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Fod nOONPIE Southern snack eCopyriKht Vm A GANNETT NEWSPAPER 6 Sections 35 cents Volume 86, No. 213 cat for 11:2 year 1C Nashville, Tennessee Second class portage puid IWitillt, TN The TENNESSEAN OTM Air Guard returns 14 from desert, sends 103 more win It 3n 18th 4 DORREN KLAUSN1TZER Staff Writer Yesterday was bittersweet for the Tennessee Air National Guard units based at Berry Field: 1 4 aeromedics returned from the Middle East minutes before 1 03 mechanics, pilots and technicians left "It feels great to be home and I was really ready to come home," said Technical Sgt Mike Nave, who returned from a 28-day tour to the Middle East with the 1 18th Aeromed-ical Evacuation Squadron. As Nave spoke, the first of four C-130H transport planes carrying 1 03 members of the 1 18th Tactical Airlift Wing took off in support of Operation Desert Shield. "For those pys going over there, my advice is that it's hot It's 1 30 degrees over there," Nave said. "It took a couple of days to get used to it "Those guys need to wear their desert BDUs battle dress uniforms and get a headband for the heat," he said.

Nave and the 13 other aeromedi- I-. cal (in-flight hospital) technicians who returned were not allowed to give their exact location in the Middle East or their instructions while there. "What I can say is what we were assigned to do we did and it was a positive experience," Nave said. Barbara Burns was one of the first off the plane and rushed to hug and kiss her husband, Kim Bellm. Burns said it was not so much the extreme heat but customs of Saudi Arabian women that were difficult for her.

"The women have to remain completely clothed. Not even their fingers can show. And the women have to walk a few paces behind the men," Burns said. "If I went out, I would have to do the same and be submissive and stay in full uniform," she said. John Hoffman said his tour taught him a very important lesson.

"The people in the United States don't appreciate the true meaning of freedom. This tour gave me a whole new perspective on it," he said. "We had to learn to make do with what we could, and the heat was pretty bad," he said. Hoffman, who with 1 7 others were deployed Aug. 8, said their first day in the Middle East was confusing.

"It was 1 20 degrees and they had nowhere to put us except this metal hangar, and we slept on available cardboard," Hoffman said. Hoffman stood next to his wife, Brenda, and toted Becca Willis, a 15-year-old neighbor, on his shoulder. "He's her idol and she cried for two weeks while he was gone," Hoffman's wife said. But while those who just arrived were reunited with family and friends and had the time to tell stories of their tour, the families of the 103 who were leaving counted their I Turn to PAGE 2A, Column 1 if DESERT SHIELD THE IRAQI CRISIS LARRY TAFT Spurts Writer BUFFALO, N.Y. The Nashville Sounds scored what club president Larry Schmittou called the "greatest win" in the history of the team last night, defeating Buffalo for the American Association Eastern Division championship.

Nashville posted a 4-3 win in 18 innings at partisan Pilot Field to take the special one-game playoff for the Eastern title. The Sounds now go to Omaha to meet the Western Division champion Royals in Game 1 of the best-of-five American Association championship series. It will be Nashville's first appearance in the playoffs since joining the league in 1 985. Game 2 will be in Omaha tomorrow before the series moves to Nashville for Game 3 on Friday at 7:35 p.m. at Greer Stadium.

Games 4 and 5 will also be at Greer Stadium if they are necessary. Among the announced crowd of 16,224 at last night's game was Schmittou, who founded the Sounds 13 years ago. "This was the best game I've seen, ever," Schmittou said. "It was filled with great defense, great pitching and was surrounded by a tremendous atmosphere. It's the greatest win we've ever had, and I know I've never seen anything like it." Nashville Manager Pete Mackanin was elated, but exhausted after the game, which lasted five hours, eight minutes and ended in rain.

"This was the most absurd game I've ever seen," said Nashville Manager Pete Mackanin. "I experienced every emotion I had in it." Nashville scored the game-winning run in the 18th inning when Billy Bates singled, went to second on a Skeeter Barnes groundout and scored on Chris Jones' double to left Jones hit a pinch-hit solo home run in the eighth inning which gave the Sounds a brief 3-2 lead. Buffalo tied the game in the bottom of the eighth. Charlie Mitchell, who went to high school at Overton, got the victory in relief, hurling scoreless baseball the final eight innings. "I knew there was pressure, but I tried to put it out of my mind," Mitchell said.

"I wondered how long I could keep going, but I kept trying, and I kept getting them out" Nashville and Buffalo finished the regular season with identical 85-61 records, forcing last night's playoff. Buffalo was awarded the right to host the game because it held an 1 1-7 edge over Nashville in head-to-head games during the season. Inside Iraqi censors bleep Saddam's threat to regard hidden foreigners as spies, on 2A. President of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A., which has its world headquarters in Nashville, criticizes U.S. troop buildup in the Persian Gulf, on 2A.

South Central Bell waives fees for reservists called to duty, on 2A. IOPEC and PLO crippled by Mideast crisis, on 2B. Freeman Ramsey Staff Sgt. Phillip (Trey) Saindon of Antioch hugs his daughter, Heather, 2, upon returning from a 28-day tour in the Middle East with the Tennessee Air National Guard. Iraq back on terrorist list; Mideast security pact suggested Associated Press Secretary of State James Baker said yesterday Iraq has been restored to the list of countries the United States accuses of engaging in international terrorism.

Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Baker also said the Bush administration is giving preliminary thought to creating a NATO-type organization to deal with future security threats to the Persian Gulf. He told the committee Iraq was restored to the terrorism list after Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz said Iraq was free from any moral obligation to proscribe acts of terrorism against American, British or French interests. Iraq had been on the State Department list of countries that engage in state-supported terrorism but was removed from that list as part of a general accommodation between the two countries during the early 1980s. The other countries on the list are Syria, Libya, Cuba, North Korea and Iran. Restoring Iraq to the list was largely a symbolic measure.

Membership on the list means the country in question is not entitled to certain economic benefits, including agricultural credits. In Iraq's case, there are no benefits to be suspended because of the embargo the United States imposed on Iraq after its takeover of Kuwait A U.S. official, explaining the move, said: "We are deeply concerned over growing ties between Iraq and international terrorists. Particularly disturbing is I Turn to PAGE 2A, Column 4 Parents protest teaclieir's transfer HIGH 98 low 72 See 33 Teachers must be shuffled to where they are needed instead of new teachers being hired, she said. "It's a policy matter," Goss told the parents of three students who came by her office yesterday to complain about the transfer of second-grade teacher Suzanne Biggers.

Goss said that because the four kindergarten teachers had seniority over Biggers, all of them were allowed to remain at Gower, although one of them will not teach kindergarten. "We don't have the luxury of keeping that kindergarten. I have schools that are over the state limit on class size that need As of yesterday, 78 kindergarten students were registered at Gower since the first day of school, Aug. 16. Goss said because of limited funds, at least 85 students must be registered to keep the fourth kindergarten class.

Eugene Dietz, director of community relations for Metro schools, said teachers are moved every year after opening day because student registration is not always in line with projections. "The system will always adjust the teacher's assignments to where the students are," Dietz said. "We hope to have the process completed by the end of the week." Eliminating one of the kindergarten classes will increase the student-teacher ra- ROCHELLF. CARTER Staff Writer Metro schools' budget woes have become a personal disappointment for some of the kindergarten and second-grade parents at Gower Elementary School. Two and a half weeks into the school year, a second-grade teacher has been "bumped" to another school by a kindergarten teacher with more seniority.

The kindergarten teacher's position was eliminated when registration figures showed there were not enough students to keep four kindergarten classes. Susan Goss, director of elementary teachers for Metro schools, said she can't keep the school's fourth kindergarten class S. African tribal battles, soldier gunfire kill 40 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) Soldiers fired on thousands of angry blacks yesterday and rival gangs fought with axes, knives and spears as at least 40 people were killed in township violence. The violence came as President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela visited black townships near Johannesburg to call for a halt in fighting that has killed more than 550 people since Aug, 12.

The government has imposed emergency restrictions and sent elite army units to the townships, but fighting between Zulu followers of the conservative Inkatha movement and other blacks loyal to the ANC raged for a fourth week. In Sebokeng, a pre-dawn clash killed four people at a migrant workers' hostel, police said. The victims were believed to be township residents abducted by hostel dwellers. About 5,000 township residents angered by the killings gathered at the hostel. When the mob refused to disperse, army troops were called in and a "shooting incident occurred," said police Col.

Frans Malherbe. "The bodies of 1 1 persons were found afier the mob dispersed." South African newspaper photographer N. Khumalo told the South African Press Association that "people came toward the soldiers waving their hands, saying 'peace, we are not Some of them even sat dowa" The troops "took up position, cocked their guns I "It's not a matter of being short of teach open because there is not enough money for additional teachers. ers. We're short of money," Goss said.

Turn to PAGE 4A, Column 5 Hillin puts a stop to council's free gravy train ROBERT SHERBORNE She offered the proposal after Hillin an- A controversial rezoning proposal Staff Writer nounced yesterday he would no longer which would have allowed the storage) which would have allowed the storage THIS SECTION Editorials 6-7A National News 2A Newsmakers 3A Washington News. 2A World News 2A SECTION Metro State 1-48 Deaths 38 Business 5-7B Stock Tables. 6-7B SECTION Sports 1-6C Scoreboard 2C Baseball Football .1,3,60 Classified Death notices 6C SECTION Food. 1-8D Market Basket 7D Food Happenings 20 SECTIONS Living ME Crossword 2E Horoscope 3E Television 5E of heavy equipment on a Fern Avenue lot next serve council members a free meal before Metro Council will be dining again on the top floor of the Metro Courthouse in two weeks, but Sheriff Hank Hillin will not provide the food and it wont be free. Under a proposal offered by Council-woman Jo Ann North and informally approved by the members of the council's Executive Committee, the owners of Cherry's Cafeteria will serve the meal for $4 a plate before council meetings.

"The council members never have an opportunity to get together when they are not in a meeting, and this gives them a chance to get together and socialize," North said. to a restored 19th century home was deferred. Councilman Vernon Winfrey, the sponsor of the rezoning measure, said he was unaware there was neighborhood opposition to the proposal and requested the deferral. Another controversial proposal to re-zone a lot on Kirkwood Avenue, near Franklin Road, was deferred after several residents of the area appeared at a public hearing i a opposition to the measure. Turn to PAGE 4A, Column 4 council meetings, as did his predecessor, Fate Thomas.

"The people of Davidson County elected me to change things," Hillin said, noting that he is not in the restaurant business. "I am trying to bring a new professionalism to the Sheriffs Department I hope the council agrees with this decision." In other action: North was elected president pro tern of the council, which means she will chair the council meetings when Vice Mayor David Scobey is unavailable. I Turn to PACE 4A, Column I.