June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A1 1. No experience necessary. WSU students in the death and dying class tour the Pullman City Cemetery on Tuesday afternoon. Photo by Dan Pelle/The Spokesman-Review 2. Margaret Young, family scientist

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A1 Some Priest Lake cabin owners who lease land from the state can expect their rent to more than double next year. The state Land Board voted Wednesday to increase annual …

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A1 Bob Brown

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A1 Penn State professor Geoffrey Godbey says Americans enjoy an average of close to 40 hours of leisure a week. Photo by Associated Press

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A1 In at least one State Department post abroad, officials marked applications for temporary U.S. visas with such codes as LP for “Looks Poor,” LR for “Looks Rough” and TP for …

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A2 Ten years ago: President Reagan, in Venice, Italy, for an economic summit, called for an end to government agriculture subsidies by the year 2000 in a televised address carried in …

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A2 1967: War erupted in the Middle East as Israel, convinced an Arab attack was imminent, raided Egyptian military targets. Syria, Jordan and Iraq entered the conflict. 1968: Sen. Robert F. …

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A2 (photo of Jane Luu)

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A2 Wednesday’s Washington Triple Choice: 857. Wednesday’s Washington Lotto: 3-20-26-33-34-41. No winner. New jackpot: $5 million.

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A2 Krista Flannigan, right, assists victim family member Valerie Rowdon in Denver. Photo by Associated Press

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A3 Tending to the interests of his home state a few years ago, Republican Rep. Newt Gingrich asked the Census Bureau to fix an undercount of more than 200,000 people in …

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A3 Whatever the Supreme Court decides this summer on physician-assisted suicide, the United States urgently needs to improve end-of-life care for millions of Americans, a National Institute of Medicine panel declared …

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A3 Memphis police officer William Harsley carries evidence, including a grenade launcher. Photo by Associated Press

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A3 The Christian Coalition - a tax-exempt organization that says it doesn’t take sides in elections - rented a mailing list of 36,000 of its supporters to Oliver North’s 1994 Senate …

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A4 Emergency room doctors in Hawaii are the first in the nation required to give police blood-alcohol test results on drivers if the tests exceed legal limits. The mandatory reporting requirement …

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A4 Grandparents raising their grandchildren may be more prevalent than anyone originally guessed and most common among white middle-class families. A study in the Gerontologist, the national research digest of the …

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A4 For the second time in a month, Senate Democrats blocked Republicans from moving forward Wednesday on a bill to give wage earners a choice between time off or pay for …

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A4 Texas tied its 1935 record for executions in a year on Wednesday by putting two murderers to death, a man who shot a convenience store clerk and a gang leader …

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A4 Classmates mourn Quimby Ghilotti, who died in the accident. Photo by Associated Press

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A4 The body of folk singer Jeff Buckley was found Wednesday night floating in a harbor leading to the Mississippi River, where he had gone for a swim last week. Police …

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A4 President Clinton’s lawyer backed down Wednesday from threats to explore Paula Jones’ sexual history if her harassment suit against Clinton comes to trial. “Paula Jones’ past sex life is irrelevant …

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A5 All that was missing were T-shirts proclaiming this as the “1997 Count the Dollars Tour.” Piled into a white bus, nine high-technology chief executives toured Washington on Wednesday to lobby …

June 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A7 George Fenneman, the gracious sidekick to comedian Groucho Marx on television’s “You Bet Your Life,” has died of complications related to emphysema. He was 77. Fenneman died Thursday at his …