February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 1. (Flooding at a glance) 2. Kingston, Idaho, resident Tom Rahm and his dog, Endo, help their neighbor evacuate Friday. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review 3. Colfax residents turned out …

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 1. Houses in Potlatch, Idaho, are engulfed by floodwaters on Friday. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review 2. Cataldo resident Steve Matthews helps position sandbags under the I-90 overpass. Photo by …

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 Washington voters give Gov. Mike Lowry low job ratings, say moral character is a key campaign issue and are ready to elect someone else. Those are the conclusions of a …

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 Two idled North Idaho silver mines will roar back into production in coming months, the mines’ operators announced Friday, shocking the world silver market and pleasantly surprising the long-depressed Silver …

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 1. Randy Proctor rides a personal watercraft down the main street of Palouse on Friday. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review 2. Downtown Palouse, including riverfront mobile homes and the road …

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A2 Thousands of swans are in danger of dying along the Baltic coast in Estonia as one of the harshest winters in years has frozen the shallow waters where they feed. …

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A2 Friday’s winning “Triple Choice” lottery numbers: 381. Friday’s winning Washington Keno numbers: 4-5-8-12-16-18-20-23- 25-27-29-33-36-51-56-57-58-68- 72-80

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A3 Marty Stouffer, the wildlife photographer who created the popular PBS series “Wild America,” has been accused of staging fights between predators and filming supposedly wild scenes in cages. The allegations …

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A3 Steve Forbes, beleaguered by charges that he is a “social liberal,” snapped at the Christian Coalition Friday and accused his opponents of making anonymous phone calls to misrepresent his position …

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A3 Texas Sen. Phil Gramm. Photo by Associated Press

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A3 A crowded rush-hour commuter train ran a stop signal and sideswiped an oncoming train Friday, tearing open a car in a cascade of sparks. Both engineers and a passenger were …

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A3 Faye Resnick, whose tell-all book painted O.J. Simpson as a jealous wife-beater, is set to be questioned today in New York in connection with the wrongful death suit against the …

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A4 Officials have doused a garbage dump with truckloads of air fresheners to sweeten a stench offensive to Thailand’s Queen Sirikit, a news report said Friday. The dump’s odor aggravated the …

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A4 NATO commanders on Friday described as “an ominous development” the decision by Bosnian Serbs to cut all high-level contacts with NATO forces. They ordered U.S. soldiers on heightened alert to …

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A4 Emphasizing a theme of his Latin American tour, Pope John Paul II blessed inmates Friday at a Venezuelan prison known for its violence, telling them: “Each one of you is …

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A4 An injured woman is carried to an ambulance. Photo by Associated Press

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A4 A high-living lord with a penchant for classic sports cars and a supposedly empty wallet pretended to have four of the vehicles stolen in a $7 million insurance swindle that …

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February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A5 A philandering husband accused of giving the AIDS virus to four girlfriends was killed by someone who shot him in the back of the head two weeks before he was …

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A5 John Pfeiffer, who produced recordings by some of classical music’s most famous artists, including Van Cliburn, Jascha Heifetz and Arturo Toscanini, died at work at age 75. Pfeiffer died Thursday …

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A5 FBI agents set a trap that led to a salesman’s arrest on charges he illegally tapped into a competitor’s voice mail to steal clients. Kenneth T. Kaltman, 50, of Boca …

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A5 Soul singer James Brown’s wife died from taking the illegal drug PCP and several prescription medications while she had a bad heart and was weak from liposuction, a coroner’s spokesman …

February 10, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A5 The judge’s order to ex-cop Robert Selman was clear: Stay away from Officer Jill Bender or go to jail for harassment. Her father, Paul Bender, however, wasn’t satisfied. On Thursday, …