: A 37-yea r-old Yo u n g stown woman was ar-rested at Ka u f m a n n’s, 7401 Market St., andc h a rged with theft and obstructing official busi-n ess.

Th eft: A man and woman stole a pair of bootswo rth $40 at Gabriel Brot h e rs, 850 Bo a rd m a n -Poland Ro a d

Th eft: Lawn tools and a sander we re stolen from ag a rage in the 4000 block of Dover Ro a d .

Th eft: A wa l l et co n taining an ID, $800 and a check-book we re stolen from a res i d e n ce in the 70 0 0block of Lo cu st St re et.

Atte m pted burg l a ry: Someone did damage to aw i n d ow lock trying to break into a home in the5000 Firnley Ave n u e.

Th eft: A purse co n taining $100, and two check-b o o ks, we re stolen from a trunk of a car at Ti n-se l town, 7401 Market St.

GIRARD

Sept. 10Th eft: A purse was ta ken out of a vehicle parke d

in the 20 block of South Randolph Ave n u e.B reaking and entering: Someone stole a truck and

l awn tools from a garage at Tod Pa r k .Sept. 11Th eft: A Fo rd Crown Vi c toria drove off after the

d r i ver pumped $15 in gas at McQuaids, 131 So u t hSta te St.

A r rest: A Gira rd man was arrested in the 400 blockof Idaho Avenue and charged with operating anillegal ta ttoo shop.

Bu rg l a ry: Someone bro ke into a home in the 20 0block of Bro a d v i ew Avenue and stole $200 andt h ree credit ca rd s.

Sept. 12Criminal tres p a ss: A homeless man tres p a sse d

i n to a home in the 700 block of Wa s h i n g ton Av-e n u e.

Sept. 13Th eft: Someone stole two Nintendo 64 games and

two co n t ro l l e rs in the 600 block of Fo rsythe Av-e n u e.

LIBERTY

Sept. 2Criminal damaging: Juve n i l es bro ke four windows

in the 3000 block of Nort h g a te Ave n u e.Sept. 4Bu rg l a ry: Someone stole $50 and a $139 money

o rder from an apartment in the fi rst block ofTrumbull Co u rt.

Sept. 5Th eft: A lice n se plate was stolen from a vehicle in

the 300 block of Trumbull Ave n u e.Th eft: A woman and two men stole $700 from a

woman by dece ption in the 3000 block of Be l-

mont Ave n u e.Sept. 6A r rest: A 42-yea r-old Yo u n g stown man was arrest-

ed on Belmont Avenue on a charge of drivingunder suspension, with a wa r rant for larce ny.

Th eft: Someone stole $132 through the ATM at SkyBank, 3551 Belmont Ave.

Au to theft: A 1990 Chev ro l et Cavalier was stolen inthe 3000 block of Green Ac res.

Sept. 7Criminal damaging: Someone did $3, 200 in dam-

age to light fi x tu res, the garage door, front doorand rear door, and took oak ste ps from a homein the 6000 block of Kline’s Drive.

Criminal damaging: A man bro ke a cell phone in ahome in the 20 block of James Lane.

Sept. 8Th eft: A woman stole 18 lotte ry tickets from Ciga-

rettes Emporium, 1482 West Liberty St.Sept. 9Bu rg l a ry: A ste reo and a Social Se cu r i ty ca rd we re

stolen from a home in the 1000 block of Nay l o rL l oyd .

Criminal damaging: Someone did $100 damage tothe vehicle locks in the 3000 block of Hadley Av-e n u e.

Th eft: A fo u r-wheeler was stolen from the 30 0 0block of Anderson Ave n u e.

Criminal damaging: A cell phone, hea d p h o n es,two -way mobile ra d i o, and 120 CDs we re sto l e nf rom a vehicle in the 4000 block of Logan Way.

Sept. 10Bu rg l a ry: A sc reen was pulled out and a window

was bro ken with a rock at a home in the 1000block of Naylor Lloyd .

Th eft: A man stole $170 wo rth of meat from Sav-A- Lot, 3551 Belmont Ave.

Fo rg e ry: A man fo rged a check for $626 andcashed it at Home Savings and Loan, 3500 Be l-mont Ave.

Th eft: A book bag, cell phone, tex t b o o ks and ca l-cu l a tor we re stolen from a vehicle in the 30 0 0block of Be l m o n t.

Au to theft: A 1981 Chev ro l et was stolen in the 20 0 0block of Yo u n g stow n - H u b b a rd Ro a d .

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Sept. 1A r rest: A man was arrested on North Main St re et

and charged with driving under suspension.A r rest: A woman was arrested on West Liberty

St re et and charged with driving under suspen-s i o n .

Sept. 2Th eft: A golf ca rt was stolen from Pine Lakes Golf

Co u rse, 6233 West Liberty St.Criminal damaging: A woman damaged a fe n ce in

the 400 block of South Main St re et.Th eft: A man was arrested in the theft of ite m s

f rom Shop N Save, 529 North Main St.Sept. 3Bu rg l a ry: A home in the 200 North Main St re et

was burg l a r i ze d .Sept. 5Criminal damaging: Nails we re shot into tires in

the 500 block of We n d e m e re Drive.Sept. 7Th eft: Items we re stolen from a ya rd in the 800

Saul Drive.Sept. 8A r rest: A Hubbard man was arrested on Hall St re et

and charged with driving under infl u e n ce of al-co h o l .

Th eft: A wa l l et and wa tch we re stolen from a lock-er at Hubbard Pool, 250 Hall Ave.

A r rest: A man was arrested at Shell Gas Sta t i o nand charged with driving under the infl u e n ce ofa l co h o l .

Th eft: A te m p o ra ry tag was stolen from a ve h i c l ein the 30 block of Jackson St re et.

Sept. 9Criminal damaging: A no-tres p a ss tape was dam-

aged by a fo u r-wheeler on Be l l -Wick Ro a d .Sept. 10Th eft: A lawn ornament was stolen in the 100

block of Elmwood St re et.Criminal damaging: Five storm doors we re dam-

aged in the 300 block of Jackson St re et.Sept. 11Th eft: A lice n se plate was stolen in the 100 block

of North Main St re et.Criminal misc h i ef: The rest room was damaged at

H a rding Pa r k .

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Pe a rl Harbor is theo n ly thing in the lastc e n t u ry that canc o mp a re to the te r-ro r i st cata st ro p h ethat has st r u ck theUn i ted Sta tes. Wi t hall its shock andt ra ged y, the Japanesea t ta ck on Pe a rl Har-bor ended our naiveinnocence about the

d a n ge rous wo rld we live in and united ave ry disunited country. Will this series ofa t ta cks unite Americans to d ay ?

Will it make a dent in the lofty citizen-o f - t h e - wo rld types among the inte l l i-ge n tsia who like to treat inte r n a t i o n a lb o rders as just arbitra ry lines on a map,who dismiss talk of enemies as para n o i aor politics, and who delight to snipe attheir own country from above the st r u g-gl e ?

Will it stop Congress’ nicke l - a n d - d i m-ing of our milita ry and our inte l l i ge n c ea gencies, so that they can spend them o n ey on more give away pro g rams andp o rk b a rrel pro j e c ts? Will it stop thosewho like to snipe at Israel for reta l i a t i n ga ga i n st te rro r i st atta cks? Will the sighto f Pa l e stinians dancing in the st re etsc ause any second thoughts — or perh a p sfi r st thoughts — among those who havebeen brightly chirping for so long about“the peace pro c e s s ” ?

M u ch of the future histo ry of this cen-t u ry may depend on what the Americanpeople and the American government doin response to the wo r st assault on thec o n t i n e n tal Un i ted Sta tes in more than ac e n t u ry. The last thing we need are to u g hwo rds and soft actions. That would justg u a ra n tee more of the same.

Gloating: M a ke no mista ke about it.T h e re are people around the wo rld whowill be gloating at our tra ged y. Not justthe Pa l e stinians or the pro fessional te r-ro r i sts or even our avowed enemies.T h e re will be people in Europe who willn ot mind seeing America ta ken down apeg, including people in countries libe r-a ted from the Nazis at the cost of A m e r-ican lives. Not most people in those coun-tries, of course, but some among the in-te l l i ge n tsia and the political classes.

This is not only a dange rous wo rld buta wo rld in which we are ourselves theo n ly people we can re a l ly depend onwhen push comes to shove. Americans’ability to st i ck to gether may dete r m i n ethe survival of this country and of t h i sc iv i l i z a t i o n .

Those who make being mora l ly one-upon “our society” their top priority willh ave to face the painful costs of this self-i n d u l gence. For exa mple, those who arefor flinging the borders open to all ands u n d ry from eve ry w h e re will have to fa c ethe consequences of l etting in peoplewho can dest roy us from within.

M o st of the immigra n ts who come heref rom the Middle East, for exa mple, maybe fine and decent people. But their pre s-ence provides communities where thosewho are neither fine nor decent can blendin unnot i c ed, until time to do their dirt ywo rk, as in the previous bombing of t h eWo rld Trade Cente r.

I m m i g ra n ts who come here fro ma round the wo rld with eve ry desire andi n tention to become Americans may beh i - j a cked by those activ i sts who are ide-o l o g i c a l ly committed to keeping themspeaking fo reign languages, loyal to fo r-eign values and — if possible — taught tofeel historic grievances aga i n st the coun-t ry that is welcoming them to d ay.

B a l k a n i z a t i o n : Magic wo rds like “di-versity” evade the brutal reality of w h a tBalkanization actually means, whether inthe Balkans, the Middle East, Rwanda, SriLanka or other places where “identity”rules supreme and its price is paid in nev-e r-ending st reams of b l o o d .

B a ck at the time of the American Rev-olution, the phrase was, “we must allhang to gether — or we will all hang sep-a ra te ly.” That was the plain and brutal re-ality then and it has always been the bru-tal reality ever since, though it is nol o n ger plain to those whose rh etoric hasp e r m i t ted them to obscure the obv i o u sand enga ge in the politics of m o ral one-upmanship, secure in their sense of s a fe-t y.

The te rro r i sts who perpet ra ted theseo u t ra ges and the countries that shelte rs u ch te rro r i sts all know that we have thep ower to wipe them off the face of t h ee a rth. They obv i o u s ly think we don’t havethe guts .

Un fo rt u n a te ly, our fo reign policy es-tablishment over the years has perfe c tedthe response of speaking loudly and car-rying a little st i ck. If t h ey sta rt usingweasel wo rds like “unacceptable” and“ warning” or making milk- to a st milita ryge st u res, the te rro r i sts and their prote c-tors will know that they we re right.

It is time for Americans to remain calm— but re s o l u te .

Creators Syndicate

Ta k e the helmetof salvation andthe swo rd of th eSpirit, which is th e

wo rd of God. And pray in th eSpirit on all occasions with allkinds of prayers and re qu e sts.

Ephesians 6:17 - 18a NIV

The heart felt ex p ressions of s o rrow, solidarityand solace have come from throughout the wo rl d .Our allies are ready to stand with us. Their peoplemourn our losses. Wherever the flags of d e m o c ra-cy fly, they have been lowe red to half sta ff out of re-spect for the Americans whose lives we re lost atthe bloody hands of m u rd e rous te rro r i sts .

Tr i b u te : From Europe to Africa, flowers and me-morials have been laid at American embassies andc o n s u l a tes. At the U.S. embassy in Berlin, city fi re-fi g h ters laid roses to re m e m ber their colleaguesk i l l ed when the Wo rld Trade Center collapsed ast h ey search ed for survivors. In Ita ly, politicians, cler-gymen and union leaders led marches to show theirs u p p o rt for the Un i ted Sta tes.

But it was not just Americans who died in NewYo rk, in Wa s h i n g ton or in the airc ra ft which thecriminals turned into human bombs. Engl a n d ,Japan and Au st ralia have learned of the deaths ofdozens of their own people, with hundreds st i l lmissing. Among the names of our dead can befound the ve ry meaning of America, a home fo rthose whose origins are found on eve ry continent.

Among the dead: O go n owski, Ong, McGuinness,A re stegui, Nicosia, Aoyama, Aronson, Cuccinello,Dominguez, Fi l i p ov, Hashem, Jalbe rt, Mladenik,M o n toya, Mora b i to, Ro s e n z weig, Kimmig, MacFa r-lane, Na s s a n ey, Charlebois, Heidenbe rge r, Bet r u ,Bishundat, To l be rt, Khang, Yo kum, Nguyen, Howe l l ,Khang, Jones. Like muff l ed drumbe a ts, their namese cho through the histo ry of the Un i ted Sta te s .

When they or their fo re bears sought a bet ter life ,t h ey came to America. They brought their hopes ofa bet ter future for themselves and their ch i l d re n ,n ever imagining that those dreams would be shat-te red by a nightmare of p ro found evil perpet ra tedby those who would return the wo rld to a time ofd a rkness and dicta to r s h i p .

Those nations that stand with us know that theseAmericans died in the cause of d e m o c racy and lib-e rt y, and they know, too, of the hundreds of t h o u-sands of Americans who died to pre s e r ve fre ed o min fo reign lands in years past .

Thus, it should be no wonder that Russia andNATO issued a ra re joint sta tement on Thursdaythat they would join fo rces to find the culprits ofTu e s d ay's atta ck, so they not go unp u n i s h ed. Orthat the European Commission President Ro m a n oP rodi said, "In the darke st days of E u ropean histo-ry, America stood close by us and to d ay we sta n dclose by America.”

Blaming the victim: Nor should it be a surprisethat the voices of te rrorism would rationalize theactions of their comrades-in-arms by blaming thevictims and the Un i ted Sta tes for re p resenting allthat their hate opposes.

In a bro a d c a st monito red by the BBC, Iraqi sta tete l evision said: "The American cow b oy is re a p i n gthe fruits of his crimes aga i n st humanity." AndSheik Yassin, leader of the Islamic militant gro u pHamas, said: "No doubt this is a result of i n j u st i c ethe U.S practices aga i n st the weak in the wo rl d . "But it is the Un i ted Sta tes and its people that havebeen the true friend of the we a k, the imp ove r i s h ed ,the sick and the suffering. It is to America’s em-b race that the dow n t rodden of the wo rld havel o n ged to come, not to the arms of te rro r i sts .

The people of the wo rld have seen how “just i c e ”is understood by the te rro r i st gangs that cloak theirqu e st for domination in the garb of h o ly men. Andt h ey know that the wo rld will not be safe fo rd e m o c racy until the wicked are brought to just i c e .

Now is the time for allgood Americans to cometo the aid of their countryE D I TO R :

I re m e m ber the many stories my fa t h e rtold me about Pe a rl Harbor Day; thes h o ck, the unbe l i evableness of it all; theo u t ra ge; the fe a r; the rush to the re-c r u i ter's office the next day; FDR, thes p e e ch .

I liste n ed and tried to imagine as be st Icould what he felt, what his fa m i ly fe l t ,his neighbors, this town — this country,and yet, not until Sept 11, 2001, could I,along with my ge n e ration, the so-called" b a by boomers" fully say to ourselve s ,"and now, we also know," we also under-stand — we are there .

I wa t ch ed and liste n ed in horror to thei m a ges and accounts of those cata-st rophic eve n ts of that fa teful day; per-p et ra ted by merch a n ts of te rro r. I knew,for my ge n e ration, things would never bethe same. I understood for the fi r st timethat at times like these, there is no div i-sion based upon political parties, ra c e ,ge n d e r, nationality, religion or any inA m e r i c a .

No longer should any citizen of A m e r-ica hesita te and look around, be fo re theystand for the national anthem at sport i n geve n ts; no longer should any Americanh e s i ta te to embrace a fe l l ow citizen we a r-ing the uniform of our country’s armedservices; no longer should any citizenta ke the fre edom earned by the blood-s h ed of our fo re fathers for gra n ted; norshould they avoid voting, jury duty, hon-oring the war dead or raising Old Gloryon days of national memorial.

No longer should any fo reign nationdoubt the re s o lve of the American peo-ple to stand to gether in times of crisis; ton ot doubt that which does not we a ke nus, makes us that much st ro n ge r; that thewo rld knows that Lady Libe rty still sta n d sin New Yo rk harbor; like a witness whosees someone entering her home to de-st roy her fa m i ly — yet remains sta n d i n g ,to rch held high, ever be ckoning: give usyour tired, your poor, the huddle massesyearning to breathe fre e .

In the final analysis, we have an oppor-tunity to prove to ourselves, and the re sto f the wo rld, that America still shines asthe the beacon of hope and fre edom ...sail on oh ship of sta te ... sail on ... withthe wo rld as our witness, and the gre a t-e st nation on earth as our homeland, letus meet this ch a l l e n ge with hope,st rength, unity and praye r, so that oned ay, we may tell our ch i l d ren about theS e pt 11, 2001.

"... and the ro ckets red gl a re, the bombsb u r sting in air, gave pro o f t h rough thenight, that our flag was still there; o saydoes that star spangl ed banner yet waveo'er the land of the free and the home ofthe brave . "

MARK CO LU C C IYo u n g stow n

H e roism, unselfi s h n e s sh a l l m a rk of A m e r i c a n sE D I TO R :

Wo rds can't describe the sorrow I fe e lfor all of the innocent families affe c ted bythis atta ck. At the same time I feel ast rong sense of pride when I see and hearthe unselfish acts of h e roism from vo l u n-teers, police, fi re fi g h ters, American citi-zens.

It is my hope that time will heal thee m otional scars of the victims’ fa m i l i e s ,and the wrath of the U.S. is sent to thepeople responsible for this act.

T E R RY BYERS B o a rdman

God cannot be defi n ed bya narrow perspectiveE D I TO R :

To d ay on TV, I heard Billy Gra h a m ' sd au g h ter say (in effect) that the re c e n teve n ts in Wa s h i n g ton and New Yo rk goto show what can happen when a coun-t ry separa tes ch u rch from sta te. God, shes ays, has withdrawn in accordance withour wishes, and she calls for His ret u r n ,p re s u m a b ly in response to some Con-g ressional action.

A p a rt from the mawkishness of t h i sp o rt rait of the sad and we a ry Father leav-ing His brood to the consequences of t h e i rfo l ly, this little myth port rays God as will-ing to let one segment of the populationd etermine for the whole population who

and what He is and how the spiritualn e eds of all of His worshippers should bem et.

This is a dange rous proposition, un-wo rt hy of the God it purports to honor.

E ve ry person has been given re a s o n ,w h i ch is to say fre edom of choice, withw h i ch to grapple with experience and tofo rge there by an individual faith. Let usre m e m ber that the only role that gov-ernment can legitimate ly play in thisp rocess is to pre s e r ve our fre edom ofthought and action and to help us to useour minds independently to grope towa rdtruth. To assume that any group of p e o p l eh ave have a right impose their opinionsupon the re st is arro gance such as leadsn ot to peace and harmony but to the st r i feo f No rthern Ire l a n d .

THOMAS A. CO P E LA N DYo u n g stown

Outpouring of l ove fo rfamilies hurt by tra ged yE D I TO R :

I think this is a te rrible act these peopleh ave done. There are many people with-out mothers, fathers, and families. Myl ove goes out to all of those families andm a ny other people. God Bless America.

T I F FANI RO S SYo u n g stow n

X The writer is a wife, mother and YSU student.

Pa l e stinians in MiddleE a st horr i fi ed at eve n ts ,p raying for victimsE D I TO R :

One cannot ex p ress enough horror andd i s be l i e f at the eve n ts that we have be e nwitnessing over the past 24 hours. Ourp rayers are with the victims, their fa m i-lies and our fe l l ow Americans duringthese most difficult and trying times.

We applaud to d ay’s sta tement of S e c-reta ry of Sta te Colin Powell who madeve ry clear that this act of te rrorism is justthat, te rrorism, and cannot be associatedwith any country, people or religion with-out a proper inve st i gation of the fa c ts .

In full agreement with Secreta ry ofSta te Powell, we would like to emp h a s i z ethe nega t ive re p e rcussions of i rre s p o n s i-ble journalism during this unfo l d i n gt ra ged y. Speculative re p o rting on the fa c tthat some individuals have been cele-b rating the atta cks on the U.S. is not, bythe furt h e st st ret ch of the imagination,re p re s e n ta t ive of the reaction of the massm ajority of Pa l e stinians. On the contra ry,

these atte mpts to ste re otype an entirepeople in light of s u ch a horrendous eve n ta re ve ry dange rous and counte r p ro d u c-t ive. Placing blame on an entire people orreligion will only fuel a backlash and pro-m ote unfo u n d ed atta cks that Arab Amer-icans have already begun facing acro s sthe U. S .

Pa l e stinians living under occupationa re gl u ed to their te l evision sets like there st of the wo rld. The few misled Pa l e s-tinians in the st re ets we re isolated inci-d e n ts and those are the images that someU.S. media have chosen to focus on. Vi c-t i m i z ed as they are, Pa l e stinians as acommunity as well as their leaders,would never find joy in seeing thist ra gedy unfold and we deplore these in-d ividual incidents of c e l e b rations as we l las the media fallacy that Pa l e stinians arejubilant at innocent death and dest r u c-t i o n .

All of us, American citizens and ourfriends here in the Occupied Pa l e st i n i a nTe rr i tories, have been re c e iving numer-ous phone calls from Pa l e stinians con-c e r n ed about our families and friends liv-ing in the U.S. Eve ryone is ex p re s s i n gtheir outright shock, condemnation andcondolences at Tu e s d ay’s eve n ts .

It is long ove rdue that the wo rld era d-i c a tes the core of te rrorism, wherever itm ay reside. Our prayers are with the vic-tims, their families and all those killed ori n j u red .

H U WA I DA ARRAFJ e r u s a l e m

SAM BA H O U RA l - B i re h / Ra m a l l a h

X Ms. Arraf is an American citizen originally from Michigannow living in Jerusalem. Bahour, also an American citizen, isoriginally from Youngstown.

E xact our reve n ge, send st rong messageE D I TO R :

I hear a lot of people talking from oneex t reme of nuclear retaliation, to the ot h-er ex t reme of being a bigger person andl etting it go.

The president is correct, and I re s p e c twhat he said. The people who plannedthis should be atta cked, not only as a fo r mo f reve n ge but as a message to other te r-ro r i st groups. We are America. Love it orl e ave it, but if you mess with us, yo u ’ regoing down.

JASON REBRACA Yo u n g stow n

Good to have Re p u b l i c a nin the White House nowE D I TO R :

I would like to say fi r st of all that be i n ga Republican, I am glad to have a fe l l owRepublican in office at the White House.Bush's milita ry resolution mentionedWed n e s d ay, and the fact that this heinousact has been labe l ed an act of wa r, de-s e r ves nothing but that. An all-out wa r.

I am a Scholar student at YSU andwould drop eve rything to fight aga i n stw h o m ever we label as responsible, fo rthe deaths of all 40,000 to 50,000 deaddemand a swift and brutal retaliation.

Those responsible deserve any t h i n gthat the future brings them.

DALE ANTHONY PITULS K IP i t ts b u rg h

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“ S h e j o k i n gly told me, ’The Pe n ta-

gon’s probably next, you should

get out.’”A r my civilian David Theall

Of Alexandria, Va., who was on the phonew i th a friend talking about the Wo r l d

Trade Center atta cks when another planehit near his Pe n ta gon offi c e .

“ We h ave no more to do with

Osama bin Laden than you do. He

c e r tainly doesn’t re p resent Islam,

and we ’ re just deva sta ted.” S h e ryl Siddiqu i

A member of the board of the Islamic Soci-ety of Tulsa, Okla. Some Muslim inst i t u-tions nationwide have been ta r geted by

vandalism and assaults since the te r ror atta cks .

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Some years ago, Mahoning County CommonPleas Judge Elwyn V. Jenkins looked down at theman he was about to sentence on a murder con-viction and declared, “You, sir, are lower than a ra t .My apologies to the rat.”

It does a body good to occasionally hear a judgeex p ress old fa s h i o n ed, righteous indignation.

This we e k, Judge R. Scott Krich b aum did the jobqu i te nicely, if n ot as colorfully as the late JudgeJenkins. It should be noted that Krich b aum was ad-d ressing not a murd e re r, but a witness to a killingwho, when called upon to do his duty, shirked .

Brian McGau l ey, 19, was one of t h ree people sub-p o e n a ed in July to te stify as eyewitnesses duringthe trial of a 19 - ye a r-old Gypsy Lane man accusedo f s h o oting of B e rt King, also 19, last Octo be r.

None of the three witnesses showed up for thetrial, which was post p o n ed for seven we e ks. Onewas eve n t u a l ly found and te st i fi ed during the tri-al, which re s u l ted in the acqu i t tal of the defe n d a n t .M c G au l ey was ta ken into custody after the trial.The third witness is still free, but faces arre st.

C o u rt time: This week McGau l ey had his day inc o u rt — two days actually.

Tu e s d ay, Krich b aum held a hearing and ruledt h e re was reason to be l i eve that McGau l ey knewabout his subpoena and delibe ra te ly ignored it. Thej u d ge said that be fo re he sente n c ed McGau l ey, hei n te n d ed to put him on the stand and have him te s-tify as he would have had to at the trial.

M c G au l ey’s law yers howl ed in prote st. If t h ej u d ge we re going to punish McGau l ey on the basiso fh ow imp o rtant his te st i m o ny might have been tothe trial, then fo rcing him to te stify might violatehis constitutional right aga i n st self incrimination.

J u d ge Krich b aum wisely re m oved that imp ed i-ment Thursday. He brought McGau l ey back into hisc o u rt room and sente n c ed him to 30 days in jail fo rfailing to answer the summons. After the 30 days isup, McGau l ey will still be re qu i red to te st i f y.

Reminiscent of J u d ge Jenkins, Krich b aum to l dM c G au l ey, “You, sir, are a cowa rd. You allowed jus-tice to escape be c ause you aren’t man enough tocome to court and tell a jury what happened. Tr u-ly, I have nothing but conte mpt for yo u . ”

M c G au l ey’s law yers may claim that his te st i m o-ny is moot, now that the trial is ove r. But it is nev-er too late to arr ive at the truth. The truth is alwaysre l eva n t .

The truth shall set him fre e

WA S H I NGTON —Tu e s d ay’s wa r-fa re, wa geda ga i n st civ i l i a n s ,m ay tra n s fo r mAmerica’s mindand hence its fu-t u re be c ause ofthis sta rk fa c t:The death to l lcould exc e ed allAmerica’s battle

deaths from the Revo l u t i o n a ry Wa rup to the Civil War (8,428). Andthose casualties came to a countryi n u red to wars then under way.

Tu e s d ay’s war deaths, the fi r stwithin America since 1865, shouldbanish the recent sterility of p o l i t i-cal argument, the sheer littleness ofb u d get-surplus fetish. The wo r st do-m e stic te rrorism — Oklahoma City —c a ta ly z ed the rev ival of the Clinto np residency be c ause it underscoredthe curd l ed rh etoric of some Re p u b-licans’ ge n e ral hostility to America’sgovernment. Now histo ry’s wo r stepisode of te rrorism may st re n g t h-en the connection bet ween Pre s i d e n tBush and a country that has be e nsuspending judgment about hisp residential sta t u re .

He can inve st that sta t u re in re-forming milita ry fo rces still confi g-u red for the Cold Wa r, a confi g u ra-tion continued from Wo rld War II,anticipating mobilization of h e av yfi re p ower on battlefields known ina d vance of the battles. Pe rhaps re-c o n fi g u ration will now re c e ive am o re respectful hearing in Congre s s

than the re f l ex ive ra l lying of l e g i s l a-tors around dubious weapons andbases — the Defense budget as jobsp ro g ram. Fo rces for large conflictsa re still need ed; so are more nimblefo rc e s .

Since the inqu i s i torial Senate hear-ings of 197 5 - 76, the CIA has been acasualty of the Vi et n a m - e ra culturewars. And the leveling impulse nowcolors criticisms of the FBI, anot h e re l i te institution in which honor isp a rtial compensation for demandingduties. These are front-line fo rces inwhat Israel’s former prime ministe r,B i nyamin Neta nyahu, calls “a war toreverse the triumph of the We st . ”

S u re ly Wa s h i n g ton will see less ofYasser Ara fat, the most fre quent fo r-eign visitor to Clinton’s White House.S u re ly we will hear less talk aboutI s rael’s atte mpts to pre - e mpt te rro r-ism being “inflammato ry” and “pro -vo c a t ive.” Such signs of U.S. irre s o-lution and squeamishness te mpt te r-ro r i sts to be l i eve they can bend U. S .p o l i c y.

Ste p p i n g stone: The Middle Eastis one coup (in Egypt or Jordan) awayf rom a convulsion ra d i c a l ly inimicalto Israel. Howeve r, as Neta nyahu saidWed n e s d ay by telephone from Jeru-salem, Islamic radicalism re ga rds Is-rael as Nazi Germany re ga rd ed Bel-gium — as a small ste p p i n g stone to-

wa rd a much larger conqu e st .In 19 67, on the eve of the Six-Day

Wa r, Egypt’s President Nasser pro-c l a i m ed: “We are confronting Isra e land the We st as well.” Neta nya h us ays: “The soldiers of m i l i tant Islamand Pa n -A rabism do not hate theWe st be c ause of I s rael; they hate Is-rael be c ause of the We st.” They hate“Zionism as an ex p ression and re p-re s e n tation of We stern civ i l i z a t i o n . ”And they hate America be c ause it isthe pure st ex p ression of m o d e r n i t y— individualism, pluralism, fre ed o m ,s e c u l a r i s m .

A grim illust ration of the law ofu n i n te n d ed consequences: Va st U. S .s u p p o rt helped cre a te a large cadreo f Islamic fi g h ters to defeat the So-v i et Union in Afghanistan. The cadreis now wo rldwide. And althoughAmericans are denouncing the te r-ro r i sts’ “cowa rdice,” what is mosttelling and frightening is their lunaticfe a rl e s s n e s s .

As an Islamic militant, Ab d u l l a hAzzam, declared to an Americanc rowd in 1988: “After Afghanista n ,n othing is impossible for us any-m o re. There are no superpowers. ...What matters is the willpower thatsprings from our religious belief.” Is-lamic groups in Ita ly and Denmarkwe re linked to the 1993 Wo rld Tra d eC e n ter bombing. Among the papers

o f El Sayyid No s a i r, ch a rged with butn ot conv i c ted of killing Rabbi MeirKahane in New Yo rk in 1990, wa sthis: “We have to thoro u g h ly de-m o ralize the enemies of God ... bymeans of d e st roying and blowing upthe towers that const i t u te the pillarso f their civilization, such as ... thehigh buildings of w h i ch they are sop ro u d . ”

L ethal te rro r i s m : In his 19 9 5b o o k, “Fighting Te rrorism,” Ne-ta nyahu fo re c a st that Islamic funda-m e n ta l i sts would be the “delive rys ystems” of i n c re a s i n gly lethal te r-rorism. Tu e s d ay they delive red toM a n h a t tan two 198 - ton bombs —f u l ly fueled airc ra ft. When they getnuclear weapons, Neta nyahu says ,t h ey will use them. So U.S. policym u st respond to a closing windowo f o p p o rtunity for pre - e mpt i o n .

That, says Neta nyahu, means notgoing after needles in haysta cks, buta ga i n st the haysta cks — the sta te sthat sustain te rro r i sts. U.S. fo rces atM i d way, he says, did not just dest royJapanese planes, they sank their car-riers. Certain support ive sta tes arethe te rro r i sts’ carriers. Hitler, note sNeta nyahu, deve l o p ed V-2 ro cketsbut not atomic devices. St u p e n d o u sAmerican determination pro d u c edthe Manhattan Project. Now morep rodigies of d etermination are re-qu i red. As Oklahoma City was a pin-p r i ck comp a red to Tu e s d ay’s car-n a ge, the New Yo rk and Wa s h i n g to na t ta cks we re a minor ove rt u re to thec y m b a l - c rash crescendo of v i o l e n c eour enemies are building towa rd .

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To d ay is Fr i d ay, Sept. 14, the 257 t hd ay of 2 001. There are 108 days leftin the ye a r. On this date in 19 01, Pre s-ident McKinley dies in Buffalo, N. Y. ,o f g u n s h ot wounds inflicted by anassassin. Vice President TheodoreRo o s evelt succeeds him.

In 1814, Francis Scott Key write s“The Sta r- S p a n gl ed Banner” afte rwitnessing the British bombard m e n to f Fo rt McHenry in Maryland. In19 27, modern dance pioneer Isado-ra Duncan dies in Nice, France, whenher scarf becomes enta n gl ed in awheel of her sports car. In 1940, Con-g ress passes the Selective Service Ac t ,p roviding for the fi r st peacet i m ed ra ft in U.S. histo ry. In 1948, ag ro u n d b reaking cere m o ny ta ke splace in New Yo rk at the site of t h eUn i ted Nations’ wo rld headqu a rte r s .In 1959, the Sov i et space pro be LunaTwo becomes the fi r st manmade ob-ject to re a ch the moon as it cra s h e so n to the lunar surface. In 1975, Po p ePaul VI declares Mother Elizabet hAnn Bayl ey Seton the fi r st U. S . - b o r nsaint. In 1982, Lebanon’s pre s i d e n t -elect, Bashir Gemayel, is killed by abomb.

S e pte m ber 14, 1976 : Au st i n tow n

Township trustees adopt a re s o l u t i o nasking county commissioners to es-tablish a curfew for juveniles under18 in the township. It would ban loi-tering by youths bet ween the hourso f 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.

A fter Democra ts deny Gov. JamesA. Rhodes’ re qu e st to speak to a jointsession of the General Assembly,Rhodes gives a 15 - m i n u te speech inthe Capitol rotunda outlining his leg-i s l a t ive proposals for funding Med-icaid pro g rams and imp roving theeconomic condition of inner cities.

A fi re of u n d ete r m i n ed origin ruinsthe plans of Rudy Ohlin of B o a rd m a nto move and re sto re the historical Al-be rt Baun barn built in 1895 on thes o u t h e a st corner of C o l u m b i a n a -New Castle and Yo u n g stown Pitts-b u rgh roads, New Middletow n .

S e pte m ber 14, 19 61 : Women go l fch a mpions at Tippecanoe Country

Club for the season are Mrs. Charl e sJennings Jr., Mrs. Ro be rt Shafe r, Mrs.Homer Ellis, Mrs. John Blake, Mrs.James E. Sullivan, Mrs. Edwa rd Coul-te r, Mrs. Gay Hettler and Miss JoannPrice.

The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Vitus Franco, 80,a priest for 57 years and pastor ofOur Lady of Mt. Carmel Church fo r50 years, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospi-tal after suffering a cere b ral hemor-rh a ge.

Wa rren Mayor Wa l ter Pe st rak saysthat a scuffle bet ween him and Sev-enth Wa rd Councilman Michael diVincenzo at the Café 422 was a“ c l u m s y, crude political atte mpt tod i s c redit my administ ration.” Eachman has fi l ed assault ch a rges aga i n stthe ot h e r.

S e pte m ber 14, 19 51 : M ayo rC h a rles P. Henderson asks the St ra te-gic Air Command to send a re p re-

s e n ta t ive to Yo u n g stown to wo rkwith a committee seeking a site for ab o m ber base in the Yo u n g stow na rea. The command is consideringm o re than 20 possible sites at ex i st-ing airports.

A 20-ye a r-old Scott St. man whotook a driver’s license te st for a friendloses his own license for life and iss e n te n c ed to 30 days in jail by Mu-nicipal Judge John W. Powers.

A rthur C. Joachim, assistant tre a s-u rer of Yo u n g stown Sheet & Tu beCo., will head the dow n town solici-tation division and Hildemar E. John-son, president of W.O. St rau s b au g hM otor Co., the ge n e ral division of t h e1952 Red Feather campaign.

S e pte m ber 14, 19 2 6 : H a r ve stmoon dances begin at Idora Pa rkwith a Valencia party under the au s-pices of The Vi n d i c a to r that draws are c o rd crowd to the park pav i l i o n .

G ross revenue of the Yo u n g stow nMunicipal Ra i l way Co. for July wa s$ 165,908, which was bet ter than thesame month a year earlier but st i l lre p re s e n ts a deficit of $ 10 , 000 .

E i g h teen be n ch wa rra n ts will bes e r ved on alleged liquor law viola-tors who have fa i l ed to appear be-fo re Mayor Barr i n ger of C a n field.

LET’S RALLY ‘ROUND OUR AMERICAN FRIENDSTo ro n to Globe and Mail: The ste re otypes of New Yo rkers asp u s hy, rude or self-absorbed have been shatte red this we e k.Tu e s d ay’s te rro r i st atta cks on the Wo rld Trade Center haveb rought out the ve ry be st in New Yo rk, in America as awhole, and we pay tribute to their brave ry and ge n e rosity inthe face of d i s a ste r.

It is natural at a ch a otic time for many individuals to wa t chf rom afar and feel there is nothing they can do to make a dif-

fe rence. Thankfully, many in New Yo rk and elsew h e re have avo i d ed this easyhelplessness by pitching in to make themselves useful. Stories abound ofNew Yo rk construction wo rkers pouring down to the disaster site to helpm ove rubble, of citizens lining up to give blood or donate money to the RedC ross, of m edical personnel from outside New Yo rk showing up to help, ofn e a r by re s i d e n ts going door to door to collect food and dry clothes for ex-h au sted rescue wo rke r s .

Rescue wo rkers: The especially heroic response, of course, came fro mrescue wo rkers, so many of whom died in an instant on Tu e s d ay morning.These fi re fi g h ters, police officers, ambulance drivers and many others act-ed without hesitation to rush into those burning towers to find wo rkers andlead them outside. As many as 300 of these people died when the buildingsc o l l a p s ed on top of them, the large st loss of l i fe of rescue personnel in Amer-ican histo ry. St u n n i n gly, those still alive rushed back to comb the wre ck a gefor victims despite enormous dangers of fi re, dust and further building col-lapse. Even ye ste rd ay, wo rkers st re a m ed back over the rubble despite wo r-ries of engineers about the st r u c t u ral soundness of s u rrounding towe r s .

H ow can we pay tribute to this selflessness? Pe rhaps the be st way to hon-or a commitment to serve others is for each of us to make a personal pled geto do something to help wherever it’s need ed, and silently ded i c a te that giftto those who have died .

The qu e stion, meanwhile, arises about what the nations of the wo rld cando to help. The initial response has been swift and decisive. NATO membe r sa g re ed ye ste rd ay to invo ke Article 5 of the alliance’s ch a rter — never prev i-o u s ly trigge red — re quiring allies to support any milita ry operation in re-sponse to an atta ck on a member country.

NEW WAR NEEDS PRECISION — AND ALLIESD et roit Free Press: America has been dra g ged through fi re and blood into

a new wo rld war where victories will not be clean, qu i ck or easy. There is nohigh ground in a war aga i n st te rrorism. It is not wa ged Persian Gulf-st yl e ,with ove rwhelming fo rce, nor entire ly from the air, the way Yu go s l avia wa ss u b d u ed .

The weapons for this war will be information, speed and the same re-lentless commitment that has been demonst ra ted by America’s enemies. Itis a war that will re qu i re patience and precision — not exa c t ly the Americanway.

It is a war that will re qu i re allies, too, including those nations with fa rm o re ex p e rtise in ro oting out te rro r i st cells. Even as these nations sendAmerica their condolences, they must also welcome at last a signifi c a n tAmerican commitment to rid the gl o be of this plague.

NATO allies, who called upon America to subdue the Balkans conflict thatt h re a te n ed European security, said as much Wed n e s d ay by adopting a re s-olution endorsing America’s new, wa rl i ke attitude. NATO said, in effect, thati f the Un i ted Sta tes can show that Tu e s d ay’s stunning te rro r i st st r i kes we red i re c ted from abroad, they will be re ga rd ed as atta cks on the entire 18 - n a-tion alliance — invoking NATO’s all-fo r-one, one-fo r-all principles of e n-ga gement. At the ve ry least, this means that if the Un i ted Sta tes goes afte rte rro r i sts abroad, NATO nations will cede their airspace and get out of t h eway.

A rab sta te s : Similar accord must be pursued with the Arab sta tes, whichre l i ed on the Un i ted Sta tes to chase Saddam Hussein out of Ku wa i t; withRussia, which seeks U.S. economic aid; with China and other Asian nations,w h i ch covet American trade and, in some cases, re ly on American prote c t i o n .It’s time to call in some ch i ts .

National leaders keep talking about Tu e s d ay’s te rror st r i kes as “acts ofwa r.” With the American public hungry for ve n geance, Congress stands re a d yto spend pretty much whatever it ta kes to wa ge war back. But for this wa r,fighting smart and persiste n t ly will be more imp o rtant than fighting big.America has atte mpted bold st ro kes in response to past te rrorism, with lit-tle effe c t .

A SHOW OF POLITICAL UNITYDallas Morning News : I f the te rro r i sts who st r u ck America harbored any

hopes of d ividing this nation, they opera ted from a ve ry false assumpt i o n .From New Yo rk to Wa s h i n g ton, from Capitol Hill to Dallas, our elected offi-cials so far have re s p o n d ed with re s o lve, calm and, most imp o rtant, unity.

The early displays of solidarity we re crucial: President George W. Bushand congressional leaders sat as one Wed n e s d ay in the Cabinet Room. No Re-publicans. No Democra ts. Just Americans.

The unity was palpable on Tu e s d ay when legislators sponta n e o u s ly sang“God Bless America” be fo re the Capitol. There was Phil Gramm next to HillaryC l i n ton, Dick Armey alongside Maxine Wa ters, and Kay Gra n ger holdinghands with Carrie Meek. Whatever their diffe rences, they stood as one. Thescene was reminiscent of the GOP isolationist Sen. Arthur Va n d e n be rg say-ing after Pe a rl Harbor, we no longer have any isolationists . / p

Symbols of the pre s i d e n c y: P resident Bush has wisely used the symbolso f the presidency to re a s s u re Americans about our democracy’s st re n g t h .Speaking from the Oval Office. Convening the Cabinet. Meeting with Con-g ress. We are re m i n d ed at such points that the presidency is as much aboutt h e a ter as about policy.

This moment, of course, provides Mr. Bush his fi r st and, one hopes, large stp residential te st. He and his sta ff m u st find the right language to “managethe sta mp ede,” as Un iversity of Texas at Au stin pro fessor Bruce Buchanan apt-ly describes the psychology unleashed after Tu e s d ay’s atta ck. This is Mr.Bush’s Pe a rl Harbor and Cuban Missile Crisis ro l l ed into one.

Americans should consider, howeve r, that President Bush is more HarryTruman than Franklin Ro o s evelt or John F. Ke n n ed y. The latter pre s i d e n tsu s ed soaring rh etoric to their adva n ta ge during crises. Like Mr. Truman, Mr.Bush esch ews highfalutin language. He pre fers to move in a crisp, busi-n e s s l i ke way. In these uncertain times, that may prove a st rength, not aweakness. Those who doubt Mr. Bush’s grav i tas should not undere st i m a te hisre s o lve or his seriousness as a leader.

New Yo rk’s Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has re b o u n d ed from his personal wo e sto ra l ly his city, America’s showcase. The mayor calmly but dire c t ly urgedNew Yo rkers on Tu e s d ay to va c a te lower Manhattan, even if t h ey must aban-don their cars and simp ly walk north. He continues to provide a st rong corefor the city as it wo rks through unspeakable grief.

C o u ra ge : This danger may not be past, so America’s leaders must contin-ue to speak as one. Though many may dispara ge politicians during times ofbusiness as usual, it is in these times of d i st ress that our elected leaders canp rovide judgment and coura ge. We need them to nav i ga te through matte r so f l i fe and death.

NOW IT’S OUR TURNPhiladelphia Daily News : Reve n ge .Hold on to that thought.Go to bed thinking it. Wa ke up chanting it.B e c ause nothing less than reve n ge is called for to d ay.G ive this to our enemies: It was a brilliant, coord i n a ted atta ck. The ta rgets

we re icons of America’s might: the Wo rld Trade Cente r, which sits in the fi-nancial heart of the Un i ted Sta tes, and the Pe n ta gon, the headqu a rters ofour milita ry. The weapons used we re our airliners, fi l l ed with our fe l l owc o u n t rymen who, at knifepoint, we re made part of the payl o a d .

The image of Un i ted Flight 175 slamming into the Wo rld Trade Center willstay in our nightmares and the nightmares of our ch i l d ren. The knowl ed gethat our fe l l ow citizens jump ed to their deaths rather than burn in the twintowers will haunt us. The smell of the fi res from the Pe n ta gon will linge rlong after the smoke clears. And the grief for our dead will be deep and en-d u r i n g .

But give this to us, the people of the Un i ted Sta tes: We will re c ove r. We willb u ry our dead and then, with unwavering re s o lve, we will go after the vil-l a i n s .

D e a d ly re s p o n s e : We will demand nothing less than a full and deadly re-sponse. We have been merciful in the past with the te rro r i st thugs who havea t ta cked this country. We have condemned them and imp o s ed economicsanctions, but we have not hunted them down with murder in our eye s .

Tu e s d ay’s atta cks, howeve r, amount to a declaration of war aga i n st theUn i ted Sta tes, a sneak atta ck even more deva stating than the one on Pe a rlHarbor 50 years ago. At least the Japanese we re honorable enough to atta cka milita ry ta rget. This time, our enemies went after civilians, among themch i l d re n .

In wa r, there are casualties. We had our number Tu e s d ay. It is time to in-flict casualties of our own. And it shouldn’t be “pro p o rtional” or just enoughto send a “message.” Our response should be the final wo rd .

To the cowa rd ly zealots responsible, know this: Do not judge our com-mitment to your destruction by the st ra n ge ly careful and neutral tone ofP resident Bush’s speech Tu e s d ay night. His speech did not begin to capt u rethe righteous anger American citizens are feeling right now.

Ra ge : In the days that are coming, as the dead are fi n a l ly counted, ourra ge will only build. And eve rytime we look at the skyline of New Yo rk City,or step into an airplane, or turn our calendars to nine, one-one, we will re-m e m ber your actions, and crave only one thing: blood for blood.

Tu e s d ay be l o n ged to you. You hurt us the way you had hoped .But to m o rrow will belong to us.

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DEADLINE: M o n d ay isthe deadline for write - i nca n d i d a tes to file thep roper paperwork to geton the Nov. 6 ballot.Wr i te-ins do not normal-ly play a signifi cant fa c-

tor in elections, but at lea st two pos i t i o n swill be filled by write-in ca n d i d a tes. No oneturned in nominating petitions for a two -year unex p i red term on the Yo u n g stow nBo a rd of Ed u cation so the top write-in ca n-d i d a te will get that sea t. Also, New Middle-town Village Councilman John F. Nov i c kywas kicked off the ballot beca u se of pro b-lems with his nominating pet i t i o n s. Th a tl eaves three names on the ballot for fo u rcouncil pos i t i o n s.

Meeting: The Democra ts of the 17th Dis-trict holds its monthly meeting at 7:30 p. m .Tu esd ay at the Poland Co m m u n i ty Ba se b a l lA ssociation hall on Sheridan Ro a d .

Bid opening: The Mahoning Co u n ty Bo a rdof Elections will open bids at 8 a.m. Se pt. 25f rom co m p a n i es wanting to install and op-e ra te an electronic voting system for theco u n ty. The pro p osals we re to be openedTu esd ay, but with mail slowed down be-ca u se of the te r ro r i st atta c ks, the board isgiving co m p a n i es another week. The boardwa n ts to awa rd a co n t ract next month.

In light of t h et ragic, tra g i ceve n ts in NewYo rk City andWa s h i n g ton, D.C.,I thought itwould be be st toplace politicsaside for this col-u m n .

For those ofyou who don’t know (and even fo rthose who do), I was born andra i s ed in New Yo rk City. You wo u l dthink that during the 18 years Il ived in Bro o k lyn and on Sta ten Is-land I must have hit eve ry to u r i sts p ot in the city. For the most part Idid.

H owever my only visit to theStatue of L i be rty came when I wa sabout 14 years old. My only visit tothe Emp i re Sta te Building camewhen I was 16. I cut class one dayin high school with two friends andwe went sightseeing in Manhatta ni n stead. Appare n t ly we we re class-cutting novices be c ause other kidswho skipped school would drink ors m o ke or do God-knows-what andwould never think of doing some-thing ed u c a t i o n a l .

Intriguing sight: But of all thes i g h ts in New Yo rk, it was theWo rld Trade Center’s Twin Towe r sthat intrigued me. My fi r st visitt h e re was in 1975, two years afte rthe two 110 - sto ry towers opened. Itmade the Emp i re Sta te Building

seem small. It was an incred i b l esight to see. You had to st rain yo u rn e ck as far as it could go to see thetop of the buildings and when yo ul o o ked out from the observa t i o na rea, you could see for miles.

I f you trave l ed on the New JerseyTu r np i ke or the Sta ten Island Fe rryyou could see these two magnifi-cent buildings staring back at yo u .

The Twin Towers we re so much ap a rt of New Yo rk City.

I mp re s s i o n : I was so imp re s s edby the buildings that it was one ofthe fi r st places I took my then-girl-friend and now- w i fe, Elise, to seewhen we went to New Yo rk City. Ofcourse, being the genius that I am Itook her to Twin Tower One androde the eleva tor to the top be fo rerealizing that the public view i n ga rea was located in the secondTwin Towe r.

And now both of the towers aregone, along with many innocentpeople. Some of us may never fullyg rasp the absolute tra gedy that oc-c u rred Tu e s d ay.

New Yo rk City has lost a part ofi ts identity and even more imp o r-tant, many of i ts re s i d e n ts. The live so f millions of Americans who sawthe horror on te l evision or in news-papers will never be the same.

It is the single most violent actm a ny of us will ever see.

Pe a rl Harbor was a horr i b l ec a l a m i t y. The numbers of fa ta l i t i e sex p e c ted from the recent te rro r i st

a t ta cks will sadly be larger than the1941 bombing.

As the re p o rts came in Tu e s d ayone after the other about the at-ta cks on the Twin Towers and thePe n ta gon and the dow n ed plane inwe stern Pe n n s ylvania, I got a sink-ing feeling inside. I was sitting atmy comp u ter terminal wo rking onreaction stories to the atta cks, and Is u d d e n ly felt vulnerable as if I or afriend or a fa m i ly member could ben ext. It was a frightening thought;one I’ve never felt be fo re and one Ihope to never feel again.

In hindsight, it’s not te rr i b ly re a l-i stic to think Yo u n g stown was onthe ta rget list of these te rro r i sts .But I couldn’t deny my fe e l i n g s .

When you hear about bombingsin fo reign countries, you neve rthink it can happen here. After all,this is the Un i ted Sta tes of A m e r i c a .No one would dare atta ck thisc o u n t ry in such a way. It would besuicide on their part.

S i ck cau s e : I guess that’s thetype of people we ’ re dealing withn ow. They knew they would neve rget away with this and inste a dchose to lay down their lives fo rw h a tever sick cause they support .That might be the most frighte n i n gthing of all. If these people are nota f raid of death — and in fact, we l-come it — how can we avoid suchh o rr i fic tra gedies from occurr i n ga gain, and how can we punishthose who perpet ra te them?

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A re m e m b rance of New Yo rk City pastO N T H E S I D E …

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of Va l l ey politics.

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U.S. must begin re forming milita ry Fo rc e s for large conflicts are still needed; so are morenimble fo rc e s .

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In the aftermath of Tu e s d ay’s te r-ro r i sts atta cks, the need to ove rc o m ethe feeling of helplessness that som a ny of us are st r u g gling with is ofp a ramount imp o rta n c e .

As ev i d e n c ed by long lines at bloodb a n ks and the turning away of vo l-u n teer wo rkers in New Yo rk City, weall feel a need to contribute to thehealing process. Anything we can do,even if it’s simp ly calling friends and

re l a t ives and asking to ta l k, can be avaluable step towa rd re a d j u st m e n t .

As we begin to re c ove r, we willm ove through the emotional sta ge so f d i s belief, acceptance and ange r.Once the rescue effo rts have be e nc o mp l eted and the nation begins thecourse of re a d j u stment, we will at-te mpt to resume our daily live s .

But these eve n ts have ch a n ged ourl ives irre p a ra b ly. So we must nowbegin a process that will enable usto move fo rwa rd and re c ove r.

Talk: We will need to talk about

w h e re we we re, what we we re do-ing and what we saw. It will be im-p o rtant to listen to each ot h e r. It is af u n d a m e n tal underpinning of p s y-chological thinking that when peo-ple can talk about their ex p e r i e n c e s ,t h ey can begin to understand themand move through them.

We will need to resume our ro u-tines. Children should go back tos chool. Pa re n ts should re c o g n i z etheir child’s need to share with hisor her peers. Individuals and thecommunity will need to re - e sta b l i s h

n o r m a l c y. We should do all of this asqu i ck ly as we are able, without rush-ing the normal course of h u m a ne m ot i o n s .

While our nation has been victim-i z ed by te rro r i sts, this is also the timefor New Yo rkers and Americans tocome to gether and realize the senseo f community and fa m i ly we alls h a re .

X Hilfer is senior psychologist and director of intern-ship training at Maimonides Medical Center. Distrib-uted by the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post NewsService

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H ow we’ll heal in the wa ke of the atta cks

“ Vi c to r y at all costs, victory in spite of all te r ro r, victo r yh owever long and hard the road may be; for without vic-tory th e re is no surviva l . ”

Wi n ston Churchill (1874 - 19 6 5 )