A01 1 <#FROWN:A01\>After 35 straight veto victories, intense A01 2 lobbying fails president with election in offing

A01 3 By Elaine S. Povich

A01 4 CHICAGO TRIBUNE

A01 5 WASHINGTON - Despite intense White House lobbying, Congress has A01 6 voted to override the veto of a cable television regulation bill, A01 7 dealing President Bush the first veto defeat of his presidency just A01 8 four weeks before the election.

A01 9 Monday night, the Senate overrode the veto 74-25. the same A01 10 margin by which the upper house approved the bill last month and A01 11 comfortably above the two-thirds majority needed.

A01 12 Not one senator changed sides, a blow to Bush's prestige after A01 13 he had heavily lobbied Republican senators, urging them not to A01 14 embarrass him this close to the election.

A01 15 Both California senators, Republican John Seymour and Democrat A01 16 Alan Cranston, voted to sustain the veto.

A01 17 The bill was immediately sent to the House, which voted 308-114 A01 18 for the override, 26 more than needed. A cheer went up as the House A01 19 vote was tallied, ending Bush's string of successful vetoes at A01 20 35.

A01 21 Among those voting to override in the Senate was Democratic A01 22 vice presidential nominee Al Gore, a co-author of the bill. He then A01 23 left the chamber to join Democratic presidential nominee Bill A01 24 Clinton on 'Larry King Live' on CNN.

A01 25 Asked whether it was a blow to Bush for the override to fall so A01 26 close to the election, Clinton said, "It won't do him any A01 27 good."

A01 28 Bush attributed the vote to effective lobbying by the TV A01 29 broadcast networks on Capitol Hill.

A01 30 "I think I was right on principle," Bush said A01 31 in an interview on ABC's 'Good Morning America.'

A01 32 "I think the approach I had would have kept consumer A01 33 costs down. It was a battle between the networks against cable, and A01 34 the networks did a very good job of convincing people that their A01 35 approach would keep costs down."

A01 36 Of his first veto defeat, Bush said: "We've had a good A01 37 streak. We won 35 straight. Lost one. Not a bad record."

A01 38 The administration, all but giving up on the House, had A01 39 concentrated its efforts on the Senate. Bush lobbied eight A01 40 Republican senators over the weekend, telephoning them from the A01 41 campaign trail and inviting a select group to breakfast at the A01 42 White House on Sunday.

A01 43 But it became apparent Monday evening that the pressure had A01 44 failed when, one after another, the lobbied senators voted against A01 45 their president. As each of their votes was announced, an A01 46 "ooooh" was heard from the packed galleries.

A01 47 Some of the targeted senators had indicated they would switch A01 48 and support Bush, but when it became apparent the president would A01 49 lose, not one changed his vote - including Senate Minority Whip A01 50 Alan Simpson of Wyoming, who had tried to sway other senators to A01 51 Bush's side.

A01 52 "There was no point for those who wanted to support the A01 53 president to switch when he wasn't going to win anyway," A01 54 said Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash.

A01 55 In the House, 230 Democrats, 77 Republicans and one independent A01 56 voted for the bill while 29 Democrats and 85 Republicans opposed A01 57 it.

A01 58 The bill was passed in the Senate by 50 Democrats and 24 A01 59 Republicans and opposed by seven Democrats and 18 Republicans.

A01 60 Many Republicans, especially those up for re-election, viewed A01 61 the cable television re-regulation bill, which was aimed at A01 62 lowering cable rates, as a boon to consumers.

A01 63 But the politics of the issue were visible. As an example, A01 64 Democratic leaders in the Senate allowed Republicans to control the A01 65 debate for and against the bill, a highly unusual move and an A01 66 apparent effort to show Bush at odds with members of his own A01 67 party.

A01 68 "This is an effort to embarrass President Bush 30 days A01 69 before the election," Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole of A01 70 Kansas said before the vote. "I urge my colleagues to A01 71 sustain the president's veto. He hasn't asked for much."

A01 72 Bush put his reputation of governing by veto on the line in A01 73 urging the Senate to sustain him one last time before the A01 74 election.

A01 75 Some Republican senators said they had advised Bush not to sign A01 76 or veto the cable legislation but instead let it go into law A01 77 without his signature, thus avoiding the high-profile veto A01 78 fight.

A01 79 The cable television re-regulation bill was drafted in response A01 80 to consumer complaints to Congress that cable prices had risen at A01 81 three times the inflation rate and that many cable companies hold A01 82 monopolies.

A01 83 But it soon became a high-stakes fight between the A01 84 cable industry and over-the-air broadcasters, each using their own A01 85 medium to press their opposing points.

A01 86 In frequent ads, the cable industry argued that rates would A01 87 actually rise, not decrease, if the bill became law because of a A01 88 provision that requires the cable companies to reimburse A01 89 broadcasters for programming the cable companies now get for A01 90 free.

A01 91 Broadcasters and consumer groups used their airwaves to argue A01 92 for the bill, noting that it would limit rates for cable service, A01 93 require cable operators to meet customer-service standards and make A01 94 it easier for competing cable companies to enter the market.

A01 95 A01 96 Clinton follows rivals to 'talk TV'

A01 97 But few callers get through to candidate

A01 98 EXAMINER NEWS SERVICES

A01 99 GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Democratic presidential candidate Bill A01 100 Clinton went boldly where his presidential rivals have already gone A01 101 - CNN's 'Larry King Live' - but callers to the show didn't get much A01 102 of a say in the proceedings.

A01 103 For a show billed as an opportunity for voters to question A01 104 Clinton and running mate Al Gore, only six callers got through as A01 105 King did most of the asking. One of the callers was Clinton's A01 106 mother, Virginia Kelley.

A01 107 President Bush appeared on the King show Sunday night - and A01 108 took no viewer calls. Independent candidate Ross Perot has had A01 109 several sessions with King, including one in February during which A01 110 he first said he was interested in running for president.

A01 111 Clinton and Gore made their foray into TV-talk politics after a A01 112 daylong bus caravan across central Florida as they tried to pad a A01 113 narrow lead in a state that last supported a Democrat for president A01 114 in 1976.

A01 115 The Democrats were wrapping up their Florida trip with a A01 116 morning rally at the University of Florida before heading on to A01 117 Nashville and another unorthodox campaign appearance - this time on A01 118 the 'Donahue' show.

A01 119 With the first of three presidential debates set for Sunday in A01 120 St. Louis, Clinton said he was eager to engage Bush. And he A01 121 disputed the president's assertion, made in Florida over the A01 122 weekend, that Bush's military service made him more qualified to be A01 123 commander-in-chief.

A01 124 "That's a matter of honest disagreement, but I just A01 125 disagree, and history indicates we have had a lot of good A01 126 commanders-in-chief with no military service," Clinton A01 127 said.

A01 128 Clinton also upped the ante somewhat in his rhetorical war with A01 129 Bush over the president's dealings with Saddam Hussein prior to the A01 130 Persian Gulf war, saying a special prosecutor should investigate A01 131 the Bush administration's favorable trade dealings with Iraq and A01 132 the extent to which Bush continued helping Hussein after the U.S. A01 133 administration learned Hussein was using agriculture credits for A01 134 military purposes.

A01 135 Asked by King whether there should be "a special A01 136 prosecutor, special investigation," of the administration's A01 137 pre-war trade agreements with Hussein, Clinton responded, A01 138 "I think there should be."

A01 139 Clinton also defended his 1970 travels, which Bush's camp has A01 140 insinuated were somehow connected to his alleged organization of at A01 141 least one anti-Vietnam War protest as a graduate student in A01 142 England.

A01 143 A statement by the Bush campaign, echoing a report in the A01 144 Washington Times Monday, charged that Clinton had "turned A01 145 up in the Soviet Union ... six weeks after he helped organize a A01 146 massive anti-war protest in London."

A01 147 "They're pretty good at starting stuff, those guys A01 148 are," Clinton said of the Republicans.

A01 149 He said that starting in the first week of 1970 he had toured A01 150 Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland before spending a week in the A01 151 Soviet Union. He said he had returned to England via Czechoslovakia A01 152 during a 40-day break from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar in A01 153 1969 and 1970.

A01 154 Newsweek magazine reported Sunday that the FBI had been called A01 155 to investigate after State Department officials found that several A01 156 pages had been ripped out of a Clinton passport file.

A01 157 Newsweek suggested that the material could have been removed or A01 158 destroyed by someone sympathetic to the Clinton campaign. Or, the A01 159 magazine speculated, a supporter of the Bush administration might A01 160 have taken the documents to give the appearance that incriminating A01 161 material had been removed.

A01 162 "I didn't even know I had a State Department file until A01 163 this rumor came up," Clinton said.

A01 164 On the campaign trail Monday, Bush attacked Clinton during A01 165 campaign stops in Dover, Del. Bush concentrated his fire on A01 166 Arkansas' poor standing among the 50 states in the death rate for A01 167 children under 14, the number of children in poverty and the A01 168 violent death rate of youngsters.

A01 169 In all those categories, Bush said the national average had A01 170 improved but the average in Arkansas had slipped. The president A01 171 accused Clinton of "not leveling with the American A01 172 people" on his dealing with the problems.

A01 173 Bush also criticized Clinton for his qualified endorsement of A01 174 the North American Free Trade Agreement among the United States, A01 175 Canada and Mexico, saying his opponent had wavered on the pact, A01 176 which will be initialed by negotiators Wednesday in Texas.

A01 177 "Once upon a time he said he was for NAFTA, the free A01 178 trade agreement," Bush told the crowd. "Then the A01 179 labor bosses told him they were against it, so he said he wasn't A01 180 sure he was for it or against it.

A01 181 "Now he's looked at the polls, and he sees the American people A01 182 want NAFTA, so just yesterday he said he's for it."

A01 183 But the president said Clinton "saddled his support A01 184 with all kinds of reservations and qualifications."

A01 185 Clinton endorsed the agreement Sunday but said additional steps A01 186 should be taken to ensure the protection of American jobs and the A01 187 environment as the agreement was implemented.

A01 188 A01 189 Taunting disrupts campaign stroll

A01 190 Vice president's visit to S.F. raises money, ire

A01 191 By John Jacobs

A01 192 EXAMINER CHIEF POLITICAL WRITER

A01 193 Like a moth to flame, Vice President Dan Quayle is drawn to A01 194 controversy in San Francisco.

A01 195 Last May, he unleashed a national uproar here for rebuking A01 196 fictional TV newscaster Murphy Brown for her decision to have a A01 197 baby without a husband.

A01 198 Late Monday, four weeks before the Nov.3 election, he drew A01 199 crowds of angry, obscenity-spouting protesters who forced him back A01 200 into his black Cadillac El Dorado limousine as he tried to walk A01 201 along Grant Avenue in Chinatown.

A01 202 Gay protesters chanting anti-Quayle slogans prompted the vice A01 203 president's press secretary, David Beckwith, to charge that A01 204 Democrat Bill Clinton "advocated affirmative action for A01 205 gays."

A01 206 "It is our view," he said, "they are A01 207 not a protected class. The only way to determine who is in that A01 208 class is to ask people, and we don't think that's anybody's A01 209 business."

A01 210 Even people in oats and ties were shouting "four more A01 211 weeks" and "shame" as Quayle, always smiling, tried A01 212 to walk from St. Mary's Chinese Catholic Center, where he toured A01 213 several preschool classrooms, to Miriwa Restaurant. There, he A01 214 appeared at a fund-raising dinner for Republican Senate candidate A01 215 Bruce Herschensohn. Earlier in the day, Quayle appeared at a closed A01 216 fund-raiser for Herschensohn in Palo Alto.

A01 217 "We are going to win California - put it in the A01 218 bank," Quayle told some 400 guests at the Miriwa, about A01 219 half of them Asian, who paid $125 each to give the vice president a A01 220 warm welcome.

A01 221 Angry protesters

A01 222 Across the street at the Ping Yuen Housing Center on Pacific A01 223 Avenue, the local Clinton-Gore campaign sponsored an 'in-your-face' A01 224 event criticizing Quayle.

A01 225 "How dare you come to Chinatown and walk through her A01 226 and think that's all we want from you, a photo op?" said A01 227 Alicia Wong, a teacher at City College of San Francisco and a A01 228 member of the Democratic National Committee. "Do you think A01 229 we are so stupid we don't know what you've been doing to our A01 230 community for the past 10 years? There are 7,000 children here A01 231 living below the poverty line. Is that a good photo op?"

A01 232 During his evening remarks, Quayle recounted his A01 233 "magnificent experience" at the preschool, but he A01 234 got the name wrong and called it "St. Francis."

A01 235 Describing his "walk" afterward, Quayle said: A01 236 "You'll probably see it on TV. A01 237 A01 238 A02 1 <#FROWN:A02\>U.S. CONGRESS RUSH TOWARD ADJOURNMENT

A02 2 Dilemma headed Bush's way

A02 3 Senate readies to pass a tempting but tax-tainted bill

A02 4 By Michael Kranish

A02 5 BOSTON GLOBE

A02 6 WASHINGTON - Just as President Bush is trying to assure voters A02 7 that he will not raise taxes, the Senate is putting his political A02 8 will power to the test by preparing to pass a bill filled with A02 9 programs that Bush has sought for months - but also including items A02 10 that might be interpreted as tax hikes.

A02 11 The bill is politically attractive to the president because it A02 12 includes many measures that Bush has called for, including A02 13 enterprise zones to revive urban and rural areas, and increased tax A02 14 deductibility for individual retirement accounts. Moreover, it A02 15 eliminates the luxury tax on boats and airplanes, as Bush has A02 16 requested.

A02 17 But some critics say the bill is a giveaway to special A02 18 interests such as boat manufacturers and real estate tax shelter A02 19 sales people. The $27 billion bill is such a political football A02 20 that Democrat Bill Clinton has decided to take no position on it A02 21 because it is too complicated, his spokesman said.

A02 22 If this were any other time than a month before the A02 23 presidential election, Bush would probably sign the bill and A02 24 declare a great victory. After all, on Saturday, after Bush A02 25 threatened to veto the legislation, Senate negotiators eliminated A02 26 the two major taxes in the bill, leaving only some lesser tax A02 27 items, some of which Bush had supported in the first place.

A02 28 The bill appears a classic example of congressional compromise, A02 29 not the 'gridlock Congress' that Bush has spent the year bashing A02 30 for refusing to enact his programs. With the elimination of most of A02 31 the tax hikes, some Republicans said it was tilted in Bush's favor. A02 32 Bush seemed aware of his dilemma Monday when he acknowledged that A02 33 he was not sure whether he would veto the bill.

A02 34 "I have some real reservations about part of it, but A02 35 the problem is they always send me something that has some of the A02 36 things I want, and then loaded up with, in this instance, A02 37 taxes," Bush said on ABC-TV Monday. "So I'll have A02 38 to wait and see what final form it is in, because there are some A02 39 things in there I like and have been fighting for."

A02 40 That might seem like a natural opening for Clinton to accuse A02 41 the president of waffling on the bill. But the bill is so A02 42 politically sensitive that Clinton is avoiding the issue.

A02 43 It is also possible that Republicans will help Bush avoid the A02 44 issue altogether by filibustering the bill, delaying a vote until A02 45 after the election. But many Republicans, such as Sen. Bob Packwood A02 46 of Oregon, said that Bush should sign the bill because it had so A02 47 many elements that the president had backed.

A02 48 Hard line on taxes

A02 49 With Clinton remaining out of the fray, the focus is on whether A02 50 Bush will get in political trouble if he signs a bill that could be A02 51 interpreted as a tax hike.

A02 52 Bush may have put himself in a bind because, in an effort to A02 53 erase the memory of his broken "no new taxes" A02 54 pledge, Bush has said he will not accept new tax increases. The A02 55 dilemma for Bush is that the tax items in this bill are not A02 56 normally considered tax increases. They are mostly technical A02 57 measures, such as changing the way securities dealers calculate A02 58 their inventory to bring in more tax revenues.

A02 59 In this campaign, however, Bush has made an issue out of saying A02 60 that anything that brings in more money to the government is a tax A02 61 increase. For example, in charging that Democrat Bill Clinton has A02 62 raised taxes and fees 128 times as governor, Bush has said that A02 63 everything from the extension of a racing season to a fee for A02 64 mineral rights is a tax or fee.

A02 65 If Bush now signs a bill that has several items that would A02 66 qualify as a tax or fee, it might undermine Bush's claims about A02 67 Clinton's tax record.

A02 68 A02 69 Energy bill running out of time

A02 70 Nuclear waste dump opponents stall measure in the Senate

A02 71 EXAMINER NEWS SERVICES

A02 72 WASHINGTON - After nearly two years and countless compromises, A02 73 a long-awaited energy bill is in danger of stalling because of a A02 74 dispute over a proposed nuclear waste dump in Nevada - and the rush A02 75 by the 102nd Congress to adjourn.

A02 76 The legislation, which would boost conservation through tax A02 77 incentives and new efficiency standards and speed construction of A02 78 nuclear power plants, cleared the House on Monday by a 363-60 A02 79 vote.

A02 80 But it immediately ran into problems in the Senate, where A02 81 Nevada's two members vowed to delay the bill because of a provision A02 82 they said would weaken health standards for a proposed nuclear A02 83 waste dump at Yucca Mountain 100 miles northeast of Las Vegas.

A02 84 The bill's supporters said they still expected Senate approval A02 85 of the complex and sweeping energy package, which would mark the A02 86 first major overhaul of U.S. energy policy in more than a A02 87 decade.

A02 88 But with most lawmakers eager to adjourn, the Nevadans hoped a A02 89 delay threat might force Sen. Bennett Johnston, D-La., the bill's A02 90 manager, to abandon the Yucca Mountain provision. Early Tuesday as A02 91 Congress met, neither Johnston nor Nevada Democrats Richard Bryan A02 92 and Harry Reid had budged.

A02 93 Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, said that if A02 94 necessary he was prepared to call adjournment-minded senators back A02 95 on Thursday, after the Yom Kippur holiday break, to deal with the A02 96 bill - something few lawmakers would relish. It then would take the A02 97 approval of 60 members to bring the measure up for a vote.

A02 98 The bill, more than 900 pages long, touches on virtually every A02 99 area of U.S. energy policy, from requiring new efficiency standards A02 100 for lights and shower heads to making it easier to build nuclear A02 101 reactors.

A02 102 By voice vote, both houses approved a $250 billion defense A02 103 spending bill for the 12 months that began Oct. 1. It earmarks $3.8 A02 104 billion for the Strategic Defense Initiative anti-missile system; A02 105 Bush had asked $5.4 billion. The measure also would pay for A02 106 completing a fleet of 20 B-2 Stealth bombers.

A02 107 Also in the House of Representatives' bill was more than $65 A02 108 million for refurbishing the Presidio over the next two years.

A02 109 The bill also included language that protects San Francisco A02 110 against legal damages caused by the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard's A02 111 massive hazardous waste problems.

A02 112 "This protects us from any lawsuit stemming from toxic A02 113 wastes," said San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Executive A02 114 Director Edward Helfeld, noting that the federal action - assuming A02 115 it is signed by President Bush - would remove a principal barrier A02 116 to conversion of the shipyard to civilian use.

A02 117 The shipyard has been discussed as a possible expansion site A02 118 for the UC Medical Center as well as a principal source of future A02 119 jobs.

A02 120 But before new uses can be developed, much public investment A02 121 will be needed to improve the 540-acre site's rundown systems for A02 122 water delivery, storm runoff, sanitary disposal, fire protection A02 123 and transportation.

A02 124 In other action:

A02 125 <*_>black-triangle<*/>A handful of conservative Republicans A02 126 killed a bill that would have lifted the federal prohibition on A02 127 using tissue from induced abortions in research on transplantation. A02 128 Although 85 senators had indicated support for ending the Ban, 12 A02 129 senators who oppose abortion voted against limiting debate on the A02 130 measure. Their threat of a new filibuster was enough to force A02 131 abandonment of the measure.

A02 132 <*_>black-triangle<*/>The threat of a filibuster also killed A02 133 the so-called "Brady bill," requiring a five-day waiting period A02 134 before a handgun sale could be completed.

A02 135 <*_>black-triangle<*/>The House and Senate cleared for Bush's A02 136 signature a $14 billion foreign-aid bill. It guarantees $10 billion A02 137 of loans that would be used to build housing and create jobs for A02 138 Jewish immigrants in Israel. Israel also would get $3 billion of A02 139 aid; Egypt, $2.1 billion; republics formerly in the Soviet Union A02 140 would get $417 million if they meet human rights criteria.

A02 141 <*_>black-triangle<*/>Both houses completed a $2.3 billion bill A02 142 to finance congressional operations over the next 12 months. That A02 143 is a $29 million cut from last year.

A02 144 A02 145 Brazil's uncertain future

A02 146 Democracy fragile despite orderly impeachment

A02 147 By Gary Marx

A02 148 CHICAGO TRIBUNE

A02 149 BRASILIA, Brazil - The process of impeaching Brazilian A02 150 President Fernando Collor de Mello for corruption was smooth, quick A02 151 and efficient. There was no whitewash, no military coup.

A02 152 Collor - Brazil's first freely elected president in 29 years - A02 153 was suspended by the lower house of Congress after being accused of A02 154 skimming millions of dollars from a bribery and kickback scheme A02 155 operated by his 1989 campaign treasurer.

A02 156 And though last week's action suspends him for only 180 days, A02 157 until the Senate votes on whether to make impeachment final, his A02 158 removal has been described as a triumph of democracy - an A02 159 affirmation of change in a country and continent known for coups, A02 160 assassinations, mind-boggling corruption and government A02 161 ineptitude.

A02 162 "It is the first time in Brazilian history that a A02 163 president has been put out of power by the interplay between A02 164 Congress, the Supreme Court and the population, without any threat, A02 165 any military pressure at all," said Fernando Henrique A02 166 Cardoso, a prominent senator who was named Brazil's new foreign A02 167 minister. "The significance is that democracy is A02 168 well-rooted in Brazilian society."

A02 169 But is democracy secure in Brazil? And what about the rest of A02 170 South America, where freely elected leaders govern the 10 largest A02 171 nations?

A02 172 In a continent with weak democratic traditions, where power is A02 173 still wielded by individuals, Collor's removal by constitutional A02 174 means demonstrates to South Americans that democracy can work.

A02 175 There were massive demonstrations demanding his removal. A02 176 Congress heard the voice of the people. And the president was A02 177 ousted.

A02 178 But Collor's removal may prove to be the exception rather than A02 179 the rule: While South Americans prefer democracy, in most countries A02 180 their elected leaders have not even begun to solve dire economic A02 181 and social problems - unequal distribution of land, the lack of A02 182 basic health care and education, a huge gap between rich and A02 183 poor.

A02 184 Most elected officials in South America continue to be the A02 185 elite, using political power for personal gain rather than to help A02 186 the impoverished masses. What South Americans are demanding is a A02 187 system of government that helps them, and there is little consensus A02 188 that democracy is the only answer.

A02 189 "Our democracy is fragile. We need to get the A02 190 population to believe that democracy is working for them... The A02 191 most important need in Brazil is to achieve equality," said A02 192 Jose Murilo de Carvalho, a leading political scientist.

A02 193 Democracy is most secure in Chile and Colombia, two nations A02 194 with long democratic traditions that have prospered in the last A02 195 decade. It also seems relatively stable in Argentina, primarily A02 196 because the memory is fresh of that nation's bloody and disastrous A02 197 military rule in the 1970s and early 1980s.

A02 198 But it's also because President Carlos Menem has brought A02 199 economic stability to Argentina after decades of hyperinflation and A02 200 financial insecurity. All bets are off, however, if his free-market A02 201 economic program collapses. A military coup is unlikely; political A02 202 instability is not.

A02 203 In Venezuela, few people rallied behind President Carlos Andres A02 204 Perez when he was nearly ousted in a military coup in February. A02 205 Perez, who was elected to a second term as president in 1988, has A02 206 carried out an ambitious free-market reform program that shows A02 207 signs of reversing a steep economic decline.

A02 208 Many Venezuelans believe he has lined his pockets at a time of A02 209 economic crisis. Most Venezuelans think their Congress is no A02 210 better: just a collection of thieves looting the treasury.

A02 211 The young military officers who led the coup promised an honest A02 212 and efficient government. It's a familiar chant, but many A02 213 Venezuelans believed it. The nation's last military dictatorship A02 214 ended in 1958, and its mercurial and strong-armed rule are a A02 215 distant memory.

A02 216 In Peru today, President Alberto Fujimori has a 74 percent A02 217 approval rating six months after suspending the constitution and A02 218 assuming near-dictatorial powers, up from 60 percent just before A02 219 Shining Path guerrilla leader Abimael Guzman was captured last A02 220 month.

A02 221 Since democracy was restored in Peru in 1980, poverty has A02 222 soared and Shining Path has spread its war across the nation. A02 223 Fujimori said the nation's Congress and judiciary were frustrating A02 224 his efforts to defeat the leftist guerrillas and reverse the A02 225 nation's economic decline.

A02 226 Fujimori, a political novice elected in 1990, is seen as an A02 227 honest and hard-working leader. But Peruvians also will turn A02 228 against Fujimori if the guerrilla war intensifies and the economy A02 229 fails to improve.

A02 230 A03 1 <#FROWN:A03\>Bush Wants to Double Size of U.S. Economy

A03 2 By James Gerstenzang

A03 3 Los Angeles Times

A03 4 Detroit - President Bush, struggling to demonstrate a A03 5 comprehensive plan to pull the nation out of its economic doldrums A03 6 while hoping to boost his re-election campaign, set a goal A03 7 yesterday of building a $10 trillion U.S. economy.

A03 8 If achieved, the target for post-recession growth would A03 9 nearly double the size of the U.S. economy - as measured by the A03 10 value of the goods produced in its factories and the services A03 11 workers offer - by the early years of the 21st century.

A03 12 In a lengthy speech that focused on the failures of the past A03 13 and the challenges of the future - and little on the most immediate A03 14 and pressing problems facing American workers - the president A03 15 offered no new plans or short-term solutions to ease A03 16 recession-induced fears over job security.

A03 17 Instead, the speech pulled together the variety of programs A03 18 Bush has proposed in the past to deal with such pressing problems A03 19 as job training, health care and education. He related them to A03 20 their potential effect on the U.S. economy, and tried to make a A03 21 case for the ever-growing links between the U.S. economy and global A03 22 markets.

A03 23 The speech to the Economic Club of Detroit, titled A03 24 "Agenda for American Renewal," outlined a A03 25 philosophical approach that calls for cutting taxes, paying for the A03 26 tax cuts by reducing government spending and producing a shrunken A03 27 government, in the process providing incentives to a streamlined A03 28 business community so that it can reach the $10 trillion goal.

A03 29 "That's the direction I want to go: Tax less, spend A03 30 less, cut the deficit and redirect our current spending to serve A03 31 the interests of all Americans," Bush said.

A03 32 For the first time, Bush attached a specific figure to the A03 33 across-the-board tax cut that he says he would seek from Congress A03 34 if re-elected. But the 1 percent figure he cited was offered only A03 35 as an example of what could be achieved if all the spending cuts A03 36 for which he has called, valued at roughly $130 billion, were A03 37 approved by Congress.

A03 38 "That is an illustration because it would depend on if A03 39 you could get the $130 billion," a senior administration A03 40 official said, explaining that Bush's purpose in using the figure A03 41 was to demonstrate the sort of break taxpayers would get in return A03 42 for cuts in government spending.

A03 43 And in what he called "right-sizing" government, Bush A03 44 said that he would cut the operating budget of the executive office A03 45 of the president, which includes his immediate staff of assistants A03 46 and secretaries and hundreds of people working in the Office of A03 47 Management and Budget and other executive branch agencies, by 33 A03 48 percent if Congress - with a staff many times larger - agrees to a A03 49 similar percentage reduction in its operating budget.

A03 50 "And," he said, "I'll cut the salaries of all A03 51 federal employees earning more than $75,000 by 5 percent. Taxpayers A03 52 have tightened their belts. The better-paid federal workers should A03 53 do the same."

A03 54 Such a cut would trim his own $200,000 salary by $10,000 a A03 55 year.

A03 56 Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton said that the A03 57 president's proposals amounted to more of the same programs that A03 58 have led the nation into economic decline.

A03 59 "I strongly believe we have to go beyond the failed A03 60 policies of this administration, beyond trickle-down economics. We A03 61 need real incentives to invest in this country, to educate our A03 62 people, to control health care costs and to compete around the A03 63 world," he said in a statement made by satellite from the A03 64 governor's mansion in Little Rock, Ark.

A03 65 Clinton contended that under Bush's plan, Americans with A03 66 incomes of more than $200,000 would get a $14,000 tax cut, while A03 67 those making $20,000 would get about $50.

A03 68 Despite Clinton's critique and Bush's own description of a A03 69 "grand canyon" between himself and the governor, A03 70 Bush's speech and an address Clinton delivered to the same A03 71 organization on August 21 demonstrated the degree of similarity in A03 72 their approaches.

A03 73 Clinton based his economic program on "job-creating A03 74 investment," including job training, education reform, and A03 75 improved health care; and investing money saved from reduced A03 76 defense spending on new civilian technologies.

A03 77 Clinton's principal difference with Bush, as outlined in the A03 78 August 21 speech, is over the formation of a "national A03 79 economic strategy," which the president labeled an A03 80 "industrial policy" that he says would give A03 81 government too great a role in directing the nation's A03 82 businesses.

A03 83 A03 84 House OKs President's Plan

A03 85 Family Leave Bill

A03 86 Margin isn't enough to override a Bush veto

A03 87 By Adam Clymer

A03 88 New York Times

A03 89 Washington - After a debate marked by emotion, sarcasm and A03 90 political one-upmanship, the House yesterday passed and sent to A03 91 President Bush a bill that would require employers to give workers A03 92 12 weeks of unpaid leave for family and personal medical A03 93 emergencies.

A03 94 Despite a threatened veto, Democrats and some Republicans said A03 95 that passing the measure was essential if lawmakers believe in A03 96 "family values." But the 241-to-161 vote was far A03 97 short of the two-thirds majority required to override, and a White A03 98 House spokeswoman, Judy Smith, said she is "confident of A03 99 strength to sustain a veto."

A03 100 Yesterday's action, which followed passage on a voice vote in A03 101 the Senate last month, was Congress' most forceful entry into the A03 102 presidential campaign, a measure that Democrats believe will help A03 103 Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton.

A03 104 He supports the bill and can be expected to say that electing A03 105 him is the only way to enact the legislation, which polls show is A03 106 very popular.

A03 107 The bill, similar to a measure that Bush vetoed in 1990, would A03 108 require employers of 50 or more people to allow their workers A03 109 unpaid leave, with health insurance kept in force, to care for a A03 110 sick child, parent, husband or wife, or for the workers' own A03 111 medical needs, such as pregnancy.

A03 112 It would not apply to employees who worked less than 25 hours a A03 113 week, and employers could exclude the highest-paid 10 percent of A03 114 their workers. About 5 percent of employers and 50 percent of all A03 115 employees would be covered.

A03 116 A Gallup Poll for Life magazine in the spring found that 83 A03 117 percent of adults backed the measure and 16 percent opposed it.

A03 118 Smith said Bush opposes the bill but does not oppose family A03 119 leaves. She said the president thinks such leaves should be A03 120 negotiated between employers and workers.

A03 121 A White House aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said A03 122 the administration would prefer a system of tax credits to small A03 123 employers to help them finance such leaves.

A03 124 House majority leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri told of A03 125 getting a leave from his law firm years ago to care for an A03 126 18-month-old son with cancer. "For the parents whose A03 127 employers do not provide this benefit voluntarily, the choice A03 128 between keeping one's job or caring for a new child or sick family A03 129 member is a choice no American should have to make," he A03 130 said.

A03 131 "We believe we can honor the values of work and A03 132 family," Gephardt added. "We can demonstrate our A03 133 commitment to family values by our deeds, not just by our words. We A03 134 can rise above the partisan differences that often justifiably A03 135 divide us."

A03 136 But Representative Robert Michel of Illinois, the Republican A03 137 leader in the House, contended that the bill dealt with neither A03 138 family values nor labor issues. "This bill is only about A03 139 one thing: election-year politics, pure and simple - or at least A03 140 simple."

A03 141 If the Democrats really care about the measure, Michel asked, A03 142 why did they wait until now to bring it to the House floor. It was A03 143 passed in both houses last fall and a compromise had been reached A03 144 in August.

A03 145 Most Republicans contend that the bill will hurt employers and A03 146 thus cost jobs.

A03 147 Representative Cass Ballenger, R-N.C., called the requirement A03 148 "just one more burden placed on small businesses struggling A03 149 to survive."

A03 150 Some Republicans disagreed. Representative Marge Roukema of New A03 151 Jersey, for instance, said there was "not one shred of A03 152 evidence that this will be costly to business."

A03 153 And Representative Henry Hyde, R-Ill., said: "A woman A03 154 should not have to choose between having a baby and keeping a job. A03 155 It would be one less thing to worry about for a woman who is A03 156 pregnant or a father whose child is sick. Family values require you A03 157 to support this bill."

A03 158 But in the end, only 37 Republicans voted for the bill, and 119 A03 159 opposed it and 10 did not vote. Two hundred and three Democrats A03 160 voted for it, 42 voted no and 22 did not vote.

A03 161 A03 162 Japan Criticized for Hard Line on Kuriles

A03 163 New York Times

A03 164 Tokyo

A03 165 President Boris Yeltsin's sudden cancellation of his trip to A03 166 Japan unleashed an unusual round of recriminations as the Japanese A03 167 government was accused of pressing an embattled Russian leader so A03 168 hard on its territorial claims that it lost its best chance in A03 169 decades to improve relations with Moscow.

A03 170 Although it remained possible for Russia and Japan to work out A03 171 a cooperative relationship on some levels, Prime Minister Kiichi A03 172 Miyazawa left little doubt yesterday that he thought that a A03 173 resolution of the long-standing territorial dispute with Russia is A03 174 years away. The issue concerns a handful of islands in the Kurile A03 175 chain north of Japan that were seized by the Soviet Union in the A03 176 closing days of World War II.

A03 177 "Let's wait patiently," Miyazawa told reporters A03 178 yesterday morning, adding that "we won't make any A03 179 approaches" to revive talks on the issue any time soon.

A03 180 Japan has demanded the return of the islands, or at least A03 181 recognition of Japanese sovereignty over them, as a prerequisite to A03 182 improving relations with Moscow and considering large-scale A03 183 economic aid and investment.

A03 184 The country's elite seems to be sharply divided between those A03 185 who say that a geographically small, resource-poor nation must A03 186 never give up an inch and those who argue that Japan is rich enough A03 187 to afford placing the issue on hold until Russia is stable.

A03 188 The unusual criticism of Japan's hard-line approach came from A03 189 the governor of Hokkaido, the Japanese territory closest to the A03 190 disputed region, who told reporters that Japan had "aimed A03 191 to gain 100 points and eventually got zero." Because of A03 192 Hokkaido's proximity to Russia, popular sentiment there has favored A03 193 a compromise on the territorial issue as a means to improve A03 194 economic ties.

A03 195 Business officials, who have been critical of the Japanese A03 196 Foreign Ministry's preoccupation with the islands, said yesterday A03 197 that they feared that the trip's cancellation would doom any chance A03 198 for Japan to make major investments in the Russian Far East for A03 199 years.

A03 200 Moreover, diplomats speculated that Japan would increasingly A03 201 find itself in conflict with its Western allies over Russian A03 202 policy. Although the United States supports Japan's position, A03 203 Germany and other nations have grown testy about Japan's continued A03 204 refusal to shoulder much of the aid burden for Russia.

A03 205 In a rare split on a major national foreign policy initiative, A03 206 there were also widespread charges yesterday that Tokyo had A03 207 unwisely allowed latent nationalistic instincts to prevail in its A03 208 dealings with a longtime rival.

A03 209 Critics claimed that Japan's leaders pushed the embattled A03 210 Russian president too far, wildly misjudged the depth of public A03 211 sentiment in Moscow and ultimately set their own cause back by A03 212 years.

A03 213 "This is the clearest case of the Japanese government A03 214 still being trapped in its Cold War thinking," said Haruki A03 215 Wada, a professor of Russian history at the University of Tokyo.

A03 216 "Everyone was so intent on exploiting the moment that A03 217 no one stopped to listen to the Russians," he said - or to A03 218 seriously consider arguments that funneling large-scale aid A03 219 to Russia should take priority over the reacquisition of a group of A03 220 ice-encrusted volcanic islands.

A03 221 A03 222 Yeltsin Agrees to Double Subsidized Price of Crude Oil

A03 223 By Fred Hiatt

A03 224 Washington Post

A03 225 Moscow

A03 226 Russian President Boris Yeltsin, one day after scrapping a A03 227 visit to Japan, approved a doubling of Russia's subsidized oil A03 228 prices, indicating that he is more willing to expend political A03 229 capital on unpopular economic reform than on unpopular foreign A03 230 policy ventures.

A03 231 The higher oil prices, which a deputy prime minister said will A03 232 take effect soon, are needed to bring in dollars and encourage A03 233 investment in Russia's vital but aging oil industry, officials A03 234 said. But the higher prices also will deal another blow to the A03 235 nation's already battered consumers, farmers and factories.

A03 236 A03 237 A03 238 A04 1 <#FROWN:A04\>Tokyo Plays Down Yeltsin Cancellation

A04 2 <*_>black-square<*/>Diplomacy: Officials urge patience, but A04 3 anger emerges. Russian press blames Japan's "hysterical" A04 4 environment for trip postponement.

A04 5 By TERESA WATANABE and JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG

A04 6 TIMES STAFF WRITERS

A04 7 TOKYO- One day after Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin A04 8 abruptly canceled his impending visit to Japan, Prime Minister A04 9 Kiichi Miyazawa and other officials scrambled Thursday to put the A04 10 best face on the diplomatic debacle, while public opinion was split A04 11 over whom to blame.

A04 12 Miyazawa urged his country to "wait patiently" A04 13 for Russia to sort out its domestic problems, while Foreign A04 14 Minister Michio Watanabe urged people to "keep a cool A04 15 head" and not respond in an "exaggerated A04 16 way."

A04 17 The pleas came as the Russian press began blaming Japan's A04 18 "hysterical" environment for contributing to Yeltsin's A04 19 abrupt postponement. However, only about 100 people gathered A04 20 outside the Japanese Embassy in Moscow for what was supposed to be A04 21 a massive anti-Japanese protest- and half of those present were A04 22 journalists.

A04 23 Watanabe also announced that Japan would not renege on any of A04 24 its international aid pledges to Russia. Tokyo has promised $100 A04 25 million in humanitarian aid and cooperation for the safety of A04 26 Russia's nuclear power plants, part of a $24-billion package A04 27 offered by the Group of Seven (G-7) industrial nations earlier this A04 28 year to help the former Soviet Union pull out of its economic A04 29 crisis.

A04 30 But the Japanese press reported Thursday that Russia had been A04 31 seeking a whopping $50-billion package of long-term aid from Japan, A04 32 a request categorically turned down by officials here as long as A04 33 there is no progress in settling the dispute over four small A04 34 islands seized by the Red Army at the close of World War II. The A04 35 islands, at the southern end of the Kuril chain, are off Japan's A04 36 northernmost main island, Hokkaido.

A04 37 Yeltsin's sudden action, coming just three days before his A04 38 scheduled arrival in Tokyo on Sunday, is almost without precedent A04 39 in Japan's modern diplomatic history, and it included a snub of the A04 40 imperial family, which had planned a welcome party.

A04 41 While most officials kept to low-key utterances of A04 42 "regret," public anger and frustration has also emerged A04 43 over what is being dubbed here the "postponement A04 44 shock."

A04 45 "This is childish diplomacy," fumed one A04 46 high-level Foreign Ministry official, who asked not to be A04 47 identified by name. The official said that the postponement has A04 48 shattered Tokyo's trust in Moscow and that any Russian A04 49 pronouncements will be taken with even more skepticism in the A04 50 future.

A04 51 Junichi Takemi, chairman of a ceramics firm, said it is just as A04 52 well that Yeltsin will not come, because investing in Russia is A04 53 like "throwing money down a sewer."

A04 54 The Russians were criticized here for everything from having A04 55 the gall to inform South Korean President Roh Tae Woo before A04 56 telling Miyazawa- Yeltsin had been scheduled to go to Seoul after A04 57 visiting Japan- to damaging local merchants, to wasting the efforts A04 58 that thousands of workers put into preparing for the state A04 59 visit.

A04 60 Members of the National Police Agency, which had completed A04 61 elaborate security arrangements involving 12,000 officers, took the A04 62 news in "open-mouthed" amazement, according to local press A04 63 reports. They were particularly irked about having to comply with A04 64 Russia's fussy demands for security at a sumo wrestling hall, which A04 65 entailed building a bulletproof shield around the entire ring- only A04 66 to see it go to waste.

A04 67 The New Otani Hotel, where most of the Russian delegation would A04 68 have stayed, suddenly found itself with about 70% of its rooms A04 69 vacant for four days.

A04 70 And the emperor's family had to call off plans for a welcome A04 71 party of 70 guests and a menu specially planned to accommodate A04 72 Yeltsin's tastes: grilled fish, cold smoked chicken, lamb roast and A04 73 an ice cream dessert arranged in the shape of Mt. Fuji.

A04 74 However, public criticism of Japan's hard-line diplomacy also A04 75 began to surface. Hokkaido Gov. Takahiro Yokomichi, whose A04 76 prefecture in northern Japan has begun building trade links with A04 77 the Soviet Far East, criticized officials for pushing too hard on A04 78 the issue of the Northern Territories, as the islands are referred A04 79 to in Japan.

A04 80 "The government aimed for 100 and ended up with A04 81 zero," Yokomichi said.

A04 82 Gregory Clark, a professor of political science at Sophia A04 83 University in Tokyo and a former Australian diplomat, called A04 84 Japan's diplomacy over the territorial issue "lousy." To A04 85 cling tenaciously to all claims of territory is not in keeping with A04 86 international practice, he said, citing as an example Poland's A04 87 retention of its World War II territorial gains from Germany.

A04 88 Others criticized Tokyo's insistence on linking large-scale A04 89 economic aid to a territorial resolution. But a top Japanese A04 90 official revealed Thursday that the Miyazawa administration views A04 91 the linkage as crucial for its political survival.

A04 92 "If I do not get economic aid separated from the A04 93 territorial issue, I will not be able to remain in office," A04 94 the government official quoted Yeltsin as telling Watanabe when the A04 95 two men met recently in Moscow.

A04 96 "[If Japan] began full-scale aid without progress on A04 97 the territorial issue, the Miyazawa administration would not A04 98 last," Watanabe reportedly responded.

A04 99 Still, the postponement is seen as a setback in the prime A04 100 minister's attempt to forge a more assertive foreign policy, which A04 101 includes such unprecedented actions as the emperor's scheduled A04 102 visit to China later this year and the dispatch of peacekeeping A04 103 troops to Cambodia- Tokyo's first overseas military mission since A04 104 World War II.

A04 105 In Moscow, Sergei Skvortsov, co-chairman of the Russian A04 106 Committee for the Defense of the Kurils, handed a letter to a A04 107 Japanese diplomat protesting Japan's demand for the islands' return A04 108 and the way the Japanese media cover the issue.

A04 109 "I'm glad Boris Yeltsin has called off his visit to A04 110 Japan, because I think that postwar borders must not be A04 111 violated," a former hard-line member of the Soviet A04 112 Parliament, Col. Viktor Alksnis, said.

A04 113 A04 114 Europe Holds Its Breath as France Prepares to Vote on A04 115 Unity

A04 116 By JOEL HAVEMANN

A04 117 TIMES STAFF WRITER

A04 118 BRUSSELS- The European Community's far-reaching treaty on A04 119 political and economic union, which Danish voters narrowly rejected A04 120 in June, is growing increasingly unpopular throughout the 12-nation A04 121 EC.

A04 122 France, which with Germany is one of the EC's original twin A04 123 pillars, could effectively bury the treaty in a Sept. 20 referendum A04 124 that, according to the polls, could go either way.

A04 125 And even if French voters ratify the treaty, mounting A04 126 opposition elsewhere will make its goals- including a common EC A04 127 currency and mechanisms for setting joint European foreign and A04 128 security policy- difficult to achieve in practice.

A04 129 France is the last EC country to conduct a referendum on the A04 130 treaty, which has been ratified by voters in Ireland and A04 131 parliaments in Greece and Luxembourg. Elsewhere, national A04 132 parliaments hold the power, and all are expected to ratify if the A04 133 French vote 'yes.'

A04 134 But if voters had the chance, they might well turn thumbs down A04 135 in Germany and Britain.

A04 136 Germans are alarmed over the prospect of abandoning the A04 137 deutschemark, Europe's strongest currency and a symbol of Germany's A04 138 postwar economic success, in favor of a currency that they might A04 139 have to share with such economic emergency-room cases as Italy.

A04 140 And the insular British worry that the treaty would give the A04 141 EC's bureaucrats license, as their foreign secretary once charged, A04 142 to meddle in "the nooks and crannies" of British A04 143 affairs.

A04 144 To Martin Bangemann, the ranking German official at the EC A04 145 Commission, the growing doubts about the treaty reveal the danger A04 146 of popular referendums. "People are using arguments without A04 147 knowing" what the treaty would do, he told reporters A04 148 recently at the EC Commission's Brussels headquarters.

A04 149 Others draw the opposite conclusion. Voter skepticism, they A04 150 argue, demonstrates that Europe's leaders forgot to marshal public A04 151 opinion behind them when they initialed the treaty behind closed A04 152 doors last December in the Dutch town of Maastricht.

A04 153 "The trouble is the arrogance of our leaders in A04 154 believing that the public doesn't need to know what the treaty says A04 155 and couldn't understand anyway," said Stanley Crossick, A04 156 chairman of the Belmont European Policy Center. "We need to A04 157 be more democratic, something you Americans understand."

A04 158 Throughout the EC, Europeans are sounding alarms that the A04 159 Maastricht treaty, by shifting more authority from national A04 160 capitals to Brussels, would erode national identities.

A04 161 It is a charge the treaty supporters such as British Prime A04 162 Minister John Major dismiss as a "phantom." In a speech A04 163 Monday, Major said, "Whatever happens in the Community, the A04 164 French will be no less French, the Germans no less German, the A04 165 Danes no less Danish and, I promise you, the British no less A04 166 British."

A04 167 Also working against the treaty are anemic national economies. A04 168 After booming since the mid-1980s, the EC predicts overall economic A04 169 growth of only 1.25% this year and 1.5% next year, with A04 170 unemployment rising from 9.7% now to 10%. Voters are typically less A04 171 likely to endorse the sorts of changes envisaged by the Maastricht A04 172 treaty when they feel their own welfare is insecure.

A04 173 What's more, the EC's inability to stop the bloodshed on its A04 174 doorstep in the Yugoslav crisis has made Europeans wonder whether A04 175 the EC is ready for the common foreign policy-making mechanisms A04 176 that the Maastricht treaty would establish.

A04 177 In an EC-wide survey conducted in June, London's Market & A04 178 Opinion Research International found substantial dissatisfaction A04 179 with key elements of the treaty.

A04 180 A majority of respondents in Britain and Germany opposed A04 181 abandoning the British pound and the German mark in favor of a A04 182 common European currency. The treaty establishes a common currency A04 183 no later than 1999 for nations with low inflation and manageable A04 184 budget deficits, although the British Parliament retains the right A04 185 to reject the common currency.

A04 186 Likewise, more respondents in half of the 12 EC countries- A04 187 France, Germany, Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands and Luxembourg- A04 188 said the treaty would make them personally worse off than better A04 189 off. This reflects the EC policy, which would be accelerated by the A04 190 Maastricht treaty, of transferring funds from the richer nations to A04 191 Spain, Portugal, Greece and Ireland.

A04 192 Doubts about the treaty probably matter most in Germany, the A04 193 EC's biggest member and its economic powerhouse. In Germany, the A04 194 future of the deutschemark is the overriding issue.

A04 195 "The people are very proud of this symbol of national A04 196 strength and postwar achievement," said Jochen Hansen, a A04 197 researcher with Germany's Allensbach Institute. "They can't A04 198 understand why they should give up their currency in the absence of A04 199 an urgent need."

A04 200 Hansen said he thought Germans would probably turn down the A04 201 Maastricht treaty, if- as is impossible under the German A04 202 constitution- they had a chance to vote on ratifying it. Recent A04 203 Allensbach public opinion surveys bolster this view.

A04 204 By 41% to 25%, Germans said in June that the government should A04 205 have rejected the treaty's provision for a common European A04 206 currency. By 34% to 26%, they expressed satisfaction that Danish A04 207 voters had refused to ratify.

A04 208 And last January, a month after Chancellor Helmut Kohl A04 209 initialed the Maastricht treaty, fully 39% of Germans said they A04 210 feared a gradual loss of German identity in a homogeneous Europe. A04 211 Fifteen months earlier, in October,1990, only 21% had expressed A04 212 such a concern.

A04 213 Britain is the other EC powerhouse where public sentiment A04 214 toward the Maastricht treaty is, at best, uncertain. A Gallup Poll A04 215 in June found the public almost evenly split, with 38% saying they A04 216 would vote for the treaty and 35% saying they would vote 'no.' A A04 217 majority, 51%, said European integration was proceeding too A04 218 quickly, against 25% who said the pace was right and 14% who called A04 219 it too slow.

A04 220 Prime Minister Major, who pulled the treaty back from A04 221 Parliament pending the outcome of the French referendum, admitted A04 222 Monday that the treaty probably faces a "bruising A04 223 passage." But he rejected calls for a referendum, arguing A04 224 that many voters would probably base their decisions on matters A04 225 unrelated to the treaty.

A04 226 Meanwhile, in tiny Denmark, where the treaty's troubles began, A04 227 sentiment against it seems to be hardening. Recent polls show that A04 228 the treaty's opponents- a bare 50.7% of those who voted in the June A04 229 2 referendum- have grown to as much as 57%.

A04 230 That puts the Danish government on the spot. Under EC rules, A04 231 the treaty cannot take effect until it is ratified by all 12 member A04 232 nations.

A04 233 If Denmark will not accept the treaty as negotiated last A04 234 December, either the treaty will have to be changed- which would A04 235 require a complicated renegotiation followed by another round of A04 236 ratification votes in all EC countries- or Denmark will have to A04 237 finesse its voters' opposition.

A04 238 A04 239 A05 1 <#FROWN:A05\>Bush proposes $10-billion in job training

A05 2 <*_>black-square<*/>The president says he would cut spending A05 3 for unspecified federal programs to cover the plan's cost.

A05 4 Associated Press

A05 5 ANSONIA, Conn. - Plagued by high unemployment and a weak A05 6 election-year economy, President Bush on Monday proposed a A05 7 $2-billion-a-year package of new and retooled job-training programs A05 8 and said they could be paid for without raising taxes.

A05 9 "We can get everybody engaged in high-tech jobs with A05 10 this retraining approach," Bush promised at a campaign stop A05 11 at a vocational training school in Union, N.J.

A05 12 The plan's centerpiece calls for $3,000 vouchers for adults to A05 13 use for retraining at trade schools or community colleges. These A05 14 would go to people who had lost their jobs, been notified their A05 15 jobs were being cut or who worked in declining industries and A05 16 wanted to sharpen their skills.

A05 17 Bush said the plan's $10-billion cost over five years would be A05 18 paid for by cutting spending for other unspecified federal A05 19 programs.

A05 20 At a news conference in Little Rock, Ark., Democratic A05 21 presidential candidate Bill Clinton took issue with the cost, A05 22 saying Bush had no way to finance his proposals.

A05 23 "He just got through telling us at the convention we A05 24 were going to have huge tax cuts paid for by huge spending cuts in A05 25 amounts to be unspecified, and now he's come out with a huge A05 26 spending program," Clinton <}_><-|><+|>said.<}/> "I A05 27 think it's very difficult to take this seriously."

A05 28 Clinton has proposed requiring employers to spend an amount A05 29 equal to 1.5 percent of payroll for job-training and education A05 30 programs for workers.

A05 31 A05 32 Paul Tsongas blasts Bush's economic plan

A05 33 <*_>black-square<*/>But he didn't embrace Clinton's ideas. A05 34 Still, he says they're evolving in a "positive" A05 35 direction.

A05 36 Associated Press

A05 37 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Former Democratic rival Paul Tsongas stood A05 38 at Bill Clinton's side Monday and attacked President Bush's A05 39 economic plan, saying it would guarantee "four more years A05 40 of gridlock" in Washington.

A05 41 But while Tsongas called Clinton's plan superior to Bush's, he A05 42 still did not strongly embrace it.

A05 43 Tsongas said that Clinton's policies "have evolved in a A05 44 direction that I think is positive" and that he would A05 45 "work with Gov. Clinton and press my views upon the people A05 46 around him." When Tsongas was asked if that was a way of A05 47 saying Clinton's program didn't go far enough, Clinton chimed in, A05 48 "That's a way of saying it."

A05 49 During the Democratic primary season, Tsongas was critical of A05 50 Clinton's economic proposals, which included a sweeping tax cut for A05 51 the middle class.

A05 52 In Monday's appearance with Clinton on the lawn of the Arkansas A05 53 governor's mansion, Tsongas was even more negative toward Bush's A05 54 call for a broad tax cut at last week's Republican convention.

A05 55 "The fact is that George Bush gave a speech Thursday A05 56 night with a program that he knows will never pass," said A05 57 Tsongas. "...It has no coherence, has no A05 58 support."

A05 59 Tsongas, who strongly advocated reduction of the federal budget A05 60 deficit, said Bush delivered "a promise of four more years A05 61 of gridlock."

A05 62 "So if the question is who do you trust for four more A05 63 years of blaming, four more years of finger pointing, it's George A05 64 Bush," Tsongas said.

A05 65 A05 66 Israel's Rabin says 11 Palestinians won't be deported

A05 67 Associated Press

A05 68 JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Monday canceled A05 69 deportation orders against 11 Palestinians in a further effort by A05 70 his moderate government to bolster the peace talks opening in A05 71 Washington.

A05 72 That follows an announcement Sunday that 800 Palestinian A05 73 prisoners would be freed, that Arab access from the occupied A05 74 territories to Israel would be eased and that some punishments A05 75 imposed for anti-Israeli violence would be lifted.

A05 76 The deportation orders were issued by former Prime Minister A05 77 Yitzhak Shamir in January before a round of peace talks. Shamir A05 78 lost the June 23 election to Rabin. Rabin's reversal of the orders A05 79 came with his government's debut in the talks Monday, signaling a A05 80 radical change of approach.

A05 81 The 11 West Bank and Gaza Strip Arabs had been ordered out for A05 82 allegedly fomenting the violence that had killed four Israelis in A05 83 the preceding three months. Their appeals are now before the A05 84 Israeli Supreme Court.

A05 85 A statement by Rabin in his capacity as defense minister said A05 86 that circumstances had changed since the expulsion orders were A05 87 issued.

A05 88 He apparently was referring to the decline of anti-Israeli A05 89 unrest in the occupied territories and the divisions between A05 90 Palestinian supporters and opponents of the U.S.-brokered peace A05 91 process.

A05 92 A05 93 Reports: No-fly zone over Iraq could be delayed

A05 94 Reuters

A05 95 WASHINGTON - Defense officials said Monday the U.S. military A05 96 was ready to enforce a ban on Iraqi military flights over southern A05 97 Iraq, but diplomats in the Persian Gulf said the plan was being A05 98 held up by Arab concerns that it could dismember Iraq.

A05 99 The announcement that U.S., British and French planes would A05 100 begin enforcing the no-fly zone south of the 32nd parallel to A05 101 protect dissident Shiite Moslems had been slated for today, A05 102 "but that may not be the case now," said an A05 103 administration official.

A05 104 Defense officials, who asked not to be identified, said in A05 105 Washington that the aircraft carrier Independence, A05 106 carrying fighter and reconnaissance planes, headed north from Abu A05 107 Dhabi in the Persian Gulf on Sunday. Air Force fighters were also A05 108 in position in the region, they said.

A05 109 The U.S.-led alliance, which drove Iraqi President Saddam A05 110 Hussein's forces from Kuwait in last year's gulf war, already is A05 111 enforcing a no-fly zone north of the 36th parallel in Iraq to A05 112 protect Kurds there from Iraqi attacks.

A05 113 Western diplomats said more time was needed for gulf war allies A05 114 to consult among themselves and for the United States, Britain and A05 115 France to reassure Arab states they do not intend to divide A05 116 Iraq.

A05 117 So far, Kuwait is the only Arab state to openly declare its A05 118 support for Western plans to protect the Shiites. Syria, Jordan, A05 119 Yemen and Algeria have denounced the move.

A05 120 A05 121 Iraq issues warning to West

A05 122 <*_>black-square<*/>The warning comes after the U.S. and others A05 123 say they will shoot down Iraqi military planes.

A05 124 Associated Press

A05 125 NICOSIA, Cyprus - Iraq's army newspaper on Sunday warned the A05 126 West against ordering air patrols to protect Shiite Muslims in A05 127 southern Iraq and said "invaders" would find a watery grave A05 128 in the marshes below.

A05 129 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urged Iraqis to be A05 130 "aware of their national and patriotic A05 131 responsibilities" and protect the nation against those who A05 132 wish "evil for the country," said the official A05 133 Iraqi News Agency, monitored in Cyprus.

A05 134 The United States, Britain and France plan to notify Iraq this A05 135 week that military planes flying over southern Iraq will be shot A05 136 down to protect Shiite Muslims.

A05 137 The White House said Sunday that President Bush may make the A05 138 announcement Tuesday.

A05 139 Meanwhile, a leading Shiite opposition group claimed shelling A05 140 on villages near Nassirya, 190 miles south of Baghdad, had killed A05 141 several women and children in the past three days, according to a A05 142 statement sent to the Associated Press.

A05 143 The reports from the Tehran-based Supreme Assembly for the A05 144 Islamic Revolution in Iraq could not be confirmed.

A05 145 The group said Iraqi warplanes recently intensified A05 146 reconnaissance missions over the marshlands "apparently to A05 147 test the will of the international measures to protect the Iraqi A05 148 people."

A05 149 Al-Qaddissiya, Iraq's defense ministry daily, described A05 150 Bush as a "cursed criminal," British Prime Minister A05 151 John Major as "worthless" and French President Francois A05 152 Mitterrand as "the mean old man."

A05 153 "The aggressors have no one but themselves to A05 154 blame," the newspaper said in a front-page editorial.

A05 155 "We will tear them to pieces ... and the marshes will A05 156 be the graveyards to the invaders."

A05 157 In Kuwait, the U.S. military announced that all 2,400 American A05 158 soldiers scheduled to take part in monthlong exercises with Kuwaiti A05 159 forces were now deployed. About 1,000 U.S. soldiers will move into A05 160 position near the Iraqi border for the maneuvers, to begin in a A05 161 week, according to U.S. military officials.

A05 162 Many of Iraq's neighbors are wary of the allied plans to create A05 163 a safe haven for the Shiite Muslims, saying it might partition Iraq A05 164 into three sections. After the Persian Gulf war last year, the A05 165 allies created a security zone for Kurds in northern Iraq.

A05 166 In Egypt, Iraq's representative to the Cairo-based Arab League A05 167 urged Arab countries to intervene against the allied plan.

A05 168 "The Iraqi people are one people, they cannot be split A05 169 along sectarian or racial lines," the Iraqi representative, A05 170 Nabil Nejm, said after meeting with the league's A05 171 secretary-general.

A05 172 A05 173 Government troops battle against Serbs

A05 174 <*_>black-square<*/>Casualties were heavy in shelling in A05 175 downtown Sarajevo and on the west side of the city.

A05 176 Associated Press

A05 177 SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - In a blaze of mortar, grenade A05 178 and machine-gun fire, government troops on Sunday launched a new A05 179 offensive to break the Serb siege of Sarajevo.

A05 180 Casualties were heavy in shelling downtown and on the west side A05 181 of the city, where government forces were trying to reach A05 182 Sarajevo's airport, now under U.N. control for an international aid A05 183 airlift.

A05 184 U.N. peacekeepers closed the airport to aid flights after A05 185 shells hit the runway.

A05 186 Dr. Arif Smajkic, head of the Bosnian Ministry of Health, said A05 187 46 people were killed and 303 wounded in the previous 24 hours of A05 188 fighting in Bosnia, including 22 dead and 100 wounded in A05 189 Sarajevo.

A05 190 Smajkic said the city's main hospital had no water or A05 191 electricity. Many wounded, mostly soldiers with serious wounds, A05 192 were being brought in. "It is very critical at this A05 193 moment," he said. "We need water for operations, A05 194 and we don't have any."

A05 195 The offensive appeared to be a last-ditch attempt by Bosnian A05 196 defenders to gain a military advantage before a peace conference on A05 197 Yugoslavia begins Wednesday in London.

A05 198 The republic's Muslim president, Alija Izetbegovic, told A05 199 reporters that his forces had made headway on the west side, but A05 200 government military officials gave mixed signals.

A05 201 Izetbegovic said that even if the new offensive failed, his A05 202 forces would fight on. "Sarajevo shall survive," he A05 203 said. "We shall fight many, many months more."

A05 204 Bosnia's ethnic Serbs, who want to remain part of A05 205 Serb-dominated Yugoslavia, rebelled after the republic's majority A05 206 Croats and Muslims voted for independence on Feb. 29. Serbs now A05 207 control two-thirds of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

A05 208 At least 8,000 people have been killed, but recent estimates by A05 209 U.S. Senate investigators put the total at up to 35,000. About A05 210 1.3-million people have become refugees, many in 'ethnic cleansing' A05 211 campaigns to empty regions of unwanted ethnic groups.

A05 212 Throughout Saturday night and Sunday, explosions and heavy A05 213 machine-gun fire could be heard throughout Sarajevo. Shells landed A05 214 near the main Kosevo hospital in the city center, around government A05 215 offices and on the west side.

A05 216 A mortar crashed into the second floor of a student hostel in A05 217 the old city, killing at least two people and wounding several A05 218 others.

A05 219 One victim remained alive for several minutes after both legs A05 220 were cut off by a falling wall. His screams faded into deathly A05 221 quiet, perspiration covering his face, and he was dead by the time A05 222 he was taken to a hospital.

A05 223 One government soldier with gaping stomach and chest wounds A05 224 arrived at the hospital in a U.N. armored personnel carrier manned A05 225 by French soldiers, who said Serb forces allowed them to cross A05 226 their lines to pick up the victim.

A05 227 A05 228 Clinton: GOP attacks "deeply offensive"

A05 229 Associated Press

A05 230 CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. - Bill Clinton said Sunday that President Bush A05 231 invoked a "deeply offensive" political ploy in A05 232 questioning Democrats' commitment to God and said Republicans A05 233 should be ashamed of their "off the wall" attack A05 234 linking his values to Woody Allen's.

A05 235 Clinton, counterattacking as he and running mate Al Gore A05 236 wrapped up their Rust Belt bus tour, said Republicans were A05 237 floundering because Democrats had a superior economic plan to put A05 238 Americans back to work and help raise their children.

A05 239 Bush, seeking to shore up Republican strength in the key A05 240 Midwest battleground, told a cheering crowd at the Illinois State A05 241 Fair that Clinton would be a "rubber stamp president that A05 242 will rubber stamp this spendthrift Congress.

A05 243 "We're not going to let that nightmare happen," Bush A05 244 shouted. He told reporters that Clinton had started to A05 245 "whine and complain" in the face of a stepped-up A05 246 Republican campaign.

A05 247 Vice President Dan Quayle, in Florida to campaign among Reagan A05 248 Democrats, told his audience that voters face "a big choice A05 249 between the governor of Arkansas and the president of the United A05 250 States. These two individuals are miles apart on the important A05 251 issues of the day." A05 252 A06 1 <#FROWN:A06\>Debates to become "blood A06 2 sport"

A06 3 By Judy Keen

A06 4 USA TODAY

A06 5 Contributing: Debbie Howlett

A06 6 One year ago this weekend, Bill Clinton officially began his A06 7 presidential quest.

A06 8 Back then, President Bush's grip on a second term was still A06 9 considered secure.

A06 10 But both candidates have been buffeted by the turbulence of a A06 11 political year that Bush labeled - in what turned out to be an A06 12 understatement - "weird."

A06 13 And now, just when the campaign was supposed to jell, it has A06 14 been re-created. The accumulated rhetoric and drama of those 12 A06 15 months might not count. What might matter most is what happens A06 16 next.

A06 17 There will be four debates in nine days, starting Sunday in St. A06 18 Louis. Ross Perot is back and will probably share the stage with A06 19 Clinton and Bush for three presidential face-offs, adding who knows A06 20 what new variables to the equation.

A06 21 "We always thought Perot getting in would throw all the A06 22 cards up in the air and cause people to take a new look at the A06 23 race," says Charles Black, senior adviser to Bush's A06 24 campaign. "Combine that with four debates and all bets are A06 25 off."

A06 26 Adds Democratic consultant Duane Garrett: "This is A06 27 probably going to be the potentially most volatile period since the A06 28 Democratic convention" when Perot dropped out.

A06 29 The campaign might be reinventing itself or the new wrinkles A06 30 just might be "weird" distractions that won't halt A06 31 Clinton's victory march.

A06 32 The Bush campaign has ample reason to hope all that has gone A06 33 before has been erased: With Clinton holding a double-digit A06 34 lead, the president's last best chance may be a surge borne of A06 35 political chaos.

A06 36 But polls show voter dissatisfaction with Bush's stewardship - A06 37 especially over the economy - and skepticism about promises he's A06 38 making.

A06 39 Those sentiments may not be budged - not even by unruly debates A06 40 or the wild card called Perot - and therein lie the reasons for A06 41 Clinton's confidence that he can stave off any Bush comeback.

A06 42 "I really don't think Perot alters the A06 43 landscape," says Texas Democratic Party chairman Bob A06 44 Slagle.

A06 45 A primer for the campaign's final four weeks:

A06 46 <*_>black-triangle<*/>Debates. Bush - hoping to lob A06 47 firepower at Clinton without giving the Democrat enough time to A06 48 recoup - wanted to shove the debates as close to Election Day as A06 49 possible.

A06 50 Clinton prevailed in debate negotiations, ensuring himself two A06 51 weeks after the last debate Oct. 19 to recover from any gaffes and A06 52 to return the campaign dialogue to the themes he thinks will win A06 53 the election.

A06 54 But the dizzyingly dense debate schedule - Oct. 11, Oct. 15, A06 55 Oct. 19 - means each of the three candidates will have to repair A06 56 wounds in the next debate, not in the news media or TV ads.

A06 57 "I think it's going to truly turn debates into a blood A06 58 sport," says GOP pollster Ed Goeas, "both in terms A06 59 of what the candidates have to do and because there isn't going to A06 60 be time in between for voters to refocus on something A06 61 else."

A06 62 More than 50 million people are expected to watch the A06 63 prime-time duels, and if it's true a quarter of voters make up A06 64 their minds the final week, the debates could sway some.

A06 65 Almost every presidential debate has a crystallizing moment A06 66 that either erodes support or multiplies it - the instant everybody A06 67 talks about at work the next day.

A06 68 This year, if it's a Perot 'moment,' the impact may be A06 69 negligible.

A06 70 "I think that Perot in the debates will be a spectacle A06 71 to behold," says Jim Oberwetter, Bush's Texas campaign A06 72 chairman. "He has nothing to lose and is going to be on a A06 73 roll."

A06 74 If Perot shines, "then it's a wash for both Bush and A06 75 Clinton," says Ron Walters, political science chair at A06 76 Washington's Howard University. "It's much harder to figure A06 77 out who won a three-person debate."

A06 78 Bush has the most to gain: He must create a theatrical event A06 79 that either embarrasses Clinton or makes the president soar by A06 80 rhetorical comparison.

A06 81 But many analysts say Clinton's task is easier: He must only A06 82 reassure voters who doubt his stature or trustworthiness.

A06 83 Clinton needs only "to stand on the same platform with A06 84 George Bush and hold his own," says Garrett.

A06 85 "Bush has got to both damage Clinton and make himself A06 86 an acceptable alternative. And Bush's greatest danger is that if he A06 87 peels support away from Clinton it ... may be siphoned off to A06 88 Perot."

A06 89 <*_>black-triangle<*/>Perot. OK, so he won't be sworn in A06 90 as president in January, but he still could create plenty of A06 91 mischief.

A06 92 "There is no realistic prospect ... he'll recapture the A06 93 magic of June," says Walter Dean Burnham, a University of A06 94 Texas political scientist.

A06 95 Perot I had evidence he could win Texas and Florida and take A06 96 chunks out of Clinton's support among voters who want anybody but A06 97 Bush.

A06 98 Perot II can't alter the outcome in any state, analysts say, A06 99 but he could make life uncomfortable in close battlegrounds such as A06 100 Ohio, Michigan and Illinois. If undecided voters swing to Perot, A06 101 Bush will have little chance to woo them back. If Perot talks only A06 102 about the economy he could actually elevate political discourse and A06 103 force the other two candidates to talk about the issue that matters A06 104 most to voters.

A06 105 "His emphasis on the deficit ... will work to the A06 106 detriment of Bush," says Walters, but Perot's military A06 107 background and POW heroism may remind voters of Clinton's draft A06 108 record.

A06 109 "He highlights in a very interesting way the negatives A06 110 on both sides," Walters says.

A06 111 <*_>black-triangle<*/>Tone. This weekend, Bush flooded the A06 112 airwaves with two negative TV ads, Clinton rebutted and each A06 113 trotted out even sharper attacks on the campaign trail. Outlook: A06 114 unremittingly negative.

A06 115 "When you're frustrated and you're behind, you do A06 116 anything you can," says Walters.

A06 117 Bush's 1988 attacks on Michael Dukakis have taught Clinton to A06 118 fight back and may have hardened the electorate to nasty ads. A06 119 "People expect it," says former GOP strategist A06 120 Kevin Phillips.

A06 121 "The alternative," says Goeas, "is A06 122 political candidates saying a bunch of positive things about A06 123 themselves that we really have to question."

A06 124 Few expect the campaign to slog on to a tepid conclusion.

A06 125 "Voters are saying they've never seen a year like A06 126 it," says Oberwetter. "It's like, 'Isn't that A06 127 amazing?' and then the next thing happens and they say, 'Isn't that A06 128 strange?' The surprises are not over."

A06 129 A06 130 Some think clerks wield excess clout

A06 131 Their influence as justices' aides debated

A06 132 By Tony Mauro

A06 133 USA TODAY

A06 134 As the Supreme Court convenes for its fall term today, a new A06 135 question is in the air: Who's in charge?

A06 136 The query pertains not just to the power struggles among the A06 137 justices - subject of a summer's worth of speculation by A06 138 court-watchers.

A06 139 Also in the spotlight are the 34 clerks - fresh-scrubbed A06 140 lawyers, mostly white males - who help screen cases and write A06 141 opinions.

A06 142 Some conservatives point to last term's law clerks in their A06 143 search to explain why Justices Anthony Kennedy, David Souter and A06 144 Sandra Day O'Connor seemed to shift from the right to the middle in A06 145 the landmark Pennsylvania abortion case.

A06 146 The clerks, it was said, were dispatched by left-leaning law A06 147 schools - 12 were from Harvard - with the mission of turning their A06 148 justices into liberals.

A06 149 Adding to the debate is the fact that eight of nine justices A06 150 now pool their clerks for the initial screening of cases.

A06 151 The arrangement means that for those eight, most of the A06 152 incoming cases are looked at by only one pair of young eyes, not by A06 153 the justices themselves or their own clerks. The pool clerks write A06 154 a brief memo on each case that goes to the eight justices.

A06 155 Do clerks, who also write rough drafts of actual opinions for A06 156 most justices, have too much power?

A06 157 That's a debate that has simmered ever since Justice Horace A06 158 Gray hired the first law clerk 110 years ago.

A06 159 Justices now have four clerks each - except Chief Justice A06 160 William Rehnquist and John Paul Stevens, who get by with three.

A06 161 Rehnquist, a clerk himself 40 years ago, emerged fearful about A06 162 their liberalizing influence. Most of them, he said back then, A06 163 showed "extreme solicitude for the claims of communists and A06 164 other criminal defendants."

A06 165 Now he minimizes their role. "Individual justices still A06 166 continue to do a great deal more of their own work than do their A06 167 counterparts in the other branches of the federal A06 168 government," Rehnquist wrote in 1987.

A06 169 Still, concern is growing that too much responsibility is A06 170 invested in young clerks, most of them no more than a year out of A06 171 law school.

A06 172 "It is really rather remarkable how little they know A06 173 when they arrive ... and how fast they have to learn," says A06 174 E.W. Perry Jr., a Harvard government professor who has studied the A06 175 court.

A06 176 Most of the clerks work for only one very intense year - A06 177 dawn-to-midnight, six- or seven-day work weeks are common - at a A06 178 salary currently set at $38,861. During the year, the clerks are A06 179 virtually constant companions to their justices - who themselves A06 180 complain they have little contact with other justices or the A06 181 outside world.

A06 182 Clerks are justices' lunch companions, tennis-mates, sounding A06 183 boards, and, in some instances, ghostwriters.

A06 184 "Most of the writing that comes out of the court is A06 185 done by law clerks ... " says Harvard Law School professor A06 186 Randall Kennedy, a former clerk for Marshall. "But clerks A06 187 don't run things. The justices call the shots."

A06 188 Privately some clerks boast they changed their justices' minds A06 189 on decisions during their year, or that a draft they wrote emerged A06 190 untouched by the justice.

A06 191 "When you give the job to clerks, you get more A06 192 footnotes and less original thinking," says University of A06 193 Southern California law professor Susan Estrich. "Original A06 194 thinking is what we pay the justices for, isn't it?"

A06 195 Estrich, who managed Michael Dukakis's presidential campaign in A06 196 1988, clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens 10 years earlier.

A06 197 But most clerks insist that they are helping, not steering, A06 198 their justices through a staggering writing load.

A06 199 "There's a lot of puffery that goes on, but really, the A06 200 importance of law clerks has been exaggerated," says J. A06 201 Harvie Wilkinson, a Richmond, Va., federal appeals judge who wrote A06 202 a book about his clerkship 20 years ago for Lewis Powell.

A06 203 The newest concerns focus not on drafting opinions but on A06 204 screening cases - one of the court's most important tasks, A06 205 sometimes making the difference literally between life and A06 206 death.

A06 207 Routinely, the justices consider fewer than 150 cases each A06 208 term, rejecting more than 5,000 and leaving lower court rulings in A06 209 place.

A06 210 The last two justices to leave the court - William Brennan Jr. A06 211 and Thurgood Marshall - had refused to join the pool arrangement A06 212 during their tenure, preferring to rely on their own reading of new A06 213 cases, or on assessments by their own clerks, more attuned to their A06 214 legal views and interests.

A06 215 Both justices, according to former clerks, occasionally A06 216 discovered important cases pool clerks had passed over.

A06 217 David Souter and Clarence Thomas, who replaced Brennan and A06 218 Marshall, have joined the pool, leaving only Stevens outside it as A06 219 a check on screening new cases. Clerks for other justices can A06 220 supplement the pool memos, as an additional check.

A06 221 The chief target of conservative concern last term was Michael A06 222 Dorf, who clerked for Justice Kennedy - a conservative whose A06 223 middle-of-the-road votes in the abortion case and a school prayer A06 224 case surprised many.

A06 225 Dorf co-authored a book with liberal Harvard law professor A06 226 Laurence Tribe before working for Kennedy.

A06 227 Dorf, now teaching law at Rutgers University Law School in A06 228 Camden, N.J., says it is "insulting and ridiculous" A06 229 to suggest that he pushed Kennedy toward any position he was not A06 230 prepared to take. "He makes all his decisions for A06 231 himself," says Dorf.

A06 232 A06 233 Election Day is high court's judgement day

A06 234 By Tony Mauro

A06 235 USA TODAY

A06 236 Officially, Election Day is just like any other day at the A06 237 Supreme Court - whose 1992-93 term opens today.

A06 238 Justices will hear cases Nov. 3 and may hand down rulings, A06 239 barely noting the momentous events occurring in other branches of A06 240 government.

A06 241 Yet the presidential election will have a tremendous effect on A06 242 the court - more than any individual case on the court's docket A06 243 this fall.

A06 244 Washington, D.C., lawyer Richard Willard was discussing A06 245 upcoming cases recently when he paused and said: "This is A06 246 like critiquing the playing of the band on the Titanic. Something A06 247 big is going to happen to the court on Election Day."

A06 248 A06 249 A07 1 <#FROWN:A07\>Clinton in '69: Mostly Typical, in a Most A07 2 Untypical Time

A07 3 By Michael Kelly and David Johnston

A07 4 New York Times Service

A07 5 WASHINGTON - In the fall and winter of 1969, several important A07 6 things happened in the life of a bright, ambitious young man named A07 7 Bill Clinton.

A07 8 After months of elaborate effort, he finally beat the draft for A07 9 the Vietnam War, drawing a number high enough in the new national A07 10 lottery that he would never be inducted.

A07 11 He became, in a small way, a figure within the anti-war A07 12 movement, helping to organize one of the largest marches on A07 13 Washington the movement ever produced and serving as a chief A07 14 organizer of two small demonstrations in London. He took a trip A07 15 through the Scandinavian countries, Russia and Czechoslovakia.

A07 16 In later years, as Mr. Clinton charted the political course A07 17 toward the presidency, he did not often publicly speak of the A07 18 events of that year, and when he did, it was in vague and passive A07 19 terms, as if he had been a sort of accidental tourist of his A07 20 times.

A07 21 Now, in the fall of 1992, with Mr. Clinton close to his goal, A07 22 those who would stop him have turned their increasingly frightened A07 23 attention to events 23 years ago, hoping to find in them something A07 24 that will, in the end, convince voters that a change from President A07 25 George Bush is not worth the risk of Mr. Clinton.

A07 26 The story, as far as it is clear, of Mr. Clinton's anti-war A07 27 activities in 1969 and what he and the Republicans alike are saying A07 28 about those activities in 1992 is illustrative of several points A07 29 about that time and this one.

A07 30 It shows, as Democrats are saying publicly and even some A07 31 Republicans are saying privately, how desperate the Republicans A07 32 have become. It shows, as Republicans like to say, how Mr. Clinton A07 33 has tended to shade the edges of his life.

A07 34 But above all, it shows how sharp the difference remains A07 35 between Mr. Bush's world and Mr. Clinton's, between the clear moral A07 36 absolutes of the generation of World War II and the muddied A07 37 gropings of those who came of age during the Vietnam War.

A07 38 The exact nature of Mr. Clinton's anti-war activities has been A07 39 confused by both Republican exaggeration and Democratic A07 40 obfuscation. But a basic outline seems clear.

A07 41 Although Mr. Clinton has described his participation in peace A07 42 demonstrations as limited to that almost of a curious passer-by, A07 43 the candidate's previous statements and those of several friends A07 44 and of anti-war protesters indicate a more substantial A07 45 involvement.

A07 46 Mr. Clinton was an organizer of two London rallies in the fall A07 47 of 1969 and also helped, to an apparently much lesser degree, A07 48 organize a huge march on Washington on Oct. 15, 1969.

A07 49 Yet, if Mr. Clinton appears to have minimized his activities, A07 50 it also appears true that the Republicans are wrong to depict him A07 51 as a major anti-war organizer or Communist sympathizer.

A07 52 No evidence has surfaced indicating that Mr. Clinton took part A07 53 in any violent political actions or was an important anti-war A07 54 organizer.

A07 55 Many of those involved with him at the time recall him as A07 56 something of a milquetoast by the standards of late 1960s A07 57 radicalism, a young man driven by a desire to remake his country, A07 58 not to reject it.

A07 59 It is also clear that the actions of Mr. Clinton at age 23 - in A07 60 avoiding military induction, in demonstrating against U.S. foreign A07 61 policy, even in traveling to the Soviet Union - were not unusual. A07 62 Indeed, they were almost prototypical of those who, like him, were A07 63 part of the intellectual elite of that generation.

A07 64 But if Mr. Clinton was typical of his class and time, the A07 65 actions of that class and the tenor of that time were not at all A07 66 typical of American history. No other generation has ever acted in A07 67 quite the fashion that Mr. Clinton's did, nor stirred more A07 68 unresolved passions. Now, in the person of Mr. Clinton, American A07 69 voters face the possibility that a generation that once took to the A07 70 streets to publicly denounce American policy will lead it.

A07 71 What is unknown - but will be known on Nov. 3 - is whether it A07 72 matters much anymore.

A07 73 As Mr. Clinton pointed out Thursday: "Mr. Bush in his A07 74 Inaugural Address had a wonderful phrase about how the Vietnam War A07 75 cleaves us still and it was time to put it behind us.

A07 76 "And now, because he's behind, he's tried to raise all the A07 77 challenges of that time."

A07 78 The Republican campaign to paint Mr. Clinton as a man with a A07 79 secretly militant history began on Sept. 18, the first night of A07 80 eight in which a quartet of conservative congressmen - Robert K. A07 81 Dornan, Randy Cunningham and Duncan Hunter of California, and Sam A07 82 Johnson of Texas - took to the deserted floor of the House to A07 83 denounce Mr. Clinton.

A07 84 The speeches were extraordinary for a level of strident, A07 85 hyperbolic accusations that echoed the red-baiting rhetoric A07 86 of 40 years ago.

A07 87 The speakers described Mr. Clinton as a "useful A07 88 idiot" to the Soviet government, as a man who in other A07 89 countries would have been "tried as a traitor or even A07 90 shot," as a "full-time organizer for A07 91 demonstrations against his country in a foreign country," A07 92 as a man "directly responsible" for the deaths of A07 93 American military men in Vietnam.

A07 94 On Wednesday, Mr. Bush picked up the brush.

A07 95 "I cannot for the life of me understand mobilizing A07 96 demonstrations and demonstrating against your own country, no A07 97 matter how strongly you feel, when you are in a foreign A07 98 land," Mr. Bush said, in an interview on the CNN program A07 99 'Larry King Live.'

A07 100 Mr. Clinton said, as he has always said, that he had been an A07 101 outspoken opponent of the war, but defended his activities in 1969 A07 102 as innocent and minor. He said that he "helped put together A07 103 a teach-in at the University of London" and that that had A07 104 been "the only thing I ever helped put A07 105 together."

A07 106 He acknowledged that he had "participated" in a A07 107 demonstration at the U.S. Embassy.

A07 108 Mr. Clinton's own words, included in a letter he wrote on Dec. A07 109 3, 1969, appear to belie the claim that he organized, or helped to A07 110 organize, only one event, the teach-in.

A07 111 "I have written and spoken and marched against the A07 112 war," he wrote in a letter to the director of the Reserve A07 113 Officers' Training Corps program at the University of Arkansas, A07 114 explaining why he had decided not to join the program. A07 115 "After I left Arkansas last summer, I went to Washington to A07 116 work in the national headquarters of the Moratorium, then to A07 117 England to organize the Americans here for demonstrations Oct. 15 A07 118 and Nov. 16."

A07 119 The "Moratorium" Mr. Clinton referred to was one of two A07 120 enormous international anti-war protests of 1969, culminating in a A07 121 huge protest march in Washington on Oct. 15.

A07 122 David Mixner, a national co-chairman of the Moratorium, A07 123 recalls Mr. Clinton as "not at all a major player in the A07 124 anti-war movement" but as someone who helped, in a small A07 125 way, in the summer of 1969 to organize the fall protests.

A07 126 In the fall, Mr. Clinton returned to England for his second A07 127 year as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. On Moratorium Day, about 300 A07 128 people, mostly American students, demonstrated peacefully outside A07 129 the U.S. Embassy in London. It is apparently this rally that Mr. A07 130 Clinton claims in his December 1969 letter to have organized.

A07 131 Ira Magaziner, who was a fellow student at Oxford in 1969 and A07 132 is now a senior economics adviser to the Clinton campaign, said he A07 133 remembered the October rally but did not recall Mr. Clinton as an A07 134 organizer. Like several of Mr. Clinton's friends of that time who A07 135 were interviewed this week, he remembers the student from Arkansas A07 136 as intensely interested in issues like the war and racism, but not A07 137 as a radical.

A07 138 "This was a very conventional group of people, not A07 139 people who were burning flags or shouting 'pig' at the A07 140 police," he said. "It was a very moderate group of A07 141 people."

A07 142 On Nov. 15, another demonstration was held in front of the A07 143 American Embassy. This rally was larger than the October rally, A07 144 drawing about 1,500 people, who filed silently in front of the A07 145 embassy.

A07 146 The marchers bore a coffin and, according to a contemporary A07 147 account, carried cards with the names of servicemen who died in A07 148 Vietnam. They walked to a megaphone in front of the embassy, called A07 149 out the name and then dropped the card into a makeshift coffin.

A07 150 Republicans have said Mr. Clinton took part in this A07 151 demonstration and even helped negotiate with American Embassy A07 152 officials to take the symbolic coffin inside. It is not clear if A07 153 this is true.

A07 154 What is clear is that Mr. Clinton played a role in organizing a A07 155 related, but separate, demonstration on Nov. 16, which also took A07 156 place near the embassy. That rally was peaceful, according to both A07 157 witnesses and news accounts.

A07 158 A second aspect of Mr. Clinton's activities that has come under A07 159 heavy Republican assault is a 40-day trip in late 1969 and early A07 160 1970 to several Northern European and Eastern bloc countries, A07 161 including the Soviet Union. Mr. Clinton has been vague about the A07 162 details of the trip, and his New Year's Eve visit to Moscow in 1969 A07 163 has been the subject of the most searing attacks by Republicans.

A07 164 Mr. Bush elevated the attack on the issue Wednesday evening, A07 165 when he was asked about the trip on 'Larry King Live.'

A07 166 "I don't want to tell you what I really think," A07 167 Mr. Bush said, adding, "To go to Moscow, one year after A07 168 Russia crushed Czechoslovakia, not remember what you saw A07 169 there."

A07 170 Mr. Clinton said Thursday that he traveled alone as a tourist A07 171 and did not attend any gatherings or meet with any Soviet A07 172 officials.

A07 173 Although some Republicans have made many and varied A07 174 insinuations suggesting Soviet control or financing of the trip, no A07 175 Republican has produced evidence or a witness to back up that A07 176 notion.

A07 177 A07 178 China Affirms Zhao Erred in Support For Protesters, but A07 179 Ends Its Inquiry

A07 180 By Lena H. Sun

A07 181 Washington Post Service

A07 182 BEIJING - China's ruling Communist Party ended its A07 183 investigation Friday of the former party leader Zhao Ziyang, A07 184 upholding a hard-line decision three years ago that Mr. Zhao made A07 185 serious mistakes in supporting the 1989 democracy demonstrations, A07 186 Xinhua press agency said.

A07 187 The three-paragraph announcement by the party's policy-making A07 188 Central Committee effectively ruled out any return to political A07 189 life by the former prot<*_>e-acute<*/>g<*_>e-acute<*/> of the A07 190 senior leader Deng Xiaoping. At the same time, the news agency A07 191 appeared to indicate that no further action, such as criminal A07 192 proceedings, would be taken against him.

A07 193 The timing of the announcement took some analysts by surprise A07 194 because it was believed that internal party differences over his A07 195 case were still too great to allow a conclusion before a major A07 196 party congress is to open here on Monday.

A07 197 The congress is expected to promote some younger, more A07 198 reformist leaders into the top echelons of the party. The fact that A07 199 the party has officially closed the chapter on Mr. Zhao before the A07 200 congress suggests that hard-liners opposed to even a partial A07 201 clearing of his name were hoping to use that strategy to prevent A07 202 any newly elected reformist leaders from reopening the case, A07 203 according to some analysts.

A07 204 "This just sweeps it under the rug so they don't have A07 205 to argue about it during the congress," said a Western A07 206 diplomat.

A07 207 It is now almost certain that the party will not reconsider the A07 208 issue while Mr. Deng and the other party elders who rule China are A07 209 still alive.

A07 210 It is not known what immediate effect the decision will have on A07 211 Mr. Zhao, 74, who has not been seen in public since May 19, 1989. A07 212 He has been living under virtual house arrest in central Beijing A07 213 with his family. The news agency still referred to him as A07 214 "comrade." It is highly unlikely that he would be expelled A07 215 from the party.

A07 216 His case has been under investigation for so long because it A07 217 goes to the heart of the 1989 crackdown: Whether Mr. Deng and A07 218 China's other ruling elders were wrong to order the Chinese Army to A07 219 fire on demonstrators. Any backpedaling on Mr. Zhao's case would be A07 220 interpreted to mean a reassessment of the decision to crack A07 221 down.

A07 222 A08 1 <#FROWN:A08\>Russia's Archives Get Their Dose of Glasnost, A08 2 But Sensitive Secrets Are Still Closely Guarded

A08 3 By Elisabeth Rubinfien

A08 4 Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

A08 5 MOSCOW - Rem Usikov punches a numbered code into a lock panel, A08 6 pulls open a heavy metal door, and strides into a labyrinth of A08 7 carpeted corridors leading to the secret files of the Central A08 8 Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.

A08 9 Past office doors where name plates still say A08 10 tovarisch, or comrade, the archive's director comes to A08 11 Preserve No. 9, a temperature-controlled, spotless cave of a room A08 12 filled with metal cabinets stacked six high.

A08 13 He randomly pulls out a binder on Central Committee discussions A08 14 in 1983. The handwritten scraps and typewritten memos range from A08 15 the mundane approval of a bureaucrat's business trip to the U.S. to A08 16 communication from the Guyana People's Progressive Party.

A08 17 The heavily guarded doors of the Russian archives have opened, A08 18 wider than anyone would have expected a few years ago. Foreign A08 19 journalists can walk these halls with men whose lives were once A08 20 dedicated to secrecy. Almost every day, revelations appear - about A08 21 U.S. prisoners of war held in the Soviet Union after World War II, A08 22 or Soviet involvement in Czechoslovakia in 1968.

A08 23 The court challenge to Russian President Boris Yeltsin's A08 24 constitutional authority to outlaw the Communist Party has brought A08 25 a flood of testimony that the party intruded into state activities, A08 26 used the state budget to finance revolution abroad, and, even under A08 27 former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, supported Mideast A08 28 terrorists.

A08 29 Conservatives Prevail

A08 30 But for all the hoopla about secrets revealed, the vaults are A08 31 still mostly closed. While Russia's Committee on Archival Affairs, A08 32 Roskomarkhiv, may want to quickly declassify as much material as A08 33 possible, more conservative thinking prevails in many subordinate A08 34 agencies. Many restrictions keep scholars from research materials A08 35 and individuals from their own surveillance files. When ideology A08 36 doesn't stand in the way, shortages of funds, space and personnel A08 37 slow the process.

A08 38 Those details that have dribbled out in the Russian news media A08 39 seem to be available less because of archival openness than because A08 40 they are suitable weapons in the political battle raging between A08 41 supporters of President Yeltsin and hard-line Communists.

A08 42 "It's hard to talk about serious openness of archives A08 43 today," says Konstantin Akinsha, an art historian whose A08 44 archival research uncovered the fact that the Soviet Union had A08 45 squirreled away millions of dollars worth of art treasures A08 46 confiscated at the end of World War II from the Nazis - who had A08 47 looted them in the first place. "These are only the first A08 48 steps, and they're very far from total openness."

A08 49 Mr. Usikov's Central Committee files are one of the treasure A08 50 troves Russian and foreign scholars have long wondered about. With A08 51 40 separate archives, they include the most secret files of the A08 52 Central Committee, from 1952 until the day of the failed coup A08 53 against Mr. Gorbachev last year. Earlier Central Committee records A08 54 are in a different archive.

A08 55 Expert Review

A08 56 Documents from before 1942 have been declassified and experts A08 57 are working to declassify those from 1942 to 1962. But of some 200 A08 58 million to 300 million Central Committee documents, Mr. Usikov A08 59 estimates that only a third are open. These cover the more mundane A08 60 party work such as propaganda and organization. The hotter topics A08 61 of foreign policy and military and security affairs, are to be A08 62 declassified after study by 'experts,' including members of the A08 63 former KGB, and the foreign and defense ministries.

A08 64 Ultimately, says Mr. Usikov, the archives must be fully opened. A08 65 "It gives us the opportunity to understand history and to A08 66 restore the true past," he says, "without the A08 67 deviations, the distortions, without the ideological layers that A08 68 were put on it."

A08 69 While many archivists share that feeling, some institutions A08 70 that have their own archives feel secrecy is safer than truth. Take A08 71 the former KGB, now split into the Ministry of Security and its A08 72 external intelligence counterpart. Roskomarkhiv chairman and A08 73 historian Rudolf Pikhoia believes the central archival A08 74 administration has jurisdiction over the KGB stores, but the A08 75 security ministry disagrees.

A08 76 "All KGB documents are still closed," says Mr. A08 77 Pikhoia. "That is a very serious problem." Mr. A08 78 Pikhoia recalls that in the heady days after the coup attempt, A08 79 Roskomarkhiv "didn't press hard enough" to gain A08 80 control of the KGB files. Overwhelmed with an unexpected 70 million A08 81 Soviet Communist Party files, the 4.5 million KGB files seemed like A08 82 small change that would be easy to pocket later. "Now I say A08 83 that was a mistake because the situation turns out to be more A08 84 complicated," he says.

A08 85 At the former KGB headquarters in the Lubyanka building, which A08 86 now houses the security ministry, some three million files on A08 87 victims of repressions and on repatriated World War II prisoners A08 88 are ready to be handed over to Roskomarkhiv - but it hasn't enough A08 89 space to take them in.

A08 90 Meanwhile, the remainder of the KGB files are untouchable. A08 91 "The question of jurisdiction over the archives is still to A08 92 be worked out," says Aleksandr Zubchenko, head of the A08 93 security ministry's archives.

A08 94 It is in these archives that the surveillance files on A08 95 individual citizens are kept. Russia has no law allowing people A08 96 easy access to such files, as in Czechoslovakia or the former East A08 97 Germany. Here, a citizen who asks for his own file will be given a A08 98 summary of the contents, carefully screened to exclude information A08 99 still classified under law, such as who the informants were.

A08 100 Even Boris Yeltsin himself has yet to cooperate with giving up A08 101 the president's special files. These archives were created by A08 102 dictator Joseph Stalin, who assiduously gathered compromising A08 103 material on his opposition and colleagues. That material, which A08 104 covered Politburo activities from 1919 until 1986, was commandeered A08 105 by Mr. Gorbachev in 1990. Mr. Yeltsin took it over when he claimed A08 106 the Kremlin at the end of last year.

A08 107 Mr. Yeltsin has long promised to hand the material over to the A08 108 central archives, but no transfer has taken place yet. "We A08 109 have asked Boris Yeltsin during all these months, but there is A08 110 still no answer," Mr. Usikov says.

A08 111 A08 112 Brazil Panel's Inquiry Report Criticizes Collor

A08 113 Influence-Peddling Scheme Is Linked to Payments Of Personal A08 114 Expenses

A08 115 By Thomas Kamm

A08 116 Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

A08 117 BRASILIA, Brazil - President Fernando Collor de Mello faces a A08 118 battle to hold on to his job after a congressional panel A08 119 investigating activities of his campaign treasurer alleged that Mr. A08 120 Collor received "undue economic advantages" during A08 121 the 29 months of his presidency.

A08 122 In a report capping an 85-day investigation, the special panel A08 123 contended that millions of dollars of Mr. Collor's living expenses, A08 124 including the refurbishing of the presidential mansion in Brasilia A08 125 and his luxury dwelling in his home town in eastern Brazil, and the A08 126 acquisition of a car, were paid for by his 1989 campaign treasurer, A08 127 Paulo Cesar Farias, or companies Mr. Farias controls, with funds A08 128 derived from "an industry of influence-peddling" A08 129 set up around the presidency.

A08 130 "Extraordinary payments were made to cover the personal A08 131 expenses of the president of the republic, either to maintain the A08 132 Casa da Dinda [the president's Brasilia home] or in favor of his A08 133 ex-wife, his mother, his sister and his wife and her A08 134 secretary." the report said.

A08 135 "The facts described are contrary to the principles A08 136 enshrined in the constitution, as they are incompatible with the A08 137 dignity, the honor and the decorum of the chief of state's A08 138 function," it said.

A08 139 Mr. Collor, the first freely elected Brazilian president after A08 140 two decades of military rule, has previously denied any wrongdoing A08 141 and had no immediate reaction to the report. His spokesman said A08 142 over the weekend the president is likely to address the nation this A08 143 week. Mr. Farias, in a televised telephone interview, denied A08 144 wrongdoing and said he would "prove his A08 145 innocence."

A08 146 Impeachment Request Expected

A08 147 The investigative panel stopped short of incriminating A08 148 President Collor or formally requesting impeachment procedures A08 149 against him, arguing that it wasn't empowered to do so. But panel A08 150 members said the evidence they turned up can be used in court A08 151 against Mr. Collor or serve as the basis for impeachment. The A08 152 findings are being turned over to the attorney general, and several A08 153 groups say they will submit impeachment requests to Congress.

A08 154 If Mr. Collor decides to fight, the battle could throw Brazil A08 155 into turmoil. But yesterday, the Sao Paulo stock market index rose A08 156 on speculation that the report's harsh conclusions could force Mr. A08 157 Collor out of office quickly and forestall a crisis.

A08 158 An anti-corruption demonstration took place in Rio de Janeiro A08 159 yesterday, and a similar demonstration is expected to be called by A08 160 the governor of the state of Sao Paulo later this week.

A08 161 Congressmen and lawyers say opposition members will step up A08 162 their pressure for impeachment or for Mr. Collor's resignation, A08 163 arguing that he has lost the moral standing to govern. A08 164 "Collor is still there, but he has no political life A08 165 anymore," says Sen. Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Mr. Collor's A08 166 involvement, he says, "is total and direct. We have common A08 167 crimes, uncommon crimes and extraordinary crimes."

A08 168 Pro-Government Defense

A08 169 Allies of the government will try to prove that Mr. Collor had A08 170 no direct involvement in the scheme allegedly set up by Mr. Farias, A08 171 that the panel went beyond its assigned role to investigate Mr. A08 172 Farias and that it obtained evidence illegally by violating bank A08 173 secrecy. "We'll contest the link with the A08 174 president," says Roberto Jefferson, a pro-government A08 175 federal deputy. "We'll fight it in the Chamber of Deputies A08 176 and we'll fight it in the judiciary."

A08 177 An impeachment process must be approved by two-thirds of A08 178 Brazil's 503 federal deputies. By funding social programs supported A08 179 by pro-government parties, Mr. Collor could gain enough support to A08 180 ward off impeachment, though it's unclear what the economic A08 181 consequences of such a policy would be.

A08 182 The panel's findings provide unusual insights into corruption A08 183 and influence-peddling in Brazil. In its report, the panel says Mr. A08 184 Farias's personal and corporate fortune appears intimately linked A08 185 with Mr. Collor's political fortunes. Companies Mr. Farias controls A08 186 had "unimpressive" revenue until Mr. Collor took office in A08 187 March 1990, and then became highly profitable, the report says.

A08 188 This income, the panel concluded, came largely from A08 189 influence-peddling. Mr. Farias, the report said, "making A08 190 use of the president's friendship and prestige, obtained large sums A08 191 of money by selling nonexistent services" in apparent A08 192 return for help on obtaining government contracts. The report says A08 193 companies controlled by Mr. Farias received about $200,000 per A08 194 instance for consulting work that they were clearly unequipped to A08 195 perform. The payments were made without bills and the companies A08 196 couldn't prove that any effective work was done. His jet-leasing A08 197 companies also billed flights that never took place, it concluded. A08 198 Mr. Farias has also denied any wrongdoing.

A08 199 "Tens of Millions of Dollars"

A08 200 The panel said it couldn't determine how much money the alleged A08 201 Farias scheme took in, but says it detected financial movements A08 202 totaling "tens of millions of dollars."

A08 203 Part of this money was used for Mr. Collor's expenses and was A08 204 channeled to him through the account of his personal secretary, Ana A08 205 Acioli Gomes de Melo, it said. Mrs. Acioli's account was funded by A08 206 fictitious people, whose handwriting has been traced back to A08 207 employees of Mr. Farias.

A08 208 The panel said it doubts Mr. Collor's claim that his bills were A08 209 paid with a $5 million loan contracted in Uruguay in 1989 and A08 210 administered by his former top aide, Claudio Vieira. The panel said A08 211 it found no trace of deposits by Mr. Vieira in Mrs. Acioli's A08 212 account.

A08 213 A08 214 Bush Set to Ban Iraqi Warplanes In Shiite Area

A08 215 Order Could Go Out Today, Though Florida Visit Might Prompt a A08 216 Delay

A08 217 By Gerald F. Seib

A08 218 Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

A08 219 WASHINGTON - President Bush is preparing to announce, perhaps A08 220 as early as today, that the U.S. and its allies are ordering Iraq A08 221 to stop flying its aircraft over the Shiite Muslim region of A08 222 southern Iraq, U.S. officials said.

A08 223 Most significant details of the agreement have been worked out A08 224 by the U.S., Britain, France and Saudi Arabia, the nations that A08 225 will be responsible for policing the ban on Iraqi flights, Bush A08 226 administration aides said. Those nations are imposing the blockade A08 227 to make it more difficult for Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to use A08 228 his military power to attack Shiite dissidents who have been an A08 229 irritation for him in the past year.

A08 230 A09 1 <#FROWN:A09\>Somali clan hampers U.N. aid

A09 2 Powerful militia rejects more troops

A09 3 ASSOCIATED PRESS

A09 4 Mogadishu, Somalia - The most powerful clan militia in Somalia A09 5 said Saturday that it opposes a U.N. plan to send more troops to A09 6 protect food deliveries for more than a million starving A09 7 Somalis.

A09 8 Aid workers worried that without support from Gen. Mohammed A09 9 Farrah Aidid's United Somali Congress, the arrival of the troops A09 10 would spark new fighting in the ravaged country.

A09 11 Mohammed Sahnoun, the United Nations's special envoy to A09 12 Somalia, said Saturday that the international body would proceed A09 13 slowly and win the support of warring factions before sending any A09 14 additional troops.

A09 15 Meanwhile, a U.S. airlift to help save Somalis from starvation A09 16 continued smoothly for a second day.

A09 17 The United Nations estimates that 1.5 million Somalis are in A09 18 danger of dying and that another 4.5 million require food and other A09 19 emergency assistance.

A09 20 The United Nations voted late Friday to send 3,000 troops to A09 21 guard relief shipments, in addition to 500 troops already promised. A09 22 Looting has hampered relief aid to the war-torn country.

A09 23 The dangers of delivering food were underscored Friday when two A09 24 unarmed U.N. military observers were shot and wounded near A09 25 Mogadishu's port. Gunmen backed by three tanks attacked the port, A09 26 stealing 50 trucks, tons of food and 199 barrels of fuel, U.N. A09 27 officials said.

A09 28 "I consider this open aggression and provocation A09 29 against the United Nations," Mr. Sahnoun said.

A09 30 The first 500 U.N. troops, drawn from Pakistan, are not A09 31 expected for another two weeks and will be limited to Mogadishu.

A09 32 "We believe the 500 are enough," Abdulkarem Ali A09 33 Ahmed, secretary-general of General Aidid's United Somali Congress, A09 34 told The Associated Press on Saturday. "Let's see if that A09 35 works before we talk about larger numbers."

A09 36 General Aidid's forces occupy the southern half of Mogadishu A09 37 and much of the southwest of the country. Their main rival is Ali A09 38 Mahdi Mohammed, who holds the title of interim president but A09 39 controls only a small section of northern Mogadishu.

A09 40 General Aidid's militia fears that a large U.N. presence would A09 41 amount to an occupying force recognizing Mr. Ali Mahdi's claim to A09 42 be president. It has requested that instead of troops, the United A09 43 Nations send money and other resources to rebuild Somalia's police A09 44 force.

A09 45 Mr. Sahnoun acknowledged that the United Nations would have to A09 46 win General Aidid's support before sending additional soldiers. It A09 47 took months of talks before General Aidid accepted the first 500 A09 48 peacekeepers.

A09 49 A senior aid worker said in Nairobi, Kenya, that there probably A09 50 would be problems if the fighting factions did not agree. The A09 51 worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity, pointed to the A09 52 bloodshed and raid at the Mogadishu port.

A09 53 "We support any security effort to protect our A09 54 workers," said Dennis Walto of the Los Angeles-based A09 55 International Medical Corps, which has worked in Somalia for the A09 56 last 10 months. "But we're all kind of holding our A09 57 breath."

A09 58 Somalia dissolved into anarchy after rebels overthrew dictator A09 59 Mohammed Siad Barre in January 1991. Some aid officials estimate as A09 60 much as half of the more than 110,000 tons of food delivered since A09 61 the beginning of the year has been looted. Thousands of people are A09 62 dying daily from the combined effects of drought and clan A09 63 warfare.

A09 64 The U.S. airlift into Somalia began Friday with four planes and A09 65 a total of 37 tons of food to Belet Huen, on the border with A09 66 Ethiopia.

A09 67 On Saturday, three U.S. C-130 Hercules cargo planes delivered A09 68 about 30 tons of rice, beans and cooking oil to Belet Huen. A A09 69 fourth plane was grounded by maintenance difficulties, said Army A09 70 Lt. Col. Robert Donnelly, 43, of Suffern, N.Y.

A09 71 The International Committee of the Red Cross, which has been A09 72 caring for Belet Huen's starving since early this year, estimates A09 73 about 200,000 people in and around Belet Huen need help.

A09 74 One ton of food will feed about 2,200 people for one day. It A09 75 would take nearly 700 tons of food a day just to feed all of the A09 76 Somalis in immediate danger of starvation; the Red Cross' relief A09 77 effort is getting about 22,000 tons of food a month into the A09 78 country.

A09 79 The United States also has delivered 1,350 tons of food on 77 A09 80 flights to the northeastern Kenyan town of Wajir since starting the A09 81 airlift Aug. 21.

A09 82 The United Nations has been criticized for responding too A09 83 slowly to Somalia's crisis. On Saturday, the British aid group Save A09 84 the Children charged that thousands of lives are being needlessly A09 85 lost in Somalia because the United Nations has failed to provide A09 86 effective leadership.

A09 87 A09 88 Anti-foreign riots spread in Germany

A09 89 Thousands protest neo-Nazi terror

A09 90 ASSOCIATED PRESS

A09 91 Rostock, Germany - Extremists rampaged near refugee shelters A09 92 and attacked foreigners across eastern Germany on Saturday in an A09 93 apparent widening of right-wing terror.

A09 94 Police and media reports said clashes occurred in at least 10 A09 95 cities and towns, including Rostock during a march to show A09 96 solidarity with foreign asylum-seekers. Similar marches were held A09 97 in Bonn and the university city of Marburg to protest the rise of A09 98 neo-Nazi violence.

A09 99 About 13,000 leftists, residents, foreigners and others held an A09 100 anti-extremist rally outside the refugee shelter in Rostock, where A09 101 the riots began last week. One banner read "Youth Against A09 102 Racism in Europe" with a red fist smashing a swastika; A09 103 others said "Never Again Hitler" and "Nazis A09 104 Out."

A09 105 About 3,000 police and border troops patrolled the city, and A09 106 there were several clashes with local residents. Organizers said A09 107 the demonstration was delayed by police searching cars and busses A09 108 for weapons.

A09 109 "Foreigners stay! Kick out the Nazis! Never again A09 110 Auschwitz!" the protesters chanted as they began marching A09 111 through the Lichtenhagen district. They shouted back at a man in A09 112 black leather who raised his right arm in a Hitler salute and A09 113 shouted "Heil!" five times from behind a wall of A09 114 police with riot shields.

A09 115 There were sporadic clashes between marchers and neo-Nazis in A09 116 Rostock, but there were no immediate reports of injuries.

A09 117 A flood of asylum-seekers

A09 118 The anti-foreigner violence is evidence of the growing A09 119 resentment toward the foreigners who are flooding into the country, A09 120 especially in economically depressed former East Germany. German A09 121 Chancellor Helmut Kohl has acknowledged that authorities will have A09 122 to stem the flow of asylum-seekers to keep the discontent in A09 123 check.

A09 124 Before the Rostock riots began, residents had complained of A09 125 unsanitary, crowded conditions at the city's refugee shelter.

A09 126 Police across Germany were on alert Saturday after reporting A09 127 overnight disturbances involving rightists and refugees. Germany's A09 128 ZDF television said the anti-foreigner violence had spread to 10 A09 129 towns and cities, many in former East Germany.

A09 130 In Spremberg, police said 15 skinheads threw stones at asylum A09 131 seekers and beat up a Pakistani refugee.

A09 132 In Griefswald<&|>sic!, right-wing extremists attacked a home A09 133 for refugees, breaking several windows, and four extremists were A09 134 arrested, police said. No injuries were reported.

A09 135 In Cottbus, about 200 right-wingers tried to attack a home for A09 136 refugees, but an estimated 300 police officers drove them back, A09 137 authorities said.

A09 138 In Oschersleben, 70 miles west of Berlin, about 40 radicals A09 139 armed with clubs tried to storm a refugee shelter that had been hit A09 140 by a firebomb the night before, but police thwarted the attack.

A09 141 A second night of violence also was reported in Stendal, where A09 142 rightists armed with baseball bats and firebombs sought to storm A09 143 the local refugee shelter.

A09 144 Other trouble was reported in the eastern German communities of A09 145 Soemmerda, Eisenach and Luebbenau.

A09 146 Police in the western German town of Bad Lauterberg in the Harz A09 147 Mountains said a refugee shelter there was hit by a A09 148 fire-bomb overnight. No one was injured.

A09 149 Rampant anger, frustration

A09 150 The extreme rightists who rampaged in Rostock appeared to A09 151 include skinheads, neo-Nazis and aimless young people at the center A09 152 of the anger and frustration rampant in eastern Germany.

A09 153 Many of the leftists come from what is known as the A09 154 'alternative scene' that thrives in major German cities. They A09 155 include students, squatters and those benefiting from Germany's A09 156 generous welfare programs.

A09 157 Among the marchers Saturday were hard-core leftist street A09 158 fighters known as 'autonomen,' or the autonomous, who A09 159 often battle with police over issues including squatters' rights A09 160 and opposition to extreme rightist rallies.

A09 161 "Racism is growing, and we're trying to do something A09 162 against it," said one marcher from Berlin, who identified A09 163 himself only as Martin. He said the leftists want a safe climate in A09 164 Germany for refugees and others.

A09 165 Rostock resident Fred Grosser, 28, a member of the Party for A09 166 Democratic Socialism, the former Communist Party, claimed that A09 167 local officials were trying to discourage the anti-racism A09 168 protest.

A09 169 "We decided to protest against the violent actions here A09 170 in the past week," said Mr. Grosser, whose party sent A09 171 several national leaders to the demonstration.

A09 172 State and local officials have come under biting criticism for A09 173 failing to cope with the violence.

A09 174 A09 175 More cuts in military expected

A09 176 Pentagon plans foresee bigger hit

A09 177 NEW YORK TIMES

A09 178 Washington - Anticipating that steeper cuts in future military A09 179 spending are inevitable, the Pentagon is quietly preparing to A09 180 reduce its forces below the lowest levels the Bush administration A09 181 has said would be acceptable, senior Defense Department officials A09 182 say.

A09 183 The cuts, which would affect fundamental military programs - A09 184 including troops, weapons purchases, and military bases - could A09 185 free as much as $80 billion in military spending by 1997 for use in A09 186 other domestic programs.

A09 187 No decisions have been made on the deeper reductions, and none A09 188 are likely until after the election in November. Officially, the A09 189 military services are complying with a budget-review process this A09 190 summer that requires them to submit long-range plans meant to A09 191 conform with the Pentagon's strategic outline for a post-Cold War A09 192 world.

A09 193 These classified plans, copies of which were obtained by The A09 194 New York Times, assume a continuation of the Bush administration's A09 195 'base force' of 1.6 million uniformed troops through the late A09 196 1990s, as outlined by the Pentagon in the summer of 1990. Among the A09 197 plans' proposals that are likely to generate debate is placing A09 198 land-based Marine Corps aircraft on Navy carriers and assigning Air A09 199 Force bomber pilot jobs to reservists.

A09 200 But senior Defense Department officials privately acknowledge A09 201 that they consider many details of these plans already out of date. A09 202 Regardless of the political outcome in November, they say, the A09 203 military budget is going to have to take a bigger hit than the A09 204 administration has publicly proposed. The services probably will A09 205 have to rewrite much of their budgets after November before A09 206 submitting them early next year, these officials say.

A09 207 "Most people believe that whether Bush or Clinton is A09 208 elected, the cut will be the same," said one senior A09 209 Pentagon official. "The only difference will be that with A09 210 Clinton it'll come faster, and with Bush it'll be A09 211 slower."

A09 212 Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton said last week A09 213 that his proposed military budget over the next five years would be A09 214 only 5 percent less than President Bush's, but that he would make A09 215 deeper cuts in the number of American troops based in Europe and in A09 216 the Strategic Defense Initiative anti-ballistic missile system.

A09 217 Last year, the Pentagon confronted similar budget pressures, A09 218 and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Gen. Colin L. Powell, A09 219 chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ordered a comprehensive A09 220 review of future military needs. As a result, the Pentagon canceled A09 221 several expensive weapons, such as the B-2 bomber and the Seawolf A09 222 submarine, to avoid deeper troop cuts.

A09 223 This time, military planners say they are reluctantly looking A09 224 at shrinking the size of the overall force itself. They say A09 225 projected military spending simply will not cover the costs A09 226 required to equip, train and maintain the troops and accompanying A09 227 ships, aircraft and ground units called for in the long-range A09 228 budgets.

A09 229 "Today's fiscal environment shows no sign of being A09 230 cyclical in nature," said the Navy's long-range planning A09 231 document. "Reversal of current projected resource A09 232 reductions is not foreseen."

A09 233 One senior Army official elaborated, saying, "No one A09 234 believes we'll have these numbers to play with. You won't see a A09 235 $280 billion defense budget in the future. It'll be more like $250 A09 236 billion or $240 billion, or lower."

A09 237 The Pentagon's budget for this fiscal year was $291 billion.

A09 238 The administration publicly continues to resist cuts beyond A09 239 those envisioned by current Pentagon plans: a 25 percent reduction A09 240 in forces by 1995. Under that base-force plan, the Navy would have A09 241 12 aircraft carriers, the Air Force 15 tactical air wings and the A09 242 Army 12 active-duty divisions.

A09 243 A10 1 <#FROWN:A10\>BILL CLINTON

A10 2 <*_>black-square<*/>Arkansas governor's strengths also are his A10 3 potential weaknesses

A10 4 By John King

A10 5 The Associated Press

A10 6 WASHINGTON - Bill Clinton is a master of detail politics and A10 7 retail politics, never at a loss to answer questions with a laundry A10 8 list and never ready to leave a room or a rally until one last hand A10 9 is touched.

A10 10 But in a political year filled with strange twists and irony, A10 11 it is perhaps fitting that Clinton enters the campaign's stretch A10 12 run facing this irony: Many of his strenghts are also potential A10 13 weaknesses.

A10 14 He is a polished politician, but he is running in a year when A10 15 voters are tired of politics and politicians as usual.

A10 16 The details that Clinton rattles off often impress voters. But A10 17 they also give ammunition to critics who cast Clinton as a A10 18 politician promising all things to all people.

A10 19 As he tries to persuade voters to trust him in the White House A10 20 at a time of domestic distress and global change, Clinton cannot A10 21 escape the contrast of a baby-boomer, small-state governor up A10 22 against a man with one of the longest government resumes in A10 23 American political history.

A10 24 Nor can he avoid the comparison that voters will make between A10 25 men who went in opposite directions during the wars of their A10 26 generations.

A10 27 Here's a look at Clinton's areas of strength and weakness:

A10 28 STRENGTHS A10 29 <*_>bullet<*/>The economy. Bad news is good news for Clinton, A10 30 and there has been no end to reports detailing an economy stuck in A10 31 a rut, with growth slower than at any time since World War II.

A10 32 "Clinton is seen as caring much more about average A10 33 people than George Bush, and he is seen as being much better A10 34 prepared to provide leadership for economic change," A10 35 Democratic pollster Geoffrey Garin said.

A10 36 <*_>bullet<*/>A focus on domestic issues. Clinton has offered a A10 37 long list of proposals, although some are more framework than A10 38 programs. He has plans to create jobs by building roads, bridges A10 39 and communications infrastucture; to povide universal access to A10 40 apprenticeship programs and college for high-school graduates; to A10 41 provide basic health care to all Americans; and to shift money from A10 42 defense into new civilian research and jobs.

A10 43 <*_>bullet<*/>Youth. Just turned 46, Clinton projects himself A10 44 as the personification of voter yearnings for change and new A10 45 leadership.

A10 46 <*_>bullet<*/>Al Gore. Reaction to Clinton's choice of the A10 47 Tennessee senator as his running mate has been overwhelmingly A10 48 positive, with Gore seen by voters as a far superior pick than A10 49 Bush's choice of Dan Quayle. Gore brings to the ticket A10 50 environmental, foreign-policy and arms-control credentials that A10 51 Clinton lacks, helps the ticket in the South and reinforces the A10 52 Democrats' generational theme.

A10 53 <*_>bullet<*/>Political skills. Unlike Michael Dukakis four A10 54 years ago, Clinton responds quickly and sharply when attacked. More A10 55 importantly, he tries to play offense by constantly going after A10 56 Bush.

A10 57 "We're up against a tough customer here," GOP A10 58 strategist Haley Barbour said.

A10 59 WEAKNESSES A10 60 <*_>bullet<*/>Inexperience. This is the flip side to the A10 61 benefits of youth. Clinton's work over 20 years in Arkansas, even A10 62 if viewed favorably, cannot match Bush's lengthy resume of service A10 63 in national and international affairs.

A10 64 "Who do you trust to make change work for you?" A10 65 is a favorite Bush line aimed at exploiting Clinton's inexperience A10 66 on the national stage and absence of foreign-policy credentials.

A10 67 A senior Clinton strategist, who spoke on condition of A10 68 anonymity, said, "His biggest weakness is that he is so new A10 69 to so much of the general electorate."

A10 70 <*_>bullet<*/>The draft controversy. The debate over whether A10 71 Clinton has been candid in discussing how he avoided the Vietnam A10 72 draft could feed critics' portrayals of Clinton as slick and A10 73 untrustworthy.

A10 74 "Whether he did or did not go isn't fair game," A10 75 said South Carolina GOP Gov. Carroll Campbell, a key Bush ally. A10 76 "But his veracity is fair game."

A10 77 <*_>bullet<*/>Promises, promises. Clinton has promised to be a A10 78 real education president, real environmental president, a true A10 79 friend of veterans, of senior citizens and of middle-class families A10 80 needing help with health care and college money. He is vulnerable A10 81 to charges that he is promising far more than the nation can afford A10 82 at a time of record deficits.

A10 83 <*_>bullet<*/>Being a Democrat. Although Clinton has led A10 84 efforts to moderate his party, most voters don't know that. A10 85 Republicans are quick to compare Clinton to Dukakis, Walter Mondale A10 86 and Jimmy Carter.

A10 87 "He has to overcome all the bad things people associate A10 88 with Democrats, whether they apply to him or not," Clinton A10 89 spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers said.

A10 90 <*_>bullet<*/>Arkansas. Clinton can point to some remarkable A10 91 progress in his state, particularly in education and recent A10 92 economic growth. Still, Arkansas has been among the nation's A10 93 poorest states for decades and ranks near the bottom in many A10 94 statistical analyses, giving Republicans ample ammunition as they A10 95 try to paint Clinton as 'the failed governor of a small state.'

A10 96 A10 97 GEORGE BUSH

A10 98 <*_>black-square<*/>Foreign-affairs whiz judged back home as a A10 99 man without a stand

A10 100 By Terence Hunt

A10 101 The Associated Press

A10 102 WASHINGTON - There's no mystery about Geroge Bush. He's the A10 103 broccoli-hating, dog-loving, war-winning president who wants to A10 104 devote the same energy to America's problems that he's applied to A10 105 crises overseas.

A10 106 But wait, look again.

A10 107 He's the read-my-lips promise breaker, tax hiker, status quo A10 108 defender and protector of the wealthy, a leader more interested in A10 109 the economic distress of Russians than the misery of unemployed A10 110 Americans.

A10 111 One man, two distinctly different judgments. It depends, in A10 112 part, on the political prism you use.

A10 113 Yet, after more than a quarter of a century in politics and A10 114 nearly 12 years at the White House, Bush has a record of A10 115 achievements and failures, a history that can be examined and A10 116 assessed.

A10 117 A quick appraisal: strong on foreign policy, weak on domestic A10 118 affairs. That's the verdict which repeatedly emerges from the A10 119 polls. Also evident is an underlying finding that nearly 80 percent A10 120 of Americans think that the nation's on the wrong track.

A10 121 Here's a look at the president's record:

A10 122 STRENGTHS A10 123 Bush has arguably the most impressive resume in Washington: A10 124 Yale grad, war veteran, Texas oil man, congressman, ambassador to A10 125 the United Nations, chairman of the Republican Party, envoy to A10 126 China, chief of the CIA, vice president and president. Ready to A10 127 lead from Day 1, he boasted.

A10 128 In Bush's view, it comes down to a simple question: Who do you A10 129 want sitting in the Oval Office? Who's got the temperament, the A10 130 experience, to make the tough decisions in a crisis?

A10 131 Sure, he paid a lot of attention to foreign policy in his first A10 132 3 1/2 years in office, Bush acknowledges. But children don't have A10 133 to hide under their school desks anymore in drills preparing for a A10 134 nuclear attack.

A10 135 "I saw the chance to rid our children's dreams of the A10 136 nuclear nightmare and I did," Bush says.

A10 137 Bush crams a lot of history into his foreign-policy portfolio: A10 138 The Berlin Wall fell on his watch, and Germany was reunited. The A10 139 Soviet Union collapsed, and communism died in Eastern Europe.

A10 140 "The Cold War is over, and we won," Bush says, A10 141 wrapping himself in the cloak of triumph.

A10 142 When Saddam Hussein's troops stormed into Kuwait, Bush rallied A10 143 world leaders and forced Iraq to withdraw. Those were the glory A10 144 days, when Bush's popularity ratings hit a record 90 percent. He A10 145 seemed unbeatable.

A10 146 When critics ask what he's done at home, Bush points to A10 147 enactment of a sweeping Clean Air Act Bill, although the A10 148 administration has failed to complete dozens of regulations to put A10 149 the law into effect; a landmark Civil Rights Act, which Bush signed A10 150 a year after vetoing a similar measure; and the 'America 2000' A10 151 movement to spur fundamental changes in the nation's classrooms.

A10 152 Bush's biggest strength, Republican strategist Eddie Mahe says, A10 153 is that "Americans sense he really is a decent human being. A10 154 People really have a sense that he is a quality person who is A10 155 basically driven by pretty decent instincts and motivations. A10 156 Barbara Bush is a real strength of his."

A10 157 WEAKNESSES A10 158 What does Bush stand for? What does he believe in? He has A10 159 flip-flopped on everything from abortion to 'voodoo economics.' In A10 160 the 1960s, he was against civil-rights and open-housing legislation A10 161 and then voted for the 1968 Fair Housing Act. As president, he A10 162 promised that there would be no net loss of the nation's swamps, A10 163 marshes and other wetlands, but then he endorsed a plan that would A10 164 allow development on tens of millions of acres, including parts of A10 165 the Florida Everglades.

A10 166 A10 167 Bush, Clinton TV spots focus on economy

A10 168 President blames Congress, foe vows jobs package

A10 169 By John King

A10 170 The Associated Press

A10 171 President Bush and Bill Clinton competed on national television A10 172 Sunday for voters' trust to revive the anemic economy, the Democrat A10 173 promising a jobs package as his first move and Bush blaming A10 174 sluggish economic growth on "the gridlock Congress" A10 175 blocking his recovery plan.

A10 176 Both also were questioned about past actions that could prove a A10 177 major factor in the campaign. And both said they expected debates, A10 178 although Bush again shied away from a three-debate plan Clinton A10 179 said he has accepted.

A10 180 For Clinton, the nagging episode from his past was his A10 181 avoidance of the draft during the Vietnam War. For Bush, the A10 182 subject was new questions about his knowledge of the Reagan A10 183 administration's alleged arms-for-hostages dealings with Iran.

A10 184 But as it does on the campaign trail, the economy dominated the A10 185 debate as Clinton and Bush appeared for rare, live 10-minute A10 186 back-to-back interviews on an NBC election special.

A10 187 "Pass a jobs program," Clinton said in listing A10 188 his first priority if elected.

A10 189 Controlling health-care costs would be second, he said.

A10 190 "I don't pretend that it is going to be easy or A10 191 quick," the Arkansas governor said. Still, "We can A10 192 cut (the deficit) in half in the next four years if we have real A10 193 discipline."

A10 194 Bush said he believes the majority of Americans are better off A10 195 now than they were four years ago, although he added, A10 196 "Certainly, anyone who is out of work cannot say he is A10 197 better off."

A10 198 Still, Bush blamed the Democrat-controlled Congress for A10 199 refusing to pass a Bush administration package he said contained A10 200 the incentives businesses need to buy new equipment and hire more A10 201 workers.

A10 202 "What we're trying to do is turn things around and get A10 203 people back to work," Bush said in Michigan. "The A10 204 gridlock Congress said, 'No.' ... I have been stymied in those A10 205 incentives and more by the Congress."

A10 206 The Labor Department last week said there were fewer A10 207 private-sector jobs in August than when Bush took office. But Bush A10 208 said he is "not prepared to buy into those A10 209 statistics."

A10 210 "I'm not sure there are fewer people at work," A10 211 he said.

A10 212 Bush also sought to convey the sense that the economy, despite A10 213 recent government figures, is on the upswing.

A10 214 "I think things are getting better," he said. A10 215 "We are poised for a strong recovery."

A10 216 When anchorman Tom Brokaw said Clinton's answers about his A10 217 draft status were "inconsistent", Clinton retorted that he A10 218 had never changed his story, but added, "Maybe I haven't A10 219 handled it as well as I should."

A10 220 Clinton said he did not know until earlier this year that an A10 221 uncle had lobbied to get him a spot in the Naval Reserve. Clinton A10 222 never took the slot, although he did briefly commit to an ROTC A10 223 program before putting his name into the draft when a lottery was A10 224 implemented.

A10 225 Much like Clinton on the draft, Bush brushed aside the notion A10 226 that his role in the Iran-contra scandal might become a 1992 A10 227 presidential-campaign issue. Recent documents submitted in court A10 228 cases have suggested that Bush, Reagan's vice president, knew more A10 229 about the arms-for-hostage scandal than he has indicated.

A10 230 "If I had done anything wrong ... they would be all A10 231 over me like you can possibly imagine," Bush said.

A10 232 He called the revival of the issue "a late smoke screen A10 233 ... I have nothing to explain."

A10 234 As for debates, Clinton said he accepts the plan of a A10 235 bipartisan panel to begin a three-debate series Sept. 22 in East A10 236 Lansing, Mich. But Bush said he is leaving the details to his A10 237 aides.

A10 238 Also in the program, NBC released a new poll showing Clinton A10 239 leading Bush 49 to 40 percent. The survey was taken Sept. 3-5 and A10 240 had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

A10 241 A11 1 <#FROWN:A11\>White House

A11 2 Mourning in America

A11 3 BY ANN McDANIEL

A11 4 With Clara Bingham on the road with Bush

A11 5 It was a gesture familiar to Bush watchers. A sudden flick of A11 6 the lanky wrist, a quick glance down at the watch. George Bush A11 7 knows no angle of repose; he has been restless and fidgety, a man A11 8 in a hurry through his long political career. But last Thursday, A11 9 when Bush obviously and impatiently checked the time A11 10 half-way through the second presidential debate, some 80 A11 11 million viewers could not help but read a larger meaning into a A11 12 familiar habit. It said: Outta time. Outta here.

A11 13 After 12 years, the Reagan-Bush revolution appears to be in its A11 14 Final Days. Staffers have not exactly draped black crepe over the A11 15 White House, but within the West Wing can be heard the whine of A11 16 axes grinding and the churn of Xerox machines cranking out A11 17 r<*_>e-acute<*/>sum<*_>e-acute<*/>s. Barring the greatest A11 18 performance in the history of presidential debates on Monday night, A11 19 the appearance of a terrible ghost from Bill Clinton's past, or an A11 20 act of God, George Bush seems fated to be a one-term A11 21 president. The Republican Party may not even make it to Election A11 22 Day before a period of mourning sets in.

A11 23 Before acceptance, of course, must come denial, anger and A11 24 depression. As he left the stage on Thursday, Bush gave a A11 25 less-than-gung-ho reply when a TV reporter asked him how he'd done. A11 26 "I just don't know," he muttered. In a conversation A11 27 last week with an old and close friend, Bush grudgingly conceded A11 28 that his days in the Oval Office may be numbered, but he refused to A11 29 accept the blame for it. The timing was bad, he said. The recession A11 30 lasted too long. The cold war ended too soon. Anyways, he said, A11 31 there's still time. "It's been a screwy year."

A11 32 That thin hope keeps Bush's inner core of top advisers A11 33 whistling as they pass the political graveyard. Pulling A11 34 all-nighters, they thought up snappy comeback lines for the A11 35 president, none of which Bush managed to use. (When Clinton pledged A11 36 to be the president of change, Bush was supposed to shoot back, A11 37 "like you changed your story on avoiding the A11 38 draft?") Before the second debate, when tracking polls A11 39 showed a slight narrowing in the race, Bush campaign strategist A11 40 Charlie Black jauntily declared a return of the Big Mo. He A11 41 neglected to mention a very big But: according to the Bush A11 42 campaign's own polling data, the gap between Bush and Clinton had A11 43 not closed in many key states. After Thursday night's fade-out, the A11 44 staffers were left grasping at an even flimsier document: a A11 45 fax-smudged advance copy of the December Penthouse, in A11 46 which Gennifer Flowers purports to detail her steamy love life with A11 47 Clinton. Even Bob Guccione, the Penthouse publisher, refused to A11 48 vouch for Flower's credibility.

A11 49 The only road left to the Bush campaign was the low one. Bush A11 50 advisers urged the president to shed his diffidence and come out A11 51 swinging against Clinton in the final debate. Dan Quayle had scored A11 52 with his harsh attacks on Clinton and Al Gore during the veep A11 53 debate, although the vice president appeared manic at times. A11 54 (Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales wrote that Quayle's A11 55 "forced laugh was reminiscent of Richard Widmark's when he A11 56 played weirdos in films noir of the '40s.") The A11 57 president's last campaign-ad buys will make the unsubtle point that A11 58 the president's opponent is a liar.

A11 59 Lower down in the Bush-Quayle campaign ranks, the blame game A11 60 has begun in earnest. "It's like living the 'Lord of the A11 61 Flies'," said a staffer. "We haven't been able to A11 62 eat Bill Clinton so we've begun eating each other." While A11 63 staffers were not sending out their curricula vitae over A11 64 the White House fax machines, they were sticking pins in the A11 65 already deflated reputations of Bush's former chiefs of staff. It A11 66 was all John Sununu's fault, some argued. He foolishly thought the A11 67 president could surf back into office on his gulf-war surge. No, it A11 68 was Sam Skinner's, said others. The former transportation secretary A11 69 couldn't organize a car pool. The one person everyone could agree A11 70 to trash was Richard Darman. The wily budget director had given his A11 71 best friend, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, a self-serving A11 72 account of the Bush administration's failure to manage the economy. A11 73 The plot of the four-part series was: Darman tried to do the right A11 74 thing, but low-rent pols (Jim Baker, the president) stopped him. A11 75 Staffers jokingly put a Bush-Quayle sticker on Darman's Mercedes, A11 76 to remind him whom he was voting for, and yukked it up over a A11 77 Christopher Buckley parody in The Wall Street Journal of Darman's A11 78 memoirs, entitled 'A Legend in His Own Mind.' One cabinet secretary A11 79 was more blunt. The only way Bush could repay Darman, he said, was A11 80 to buy 30 minutes of TV time, take Darman on stage and shoot A11 81 him.

A11 82 Somewhat surprisingly, perhaps, only Jim Baker has escaped A11 83 universal scorn from the staff. The president's best friend has A11 84 obviously failed to play miracle worker in his latest role as chief A11 85 of staff and campaign czar, but most aides shurg that the patient A11 86 was too far gone by the time Baker arrived in late August. Baker A11 87 does have bitter critics in the office of Vice President Quayle. A11 88 The veep's aides accuse Baker of a lack of boldness; Baker A11 89 loyalists scoff that the Quaylemen are just sore because they have A11 90 been cut out of the loop.

A11 91 Inside the First Family, depression has sunk in. Friends say A11 92 that George W., Bush's eldest son, and the president's daughter, A11 93 Doro, are particularly low over their father's apparent demise. A11 94 When George Bush announced in the debate that his wife, Barbara, A11 95 probably could have won the election but it was "too A11 96 late," the First Lady wore an expression on her face that A11 97 must have reflected her true feelings 44 years ago when her husband A11 98 announced that they were moving from Connecticut to Midland, A11 99 Texas.

A11 100 In his public moods, the president himself alternates between A11 101 the odd passivity he showed in the debates and flailing on the A11 102 campaign trail. Hoarse and tired after the Thursday debate, his A11 103 syntax a shambles, Bush laced into Clinton for evading the draft at A11 104 a sparsely attended rally at Middlesex County College in Edison, A11 105 N.J. For good measure, he also denounced a group of hecklers, most A11 106 of whom were not even born during Vietnam War, as "draft A11 107 dodgers."

A11 108 But that is the sad and angry side of Bush. There is also a A11 109 stoic and strong Bush, and he showed himself in a private A11 110 conversation with a friend last week. He hadn't decided where to A11 111 live if he lost the election, he said. But "if it happens, A11 112 it happens. There's life after this, and a damn good life." A11 113 Bush could decide to go out with dignity - and leave the last A11 114 assaults to surrogates. More likely, he will follow the A11 115 rough-and-tumble code of the schoolboy and play hard to the end.

A11 116 A11 117 Perot: Pulling the Race Out of the Mud

A11 118 Eleanor Clift with Ginny Carroll in Dallas

A11 119 For 48 hours last week, Ross Perot was on a roll. He won the A11 120 first presidential debate. His 'infomercial' - a kind of A11 121 truth-or-dare on the economy - drew high ratings. Washington A11 122 pundits speculated on whether he could take off and perhaps affect A11 123 the outcome of the presidential race. Then, in a condensed version A11 124 of last spring and summer, the latest flirtation with Perot bumped A11 125 up against reality. Perot's running mate, Adm. James B. Stockdale, A11 126 faltered in the vice presidential debate, reminding voters of the A11 127 improbability of their ticket. By the time Perot left the stage A11 128 after the second presidential debate in Richmond, there was no A11 129 pretending. Though he inched up in Newsweek's Poll, he had A11 130 about as much chance of being elected the next president as A11 131 Madonna.

A11 132 Maybe Perot has been telling the truth all along, that he A11 133 doesn't really want to be president. What counts is his reputation, A11 134 which was sorely damaged after his abrupt withdrawal from the race A11 135 last July. He is spending millions on TV ads so he can look into A11 136 the shaving mirror and not see a quitter. Perot's one-liners on the A11 137 economy are beginning to sound like a stand-up comedy routine; he A11 138 needs new material. But by focusing attention on the deficit, Perot A11 139 has helped elevate the last stage of a race that might otherwise A11 140 have been preoccupied entirely with mudslinging.

A11 141 Perot has been a reluctant warrior for his own program. He A11 142 could have avoided criticism of his second debate performance if he A11 143 had gone beyond one-liners to stress solutions. In his latest A11 144 infomercial Perot's sober twin emerges. Grim-faced, he urges A11 145 further taxing of social-security benefits, higher Medicare A11 146 premiums and increased gasoline taxes. Yet with the exception of A11 147 the gas tax (50 cents a gallon over five years), he glides over his A11 148 proposals so quickly that they get lost in the shuffle of pie A11 149 charts and bar graphs. He spends little time bracing those who will A11 150 lose benefits. This is Stone Age television, yet it is oddly A11 151 riveting. Perot sits at a desk with a 'voodoo stick' pointer, a A11 152 play on voodoo economics, while the charts pile up along with the A11 153 bad news.

A11 154 Perot must be wondering what might have been had he not acted A11 155 so impetuously last July. Only three weeks before he withdrew, some A11 156 polls showed him leading in a three-way race. Newsweek has A11 157 learned that Perot flew to Washington at that time, undetected by A11 158 the press, to meet with Dr. Bernadine Healy, head of the National A11 159 Institutes of Health, who he had hoped would be his running mate. A11 160 (Stockdale was meant to be a stand-in.) Healy, a Republican and a A11 161 Bush appointee, ultimately turned him down. But as Stockdale A11 162 struggled on the stage to hold his own last week, the thought of A11 163 Healy - a brilliant heart specialist and an articulate advocate for A11 164 women's health issues - must have given Perot a what-if pang.

A11 165 With his re-entry into the race, Perot is trying to recapture A11 166 those heady early days when the faithful treated him like a rock A11 167 star. But running for office takes more than revving up volunteers. A11 168 "Dad is on a very steep learning curve on how to be a A11 169 politician," says Ross Perot Jr. If the cold war were not A11 170 over, Perot would never have been taken seriously as a candidate: A11 171 his mercurial temperament would have labeled him as someone who A11 172 could not be trusted with his finger on the button. Even so, Perot A11 173 can still play a leadership role in the economic battles of the A11 174 '90s: his warnings about the deficit may make it easier for the A11 175 next president to get the country to swallow some tough economic A11 176 medicine.

A11 177 A11 178 Welcome to 1993

A11 179 Forget the struggles over Maastricht. Europe's Single Market A11 180 will change the world.

A11 181 By Scott Sullivan

A11 182 Europe is dying, Europe is dying, Europe is practically dead. A11 183 Its vaunted exchange-rate mechanism lies in tatters. The pound A11 184 sterling, the lira and the peseta have dropped like stones. Britain A11 185 wallows in its longest postwar recession. French economic growth is A11 186 slowing, and France's president has cancer. Italy faces the worst A11 187 labor disturbances in decades. Even mighty Germany is hard up for A11 188 cash. The Maastricht Treaty on European political and monetary A11 189 union looks like a goner. Not for years has the European scene A11 190 looked so bleak. And yet, the Old Continent is on the verge of A11 191 accomplishing its most spectacular feat ever - the creation of a A11 192 vast 'frontierless' economic space with 360 million consumers and a A11 193 combined GNP of $6.5 trillion.

A11 194 On Jan. 1, 1993, the Single Market - or most of it - will come A11 195 into effect. Henceforward, travelers within the 12-nation European A11 196 Community and the seven-nation European Free Trade Association will A11 197 travel without passports or visas throughout a vast European A11 198 Economic Space. Internal customs duties will disappear. Trucks will A11 199 carry no special documents. Physiotherapists, architects and A11 200 students will be able to practice or study anywhere in the Single A11 201 Market on the basis of degrees they earned at home. Builders and A11 202 telephone suppliers will bid for public contracts on equal terms in A11 203 all 19 countries. Insurance companies and banks can establish A11 204 branches anywhere in the area.

A11 205 A12 1 <#FROWN:A12\>BUT SERIOUSLY, FOLKS...

A12 2 Dan Quayle's wacky attack on TV's Murphy Brown character A12 3 obscures a serious discussion about motherhood, morality and A12 4 government's responsibility

A12 5 By LANCE MORROW

A12 6 With reporting by Tom Curry and Georgia Harbison/ New A12 7 York

A12 8 AMERICANS TALKED ABOUT IT in coffee shops and check-out lines A12 9 and elevators. In the Rose Garden of the White House, George Bush A12 10 stood with Brian Mulroney, trying to hold a press conference about A12 11 matters of state. The hounds of the press frisked and barked in A12 12 excitement until their intermingled questions sounded something A12 13 like Murf! Murf! Murf!

A12 14 The Prime Minister of Canada turned to the President of the A12 15 U.S. and asked in some puzzlement, "Who is Murphy A12 16 Brown?"

A12 17 The basic answer was easy: Murphy Brown does not exist. She is A12 18 the TV character played by Candice Bergen. Murphy is a blond media A12 19 anchor-goddess and wise-guy and now a defiantly unmarried A12 20 madonna. In last week's episode she delivered a baby boy - the boy A12 21 being played by a seven-week-old girl named Danica Fascella. (A A12 22 perfect Murphy Brown, post-Quayle touch: Danica and her A12 23 twin Cynthia were conceived in vitro and carried to term by a A12 24 surrogate mother.) In triumphant autonomy, Murphy will raise the A12 25 child as a single parent.

A12 26 But an outpouring of emotion and opinion about Murphy Brown has A12 27 proved to be unexpectedly interesting and bizarre. A Murphy Brown A12 28 debate has gone layering up through a dozen levels of American life A12 29 - political, moral, cultural, racial, even metaphysical. The A12 30 exercise has seemed amazingly stupid, obscurely degrading and A12 31 somehow important at the same time.

A12 32 Vice President Dan Quayle precipitated it. He and Murphy Brown A12 33 collaborated in one of those vivid, strange electronic moral A12 34 pageants, like the Thomas-Hill hearings, that are becoming a new A12 35 American form. This is national theater: surreal, spontaneous, A12 36 mixing off-hours pop culture with high political meanings, public A12 37 behavior with private conscience, making history up with tabloids A12 38 and television personalities like Oprah Winfrey. The trivial gets A12 39 aggrandized, the biggest themes cheapened. America degenerates into A12 40 a TV comedy - and yet Americans end up thinking in new ways about A12 41 some larger matters. The little television screen, the bright and A12 42 flat and often moronic medium of these spectacles, works in strange A12 43 disproportions of cause and effect: often, in wild disconnections A12 44 of cause and effect, video Dada.

A12 45 Quayle was in San Francisco, market-testing a line of A12 46 traditional-values rhetoric for more elaborate use as the A12 47 presidential campaign progresses. The Los Angeles riots were still A12 48 flickering on the edges of everyone's mind. In a speech before the A12 49 Commonwealth Club, Quayle came down hard on "lawless social A12 50 anarchy" - as opposed, presumably, to lawful anarchy. He A12 51 spoke of "the breakdown of family structure, personal A12 52 responsibility and social order in too many areas of our A12 53 society," of "a welfare ethos that impedes A12 54 individual efforts to move ahead in society ..." He A12 55 acknowledged the "terrible problem with race and A12 56 racism," adding that "the evil of slavery has left A12 57 a long legacy." But the core of the speech was law and A12 58 order. It bristled with words like "indulgence and A12 59 self-gratification ...glamourized casual sex and drug A12 60 use."

A12 61 The speech - if one deleted the Murphy Brown passage - was a A12 62 reasonably persuasive and sometimes eloquent sampler: a A12 63 punitive-inspirational hymn to hard work, family integrity and A12 64 personal responsibility. Some people later took Quayle's words to A12 65 be fatuous white-bread<&|>sic! truisms - Norman Rockwell evocations A12 66 of an America long gone. But if the ideas could be considered A12 67 outside the inflammatory political and racial context of the A12 68 moment, they had a ring of common sense. A number of black leaders, A12 69 including Jesse Jackson, might have made the same points without A12 70 controversy - and have. The family, Quayle said, is important, and A12 71 "the failure of our families is hurting America deeply A12 72 ...Children need love and discipline. They need mothers and A12 73 fathers. A welfare check is not a husband. The state is not a A12 74 father ...Bearing babies irresponsibly is, simply, A12 75 wrong."

A12 76 Then Quayle dropped in a paragraph that produced the A12 77 spectacularly silly media effect: "It doesn't help matters A12 78 when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown - a character who supposedly A12 79 epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid professional woman - A12 80 mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and A12 81 calling it just another 'life-style choice.'"

A12 82 F. Scott Fitzgerald said it is a sign of genius to be able to A12 83 entertain in the mind two mutually contradictory ideas without A12 84 going insane. America does not think of itself as a genius anymore. A12 85 A number of Americans went crazy when they heard Quayle's line A12 86 about Murphy Brown.

A12 87 At the first level, Quayle's Ozzie and Harriet A12 88 universe, with its freckle-faced nuclear-family suburban A12 89 reassurances, collided with that of successful autonomous career A12 90 women like the one portrayed in Murphy Brown. The A12 91 executive producer of Murphy Brown, Diane English, had a A12 92 well-machined answer for Quayle: "If the Vice President A12 93 thinks it's disgraceful for an unmarried woman to bear a child, and A12 94 he believes that a woman cannot adequately raise a child without a A12 95 father, then he'd better make sure abortion remains safe and A12 96 legal." Given that Murphy Brown was pregnant, what did A12 97 Quayle expect her to do? Have an abortion? Her decision to go ahead A12 98 and have the child was in harmony with the Administration's A12 99 pro-life convictions. Why criticize her then? Harrumph: she should A12 100 never have got pregnant in the first place. Or, more pertinently: A12 101 the creators of the program should not have concocted the pregnancy A12 102 dilemma for Murphy, thereby making her ultimate choice seem like a A12 103 legitimizing and glamourizing of single motherhood.

A12 104 At a second, less explicit layer of meaning, the Quayle line A12 105 took on complex racial colorations. He suggested that Murphy Brown A12 106 was a bad role model for unmarried females. In the speech's A12 107 context, he was talking about single mothers in the ghetto. But A12 108 like so much in last week's odd episode, there were signs of hip A12 109 shooting and inadvertence.

A12 110 In fact, few young black females watch Murphy Brown. A12 111 The show, which in overall audience is the third most popular on A12 112 network television, ranks 56th in popularity among American blacks. A12 113 So the idea that Murphy's single motherhood encourages black A12 114 adolescent girls to follow the same course loses its force.

A12 115 The racial dimension flows naturally into the political, where A12 116 the uglier side of Quayle's mission begins to become apparent. One A12 117 of Quayle's amazing but unlikable feats last week was A12 118 metaphorically to transform old Willie Horton into a beautiful A12 119 blond fortyish wasp has-it-all knockout. (Horton was the black A12 120 murderer who raped a housewife while on furlough during the time A12 121 that 1988 Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis was Governor of A12 122 Massachusetts; the Bush campaign used Horton to ridicule Dukakis.) A12 123 So in 1992, by Quayle's interesting subliminal design, Murphy A12 124 carries at least some of Willie's message: mindless liberalism A12 125 allied with black anarchy (ruined families, unwed mothers, crime, A12 126 drugs) leads quickly to social breakdown.

A12 127 If Quayle has no malign racial-political intent, he might point A12 128 out, when discussing the miseries of families, that, for example, A12 129 Eastern prep schools are filled with children packed off to get A12 130 them away from divorce, incest, alcoholism, child abuse, wife A12 131 battering and other horrors at home. The willingness to let the A12 132 racist implication stand unchallenged, unexamined, loitering on the A12 133 threshold, is the ugliest aspect of all this.

A12 134 Quayle in part plays the Spiro Agnew role to Bush's Richard A12 135 Nixon. But when Agnew went after the 'nattering nabobs' and student A12 136 protesters, he did so with a thuggish menace that Quayle lacks. A12 137 Quayle smacks more of Midwestern Americana, of The Music A12 138 Man's Professor Harold Hill, and Quayle's lines about A12 139 unmarried mothers sounded like an echo: "We got trouble, A12 140 right here in River City!" - brazen hussies strutting A12 141 around town in a family way: Make your blood boil? Well, I should A12 142 say!

A12 143 In the Bush-Quayle synecdoche, attitude, symbolism and code A12 144 words stand in for real action and accomplishment. The Bush A12 145 Administration is short on both coherent programs and resources of A12 146 leadership to approach the problems. An elaborate rhetorical porch, A12 147 with gorgeous traditional columns, fronts an empty house. In any A12 148 case, Presidents, Vice Presidents and other public officials are A12 149 elected to lead and act first of all. Moral leadership and vision A12 150 are vital, but somehow the right to deliver sermons has to be A12 151 convincingly earned.

A12 152 Quayle makes much of the theme of the absent father; America A12 153 under the Bush Administration looks like a house with an absent A12 154 father. A man has no right to abandon the family for years and then A12 155 show up one day and go upstairs and start spanking the kids.

A12 156 Television, which has all but taken over the American political A12 157 process, turning the parties into the old technology, is the A12 158 perfect medium for a battle of weightless, sensational symbolisms. A12 159 Not that the images don't have real effect: a homemade video of a A12 160 black motorist being beaten by police succeeded in burning down a A12 161 sizable part of Los Angeles. The moral struggle between Dan Quayle A12 162 and Murphy Brown seemed perfect and fascinating, as if all the A12 163 weaknesses of both politics and television (the short attention A12 164 span, the brainless evanescence, the disconnection) were leaking A12 165 into one another.

A12 166 If the Vice President wanted to attack television's effects on A12 167 the American young, he might have hit the medium on 30 or 40 more A12 168 serious matters before coming to Murphy Brown's marital status. By A12 169 age 20, an American child will have watched 700,000 TV commercials. A12 170 According to New York University professor and media critic Neil A12 171 Postman, "There are several messages in these ads: that all A12 172 problems are solvable, that the solutions are quickly available A12 173 through use of some chemical, food, drug or machine." A12 174 Television creates the culture of immediate gratification, not A12 175 primarily through its comedy shows but through its advertising. A12 176 Says Postman: "If anyone wants to relate the Los Angeles A12 177 riots to TV shows, everyone in the U.S. sees television shows A12 178 communicating the message that these are the things all Americans A12 179 are entitled to: TV sets, cars and so on. The riots were in part A12 180 driven by this sense of entitlement."

A12 181 Issues of family, morals and values are important - and may A12 182 ultimately be central to solving problems, especially those of the A12 183 black underclass. But if they are to be discussed merely on the A12 184 level of Murphy Brown, it is going to be a long and loathsome A12 185 campaign.

A12 186 A12 187 Dial D for Democracy

A12 188 In the near future, an electronic town meeting in the U.S. as A12 189 envisioned by presidential hopeful Ross Perot could work. But is it A12 190 a good idea?

A12 191 By PHILIP ELMER-DEWITT

A12 192 IMAGINE IT IS 1994. THE U.S. economy is still stagnating, Japan A12 193 remains in the doldrums as well, interest rates are rising, and the A12 194 deficit has reached $600 billion. Something has to be done - and A12 195 quickly. President Ross Perot, making good on a campaign promise, A12 196 gets on the horn to the TV networks and organizes one of his famous A12 197 electronic town meetings. That night, before a television audience A12 198 Murphy Brown would die for, he lays out America's precarious A12 199 economic situation and the stark choices the nation confronts. Even A12 200 before his presentation is over, the returns begin to pour in - by A12 201 telephone, fax, computer modem, videophone and two-way interactive A12 202 cable TV. By morning, the will of the American people is clear: A12 203 they have decided to cut back on Social Security payments, further A12 204 slash military spending and raise their own taxes.

A12 205 That's how teledemocracy is supposed to work, according to A12 206 Perot, the billionaire computer executive and putative presidential A12 207 candidate. The concept has a certain gut-level appeal. To voters A12 208 fed up with the paralysis of the U.S. Congress and the A12 209 special-interest outrages that characterize politics-as-usual, the A12 210 idea that the citizenry might bypass all the musty machinery of A12 211 representative democracy and directly influence the government A12 212 seems enormously attractive.

A12 213 Perot suggests that the technology required to create an A12 214 electronic town meeting is already in place - an impression A12 215 reinforced by events like his satellite broadcast last Friday that A12 216 linked Perot rallies in six different states. Participants in five A12 217 U.S. cities could hear one another cheer Perot as he spoke to them A12 218 from Orlando, Florida. To have a truly interactive town meeting, A12 219 however, a number of technical barriers must still be hurdled. And A12 220 even if that happens, it is not clear that the result will be any A12 221 way to run a country.

A12 222 A12 223 A13 1 <#FROWN:A13\>Racial Riot Shows Buried Tensions At a High A13 2 School

A13 3 By David Holmstrom

A13 4 Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

A13 5 BOSTON

A13 6 THERE should have been 1,168 noisy students filling the halls A13 7 and classrooms of Medford High School on Dec. 15. But except for a A13 8 handful of tense administrators and a few students and teachers, A13 9 Medford High in Medford, Mass., was virtually empty.

A13 10 A racially triggered brawl had erupted in the school cafeteria A13 11 on Dec. 10. Fighting between black and white students quickly A13 12 spread. Dozens of state troopers and police officers clad in riot A13 13 gear were called in to restore order. Fifteen students were A13 14 arrested.

A13 15 The superintendent of Medford schools, Philip Devaux, closed A13 16 the school for several days. United States Department of Justice A13 17 officials arrived on the scene as fact finders, along with A13 18 experienced mediators from the Massachusetts attorney general's A13 19 office.

A13 20 A quiet suburban town of just under 60,000 people about 10 A13 21 miles north of Boston, Medford is now being forced to ask itself A13 22 two questions: How closely does an ugly racial incident at the high A13 23 school reflect attitudes throughout the town? And how do educators A13 24 at the high school improve racial understanding?

A13 25 "The incident took me by surprise," says A13 26 Medford Mayor Michael McGlynn, who also chairs the School A13 27 Committee. "There had been some uneasiness at community A13 28 meetings last year about kids, but not an indication of this kind A13 29 of problem."

A13 30 Some teachers, parents, and students - both black and white - A13 31 insist that the signs of trouble were already there at the high A13 32 school. Despite some efforts by administrators to resolve racial A13 33 charges and countercharges involving white teachers' attitudes and A13 34 allegedly excessive defensiveness by some black students, some A13 35 teachers and parents say dealing with racial issues was never a A13 36 priority at the school.

A13 37 In fact, the high school experienced a similar racial incident A13 38 in 1977. "Not much has changed," says a teacher who A13 39 has taught for nine years at Medford.

A13 40 "Everybody knew there was tension," says Daiena A13 41 Masciarelli, president of the student council, who said that once A13 42 the football season ended and the focal point of school enthusiasm A13 43 faded, "a lot of friendships seemed to end."

A13 44 As for the incident itself, she says, "It started out A13 45 just as a fight and grew from there into a black and white battle. A13 46 I think society has put this racial thing on us. To me race doesn't A13 47 matter; we should judge people on their minds, not their skins, but A13 48 I don't think a lot of adults believe that."

A13 49 About 15 percent of the student body at Medford is black; the A13 50 rest is almost all white. There are four black teachers. A black A13 51 senior, who did not want to be identified, says, "There are A13 52 white teachers here who make racial slurs and treat black kids A13 53 differently. Everybody knows this, but how are you going to take A13 54 that out of some teacher's head when it's <}its> been there for A13 55 forty years?"

A13 56 Miss Masciarelli criticized the school's curriculum for not A13 57 having enough material on different cultures.

A13 58 A black mother of a Medford junior sat in the superintendent's A13 59 office last week after the incident and said she had never seen her A13 60 son so upset. "He's got lots of white friends," she A13 61 says, and they're on the phone now wondering if they can A13 62 speak to each other in public when they go back to A13 63 school."

A13 64 On Dec. 14, Superintendent Devaux held a community-wide meeting A13 65 to assure parents that "we are working to create a safe and A13 66 controlled school environment before reopening." He said A13 67 "20 actions" were being implemented, including work A13 68 by a team of state mediators who are meeting with students and A13 69 teachers.

A13 70 "What we will be trying to do" says Alice A13 71 Comack, the head of the mediation team, "is not find out A13 72 who was right or wrong, but to listen to them to get an A13 73 understanding of what is bothering them." The first step A13 74 was separate confidential sessions with black and white student A13 75 leaders, then a joint session before school reopened Dec. 18 for A13 76 seniors and juniors only.

A13 77 "Mediation seeks to create an environment," A13 78 says Denis Gray, one of the mediators, "in which future A13 79 relationships can be improved. We don't suggest solutions, or try A13 80 to change the human heart. We work out what the people can live A13 81 with."

A13 82 In the sessions, the mediators listen as long as needed to the A13 83 students and then move toward more precise definitions of terms and A13 84 the meaning of words. "People want to be heard," A13 85 Mr. Gray says, "and when they realize they are being heard, A13 86 they are being empowered and will be more willing to find A13 87 solutions."

A13 88 One of the issues at Medford was the confused racial A13 89 significance of the caps many students were wearing.

A13 90 "Some kids just want to wear the [baseball-style caps] A13 91 just because they like a team," Masciarelli says, A13 92 "but if you wear a UNLV cap [University of Nevada at Las A13 93 Vegas, nationally prominent in basketball and controversial because A13 94 of recruiting standards], some people say it means 'us niggers love A13 95 violence.'"

A13 96 Devaux has now banned all of the caps from classrooms.

A13 97 "In the community at large," Mayor McGlynn A13 98 says, "all these racial problems aren't going to be cleared A13 99 up in one week. I don't think we have talked to each other enough A13 100 to build a respect for different cultures. Some of the adults have A13 101 to stop making racial and ethnic slurs, and learn to respect people A13 102 and work together."

A13 103 A13 104 Inner Cities Pose Tough Task for Clinton Team

A13 105 By David Holmstrom

A13 106 Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

A13 107 BOSTON

A13 108 SIX months ago, as they walked through the smoking ruins of A13 109 riot-torn Los Angeles, all of the presidential candidates had on A13 110 their lips the heady promise of urban aid for inner cities. Today A13 111 the delivery of urban aid is in President-elect Clinton's lap.

A13 112 How quickly and effectively the new president delivers on A13 113 promises hinges on three factors: his ability to keep the problems A13 114 of inner cities from being crowded out by other domestic and A13 115 international issues; his ability to coax bipartisan congressional A13 116 action; and his ability not to add to the federal budget deficit A13 117 with short-term, money-swallowing social programs.

A13 118 Mr. Clinton more than once has indicated a concern for inner A13 119 cities and his determination to create jobs there.

A13 120 "Cities have not been treated very well over the last A13 121 two decades by presidents," said Joseph Boskin, director of A13 122 the urban studies public-policy program at Boston University. Yet A13 123 "they are crucial to the economic and psychological A13 124 viability of this nation.

A13 125 "Clinton's first priority should be job creation. I'd like to A13 126 see such efforts as Job Corps programs connected with universities A13 127 and colleges, so that there are some long-term development of A13 128 skills going on, and not just cleaning the streets."

A13 129 Efforts by Republican and Democratic administrations over the A13 130 last 30 years to solve a host of deepening inner-city problems read A13 131 like a badly told story that never seems to end. The Great Society A13 132 programs of President Johnson spent enormous amounts of money on A13 133 poverty and inner cities, but came away with only two enduring A13 134 legacies, Head Start and the Job Corps.

A13 135 Much-heralded programs like the Comprehensive Employment and A13 136 Training Act [CETA] under President Nixon and the Model Cities A13 137 program under Mr. Johnson saw many funds end up in middle-income A13 138 projects - or become lost in bureaucratic delays and policy shifts, A13 139 some urban specialists say.

A13 140 During the Carter and Reagan years, poor, unemployed blacks A13 141 remained very heavily concentrated in cities, leading to more A13 142 pronounced residential segregation. Whites, Asians, and Latinos are A13 143 increasingly less likely to live near blacks in many inner cities; A13 144 many whites have departed for the suburbs.

A13 145 In Chicago, for instance, 71 percent of all blacks now live in A13 146 one-race census tracts bordering other all-black census tracts, a A13 147 pattern repeated in many other cities. This kind of downward spiral A13 148 in social integration, when exacerbated by joblessness, has had A13 149 broad social impact.

A13 150 Violent crime in all major cities has increased over the last A13 151 decade, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Schools A13 152 have deteriorated and many businesses and banks have abandoned the A13 153 inner cities. According to the National Urban League, an estimated A13 154 50 percent of all urban black children now live in poverty.

A13 155 Such programs as enterprise zones in inner cities with special A13 156 tax breaks for businesses were proposed under Ronald Reagan, but A13 157 have hung in limbo for years.

A13 158 A $27 billion urban-aid package approved by Congress this year A13 159 was vetoed by President Bush six months after the Los Angeles A13 160 riots. He said it included "numerous tax increases and A13 161 would destroy jobs and undermine small A13 162 business."

A13 163 Many urban specialists agree with Clinton's promised pragmatic A13 164 approach, to launch projects and programs that are prudently A13 165 balanced between inner city needs and the need to cut the deficit. A13 166 As yet, Clinton has provided few details about inner-city programs, A13 167 whether he favors a heavy federal commitment or a combination of A13 168 public and private funds.

A13 169 Enterprise zones should be high on Clinton's list of A13 170 priorities," said Robert Hill, director of the Institute A13 171 for Urban Research at Morgan State University at Baltimore.

A13 172 "But," he says, "equally as important, he A13 173 should target established community-based groups such as the A13 174 resident-management corporations in public housing. Many of these A13 175 are setting up businesses and hiring former welfare recipients. A13 176 These groups should get all the reinforcement they A13 177 need."

A13 178 The first priority, however, many experts say, should be jobs A13 179 programs. Since 1980, adult black men have had unemployment rates A13 180 above 10 percent every year. In 1972, the unemployment rate for A13 181 black men was 7.2 percent. And per capita income for blacks in 1990 A13 182 was $9,017. For whites it was $15,265.

A13 183 "There are hard choices to be made," said Billy A13 184 Tidwell, director of research for the National Urban League.

A13 185 "Clinton has to deal with the deficit," he A13 186 said, "but the economic conditions that feed into it, such A13 187 as the costs associated with the neglect of inner cities, need a A13 188 high priority. There will be a good deal of pressure from A13 189 reasonable people to move the Clinton administration in that A13 190 direction."

A13 191 If Clinton should turn to a network of public-work programs, A13 192 would the effort result in inflationary federal spending?

A13 193 "More money is expended to stop crime," Mr. A13 194 Boskin said, "than is spent in putting people to work. When A13 195 a riot occurs, like the one in L.A., rebuilding the city is much A13 196 more expensive to deal with than putting people to work in the A13 197 first place."

A13 198 A13 199 Consensus Rule Is Aim of Washington State's A13 200 Governor-Elect

A13 201 Observers see parallels between his plans and Bill Clinton's on A13 202 taxes and economy

A13 203 By Mark Trumbull

A13 204 Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

A13 205 OLYMPIA, WASH.

A13 206 THE transition team is hard at work preparing for an important A13 207 'first 100 days.' Task forces are being convened with A13 208 representatives from all sides of knotty issues. The incoming chief A13 209 executive is trying to make good on the image he set forth in the A13 210 election campaign, which balanced Democratic Party principles with A13 211 the need to revive a lagging economy.

A13 212 But the man is not President-elect Clinton and the seat of A13 213 power is not Washinton, D.C., but Washington State.

A13 214 Governor-elect Mike Lowry (D), like Mr. Clinton, has won A13 215 cautious praise from many in the business community for his efforts A13 216 at 'consensus government.' This is one of several interesting A13 217 parallels between these two winners of November's election.

A13 218 By considering moderate Republicans for some key posts and A13 219 seeking views from many task forces, Mr. Lowry is "actively A13 220 operating in this transition period as he campaigned," says A13 221 Bill Jacobs, executive director of the Washington Forest Protection A13 222 Association, sponsored by the timber industry. Lowry plans to A13 223 consult a diverse "citizen's cabinet" throughout A13 224 his tenure.

A13 225 "It's very difficult to get consensus," Mr. A13 226 Jacobs says.

A13 227 Like Lowry with his task forces, Clinton will face this A13 228 challenge when he holds his 'economic summit.' Lowry, however, has A13 229 an advantage: State law requires that the budget be balanced.

A13 230 A former congressman and Seattle University teacher, Lowry has A13 231 a particularly difficult budget in the works. Although this state A13 232 weathered the recession better than most, its economy is now A13 233 fragile, with thousands of jobs in aerospace and timber lost or at A13 234 risk due to industry troubles and environmental concerns.

A13 235 A14 1 <#FROWN:A14\>CLINTON ALREADY?

A14 2 The Manufactured Candidate

A14 3 By Andrew Kopkind

A14 4 Manchester, New Hampshire

A14 5 It was said of Belgrade after World War II that there was A14 6 nothing in the shops except dead flies and pictures of Tito. So it A14 7 is this winter in Manchester, minus the pictures. There are enough A14 8 empty storefronts on Elm Street to serve as headquarters for a A14 9 hundred candidates in the February 18 presidential primary. Once A14 10 home to the biggest textile mill complex in the world, Manchester A14 11 seems to have no future save as a theme park about the devolution A14 12 of America. In this Decline World, factories have flown, malls are A14 13 empty, condos are bankrupt, banks are failing, the service-sector A14 14 boom of the Reagan 1980s has gone bust and unemployment has almost A14 15 tripled since the 1988 primary. And the elms are all dead.

A14 16 On a damp Sunday morning in January, Elm Street is a dead zone. A14 17 Traffic lights blink on and off gratuitously to lanes devoid of A14 18 cars. Torn sheets of green plastic flap idly around an abandoned A14 19 construction site. Except for a posse of transient advance men, A14 20 handlers and media persons gathered to start the day campaigning A14 21 with Bill Clinton, only one local citizen is visible, a tall, A14 22 disheveled youngish man with a graying beard, camouflage cap, A14 23 tattered parka and dark aviator glasses. His hands are plunged in A14 24 his pockets and his shoulders seem permanently hunched against the A14 25 cold.

A14 26 "Going down, isn't it?" he says suddenly as we A14 27 pass, in front of a shuttered porn mart the Clinton people call A14 28 "the adult book store."

A14 29 "It looks that way," I agree tentatively.

A14 30 "Going down," he repeats, and walks away A14 31 without turning.

A14 32 In many ways, Bill Clinton is the prophetic candidate of A14 33 decline. The young and personable Arkansas Governor begins his A14 34 basic rap - at house parties, club meetings, nursing homes and A14 35 wherever else a crowd is collected - with a litany of economic A14 36 deterioration. "We [candidates always assume the identity A14 37 of the places they seek to represent] used to be the world's A14 38 banker, now we're the world's biggest debtor," he says. A14 39 "American workers used to be the best paid, now we're A14 40 tenth. We used to be eighth in income equality, now we're dead A14 41 last. The Fortune 500 have announced 300,000 layoffs in the last A14 42 thirty days." Infrastructure is crumbling, education A14 43 doesn't work, pollution is pandemic, there's no health system to A14 44 speak of, manufacturing is disappearing: Clinton counts the A14 45 woes.

A14 46 Clinton is arguably the most articulate and certainly the best A14 47 informed of the candidates chronicling decline in this recession A14 48 season, when economic failure provides the context for politics. It A14 49 is not unreasonable, however, to ask, "Compared to A14 50 what?" Mario Cuomo might have done it with more zing, but A14 51 he has assigned himself the role of kibitzer rather than player, A14 52 and that vastly diminishes his impact. Jerry Brown has a strong but A14 53 one-note message about a single "incumbent party" A14 54 and the "corruption" of the political system, Paul Tsongas A14 55 is passionless and unpresidential, Tom Harkin is bombastic and A14 56 unattached to any populist movement he pretends to lead and Bob A14 57 Kerrey is fixated on his own war record and sinking fast.

A14 58 That leaves Clinton in front of the pack (already preshrunk by A14 59 the departure of Douglas Wilder and George McGovern) and perhaps A14 60 unstoppable except by an obstacle of his own erection. The A14 61 experience of 1988 suggests that Democrats are eminently capable of A14 62 destroying their own campaigns, both by suicidal behavior (Gary A14 63 Hart's philandering, Joe Biden's plagiarism) and by sudden A14 64 blackouts of imagination (Dukakis's collapse after the party's A14 65 national convention). The Primary season has just begun (it doesn't A14 66 end till June), and a slip of the tongue or a fall on a banana peel A14 67 could derail any one of these characters.

A14 68 Barring such disasters, Clinton has a clear shot at the A14 69 nomination. He is now winning the all-important 'first primary' - A14 70 fundraising - after pulling ahead of PAC-man Harkin in the December A14 71 sweeps. It's true that mainly the money and political elites - not A14 72 the masses - are giving him initial momentum, and that leaves an A14 73 opening for a candidate who can rouse the common man somewhere down A14 74 the line. But already the media are swooning in his wake: Joe Klein A14 75 of New York and Michael Kramer of Time act as if A14 76 they're part of the campaign (Klein actually 'spins' for Clinton A14 77 and explains his policies to reporters on the trail; he maintains A14 78 for all to hear that Clinton is "the smartest politician A14 79 I've ever met"). The New York Times is employing A14 80 another pro-Clinton tactic by bashing Kerrey for his personal A14 81 business practices. Economics columnist Bob Kuttner of The A14 82 Boston Globe detects "a genuine bandwagon" for A14 83 Clinton, "a Democrat ... who is not only adroit as a A14 84 candidate but who also might govern competently." He A14 85 neglects to say he helped assemble said wagon. Even Times A14 86 columnist William Safire, an anti-Bush Reaganite, is boosting A14 87 Clinton, for his uncompromising defense of Israeli demands on the A14 88 U.S. Treasury.

A14 89 The enthusiastic support of political intellectuals has been A14 90 the key to Clinton's success so far. While Harkin had some Big A14 91 Labor, Tsongas some high-tech business, Wilder some blacks and A14 92 Brown some self-identified progressives, Clinton organized the A14 93 opinion-leaders and gatekeepers in the cool center of the political A14 94 establishment. It didn't happen by accident. A founding member (and A14 95 recent chair) of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, he A14 96 directed the development of an ideology to support his campaign. As A14 97 Clinton and friends begat the D.L.C., so the D.L.C. begat the A14 98 P.P.I., the Progressive Policy Institute, a Washington think tank A14 99 that fires off neoliberal proposals like a Salad Shooter spews A14 100 lettuce shreds.

A14 101 Not only that, but P.P.I. heavies and adherents have converged A14 102 on Op-Ed pages all over the United States in a deliberate drive to A14 103 legitimize Clinton and the ideology of Clintonism that the A14 104 institute has created. For example, Elaine Ciulla Kamarck, a P.P.I. A14 105 senior fellow and Clinton groupie, is now a regular contributor to A14 106 both the Los Angeles Times and Newsday. Her first A14 107 effort posed six "killer questions" for candidates, A14 108 all of which only Clinton would answer to her liking; the second A14 109 was an out-and-out endorsement of Clinton's "centrist A14 110 ways" as the best antidote to Bush. In a similar conceit, A14 111 the op-edible Abe Rosenthal of The New York Times listed A14 112 ten "errors" he said Bush made in foreign policy, virtually A14 113 all of them on the 'left' side of the issues (failure to devastate A14 114 Iraq fully and murder Saddam, skepticism on Israel). Clinton, among A14 115 all the Democrats, is on the Rosenthal side.

A14 116 What Kuttner calls "an astonishingly broad diversity of A14 117 Democratic activists" have reported for duty in Camp A14 118 Clinton. Harold Ickes, son of F.D.R.'s Interior Secretary of the A14 119 same name and four years ago a Jesse Jackson stalwart, is A14 120 shepherding Clinton around New York City and organizing local labor A14 121 leaders for his cause. He has already attracted some key unionists, A14 122 such as Stanley Hill and Dennis Rivera (co-chairman of A14 123 Jackson's drive last time); Rivera likes Harkin but is helping A14 124 Clinton too, his aides say, for the "winnability" factor. A14 125 James Carville, the political consultant who scored the season's A14 126 first hit by masterminding Harris Wofford's senatorial victory in A14 127 Pennsylvania, is always inches away from Clinton's ear. Liberals A14 128 like pollster Stanley Greenberg (out of Senator Christopher Dodd A14 129 and Governor Jim Florio), media man Frank Greer (Fred Harris in A14 130 '76, et seq.) and campaign manager David Wilhelm (Senator Paul A14 131 Simon's ex) have moved to the right and into the Clinton center. A14 132 Such swarming of the columnists, academics and political mandarins A14 133 recalls the time thirtysomething years ago when the likes of Joe A14 134 Kraft, the Alsop brothers, Arthur Schlesinger, Walt Rostow and the A14 135 future knights of Camelot bought their tickets to ride with John A14 136 Kennedy into the White House.

A14 137 The more America declines, the better will Clinton's chances be A14 138 to become President. If the recession is as deep and intractable as A14 139 now seems the case, the candidate who can give voice to suffering A14 140 citizens and provide clear plans for action at least stands a A14 141 chance against the expected Bush blitzkrieg.

A14 142 The only problem for Clinton at this point is Clinton himself. A14 143 His policy papers have great preambles and solid introductions, but A14 144 then they go blank. If there are no second acts in Americans' A14 145 lives, there are no second pages in Clinton's proposals. Take A14 146 health care (please!). Clinton begins with an eloquent A14 147 statement of the problem: "We are the only advanced nation A14 148 in the world that doesn't provide health care to all its citizens A14 149 and doesn't take the lead in controlling costs. In the first year A14 150 of the Clinton Administration, Congress and I will deliver quality, A14 151 affordable health care for all Americans." And then? There A14 152 is no then, then. He says he'll base his health system on models in A14 153 Hawaii, Germany and "Europe." He promises coverage for the A14 154 uncovered but doesn't say how much or what kind. He vows to control A14 155 costs with vague notions of "insurance reform" and A14 156 the elimination of "administrative waste" and A14 157 "billing fraud." To solve the elder-care A14 158 crisis, he would provide "choices" for old people who still A14 159 have a lot of money. And to cap off his health plan he swears he A14 160 won't increase taxes. Read his lips.

A14 161 His long-term economic strategy is, if anything, even more A14 162 indistinct. The devastating statistics of the decline he cites do A14 163 not lead to ideas of equal weight. He does give New Hampshire A14 164 audiences a taste of his short-term plans for the economy: speed up A14 165 work under the new transportation bill (which Bush signed in Texas A14 166 before he flew to Asia), help small businesses with capital gains A14 167 and investment tax breaks, beef up federal housing loans and, A14 168 tastiest of all, cut "middle class" taxes by 10 percent, giving the A14 169 average family about $400 to spend "paying off credit card A14 170 loans" and, perhaps, sending the kids to Yale or buying a A14 171 new Buick.

A14 172 The United States is the only major country in the world A14 173 without an economic strategy, Clinton points out, and that's why A14 174 manufacturing is dwindling, the Japanese are winning and wages are A14 175 dropping. His solution is to "deliver quality, affordable A14 176 health care," encourage manufacturing, reduce interest on A14 177 the national debt and train young people for skilled work. Is it my A14 178 imagination or is the dog chasing its own tail? Everything is A14 179 dependent on a contingency. American cars, he says, have more than A14 180 $700 in health insurance costs "built into them," A14 181 while Japanese cars roll off the line with only 200 health care A14 182 dollars in each chassis. Provide cheaper health care and Detroit A14 183 will boom and spark a significant reindustrialization of America, A14 184 Q.E.D. Tax revenues will rise and the debt will decrease. There A14 185 will be skilled jobs at high wages for young people who go through A14 186 Clinton's apprenticeship program. Cut military spending and spend A14 187 the "peace dividend" on social improvements. But A14 188 wait. Re-examine the premise, and the logical train is derailed A14 189 before it leaves the station.

A14 190 Like Michael Dukakis in 1988, Clinton refers to the marvels of A14 191 his home state as models for national action. Dukakis's promise of A14 192 "good jobs at good wages" had as its basis the A14 193 high-tech, service-rich 'Massachusetts miracle,' fueled by the A14 194 Carter-Reagan military expenditure extravaganza and by the A14 195 explosion of consumption in the 1980s. Elect Dukakis, we were told, A14 196 and the whole country will experience Massachusetts' A14 197 Wirtschaftswunder. Unfortunately for the Duke, the Iowa A14 198 caucuses had not yet been held when the Wunder started to A14 199 go under. A year later, when Dukakis assured his voters he would A14 200 not stand again for Governor of the state he helped run into the A14 201 ground, Massachusetts was the basket case of the country, and it A14 202 soon brought the rest of New England under with it.

A14 203 Clinton also promises a "high-wage, high-growth, A14 204 high-opportunity society" and he refers to many programs in A14 205 Arkansas as models for his national plan. But even a cursory look A14 206 at his state shows that his investment strategy over eleven years A14 207 as Governor there has been the opposite of what he claims. Arkansas A14 208 is essentially an anti-union state with a 'right-to-work' law that A14 209 depresses wages and benefits for workers and inhibits the expansion A14 210 of a skilled labor force. A14 211 A15 1 <#FROWN:A15\>Toronto pitching biggest concern for A15 2 Oakland

A15 3 By Frank Blackman

A15 4 OF THE EXAMINER STAFF

A15 5 TORONTO - One of these years Pat Gillick is going to buy the A15 6 Toronto Blue Jays a trip to the World Series.

A15 7 The A's just hope it isn't this year. Gillick, the Jays' A15 8 general manager, is a believer in the rent-a-pitcher approach to A15 9 pennant races, hiring talent for the final push in September and A15 10 October.

A15 11 Mike Flanagan in 1987. John Candelaria and Bud Black in 1990. A15 12 Tom Candiotti in '91. None was able to help the Jays reach the A15 13 World Series.

A15 14 Undeterred, Gillick went out in '92 and obtained David Cone, A15 15 who many considered the best pitcher in the National League. Like A15 16 his predecessors, Cone can become a free agent after the A15 17 postseason, and it's anticipated he'll hang a U-turn and head back A15 18 to New York and sign with the Yankees.

A15 19 But what Cone does next year is of less import to the A's than A15 20 what he will do in the next 10 days. He's scheduled to start twice A15 21 against Oakland in the American League Championship Series that A15 22 begins here Wednesday night. It will be the first time the A's A15 23 hitters have seen him up close and personal this year.

A15 24 "What worries me is the unknown factor of David A15 25 Cone," batting coach Doug Rader said. "I think we A15 26 match up OK with everyone else, but David Cone, because he's A15 27 unknown, it's naturally frightening."

A15 28 Cone hasn't had a chance to test himself against Mark McGwire, A15 29 presumably a frightening prospect, too. And he's only watched A15 30 Rickey Henderson take his hacks on TV. Pitching to the A's has to A15 31 be a daunting challenge for someone who hasn't done it before, A15 32 right?

A15 33 "Big advantage to the pitcher," Rader said. A15 34 "He throws from a different angle, so you're not A15 35 comfortable with him. Another major thing is that you need A15 36 reaffirmation. If you've already had success against someone, even A15 37 though it might be limited, that counts for something. It's a A15 38 different scenario when you haven't faced someone."

A15 39 The A's respect the Jays - how could you not when a club has A15 40 Joe Carter, Roberto Alomar, Dave Winfield, Jack Morris and Tom A15 41 Henke? But it is also obvious they are not awed by Toronto. Dave A15 42 Stewart, who will start Game 1 against Morris, has said he believes A15 43 his team has the right stuff to handle the Jays and thinks the Jays A15 44 believe that, too.

A15 45 Toronto hasn't won a season series between the teams since A15 46 1985. This year, the Blue Jays won the first four games but then A15 47 lost six of the next eight, an ego boost for the A's going into the A15 48 playoffs. And the SkyDome is not an enclosed house of horrors for A15 49 the A's, who have won 13 of the 19 games they've played there. Not A15 50 to mention the A's beating the Jays in five games for the 1989 AL A15 51 pennant.

A15 52 Morris, who can start three times if necessary, finished the A15 53 regular season 21-6 but with a 4.04 earned-run average. And the A's A15 54 have a history of success against him. If he loses Wednesday, the A15 55 Jays might crumble. Cone goes Thursday night.

A15 56 Manager Cito Gaston is hedging on his third starter, either A15 57 Jimmy Key or Juan Guzman. Key was very strong down the stretch, but A15 58 the A's are 28-8 against left-handers this season. Guzman struggled A15 59 after returning from a shoulder injury but was impressive in his A15 60 final start Saturday.

A15 61 On paper, the A's rotation is daunting. But ...

A15 62 Stewart is a proven money pitcher. But he's pitched all year A15 63 with a tender elbow that could flare up. Mike Moore has a lifetime A15 64 4-1 record in the postseason, 2-0 with an 0.69 ERA in the playoffs. A15 65 But which Moore will show up, the overpowering one who led the A15 66 staff with 17 wins or the guy who can occasionally look A15 67 overmatched?

A15 68 Ron Darling arguably was the team's most consistent pitcher A15 69 this year but has little margin for error. If he isn't on, he's in A15 70 the clubhouse. Bob Welch, who has been on and off the disabled list A15 71 three times, does quality work. But how deep can he go into a game A15 72 before being replaced?

A15 73 Moose Stubing is one of California's advance scouts. Because A15 74 the Angels spent much of the season following Oakland into cities A15 75 on road trips, he wound up watching the A's play more than he A15 76 probably wanted to and also is familiar with the Jays.

A15 77 "I think they'll match up fine as far as starting A15 78 pitchers," he said. "I think the difference will be A15 79 in the sixth and seventh inning. Who can get to their ace relievers A15 80 first. I think Jeff Russell setting up for (Dennis) Eckersley is A15 81 the same as (Duane) Ward setting up for Henke.

A15 82 "The fourth inning or fifth inning in their games are going to A15 83 be very important. Whoever has the advantage going into the sixth A15 84 or seventh inning is going to win."

A15 85 Henke and Ward are obvious strengths for Toronto. Even though A15 86 Eckersley was uncharacteristically shaky the final week of the A15 87 regular season - blowing a save and failing to keep his team tied A15 88 in another appearance - the assumption must be those were A15 89 aberrations. Russell, out since Sept. 16 with an elbow injury, A15 90 returned to pitch two perfect innings Sunday. The bad news for A15 91 Oakland is Rick Honeycutt will miss the playoffs because of the A15 92 recurrence of the injury to his right side, and that means the A15 93 lefty short-relief role will be handled by rookie Vince Horsman.

A15 94 With Jose Canseco in Texas, the A's have to work a little A15 95 harder for their runs. That's not necessarily a disadvantage. All A15 96 season this team has been remarkably resourceful, able to A15 97 capitalize on a Jerry Browne double as much as a shot into the A15 98 seats by McGwire.

A15 99 Toronto is the equivalent of a big-play team in football. Its A15 100 offense is structured around Carter or Winfield going deep. And if A15 101 the big guys start flailing at pitches, the Jays might not be as A15 102 resilient.

A15 103 One scout, who asked to be unnamed for obvious reasons, thinks A15 104 the difference in this series will be the matchup between managers A15 105 Tony La Russa and Gaston. La Russa used all his people this season, A15 106 while Gaston has given his reserves limited playing time. Hence A15 107 they will be less prepared for the pressure of the playoffs. Also, A15 108 the scout argued, Gaston has a tendency to stay with his starters A15 109 longer than desirable. And finally, no one runs a game better than A15 110 La Russa.

A15 111 La Russa says that's nonsense. Gaston's been good enough to get A15 112 his team into the playoffs three of the last four years, and A15 113 anyway, "the game is not won by managers."

A15 114 We'll see.

A15 115 A15 116 Cal taking level-headed approach

A15 117 Bears to keep it simple against No. 1 Washington

A15 118 By Edvins Beitiks

A15 119 OF THE EXAMINER STAFF

A15 120 BERKELEY - Two years ago, Cal's football players went to A15 121 Seattle wearing miniature roses in their lapels, so sure of A15 122 themselves they challenged the Huskies before the game and in the A15 123 tunnel at halftime. Washington turned the Bears upside down, 46-7, A15 124 shaking all the change out of their pockets.

A15 125 Last year at Berkeley, undefeated Cal took No.3 Washington to A15 126 the last play of the game before losing, 24-17. The season ended A15 127 with Cal beating Clemson in the Citrus Bowl and the Huskies winning A15 128 half a national championship.

A15 129 That was then. This is now.

A15 130 As both teams prepare for Saturday afternoon's game at Husky A15 131 Stadium, Cal coach Keith Gilbertson and Washington coach Don James A15 132 point out that things have changed. Gilbertson said the Bears still A15 133 don't know how good they are, while James argued the Huskies aren't A15 134 as good as they were last season, even though they're rated A15 135 No.1.

A15 136 "When (USC coach) Larry Smith said we're a better team A15 137 than last year, I almost wanted to throw up," James said. A15 138 "I don't think we're even close. I don't think you can A15 139 be when you lose 16 letter-men, 11 drafted. Three wide A15 140 receivers, a tight end, a center, weakside guard ..."

A15 141 In spite of being 4-0, the Huskies aren't as dominating as they A15 142 were a year ago. Cal is ahead of Washington in almost every A15 143 offensive and defensive category - the Huskies are in the middle of A15 144 the Pac-10 offensively, last in rushing defense, eighth in total A15 145 defense.

A15 146 "We're a big-play defense," cracked James. A15 147 "We give up big plays."

A15 148 Cal receiver Sean Dawkins said, "Looking at the USC A15 149 game (a 17-10 win), you saw them make a lot of mistakes A15 150 defensively. They're not as good as last year, but they're still A15 151 good."

A15 152 James expects the Bears to be as solid as they were last A15 153 season, when "they played us better than any team on our A15 154 schedule." Asked if Gilbertson has an advantage because he A15 155 was Washington's offensive coordinator a year ago, James said, A15 156 "I would think the advantage would be the same. We would A15 157 know as much about him as he knows about us."

A15 158 Gilbertson agreed, saying it'll come down to how the game is A15 159 played, not how well he knows Washington.

A15 160 He's going to keep his game plan simple, explained Gilbertson. A15 161 "Everyone who has gone in with a real elaborate, A15 162 'sophisticated' plan has come out with a black eye. They're too A15 163 fast, too talented, to get cute with 'em."

A15 164 Two years ago Cal tried to play a get-tough, get-cute game with A15 165 Washington and it didn't work, said Dawkins. "We talked a A15 166 lot of bullcrap that week. This time we're going in there A15 167 level-headed, not saying anything that's going to get them stirred A15 168 up."

A15 169 On the plane to Seattle in 1990, an alumnus passed miniature A15 170 roses around and the Bears pinned them to their lapels. A couple of A15 171 players pasted roses on their jerseys during warmups at Husky A15 172 Stadium, said Dawkins, "and there was a bunch of pushing A15 173 and shoving going on. Our guys were just kind of barking at A15 174 Washington."

A15 175 Offensive lineman Todd Steussie said Cal was trying to A15 176 compensate for its underdog status. "This year it won't be A15 177 so much a big dog going against a smaller dog as two good teams A15 178 playing 60 minutes of football," he said. "This is A15 179 a different team than it was last time. We're more concerned about A15 180 how we play than how they play."

A15 181 Defensive lineman Scott Roseman said, "This year we're A15 182 going to be a lot more humble. Last time we went in there with too A15 183 much of an attitude. Little roses on our suits coming off the plane A15 184 ... people saw that and figured we were cocky."

A15 185 Roseman remembered that at halftime of the game, with A15 186 Washington leading, 24-0, Cal started fighting in the tunnel with A15 187 the Huskies. "It was behind me," he said. A15 188 "I heard this yelling in the back. It's an unwise thing to A15 189 do - you don't need to get in a conflict at halftime."

A15 190 Those roses, said Roseman, shaking his head. "When you A15 191 think back, that didn't work too well with our A15 192 attitudes."

A15 193 Dawkins smiled at the memory of it. "I don't know whose A15 194 idea that was, but I'd like to kick their butts," he said. A15 195 "That was the backbreaker right there."

A15 196 But that was then. This is now.

A15 197 A15 198 Pats not likely to surprise 49ers

A15 199 New England will have a hard time exploiting S.F.'s coverage A15 200 weakness

A15 201 By John Crumpacker

A15 202 OF THE EXAMINER STAFF

A15 203 SANTA CLARA - Is there a false bottom to the 49ers' fast start A15 204 this season? Is some evil little gnome waiting to pull the lever on A15 205 the trap door?

A15 206 If so, it probably will not happen this week, when the 49ers A15 207 travel to the mythical kingdom of New England to play the 0-4 A15 208 Patriots.

A15 209 New England rallied for three touchdowns in its loss to the A15 210 Jets on Sunday, but its offense is still ranked 24th in the NFL.

A15 211 However, in the first five weeks of a 4-1 season, the 49ers A15 212 have shown a pronounced inability to defend the forward pass, A15 213 particularly quick, short passes in the middle of the field. San A15 214 Francisco's pass defense is ranked 26th, down there in the Land of A15 215 Not Good.

A15 216 Coach George Seifert admitted Monday that the 49ers played a A15 217 soft zone defense against the Rams. A15 218 A16 1 <#FROWN:A16\>Delmatoff continues Hart's air domination

A16 2 By Ron B. Stapp

A16 3 Special to the Daily News

A16 4 Throwing under pressure took on a new meaning for Hart A16 5 quarterback Davis Delmatoff during a 43-6 victory over Pasadena A16 6 Friday at College of the Canyons.

A16 7 Delmatoff had plenty of time to throw in the season-opener. His A16 8 pressure was self-induced.

A16 9 The thought of taking over quarterbacking duties at a school A16 10 that had produced four straight All-Southern Section performers at A16 11 the position made him feel nauseous earlier in the day.

A16 12 But once the game started, he put aside those fears and threw A16 13 for six touchdown passes and 380 yards on 23 of 34 passes. He tied A16 14 Jimmy Bonds' school-record for scoring passes.

A16 15 "I was a bit nervous before the game, I thought I was A16 16 going to get sick a couple of times," Delmatoff said. A16 17 "But things worked out all right."

A16 18 He led the Indians 63 yards to a touchdown on their first A16 19 possession. His 34-yard touchdown pass to Soren Halladay capped the A16 20 drive.

A16 21 "It took me until the second or third series before I A16 22 got into the flow," Delmatoff said. "Everything was A16 23 working well. The receivers were running good routes."

A16 24 Delmatoff led the Indians to scores on each of their first A16 25 three drives. He hooked up with Halladay again, this time for 36 A16 26 yards to build the lead to 15-0 with 1:22 left in the opening A16 27 period.

A16 28 The Bulldogs' lone score came thanks to star running back A16 29 Treyvone Towns, who broke through Hart's secondary for a 56-yard A16 30 touchdown early in the second quarter.

A16 31 In addition to Halladay, who finished with 92 yards on 3 A16 32 receptions, Delmatoff hooked up with four other receivers. Jared A16 33 Halverson had 8 catches for 132 yards and 2 touchdowns, including a A16 34 5-yard pass from Delmatoff which gave Hart a 36-6 lead with 3:24 A16 35 left in the third quarter.

A16 36 The Bulldogs were held to just three first downs in the first A16 37 half, all three coming from Towns and his cousin, quarterback A16 38 Lester Towns. The two combined for 149 yards on the ground, 120 by A16 39 Treyvone.

A16 40 A16 41 Canyon wins with comeback

A16 42 By Kevin Scattareggia

A16 43 Special to the Daily News

A16 44 For nearly one half Friday night, the Canyon High football team A16 45 looked anything but the power-house program that head coach A16 46 Harry Welch has assembled in his 10 years at the school.

A16 47 But over a 15-minute stretch, covering the end of the first A16 48 half through the early stages of the fourth quarter, the Cowboys A16 49 woke up to score 35 unanswered points en route to a season-opening A16 50 35-21 win over host San Clemente.

A16 51 "We started the game with a team that didn't have too A16 52 much varsity experience," said Welch. "But we A16 53 finally began to feel more confident as the game wore A16 54 on."

A16 55 The Cowboys, held to just 100 yards total offense in the first A16 56 half, came out with a vengeance following intermission.

A16 57 After taking the kickoff, Canyon scored on its second play - a A16 58 92-yard screen pass from Sean Connelly to fullback Sean McDermott. A16 59 The play began innocently enough, but McDermott turned a short gain A16 60 into a play that would begin a scoring frenzy.

A16 61 On San Clemente's next possession, Triton running back Cyril A16 62 Foster fumbled at the Canyon 46, with the Cowboys recovering. It A16 63 took Canyon just five plays to score, as Ed Williams went in on a A16 64 10-yard run.

A16 65 With 8:13 left in the quarter, the Cowboys had tied the score, A16 66 21-21, and the momentum was clearly on their side.

A16 67 "Once we got it going, it was really tough to stop A16 68 us," said Williams, the game's leading rusher with 181 A16 69 yards on 26 carries, with 3 touch-downs.

A16 70 It took just three plays for Canyon's defense to come up with A16 71 yet another timely turnover. This time, it was Ken Moody's A16 72 interception that he returned to the San Clemente 42.

A16 73 Canyon kept the ball on the ground six straight plays, with A16 74 McDermott going up the middle from the 14 to give the Cowboys a A16 75 28-21 lead at the 3:34 mark of the third quarter.

A16 76 "It was tough containing them once they got A16 77 going," San Clemente coach Mark McElroy said.

A16 78 A16 79 Highland gets dose of reality in 38-0 loss to Foothill

A16 80 By Bob Condotta

A16 81 Daily News Staff Writer

A16 82 Thud.

A16 83 That sound you just heard was the Highland High football team A16 84 coming down to earth.

A16 85 Highland, in its first year with seniors on its roster after A16 86 opening its doors in 1989, was talking Golden League title entering A16 87 its opener Friday.

A16 88 But they might settle for merely winning game after taking a A16 89 38-0 pounding Friday night by visiting Foothill High of Bakersfield A16 90 at Quartz Hill High School. The loss was the worst in Highland's A16 91 four-year history.

A16 92 The Bulldogs committed four turnovers and were thoroughly A16 93 manhandled after a scoreless first quarter by a Foothill team rated A16 94 No. 1 in Kern County.

A16 95 "I tried to let people know that we were overrated in A16 96 the polls," Highland head coach Lin Parker said. A16 97 "Tonight we just couldn't get our defense off the A16 98 field."

A16 99 Foothill led 14-0 at halftime after scoring on the final play A16 100 of the second quarter, then dominated the second half.

A16 101 Highland committed all four of its turnovers in the second A16 102 half, and got only one first down in the final two quarters.

A16 103 After being held to only 2 yards in the first quarter, Foothill A16 104 took command in the second quarter.

A16 105 The Trojans scored first with 3:39 left in the first half when A16 106 quarterback Victor Diaz hit Jason Brown with a 3-yard touchdown A16 107 pass concluding a seven-play, 49-yard drive.

A16 108 The Trojans got the ball back with 2:20 left in the half and A16 109 drove 55 yards, scoring on a Diaz pass to Aaron Straw with no time A16 110 left on the clock. Rashaan Shehee's conversion run made it 14-0 A16 111 Foothill at the half.

A16 112 The score could have been worse at halftime, but a 41-yard A16 113 touch-down run by Shehee in the second quarter was A16 114 nullified by a holding penalty.

A16 115 Diaz completed only seven of 19 passes in the first half, but A16 116 they went for 112 yards. He finished completing nine of 24 for 141 A16 117 yards.

A16 118 Highland gained only 67 yards in the first half, 49 by senior A16 119 running back Cleveland Williams on 12 carries.

A16 120 But Williams suffered a calf bruise midway through the first A16 121 half and missed the rest of the game. Highland had only 41 yards in A16 122 the second half.

A16 123 Foothill scored on its first possession of the second half on a A16 124 John Thomas 39-yard field goal. Highland then fumbled on three of A16 125 its next four possessions.

A16 126 "Our goal is still to use these games to prepare us for A16 127 the league," Parker said. "These kids are A16 128 resilient. They will bounce back."

A16 129 A16 130 Turnovers seal 14-7 victory for Notre Dame

A16 131 By Dave Shelburne

A16 132 Daily News Staff Writer

A16 133 The way those Notre Dame running backs were cranking out A16 134 yardage early, it looked like it might be a long night for A16 135 Alemany.

A16 136 It turned out differently, however, and Alemany first-year head A16 137 coach Pat Degnan and his Indians can take some satisfaction in that A16 138 - even though they lost a 14-7 season opener to the 10th-ranked A16 139 Knights on Friday at Alemany.

A16 140 Notre Dame fullback Lei Malietuina rushed for a game-high 104 A16 141 yards, halfback Jabbar Craigwell ran for another 83, and reserve A16 142 Jon Velasquez bolted 35 yards on his first carry.

A16 143 But the visiting Knights ultimately needed as much from their A16 144 defense on a night Alemany kept finding ways to stay within A16 145 striking distance and had all of Notre Dame's attention at the A16 146 finish.

A16 147 It came down to turnovers on the Indians' final two drives - a A16 148 fumble recovery by Knights linebacker David Dupetit at the Notre A16 149 Dame 39 with 2:50 remaining, then a game-sealing interception by A16 150 Joey Orlando with nine seconds left.

A16 151 "They were pretty tough - better than I A16 152 thought," Orlando said of the Indians. "Thank God, A16 153 we hung tough."

A16 154 In the process, Notre Dame backed up its strong running game A16 155 with some accurate passing by quarterback Kelly Moran, who A16 156 completed five of seven passes - including a 23-yard TD pitch to A16 157 Orlando.

A16 158 That score, coming in the closing minutes of the first half, A16 159 produced a 14-0 lead for the Knights, who had scored on a 29-yard A16 160 run by Craigwell on their opening drive of the game.

A16 161 It just got tougher after that, starting immediately. Alemany A16 162 responded with an 80-yard touch-down drive to pull within A16 163 14-7 on a one-handed TD catch by Chris Engler with nine seconds A16 164 left in the half.

A16 165 From there, it was surge and counter-surge, as Malietuina and A16 166 Craigwell ran impressively - only to be matched by the passing A16 167 accuracy of Alemany quarterback Chris Tashima.

A16 168 Tashima started slowly, missing his first six attempts, then A16 169 went on a 10-for-11 run to ring up 98 yards before Orlando's late A16 170 interceptions.

A16 171 Tailback David Eastham, held out most of the week with an A16 172 injury, got into the game early for Alemany and contributed a A16 173 team-high 79 yards rushing.

A16 174 "I learned a few things tonight," said Degnan A16 175 after his high-school coaching debut. "I'm disappointed A16 176 that we didn't win but I'm not disappointed the A16 177 <}_><-|>eay<+|>way<}/> we played."

A16 178 Notre Dame went 53 yards in five plays for its first touchdown, A16 179 Craigwell running the final 29 one play after Malietuina rumbled 19 A16 180 on a third-and-six call from near midfield.

A16 181 Alemany, held to 63 yards until the final three minutes of the A16 182 first half, fell behind 14-0, just before halftime on Moran's A16 183 23-yard TD pass to Orlando.

A16 184 That seemed to put the Knights in excellent shape, but Alemany A16 185 put together its best drive of the night - going 80 yards to score A16 186 on Engler's one-handed TD catch 11 seconds before halftime.

A16 187 That put the Indians back in the game but as it turned out, A16 188 they never got closer.

A16 189 Rooney made that sound like a "Whew!" after Orlando's A16 190 victory sealing interception.

A16 191 "They were real tough," he said of the Indians. A16 192 "I'm happy we held them to seven points."

A16 193 A16 194 Three turnovers help Lynwood beat Granada Hills

A16 195 By P.C. Shaw

A16 196 Special to the Daily News

A16 197 The team that controls the line of scrimmage usually wins the A16 198 football game and that was the case as Lynwood overpowered the host A16 199 Granada Hills Highlanders enroute to a 28-7 season-opening A16 200 victory.

A16 201 Granada Hills committed three turnovers with the Knights A16 202 capitalizing on each one. Two plays after Granada Hills punter A16 203 Jimmy Landress fumbled the snap, Lynwood junior quarterback Joe A16 204 Austin scored from 1 yard out to give the Knights a 7-0 lead.

A16 205 On its next possession, Lynwood drove 78 yards on 5 plays, A16 206 culminating in a 33-yard touchdown run down the left sideline by A16 207 Jeff Ridgeway.

A16 208 Granada Hills was held to 68 yards of total offense in the A16 209 first half, 43 of them coming on a pass from Matt Livingston to A16 210 Raheem Kyle. Livingston, who only played in the first half finished A16 211 with two completions in 11 attempts for 51 yards and two A16 212 interceptions.

A16 213 Just before halftime Lynwood increased its lead to 21-0 on an A16 214 18-yard touchdown run by Ridgeway. Ridgeway finished with a A16 215 game-high 108 yards on 14 carries.

A16 216 With 7:48 remaining in the third quarter Austin sprinted 35 A16 217 yards for the Knights' final score.

A16 218 Landress scored on Granada Hills lone touchdown on a 2-yard run A16 219 with 2:22 left in the game.

A16 220 A16 221 Taft lets lead get away

A16 222 Canoga Park rallies, 20-19

A16 223 By Rick Marquardt

A16 224 Special to the Daily News

A16 225 Tailback Rashaud Vaughn scored the winning touchdown on a A16 226 7-yard sweep with 1:42 left in the game as host Canoga Park edged A16 227 Taft, 20-19, Friday night.

A16 228 The Hunters' comeback win spoiled the debuts of Taft head coach A16 229 Troy Starr and sophomore tailback Jerry Brown.

A16 230 Brown, half-brother of ex-USC star Charles White and uncle of A16 231 ex-Crespi standout Russell White, rushed for 166 yards on 19 A16 232 carries and two touchdowns in his varsity debut. He was up to 174 A16 233 yards at one point in the fourth quarter but lost yardage on each A16 234 of his last three attempts.

A16 235 Vaughn led Canoga Park back from a 16-point deficit despite a A16 236 painful ankle sprain suffered in the third quarter. He finished A16 237 with 118 yards on 24 carries.

A16 238 With the Hunters trailing, 19-3, late in the third quarter, A16 239 Vaughn made up for an earlier fumble on the Taft 5-yard line by A16 240 smashing in from the 1 after Canoga Park blocked a Mike Ferguson A16 241 punt. A16 242 A17 1 <#FROWN:A17\>Shinn Feels Confident He Can Keep Giants in A17 2 San Francisco

A17 3 The Associated Press

A17 4 SAN FRANCISCO - Charlotte Hornets owner George Shinn said he is A17 5 working with local investors to come up with an offer to keep the A17 6 San Francisco Giants from a possible move to Florida.

A17 7 Shinn met with Mayor Frank M. Jordan, developer Walter A17 8 Shorenstein and potential investors on Monday. Shinn and Jordan A17 9 later took in a Giants game at Candlestick Park.

A17 10 Jordan said the group hoped to have an offer ready within seven A17 11 days to present to baseball owners. The eight local investors A17 12 weren't identified, except for Shorenstein, and the amount of any A17 13 potential offer wasn't disclosed.

A17 14 Shinn said he was satisfied with the progress made Monday.

A17 15 "Baseball has been an ultimate dream of mine. Since I A17 16 was a kid, I wanted to play the game and realized somehow along the A17 17 way that I didn't have the talent to do that," Shinn said. A17 18 "Then as I became successful in my business career I A17 19 realized the next step that maybe I could own a team some day, and A17 20 that's the reason I'm here."

A17 21 The NBA owner is said to be prepared to put up $30 million and A17 22 borrow an additional $30 million for the team. Local investors A17 23 would contribute another $50 million. Shinn wouldn't comment Monday A17 24 on any dollar figure about his commitment to the Giants.

A17 25 "Our goal is very simple. Our goal is to put together a A17 26 presentation next week to deliver to major league baseball to keep A17 27 the San Francisco Giants where they belong - in San A17 28 Francisco," Shinn said.

A17 29 Giants' owner Bob Lurie announced on Aug. 7 his intention to A17 30 sell the team in principle to a group of Tampa Bay area investors A17 31 for $111 million. The investors plan to move the Giants to the A17 32 Suncoast Dome in St. Petersburg.

A17 33 "The ownership group has an exclusive agreement with A17 34 Mr. Lurie which we are working to bring to a successful conclusion A17 35 in September," said Rick Dodge, St. Petersburg's assistant A17 36 city manager. "Any interference with that agreement by any A17 37 third party creates serious legal issues that we are prepared to A17 38 pursue."

A17 39 Lurie has tried for years to move the team from its current A17 40 home at windswept Candlestick Park, which he considers unsuitable A17 41 for baseball. Area voters have turned down four separate ballot A17 42 measures to build a new stadium for the Giants.

A17 43 The Florida sale must be approved by 10 of 14 National League A17 44 owners and eight of 14 American League owners. Lurie has said he A17 45 will not consider any other offers for the team until the owners A17 46 vote on the sale.

A17 47 Shinn, who also owns two minor league baseball clubs, A17 48 reportedly would keep the team at Candlestick until a new stadium A17 49 could be built.

A17 50 At Candlestick later Monday, an airplane flew overhead during A17 51 the Giants game against the New York Mets with a sign reading A17 52 "George - Save Our Giants." When Shinn and Jordan A17 53 appeared at the ballpark, shouts of "George!" were so A17 54 resounding that play was temporarily halted.

A17 55 Shorenstein said the meetings Monday were designed to A17 56 "get acquainted" with Shinn and determine the A17 57 extent of his commitment to the Giants.

A17 58 "We're prepared to take it to the next step with him, A17 59 to discuss the business arrangement. We hope to be able to A17 60 penetrate all the difficulties that exist in putting a transaction A17 61 of this nature together and we're hopeful we can carry through to A17 62 the next step. We're very optimistic," Shorenstein said.

A17 63 The developer also would not comment on a specific dollar A17 64 amount. He would only say that Shinn's offer was "within A17 65 our working range."

A17 66 "We obviously could not buy the team if we weren't able A17 67 to take a competitive offer to the owners," Shorenstein A17 68 said.

A17 69 Jordan said the project was on the right track and that A17 70 additional meetings with Shinn would be held today.

A17 71 A17 72 Walsh Excited About Return to College Game

A17 73 The Associated Press

A17 74 Sitting in front of Cinderella's castle in Anaheim, Calif., A17 75 flanked by Mickey, Minnie and the Three Little Pigs, Bill Walsh was A17 76 back in the college spirit again Monday.

A17 77 No way would some pro coach, except maybe Jerry Glanville, A17 78 willingly come to Disneyland and clown with Mickey in front of a A17 79 pack of reporters and television cameras. But Walsh handled the A17 80 prelude to his return to college coaching with poise.

A17 81 "This is the happiest and most excited I've been in my A17 82 career," said Walsh, who returned to Stanford after 10 A17 83 years in the pros and a stint as an analyst for NBC. "The A17 84 National Football League is really a tough arena to spend a lot of A17 85 time in because the pressures are immense.

A17 86 "I can't say I was excited (as a pro coach). I was just trying A17 87 to survive in the NFL."

A17 88 As for Wednesday's Pigskin Classic between his 17th-ranked A17 89 Cardinal and No. 7 Texas A&M, the man who coached the San Francisco A17 90 49ers to three Super Bowl titles is a little edgy.

A17 91 "We're faced with playing our first game with a A17 92 completely new coaching staff," Walsh said. "That A17 93 is a challenge in itself. Just the mechanics of managing a game has A17 94 us concerned. We don't quite know how all of us will react as a A17 95 unit and a coaching team."

A17 96 While it will be the first test of how Walsh's coaches work A17 97 together, Stanford returns 16 starters from last season's squad A17 98 that went 8-4 under Dennis Green.

A17 99 The Cardinal, which brings a seven-game regular-season winning A17 100 streak into the game, will be facing one of the nation's toughest A17 101 defenses after having practiced only two weeks.

A17 102 The Aggies, the 1991 Southwest Conference champions who went A17 103 10-2, have had three weeks to prepare for their earliest game ever A17 104 and also return 16 starters. But the big question is at A17 105 quarterback, a job won by Jeff Granger despite having missed spring A17 106 football while playing baseball.

A17 107 R.C. Slocum of the Aggies, entering his fourth year as a A17 108 college head coach, said going against someone of Walsh's stature A17 109 is an honor.

A17 110 "He's done as much as anyone who's ever coached a A17 111 team," Slocum said. "I probably even appreciate him A17 112 more after all the tapes I watched this summer, especially the A17 113 execution of his teams. It may not be as fun to watch it up A17 114 close."

A17 115 <*_>black-square<*/>MISSISSIPPI: The Rebels began to A17 116 wind down two-a-day practices, working on passing drills and A17 117 kickoff-punt coverage. In addition, the Rebels scrimmaged inside A17 118 the 20 yardline. The last two-a-day practices will be held today, A17 119 as classes at Ole Miss start Wednesday. The team will then revert A17 120 to a regular practice schedule.

A17 121 <*_>black-square<*/>CLEMSON: Clemson A17 122 tail-back Ronald Williams may miss the 1992 season as a A17 123 result of a knee injury suffered midway through last year, coach A17 124 Ken Hatfield says.

A17 125 "If he gets well and is able to play, it would be a big A17 126 plus for us this year," Hatfield said. "When his A17 127 leg gets stronger, we'll test it in the training room to determine A17 128 if we can take the pounding.

A17 129 "But I think that's a long way off. He's not even close now. I A17 130 think you can put a P.S. on him and see you later."

A17 131 Williams, the 1990 Atlantic Coast Conference rookie of the year A17 132 after he rushed for 941 yards that season, injured his knee in A17 133 pregame warmups before the North Carolina State game Oct. 26. He A17 134 had rushed for 585 yards before the injury.

A17 135 Williams, a junior, underwent knee surgery Dec. 16. The type of A17 136 surgery Williams had generally requires a full year to A17 137 rehabilitate.

A17 138 <*_>black-square<*/>KENTUCKY: Sophomore Pookie Jones A17 139 is prepared for his second year as Kentucky's starting quarterback A17 140 while senior Ryan Hockman is confident he can lead the Wildcats in A17 141 his final season.

A17 142 Jones spent the summer fine tuning his game after missing much A17 143 of spring practice playing baseball for the Wildcats. He hit .283 A17 144 with eight home runs and 24 RBI.

A17 145 "I feel real good," Jones said. "I had A17 146 a good summer. Basically, I felt last year helped me because I got A17 147 to learn the offense. I felt this summer I had to catch up and I A17 148 feel I accomplished that."

A17 149 He was sharp in Kentucky's first major scrimmage last Saturday, A17 150 completing nine of 15 passes for 102 yards and four touchdowns.

A17 151 Jones is an avid supporter of Kentucky's switch from a Pro-I A17 152 offense to a triple option this season.

A17 153 "I think we can score on anybody with our A17 154 offense," he said. "And it's a little bit easier on A17 155 the offensive line because they don't have to hold the line as A17 156 long."

A17 157 Jones started in seven of nine games last season, connecting on A17 158 81 of 138 passes for three touch-downs. He was intercepted A17 159 four times.

A17 160 His best effort came against Southeastern Conference champion A17 161 Florida, when he rushed for 77 yards and three touchdowns and A17 162 passed for 216 yards in a 35-26 loss. Florida hosts Kentucky Sept. A17 163 12 in its 1992 opener.

A17 164 If Jones falters, Hockman will be ready to take control of the A17 165 offense.

A17 166 Hockman, who has been hampered in preseason camp with lower A17 167 back problems, has been a steady reliever the past two years.

A17 168 <*_>black-square<*/>TENNESSEE: Heath Shuler says A17 169 Tennessee coach Johnny Majors is going to have to make up his mind A17 170 this week and pick one quarterback.

A17 171 "We can't have two quarter-backs in during one A17 172 game," Shuler said.

A17 173 "It will make one of the quarterbacks try to force the A17 174 issue and make big plays instead of being conservative when it's A17 175 necessary."

A17 176 The decision between Shuler and Jerry Colquitt must be made A17 177 this week since Tennessee opens the 1992 season at home Sept. 5 A17 178 against Southwestern Louisiana. Majors has never operated a A17 179 two-quarterback platoon system in his 15 years with the A17 180 Volunteers.

A17 181 "If we switched out on every other series it would be a A17 182 disaster. You can't play the defense and play against your own A17 183 quarter-back, too," Shuler said.

A17 184 Majors said Saturday he is looking for "a reaction A17 185 under pressure, poise under blitzing ... quickness and reaction A17 186 under pressure situations" from his quarterback.

A17 187 That's because Tennessee returns only six of its offensive A17 188 starters from last season, and the heart of the offensive line is A17 189 gone.

A17 190 "The (offensive) line isn't really struggling. Our A17 191 (defensive) team knows what plays we run out of what formations, A17 192 what checkoffs we use. They know exactly where the ball's going, A17 193 and they're cheating in that direction," Shuler said.

A17 194 A17 195 Hill, Newton Among Buc Cuts

A17 196 By DOUG FERNANDES

A17 197 Staff Writer

A17 198 TAMPA - The ink on Tim Newton's contract had barely dried when A17 199 the Tampa Bay Bucs decided Monday the whole idea wouldn't wash.

A17 200 So rather than pay someone $600,000 a year to possibly ride the A17 201 bench, Tampa Bay waived Newton, its starting nose tackle last A17 202 season, along with cornerback illegible_word Carter and 11 A17 203 other players, several of whom may resurface on the Bucs' practice A17 204 squad.

A17 205 Others cut loose were wide receiver John Garrett; center Todd A17 206 McGuire; tight end Kirk Kirkpatrick; running back Willie McClendon; A17 207 defensive lineman Curtis Maxey; linebackers James Malone and Ken A17 208 Swilling; defensive backs Sammy Lilly, Marcus Hopkins and Herbert A17 209 James; and punter-/place-kicker Klaus Wilmsmeyer.

A17 210 The Bucs also unconditionally released holdout wide receiver A17 211 Bruce Hill and reached a contract agreement with linebacker Kevin A17 212 Murphy. The cuts leave the Bucs with 61 players on the active A17 213 roster. They must cut one more by 4 p.m. today.

A17 214 Newton's release came as a surprise. The veteran nose tackle A17 215 signed a two-year deal last Wednesday, then played briefly in A17 216 Saturday night's game against Miami.

A17 217 Defensive coordinator Floyd Peters, who coached Newton when A17 218 both were at Minnesota, said it was Newton's inability to play more A17 219 than one position that caused his release.

A17 220 "We need to have guys who can play more than one A17 221 spot," Peters said. "It's better to let him go this A17 222 week so he can latch on with another team rather than hold onto him A17 223 until the final week."

A17 224 Newton (6-foot, 275 pounds) started all 16 games last season. A17 225 He came to the Bucs in 1990 as a free agent. Peters said he will A17 226 look for a starting nose tackle among Reuben Davis, Mark Duckens A17 227 and rookie Mark Wheeler.

A17 228 "In the case of Newton, I feel bad about that A17 229 one," said head coach Sam Wyche. A17 230 A18 1 <#FROWN:A18\>Several owners say fighting doesn't make A18 2 cents

A18 3 PRO HOCKEY

A18 4 By ROY CUMMINGS

A18 5 Tribune Staff Writer

A18 6 ST. PETERSBURG BEACH - When the National Hockey League's board A18 7 of governors sits down to determine the future of fighting in their A18 8 game today, they will be talking as much about dollars and cents as A18 9 hooks and jabs.

A18 10 Among the anti-fighting sect, a growing number of owners fear A18 11 the NHL's economic growth will be stifled if fighting is retained. A18 12 So with fiscal survival as their theme, the abolitionists will use A18 13 the fear of economic disaster as the basis for their pitch to have A18 14 fighting banned from the game.

A18 15 "We have to create new resources through television, A18 16 expansion and additional licensing, and to do that, one of the A18 17 things we've got to do is eliminate fighting," said A18 18 Minnesota North Stars owner Norman Green, who is among a group of A18 19 at least seven anti-fighting proponents who will push for a ban on A18 20 fighting during meetings today at the Don CeSar Resort. "We A18 21 cannot expect to grow either economically or otherwise unless we A18 22 take a firm stand on this issue and send out the message that we do A18 23 not condone these bare-fisted battles."

A18 24 In particular, the abolitionists fear that retaining fighting A18 25 will hinder or even destroy the NHL's chances of securing a A18 26 national network TV contract, which is something the league A18 27 desperately needs to combat increasing costs and ensure economic A18 28 survival in the 90s.

A18 29 "We cannot get a network TV contract as long as we have A18 30 fighting in the game," Los Angeles Kings owner Bruce McNall A18 31 said. "Believe me, I know, because I've tried. I've talked A18 32 with the TV executives."

A18 33 Acting NHL President Gil Stein, who remains neutral on the A18 34 fighting issue, has talked - and is still talking - with network TV A18 35 executives about a TV deal for the upcoming season, and he said the A18 36 NHL still can land a network package with fighting as a part of the A18 37 game.

A18 38 "The thing we have to do is take a stand on this one A18 39 way or the other and stand behind our decision," he said. A18 40 "The only way we lose is if we run from the A18 41 debate."

A18 42 There seems little chance of that. Although a few other issues A18 43 are on today's agenda, Stein is adamant about debating and A18 44 eventually taking a vote on fighting.

A18 45 He has ordered sub-committees on each side of the debate to A18 46 produce position papers explaining their side, and those will be A18 47 presented today when the governors meet.

A18 48 The papers show that what the pro-fighting forces fear most is A18 49 that a ban on fighting will lead to an increase in illegal A18 50 stick-work.

A18 51 "The issue comes down to what kind of confrontation is A18 52 desirable," the pro-fighting paper says. "Hockey A18 53 players carry weapons. Is the player who is frustrated by illegal A18 54 tactics to respond with an accepted, safe and natural release of A18 55 emotions through fisticuffs or is he to resort to A18 56 stick-work."

A18 57 The pro-fighting paper also counters the abolitionists claim A18 58 that retaining fighting will hurt the growth of the game and NHL's A18 59 chances of securing a network TV deal.

A18 60 "There is a common misconception that the NHL cannot A18 61 attract a national network TV deal as a result of A18 62 fisticuffs," it says. "[Yet] the NHL plays to 92 A18 63 percent capacity. This indicates that season-ticket holders, the A18 64 casual fans, and sports fans in general like the game as it A18 65 is."

A18 66 On the issue of excessive stickwork, both sides agree that A18 67 penalties need to be increased in an effort to cut down on the A18 68 amount of hooking, slashing and high-sticking that takes A18 69 place.

A18 70 "You will certainly see something done there that will A18 71 be a step in the right direction," Stein said.

A18 72 Stein said he also expects to get a reading on the Dream Team A18 73 concept and to discuss the league's pending TV deals. He said A18 74 proposals have been submitted to Sports-Channel America/NBC and A18 75 ESPN/ABC and that both call for a specific number of games to be A18 76 carried via the national networks.

A18 77 On the fighting issue, though, Stein says it's still too close A18 78 to call.

A18 79 "It's a real toss-up," he said. "That's A18 80 the only way to describe it."

A18 81 A18 82 Three more starters from 1991 were released while A18 83 linebacker Kevin Murphy agreed to contract terms.

A18 84 By NICK PUGLIESE

A18 85 Tribune Staff Writer

A18 86 TAMPA - The Bucs continued their purge of starters by lopping A18 87 three more off their roster Monday, including unsigned wide A18 88 receiver Bruce Hill.

A18 89 While Hill was given his unconditional release to no one's A18 90 surprise, unsigned outside linebacker Kevin Murphy agreed to terms A18 91 on a new contract amid speculation that the seven-year veteran will A18 92 be traded.

A18 93 On the waiver front, two more defensive starters, nose tackle A18 94 Tim Newton and right cornerback Carl Carter, were a couple of A18 95 notable cuts.

A18 96 Three draft choices bit the dust: linebacker James Malone A18 97 (sixth round), linebacker/safety Ken Swilling (seventh) and kicking A18 98 specialist Klaus Wilmsmeyer (12th).

A18 99 Others who were told to turn in their playbooks were tight end A18 100 Kirk Kirkpatrick, fullback Willie McClendon, wide receiver John A18 101 Garrett, center Todd McGuire, defensive tackle Curtis Maxey and A18 102 defensive backs Sammy Lilly, Marcus Hopkins and Herbert James.

A18 103 With the roster at 61, the Bucs still must waive one player to A18 104 get down to the limit by 4 p.m. today.

A18 105 First-year coach Sam Wyche has dropped four starters from last A18 106 year's 3-13 team, including Hill, Newton, Carter and middle A18 107 linebacker Jesse Solomon, who was given his unconditional release A18 108 last Friday.

A18 109 Also, guard Tom McHale, defensive tackle Reuben Davis and A18 110 Murphy might not be on the roster when the season starts. A18 111 Interestingly, all seven of those players were A18 112 hold-outs.

A18 113 "We had a lot of tough cuts, but next week, it's like A18 114 digging out part of your guts," Wyche said, referring to A18 115 the final cutdown to 47. "You got to keep improving. Every A18 116 year sees turnovers. Even Super Bowl teams come back looking A18 117 differently<&|sic!>.

A18 118 "I wasn't trying to send any kind of message. A lot of it goes A18 119 back to the agents. There's an implicit feeling that management's A18 120 still trying to screw you one way or the other. You got to be here. A18 121 Every day you're not here, you're giving us a chance to fall in A18 122 love with somebody else."

A18 123 Hill, a six-year veteran who started the first six games last A18 124 season before having knee surgery Oct. 14 and finishing the year on A18 125 injured reserve, skipped three of the four minicamps and asked the A18 126 team to trade or release him a month ago. He worked out for A18 127 Cleveland last Thursday, but the Browns did not make an offer for A18 128 him.

A18 129 Newton, who had 56 tackles and 5 1/2 sacks last year despite A18 130 playing with a broken hand late in the season, was released in A18 131 favor of third-round pick Mark Wheeler, who apparently has A18 132 won the job.

A18 133 However, Newton's agent, Jeff Durand, said Newton's exit had A18 134 more to do with a personality clash between himself and Wyche and A18 135 Vice President Rich McKay, the team's contract negotiator.

A18 136 "I'm not surprised; I'm disappointed," Durand A18 137 said. "I tried to hold them to their promise to reward Tim A18 138 Newton and I took personal offense at the slander against my A18 139 character. I called Sam this morning and told him he was a coward A18 140 and a bully."

A18 141 Wyche said he felt bad about releasing Newton, but a 27-day A18 142 hold-out and the inability to play more than one position A18 143 on the line hurt the former Florida Gator.

A18 144 "This was a football decision," Wyche said. A18 145 "I liked Tim and he worked hard in the off-season. Floyd A18 146 spoke to him and I spoke to him and we didn't beg him, but we said A18 147 as strongly as we could, 'Please be in camp. You're going to have A18 148 tough competition. We drafted a kid [Wheeler] who's going to be a A18 149 whale of a player.'

A18 150 "It wasn't Tim. It was the agent. I can't say this strongly A18 151 enough because I don't want Tim to be damaged in this in any way. A18 152 He felt he was getting an edge on things by holding Tim out, but he A18 153 left this guy with not enough time to make his team."

A18 154 Durand said the negotiations, which concluded last Wednesday A18 155 when Newton signed a two-year, $1.2 million contract, were A18 156 degrading and unprofessional. Newton earned $275,000 in 1991 and A18 157 Durand wanted to push him to the average income for a starting A18 158 defensive lineman of $687,000. But Durand said McKay's first offer A18 159 was $1,000 above what Newton made last season.

A18 160 Davis, who agreed to terms last Thursday and did not play in A18 161 Saturday's 22-7 loss at Miami, hopes he does not share Newton's A18 162 fate. He said it will be different not to line up next to Newton, A18 163 but that change is constant in the NFL.

A18 164 "It's been like that for me the last three or four A18 165 years," Davis said. "I came in with a bunch of guys A18 166 I made friends with and they started going off one by one. I made A18 167 friends with John Cannon and I ended up taking his position. That's A18 168 what the NFL is about - no job security."

A18 169 The Bucs currently have roster exemptions for Davis and McHale. A18 170 Both are expected to be activated for Friday's preseason finale A18 171 against Cleveland at Tampa Stadium.

A18 172 "I got a lot on my mind right now and there are things A18 173 I can't carry to the field," Davis said. "I have to A18 174 let nature take its course."

A18 175 Carter, who started 10 of the last 11 games, had been burned A18 176 repeatedly in the exhibitions after signing 12 days into training A18 177 camp. His days were numbered when the Bucs signed several A18 178 cornerbacks off Plan B, including Milton Mack, and drafted Rogerick A18 179 Green in the fifth round.

A18 180 Of the rookies, Swilling might be the most disappointing. Two A18 181 years ago, the Georgia Tech product was projected as a first-round A18 182 pick. But injuries and a switch of positions dropped his stock so A18 183 far that he fell to the second day of the draft.

A18 184 Defensive coordinator Floyd Peters said attitude played a role A18 185 in Swilling's cut.

A18 186 "The guy has intelligence and speed and you can see why A18 187 everybody likes his talent," Peters said. "But he A18 188 just doesn't have that fire and competitive spirit. He's not a A18 189 mean, tough kid, and this is a tough business. I would say he no A18 190 longer wants to punish people and throw his body A18 191 around."

A18 192 A18 193 Ex-Vikings safety Joey Browner passes physical with Bucs A18 194 and may sign today.

A18 195 By NICK PUGLIESE

A18 196 Tribune Staff Writer

A18 197 TAMPA - The reunion between former Minnesota strong safety Joey A18 198 Browner and Bucs defensive co-ordinator Floyd Peters could A18 199 happen as soon as today.

A18 200 Browner, who was waived on the eve of training camp after the A18 201 Vikings said he failed his physical, spent Monday holed up in a A18 202 local hotel waiting for his agent, T.J. Pantaleo, to work out a A18 203 deal with Bucs Vice President Rich McKay.

A18 204 Browner, who worked out and passed a physical for the Bucs on A18 205 Sunday, was scheduled to earn $1 million this season with the A18 206 Vikings. The two sides were trying to hammer out a new pact that A18 207 would pay him somewhat less and probably be based on incentives.

A18 208 "If it all works out and we think he can help us, then A18 209 he enters the picture," Coach Sam Wyche said. "If A18 210 he looks like one of the best 47, then he makes the team.

A18 211 "Floyd knows this guy. We feel we have some inside information A18 212 on him as a player."

A18 213 Peters talked on Monday as if Browner already was wearing a A18 214 Bucs uniform.

A18 215 "If there's a good football player out there, I'm going A18 216 to bring him in every time," Peters said. "We've A18 217 got to get better."

A18 218 If the six-time Pro Bowl performer joins the team, he would not A18 219 be the first Browner to wear a Tampa Bay uniform. His brother, A18 220 Keith, who plays for Arena Football's Tampa Bay Storm, played for A18 221 the Bucs from 1984-86.

A18 222 Joey Browner, a 10-year veteran, could push eight-year veteran A18 223 Mark Robinson out the door. Robinson, who spent 1991 on injured A18 224 reserve with a shoulder injury, was expected to regain his starting A18 225 spot but has been bothered by a foot injury during the preseason. A18 226 Second-year pro Marty Carter has started all three games at A18 227 strong safety and has seven tackles and one interception.

A18 228 A18 229 A19 1 <#FROWN:A19\>Evans, Biondi Qualify For Swimming Finals

A19 2 By BETH HARRIS

A19 3 AP Sports Writer

A19 4 BARCELONA, Spain - Janet Evans and Matt Biondi, the golden A19 5 swimmers for the United States four years ago at Seoul, qualified A19 6 for finals today in vastly different fashions.

A19 7 Evans easily qualified for the women's 400-meter freestyle, an A19 8 event she won as she claimed three individual golds in Seoul. A19 9 Biondi, who won seven medals in Seoul, reached the final of the 100 A19 10 freestyle but only finished fourth.

A19 11 In the women's 100 backstroke, Kristina Egerszegi of Hungary A19 12 set an Olympic record of 1 minute, 00.85 seconds to shave A19 13 one-hundredth of a second off the mark set by Rica Reinisch of A19 14 Germany in the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

A19 15 Egerszegi, who holds the world record of 1:00.31 in the 100 A19 16 backstroke, already has one gold medal at these Olympics. She won A19 17 the 400 individual medley Sunday.

A19 18 Lea Loveless of Crestwood, N.Y., qualified second behind A19 19 Egerszegi in 1:01.19. The top U.S. backstroker, Janie Wagstaff of A19 20 Mission Hills, Kan., finished fifth in 1:02.29 to make the A19 21 final.

A19 22 Loveless, 21, was second to Wagstaff at the U.S. trials with a A19 23 personal best of 1:01.14.

A19 24 Monday's gold medal went to Pablo Morales in the 100 butterfly. A19 25 Eric Namesnik won a silver in the 400 individual medley and the 800 A19 26 freestyle relay team earned bronze.

A19 27 In the men's 200 backstroke, American record-holder Royce Sharp A19 28 of Houston failed to qualify, but Tripp Schwenk of Sarasota, Fla., A19 29 did.

A19 30 Sharp, who has the best time in the world this year in 1:58.66, A19 31 finished 11th in 2:00.97. Only the top eight times advance to A19 32 finals. At the U.S. trials, Schwenk became the third American ever A19 33 to better 1:59. He qualified sixth today in 1:59.92.

A19 34 World record-holder and crowd favorite Martin Zubero of Spain A19 35 led all qualifiers in 1:59.22.

A19 36 In the same event, Raymond Papa of the Philippines caused a A19 37 stir when judges ruled he deliberately false started. Thousands of A19 38 fans booed Papa's disqualification, which delayed the start.

A19 39 The team of Angel Martino of Americus Ga., Ashley Tappin of A19 40 Metairie, La., Crissy Ahmann-Leighton of Tucson, Ariz., and Dara A19 41 Torres of Gainesville, Fla., finished first in the 400 freestyle A19 42 relay preliminary with a time of 3:41.57. The German women were A19 43 second in 3:43.58.

A19 44 The race marked Martino's debut in the Olympics after the A19 45 25-year-old was banned from the 1988 U.S. team. Martino, then Angel A19 46 Meyers, qualified in three events, but was kicked off the team A19 47 after testing positive for a banned substance.

A19 48 Jenny Thompson of Dover, N.H., and Nicole Haislett of St. A19 49 Petersburg, Fla., were expected to replace two of the preliminary A19 50 swimmers in tonight's final. They were rested during the heats.

A19 51 Thompson is going for gold again after a disappointing start in A19 52 the Olympics. She finished second in the 100 free and failed to A19 53 qualify for the 200 free final, which Haislett won.

A19 54 Evans, 20, from Placentia, Calif., has not lost in the 400 A19 55 freestyle in six years. She led the entire way in her heat to win A19 56 in 4:09.38, well off the world and Olympic records of 4:03.85 she A19 57 set in her gold-medal performance four years ago in Seoul.

A19 58 American Erika Hansen also made the final. Hansen, who failed A19 59 to qualify for the 400 individual medley final, was third fastest A19 60 in the morning preliminary with a time of 4:12.08.

A19 61 Hansen, from King of Prussia, Pa., trailed German Dagmar Hase, A19 62 who stayed close to Evans and finished in 4:10.92.

A19 63 Biondi qualified for the 100 freestyle final in 49.75 seconds, A19 64 but his time was only the fourth-best and not as fast as teammate A19 65 Jon Olsen, who was third in 49.63.

A19 66 Alexandre Popov of the Unified Team led the way in 49.29 A19 67 seconds, followed by Brazilian Gustavo Borges in 49.49. Borges, who A19 68 swims for the University of Michigan, is the NCAA champion in the A19 69 event.

A19 70 Biondi's finish cost him a prime center lane. By finishing A19 71 first and second, Popov and Borges will swim in lanes four and A19 72 five. Biondi will start in lane six and Olsen is in lane three.

A19 73 Biondi is the world record-holder in the 100 free with a time A19 74 of 48.42.

A19 75 Thompson, Haislett, Anita Nall and Summer Sanders - swimming's A19 76 'New Kids on the Block' - weren't supposed to need Evans to help A19 77 the U.S. team win Olympic gold medals.

A19 78 Now they need her more than ever.

A19 79 Nerves have gotten the best of the youngsters, especially A19 80 Thompson and Nall - two world record-holders who missed gold in A19 81 their signature events.

A19 82 So far, the women have won only one gold, one silver and two A19 83 bronzes. That's about two gold medals short of what was A19 84 expected.

A19 85 The medal count was expected to rise today, since Evans was the A19 86 heavy favorite in the 400 freestyle. She also is favored in the 800 A19 87 freestyle on Thursday.

A19 88 In 1988, Evans and Biondi took turns winning the only Olympic A19 89 gold medals captured by U.S. swimmers. Evans won three in the A19 90 distance races; Biondi won two in the sprints.

A19 91 Evans hasn't lost a 400 freestyle race since the U.S. Long A19 92 Course Nationals in 1986.

A19 93 "I want to do well for myself just to prove to myself A19 94 that I can do it," she said.

A19 95 Her performance in the grueling 400 should steady the shaky A19 96 U.S. women, unnerved by Thompson's failures.

A19 97 "We had a lot of pressure on us coming into this meet. A19 98 We didn't swim poorly, we just didn't swim as well as we had A19 99 hoped," said Haislett, who narrowly hung on for gold in the A19 100 200 freestyle Monday.

A19 101 Evans said her second Olympics is different than Seoul, where A19 102 as a 16-year-old sprite she fearlessly took on and beat the East A19 103 Germans.

A19 104 "I've been through all this before and it's not as much A19 105 of a novelty," she said. "I think it's helped me A19 106 because I can relax and kind of take it all in stride."

A19 107 Nall, 16, of Towson, Md., faded in the stretch of the 200 A19 108 breaststroke to finish behind 14-year-old Kyoko Iwasaki of Japan, A19 109 who set an Olympic record of 2:26.65, and Lin Li of China, who was A19 110 clocked in 2:26.85.

A19 111 A19 112 Magic's Injury Isn't Considered Serious

A19 113 By BILL BARNARD

A19 114 AP Basketball Writer

A19 115 BARCELONA, Spain - Point guards Magic Johnson and John Stockton A19 116 are hurt and Charles Barkley is still making mischief.

A19 117 So what happens?

A19 118 The U.S. Olympic basketball team beats medal favorite Croatia A19 119 103-70 Monday night, the closest victory the Americans have had in A19 120 nine games, but still a blowout.

A19 121 They did it without Johnson for more than three-quarters of the A19 122 game because of a strained muscle in his right knee. Stockton has A19 123 been out with a cracked bone in his right leg since June 29.

A19 124 "I stepped away and felt it pull," said A19 125 Johnson, who stood up for interviews after the game.

A19 126 An MRI showed nothing serious, and Johnson was listed as A19 127 day-to-day. He'll have full rest Tuesday, with no game or A19 128 practice scheduled.

A19 129 Johnson, the only player who has started every game for Team A19 130 USA, was unconcerned that one injury would stop the parade of A19 131 blowouts.

A19 132 "If I have to miss, I will," Johnson said. A19 133 "This team could play without a lot of people."

A19 134 For the Dream Team, whose previous closest game was 38 points A19 135 over Puerto Rico in the Olympic qualifying tournament, the game A19 136 against Croatia was an opportunity to measure the size of its A19 137 dominance.

A19 138 "It was good for our team to be focused on a A19 139 challenge," Michael Jordan said. "Our focus on this A19 140 game was a lot better. In our minds it was a tough game, even A19 141 though we overwhelmed them with our manpower. We knew this was a A19 142 team that would challenge us."

A19 143 "We wanted to gauge our team with this game," A19 144 Johnson said. "I'd say we still have a passing A19 145 grade."

A19 146 Croatia, with six players from Yugoslavia's 1988 Olympic silver A19 147 medalist team, figured to be one of the American's toughest A19 148 tests.

A19 149 Drazen Petrovic of the New Jersey Nets scored 19 points and A19 150 Stojko Vrankovic of the Boston Celtics had 11 points and four A19 151 blocked shots. Dino Radja, a Celtics draftee, scored 14 points on A19 152 6-of-10 shooting.

A19 153 But the man Team USA concentrated on was Toni Kukoc, considered A19 154 by many to be the most talented player in Europe.

A19 155 The absence of Johnson and Stockton left the U.S. team without A19 156 a true point guard on the roster. But Chicago Bulls Jordan and A19 157 Scottie Pippen did the job anyway.

A19 158 Pippen blanketed Kukoc for most of the game and then said the A19 159 Croat superstar, who scored just four points, is overrated.

A19 160 "He's OK, not as great as people said and I A19 161 anticipated," Pippen said. "I don't know he's even A19 162 the best European player here. That's probably Drazen A19 163 Petrovic."

A19 164 Petrovic hit three 3-pointers in a one-minute span late in the A19 165 first half to lead a Croatia rally, but he had foul trouble and A19 166 scored just two of his 19 points in the second half.

A19 167 Kukoc, courted intensely by the Bulls last year, was defensed A19 168 superbly by Pippen, who made just his third start for Team USA. A19 169 Pippen and Jordan both resented the attention given Kukoc by Bulls A19 170 general manager Jerry Krause.

A19 171 Barkley, whose intentional elbow foul against Angola in the A19 172 U.S. opener on Sunday turned the fans against him, heard more A19 173 derisive whistles in the first half against Croatia.

A19 174 A19 175 Spikers Shave Heads To Support Teammate

A19 176 By NESHA STARCEVIC

A19 177 Associated Press Writer

A19 178 BARCELONA, Spain - Bob Samuelson promises to play hard. That's A19 179 what the U.S. <}_><-|>teams<+|>team<}/> needs. Just turn down the A19 180 volume a bit.

A19 181 With its opening-game victory against Japan taken away because A19 182 Samuelson yelled at officials, the Americans will have to be on A19 183 their best behavior against Canada today.

A19 184 Their feelings will be apparent - they cut off their hair A19 185 Monday night to show support for Samuelson.

A19 186 The Americans, hoping to become the first to win three straight A19 187 volleyball gold medals, saw their five-set, comeback A19 188 victory against Japan overturned into a four-set defeat Monday by A19 189 the International Volleyball Federation.

A19 190 "We've got our backs to the wall, but we have faced and A19 191 handled adversity before, and we are prepared to handle it A19 192 again," coach Fred Sturm said. "Our goal of winning A19 193 the gold medal has not changed."

A19 194 The trouble began when Samuelson, a firebrand of Playa del Rey, A19 195 Calif., got a second yellow card for yelling at officials at match A19 196 point for Japan in the fourth set. The rules clearly call for a red A19 197 card to be issued at that point and the awarding of a technical A19 198 point to Japan.

A19 199 Leading 2-1 in games and 14-13 on its serve when the Samuelson A19 200 incident occurred, Japan would have won the match if the rules had A19 201 been applied, but referee Ramis Samedow of Azerbaijan didn't want A19 202 to end it that way and allowed play to continue.

A19 203 But the FIBV officials, acting on a Japanese protest, decided A19 204 that the rules were clearly broken and declared Japan the winner in A19 205 four sets.

A19 206 The ruling did not take away U.S. chances of defending the gold A19 207 medal, but it reduced the safety cushion.

A19 208 Four nations from the six-team pool will advance to the A19 209 quarterfinals and the Americans should still make it. Samuelson was A19 210 praised by Sturm after the Japan game for "making so many A19 211 things happen" and "lifting the team in so many A19 212 areas."

A19 213 But that was before the impact of Samuelson's outburst became A19 214 known.

A19 215 Samuelson came into the game only as a replacement for Bryan A19 216 Ivie, the middle blocker from Manhattan Beach, Calif., who went out A19 217 with a right knee injury and is doubtful for today's game.

A19 218 "This is a very disappointing situation, but I am A19 219 prepared to come back versus Canada on Tuesday and play as hard as A19 220 I have ever played," Samuelson said. "I think the A19 221 decision will be used to fire our team for the rest of the A19 222 Olympics.

A19 223 "I did not realize that they assessed me a second yellow card, A19 224 but it is something that I will have to deal with. There is nothing A19 225 that we can do about the decision except play hard the remainder of A19 226 the Olympics."

A19 227 A19 228 Anthony, Astros Slam Braves

A19 229 By BILL ZACK

A19 230 Atlanta Sports Wire

A19 231 ATLANTA - Questioned about his lack of work this month, Atlanta A19 232 Braves reliever Mike Stanton shrugged Monday afternoon and offered, A19 233 "Throwing on the side every day keeps me pretty sharp and A19 234 the rest of it is state of mind."

A19 235 A20 1 <#FROWN:A20\>ARE THEY KIDDING?

A20 2 The Dream Team is everyone else's nightmare. It should be no A20 3 contest, unless...

A20 4 By PAUL A. WITTEMAN

A20 5 Reported by Brian Cazeneuve / Portland

A20 6 THE PLAYERS ON THE BENCH SAW IT coming, edging forward on their A20 7 seats in anticipation. Michael Jordan was about to take the A20 8 defender from Argentina on a quick and not-so-flattering trip to A20 9 the hoop. Two-hundred-kilo sneakers: that's what it appeared the A20 10 Argentine was wearing as Jordan effortlessly rose as from a A20 11 trampoline for one of his trademark, gravity-defying pirouettes A20 12 above the rim. The Argentine seemed to shrink to the size of a A20 13 circus midget. As Jordan dunked the ball, the players on the bench A20 14 leaped up and cheered the best basketball player the world has ever A20 15 seen. In Spanish.

A20 16 That's right. The players cheering Jordan so wildly were the A20 17 very Argentines whom he was reducing to the level of kids playing A20 18 pickup on the playground. No matter. "I played with great A20 19 happiness against the monsters," Argentine center Hernan A20 20 Montenegro said later. Added guard Marcelo Milanesio: "When A20 21 we met at the center of the court, I was very excited that it was A20 22 Magic Johnson shaking my hand."

A20 23 So it went at the Tournament of the Americas in Portland, A20 24 Oregon, last month, where the Argentines and everyone else came to A20 25 pose for pictures with Michael, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and their A20 26 merry band of National Basketball Association All-Star troubadours. A20 27 In between, they played a little basketball. Very little. Take A20 28 Cuba: with 3 1/2 min. remaining in the game, the team was behind by A20 29 70 points, and only the final horn saved it from losing by 100 or A20 30 more. Panama dropped a cliff-hanger by a mere 60.

A20 31 When the tournament ended, with the Americans barely breaking a A20 32 sweat except on the golf course, where they seemed to spend most of A20 33 their time, everyone was ready to concede the gold medal in A20 34 Barcelona to the assemblage now and forever more to be known simply A20 35 as the Dream Team. Nevada bookmakers, who never miss an opportunity A20 36 to make a dollar, have fastidiously refused to post odds or take a A20 37 bet. The only surer wager than the Dream Team may be that George A20 38 Foreman will not try to make it next as a featherweight.

A20 39 U.S. coach Chuck Daly has at his disposal the greatest arsenal A20 40 of offensive and defensive weapons ever gathered on a basketball A20 41 court. There are passers with 360<*_>degree<*/> vision like Bird A20 42 (despite his creaky back), John Stockton and Magic. Chris Mullin A20 43 and Jordan are excellent three-point shooters. No one in possession A20 44 of his faculties and desirous of retaining them would dare drive A20 45 down the lane into territory defended by Charles Barkley, Patrick A20 46 Ewing and Karl Malone. Jordan and his Chicago Bulls teammate A20 47 Scottie Pippen are tenacious open-court defenders. Then too there A20 48 are Clyde Drexler and the Admiral, David Robinson. Twelfth man A20 49 Christian Laettner will probably get a great view of all this A20 50 talent mostly from the bench.

A20 51 And what of the Olympic opposition? The dissolution of the A20 52 Soviet Union and Yugoslavia has eviscerated the teams that won the A20 53 gold and silver medals in Seoul in 1988. The best former Soviet A20 54 players now wear the uniform of Lithuania. Drazen Petrovic and A20 55 Vlade Divac led Yugoslavia to the silver medal at Seoul. This time, A20 56 however, Yugoslavia as such has been banned from Barcelona. A20 57 Petrovic, a New Jersey Net, will play for Croatia. Divac, a Los A20 58 Angeles Laker and a Serb, will not be allowed to play. The Germans A20 59 will be competitive; N.B.A. star Detlef Schrempf will make them so. A20 60 And in Oscar Schmidt, the Brazilians have one of the game's best A20 61 three-point shooters. But even if you put all these players on one A20 62 squad, it would make no difference. The remaining 11 teams in the A20 63 Olympic tournament will be scuffling for silver.

A20 64 Still, American coach Daly is not known as the 'prince of A20 65 pessimism' for nothing. He is publicly worried that since games in A20 66 the Olympics are eight minutes shorter than those in the N.B.A., A20 67 his juggernaut might dawdle, fall behind and wait until it is too A20 68 late to mount a rally. Hey, chill out, replies Jordan. "We A20 69 have too much talent, and we'll turn it on whenever we have A20 70 to." Daly frets that the three-point shooting line in A20 71 international basketball is closer to the basket than in the N.B.A. A20 72 and that the lane is wider, both tending to nullify the Americans' A20 73 height advantage. However, after seeing how little difference these A20 74 factors made in his team's 136-57 loss to the Yanks, Cuban coach A20 75 Miguel Gomez seemed transported to a Zen mode. "One finger A20 76 cannot cover the sun," he said.

A20 77 But the dream that must give Daly the worst night sweats A20 78 features a player like Butch Lee. Back in 1976, Lee was not invited A20 79 to the U.S. Olympic basketball trials. Instead, he played for the A20 80 team from his native Puerto Rico. Spurred by a desire for revenge A20 81 over the slight he felt he had suffered at the hands of the U.S. A20 82 selection committee, Lee whipsawed the Americans with the A20 83 performance of his life. He scored 35 points and almost A20 84 single-handedly took the highly favored U.S. team to within seconds A20 85 of a humiliating loss.

A20 86 In Daly's updated nightmare, the Butch Lee role is played by A20 87 Lithuanian Sarunas Marciulionis, an N.B.A. star who plays for the A20 88 Golden State Warriors. Daly sees Marciulionis sinking A20 89 three-pointers like an automaton from nine meters, with Lithuanian A20 90 center Arvidas Sarbonis playing for one night like Bill Russell in A20 91 his prime.

A20 92 Maybe. All sporting contests before they are played contain an A20 93 element that Princeton basketball coach Pete Carril calls A20 94 "glorious uncertainty." Anything can happen, as A20 95 Carril's teams have proved season after remarkable season against A20 96 superior opposition. But not this superior. "This is not a A20 97 great team," says Carril. "This is the greatest A20 98 team ever." Don Nelson, the shrewd and artful coach of the A20 99 Golden State Warriors, whose son Donn is helping to coach A20 100 Marciulionis and the Lithuanians, agrees. "The A20 101 once-in-a-lifetime game is not going to happen," he says. A20 102 "The Dream Team will not allow any second shots. Even if A20 103 the Americans play poorly, there shouldn't be a close game. They A20 104 haven't even tried yet."

A20 105 When they do, is a shutout conceivable? Now there's a fantasy A20 106 for the Dream Team to ponder. Sleep on it, Michael. Just don't A20 107 forget to set your alarm clock.

A20 108 A20 109 BENVINGUTS TO THE CATALAN GAMES!

A20 110 Barcelona flashes its many stylish differences as the arc of A20 111 the opening arrow begins the dazzling five-ring show

A20 112 By PICO IYER BARCELONA

A20 113 IMAGINE A PROUD, SERIOUS OLD man, not without some gruffness. A20 114 Imagine that he is a prosperous merchant, having made enough money, A20 115 on his own terms, to indulge himself in moments of whimsy, flashes A20 116 of dandy vanity. Imagine further that he has seen empires and A20 117 invaders come and go. Now, having dusted the furniture and A20 118 repainted the house, he throws open the doors to his elegant old A20 119 home to reveal ... a dazzle of tropi-colored tricks.

A20 120 That was a little how it felt as Barcelona, the often unshaven A20 121 but designer-crazy capital of Catalonia, set flame to the Games of A20 122 the 25th Olympiad. The occasion was a golden opportunity for A20 123 presenting the city as a shiny new capital of a postnational world. A20 124 It was also a quadrilingual glimpse into a multicultural future. A20 125 Music at the celebrations that opened the Games came from an atlas A20 126 of names - Ryuichi Sakamoto, Angelo Badalamenti (of Twin A20 127 Peaks fame), Andrew Lloyd Webber; Pl<*_>a-acute<*/>cido A20 128 Domingo was followed by a sea of 'living sculptures' designed by a A20 129 man from the West Indies. And some of the grandest cheers of all A20 130 came as the unfamiliar Lithuanian flag hung over costumes fashioned A20 131 by Issey Miyake.

A20 132 As soon as the opening ceremonies began, moreover, records A20 133 began falling like tenpins: the most nations competing (172), the A20 134 most athletes in attendance (almost 11,000, or five times as many A20 135 as in the Winter Games), the highest number of television viewers A20 136 (a projected 3.5 billion). But numbers did scant justice to A20 137 emotions: to the sense of quiet pleasure as one of the first teams A20 138 to enter was South Africa, here after a 32-year absence; to the A20 139 shiver of unease as Iran alone paraded behind a man, not a woman, A20 140 bearing its name; to the bewilderment that met the Unified Team, A20 141 amid its cacophony of 12 republics' flags. And when A20 142 Bosnia-Herzegovina appeared, after an eleventh-hour entry, people A20 143 rose spontaneously around the stands to cheer.

A20 144 The most prominent country in the early going, however, had A20 145 been one that did not march but made its presence felt at every A20 146 turn: independent-minded Catalonia, which is determined to cast A20 147 these as the Catalan, not the Spanish, Games. A longtime enemy of A20 148 Castile, delighting in a language that Franco had banned, Barcelona A20 149 was eager not just to show off its faster, higher, stronger self - A20 150 reconstruction is almost as trendy as deconstruction here - but to A20 151 emphasize its distance from the Spain of myth, and of Madrid. A20 152 FREEDOM FOR CATALONIA signs (in English) were draped from A20 153 balconies and shoulders, and buttons and stickers proclaiming A20 154 Catalonian independence were handed out even to kids from A20 155 California. The Catalan flag, four bloodred fingers on a field of A20 156 yellow, seemed to be fluttering from every window - 28 of them on a A20 157 single building! - and not one Spanish banner was in sight. As the A20 158 opening arrow approached, every other shop seemed to be saying A20 159 benvinguts - 'welcome' in the new Olympic language of A20 160 Catalan - to what was locally known as the Jocs A20 161 Olimpics.

A20 162 In a deeper sense, though, the weathered, down-to-earth city A20 163 seemed too rooted and too various to be greatly transformed by A20 164 pervasive Cobi (as the Olympic mascot is called). Barcelona A20 165 appeared ready to take over the world, and not the other way round. A20 166 In Seville, when the Olympic torch arrived on its way to the A20 167 opening ceremonies, crowds flocked into the Plaza de San Francisco A20 168 to snap up Cobi dolls, key rings and T shirts, and catch a flash of A20 169 history. In Barcelona, by contrast, life continued as usual. It A20 170 flows and crests from dawn to dawn here: sunny Sunday mornings A20 171 watching the albino gorilla in the zoo; early evenings in the A20 172 stained-glass quiet of Santa Mar<*_>i-acute<*/>a del Mar; A20 173 late, late evenings with thrashing guitars at the penumbral A20 174 nightclub KGB. Old women dance stately sardanes in front of A20 175 the cathedral, and men in silk ties ride scooters to the office. A20 176 Smiling pickpockets filch bank notes from the wallets of sightseers A20 177 while placing roses in their hair.

A20 178 In the balmy beach-front Olympic Village, as the teams began A20 179 arriving, 50 or more Iranians could be seen sitting in rows in dull A20 180 beige uniforms, like nothing so much as condemned POWS, A20 181 fending off questions about why their team consisted of 40 men and A20 182 zero women ("Their records are not strong." A20 183 "Women are not interested in sports"). On the other A20 184 side of the room, Enos Mafokate, the lone black member of South A20 185 Africa's equestrian contingent, was red-eyed with exhaustion and A20 186 excitement. "For 30 years," he said, "I A20 187 have dreamed of this. When they told me I was going to the Games, I A20 188 could not open my mouth for three hours. I could not even move my A20 189 jaw. This is something I will never forget!"

A20 190 Around him, other athletes were pounding away at a Super Monaco A20 191 GP video game, driving through a simulated Monte Carlo, even as the A20 192 stars of the U.S. basketball team were in the real Monaco, driving A20 193 the lane. Their performances were eagerly anticipated. Along the A20 194 main promenade of town, the tree-lined Ramblas, sidewalk artists A20 195 had already added Magic Johnson's face to the standard repertoire A20 196 of Marilyn Monroe and Emperor Hirohito, and copies of Magic's A20 197 biography were piling up next to canine pianists, peep shows and A20 198 Ecuadorian panpipers.

A20 199 Meanwhile, more and more newcomers could be seen trying to A20 200 figure out a city where pijamas are desserts and streets have A20 201 periods in the middle of their names (Paral.Lel). Journalists were A20 202 struggling to work out why three different coins were worth a A20 203 peseta (less than a cent) and whether the regal A20 204 Pla<*_>c-cedille<*/>a de Catalunya really was enhanced by an A20 205 enormous inflatable M&M. A20 206 A20 207 A20 208 A20 209 A20 210 A21 1 <#FROWN:A21\>Cubs Face Challenge With Gross

A21 2 Dodgers Pitcher Coming Off No-Hit Performance

A21 3 By Joe Goddard

A21 4 Staff Writer

A21 5 LOS ANGELES - The Cubs knew all about Kevin Gross before they A21 6 faced him Saturday night.

A21 7 They knew him as the man who struck out 12 of them in just A21 8 seven innings last May 18, and read all about him last week when he A21 9 no-hit the Giants.

A21 10 "Our game was the first time I saw him," Cubs A21 11 manager Jim Lefebvre said of the Dodgers veteran. "He had A21 12 great stuff. I mean, great. He had his hook [curve] going. He was A21 13 really breaking 'em off. We were lucky to catch up to A21 14 him."

A21 15 Mark Grace wasn't surprised at Gross' achievement.

A21 16 "He got me twice in that [12-strikeout] game," A21 17 the .308 hitter said. "Fortunately, we beat him. Otherwise, A21 18 he'd have made us all look silly."

A21 19 It was a somewhat silly game for Grace personally. He had two A21 20 triples, but also made his last two errors of the season.

A21 21 "I know Kevin doesn't have a winning record, but that A21 22 doesn't always mean you're not a good pitcher," Grace said. A21 23 "He's played for some bad teams."

A21 24 Gross has had four days to think about the gem he achieved. He A21 25 threw only 99 pitches, 71 for strikes.

A21 26 He felt the odds are heavily stacked against duplicating Johnny A21 27 Vander Meer's consecutive no-hitters in 1938 for A21 28 Cincinnati.

A21 29 "It's such a longshot to do two of them in a A21 30 row," said Gross, who has a 3.37 ERA, but only a 6-12 A21 31 record.

A21 32 "The time has gone by so fast between starts that I A21 33 really haven't had time to think about it.

A21 34 "I threw on the sidelines Thursday and had fantastic stuff. A21 35 I've actually had good stuff all season, but that doesn't always A21 36 mean anything.

A21 37 "I started off sharp before the no-hitter, too. The Reds didn't A21 38 get a hit until the fifth inning.

A21 39 "I'll go out there and give it my best shot and see what A21 40 happens."

A21 41 The only Giant close to getting a hit off Gross was Robby A21 42 Thompson.

A21 43 His line drive in the eighth inning was speared by shortstop A21 44 Jose Offerman, who had to leap.

A21 45 Gross draws a blank on what happened after Willie McGee flied A21 46 to left field for the final out. "It was a blur," A21 47 he said.

A21 48 It has been the only no-hitter of the season. There were seven A21 49 last year and eight in 1990, but none the previous two years.

A21 50 Gross' only claim to fame before the no-hitter was A21 51 embarrassing. He was caught using sandpaper to scuff baseballs in a A21 52 1987 game with the Phillies and was suspended 10 games.

A21 53 Holder of a 96-113 record, Gross has not had a winning season A21 54 since 1985, when he was 15-13 with the Phillies.

A21 55 He did, however, make the All-Star team in 1988, finish second A21 56 to Mark Langston in league strikeouts in 1989 with 158 and stop A21 57 Lenny Dykstra's 23-game hit streak in 1990.

A21 58 Both teams came into the game a little tired from a 12-inning A21 59 Friday night game the Cubs won 3-2.

A21 60 Steve Buechele drove in the first and last runs of the game, A21 61 but had a throwing error at third that allowed the Dodgers to get A21 62 back in the game off Greg Maddux.

A21 63 "Strange night," he said.

A21 64 Bob Scanlan earned his eighth save in 10 opportunities to take A21 65 over the club lead from Paul Assenmacher and Jim Bullinger.

A21 66 The Dodgers had tied the game in the ninth off Maddux on a A21 67 double by Offerman that sent pinch-runner Eric Young home from A21 68 first base.

A21 69 Young tripped rounding second, but was able to beat Buechele's A21 70 throw home when center fielder Doug Dascenzo overthrew the A21 71 cut-off man, Jose Vizcaino.

A21 72 Buechele mad up for it with his game-winning, loop single in A21 73 the 12th.

A21 74 "I'll take 'em any way I can get 'em," he A21 75 said.

A21 76 A21 77 It's Testing Time for Fernandez

A21 78 By Toni Ginnetti

A21 79 Staff Writer

A21 80 The only thing old about young Alex Fernandez is the A21 81 refrain he gets tired of hearing.

A21 82 That he's still just a kid.

A21 83 That his climb to the majors was too quick.

A21 84 That he has much to learn about pitching in the major A21 85 leagues.

A21 86 "That gets real old," Fernandez admitted: A21 87 "Yeah, I'm young. I just turned 23. But I'm here for a A21 88 reason - and it's that I can pitch in the big leagues."

A21 89 Only this year, though, that has been a test for the A21 90 tender-aged White Sox pitcher who reached the big leagues two years A21 91 ago after a meteoric two-month ascent through the minors.

A21 92 Even for one of baseball's most heralded rookie phenoms, his A21 93 was an almost unheard-of climb:

A21 94 <*_>black-square<*/>Fernandez, then but 20, drafted as the A21 95 first-round pick of the Sox in June, 1990 out of Miami Dade South A21 96 Community College after having collected National Junior College A21 97 Player of the Year honors, the Golden Spikes Award as amateur A21 98 baseball's top player and the Dick Howser Award.

A21 99 <*_>black-square<*/>Fernandez, winning six of seven decisions A21 100 for the Class A Sarasota and Class AA Birmingham affiliates with a A21 101 1.83 over-all ERA, and 1.08 at Birmingham.

A21 102 <*_>black-square<*/>Fernandez, arriving Aug. 2 at Milwaukee A21 103 County Stadium for his first major league start and making it A21 104 memorable, throwing seven innings of five-hit ball before leaving A21 105 with a 2-1 lead, though not getting the Sox' eventual victory.

A21 106 <*_>black-square<*/>Fernandez posting a 5-5 mark and 3.80 ERA A21 107 for the remainder of the big league season.

A21 108 "When I came up it was an unbelievably great A21 109 feeling," he said. "But it dies. And it becomes a A21 110 job.

A21 111 "I was talking to my father the other night and he said 'Gee, A21 112 you get to the park at 3 p.m. and you leave at midnight.' I said, A21 113 'Yeah, Dad, it's like an eight-hour job.'"

A21 114 But in June Fernandez was handed his first pink slip - a ticket A21 115 to Class AAA Vancouver.

A21 116 "I've learned a lot of things about the game as a A21 117 business," he said. "I'll leave it at that. But A21 118 there's no question you grow up and mature and learn how to deal A21 119 with things - with adversity, with success."

A21 120 Until this season, Fernandez considered adversity the likes of A21 121 the a losing 9-13 season in 1991. Even after struggling through a A21 122 3-7 first half of 1992 with 4.23 ERA, the demotion June 22 to Class A21 123 AAA was unexpected - and resented.

A21 124 "It was a total surprise," he said. "I A21 125 was shocked. And it's still something I say I didn't need to do, A21 126 something that was uncalled for.

A21 127 "But I'm not going to second guess their opinions because A21 128 that's why they're my bosses. As long as I'm here, I have to do A21 129 what they say.

A21 130 "So instead of making it worse, I did what I had to do to come A21 131 right back up."

A21 132 In some ways, Fernandez' three-week stay at Vancouver was an A21 133 exercise in both futility and success. He dominated with a 2-1 A21 134 record and 0.94 ERA in four games. Yet he remains defiant that the A21 135 move was wrong.

A21 136 The two aren't necessarily counter-productive forces in the A21 137 opinions of his manger and pitching coach.

A21 138 "I know he was shocked," Gene Lamont said of A21 139 Fernandez' demotion. "But I thought he took it all A21 140 right.

A21 141 "I'm sure when you get to the big leagues, you think you're A21 142 here forever. I think usually it's best when you get experience in A21 143 the minors, but it really all depends on how good you are and what A21 144 the needs of your team are. Alex showed he could pitch in the big A21 145 leagues.

A21 146 "But it's hard to learn at the big league level. He went down A21 147 and I think it helped him."

A21 148 If it reinforced Fernandez' fierce self-confidence, that, too, A21 149 could be a plus, pitching coach Jackie Brown believes.

A21 150 "You want that strong will, but it's tougher sometimes A21 151 because it does make it difficult in the learning stage. But I A21 152 think he's figuring out who he is.

A21 153 "Alex is still trying to figure out what kind of pitcher he is. A21 154 Is he a power pitcher or a finesse pitcher? I think his last game A21 155 [a 3-2 comeback victory Thursday over Texas in which he worked A21 156 eight innings and allowed two runs on four hits and a walk] is what A21 157 he is - a fastball pitcher who needs to use his other three A21 158 pitches."

A21 159 Fernandez is the first to agree that learning is part of the A21 160 game, but his best lessons have come from big league teammates and A21 161 coaches, he says, especially catcher Carlton Fisk and pitcher A21 162 Charlie Hough.

A21 163 "They've been in the big leagues for 20 years," A21 164 he said.

A21 165 "Some things they'll tell me I don't agree with, but A21 166 most I do. You take in what you want to take in and learn from A21 167 that.

A21 168 "Jackie Brown's been a big help to me, too," he said in A21 169 acknowledging another lesson learned in spring when for the first A21 170 time he was faced with playing for a new manager and coaching A21 171 staff.

A21 172 "The only manager I had known in my major league career A21 173 was Jeff [Torborg] and his staff, but in this profession you have A21 174 to get used to that. You never know who's going to be your coach A21 175 the next year."

A21 176 For coaches, Fernandez is his own challenge, a pitcher wealthy A21 177 in both potential and impatience.

A21 178 "He might be a little hard-headed, but all good A21 179 pitchers are that way," Lamont said. "And I've A21 180 never heard Alex say 'I'm young' as an excuse if things don't go A21 181 well."

A21 182 "I like his attitude and I like young kids because I A21 183 like the part of coaching that is teaching," Brown said. A21 184 "Alex has four average to above average pitches and all he A21 185 needs is to learn how to use them.

A21 186 "And any time you have someone with four average to above A21 187 average pitches, they have the chance to be dominating in the A21 188 game."

A21 189 In some ways Fernandez' potential might have been a hindrance A21 190 this season, one that began with many pointing to him as a key to A21 191 the Sox' hopes.

A21 192 "I heard that, but they singled out a lot of people, A21 193 not just me," he said. "It didn't make me feel all A21 194 the pressure was on me."

A21 195 Fernandez' focus always has been on his ability to succeed, A21 196 even when victories have eluded him.

A21 197 "He believes in himself," said catcher Ron A21 198 Karkovice, one of Fernandez' closer friends. "The only A21 199 thing you have to tell him is to slow down. If someone gets a hit, A21 200 he'll tend to try to blow away the next hitter.

A21 201 "I didn't think he needed to go down. He was getting some bad A21 202 breaks and they were trying to get him to avoid big innings. But I A21 203 thought he was throwing well and now he hasn't given up the big A21 204 inning.

A21 205 "I think he could be a 15- to 20-game winner, and in years to A21 206 come he could be a dominating pitcher in the league."

A21 207 That so many years are yet to come fuels Fernandez' desire to A21 208 win.

A21 209 "Sometimes you say to yourself, 'You've bee in the big A21 210 leagues almost three years and you're only 23.' I'm young and glad A21 211 to be young because all that tells me is I'll have a lot more years A21 212 in the big leagues."

A21 213 A21 214 Air War Likely For Minnesota

A21 215 Wacker Planning To Throw More

A21 216 By Terry Boers

A21 217 Staff Writer

A21 218 On the cover of the Minnesota media guide, new coach Jim Wacker A21 219 is pictured leaning out the side window of an airplane with his A21 220 right fist raised.

A21 221 Does this mean the dawning of Air Wacker?

A21 222 After the Great Golden Gopher Offensive Crash of 1991, A21 223 Minnesota fans are hoping that Wacker can put the program back in A21 224 an upright position.

A21 225 As the befuddled regime of former coach John Gutekunst came to A21 226 an unsatisfactory (2-9) conclusion, it became clear that even if A21 227 the other team had left the field on third down, Minnesota would A21 228 have been forced to punt.

A21 229 In 11 games last season, the Gophers scored a grand total of 12 A21 230 touchdowns and 104 points.

A21 231 And the defense wasn't all that hot, either.

A21 232 They were outscored by an average margin of 27.5-9.5 and were A21 233 outgained by more than 800 yards during the year.

A21 234 A21 235 A22 1 <#FROWN:A22\>Catholic leaders reeling from Sinead stunt

A22 2 EXAMINER NEWS SERVICES

A22 3 NEW YORK - Catholic leaders expressed shock at singer Sinead A22 4 O'Connor's having ripped a picture of Pope John Paul II to pieces A22 5 on 'Saturday Night Live.'

A22 6 "I have no idea why she would do that," said A22 7 Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for Cardinal John O'-Connor<&|>sic! of A22 8 New York. "The pope is an advocate for peace. It sounds A22 9 like she is spreading hatred and intolerance."

A22 10 Frank DeRosa, a spokesman for Bishop Thomas Daily of Brooklyn, A22 11 said: "It's a pity she embarrassed herself that way. I'm A22 12 sure the Holy Father would be the first to say a prayer for her so A22 13 that she could come to grips with whatever is angering A22 14 her."

A22 15 O'Connor shocked the 'Saturday Night Live' studio audience, the A22 16 show's producers and millions of viewers when she tore the picture A22 17 on live television.

A22 18 "Fight the real enemy," the smooth-scalped A22 19 Irish singer shouted as she held up the 8-by-12 photo of the A22 20 pontiff and methodically shredded it during her appearance toward A22 21 the show's end.

A22 22 From the show's conclusion through Monday, NBC received more A22 23 than 900 calls from people who didn't like the show - and seven who A22 24 did. That was among the highest number generated in the history of A22 25 the often-controversial 17-year-old show.

A22 26 "A lot of people were as offended as we were," A22 27 said NBC spokesman Curt Block, who was in the control room when A22 28 O'Connor pulled the surprise stunt.

A22 29 The Dublin-born singer, wearing a long white gown, tore up the A22 30 photo after performing 'War' - an a cappella song about racism, war A22 31 and child abuse.

A22 32 After the song, she blew out candles on the stage and walked A22 33 off; the studio audience was silent.

A22 34 Block said that during dress rehearsal, O'Connor performed the A22 35 song and ripped up a picture of an unidentified baby at its A22 36 conclusion.

A22 37 The segment was aired nation-wide, including on the A22 38 West Coast, where the show is tape delayed. "There were A22 39 discussions after the show on what to do," Block said. A22 40 "One of the thoughts was that in editing it out, it could A22 41 even draw more attention to it. In hindsight, seeing what the A22 42 reaction has been, we might have managed it A22 43 differently."

A22 44 Block said it was undecided whether O'Connor, 26, would ever be A22 45 invited back to the show. He added that she returned to her A22 46 dressing room after the song, reappeared for the 'goodnight' A22 47 segment, then quickly left the studio.

A22 48 O'Connor has criticized the church's stand against abortion and A22 49 earlier this year led an abortion-rights march through Dublin.

A22 50 O'Connor drew the ire of many in 1990 when she refused to allow A22 51 the national anthem to be played before a performance in New A22 52 Jersey. And she canceled an 'SNL' appearance after she learned that A22 53 foul-mouthed comic Andrew 'Dice' Clay would be the host.

A22 54 A22 55 The real Reagan, according to Lyn Nofziger

A22 56 Aide's memoirs not just presidential pap

A22 57 ASSOCIATED PRESS

A22 58 SACRAMENTO - Lyn Nofziger is one of Ronald Reagan's oldest and A22 59 most loyal political confidants, but Nofziger's memoirs don't gloss A22 60 over the former president's weaknesses or failures.

A22 61 "It's not a book about how Ronald Reagan saved the A22 62 world," Nofziger says of his candid and entertaining book, A22 63 titled simply, 'Nofziger,' published last week by Regnery Gateway A22 64 Inc.

A22 65 Nofziger's admiration of Reagan, both as an individual and A22 66 political leader, is evident throughout his book, but it doesn't A22 67 blunt either his insight or humor.

A22 68 "Reagan has a great 'in' button, but his 'out' button A22 69 sometimes gets stuck on open," Nofziger writes, describing A22 70 Reagan's ability to quickly absorb and understand a great deal of A22 71 information and sometimes blurt out politically embarrassing jokes A22 72 or observations such as trees causing pollution.

A22 73 Nofziger, whose association with Reagan goes back to 1966, when A22 74 he was press secretary in the actor-turned-politician's campaign A22 75 for governor, also confirms that Reagan often embellished on true A22 76 stories to make a point or that he denied embarrassing gaffes.

A22 77 But Reagan did it honestly, Nofziger said, genuinely convincing A22 78 himself that he was telling the truth.

A22 79 For example, Nofziger wrote, Reagan "got away with A22 80 denying that ... he ever said, 'A tree is a tree. How many do you A22 81 have to see?'

A22 82 "My secretary, Judith Kernoff, had it on tape, but that was A22 83 something we didn't tell him or anyone else, so he was free to do A22 84 one of the things he has always done best - convince himself that A22 85 the truth was what he wanted it to be," Nofziger writes.

A22 86 Nofziger also confirms in his memoirs that Reagan first A22 87 discussed running for president in a meeting at his Pacific A22 88 Palisades home with key advisers in December 1966, a month before A22 89 he became governor of California and 14 years before he finally was A22 90 elected to the White House.

A22 91 But, Nofziger says, it was political supporters like himself A22 92 who were pushing the idea of a presidential campaign in 1968. A22 93 Reagan took part in the discussion, but he was skeptical then and A22 94 still didn't have his heart in it when he formally launched his A22 95 first, short-lived, campaign for president two years later, A22 96 Nofziger says.

A22 97 "He was a very, very reluctant candidate in A22 98 1968," Nofziger says. "He was doing basically what A22 99 (political advisers) Cliff White, Tom Reed and I pressured him into A22 100 doing. He seriously at that time thought it was wrong for him. He A22 101 didn't think he was ready for it."

A22 102 In general, Nofziger is critical of Reagan's top White House A22 103 staff, saying they limited Reagan's presidential news conferences A22 104 because they didn't have confidence in him.

A22 105 That was a mistake, Nofziger says, because more frequent news A22 106 conferences, such as he had as governor, "would have forced A22 107 Reagan to stay on top of things better, and the media would have A22 108 discovered that he's not dumb."

A22 109 A22 110 A new atonement

A22 111 Contemporary Judaism accounts for modern sins during Yom A22 112 Kippur

A22 113 By Al Morch

A22 114 OF THE EXAMINER STAFF

A22 115 YOM KIPPUR, the most important Jewish holy day, begins at A22 116 sunset Tuesday in the new Hebrew year of 5753, and lasts until A22 117 sunset Wednesday. It is a day of atonement and fasting, during A22 118 which devout Jews think of their sins, repent and ask forgiveness A22 119 from God and others.

A22 120 (The idea of a collective confession stems from an ancient A22 121 belief that the gods became infuriated with a whole tribe when one A22 122 of its members transgressed. Hence, in those times collective A22 123 crops, live-stock and wells suffered the wrath of the A22 124 gods.)

A22 125 "But it goes beyond tribal feelings," says A22 126 Rabbi Mark Schiftan of Temple Emanu-el, a reform congregation A22 127 located at Arguello Boulevard and Lake Street.

A22 128 "None of us as Jews can ignore what's happening in the A22 129 entire American community. We are very concerned when we hear of A22 130 more people out of work, more students who cannot learn, more A22 131 people without adequate social service. Such bad news strikes a A22 132 strong note in the Jewish heart. Because of our unique past, A22 133 something in our very being resonates toward the powerless and the A22 134 oppressed," says Schiftan.

A22 135 Within the liberal tradition, he says, there is an attempt to A22 136 combine both the ancient admission of human frailty and A22 137 shortcomings along with the contemporary area of human neglect and A22 138 abuse.

A22 139 However, he believes, now that Jews have made a comfortable A22 140 place for themselves in American life, there is a need to return to A22 141 rituals that tie them in a very public fashion to their faith and A22 142 to their people.

A22 143 "There has been a return to more use of the Hebrew A22 144 language in services, and the prayer books we've used for the past A22 145 15 years are much more traditional than one used for 50 years A22 146 before that," he says.

A22 147 On the other hand, Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun, a A22 148 6-year-old liberal bimonthly Jewish magazine formerly based in A22 149 Oakland but now published in New York, says the liturgy of the A22 150 prayer book, while a balance of source material, is not inclusive A22 151 enough to cover instantaneous events that need response at the A22 152 time.

A22 153 "So I've written a supplement (appearing in the A22 154 September issue of Tikkun) to Al Cheyt, the traditional A22 155 confessional prayer recited on Yom Kippur," says Lerner. A22 156 Tikkun is a Hebrew word meaning 'to heal, to repair, to transform A22 157 the world.'

A22 158 "The idea is that you either use my supplement or A22 159 create your own, then discuss in small groups what particular A22 160 aspects make the most sense, what they are going to do differently A22 161 in the coming year, what support they need from others to help make A22 162 changes in their lives and what they are going to do to secure that A22 163 support."

A22 164 Lerner believes that contemporary society has such a A22 165 self-centered consciousness that "it's time we had a A22 166 serious engagement with prayers not said by rote. In doing so I A22 167 think we can validate a lot of peoples' sense of what is important A22 168 and what is not, and allow for simple acts of caring and A22 169 kindness.

A22 170 "I take repentance seriously," Lerner says. A22 171 "The contemporary mode is to dismiss all guilt as a bad A22 172 thing because guilt was used so much to impose rigid standards in a A22 173 patriarchal society. I've taken that into account, but want to show A22 174 there is still room for some guilt."

A22 175 Lerner's prayer asks for a multitude of forgiveness, at the A22 176 same time imprinting and reinforcing the listener/reader with what A22 177 should be done. He lists 54 sins. Among them, "the sins of A22 178 feeling so worn out when we hear about oppression we finally close A22 179 our ears ... for the sins of even pretending that the (racist) A22 180 problem had gone away until others began to burn down cities in A22 181 their despair ... for the sins of turning our back on - or A22 182 participating in - the oppression of gays and lesbians ... for the A22 183 sins of making social change leaders, teachers and activists feel A22 184 they are foolish to be giving their lives to the community and A22 185 their highest ideals ...

A22 186 For the sins of not recognizing the humanity and suffering of A22 187 the Palestinian people and the injustice they face living under the A22 188 unwanted occupation ... for the sins of allowing conservative or A22 189 insensitive leaders to speak on behalf of all American Jews ... for A22 190 the sins of being critical of Jewish life from a distance rather A22 191 than from personal involvement and commitment ... for the sins of A22 192 being insensitive or insulting to non-Jews ... for the sins of A22 193 insisting that everything we do have a payoff ... for the sins of A22 194 not helping single people to meet potential partners."

A22 195 Rabbi Schiftan's personal atonement wish this year would be to A22 196 give more time to his family, and have more patience with his A22 197 children.

A22 198 Lerner declined to disclose his atonement wishes A22 199 ("that's between me and God").

A22 200 A22 201 Husband OK'd her affair with millionaire

A22 202 Mistress says she was promised house

A22 203 By Linda Deutsch

A22 204 ASSOCIATED PRESS

A22 205 LOS ANGELES - The ex-husband of one of Henry Mudd's A22 206 seven mistresses testified Monday that she had returned to the A22 207 millionaire industrialist after breaking off their relationship A22 208 because she missed his money.

A22 209 Vincent Oliver, whose former wife, Lorraine, is suing the A22 210 estate of the late founder of Harvey Mudd College for $5 million, A22 211 has said he knew of his wife's affair with Mudd and approved of A22 212 it.

A22 213 The case has sent details of Mudd's private life spilling forth A22 214 in elaborate detail. Witnesses have said the business high-flier A22 215 kept a different mistress for each day of the week and lavished A22 216 gifts and money on them.

A22 217 Eleanor Oliver is suing Mudd's estate for control of a $600,000 A22 218 house in Los Angeles, among other things. She claims Mudd promised A22 219 she could have the house rent-free until she died. Oliver says Mudd A22 220 reneged on the contract after marrying one of his mistresses A22 221 shortly before his death in 1990 at age 77. Oliver was later A22 222 evicted.

A22 223 In his testimony Monday, Vincent Oliver said that after they A22 224 married in 1976, he and his wife had had "an open A22 225 marriage" in which both of them had extramarital lovers.

A22 226 Vincent Oliver said he had joined his wife in borrowing $10,000 A22 227 from Mudd to start a business before she became Mudd's mistress in A22 228 1977. At least one witness has suggested that Eleanor Oliver began A22 229 having sex with Mudd to pay off the loan. She denies this.

A22 230 A23 1 <#FROWN:A23\>He'll prosecute baby Kerri case

A23 2 Deputy district attorney says her parents got more help than A23 3 most do

A23 4 By Erin McCormick

A23 5 SPECIAL TO THE EXAMINER

A23 6 OAKLAND - Most of the 2,000 or so children who have come into A23 7 Bob Hutchins' life over the last 12 years have had one thing in A23 8 common: They've been missing.

A23 9 As one of Alameda County's top experts in child abductions, the A23 10 deputy district attorney has handled 1,031 cases of children who A23 11 have been snatched from nurseries, abducted by estranged parents or A23 12 simply disappeared.

A23 13 Now, as Hutchins takes on the role of prosecutor in the high A23 14 profile kidnapping case of the 2-day-old baby Kerri A23 15 Mammini, he cannot forget that not all kidnapping victims are A23 16 nearly so lucky.

A23 17 While Kerri, who was kidnapped from her mother's hospital room A23 18 in June, was recovered after an exhaustive three-month police A23 19 investigation, Hutchins says many parents reporting stolen children A23 20 have trouble even getting help from police authorities, much less A23 21 recovering their children.

A23 22 These are the victims of the most common, yet most neglected, A23 23 type of kidnapping: parental abductions.

A23 24 "In the baby Kerri case, the public automatically sees A23 25 the horror of it," Hutchins said. "But when A23 26 someone's child is taken by the other parent, everybody says, 'Oh, A23 27 it's just a parent.'

A23 28 "But any parent who has a child secreted away from them for A23 29 three or four years feels the same way baby Kerri's mother A23 30 did," he said. "I don't think there's much A23 31 difference."

A23 32 In upcoming court proceedings against Karen Lea Hughes, who was A23 33 arrested Sept. 15 for allegedly abducting baby Kerri from her A23 34 mother's hospital room, Hutchins will act as a traditional A23 35 prosecutor - digging up witnesses and presenting evidence to get a A23 36 conviction. The next court appearance for Hughes is Oct. 13 for A23 37 pretrial motions.

A23 38 In other cases, Hutchins has played a much wider role. The A23 39 deputy DA has become almost a one-stop resource center for A23 40 parents who feel they have nowhere to turn.

A23 41 "Historically these (parental abduction) cases were A23 42 just hated by police and law enforcement officers," he A23 43 said. Even now, "the police often tell parents there is A23 44 nothing they can do."

A23 45 Georgia Hilgeman found out the hard way.

A23 46 In October 1976, the Santa Clara County mother let her A23 47 13-month-old daughter come to Alameda County for a weekend visit A23 48 with the baby's father, whom she had recently divorced.

A23 49 Before the weekend was over, the ex-husband, college instructor A23 50 Juan Rios, reported that the infant had mysteriously disappeared at A23 51 an event at Oakland's Civic Center.

A23 52 A massive police search of the area turned up nothing. Soon A23 53 Rios became the prime suspect.

A23 54 As soon as police authorities realized that the case was A23 55 probably a parental abduction, their interest waned, Hilgeman A23 56 said.

A23 57 "I was basically left to my own resources," she A23 58 said. "I was ripped off numerous times by unscrupulous A23 59 bounty hunters, private eyes, psychics and whatnot."

A23 60 Hilgeman did not see her daughter until more than four years A23 61 later, when she went to Mexico with a posse of lawyers and found A23 62 the little girl living with the former husband's impoverished A23 63 relatives near Mexico City.

A23 64 With Hutchins acting as prosecutor, the district attorney's A23 65 office took Rios to trial on charges of child imprisonment. The A23 66 father received a three-year prison sentence.

A23 67 "You have to see how frustrated these people get, A23 68 calling all these agencies and not finding help," Hutchins A23 69 said.

A23 70 His goal is to make the criminal justice system available to A23 71 anyone who has had a child stolen, whether it was by a parent or A23 72 not.

A23 73 He has gone far beyond the prosecution duties of an everyday A23 74 district attorney. He has spearh-eaded investigations and A23 75 worked to train police on handling these matters.

A23 76 "I use the criminal system to force children out of the A23 77 wood-work," he said. This can mean issuing a A23 78 warrant against a parent abductor, extraditing them from another A23 79 state or even taking the children into custody.

A23 80 While more than 90 percent of his cases involve parent A23 81 abductions, Hutchins said he's had at least one that was markedly A23 82 similar to the baby Kerri case.

A23 83 About three years ago, he said a woman disguised herself in a A23 84 nurse's outfit and a wig and took a newborn baby from a room in A23 85 Oakland's Highland Hospital.

A23 86 The big difference in the case was that the abductor never got A23 87 out of the hospital. The baby's mother realized what was happening A23 88 and the woman was caught before she left the premises.

A23 89 "They arrested her on the spot," Hutchins said. A23 90 "But otherwise, the case was very similar to baby Kerri. A23 91 That woman was prepared to keep that baby too."

A23 92 A23 93 'Ladies lunch' for Hillary

A23 94 Hundreds gather in Bay restaurants to support Demo contender A23 95 for first lady

A23 96 By Mandy Behbehani

A23 97 OF THE EXAMINER STAFF

A23 98 In a powerful display of unity, more than 700 women paid from A23 99 $20 to $50 to eat lunch Monday at 12 Bay Area restaurants owned or A23 100 operated by women, to show their support for Hillary Clinton and to A23 101 raise money for the California Democratic Party Nominees' Fund.

A23 102 "I believe in intelligent women who have careers and A23 103 can be family oriented, and I think the treatment of Hillary has A23 104 been unjust and unfair," said Joyce Goldstein, owner of A23 105 Square One restaurant, where one of the lunches was held. A23 106 "I don't usually do politics in my business, but I thought A23 107 it was a wonderful idea and that I should support it."

A23 108 'Ladies Who Lunch' was the brainchild of writer Alice Adams, A23 109 arts administrator Diana Fuller, literary agent Bonnie Nadell, A23 110 activist Marjorie Traub, Oakland Tribune book editor Diana Ketcham A23 111 and former Dance Coalition director Suki Lilienthal, who wanted, as A23 112 Nadell puts it, to talk back to the "spin doctors who tell A23 113 us women fear and dislike Hillary Clinton."

A23 114 Invitations were sent out by people such as writers Amy Tan and A23 115 Susan Faludi. Neither was at the lunch, but they lent their names A23 116 to the event.

A23 117 Guest speakers slated to appear at the restaurants included ACT A23 118 Artistic Director Carey Perloff; her mother, Marjorie Perloff, a A23 119 professor at Stanford; writers Kathy Acker and Deirdre English; A23 120 restaurateur Alice Waters; Project Open Hand founder Ruth Brinker, A23 121 city attorney Louise Renne; screen-writer Diane Johnson; A23 122 former Mayor Dianne Feinstein (who was unable to attend the event); A23 123 and Clinton campaign co-director for Northern California and A23 124 Professor at UC's Boalt Hall, Willy Fletcher.

A23 125 Before the speeches, guests were treated to an impersonation of A23 126 Hillary Clinton by local stage actress Lorri Holt, who, dressed to A23 127 look like Clinton - complete with red suit and headband - went from A23 128 location to location giving a rousing speech set in the year A23 129 1996.

A23 130 "Who would have thought that Bill Clinton would have A23 131 been as wonderful as to turn over his second term to me and become A23 132 my chief of staff?" Holt asked the Cypress Club audience to A23 133 laughter. "Let's go out and win this election because we A23 134 can't afford to put the leadership of this country into the hands A23 135 of Marilyn Quayle."

A23 136 At the Cypress Club, 40 women, most of them wearing their 'Bye! A23 137 George' and 'Blow Bill Blow' buttons (the latter feature Bill A23 138 Clinton playing his sax) gathered to hear the two Perloffs and A23 139 attorney David Robertson speak.

A23 140 The crowd was mostly over 40 with a couple of exceptions.

A23 141 "I used to raise money for Mr. Bush, but I really A23 142 disagree with his stand on abortion and the environment and those A23 143 are really important issues to me," said Barbara Ann A23 144 Caulfield, 26, an attorney with the San Francisco law firm of Hough A23 145 & Moss.

A23 146 Marjorie Perloff, author of the article in the Oct. 5 issue of A23 147 New Republic about how Barbara Bush's image as a super stay-at-home A23 148 mother is fabrication, said, "Hillary is very accomplished. A23 149 She has a real political interest. We've had first lady after first A23 150 lady who has to have a project. And it's so demeaning. A23 151 Hillary doesn't need a project because she has projects. She will A23 152 prove that all women really can be equal to men and don't have to A23 153 be assigned projects like beautifying the White House or fighting A23 154 drugs."

A23 155 Daughter Carey agreed.

A23 156 "She's an extraordinarily important role model for A23 157 women. Hillary's life is much like the average woman's day-to-day A23 158 struggle, for those women in this country who have to work, and do A23 159 work, and who have a primary responsibility to their A23 160 family."

A23 161 Robertson, a partner at Morrison and Foerster, knew the A23 162 Clintons at Yale Law School and calls them "extraordinarily A23 163 impressive and nice."

A23 164 Over at Square One, about 80 women, including Anne Halstead of A23 165 the Port Commission, gathered to hear Willy Fletcher and retired A23 166 investment banker and former Republican fund-raiser Martha Fray A23 167 speak.

A23 168 Fletcher, who was a Rhodes Scholar with Bill Clinton at Oxford A23 169 and was at Yale Law School with both the Clintons, said he believes A23 170 the Clintons will pay attention to issues that have long gone A23 171 untended.

A23 172 "Issues like choice," said Fletcher, A23 173 "like the Family Leave bill that Bush just vetoed, the NIH A23 174 bill for ovarian and breast cancer research that he vetoed in the A23 175 spring, the Head Start program that he has refused to fund fully, A23 176 his voucher system, the economy. I have to say we have enormous A23 177 problems before us, it's not going to be easy. But they will make A23 178 an honest attempt to deal with our problems."

A23 179 Fray said, "I asked myself, what would it take to make A23 180 it possible for me to continue to align myself with a party that A23 181 limits my life? A lobotomy, winning the lottery or magically A23 182 transforming my husband into something reactionary - like the A23 183 prince of Wales? ...It was clearly more sensible for me to support A23 184 instead the Women for Hillary ladies lunch."

A23 185 A23 186 Leno responds to imbroglio

A23 187 Takes "full responsibility" in answer to A23 188 reporters

A23 189 By Louis Chunovic

A23 190 SPECIAL TO THE EXAMINER

A23 191 LOS ANGELES - 'Tonight Show' host Jay Leno took it on his ample A23 192 chin repeatedly but without complaint Monday, answering show A23 193 business reporters' pointed questions about the 'Tonight'/'Arsenio' A23 194 booking wars and the recent summary dismissal of his longtime A23 195 manager Helen Kushnick from her post as 'Tonight's' executive A23 196 producer.

A23 197 The comedian did not duck responsibility for the show's recent A23 198 controversies, and he gave as good as he got, challenging reporters A23 199 to look into the existence and influence of the "old boy A23 200 network" of which Kushnick said she had run afoul.

A23 201 The occasion was the Academy of Television Arts & Science's A23 202 (ATAS) forum luncheon, and Leno was the guest speaker.

A23 203 After a brief monologue ("It's every comedian's A23 204 dream," he quipped, "to perform in front of A23 205 industry people who are eating"), Leno took questions.

A23 206 "Am I bitter?" he said of the controversies in A23 207 general. "I'm in show business, which means you make a lot A23 208 of money."

A23 209 Leno added that he hates "whiny show business people A23 210 that are bitter. I think the show is going great, but if for some A23 211 reason I was out of here, and I lost the show, 'Hey, I'm back on A23 212 the road again.' OK, it's my fault. Everything that happens on the A23 213 show is my fault. ... And that's the way it's going to be from now A23 214 on. I'm not blaming anyone else."

A23 215 To a question about Kushnick's treatment, Leno, who reportedly A23 216 stirred NBC's ire by publicly disagreeing with the decision to A23 217 dismiss her, replied: "Yes, she's gotten a bad A23 218 rap."

A23 219 Of the 'Tonight'/'Arsenio' booking wars and the highly A23 220 publicized feud with Arsenio Hall, Leno said, "I take full A23 221 responsibility for all those things. ... There were probably A23 222 excesses on both sides."

A23 223 "Arsenio's fine," Leno said before the A23 224 luncheon. "I saw Arsenio the other night. Arsenio and I A23 225 speak once in a while. I called him about a month ago and we talked A23 226 and he made me laugh, and I made him laugh, and I think that it A23 227 reminded us, we used to be friends. As far as the situation now, I A23 228 think it's been mended. I saw him the other night at (a charity A23 229 event) and said, 'Look, if some things went down, it's changed. A23 230 Between you and me, no more of that stuff.' And that's it. I'll A23 231 probably talk to him in the next day or so."

A23 232 Of the Kushnick imbroglio, Leno said at another point, A23 233 "I take total responsibility for everything that A23 234 happened."

A23 235 A23 236 A24 1 <#FROWN:A24\>Star-Studded Sex Scandals

A24 2 By BOB ROSS

A24 3 Tribune Staff Writer

A24 4 TAMPA - Americans love sex scandals. We enjoy seeing the rich, A24 5 the famous and the powerful squirm and explain, charge and A24 6 countercharge.

A24 7 Let's face it: Nothing makes our own troubles seem so bearable A24 8 as the knowledge that someone in the stellar stratosphere has it A24 9 even worse. Besides, it gives us all something to talk about.

A24 10 The latest such gratifying eye-popper comes from Manhattan and, A24 11 indirectly, from 'Manhattan,' the 1979 movie in which A24 12 writer-director-star Woody Allen plays a 42-year-old man who falls A24 13 in love with a 17-year-old schoolgirl.

A24 14 That poignant fiction turned to tawdry tabloid fare with last A24 15 week's revelations and accusations about Allen and his longtime A24 16 companion/co-star Mia Farrow.

A24 17 Allen's infatuation with Farrow's 21-year-old adopted daughter A24 18 has led to a lurid chain of claims and denials. The whole story has A24 19 yet to unfold, and the interim is being filled with tales that may A24 20 or may not be true.

A24 21 The important part is not who slept where and when, but how A24 22 uncomfortably we can keep the spotlight on those involved.

A24 23 And although we can always count on politicians, athletes and A24 24 evangelists to contribute their share of moral outrages, we leave A24 25 it to the professionals - those whose livelihoods require acting A24 26 out fantasies - to distract us most often from the humdrum A24 27 melodramas of our own existence.

A24 28 The 'Golden Age'

A24 29 There have been movie-star sex scandals almost as long as there A24 30 have been movies.

A24 31 In the early silent era, movie actors were more or less A24 32 anonymous. The only 'scandals' that bluenoses could get huffy about A24 33 involved the film plots themselves.

A24 34 But by 1920, an ingenue named Mary Pickford had become a A24 35 certified star, recognized by millions.

A24 36 That was also the year she suffered her first scandal. Pickford A24 37 apparently divorced her first husband under such unusual A24 38 circumstances that the attorney general of Nevada began proceedings A24 39 against her for fraud, collusion and untruthful testimony.

A24 40 The divorce was upheld two years later - which was lucky for A24 41 the movie star, because she and Douglas Fairbanks had gotten A24 42 married right after she got her Nevada quickie. Both stars' A24 43 popularity survived.

A24 44 The little tramp

A24 45 Less lucky - and apparently more promiscuous - was silent A24 46 comedy genius Charlie Chaplin.

A24 47 Chaplin raised eyebrows with his marriage to 16-year-old actor A24 48 Mildred Harris in 1918 and his marriage to actor Lita Grey, also A24 49 16, in 1924. His bitter divorce from Grey three years later A24 50 produced sensational headlines and accusations of sexual A24 51 impropriety.

A24 52 But worse was to come for Chaplin in the early 1940s, when a A24 53 brief romance with an aspiring starlet, Joan Barry, resulted in A24 54 both a prosecution on a federal morals charge and a paternity A24 55 lawsuit.

A24 56 Chaplin was acquitted in the federal trial, but a different A24 57 jury ruled against him in the paternity case even though tests A24 58 showed he was not the father of Barry's daughter, born in October A24 59 1943. That same year, he married playwright Eugene O'Neill's A24 60 daughter Oona over O'Neill's strong objections. She was 18; he was A24 61 54.

A24 62 Because of the Barry scandal, Chaplin's left-leaning political A24 63 views and his decision not to become a U.S. citizen, the federal A24 64 government in 1952 revoked his entry permit while he was abroad, A24 65 saying he would have to submit to an inquiry on his fitness to be A24 66 in the country.

A24 67 He chose exile in Switzerland instead, and made only two films A24 68 after that before his death in 1977.

A24 69 Fatty's follies

A24 70 Screen buffoon Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle - the 266-pound 'Prince A24 71 of Whales' and $5,000-a-week Paramount comedy star - had one narrow A24 72 escape in 1917.

A24 73 On March 6, at a Boston roadhouse, someone peeped over a A24 74 transom, saw Arbuckle and a dozen hired 'party girls' stripping, A24 75 and called police. Kenneth Anger's 'Hollywood Babylon,' a reference A24 76 for scandal-lovers, says the magnates on the guest list paid city A24 77 officials $100,000 to keep it quiet.

A24 78 But Arbuckle's wild ways finally crashed his career. To A24 79 celebrate his new $3 million Paramount contract, Arbuckle threw a A24 80 party in San Francisco over Labor Day weekend, 1921.

A24 81 On Monday afternoon, Arbuckle withdrew to a bedroom with a A24 82 dark-haired starlet named Virginia Rappe. Before long, screams, A24 83 moans and pounding noises were heard. Arbuckle came out grinning, A24 84 but Rappe had to be taken to a hospital, where she sank into a coma A24 85 and died days later. She was 25.

A24 86 A coroner found that Rappe died of peritonitis caused by a A24 87 ruptured bladder. After a police investigation, Arbuckle was A24 88 charged with rape and murder.

A24 89 The charge was reduced to man-slaughter and after two A24 90 hung-jury mistrials, Arbuckle was acquitted in April 1922.

A24 91 But his career was over. His contract was canceled, his A24 92 unreleased films were scrapped and he never acted on screen again. A24 93 He died, broke and alcoholic, in 1933. He was 46.

A24 94 Murder and madness

A24 95 The '20s really roared in Hollywood. High-ranking studio A24 96 executive William Desmond Taylor was found murdered in his bungalow A24 97 on Feb. 1, 1922.

A24 98 Before police were summoned, silent star Mabel Normand searched A24 99 the place for letters she had written to him. She didn't find them, A24 100 but the cops did. They also found love notes from a young Paramount A24 101 star named Mary Miles Minter, age 22. Taylor was 50.

A24 102 Later it came out that he had been carrying on simultaneous A24 103 affairs with Normand, Minter and Charlotte Shelby - Mary Minter's A24 104 mother. The murder remains officially unsolved.

A24 105 Seventy years later, another mother-daughter mix-up hits the A24 106 headlines, and we gasp as if it were a scandalous first.

A24 107 Other movie scandals of the '20s included the hush-hush liaison A24 108 between multimillionaire William Randolph Hearst and would-be star A24 109 Marion Davies. That one stayed out of the papers because Hearst A24 110 owned so many of them.

A24 111 Now, our most familiar version of that romance is the heavily A24 112 fictionalized one in Orson Welles' classic, 'Citizen Kane.'

A24 113 Handsome leading man Rudolph Valentino, who died tragically A24 114 young in 1926, was married twice in his 31-year life - both times A24 115 to lesbians. And he managed to marry the second one before his A24 116 first divorce was final, leading to an arrest for bigamy.

A24 117 But his popularity remained undiminished by his death, which A24 118 was officially listed as caused by peritonitis following an A24 119 appendix operation. His funeral was a near riot, and at least three A24 120 suicides by distraught fans were reported. Two of them were A24 121 women.

A24 122 In like Flynn

A24 123 In 1942, swashbuckling movie star Errol Flynn was brought up on A24 124 charges of statutory rape in an incident involving two underage A24 125 teenage girls. His acquittal was followed shortly thereafter by the A24 126 release of 'Gentleman Jim,' a hit with the critics and the crowds. A24 127 His career continued undiminished.

A24 128 In 1948, Carole Landis killed herself after the breakup of an A24 129 affair with Rex Harrison. As a result, 20th Century Fox delayed A24 130 release of Preston Sturges' comedy 'Unfaithfully Yours' for several A24 131 months. The film is about an orchestra conductor, played by A24 132 Harrison, who suspects his wife of adultery.

A24 133 Ingrid Bergman, the gorgeous star of 'Casablanca' and 'The A24 134 Bells of St. Mary's,' ran afoul of moralists in 1950 when she bore A24 135 a son to Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini while she was still A24 136 married to her first husband. Her popularity plummeted, and she A24 137 didn't return to Hollywood until 1956, when she won an Oscar for A24 138 'Anastasia.'

A24 139 In 1977, director Roman Polanski fled the United States after A24 140 he was charged with drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl in a hot A24 141 tub at Jack Nicholson's home.

A24 142 Prior to his arraignment, Polanski was about to start work on A24 143 'The First Deadly Sin,' a film for Columbia Pictures. After the A24 144 hearing, he had a change of heart and went to work on a film A24 145 shooting in Tahiti and never returned to face trial.

A24 146 Polanski now lives in Paris, where he continues making A24 147 movies.

A24 148 Playboy centerfold

A24 149 Director Peter Bogdanovich's 'They All Laughed' also had a dark A24 150 aura about it: One of the principals in the comedy, made in 1980 A24 151 but not released until late the next year, was Playboy centerfold A24 152 Dorothy Stratten - a 20-year-old former Dairy Queen employee from A24 153 Vancouver with whom Bogdanovich had a nine-month affair.

A24 154 The aspiring star was sodomized and murdered by her estranged A24 155 husband (who then killed himself) shortly after she finished work A24 156 on 'Laughed.'

A24 157 Bogdanovich, more than 20 years her senior, was hopelessly in A24 158 love with Stratten and wrote a highly personal account of the A24 159 tragic affair, 'The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten A24 160 1960-1980.'

A24 161 In 1989, Bogdanovich, then 49, married Stratten's younger A24 162 sister, Louise Hoogstratten, who was 20.

A24 163 Will the Allen-Farrow scandal hurt their respective (and now, A24 164 presumably, quite separate) careers?

A24 165 We should get a clue soon. Allen's latest movie, portentously A24 166 titled 'Husbands and Wives,' is scheduled to open in eight cities A24 167 on Sept. 23 and in the rest of the country, including the Tampa Bay A24 168 area, on Oct. 9.

A24 169 The picture, described in studio publicity materials as A24 170 "an insightful comedy exploring contemporary A24 171 relationships," is about two couples who face change and A24 172 have to re-evaluate "trust and love."

A24 173 And last week, New York gossip columnist Liz Smith reported A24 174 that Allen is already at work on his next project: 'Manhattan A24 175 Murder Mystery,' in which he has reportedly cast Diane Keaton in A24 176 the role he'd originally intended for Farrow. Keaton, of course, A24 177 was his paramour before he met Mia.

A24 178 A24 179 Music may rock 'n' roll young voters to the polls

A24 180 By STEVE KNOPPER

A24 181 of Knight-Ridder Newspapers

A24 182 Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton plays Fleetwood A24 183 Mac songs after his speeches. George Bush invokes the A24 184 "Nitty Ditty Great Bird" - most likely referring to A24 185 a Colorado-based country group, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, but A24 186 it's hard to say - in his stump speeches. Who's next for Bush? A24 187 Garth Brooks?

A24 188 Pop music has emerged as a strange political sideshow this A24 189 election year. Consider these issues:

A24 190 <*_>black-square<*/>Rock 'n' roll may, in fact, get more young A24 191 people to vote.

A24 192 Away from the stage at the traveling Lollapalooza festival - A24 193 which features seven youth-oriented rock 'n' roll bands - fans can A24 194 try their skills at "Wake Up George Bush - $1 a A24 195 swing" strength tests. Like last year's show, mostly A24 196 liberal political groups such as Refuse and Resist and People for A24 197 the Ethical Treatment of Animals set up camp during the tour, which A24 198 stopped in Orlando Sunday.

A24 199 Then there's MTV, which sent correspondent Dave Mustaine, the A24 200 slightly twisted, long-haired member of heavy-metal stalwarts A24 201 Megadeth, to cover the Democratic National Convention. He stumbled A24 202 through an interview with one-time presidential candidate Bob A24 203 Kerrey and later asked a young conventioneer, "How does a A24 204 guy with long hair and an earring through his nose get to be a A24 205 delegate?" MTV's 'Choose or Lose' coverage, with its A24 206 emphasis on young voters, ought to encourage the Video Generation A24 207 to hit the ballots.

A24 208 <*_>black-square<*/>Some rap music has become a political A24 209 issue.

A24 210 Because non-rap fans are actually beginning to pay attention, A24 211 some rap musicians and their feisty lyrics have become sort of a A24 212 political sound bite. Ice-T's speed-metal song 'Cop Killer' (which A24 213 he unveiled during Lollapalooza last year) has won scorn from A24 214 police lobbying groups, Charlton Heston, Bush and Dan Quayle.

A24 215 Sister Souljah, a some-time member of the rap group Public A24 216 Enemy, got a verbal hand-slap from Clinton after she'd proposed a A24 217 week of killing white people. Both rappers' publicity and album A24 218 sales sky-rocketed.

A24 219 <*_>black-square<*/>Rock bands have been rebelling against the A24 220 Democratic vice presidential candidate's wife for seven years.

A24 221 When Tipper Gore, wife of Sen. Al Gore Jr., pushed for A24 222 'Parental Advisory - Explicit Lyrics' stickers on nasty-talking pop A24 223 albums, she sparked a tizzy in the rock world. At the time, Frank A24 224 Zappa called her campaign "fundamentalist A24 225 frog-wash." Musicians from John Denver to Randy A24 226 Newman to John Fogerty ripped Gore in print.

A24 227 Though Gore has said she's currently satisfied with the A24 228 industry's self-sticker methods, high-profile executives like Giant A24 229 Records' Irving Azoff have expressed reservations in print. Still, A24 230 Clinton probably realizes most rock fans are liberal and likely A24 231 won't take this as an excuse to jump to Bush's camp. For that A24 232 matter, maybe her presence will give rock 'n' roll something A24 233 concrete to attack.

A24 234 A24 235 Women have league of their own to play bocce

A24 236 By ANGELA CARELLA

A24 237 of The Stamford Advocate

A24 238 STAMFORD, Conn. - At the Thursday night bocce games in Scalzi A24 239 Park here, only quiet men are welcome.

A24 240 That's the night the women of the Stamford Bocce League take to A24 241 the courts, and they do not want a bunch of men telling them how to A24 242 play.

A24 243 A24 244 A25 1 <#FROWN:A25\>S.F. supervisors crack down on use of city A25 2 cars

A25 3 Irate board reacts to reports of abuse by top-level staff

A25 4 By Jane Ganahl

A25 5 OF THE EXAMINER STAFF

A25 6 The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, irate over the A25 7 discovery that department heads were driving "fully loaded, A25 8 top of the line luxury cars at taxpayer expense," A25 9 unanimously passed legislation Monday to restrict officials' future A25 10 use and purchase of city-owned cars.

A25 11 "Enough is enough," said Supervisor Terence A25 12 Hallinan, who drafted the three-piece package of legislation. A25 13 "This has been a clear violation of the law and the public A25 14 trust."

A25 15 Hallinan introduced the legislation following an Examiner story A25 16 that revealed that some city bureaucrats were commuting in style at A25 17 taxpayer expense despite a severe budget crunch that has required A25 18 reduction of some vital health services. Many city officials, it A25 19 was reported, take city seals off their new cars when they commute, A25 20 in violation of the law.

A25 21 "I had been looking at the situation for several A25 22 months, but the Examiner article turned up the heat," said A25 23 Hallinan.

A25 24 The City maintains a fleet of more than 400 cars for department A25 25 heads and managers at an annual cost of about $1.5 million, some of A25 26 which Hallinan hopes to recoup by implementing his three-pronged A25 27 legislation. The package calls for:

A25 28 <*_>black-triangle<*/>Urging Mayor Jordan to instruct city A25 29 departments to reduce the use and purchase of city cars.

A25 30 <*_>black-triangle<*/>Ending purchases of luxury automobiles A25 31 and ensuring that all cars purchased are economical and affordable, A25 32 without luxury features such as leather seats and sunroofs. The A25 33 ordinance also lobbies for employees to use public transportation, A25 34 or use their own cars and receive mileage reimbursement.

A25 35 <*_>black-triangle<*/>Proposing to penalize city employees who A25 36 have driven their city-owned cars to and from their residences. A25 37 They would be required to pay back The City at three times the A25 38 normal mileage reimbursement rate. The amount would be docked from A25 39 their pay.

A25 40 Among those singled out in The Examiner for their extravagant A25 41 tastes were Muni General Manager Johnny Stein, who traded in his A25 42 2-year-old Ford Crown Victoria with less than 20,000 miles for a A25 43 new model at a cost of $14,000 to The City.

A25 44 Stein, feeling the heat, has decided to sell the new car and A25 45 will get by with his old 1990 model.

A25 46 Others who were noted by Hallinan were Ken Butori, a Muni A25 47 official who drives his top-of-the-line $16,000 GMC Silverado home A25 48 to Concord each night; Housing Authority Director David Gilmore, A25 49 who got a loaded 1992 Explorer, at a cost of $16,000 to The City; A25 50 and Kirk Lawson, chief assistant to PUC General Manager Tom Elzey, A25 51 who got a new Ford Taurus, one of 41 such cars being delivered to A25 52 the PUC and Muni.

A25 53 "I mean, we depend on department heads to keep their A25 54 employees honest, and then we find out they are being less than A25 55 honest themselves," said Hallinan. "Something's got A25 56 to be done."

A25 57 Hallinan has asked for a report in 30 days from the mayor's A25 58 office on how Jordan plans to deal with the problem, from the city A25 59 purchaser on procurement policies for cars and from the chief A25 60 administrator's office on how the fining process can be A25 61 implemented.

A25 62 Jordan has already sent out a memo canvassing department heads A25 63 on automobile use. In it, he asks officials to list how many A25 64 city-owned cars are currently in use, who is using them and A25 65 for what purpose.

A25 66 A25 67 Korean church's sale authorized

A25 68 Congregation OKs resolutions to put site on market

A25 69 By Donna Birch

A25 70 OF THE EXAMINER STAFF

A25 71 Chinatown's Korean Methodist Church - the oldest in the A25 72 continental United States - is one step closer to being put up for A25 73 sale.

A25 74 Church members approved two resolutions Sunday that would put A25 75 the church's current 1123 Powell St. site up for sale and allow a A25 76 committee to look into purchasing a larger site in the Sunset A25 77 District.

A25 78 "We hadn't put the church on the market because a A25 79 resolution hadn't been passed by the congregation," said A25 80 the Rev. Suk-Chong Yu, the church's minister.

A25 81 Sunday's votes were the latest actions in a bitter battle A25 82 between members who want to sell the Powell Street property and A25 83 those who want to preserve it as a historical legacy.

A25 84 Yu and the church's new building committee want to sell the A25 85 Chinatown site and buy the Christian Science Church at 3030 Judah A25 86 St. Yu said the congregation had out-grown the Powell A25 87 Street building and needed a bigger building.

A25 88 "We value the history of our church, and we want to A25 89 keep it wherever we are," Yu said, "but we also A25 90 want to make a new legacy for future Korean generations. That's the A25 91 rationale for the relocation."

A25 92 But Steve Hong, longtime member of the Korean Methodist Church A25 93 and leader of the effort to preserve the church as a historical A25 94 site, called the proposal to sell the building short-sighted.

A25 95 "They're acting like politicians," Hong said. A25 96 "They think there is no historical value in the church. A25 97 They are obligated to preserve the church's history, but they A25 98 haven't even tried."

A25 99 Officials in the United Methodist Church California-Nevada A25 100 conference voted to approve the church's sale last month. Hong A25 101 blasted their decision.

A25 102 "They don't know the background of our Korean A25 103 history," Hong said. "They don't know the A25 104 traditions; they're not qualified to judge."

A25 105 The white stucco, Spanish tile-roof building on Powell A25 106 Street is venerated by Koreans as the "mother A25 107 church" in America and home of the Korean independence A25 108 movement early in this century.

A25 109 The preservationist group petitioned City Planning Sept. 11 to A25 110 have the church declared a historical landmark. A hearing date A25 111 before the department's Landmarks Board has not been set.

A25 112 Meanwhile, Yu said that anyone wanting to buy the church should A25 113 "make an offer and come to the negotiating A25 114 table."

A25 115 Hong said he and other activists had tried to do just that, but A25 116 that Yu and the new building committee had refused to confer with A25 117 the group. He said they hadn't had the property appraised yet, but A25 118 were asking varying prices that ranged from $1.5 million to $2.5 A25 119 million.

A25 120 He said the Korean Center Inc., a multiservice agency on Post A25 121 Street, wanted to buy the building and had recently held a A25 122 fund-raiser, hoping to be able to offer the church's trustees A25 123 $10,000 as a deposit.

A25 124 Yu disputed Hong, saying he welcomed offers from groups trying A25 125 to preserve the church. "Now they can come to us with a A25 126 plan to buy it," Yu said. "I don't know why they A25 127 haven't waited patiently."

A25 128 A25 129 State to hire 27 more workers' comp probers

A25 130 New law makes possible more fraud investigations

A25 131 By Steven A. Capps

A25 132 EXAMINER SACRAMENTO BUREAU

A25 133 SACRAMENTO - State insurance czar John Garamendi says he now A25 134 will be able to hire 27 additional investigators to look into A25 135 workers' compensation insurance fraud, a crime he believes is A25 136 costing the state more than $1 billion a year.

A25 137 Garamendi's announcement Monday came as the Legislature A25 138 prepared to convene a special session on California's troubled A25 139 workers' compensation system. California employers pay among the A25 140 highest rates in the nation, yet injured California workers collect A25 141 some of the lowest benefits.

A25 142 Out of every dollar spent on workers' compensation insurance, A25 143 doctors and lawyers get 42.3 cents, insurance companies get 28.2 A25 144 cents, and injured workers get only 29.5 cents, according to the A25 145 Association of California Insurance Companies.

A25 146 Republican Gov. Wilson called the special session for Thursday, A25 147 less than a month before the Nov. 6 election in which all 80 A25 148 Assembly seats and half of the Senate's 40 seats are on the ballot. A25 149 Wilson said he hoped election-year pressure would lead to enactment A25 150 of his proposals.

A25 151 Democratic legislative leaders have said they expect that the A25 152 session will last only a day or two, and that the issue will then A25 153 be assigned to further study by committees. Wilson said last week A25 154 that if the legislators did not act quickly, he might summon them A25 155 back into a second special session.

A25 156 But Garamendi said Monday he already had some of what he needs A25 157 to curb fraud in the system. Wilson signed a bill - AB3660 by A25 158 Assemblyman Burt Margolin, D-Los Angeles - authorizing $7 million A25 159 for investigation and prosecution of workers' compensation A25 160 insurance fraud.

A25 161 About half of the money will go to local district attorneys for A25 162 prosecution of such cases, while the other half will be used by A25 163 Garamendi's Department of Insurance for investigations.

A25 164 Garamendi said the money would allow him to hire 27 new A25 165 investigators - tripling the number he now has assigned to workers' A25 166 compensation insurance fraud cases - and predicted it would A25 167 eventually "put hundreds of scam artists behind bars and A25 168 save tens of millions of dollars in premiums."

A25 169 Garamendi contended that his department's anti-fraud efforts A25 170 resulted in $7 in savings for every $1 spent. He said last year his A25 171 department's investigators had arrested 247 suspects in conjunction A25 172 with $53.4 million in fraudulent insurance claims of all types. He A25 173 estimated that the department would investigate 15,000 cases of A25 174 suspected workers' compensation insurance fraud alone this year.

A25 175 Last week, Wilson said he hoped the pressure of the upcoming A25 176 election year would force law-makers to act on his reforms. A25 177 The issue of workers' compensation pits some of the state's most A25 178 powerful special interests - doctors, lawyers, insurance companies A25 179 and businesses - against one another.

A25 180 "Do I apologize for using this election to pressure for A25 181 change?" Wilson said. "Absolutely not."

A25 182 Wilson's plan would require that workers prove their injuries A25 183 were caused predominantly by work-place conditions before A25 184 they would be entitled to workers' compensation benefits. It also A25 185 would limit the number of medical evaluations workers could receive A25 186 and would encourage use of health maintenance organizations to A25 187 treat injured workers.

A25 188 If lawmakers agree to his reform measures, Wilson said, he is A25 189 willing to repeal the controversial 'minimum rate' state law that A25 190 guarantees insurance companies 32.8 per-cent profit on A25 191 their workers' compensation business.

A25 192 While many view Wilson's proposals as similar to ones adopted A25 193 by the Legislature - and vetoed by the governor - there is at least A25 194 one significant difference. Wilson's proposal would not increase A25 195 benefits paid to injured workers until businesses have saved at A25 196 least $1 billion of the $10.5 billion in workers' compensation A25 197 insurance premiums they now pay annually.

A25 198 A25 199 S.F. investors say they're nearing a bid for the Giants

A25 200 "We will make an offer within the next few A25 201 days," vows Shorenstein

A25 202 By Andrew Ross

A25 203 OF THE EXAMINER STAFF

A25 204 Local investors have apparently tentatively agreed on a bid for A25 205 the San Francisco Giants, but details of the offer were not A25 206 immediately made public.

A25 207 "We're making progress, we're moving forward, and we A25 208 will make an offer within the next few days," downtown real A25 209 estate developer Walter Shorenstein said Monday after a meeting A25 210 between local investors and North Carolina sports promoter George A25 211 Shinn ended at 6:30 p.m. Shorenstein, who is leading the effort, A25 212 declined further comment.

A25 213 However, a source close to the negotiations said investors had A25 214 reached an accord to present to Major League Baseball by week's A25 215 end.

A25 216 "It will be competitive," said the source, in A25 217 reference to a purchase offer of from $105 million to $115 million A25 218 by Florida investors who want to move the team to the Tampa Bay A25 219 area.

A25 220 Sources had predicted earlier the local bid would be from $90 A25 221 million to $95 million, or possibly more if they offered Giants A25 222 owner Bob Lurie a share of the franchise.

A25 223 Although no firm deadline has been set, league officials have A25 224 indicated they want an offer by the end of the week.

A25 225 Monday's meeting was the first time in several weeks that most A25 226 of the key participants had gotten together in one room to try to A25 227 hash out an agreement to keep the Giants in San Francisco.

A25 228 It capped a day of intense lobbying by Mayor Jordan, who has A25 229 been working to keep everyone at the table since he returned late A25 230 Saturday from his week-long honeymoon in Hawaii.

A25 231 Larry Baer, a CBS executive who has been helping to negotiate A25 232 the deal, said the participants had reached a general consensus A25 233 where we should be.

A25 234 "Everyone is moving towards an offer at the end of the A25 235 week," Baer said. "We're moving forward with the A25 236 league and its guidelines."

A25 237 However, no formal meetings were planned for Tuesday, and A25 238 Shinn, the expected lead investor and general partner, flew home A25 239 late Monday without comment.

A25 240 A26 1 <#FROWN:A26\>Pioneer statue faces monumental decision

A26 2 Official quandary over pointing it toward City Hall

A26 3 By Gerald D. Adams

A26 4 EXAMINER URBAN PLANNING WRITER

A26 5 Most details of a controversial proposal to move the A26 6 47-foot-high Pioneer Monument from where it has rested for almost a A26 7 century to another Civic Center spot were approved unanimously A26 8 Monday by the Arts Commission.

A26 9 The City's art mavens, however, could not decide which way the A26 10 wedding cake-like pillar of bronze and cement should face - toward A26 11 City Hall or Market Street. The monument has been on the corner of A26 12 Hyde and Grove streets since 1894.

A26 13 Commissioners hesitated to commit themselves after one of the A26 14 monument's chief admirers raised objections to the Western A26 15 orientation.

A26 16 Noted preservationist Winchell Hayward pointed out that, A26 17 historically, the spear-carrying female bronze figure representing A26 18 California has gazed from the pre-1906 City Hall southward toward A26 19 Market Street.

A26 20 Now, plans by the Bureau of Architecture would turn it 180 A26 21 degrees to face the existing City Hall, he complained.

A26 22 Commissioners agreed to withhold a final decision on direction A26 23 pending a study by their Civic Design Committee.

A26 24 As a result of Monday's vote, the 850-ton monument is slated to A26 25 be moved sometime in spring 1993, according to City Architect Russ A26 26 Abel. The cost to move the monument, estimated at $750,000, would A26 27 be paid by the Department of Public Works, he said.

A26 28 The Pioneer Monument's final resting place would be in the A26 29 middle of Fulton Street, halfway between Hyde and Larkin streets A26 30 and midway between the new and old library buildings. In the A26 31 meantime, Abel said, the representation of California and the A26 32 pioneers who huddle at her feet will be temporarily moored at the A26 33 east end of Fulton Street for about two years, pending completion A26 34 of the new library building.

A26 35 For the past two years, the notion of moving the Pioneer A26 36 Monument at all was so controversial that it threatened to torpedo A26 37 plans for the new $105 million Main Library, slated for the area on A26 38 which the statue currently stands. That issue was resolved in April A26 39 when the Arts Commission agreed that it should be shifted to make A26 40 way for the oncoming structure.

A26 41 A26 42 Air disaster toll may hit 250

A26 43 Crews seek bodies, stabilize building in Amsterdam cut in two A26 44 by big jet

A26 45 By Robert J. Wielaard

A26 46 ASSOCIATED PRESS

A26 47 AMSTERDAM - Search crews started a full-scale hunt for bodies A26 48 Tuesday after stabilizing a 11-story apartment building that was A26 49 sliced in two by an Israeli jumbo jet.

A26 50 Officials feared the death toll from the Sunday evening crash A26 51 of an El Al cargo plane could exceed 250, most of them residents of A26 52 the low-income housing project. That would make it the worst plane A26 53 crash in terms of casualties on the ground.

A26 54 By Tuesday morning, only 12 bodies had been recovered from the A26 55 mountain of rubble.

A26 56 Workers had been digging by hand because of fears the building A26 57 might collapse. Cranes were used to pull down tottering slabs of A26 58 concrete and other rubble, and experts said the danger of collapse A26 59 has now been reduced.

A26 60 Authorities also were looking for the Boeing 747's flight data A26 61 recorder (the 'black box'), which could explain why two engines A26 62 fell from the plane after it took off from Schiphol Airport. It A26 63 crashed as the pilot tried vainly to return for a landing.

A26 64 Late Monday, Seattle-based Boeing issued a service bulletin A26 65 asking all airlines to inspect fuse pins that help connect engines A26 66 to the wings of 747-200s, -100s and -300s.

A26 67 The pins are designed to break off and allow an engine to fall A26 68 if the engine malfunctions.

A26 69 Boeing cited similarities between Sunday's crash and one last A26 70 December in which a China Air 747-200 freighter dropped two engines A26 71 from its right wing shortly after takeoff in Taipei. The crash A26 72 killed five crew.

A26 73 "We have not found any evidence linking these fuse pins A26 74 to either accident," said Boeing spokesman Christopher A26 75 Villiers. "This is just a precaution at this A26 76 point."

A26 77 Search teams filled stretchers with bits of charred human A26 78 remains that were barely recognizable as fingers, legs and other A26 79 body parts. The stench of burnt flesh hung in the cold, damp air at A26 80 the site in the suburb of Bijlmermeer.

A26 81 Workers began digging deep into the wreckage to search A26 82 apartments that were sealed off by falling concrete.

A26 83 Mayor Ed van Thijn said the crash and the ensuing fire were so A26 84 ferocious that a full identification of all victims could prove A26 85 impossible.

A26 86 "We may never know who they are," he said at a A26 87 dawn news conference at City Hall.

A26 88 Huub Windhagen, a city spokesman, said the recovery operation A26 89 was now going ahead at full speed but stressed that searchers had A26 90 to be wary of the building's precarious state.

A26 91 Windhagen declined to predict how long the operation would A26 92 take, but officials said earlier it would last several days.

A26 93 The first 12 bodies recovered were those of three men, three A26 94 women, one child and five whose sex could not be immediately A26 95 determined.

A26 96 The corpses were taken to a makeshift morgue in an airport A26 97 hangar for identification by dentists and other specialists.

A26 98 The task of identifying victims was expected to be difficult, A26 99 because many are believed to be illegal aliens. The apartment A26 100 complex is home to many immigrants from A26 101 <}_><-|>Suriname<+|>Surinam<}/>, Ghana, the Dutch Antilles, Cape A26 102 Verde and Pakistan.

A26 103 Officials said they wouldn't act against victims' relatives who A26 104 might be illegal aliens, if they help identify the bodies.

A26 105 The disaster could prove to be the worst plane crash involving A26 106 casualties on the ground.

A26 107 Hutton Archer, spokesman for the International Civil Aviation A26 108 Organization in Montreal, said the crash of a Boeing 707 cargo A26 109 plane in 1976 killed 77 people on the ground and seriously injured A26 110 78 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

A26 111 On Sunday, the El Al 747-200 slammed into the angle of the A26 112 V-shaped building 14 minutes after takeoff. Its pilot had reported A26 113 one starboard engine on fire six minutes after takeoff and the A26 114 other starboard engine ablaze six minutes later.

A26 115 The engines fell into a lake as the pilot dumped fuel and tried A26 116 to control the plane for an emergency landing. The pilot, the two A26 117 other crew members and the plane's one passenger all died.

A26 118 Investigators said it was too early to say why the two engines A26 119 caught fire. "Our first impression is that it was technical A26 120 malfunction," said Transportation Minister Hanja A26 121 Maij-Weggen.

A26 122 El Al spokesman Nachman Klieman said the plane was in excellent A26 123 mechanical condition. He said the airline wouldn't comment on A26 124 possible causes until the investigation was finished.

A26 125 The plane was 13 1/2 years old. Officials said it underwent A26 126 routine maintenance last week. Fire department crews were draining A26 127 ponds and ditches near the crash site in their search for the A26 128 plane's flight recorder and bodies. Windhagen said 424 police, 74 A26 129 fire-fighters and three dozen identification experts were A26 130 searching the apartment building.

A26 131 Officials said 80 apartments were ripped away altogether and A26 132 150 others were heavily damaged. More than 150 families were left A26 133 homeless.

A26 134 A26 135 Judge tells flight attendants to work

A26 136 They had voted to honor USAir mechanics strike

A26 137 By Jim Urban

A26 138 ASSOCIATED PRESS

A26 139 IMPERIAL, Pa. - A federal judge ordered USAir flight attendants A26 140 back to work Monday night after they voted to honor a strike by A26 141 ground crew workers.

A26 142 Ground crews for USAir, the nation's sixth-largest airline, A26 143 walked off the job Monday in a dispute over job security, canceling A26 144 flights for thousands of people.

A26 145 Monday night, U.S. District Judge Timothy Lewis issued a ruling A26 146 ordering flight attendants back to work. The Association of Flight A26 147 Attendants - which represents 9,000 USAir employees, voted to honor A26 148 the strike by the International Association of Machinists.

A26 149 "It should be plain that the public interest is best A26 150 served by issuing the requested order, in order to avoid passenger A26 151 disruption," Lewis said in his ruling.

A26 152 Flight attendants will be advised to obey the order and report A26 153 for work until another hearing before Lewis Thursday afternoon, A26 154 said David Melancon, a union spokes-man.

A26 155 The airline's pilots said they would continue to work.

A26 156 The striking union represents about 8,300 employees, and many A26 157 of them said the main issue was job security - not wages or A26 158 benefits.

A26 159 Union and airline negotiators were unable to agree on a new A26 160 contract after lengthy weekend talks that lasted into Monday A26 161 morning. National Mediation Board spokes-man Lew Townsend A26 162 said early Monday no other talks were scheduled. He couldn't A26 163 immediately be reached late Monday.

A26 164 USAir is asking all employees for wage, benefit and work rule A26 165 concessions, so it can cut costs by about $400 million this year. A26 166 Pilots agreed to salary concessions in June.

A26 167 After talks with the machinists broke off, picket lines A26 168 sprouted at airports around the country, including San Francisco. A26 169 The airline runs 18 USAir Shuttle flights from SFO to Los Angeles A26 170 each day.

A26 171 Ten flights out of SFO were canceled Monday, said USAir A26 172 spokeswoman Agnes Huff. "We operated 37 out of 47 scheduled A26 173 flights. We will try to maintain that number of flights, and A26 174 hopefully build onto that number in the days ahead," she A26 175 said.

A26 176 Huff suggested that passengers call a day before their A26 177 scheduled flight to check its status.

A26 178 USAir said 75 percent of its 2,600 daily departures were taking A26 179 off and other carriers were accepting stranded passengers.

A26 180 The airline said its overseas flights - three departures daily A26 181 to London, two to Frankfurt and one to Paris - were not affected, A26 182 nor were the USAir Express and USAir Shuttle services.

A26 183 A26 184 New UC president asked to simplify executive pay

A26 185 System faces crisis in public confidence over compensation to A26 186 top administrators

A26 187 By Katherine Seligman

A26 188 OF THE EXAMINER STAFF

A26 189 LOS ANGELES - In his first tumultuous week on the job, A26 190 University of California President Jack Peltason has been asked to A26 191 solve the public relations crisis stemming from how the university A26 192 pays its top administrators.

A26 193 University regents at a special meeting Monday requested that A26 194 Peltason devise a way of simplifying executive compensation. The A26 195 new method could eliminate some or all of the generous and A26 196 controversial perks given to high-ranking administrators.

A26 197 Regents praised a report by former legislative analyst A. Alan A26 198 Post that called for dropping all such "ill-advised" A26 199 benefits, but they did not recommend that Peltason embrace all of A26 200 Post's suggestions. Peltason stressed that he would not consider a A26 201 plan that cut executive pay.

A26 202 "The consensus today is that we need to A26 203 simplify," said Peltason. "We need to not only pay A26 204 adequate wages but those that people understand."

A26 205 Peltason will make his recommendations to regents in November. A26 206 Monday's meeting was an attempt to assuage to public anger over a A26 207 host of complicated benefits given to top administrators that A26 208 boosted their salaries more than 20 percent.

A26 209 Post reiterated to regents a major theme of his report: that A26 210 public confidence in UC has been at an all-time low since news A26 211 leaked out about a retirement deal given to former President David A26 212 Gardner.

A26 213 Gardner, who was not at the meeting but has called Post's A26 214 report a "series of assertions" not rooted in fact, A26 215 is scheduled to get a one-time payment of about $900,000 plus a A26 216 yearly pension of a $126,000.

A26 217 Post criticized the secretive manner in which regents had given A26 218 Gardner the benefits as well as the motivation for using a system A26 219 of deferred compensation that awarded money at the end of a set A26 220 period of service instead of in a regular paycheck.

A26 221 Post said regents were unwilling to take the political heat by A26 222 raising salaries outright. He urged regents to review all special A26 223 forms of compensation, including deferred income, special A26 224 supplemental retirement pay, special severance pay for spouses and A26 225 housing allowances.

A26 226 Pay raises instead of perks? A26 227 If Peltason recommends dropping some of the perks, regents will A26 228 still have to face the thorny issue of raising executive pay to A26 229 make up for the lost benefits. Legislators, faculty and students A26 230 have expressed outrage over Gardner's and other top administrators' A26 231 compensation when faculty salaries have been frozen for two years A26 232 and student fees have jumped 85 percent in the past three years.

A26 233 Terminating the deferred compensation plan would mean that UC's A26 234 nine chancellors would make an average of 21 percent less than A26 235 chancellors at a comparable group of universities researched by the A26 236 California Postsecondary Commission. With perks, UC chancellors A26 237 make an average of $190,000, about 5 percent less than the A26 238 comparison group, whose average pay is $200,200.

A26 239 A26 240 A26 241 A27 1 <#FROWN:A27\>LA&S dean addresses critics, problems

A27 2 By Eric Krol and Sean McClellan

A27 3 Staff Reporters

A27 4 Answering critics and improving undergraduate advising were A27 5 among the topics brought forth Friday at an annual meeting of the A27 6 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

A27 7 LA&S Dean James Norris gave his annual state of the college A27 8 address to a nearly-packed Collins Auditorium at Cole Hall on A27 9 Friday afternoon.

A27 10 LA&S faculty gathered to hear Norris review the past year and A27 11 highlight the upcoming one.

A27 12 Norris addressed the media's summertime attacks on higher A27 13 education, calling them a bundle of "errors, ignorance, and A27 14 truth." Norris was referring to articles which stated that A27 15 professors were unconcerned with educating undergraduates and that A27 16 universities are inefficient on the whole.

A27 17 "We need to be more aware in answering our A27 18 critics," he said.

A27 19 Norris also had praise for the appointment of J. Carroll Moody A27 20 as Acting Provost. Moody replaced the North Dakota-bound Kendall A27 21 Baker during the summer.

A27 22 He also discussed the recommendations of last semester's A27 23 Academic Resources Advisory Committee. ARAC was charged with the A27 24 task of identifying 3 percent of each college's budget for A27 25 reallocation; however, Norris said the committee's report is A27 26 already dated. The Illinois Board of Higher Education has now A27 27 shifted its policy towards productivity, quality and demand, he A27 28 added.

A27 29 The IBHE will be meeting to discuss these issues Sept. 3 and A27 30 also have started releasing 'hit lists' of unproductive programs to A27 31 state universities.

A27 32 Norris expressed concern that paring down universities will A27 33 become a trend. "This is not a one-time sacrifice A27 34 of the virgin to the volcano," Norris said. "This A27 35 will be every year."

A27 36 Norris offered many methods of battling attacks on higher A27 37 education and state funding cuts.

A27 38 Departments should eliminate bottlenecks, he said, which are A27 39 required classes offered once every few semesters. Professors A27 40 should look at courses and ask themselves, "Are they A27 41 designed for undergraduates or my research topic?" he A27 42 added.

A27 43 Norris also recommended looking at faculty work-loads A27 44 and target credit-hour production, but admitted that A27 45 different disciplines have different methods. "I don't have A27 46 a magic formula," he said.

A27 47 Norris said Associate Dean Donald Cress examined the situation A27 48 and found that if every faculty member was forced to teach one more A27 49 class, there would not be enough space for all of the added A27 50 classes.

A27 51 A question-and-answer session followed the speech, where the A27 52 subjects of advising undergraduates and consolidating departments A27 53 were discussed.

A27 54 Norris suggested rewarding faculty for doing student advising A27 55 work. This would counter the public perception that professors are A27 56 consumed with research and don't care about undergraduates.

A27 57 A27 58 IBHE approves Lincoln Hall renovation

A27 59 By Rob Heselbarth

A27 60 Business Affairs Reporter

A27 61 One of NIU's aging residence halls will be receiving a facelift A27 62 next summer.

A27 63 The Board of Higher Education has given the nod for the A27 64 renovation of two Lincoln Residence Hall wings to be completed by A27 65 fall 1993.

A27 66 Student Housing Services Director Carl Jardine said the A27 67 renovation will turn the wings into "suite-type A27 68 arrangements.

A27 69 "We distributed written surveys to the residents last spring to A27 70 get their input regarding the renovation," he said.

A27 71 Suites will consist of three rooms - a living area and two A27 72 sleeping areas.

A27 73 "We have not decided which two wings to do, but that is A27 74 all part of the process," Jardine said. The type of A27 75 furniture also has not been determined, he added.

A27 76 Any vacancies in Lincoln Hall this fall will be turned into A27 77 demo-rooms displaying different types of furniture under A27 78 consideration, he said.

A27 79 Because Lincoln Hall was built in the 1960s, Jardine said now A27 80 is the appropriate time to make significant changes.

A27 81 Business and Operations Vice President James Harder said the A27 82 project money will come from revenue bond funds, which support the A27 83 residence hall system.

A27 84 The initial estimated cost for the project was $600,000 to A27 85 $700,000, but plans are not far enough along to come up with any A27 86 definite figures, he said.

A27 87 Patricia Hewitt, associate vice president of business and A27 88 operations, said the final price will be determined by room options A27 89 students choose before they move in and the number of floors A27 90 renovated.

A27 91 However, Jardine said the project's cost will be kept at a A27 92 minimum to keep the cost of residential rooms at the same level A27 93 next year.

A27 94 A27 95 Acting chair named to HFR

A27 96 By Alex Gary

A27 97 Staff Reporter

A27 98 NIU has a new chair of the human and family resources A27 99 department.

A27 100 Mary Pritchard, who has been at NIU for nine years, was named A27 101 acting chair for the 1992-93 academic year.

A27 102 Pritchard is succeeding Earl Goodman, who retired after 20 A27 103 years at NIU. Goodman had been chair of the HFR department for the A27 104 past five years.

A27 105 One of Pritchard's objectives will be to improve alumni A27 106 relations, she said. "My goal is to get at least one A27 107 newsletter out," Pritchard said.

A27 108 Pritchard has a long list of accomplishments in her years at A27 109 NIU. She has been coordinator of the family and child studies A27 110 program since 1990. Also, Pritchard helped develop the university's A27 111 new student mentoring project. She chaired NIU's Undergraduate A27 112 Coordinating Council for one year.

A27 113 As acting chair, Pritchard, who is a faculty member, said her A27 114 role in the university will be very different. "I will be a A27 115 full-time administrator. I will not be teaching classes A27 116 this year," she said.

A27 117 Pritchard, an expert on family economics, has a master's degree A27 118 from Iowa State and a doctorate in consumer economics from Purdue A27 119 University. In addition to her work at NIU, Pritchard is a former A27 120 president of the Illinois Consumer Education Association and has A27 121 presented papers to the American Council on Family Relations and A27 122 the National Health and Nutrition Survey.

A27 123 A27 124 NIU student takes over board position

A27 125 By Philip Dalton

A27 126 Student Association Reporter

A27 127 One of NIU's very own has been chosen to replace Tim Bagby on A27 128 the DeKalb County Board for the seventh district.

A27 129 NIU student Eric Carter was chosen by a Republican caucus to A27 130 replace Bagby, who stepped down earlier this year. Carter was A27 131 chosen from a number of candidates in the district. He will be A27 132 running for the position in the Nov. 3 election.

A27 133 Carter is a senior pursuing a degree in political science. He A27 134 is also an active member of the NIU College Republicans Club.

A27 135 He said he hopes to represent student issues on the county A27 136 board and also would like to see the board work more closely with A27 137 the growing cities of Sycamore and DeKalb.

A27 138 Carter also plans to be involved with the county budget, an A27 139 issue he said he considers to be one of the major ones.

A27 140 The board soon will begin a $25,000 study to research user A27 141 fees. He said the study might result in the lowering of certain A27 142 fees. Other issues he said he regards as important include the A27 143 funding issue at the DeKalb County Nursing Home, 2331 Sycamore A27 144 Road, and the treatment of the area forest preserves.

A27 145 In order to keep in touch with city issues as well as student A27 146 concerns, Carter invited students and all residents of the district A27 147 to come to the county board meetings, which always are open to the A27 148 public.

A27 149 Carter said he is open for student suggestions or questions, A27 150 and so is Margaret Phillips, area coordinator for Neptune and A27 151 Gilbert Halls, who is also a member of the DeKalb County Board.

A27 152 A27 153 Presidential election inspires student activity

A27 154 By Philip Dalton

A27 155 Student Association Reporter

A27 156 The heat of this year's presidential election is sparking A27 157 activity on NIU's campus this fall.

A27 158 NIU's College Republicans and Young Democrats kicked off their A27 159 fall election year activities at Friday Fest in the MLK Commons.

A27 160 Both groups distributed literature and answered questions A27 161 pertaining to their party candidates in upcoming elections.

A27 162 Kevin Hir, president of the College Republicans, said he would A27 163 like to get people involved in order to help erase labels of apathy A27 164 he believes are attached to younger Americans.

A27 165 Young Democrats' President Bradley Strauss said he has A27 166 "lots of enthusiasm about the election," and he A27 167 would like to register every student on NIU's campus to vote.

A27 168 Student Regent John Butler said the Student Association hopes A27 169 to begin a campaign of registering student voters for local, state A27 170 and national elections.

A27 171 "Paralleling that will be efforts at exposing students A27 172 to issues of the 1992 campaign with the help of the Young A27 173 Democrats, College Republicans and other organizations interested A27 174 in helping," he said.

A27 175 "We hope to have forums and if possible, visiting A27 176 speakers," he added.

A27 177 Hir said the Republicans are enthusiastic about debating the A27 178 Democrats. Strauss also expressed an interest in a public forum.

A27 179 Butler encouraged any other group interested in participating A27 180 to contact the SA office at 753-0482.

A27 181 The Young Democrats will be holding an open meeting Wednesday A27 182 at 9 p.m. Anyone interested in attending should call Strauss at A27 183 758-2712.

A27 184 The College Republicans also will be holding an organizational A27 185 meeting Wednesday at 9 p.m. in DuSable Hall 220. Both meetings are A27 186 open to all students.

A27 187 A27 188 Grant to fund workshops for blind, deaf

A27 189 By Heather Pingel

A27 190 Staff Reporter

A27 191 Recently NIU received a rather large three-year grant from the A27 192 U.S. Department of Education's Rehabilitation Services A27 193 Administration.

A27 194 NIU's Institute on Deafness will benefit in more ways than one A27 195 from a $250,458 grant, which officials already have plans for.

A27 196 Project Coordinator Greg Mosher said the money will be used to A27 197 fund workshops for specialists who want to work with those blind A27 198 and/or deaf. People are currently being recruited from Illinois, A27 199 Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota.

A27 200 He said training for specialists will include a A27 201 ten-week long intensive workshop for a total of 180 people. A27 202 Ninety of these professionals will be working with the blind, and A27 203 the other half will be working with the deaf.

A27 204 The first week-long workshop will run from Sept. 29 into the A27 205 first week of November. Those who attend workshops will be charged A27 206 a small registration fee, which has yet to be decided.

A27 207 Mosher said there is a great need for workshops for the blind A27 208 and deaf in the Illinois area.

A27 209 "Illinois, the only state that has conducted research A27 210 units for the deaf and blind population, has identified 1,868 A27 211 residents who are both blind and deaf," he said.

A27 212 But NIU has been on top of such programs from way back. The A27 213 Northern Institute on Deafness has a 15-year reputation of A27 214 maintaining both pre- and in-service training in deafness A27 215 rehabilitation and training in visual impairment.

A27 216 Mosher also said that it is difficult to find workers who are A27 217 able to deal with the problems of a person who has one disability, A27 218 let alone handle the problems of people with two disabilities.

A27 219 He said he is looking for rehabilitational professionals who A27 220 have knowledge of psychosocial, medical, educational and vocational A27 221 aspects of the disabilities. Also, persons who are familiar with A27 222 sign language, mobility and helping devices.

A27 223 "Few rehabilitation professionals possess all these A27 224 skills, so qualified workers are scarce," he said.

A27 225 Mosher added that the grant will also aid the salary of hiring A27 226 professionals to come in and train all willing applicants.

A27 227 Anyone interested in a possible position with the Institute on A27 228 Deafness can contact Mosher at 753-6545.

A27 229 A27 230 Golden Key offers 'College Connection'

A27 231 By Kevin Lyons

A27 232 Staff Reporter

A27 233 The NIU chapter of the Golden Key National Honor Society A27 234 presented its newest program, College Connection, at a national A27 235 Golden Key Honor Society convention in Scottsdale, Ariz. this A27 236 summer.

A27 237 In addition, for the third year in a row, the NIU chapter was A27 238 one of 28 to receive the Key Chapter Award from the national A27 239 society.

A27 240 College Connection is a program geared at encouraging high A27 241 school students to continue their education, Cory Flanagan, faculty A27 242 adviser, said.

A27 243 Flanagan said the program is worked in three phases and the A27 244 chapter is currently in the third phase of its first year of A27 245 College Connection.

A27 246 The first phase involves speaking at local high schools on A27 247 furthering education. Last year, Golden Key members spoke at DeKalb A27 248 and Sycamore High Schools.

A27 249 Flanagan said the talks can be geared to a certain student A27 250 group or students in general. She said the talks do not necessarily A27 251 promote four-year universities, but also junior colleges, A27 252 technical schools and military opportunities.

A27 253 "We want to provide as much information as possible for A27 254 viable educational opportunities," she said.

A27 255 "If we influence anyone to continue his education, A27 256 we've met our goal," Flanagan said.

A27 257 In the second phase, high school students are brought to NIU A27 258 and allowed to go to classes, social events and sporting events, A27 259 Flanagan said.

A27 260 A27 261 A27 262 A28 1 <#FROWN:A28\>Lure of circus persists

A28 2 By Jan Hicks

A28 3 Staff Writer

A28 4 "I'm in my second childhood," said Len Zajicek, A28 5 63, formerly of Waukesha, Wis. "I ran off and joined the A28 6 circus. When I found out I had cancer, I said 'Hell with it, I'm A28 7 going to go out and have fun.'"

A28 8 Zajicek, a retired plant manager, travels with the Culpepper A28 9 and Merriweather Circus which gave two shows in Sycamore Saturday, A28 10 sponsored by Sycamore's Fraternal Order of Police. Zajicek A28 11 estimated that over 1,000 people attended the two performances.

A28 12 Zajizek is the father of elephant trainer Jim Zajicek, who A28 13 joined the circus at 16. One of Zajicek's three sons became a A28 14 history teacher, one a surgeon's assistant. Jim knew early on that A28 15 he was cut out for the circus. He became a high wire acrobat and A28 16 fire-eater, and later the trainer of a 4,000 pound African elephant A28 17 named Barb.

A28 18 "I'm glad he's off the high wire," Zajicek A28 19 said. "He fell and cracked his ankle and next season, he A28 20 was up again - they just don't quit."

A28 21 Other performers explained how they got into circus performing. A28 22 "I was born into it, I had no choice. I'm a third A28 23 generation circus performer," said Heidi, who's performed A28 24 various acts for 31 years and now juggles flaming pins while riding A28 25 horseback. "I started at three. My family were A28 26 hand-balancers."

A28 27 Acrobat Jens Larson, 33, says he got into the circus A28 28 "by mistake."

A28 29 "I was a gymnast in school and one coincidence led to A28 30 another," he said. "Everybody's got a different A28 31 story."

A28 32 "They treat me like a king around here," Len A28 33 said of the 28 circus employees who travel the midwest during A28 34 summer months. Most employees are working hard after the show to A28 35 tear down the big top, and load equipment into the brightly painted A28 36 trucks on the lot.

A28 37 Circus owner Robert 'Red' Johnson is out of his sequined emcee A28 38 tuxedo and, dressed in a White Sox shirt, he's tugging at the A28 39 canvas corners of the tent sides, tearing down the big top with the A28 40 rest of the crew. Johnson also performs with the cast. Many A28 41 employees do more than one thing - they perform, run concessions, A28 42 sell tickets, put up the tent.

A28 43 "We lost a fire-eater a couple weeks ago, so Red does A28 44 it now," Len said of the circus owner.

A28 45 Circuses were Hitler's model for efficiency in moving large A28 46 numbers of people and equipment, Zajicek said.

A28 47 "When he was planning how to move his army, Hitler came A28 48 over to America to see how circuses moved. He wanted to know how A28 49 the hell they did it," Zajicek said.

A28 50 "Ho!" the crew yells, as they tug the blue and white A28 51 canvas, fold it and roll it around a spool on a 'spool truck,' like A28 52 filling a bobbin.

A28 53 "We leave a nice clean lot. The only thing you're going A28 54 to see when we're gone is the ring on the grass under the A28 55 ponies," Zajicek said.

A28 56 After the show Saturday, some performers went to see the Clint A28 57 Eastwood movie, he said.

A28 58 "Some go eat, some just take a shower and sack A28 59 out," he said.

A28 60 Some people in the audience were "circus fans," A28 61 he said.

A28 62 "Circus fans are all over. You get to know them. They A28 63 come out to the lot every year," he said.

A28 64 A28 65 District to treat landfill leachate

A28 66 By Kathy Guyer

A28 67 Staff writer

A28 68 The DeKalb County Landfill is expected to soon begin bringing A28 69 its leachate, the naturally occurring liquids that are created when A28 70 garbage decomposes, to the DeKalb Sanitary District for A28 71 treatment.

A28 72 Mike Zima, sanitary district manager, said the treatment of A28 73 leachate at sanitary districts is allowed by the Illinois A28 74 Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA).

A28 75 The IEPA requires that leachate be removed from landfills and A28 76 treated before it is returned to the environment, Zima said. The A28 77 DeKalb Sanitary District returns its water to the Kishwaukee River A28 78 after treatment.

A28 79 Dale Hoekstra, general manager of Waste Management, Inc., the A28 80 company that owns DeKalb County Landfill, said they must obtain two A28 81 permits from the IEPA before they can start bringing their leachate A28 82 to the sanitary district.

A28 83 They have already received one of the permits from the IEPA A28 84 division of land and they are waiting for the second permit from A28 85 the IEPA division of water, Hoekstra said.

A28 86 Treatment of leachate at sanitary districts is common, Hoekstra A28 87 said. He noted that currently DeKalb County Landfill leachate is A28 88 transported to Calumet City to Waste Management's own treatment A28 89 facility or to Elgin's sanitary district.

A28 90 Under the agreement, Waste Management will pay 2 cents per A28 91 gallon for all leachate brought to the sanitary district, Zima A28 92 said. No more than 20,000 gallons per day of leachate can be A28 93 brought to the district, he added.

A28 94 Zima said that 2 cents per gallon was cheap and other treatment A28 95 facilities charge up to 10 cents per gallon. He added that people A28 96 use an average of 100 gallons of water that ends up being treated A28 97 at the sanitary district each day and 20,000 gallons was the A28 98 equivalent of the amount of sewage water created each day by 200 A28 99 people.

A28 100 "It will certainly help us keep our costs A28 101 down," Hoekstra added, noting the low per-gallon price and A28 102 savings in transportation.

A28 103 Hoekstra said the leachate is not hazardous.

A28 104 A28 105 Waste presents dilemma

A28 106 By Kathy Guyer

A28 107 Staff Writer

A28 108 A 55-gallon drum filled with an unidentified substance sits on A28 109 the DeKalb parkway at Greg Protano's auto parts yard on Industrial A28 110 Drive.

A28 111 For a week the drum has sat there, roped off by the DeKalb Fire A28 112 Department, awaiting a representative from the Illinois A28 113 Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) to show up, test the liquid A28 114 inside and determine if it is a hazardous material.

A28 115 DeKalb Police Lt. Richard Moudy said his department received A28 116 the report from Protano on Aug. 19. Protano had arrived at the A28 117 scrap yard about 7 a.m. and found the abandoned barrel on the A28 118 parkway in front of his business.

A28 119 DeKalb Assistant Fire Chief Reuben Nelson said the fire A28 120 department went out and checked the barrel and found it contained A28 121 about five or six gallons of liquid.

A28 122 'Mineral spirits' was written on the barrel, Nelson said.

A28 123 "We're pretty certain that it's mostly water and paint A28 124 thinner," Nelson said. Firefighters attempted to ignite A28 125 some of the liquid and it wouldn't catch fire, he added.

A28 126 Although the liquid has not been tested, Nelson said he doesn't A28 127 believe it is hazardous material. Firefighters put the barrel in a A28 128 reinforced steel containment cannister and the IEPA was contacted, A28 129 he said.

A28 130 However, the city officials won't move the barrel because if A28 131 they do it becomes their responsibility, Nelson said.

A28 132 "It's an abandoned material, nobody has possession of A28 133 it now," Nelson said.

A28 134 If the city took possession of it and the material turns out to A28 135 be hazardous, it would then be the city's responsibility to dispose A28 136 of it, he said.

A28 137 Nelson said the fire department has not been notified that any A28 138 IEPA worker has been to the site. He added that if no one shows up A28 139 in another week, he will contact the IEPA.

A28 140 A28 141 Knight gets no satisfaction

A28 142 Fish kill results linger on

A28 143 By Jan Hicks

A28 144 Staff writer

A28 145 Hartmann Farms will be required to pay for the loss of 15,284 A28 146 fish killed by a hog manure spill from their property, but a A28 147 Sycamore resident who lives near the river thinks they should do A28 148 more than that.

A28 149 Thousands of fish died after 30,000 gallons of manure spilled A28 150 into the east branch of the Kishwaukee River on Tuesday, Aug. 11. A28 151 Sycamore residents began discovering the dead fish on Friday, Aug. A28 152 14, and Peggy Knight was one of them.

A28 153 Knight thinks the $3,676.80 fine, the Department of A28 154 Conservation's estimated value of the fish, is not enough. She'd A28 155 like someone to remove the piles of dead fish that have collected A28 156 in the creek bed behind her home.

A28 157 "I can't understand why the company responsible for the A28 158 fish kill didn't have to clean it up," Knight said A28 159 Monday.

A28 160 "Right after the fish count, they should have picked A28 161 them up, not just let them decay," Knight said. "I A28 162 really think the EPA should have forced the hog farmer to clean up A28 163 the residential areas. It's OK where it's out in the middle of a A28 164 field."

A28 165 Knight's trailer home sits beside the river in Evergreen Park. A28 166 Behind her neatly clipped back lawn, about 70 large carp lay A28 167 rotting in the shallow water. At 7:20 p.m. Monday, the stench A28 168 overwhelmed the smoke from a barbecue grill nearby.

A28 169 "They're half decayed and full of maggots," she A28 170 said. "These things are attracting tons of flies. I can't A28 171 imagine it's not some sort of health hazard."

A28 172 The river behind her trailer is only 4 inches deep, she said, A28 173 adding the creek is only 50 feet from her bedroom. Since her A28 174 trailer doesn't have central air conditioning, she said she has had A28 175 to leave the windows open.

A28 176 "There's not enough water at this part of the river to A28 177 wash them away," Knight said.

A28 178 Knight said she called both the DeKalb County Health Department A28 179 and the Environmental Protection Agency and both said they couldn't A28 180 help.

A28 181 "The health department told me if it bothered me, I A28 182 could clean it up," Knight said, adding the EPA told her A28 183 she could submit a bill for clean-up to the Hartmann Farms but that A28 184 if the company didn't pay it, she might end up having to file a A28 185 civil suit.

A28 186 "We have never picked up fish. It's not possible for us A28 187 to go out and collect 15,000 fish," said Gene Forster, of A28 188 the Rockford EPA field office. "The first rain we get and A28 189 the first rise in the river will take that all away."

A28 190 The EPA's legal division in Springfield has not determined A28 191 whether to charge penalties to Hartmanns, over and above the value A28 192 of the fish and the expense of counting the fish, Forster said.

A28 193 Knight said parents try to keep children away since the fish A28 194 kill.

A28 195 A28 196 Suffers attack on job

A28 197 Department action saves firefighter

A28 198 By Mike Crase

A28 199 Staff writer

A28 200 Sycamore firefighter Ben Henderson is living proof that one of A28 201 the Sycamore Fire Department's latest pieces of life-saving A28 202 equipment, a heart defibrillator, works.

A28 203 Henderson, 44, a 16-year veteran of the Sycamore Fire A28 204 Department, is recovering from a near fatal arrhythmia of his heart A28 205 that he suffered while on duty on July 18. Quick action by his A28 206 fellow firefighters saved his life. Arrhythmia is when a person's A28 207 heart starts beating irregularly.

A28 208 "This is what the doctors call an instant death A28 209 episode," Henderson said Monday. "In other words A28 210 had I not been around a defibrillator, I probably would have died A28 211 instantly."

A28 212 "He was at the right place at the right time," A28 213 said Sycamore Fire Chief Larry Haffner.

A28 214 Henderson said he doesn't recall much of what happened.

A28 215 "We were sitting around the kitchen table, smoking and A28 216 joking and I started feeling bad and before I knew it the only A28 217 thing I could do was put my head on the table," Henderson A28 218 said. "I couldn't holler for help, I couldn't do anything. A28 219 It started about five minutes after eight and lasted until about 10 A28 220 or 15 minutes after eight. I really can't say, I was blacking out A28 221 at the time. What I thought was blacking out, I was actually dying A28 222 on duty."

A28 223 Todd Turner, a fellow firefighter, was working the same shift A28 224 Henderson was when the incident took place, about an hour after A28 225 they had started their shift. He said firemen started the necessary A28 226 procedures on Henderson.

A28 227 Henderson said he was hooked up to a heart monitor which A28 228 determined that his heart beat could be brought back to a regular A28 229 beat with the defibrillator.

A28 230 A defibrillator, Henderson said, uses an electrical charge to A28 231 establish a normal heart beat.

A28 232 Firemen defibrillated Henderson and his heart returned to a A28 233 regular beat. He was taken to Kishwaukee Community Hospital, A28 234 stabilized and flown by helicopter to SwedishAmerican Hospital in A28 235 Rockford where he spent three days in intensive care. He was then A28 236 transferred to Sinai-Samaritan hospital in Milwaukee where he A28 237 remained for another five days.

A28 238 Henderson said while in Milwaukee, doctors implanted a small A28 239 defibrillator in his chest which would automatically apply an A28 240 electrical charge if an irregular heart beat is detected.

A28 241 A29 1 <#FROWN:A29\>Owners say topless clubs facing increased A29 2 scrutiny

A29 3 City denies it wants to crimp growing business

A29 4 By Michael Utley and Martin Zimmerman

A29 5 Staff Writers of The Dallas Morning News

A29 6 Bob Bishop lost his shirt in the topless club business.

A29 7 The owner of Sugars Dallas on Greenville Avenue lost his A29 8 operating license in January when local officials said he violated A29 9 the city's 6-year-old topless bar ordinance.

A29 10 "I can't tell you what this has done to me," A29 11 Mr. Bishop said during a recent interview. "I put my entire A29 12 savings into that place. Then all of a sudden, the city says I have A29 13 to shut down, and what am I supposed to do for a A29 14 living?"

A29 15 Mr. Bishop is just one of several club owners who believe that A29 16 the city is out to put a major dent in Dallas' booming topless club A29 17 industry. City officials deny that they are, but seven club owners A29 18 have lost their licenses already this year.

A29 19 A rash of regulatory actions has once again focused attention A29 20 on Dallas' bevy of topless clubs. The clubs have become a huge A29 21 business, both in Dallas and around the country.

A29 22 Based on gross liquor sales, five of the top 10 non-hotel bars A29 23 in Dallas are topless clubs. Alcohol sales in all Dallas topless A29 24 clubs have grown 37 percent since 1988.

A29 25 During the past 12 months, the city's 20 topless clubs rang up A29 26 $25.7 million in alcoholic beverage sales alone. Cabaret Royale, on A29 27 Restaurant Row, grossed $3.3 million from drink sales - six times A29 28 more than a nearby T.G.I. Friday's, according to state records.

A29 29 On a typical Friday night, nearly 700 women are dancing topless A29 30 in Dallas clubs. About 1,200 women work as topless dancers in A29 31 Dallas - some earning $500 and more a night, all in tips.

A29 32 The clubs' popularity doesn't stop at the city limits. A29 33 Arlington officials are alarmed by the growing number of topless A29 34 bars in their city and are considering tough new laws to control A29 35 them. Several topless clubs are operating in Arlington, and two A29 36 more are in the works.

A29 37 $3 billion business

A29 38 In the United States, the trade magazine Gentleman's A29 39 Club estimates, there are now more than 1,300 topless clubs, A29 40 where 10 million customers - almost all men - spend $3 billion a A29 41 year. And the growth is at the high end of the spectrum, where A29 42 upscale clubs such as Dallas' Cabaret Royale and The Men's Club are A29 43 transforming the industry.

A29 44 "The topless industry is an American A29 45 phenomenon," said Kevin King, publisher of Gentleman's A29 46 Club. And Dallas, to aficionados such as Mr. King, is the A29 47 Mecca of the topless industry.

A29 48 "The clubs in Dallas are leaders in casting aside the A29 49 seamy image of topless clubs and dressing them up to cater to the A29 50 tastes of a free-spending, white-collar clientele," Mr. A29 51 King wrote in a recent issue.

A29 52 Some consider that a dubious distinction at best. Upscale or A29 53 down, they say, topless clubs make lousy neighbors.

A29 54 "People see (topless clubs) around, and they don't want A29 55 to live anywhere near them," said Coffer Realty president A29 56 Gerry Coffer, who fought the license renewal for Sheer D'Lite, an A29 57 East Dallas topless bar that is appealing its recent license A29 58 revocation.

A29 59 Also, women's advocates argue that clubs degrade women and A29 60 exploit them economically.

A29 61 "It's definitely exploitation. Women can't get a job A29 62 that pays them a decent salary, so they work in a topless A29 63 bar," said Karen Ashmore, co-founder of a local chapter of A29 64 the National Organization for Women. "It's a backlash to A29 65 women being more a part of mainstream society."

A29 66 Says El Arnold of the Dallas Association for Decency: A29 67 "(Topless clubs) take young girls and put them in very A29 68 degrading situations. It's not the kind of thing you'd want your A29 69 daughter to undergo."

A29 70 Still, a recent city licensing hearing for the Million Dollar A29 71 Saloon, another Greenville Avenue topless club, drew no protesters A29 72 despite ample advance publicity. In fact, several nearby business A29 73 owners attended the meeting to express support for the club.

A29 74 Convention clients

A29 75 Dallas' emergence as a top market for topless entertainment A29 76 stems in part from its ability to attract conventions, which supply A29 77 a steady stream of topless-club patrons.

A29 78 "You do have a call for that type of business at A29 79 conventions," said Michelle Bogard of Ticket To The City, A29 80 whose convention-going clients have snapped up more than 10,000 A29 81 passes to the Million Dollar Saloon in less than a year. A29 82 "It's a fact of life."

A29 83 One local businessman says: "When I have a client come A29 84 in town from Des Moines, he wants to go to a topless club. Dallas A29 85 is famous for that."

A29 86 Club owners go to great pains to distinguish between the A29 87 new-style topless clubs and old-line strip joints. Salah Izzedin, A29 88 the main principal in Cabaret Royale, argues that such clubs have A29 89 cleaned up a sleazy business and given it sophistication and A29 90 cachet.

A29 91 "We are very proud to have set new standards for this A29 92 business across the country," said Mr. Izzedin, a former A29 93 Houston-based topless-club impresario who plans to open Cabaret A29 94 Royales in several U.S. cities.

A29 95 On the surface, at least, it would be hard to confuse The Men's A29 96 Club in North Dallas, the newest of the city's upscale topless A29 97 clubs, with more traditional clubs such as Baby Dolls on Northwest A29 98 Highway or Showtime on Lover's Lane.

A29 99 The upscale clubs target well-heeled business executives and A29 100 they charge prices to match. At Cabaret Royale, for instance, the A29 101 evening cover charge is $10, parking costs $3, and beers are $4.95 A29 102 apiece. At the Men's Club, the cover is $7. By contrast, Showtime A29 103 charges $3.

A29 104 Not surprising, net profit margins in the topless business can A29 105 be 50 percent higher than the 20 to 25 percent margin regular A29 106 nightclubs can achieve, said John Kirkendoll, chairman of the A29 107 company that owns Gold Club topless clubs.

A29 108 Competition heats up

A29 109 Mr. King foresees a shakeout in the topless business as cities A29 110 such as Dallas begin to crack down on the clubs. Older, A29 111 under-capitalized clubs at the seedy end of the scale will be A29 112 closed, he says. Upscale clubs, with millions invested and plenty A29 113 in reserve to finance court battles with regulators, will flourish, A29 114 he predicts.

A29 115 Even the high-dollar clubs may get squeezed as competition A29 116 heats up. Mr. Kirkendoll said the opening of The Men's Club in July A29 117 may have signaled the saturation point for Dallas. Future clubs A29 118 probably will draw from the existing customer base.

A29 119 But as long as the city allows the existing clubs to stay open, A29 120 money will continue to be made, says Mr. Kirkendoll, who hopes to A29 121 sell stock in his Dallas-based Entertainment Corp. of America to A29 122 the public later this year to raise money for expansion.

A29 123 "I don't see anybody going under economically," A29 124 he said, "because the demand is so high."

A29 125 When Mr. Kirkendoll talks about demand, he's got men like Carl A29 126 and John in mind.

A29 127 The men, who didn't want to give their last names, were sitting A29 128 in the Million Dollar Saloon on a recent weekday afternoon, jackets A29 129 off, ties loosened - a couple of 40-something white-collar types A29 130 out for a good time. To them, there's no big mystery about the A29 131 allure of topless clubs.

A29 132 "We come here to see all these gorgeous girls, what A29 133 else?" Carl said. "The women are just beautiful, A29 134 unbelievably beautiful."

A29 135 Says John, "It's every guy's fantasy to have a bunch of A29 136 great-looking women falling all over him, and that's what you get A29 137 here."

A29 138 According to industry experts, topless club patrons routinely A29 139 spend as much as $100 on each visit to a topless club. About a A29 140 third of that buys drinks. The rest finances the entertainment - A29 141 the dancers.

A29 142 "Some girls walk out with $500 for a night, some with A29 143 $50," said Nikki, a fresh-faced 23-year-old from A29 144 Minneapolis who dances at Cabaret Royale. "It all depends A29 145 how hard they work."

A29 146 The money is a powerful lure for attractive women in their late A29 147 teens and early 20s, especially if the employment alternative is a A29 148 low-paying service job.

A29 149 Recalls Nikki: "I was working as a waitress in a A29 150 topless bar, and one night a guy bought a $4.95 drink and gave me a A29 151 $5 bill. At the same time, he tipped a dancer $100. Three days A29 152 later, I was dancing."

A29 153 Mr. Kirkendoll said some dancers make six-figure incomes. But A29 154 the norm is probably less than half that, given that most A29 155 <}_><-|>dancers'<+|>dancers<}/> rarely work five days a week.

A29 156 The dancers are independent contractors with no paychecks and A29 157 no regular schedule. The managers trust the dancers' money-making A29 158 instincts to know when the clubs are crowded and more dancers are A29 159 needed.

A29 160 Dancers' pay comes in cash. Patrons either tip a dancer while A29 161 she is on stage, slipping a bill beneath her G-string, or they buy A29 162 a dance at their tables, which costs about $20 a song.

A29 163 A dancer at Showtime, who asked to remain unidentified, said A29 164 she and her colleagues often prey on a customer's loneliness or A29 165 sexual frustration to siphon as many dollars as possible.

A29 166 "That's the bottom line," she said. A29 167 "Dancers aren't here to find a boyfriend. They're here to A29 168 pay the rent."

A29 169 Not surprisingly, as Nikki notes, the dancers "get A29 170 propositioned all the time." Often enough, in fact, that A29 171 Cabaret Royale provides business cards for dancers to give to A29 172 aggressive customers reading: "What you are suggesting is A29 173 illegal. ... If you persist, a manager will ask you to leave A29 174 immediately."

A29 175 Alert for vice

A29 176 Vice officers and club owners say prostitution is rare. Dancers A29 177 make enough money legally, they say. And the club owners have an A29 178 economic interest in keeping illegal activity, both prostitution A29 179 and drug use, out of their clubs.

A29 180 Most topless clubs have strict no-drugs policies. Places such A29 181 as the Gold Club randomly test employees for drug use, Mr. A29 182 Kirkendoll said.

A29 183 But dancers and others familiar with the business say drug use A29 184 remains a problem, especially among dancers at the mid- to A29 185 lower-level clubs.

A29 186 Earlier this year, the city suspended the operating license of A29 187 Caligula XXI on Northwest Highway for 15 days after employees were A29 188 arrested for allegedly selling cocaine in the club. And drug A29 189 arrests played a role in the city's decision to close down Sugars A29 190 altogether. However, the owner, Mr. Bishop, said the arrests didn't A29 191 lead to any convictions.

A29 192 Club owners said they try to keep drugs out of their clubs. But A29 193 the topless club lifestyle - attractive women making a lot of money A29 194 mixing with high rollers - creates an environment that can lead to A29 195 drug use.

A29 196 "It was a constant battle," recalls Steve A29 197 Albeck, who owned several Dallas topless clubs in the 1980s. A29 198 "I'd talk to the dancers about it over and over and over A29 199 again, but it was hard to make it sink in."

A29 200 The strain of dealing with the dancers' lifestyles eventually A29 201 helped drive Mr. Albeck from the business. He sold out and with A29 202 partner Mike Murphy opened Cowboys, the popular country-Western A29 203 dance hall in Lakewood.

A29 204 He doesn't regret the change. "Cowboys is 10 times the A29 205 size of Showtime," he said, "but it's 10 times A29 206 easier to run."

A29 207 Legal restrictions

A29 208 One reason may be Chapter 41A of the Dallas City Code.

A29 209 The law was one of the first in the nation to regulate both the A29 210 locations of sexually oriented businesses and the character of A29 211 their owners. It bans such businesses from locating within 1,000 A29 212 feet of a residential zone, school, church, park or other sexually A29 213 oriented businesses. It also attempts to keep convicted sexual A29 214 offenders out of the business.

A29 215 The city keeps track of topless clubs by requiring them to A29 216 obtain a cabaret license that is reviewed annually by the Dallas A29 217 Police Department's special investigations bureau.

A29 218 If a club is in violation of the ordinance - as many are - A29 219 Dallas police automatically revoke the license. The club owner then A29 220 must seek an exemption from the city's Permit and License Appeal A29 221 Board, which can grant exemptions from some city ordinances. The A29 222 board is made up of 15 citizens appointed by the City Council.

A29 223 In the past year, 17 topless clubs have asked for exemptions; A29 224 four have received them, seven have been denied, four are pending, A29 225 and two requests were dropped.

A29 226 Of the seven licenses denied this year, at least two have A29 227 challenged the decision through lawsuits. Sheer D'Lite is suing the A29 228 city in state district court and El Jardin Club, a Love Field-area A29 229 dance hall, has filed suit in federal court.

A29 230 A30 1 <#FROWN:A30\>City attorney: No notice needed for meeting

A30 2 <*_>black-square<*/>Public or private?: At least one alderman A30 3 who did not know about the meeting with the police department is A30 4 "miffed."

A30 5 By NEAL JUSTIN

A30 6 The Register Star

A30 7 BYRON - More than half of the City Council attended a Police A30 8 Department meeting last week that was not announced to the public A30 9 or media.

A30 10 City Clerk Judy Gentry said she was not notified of the A30 11 Tuesday-night meeting and a notice was not posted on the door, A30 12 which is the method the community uses to inform the public.

A30 13 City attorney Dennis Riley said the meeting did not have to be A30 14 made public because the conversation was expected to be about A30 15 interdepartmental gripes and police department policies.

A30 16 "That doesn't fall under the auspice of a public A30 17 meeting," said Riley, who did not attend the meeting. A30 18 "My understanding beforehand was that city policy and A30 19 procedure were not going to be discussed."

A30 20 Beth Bennett, the government affairs manager for the Illinois A30 21 Press Association, disagreed.

A30 22 She said police morale and the running of a police department A30 23 was city business and should be discussed in open meetings.

A30 24 "If the City Council is ultimately responsible, that's A30 25 public business," she said.

A30 26 Byron Sgt. Jim Wilcox said the meeting included questions about A30 27 raises and, in part, was intended to help train new officers.

A30 28 Ald. Herb Johnson, who attended the meeting, said the group A30 29 discussed the possibility of a retirement plan for police A30 30 officers.

A30 31 When asked if discussion about a retirement plan would A30 32 constitute city business, Riley said he would not respond to a A30 33 "hypothetical question."

A30 34 In addition to Johnson, Ald. Mary Paquet, Ald. Sam Finnochio A30 35 and Mayor Kathy Hamas attended the meeting. Hamas remains a council A30 36 member because she took over as mayor in the middle of a term.

A30 37 Ald. John McGhee, who did not know about the meeting, said he A30 38 was told by Riley that it was a "parliamentary A30 39 meeting" and did not have to be public.

A30 40 McGhee said he did not know what that meant and that he was A30 41 upset he could not be there.

A30 42 "I was a little miffed about it," he said.

A30 43 Ogle County States Attorney Dennis Schumacher said he would not A30 44 address the issue unless a formal complaint was submitted to his A30 45 office.

A30 46 A30 47 Former jailer, 37, faces charge of impersonating police A30 48 officer

A30 49 <*_>black-square<*/>Mugshots found at home: The man is accused A30 50 of stopping a teen-age girl's car and searching it while wearing A30 51 what looked like a police uniform.

A30 52 By NEAL JUSTIN

A30 53 The Register Star

A30 54 A Winnebago County jailer has resigned from his position after A30 55 being accused in Ogle County of impersonating a police officer.

A30 56 Gregory J. Stobart, 37, 1624 Prairie Ave., who was a jailer for A30 57 more than three years, is scheduled to appear in Ogle County Court A30 58 on Sept. 11 on the charges of unlawful restraint.

A30 59 On April 13, a 17-year-old Davis Junction woman was stopped by A30 60 a man wearing what appeared to be a police uniform. He searched her A30 61 car and let her go, Ogle County Sheriff Mel Messer said.

A30 62 When police believed Stobart to be a suspect and searched his A30 63 home in early August, they discovered 11 mugshots taken at the A30 64 county jail, Winnebago County Sheriff Donald J. Gasparini said.

A30 65 Gasparini said they charged Stobart with official misconduct A30 66 based on the mugshots found in his home and would have dismissed A30 67 him if he hadn't resigned.

A30 68 Stobart was expected to return to jail duty in mid-August, A30 69 coming off a 90-day leave of absence he took to care for a sick A30 70 uncle.

A30 71 Messer and Gasparini said the suspect may have been trying to A30 72 live out a fantasy of being a police officer.

A30 73 "They have that uniform and they want to believe A30 74 they're a cop," Gasparini said.

A30 75 A30 76 Victory Lane residents getting free ride, Elm Ave. A30 77 residents say

A30 78 <*_>black-square<*/>Court challenge promised: Fourteen property A30 79 owners are paying for last year's improvements on Elm, while A30 80 Victory's nine won't be assessed.

A30 81 By BRIAN LEAF

A30 82 The Register Star

A30 83 MACHESNEY PARK - Victory Lane's million-dollar facelift won A30 84 approval from the Village Board yesterday. Now it may need approval A30 85 from a judge.

A30 86 Jeffrey Heid, who resigned last year as the village's public A30 87 works director, said he would seek a restraining order against the A30 88 project because it did not include a special assessment for owners A30 89 of nine properties on Victory Lane.

A30 90 "For years, people have been told the only way a street A30 91 will be reconstructed is if they share the cost," Heid A30 92 said. "Hopefully, they'll go back and set it up as a A30 93 special assessment or special services area."

A30 94 Heid said the village rebuilt Elm Avenue last year, and 14 A30 95 residents are paying a portion of the project's cost. Heid said his A30 96 assessment was $4,200.

A30 97 The assessment was levied after a majority of Elm Avenue A30 98 residents asked the village to improve the street. Mayor Frank A30 99 Bauer said Victory Lane residents did not petition for A30 100 improvements, and, therefore, wouldn't have to pay for the A30 101 reconstruction.

A30 102 Since 1983, Heid said 1,000 homes had been given special A30 103 assessments for street improvements, including the one owned by A30 104 retiree Betty Bauscher, 64.

A30 105 Bauscher said her special assessment for Elm Avenue was $10,000 A30 106 and she couldn't understand why Victory Lane residents should get a A30 107 free ride.

A30 108 "I really can't understand why they should get it for A30 109 nothing when we didn't," Bauscher said.

A30 110 An ordinance to award the project to Schlichting & Sons A30 111 Excavating Co. for $1.02 million passed when Bauer broke a 3-3 tie A30 112 on the Village Board. The village will borrow the money to pay for A30 113 the project.

A30 114 Bauer said Marquette Elementary School children were at risk A30 115 because of Victory Lane's poor condition, particularly during the A30 116 winter when they must walk on the street.

A30 117 The village contends that traffic on Victory Lane will increase A30 118 when the Harlem Road-Elmwood Road bridge opens next year and A30 119 northwest Rockford residents begin using it to get to the Machesney A30 120 Park Mall.

A30 121 But to set up a special assessment district, five of the nine A30 122 property owners would have to petition the village and agree to pay A30 123 a share of the project. Bauer said that getting a majority wasn't A30 124 likely.

A30 125 "I know we could never get them to petition A30 126 us," he said. "Are we going to wait for those A30 127 people to get 51 percent, or are we going to build the A30 128 road?"

A30 129 A30 130 Shooting suspect gets his wish: A trial

A30 131 <*_>black-square<*/>Plea bargain thrown out: The man, 20, says A30 132 his public defenders pressured him into the plea involving the A30 133 death of a 17-year-old boy.

A30 134 By TRACY DELL'ANGELA

A30 135 The Register Star

A30 136 A man who said his public defenders coerced him into pleading A30 137 guilty to killing another teen-ager last summer will get a new day A30 138 in court.

A30 139 Edmond Lilly, 20, goes on trial this week for the murder of A30 140 17-year-old Tyree Little, who was shot July 27, 1991, after a melee A30 141 on Blaisdell Street.

A30 142 This trial comes six months after Lilly pleaded guilty to A30 143 attempted murder in a plea bargain negotiated on the opening day of A30 144 his first trial.

A30 145 The plea bargain angered Little's family, who said they didn't A30 146 understand how Lilly could get a first-degree murder charge reduced A30 147 to attempted murder.

A30 148 Assistant State's Attorney Robert Miller said he agreed to the A30 149 plea because the testimony about the fight was confusing and A30 150 attempted murder carried a stiffer sentence than second-degree A30 151 murder.

A30 152 According to court documents, an argument between two teen-age A30 153 girls over a boy they liked grew into a street fight that involved A30 154 up to 40 youths. Lilly was standing behind a tree when he allegedly A30 155 fired three shots from a rifle, hitting Little in the chest and A30 156 another man, Robert Johnson, in the leg.

A30 157 Two weeks after the plea, Lilly wrote a letter to Judge David A30 158 Smith blaming his public defenders - Edward Light and Gary Pumilia A30 159 - for pressuring him into the plea by bringing his parents in to A30 160 convince him.

A30 161 "They started telling me I was going to get 90 years, A30 162 saying that Judge Smith might not like you so he's going to give A30 163 you a stiff sentence. They were too interested in getting the case A30 164 over with," Lilly wrote in the letter, asking for a new A30 165 lawyer and a new chance at a trial.

A30 166 "They persuaded me into taking a plea for something I A30 167 didn't do," he wrote. "I was so upset. I wanted to A30 168 tell you, but I didn't want you to get angry with me."

A30 169 At the Feb. 27 plea hearing, Lilly never indicated that he was A30 170 upset with the agreement. When the judge asked Lilly if he A30 171 understood his rights and if he was satisfied with his lawyer, A30 172 Lilly said "yes." Lilly also said no threats or force were A30 173 used to get him to plead guilty.

A30 174 Both Light and Pumilia testified later that they did not A30 175 pressure Lilly or make threats about a stiff sentence.

A30 176 After a hearing in June, Smith allowed Lilly to withdraw his A30 177 plea and scheduled a new trial date. The case was re-assigned to A30 178 Judge David Englund's courtroom, where opening arguments are A30 179 expected today.

A30 180 A30 181 Schools talks yet to produce deal

A30 182 <*_>black-square<*/>Strikes loom: Talks continue at Harlem A30 183 today and at Belvidere on Thursday.

A30 184 By CATHY WARD

A30 185 The Register Star

A30 186 Teacher talks resume in Harlem today as leaders meet to head A30 187 off a strike, while in Belvidere, teachers yesterday threatened to A30 188 strike if the next round of talks don't produce a settlement.

A30 189 In Belvidere, the School Board and teachers met about nine A30 190 hours with a federal mediator yesterday, but failed to reach an A30 191 agreement. The teachers' union also filed an intent-to-strike A30 192 notice. The notice doesn't mean a strike will happen, only that it A30 193 could.

A30 194 State law requires that teachers wait five days after filing a A30 195 notice before they strike. That means classes in Belvidere will A30 196 start on schedule Thursday, but could be halted later. The next A30 197 talks will begin at 4 p.m. Friday.

A30 198 In a joint news release, Belvidere teachers and board members A30 199 said "progress was made on several issues," but did A30 200 not outline the stumbling blocks.

A30 201 At Harlem, where talks resume at 9 a.m. today, teachers there A30 202 could strike Thursday, the day classes are scheduled to start. A30 203 Teachers there filed an intent-to-strike notice last week and said A30 204 they would strike without an agreement. The teachers are scheduled A30 205 to meet at 4 p.m. today to review the latest contract offer.

A30 206 Harlem Superintendent Don Parker said school leaders there are A30 207 working hard to reach an agreement.

A30 208 "If it's up to me, there will not be a strike," A30 209 Parker said yesterday. "My intention is to keep meeting A30 210 Tuesday (today) until an agreement is reached."

A30 211 Parker declined to release details of the dispute, but said the A30 212 major holdup is money.

A30 213 "Our district does not have a lot of discretionary A30 214 money to negotiate with," Parker said, "and I know A30 215 our board is intent on a balanced budget and keeping the financial A30 216 integrity of the district in tact. The board is pretty certain the A30 217 public is not apt to increase its tax rate for higher teacher A30 218 salaries."

A30 219 Both districts have been negotiating with federal mediators A30 220 after early sessions of contract talks failed to produce deals.

A30 221 Harlem, which last had a teacher strike in 1989, has about A30 222 5,000 students. Belvidere, which hasn't had a teacher strike since A30 223 1975, has about 4,850 students.

A30 224 But while the threat of strikes hovers over Belvidere and A30 225 Harlem, three other Rockford-area schools, DeKalb, Hononegah and A30 226 Rockton, are scheduled to start on schedule, even without contract A30 227 agreements.

A30 228 David Martin, superintendent of the Rockton district, said A30 229 teachers will be there in force on schedule.

A30 230 "We have good people on both sides, still talking, and A30 231 both have the best interests of the community in mind," he A30 232 said. "We'll keep talking while school starts."

A30 233 A30 234 'KKK' spray-painted on sidewalk

A30 235 The Register Star

A30 236 Three letters have June Grant concerned for her safety: KKK.

A30 237 Someone spray-painted the letters - which stand for the Ku Klux A30 238 Klan - on the sidewalk in front of her home yesterday.

A30 239 "I'm frightened. Of course I'm frightened," A30 240 said Grant, who is black. "I don't know what's going to A30 241 happen through the night. I don't know what's going to be on my A30 242 house in the morning. A30 243 A31 1 <#FROWN:A31\>1-million flee as Florida braces for worst A31 2 hurricane

A31 3 Staff writer David Barstow compiled this story with reports A31 4 from staffers Bill Adair, Chris Lavin, Charlotte Sutton, David A31 5 Olinger, Susan Benesch and correspondent Randy Cremer.

A31 6 Hurricane Andrew bore down on Miami this morning, its 145-mph A31 7 winds and 20-foot seas certain to deliver a vicious uppercut to the A31 8 most densely populated region in the state.

A31 9 "The hurricane of our nightmares," the A31 10 Miami Herald called it in a Sunday extra edition A31 11 headlined "The Big One."

A31 12 Disaster planners could only hope that years of preparation A31 13 would save lives and property as the awesome magnitude of Andrew A31 14 became clear: Winds strong enough to lift a bus. Waves tall enough A31 15 to swallow buildings. A storm surge that, coming with high tide, A31 16 promised to lay waste to some of the priciest real estate on Earth. A31 17 The most powerful hurricane ever to hit South Florida.

A31 18 Near midnight, Metro-Dade police completed a final sweep of the A31 19 city, urging residents through loudspeakers to seek out emergency A31 20 shelters.

A31 21 "We'll help them as long as we can, but when we have to A31 22 get off the streets, they're on their own," said Fred A31 23 Taylor, director of the Metro-Dade police.

A31 24 All day and all night, the people of South Florida braced for A31 25 the worst.

A31 26 They fled in cars and planes and ships. They pounded plywood A31 27 over doors and windows. They filled sandbags, and then more A31 28 sandbags. Some panicked. Some prayed. A few got drunk.

A31 29 Panic buying hit grocery stores and home-supply stores, money A31 30 machines were emptied, and everywhere residents in their cars lined A31 31 up for gas and then headed north along the few major A31 32 thorough-fares out.

A31 33 Virtually all employers throughout the region closed down for A31 34 at least today while school officials quickly delayed the start of A31 35 classes.

A31 36 By mid-afternoon, Gov. Lawton Chiles declared a state of A31 37 emergency, calling for a mandatory evacuation of more than A31 38 1-million people from coastal areas of Broward, Dade and the A31 39 northern Florida Keys.

A31 40 "This is right now the strongest storm that has hit A31 41 Florida since 1935," Chiles said. "It is stronger A31 42 at this stage than Hugo. The outlook for this is we can have major, A31 43 major property damage in South Florida.

A31 44 "Anybody that's thinking about riding this one out in an area A31 45 in which they've been told to evacuate is making a tragic A31 46 mistake," he said.

A31 47 Officials expected 127,000 permanent residents and tourists to A31 48 flee the Keys, 350,000 to evacuate Dade County and 200,000 to leave A31 49 Broward County. Chiles said there was enough space in the local A31 50 shelters for Southeast Florida's evacuees, though there was some A31 51 misinformation about where to go. Many people went to Jackson A31 52 Memorial Hospital in Miami only to find out it was not a shelter. A31 53 And many shelters were filled by Sunday evening with people being A31 54 re-routed to others.

A31 55 By 12:30 a.m. today, 50,000 people were in Dade County A31 56 shelters, with room for another 20,000. In all, 179 shelters in 19 A31 57 counties had been activated.

A31 58 Kate Hale, director of emergency management for Dade County, A31 59 said early today that the massive evacuation went smoothly, A31 60 although there was one glitch involving elderly and disabled A31 61 residents who needed special transportation to shelters.

A31 62 Plans called for the transportation to be provided by 50 school A31 63 buses. But only 19 buses were available Sunday because Dade County A31 64 officials couldn't find enough qualified drivers, Hale said.

A31 65 More than 2,000 people who had signed up in advance were bused A31 66 to shelters. But 50 to 100 elderly or disabled people who called A31 67 for rides after 7 p.m. Sunday were told no buses were available. A31 68 It's unclear how many of those people made it to safety.

A31 69 "I'm concerned that there were people out there who A31 70 needed help that we couldn't get to," Hale said.

A31 71 Broward Sheriff's officials complained through most of the day A31 72 that not enough people were going to the shelters. They feared that A31 73 too many people in evacuation zones were trying to ride out the A31 74 storm.

A31 75 At the Sheraton on the beach at Fort Lauderdale, A31 76 representatives from the Broward County Transit Authority pleaded A31 77 with guests to get on buses and go to emergency shelters. Refusal A31 78 was a second-degree misdemeanor.

A31 79 "Get an inflatable raft so you'll have something to A31 80 sleep on," bus driver Dennis Malone shouted to the guests. A31 81 "There's no more water in the stores, so get some sodas. A31 82 And get some food, but nothing with mayonnaise. Maybe get some A31 83 peanuts. You'll need the protein."

A31 84 Malone's supervisor, Tom Schillo, said few guests heeded the A31 85 advice. "We've only moved out 50 people, and we've been A31 86 here all day. We're trying to give helpful information to get A31 87 people out.

A31 88 "But we can't stay all night. If you're crazy enough to want to A31 89 stay here, I don't see why somebody should risk his life to get you A31 90 out."

A31 91 In Richmond Heights, more than 1,300 people crammed into an A31 92 evacuation center designed to hold 1,000. Food and medicine were A31 93 scarce, though there was a sudden turn for the better when Fred A31 94 Young, a local caterer, arrived at 10 p.m. with enough fried A31 95 chicken, baked chicken, chicken wings, yellow rice and corn to feed A31 96 500 people. It was all he had in the freezers, he said, after a A31 97 weekend of weddings. During the night, Young said, he and his staff A31 98 would make 1,000 sandwiches to bring to the shelter in the A31 99 morning.

A31 100 It was all a bit dizzying to two German tourists who wandered A31 101 in at about 11 p.m. Christa Behner and Gisela Hilgers of Cologne A31 102 had not heard the hurricane would be serious, so they went off A31 103 Sunday morning to Parrot Jungle, a tourist attraction near A31 104 Homestead. As they left Parrot Jungle, an attendant there sent them A31 105 to the emergency shelter. There, they said they wanted to go back A31 106 to their hotel on Miami Beach to get their passports. They were A31 107 gently told that Miami Beach had been completely off limits for A31 108 hours.

A31 109 The governor's executive order suspended all highway tolls A31 110 south of Orange County. Even so, traffic jams stretched for miles A31 111 while thousands of other fleeing residents headed for airports, A31 112 even as they were being closed.

A31 113 At the United Airlines ticket counter at Miami International A31 114 Airport, passengers were willing to pay virtually anything to get A31 115 out.

A31 116 "It was just a panic situation," said United A31 117 ticket agent James Pierce. "You would ask them where they A31 118 wanted to go and they would say, 'Anywhere.' You could book them to A31 119 Hong Kong, Germany - anywhere."

A31 120 Travelers at other airlines reported waits of more than three A31 121 hours just so they could be told that no seats were available. Some A31 122 people rented cars and drove to Orlando or Tampa, while others used A31 123 their suitcases as makeshift cots on the terminal floor.

A31 124 By 11 p.m., Miami International was closed, with some 2,500 A31 125 people stranded there for the night.

A31 126 At Fort Lauderdale International Airport, people were clamoring A31 127 to get on Continental Airlines' last flight of the day to Newark, A31 128 N.J.

A31 129 "We've seen hurricanes in New York, so we didn't want A31 130 to see one down here," said Ross Balkin, who with his wife, A31 131 Jodie, was headed home to Long Island.

A31 132 The airport was shutting down about 6 p.m. Sunday, said airport A31 133 spokesman Jim Reynolds. No stranded travelers would be allowed to A31 134 linger.

A31 135 "The highest place at the air-port is 12 feet A31 136 above sea level, and we're right next to Port Everglades, which is A31 137 a deep-water port," he said. "The airport is not a A31 138 safe place to be in a hurricane."

A31 139 Across the region, major institutions scrambled to prepare.

A31 140 Military and U.S. Customs air-craft based at Homestead A31 141 Air Force Base were being put in secure hangars or flown to safer A31 142 bases out of the storm area.

A31 143 State officials moved 1,120 prisoners out of facilities in A31 144 Dade, Collier and Monroe counties to points north.

A31 145 At Miami Metrozoo, keepers gathered up flamingos and put them A31 146 in the public restrooms.

A31 147 A Southern Bell spokesman said the phone company had 2,600 A31 148 workers in South Florida and another 1,000 workers out of state A31 149 standing ready to repair phone lines.

A31 150 The Miami Herald delivered 50,000 free papers to the A31 151 evacuation shelters Sunday night. The paper did not plan to publish A31 152 a paper this morning.

A31 153 "We couldn't even get our papers out there if we wanted A31 154 to," said Arden Dickey, vice president for circulation.

A31 155 About 250 Herald employees and family members were camped A31 156 out overnight in the paper's water-front building, designed A31 157 in 1963 to withstand 200-mph winds.

A31 158 Florida Power & Light's two nuclear reactors at Turkey Point A31 159 began going into a "hot shutdown" about 6 p.m. A31 160 Sunday, said spokesman Ray Golden. A hot shutdown lowers the A31 161 reactor temperature from 560 degrees to between 200 and 350 A31 162 degrees. This is done to guard against the sudden loss of cooling A31 163 water and the resulting risk of meltdown from overheated A31 164 uranium.

A31 165 The plant, designed to withstand a 22-foot storm surge, did not A31 166 go to complete shutdown because that would delay restoration of A31 167 power after the storm by at least 36 hours, Golden said.

A31 168 The state's largest hospital, the aforementioned Jackson A31 169 Memorial in Miami, canceled all non-emergency surgery A31 170 Sunday.

A31 171 Officials at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach were looking for A31 172 "alternative facilities" for some of their 370 A31 173 patients, but had no major evacuation plans.

A31 174 Some local hospitals were opening empty rooms to pregnant women A31 175 within three weeks of delivery. Officials warned on radio A31 176 broadcasts that the drastic change in barometric pressure has been A31 177 known to stimulate labor.

A31 178 Meanwhile, the National Guard sent a C-130 medical aircraft to A31 179 evacuate 24 patients from Fisherman's Hospital in Marathon in the A31 180 middle Florida Keys.

A31 181 Everywhere in South Florida on Sunday, life seemed an odd mix A31 182 of fear and excitement. This was, all were constantly reminded by A31 183 newscasters, "the big one" that has been talked A31 184 about for decades. But for many in this transient region, it was A31 185 also the first real hurricane they would face and there was A31 186 curiousity mixed in with the fear.

A31 187 Ramon Rosario, a cook at Wendy's and a would-be rap music star, A31 188 strolled along deserted Miami Beach listening to the latest A31 189 hurricane reports on a Walkman.

A31 190 "It ain't going to be what everybody is A31 191 expecting," he said. "I'm sticking A31 192 around."

A31 193 As a rapper, Rosario goes by the name Mo Chill. And that's how A31 194 he feels about Andrew: "I just chill. Why worry about A31 195 it?"

A31 196 A few minutes earlier, the Miami Beach police had shooed him A31 197 away from the water and told him to leave the area. But Rosario, a A31 198 25-year-old New Yorker who has lived in Florida only one year, A31 199 planned to stay in his fifth-floor apartment a few blocks from the A31 200 ocean and ride it out.

A31 201 "I want to see this Andrew thing," he said.

A31 202 Rosario was the exception. It appeared that most Miami Beach A31 203 residents had evacuated in plenty of time. At 5 p.m., the streets A31 204 were practically empty. At 7 p.m., police closed the bridges to the A31 205 beach.

A31 206 On Ocean Drive, facing the Atlantic Ocean, trendy night spots A31 207 and restaurants were boarded up, while homeless people wandered the A31 208 sidewalks panhandling the few people remaining on the deserted A31 209 streets. Others pushed shopping carts containing their few A31 210 belongings, or clung to plastic bags.

A31 211 "I can't imagine being here when the waves start A31 212 rolling in," Miami Beach firefighter Bob Sistik said as he A31 213 organized a group of seniors at a beachfront evacuation point. A31 214 "This whole place will be under at least 10 feet of water. A31 215 Everybody on the Beach must go."

A31 216 Two tourists from Holland found themselves stranded on South A31 217 Beach, wondering how dangerous their situation was and what their A31 218 options were.

A31 219 "Where are we to go?," said Irma Kreike. A31 220 "We have no place to go, do we? So we are just going to A31 221 stay here."

A31 222 They planned to stay in a $23-a-night first-floor room in an A31 223 old Art Deco-style hotel.

A31 224 "It won't come up to our door will it?" said A31 225 Johan Mendes. "How high could the water get?"

A31 226 Residents arriving at the luxurious Fountainbleau Hotel, A31 227 expecting to spend the night in a $175-suite, were herded back onto A31 228 chartered buses and taken to inland hotels.

A31 229 Just down the beach, Chris Woods and two friends weren't A31 230 worrying about the approaching storm. A31 231 A32 1 <#FROWN:A32\>Volunteers Winning War to Save Prairies

A32 2 By K.O. Dawes

A32 3 Nature Writer

A32 4 "The buckthorn stops here," is the slogan A32 5 adopted by the North Branch Prairie Project to celebrate its 15th A32 6 anniversary next month.

A32 7 Buckthorn, an invasive, European weed that kills native plants A32 8 with its shade, is one of the banes of prairie restoration, but A32 9 North Branch volunteers have battled it and other take-over plants A32 10 for years with matches and machetes.

A32 11 Now purple blazing stars, lavender monarda and legions of A32 12 goldenrods light up the nine prairie patches managed by the group A32 13 along the North Branch of the Chicago River.

A32 14 And in their seasons, according to their sites, pink shooting A32 15 stars, vibrant orange butterfly weeds, purple prairie clover, A32 16 columbines, pink-lavender Joe-Pye weeds and asters, white lady's A32 17 slippers and ladies' tresses orchids, gentians, false indigos, A32 18 golden hoary puccoons and purple milkweeds bloom in abundance.

A32 19 "We've learned you don't need a fancy degree to play an A32 20 important role in ecological restoration," said Steve A32 21 Packard, a founding member of the project and director of science A32 22 and stewardship for the Nature Conservancy of Illinois.

A32 23 "We have carpenters, nurses, computer programmers, A32 24 pharmacists, architects, lawyers and all kinds of people" A32 25 volunteering, he said. Last year 1,200 individuals logged 3,700 A32 26 hours working on the North Branch prairies.

A32 27 "They know more stuff now than most trained A32 28 biologists," he added.

A32 29 It began 15 years ago when a few bicyclists using the bike A32 30 paths in Morton Grove asked, "Gosh, what are those A32 31 plants?" said Karen Holland, a volunteer and editor of the A32 32 group's newsletter.

A32 33 On the cyclists' next outing, the plants - probably something A32 34 showy like blazing stars or cone flowers - had been mowed down. The A32 35 cyclists contacted the Cook County Forest Preserve District with A32 36 the idea of saving remnants of Illinois prairie with volunteer A32 37 labor.

A32 38 The idea took.

A32 39 From the first project at Wayside Woods Prairie the effort has A32 40 expanded to nine natural areas, the largest being the 200-acre A32 41 Somes Prairie and Groves in Northbrook, the smallest, Morton Grove A32 42 Prairie, a 1.2-acre virgin tract.

A32 43 Within Chicago city limits are Sauganash Prairie Grove, 25 A32 44 acres, and Edgebrook Flatwoods/Bunker Hill Prairie, 86 acres.

A32 45 But a funny thing happened on the way to restoring the prairie A32 46 - the volunteers realized that the grasslands studded with oak A32 47 trees that they encountered were not prairies, but their own A32 48 ecosystems - savannas.

A32 49 Prairies are now defined as grass-lands with forbs A32 50 (wildflowers) in full sun with no trees. Savannas are A32 51 grass-lands with oak canopies of up to 50 percent and A32 52 woodlands have more than 50 percent canopy cover, said Laurel Ross, A32 53 Northern Illinois field representative for the Nature A32 54 Conservancy.

A32 55 The wild prairie seeds that the volunteers had labored to A32 56 collect (51 garbage bags full last year alone) would not take when A32 57 thrown in the partial shade of the savannas. But some other plants A32 58 - thistles, cream gentians, yellow pimpernels, bottle-grass A32 59 and mullein foxglove - popped up when the land was cleared of A32 60 foreign brush.

A32 61 By consulting old settlers records Packard gradually realized A32 62 that the upstart plants were the natives of the "Illinois A32 63 barrens," the name settlers gave to the savannas.

A32 64 "I guess the most important thing we learned was what A32 65 happened when you got to the edge of the trees," said A32 66 Packard. "We used to burn the prairies but not the woods, A32 67 because people have this Smokey Bear sense of protecting the woods A32 68 from fire.

A32 69 "But in the Midwest, burning was as much a part of the woods as A32 70 the prairie." Thick, corky bark protected the burr oaks and A32 71 other trees from the prairie fires that scoured the landscape of A32 72 woody brush and fertilized it with ashes.

A32 73 These fires were originally set by lightning or Indians. Now, A32 74 controlled burns are the restorers' primary tool, but they have A32 75 other tricks. More than 100 amateurs grow prairie plants in home A32 76 gardens and donate the seeds.

A32 77 People were always a part of the prairie as predators or A32 78 cultivators, Packard said.

A32 79 "Nature needs people to care for it. Most Indian A32 80 [tribe] names mean the 'true people of this place.' The volunteer A32 81 stewards are becoming the true people of the nature A32 82 preserves," said Packard.

A32 83 A32 84 Robinson Defiant at Sentencing

A32 85 By Rosalind Rossi

A32 86 Federal Building Reporter

A32 87 Even in defeat, he was defiant.

A32 88 Chicago businessman Noah Robinson raised a clenched fist in a A32 89 sign of power Friday, after he was ordered to spend the rest of his A32 90 life in prison and assessed a $6 million fine on racketeering A32 91 charges.

A32 92 U.S. District Judge Marvin E. Aspen also ordered maximum A32 93 sentences for Robinson on five other counts - one of them a second A32 94 life sentence.

A32 95 After three prosecutions since 1989, Friday's sentence ensures A32 96 that Robinson "will never get out of prison," said A32 97 Assistant U.S. Attorney William Hogan Jr. The mandatory term of A32 98 life without parole came on charges that Robinson used El Rukn gang A32 99 members as hit men and partners in the heroin trade.

A32 100 Robinson, 48 and the father of eight, was among 65 El Rukns and A32 101 their associates to be indicted in 1989 and among the three most A32 102 dangerous defendants, Hogan said. Robinson kept a poster of 'The A32 103 Godfather' in his Chicago office and dreamed of becoming the A32 104 moblike "don" of his own Rukn "army of A32 105 killers," Hogan said.

A32 106 "He could have been the greatest example," A32 107 Hogan said of Robinson, who has a master's degree from the Wharton A32 108 School. "The tragedy is that he's the worst A32 109 possible."

A32 110 Hogan and co-prosecutors Ross Silverman and John Hartmann said A32 111 Robinson was responsible for the gang's "turning A32 112 point" in 1983, when he directed it to high-volume A32 113 heroin and cocaine dealers to raise bond money for jailed leader A32 114 Jeff Fort. The connections catapulted Robinson into a A32 115 multi-million-dollar partnership with Fort, Hogan said.

A32 116 Fort's former brother-in-law, "General" Henry Harris, A32 117 described at the trial how Robinson jumped up from his chair and A32 118 squealed with delight when his $333,000 cut of a $1 million heroin A32 119 deal was dumped on his office desk in 1985.

A32 120 Robinson also encouraged the gang to "let down their A32 121 braids" and venture into legitimate businesses as avenues A32 122 of drug laundering, "General" Eugene Hunter testified. A32 123 Hunter said Fort chose him to become the first El Rukn millionaire, A32 124 and ordered him to learn the fine points of business from A32 125 Robinson.

A32 126 There also was a violent side to Robinson, Hogan said.

A32 127 He used El Rukn hit men to kill a troublesome former employee A32 128 and to try to kill a former business partner, the prosecution A32 129 said.

A32 130 In addition, evidence indicated, he hired a longtime friend to A32 131 slit the throat of a South Carolina grand jury witness against him. A32 132 The witness, a woman, was stabbed six times but not killed.

A32 133 Robinson is serving a six-year prison term for skimming A32 134 $650,000 from six South Side Wendy's restaurants and a consecutive A32 135 10-year sentence for his role in the plot to kill the grand jury A32 136 witness.

A32 137 Friday's $6 million fine, imposed in case Robinson has a secret A32 138 cache of drug profits, is in addition to a $600,000 fine in the A32 139 Wendy's case and a $43,000 fine imposed for violating a court order A32 140 by writing 43 of his own motions in his racketeering case.

A32 141 Robinson resorted to writing even Friday. Rather than A32 142 addressing Aspen, he filed a 13-page typed statement, complete with A32 143 legal citations, exclamation marks and numerous passages underlined A32 144 for emphasis.

A32 145 Previously, the Robinson likened himself in writing to South A32 146 African leader Nelson Mandela and said he was the victim of a A32 147 political and racist conspiracy.

A32 148 "Mr. Robinson is not a victim of the political A32 149 apparatus," Aspen said in ordering a sentence that will not A32 150 be imposed until a post-trial motion on a companion El Rukn case is A32 151 resolved. "He is a victim of himself."

A32 152 A32 153 Hurt Drunken Drivers Rarely Ticketed: Panel

A32 154 By Gary Wisby

A32 155 Staff Writer

A32 156 Drunken but injured drivers rarely are ticketed for drunken A32 157 driving, panelists said Saturday at a meeting of the Alliance A32 158 Against Intoxicated Motorists.

A32 159 Dr. Richard J. Fantus, director of trauma services at Illinois A32 160 Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, said a study showed that only 7 A32 161 percent of intoxicated drivers treated there were charged.

A32 162 "We are tired of seeing these people coming in after A32 163 killing other people, without being able to do anything about A32 164 it," Fantus said.

A32 165 Even more dramatic data were noted in preliminary results of a A32 166 study being done by Northwestern University's Traffic Institute.

A32 167 Researcher Roy E. Lucke said medical records of 660 injured A32 168 drivers treated at two suburban trauma centers were compared with A32 169 police crash reports. As in the Illinois Masonic study, nearly half A32 170 were drunk but only 2 percent were ticketed for driving under the A32 171 influence, he said.

A32 172 The panelists spoke at a meeting in a Schaumburg hotel marking A32 173 AAIM's 10th anniversary. They blamed:

A32 174 <*_>bullet<*/>Lack of cooperation by hospitals. One reason is A32 175 that emergency rooms often are too crowded for police officers A32 176 "to get anywhere near the patient," Fantus said. He A32 177 said staffers are more concerned about treating patients than A32 178 collecting evidence.

A32 179 <*_>bullet<*/>Time constraints. Police frequently don't reach a A32 180 crash scene until the driver already has been taken to a hospital, A32 181 Lucke said. They gather information by phone without ever seeing A32 182 the offender, he said. A former volunteer paramedic, the NU A32 183 researcher said he had heard many drunken drivers plead, A32 184 "I'm injured. Get me to the hospital before the cops get A32 185 here."

A32 186 <*_>bullet<*/>Sympathy. "Especially with single-vehicle A32 187 crashes ... the officer says, 'This one has got enough troubles. A32 188 I've got other things to do, and I'm going to go do them,'" A32 189 Lucke said.

A32 190 Fantus called for legislation requiring medical personnel to A32 191 report DUI cases, just as they must notify authorities of child A32 192 abuse. The law also could mandate alcohol testing of all injured A32 193 drivers.

A32 194 Reached after the meeting, Skokic attorney Larry A. Davis said A32 195 a 1988 law already specifies that hospital blood tests, the most A32 196 accurate indicator, may be used in DUI prosecutions.

A32 197 And legislation effective last year says DUI testing can be A32 198 required of people who are hurt in crashes.

A32 199 A32 200 Singles Swap Shoes, Pickup Lines At Zazz's Get-together for A32 201 Charity

A32 202 By Philip Franchine

A32 203 Staff Writer

A32 204 Jennifer Jurges knows how to pick a single man: by his A32 205 shoes.

A32 206 The 26-year-old Tinley Park woman Friday night threw her left A32 207 sandal (from a Greenwich Village shop) into a pile of shoes on the A32 208 floor of the China Club, 616 W. Fulton, drew out a shiny-black A32 209 man's shoe, then held it aloft waiting for the owner to claim A32 210 it.

A32 211 Jurges' approach?

A32 212 "It looked like a businessman's shoe - well polished, A32 213 black, kind of like a wingtip" but not as busy, Jurges A32 214 said.

A32 215 The shoe-matching game was one of many ways in which singles A32 216 could meet at the fourth annual All That Zazz Bash for singles A32 217 sponsored by Sun-Times advice columnist Jeffrey Zaslow.

A32 218 Jurges guessed right: The black shoe belonged to Dana Marzillo, A32 219 30, of Palatine, whom she described as "cute and well A32 220 dressed" and with whom she carried on an animated A32 221 conversation for some time.

A32 222 With a big smile, Marzillo said, "We're eloping A32 223 tonight," then decided he wanted to know more about Jurges. A32 224 "Let me see your notes," he said to a reporter.

A32 225 The party was a benefit for the Chicago Sun-Times Charity A32 226 Trust.

A32 227 "It's a congenial crowd," said North Sider A32 228 Diana, 41. "There are a lot of nice people here." A32 229 Earlier, she said friends "dragged" her to the party A32 230 because it was "time to get out" after breaking up A32 231 a relationship.

A32 232 Other events included a dance contest and a competition seeking A32 233 the best flirting methods.

A32 234 "Faint. It's very effective," advised John A32 235 Panozzo, 44, of Tinley Park, who won a compact disc for his A32 236 answer.

A32 237 "The men who come here are here to meet women, and they A32 238 are ready for a relationship, marriage, kids," said Jodi, A32 239 36, of the North Side.

A32 240 Activities continue today at Zazz's Singles Symposium, at the A32 241 Hyatt Regency Hotel, 151 E. Wacker, which will include talks titled A32 242 "Sexual Etiquette in the '90s," "Cold Feet A32 243 - Why Men Won't Commit" and "Letting Go and Moving A32 244 On."

A32 245 A32 246 Cabbies Threaten Big Tie-up A32 247 The leader of a group of Chicago cabdrivers upset over violence A32 248 against cabbies said Saturday they will shut down a major city A32 249 highway or drive unless the City Council requires cab companies to A32 250 put bulletproof shields in taxis.

A32 251 A33 1 <#FROWN:A33\>Upping the Pressure On Serbian Aggression

A33 2 The U.N., the E.C. and the Orthodox Church condemn Belgrade's A33 3 war

A33 4 FINALLY, IMPELLED BY SCENES OF CIVILIAN slaughter in Sarajevo, A33 5 the U.S. and its European allies went to work last week to impose A33 6 economic sanctions on Serbia. The Serbs, who fill the ranks of both A33 7 regular and irregular forces, are now seen as the main aggressors A33 8 in the war in the ruins of Yugoslavia.

A33 9 Though the Serbs make up only a third of the population of A33 10 Bosnia-Herzegovina, they are, says U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia A33 11 Warren Zimmermann, "trying to take over two-thirds of the A33 12 country." In their campaign to carve out a Greater Serbia A33 13 and expel Croats and Slavic Muslims, the Serbs have created A33 14 hundreds of thousands of refugees; Serbs have been pushed out by A33 15 Croats and Muslims in response. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros A33 16 Boutros-Ghali said, in a report to the Security Council, it was the A33 17 largest uprooting of population "in Europe since the Second A33 18 World War."

A33 19 In Brussels, the European Community imposed economic sanctions A33 20 at midweek. The Serbian Orthodox Church said it was "openly A33 21 distancing itself" from the government. Then came the A33 22 revolting images of death in Sarajevo's marketplace, and the U.S., A33 23 Britain and France pressed the U.N. Security Council to impose A33 24 full, mandatory sanctions. "Diplomacy and persuasion have A33 25 been used for some time and they now need the reinforcement of A33 26 sanctions," said British Prime Minister John Major.

A33 27 Russia and China, who are permanent members of the Council, and A33 28 among Yugoslavia's main suppliers of oil, had been reluctant to go A33 29 along with the sanctions plan. Its measures range from a complete A33 30 trade embargo, including oil shipments, to cutting air links and A33 31 freezing Serbian assets abroad. After quiet negotiations, the A33 32 Security Council passed the resolution Saturday. Even so, no one A33 33 was predicting that Serbia and its hard-nosed President Slobodan A33 34 Milosevic would quickly move to end the bloodshed.

A33 35 A33 36 Fresh Faces,

A33 37 Fresh Starts?

A33 38 Austria and Italy choose leaders to restore prestige at home A33 39 and abroad

A33 40 STUCK IN POLITICAL QUAGMIRES, TWO EUROPEAN neighbors hope their A33 41 new Presidents will not stand on ceremony but pull them out of A33 42 trouble. Thomas Klestil, 59, of the conservative Austrian People's A33 43 Party, upset the ruling Social Democratic Party's candidate in a A33 44 runoff election last weekend. Klestil won the presidency by the A33 45 largest margin in 40 years. Key to that victory was support from A33 46 far-right voters whose own candidate had been eliminated. Klestil, A33 47 a former envoy to Washington, played down the swing vote, mindful A33 48 of the task ahead: repairing Austria's international standing after A33 49 the stigma of Kurt Waldheim's presidency.

A33 50 In Italy a death was needed to produce a President, nearly two A33 51 months after inconclusive general eclections. The funeral for top A33 52 Mafia fighter Giovanni Falcone, assassinated by a bomb blast, A33 53 became a protest over the delay in forming a government when A33 54 mourners chanted insults at visiting party bosses. Shaken, the A33 55 bosses picked Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 73, the Christian Democratic A33 56 Speaker of the lower house of Parliament, to succeed Francesco A33 57 Cossiga. Scalfaro must now tackle the same Mafia terror to which he A33 58 owes his election.

A33 59 A33 60 The Most Amazing Show Trial Ever

A33 61 In an explosive court case, Russia will put the communist Party A33 62 in the dock

A33 63 THE APOTHEOSIS OF TOTALITARIANISM; THE Communist Party of the A33 64 Soviet Union, will be remembered by Russians for replacing czarist A33 65 repression with wholesale slaughter by the Commissars: tens of A33 66 millions perished in a welter of purges, deportations and terror. A33 67 So it comes as a delicious irony reminiscent of the regime's A33 68 infamous show trials that communist orthodoxy has itself become the A33 69 target of an inquisition. To complete the party's fall, the Russian A33 70 government announced it will argue before the nation's highest A33 71 court that the C.P.S.U. was not actually a political entity but a A33 72 criminal organization. The aim, says Sergei Shakhrai, leader of A33 73 Boris Yeltsin's legal team, is to turn the hearing into A33 74 "the second Nuremberg trial of this century."

A33 75 While the proceedings are more morality play than criminal A33 76 inquest, the evidence could prove incendiary. The government has A33 77 promised to release a "special dossier" dating back A33 78 to 1917 that contains some of the C.P.S.U.'s most closely guarded A33 79 secrets. One tantalizing sample unveiled by Shakhrai: a 1975 KGB A33 80 directive to provide arms to a Palestinian terrorist organization A33 81 for "operations against American and Israeli personnel in A33 82 third countries."

A33 83 Whether the trial can exorcise the demons of the past and A33 84 forever bar communists from power, as the government seems to hope, A33 85 the hearing will be of little help in enabling Yeltsin to extract A33 86 his nation from its present economic tailspin. A trip through A33 87 Siberia offered a glimpse of the toll this struggle has taken on A33 88 the President: barely a year into his tenure, Yeltsin announced to A33 89 a group of cheering workers that he would not be seeking A33 90 re-election for a second term. It was unclear whether the crowd's A33 91 enthusiasm had more to do with the President's plans or with the A33 92 cargo plane that accompanied him: it carried 500 million rubles for A33 93 unpaid wages.

A33 94 A33 95 The Generals Continue To Hold On

A33 96 Thailand's military loses a battle but is not ready to A33 97 retreat

A33 98 THE THOUSANDS OF THAIS WHO TOOK TO THE streets in the name of A33 99 democracy last month had two objectives: to force the resignation A33 100 of an unelected army officer as Prime Minister and, more broadly, A33 101 to end the military's dominance of politics. After great bloodshed, A33 102 the demonstrators won on the first score when Suchinda Kraprayoon A33 103 stepped down from the premiership. The official count of those A33 104 killed when troops opened fire on protesters stands at 53, but an A33 105 Interior Ministry spokesman said last week that more than 500 A33 106 people are still unaccounted for.

A33 107 Parliament met the day after Suchinda went into hiding, and it A33 108 quickly approved a constitutional amendment requiring future Prime A33 109 Ministers to be elected members of the national legislature. A33 110 Another provision would limit the powers of the military-controlled A33 111 Senate. Final action on the constitutional reforms will be taken A33 112 next week. Still, the goal of breaking the military's grip on A33 113 political life is not yet within reach. The leading candidate to A33 114 succeed Suchinda as Prime Minister is Somboon Rahong, a member of A33 115 parliament but also a former air force officer and therefore A33 116 unacceptable to the opposition. They warned that his appointment A33 117 would set off more street demonstrations, and offered New A33 118 Aspiration Party leader Chavalit Yongchaiyudh as an alternative. A33 119 Another potential flash point is the last-minute amnesty Suchinda A33 120 handed himself and his military cronies, a step many Thais believe A33 121 is illegal.

A33 122 A33 123 Sibling Warfare Before The Rio Summit

A33 124 Brazil's President is accused by his brother of involvement in A33 125 corruption

A33 126 ASK ANY OLDER CHILD: A YOUNGER SIBLING JUST loves to mess up a A33 127 big event. As President Fernando Collor de Mello was preparing to A33 128 welcome 100 heads of state to the Earth Summit in Rio, charges A33 129 erupted in Brazil's press that he was involved with cocaine and A33 130 corruption. The source of the mudslinging was none other than his A33 131 younger brother Pedro, 39, who accused the President of using Paulo A33 132 C<*_>e-acute<*/>sar Farias, the treasurer of his 1989 election A33 133 campaign, as a front man for various illicit activities.

A33 134 Farias, said Pedro, has built a multimillion-dollar empire A33 135 through kickbacks for government contracts that were arranged with A33 136 help from the Chief Executive. One of the President's rewards, his A33 137 sibling said, was a $2.7 million apartment in Paris. Pedro Mello A33 138 (he uses his father's surname, while Fernando uses that of his A33 139 mother) also claimed that his older brother had 'induced' him to A33 140 use cocaine back in the 1960s. The President, 42, told Brazilians A33 141 on national television that the charges were false, that he had A33 142 ordered a police investigation, and that he would sue his brother A33 143 for libel. The Congress appointed a commission of inquiry - but A33 144 only to look into charges of wrongdoing against Farias.

A33 145 Even before the allegations against Collor were published, his A33 146 mother Leda had dismissed Pedro, her youngest son, as head of the A33 147 family business, a media group based in the northeastern state of A33 148 Alagoas. She claimed that he was suffering from emotional problems. A33 149 Mello took psychiatric tests to prove that he was sane. Later he A33 150 admitted that he had no direct proof of his brother's corruption A33 151 and backed away from his original accusations - at his mother's A33 152 behest, he said. "Mama put it this way: Family is A33 153 family."

A33 154 A33 155 Rebels on the Run

A33 156 More than 50 die in a Colombian push against leftist A33 157 insurgents

A33 158 ARMY COMMANDER GENERAL LUIS EDUARDO ROCA had had enough. A33 159 Colombia's leftist guerrillas, angry because the government had cut A33 160 off peace talks in Mexico, were on a terror spree, overrunning nine A33 161 villages across the country, adding 12 people to the 250 they A33 162 already held hostage and dynamiting the country's most important A33 163 oil pipeline four times. In response, Roca launched the most A33 164 comprehensive effort yet to win a military victory in Colombia's A33 165 36-year-old war against a variety of insurgents. At week's end, A33 166 more than 50 people, including 19 soldiers, had died in rural A33 167 battles between 1,400 U.S.-trained government troops and fighters A33 168 of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) and the National A33 169 Liberation Army (E.L.N). By one report, FARC's longtime leader, A33 170 Manuel Marulanda, 58, had fled to Peru.

A33 171 A33 172 The Republicans Battle over Abortion

A33 173 The party platform will not find room for pro-lifers

A33 174 SEPARATED BY A BROAD AVENUE AND A SCORE OF cops, two knots of A33 175 demonstrators in Salt Lake City, Utah, debated the abortion issue A33 176 with chants and placards. THE TIME TO CHOOSE IS BEFORE A33 177 BEDTIME, advised a pro-lifer sign. PARTY PLATFORM: A33 178 OUT OF BOARD-ROOMS, INTO WOMEN'S WOMBS took the A33 179 originality prize among the pro-choicers. Ann Stone, a conservative A33 180 who usually supports the President, elicited smiles on both sides A33 181 of West Temple Street when she cracked, "George Bush knows A33 182 there are pro-choice Republicans; he's married to one!"

A33 183 There was no good humour indoors at the official proceedings A33 184 last week, as the Republican Platform Committee staged its hearing A33 185 on social questions. Since 1980 the platform has taken a hard line A33 186 against abortion. Now, with the U.S. Supreme Court poised to A33 187 undermine or demolish a woman's right to an abortion, many A33 188 Republicans want the party to moderate its stance. Stone, a A33 189 direct-mail entrepreneur who has raised millions for conservative A33 190 causes, is collecting money for pro-choice candidates.

A33 191 She told the platform drafters that a party opposed to A33 192 government intrusion into other sectors of society has no business A33 193 promoting antiabortion legislation. "Are you all A33 194 Republicans?" she demanded rhetorically. "I'm not A33 195 clear on that." Mary Dent Crisp, a moderate who once served A33 196 as the party's co-chair, warned of wholesale defections at A33 197 the polls: "A woman's fundamental right to choose is far A33 198 more important than party loyalty."

A33 199 While the rebellion by Stone, Crisp and others captured media A33 200 attention, their opponents held the high cards. Phyllis Schlafly, A33 201 head of the Republican National Coalition for Life, insisted that A33 202 neither Bush as a candidate nor the party as an institution could A33 203 afford to waffle "on a high moral principle." The A33 204 Bush campaign's representatives at the session quietly agreed. A33 205 Campaign officials, who control the platform, will permit no A33 206 compromise language and will probably be able to quash efforts to A33 207 debate the issue at the Houston convention. A representative of the A33 208 National Abortion Rights Action League murmured, "This is A33 209 an exercise in futility."

A33 210 But from Bush's viewpoint, the exercise is also painful. While A33 211 his stance mollifies the moral conservatives whose support he must A33 212 have in the November election, it offends moderates whose votes he A33 213 would love to claim too. The House of Representatives gave him A33 214 another headache by voting, 260 to 148, to overturn the A33 215 Administration's ban on the use of fetal tissue obtained from A33 216 planned abortions for medical research. The restriction had been A33 217 imposed in response to pro-lifers' contention that use of such A33 218 tissue increases the number of abortions. Bush promises a veto, A33 219 which will amost certinly stick. His bona fides with his party's A33 220 far-right wing will be strengthened, but so will the argument that A33 221 he is a prisoner of a minority faction.

A33 222 A33 223 Closed-Door Policy

A33 224 Bush switches signal on the Haitian boat people

A33 225 PRESIDENT BUSH MAY HAVE UNWITTINGLY COINED himself a new A33 226 campaign slogan: "Read my lips. No new Haitians." A33 227 A34 1 <#FROWN:A34\>Bank bailout called near certainty

A34 2 Taxpayers' tab may top $100 billion

A34 3 FROM EXAMINER STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS

A34 4 Despite record profits this year, the banking system is still A34 5 in trouble and almost certainly will require a taxpayer bailout A34 6 that could exceed $100 billion, according to a new study.

A34 7 "America now has two banking industries. One is strong, A34 8 profitable and internationally competitive. The other is A34 9 dying," wrote economists Roger J. Vaughan, a Santa Fe, A34 10 N.M., consultant, and Edward W. Hill, a professor at Cleveland A34 11 State University.

A34 12 In 'Banking on the Brink: The Troubled Future of American A34 13 Finance,' the economists estimate that out of 12,000 U.S. banks A34 14 with $3.4 trillion in assets, 1,500 banks with $1 trillion in A34 15 assets "are in deep trouble."

A34 16 Among the lenders it labeled "Crippled Giants" A34 17 were Wells Fargo & Co. and Security Pacific Corp. Both, according A34 18 to the study, began the year with "severe shortages of A34 19 capital" and could have a difficult time meeting tougher A34 20 equity standards, given the weak California real estate market. A34 21 (Los Angeles-based Security Pacific was merged into BankAmerica A34 22 Corp. earlier this year.)

A34 23 At Wells, officials took issue with the report's findings and A34 24 methods. "This is the kind of superficial analysis that A34 25 people have been doing for years," said Wells' investor A34 26 relations director, Leslie Altick. "They're giving a A34 27 broad-brush analysis of the market that we think is A34 28 wrong."

A34 29 She said because the study was based on 1991 year-end figures, A34 30 it was out of date and misleading. "We have been adding A34 31 substantially to our capital ratios and are A34 32 well-capitalized" by regulatory standards.

A34 33 The authors of the "briefing book" went on to A34 34 say that of the 1,500 "troubled" banks, 1,150 were A34 35 "now insolvent - and would be shuttered if their books A34 36 revealed the true value of their assets."

A34 37 Although extremely low interest rates - probably a temporary A34 38 phenomenon - have boosted industry profits this year, the A34 39 underlying deterioration in banks' commercial real estate loans A34 40 remains, they said.

A34 41 If regulators immediately close weak banks, the cost to the A34 42 Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. would range from $45 billion to $59 A34 43 billion, they said. But if, as they expect, the closure of weak A34 44 banks is delayed, the cost to the FDIC will range from $75 billion A34 45 to $95 billion, according to the study.

A34 46 That would swamp the banking industry's ability to repay the A34 47 FDIC's federally backed borrowing and "means some form of A34 48 taxpayer bailout for the bank insurance system is virtually A34 49 certain," the authors said.

A34 50 Vaughan and Hill's estimate of FDIC losses is the highest yet. A34 51 Several private economists have put the losses in the $50 billion A34 52 range. The FDIC projects costs of $39 billion to $48 billion, while A34 53 the White House Office of Management and Budget predicts a $72 A34 54 billion cost.

A34 55 Bankers, who have been fighting higher FDIC insurance premiums, A34 56 have much lower estimates. Analyst Bert Ely of Alexandria, Va., a A34 57 consultant to the Association of Bank Holding Companies, projects A34 58 FDIC costs at $15 billion to $20 billion.

A34 59 At the crux of the disagreement is whether loans should be on A34 60 the banks' books at current market value or at their original A34 61 value. In California, for instance, where real estate values have A34 62 tumbled, a loan originally worth $500,000 might only be worth A34 63 $400,000 now.

A34 64 Banks such as Wells do write down the value of loans but only A34 65 when the lender doubts the borrower's ability to repay, not based A34 66 on general real estate market conditions.

A34 67 A34 68 Bargain hunters on the prowl

A34 69 Investors hungry for good stock buys

A34 70 By Kathleen Sullivan

A34 71 OF THE EXAMINER STAFF

A34 72 In the public lobby of Charles Schwab & Co.'s office on A34 73 Montgomery Street, investors waited patiently in line for a chance A34 74 to use a Quotron machine to check stock prices and get the latest A34 75 Wall Street news. Others watched the parade of prices march across A34 76 a neon green electronic ticker tape from a row of built-in A34 77 seats.

A34 78 Some came hunting for bargains on Monday, searching for good A34 79 buys after the Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 105 A34 80 points in the first two hours of trading. The index of 30 key A34 81 stocks - a barometer of the stock market's health - gained steadily A34 82 throughout the afternoon to close at 3,179, down 21.61 points.

A34 83 Tom Taggart, a spokesman for discount broker Charles Schwab, A34 84 said the market rallied in the afternoon as individuals and A34 85 institutions bought up undervalued stocks.

A34 86 The crowd at Charles Schwab was a little larger than normal for A34 87 a Monday morning, said Ray Brann, who comes to "visit his A34 88 money" every day.

A34 89 Brann took the stock market's current gyrations in stride. He A34 90 compared the stock market to the new movie 'Mr. Saturday Night,' a A34 91 portrait of the life and times of a Jewish comedian from his youth A34 92 until age 72. In the stock market - as in life - things change, A34 93 Brann said.

A34 94 "The market can't keep going up and up," he A34 95 said. "It has to have its peaks and valleys, otherwise A34 96 there would just be robots here buying stocks and that would be no A34 97 fun."

A34 98 Brann said the current stock market presents more opportunities A34 99 to make money than to lose it. But Brann said he's too old to take A34 100 risks with his money, which is invested in railroad, utility and A34 101 oil stocks. "At my age, I don't even buy green A34 102 bananas," he said with a smile.

A34 103 Another stock market aficionado in the Charles Schwab lobby A34 104 said investors are concerned, but not panicking about the stock A34 105 market. However, he warned that if the market takes a precipitous A34 106 fall, that would be the last straw for the nation, which has been A34 107 battered by layoffs, corporate cutbacks and high unemployment A34 108 rates, and it would signal the end of George Bush's presidency.

A34 109 "George Bush's chances of getting re-elected now are A34 110 poor," he said. "If the stock market continues to A34 111 fall, his chances will be zero."

A34 112 Ed Cole, who is vacationing in The City and stopped by Charles A34 113 Schwab's office to check out the latest stock market news, said he A34 114 hopes the market will continue to fall this week, so that A34 115 overpriced stocks will reach a "reasonable A34 116 level."

A34 117 Cole said he owns some stocks, and is waiting for the right A34 118 moment to invest in more. "There will come a point when A34 119 stocks become so unpopular that people don't even want to talk A34 120 about them," he said. "That's when I'll start A34 121 looking at stocks."

A34 122 A34 123 Pressure on Fed to drop rates

A34 124 Market news adds to grim outlook

A34 125 By Martin Crutsinger

A34 126 ASSOCIATED PRESS

A34 127 WASHINGTON - A sharp drop in U.S. stock prices on Monday A34 128 underscored the economy's bleak prospects and added renewed A34 129 pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, analysts A34 130 said.

A34 131 Many economists forecast that further rate cuts could come at A34 132 the end of a key meeting of Fed policy makers Tuesday.

A34 133 If the Fed does move, analysts said that a variety of consumer A34 134 and business interest rates, already at levels not seen in more A34 135 than two decades, will fall as well.

A34 136 But they were not at all certain that a new round of rate cuts A34 137 would have any more impact than 24 previous reductions in curing A34 138 what ails a sick economy.

A34 139 Rate-cut speculation gained urgency Monday after the Dow Jones A34 140 industrial average plunged by more than 100 points in early A34 141 trading. It later recovered, when traders, believing it had hit A34 142 bottom, began buying. Nonetheless, the index still closed down A34 143 21.61, at 3,179, the lowest finish since the first day of trading A34 144 this year, Jan. 2, when it ended the day at 3,172.41.

A34 145 Some analysts blamed Monday's sell-off, which followed a A34 146 54-point drop on Friday, on investor disappointment that the Fed A34 147 did not immediately act to lower interest rates following release A34 148 of the unemployment report Friday.

A34 149 That report, the last before the November election, showed that A34 150 while the overall unemployment rate dipped to 7.5 percent in A34 151 September, 57,000 Americans were laid off as the job market A34 152 remained extremely weak.

A34 153 "The big sell-off is what the Fed gets for not easing A34 154 on Friday," said Michael Evans, head of a Washington A34 155 economic consulting firm. "The only thing that has been A34 156 supporting stock prices all year long is that every time it looked A34 157 like the economy was failing, the Fed would come along and ease A34 158 again."

A34 159 Other economists noted that the Wall Street tailspin followed A34 160 declines Monday in stock prices in Tokyo and Europe.

A34 161 Analysts cited various factors such as the continued turmoil on A34 162 European currency exchanges and widespread economic weakness not A34 163 only in the United States but also in Europe and Japan as major A34 164 contributing factors to the market jitters.

A34 165 "A worldwide recession is a distinct possibility and A34 166 stock markets are selling off on that concern," said Allen A34 167 Sinai, chief economist of the Boston Co.

A34 168 "The U.S. economy is in deep, deep difficulty. Germany A34 169 continues to run a very dangerous high-interest rate policy that A34 170 could bring down all of Europe and Japan is going nowhere," A34 171 Sinai said.

A34 172 Economists said that while the overall U.S. economy has been A34 173 growing since the spring of 1991, the recovery has been the weakest A34 174 on record despite the Fed's repeated moves to push interest rates A34 175 down over the last three years.

A34 176 "I am not nervous about another recession. I am worried A34 177 about how we are going to get out of this one," said David A34 178 Wyss, an economist at DRI-McGraw Hill Inc.

A34 179 Many analysts said they believe the Fed will have no choice but A34 180 to lower interest rates again given the fact that high federal A34 181 budget deficits have eliminated the possibility of boosting A34 182 government spending or cutting taxes to stimulate a weak A34 183 economy.

A34 184 Some economists said they were looking for the Fed to cut its A34 185 discount rate, the interest that it charges banks, from 3 percent A34 186 down to 2.5 percent, which would put this bellwether rate at its A34 187 lowest point in 33 years.

A34 188 Analysts said that any reduction in the discount rate would be A34 189 accompanied by another cut in the Fed's target for the federal A34 190 funds rate, the interest that banks charge each other on overnight A34 191 loans. This rate, currently at 3 percent, was last reduced by the A34 192 Fed on Sept. 4. The last discount rate cut occurred on July 2.

A34 193 If their expectations on Fed moves are correct, analysts said A34 194 they believed that various consumer and business loan rates would A34 195 promptly decline. They forecast that banks' prime lending rate, to A34 196 which many business and consumer loans are tied, would drop from A34 197 the current 6 percent to 5.5 percent. That would be the lowest A34 198 level for the prime rate in two decades.

A34 199 Analysts did not expect as dramatic a change in long-term A34 200 mortgage rates, which in recent weeks have fallen to levels not A34 201 seen since 1973. The national average for fixed-rate loans stood at A34 202 7.93 percent last week, according to a survey done by the Federal A34 203 Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

A34 204 Economists said that long-term interest rates, which are more A34 205 tied to movements in financial markets, may not fall further given A34 206 investors' concerns that a victory by Bill Clinton might spell A34 207 higher budget deficits if the Democrat decides to boost federal A34 208 spending to get the economy going again regardless of what it might A34 209 do to the deficit.

A34 210 "If Clinton gets in, he will turn to fiscal stimulus A34 211 and that will mean higher deficits," Evans said. A34 212 "The markets are concerned about who will buy that extra A34 213 debt."

A34 214 A34 215 Market pessimism may jeopardize area economy

A34 216 High-tech, biotech firms endangered

A34 217 By Sally Lehrman

A34 218 OF THE EXAMINER STAFF

A34 219 The stock market's gyrations could hurt the technology and A34 220 biotechnology companies leading the Bay Area economy - and A34 221 consumers may stash their cash under a mattress instead of spending A34 222 in local stores, economists and market watchers said.

A34 223 If the market pessimism continues, local technology and A34 224 biotechnology companies could feel some pain, said Michael Murphy, A34 225 editor of the California Technology Stock Letter in Half Moon Bay. A34 226 These companies have relied on the public markets to raise money A34 227 for research and development as bank loans have become more A34 228 difficult to obtain. And they count on strong share prices to keep A34 229 their employees feeling wealthy and motivated.

A34 230 Fortunately, many biotech companies have already tapped into A34 231 public offerings for financing this year and the older technology A34 232 companies can support their research with sales.

A34 233 A35 1 <#FROWN:A35\>Investors May Seek Vote on Executive Pay A35 2 Consultants

A35 3 BY GILBERT FUCHSBERG

A35 4 Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

A35 5 The controversy over executive pay is escalating again.

A35 6 Some of the nation's biggest investors and shareholder groups A35 7 are considering pushing a new plan: Let shareholders vote each year A35 8 on a company's choice of pay consultant, much as they already do on A35 9 a company's auditor.

A35 10 The groups also intend to target companies that are reported to A35 11 be threatening compensation consultants who discuss pay plans with A35 12 government regulators and media organizations.

A35 13 Supporters of these moves, including some of the nation's A35 14 biggest pension plans, say they consider the steps essential to A35 15 curb what they see as excesses in the compensation of many top A35 16 executives.

A35 17 The most striking element of their plans is the proposal for A35 18 shareholder votes on compensation consultants, who have gained A35 19 increasing visibility and influence in corporate boardrooms as the A35 20 pay debate has developed. Proponents believe that if they can wrest A35 21 control of the consultants away from management, they can better A35 22 control the pay packages the consultants recommend.

A35 23 The proposal faces an uphill fight. It hasn't been formalized A35 24 yet and would require approval from the Securities and Exchange A35 25 Commission, where it would probably face stiff opposition from A35 26 companies.

A35 27 But the Council of Institutional Investors in Washington, D.C., A35 28 the principal trade group for pension funds, says it will discuss A35 29 seeking SEC approval of the plan when it convenes next month.

A35 30 "We've let management have control of the consultants A35 31 for a long time, but the world needn't be that way," said A35 32 Carol O'Cleireacain, who heads the council's executive committee. A35 33 "The independence of the consultants must be A35 34 guaranteed." Ms. O'Cleireacain is also New York City's A35 35 commissioner of finance and helps direct five pension funds with A35 36 some $49 billion in assets.

A35 37 In interviews, several other members of the council, including A35 38 those who help direct big pension funds in California and New A35 39 Jersey, expressed support for the plan. They said they hoped that A35 40 the SEC would approve the plan, citing the commission's recent move A35 41 to allow shareholder votes on pay policies and its proposals to A35 42 improve disclosures about executive pay in company proxy A35 43 statements.

A35 44 If approved, shareholder voting on compensation consultants A35 45 would be a blow to corporate executives and directors, who have A35 46 held the power to hire and fire consultants and other advisers. A35 47 Shareholder groups contend that compensation consultants are so A35 48 beholden to management that they can't help but endorse generous A35 49 executive pay practices.

A35 50 The SEC declined to comment on the matter. A spokesman for the A35 51 Business Roundtable, a New York-based group of corporate executives A35 52 that has opposed efforts to increase regulation of executive pay, A35 53 called the plan "completely unnecessary."

A35 54 The spokesman added: "By the same token, you can have A35 55 shareholders review every consultant you have, from design A35 56 consultants to management consultants to pollution A35 57 consultants."

A35 58 Thomas E. Jones, executive vice president of A35 59 Citicorp, said it was "somewhat strange that of A35 60 all the services rendered to a corporation, someone would focus on A35 61 compensation consultants." While companies are required to A35 62 undergo an annual audit, he noted, not all companies hire A35 63 consultants on pay issues.

A35 64 Mr. Jones said, "It strikes me as being somewhat of a A35 65 sledgehammer to an issue that is already fully vented."

A35 66 Several compensation consultants also reacted negatively to the A35 67 idea, rejecting any comparison with auditors and suggesting that A35 68 shareholders aren't qualified to judge their work.

A35 69 "Auditors certify, but we don't certify anything. We A35 70 provide information and advice," said Geoffrey A. Wiegman, A35 71 director of compensation consulting for Buck Consultants, A35 72 New York. "The concept of having shareholders approve the A35 73 hiring of advisers, which is what we are, would be a A35 74 mistake."

A35 75 Jude Rich, chairman of consultants Sibson & Co., A35 76 Princeton, N.J., termed the idea "window dressing, just A35 77 like the auditor's choice is," and asked: "When's A35 78 the last time anyone voted down an auditor?"

A35 79 Dallas M. Kersey, a principal with consultants Towers A35 80 Perrin, New York, said his firm believes that "the A35 81 issue of an executive's pay and how that pay relates to performance A35 82 issues is an extremely complicated one that is extremely difficult A35 83 for an outsider to pass good quality judgment on."

A35 84 Institutional investors are targeting corporate ties to A35 85 compensation consultants partly in reaction to reports that some A35 86 companies are pressuring consultants to avoid cooperating with A35 87 requests for executive pay information from news organizations and A35 88 regulators. These consultants said the pressure, reported this week A35 89 in the New York Times, has included letters and calls from clients A35 90 suggesting that the clients may pull business if the cooperation A35 91 doesn't stop.

A35 92 Several big shareholders, saying they find the pressure tactics A35 93 offensive, have vowed to increase their vigilance on pay issues. A35 94 They said they will target for scrutiny some high-paying companies A35 95 that unduly pressure consultants.

A35 96 "This will double and triple our efforts to see that A35 97 the pay issue is pursued," said Richard Koppes, general A35 98 counsel of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, A35 99 which at $68 billion is the nation's largest public pension fund. A35 100 After a year of working quietly in a "kinder" way to press A35 101 companies for change, Calpers will return to "a more A35 102 aggressive route" in pressing for corporate governance A35 103 changes, including holder resolutions, Mr. Koppes said.

A35 104 Ms. O'Cleireacain of New York City said that she intends to A35 105 "make our position very clear to corporate executives that A35 106 we won't tolerate threats to the information investors A35 107 get." She also said that she plans to meet with consultants A35 108 "about ways that make it easier to do their business A35 109 independently." And, echoing the view of several A35 110 institutional investors, Ms. O'Cleireacain said that she would A35 111 press for more companies to give primary responsibility for setting A35 112 executive compensation to committees of independent directors.

A35 113 As institutional investors plotted their strategies, one of the A35 114 more visible shareholder activist groups, United Shareholders A35 115 Association, Washington, D.C., tentatively added Citicorp and A35 116 General Mills Inc. to the list of companies it considers A35 117 unfair to shareholders. Ralph Whitworth, president of the group, A35 118 said the action stemmed from reports that the chairmen of the two A35 119 companies, John S. Reed of Citicorp and H. Brewster Atwater Jr. of A35 120 General Mills, had helped spearhead a campaign against a proposed A35 121 accounting rule that would deduct from corporate earnings the A35 122 estimated value of stock options granted to executives and other A35 123 employees.

A35 124 That campaign has included letters of protest by companies to A35 125 the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which is mulling the rule A35 126 and which is the chief rule-making body for accountants.

A35 127 Some companies also contacted compensation consultants about A35 128 their concerns. Last month, for example, the chairman of Towers A35 129 Perrin received a letter from Richard J. Mahoney, chairman of A35 130 Monsanto Co., a Towers Perrin client, expressing concern about A35 131 "the recent political and media attention devoted" A35 132 to stock-option accounting. The letter urged the firm's A35 133 "active and timely communication" with FASB to A35 134 retain the current rules, which don't account for stock options. A35 135 (Stock options give holders the right to buy stock in the future at A35 136 a predetermined price, a potential bonanza if the stock price rises A35 137 well above the issue price.) Towers Perrin is part of an FASB task A35 138 force weighing the stock-option proposal.

A35 139 "The main problem here is they are using shareholder A35 140 money to fight against shareholder interests," Mr. A35 141 Whitworth said. "That has to change." He said that A35 142 his group won't make a final decision about listing the companies A35 143 for several weeks, pending meetings with executives of the two A35 144 companies. Mr. Atwater of General Mills has already agreed to a A35 145 meeting.

A35 146 Mr. Whitworth said that his group urges shareholders to vote A35 147 against the director slates proposed by companies on its target A35 148 list. The group also presses for change in meetings with top A35 149 executives, and it has produced results: It reached settlements A35 150 with more than a dozen of the 50 companies on its 1991 list. Among A35 151 them: ITT Corp., which agreed to tie the pay of its executives A35 152 more closely to performance, and UAL Corp., which said that it A35 153 would more clearly disclose in its proxy statement certain elements A35 154 of its pay plans.

A35 155 Mr. Atwater, who called Mr. Whitworth to discuss the group's A35 156 action, denied in an interview that General Mills "has been A35 157 lobbying consultants." Further, he defended efforts to A35 158 fight the new accounting rule, saying that deducting the value of A35 159 options from earnings "is not an appropriate way to account A35 160 for them" because that would "hit earnings A35 161 twice" - once when the options are issued and again when A35 162 they're exercised. As a result, he contended that the adoption of A35 163 such a rule would "kill" most stock option plans. At A35 164 General Mills, Mr. Atwater said, stock options have been A35 165 "truly motivating" to managers and represent a key A35 166 method of linking pay to corporate performance.

A35 167 At the same time, Mr. Atwater said that General Mills supported A35 168 the SEC's proposals to increase disclosure of executive A35 169 compensation data in proxy statements. He said that the company had A35 170 adopted many of the proposed changes in its latest proxy A35 171 statement.

A35 172 Mr. Reed couldn't be reached. But Mr. Jones of Citicorp, who A35 173 has worked with Mr. Reed on behalf of the Business Roundtable in A35 174 opposing the accounting rule, denied that Citicorp had ever A35 175 pressured or threatened compensation consultants. He further A35 176 disputed Citicorp's tentative inclusion on the United Shareholders A35 177 list, saying that "how you account for employee stock A35 178 options is a legitimate topic for open discussion."

A35 179 A35 180 Leader in Videoconferencing Faces Expanding Field

A35 181 PictureTel's Stock Price Has Fallen; It Calls Problems A35 182 Overblown

A35 183 BY JOSEPH PEREIRA

A35 184 Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

A35 185 Earlier this year, a school district in northern Alaska went A35 186 shopping for a videoconferencing system to link teachers with A35 187 classes in scattered communities.

A35 188 But it didn't buy from market leader PictureTel Corp. A35 189 Instead, it chose a system made by VideoTelecom Corp., an A35 190 upstart that offered to install equipment and train staff at eight A35 191 sites for $700,000 - well under PictureTel's $800,000 bid.

A35 192 "It wasn't a hard decision to make," says A35 193 Martin Cary, coordinator of information and technology at A35 194 Northslope Borrough School District in Barrow. "We went A35 195 with the checkbook."

A35 196 VideoTelecom isn't the only rival that industry pioneer A35 197 PictureTel in Danvers, Mass., has to worry about. "Very A35 198 soon consumers will have 36 products in the videoconferencing A35 199 market to choose from," says Elliot Gold, publisher of A35 200 Tele-Span, a telecommunications newsletter. "By the A35 201 end of the quarter, there'll be several competitors with comparable A35 202 systems and lower prices." Among the rivals are corporate A35 203 giants with deep pockets, such as Hitachi Ltd.'s Hitachi A35 204 America unit, Northern Telecom Ltd. and American A35 205 Telephone & Telegraph Co.

A35 206 The increasingly crowded market has slowed the growth of A35 207 high-flying PictureTel and caused its stock to plummet 79% from a A35 208 peak of $53 a share earlier this year. The stock closed yesterday A35 209 at $11 a share, down 25 cents, in trading on the national A35 210 over-the-counter market. While analysts still expect the company's A35 211 revenue to grow sharply from $78 million last year, they now A35 212 estimate 1992 revenue of $130 million - down from $150 million A35 213 predicted earlier. And the company, which started making money in A35 214 1991 after years of losses, says it will only break-even in the A35 215 third quarter.

A35 216 PictureTel insists that its problems are overblown and have A35 217 been compounded by the sluggish economy. Many new products A35 218 announced by rivals haven't been introduced. "There will be A35 219 some confusion for quite a bit of time with new A35 220 announcements," says Joan Nevin, vice president for A35 221 finance. But, she adds, "Those products compared to ours is A35 222 like a two-wheel bicycle versus a Mercedes."

A35 223 And some agree short-term problems shouldn't overshadow the A35 224 company's long-term potential. "The past has been A35 225 very bright and I think the future can also be very bright, too, if A35 226 PictureTel decides now what practical steps it needs to take to get A35 227 to that yellow brick road," says John Rohal, an analyst at A35 228 Alex. Brown & Sons.

A35 229 But others are more skeptical. "PictureTel was just A35 230 sailing along so smoothly their recent developments come as a shock A35 231 to many of us and I think PictureTel may be headed for some tough A35 232 times," said Sarah Dickinson, an analyst at Personal A35 233 Technology Research.

A35 234 PictureTel isn't the only company feeling the effects of new A35 235 competition. Long-time rival Compression Labs A35 236 Inc., No. 2 in the market, recently cited lower margins and A35 237 increased competition for its first-half loss of $1.4 million A35 238 despite an increase in revenue to $48 million from $30.9 A35 239 million.

A35 240 A35 241 A36 1 <#FROWN:A36\>Buying binge continues on Wall Street

A36 2 By Tom Walker

A36 3 STAFF WRITER

A36 4 A buying frenzy continued in the stock market for the second A36 5 straight day Wednesday, pushing one broad-based stock index to a A36 6 record in the heaviest trading since mid-January.

A36 7 The buying was reminiscent of the record-setting trading early A36 8 in the year, when drastic interest rate cuts sent a flood of money A36 9 out of low-yielding certificates of deposit and into stocks.

A36 10 Low interest rates are also responsible for the latest stock A36 11 buying rally, analysts say.

A36 12 But this time the buying is driven by falling long-term A36 13 Treasury bond yields instead of cuts in the Federal Reserve's A36 14 discount rate, which triggered the earlier rally.

A36 15 Investors looking for better yields - and afraid to miss a A36 16 rising market - pushed the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index to a A36 17 record 422.23 on Wednesday, surpassing the old mark set in A36 18 January.

A36 19 The Dow Jones average of 30 blue chip stocks surged 45.12 A36 20 points to 3,379.19, on top of Tuesday's 51.87-point gain.

A36 21 The Dow's two-day increase of almost 3 percent brought the A36 22 index within 34.02 points of its record, set June 1.

A36 23 Analysts said the S&P 500 record was significant, because that A36 24 index measures a broader array of industrial and other New York A36 25 Stock Exchange issues than the Dow average.

A36 26 Equally significant was the trading volume on the New York A36 27 Stock Exchange, which hit levels not seen since Jan. 17.

A36 28 T-bond yields down

A36 29 Yields on 30-year Treasury bonds are declining for the same A36 30 reason that stock prices are rising: There is great demand among A36 31 investors for bonds, reflecting the bond market's conviction that A36 32 inflation will not be a problem for some time.

A36 33 While falling yields make stock market returns more attractive A36 34 by comparison, analysts say long-term bond yields are still A36 35 attractively high for investors who prefer the security of A36 36 fixed-income securities, and the prospect of low inflation is good A36 37 for both stocks and bonds.

A36 38 A36 39 Economy slows down again

A36 40 2nd-quarter report sparks recession talk

A36 41 By Bill Hendrick

A36 42 STAFF WRITER

A36 43 If you can visualize the economy as a roller coaster, then A36 44 picture it now as careening downward for the third time since A36 45 1989.

A36 46 And some experts fear it's derailing into a new recession.

A36 47 "This recovery is so extremely weak, there's a real A36 48 danger there could be another recession," Georgia Tech A36 49 economist Thomas D. Boston said Thursday after the Commerce A36 50 Department reported that economic growth had slowed to a crawl.

A36 51 The report put the second quarter's growth rate at only 1.4 A36 52 percent, less than half the first quarter's 2.9 percent rate and A36 53 considerably less than the 2 percent needed to keep unemployment A36 54 from rising.

A36 55 The slowdown marked the third time since 1989 that the economy A36 56 has gotten sicker after appearing to be on the road to better A36 57 health.

A36 58 Declining gross domestic product

A36 59 The news was a blow to President Bush, who has presided over A36 60 the most prolonged period of economic lethargy since the Great A36 61 Depression.

A36 62 The value of goods and services produced within U.S. borders, A36 63 known as the gross domestic product, expanded 2.5 percent in 1989, A36 64 his first year in office, and 0.8 percent in 1990, but declined in A36 65 value by 1.2 percent last year.

A36 66 The economy's growth rate picked up strongly in the first three A36 67 months of 1992 from a near-recessionary 0.6 percent pace in the A36 68 final quarter of 1991. Many economists attributed the growth spurt A36 69 to unilateral steps announced by Mr. Bush in his State of the Union A36 70 speech that pumped new money into consumers' pockets and a little A36 71 life into businesses.

A36 72 He ordered corporations to withhold less tax from employees' A36 73 paychecks and federal department heads to speed up $10 billion in A36 74 discretionary spending.

A36 75 But S. Jay Levy, a respected New York economist, said the A36 76 temporary magic has dissipated and the economy may be lumbering A36 77 toward a new slump. Consumers who had more to spend because less A36 78 tax was withheld will get no refunds, or smaller refunds, next tax A36 79 season, and may even have to borrow money to pay Uncle Sam, he A36 80 said.

A36 81 "We are nearer recession," said Kurt Karl of A36 82 the WEFA Group, a Philadelphia-based consulting firm. A36 83 "There's no indication at this time we can look for A36 84 strength."

A36 85 Recession worse than thought

A36 86 The Commerce Department also said its revised figures show the A36 87 recession of 1990-91 was worse than previously thought. Economic A36 88 growth actually declined for three quarters instead of just two - A36 89 in the third and fourth quarters of 1990 and 1991's first A36 90 quarter.

A36 91 'Recession' is a technical term, and most economists say the A36 92 slump that began in mid-1990 ended in the spring of 1991. But most A36 93 people don't feel the recession is over because jobs are scarce, 10 A36 94 million people are unemployed and buying power is inching up slower A36 95 than consumer prices.

A36 96 The report also said:

A36 97 <*_>black-triangle<*/>Real disposable income is growing at an A36 98 annual rate of only 0.7 percent.

A36 99 <*_>black-triangle<*/>Consumer spending, the lifeblood of the A36 100 economy, actually declined in the second quarter by 0.3 percent, A36 101 down from a 5.1 percent gain in the first quarter.

A36 102 <*_>black-triangle<*/>The personal savings rate fell from over A36 103 5 percent to 4.9 percent, low compared with the historical average A36 104 of 7 percent.

A36 105 Consumers aren't spending on new items, but "they are A36 106 saving very little" because it's taking most of what they A36 107 make to pay bills, Dr. Levy said.

A36 108 Given such news, it's no wonder the Conference Board's consumer A36 109 confidence index suffered one of its worst monthly declines ever in A36 110 July, said Albert W. Niemi Jr., dean of business at the University A36 111 of Georgia.

A36 112 Public perception

A36 113 "The average person looks on recession as whether jobs A36 114 are being created, and the situation has clearly gotten A36 115 worse," he said. "People don't believe it's A36 116 over."

A36 117 Worse, the unemployment rate is likely to rise from 7.8 percent A36 118 to 8 percent, he said.

A36 119 "This expansion is so weak, it's not able to create A36 120 more than enough jobs to offset the demographics of new people who A36 121 want to work," Dr. Niemi said. "I don't think we're A36 122 going to crash into a new recession, but it's like a plane taking A36 123 off, just bouncing along the runway, and barely inching A36 124 up."

A36 125 Though not all the news is bad - the government said new claims A36 126 for unemployment compensation fell by 21,000 to 400,000 this week - A36 127 it should be enough to worry the president, Dr. Niemi said.

A36 128 With economic growth this slow, there's no way the unemployment A36 129 rate can fall much if at all before Election Day. And that's the A36 130 one economic measure everybody understands.

A36 131 A36 132 Industrial recovery in metro area outpacing state, survey A36 133 indicates

A36 134 By Tom Walker

A36 135 STAFF WRITER

A36 136 Metro Atlanta's economy regained much of its industrial A36 137 momentum at the beginning of the third quarter, ahead of the state, A36 138 a survey of purchasing managers showed Thursday.

A36 139 The index of purchasing managers in metro Atlanta moved up in A36 140 July to 62.7 from 58.7 in June, according to Kennesaw State A36 141 Ekonometrics of Kennesaw State College, which compiles the A36 142 survey.

A36 143 Statewide, the index of Georgia purchasing managers dropped to A36 144 60.1 in July from 60.8 in June.

A36 145 "Both readings are well above the benchmark for A36 146 recovery, suggesting continued economic strength for the state and A36 147 metro Atlanta," said Kennsaw's Don Sabbarese.

A36 148 The readings were also consistent with forecasts of other A36 149 economists that Atlanta, which led the state into recession, is A36 150 leading it out.

A36 151 The monthly state and local indexes, compiled from surveys of A36 152 the Purchasing Managers Association of Georgia, provide a trend A36 153 line of industrial activity based on new orders, production, A36 154 employment, suppliers' delivery speed and inventories.

A36 155 Factory production increased at both local and state levels in A36 156 July. Employment, however, increased only in metro Atlanta while A36 157 remaining flat statewide.

A36 158 According to Dr. Sabbarese, the failure of employment to A36 159 increase was a sign that firms "continue their cautious use A36 160 of temporary workers and/or longer workweeks to boost A36 161 production."

A36 162 A36 163 Ford reports $502 million profit in 2nd quarter

A36 164 Bulk is from financial, not auto, units

A36 165 FROM OUR NEWS SERVICES

A36 166 Detroit - Ford Motor Co. reported second-quarter earnings of A36 167 $502 million Wednesday, its best in two years, but more than half A36 168 came from a record performance by the automaker's financial A36 169 services business.

A36 170 Ford's automotive operations in the United States and Europe A36 171 were profitable, contributing $213 million. But Ford Motor Credit A36 172 and The Associates, a banking subsidiary, accounted for $289 A36 173 million.

A36 174 On a per-share basis, Ford earned 93 cents in this year's A36 175 second quarter, compared with a loss of $324 million, or 68 cents a A36 176 share, a year ago during the depths of an industry recession.

A36 177 The No. 2 U.S. automaker's earnings were the best since the A36 178 $771 million profit reported in the second quarter of 1990. Company A36 179 officials were cautious about predicting continued gains, A36 180 however.

A36 181 "The U.S. economy, while improving, is still fragile, A36 182 as are the economies in many of Ford's key overseas A36 183 markets," Ford Chairman Harold Poling said.

A36 184 David McCammon, vice president for finance, predicted that A36 185 third-quarter results, normally the weakest of the year, would be A36 186 down from the second quarter.

A36 187 That caution was reflected among investors, as Ford stock fell A36 188 $1.50 to $44.25 in New York Stock Exchange trading.

A36 189 Lower credit losses and higher net interest margins - the A36 190 difference between what was paid on deposits and the interest rate A36 191 charged on loans - were credited for the financial services A36 192 improvement.

A36 193 Good long-term outlook

A36 194 "Long term, I think Ford's in real good shape," A36 195 said Chris Cedergren, an auto industry analyst with AutoPacific A36 196 Group in Thousand Oaks, Calif. "The only question in the A36 197 near term is what's going to happen in the current market for cars A36 198 and trucks."

A36 199 Although more people are buying vehicles, there is growing A36 200 concern about how long that will last because of new signs that the A36 201 economy is weakening.

A36 202 Ford's pretax earnings were higher than analysts had expected, A36 203 and even after taxes they were within the range of forecasts. The A36 204 earnings came a day after Chrysler Corp. reported surprisingly A36 205 strong profits for the period. General Motors Corp. will report A36 206 earnings next Thursday.

A36 207 For the first six months of the year, Ford earned $840.3 A36 208 million, or $1.53 a share, compared with a loss of $1.2 billion, or A36 209 $2.56 a share, in the first half of 1991.

A36 210 A36 211 SouthTrust Branches Out

A36 212 Buyout pact would boost presence here

A36 213 Prime Bancshares deal called beneficial

A36 214 By Nancy Nethery

A36 215 STAFF WRITER

A36 216 SouthTrust Corp. is negotiating another deal that would extend A36 217 its reach into the Atlanta banking market.

A36 218 If an agreement with Decatur-based Prime Bancshares succeeds, A36 219 Birmingham, Ala.-based SouthTrust would bolster its network here A36 220 with $686 million in assets and 14 more branches.

A36 221 The letter of intent announced Thursday is the second buyout A36 222 pact between a Decatur-based thrift and an out-of-state bank this A36 223 summer. In June, First Union Corp. agreed to buy DFSoutheastern A36 224 Inc., parent of Decatur Federal.

A36 225 Prime Bancshares operates Prime Bank.

A36 226 Under the proposed deal, each share of Prime Bancshares would A36 227 be exchanged for 50 cents per share plus 0.89 share of SouthTrust A36 228 stock, the companies said.

A36 229 Based on Thursday's closing price for SouthTrust - $24.62 1/2 A36 230 in over-the-counter trading - the deal is worth a little more than A36 231 $22.41 a share for Prime Bancshares stockholders. Prime Bancshares A36 232 closed up $3.75 to $19 in American Stock Exchange trading.

A36 233 "Stronger toehold"

A36 234 The deal gives SouthTrust "a much stronger toehold in A36 235 Atlanta," said John J. Mason Jr., senior vice president of A36 236 Interstate/Johnson Lane.

A36 237 Thomas H. Coley, chairman, president and chief executive A36 238 officer of SouthTrust Bank of Georgia, said the purchase lets A36 239 SouthTrust "continue our commitment to the Atlanta A36 240 market."

A36 241 "It's our intent to continue most of their lines of A36 242 business," he said. "We do not see much overlap in A36 243 the branch system."

A36 244 Mr. Coley added that the acquisition would give SouthTrust A36 245 about 95 branches in metro Atlanta.

A36 246 Analysts said the deal would benefit both parties.

A36 247 "The deal is another example of a company that stubs A36 248 its toe - but has a decent franchise - selling out at what appears A36 249 to be a reasonable price," Mr. Mason said, referring to A36 250 changes Prime Bancshares made at the request of regulators.

A36 251 Prime Bancshares was forced to restate its results this year, A36 252 after regulators told the company to reduce the value of its A36 253 portfolio of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities. Last week, A36 254 the thrift voted to discontinue its quarterly dividend.

A36 255 A36 256 A36 257 A37 1 <#FROWN:A37\>Let's Make a Deal

A37 2 America's diplomats are learning a new credo: Sell! Sell! A37 3 Sell!

A37 4 For two years American International Group had played by the A37 5 rules. Eager to sell travel insurance at Tokyo's teeming Narita A37 6 airport, AIG had courted Japanese officials over sake and sushi, A37 7 worked the maze of government agencies and filed mountains of A37 8 forms. But when the company learned last March that the concession A37 9 would go to a Japanese rival, it traded in that old strategy for a A37 10 new one: intervention by U.S. Ambassador Michael Armacost. After A37 11 Armacost and his staff made some unpublicized phone calls, A37 12 including one to the prime minister's office, the Ministry of A37 13 Transportation suggested that the Japanese company share one of its A37 14 new booths at Narita with AIG. "They had their old-boy A37 15 network. We had ours," says Evan Greenberg, who runs AIG's A37 16 business in Japan.

A37 17 George Kennan, meet Willy Loman. While weighty matters of war A37 18 and peace, negotiation and intelligence gathering still hold top A37 19 priority in U.S. embassies, the diplomatic corps has new marching A37 20 orders: sell. For ambassadors and consuls from Bonn to Bombay, A37 21 brokering business deals has become a basic part of the job. Says A37 22 Acting Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, "The world A37 23 has changed. Today, activity to improve America's economic A37 24 interests is as important as anything we do."

A37 25 The French, Germans and Japanese have long been known for A37 26 rolling out the big diplomatic guns to advance their commercial A37 27 interests, and they are freer with financing and foreign aid when A37 28 it helps to clinch a deal. But until the late 1980s the local U.S. A37 29 Embassy was about the last place an American exporter would look A37 30 for assistance. Consular officers were famously uninterested in A37 31 dealing with visiting executives, and they were often inept: when A37 32 U.S. diplomats threw a party in S<*_>a-tilde<*/>o Paulo in 1984 to A37 33 promote American printing equipment, they offered their A37 34 Portuguese-speaking guests a sales pitch in Spanish. Many officers A37 35 were only too glad to lose responsibility for aiding business in A37 36 1982, when Congress established the U.S. & Foreign Commercial A37 37 Service at the Department of Commerce. But economics is king of the A37 38 new world order, so old diplomats have been forced to learn new A37 39 tricks. Says Donald Gregg, U.S. ambassador to South Korea, A37 40 "The fruits of the cold war lie in our ability to A37 41 trade."

A37 42 Eagleburger has pushed exports hard since he became deputy A37 43 secretary of state in 1989. All new Foreign Service officers, A37 44 chiefs of mission and ambassadors now get a class on commerce as A37 45 part of their basic training. Last year, for the first time, USFCS A37 46 chief Susan Schwab was invited to meetings of U.S. ambassadors to A37 47 Europe and Asia. "This is a tremendous difference from 10 A37 48 or 20 years ago. It's not easy for any of us to recycle ourselves A37 49 for this purpose," says Thomas Simons, U.S. ambassador to A37 50 Poland. Simons should know: the 30-year Foreign Service veteran A37 51 spends almost a quarter of his time helping U.S. companies.

A37 52 That kind of high-level involvement is what drew Terry Martin A37 53 to Singapore. Martin, sales manager for Raynor Garage Doors in A37 54 Dixon, Ill., attended a Chicago briefing by five U.S. ambassadors A37 55 last March on how to do business in Asia. That persuaded him to A37 56 visit a trade show in Singapore in May. Last week he was back in A37 57 the island nation to sign up local agents. "It's not every A37 58 day you can get all these ambassadors and commercial counselors in A37 59 one room and just go up and talk to everybody," Martin A37 60 says. "We were going to come out here anyway, but they A37 61 certainly made it a heck of a lot easier."

A37 62 Drumming up business, of course, is Martin's problem. But A37 63 increasingly, diplomats are getting involved in specific A37 64 transactions, particularly when a foreign government has a role in A37 65 the buying decision. U.S. officials have successfully pressed China A37 66 to allow a larger presence for U.S. carmakers like Chrysler, which A37 67 assembles Jeeps in Beijing. Last week Hong Kong awarded a A37 68 consortium led by Sea-Land Servicing a half share - worth $2.6 A37 69 billion - in the construction and operation of a new container A37 70 terminal, after Consul General Richard Williams spent months A37 71 emphasizing how the American-led group could infuse competition A37 72 into cargo handling. When German officials appeared to favor a A37 73 French proposal to build the $700 million Friedrichstadt-Passage A37 74 office and shopping complex in the former East Berlin, New York A37 75 developer Tischman-Speyer asked the embassy in Bonn to write a A37 76 letter on its behalf. "They were very effective," A37 77 says chairman Jerry Speyer. "They knew exactly where they A37 78 had to go." Tischman-Speyer won a 45 percent stake in the A37 79 project, which got underway last month.

A37 80 Trade diplomacy isn't new, of course; U.S. diplomats have been A37 81 battering away at foreign import barriers for years. But lobbying A37 82 on behalf of particular companies is a very different sort of work. A37 83 Discretion is everything, and press attention is unwelcome. A37 84 "The transactions generally take place quietly in a A37 85 meeting, and there's no publicity, so government officials are not A37 86 embarrassed," explains one official in Washington. A37 87 Nonetheless, using diplomats as salespeople has its dangers. Gregg A37 88 has helped persuade the South Korean government to hire U.S. A37 89 architects to design a new airport terminal, but some in Seoul A37 90 consider his hard sell excessive. In China, U.S. commercial A37 91 interest ran headlong into other diplomatic concerns. Using A37 92 contacts in the local government, the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou A37 93 helped Boeing Co. plan a pitch to China Southern Airlines last A37 94 spring. Then, in September, the Bush administration angered China A37 95 by agreeing to sell fighter planes to Taiwan. The Boeing deal is on A37 96 hold - and French diplomats are aggressively trying to persuade A37 97 China Southern to buy Airbuses instead.

A37 98 Helping whom? Diplomatic salesmanship has less A37 99 obvious complexities, too. The governments of rival companies can A37 100 take offense; when Eagleburger recently wrote the Czech Energy A37 101 Commission in support of American bidders, a German official called A37 102 to complain. And then there's the question of whom to help. A37 103 "The biggest problem we have is defining what is a U.S. A37 104 company," one ranking official confesses. Officially, the A37 105 State Department lets diplomats work on behalf of U.S.-owned A37 106 companies that want to sell products with at least 51 percent U.S. A37 107 content. In practice, however, there's no neat line. When Canada's A37 108 Northern Telecom Ltd. bids for a sale against AT&T, the Americans A37 109 can count on the local embassy's aid, but when the Canadian A37 110 company's U.S. subsidiary is doing the bidding, the diplomats must A37 111 remain neutral.

A37 112 How real is the Foreign Service's transformation? Arthur A37 113 Kobler, who recently left for the private sector after 25 years as A37 114 a diplomat, says that while it pays lip service to its new A37 115 commercial role, State's heart is still in traditional diplomacy. A37 116 "There remains a clear bias in favor of political A37 117 officers," he says. "The apparatus still is not A37 118 geared to the post-cold-war reality." Eagleburger admits A37 119 the difficulty of reorienting the bureaucracy, but he says that A37 120 success in promoting trade is now part of every diplomat's A37 121 personnel file. With exports certain to be a front-burner issue in A37 122 Washington for years to come, the most vital of the diplomatic arts A37 123 may soon be the art of the deal.

A37 124 A37 125 Marriages Made in Air

A37 126 Are foreign airline deals good for America?

A37 127 Rich Thomas

A37 128 Last week Continental Airlines announced that it would tie the A37 129 knot. There will be no dowry; Continental is already under A37 130 bankruptcy protection. But the new suitor, Air Canada, has deep A37 131 pockets, bringing $450 million to the marriage. Continental CEO A37 132 Robert Ferguson III said he's now looking for partners across the A37 133 Atlantic and Pacific to "establish a global A37 134 presence."

A37 135 On the surface, the transaction is just another example of a A37 136 troubled airline looking for a savior. But the deal comes at a time A37 137 when everyone from politicians to air-freight-carriers is A37 138 questioning whether mergers between U.S. and foreign airlines are A37 139 good for America. In the short run, such deals seem to benefit A37 140 consumers. If, for example USAir and British Airways are permitted A37 141 to merge their routes as planned, an American traveler can soon A37 142 check her bags in Champaign, Ill., and fly a single air system A37 143 through to, say, Rome, or even Lilongwe in Malawi, in southern A37 144 Africa. Some 12,000 such city-to-city combinations would be made A37 145 possible by the merger. Wonderful, right? Maybe so, concedes A37 146 American Airlines CEO Robert Crandall. "But in the long A37 147 run," Crandall says, "the BA-USAir merger will A37 148 shaft all Americans ... We'll be forced to cut back and lay A37 149 off employees. American choices and incomes will shrink." A37 150 That's the sort of thing you'd expect a rival to say. But Ross A37 151 Perot and Bill Clinton also attacked the British Airways-USAir A37 152 hookup during their campaigns. The stand proved a touchy one: some A37 153 of Clinton's own people even contend that the 7,000 USAir jobs in A37 154 North Carolina were a big factor in Clinton's loss there - the only A37 155 state he targeted but did not win.

A37 156 It's no mystery why America's ailing airlines are looking for A37 157 affluent partners abroad: the industry has been in a deep recession A37 158 for five years. Passenger boardings and mileage earnings per A37 159 passenger, adjusted for inflation, have been almost flat since A37 160 1987. The foreign connections and capital could save several U.S. A37 161 lines. Some might fail anyway. But as Alfred Kahn, who launched A37 162 airline deregulation as Civil Aeronautics Board chairman under A37 163 Jimmy Carter, puts it: "If we had only three or four A37 164 domestic airlines, I'd be nervous. But I'd feel perfectly safe A37 165 being supplied by seven or eight world-class companies. These A37 166 foreign deals are great insurance for America's fliers."

A37 167 While the deals could bail out struggling airlines, they A37 168 certainly won't help the stronger American carriers like American A37 169 and Delta. For one thing, U.S. airlines do not have equivalent A37 170 access to foreign markets. Most other nations bar foreign airlines A37 171 from domestic operations. Further, Britain has no airline that an A37 172 American line could buy and operate in local competition with A37 173 British Airways. No other large foreign country has a buyable big A37 174 airline either; almost all are government owned. (U.S.-Canadian air A37 175 relations have been more open, and American Airlines is seeking a A37 176 stake in Canada's second largest carrier.) In addition: Britain and A37 177 most other big countries severely limit "beyond A37 178 rights," which would let carriers like United compete A37 179 internationally against, say, BA by picking up passengers in London A37 180 and flying them to cities in other countries. Crandall argues that A37 181 letting BA buy into the largest air market on earth without giving A37 182 U.S. carriers the same opportunity abroad is "the A37 183 equivalent of unilateral economic disarmament." And foreign A37 184 airlines are leery of such concessions: a report in The Journal of A37 185 Commerce last week said British Airways would rather scrap the A37 186 USAir deal than have the British government grant U.S. carriers A37 187 broader access to London's Heathrow airport.

A37 188 Little wonder, then, that Perot and Clinton opposed the A37 189 BA-USAir deal. Aware of their objections, Transportation Secretary A37 190 Andrew Card is negotiating furiously with the British this week to A37 191 open the British market. Delta, United and Federal Express are A37 192 poised to join American in suing to block the BA-USAir merger A37 193 unless more rights for them are forthcoming. The deal could also A37 194 encounter President Clinton's opposition after Jan. 20. But despite A37 195 Washington's wishes, the future holds fewer - and fewer U.S.-owned A37 196 - airlines. And that's a trend no politician can legislate away.

A37 197 A37 198 Billows of Smoke

A37 199 East Europe is desperate for cigarettes, and the West is happy A37 200 to oblige

A37 201 A muddy field on the outskirts of Warsaw is not the obvious A37 202 place to search for a camel. But wait a while. By late 1993 the A37 203 small town of Piaseczno will possess one of the world's most modern A37 204 cigarette factories: a 9,500-square-meter plant owned by R.J. A37 205 Reynolds Tobacco International, part of America's second largest A37 206 cigarette empire. Once it is running at full capacity, the A37 207 Piaseczno factory will annually churn out 8 billion Camels, Monte A37 208 Carlos and other smokes in the Reynolds pack for Poland and its A37 209 neighbors. A gamble on the future? Not to company executives. A37 210 "The market over here is so absorbent that even five A37 211 factories will not be enough," says Piotr Piwkowski, RJR's A37 212 Polish general manager.

A37 213 Anyone who has ever ducked into a smoke-clogged cafe in Warsaw, A37 214 Prague, Budapest or Moscow already knows that Eastern Europeans are A37 215 among the world's most enthusiastic puffers. A37 216 A38 1 <#FROWN:A38\>Temptations member Eddie Kendricks dies

A38 2 ASSOCIATED PRESS

A38 3 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Eddie Kendricks, a founding member of the A38 4 Temptations who was the lead singer for such hits as 'The Way You A38 5 Do the Things You Do,' died Monday night of lung cancer. He was A38 6 52.

A38 7 Mr. Kendricks died at Baptist Medical Center-Princeton, said A38 8 spokeswoman Betty Ingram. He had been hospitalized since Sept. A38 9 25.

A38 10 Singer Stevie Wonder had visited Mr. Kendricks on Saturday.

A38 11 When the Temptations were formed in Detroit in 1961, the group A38 12 consisted of Kendricks, Otis Williams, Melvin Franklin, Paul A38 13 Williams and Elbridge Bryant. David Ruffin replaced Bryant in 1964 A38 14 and the group signed with the Motown label.

A38 15 The group had its first No. 1 hit with 'My Girl' in 1965, A38 16 followed by 'It's Growing' and 'Since I Lost My Baby' that same A38 17 year.

A38 18 "Eddie just had that great, great tenor voice that just A38 19 was so captivating," Esther Edwards, the Temptations' first A38 20 manager and the sister of Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr., said A38 21 recently. "He had such admirers, men and women. But the A38 22 ladies really loved Eddie and his style. ... He just had a sweet A38 23 melodious captivating tender sound."

A38 24 The Temptations went on to become Motown's most successful male A38 25 group, with more than a dozen hit singles. They trailed only the A38 26 Supremes for supremacy on the charts.

A38 27 "While the Four Tops covered the frenetic side of the A38 28 Motown sound and the Miracles monopolized its romantic side, the A38 29 Temptations quite simply stood as the finest vocal group in '60s A38 30 soul," Joe McEwen and Jim Miller wrote in the Rolling Stone A38 31 Illustrated History of Rock and Roll. "They could A38 32 out-dress, out-dance and out-sing any competition in A38 33 sight."

A38 34 Mr. Kendricks began a solo career in 1971, but rejoined the A38 35 group in 1982 for a "Reunion" tour. He was reunited with A38 36 the band again in 1989 as it was inducted into the Rock and Roll A38 37 Hall of Fame.

A38 38 Mr. Kendricks and Ruffin began working together after their A38 39 1985 album, 'Live at the Apollo,' with the singing duo Hall and A38 40 Oates.

A38 41 Williams killed himself in 1973, two years after he was asked A38 42 to leave the group because of alcoholism and related health A38 43 problems. Ruffin died last year from a drug overdose.

A38 44 Mr. Kendricks underwent surgery in Atlanta last year to have a A38 45 lung removed. He later said the disease was caused by 30 years of A38 46 smoking and he urged children not to smoke.

A38 47 A38 48 A strange vision all his own

A38 49 N.Y.'s Met adds new twist on surrealist Magritte

A38 50 By David Bonetti

A38 51 EXAMINER ART CRITIC

A38 52 NEW YORK - Ren<*_>e-acute<*/> Magritte (1898-1967) remains, a A38 53 generation after his death, one of the most lively of the modern A38 54 masters who revolutionized art and the way we look at things.

A38 55 His representations are part of the modern lexicon of visual A38 56 images. Giant apples and roses expanding to fill entire rooms. A38 57 Tubas in flame. Pipes that are not pipes. Kissing lovers with A38 58 sheets wrapped around their heads. Night-darkened streets under A38 59 blue skies. Storms of raining men wearing bowler hats. Gigantic A38 60 boulders floating weightless in the sky. Thanks to advertising, A38 61 people who never heard of him recognize his disquieting work with A38 62 pleasure.

A38 63 The traveling retrospective, tersely titled 'Magritte,' shows A38 64 us the complete artist in 150 works in various mediums. (Organized A38 65 by the Hayward Gallery in London, it is at the Metropolitan Museum A38 66 through Nov. 22). Included are his seldom-seen and highly twisted A38 67 essays in impressionism and the crude jokester works he called his A38 68 vache (cow) paintings done during the late '40s in A38 69 occupied Brussels.

A38 70 Every responsible retrospective of a complex artist tries to A38 71 re-present him or her in a manner that makes sense to a A38 72 contemporary audience. The last great Magritte retrospective in the A38 73 United States took place in 1965-66. (It was the first major art A38 74 exhibition I saw, and I remember standing in front of the famous A38 75 painting of a pipe labeled "This Is Not a Pipe" A38 76 fascinated, but uneasily unsure of what it meant.)

A38 77 That exhibition aimed to show Magritte as a surrealist. That A38 78 might not seem so ambitious - after all, if Magritte wasn't a A38 79 surrealist, who was? But even as late as 1965 people had a hard A38 80 time seeing how he fit - he had had his differences with A38 81 Andr<*_>e-acute<*/> Breton, surrealism's dictator. Most people saw A38 82 him at best - or at worst - as a surrealist fellow traveler, a A38 83 Belgian provincial slightly out of step with Parisian A38 84 cosmopolites.

A38 85 The 1965 retrospective showed that being slightly out of step A38 86 was his virtue. Magritte had his own visions, and he remained true A38 87 to them. The dreams he depicted so laboriously in paint were A38 88 curiously apposite metaphors for 20th century experience. As the A38 89 shock of several of the Parisians faded, Magritte at his best A38 90 continued to tweak expectations.

A38 91 The current retrospective, curated by David Sylvester and Sarah A38 92 Whitfield, accepts Magritte's surrealism, and includes plenty of A38 93 paintings and objects where the surrealist goal to make strange the A38 94 everyday is clearly evident.

A38 95 What could be more surreal than 'Time Transfixed' (1938), a A38 96 painting with an image of a locomotive steaming out of a fireplace? A38 97 A thoroughly normal living room is utterly changed by the invasion A38 98 of a train, miniature in scale, but real. What makes the A38 99 incongruous juxtaposition surreally logical is that the opening of A38 100 the fireplace resembles the mouth of a railroad tunnel.

A38 101 All the elements of the pared-down picture contribute to its A38 102 theme. On the mantel is a clock with its time stopped at 12:43 - A38 103 has the train arrived on time? On either side of it are two A38 104 candlesticks empty of candles, traditional symbol in still lifes of A38 105 the irredeemable passage of time. Magritte is saying he doesn't A38 106 need to fall back on such hackneyed symbols to make his point. A38 107 Behind the clock is a mirror that reflects the clock's back and one A38 108 of the candlesticks, but which otherwise reflects only the gray A38 109 nothingness of the room, the existential void that is always the A38 110 real subject of Magritte's paintings.

A38 111 The current retrospective aims to make Magritte relevant by A38 112 showing him to be an early practitioner of conceptual art. Gathered A38 113 together are paintings that reveal his interest in linguistics and A38 114 appropriation of previously existing imagery, two popular A38 115 contemporary practices linked to conceptual art.

A38 116 Magritte's conceptualism is most evident in a group of A38 117 paintings from the late '20s that incorporate images and words.

A38 118 The most famous of these is 'The Treason of Images' (1929), the A38 119 painting of the pipe with the inscription "Ceci A38 120 n'est pas une pipe" ("This Is Not a A38 121 Pipe"). Of course it is not a pipe - it is a A38 122 representation of a pipe, a painting realized on a flat canvas A38 123 surface with oil paint. Magritte is able to fool the eye. This A38 124 representation looks like a pipe - although it's so big, only a A38 125 giant could smoke it.

A38 126 The other word paintings are as interesting. 'The Palace of A38 127 Curtains' represents two identically shaped framed panels leaning A38 128 against the dado of a paneled room. One is a painted representation A38 129 of the sky; the other is the word "ciel" (sky). A38 130 The word is sufficient to conjure the image; the image is A38 131 sufficient to conjure the word. Which came first? Are they A38 132 equal?

A38 133 IN 'THE LITERAL Meaning,' two oddly shaped panels, one large, A38 134 one small, lean against the wall. The small one carries the word A38 135 "for<*_>e-circ<*/>t" (forest); the large one A38 136 "salon." Is painting the name of the image enough A38 137 to create the picture in the viewer's mind? (From the scale of the A38 138 words, the forest must be seen through a window in the salon.) In A38 139 another painting with the same title, the rounded framed panel on A38 140 the floor has the words "femme A38 141 triste" (sad woman). Is it too much to ask to see A38 142 her heaped on the floor in tears?

A38 143 Sometimes the images and words don't line up. In 'The A38 144 Interpretation of Dreams' (1935), the canvas is divided into A38 145 quadrants. An image of a horse is labeled "the A38 146 door"; a clock, "the wind"; a pitcher, A38 147 "the bird"; a valise, "the valise." A38 148 Words are free-floating signs that alight according to agreed-upon A38 149 convention, but what if they land on the wrong place? What if A38 150 they land on the right place?

A38 151 Is it any wonder that both philosopher Michel Foucault and A38 152 semiotician Jacques Derrida have written books about Magritte?

A38 153 (Interestingly, Jasper Johns owns 'The Interpretation of A38 154 Dreams.' During the '60s, he painted a series of pictures in which A38 155 color panels were labeled, but wrongly. He would stencil A38 156 "Yellow" over a rectangle of blue.)

A38 157 In a 1928 precursor to the series 'The Use of Speech,' Magritte A38 158 painted two splotches of brown on a gray ground. One blob is A38 159 labeled "corps de femme" (body A38 160 of a woman) and the other, "miroir" (mirror). A38 161 Both paint blobs are in this singular case not representations - A38 162 they are blobs of paint, and out of them Magritte suggests he A38 163 can paint both a beautiful nude and her mirror reflection.

A38 164 Representation and the void behind it are Magritte's themes. In A38 165 other works from the late '20s and early '30s he codifies his A38 166 images as signs that recombine according to linguistic models to A38 167 make different visual meanings. In his formulation, paintings A38 168 correspond to sentences.

A38 169 IN 'THE SIX Elements' (1929), Magritte paints a six-paneled A38 170 freestanding object, each panel of which contains a different image A38 171 from his repertoire - a wall of fire, a nude female torso, a deep A38 172 forest, a window wall, a cloudy sky, a lead sheet fastened with A38 173 bells.

A38 174 In 'The Threshold of Liberty' (1930), the same elements - with A38 175 a panel of wood graining and a panel of paper cutouts added - form A38 176 the walls of a room. A cannon is aimed into the corner. Ready to A38 177 blast away his images, to which he has become enslaved, Magritte A38 178 announces himself to be on the threshold of liberty.

A38 179 As the rest of the exhibition shows, however, it was not so A38 180 easy to break the patterns of convention - even for a surrealist. A38 181 With the break of the six years during which he painted his hideous A38 182 impressionist pastiches and his 'vache' paintings (which A38 183 show his disdain for a world that has gone out of its mind), A38 184 Magritte would continue to recirculate his ever-more-complex images A38 185 to achieve the sublime simplicity of his final works.

A38 186 A38 187 ACT hoping to find payoff in 'Creditors' A38 188 Will first season under new director infuse passion, a new A38 189 aesthetic?

A38 190 By Nancy Scott

A38 191 OF THE EXAMINER STAFF

A38 192 TRADITION HOLDS that the 19th century Swedish playwright August A38 193 Strindberg was a dour Nietzschean nut who overdosed on misogyny.

A38 194 Tradition could do itself a favor and go talk to Carey A38 195 Perloff.

A38 196 Perloff, who took over as artistic director for the American A38 197 Conservatory Theater in June, makes her directorial debut Wednesday A38 198 with Strindberg's 'Creditors,' the story of one woman and two men - A38 199 and a perfect shipwreck of a marriage.

A38 200 No matter that 'Creditors' is a dark horse, and Strindberg, A38 201 too, so far as most audiences are concerned. Perloff is practically A38 202 incandescent with enthusiasm. She knows the play well, has directed A38 203 it before (at New York's Classic Stage Company), believes that it A38 204 has infinite levels of meaning. "I think," she A38 205 says, "that it's an absolutely remarkable piece of A38 206 literature." Strindberg, for her, is also absolutely A38 207 remarkable, and profoundly underrated in this country, and she A38 208 will, by God, help us to discover him.

A38 209 Discovery appears to be Perloff's middle name (thus inspiring A38 210 this year's ACT slogan: "A Season of Discovery"). A38 211 By implication we shall find treasure. Could be bits of old rubbish A38 212 here and there, too. Time will tell.

A38 213 As the opener for ACT's 1992-93 season, 'Creditors' marks a A38 214 shift in the wind for a company that has lived through a couple of A38 215 serious storms this past decade. First, in 1986, came the departure A38 216 of ACT founder William Ball, who left under what may be charitably A38 217 called a cloud. Then came the 1989 earthquake, which ravaged the A38 218 Geary Theatre, ACT's home since 1967.

A38 219 Under the guidance of Edward Hastings, who took over following A38 220 Ball's departure, ACT survived with honor, expanding its roster of A38 221 actors and its repertory to include plays and performers of color, A38 222 and this was worth cheering, but there was also something missing. A38 223 A39 1 <#FROWN:A39\>Kirov kicks in for 'Nutcracker' centennial

A39 2 By MAGGIE HALL

A39 3 Special to the Tribune

A39 4 ST. PETERSBURG - This year will mark the 100th birthday of 'The A39 5 Nutcracker', the only ballet that has wide appeal in the United A39 6 States. Since the 1950s, it has become an important part of our A39 7 Christmas traditions.

A39 8 The holidays wouldn't glitter as brightly without the Sugar A39 9 Plum Fairy, dancing candy canes and the Nutcracker's battle with A39 10 the wicked Mouse King.

A39 11 For much of this century, Peter Illych Tchaikovsky's classic A39 12 ballet about a doll who comes to life and transports a little girl A39 13 to a wonderland of dance wasn't the hit it is now. Thanks to an A39 14 opulent production by George Balanchine in 1954, the New York City A39 15 Ballet's version set the standard for future 'Nutcrackers.'

A39 16 This year, St. Petersburg will be the host for another A39 17 'Nutcracker' milestone. To celebrate the ballet's centennial year, A39 18 the Dance Theatre of Florida and the Kirov Ballet will collaborate A39 19 for 10 performances at the Mahaffey Theater Dec. 11-13 and Dec. A39 20 17-20.

A39 21 Dancers from the Kirov - keepers of the flame of classical A39 22 ballet and one of the more respected companies in the world - and A39 23 the St. Petersburg dance ensemble will perform a 'Nutcracker' as A39 24 Russian audiences might have seen it a century ago.

A39 25 "Many companies have done the ballet and some of them A39 26 have given their unique interpretation," said M.A. A39 27 Musselman, the Dance Theatre of Florida's president. "This A39 28 version is going to be true to the original. It won't be a A39 29 futuristic one. It will be an old-fashioned A39 30 'Nutcracker.'"

A39 31 "Chance of a lifetime"

A39 32 The joint production will see 12 to 15 Kirov dancers in the A39 33 divertissements of the second act, except for 'Waltz of the A39 34 Flowers' and the Snow pas de deux. Dance Theatre children and A39 35 dancers from its group will fill those roles. Kirov dancers will A39 36 join them in the first act to play toys in the party scenes.

A39 37 "This is basically the chance of a lifetime, a A39 38 once-in-a-century thing," said M.A. Musselman's husband A39 39 Sean, who is artistic director of the Dance Theatre of Florida.

A39 40 Sean Musselman and Oleg Vinogradov, artistic director of the A39 41 Kirov Ballet, presented plans for their joint production of 'The A39 42 Nutcracker' at a recent news conference in St. Petersburg.

A39 43 Tickets for the centennial performances are on sale at the A39 44 Bayfront Center and through TicketMaster. Prices are $30, $24, $19 A39 45 and $14 plus a service charge. For more information, call the A39 46 Bayfront Center box office at (813) 892-5767 or TicketMaster at A39 47 (813) 287-8844.

A39 48 Vinogradov has been the Kirov's artistic director since 1977. A39 49 Then only 40, he had made his mark as a choreographer for the Kirov A39 50 and Bolshoi and as a ballet director.

A39 51 Following in the footsteps of 19th-century genius Marius Petipa A39 52 didn't faze Vinogradov. He opened up the Kirov's repertory to A39 53 include works by foreigners such as Maurice Bejart and Roland A39 54 Petit, a first for the tightly structured Russian ballet A39 55 establishment.

A39 56 Last year, the Kirov let in more fresh air with works by A39 57 British choreographer Antony Tudor and George Balanchine, a master A39 58 who learned his craft at the Kirov early in the century.

A39 59 Before Vinogradov's staging of pieces such as 'Scotch Symphony' A39 60 during Kirov's most recent tour, Balanchine's work had never been A39 61 presented by a Russian company.

A39 62 Vinogradov solidified plans for the St. Petersburg run with the A39 63 Musselmans when he invited them to see his company perform 'Swan A39 64 Lake' in New York this summer. The Tampa Bay area girls sharing the A39 65 role of Clara, the character who is given the Nutcracker doll in A39 66 the ballet, will travel with the Musselmans and chaperones to A39 67 Russia this fall.

A39 68 At Vinogradov's invitation, they will see the premiere of the A39 69 Kirov's own centennial production of 'The Nutcracker' on Oct. A39 70 25.

A39 71 The recent visit to the Tampa Bay area was Vinogradov's first A39 72 chance to look over the Mahaffey Theater's facilities before A39 73 staging begins on the centennial 'Nutcracker.'

A39 74 Back to his roots

A39 75 The collaboration with the Kirov is a return to roots for Sean A39 76 Musselman. He formed the Dance Theatre of Florida in 1986 after A39 77 dancing with the Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Chicago City Ballet, A39 78 Milwaukee Ballet and other companies, but his training is pure A39 79 Balanchine.

A39 80 Musselman studied at the school of American Ballet (SAB), New A39 81 York City ballet's training ground. While at the school that A39 82 Balanchine founded, Musselman was in the last SAB generation to A39 83 work under the great choreographer before illness forced him to A39 84 retire.

A39 85 Even though he is the choreographer and artistic director of A39 86 the Dance Theatre of Florida, Sean Musselman is still dancing at 32 A39 87 and teaching at the company's ballet school. He danced the role of A39 88 the Cavalier in last year's Dance Theatre production of 'The A39 89 Nutcracker.'

A39 90 In the centennial show, he will dance the Snow pas de deux with A39 91 a dancer from the Kirov.

A39 92 "I think that some of the best ones from the Kirov are A39 93 coming because Oleg is very excited about doing this," said A39 94 Musselman.

A39 95 The fanfare surrounding the centennial of 'The Nutcracker' A39 96 would have surprised Tchaikovsky; the composer considered his own A39 97 score inferior. It was never a big hit in Russia, but Balanchine A39 98 had a fondness for it after playing small parts in it and then A39 99 graduating to dancing the role of the Nutcracker Prince in his A39 100 youth.

A39 101 Because of Balanchine's production, Americans are the world's A39 102 only 'Nutcracker' fanatics.

A39 103 A39 104 Americans were obsessed by phrenology

A39 105 By JOHN BARRAT

A39 106 of the Smithsonian News Service

A39 107 His bald head is as white and shiny as a porcelain bathtub, A39 108 tattooed with a curious diagram of lines and letters. Many once A39 109 believed this prophet, who claimed to have solved the age-old A39 110 mysteries of the human mind.

A39 111 Today, antique and forgotten, he stares blankly into space from A39 112 a storage shelf inside the Smithsonian's National Museum of A39 113 American History in Washington, D.C.

A39 114 Meet the Phrenological Man, a life-size bust from one of the A39 115 oddest social movements in American history. Fashioned in the A39 116 mid-1800s by a New Yorker named Lorenzo Fowler, this porcelain head A39 117 was once used to teach the wonders of phrenology - "the A39 118 science of the mind" - to the American public.

A39 119 For centuries people have struggled to understand the A39 120 relationship between human actions and the processes of the A39 121 brain.

A39 122 Today, a procedure known as Positron Emissions Tomography - A39 123 which measures levels of neuron activity in the brain - is one A39 124 high-tech method neuroscientists use to learn which areas of the A39 125 brain relate to human activities and emotions. Scientists have A39 126 confirmed much of the PET-scan work with Magnetic Resonance A39 127 Imaging, a faster technology. Still, exactly what is A39 128 <}_><-|>going<+|>going on<}/>in those areas of the brain remains a A39 129 deep mystery.

A39 130 Skull topography

A39 131 Not to phrenologists. From 1832 into the 1900s, itinerant A39 132 phrenologists traveled from town to town in America, solemnly A39 133 handling people's heads before large crowds and preaching that A39 134 human character could be learned from the topography of the A39 135 skull.

A39 136 "Phrenologists believed the strength of each faculty A39 137 determined the physical size of the specific part of the brain in A39 138 which it was located, and that the shape of the brain determined A39 139 the shape of the skull that surrounded it," Michael Sokal, A39 140 a historian at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, A39 141 Mass., explained at a recent lecture at the National Museum of A39 142 American History.

A39 143 An individual's combative organ, for example, was supposedly A39 144 located "an inch and a half behind the tops of the A39 145 ears." If a person's skull bulged at this spot, his or her A39 146 combative tendencies were high.

A39 147 By combining all of an individual's faculties, phrenologists A39 148 believed that they could draw an accurate reading of his or her A39 149 character. By exercising certain organs with specific thoughts, A39 150 phrenologists believed a person could willfully change the shape of A39 151 his or her skull.

A39 152 Although today phrenology is widely regarded as fraud and A39 153 fakery, "an understanding of any past science requires A39 154 careful analysis of the context in which it developed," A39 155 Sokal says. "It's all <}_><-|>to<+|>too<}/> easy to dismiss A39 156 what isn't fully understood."

A39 157 Phrenology originated in Vienna, Austria, in the late-18th and A39 158 early-19th centuries when physician and brain-research pioneer A39 159 Franz Joseph Gall observed that students with good memories also A39 160 had striking eyes. From this, he inferred that human memory was A39 161 located in the part of the brain directly behind the eye. Gall went A39 162 on to assign more than 30 other human faculties to specific brain A39 163 regions.

A39 164 Austrian scientist

A39 165 Phrenology made its American debut in New England in 1832, when A39 166 a visiting Gall protege, Austrian scientist Johann Spurzheim, gave A39 167 a series of popular lectures and occasionally demonstrated a brain A39 168 dissection. Spurzheim died in the United States and was followed in A39 169 1838 by another reputable phrenologist, Englishman George Combe.

A39 170 America's highways during this time were frequented by A39 171 "salesmen of all kinds - peddlers with knapsacks, people A39 172 selling patent medicines, lecturers, religious people, musical A39 173 performers, circuses and carnivals," explains Roger A39 174 Sherman, a historian at the Museum of American History.

A39 175 Men (and a few women) of all ages studied phrenology's easily A39 176 learned principles, bought a few books, charts and busts, and set A39 177 out on the lecture circuit. Phrenology was transformed from a A39 178 scientific theory into a sort of pseudoscientific character A39 179 analysis akin to palm reading. It was great entertainment.

A39 180 Before the Civil War, itinerant phrenologists blanketed the A39 181 countryside 'reading' thousands of heads and doling out advice on A39 182 everything from marriage to child rearing, careers, health, A39 183 religion, personal happiness and even sex.

A39 184 "They'd typically hire a town hall or a large church A39 185 and open their visit with a free lecture at which they'd sell books A39 186 and charts," Sokal says. Lecturers demonstrated their skill A39 187 by randomly examining heads from the audience - sometimes while A39 188 blindfolded.

A39 189 "Private readings"

A39 190 The phrenologist's bread and butter, Sokal explains, came from A39 191 "a series of private readings conducted on a fee basis, A39 192 often at hotels, on mornings and afternoons before each A39 193 lecture."

A39 194 Among American phrenologists, none achieved greater recognition A39 195 than Orson and Lorenzo Fowler, two brothers who, in 1835, opened a A39 196 'Phrenological Cabinet,' or museum, in New York City, which A39 197 eventually contained hundreds of busts, including busts of A39 198 Michelangelo, pirates, thieves and a Bengal tiger.

A39 199 The Fowlers lectured widely, employed a number of traveling A39 200 phrenologists and published many books with copious titles such as A39 201 'Marriage: Its History and Ceremonies; with a Phrenological and A39 202 Physiological Exposition of the Functions and Qualifications for A39 203 Happy Marriages.'

A39 204 Most major U.S. cities had their own libraries, club rooms and A39 205 collections of plaster busts. Employers asked for written A39 206 phrenological examinations from job applicants, and women wore A39 207 their hair in ways that showed their best phrenological qualities. A39 208 A number of famous citizens had readings done, including President A39 209 James Garfield, abolitionist John Brown and poet Walt Whitman.

A39 210 Many people didn't buy into the phrenology craze, and it was A39 211 criticized widely. The Fowlers embraced the criticism, however, and A39 212 used it as a springboard for publicity. They fervently believed in A39 213 and defended their 'science.'

A39 214 Modern scientists can find no rational basis for the principles A39 215 and techniques of phrenology. According to Sokal, phrenology owed A39 216 much of its success to practitioners who gave character readings A39 217 "so vague and general that they could apply to almost A39 218 anybody."

A39 219 Like a mix between Sherlock Holmes and P.T. Barnum, A39 220 phrenologists became expert showmen who used small details of a A39 221 subject's clothing, mannerisms, hands, reactions and even their A39 222 smell to draw up convincing character profiles.

A39 223 After the Civil War, a more skeptical nation lost faith in A39 224 phrenology. By the early 1900s, phrenology was a closed chapter in A39 225 the history of American science.

A39 226 A39 227 TNT drama offers 'adult' programming

A39 228 By FRAZIER MOORE

A39 229 of The Associated Press

A39 230 NEW YORK - Even if it went unspoken, the last word on A39 231 television - well, the last six - always used to be "and A39 232 they lived happily ever after."

A39 233 Then, happily, TV got a little more serious.

A39 234 Witness - please! - 'The Water Engine,' which premieres on A39 235 cable's TNT channel tonight at 8, followed immediately by two A39 236 repeat showings.

A39 237 Kicking off a series of original films called TNT Screenworks, A39 238 'The Water Engine' is a deadly serious look at the American Dream, A39 239 written by the celebrated dramatist David Mamet.

A39 240 Its impressive cast includes Joe Mantegna, John Mahoney, Patti A39 241 LuPone, Charles Durning and Treat Williams. It is engrossing and A39 242 disturbing. It's even entertaining.

A39 243 A40 1 <#FROWN:A40\>The mature rocker - a hard sell

A40 2 <*_>square<*/>Demographically, it makes sense for pop music to A40 3 court the over-30 crowd. But that has been slow to happen.

A40 4 By Bruce Britt

A40 5 LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS

A40 6 Is the pop-music industry committing financial suicide by A40 7 alienating the music's older fans? In an industry so blinded by A40 8 youth, it appears that the smaller players are the ones creating a A40 9 ground-swell of support for music by and for people in the A40 10 30-to-50 age range.

A40 11 Rock 'n' rollers in their 30s and 40s with lingering dreams of A40 12 making it in pop music have only a slight chance of getting signed A40 13 to major, rock-oriented labels. Rock 'n' roll is traditionally a A40 14 young person's industry, and aging signs such as a receding A40 15 hairline or a paunch take a performer out of the rock 'n' roll A40 16 sweepstakes.

A40 17 But recent trends indicate that adult pop and rock is a gold A40 18 mine waiting to be explored. Though the record industry is still A40 19 youth-oriented, it seems that yuppie musicians and consumers are A40 20 quietly waging a revolution that is putting a dent in rock record A40 21 and concert sales.

A40 22 Country music sales and radio ratings are soaring - an A40 23 intriguing turn of events in light of the fact that 30-ish 'new A40 24 country' pioneers such as Garth Brooks, Billy Ray Cyrus, Travis A40 25 Tritt and the Kentucky HeadHunters<&|>sic! specialize in a A40 26 distilled brand of Southern rock 'n' roll. Older established A40 27 rockers are getting into country as well. For example, Don Henley A40 28 has collaborated with singer Trisha Yearwood and recorded in A40 29 Nashville.

A40 30 Henley isn't the only one flirting with the country business. A40 31 Ken Kragen used to manage such rock and pop heavyweights as the Bee A40 32 Gees, Lionel Richie and the J. Geils Band. Now Kragen deals almost A40 33 exclusively with country acts such as Tritt. Kragen and other A40 34 insiders believe Nashville could supplant Los Angeles as the A40 35 nation's music capital.

A40 36 "Though the country business is becoming more A40 37 complicated all the time, it is still easier to deal with than A40 38 pop," Kragen said. "Country music is probably the A40 39 most exciting trend in music right now. You hear radio stations A40 40 touting their 'new country' or 'hot country' sound."

A40 41 "Maybe that's the lesson our country cousins are A40 42 teaching us," said Phil Walden, president of Capricorn A40 43 Records. "Music - not age or anything else - is the most A40 44 important thing."

A40 45 Capricorn's hottest acts are involved in the burgeoning A40 46 'neo-hippie' movement, which is gaining record- and concert-sales A40 47 steam every day. Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors and Col. Bruce A40 48 Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit - older and thoroughly A40 49 unglamorous bands that play countrified rock, blues and jazz - are A40 50 such popular concert attractions that a theme tour recently was A40 51 organized to satisfy the demand for these performing warhorses.

A40 52 Other trends indicate that adults are begging to be courted by A40 53 the music industry. Ratings at adult contemporary radio stations A40 54 are on the upswing, and older acts such as Steve Miller, Jimmy A40 55 Buffett and the Grateful Dead have continued to draw sellout A40 56 crowds, while rock-oriented packages continue to struggle to draw A40 57 fans.

A40 58 Some of the biggest sleeper successes in recent years have been A40 59 major-label baby-boomer acts, with Bonnie Raitt, Michael Bolton and A40 60 Natalie Cole creating the peak. All these acts struggled to win A40 61 creative control and break out of the rigid, youth-oriented visions A40 62 the music industry had dictated to them.

A40 63 In contrast to all this adult-oriented activity, rock record A40 64 sales slowly have been declining since the mid-1980s, while country A40 65 and other music forms have been enjoying steady gains, according to A40 66 Recording Industry Association of America's Statistical Overview A40 67 for 1991.

A40 68 Some theorize that Nashville is enjoying renewed popularity A40 69 because of the country music industry's more inclusive nature. A40 70 Walden's Capricorn Records put Southern rock on the map in the A40 71 1970s with such acts as the Allman Brothers Band and the Marshall A40 72 Tucker Band. Walden attributed country music's resurgence on the A40 73 country industry's more inclusive nature.

A40 74 "I think country is more willing to take in refugees A40 75 from rock n' roll<&|>sic! and allow them the space to redefine A40 76 themselves in some country context," Walden said. A40 77 "Country is expanding rather than restricting, where rock A40 78 is quite the opposite."

A40 79 Inclusiveness is a buzzword used by Walden and other A40 80 independent label heads, who are courting older rock and pop A40 81 consumers. Walden, who recently reactivated his company after a A40 82 decadelong absence, said the secret of his success is simple.

A40 83 "I really think, in terms of the new hippie movement, A40 84 the emphasis is primarily on the music," Walden said.

A40 85 Walden's comment must resonate with well-known former teen A40 86 idols such as Ringo Starr and David Cassidy - acts with built-in A40 87 cult followings who have had to sign deals with independent labels. A40 88 Older rock acts able or fortunate enough to finagle a major label A40 89 deal claim they are often persuaded to sing about adolescent A40 90 concerns rather than from a more mature perspective.

A40 91 "It frustrates me that [record industry] people can't A40 92 see a way forward for a band like the Who," said former Who A40 93 singer Roger Daltrey. "It frustrates me that some of the A40 94 best musicians in rock 'n' roll are our age and don't seem to be A40 95 able to put their emotions into music."

A40 96 Daltrey is lucky - at least he has a legacy that makes him more A40 97 appealing to record company talent scouts. But there are many older A40 98 rock 'n' roll lovers who will probably never get the chance.

A40 99 Sterling Haug is founder of the Musicians Contact Service, a A40 100 Hollywood-based referral service. He said at least half of his A40 101 clientele consists of musicians in their 30s still struggling to A40 102 break into the big time.

A40 103 "You have to consider that everybody lies about their A40 104 age by about five years, so there are a lot of guys around 40 still A40 105 playing original material and trying to break through," A40 106 Haug said.

A40 107 Though trends would suggest an adult pop phenomenon would be A40 108 well-received by consumers, some experts say mature music is a very A40 109 hard sell. Ron Goldstein is president and chief executive officer A40 110 of Private Records, a Los Angeles-based company with a largely A40 111 adult-oriented pop roster that includes Starr, guitarist Leo Kottke A40 112 and Andy Summers, formerly of the Police. He said it is difficult A40 113 winning exposure for older acts.

A40 114 "Some guy in the industry might think, 'Hey, Carole A40 115 King is still around, and she's still in good voice. I'd like to A40 116 sign her'," Goldstein said. "But then he's got to A40 117 consider how he's going to get her on radio or how he's going to A40 118 get any exposure for her. That's just part of the battle record A40 119 companies face."

A40 120 Goldstein believes that for the music industry to reach 30- to A40 121 50-year-old consumers, existing promotional methods such as radio A40 122 must invent a format specifically geared toward baby boomers. Adult A40 123 contemporary radio, Goldstein claims, is almost as rigid as the Top A40 124 40.

A40 125 In addition, he suggested that other avenues, such as direct A40 126 mail marketing, should be explored. That would allow record A40 127 companies to bypass radio, television and MTV altogether and take A40 128 it straight to the consumers.

A40 129 A40 130 Fox's 'young' shows are old and tired

A40 131 By Greg Dawson

A40 132 SENTINEL TELEVISION CRITIC

A40 133 The Fox network has publicly tabbed 18 to 34 as its prime A40 134 demographic target. The producers of Martin and The A40 135 Heights must have thought they were talking about IQs, not A40 136 ages.

A40 137 Martin, a hyperactive sitcom about a brash, young radio A40 138 talk-show host, assaults the senses with decibels and A40 139 dumbbells. If this were the Olympics, you might want to have A40 140 Martin tested for steroid use.

A40 141 The Heights, another Aaron Spelling fashion statement A40 142 masquerading as a drama, is Spelling's attempt to get a third cup A40 143 of tea from the same soggy bag that yielded Beverly Hills, A40 144 90210 and Melrose Place, and it's a mighty thin A40 145 brew, indeed.

A40 146 Together, these series demonstrate how shows can scream A40 147 "young!" in every way and still seem achingly old and A40 148 tired.

A40 149 It's possible to feel some regret over Martin as a lost A40 150 opportunity. The star, stand-up comic Martin Lawrence has loads of A40 151 natural charm and operates smoothly in the sitcom format. But he's A40 152 undermined by relentlessly horrid writing.

A40 153 His character, a Detroit talk-show host, is a grating A40 154 hybrid that combines the snickering macho arrogance of Eddie Murphy A40 155 and the cloying, puppy-dog cuteness of Bill Cosby in his bedroom A40 156 scenes with Phylicia Rashad on The Cosby Show.

A40 157 One minute Martin is strutting an obnoxious under-my-thumb A40 158 brand of chauvinism to impress his Neanderthal buddies, the next A40 159 he's on his knees whimpering for forgiveness from his girlfriend A40 160 (Tisha Campbell). It might be laughable if it weren't so A40 161 pathetic.

A40 162 Martin, known for his comedy work on HBO, arrives with a A40 163 reputation as a gifted mimic. Besides the title character, Martin A40 164 plays his nosy mother and a busty love machine across the hall A40 165 named Sheneneh. But they just seem like Lawrence in bad wigs. He A40 166 never goes beyond dress-up to create a distinct character, the way A40 167 Flip Wilson did with Geraldine.

A40 168 Nor do Lawrence and his producers do anything interesting with A40 169 the talk-show format. The studio is just another set for the A40 170 delivery of bad lines. Adrift in this debacle is Garret Morris A40 171 (Saturday Night Live), playing the manager of Martin's A40 172 radio station.

A40 173 Let us travel now from the depths of comedy to The A40 174 Heights of commercial exploitation.

A40 175 It's not uncommon for TV producers to copy themselves, but two A40 176 times in less than two years? Spelling's 90210 begat A40 177 Melrose Place, which created a market for The A40 178 Heights - same song, different verse.

A40 179 The Heights looks less like a drama than it does a A40 180 product tie-in, the product being all the accouterments of youth A40 181 culture, from jeans to music videos.

A40 182 In a nutshell - which is plenty large enough to hold the A40 183 originality that went into it - The Heights is about A40 184 young people who couldn't afford the rent at Melrose Place, an A40 185 upscale West Hollywood address.

A40 186 Whereas the residents of Melrose Place are aspiring A40 187 actors and artists and doctors, the denizens of The A40 188 Heights hold down classic blue-collar jobs such as auto A40 189 mechanic, beer truck dispatcher, produce clerk and plumber's A40 190 assistant - all portrayed as purgatories to be escaped from at the A40 191 earliest opportunity.

A40 192 In their off-hours (when they aren't striding six abreast down A40 193 the street, the better to model their 'look') these sons and A40 194 daughters of the working class play in a rock band - their ticket A40 195 out of the unspeakable agony of real jobs.

A40 196 Pretension and phoniness greet you on every corner in The A40 197 Heights. This is the sort of show in which a drop-dead A40 198 beautiful character (Cheryl Pollak) says to a pursuing guy (James A40 199 Walters), "I don't get it. All this romance. Why A40 200 me?"

A40 201 It isn't exactly clear where The Heights is. What is clear is A40 202 that if these fresh-faced youth without a callous among them are A40 203 blue-collar, I'm Ron Rice the suntan lotion king.

A40 204 Trying to follow the interchangeable cast parts of these A40 205 Spelling brands reminds me of the sign above airport luggage A40 206 carousels: "Many bags look alike."

A40 207 I would suggest Aaron Spelling heed the comment of a character A40 208 in The Heights who says of their sound-alike band, A40 209 "We need to do an original."

A40 210 A40 211 A fresh TV idea set in the 1300s

A40 212 By Greg Dawson

A40 213 SENTINEL TELEVISION CRITIC

A40 214 Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day, and when the new fall TV A40 215 season rolls around (in late summer now), everyone's from Missouri: A40 216 Viewers are in a show-me state of mind as in, 'Show me something A40 217 new.'

A40 218 So the networks give us a couple dozen comedies and dramas with A40 219 all the freshness of discount bread. There are exceptions, of A40 220 course, and tonight the new fall season lives up to its billing as A40 221 ABC premieres Covington Cross, the boldest deviator from A40 222 the norm among the 33 new series.

A40 223 The schedule is jammed with family sitcoms and dramas, but A40 224 Covington Cross is the only one set in 14th-century A40 225 England and filmed on location in and around a real castle, with a A40 226 mostly British cast.

A40 227 It's a hoot - a high-spirited, handsomely mounted, A40 228 tongue-in-cheek romp that blithely mixes swordplay and slapstick, A40 229 feudalism and feminism, in a whimsical meeting of the 1390s and the A40 230 1990s.

A40 231 This is the story of a widowed dad, Sir Thomas Gray (Nigel A40 232 Terry), who could be Fred MacMurray in My Three Sons, A40 233 except that he has a beautiful daughter (Ione Skye) in addition to A40 234 three rambunctious sons, and he carries a broadsword instead of a A40 235 briefcase to work.

A40 236 A40 237 A40 238 A41 1 <#FROWN:A41\>Fairy Tale

A41 2 by Karen Bair

A41 3 Features Writer

A41 4 Once upon a time, a determined, dark-eyed ballerina A41 5 traveled to a dangerous city called New York. She danced principal A41 6 roles with famous people from the United States and Russia in one A41 7 of the best ballet companies in the world, and they traveled the A41 8 globe.

A41 9 A tall, dark, handsome man also journeyed to New York to learn A41 10 to dance with beautiful ballerinas. Because he was tall, he played A41 11 the princely roles.

A41 12 At about the same time, a dainty little ballerina ventured to A41 13 New York. She was so naive, she did not know enough to be A41 14 frightened. She danced elegantly with one of the world's most A41 15 respected danseurs.

A41 16 They danced to the edge of their world.

A41 17 Many of their dreams came true. Some did not. It was not easy, A41 18 but they knew when the time had come to pursue new dreams.

A41 19 It happened that their new paths wound to a magical Southern A41 20 city with grand oak trees and gracefully swaying Spanish moss.

A41 21 The dark-eyed ballerina and the tall, princely danseur danced A41 22 there together for the first time. They fell in love and A41 23 married.

A41 24 Before she had left New York, the tiny ballerina was hurt and A41 25 decided she would never dance again. But when she came to the A41 26 Southern city, a friend convinced her to put on her toe shoes. She A41 27 danced, and danced, and soon was dancing with the dark-eyed A41 28 ballerina and the princely danseur. Then she fell in love, too, and A41 29 married a handsome local television newsman.

A41 30 And so ...

A41 31 The room - with its barre, mirrors and American Ballet Theatre A41 32 posters from around the globe - is alive with dancers' energy. They A41 33 pose with an innate sense of performance, and both the photographer A41 34 and the camera love them.

A41 35 "You don't need me in this picture. I'm a third A41 36 wheel."

A41 37 "No, no. Come back over here. We need you in this A41 38 picture."

A41 39 "How does this look?"

A41 40 "Great. Perfect."

A41 41 "Move your head this way."

A41 42 "Like this?"

A41 43 "Great. Perfect. You guys are wonderful. Hold A41 44 it."

A41 45 "Are you sure you need me in this picture?"

A41 46 Thus cavorted Karena Brock-Carlyle, her husband John Carlyle A41 47 and Gaye Baxley Manhatton, who last month officially became A41 48 artistic directors of Savannah's Ballet South community dance A41 49 troupe. The trio had temporarily stepped into the role after the A41 50 mid-season resignation of Gayla Davis Lehotay in January. Last A41 51 month new contracts continued their tenure through August 1993.

A41 52 Their official titles vary according to the source, but from A41 53 their viewpoint, they are a team. They refer to one another as A41 54 co-artistic directors.

A41 55 "We all work together so we don't overpower one A41 56 another," Brock-Carlyle said in an interview after the A41 57 photo session. "None of us wants power.

A41 58 "Although, they usually let me have my way. I don't know A41 59 why."

A41 60 <*_>three-black-squares<*/>

A41 61 For 14 years, she danced as Karena Brock with American Ballet A41 62 Theatre (ABT), performing as a principal for five of those years. A41 63 Famous Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova offered her some of her A41 64 first principal opportunities. She later partnered with Mikhail A41 65 Baryshnikov after he defected from Russia and joined ABT.

A41 66 The walls of the Carlyles' Hilton Head Dance Theatre offer an A41 67 introduction to the past: each dancing with other partners, Brock A41 68 in costume at the White House with the Shah of Iran and former A41 69 President Lyndon Johnson; and, a framed letter of appreciation to A41 70 her from former President Richard Nixon.

A41 71 Brock-Carlyle leads Ballet South's senior company dance A41 72 classes, also attended by her husband and Manhatton. She believes a A41 73 few of the dancers could be destined for such premiere companies as A41 74 ABT.

A41 75 "It's only 50 percent talent," she advised. A41 76 "The rest is perseverance."

A41 77 She has persevered since she was in elementary school and her A41 78 parents bought tickets to a Sadler's Wells' performance of A41 79 'Sleeping Beauty,' starring Margot Fonteyn.

A41 80 "I think we sat in the very last seat in the A41 81 balcony," she recalled. "Margot Fonteyn came out, A41 82 and she just bounced all the way up to the balcony to me, and I A41 83 said that's what I want to do. That was my vision from that point A41 84 on."

A41 85 She began taking classes at 9. At 14, she danced with a A41 86 professional company in San Francisco. The last two years of high A41 87 school were devoted to learning technique and physical therapy to A41 88 realign muscles.

A41 89 "I never dated," she said. "I never A41 90 went to my high school prom. It didn't matter to me."

A41 91 She studied in Los Angeles with David Lichine and then spent a A41 92 year with the National Ballet of Holland, but ABT was her goal. A A41 93 friend snared a closed audition for her with former ABT director A41 94 Lucia Chase. She spent four years in the corps and five years as A41 95 soloist before becoming an ABT principal.

A41 96 For 13 years, she was married to ABT principal Ted Kivett.

A41 97 "We were maturing as artists - not necessarily as A41 98 people," she remembers. "We worked on our dance, A41 99 and our marriage was crumbling. Ted was in line to become the A41 100 golden boy, then Baryshnikov arrived. Ted gave up and A41 101 left."

A41 102 Somewhere in the interim, she recalls, they were divorced.

A41 103 She has fond memories of Makarova. Brock-Carlyle tosses her A41 104 black hair and imitates Makarova gently prodding the ballerinas A41 105 with a "dahlink."

A41 106 "She was beautiful," she said. "I love A41 107 her."

A41 108 Her recollections of Baryshnikov are not as fond. She partnered A41 109 with him in the ballets 'Petrouchka' and 'Les Patineurs.'

A41 110 "He's a very serious artist," she said. A41 111 "He demanded perfection. That's good.

A41 112 "He's very quiet. Very introverted. No one will ever know A41 113 him.

A41 114 "He's not very tall."

A41 115 Brock and Baryshnikov are the same height, making her taller A41 116 than he on pointe. When Baryshnikov took the ABT helm, he began A41 117 promoting inexperienced dancers.

A41 118 "Ballet is turned down from dancer to dancer," A41 119 interjected Karena's husband John. "He broke that line. He A41 120 made young dancers stars. They weren't grown."

A41 121 "Artistry isn't developed over-night," A41 122 Karena added softly. "It develops with time."

A41 123 She was offered a sixth year as an ABT principal, but turned it A41 124 down. She speaks little about that turning point in her career.

A41 125 "I was having personal problems," she said. A41 126 "I stayed in New York for a year after I left ABT.

A41 127 "It was difficult. I would walk past the theater and start A41 128 crying."

A41 129 She freelanced and eventually traveled to Savannah to direct A41 130 the Savannah Ballet. Carlyle, whose parents lived in Savannah, came A41 131 as a guest artist. She convinced him to stay.

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A41 133 Unlike Brock, Carlyle did not begin dancing until after high A41 134 school. He studied graphic design and wanted to create comic books A41 135 until an artist's model convinced the 6-foot-1-inch former high A41 136 school football player to take a ballet class. He waited tables in A41 137 New York and studied on scholarship for two years at the acclaimed A41 138 Harkness Ballet. Then dancer Melissa Hayden took him under her A41 139 tutelage.

A41 140 "We did New York Times cross-word puzzles after A41 141 class," he said. "One day the puzzle said, 'Name a A41 142 famous Canadian ballerina.' To my surprise, it was her."

A41 143 He soloed with the Tampa Ballet, then detoured permanently to A41 144 partner Brock. When Brock left Savannah Ballet, they formed the A41 145 Hilton Head Ballet Theatre.

A41 146 Seven years ago, they married. In September their son Timothy A41 147 will be 5.

A41 148 Karena discovered new priorities.

A41 149 "I gave up performing for Tim, " she said. A41 150 "I wanted more time with him.

A41 151 "To feel the body move beyond its limits and to move A41 152 expressively, it's wonderful. It's addicting. But I will never A41 153 dance again. I would have to give up my mornings with A41 154 Tim."

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A41 156 Manhatton knows what it is to withdraw from addiction to dance. A41 157 She abandoned ballet after partnering in New York with Edward A41 158 Villella, considered by some the greatest classical danseur ever A41 159 born in the United States.

A41 160 A feminine, blond-haired, brilliant blue-eyed Savannah native, A41 161 Manhatton knew she wanted to be a ballerina at 13. Her mother took A41 162 her to a ballet at Savannah High School.

A41 163 "I leaned over to my mother," she said in her A41 164 honey Southern drawl, "and I said, 'I think I've made a A41 165 decision.'"

A41 166 She studied locally and joined the Savannah Ballet. The A41 167 directors - Bojan and Stephanie Spassoff, formerly of ABT and A41 168 friends of Karena's - arranged for her to 'sit' the New York A41 169 apartment of traveling ballet friends one summer. Every inch the A41 170 Southern belle, she was befriended by upstairs neighbor Stanley A41 171 Williams, a New York City Ballet school instructor revered by A41 172 dancers. She was invited to observe a class.

A41 173 "Here I was in my little flowered Savannah A41 174 dress," she remembers. "It was a huge studio. A41 175 Nureyev was standing there and he winked at me. I thought I would A41 176 faint."

A41 177 She studied at the Harkness and the famed Joffrey Ballet. A41 178 Villella was a protege of the New York City Ballet's legendary A41 179 George Balanchine, and when Villella suffered a recurring hip A41 180 injury, he assumed directorship of the Eglevsky Ballet and formed a A41 181 touring company. Villella knew Manhatton and asked her to tour. A41 182 Eventually they became dance partners.

A41 183 Tiny and compact, she became adept at the furious pace of the A41 184 Balanchine style. Then Villella's company began to fold.

A41 185 "It was such a learning experience for me," A41 186 Manhatton said. "You can be a star one day, and you have an A41 187 injury and you're out and somebody's taking your place.

A41 188 "I just woke up one day. I'm not sure why I didn't want to go A41 189 on. I guess I had New York burnout."

A41 190 She tells the story with a pensive smile. Smiling is her A41 191 custom.

A41 192 "I think Gaye was raised in the Southern A41 193 tradition," Karena surmised. "You always hold up A41 194 and go on, no matter what. She is always bubbly, no matter what she A41 195 might be feeling inside."

A41 196 Manhatton returned to Savannah and became an interior designer A41 197 for five years. Then Madeleine Walker, one of the community ballet A41 198 troupe's founders, asked her to teach.

A41 199 "I really owe Madeleine," Manhatton said. A41 200 "She asked me one day, 'Why aren't you dancing?' She asked A41 201 if I would perform in a student performance. I thought it would be A41 202 interesting to put on a pair of pointe shoes again. Not in five A41 203 years had I had pointe shoes on.

A41 204 "It felt good."

A41 205 She began dancing with Carlyle and studying with Karena. During A41 206 this period of renewal, she fell in love with WTOC television A41 207 newsman Mike Manhatton, and they were married.

A41 208 "Dancing for me is not the same as when I was A41 209 younger," she explained. "It's like reading a good A41 210 book and going back and reading it again. I understand more now. I A41 211 always danced so emotionally. I want to keep that this go round, A41 212 but I want to think about the technical aspects. It's like a fresh A41 213 start.

A41 214 "Teaching makes you analyze."

A41 215 <*_>three-black-squares<*/>

A41 216 Manhatton's responsibilities include teaching the junior A41 217 company - a step she considers vital in their progression toward A41 218 the senior ranks.

A41 219 "I'm very strict with them," she said with A41 220 delicate force. "It's very difficult for a 9-year-old to be A41 221 serious about anything. I ask them to extend themselves beyond A41 222 casual involvement."

A41 223 "Gaye is wonderful with the kids," said Karena. A41 224 "She does it in a very gentle and sweet way. But A41 225 firm."

A41 226 In addition to technique and artistry, Karena said her goal for A41 227 the senior corps is "dedication, discipline and A41 228 commitment." Stage presence evident even in the studio, she A41 229 commands the teen-agers' respect.

A41 230 "John gets closer to the kids," she said. A41 231 "I never had a teacher with a sense of humor. I stay A41 232 aloof."

A41 233 John - the wily jester of the trio - relieves class tension by A41 234 imitating improper technique. Eliciting giggles, he then A41 235 demonstrates the correct approach.

A41 236 "I teach them through laughter," he said. A41 237 "Then if I get stern, it's very effective."

A41 238 The trio is conscious their lessons came from sweat equity and A41 239 the school of life, not the relative security of a liberal arts A41 240 college. John's favorite studio poster is one emblazoned with the A41 241 word "Read." Under it is a photo of a dancer reading a A41 242 Russian novel as he leaps across the room.

A41 243 "Teach kids to read," he said. "It A41 244 makes better dancers. Kids don't use their imaginations anymore. A41 245 They watch television. When I get angry is when they're not using A41 246 their minds. When they just go through the motions. Life's more A41 247 interesting than that."

A41 248 A42 1 <#FROWN:A42\>Concerned producer prescribes remedies for A42 2 networks' doldrums

A42 3 By Steven Bochco

A42 4 Los Angeles Times

A42 5 Hollywood - Here's a little quiz, multiple choice:

A42 6 Complete the following sentence: Network television stinks A42 7 because of: A. Producers. B. Advertisers. C. Networks. D. Dan A42 8 Quayle. E. All of the above.

A42 9 You could make a case for any of these choices, but my pick A42 10 would be: C. Networks. Let's face it, if you've spent more than 20 A42 11 minutes in the television business, you know you can run a network A42 12 better than "those guys."

A42 13 I mean, c'mon, let's be honest about it. If television was a A42 14 dog, that dog wouldn't hunt. It's not very smart. It's not very A42 15 funny. It's not very truthful, or very real. It's not very A42 16 enlightening, and only occasionally thoughtful. In short, it's just A42 17 not very good. No wonder viewers are deserting the ship. The ship A42 18 is going down, folks.

A42 19 Listen, I feel bad for the networks. Really. They're scared to A42 20 death, notwithstanding their annual frenzy of optimism about their A42 21 new seasons, and with good reason. The economy is lousy. Viewership A42 22 is down. Advertising is down. Revenue is down. Costs are up. A42 23 Pressure groups are up. No one's having fun anymore. And it A42 24 shows.

A42 25 The television business, like it or not - and I don't - has A42 26 become politicized. Networks have become increasingly skittish A42 27 about any program content that is perceived by pressure groups as A42 28 objectionable. Does this mean that television shows have, by and A42 29 large, become more conservative? You tell me. The airwaves are A42 30 filled with law-and-order shows, both fictional and A42 31 quasi-fictional, which cannot by any stretch of the imagination be A42 32 identified as espousing liberal sentiments. And, Dan Quayle's A42 33 remarks about Murphy Brown notwithstanding, half-hour TV A42 34 sitcoms generally remain a bastion of traditional and overly A42 35 simplistic moral preachment.

A42 36 Gutting of program content

A42 37 The net result is that pressure groups have succeeded in A42 38 bullying advertisers and networks into gutting program content as A42 39 never before. Networks don't want controversy. They don't want bad A42 40 language. They don't want sex. They particularly don't want sex A42 41 between individuals of the same gender. What they do want is big A42 42 ratings and lots of advertising revenue, yet they're not willing to A42 43 take the risks necessary to achieve those goals.

A42 44 So, how do you change things around? How do you revitalize the A42 45 television business in an environment gripped by fear? If I were A42 46 king of the forest - i.e., a network president - here are some of A42 47 the things I'd try:

A42 48 <*_>bullet<*/> I'd eliminate network censors. Let viewership A42 49 determine what's appropriate and what isn't.

A42 50 <*_>bullet<*/> I'd eliminate jobs. Lots of them. Sorry, but how A42 51 many network executives does it really take to screw in - or screw A42 52 up - a light bulb?

A42 53 <*_>bullet<*/> I'd stop relying on research as a network tool. A42 54 It doesn't work. If it did, TV wouldn't have a failure rate in A42 55 excess of 90 percent. I think I can manage to fail nine out of 10 A42 56 times on my own, thank you, without some big fat research A42 57 department's help.

A42 58 <*_>bullet<*/> I'd eliminate pilots. Which, by definition, A42 59 would eliminate pilot season. If you believe in something, order A42 60 it. Put your money where your mouth is. And never order less than a A42 61 full season of episodes of any new show. Not six. Not 13. But 22. A42 62 In a cluttered viewing landscape, 13 episodes just aren't enough to A42 63 gain the viewer's attention, let alone loyalty.

A42 64 <*_>bullet<*/> Acknowledge that you can no longer operate in A42 65 old ways in a new environment. Buy only what you need. The A42 66 extensive stockpiling of backup shows is a waste of talent, time A42 67 and money.

A42 68 <*_>bullet<*/> Mess with traditional program lengths. If A42 69 there's a really great 45-minute show you want to put on, do it.

A42 70 <*_>bullet<*/>Watching the fall season is like watching the A42 71 start of the New York Marathon. Eliminate it. Once you've bought A42 72 something, give its chefs the time to cook it. When it's ready - A42 73 only when it's ready - put it on and leave it on.

A42 74 Reduce commercials

A42 75 <*_>bullet<*/> How's this for a plan? Everybody's screaming - A42 76 rightfully so - about screen clutter. Too many credits. Too many A42 77 logos. Main titles are too long. Not enough program time. Well, how A42 78 about reducing the number of commercials you put on the air and A42 79 charging more for them? Less advertising time means less glut, A42 80 which in turn means more attention to the advertising that's there. A42 81 I bet they'll pay.

A42 82 <*_>bullet<*/> Finally, and most importantly, I'd acknowledge A42 83 television as an art form and challenge those working in the medium A42 84 to redefine their standards of excellence accordingly. I'm weary of A42 85 feeling embarrassed about using the "a" word in connection with A42 86 television. At our best, we are artists.

A42 87 The problem, however, is that art isn't always politically A42 88 correct. Which means we'd have to tell the pressure groups - all of A42 89 them - to take a hike. We're going to give our talented writers and A42 90 producers the chance to make shows they're passionate about. How A42 91 many shows do you really see on TV where you just know the men and A42 92 women making them are truly passionate about their work? Not many, A42 93 I'll bet. But the ones that are informed by someone's passion are A42 94 usually the ones you make an appointment to see.

A42 95 These are only a few of the things I'd do if I were running a A42 96 network. Maybe they wouldn't work. But what the four major networks A42 97 are doing now doesn't work. So what the hell? What have we got to A42 98 lose that we aren't already losing?

A42 99 A42 100 Art Detour goes monthly

A42 101 'Afterhours' to open studios, galleries, more

A42 102 RICHARD NILSEN

A42 103 The Arizona Republic

A42 104 An Art Detour once a year isn't enough anymore, so an A42 105 enterprising group of Phoenix artists and galleries has conspired A42 106 to create an informal "detour" once a month through the cooler A42 107 season.

A42 108 Called Phoenix Arts Afterhours, it will be held from 5 to 9 A42 109 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month from September through A42 110 June. It begins Wednesday.

A42 111 Twenty-two art spaces, including the Phoenix Art Museum and the A42 112 Heard Museum, will take part in the self-guided tour of downtown A42 113 studios, galleries, bookstores and museums.

A42 114 Modeled on Philadelphia's First Friday program, with its 31 A42 115 galleries and 10 restaurants, and Tucson's popular Downtown A42 116 Saturday Night, the program is planned to benefit area artists, A42 117 restaurants and businesses.

A42 118 "The idea surfaced a couple of weeks after the Art A42 119 Detour in April," said Catherine Spencer, director of Radix A42 120 Gallery.

A42 121 "It was the intention of the group to have special A42 122 performances, demonstrations and individual studio tours. The A42 123 variety of works is so tremendous. I think that's what makes it A42 124 unique.

A42 125 "In one evening, you can see a museum show, a gallery A42 126 installation and then a completely alternative performance piece A42 127 within two miles and four hours of each other."

A42 128 This variety is the strength of the downtown Phoenix arts A42 129 community, Spencer said.

A42 130 "There isn't a regional history, found in other parts A42 131 of the metro area," she said diplomatically, meaning A42 132 "This isn't Scottsdale."

A42 133 That can surely be said for Tony Zahn's A42 134 Volksgemeinschafthalle at 208 S. Fifth Ave.

A42 135 "It's a display area where people can look at an A42 136 exhibit for fun, without being burdened by the label A42 137 'art,'" Zahn said. "It is just like art, but it's A42 138 not."

A42 139 He calls it a "metaesthetic theme park."

A42 140 "But I don't want to give away what people will A42 141 see," he said.

A42 142 Will there be a roller coaster?

A42 143 "Not this time, but I'm working on that."

A42 144 Metropophobobia will host readings in experimental and A42 145 "obscure areas of endeavor," according to owner A42 146 Peter Ragan. And there will be coffee and espresso.

A42 147 For the less adventurous, the Phoenix Art Museum is free on A42 148 Wednesdays and is open until 9 p.m., and the Heard Museum will be A42 149 free from 5 to 9 p.m.

A42 150 The current show at the art museum, 'Transcending Turmoil: A42 151 Painting at the Close of China's Empire, 1796-1911,' contains more A42 152 than 100 fine Chinese paintings.

A42 153 The Heard is showing 'Eclectica: Recent Acquisitions,' and A42 154 '<*_>initial-exclamation-mark<*/>Chispas! Cultural Warriors of New A42 155 Mexico.'

A42 156 The Afterhours will give people a chance to visit studios, too, A42 157 to see what artists do.

A42 158 "I'm going to be here working," said sculptor A42 159 Kevin Irvin, who shares a studio with painter Marta Boutel at an A42 160 old trolley depot at 10th and Sheridan streets. "When A42 161 people stop by, I'll take them around and show them what we do and A42 162 talk to them. There will be a little food and drink.

A42 163 "And up at this end of the tour, we have a cluster of studios, A42 164 including those of Ed Mell, John Kleber and Nick de Matties, making A42 165 a very convenient grouping."

A42 166 Not officially part of the tour is CityArts, the city of A42 167 Phoenix's Visual Arts Gallery at 214 E. Moreland St., which is open A42 168 from 6 to 9 p.m.

A42 169 Currently showing are mixed-media paintings of Jeff Falk.

A42 170 Note: CRASHarts and Gallery X will not take part until the A42 171 second Phoenix Arts Afterhours on Oct.14.

A42 172 A42 173 'Sneakers' has Oscar winners galore

A42 174 By James Ryan

A42 175 Entertainment News Wire

A42 176 LOS ANGELES - With ground-breaking performances, Sydney A42 177 Poitier and Robert Redford have earned their places among the icons A42 178 of American cinema.

A42 179 Poitier, 68, made a name for himself in the late 1950s and A42 180 '60s, starring in such film dramas as Blackboard Jungle, A42 181 Lilies of the Field, In the Heat of the Night, To Sir With A42 182 Love and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. His films A42 183 challenged the conventions of the time and helped lead to a new era A42 184 in race relations.

A42 185 Redford, 55, was Hollywood's favorite leading man in the '70s A42 186 with such films as The Candidate, The Sting, The Way We A42 187 Were and All the President's Men - films that A42 188 exploited his cool gaze, square jaw and all-American smile.

A42 189 Thus it was strange to see both men before the microphone at a A42 190 recent news conference discussing their participation in the movie A42 191 Sneakers, a lightweight romp through the world of computer A42 192 hackers and high-tech espionage. Sneakers opens Friday.

A42 193 The movie stars Redford as a former '60s radical and dedicated A42 194 hacker who heads a ragtag team of computer nerds and ex-criminals A42 195 hired to penetrate sophisticated security systems and point out A42 196 their flaws.Playing the team members are Poitier, Dan Aykroyd, A42 197 River Phoenix and Mary McDonnell. Ben Kingsley plays Redford's A42 198 one-time college chum-turned-archnemesis Cosmo, and James Earl A42 199 Jones makes a brief appearance as a National Security Agency A42 200 honcho. As the production notes proudly boast, there are eight A42 201 Oscars and 38 Oscar nominations among the bunch.

A42 202 But why this movie?

A42 203 "I got involved with the project through a phone call A42 204 basically (from director Phil Alden Robinson)," Poitier A42 205 said. "By the time I got off the phone, I was A42 206 had."

A42 207 Poitier, who has carried many movies with his performances, A42 208 says it was a relief to share some of the load this time.

A42 209 "I had never done an ensemble piece before," he A42 210 says. "This was a new and very satisfying experience.... A42 211 And it was a learning experience every day. It's nice to work A42 212 without the pressure of carrying the whole thing."

A42 213 Redford said he'd been interested in working with Robinson, who A42 214 previously wrote and directed Field of Dreams and had A42 215 been trying to get Sneakers made for a decade.

A42 216 "I can't say I got into it because of the cast - the A42 217 cast materialized around me," Redford said. "But A42 218 the cast certainly made the experience pleasurable, one of the best A42 219 I ever had.... It was a piece of entertainment touching on an A42 220 important issue, and it was smart."

A42 221 One problem both actors have in choosing new material is the A42 222 knowledge that filmgoers hold them to a higher standard because of A42 223 their previous accomplishments. Poitier is very aware of this A42 224 burden.

A42 225 "I have a responsibility if I am perceived that way to A42 226 prove that I am worthy of that," he said. "Because A42 227 this film is ... without great weight, doesn't mean I just come in A42 228 and wing it."

A42 229 Contrary to some of his statements in the past, Redford insists A42 230 Sneakers was not part of a bargain he has struck to enable him A42 231 to do other more personal projects.

A42 232 Besides, he says, the bottom line for any movie, be it A42 233 Sneakers, Incident at Oglala or All the President's A42 234 Men, is that it is entertaining.

A42 235 A43 1 <#FROWN:A43\>Moribund MGM Lion Shows a Few Signs of Life

A43 2 By Bob Strauss

A43 3 LOS ANGELES - There's little talk these days about the Lion A43 4 roaring. People just seem grateful that old Leo is, at least, still A43 5 breathing.

A43 6 The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer trademark, recently spruced up and A43 7 relieved of a debilitating tie to Pathe Communications, once again A43 8 symbolizes a going filmmaking concern. Certainly, today's MGM is A43 9 not the Hollywood powerhouse that Louis B. Mayer operated from 1925 A43 10 through the mid-'50s.

A43 11 But neither is MGM the industry deadbeat that it had become by A43 12 1991. Unlike many independent and mini-majors that have recently A43 13 succumbed to recessionary pressure, the onetime Tiffany studio has A43 14 been slowly stripped of <}_><-|>it<+|>its<}/> former glory for A43 15 nearly a quarter century. After two decades of dividing and A43 16 parceling out the company's assets - the film library to Ted A43 17 Turner, the legendary Culver City lot to Lorimar, Warner Bros. and A43 18 now Sony Pictures Entertainment - the aviation and casino kingpin A43 19 Kirk Kerkorian finally sold MGM's film entertainment division to A43 20 Pathe boss Giancarlo Parretti in November, 1990.

A43 21 Within six months, the Italian financier was reneging on deals A43 22 with major Hollywood talent, unpaid service suppliers were trying A43 23 to force MGM into bankruptcy, and cash could not be found to A43 24 release such films as 'Thelma and Louise' and 'Delirious.'

A43 25 Soon after, a very different lion - Credit Lyonnais Nederland, A43 26 the French nationalized bank that backed the highly leveraged, $1.3 A43 27 billion buyout - made moves to oust Parretti. Late last year, after A43 28 an agonizing court battle, a Delaware chancery court removed A43 29 Parretti from MGM's board. New owners Credit Lyonnais handed the A43 30 studio over to veteran Hollywood executive Alan Ladd Jr., who, A43 31 though hired by Parretti, sided with the bank during the custody A43 32 fight.

A43 33 Sterling reputation

A43 34 And with good reason. Perhaps the only studio executive widely A43 35 beloved by Hollywood's creative community and respected by his A43 36 peers, the shy, 54-year-old 'Laddie' (yes, he's the cowboy star's A43 37 son) hated having his name linked to the notorious Parretti's. And A43 38 Ladd's reputation, the Euro-bankers know, is one of MGM's A43 39 best remaining assets; the very fact that it's intact is testimony A43 40 to how highly Ladd is regarded.

A43 41 He's also got an impressive track record, which includes A43 42 perhaps the smartest decision in movie history: Ladd gave the green A43 43 light to a goofy little science-fiction film called 'Star Wars' A43 44 when he was running 20th Century Fox. Even Ladd's earlier stint as A43 45 production chief at the Kerkorian-owned MGM was one of the brighter A43 46 plateaus in the studio's long decline, marked by such hits as A43 47 'Moonstruck' and 'A Fish Called Wanda.'

A43 48 Now, Ladd hopes that MGM's upcoming slate of fall films will A43 49 erase the bad taste of 1991, when only 'Thelma & Louise' turned a A43 50 profit.

A43 51 "It's nice to be able to go to rushes of a picture or a A43 52 rough cut and be very thrilled with what you're seeing," A43 53 Ladd said. "As opposed to going to see something like A43 54 'Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man' and thinking, 'My God! What A43 55 a disaster.'"

A43 56 Among MGM's upcoming releases is Gary Sinise's acclaimed remake A43 57 of John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men,' with John Malkovich; A43 58 Jean-Jacques Annaud's adaptation of Marguerite Duras's memoir 'The A43 59 Lover,' a big European hit that has run into commercially A43 60 exploitable censorship difficulties here; 'Rich in Love,' which A43 61 re-teams the Oscar-winning 'Driving Miss Daisy' team of A43 62 writer Alfred Uhry, director Bruce Beresford and producers Richard A43 63 and Lili Fini Zanuck, and the erotic thriller 'Body of Evidence,' A43 64 starring Madonna.

A43 65 Also on tap are another Beresford-Zanucks collaboration about A43 66 blues legend Bessie Smith; 'The Baboon Heart,' a restaurant romance A43 67 with Christian Slater and Marisa ('My Cousin Vinny') Tomei; the A43 68 comedy thriller 'Cloak and Diaper' with Kathleen Turner; new films A43 69 directed by Robert Townsend, John Schlesinger and Wes Craven, and A43 70 'Son of the Pink Panther,' in which Blake Edwards revives his old A43 71 comedy franchise, with Italian comic Roberto Benigni in place of A43 72 the late Peter Sellers.

A43 73 This slate of films bears a great responsibility; most of them A43 74 have to, at the very least, perform as well as MGM's mildly A43 75 profitable skating romance 'The Cutting Edge' did earlier this A43 76 year. Estimates of how much money Credit Lyonnais currently has A43 77 invested in MGM range from $800 million to more than $1 billion.

A43 78 If the bank ever hopes to recoup, or even to find a buyer for A43 79 MGM, the upcoming features have to do better than the recent run of A43 80 such under-achievers as 'Crisscross,', 'Rush,' 'Shattered,' A43 81 'The Indian Runner,' 'Life Stinks' and 'Diggstown,' which opened in A43 82 12th place last weekend.

A43 83 Looking for hits

A43 84 "Who knows?" said Steven E. Hill, an A43 85 entertainment industry analyst for Hancock Institutional Equity A43 86 Services in San Francisco, when asked about the commercial A43 87 viability of upcoming MGM films. "The list doesn't A43 88 particularly excite or worry me, one way or another. There's A43 89 nothing that makes me feel like they have some sure hits. Then A43 90 again, they have a list of films that may be solid. It's hard to A43 91 say.

A43 92 "But the key to successfully reviving the company will be A43 93 having hit movies. They have to have hit films, or at least A43 94 profitable films one after the other, and a substantial release A43 95 schedule."

A43 96 "First and foremost, we need to build up our production A43 97 program in feature films," acknowledged Dennis Stanfill, A43 98 Ladd's former boss at Fox who was brought in as MGM's co-chairman A43 99 and chief executive officer earlier this year. Stanfill oversees A43 100 the company's financial end, outstanding legal entanglements and A43 101 corporate restructuring, freeing up Ladd to concentrate on A43 102 creative, production and marketing tasks.

A43 103 Stanfill admits that, considering the hangover from Parretti's A43 104 regime, rebuilding MGM is a daunting assignment. "How big A43 105 of a problem?" he asked rhetorically. "Let me put A43 106 it this way: This is a major challenge. It was left by Parretti A43 107 with a very heavy debt load and ongoing obligations. As well, it A43 108 went through a period of misdirection, if not mismanagement.

A43 109 "We have now set on a course, the purpose of which is to make A43 110 MGM, again, a great movie company in its finest tradition. That's A43 111 going to take a considerable amount of time. It's not a quick task, A43 112 but we are building, I believe, solidly and well - in close A43 113 co-operation with Credit Lyonnais, which is committed to A43 114 the long term."

A43 115 A43 116 Blue-Collar Slant Is Gold for Fox

A43 117 Programs Recognize Class Differences

A43 118 By David Zurawik

A43 119 Baltimore Sun

A43 120 Fox Broadcasting is doing it again. Most American viewers had A43 121 their channel scanners locked on NBC in July and early August A43 122 because of the Olympics, but this is the summer of Fox.

A43 123 Once again, Fox went against the old rules of showing reruns in A43 124 summer and last month debuted a new series called 'Melrose Place.' A43 125 It's a brand-new hit show, a series that is all the buzz.

A43 126 Thanks in large part to 'Melrose Place,' Fox finished ahead of A43 127 one of the big three networks, NBC, in over-all household ratings A43 128 for the week of July 13-19. That marked a first for Fox Network. A43 129 And some industry analysts are predicting that Fox will finish A43 130 ahead of NBC for the entire 1992-93 season.

A43 131 And driven by all that, plus its hammerlock on young viewers A43 132 (whom advertisers most want to reach), it looks as if Fox will A43 133 start the fall season with more advertising time sold for more A43 134 money than any network except CBS, which finished first last A43 135 year.

A43 136 Not bad. And Fox is doing all this growing and money-making A43 137 when audiences for other broadcast networks are eroding.

A43 138 What is Fox doing that NBC, ABC, CBS or PBS aren't? Or, as one A43 139 English journalist put it as he was leaving a Fox presentation on A43 140 the fall preview press conference in Los Angeles recently: A43 141 "What makes these Fox people - with all their shows about A43 142 garbage men and shoe salesman - so bloody smart, A43 143 anyway?"

A43 144 The shoe salesman and garbage man are, of course, Al Bundy of A43 145 'Married ...With Children' and Roc Emerson of 'Roc,' respectively. A43 146 And they are very much part of the answer to the question of what A43 147 makes Fox such a success. They are part of a blue-collar A43 148 sensibility driving some of the most popular Fox shows, such as A43 149 'Married,' 'Roc' and 'The Simpsons.'

A43 150 'Blue collar' is an adjective that isn't used much lately when A43 151 talking about prime-time television. The only other important A43 152 blue-collar family in prime time is the Conners of 'Roseanne' on A43 153 ABC.

A43 154 In fact, prime-time television rarely admits that there are A43 155 class differences in this country and that life looks very A43 156 different, depending on which side of the working-class boundary A43 157 you happen to live on. Almost everyone on prime-time television A43 158 lives in a shiny, suburban world like that of the Taylors on 'Home A43 159 Improvement' or a shiny, yupscale world like that of 'Murphy Brown' A43 160 - except on Fox.

A43 161 'Roc' lives in a row-house in Baltimore. In last year's A43 162 premiere episode, he delivered his comic, working-class version of A43 163 Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech. His dream, he said, A43 164 was to own a semi-detached home at the end of the row. Roc A43 165 furnishes his rowhouse with repaired or restored furniture A43 166 collected on his garbage route. What shines in 'Roc' are the A43 167 dreams.

A43 168 Two new Fox shows with that same sensibility will debut soon: A43 169 'The Heights' (on Thursday) and 'Class of '96' (in late September A43 170 or early October). They look like winners.

A43 171 'The Heights' is about a rock 'n' roll band of working-class A43 172 adults in their 20s. The band members - who live in the A43 173 smokestack-and-factory landscape of Bruce Springsteen's New Jersey A43 174 - work during the day as mechanics, truck dispatchers and grocery A43 175 store clerks. And, like Roc, they dream. Their dreams are expressed A43 176 in their music.

A43 177 'Class of '96' takes place in what might seem like the unlikely A43 178 setting of an Ivy League college. But the series is told in part A43 179 through the narration of David Copperfield Morrissey, a A43 180 working-class kid from New Jersey on a scholarship. Most of the A43 181 two-hour pilot is about class differences and Morrissey's dreams. A43 182 It's smart stuff - like the answers that Fox president Peter A43 183 Chernin gave during a recent interview in California when he was A43 184 asked about that working-class sensibility at Fox.

A43 185 Chernin started his explanation with the 'Marxist-Leninist' A43 186 quote, but added quickly that he was only kidding.

A43 187 "I think that we have strived to do a number of things A43 188 - one of which is to make television a little less sort of A43 189 saccharine or standard or predictable," he said. A43 190 "We do live in a world in which there are class A43 191 differences."

A43 192 And class differences mean different audiences, in the words of A43 193 media scholar John Fiske, of the University of Wisconsin, who A43 194 insists you can't talk about TV viewers as a single audience.

A43 195 "Pluralizing the term into audiences at least A43 196 recognizes that there are differences between viewers that must be A43 197 taken into account," he writes in Television A43 198 Culture. "We are not a homogenous society ...Our A43 199 social system is criss-crossed by axes of class, gender, race, age, A43 200 nationality, region, politics, and so on, all of which produce A43 201 strongly marked differences."

A43 202 Unlike CBS, for example, which still primarily thinks of the TV A43 203 audience as one huge homogeneous mass, Fox acknowledges such A43 204 differences and develops programs based on them, Chernin said.

A43 205 "We have always tried very hard to think about A43 206 audiences that are underserved," he said. "If you A43 207 look at some of our biggest hits - 'In Living Color' and 'Beverly A43 208 Hills 90210' - they came from audiences that had been traditionally A43 209 underserved by television. In the case of 'In Living Color,' it was A43 210 sort of a contemporary, hip-hop minority culture. And in the case A43 211 of '90210,' there hadn't been a realistic teenage show."

A43 212 Working-class viewers make up one very large and A43 213 underrepresented audience, Chernin said. And Fox has tried to serve A43 214 them. It's as simple as that, he said.

A43 215 The success of the fourth network is not by any means due only A43 216 to this blue-collar sensibility. Two other major reasons for the A43 217 success of Fox are surely the network's youth appeal and a certain A43 218 derring-do in programming - like the decision to broadcast 'Roc' A43 219 live this season.

A43 220 And, while much is starting to be made of the youth appeal of A43 221 'The Heights' and 'Class of '96', the two shows do have a A43 222 working-class sensibility.

A43 223 A44 1 <#FROWN:A44\>The Opera of 'The Scarlet Letter'

A44 2 Alfred Kazin

A44 3 Why is there no opera of The Scarlet Letter? The A44 4 novel opens on a scene, "The Prison-Door," that is A44 5 so dramatic in its starkness that one half-expects to hear an A44 6 audience burst into applause. "A throng of bearded men, in A44 7 sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed A44 8 with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was A44 9 assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was A44 10 heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron A44 11 spikes."

A44 12 The cruel public spectacle that follows is contained in the A44 13 fact that although this is a primitive Boston, only some fifteen or A44 14 twenty years old, "the wooden jail was already marked with A44 15 weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave yet a A44 16 darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front. The rust on A44 17 the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than A44 18 anything else in the new world." To a 'new world' the A44 19 Puritans have transferred intact from the old everything rigid, A44 20 intolerant, aged, and cramped in spirit.

A44 21 The contrast between old world and new, between the dour old A44 22 Roger Chillingworth and his estranged and lively young wife Hester A44 23 Prynne, is fundamental to a novel so overwhelming in its images and A44 24 driving in its symbols that Henry James said that Hawthorne's A44 25 method amounted to "importunity."

A44 26 Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the A44 27 wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with A44 28 burdock, pig-weed, apple-peru, and such unsightly A44 29 vegetation, which evidently found congenial in the soil that had so A44 30 early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison. But, A44 31 on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was A44 32 a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate A44 33 gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile A44 34 beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal A44 35 as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of A44 36 Nature could pity and be kind to him.

A44 37 No opera could begin with a scene of more violent contrasts of A44 38 costume, color, and personality than in what follows. A young A44 39 woman, tall, "with a figure of perfect elegance," A44 40 stands on a scaffold before the whole town clasping a A44 41 three-month-old baby.

A44 42 On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, A44 43 surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of A44 44 gold thread, appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done, A44 45 and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that A44 46 it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the A44 47 apparel which she wore.

A44 48 Hester Prynne, a married woman with a missing husband, could A44 49 have been sentenced to death for adultery. Condemned always to wear A44 50 the letter A as a badge of shame, this gifted seamstress has turned A44 51 it into a resplendent work of art. To make the contrast between A44 52 Hester's condemnation and the splendor of the scarlet letter, A44 53 between her dignity on the scaffold and the deadly crowd of gray, A44 54 bitter old, women watching her, even more operatic and instantly A44 55 thrilling, she is beautiful, with "dark and abundant hair, A44 56 so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam," and A44 57 "deep black eyes."

A44 58 As she stands there, about to be castigated for her sins by two A44 59 leading clergymen of Boston who demand the name of her lover, A44 60 Hester is horrified to see in the crowd her shriveled, twisted A44 61 husband, Roger Chillingworth, who has been a captive of Indians in A44 62 the wilderness. Talk about opera! While the town chorus is A44 63 murmuring against her, her silently fanatical husband staring at A44 64 her, the ethereal-looking young clergyman, Arthur Dimmesdale, A44 65 frightened and trembling, is also compelled to demand the name of A44 66 her partner in crime. Since there seems to be no one else in this A44 67 crude settlement likely to interest Hester Prynne, it is obvious A44 68 from his double-edged aria that he is her lover.

A44 69 The extraordinary narrowness of Puritan life and thought is A44 70 vividly brought out by the little space Boston occupies between the A44 71 wilderness and the ocean. Theatrically, almost all the action takes A44 72 place between any two of the four main characters. Hester's only A44 73 companion is her mischievous, provocative daughter Pearl - an A44 74 emblem of the "lawlessness" in her mother's suppressed A44 75 nature. Because Roger has mysterious medical knowledge he is called A44 76 in to treat the hysterical Hester after her public humiliation, A44 77 then Arthur, who is deteriorating under his inability to confess A44 78 his guilt. Roger soon manages to take up residence with Arthur in A44 79 order to investigate to the full and eventually expose the man he A44 80 has spotted as his wife's lover.

A44 81 With Hester trying to control her flamboyant daughter, with A44 82 Roger secretly preying on Arthur, and Arthur helplessly trying to A44 83 resist his supposed benefactor who is his "fiend-like" A44 84 enemy, the concentration of repressed thought and emotion on the A44 85 part of all the characters becomes more and more explosive, and A44 86 breaks out only in the grand denouement, the most operatic A44 87 imaginable. The formal procession of the townspeople in celebration A44 88 of Arthur's overcharged Election Day sermon ends in Arthur's public A44 89 confession on the scaffold, embracing Hester and Pearl, before he A44 90 triumphantly dies. Repression at the heart of this Puritan A44 91 civilization, a necessary way of life, induces such a consistency A44 92 of tone that Hawthorne said the novel "is positively a A44 93 hell-fired story, into which I found it almost impossible to throw A44 94 any cheering light." He recalled years later "my A44 95 emotions when I read the last scene of the Scarlet Letter to my A44 96 wife, just after writing it - tried to read it, rather, for my A44 97 voice swelled and heaved, as if I were tossed up and down on an A44 98 ocean, as it subsides after a storm."

A44 99 Why was he more disturbed by this book than by anything else he A44 100 ever wrote? He was invading the country of his ancestors, but he A44 101 had done this in story after story in the collections so wearily A44 102 named Twice-Told Tales and Mosses From an Old A44 103 Manse. In The Scarlet Letter, however, he was not A44 104 just beautifully (and often defensively) invoking the old Puritan A44 105 world in bits and pieces. Now there surfaced the long interior A44 106 conflict between natural respect for the past and his equal A44 107 abhorrence of its theological cruelty. (And Hawthorne was not a A44 108 church-goer, not even a liberal one.) Only a work of art, A44 109 of the intensest emotions, could even begin to answer to his A44 110 struggle with himself over a past in which, dreamlike, he often A44 111 felt he was living. There was no rejecting the past in the A44 112 transcendentalist style, which he despised. So there was no great A44 113 comfort for him in writing this "hell-fired" book. The only A44 114 relief this bitter man gave himself was in creating his heroine. A44 115 The only fully admirable character in The Scarlet Letter A44 116 is Hester. Quite apart from her "elegant figure" A44 117 and "dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off A44 118 the sunshine with a gleam," Hester is the only character in A44 119 the book big enough to sustain a conflict with the harsh Puritan A44 120 world equal to Hawthorne's own. In a book without heroes, Hester A44 121 has to carry the love story all by herself.

A44 122 The Scarlet Letter was immediately recognized on its A44 123 publication in 1850 as the masterpiece a young and A44 124 self-conscious country was waiting for. It was assimilable A44 125 in a way that works by two New Yorkers, Melvilles Moby-Dick A44 126 (1851) and Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855), were not. A44 127 New England still seemed the source and center of an Americn A44 128 civilization founded on Protestant tradition. It is impossible to A44 129 imagine Melville and Whitman sounding as institutional as A44 130 Hawthorne. They were engaged, like true American originals, in the A44 131 prodigious language experiment necessary to their 'primitive' A44 132 understanding of life, meaning life at the bottom.

A44 133 Hawthorne was a true son of clerical New England in his formal A44 134 and even stately style. It had great tonality of sound and enormous A44 135 suggestiveness - irony was Hawthorne's favorite maneuver in telling A44 136 a story. The dark and solemn music of his unrelenting commentary on A44 137 the story he is presenting intervenes in the way an orchestra does A44 138 at the opera - setting the emotional background and reinforcing it A44 139 at crucial points. The Scarlet Letter is an elaborately A44 140 stylized and formal performance in every sense. It never bursts out A44 141 from the depths of our hidden animal nature as Melville and Whitman A44 142 do. Just as the novel's climax is a sermon, so the long tradition A44 143 of reading sermons to an audience that always knew what to A44 144 expect is also behind Hawthorne's novel. He is constantly A44 145 beckoning to the reader to join him in sighing over the A44 146 "positively hell-fired story" he feels compelled to A44 147 tell. There is a literary domesticity in Hawthorne's many gestures A44 148 to the reader that is very New England, based as they are on the A44 149 sermon, the chief medium of Protestantism, and on a congregation to A44 150 hear it.

A44 151 In The Scarlet Letter, for once in his anxious A44 152 literary career, Hawthorne and his immediate New England audience A44 153 were not at home with each other. An aggressive religious A44 154 conservative, Orestes A. Brownson, thought the book grossly A44 155 immoral. "There is an unsound state of public A44 156 morals," he complained, "when the novelist is A44 157 permitted, without a scorching rebuke, to select such crimes, and A44 158 to invest them with all the fascination of genius, and all the A44 159 charms of a hightly polished style." An article in the A44 160 Church Review asked, "Is the French era actually A44 161 begun in our literature?" No, it was just the revisionist A44 162 era, the literary emancipation of New England from its old clerical A44 163 tyranny. But this rear guard guessed a vital fact behind the book A44 164 that admirers did not. Hawthorne was a deeply sexual man. Hester A44 165 was the creation of someone who loved women, saw them, as Verdi A44 166 did, as necessarily tragic and alone, but emotionally sacred in a A44 167 diminished world.

A44 168 In revisiting the old Puritan tyranny, Hawthorne was lucky, for A44 169 once, in his opportunity. The Scarlet Letter was his A44 170 first and only great literary success in a peculiarly hard and A44 171 solitary career as a writer. He was forty-five when he set out to A44 172 write the book. He was passionately married to Sophia Peabody, but A44 173 except with a few college friends, a bitter, usually silent, man A44 174 hard to know and to like. He scorned the uplift philosophy of the A44 175 transcendentalists in Concord. Emerson, a prig for all his genius, A44 176 could not read fiction intelligently. Hawthorne was unique in the A44 177 literary New England of his day - a grimly honest storyteller A44 178 fascinated by the perversity in human affairs central to his A44 179 hereditary Calvinism.

A44 180 Always worried about money, Hawthorne made an uneasy living A44 181 writing for magazine editors who paid him a pittance for some of A44 182 his greatest stories without recognizing their uniqueness. There A44 183 was a lot of hack work behind him. Like so many other American A44 184 authors in the nineteenth century, Hawthorne aspired to political A44 185 appointments. He was a solid adherent of the Democratic Party, A44 186 which as the party of Andrew Jackson officially represented the A44 187 masses but so dominated the South that it rejected criticism of A44 188 slavery. This suited Hawthorne's lack of political idealism. He A44 189 claimed that New England was as large a lump of earth as his heart A44 190 could hold. He was fortunate in having as his closest friends A44 191 Bowdoin classmates who were influential in the Democratic Party. A44 192 One of them was Franklin Pierce, who in 1852 became the fourteenth A44 193 president of the United States. In 1846 Hawthorne's party friends A44 194 secured him appointment as Surveyor of Salem, his native town. He A44 195 needed to show himself in the Custom House for only a few morning A44 196 hours before getting back to his writing. In 1848, however, the A44 197 Mexican War hero Zachary Taylor, running as a Whig, was elected A44 198 President, and when he assumed office in 1849 Hawthorne was A44 199 replaced.

A44 200 This was devastating. Friends - including Longfellow and James A44 201 Russell Lowell - had to raise a subscription for his support. A44 202 Hawthorne took his being fired as a summons to begin The A44 203 Scarlet Letter, long in his mind.