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12 ELKO DAILY FREE PRESS, Elko, Nevada Friday, March 1, 1996 Statistics show snowboarding no more dangerous than siding r.iipn?ro said such bindings were But on Monday, Shawn Daws, 25, of rW r-'rz'- jt 1 1 If n'liiiriiiiiiiin-Tiri ii ill ii ii (AaocuMd (AP) Snowboard accidents have claimed three lives in the Sierra in just six days while a fourth man used his wits and his board to survive three bitter nights lost in the bacic country. But statistics show that despite some unique risks, snowboarding is no more dangerous than skiing. Mike Berry, president of the 325-member National Ski Areas Association, says skiers and snowboar-ders injure themselves at a rate of 2.5 people per 1.000, with skiers more likely to twist knees or ankles while snowboarders' upper bodies are most vulnerable. "Suffocation in deep snow situations is something that has happened in the past to skiers," Berry told the San Francisco Examiner. "It's not unique to snowboarders." He said two suffocation deaths in less than a week likely resulted from the deep powder that smothered the Sierra in just a few days.

Dennis Christopher Sellers. 27. of Truckee, died on Tuesday when he plunged headfirst into a snowdrift while snowboarding with friends near a residential area outside Truckee. On Sundav. snowboarder Nathan Webb.

22, of Surbiton, England was found face down in snow at Heavenly Ski Resort. Three days earlier, snowboarder Peter Olsson, 24. of Soda Springs. Calif, was killed when he slammed into a tree at Sugar Bowl. A student protester was taken away by a riot police officer during an rally in Seoul, South Korea, today.

Hundreds of students demanded that Washington apologize for its alleged involvement I II in a crackaown on pro-aemocracy protesters io yeurs ugu iy Prosecutors: ex-president responsible for massacre testers or Tribunal indicts Serb Incline Village, New, walked off the mountain three days after he went off course at Diamond Peak Ski Area and became disoriented in a series of storms. He hiked for three days, often in chest-deep snow, and used his board to dig snow caves for protection against bitter nighttime temperatures. He is being treated for frostbite at Washoe Medical Center in Reno. The ages of all four men say something about a sport that has been embraced by nearly 2 million people hile being snubbed by many older skiers and banned at some resorts. "A lot of snowboarders think they're invincible," Tony Guerrero told the Examiner.

"It's such a cool-, guy sport. Snowboarders want unpacked powder. They want to ride the fresh stuff." Guerrero is vice president of Switch, a San Francisco company that makes patented snowboard boot bindings. A series of snow suffocation deaths several years ago prompted doctors at Tahoe Forest Hospital in Truckee to write an article for Physician and Sports Medicine calling for greater caution in deep snow and for snowboard boot bindings that release more easily. Once a boarder falls headfirst into heavy powder, it becomes difficult to disengagls the bindings, the article said.

Serbs briefly severed relations with the NATO-led peace force, threatening the fragile peace in Bosnia. Djukic, 61, faces charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Specifically, he is accused of having been involved in attacks on civilian sections of Sarajevo between 1992 and 1995. Chief Prosecutor Richard Goldstone said. More than 10,000 civilians were killed during the Bosnian Serb siege of the capital, including 1,500 children.

The siege formally ended Thursday. Djukic's lawyer today ridiculed the indictment and said he was planning to contest it. reprieve Thursday. Bailey's lawyers said he couldn't meet the deadline, partly because of legal and language difficulties with a Swiss bank. refused to extend the deadline.

Bailey whose clients have included the Boston Strangler, Dr. Sam Sheppard, Patty Hearst and O.J. Simpson said he tried to come up with the money and secure the transfer of 400,000 shares in Biochem Pharma, a Canadian company, from Credit Suisse. He could avoid prison if he pays the government $700,000, returns the stock and pays off a $2.3 million lien against the stock. In addition, Bailey1 must provide documents detailing all the transactions.

The stock, which has risen sharply in value since the shares were given to Bailey, had been owned by Claude Duboc, a French-American who pleaded guilty to drug trafficking in 1994. Duboc, who fired Bailey last month, is in jail awaiting sentencing in Ocala federal court penalty, although execution is unlikely. The two former military strongmen are the first ex-presidents to be tried for alleged wrongdoing in office. Also today, prosecutors indicted three more former generals Chun's chief bodyguard Chang Se-dong, legislator Park Jun-byung and former Defense Minister Choi Se-chang for alleged involvement in Kwangju. That brought to 16 the total number of former army generals, including Chun and Roh, to be charged in the coup and the massacre, the bloodiest civilian uprising in South Korean history.

The arrests of Chun and Roh capped current President Kim Young-sam's campaign to end a pattern of corruption and successive coups in South Korea. Kim, a former opposition leader, is the first civilian president in 32 years. Chun's side claims that soldiers, sent to quell armed protests in the southern city, fired in self-defense. Protesters claim the opposite. But senior prosecutor Lee Jong-chan said today that the former president issued a warning that soldiers in Kwangju could take "self-defense measures" a warning that field commanders might have taken as an order to shoot.

Former President Chug Door-hwan actually controlled the whole situation," the prosecutor said. Chun and Roh, childhood friends, seized power in a 1979 coup; several months later, they sent troops to put down the pro-democracy uprising in Kwangju. The two already are standing trial on bribery charges that carry a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison. If convicted of mutiny and treason in connection with the coup and the crackdown, they could face the death literally impossible to get out of if the wearer landed upside down. Switch's spring-loaded latch bindings are easier to loosen, but there is no research to show whether they result in fewer serious injuries, the Examiner said.

Berry said many resorts with the National Ski Areas Association post responsibility codes telling boarders "and skiers to stay within their ability levels, to maintain control and to travel on marked trails. Chris Sanders, founder of the Bay area's Avalanche snowboard company, concedes that the sport has a reckless, daredevil tradition. "Our biggest customer base is 13-to 25-year-old males who consider themselves immortal," Sanders told the San Francisco Chronicle. "It's easy for a novice to go sailing out into the trees without any respect for Mother Nature." But Bob Roberts, director of the Sierra Ski Area Association, told the Chronicle that snowboarders are maturing. "The outlaw mentality we saw five years ago is not as prevalent there's been real improvement," he said.

But not everybody is ready to make the jump from two boards to one. "Heck, I'm 42, and I'm not going to take it up," said Washoe County sheriffs Sgt. Mark Caldwell. "I've got better ways to break my leg." general "This (indictment) contains one fact: that General Djukic is in the Bosnian Serb army," said, the attorney, Milan Vujin. "If that is all they have, we can get the trial over today.

Yes, he's in the Bosnian Serb army. There's not one other fact here." Prosecutors had hoped that Djukic, a senior aide to Bosnian Serb army chief Gen. Ratko Mladic and the Bosnian Serb army's chief of logistics, could provide information and evidence leading to future indictments. Goldstone had been keeping Djukic in custody in the Netherlands as a potential witness. He said he decided to indict Djukic because the general refused to cooperate.

"It would not be proper or permissible to continue to regard General Djukic as a witness merely on the hope that he might yet change his mind and cooperate," Goldstone said today. On Wednesday, Djukic told the tribunal he would not' answer questions. At that hearing, tribunal judges rejected an appeal by the general's lawyers to release him. Djukic made no comment on his indictment at a court hearing today. Goldstone said the investigation of the Serb officer was not finished and the charges could change before Djukic's trial.

Established in 1993 by the U.N. Security Council, the tribunal has so far indicted 46 Serbs and seven Bosnian Croats. Until Djukic and Krsmanovic were extradited here on Feb. 12, the sole inmate in the tribunal's jail was former Bosnian Serb prison-camp guard Dusan Tadic, accused of 13 murders, a rape and repeated instances of torture. His trial is to start in May.

Krsmanovic will be held another month as "a suspect and potential witness," tribunal spokesman Christian Chartier said. Dunagin's People ijssil Ii i THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -A Bosnian Serb general blamed in the shelling of civilian targets during the 3'i -year siege of Sarajevo was indicted by a war crimes tribunal here today. The U.N.-appointed court has now indicted 53 suspects for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, but Gen. Djordje Djukic is only the second of them to be jailed. Also in custody but not indicted is the man arrested with Djukic on Jan.

30 Bosnian Serb Col. Aleksa Krsmanovic. The two were intercepted after making a wrong turn into a Muslim-held Sarajevo suburb. Angered at the arrests, Bosnian Bailey gets OCALA, Fla. (AP) An appeals court granted F.

Lee Bailey a temporary reprieve hours before he was to report to federal prison for failing to turn over millions in cash and stock from a drug-dealer client. The high profile defense lawyer's six-month sentence for contempt was to begin this morning. But the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta issued a stay late Thursday night. A hearing on the stay will be held Tuesday before the three-judge panel. Bailey said his former client gave him the assets, now worth $3 million cash and $18.7 million in stock, for legal fees and expenses.

Prosecutors claim most of it belongs to the government, as part of the forfeiture the drug dealer agreed to in a plea bargain, and that Bailey was supposed to take only fees and expenses and turn over the rest. The courts have not settled that dispute, but U.S. District Judge Maurice Paul had ordered Bailey, 62, to post the money and stock on News Capsules SEOUL. South Korea (AP) Ending a three-month investigation, prosecutors formally announced today that former President Chun Doo-hwar was responsible for the army's massacre of at least 240 pro-democracy protesters. Chun has been held generally responsible for the 1980 "Kwangju Massacre," but this is the first time he has been blamed individually for the actual shooting.

The 65-year-old former army general is to be tried with his army buddy and presidential successor Roh Tae-woo in connection with the massacre in Kwangju. which happened a few months after the two seized power in a coup -Their trial is to open March 11. Sixteen years have passed, but the massacre continues to be a divisive issue among South Koreas, especially because it has never been clear who ordered the army to shoot or which side fired first: armed pro Maid finds gun ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) A former hotel maid was changing the bed in a murder suspect's room when she found the gun that allegedly was used to kill a bar manager, she testified. China McMurray said the gun fell on her foot and she wrapped it in a wash cloth so customers wouldn't see it.

McMurray, a former Days Inn hotel maid, was cleaning the room rented by Anthony Ray Edwards, a 36-year-old artist and frame maker from Mesquite, Nev. Edwards is being tried for capital murder in the July 30 slaying of Thomas Foard, 43, manager of The Blarney Stone. He was shot in the head at close range, police said. He also is accused of robbing the tavern, where more than $740 of that night's profits ere missing. "When I first saw it.

I thought it was a kid's gun," she said. "I got kids I thought, maybe I'd take it home. Some things you can take home. But then, I saw it was real." McMurray testified Wednesday she met hotel manager Debra Anderson in the hotel's parking lot where one of the hotel owner's sons unloaded the pistol. The semiautomatic pistol was registered to Edwards and is the same caliber as the bullet that killed Today Foard, said Barry Golding of the St.

George Police Department. When police arrived to investigate Edwards' room, McMurray had emptied the trash, taken sheets and towels to the laundry and nearly finished making the bed. He was arrested by San Francisco police Aug. 27 and extradited to Utah. Leap year mom SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Tricia McWhorter, a leap year baby, has become a leap year mom.

She gave birth to Alexis Sierra McWhorter, a leap year baby. "It's pretty incredible," the mother said from her bed at California Pacific Medical Center. Alexis wasn't due until March 12. She and her husband, Scott, raced from their home in Sausalito when her water broke. They arrived at the hospital just in time for 6-pound, 11-ounce Alexis to be born Thursday morning.

"Alexis seemed to be in a hurry to carry on a family tradition," the mother said as she cradled the 20-inch girl. She said she always had a week-long celebration of her birthday because the official date Feb. 29 comes along only once every four years. Now, the mother, who is 24 or 6 by leap year count will start the same tradition for her daughter. "All of my friends were jealous of my long birthday parties," she said.

"We're going to make sure that Alexis always feels as loved as I did." Gunman sought ST. LOUIS (AP) As police searched for a teen-ager who shot a pregnant 15-year-old to death on a school bus and wounded the driver, the mayor assured residents that city streets won't be turned into "killing fields." The bus driver, shot three times, was in serious condition. The baby, delivered by Caesarean section, was in critical condition. The 3-pound girl appeared to be three months premature. Dozens of police officers searched for the gunman, who was believed to be 16 to 18.

He was waiting at a school bus stop Thursday morning with a pistol and began firing after the bus doors swung open. Mayor Freeman Bosley Jr. vowed that the gunman would be found. "I want the trigger man to know that he can run, but he cannot hide," Bosley said. "He cannot turn the streets of St Louis into killing fields and then just walk away." The shooting took place shortly after 7 a.m., when the bus carrying the driver and three students pulled up to its regular stop.

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