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FINAL CHASER LIFE LEISURE NSPORTSl 'g New books for kids Mike Tyson wins brawl in 7 rounds Suns 111 Pacers 103 Final Edition Tede Amezona Mepumic 350 Copyright 1991, The Arizona Republic Tuesday, March 19, 1991 Phoenix, Arizona 101st year, No. 305 NFL chief irritated on eve of Bowl vote Tagliabue upset by questioning By Steve Schoenf eld The Arizona Republic KOHALA, Hawaii As National Football League Commissioner Paul Tagliabue was getting ready to begin his first news conference at the league NFL is asinine," Tagliabue said. He then came down from the podium and became agitated. "We're not infallible," he said. "It's a complicated situation.

The people in Arizona think we did things. We think those people did things. I still don't think we did very much wrong." League owners, who awarded Super Bowl XXVII to Phoenix last March, will decide this afternoon whether to rescind meetings Monday, the leader of a black group opposed to moving the 1993 Super Bowl to San Diego tapped him on the shoulder and asked to speak to the owners. Maybe that's what irritated Tagliabue, who lost his cool when reporters kept asking him about his recommendation that the '93 game be moved from the Valley. "To say the problem is.

made by the that bid and move the game to San Diego or Los Angeles. It is still unknown whether it will take a three-quarters majority 21 of 28 votes or a simple majority to pull the game. Tagliabue said he will make that decision early today. The situation has become messy. Cardinals owner Bill Bidwill has vowed to keep the game.

"When we go to the meeting, I'm going to fight to keep the game just as hard as I'm going to fight to make sure the King holiday (vote) passes," Bidwill said of a proposal on the November 1992 ballot for an Arizona paid holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Tagliabue has maintained that the game shouldn't be played at Tempe's Sun Devil Stadium as long as the state See BOWL, page A2 Paul Tagliabue "We're not infallible. It's a complicated situation." FREEDOM DIDN'T RING IN PROSPERITY Gorbachev rival 'win9 77 votin Union, Russian chief backed I ft-. tf'Vt 1 i 14 4 'Try- i .1 -IF i "St By Bryan Brumley The Associated Press MOSCOW Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his maverick rival Boris Yeltsin on Monday both emerged from the first referendum in Soviet history able to claim victory.

In the non-binding election held Sunday in 11 time zones across the Soviet Union, Gorbachev won overwhelming support for preserving a renewed federation with the majority of the population. But partial returns showed Yeltsin winning on a question that has been opposed by Gorbachev: creating a strong presidency for the huge Russian republic and filling it by direct election. Yeltsin was elected chairman by Russia's legislature in May. Known as the Russian president, he is in danger of losing that job hard-line members of Russia's congress are planning a no-confidence vote March 28. Even if Yeltsin lost that vote, he would be strongly favored in a popular election.

Gorbachev's referendum won by margins of 70 percent to 95 percent in seven of the 15 republics: the Ukraine, Byelorussia, and the five republics of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (left) won support for preserving a renewed federation with the majority of the population. Rival Boris Yeltsin made progress on the issue of creating a strong Russian presidency. Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenia and Kirgizia. There were no final totals for Russia or Azerbaijan on Monday. Local counts were running strongly in favor of the union in the Russian countryside and many cities but weakly in Yeltsin's strongholds, Moscow and Sverdlovsk.

Six independence-minded republics refused to hold the referendum, and See SOVIETS, page A 6 Michael Propst Reuters Germans in Berlin wear masks of (from left) Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Kohl to denounce economic conditions in eastern Germany. More than Genscher, former East German leader Egon Krenz and Chancellor Helmut 50,000 people demonstrated peacefully Monday night. Story, A7. en. Walker Inside police support embattled chief Amazon forest loss is slowing Photos show less destruction in '90 I AT I 'fi" 7 11 shuns panel Protests limits on defense By Ed Foster The Arizona Republic Indicted Sen.

Carolyn Walker and her attorneys walked out of a Senate Ethics Committee hearing Monday after her lawyers were denied an unlimited amount to time to present her defense. The committee tentatively is scheduled to vote this morning on whether and how to punish Walker for her conduct in the "AzScam" scandal. Senate President Pete Rios said a full Senate vote on any punishment for Walker could come as early as this afternoon. The Senate could vote to reprimand, censure or expel the south Phoenix Democrat. A simple majority of the 30.

members is required for the first two; a two-thirds vote for expulsion. Walker and six other legislators are among 18 people indicted in the political-corruption scandal. Walker is the See SEN. WALKER, page A2 Daryl Gates gets a warm welcome at work by police personnel. On Monday, transcripts of messages about the beating of a motorist were released.

A8. Nation engulfed by crime Justice system near 'collapse' By Michael Conlon Reuters CHICAGO Wesley Okoji, who came to the United States from Nigeria 12 years ago and earned a degree in finance while driving a taxicab, was looking under the hood of his car on a recent morning in Chicago hen his life ended with a gunshot to the back of his skull. He became at age 36 a victim of a violent-crime wave unmatched in the 214-year history of the nation. In 1990. Americans killed, raped, robbed and assaulted each other in record numbers about 6 million incidents.

The average citien runs a higher risk of becoming a violent-crime victim than of being involved in an automobile accident. More teen-age males, black and hite, die of gunshots than from all natural causes combined. In the past 30 years, the level of violent crime has grow 12 times faster than the population. Like Okoji. who was killed in davhght while putting wmd- See VI0LDKT, pace A 5 Charles KrejcsiTh Arizona Republic Sen.

Carolyn Walker attends the Senate ethics hearing concerning her indictment in the "AzScam" scandal. Teacher blames lover in slaying of spouse See Page A3 West settles suit, to refund S100 million See Page Phoenix men charged in 2 beating deaths See Page Bl INDEX: A backlash bathed in blood Iraq collaborators face torture, execution in Kuwait By Julia Preston Special for The Washington Post BRASILIA, Brazil After two decades of accelerating destruction of the Amazon rain forest, new satellite photographs show that the pace of deforestation has slowed dramatically in the past two years. Brazilian officials say. Images collected by the American civilian satellite Landsat 5 show that the total forest area cut down in 1990 was 5,523 square miles, a drop of 27 percent the amount cut in 1989. The amount of forest lost in 1989 was 15 percent less than in 1988, the new data indicate.

The officials said that cutting and burning of the largest rain forest is dropping off because of government measures to discourage land clearing. Brazil, reacting in 1989 to charges by U.S. environmental groups that it was abetting the Amazon devastation, canceled many longstanding subsidies to ranchers for tearing down trees to See UUJI-f OKJT. page AS CLIO CLIO Astrology Bom beck Bridge Business Chuckle Classified Highway, the capital's main artery, and forced to kneel. Then he was shot in the head.

left shoulder and chest, and propped upright for passing traffic to see. bullet holes and blood in the baby-blue wall behind him. "Every day now like this," said Naif Adjami. a Red Crescent emergency worker, as he helped load the corpse into his truck. "Sometimes one.

sometimes five. Too much death." U.S. and international human- By Bob Drogin Los Angeles Times KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait The man wore only dirty white boxer shorts. His black pants were used to tie his hands behind him. His pink shirt was used as a blindfold.

Nothing covered the black bruises on his muscular arms or the crudely stitched gash in his forehead. But sometime early Sunday, he was taken to an underpass on the Magreb rights officials said 20 to 30 bodies have been found tortured or shot to death, and many more arc presumed dead in what increasingly appear to be blatant human-nghts abuses and reprisals by unrestrained Kuwaiti military and resistance forces against suspected collaborators. The officials now say 300 to tOO Palestinians. North Africans and other are unaccounted Sec KtmAmS, Ve .4 10 CLIO C5 A2 CLI D5.CL5 Obituaries CL9 Praver A2 Purles CLIO Short Takes D3 Solomon CLIO Snorts CI Television D6 Weather AM WiSies B2 Comics Dear Ahbv CLIO rduonal AI2 Life 4 Leisure Dl.