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CITRUS HEIGHTS, Calif. - After a 10-day, coast-to-coast manhunt, authorities found murder suspect Nikolay Soltys hiding in his mother's back yard yesterday, capturing him moments after his breakfasting relatives fled the home in terror to call for help. Barefoot, disheveled and carrying a potato peeler and a map, Soltys was arrested without incident by undercover officers who had kept his family under surveillance since the bloody killings of his wife, son and four other relatives. Sacramento County Sheriff Lou Blanas said the unshaven Soltys may have been hiding for several days in a wooded ravine behind his mother's home.

NEW YORK -- Andrei Medvedev gained a reputation at Wimbledon this year for being a free spirit. He would give out autographed pictures of himself to anyone who asked for one -- for free.But as far as interviews go, Medvedev is thinking of taking a new tack: The more you ask, the more you pay. At least that's what No. 8 seed Medvedev said after yesterday's 6-2, 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 victory over Fernando Meligini of Argentina."You just talk to me direct, we can make a deal," Medvedev, 19, said at the end of a rambling, 30-minute post-match news conference.

RUSSIA HAS worked out leasing agreements with some of the former Soviet states that enables it to keep its military assets on their territory. Why couldn't it be possible between Israel and the Palestinians? The way it would work: Israel would recognize Palestinian sovereignty over all of what were the Israeli-occupied territories in the West Bank and Gaza. Then, Palestine would rent back specific areas to the Israeli military. This leasing arrangement should be extended to the hard-line Jewish settlements blocking a peace deal.

They left the Soviet Union for different reasons and during different years, but now their fears are similar: The overthrow of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, said a number of local immigrants, may signal a return in that country to the repression they escaped.From Ukrainians and Lithuanians who have lived in the Baltimore area for generations to Soviet Jews who settled here more recently, people with ties to the Soviet Union spent much of yesterday trying to call relatives in their troubled homeland and worrying that the freedoms of the Gorbachev era may be over.

AS A CHILD of an immigrant, I learned as early as the third or fourth grade that my father could no longer help me with much of my homework. Oh, he read and wrote English pretty well, he could add a column of numbers faster than I ever could, and he knew what was going on in the country and the world; but he knew nothing of fractions, square roots and simple equations, and never learned about such things as angles and planes or adjectives and adverbs.It...

Even for Dexter, there was a lot of aggression tonight. The death total is up to four, with the two imagined killings by Dexter of the post-woman and Masuka, Louis' murder by the Ukrainian mobster, and the waitress who was killed by Speltzer. Deb was almost killed by Speltzer and a random felon was almost strangled by Dexter. Maybe someone should go to therapy. Any one of them, really. Because, to put it bluntly, what's happening now isn't working out for anyone. Deb almost gave Dexter's Dark Passenger approval.

The glint in her left eye wasn't the usual sparkle that can charm anyone doting on a newborn baby. It was a strange glow, an eerie white beam that flashed when light struck the infant's eye in a certain way.Born in Ukraine just two months after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Anna Yaschuk was lucky to have a grandmother who knew not to be enchanted by the phenomenon. An ophthalmologist, she rightly suspected that the glow could be a sign of retinoblastoma, a rare eye cancer that strikes 1 in 15,000 babies and produces a cottony tumor on the retina.

An article in yesterday's Maryland section about a prayer service for victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster incorrectly identified St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church.The Sun regrets the errors.Surrounded by the soaring white walls of the new St. Michael's Ukrainian Orthodox Church, children in colorful Slavic costumes prayed yesterday for those who suffered from the nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl five years ago."Protect them all from the nuclear misery of Chernobyl," they prayed, placing pink, white and red carnations at the icon of the Virgin Mary.

ODESSA, Ukraine -- If the potent forces of frustrated nationalism, economic distress and political division continue unchecked in Ukraine, what happened here April 10 could someday be remembered as the Fort Sumter of the Black Sea War.Late that day, Ukrainian airborne commandos stormed the small Russian-controlled navy base here, ousted Russian officers' families from their homes at gunpoint, ransacked their apartments and took control of the base....

MOSCOW -- After months of tough negotiations, pro-Western parties that led Ukraine's Orange Revolution reached agreement yesterday on restoring a coalition that would return former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to power. "We won democracy for Ukraine by approving this decision today," Tymoshenko told parliament as she and other coalition leaders announced the agreement. The country's new parliament faces a Saturday deadline to approve the deal, which could fall apart because of tensions within the coalition.