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4 GPU Takes Global View workaday Wears Well Buicii Open Tigers Rally Phillip ties game in 9th, setting up 8-7 victory Executive hopes i to gain new markets iw tobsv-turw world 111 ivtis ill lis a vi liifixitiii Mfitiis ir For fait outfits, dressing down Marlboro 500 means dressing up Fashion, ID i Business Monday, IF Afs www atf MS, becomes first to so over $10-milhon mark JTX si' Monday Metro Final Mostly sunny. High 77. Low 55. Tuesday: Chance of showers. August 5, 1991 For home delivery call 222-6500 25 cents (35 cents outside 6-county metropolitan area) On Guard For 160 Years Jeffrey Dahmer Chilling clues in life of accused mass killer Israeli cabinet approves talks role Palestinian partners must be approved when a man in handcuffs dashed out of Dahmer's bizarrely cluttered apartment in a tough Milwaukee neighborhood, called police and stammered that Dahmer had been trying to kill him.

Authorities say at least 17 others did not get away; that Dahmer drugged their drinks, strangled them, cut up their bodies with an electric buzz saw; See DAHMER, Page 4A society standards, but he sneaked into the photo session as if he belonged. No one said a word until long after the flashbulb had popped. In all the years he cried out for attention, it was one of the few times he got caught. By then he had taught himself to live behind a mask of normalcy that hid his confused, often contradictory emotions. It was a mask no one pulled down until one night last month, to a silhouette by an annoyed student editor before the yearbook went to the printer.

That silhouette was Dahmer in the spring of 1978, a couple of months before he says he killed his first person, with a barbell, 13 years before he confessed to one of the most horrific strings of slayings in modern times. With grades that ranged from A's to D's, Dahmer fell far short of honor BY JAMES BARRON New York Times On Page 98 of Jeffrey Dahmer's Ohio high school yearbook is a photograph of 45 honor society students lined up shoulder to shoulder, their hair well combed, their smiles confident. One senior three rows from the top has no smile, no eyes, no face at all: his image was blacked out with a marking pen, reduced CATS FANCIED AT C0B0 SHOW Constactioii inspections skip schools Crumbling buildings inspire legisbtion to close loophole i Tin' wnr -jr I 1nY 7 By Carol Rosenberg Knight-Ridder Newspapers JERUSALEM Israel's cabinet agreed Sunday to attend a Middle East peace conference provided Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir approves the Palestinian peace-talk partners. The 16-3 vote, with one minister absent, was the latest boost to the U.S.-led efforts for an Arab-Israeli meeting in October. But the main obstacle for U.S.

officials trying to set up such a meeting Palestinian representation remains unresolved. In Tunisia, Bassam Abu Sharif, an adviser to Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasir Arafat, said the PLO insists on its right to pick which Palestinians attend the proposed October peace talks without Israeli interference. But he also said the PLO believes a delegation that would be acceptable to all sides can be found. "I think there is room for a formula that will facilitate the peace process," Abu Sharif said. "I don't think there will be an obstacle that is big enough that would prevent the Palestinians from going to the conference." Shamir kept hard-liners at bay by gaining support of some right-wing parties that previously threatened to break away and topple the government if Israel agreed to participate in the U.S.

and Soviet-sponsored peace talks. The ministers approved Shamir's conditions that the conference exclude the PLO or Palestinian representatives from east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war. "For years we've talked about the need for direct negotiations and we've got it," said Transportation Minister Moshe Katzav as he emerged from the vote. Israel's housing minister, retired Gen. Ariel Sharon, led the opposition, warning that Israel would take a terrible risk by going to the conference.

President. George Bush said last week he hoped to convene the confer- See ISRAEL, Page 4A WILFREDO LEEDetrolt Free Press BY KELLY LEWIS Free Press Staff Writer The buildings that house schoolchildren across Michigan are built without the dozens of inspections required of new homes and businesses. For decades, construction has taken place with few inspections. As a result, some schools are falling apart. Consider: Patrick Henry Middle School in Woodhaven closed in 1990 because the 14-year-old building was on the verge of collapse.

Exterior walls were not connected to the building's steel frame. When it rains, the walls weep at Ionia High School, about 30 miles west of Lansing. Dripping water spots the walls and collects on windowsills along the 900-foot-long corridor in the 2-year-old building. A brick column collapsed at West Bloomfield Township's Abbott Middle School last summer when some 40-year-old windows were being replaced. Structural steel supports had to be added to strengthen the building.

Shiawassee County's Ovid Junior High School was declared unsafe and closed last year. An investigation by state inspectors found that the new roof over the gymnasium was anchored poorly. The structural flaw was part of die problem at the deteriorating 65-year-old building. State law shields school buildings from local inspectors and thwarts many routine state inspections, but one Michigan legislator hopes to change that soon. Local building inspectors carry out 25 to 30 inspections on a house from the time the foundation is dug to when the paint on the shutters is dry.

The same inspectors lack the authority to oversee schools going up. State inspectors conduct as many as 12 inspections on a house under construction in communities that don't have building inspectors. About half of the state inspections check building standards for roofing, bracing and insulation. All of these areas including plumbing, ventilation, heating and air conditioning routinely go unchecked in schools. The handful of exceptions includes Detroit and Lansing, where public See SCHOOL BUILDINGS, Page 4A Above: Bill Jones, 13, from South Rockwood, takes a break Sunday from cleaning cages during the Mid-Michigan Cat Fanciers Show of Champions and Household Cats at Cobo Hall in Detroit.

Right: Lauren Nest, 7, of West Bloomfield Township plays with an orient hybrid. The annual event attracted more than 500 cats and kittens from the United States and Canada. Photostory, Page 8E. 1 EMM) Light fingers hit U-M hard Coming up in the new week Computer thieves Northville and Northville Township) and the 65th House District (Auburn Hills, Birmingham, Bloomfield, Bloomfield Hills, part of Lake Angelus). The Tuskegee Airmen, the distinguished all-black Army Air Forces unit of World War II, will hold its 20th annual convention at the Westin in the 1 udson's workers at the Fairlane store will vote -i Friday on UAW I representation.

Can the autoworkers shore up plummeting membership? Ann Landers Bridge Business Monday Classified Index Comics Crossword Puzzle Dateline Michigan Death Notices Editorials Entertainment Fashion Feature Page Horoscope Jumble Lottery Movie Guide Names Faces News Summary Obituaries Soap Operas Sports Television The Way We Live Weather 2E 7E IF 4B 6E 6E 2B 2B 6A 2E 10 5E 5E SB 2A 70 8E 2A 2B 3E 1C 3E IE 7E Renaissance Center starting Wednesday. Gen. Colin Powell will speak Saturday. may cost $400,000 this year, officials say By Maryanne George Free Press Ann Arbor Bureau For a student, Michael Africa had an impressive computer system. The monitor in his bedroom, near the University of Michigan campus, was hooked to seven disk drives, including one with 760-megabyte storage capacity about 20 times the size of a typical home computer.

U-M police say the Grosse Pointe Shores student stole the disk drives, worth about $10,000, over a period of three months this year from a U-M computer lab. They say Africa, 20, a chemical engineering major, hid in closets until the Computer Aided Engineering Network laboratory on U-M's north campus closed. Then he unhooked the disk drives and put them in a back pack. PAUUNE LUBENSDetrott Free Press Chains are the latest accessory in a U-M computer lab. Theft of computer equipment could cost up to $400,000 this year.

THE PGA Championship GOV. JOHN ENGLER and cultural leaders on Wednesday will seek to sculpt a compromise on state funding of the arts. Engler last week agreed to some state subsidies. TUESDAY is election day in many Michigan communities. In Flint, voters face a five-way mayoral primary.

Special primaries will also be held in the 36th state House District (part of Canton Township, Plymouth and Plymouth Township, Colin Powell of golf runs Thursday through Sunday in Carmel, Ind. Volume 161, Number 92 1991, Detroit Free Press Police say the theft was captured by hidden cameras. Africa was charged last month, and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison if convicted of breaking and entering. He declined comment. Ann Arbor Po lice Lt.

Jim Smiley said Africa told police he was using the disks to store graphics for personal use. "The thefts are mostly internal, and See COMPUTERS, Page 2A.