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import ban party puts liberal on fringe Rejecting planks from Clinton rivals, delegates approve platform. Page 10A. Frank Garrison explains his switch. Hugh McDiarmid, Page 10A. There's no rule that delegates have to be quiet.

So they're not. Unconventional, Page 11 A. The emphasis on women leaves many out. Susan Watson, Page IB. Macomb County tasters overwhelmingly choose Barbara Bush's cookies over Hillary Clinton's.

Page 1C. i ti special Children enjoy normal camp experience fewer than one-third of the convention's nearly 800 black delegates showed up for a meeting where he spoke Monday. "Jesse Jackson, it's unfortunate that he's gotten this presence, this image, where everybody wants to stay away from him. But I can see why Clinton took the approach he did," said Clinton supporter Carolyn Hodge-West, assistant comptroller of Illinois. She was at the delegates meeting.

see Convention, Page HA I i tp 1 AL SCHABENDetroit Free Press Victory-hungry BY LARRY BlVINS Free Press Staff Writer NEW YORK In 1984, Secret Service agents assigned to Jesse Jackson during his presidential campaign gave him the code name "Thunder." It was appropriate in more ways than one. Jackson's speeches electrified audiences that year and again in 1988, when his second bid for the Democratic nomination ended after he had won about 7 million primary votes. Jackson dominated the spotlight at 111? Associated Press and Reuters NEW YORK A federal appeals court Tuesday denied a California woman the right to use French-made abortion pills that she brought into the United States to challenge a federal ban on the medication. A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a lower court's order, which would have forced the government to return the confiscated medication known as RU486 to Leona Benten. Benten, seven weeks pregnant, must take the drug by Saturday if it is to be effective.

Otherwise she is faced with obtaining a surgical abortion. Simon Heller, Benten's lawyer, said he would ask the Supreme Court today to overturn the appeals court ruling. The Food and Drug Administration, while not formally banning the pill made by the French pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf, has excluded it as an unapproved drug. The drug is legal in Britain and France. This is the first challenge to the FDA's stance on it.

Janet Benshoos, president of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, said, "This is just another illustration of the Bush administration playing politics with women's health." Abortion opponents are against use of the pill. They fear that allowing its importation even for non-commercial use, could lead to a black market in RU486 and an increased number of abortions. RU486 is widely considered safe and effective and has been used by more than 100,000 women, mostly in France, according to abortion rights groups. The pill causes a fertilized egg to be expelled before it can be implanted in the uterus wall. It can be used only in the first 42 days of a pregnancy.

Drake Cutini, a Justice Department lawyer, told the appeals panel that RU486 had not been proven safe and said the FDA was correct in barring it. Benten's lawyers argue that RU486 was unfairly singled out because the FDA allows other unapproved drugs into the country for personal use. Benten, 29, was stopped by Cus- See Abortion pill, Page 7A the last two Democratic national conventions and challenged the party conscience. Now, Jackson seems to be losing his Bill Clinton, waiting to be crowned the Democratic nominee, has dismissed Jackson from the ranks of power brokers. Jackson's speech Tuesday night was scheduled at a time when millions would be tuned instead to baseball's All-Star Game.

Even absent such competition, Jackson was unable to draw his usual overflow crowds; I Last Louis Menswear institution gets eviction notice BY NANCY ANN JEFFREY Free Press Staff Writer "Big, fat, short or tall, Louis the Hatter can fit 'em all. It started as a Detroit laundry, then grew into a downtown hat and menswear shop that spiffed up Michigan men for more than six decades. On Tuesday, yellow sale tags hung from racks of suits at the Oak Park store, which may close in a few weeks. Over the years, Louis the Hatter's customers included singers Lou Rawls and the Four Tops, boxer Tommy Hearns and former Michigan Gov. John Swainson.

Louis the Hatter founder, the late Louis Bradlin, came to Detroit from Russia in 1923 and got his start ironing shirts for 13 cents each in his uncle's downtown laundry. Later, a well-known man about town in a neat suit and homburg hat, he would meet coun-cilmen and beggars alike with the greeting, "Hello, my friend," his son, Bill Bradlin recalled Tuesday, The younger Bradlin, who learned rA Hi a mlw il Jesse Jackson Engler says state won't contribute to stadium by chris christoff And Gregory huskisson Free Press Staff Writers Gov. John Engler, in his first public comment since meeting with Detroit Tigers owner Tom Monaghan, on Tuesday rejected widespread speculation that he may back a regional tax or use state money to pay for a new stadium. Engler confirmed that he met with Monaghan earlier this month, but said his interest was in keeping the Tigers in the state, not helping to pay for a stadium. "I've made it clear the state doesn't have any money.

I mean, that's the last place I'd go looking for money, in Lansing, given all the budget problems we've been through," Engler said during an agricultural exposition at Michigan State University. "There's no way there's going to be a regional tax to pay for a stadium," he said. Asked if he's closed the door on any state financial role, Engler said: "It's hard to close an unopened door." The meeting between Engler and Monaghan fueled speculation that a regional tax might be used to build a stadium on the State Fairgrounds in See STADIUM FUNDING, Page 7A JOHN LUKEDetrolt Free PresS humming stores but in recent years has had to fight to hang onto this one remaining piece of his father's Last month, Bradlin got an eviction notice from the owner of the Green-Eight shopping center on Greenfield north of Eight Mile. The owner plans See LOUIS THE HATTER, Page 6A John Fowler, 7, of Troy plays with creepy toys while undergoing a breathing treatment for his cystic fibrosis. John is attending Camp Onkoi Benek in Dowling, which offers children with cystic fibrosis a chance to enjoy a normal summer camp experience.

Campers take part in a mixture of traditional camp games and activities along with as many as four medical treatments a day. Photostory, Page 8F the Hatter may close (o) CM i I I Neighbors may seem like strangers when new area code takes effect if fel JI- CI Bookmarks 3D 7F Classified Index 7D Comics, Crossword 6F Death Notices 7B Editorials 8A Entertainment 6D Feature Page 12D Horoscope 12D Jumble 80 Lottery 2A Movie Guide 2D Names Faces 8F Obituaries 7B Stock Markets 2E Television 4D Weather 7F Your Money 3E Volume 162, Number 68 1992 Detroit Free Press Inc. Out of the office Don't come to the office, told three dozen sales account executives in Southfield. Get closer to your customers. So what happened? Michael Vettraino had trouble separating his personal life from his work.

Karen Santine missed the gossip. They're part of a trend. For more, see Business, Page IE. Bill Bradlin, owner of the last Louis the Hatter store, dreads seeing the family business close. "It's my father's name.

It's been my lifetime." Other communities that will have two area codes include St. Clair Shores and the townships of Genoa, North-field, Northville, Salem, Hamburg, and Green Oak. Most telephone customers in Wayne and Washtenaw counties, along with portions of Jackson and Lenawee counties, will keep the 313 area code. Monroe County will be unchanged. The 810 area code will serve all of Oakland and St.

Clair counties, most of Macomb, Lapeer, Sanilac and Genesee counties and small sections of Saginaw, Shiawassee and Livingston counties. Jack Sawka, Michigan Bell vice president of market and business development, said Bell's cost for the change would be "substantial." Most of the money will be spent to educate customers, he said. See AREA CODE, Page 6A BY HIAWATHA BRAY Free Press Business Writer After four decades, Area Code 313 is collapsing under the weight of cellular phones, beepers and fax machines. 313, meet 810. On" Tuesday, Michigan Bell unveiled the new area code, the first new one in the state since the codes were assigned in the mid-1940s.

Local calls between many parts of metro Detroit will feel like long distance, because a caller will have to dial 11 digits. But the calls won't cost more, Bell said. i The dividing line between the two area codes will roughly follow 8 Mile Road. Still, the change is bound to confuse some people. Eight communities will be split between two area In Livonia, 9,000 phone lines will switch to 810, while the rest keep .313.

v. the business as a young man and has run it for the past 31 years, wiped away tears as he spoke of his father's legacy. "It's my father's name," said Bradlin, 60, of Southfield. "It's been my lifetime. It's been my home." Bill Bradlin made Louis the Hatter practically a household name through clever, radiq ads.

He once ran three.