October 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A8 Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair, and his wife, Cherie, leave the Labor Party conference last week. Photo by Associated Press

October 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A9 Kelly Yeomans

October 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A9 Algeria’s bloody insurgency shows no sign of abating despite one militant group’s cease-fire, with witnesses Saturday reporting 105 people killed in a 48-hour spree of massacres and bombings. Four days …

October 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A10 Sadness and scaffolding will shroud the medieval towns in these fertile and holy hills for years to come after deadly back-to-back earthquakes 10 days ago. Homes lived in for generations …

October 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A10 Marine archaeologist and paleontologist Susan Hendrickson sits with the head of her discovery before it was sold Saturday. Photo by Associated Press

October 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A14 Americans are split on whether men have become more caring toward their families over the past 25 years, according to a poll released Saturday. In a Fox News-Opinion Dynamics poll, …

October 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A17 1. A British Royal Air Force helicopter winches a passenger off the cruise ship Romantica as it burns off the Cyprus port of Limassol. Photo by Associated Press 2. A …

October 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A17 Russian police have recovered two historic instruments worth $1.2 million that were stolen from a museum last year - including a viola by the celebrated 17th-century Italian master Antonio Stradivari. …

October 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A17 Ten soldiers contaminated by radioactive equipment at a military base will undergo surgery, officials said Saturday. Three of the soldiers were described as critically ill. Authorities had said last week …

October 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A17 Gunmen ambushed a convoy of cars carrying police, soldiers and prosecutors in the countryside south of the capital, killing 11 people, authorities said Saturday. Authorities blamed Friday’s attack on the …

October 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A18 Harold Salzman, director of research at Jobs for the Future, says mass layoffs have made workers less loyal to their employers. Photo by Associated Press

October 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A18 The Washington Senior Citizens’ Lobby charges that lawmakers last session shortchanged the state’s oldest, frailest, and poorest citizens on long-term care. “It appears the Republican leadership just wanted to save …

October 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A18 1. Developer Mark Leonard hopes to turn the old Schade Brewery building east of downtown into a chic marketplace patterned after Seattle’s popular Pike Street Market. Photo by Dan Pelle/The …

October 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A18 Big shoes to fill. Outgoing Washington Water Power CEO Paul Redmond expects to have more time to fly his private airplane during retirement. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review

October 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A19 The Schade Brewery might house a beer maker again, 40 years after the last one closed. In its 94-year history, the building at 528 E. Trent has been home to …

October 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A20 1. Johnston 2. Moeller 3. Cross 4. Bridges 5. Hunter-Scott 6. Tomren 7. Warner 8, Walther 9. Day 10. Woodruff 11. Christensen 12. Perkins

October 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A21 U.S. consumers are lagging, but demand for wood products produced under environmentally friendly logging standards is catching on in Europe, researchers say. “Certified” products account for less than 1 percent …

October 5, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A21 WorldCom’s bold offer to buy MCI Communications for $29.4 billion, outbidding British Telecom, could set off a fresh scramble by the world’s telecommunications giants for marriage partners. Until now, large …

October 5, 1997 in City on Page B1 On May 31, researcher Kathryn Kelly billed the city $3,101 for preparation of the report she wrote with Phil Williams, Spokane’s engineering director, records show. The work was billed to …

October 5, 1997 in City on Page B1 Larry Craig’s attempt to streamline national forest management restricts access to public documents, assaults open meeting laws and creates conflicting regulations, critics say. “It will replace resource managers with lawyers,” …

October 5, 1997 in City on Page B1 Spokane officials successfully warded off repeated state requests for a more comprehensive study of potential human health impacts from the city’s garbage incinerator, records show. The bitter, eight-year battle over …

October 5, 1997 in City on Page B1 An Idaho infant is clinging to her life at a Spokane hospital, an apparent victim of repeated child abuse, police said. Doctors do not expect the girl to recover from …

October 5, 1997 in City on Page B1 Taessaly Nicolaysen, 7, nuzzles with her cats Minerva and Vesta. Photo by Dan Pelle/The Spokesman-Review