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4A TOT TEHNESSEAN ThwuhwJUtY iO. 1989 Soviet JACKSON STREET McWherter wants Capitol Hill mall for bicentennial cc 2 ran i 1 to! to the north played a part In the state's recent decision to reject competing proposals for a new high-rise state office building at the corner of James Robertson Parkway and Eighth Avenue North. The view from the south face of the Capitol is obscured by high-rise office buildings to the east, south and west Manning said the state will act in 60 to 90 days to solicit new proposals for the office space, but that the site will be limited to the northwest comer of the intersection, now occupied by a Ramada Inn and a Tudor Inn. said. Location of state offices for the growing state bureaucracy has been a persistent headache for state officials for more than two decades, along with parking and other related problems.

The state now leases 32 of its Nashville office space, or about 958,000 square feet The leases have resulted in one department Health and Environment being located at 21 different sites in Nashville. The mall envisioned by McWherter eventually would be flanked by state offices on either side, with the center resembling the Washington Mall and featuring fountains, a lake, picnic areas, a band shell and walkways. McWherter said he would like to involve the entire state in the project by featuring some recognition of each county in the design. A competition among state architects for the design is a possibility. Manning said there is no price estimate on the development but he said the state would save more than $300 million over the next 30 years if it owned rather than rented its current office space in Nashville.

"There is no way we can afford to lease property in downtown Nashville," McWherter said. "We can own But Manning said he is "skeptical" about the cost and practicality of buying the insurance company's building as an alternative to building new space on James Robertson Parkway. One advantage of the mall proposal, the state officials said, is that it would highlight the recently refurbished Capitol, whose Ionic columns occupy the highest ground in downtown Nashville. The Capitol, designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland in the 1840s and completed more than a decade later, is considered Tennessee's architectural gem The proliferation of downtown skyscrapers in the past three decades has obstructed views of the Capitol from all directions but the north, said Jim Hall, McWherter's director of state planning. The area to the north of the Capitol in recent years has been occupied by low-income housing, warehouses and commercial buildings sited on a onetime landfill In the early 1 970s, McWherter said, state officiate began quietly acquiring land in the area as it became available.

"We've quietly gone about our business of purchasing every plot of land that became available," the governor A lp things more cheaply." As part of long-range planning for state holdings in Nashville, McWherter said: Space at Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute on Murfreesboro Road may be used for state warehouses and a state veterans cemetery. An eight-acre site at 20th Avenue North and Charlotte, now occupied by Department of Transportation offic- "The boy was sitting by himself, alone, and they said we were going to crash, so Ron got up and went over and sat by him." Ben was not hurt, but he said he was afraid he was going to die. The boy still wore his United Airline ii i uai wuuiu i C9ci vc iuc uyuscu mall area, stretching roughly from Capitol Hill northward between Eighth Avenue North and Fourth Ave-' nue North to Jackson Street The area between Jackson and Jef-; ferson streets on the area's northern perimeter is occupied by Metro's Farmers Market Manning said there have been "very tentative" discus-; sions with Metro about moving the market to provide additional space. Manning also said the state will pursue discussions about acquiring the American General building south-: west of the Capitol grounds for the necessary state office space. terror, heroism told by wreck survivors trains by rioters details.

Abkhazians are a minority In their homeland, a so-called autonomous republic Inside the southern republic of Georgia. Both Abkhazians and Georgians claim ethnic dJscriminaUon.by the other. Mobs of more than 1 00 people have attacked troops and citizens "for the purpose of seizing arms and ammunition," Tass said yesterday. Tass said a highway patrolman was fatally shot on the coastal highway. Gunmen also shot up two passenger trains in Sukhumi, said Tass, adding that no one was Injured.

An armed band attacked the Inguri Hydroelectric Station in the mountains near Djvari Monday and cut off the power to some districts before "police restored the situation" and posted guards, the Tbilisi newspaper said. Tass described food shortages as acute in some areas. The newspaper said 69 trains were stuck In Sukhumi and in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi because Abkhazians had ripped up a section of track and striking railroad workers in Sukhumi refused to repair it Authorities reinforced the Interior Ministry troops, raising the total dispatched to the region to 4,500 soldiers and 2,000 policemen, said the newspaper account which was read over the telephone by Gizo Grzeledze of the Georgian Foreign Ministry. The government daily, Izvestia, reported 30 people arrested for violating the 1 1 p.ra-6 am curfew imposed Tuesday night "Active measures are being taken to identify and arrest troublemakers and organizers of the unrest and to confiscate weapons and explosives from the population," Tass said. Demonstrators at meetings in Gall, Qchamchlra, Tkvarcheli and Gul-ripshe called on crowds to arm themselves and take action, the Tbilisi newspaper reported.

In Gall, a village with a population of 13,500 in 1970, 10,000 people gathered to hear reports of extensive casualties among Georgians, the newspaper said. Georgian Communist Party chief Givl Gumbaridze and Abkhazian party leader Vladimir Khishba went on local TV, which had been off the air for several days, to appeal for calm. An Abkhazian official said the rioting was touched off by new rules that would split the state university in Sukhumi into Georgian and Abkhazian sections. For months, Abkhazians have been pressing for their region to secede from Georgia and become the 16th Soviet republic, giving it more political and economic autonomy. In April, ethnic conflicts in Abkhazia set off demonstrations in Tbilisi that developed into demands for Georgian Independence from the Soviet Union.

Soldiers crushed the protests and at least 20 people were killed. AIDS exposure called growing sports concern 1 Stories of after the crash "looked like a battlefield. Bodies were strewn all over the place. Bodies had burns, their clothing burned off, stripped off. "This one gal I just remember see-; ing had no feet and she was still breathing a little bit and moaning, but what could you do?" An unidentified survivor inter-; viewed by KMNS Radio In Sioux City said that about a half-hour before the crash, "there was a big, loud noise that kind of shook the plane." The pilot said there was a problem, he said, and the plane circled for about a half-hour "while the pilots fig- ured out what to da Then they said we were preparing for a crash land-: ing." "When we hit the plane broke right in front of me.

It rolled over twice, I think, then it burst into flames," he said. "I grabbed an old lady in front of I me and a baby and I went out the Nashville Temperatures Com Warm Stationary mWmTJmmTemMommmmtfcmMeV Airlines DC-10 that crashed in Sioux City, Iowa, lies in a cornfield it was trying to reach at Sioux Gateway Airport. survive crash in Iowa Prairie View, 111. "The plane hit bounced and we ended upside down. I let him go," Rhode said.

Rhode said he and and another passenger, Danny Surue of Chicago, threw the boy from the plane and then got out themselves. Surue said, mm MSt v.vevmV-v. Part of the fuselage of a United near the north end of the runway At least 178 "Suitcases, paper, mall, clothes, unfortunately people, were laying all over the runway," said witness Ed Forst Still, some people walked away from the wreckage. Melanie Cincala of Toledo, Ohio, a passenger on Flight 232, said there was a fire on the plane, and a fireball "flashed past us." The plane burst Into flames after she got off, she said. "We could see the plane tumbling down the runway," said Mark Smith, a witness who said he was working about 1,500 yards from the site.

He said the plane broke into "15,000 different pieces." Maj. Rick Sorensen with the Iowa Air National Guard said he had just landed his plane when the jetliner crashed. "Shortly before touchdown the right wing began to dip or began to roll and the nose began to fall to a position of approximately 15 to 23 degrees right bank and possibly 10 degrees nose low he told CNN. "It was very apparent at that moment that he could not make a safe landing. The only question would have been how disastrous a landing would it be.

It was a very disastrous landing," Sorensen said that while he was In the air he heard radio traffic from the pilot Ktnt TriviaStall es, may be sold to raise money for the mall when new DOT offices are completed. A Madison site once used as a tuberculosis hospital may become a center for environmental laboratories. Ellington Agricultural Center in South Nashville probably will not be used for development of additional state offices. Raina Holbrook, 15, from Sioux City, Iowa, saw the crash as she waited at the airport to take what was to be her first plane ride. Afterward, she was waiting in line to use the phone when one of the survivors came up to her and said, "Can I give you a hug? I'm just glad to be alive." AP The DC-10-10 was delivered to United in April 1974.

Routine Inspections had been conducted on the plane, Nagin said. No unusual weather was reported at the crash site. Wind speeds were clocked to 30 mph. The nation's worst air crash happened 10 years ago and Involved a DC-10. On May 23, 1979, American Airlines Flight 191 lost an engine on takeoff from O'Hare Airport, banked sideways out of control, slammed Into a field and exploded.

All 271 people on board died, as well as two people on the ground. The National Transportation Safety Board cited "maintenance-induced damage" a 10-Inch crack in the engine mount that caused the left engine to tear loose. The NTSB also criticized McDonnell Douglas' design as vulnerable to maintenance damage. McDonnell Douglas suspended production of the DC-10 airliner in 1983. DC-10 orders collapsed in 1979 because of the recession and the May .1979 crash.

In all, 369 DGlOs were produced. The second-worst crash in VS. history killed 136 people on Aug. 16, 1987, when a Northwest Airlines Jet crashed on takeoff at Detroit Metropolitan Airport One child on the plane survived. trades in those stocks on regional exchanges and in the over-the-counter market totaled 25114 million shares.

1 Philip Morris, which reported sharply higher earnings for the second quarter, climbed 3 to 1 47. Other blue-chip gainers included General Electric up 2 at 564; American Telephone Telegraph, up at McDonald's, up at 30, and Procter Gamble 3 ft to 1 17 Pollution-control and waste-management stocks were especially strong, benefiting from recent bullish views about the outlook for environmental cleanup and protection efforts. Waste Management picked up 2 to 57; Browning-Ferris Industries iy4 to 38 and Rollins Environmental toll On the downside, McDonnell Douglas dropped 5 to 72 as the company posted a $48 million SnapOn Tools, which reported lower second-quarter profits, took a 3-point tumble to 36. plane. Then I looked back and there were flames and I ran into the cornfield." Passenger David Lansberger told Cable News Network that passengers were mostly calm as the emergency landing attempt approached, in part because they were expecting no more than a very rough landing.

"We really thought that we would just land and walk off," he said. When the plane hit the ground, "there was noise everywhere I just remember thinking, 'This is what It is like to Martz, a former Navy pilot who still often flies for his business, said that when the problem developed, the United pilot calmly told passengers that there was a problem with the right engine but the plane could fly "perfectly well" without its power. "But I could tell it was worse than that" Martz said. Ron Rhode of Columbus said he was sitting with Ben Radtke, 8, of 1999 Aeeu-Wattbar. toe AP U.S.

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Then he turned left and headed for the southwest runway and everything appeared to be somewhat about normaL" Then, the right wing dipped. At O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, where the plane was due, people waiting for Flight 232 were in a room guarded by airline personnel and police. A clergyman was in the room. Among the passengers of the plane were the two top officials of the Continental Basketball Association, a league spokesman said. Commissioner Jay Ramsdell, 25, had not been accounted for early Wednesday evening, but deputy rammissloner Jerry Schemmel was among the survivors, the spokesman said.

Lavonne Quirin of Alta In Buena Vista County said she and her husband found what appeared to be the plane's nose cone in a com field at their seed corn business, 73 miles from the airport The airport has two active runways, each 9,000 feet long, which can accommodate a plane the size of a DC-10. The area around the airport, which Is seven miles from downtown, Is crop land In corn, soybeans and pasture with some trees. 2 76 2 p.m. 84 4 am 76 4 p.m. 82 6am.

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Sunrise tomorrow at 5:45 cm, Record high this date 102 in 1986. Record low this date 59 in 1947. High this date last year 91. PRECIPITATrON for the day end-ina at midnight: .18. Total tor July: 3.02; excess: .63.

Total this year: 8.16. HUMIDITY at midnight: 76. BAROMETER at midnight: 29.81, foflioQ- WINDS TODAY SW at 5-10 men. VtSBIUTY-Good. Stocks hit highest levels in 22 months tlonal team water bottle can be a risk if, for instance, a player with a cut Hp leaves blood on the mouthpiece of the bottle.

Sharing of needles is normally associated with drug addicts. But Redgren said, "in athletics, another one has crept In there, and that is anabolic steroids, and it has gotten to the high school level. "It's kind of a sad commentary that you have to stand before a group of athletes, young men and women, and say share needles." An article in last week's edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association warned of the dangers of transmitting the virus through the use of anabolic steroids. It described the case of a 26-year old male body builder who Injected steroids with an unsterlized hypodermic needle on at last three occasiore with a friend who later developed I AIDS. The body builder has since tested positive for the virus.

Redgren also warned the coaches that they cannot deny access to athletes who have AIDS, AIDS related 5 complex or test positive for the HIV virus, a policy adopted by the American College Health Association's task force on AIDS. "You put yourself in a position of liability if you go out there and say we dismissed Johnny from the team because he had AIDS," he said. Education for both coaches and student athletes is essential, Redgren said. Correction -i The Tennessean reported yester-r. day that Rep.

Ted Ray Miller bought the I2-gauge shotgun that he used to. end his life Monday afternoon that same morning. The Knoxville Derr crat bought the shotgun Friday morning, according to Knoxville police. -The Tennessean regrets the error and is happy to set thereof straight Forecasts NASHVUE AREA Warm with a 40 chance of scattered thun-dershowers today and tomorrow; 20 chance tonight high both days 85; tew tonight 65. TENNESSEE EXTENDED OUTLOOK Scattorod thuitdaiilioaoii, tfoMiM in Hi viit CrfhaWviM portly cloudy Sotitfooy thfouojh Mondoyi hight in Hm lowt makwf in pressures.

"This is about as good as one could ask for on the Inflation front right now, particularly when you think back to six months ago when every-or was fearful that we had runaway inflation," said David Jones, economist at Aubrey G. Lanst on a government securities dealer In New York, The report on consumer prices was the second good signal on Inflation. Last Friday, the Labor rjepartment said that wholesale prices actually fell in June, their first decline In 18 months. Advancing issues outnumbered declines by more than 2-1 in nationwide trading of New York Stock Exchange-listed stocks, with 1,058 up, 458 down and 495 unchanged. Big Board volume soared to 21 5.7 million shares, from 1514 million on Tuesday, as turnover rose to its highest level since June 2.

Nationwide, consolidated volume In NYSE-listed issues, including i up by the smallest amount in seven months. Even with the June price moderation, consumer prices for the first six months of the year rose at an annual rate of 3.9, the sharpest increase for the first half of a year since 1881 The Bush adniinlstratlon balled the report as "very good news" that the country Is not headed for another Inflationary spiral. "We remain confident in the ability of the economy to sustain Its growth while controlling and ultimately reducing inflation," Michael J. Boskin, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, told reporters at the White House Many private economists were just as upbeat saying the inflation report could not have come at a better time for Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who must testify before Congress today about the central bank's progress in controlling price 24-HOUR WEATHER HOT LINE 1-900-370-8227 The 24-hour hot line gives touch tone caflen time, temperature, forecasts and travel conditions in 489 cities. There is a charge of 75 cents tor the first minute, 50 certs tor each additional minute.

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