March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A1 1. Turkey exam. Graduate student Michiel Helmes prepares a young turkey for a date with an ultrasound machine Thursday at the new veterinary hospital in Pullman. Photo by Dan McComb/The …

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A1 Sheriff’s Deputy Tom DiBartolo repeatedly violated police and court orders not to interfere with his wife’s murder investigation, a police affidavit released Friday says. Detectives say DiBartolo lied to investigators, …

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A1 Clinton. Photo by Associated Press

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A1 Idaho Indian tribes’ heartfelt testimony in Boise this week appears to have paid off. After last-minute negotiations Friday, a Senate committee that was poised to vote on a bill restricting …

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A1 Bombing suspect Robert Berry owned two distinctive guns like the ones federal authorities say were used in bank robberies last year, witnesses said Friday. Berry’s landlord and a family friend …

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A1 Snowmobiler climbs a hill where seconds later he was chased by an avalanche.

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A2 Friday’s Washington Triple Choice: 515. Friday’s Washington Keno: 1-2-9-16- 25-28-34-37-40-41-42-44-45-51- 57-64-69-70-79-80.

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A2 Federal investigators have found links between the Centennial Olympic Park pipe bombing and subsequent attacks on an abortion clinic and a gay nightclub, according to news reports Friday. Citing unidentified …

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A3 Humane Society director Carletta Cheney holds Bird on Friday. Photo by Associated Press

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A3 Francois

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A4 An Albanian militant points a rifle Thursday at Adem Hasa, the chief of President Sali Berisha’s bodyguards. Hasa was pulled from his car in southern Albania, forced to shout “Down …

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A4 Rebels and government forces battled Friday at the airport outside Zaire’s third-largest city in what could prove to be the most critical fight yet in that central African country’s 4-1/2-month-old …

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A4 Just two days after angrily suspending drug-crop eradication over differences with Washington, the government announced Friday it was resuming the program, but without help from the United States. Justice Minister …

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A4 Manley

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A4 Using DNA from a tooth, scientist have established a blood tie between a 9,000-year-old skeleton known as “Cheddar Man” and an English schoolteacher who lives just a half mile from …

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A5 When a visitor came to her Long Island house Friday and asked, “Is mommy home?” 4-year-old Chelsey Hoole-Shlakman replied, “Which one?” Introducing her biological mother, Dee Hoole, Chelsey said, “There …

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A5 Some Louisiana residents deliberately had their homes sprayed with a dangerous cotton-field pesticide to take advantage of a federal offer to renovate their homes, an agriculture official said Friday. The …

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A5 More than half of the nation’s women psychologists have been sexually harassed by their patients, a new survey suggests. Questionnaires were sent to 750 female psychologists nationwide. Of the 354 …

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A5 Hours after checking out of a psychiatric ward, a riverboat pilot shot five family members to death, then killed himself with his last bullet at his favorite childhood fishing spot. …

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A5 A woman accused of faking a pregnancy was sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing an acquaintance to claim the woman’s 6-week-old infant as her own. Kimmi Hardy, …

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A6 Delegates at a week-long U.N. conference on global warming that ended Friday made slight progress toward establishing targets for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. However, the …

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A8 Spokane County home sales declined by 19 percent last month compared with February 1996. The total dollar volume also dropped, pumping 22 percent less money into the economy.

March 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A8 Economy U.S. consumers piled up debt at a fasterthan-expected pace in January, rebounding from a lull during holiday shopping season, the Federal Reserve said Friday. The largest increase in credit …