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The Hometown Newspaper of Clinton, Essex, Franklin Counties VoLi •gfejf.-frte, 62 C Copyright 1995, Pitu-Rcpbulicu Piottsburgh, NY 12901, Sunday, October 22,1995 Suggested Price: 1.50 40 Paqes World descends on New York Atlanta Braves win World Series opener behind Greg Maddux. SPORTS YESID confronts road- blocks and finds jobs for challenged students. SPECTRUM ssldenti 6f the Northern Tier are discovering the benefits of natural gas. : BUSINESS John Travolta talks freely about-his personal losses and amazing comeback. PARADE WEATHER Breezy and mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. INDEX Agriculture D-4 Bridge D-8 Business News D-l-3,5 Calendars. ..< C-2 Crossword C-3 Editorial , C : 8-9 Entertainment C-6-7 Books B-9 Travel B-8 Horoscope C-3 Ann Landers C-3 Public Record .;.,.. ...A-5 Weddings.Engagernents .^..'.,..0-5 Lotto 54: 7,18,19, 20, 43, 46. Supplententary No.:34. Lottery: 879. \W!ni\lQ916. \IHePO\: 5, 9, 13, 14^16, 20, 23, mty, 45, 4$ 47, 5$ •61,64 68,7^2,75,78v '•< N England: Pick 3': 436. Pick 1$^\ ' i 0$^ Trl-Stat« Megobucki: 16, 17, 20, 23,24, 30. By CHARLES J. HANLEY AP Special Correspondent NEW YORK (AP) - Presi- dents and premiers converged on New York from around the world Saturday to mark the 50th anni- versary of the United Nations, in a four-day diplomatic jamboree of speechmaking and toasts, meetings and motorcades through chaotic city streets. It is histo- ry's greatest gathering of world leaders — and New York's biggest security nightmare. \It will More on the United Na- tions, Page A-6 probably be the largest security force ever implemented in the ci- ty,\ said the loqal FBI chief, James Kallstrom. Fidel Castro will sermonize from a Harlem church pulpit. Yasser Arafat will fund-raise on Wall Street. Bill Clinton will host minisummits with his Russian and Chinese counterparts: And street protesters, from Cubans to Tibetans, will dog delegations everywhere. Thousands of city police and federal agents will wrap a securi- ty blanket around the. dignitaries, deploying rooftop an- ti-sniper teams, bomb-sniffing canines and, around Manhattan island, police boats with frogmen. Helicopters scoured the U.N. Swollen rivers create emergency in parts of Essex By MARK HOLLMER Staff Writer PLATTSBURGH - Massive flooding struck Saturday night in Essex County and southern Clin- ton County, closing roads and bringing police and fire officials into action throughout the night. Essex County Fire Coordinator Ray Thatcher declared a state of emergency in Wilmingon and Keene by 9 p.m. because of heavy rains. Civilian traffic was banned until further notice. The AuSable River was reported to be flooding its banks. Residents in AuSable Forks were warned of possible evacuation, and requests for sandbags could be heard on the police scanner. The AuSable River runs through Keeseville, AuSable Forks, Jay, Upper Jay and Keene. Details of flooding in both counties were sketchy at press time. It was unknown if anyone was injured in flood-related acci- dents. What was known late Satur- day: • Mudslides closed Route 86 through Wilmington Notch and were reported in other areas. • Route 73 from Lake Placid to Keene was closed. State Police reported parts of the road in the area near the Cascade Lakes sank 8-10 feet because so much water was falling onto the road from nearby cliffs. • Route 86 from Wilmington to Lake Placid was closed by flooding, said State Police in Ray Brook. • State Police in Plattsburgh dealt with reports of flooding, mostly in southern Clinton Coun- ty. The. following roads were af- fected: Chazy Lake Road in Saranac and Dannemora, Hard- scrabble Road in Saranac, Bradley Pond Road in Ellenburg, Nashville Road in Dannemora and Peasleeville Road in Peru. Forestdale Road in Black Brook was closed becjause part of the road's bridge was washed out, police said. Two huge propane tanks that supply power to the kitchen at Whiteface Mountain beqarny^ detached from their hook-up^iftf' the base of the mountain; Accor- ding to State Police, up to 10,000 gallons of propane was leaking toward the Ausable River. Pro- pane is a highly combustible gas and poses a hazard. Fire departments were called into service in most of the af- fected towns. Staff Writer Mary Thill alto contributed* to this report. Officials track patients of AIDS-infected doctor By WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press Writer PARIS (AP) - For more than a decade, Dr. Patrick Cohen examined and operated on thousands of people, not knowing he had been infected with the AIDS virus in 1983. Last year the surgeon de- veloped the first symptoms of full-blown AIDS. Now health officials are racing to track down the scores of patients with whom he came in con- tact. Callers are swamping a toll-free hotline set up to trace Cohen's patients. As of Satur- day, less than 36 hours after the hotline was launched, more than 700 people had called. French media are compar- ing the case to that of Florida dentist Dr. David Acer, who infected six of his patients with the AIDS virus before dying of the disease in 1990. \The patients aren't in a panic, but there's a real need for information,\ said Robert Cappe, director of the hospital where Cohen practiced in St.-Germain-en-Laye, about 15 miles west of Paris. SUNDAYS FEATURE Pet project In effort to build new pet shelter, LCPAnimals checks for support By JEFF MEYERS Staff Writer property, which sits next to the East River, late Friday. Security concerns may have prompted one last-minute cancellation: by Egypt's Presi- dent Hosni Mubarak, who escaped assassination four mon- ths ago in Ethiopia, apparently an attempt by Islamic extrem- ists. Another Islamic target, Algeria's President Liamine Zeroual, was still scheduled to attend. Safety was only one worry for organizers, who had to decide, for example, what kind of food to serve dignitaries from more than 180 lands. Beef, veal, pork and shellfish PLATTSBURGH — For the past several years, LCPAnimals has focused on building a humane shelter to care for lost and unwanted pets. The organization, made up solely of volunteers, has raised more , than $180,000 toward the project, which LCPAnimals President Jany Claffey estimates will cost around $500,000 to complete. \Prior to 1990, the group was mainly concerned with animal rescue, which is very caring — and costly — but truly does not begin to account for the future of the many hundreds of abandoned or ne^ glected pets in need,\ Claffey said.. \New York state is quite behind in its concern for animal welfare, with our northeastern area being rated one of the worst in the state.\ The proposed shelter, to be on LCPAnimals land south of Peru on Route 22, has been designed to care for animals in a cost-effective and easy manner, Claffey added. AP Photo Police officers gather for their assignments across from the United Nations in New York Saturday prior to Continued Page A-10 the United Nation's 50th Anniversary celebrations. Rolling with the river Photo/P. Maicus Although the falls at Ausable Chasm look beautiful in this photo, the river's water level has been high recently, thus causing flooding problems in the area. Staff Photo/Mike Dowd Continued Pag* A*3 The proposed future site of LCPAnimals, south of Peru on Route 22. ;*.?\-r iS^ '&$&&!«**%!•
