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STREET EDITION: THDE MMMA feFWIIC Street Edition 35c Copyright 1990, The Arizona Republic Saturday, February 17, 1990 Phoenix, Arizona 100th year, No. 275 Paul Johnson picked for mayor -01 ii'ii'- 'f 4 0 (St Phoenix 'mandate' is claimed ili: Li ..5...,, Jxi.y.m Councilman Paul Johnson says there will be few changes in Phoenix's direction after he is sworn in as mayor Wednesday. His wife, Christa Marie, joined him Friday after he was chosen by his colleagues to fill the vacancy left by Terry Goddard. IN FOCUS: PATH OF A RISING STAR, Page A2 EDITORIAL, Page A26 Gary UlikThe Arizona Republic Phoenix Municipal Stadium sits empty except for groundskeepers Richard Thurber (right) and Dave Dickerson. The Valley's spring-training facilities are kept well-groomed and ready for an end to the baseball dispute.

Empty fields of dreams Valley baseball fans 'watching, waiting, hoping' A If I I 11 I till i'I'i- i i I'm If Hi i By Robert Barrett The Arizona Republic Neighborhood pressure broke a logjam, handing the job of Phoenix mayor to Councilman Paul Johnson on Friday instead of colleague Howard Adams. "There's no doubt this election did evolve around a neighborhood mandate," said Johnson, who promised as mayor to make neighborhoods, the environment and the economy priorities. The council, required by law to pick a mayor from the eight remaining members to fill the vacancy, voted unanimously in favor of 30-year-old Johnson after Adams, a 12-ycar veteran, withdrew his name from the contest. Johnson will take the oath of office Wednesday at noon but, as vice mayor, already is serving as acting mayor. The vacancy was created Thursday LOCKOUT: Freeze in baseball talks thaws, El Gary UlikThe Arizona Repubic By Lloyd Herberg The Arizona Republic Three old men stood in front of HoHoKam Park on Friday and did what baseball fans across Arizona must do for the moment.

"We're watching and wailing and hoping," said Prodie Michcli, 71, of Peru, 111. The words were followed by a heavy sigh. It was a silent spring at the Valley's six sites where the Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners and California Angels had been scheduled to begin workouts Friday for pitchers and catchers. The reporting date was Thursday, but a lockout by the owners, who arc embroiled in a contractual dispute with the players, has put spring training on hold. Instead, the facilities were empty except for Sec FIELDS, pageA20 when Mayor Terry Goddard resigned to run for governor.

He was campaigning in Yuma and couldn't be reached for comment Friday. Most observers thought Adams and Johnson each had four votes locked up. At least five votes were needed to win, and a tie would have been broken by presiding Judge M. Louis Levin of Municipal Court, a longtime friend of Adams. See page A2 'We We been searching for a donor for almost 2 years 9 Mom having baby to save her dying daughter 3 1 7 Hfvl "fT.

KP'Hl' ft r'J I pi State hikes tuition at universities Annual rate to be $1,478, non-residents face big leap By Mary Jo Pitzl The Arizona Republic TUCSON Tuition for a year at Arizona's three public universities will increase $H6, to $1,478, this fall, the Arizona Board of Regents decided Friday. Non-resident students will have to pay up to $6,484, or $1,000 more, after the regents decided, on a 6-3 vote, to reduce state subsidies for out-of-state students' educations. In addition, the regents approved increases in dormitory rates that ranged from 6 percent at Arizona State University in Tempc to 10.8 percent at the University of Arizona in Tucson, depending on room size and whether meals are included. For example, that will increase the rate for a room with seven days of meal service in ASU's Manzanita Hall to $3,199 from $2,986. Student leaders, the university presidents and the regents' staff agreed that Arizona must stop subsidizing the costs of education for out-of-state students.

The regents agreed to phase out the subsidies over three years. However, student leaders unsuccessfully argued that currently enrolled non-residents should be protected from the increases through a "grandfather" clause. "I don't think anything was considered today that we suggested," said Brad Golich, president of the Arizona Students Association. "Wc had three basic arguments. We lost all of them." Currently, non-residents at ASU and the UA pay $5,484 a year, while the charge at Northern Arizona University is $4,953.

1 Current tuition is $1,362 for Arizona residents. Those rates mean that non-resident students currently pay 82.5 percent of the costs of their educations, with the remainder subsidized by Arizona taxpayers. That strategy has drawn increasing fire from the Legislature as state See TUITION, pageA21 Wwimwm wmmm ''''ft 't(i sf i. ISiiil mmmmmm mmmm mam ifpiiiiii By Denlse Hamilton Los Angeles Times WALNUT, Calif. A couple whose 17-year-old daughter is dying of leukemia are having a baby in hopes the infant will prove to be a compatible bone-marrow donor who can save their daughter's life.

Abe and Mary Ayala undertook the desperate gamble, against the advice of their doctor, after a fruitless nationwide search for a suitable donor. Ethics experts said Friday the decision is outrageous and troubling. The odds arc about 1 in 4 that the baby, a girl who will be born jn April, will provide a compatible match, doctors say. "I never thought I'd be pregnant at my age, but when you're faced with the possibility that your child is going to die, you desperately seek, and whatever you need to do, you do it," said Mary Ayala, 43. Doctors said the bone marrow can be obtained with little risk to an infant who is at least 6 months old.

And doctors say that Anissa Ayala is likely to still be alive then. Medical cthicists said that it is extremely rare for a baby to be conceived specifically to serve as a bone-marrow donor for an ailing family member and that the Ayala case raises a number of ethical issues. Unlike adults, children are unable to give informed consent for such medical Marc MartinLos Angeles Times Mary Ayala (right), with her ailing daughter, Anissa, says a new sibling would help Anissa "fight to stay alive" to see the baby grow. "It is troublesome, to say the least," medical-ethics expert Philip Boyle said from the Hastings Center think tank in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. "It's outrageous that people would go to this length." Jake Priester, a research fellow at the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota, asked, "How much potential pain and risk Can one parent demand of one sibling for the benefit of another sibling?" The Ayalas defend their choice and express dismay that anyone would even question their motives.

"We've been searching for a donor for almost two years, and we haven't been able to find anybody, so this is the only other alternative," Abe Ayala said Friday. See COUPLE, pngcA22 procedures as marrow donation. Such legal consent usually is given on their behalf by a parent or guardian. "What they're doing ethically is very troubling, but on the other hand, 1 can sympathize with their desire to do everything possible to save their daughter's life' said Alexander M. Capron, a professor of law and medicine at the University of Southern California.

Inside D.C. statehood drive is urging tax boycott Poor losing ground to wealthy in taxes, income, study says ITWIII Reagan's role in court: Tale of Iran-contra See Page A 10 Air Force funds study of jet noise, wildlife See Page Bl Workers gear up for big bake-off Sec Page CI Today's prayer: Lord, bring happiness and peace to couples just getting married. Amen. Today's chuckle: Middle age: When your legs buckle but your belt doesn't. Today's weather: Mostly sunny; partly cloudy tonight.

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Melton The Washington Post WASHINGTON The District of Columbia's delegate to Congress, Walter Fauntroy, on Friday called on city residents to join him in violating federal law by withholding income-tax payments until Congress makes the district the 5 1st slate. Fauntroy, who said he is "agonizing" about whether to run for mayor this year, said that taxpayers who failed to file federal income-tax returns or withheld their annual tax payments could face civil and criminal penalties, including fines and imprisonment, But he told a news conference, "Those of us who have decided to take this action are prepared to accept those consequences." Fauntroy, who likened the tax protest to the civil disobedience of the civil-rights movement and highly publicized anti-apartheid arrests outside the South African Embassy in the 1980s, said he plans to soon establish an "escrow corporation" to receive residents' tax payments. The corporation will be established Sec TAX BOYCOTT, page All Americans saw their real income drop by 3 percent and their net federal tax rate go up by 16 percent. Families in the poorest fifth have an average pretax income of $7,725. Meanwhile, the richest fifth, defined as families with an average pretax income of $105,209, have enjoyed close to a 32 percent hike in their income and a 5.5 percent cut in their net federal-tax rate.

What's more, the Congressional See POOR, page A 14 By R.A. Zaldlvar Knlght-Rldder WASHINGTON Not only are the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer in today's America, but less of the rich man's bounty and more of the widow's mite is subject to federal taxes. That is the conclusion of a new tax study by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office that is circulating on Capitol Hill. It says that from 1980 through 1989, the poorest 20 percent of After realizing it has no legal recourse, the National Football League has announced that it reluctantly will allow underclassmen Into its college draft. El..