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C-5 LOTTERY Lotto 54; 4,12,17,20,30,44 Sup- plementary No f u^ \tyj 0321 g^( j 5 533 4': 6513* TrhStaU Magabucki: 5-10-12- 13.26-2^ ,' Chazy fire .Three people narrowly Jefecaped this fire that caused *an unknown amount of dam- je to Gray Gables on Route \9. This is the second fire \o fhit the historic structure in thour months. See story Page >^A-5. Wants Medicaid to be protected \ By RON FOURNIER • Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON .(AP) ^ Making Medieaid the focal point of his budget strategy, President Clinton pledged Saturday to, veto Republican again\ until the health car§, program is protected.,,,,.. •. ~ ; —With a\ government shut- down deadline six days away,; the president took aim at one-, of the widest gaps between the White House and Republicans: the GOP plan for curbing .-skyrock- 1 eting costs o.f the f state-run - h, e a 1 t h \\V r -e , system for the poor and dis- abled. ., . . . '• ' M y seven-year balanced budget' Continued Pago A-10 Envoy seeks release of Frendh pilots By MISHA SAVIC Associated Press Writer Keesev ille woman hit by car dies in hospital KEESEVILLE - One of two women struck by a car while walking to church HI Keeseville Friday evening died from her injuries Saturday Ruth F Gordon, 91, of Keeseville died at Fletcher Allen Health' Care m Burl- ington, Vt , arotrrid noon Saturday, according to a hos- pital official She was trans- ferred there late Friday from CVPH Medical Center with a broken skull The other woman — KatWeea Ladieu,' 6^ of AuSable -<- was listed m stable qonditioh at CVPH on ' Saturday She~was to be trans- ferred out of the Intensiye Care Unit, according: to \a hos- pital official Ladieu suffered two broken legs in the acci- dent f U Gordon and Ladieu were walkirig west across Route 22 in the Village of Keeseville r near Liberty'Street when they ofrere bif by a\-|ar driven by Ar- thur W, Pdkey of Keeseville laroufad 6 k l&p.tn., State Police l%W kPah%JiWtd> jj* s Pe&ey vM^^riving north on 0 Route 22sajtd was unable to 'stop m tune^pohce said The two women appeared to cross the 'street W, the way to church without checking traf- fic, according to witness ac- counts taken by police Police said Pelkey had crested a hill just before the women came into sight That factor and poor lighting helped cause the acci- dent, which was largely due to pedestrian error, police said No tickets were issued BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - The top U.S. envoy to Bosnia appealed to the Serbian president on Saturday to use his clout to win the speedy release of two-French .pilots shot down by Bosnian Serbs in August. \We attach the highest importance to this issue,\ Assistant Secretary of State RicBard Holbrooke said after meeting with President Slobodan Milosevic,' who has. helped win freedom for hos'tagesneld^y Bosnian Serbs in the past. Milosevic did hot comment after the meeting. Holbrooke appeared to Be.responding to an in- creasingly aggressive campaign by the French to win the release of the pilots, shot down Aug. 30. France threatened Saturday to \hit\ the Bosnian Serbs unless it gets information about them. 'These are our boys, on a NATO mission, and NATO'is, sending in more troops,\ said Jacques Rummelhardt, spokesman for the French delega- tion to a 40-nation conference on Bosnia being held in London. \We have said we would hit those who have these pilots.\ The French anger overshadowed the London conference, which moved quickly Saturday to put Bosnia's peace accord into practice. Participants agreed to set up a U.N. police force and endorse a swift dispatch of election monitors. The peace accord reached last month in Dayton, . Continued Page A-TO French Air top, and Lt. ; over the Serb- tpWni. They were erigaj Serb, targets;. ' * AP Photos^. £apt. Frederic Chiffot, 29,: jouvignet were shot down: of Pale on Aug. 3, 1995.; in air strikes on Bosnian^ Ann Landers exp^iw apology CHICAGO (AP) - Ann Landers is apologizing — again — for criticizing Pope John Paul II \For 40 years, you have been coming to me With your pro- blems, and I have tried my best to be there for you. Now I'm the one with the problem. and I'm coming to you for support and understanding,\ she wrote in a substitute for her syndicated Sunday column. In an interview in last week's New Yorker magazine, Landers said of the Polish-born pope: \Of course, he's a polack. ... They're very anti-women.\ She quickly apologized, saying \It's time to get out the wet noo- dle and give myself 40 lashes.\ Landers expanded on that in a- column submitted Friday as a substitute for the one already distributed for the weekend, but» it was too late to swap the two, The Chicago Tribute reported Sunday, so it printed the new column in its news section. Her office is in the Tribune's building, The Tribune did not know if other papers got the substitute Continued Pago A-VO SUNDAY'S FEATURE Behind the bells Salvation Army bell-fingers hear ring of Christmas spirit By JEFF MEYERS Staff Writer PLATTSBURGH - The high-pitched whistling echoedfm the frigid'\ air surrounding Champlam Center North , ! s > $ > f • Giles Dame, a volunteei bell-ringer for the 'Salvation Array's Christmas kettle fund-raising activities, stood at his post at'the mall's 1 entrance near Hooters He bounced on the balls of his fedst and waved his arms back and forth to fight back the cojd V y „ ' > ft 1 ,/*« > But the Christmas carols he whistled seepted^to ^afrm. t ifve entire scene t ^ ^ \ { ^ ^ 1 ' ^ \(can't play the violm, sol whistle*' 1 he sai<|, ''\the sl(iopper^^eem to enjoy it, I get a lot of cqmplunehts from thehvlt^eems to* ad$ to iheir-, Christmas spirit rt \\ ~ C \*Tt Wpp^T''T'- — The whistling also attracts shoppers ton the Gnristpia^ kettle, which, after all t is why Dame and other bell-ringers, defy the North Country weather and stand m front of stdres and shopping malls hour after hour, six days a week 4 «, * j * /m ,£J£J.J< \The cold doesn't bother me at* all/' Danie'Haidi^Mrfia^fturiifc * but wMM'immiE'iMm Staff Photo/Dave Paczak implaln Centre North. * ,f-** < — ^ fM^^f/'^^S/f'-if^ v-?.*^ 'Cjj.rjw^j*^^'^,;;^,^..^.,^ • -V'/rf- -._• ,. •• \' • •,'