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"Che (Bamccock Heavy winter storm continues to strike I northeastern U.S. by Stephen Frothingham Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. -A winter storm that has buried much of the Northeast in heavy snow continued to pummel New England early Tuesday, with parts of New Hampshire seeing up to 5 inches of snow an hour. The powerful weather system dropped more than 2 feet of snow in parts of the state and blanketed other sections of New England with similar amounts. Heavy snow fell Monday in parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. The winter storm was New Hampshire’s biggest in three years, forcing schools to close and causing several traffic accidents. Some travelers spent the night at Manchester Airport, where mo& flights were canceled or delayed, but runways remained open. The storm system also wreaked havoc on Connecticut, where schools were closed and major roads were impassible. Bradley International Airport near Hartford shut down Monday and remained closed early Tuesday. Power outages also plagued the state, where 22,800 customers were without electricity early Tuesday. Connecticut’s Office of Emergency Management said the timing of the heaviest snow — in the middle of a workday—could not have been worse. “All the other snowstorms this year happened on a weekend,” spokeswoman Mary Rose McDonald said. “That made a big difference.” Up to 20 inches of snow fell in pans of central and western Massachusetts, most of it coming down in just a few hours Monday. The storm snarled traffic in eastern parts of the state, with the heaviest snow arriving in time for the evening rush hour in Boston and Worcester. One traffic fatality outside Worcester was blamed on the weather. More than 200 flights were canceled at Boston’s Logan Airport, spokesman Phil Orlandella said. The airport was briefly closed twice for plowing. Some of the heaviest snowfall Monday was in northwestern New Jersey, with as much as 18 inches in some areas. In Pennsylvania, the intensity of the storm seemed to take forecasters by surprise. Israel from page 5 difficult for Sharon to form a stable government as it was for Barak — and that his term in office could be even shorter. Sharon’s first hurdle will be the 2001 budget, which the Knesset must pass by March 31. If the budget is not approved, new elections must be called for prime minister and parliament. Barak, who could remain caretaker prime minister while Sharon works to form a government, said he would step down as Labor Party leader and give up his seat in parliament. Officially, Yasser Arafat’s Palestin ian Authority says it will work with any Israeli prime minister. But some of his top associates expressed deep misgivings, and Palestinian negotiatorSaeb Erekat warned Sharon’s hard-line program for peace talks was a “recipe for war.” Barak, 58, was forced into early elections alter 19 turbulent months at the helm of an ever-fraying governing coali tion. 15-year-old runaway returns from Greece after Internet affair by Vickie Chachere Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. —A 15-year-old Florida girl who fled to Greece to live with her 35-year-old Internet lover has returned home. The girl’s attorney, Robert Valen tine, asked reporters to leave the junior high school student alone late Monday as she returned to the United States with her mother after five months with a man who allegedly courted her online. “If you are a victim, you don’t nec essarily wanf to be a celebrity,” Valen tine said. Franz Konstantin Baehring is accused of using the Internet to lure the girl away last August, when she was 14, and has been arrested in Greece on charges of abduction and sexual as sault. Authorities have not identified the girl. Valentine said Monday that the girl didn’t think she had been victimized and wanted to stay with Baehring. “I think she has feelings for Konstantin and, there fore, she is confused,” he said. Baehring denies any wrongdoing and insists he wanted to marry the girl. Officials said the girl traveled to Greece under a fake passport with the help of Martina Crivaro, 24, of Lake land and Robert Amder, 41, of Denni son, Ohio. The two were being held on chaiges of assisting Baehring. Valentine said a number of national television shows were trying to inter view the girl and her family, but psy chologists have warned that media at tention could hamper her understanding. “She doesn’t look at herself as a vic tim, so her being a celebrity reinforces that she is not a victim,” he said. Valentine said the girl will undergo counseling and will be schooled at home. The mother has made a public ap peal for parents to be aware of the dan gers of the Internet. Shooting from page 5 over the country now,” the 64-year-old Harris said a counselor told him. Employees of the International Truck and Engine Corp. plant, which makes medium-duty engines for parent company Navistar, were allowed to stay home a day after the rampage. “Our main focus is on providing counseling for the employees and families,” company spokesman Roy Wiley said. Police said Baker showed up at about 10 a.m. Monday with a golf bag filled with firearms. When a security guard on her first day tried to stop him. Baker allegedly put a revolver to her side and forced his way into the vast building. Baker then opened fire with the AK-47, shooting seven people — three fatally — in an engineering area, police said. He killed another person in an office area before killing himself, police said. Also killed were Daniel Dorsch, 52, a supervisor in the engine lab and a 26-year Navistar employee; Robert Weltrheim, 47, a lab technician; Michael Brus, 48, an engineer who had been with Navistar for 12 years; and William Garcia, 44, a test engineer with 22 years at the company. Authorities weren’t sure whether Baker targeted ;uiy employees or fired randomly. Dorsch’s brother said his brother liked his job. “He was the person that (would) roll up liis sleeves and not go, ‘I’m the boss and I tell you what to do.’ He would be right in there helping them,” Terry Dorsch said. “You don’t think it would ever happen to your family, something like that,” he said. “It is very difficult, very hard." Carl S. Swanson, 45, was in critical condition after surgery for a gunshot wound to die abdomen; Mujtaba Aidroos, 24, was in serious condition with a chest wound. Baker was a tool room attendant who had worked at the plant for 39 yean be fore he was fired in 1994. FOTIZO THURSDAZE From Now On... | Group Therapy WmM1OF it Wm I "Bad taste makes the day go by faster." - Andy Warhol From Johns to Warhol oOgEDQM^ | January 27 - April 8, 2001 j] i PHILIP MORRIS COMPANIES INC. S. The exhibition is organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. I The exhibition and its Columbia presentation is sponsored by Philip Morris — i Companies Inc., with additional support from First Citizens Bank. I I * COMMONS ♦ 1