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l(( pt'rtlW Hr4i- ii -A ifJ METRO EDITION 54 PAGES COPYRIGHT 1992, THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY A GANNETT NEWSPAPER SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1992. 33 CENTS eaifow confesses to Mlli chaefer Finding evidence in home a fluke By LESLIE SCANLON, Staff Writer After four years of denial and claims that he was being persecuted, Melvin Henry Ignatow confessed yesterday that he murdered his fiancee, Brenda Sue Schaefer, and he asked for forgiveness from God and her family. Ignatow, acquitted of the murder last December, stood before a federal judge yesterday, cleared his throat and admitted: "On Sept. 24, 1988, 1 did take Brenda Sue Schaefer over to Mary Ann Shore's house on Poplar Level Road and I did physically and sexually abuse her and I did murder her, and Mary Ann Shore participated in these acts. We together buried her body back behind the house." At the end of the hearing in which Ignatow pleaded guilty to federal perjury charges, he asked U.S.

District Judge Edward Johnstone for permission to make a statement. His voice trembled as he turned slightly toward the crowd, which included weeping members of both Schaefer's family and his own. "I assume total responsibility for what I did," Ignatow said. "I know what I did was wrong and horrible. There are reasons but there are no excuses." He added: "I want to say to Brenda's family that I am very sorry this happened.

I know all the pain See IGNATOW Page 6, col. 3, this section I'm ,1. "On Sept. 24, 1988, 1 did take Brenda Sue Schaefer over to Mary Ann Shore's house and I did physically and sexually abuse her and I did murder her." Melvin Ignatow's confession By ANDREW WOLFSON Staff Writer The film and jewelry that eventually sealed Melvin Ignatow's fate were right under the nose of Jefferson County police when they searched his home in January 1990. But the evidence was taped inside a floor duct and covered by carpet.

Although as many as eight county officers helped search Ignatow's home on Jan. 10, 1990 the day he was arrested the evidence wasn't found until the home's new owners pulled up the carpet Thursday and called the FBI. But prosecutors and Ignatow's own lawyer say it was not unreasonable that the police failed to find the film which contained sexually explicit photos and two diamond See EVIDENCE Page 6, col. 3, this section Melvin Henry Ignatow and Brenda Sue Schaefer, shown in 1986, became engaged on Valentine's Day 1987. CARTOONS CAVORT ON ICE Blame is hot topic as Louisville's hopes for debate cool off 1 ON THE TRAIL Clinton's campaign: Bill Clinton says President Bush has "sucker punched" American workers with economic policies that have produced high unemployment.

Page A 3. Perot's plan: Ross Perot says his budget-balancing plan wouldn't start until a year after his inauguration. Page A 3. GOP plea: Marilyn Quayle tells the party faithful in Kentucky that it's up to them to ensure a GOP victory Nov. 3.

Page A 9. By ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH Staff Writer Peeved by criticism from Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson, the Bush-Quayle re-election campaign apparently has vetoed the city as a site for a presidential or vice presidential debate. The decision set off a round of bitter bickering and finger-pointing between Sen. Mitch McConnell, chairman of the Bush-Quayle campaign in Kentucky, and Abramson, who is widely viewed as a potential challenger to McConnell in 1996. Abramson said McConnell could have kept the debate in Louisalle, suggesting that McConnell might have let it slip away to embarrass a potential politica.

rival. "He's the only (Kentucky politician) that has the president's ear," the Democratic mayor said. "I don't know how Machiavellian he might have been." McConnell responded, "The mayor screwed up and he ought to be man enough to admit and accept responsibility." Negotiators for President Bush and Democratic challenger Bill Clinton had agreed late See DEBATE Page 8, col. 4, this section STAHF PHOTO BY STEVE SMAHI A host of cartoon characters from Disney films performed this week during the Act One finale of Walt Disney's World on Ice In Freedom Hall at the state fairgrounds. Shows are at 3:30 and 7:30 p.m.

today and 1 and 5 p.m. tomorrow. U.N. seizes assets of Iraq's foreign oil sales Jobless rate slipped, but so did payrolls had proposed an alternative plan allowing Iraq to break a U.N.-ordered trade embargo and sell $4 billion in oil. But 14 of the 15 council members supported the resolution.

China abstained, as it has on several measures against Iraq. The council earlier had tried to get Iraq to pay for the program through a one-time sale of $1.6 billion in oil. But Iraq refused to accept the Security Council's terms for the sale. "The resolution adopted by the Security Council today is a reasonable and proportionate response to Iraq's intransigence," said Ambassador Edward Perkins of the United States, which led the drive to seize Iraq's assets. The resolution allows the council to confiscate proceeds from oil sales and money owed to Iraq for oil delivered before the Security Council banned trade with Baghdad Aug.

6, 1990, four days after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. At that time, Iraq's assets abroad estimated at $5 billion were frozen but not seized. Oil was Iraq's main source of foreign cash. The United Nations will be able to confiscate up to $200 million from each country holding Iraqi oil revenues, but will not be allowed to touch money claimed by Iraq's creditors. The confiscated accounts will be reimbursed when trade sanctions are lifted.

In addition, Saudi Arabia and Turkey will be allowed to sell Iraqi oil that they have been storing since the invasion, and turn over the money to the United Nations. The seized money also will be used to compensate Asian workers who fled Iraq after the invasion and lost all their possessions. By ANDREW KATELL, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS After scrapping most of Iraq's weapons and cutting off its international trade, the Security Council yesterday struck at a key financial asset of Saddam Hussein, moving to seize $1 billion in oil money. The council's resolution seizes assets from Iraqi oil sales abroad, most of them held in the United States, to compensate victims of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and pay for U.N. weapons inspections and humanitarian aid to dissident Kurds and Shiites.

It is the first time the United Nations has seized a nation's money. Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Al-Sahaf met yesterday with Third World Security Council members in an attempt to stop the seizure. He ground on his Democratic opponent, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton. "It's the third straight month of moving in the right direction on unemployment," Bush said yesterday in an interview on ABC-TVs "Good Morning America." In a jab at Clinton, Bush said: "It certainly goes against the political grain where some are saying everything is getting worse.

It isn't." Later yesterday, Labor Secretary Lynn Martin said a decline of two-tenths of a point in the adult unemployment rate offered some encouragement, as well as the fact that the ranks of the jobless shrank by 128,000, to 9.57 million. See JOBLESS Back page, col. 3, this section From New York Times and Associated Press Dispatches WASHINGTON In the last chance for an improved job report to help President Bush's re-election chances, the government said yesterday that the nation lost 57,000 jobs in September and that the unemployment rate posted a statistically insignificant one-tenth point decline, to 7.5 percent. Economic analysts greeted the figures, lackluster as they were, with some relief. Many had expected job losses twice as high, along with a small increase in the unemployment rate.

But the report provided some cheer for Republicans and Bush, who is scrambling to make up Hubbard considers launching a comeback i Muii.ji.iiyiww.HiJivwn "I may run for election to a 10th term in 1994." Outgoing U. S. Rep. Carroll Hubbard, who was defeated in the Democratic primary By AL CROSS, Political Writer FRANKFORT, Ky. U.S.

Rep. Carroll Hubbard, rejected by his Western Kentucky constituents in this year's Democratic primary, is already considering a comeback. "I may run for election to a 10th term in 1994," Hubbard said in a telephone interview from Washington yesterday. "I certainly have enjoyed the privilege of representing the people of the 1st Congressional District, and I'm disappointed I won't have the chance to do that during the 103rd Congress, and it is possible I might run." Hubbard said he won't decide until January, but those who have watched him and listened to him in the last month say he will try to mount a comeback. Several cited his performance at the Sept.

12 picnic at St. John's Catholic Church near Paducah, a prime event on the area's political calendar. "When people came up to him that day and encouraged him to run, he indicated that was not just a possibility but a likelihood," said Secretary of State Bob Babbage, who said he discussed the topic with Hubbard privately. "He didn't really tell me I could tell you," Babbage said. But Babbage and several others said their observations of Hubbard lead them to believe he will challenge whoever wins next month's contest between Tom Barlow, who narrowly upset Hubbard in the three-way Democratic primary, See HUBBARD Back page, col.

3, this section Missile accident blamed on crew error Human error was responsible for the USS Saratoga's firing of two missiles that killed five sailors and injured 15 aboard a Turkish destroyer late Thursday night, according to sources familiar with the Navy's preliminary inquiry. U.S. officials apologized yesterday for the accidental attack during a NATO exercise off the Turkish coast in the Aegean Sea. Story, Page A 4. 1992 STAFF PHOTO i B12 BUSINESS C1 CLASSIFIED A11 DEATHS B6 HORSE RACING A2 LOTTERY B1 SPORTS COMICS IN SCENE SUNSATIONAL LOUISVILLE AREA: Sunny, with highs of 78 today and tomorrow.

Clear skies expected tonight, with a low of 51. Details, A 8 ADDING HOPE Ohio State's 35-12 football victory over Syracuse has made of players more optimistic of an upset. 1 DERBY CITY SUDS With the reopening of Oertels Brewery in Butchertown and the new Silo Brew Pub on Barret Avenue, hometown brew is returning to Louisville. itfJtiataliBWtaJifc-a-iiHB 'wac i.