Capital, The (Newspaper) - October 7, 2000, Annapolis, Maryland Capital budget is school topic Arundel Report Bl RESTORED Cypress Creek home retains its original appeal circa 1912 Mariners finish off White Sox Sports Cl ARCHIVES PRESERVATION P D BOX LAUREL MB 20725 COOLER PAGE A9 SATURDAY OCTOBER 7 2000 ANNAPOLIS MD Milosevic concedes Army chief of staff supports 35 CENTS ASSOCIATED PRESS BELGRADE Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic conceded defeat yesterday in Yugoslavia's presidential elections a day after protesters angry at him for clinging to power stormed parliament and ended his autocratic regime His concession to Vojislav gered a huge celebration in the streets with firecrackers exploding and horns honking throughout the capital I congratulate Mr on his toral victory and I wish much success to all citizens of Mr Milosevic said in the television address as he stood hands folded before a Yugoslav flag I intend to rest a bit and spend some more time with my family and especially with my grandson Marko and after that to help my party gain force and contribute to future prosperity The speech was one of several develop ments yesterday that completed the stunningly swift downfall of Mr Milosevic one of the last Cold communist dictators left m Europe Earlier in the day Yugoslavia's high court named Mr the election winner powerful Yugoslav ally Russia offered its support and the army indicated to the president-elect that it would obey the new political authority Army chief of staff Nebojsa a former Milosevic crony expressed confidence that Mr Will help overcome all the remaining problems in a civilized way and return the country to news agency reported He also pledged that the army will carry out its duties according to the constitution Mr Milosevic's concession signaled that he has abandoned hopes of blocking Mr from taking his oath of office possibly today and instead will try to carve out a role for himself in Yugoslav political life As an indicted war criminal Mr Milosevic has little chance of seeking asylum abroad and has no choice but to try to reach an accommodation with the new government During his speech Mr Milosevic appeared thinner paler and clearly tired after Weeks of political turmoil There were celebrations across the capital after he spoke Serbs flooded the streets honking horns and exploding fireworks Some celebratory gunfire rang out Mr Milosevic started and lost four wars In the Balkans during his years in power and sanctions imposed by the United Nations the See OUSTED Page Opposition New Democracy party of Belgrade yesterday waving the flag of the ride through the streets Court murder verdict By BRIAN M SCHLETER A state appeals court yesterday overturned the murder conviction of an Eastport man who gunned down a friend seated in a taxicab ruling that the judge erred by ting police testify about his tance to give a statement the fourth time in as many years that an appeals court has overturned a murder conviction in Anne Arundel County courts be- cause the defendants didn't get a fair trial The decision by three judges from the Court of Special Appeals issued yesterday erases the November 1999 second degree murder and handgun convictions of John Thomas Logan 22 He was serving a sentence for the Jan 22 1999 shooting death of Wayne DeWitt Addison Jr 21 of Annapolis It's fantastic said Daryl D Jones Mr Logan s attorney It's good to see he s going to have a fair trial without that prejudicial mation being presented to the jury State's Attorney Frank R Weathersbee said he hadn't seen the opinion but vowed to retry the case Mr Logan claimed he was acting in self-defense because Mr Addison had threatened to kill him and appeared to be reaching for a gun on that January night He was arrested four hours later after a former reporter for The See RULING Page SAILBOAT SHOW PULLS IN THE CROWDS Stock market drops sharply ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Stocks felT sharply yesterday pushing the Nasdaq com- index to its lowest level May as profit worries again rattled technology shares and an ted drop in unemployment re- kindled fears of inflation The Nasdaq composite index fell to only about 150 points above this year's lowest close at on May 26 For the week the Nasdaq fell 8.5 percent The Dow Jones industrial aver- age fell 128 38 to its lowest close since August giving the chips a loss of 64 38 for the week The Standard 500 fell to giving it a loss of 30.35 for the week Visitors to the United States Sailboat Show at City Dock yesterday waited In long lines to tour the hundreds of sailboats from all over the world General admission to the show which runs through Monday Is for adults and for children 12 and under Roughly visitors this weekend are expected to their way through the floating docks at the event AT A visitor peers Into the anchor locker of one the boats for sale Dy J Die Capital said Alan senior vice president at Fahnestock There are not many who believe we've hit the The market opened the day higher but soon turned lower investors grew defensive before the barrage of profit reports expected over the next three weeks Investors are increasingly worried that companies won't meet Wall Street People want to get out of the technology names and nobody's home to bid for those said Charles White portfolio manager at Avatar Associates Concerns about profit reports which begin in est next week have dogged the market since early September Warnings of poor earnings have provoked a series of with high-tech issues particularly The pattern continued yesterday Shares of Veeco tumbled to 56 a 34 percent drop after the semiconductor company warned of disappointing earnings and a UBS Warburg analyst downgraded the stock frort buy to hold A similar warning from software company Marimba sent its shares plunging nearly 50 percent down 50 to Leading the Dow's decline was J P Morgan slipping to Home Depot also weighed down the blue-chip average falling to after rival Lowe's said its sales those from stores open at least a year would be down for the third quarter The market's latest decline lowed a Labor Department report that the nation's unemployment rate fell to 3 9 percent in September and total employment rose by after two months of declines See MARKET Page INSIDE 4 52 pages Woman's ordeal pinpoints Comcast problems Calendar Class Comics Crossword Ed was Homes Classified Circulation C7 Bl D5 66 CIS 410 01 Re go Slocks Te ev s 410 410 A9 823 From Kent By NATHAN DICKINSON Business Writer No Sopranos No Wild Dis- covery No film classics like Casablanca The nightmare began for Doreen Hutchmson of Arnold when she returned from vacation to find her Comcast cable TV service wasn't working Three months later it still didn't work With her yard torn up by technicians Mrs Hutchmson switched to Millennium But it didn't end there Comcast tried to hook her up to its mission Such service complaints have Comcast promising to improve its service or face fines under a new operating agreement With the county The six-year million franchise agreement expected to be approved by the County Council at its Oct 16 meeting calls for Comcast to ex- pand its fiber optic network vide more public access and im- prove customer service David Nevins a spokesman for Comcast Cablevision of Maryland said the company aims to avoid the need for any fines We want our technicians to show up when they have he said We're hoping there will eventually be less of a need to call customer service He wasn't familiar with Mrs Hutchinson's problem but suggested that recent complaints tomers calls in a timely manner install new service or maintain its Jones Communications last year When you take over a system the Mr Nevins said Mrs Hutchinson and her bus band Charles saw the ugly After she ordered service from Comcast a technician didn't show up for three days Then when she called to complain a representative said one had stopped by twice but she wasn't home Mrs Hutchinson said this was not true When a technician finally did arrive on their street It was to install service in their next-door Hutchinsons cable line in the cess It took another two months for a technician to return This one tore up the Hutchinsons front yard hooked a line up to their neighbor's cable box and stretched it across their front yard and through a window Later a third Comcast technician tried to hook a Comcast cable line up to newly installed service My husband had been through all of this until they dug up our Mrs Hutch said even wi See COMCAST Page
