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NATION/WORLD
I dead, 96
NODAWAY, Iowa (AP) -- An Amtrak train
carrying 210 people from Chicago to California
derailed in rural Iowa, killing one passenger,
injuring 96 others and leaving a zigzagging trail
of silver cars along a muddy embankment.
The train engineer said he felt the train "tug-
ging" before the crash Saturday night, although
investigators said yesterday that it was too early
,o say whether a broken rail was responsible for
the crash.
Ted Turpin, investigator in charge with the
National Transportation Safety Board, said inves-
tigators discovered pieces of broken rail amid the
wreckage of the California Zephyr train.
"It's very hard to determine whether that hap-
pens underneath a derailment or prior to or just
exactly when that happens: That will be part of
our investigation. We haven't reached a conclu-
sion," he said.
The train's two locomotives and 16 cars were
carrying 195 passengers and 15 crew members,
NTSB officials said. Amtrak spokeswoman
Karen Dunn said company policy forbids it from
releasing the victim's name and a list of passen-
gers.
NTSB investigalors, expected to be on the
scene through tomorrow, said information con-
tained in the train's "black box" revealed the train
was traveling at 52 mph when it derailed. The
posted speed for the stretch of track is 79 mph.
About 3,000 feet of tiack were ripped up, and
i "n"
injured in
the sections will be tested by the NTSB.
"He felt the train tugging, and then he applied
the brakes with an emergency application and
brought the train to a stop," Turpin said of the
train's engineer. "However, at the same time the
train was derailing behind him."
Turpin said the track was visually inspected
about three times per week, although he did not
know when it was last inspected. The track was
also inspected once a month by an ultrasound
device able to find defects inside the rail.
Investigators were considering the possibility
of whether an internal defect, called transverse
fissure, may have occurred when the steel in the
rail was forged. They also plan to look at the sta-
bility of the bed and whether snow melt or satu-
ration was a factor in the accident.
"There are signs to look for. We just don't have
them right now," Turpin said.
NTSB officials requested records from the
track owner, Burlington Northern & Santa Fe
Railroad, on the number of trains that pass
through the area daily and annually.
"Something appears to have been wrong back
in the train between the interface of the wheels
and the rail - something - we still haven't
determined that," Turpin said.
Charlie Romstad of Colorado Springs, Colo.,
said in a telephone call to The Associated Press
that the passenger killed was his mother, Stella
Riehl, 69, also of Colorado Springs.
train wreck
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WASHINGTON
Sharon seeks endorsement from Bush
At the White House tomorrow, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will be
looking for President Bush's endorsement of his cautious approach to peacemak-
ing with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Sharon says violence must stop before he will start peace talks with Ar
and is looking at interim accords but not a final peace treaty. It is a sharp scaling
back from the approach of Ehud Barak, whom Sharon defeated last month.
He is willing, however, to give the Palestinians time before escalating lsrae's
response to Palestinian violence.
"We need patience," Sharon told reporters traveling with him Sunday fron
Jerusalem. "After not acting for so long to prevent terror they have to get orga-
nized. I'm willing to give them time but not unlimited time."
The Bush White House also is taking a new approach to Middle East diploma-
cy, with the president more an observer than a mediator. The change is apparent
to Dennis Ross, who stepped down in January as special U.S. envoy for the Mid-
die East after pursuing an overall agreement for more than a dozen years.
"We are not in a position where we can solve the conflict now," Ross said 1
day in an interview. "We have to focus on managing the conflict, on defusing the
conflict."
WASHINGTON
Senate to begin campaign finance debate
Senators predicted "free-for-all" and "freewheeling" discussions this week on
campaign finance, but suggested yesterday there was no consensus yet on what
the legislation ultimately would do.
The evenly split Senate was set to begin debate today, seeking to balances
cerns about freedom of speech, fund-raising advantages and other issues iii e
long-running standoff on campaign finance.
"It's going to be a free-for-all," said Sen. Don Nickles of Oklahoma, the sec-
ond-ranking Republican. "We don't often legislate like that."
Nickles said on "Fox News Sunday" that he expected a compromise to emerge
from the two-week debate on two plans.
A plan by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) would
ban soft money donations and restrict other political spending. :
An alternative from Sen. Chuck Hagel would limit but not prohibit loosely regu-
lated donations to political parties from corporations, labor unions and individuals.
"This is very difficult to know exactly how all this is going to turn out ," McCain
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Amtrak's California Zephyr train derailed late Saturday near
Nodaway, Iowa, killing one passenger and Injuring 96 others.
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day at Datek Online from 117,695 to
91,541 between January and Febru-
ary.
Ameritrade reported similar num-
bers, with trades per day falling
from approximately 13 1,000 to
114,000 over the same period.
Many private investors, who have
in recent years managed their own
portfolios, are returning to brokers
for advice and guidance.
"We've seen a 40 percent spike in
use of our online Learning Center
where people take interactive classes
on investment fundamentals," said
Sondra Harris of Charles Schwab.
"We've seen an uptick in the use
of planning tools and research on
the Web. In other words, investors
need more advice and education and
they are using the Web to help
obtain it," she said.
The trend is part of the evolvinog
face of private investing, and is one
of the ways the industry is attracting
investors business.
"The Web fills an important need
for investors who want t o be
empowered and informed," Harris
said.
"They often want advice from a
human but resources on the Web
give people the ability to stay as
plugged in to their investment activ-
ity as they wish."
As the market continues its slide,
most investors remain content to
hold their investments in anticipa-
tion of future gains. While faith in
the prospect of booming technology
stocks has faded, the steady pres-
ence of online accounts signals
investors' belief that the market will
rebound.
"At this point I'm thinking in the
back of my mind that as irrational as
the bubble was, we're now on an
irrational low with all the people
trading online overreacting," said
one Business student of his own
investment prospects.
"It mayi be two years before (my
investments) are back to what I paid
for them. For now, I'm just going to
hold on for the long run," he said.
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TETOVO, Macedonia
Rebel forces heat up
fighting in Balkans
Fighting between government
troops and ethnic Albanian rebels sent
residents scurrying for cover yesterday
on the outskirts of Macedonia's sec-
ond-largest city - and mixed the
sounds of gunfire with chants of
churchgoers praying for peace.
Macedonian gunners unleashed sus-
tained artillery and mortar strikes yes-
terday for the fifth straight day,
targeting the wooded foothills where
the rebels have been hiding and return-
ing fire on Tetovo. Government forces
fired large-caliber mortars, sending
1 20-mm rounds looping behind a
mountain ridge in an attempt to reach
insurgent positions farther back.
In an address to the nation yesterday,
Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski
announced measures to crack down on
the rebels' fight for rights and recogni-
tion, including a curfew and restrictions
on movement in the Tetovo region.
WASHIN TON
VIPS allowed back
on Navy submarines
Five weeks after a U.S. submarine
struck and sank a Japanese trawler off
Hawaii, the presence of 16 civilian
VIPs on the craft remains a point of
controversy and a focus of an official
Navy investigation.
Yet today, a group of freshmen law-
makers from the U.S. House will
climb aboard a sub in Florida's Port
ILverglades for eight hours of instruc-
tion and excitement, of just the.kind
that had been planned for visitors.on
the sub Greeneville before its deadly
Feb. 9 collision.
The Distinguished Visitors Program
has quietly come back because --;ad
publicity or no - it's simply'too
important to the military to give up.
Because the sub accident raj.
questions about whether visitors ht -
pered the crew's work, VIPs no longer
may take hold of the controls on.Navy
subs.
WASWNGToN
CIA to declassify
Nazi spy papers
The CIA is finally getting aroun eto
declassifying the records of its-.
ings with former Nazi spies alter
World War II.
It says it has found 251 boxes, and
2,901 file folders of potentially We-
vant documents --- apparently more
than 250,000 pages - and that it will
take about two years to complete work
on them.
Carl Oglesby, a political writer and
researcher, has been seeking
records since 1985 in connection
a study of Reinhard Gehlen, a Gertfan
general who had been head of Nazi
intelligence for the eastern front.,, .
After the war, at the request ofJi;S.
occupation forces in Europe, he set up
"the Gehlen organization, a counters-
pionage network that supplied thePn-
tagon and the CIA with the bulk of their
intelligence on the Soviet Union and
Eastern Europe.
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