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I McGwire hits 17th homer A But Cardinals lose to Marlins 7-3, ci 8 Vol. 120, No. 139 1998 MAY 19, 1998 50 elT 1 SH 1 1 1 'Bin5' wi.mwniiWM Tiriiiwi iiiiiiww i in 1.1111111 1 1. iftimiiiiii 111 1 I mi 1 mi iH.iiifm iin tr rt IU1 Foraon of Mmm Is TWA urges Lambert to build new terminal ahead of schedule 3 .11 i T-' fV lf POWERBALL JACKPOT So, what if you win? Better get some tax advice Forming a partnership may ease bite from Uncle Sam. by Victor volland Of the Post-Dispatch Before you start spending that $150 million Powerball jackpot you expect to win Wednesday, you should face up to a few financial realities.

The decisions you make after a record jackpot drawing could mean the difference of hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, over the years, experts say. So take your time. Think it over. "You have a year to claim the prize money," said Edward D. Hig-gins, president of Mercantile Trust Co.

"Make use of that time and just don't show up right way to claim it" The very first thing to do is to visit a good tax adviser to soften the federal and state tax bites, he said. "The way you present yourself to the lottery office and tax officials will have an important impact on how flexible they will be in working with you," Higgins said. A winner, for example, could form a family partnership with his spouse, their children and grandchildren or other family members See Powerball, PageA7 How they compare How the annual payout for a single $150 million Powerball winner compares with the annual paychecks of well known personalities and professions. Powerball winner $6,000,000 "SIP Mark McGwire $10,000,000 August A. Busch III $1,880,000 mm Airport memo says request could derail expansion proposal City weighs carrier's position By mark schlinkmann Regional Political Correspondent Q1998, St.

Louis Post-Dispatch Trans World Airlines, Lambert Field's biggest tenant, is pressing the airport to accelerate its plans to build a new main terminal. Although Mayor, Clarence Harmon is considering the request, airport officials warn that building the terminal sooner could delay or jeopardize federal approval of the airport's $2.6 billion expansion plan now pending before the Federal Aviation Administration. Under that plan known as W-1W construction of a new terminal wasn't contemplated until several years after the addition of a new runway in 2003. According to an airport memo submitted Monday to the city Estimate Board the city's top fiscal body, "Extreme caution has to be given to changing the parameters of a project in its final stage of approval. It is critical that TWA work with the city to understand the legal, environmental and political ramifications or else W-1W could be derailed." How strongly TWA is pushing for the new terminal is unclear.

According to the airport memo, TWA has threatened to withdraw its support for W-1W unless the city agreed to the move-up on the new terminal. The memo refers to TWA's "no terminal, no runway ultimatum." Such a position would have serious implications for the W-1W expansion plan, the memo cautions. "It is critical that TWA not let its new position be known certainly before the (FAA decision) since FAA would immediately" hold up on its final decision, the memo says. However, Jim Brown, a TWA spokesman, denied that the airline had ever issued an ultimatum or imposed conditions on its support of W-1W. "Our official policy has not changed and that's what's important," Brown said.

See Airport, Page A7 IV -it 1 Lumr WH1UMS POST-DISPATCH ABOVE: Traffic backs up along east-bound Highway 40 (Interstate 64) Just west of the Poplar Street Bridge Monday afternoon after a container truck struck a bridge pier. BELOW: The damaged 30-foot-tall pier. 01 Eastbound lanes downtown are shut until Thursday BYTIMO'NEIL Of the Post-Dispatch The eastbound Highway 40 (Interstate 64) approach to the Poplar Street Bridge will be closed at least through Thursday afternoon because of a freak truck accident Monday that put a gaping spiral crack into a vital bridge pier. "Our goal is to have it opened by the Thursday evening rush hour," Greg Horn, area engineer for the Missouri Department of Transportation, said Monday night. Horn said temporary supports will be put up to bear the load normally borne by the damaged pier and horizontal support Engineers from Jefferson City will then decide on permanent repairs.

Highway officials are urging people to avoid Highway 40 into downtown, or to get off west of the city and take Interstates 44, 55 or 70. At any rate, eastbound 40 traffic will be diverted off the last Missouri exit (BroadwaySeventh Street) and detoured south to the Soulard area and then routed onto northbound 1-55 to the bridge. The closing will not affect westbound traffic over the bridge, which is St. Louis' main downtown span over the Mississippi River. The bridge itself is sound, and eastbound traffic can approach it from the depressed lanes of 1-70 and from the northbound approach of 1-4455.

The accident happened shortly before 2 p.m. Monday and forced police to close eastbound Highway 40 and the 1-70 ramp onto the bridge. That backed up traffic on those two highways for miles. The end of the afternoon baseball game between the Cardinals and the Florida Marlins made a bad situation worse. Police said a truck designed to carry large trash containers was traveling with its container boom raised.

The truck was empty at the time. The truck was eastbound on the 1-70 ramp onto the Poplar Street Bridge when the boom smacked the horizontal edge of a concrete T-shaped pier holding up Highway 40 as the ramp passes beneath it. The truck is owned by Waste Management of St. Louis Inc. Kathy Arnold, Waste Management's division manager, said the company was investigating the accident and the driver was uninjured.

Engineers said the boom's impact knocked the horizontal cross-piece about one foot out of position. A gaping crack spiraled more than halfway down the tube-shaped pier barber-pole style. The crack is wide enough that some of the 30-foot-tall pier's reinforcement rods are clearly visible. Arrowhead-shaped shards of concrete lay on the lot, as did one of the heavy steel footings that are wedged between the concrete pier and the green bridge girders. Jerry Vickery of Belleville said he was about five cars behind the truck when the accident occurred.

"He was going pretty fast with the boom extended," Vickery said. "He hit it (bridge support) pretty hard He had to be going at least 40to45mph." Vickery said the impact spun the truck around, causing it to block the ramp. Some motorists offered to help the driver, but found that he was uninjured. See Bridge, Page A7 urging witnesses to on the shooting Chief Ron strong lead that Mercantile Stores Yasser Arafat I v. i i I Detour for Illinois-bound motorists: Broadway exit is the'last Missouri exit.

Eastbound traffic must exit at this point. Best options: Take (-70, W4 or 1-55 into downtown. 4k 1 f'-ti Fidel Castro 7 'K -semi BUSCH 1 v. STADIUM I hp- Students "I don't think that asking us to ship a competitor's product is an appropriate solution. It's like requiring Coca-Cola to include three cans of Pepsi in every six-pack." Bill Gates Chief executive of Microsoft U.S., 20 states sue Microsoft, allege monopoly The Justice Department says Microsoft should separate its Internet browser or incorporate Netscape's rival browser.

Microsoft says Explorer is an integral part of Windows, and it refuses to package a competitor's product. What next: Windows 98 was shipped to PC manufacturers Monday and is expected to be in retail stores by June 25, unless the government wins a preliminary injunction. The Associated Press WASHINGTON The government filed a sweeping antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. on Monday, saying the powerful software company's "choke hold" on competitors denies consumers important choices about how they buy and use computers. In an industry that in this decade has energized the nation's economy and revolutionized how people work and play, Microsoft's popular products have become an "800-pound gorilla" that suffocates innovation and raises prices, one state official said.

"Microsoft's actions have stifled competition in the operating-system and browser markets," said Attorney General Janet Reno. "But most importantly, it has restricted the choices available for consumers." Microsoft whose Windows software is used on 90 percent of all desktop computers fired See Microsoft, Page AS So substantial are the newfound benefits of the drug, called Taxol, that its use in women with early breast cancer should become routine immediately, several doctors said. "This represents the single most significant advance in the treatment of early stage breast cancer in the past 20 years," Richard L. Schilsky, director of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center, said at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in See Cancer, Page A8 Weather Today: Partly cloudy. High 91.

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Mercantile, considered a I Israeli officials I is trying to build takeover target by St. Louis-based May Department Stores, is one of the last major independent department store chains. Dillard's, based in Little Rock, is the fifth-largest U.S. department store chain. C7 celebrate Leaders of Indonesia's Parliament plan today to ask President Suharto to resign.

But despite a week of riots in response to the nation's financial crisis, Suharto welcomed support frqmmernilitary. Page A3 Secretary of State Albright and Palestinian leader Arafat produced no breakthroughs in the Mideast peace stalemate. Albright described the talks as "good, constructive." Read more President Clinton told European Union leaders that the U.S. would ease restrictions on multinational firms doing business with Cuba, Iran and Libya. Some GOP leaders challenged the accord, about these stories on I Christie's auction house was sold Monday for I $834 million.

French investor Francois Pin- clear bomb. The country is close to having a long-range missile. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said any such nuclear expansion could undermine existing peace treaties. Israeli pundits suggest their country test a nuclear warhead as a deterrent. A6 ault bought 71 percent of the 231-year-old auction house.

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