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Style Sports Madison-small town life U.T.s Webb hopes to keep trouble behind with big city fun "Copyright 1996 A GANNETT NEWSPAPER 12 Sections $1.25 Volume 5, No. 56 AUGUST 5, 1990 Nashville, Tennessee Second clmss postage paid it Nashville, TN SHOWCASE Madonna brings 'Blond Ambition' tour to TV T-. rL ESS tilSf 'fx 1 nS" ilSJiliillli 110 die in Sri Lanka Moodbatli ssi mm DEXTER CRUEZ Associated Press KATTANKUDI, Sri Lanka Tamil militants burst into two mosques in eastern Sri Lanka and killed more than 1 1 0 people as they knelt in prayer, officials said yesterday. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but officials and witnesses said the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were responsible for the massacre. Seventy-five people were also wounded.

Brig AMU. Seneviratne, army commander of the Bat-ticaloa district, said 30 Tamil rebels crossed a lagoon near this Moslem town, 1 40 miles east of Colombo, divided into two groups and attacked the mosques during Friday evening prayers. The rebels sprayed machine-gun fire from three sides into the Meera Juma mosque, where about 200 worshipers had gathered, and also lobbed grenades. Amid screams and smoke, the attackers fled before soldiers could arrive from a camp about two miles away. Another group attacked the smaller Thaik mosque, which had about 30 worshipers inside.

Tamils, who are mostly Hindus, make up 18 of ft Turn to PACE 6A, Column I Excise tax hike would hurt states Legislators voice fears at conference here JIMO'HARA Staff Writer A White House plan to hike excise taxes and limit the deductibility of state and local taxes will push states toward bankruptcy, the head of the National Conference of State Legislatures says. More than 2,000 state lawmakers from across the country begin their annual meeting here today with the fear that the White House and Congress will try to balance the federal budget on the backs of the states, said Lee Daniels, Illinois House minority leader and NCSL president The conference is expected to draw more than 6,000 visitors to the city in all. "States cannot print money or pass continuing resolutions in order to balance our budgets," he said here yesterday. "If the federal government seeks to tap traditional state resources to balance its budget, it will risk severe economic problems for almost every state in the union." The lawmakers are likely to make known their anger at the tax proposals to two of the featured speakers at the NCSL meeting this week: Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell and White House Chief of Staff John Sununu. Daniels and about 15 other NCSL leaders made the rounds of congressional and White House offices last week to argue against President Bush's proposal.

They were armed with a study showing that excise tax increases could cost state governments more than $4 billion in lost revenue over the next five years. In addition, they made the more political argument that the middle class will be hurt most by limiting the amount of state and local taxes which can be deducted from individuals' federal income tax liabilities. The majority of those who take these deductions are middle-class taxpayers, Daniels said. According to NCSL data, the households which most use the deduction for state and local income taxes are those with annual adjusted gross incomes of $30,000 to $40,000. Congressional Republicans had characterized the deductibility proposal as aimed at upper-income taxpayers, particularly couples with incomes of more than $100,000.

The proposal is to limit the deductibility of state and local income taxes ft Turn to PAGE 9 Column 1 ON18A: Many states' revenue not growing. ON 4G: NCSL welcome in Nashville. Gary Keckley Hart Freeiana Roberts The proposed major league baseball stadium would offer motorists along 1-24 West a view of the game. SftMflEflSM added ft lineup Investors seeking major league team unveil ballpark plans ON 1G Sounds management likes price of National League expansion team. Warships go to Gulf Iraq installs Kuwait regime SA1.AH NASRAW1 Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq Baghdad yesterday announced a new military government for Iraqi-occupied Kuwait, and foreign reports said Iraq was massing troops along Kuwait's southern border with Saudi Arabia.

Iraq said the new Kuwaiti government is headed by Col. Ala Hussein Ali. He holds the positions of prime minister, commander in chief of the armed forces, minister of defense and interior minister. The other eight members were lieutenant colonels and majors. Diplomatic sources elsewhere in the gulf, however, said those names could be fake, or the people on the list could actually be Iraqis.

Also, three American oil workers who had been missing since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait have turned up in Baghdad apparently unharmed, the State Department said yesterday. An official said ILS. authorities were told that eight additional Americans, including one from Nashville, among a group of 24 Westerners also have been taken to the Iraqi capital. Baghdad television said the new Kuwait leadership is made up of nine Kuwaiti army officers. Earlier, Iraq said it was building a new Kuwaiti army to back the government it installed.

In Washington, Iraqi ambassador Mohammed al-Mashat denied U.S. and other foreign reports suggesting ville Sounds president who heads the group attemping to land a big league franchise. "He has designed the family-type, convenient facility we asked for. This man and his company have been tremendously helpful." The stadium will be built by Ray Bell Construction Co. If it is not finished by the 1 993 start-up season for an expansion franchise, the major league Sounds would play their first year in an expanded Greer Stadium, the Class AAA park on Chestnut Street that seats 17,000.

The new field will be natural turf, as was suggested in the criteria established by the National League Expansion Committee for cities seeking one of the new teams. The upper two decks are cantilevered, meaning there are no posts to obstruct views of the playing field, the average fly ball at its full height and the entire scoreboard. Color renderings'of the proposed stadium will be available for viewing by the media and the public today at 1 p.m. at Greer Stadium. Keckley said that no baseball park in the country could fill with spectators ft Turn to PACE 8A.

Column 1 JIMMY DAVY Deputy Sports Editor Architectural plans announced yesterday for a $40 million, three-tiered major league baseball park in Nashville include a 150-foot scoreboard designed as the neck of a guitar. The architect says the design is an effort to establish a Nashville-area landmark that will have an impact beyond fans attending National League baseball games during the season. It will be possible to see the top of the huge scoreboard from the Metro Courthouse parking lot, miles away. "Some may think the scoreboard hokey, but I think Nashville is sophisticated enough to enjoy its heritage," said design architect Gary Keckley of Nashville's Hart Freeland Roberts Inc. "When national television shows this stadium and our scoreboard, broadcasting back to New York and other cities, I want it to tell them that we have a depth of honest rural history in our lifestyle and yet we also have a progressive view of the future," Keckley said.

The scoreboard and a high-tech water fountain are just beyond the centerfield of the proposed baseball-only stadium that will be built at Interstate 24 West and Briley Parkway if Nashville is awarded one of two available National League baseball expansion franchises. "From the spot where 1-24 splits off from 1-65 North, motorists on the interstate will be able to see home plate in the stadium," said Keckley. "I had to plead with Larry Schmittou to turn the stadium location slightly so this view would be established." "This is a state-of-the-art facility at a tremendously low cost," he added, pointing to the $160 million Sun Dome in St. Petersburg, one of the 1 1 contending cities for a National League expansion franchise. The lower price tag, the architect says, is because the shape of the hills on the property create easy access to parking areas and stadium entrances.

"Costs go down when you don't build ramps, and this facility has no ramps," Keckley said. "I was overwhelmed with the design of the stadium and I'm not a very impressionable guy," said Schmittou, the Nash fi ft Turn to PAGE 6A, Column 4 Planned since 1971 At issue: Reform Mental health care groups ready to try HIGH 85 At long last, Bellevue mall opens Thursday low 68 See 3B FRANK RITTER, RENEE ELDER and ANNE PAINE Staff Writers MEMPHIS MOTHER is forced to give up custody of her daughter to get This Section National Newsmakers 3A Washington. 16-19A World Metro State SECTION Deaths 2.6B Midstate Calendar .76 Thompson's Station IB Volunteer List. .66 Volunteer of Week .66 Wish List 66 Sports SECTION Baseball 1.4-8C College football 1.10C Golf 1.3C him the psychological help he needs before be commits more serious crimes. All across Nashville and Tennessee today, the story is the same: Children and adolescents more so perhaps than any time in the state's history are in trouble.

And all across the state, voices increasingly are being raised to demand improvement in the system for providing mental and emotional health care for these troubled youngsters. Although potential roadblocks exist, the climate for change appears friendly. In increasing numbers, Tennessee's children need psychological counseling, acute mental and emotional health care, family preservation services, and treatment for problems such as unwanted pregnancy or drug and alcohol abuse. An estimated 200,000 children and adolescents in the state are said to have some form of emotional disorder, and about 70,000 are severely disturbed. Yet, state-supported services reach only a fraction about 1 in 10.

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46 Movies. 40-45 man Co. the developer of Bellevue Center, was named managing partner of the development, giving "new life" to the already 10-year-old project which was then expected to open in 1981. However, construction on the project did not to begin until January 1989, and Castner Knott and Dillard's department stores had already signed as anchor tenants. In addition to the 1 14 specialty shops that eventually will fill the two-level Bellevue Center and the two "anchor" department stores, the mall will house 11 restaurants, including Ruby Tuesday, Stash and Stella's, and Nine Point Mesa, which will be located in a diamond-shaped area in the mall.

The restaurant area which is called the Courtyard is not the traditional food court found in most malls. Instead, the restaurants will have their own dining areas as well as seating on a platform inside the mall that surrounds a center stage to create a "sidewalk cafe" atmosphere. The mall, which is located 12 miles southwest of downtown Nashville in ft Turn to PAGE 8A, Column 3 SHEILA SCHOONOVER Staff Writer It's taken almost 20 years and $100 million, but Bellevue Center becomes a reality Thursday when the regional mall on U.S. 70 South opens with 95 retail stores. The shopping center, which boasts more than 50 stores new to the Nashville area, is the first mall to open in Nashville in 12 years and represents the first of three malls expected to open in this area during the early 1990s.

The other two are CoolSprings Galleria near Franklin and East Ridge near Mount Juliet "It's really exciting for us, watching it take shape," said Tom Allen, general manager of Bellevue Center. "We're ready." The doors of the mall will open at 1 0 a.m. Thursday, and a ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially kick off the regional mall will start at noon. Middle Tennesseans have been anticipating a regional shopping center in the Bellevue area since 1971, when Housman and Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, announced plans to develop a regional shopping center there.

It was sched-tiledtoopeninl975. In 1978, thejchigan-based Taub- LAST OF A SERIFS ON 8A.Much of the success of mental health reform will depend on state Finance Commissioner David Manning. ON 1G: A self-destructive teenager from a broken home was "a monster" one dying of a broken heart, her mother says. ON 2G: A troubled teen offers advice to struggling parents. Inadequate or too restrictive.

This is because Tennessee's system for providing care concentrates on two extremes: outpatient counseling and hospitalization, with few programs in between. The result While ranking 16th in population among the 50 states, Tennessee has the nation's second-highest rate of psychiatric hospitalization of its children, behind onry Wyoming. Turn to PAGE 8A, Column 1 costly mental health care the teen-ager desperately needs. Nashville elementary school personnel provide baths, haircuts, clothes and food for two brothers because they are neglected by their mother, who is a prostitute and drug user. One of the little boys finally goes home with a teacher to live while his mom is in jail.

A 10-year-old boy undergoes a dozen different placements in special classrooms in an unsuccessful effort to find a school to suit his unique requirements. Teen-age sisters are placed in foster homes by the Department of Human Services after their parents divorce. One adjusts well; the other is in constant trouble. A 13-year-old delinquent keeps ending up in Juvenile Court His parents worry about how to get Outdoors. 12C Business SECTION Executive Spotlight .20 Stock Tables Wall Street .80 Living SECTION ErmaBombeck 5 Engagements 10-11E Dear Abby Nashville Beat.

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