Headlines from UPI [Aug 13 2 am PDT]

Hourly News Summary -- The suspect charged with shooting five people at a Los Angeles-area Jewish community center and later shooting and killing a Filipino- American postal worker may face the death penalty. Los Angeles County prosecutors have charged Buford Furrow with murder and five counts of attempted murder. All are filed as hate crimes. Federal prosecutors have already charged Furrow in the mail carrier's killing. President Clinton's promising Jewish leaders he'll consider their requests for action against hate groups. -- A former director of New Mexico's Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab and two former counterintelligence officers could be disciplined for mishandling that Chinese spy investigation at the research center. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson is urging lab chiefs to take disciplinary action against the three, including the scientist who headed the well-known lab for almost 12 years. Nobody's naming names. -- Yesterday's ten-hour power outage in Chicago cut short trading at the city's Board of Trade, shut down almost three thousand businesses and sent thousands of workers home early. The Building Owners and Managers Association of Chicago says the power failure caused about a hundred- million dollars in lost business. Utility chiefs are blaming the problems on equipment failure Wednesday night and yesterday morning. -- Eight people are dead and 12 others hurt after a powerful bomb exploded in the offices of the Philippines' National Bureau of Investigation in Manila. Authorities are still investigating the cause of the blast. The explosion caused a brief fire and brought down the roof of an office building next door. -- The FBI says it's searching for a man accused of abducting a 15-year- old girl from the Seattle area and forcing her into prostitution on the streets of Orange County, California. FBI agents say the girl was beaten into submission after being kidnapped and worked the streets against her will for about two weeks until she was arrested in Garden Grove. The FBI says 26-year-old William Earl Flavors may have also abducted other girls and forced them to engage in prostitution. -- Tokyo share prices ended the week lower today. The key Nikkei index lost 12 points at 17-thousand-435. On Wall Street, the Dow gained a little more than one-and-a-half points to open this morning at ten- thousand-789. -- New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's unofficial campaign for the U. S. Senate has hit some embarrassing fund-raising snags. The mayor's exploratory committee has had to return about half of the proceeds from a hundred-thousand-dollar fund-raiser because the donations weren't properly submitted. There's also the contribution from Phillip Castellano, the son of murdered mob boss Paul Castellano. The contribution is embarrassing to the mayor who has made his name as a crime-buster. --