National and State News-Friday, May 4th

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) - Iraq's neighbors have agreed to stand behind the Shiite-led government as long as Baghdad includes more Sunni Arabs in the political process. The agreement is being issued on the final day of an international conference on Iraq being hosted by Egypt.

CAPITOL HILL (AP) - House Democratic leaders are indicating they're not ready to back down to President Bush on Iraq. Party leaders are considering a bill for no-strings funding, but only
until July. Baghdad would have to meet certain goals for the money to keep flowing after that. A Senate plan would require the president to seek new authorization for the war itself.

KENT, Ohio (AP) - Kent State University today marks the 37th anniversary of the shooting deaths of four Vietnam War protesters by National Guard troops. A students wounded in the 1970 incident has released a static-filled tape he says is of a Guard officer giving the order to fire. The Kent State observance also is paying tribute to last month's Virginia Tech victims.

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - For the most part, last night's Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Library in California was an effort by candidates to show they're conservative enough.
They all favor lower taxes, a strong military and perseverance in Iraq.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) - More touring for Queen Elizabeth today in Virginia as she visits Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America. The queen and Prince Philip are helping celebrate Jamestown's 400th anniversary. Fifty years ago, they helped Jamestown celebrate its 350th anniversary.

UNDATED (AP) - The Pentagon says the remains of five missing members of a World War Two U-S Army air crew have been found in The Netherlands and identified. Two of the missing five were Pennsylvanians -- Second Lieutenant Thomas R. Yenner of Kingston and Technical Sergeant Russell Abendschoen of York.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - High school students from suburban Pittsburgh are recovering after their bus crashed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike as they traveled to a band competition. The
driver remains critically injured, while the 29 students and 11 adult passengers suffered mostly scrapes and bruises in yesterday's predawn crash.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday said the son of legendary N-F-L announcer John Facenda can seek damages for the use of his father's voice on a program about a John Madden video game. Facenda, before his 1984 death, gave the N-F-L full use of his
announcing work - except when it came to product endorsements.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Pittsburgh Brewing Company could be out of bankruptcy by early next month, if its creditors vote to accept a repayment plan approved by a judge this week. Under the latest plan, a group led by private equity fund manager John Milne of Westport, Connecticut, plans to take over the 147-year-old brewery on June eighth, saving 160 jobs.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Penn State is pulling a reverse with its policy for student football tickets. Bowing to criticism, the athletic department is scrapping a plan to distribute the nearly
22-thousand tickets by lottery. Instead, they'll return to the old first-come, first-serve policy.