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Tiger's tourney The Arizona Eepuiboc FlTJAL Edition 50c tee elosedl Jk 0 ini Diana's pw Vaisitv tans flsto fl-lnircj finally fi ifi van UUIIlkr Copyright 1999, The Arizona Republic Saturday, September 4, 1999 110th year, No. 109 Phoenix, Arizona wwwjizcentral.com Ex-semator likely to lead Waco Derek Daughetee (right) says he likes Life School College Preparatory, a charter school in downtown Mesa. The 13-year-old was accepted at the school after he was expelled from Tempe's Fees Middle School on a weapons violation. Student caught between school, zero-tolerance weapons rules s-? 'I Reno looks to Danforth for credibility mm tf 1 Ron EdmondsAssociated Press Attorney General Janet Reno soon will appoint an independent investigator to look into the siege at Waco. Republic news services WASHINGTON Former Sen.

John Danforth, a Missouri Republican, emerged Friday as the leading candidate to conduct an independent inquiry into the 1993 Waco siege, according to Justice Department officials and congressional sources. Meanwhile, Justice Department officials searched for a way to make the results of the investigation known publicly as soon as possible without jeopardizing potential criminal prosecutions in the future, those sources said. A week after Attorney General Janet Reno began looking for an independent investigator to determine whether the FBI had tried to cover up facts related to the fatal fire that ended the 5 1 -day, Texas standoff, she told reporters Friday proved want to that the process has consuming because individual has no ensure that any would be well-received conflicts, and has the time to handle the task." Justice Department officials have been in touch with Danforth, an Episcopal priest and former state Please see DANFORTH, Page A24 By Melissa L. Jones The Arizona Republic While the rest of his family sleeps, 13-year-old Derek Daughetee begins a 10-mile-long commute to the only school that would take him. It took his mom months to find her son the new school after he was expelled for taking a Franklin Mint collector's knife to Fees Middle School in Tempe last spring.

Nobody wants a kid who's been kicked out of school for a weapons offense. According to state law, he has to be in unless he's home-schooled, but no school has to take him in. It happens often under a variety of circumstances: A student brings a weapon to school and the district swiftly disciplines him, many times with an expulsion. During the 1997-98 school year, 451 seventh- and eighth-graders were expelled from Arizona schools for different offenses, the most recent figures available from the state Department of Education show. More than 1,300 more were kicked out of high school that year.

Derek's home district, Tempe Please see SCHOOL, Page A2 Quaylepins hope on NJL Prepares to rev up the rhetoric Photos by Mark HenleJhe Arizona Republic Derek Daughetee waits on his bicycle at 48th Street and Southern Avenue on the western border of Tempe for a bus to take him to Country Club Drive in Mesa. From there, he has another two-mile ride to his charter school. By Kris Mayes and Charles Kelly Israel, Palestinians OK peace deal Dan Quayle The Arizona Republic Trying to salvage his foundering campaign, GOP presidential hopeful Dan Quayle will pour much of his total effort into winning the New Hampshire primary. Quayle, who recently took a licking in the Iowa Straw Poll and has been stumbling in other statewide and national polls, said recently he's reshuffling his effort to highlight the Granite State. "For the next couple of months, I'm going to focus on New Hampshire because I feel if I can win New Hampshire, then I've got a decent chance of winning the nomination," Quayle told The Arizona Republic.

"We're going to be spending a lot of time up there." The Quayle campaign in Iowa, where caucuses in late January or early February will be the first solid test for the candidates, will now be mostly a grass-roots effort, said Kyle McSlarrow, Quayle's campaign manager. Staff direction and appearances by Quayle and his wife, Marilyn, will be concentrated in New Hampshire. Please see QUAYLE, Page AI9 f. PRISONER RELEASE: Israeli officials say releasing those with blood on their hands is out of the question. Officials said Friday that the prisoner dispute was settled for now.

A20. Would finalize borders, complete land swap By Jane Perlez New York Times JERUSALEM Israel and the Palestinians, prodded by the presence of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, agreed Friday night to a sweeping peace deal that envisions finalizing the borders between them and resolving the future of Jerusalem in one year. The announcement Friday night by Albright, who spoke with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at her side at his offices in Gaza City, also calls for the completion of a land-for-security agreement signed last fall in Wye, which had been stalled until Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak came to office. A signing ceremony was scheduled for tonight after the end of the Jewish Sabbath, with Albright, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the Palestinian and Israeli lead ers at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on the Sinai seacoast. On the land-for-security aspects of the Wye agreement, the Israelis agreed to cede control over an additional 11 percent of the West Bank in three stages in September, November and by Jan.

20 a senior American official said. The last major hurdle in the negotiations leading up to Friday's agreement was the number of Pales- Please see ALBRIGHT, Page A21 Election Madeleine Albright INSIDE Wilderness Act celebrates 35th year Astrology Az Home Business Chuckle Classified Dll AH1 El A2 CL1 Abortion takes special toll on teens Women recall grief, guilt, regret, relief Comics D8.CL65 Dear Abby Landers Leibowitz Life. Lottery Obituaries Opinions Prayer Puzzles Religion Sports Television Weather Wheels Dll Dll Bl Dl B3 CL66 A2 D8, II D6 CI DIO B8 CL1 14," said Tiffany Bunstein, now 28 and a teacher at a Mesa junior high, who chose adoption. "My initial thought CODING SUNDAY: From the beginning, teen had a rough life. Environmentalists, land users still squabbling about acreage By Steve Yozwiak The Arizona Republic At 4.5 million acres, there's an acre of wilderness for every Arizonan.

On Friday the 35th anniversary of the federal Wilderness Act, Arizona environmentalists questioned if that is enough. As Arizona's population doubles over the next few decades, they say, so should the land placed off-limits to roads, vehicles, buildings and commercial development. "The experience of wilderness epitomizes what environmental protection is all about," said Martos Hoffman, executive director of the FlagstafT-based Southwest Forest Alliance. For Darlene Slusher, there is no justification for Please set Page AS By Jaimee Rose The Arizona Republic Years from now, when Arizona's anonymous 14-year-old girl remembers the time she went to Kansas to have a 6-month-old fetus aborted, she might feel any of these emotions: "Guilt," said Prescott's Meagan Williams. 22, who had an abortion at 15.

kills you. Now I notice every single pregnant woman, every single baby, every single thing." Relief. "I feel like I did make the right decision, though," said Williams. "Now, I would have a 7-year-old. I was just a child myself." Regret.

"I was pregnant at age was to have an abortion. I thought that was the easiest way out. But if you place (the baby up for adoption), you still lose your child, but everyone benefits." Grief. Says Julie Lessard, a program coordinator for Temped school for pregnant teenagers. "A lot of the girls that we know Please see ABORTION, Page A12 i Christine KeithThe Arizona Republc Environmentalists are proposing that as much as 6 million more acres in Arizona be protected against encroaching development and new roads..