DATE: Saturday, March 8, 1997               TAG: 9703080295

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VIRGINIA

RICHMOND - Gov. George F. Allen said Friday he can't wait for state ABC agents to enforce Virginia's anti-smoking laws. So he's asking that they do it three months earlier than planned.

When the General Assembly meets April 2 to consider vetoes and amendments the governor makes to legislation, Allen will ask members to give ABC agents power to enforce smoking laws immediately. A bill that passed the legislature this year giving agents the new authority won't take effect until July 1.

``Our administration is committed to enforcing laws against underage smoking,'' Allen said in a news release Friday afternoon.

``We have taken positive steps to toughen Virginia's laws against selling tobacco products to children. This legislation is another attempt toward strengthening and enforcing those laws.''

When the law takes effect, agents for the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control will enforce Virginia's law prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors. Violators can be fined $100 for the first offense, $200 for the second and $500 for the third. Woman suspected of killing herself and her children

RICHMOND - A Cambodian woman fatally shot her two sons and then killed herself in a Henrico County apartment, police said.

The father of the children, who has not been identified, returned home about 1 a.m. Friday to find their bodies, said Henrico Sgt. Bob Loving.

Neang Moeum, 32, apparently used a handgun to kill her sons before shooting herself, Loving said.

The bodies of Chhorm Kong, 10, and Daivd Kong, 6, were in the living room and the kitchen, Loving said. Police found Neang Moeum's body in her bedroom.

Moeum had recently been treated for a mental disorder, Loving said.

The family had been in the United States for 10 years, Loving said, and had lived at the Crestwood Apartments in Henrico for about nine months. MEMO: Staff writer Robert Little and The Associated Press contributed to

this report. KEYWORDS: MURDER SUICIDE

TEENAGERS TEEN SMOKING

SMOKING CIGARETTES TOBACCO

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