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Ca DAILY WORLD TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1999 3 STATE Joseph Marcello dies NEW ORLEANS Joseph Marcello a retired restaurateur and the brother of the late reputed Orleans mob boss Carlos Marcello, died Saturday of congestive heart failure Memorial Medical Center. at. was 75. Joseph Marcello at one time owned Elmwood Plantation, La Louisiane, Lenfant's and Broussard's restaurants. In 1978, a fire destroyed Elmwood Plantation, a celebrated restaurant in an 18th century French Colonial plantation home on River Road in Jefferson Parish.

During the 1980s, Marcello talked of restoring it but, in 1988, he filed federal bankruptcy proceedings to protect himself from more than $2.1 million in debts. In the mid-1990s, Joseph Marcello was the object of federal and state prosecutions. He was charged with racketeering after a federal investigation of Worldwide Gaming, Bally Gaming's exclusive distributor of video poker machines. Marcello and eight other defendants pleaded guilty to racketeering in September 1995, and he was sentenced to 33 months in prison. Trial on gill net ban I challenged 'NEW ORLEANS Attorneys for the state and a sport fishing group have asked a federal judge to deny commercial fishermen a trial of their federal court lawsuit against Louisiana's gill net ban.

Lawyers for the commercial fishermen asked last month for the trial, arguing in court documents that U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. clearly erred when he threw out their suit in April without going through the formalities of a trial. "In documents filed earlier this month, attorneys for the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission and the Coastal Conservation Association of Louisiana countered that Porteous' order was "correct" and contained "no manifest legal error." Former sheriff pleads guilty to theft NATCHITOCHES- Instead of standing trial Monday, former Natchitoches Parish Sheriff Norm Fletcher pleaded guilty to the felony theft of railroad crossties in 1998 and was sentenced to two years of probation.

The sentence also included a $598 fine and a two-year prison term, which was suspended by state District Judge Monty Doggett as part of a plea agreement between Fletcher, who represented himself in court, and parish prosecutors. "I didn't want to battle something that it's best not to gamble with. I'm considering what I ended up getting," said Fletcher. Fletcher, 67, was arrested in March 1998 when investigators found 20 Kansas City Southern railroad crossties valued at about $700 on property he owned in the nearby town of Campti. Youth prison is in I 'serious condition' JENA The state should consider keeping fewer young inmates and requiring more guards at a private prison in Jena, because the prison is still fin serious condition," a courtappointed expert says.

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Other documents, disclosed Monday at Microsoft's antitrust trial, confirmed that Netscape currently is working to create for AOL subscribers a version of its browser software under the project name "Raptor." Medical helicopter crashes killing 4 JACKSON, Ky. -A University of Kentucky medical helicopter crashed shortly after takeoff in eastern Kentucky, killing all four people aboard. The victims in Monday night's crash were two pilots, a flight nurse and a paramedic, said Mary Margaret Colliver, a spokeswoman for the UK Hospital in Lexington. Their names were not immediately released. No patients were aboard, she said.

The Sikorsky S-76 helicopter had lifted off from the Jackson airport shortly after 10 p.m. on its way to Lexington, Colliver said. Airport officials later lost contact with the aircraft, she said. 1M Greenspan hints 1 at interest hike WASHINGTON The United States cannot rely on rising productivity to keep inflation under control forever, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Monday a sign to some analysts that the Fed may raise interest rates to slow the red-hot economy and keep inflation at bay. Greenspan, opening a threeday congressional summit on high technology, credited American investment in productivity-enhancing equipment, such as microprocessors, satellites and high-speed communications lines, for the nation's productivity boom.

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Russia, meanwhile, sent an 11- vehicle convoy from Bosnia to resupply its troops at the airport in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. Russian control of the airport has caused an embarrassing diplomatic standoff as Western nations struggle to reach an agreement with Russia over its role in the massive peacekeeping mission. Yugoslav police are expected to pull out most of their forces from the Pristina area today under terms of the peace agreement that calls for all police, paramilitaries and soldiers to be out of Kosovo by Sunday night. NATO officials said about 15,000 allied troops known under the operation name KFOR had entered Kosovo by Monday, U.S. Marines.

"The deployment of KFOR is on schedule," said NATO Secretary General Javier Solana. "The withdrawal of the Serbian forces is also on The Russian convoy included paratroopers and supplies for the 200-300 Russian troops at the airport, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Maj. David Scanlon, a NATO spokesman, said the convoy had 29 people. The surprise arrival of the Russian troops ahead of NATO has given Moscow greater leverage in negotiations over its place in the peacekeeping force.

So far, they have refused to let British troops enter the airport. NATO troops continued to take up new positions, today as Serbs retreated. troops moved out from Pristina to the town of Podujevo, 20 miles north. NATO troops also took over part of the Serb police headquarters in Pristina after Serb authorities pulled out from three of the complex's four buildings. They are scheduled to withdraw completely by midnight.

Capt. Martin Lambert- Gorwyn, 20 miles 20 km 0120 DIE 8 Serbs withdraw after a spree of home-burnings and alleged rapes Serbs set Djakovica building ablaze along road Prizren Germans KLA trying to wounded ALBANIA Source: AP reports La. GOP BATON ROUGE (AP) The chairman of Louisiana's Republican Party fired the top staff and changed the locks on its headquarters, and other leaders will consider a no-confidence vote against him today, the vice chairman says. "If the chairman is intent on selfdestruction, we don't want the party to go down with him," vice chairman Dianne Christopher said Monday, State GOP Chairman Mike Francis already was on the hot seat after Saturday's State Central Committee meeting. Critics said he improperly engineered approval of his plan for first-in-the nation presidential caucuses next year.

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Porterhouse. .7.95 AP Photo A Serb military truck passes a convoy of United States Marines waiting to enter the town of Pozaranje, in southern Kosovo Monday. More than 1,200 U.S. Marines began moving into Kosovo Monday to take up positions in what will become the U.S.-controlled zone of the Yugoslav province. an officer in charge, said departing Serbs had vandalized the buildings blocking up toilets, breaking doors and leaving piles of burned documents and rubble.

A smell of smoke hung over a small foyer. Soldiers put up a big NATO sign on the building and hung out a blue NATO flag. Several key Serb positions have been taken over by the Kosovo Liberation Army, which is supposed to be "demilitarized" under the U.N. Security Councilapproved plan. About 60 KLA guerrillas were manning the Morini crossing point on the Albanian-Yugoslav border used by hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees during the height of the Serb crackdown after Belgrade's troops abandoned the position Sunday.

The KLA has also set up an office in a primary school in Pristina. The Serb Media Center said YUGOSLAVIA Serbia. min KOSOVO Kosovo Liberation Pristina headquarters in Army sets up defiance of peace agreement Kacanik British unearth 81 massacred bodies Russian soldiers control airport disarm members Skopje seize Serbs MACEDONIA S.Currie chairman is on After dozens of Internet supporters walked out, Francis ruled that enough people remained to vote, even though it was very clear that wasn't so, Christopher has said. Christopher, who was among committee members considering a lawsuit over the vote, said the special meeting called to deal with Francis' "irrational behavior." Francis could not be reached for comment this morning. Christopher said Francis' actions are not building any confidence in the party at a time when Republican candidates are facing election and looking for help from WEDNESDAY LUNCH SPECIAL Southern Fried Quality Augratin, Shrimp, I Choice Potatoes of Inn 2 Veggies, Choice of Soup or Green 948-9500 Salad Hot Rolls.

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They fear NATO peacekeepers will be unwilling or unable to protect them from reprisals by returning ethnic Albanians. Ethnic Albanian refugees more than 850,000 in all began streaming out of Kosovo after the NATO bombing campaign began March 24, telling of massacres and forced expulsions by Serb forces. The accounts could not be independently confirmed at the time, so the grisly task of investigating what happened now falls to the peacekeepers. On Monday, British troops gingerly probed the town cemetery in Kacanik, where the stench of decayed flesh hung heavy over 81 graves said to hold the remains of ethnic Albanians executed by Serbs. British Capt.

"Andy 'Reeds' said war crimes investigators would be called in to examine the miles south of Pristina. A convoy of 1,200 U.S. Marines began crossing just south of Kacanik on Monday, and U.S. forces took over the area from the British troops. "We were all a little edgy going in," admitted Cpl.

Will Rapier, 20, of Paintsville, with the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines. "We just hope to get this thing over so we can all go home." Meanwhile, a senior KLA figure, Hashim Thaci, insisted that the rebel group was not required to disarm under the peace accord. Thaci, quoted by the guerrillas' Kosova Press, also said the KLA was opposed to the presence of Russian peacekeeping troops seen as supporters of the Serbs calling their surprise move into Pristina's airport "a provocation." "We will not guarantee their the hot seat the party. From Patience Comes Perfection! RAY'S DINER Ray Bellow SELECT Proprietor BOILED CRABS CORNER OF HWY. 1 182 JUDSON WALSH CRAWFISH HOUSE 1930 W.

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