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Secretary of State Warren Christopher I v' j' Mil -j. i iJLl Victim driven wrong way on 1-275 BY TANYA BRICKING and CANDACE GOFORTH The Cincinnati Enquirer FOREST PARK Four people died early Sunday when a carjacker abducted a Clermont County woman, drove her car the wrong way on Interstate 275 and crashed into a car driven by a Mount Healthy cou "'I 3 a' 'y T. 1 Newman ple. Thelma Rae Newman, 56, of Wayne Township, a spirited, fun-loving grandmother, was killed alongside Dorian Hooks, 24, of Northside, who police say had entered her car by force at an intersection. David Zimmerman, 31, and Cynthia Gray, 40, heading east on I-275, died when Newman's Ponti-ac Grand Am, with Hooks at the wheel, collided head-on with their Nissan Pulsar.

Police said Castro restricts rafters Enquirer news services MIAMI Looking ahead to talks this week, the Clinton administration and Fidel Castro's regime took steps Sunday to defuse their showdown over Cuban boat people. As a predicted break in bad weather today set the stage for a possible resumption of the exodus, Castro ordered Cuba's Coast Guard and police to stop unsafe boats and rafts and those carrying minors from leaving the country. Officials were told to reserve use of force for extraordinary circumstances I to avoid accidents. The new instructions appear to be a major step back from Castro's decision Aug. 11 to allow Cubans to leave.

A flood of migrants in flimsy rafts and boats headed for the United States. Seeking to defuse the refugee crisis with Cuba, the Clinton administration offered some carrots to Castro on Sunday to encourage democratic reforms. "If he moves toward democracy in a tangible, significant way, we'll respond in a carefully calibrated way," Secretary of State Warren Christopher said on the CBS News program Face the Nation. Christopher declined to say what these responses might be. But after he spoke, several State Department offi-rials said the administration might ease but not eliminate economic or travel restrictions against Cuba if Castro allowed more freedom of expression or free elections.

Christopher also said the United States was not specifically seeking Castro's departure. "What we seek is peaceful, democratic change," he said. "That's our goal. Whether that involves Mr. Castro or not is really up to him." )v The Cincinnati EnquirerGlenn Hartong Law-enforcement officials from Hamilton County and Forest Park examine Thelma Rae Newman's car Sunday afternoon.

Hooks 3 A AS Forest Fair Mall Hamilton County 7 both died on impact. Forest Park Police Capt. Kenneth Hughes said motorists and witnesses tried to help, but the carjacking happened so quickly that no one could do anything. A Forest Park police officer saw the car driving the wrong way onto the interstate, but he could not catch up to it in time. "The first reaction is compassion and sympathy for the inrocent folks in this circumstance," Jiughes said at news conference Sund ty.

"Unfortunately, randomness is almost uncontrollable. We weren't there to intercede." (Please see CARJACK, Steve Cassidy for The Cincinnati Enquirer Rescue personnel work early Sunday at the scene of the head-on crash at 1-275, east of Colerain Avenue. Page A4) The Cincinnati EnquirerMichelle D. Mazzone Baseball owners called Senate pals -j 'You get to be a friend of the owner. Carol Moseley-Braun threw out the first ball of the season (for the White Sox).

That 's big stuff. You sort of feel a sense of obligation. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum Day 18 Kenya illustrates population pressure Ragged, weary Kenyans try to grow corn on strips of rocky dirt along a road, fighting the fact that there's too little land and too many babies. Today in Cairo, Egypt, the International Conference on Population and Development will address how to solve such global growing pains.

Story, A2 Try for a health bill, Ind. legislators say Rep. Lee Hamilton, and Sen. Richard Lugar, say Congress should pass modest health reform legislation when it returns in two weeks. Whether it can is far from assured.

Story, A5 got (Edward) Kennedy from Boston," he said in summarizing some of what he regards as baseball club-senator alliances. Brown and Specter are Republicans; the rest are Democrats. All joined in a 10-7 vote this year in the Judiciary Committee against repealing baseball's protected status, which it enjoys alone among professional sports. The owners know how to lobby senators, Metzenbaum said. "You get to be a friend of the (Please see BASEBALL, Page A4) BY PAUL BARTON Enquirer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Major League Baseball owners protect themselves on Capitol Hill by befriending key senators and honoring them with favors, one of the game's fiercest critics says.

Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, said the owners have made themselves pals of members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which repeatedly has blocked legislation to lift baseball's antitrust exemption. Long an advocate of such leg- Next: Federal mediator hopes talks can resume by midweek. Inside: Although no official discussion about it has occurred, it's speculated that baseball may go straight to the postseason if there is a late strike settlement, B4 "They got (Dianne) Feinstein on the committee from San Francisco, (Paul) Simon and (Carol) Moseley-Braun from Chicago; they got (Hank) Brown from Colorado; they got (Arlen) Specter from Pennsylvania and they islation, Metzenbaum thinks there would be no baseball strike if the owners did not enjoy protection from antitrust laws. The players would be able to take grievances to court instead, he argued.

WEATHER Football power Moeller again leads coaches poll A little nicer Hloh 79 Low 63 Some early cloudiness today with a slight chance of showers, then most- Top 10 ly sunny. On Tues-'y day, Increasing cloudiness; high 83. Detail, back page this section Cincinnati's reform efforts take shape BY ADAM WEINTRAUB The Cincinnati Enquirer Since the Cincinnati Public Schools began far-reaching reform efforts in 1991, officials have compared the process to "rebuilding the plane in flight." This school year, the wings are firmly attached and officials say they're ready to start climbing. That's the cockpit view. Out in the schools where the day-to-day work of educating more than 50,000 students is done a lot of hope and determination ex- (Please see SCHOOLS, Page A4) INDEX 1.

Moeller (22) 323 2. Princeton (7) 292 3. St. Xavier (4) 225 4. Elder (1) 213 5.

Colerain 128 6. LaSalle 123 7. Anderson 118 8. Middletown 97 9. Fairfield 81 10.

Lakota 48 Number in parentheses is first-place votes received. Second number is points received based on voting. Point totals based on this scale: 10 for first-place vote, 9 for second, 8 for third, etc. The Cincinnati Enquirer The Moeller Crusaders are beginning the 1994 high school football season where they left the 1993 season atop The Enquirer coaches poll. Moeller, coming off a season in which its only loss was in the Division I state championship game, received 22 of 34 first-place votes.

"I think Moeller's the cream of the crop right now," said LaSalle coach Jim Louder, whose Lancers are ranked sixth. "They've got a football team." "I'd rather start off 2 or 3," Moeller coach Steve Klonne said. "I've never liked being No. 1. There are a lot of things you have to fight." One of those will be the Crusaders' schedule, which includes games against defending state champions from Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.

Moeller was followed by Princeton Four sections, 154th year, No. 142 Copyright 1994, The Cincinnati Enquirer Fifth-grader Tristan Linck, 10, right, and Robert Houillion work Saturday on a window at Cincinnati's School for Creative and Performing Arts. Parents and students joined to spruce up the building. Houillion has a son who's a senior at the school. Inside Levy failures cause areawide pinch, A6 The Cincinnati Enquirer Jonn T.

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