NATION IN BRIEF

Evacuees pushed the candidates for answers to questions about restoring basic services, such as electricity and trash pickup.

"I cannot lie to you and tell you every single service in every single neighborhood is going to come back immediately," said candidate Ron Forman, an executive credited with turning New Orleans's zoo into a national showcase.

Other candidates agreed.

"If I said yes, it would be an empty promise," said the Rev. Tom Watson, a politically influential minister who is also running for mayor.

The candidates urged displaced residents to find a way to vote. Louisiana officials plan to establish satellite voting centers for New Orleans voters in other parishes and loosen absentee voting rules for those sending ballots from out of state.

"This is the most important election in the city's history," said Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, another candidate.

If no candidate gets a majority of the votes in the nonpartisan primary, the top two finishers will compete in a May 20 runoff election.

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· HENDERSON, Ky. -- Police recovered the bodies of two of four men missing since a sport-utility vehicle they were in plunged into the Ohio River. The body of Quillon Hughes, 21, was found Sunday afternoon about 150 yards from the boat ramp where the SUV went under April 2, authorities said. On Saturday, police found the body of Travis Sanners, 23. His brothers -- Michael Sanners, 26, and Stephen Parker, 21 -- were still missing. Two women, including the driver, drowned. A third female passenger survived.

· SPOKANE, Wash. -- A car plunged from the fifth level of a mall parking garage Saturday, killing the driver, Jo E. Savage of Pullman, police said. Savage apparently knocked down a concrete wall in the River Park Square garage before her car landed upside down, witnesses said.

-- From News Services