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i LixquisiVQ' Council iiinjorllif wants manager to OK Lazarus deal Metro, B1 ends at 1 2 Martin Scorsese ns 'Age oflnnocenc into a modern classic DeChick review, D10 Fine day for Pugh, Sabo Hi. as Reds down LA, 11-2 Sports, C4 Michelle Pfeiffer, Daniel Day-Lewis Winner Tim Pugh nn-rr CWCIMATI FINAU35 ENQUIRER YY1 Li! Raising the wreckage mm (QM Jews plan to keep vigil at home of Demjanjuk BY ADAM WEINTRAUB The Cincinnati Enquirer SEVEN HILLS, Ohio The gray overcast of a Cleveland drizzle suited the Holocaust survivors and other Jewish protesters who gathered outside John Demjanjuk's house Thursday. They vowed they would never forget the Nazi crimes they believe he commit- ted. "In Treblinka, I lost my mother, my father, six brothers and sisters," said Robert Birnbaum, 70, a barber from Tarnov, Poland, who came to the United States in 1951 after surviving the concentration camps. He said hundreds of his distant relatives were killed.

"From three generations in Poland, there is not one person left. Even the cemeteries are gone." Birnbaum's question was echoed by others nP r-v- I Mk Aw Am 4 HEALTH VIM More reform coverage, A9 Catholic health leaders support broad outline of plan, but differ with it on abortion policy. Clinton calls plan "a tide that no one can turn back." Tristate employers have more questions than answers. Local companies fear higher costs. s.g' 3 Si Enquirer news services WASHINGTON President Clinton and his Cabinet fanned out coast to coast on Thursday to defend his health care reform plan.

Clinton told a White House rally one day after his speech to Congress that "our work is just beginning," and then flew to Tampa, for a town hall meeting broadcast on late-night TV. Said Clinton in Tampa: "The public feeling for this will sweep across America without regard to party, to region or to age. The American people will see this as a decent, humane thing that we have waited too long to do." Potential opponents joined the debate on the plan but very cautiously, as polls showed signs of growing public support. Senate minority leader Bob Dole, said on NBC's Today show that he was warning Republicans not to attack. "We've got a long' road to travel, and let's not start zapping the president's plan until we've had hearings and an opportunity to see if we can work out our differences," Dole said.

The American Medical Association (AMA), lobbying group for 300,000 doctors, announced it would neither endorse nor oppose the plan. AMA board Chairman Lonnie Bristow said, "We fear the price controls, over-regulation and the new layers of bureaucracy the president proposes eventually will limit patient and physician choices, lessen the quality of medical services and undermine the mutual trust between patient and physician." But Bristow conceded that there is an urgent need for changing the system. here Thursday: "Why should a Nazi murderer go free to walk the streets of this country?" Demjanjuk returned to the United States on Wednesday after seven years in an Israeli prison, most of it under a death sentence for the crimes of "Ivan the Terrible," a brutal guard at the Nazi death camp at Treblinka, Poland. He remained in seclusion at an undisclosed location in northern Ohio on Thursday. His son-in-law, Ed Nishnic, said Demjanjuk would go into seclusion and might not return to his home for weeks.

"It is time for him to fade back into normal life," Nishnic said. But the protesters said they would continue their daily vigil outside his suburban house, which they call a symbol of his unde 'It is a shame that we have to allow this person in our country. Philip Wexberg, concentration camp survivor The president and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton stoked enthusiasm for their plan with a rally of 1,000 allies at the White House. "There are still a lot of people who don't think we're going to get this done," Clinton told representatives of labor unions, health experts, and organizations from the American Legion to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. The administration also tried to capture radio talk shows.

About 60 talk-show hosts were invited to broadcast live Thursday from the White House front lawn. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen toured a rubber company in Pennsylvania, Health Secretary Donna Shalala ate at a Los Angeles seniors center, and Attorney General Janet Reno visited a neonatal unit in Buffalo, N.Y. The Associated PressMark Foley A floating crane hoists an Amtrak passenger car from an Alabama bayou on Thursday. The train plunged from a bridge Wednesday, killing at least 44. The investigation focused on a towboat operator who, just before the crash, radioed that he was having a problem with a runaway barge.

Stories, A10 Yeltsin increases pressure on resisters served freedom. Demjanjuk's supporters, including U.S. Rep. James Traficant, D-Youngstown, think the 73-year-old retired autoworker has been the victim of mistaken identity and forged documents. The Israeli Supreme Court in July found that there was enough doubt about whether Demjanjuk was Ivan to overturn his conviction.

The court concluded that Demjanjuk had worked in other Nazi camps, including Sobibor, in Poland, but would not order a new trial. "Sobibor was also a death camp" read a sign held by one of the 45 protesters at Demjanjuk's home. "There is ample evidence that he is a Nazi collaborator," said Marcia Wexberg, whose father escaped from the Nordhausen camp in Germany after the Allies bombed it, then hid in a haystack until friendly troops arrived days later. "I was over four years in different concentration camps, and I am very lucky to be alive," said Philip Wexberg, born 71 years ago in Wadowice, Poland. "It is a shame that we have to allow this person in our country." Young people must hear the message of the Nazi campaign to exterminate the Jews of Europe and carry its memory, said Rabbi Samuel Levine of Bet Sefer Mizrachi Jewish School in Cleveland.

"What they need to see is how ordinary evil can appear, even in an ordinary community, even in our midst to see that a home like this can hold a murderer," said Levine, whose parents were in the (Please see DEMJANJUK, Page A4) mentary elections and two years ahead of schedule. He said he intends to run. Lawmakers, hunkered down at the parliament, openly defied Yeltsin's ban, convening a late-night ses- new low of 1,299 to the dollar. Yeltsin's spokesman, Vyacheslav Kostikov, appeared to be laying the groundwork for a possible use of force when he warned that the situation around the parliament building, or White House, was getting out of control and that parliamentary leaders would be held accountable. "Dangerous weapons are being appropriated by extremists, homeless and mentally unstable people and criminals," he said.

Thursday night, gunmen killed a policeman as they tried to storm the headquarters of the commonwealth military command, authorities said. The attack was repulsed. ments supporting him, pervaded the building. Yeltsin aides said automatic weapons were being distributed among his opponents gathered outside. Russia plunged into a crisis Tuesday when Yeltsin announced he was dismissing the parliament, a focal point of opposition to his reform policies.

The. legislature struck back by voting to impeach Yeltsin and appointing his suspended vice president, Alexander Rutskoi, as acting president. While Moscow remained outwardly calm Thursday, there seemed to be a ratcheting up in the tension level. Reflecting the political jitters, the ruble plunged nearly 20 in value, to a BY MARGARET SHAPIRO The Washington Post MOSCOW Boris Yeltsin moved aggressively Thursday to quash resistance to his decree disbanding parliament. The Russian president: Closed parliament's mass-circulation newspaper.

Took over its property and voided lawmakers' diplomatic passports. Threatened to shut down any local councils that do not heed his order for new legislative elections. At the same time, the Russian leader put his presidency on the line by setting presidential elections for June, six months after the Dec. 11-12 parlia Yeltsin sion of Russia's supreme legislature, the Congress of People's Deputies, and ordering Yeltsin to either "surrender to appropriate authorities or leave the country." An angry mood, directed not only at Yeltsin but also at Western govern- WEATHER Tonight a chance to disavow vows Cloudy, rainy later mw. High 70' Low 52 Yom Kippur observed with cleansing prayer Mostly cloudy today.

Skies should be clearing northeast of the city, but rain could develop throughout the area late in the day. I Details, back page this section INDEX The Kol Nidrei declaration "All vows and self-prohibitions, oaths, vows of abstinence and promise, vows with self-imposed penalties and obligations, which we may vow, swear, promise and bind ourselves from this Day oj Atonement, unto the next Day of Atonement, may it come to us in happiness: we repent them all May they be absolved, canceled, and made null and void, without power or binding force. May such vows, arJ oaths be considered cr- Six sections, 153rd year, No.168 Copyright 1993, The Cincinnati Enquirer 2000 Olympics go to Sydney The Associated Press MONTE CARLO, Monaco Sydney won the 2000 Olympics on Thursday, beating out Beijing for the Summer Games in a choice of stability vs. the political uncertainties of China. The decision returns the Games to Australia for the first time since the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.

Australia lost bids for the 1992 and 1996 Games. The city celebrates, C1 BY BEN L. KAUFMAN The Cincinnati Enquirer Its cleansing power and haunting melody inspire cantors and draw worshipers to the evening service that inaugurates Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. It is the Kol Nidrei ritual, for which the whole service is named, and synagogues will be crowded tonight as at no other time of the year. Kol Nidrei means "all vows." When they recite its formula, Jews nullify all the promises they will make unwittingly, rashly, unknowingly or in passion or sorrow during the coming year.

"If you went to synagogue and they did not do Kol Nidrei, you'd walk out," said Hanan Balk, rabbi of Golf Manor No one knows when or where the ritual began, when the melody was added or why Yom Kippur begins with the declaration, rather than a prayer. "There are many nicer prayers," said Balk. And while some rabbis have resisted its inclusion in the Yom Kippur liturgy, Kol Nidrei is virtually universal today. "This is a kind of classic case of the religious authorities having to succumb to the popular will," said biblical scholar Alan Cooper at Cincinnati's Hebrew Union CH- lege. "Every Jew knows the gist of Kol Nidrei, whatever else they know or don't know." Among the last holdouts were American Reform Jews, who finally included its (Please see YOM KIPPUR, Page A4) Abby D2 Nation A2, 9-10 Business C6 Obituaries B6 Comics D6 Puzzles D7 Editorials A6 Sports CI HealthScience A14 Stocks C5.6-10 Lotteries A6 Tempo D1 Metro B1 TV D14 Movies D5 World A2.

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