7A - The M inhic'an hails -Mnnr n%/ Fahn inn/ 1 S2 71-100 r i m u'"6mi Lcvaly -iviulluay, CrI uai y lC, LUVL NATION/ORLD Government handles air securiNEWSBRIEF CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) - On the first day the Yesterday's deadline was the first step in a nine-N LEGa. 4 I government took responsibility for airport security, some passengers noticed extra vigilance and felt reas- sured by the change. Federal officials pledged yester- day to protect travelers and treat them with courtesy. The second major deadline in the new airline secu- rity law passed as smoothly as the first, when airlines last month began inspecting checked baggage for explosives. A new federal agency now oversees aviation secu- rity rather than the airline industry and Federal Avia- tion Administration. "As of now, we will make sure we're observing the screening and make sure it's being done properly," said John Magaw, undersecretary for transportation security, after arriving at Washington Dulles Interna- tional Airport from Miami. With the same screeners staffing security check- points, and even airline officials helping to oversee the operations, Magaw said passengers at first will not see much of a difference. month transition from private security companies to a better-trained, higher-paid federal work force to screen passengers and baggage. What passengers should notice are the chairs they can use when they are asked to remove their shoes to be checked for explosives. In addition, travelers inspected with handheld wands will have their valu-. ables in front of them. "I hope that they'll notice a slight difference in the courtesy," Magaw said. "Hopefully, they won't notice anything much different than that." Some arriving passengers at Dulles, where a plane was hijacked Sept. 11 and crashed into the Pentagon, said security was tighter than they had seen since the attacks. "We commented on it," said Robin Cloninger of Morristown, N.J., arriving from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., with two classmates at Loyola College in Balti- more. "A lot more people were getting their bags searched, taken off the line." Corpses found in sheds behind crematory Distraught families began the wrenching task of trying to identify loved ones yesterday in this rural community where dozens of decomposing corpses were being removed from a crematory. Authorities said they had recovered 97 bodies - including one infant - from storage sheds and scattered in woods behind Tri-State Crematory in this hamlet about 25 miles south of Chattanooga, Tenn. The final toll is expected to be at least 200, said Dr. Kris Sperry, Georgia's chief medical examiner. 16 people have been identified so far. The discoveries began Friday when a woman walking her dog found a skull. "We're just barely skimming the surface," Sperry said. "Some of the remains are mummified." Officials were requesting federal assistance and equipment to help process the remains, a task which has overwhelmed local resources, Sperry said. Investigators believe the crematory had stacked the corpses for up to 15 years. "They just piled them on top and then piled more on top. And then they just left them," Sperry said. "I wish we had a good explanation for this, but we don't." JERUSALEM Palestinian attack on Israeli army base fAis AP PHOTO Baggage is checked through an x-ray machine at Boston's Logan Airport yesterday. LINIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY SUMMER SESSIONS Israeli police foiled an attack on an army base yesterday as the country's lead- ers considered their response to recent Palestinian attacks with new elements: A suicide bombing in a Jewish settlement, the destruction of an Israeli tank and rocket fire at Israel. After sunset, police stopped a suspicious car at the entrance to an army train- ing base near the northern Israeli town of Hadera, six miles from the West Bank. Police said one of its two occupants started shooting, and they returned fire. One of the assailants was shot and killed, said police commander Yaakov Raz. The other tried to escape in the car, but "saw he could not get through a roadblock and set off a bomb he was carrying, killing himself," he said. Six other people were wounded, including three policemen, rescue officials said. West Bank leaders of the Al Aqsa Brigades, a militia affiliated with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, said the group planned the attack. They said Mohammed Hmuda, 18, planned to detonate explosives on the base, while 22-year-old Abdeljaber Khaled was to spray the camp with bullets. WASHINGTON U.S. begins terrorism training in Asia The United States rapidly is expand- ing military ties in Asia, where Presi- dent Bush is visiting three countries this week, as it fights terrorism and tries to promote regional stability. In the most visible example, about 600 U.S. troops over the weekend began advising Filipino troops fighting Muslim extremists on a southern island. But U.S. military leaders and Bush administration officials also are talk- ing with Australia, Malaysia, Singa- pore and Indonesia about ways to increase military cooperation to pur- sue possible members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network or other ter- rorists. Congress recently passed a bill that would establish a counterterrorism training program for officers in South- east Asian armies. HOUSTON Mother on trial for illg five children The fate of Andrea Yates hinges on whether the jurors who start hearing evidence today will believe she knew the difference between right and wrong when she drowned her five young children in their bathtub, then called 911 and told police what she had done. The 37-year-old woman faces two capital murder charges in the June 20 deaths of three of her five children, ranging in age from 7 years to 6 months. Defense attorneys say the former nurse turned stay-at-home mom is innocent by reason of insanity. They will try to prove that she suffered from a severe mental disease or defect which prevented her from knowing that hold- ing her children beneath water until they could no longer breathe was wrong. KATHMANDU, Nepal Communist massacre deadliest of rebellion Communist rebels killed at least 129 police, soldiers and civilians in unprecedented attacks in northwestern Nepal yesterday, -undermirrig prospects for peace in this poor Himalayan kingdom still recovering from the shock of a massacre at the royal palace last year. The attacks on government offices and an airport were the deadliest since the rebels began fighting to topple the constitutional monarchy in 1996 from remote mountain areas in this land of exquisite beauty but violent politics. The rebels, who draw their inspira- tion from Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Tse-tung, had abandoned peace talks and ended a cease-fire in November, saying negotiations had produced no results. 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