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LIFE PAGE E7. BUSINESS 0 0 Knicks top Nicholson Good news for cable conomic Rockets. CI sinks teeth growth slows, inflation lags Sunny High 104 Low 75 Details, B6 91-82 into 'Wolf subscribers Tee Amezona Final Edition 500 Copyright 1994, The Arizona Republic SPORTS In -n IffiPWUC Thursday, June 16, 1994 Phoenix, Arizona 105th year, No. 29 ABC drops Cfao 3 after 40. years Network's programs will surf over to Ch.

15 Attempting to rebound from this loss, CBS approaches Scripps Howard, owner of stations in nine U.S. cities, including Detroit, Cleveland, Phoenix and Tampa. The network offers a deal to bring CBS programming to Scripps Howard stations. CBS loses eight stations, stolen in deal between Fox Television Stations Inc. and New World Communications Group owner of Ch.

10 in Phoenix. Effect in Phoenix: Ch. 10 becomes Fox TV. i CBS left looking for new home. Ch.

15 looking for new affiliate. MOVING TO CHANNEL 15 Some of the ABC shows that wjll shift near year's end: Roseanne Home Improvement NYPD Blue Nightline Prime Time Live 2020 Monday Night Football By Dave Walker Republic TV Writer Another big wave soon will hit Arizona channel surfers. KTVK-TV (Channel 3) on Wednesday lost its nearly 40-year affiliation with the ABC television network to KNXV-TV (Channel 15), which three weeks ago lost its somewhat less-mature affiliation with the Fox network to KSAZ-TV (Channel 10) which in the same move lost its decades-long tie to CBS. Channel 3 General Manager Bill Miller said ABC's move to Channel 15 will occur "probably around the end of the year." At that time, ABC's top-rated shows Roseanne, 2020 and Monday Night Football will move to Channel 15. Channel 3 will continue to broadcast its syndicated programming, such as Oprah, Donahue and Entertainment Tonight.

At Channel 3's studio near 16th Street and Osborn Road, dazed employees walked the halls and nervously smoked cigarettes in the station's parking lot during the 5 p.m. newscast. The news that ABC is heading for Channel 15 had been broken to them only an hour earlier at a hastily called staff meeting, employees said. During the newscast, ABC's departure from the station was the only subject of conversation during commercial breaks among the news anchors. "I have a friend at Channel 12 who called and said they were dancing up and down over there," said sportscaster Mike Chamberlin, referring to the only Valley network affiliate that hasn't been caught up in change.

Newscaster Patti Kirkpatrick said, "Of course they're gloating. Why wouldn't they?" News anchor Cameron Harper said See ABC, page A 15 Effect in Phoenix: Channel 15 becomes ABC Channel 10 still has Fox, CBS is still looking for a home, Ch. 3 is looking for an affiliate. ABC gets wind of deal, makes a to Scripps Howard, wherein ABC gets to keep its affiliation with the Scripps stations in Detroit and Cleveland. In exchange, the network will give ABC programming to Scripps Howard stations in the smaller markets of Phoenix and Tampa.

What the station switch means. A14 The Arizona Republic urges arms embargo 7 n'MTiTiTllM ilP or -N; Korea to death sit Details on gloves surface 's 4 Ja r-r "VVMV i I West Hollywood Brentwood I O.J. Simpson's estate XSi Nico' Simpson's JtownJIwse j. Angeles N. Mar Vista Nev.

ia International Callf- Airport By Jim Newton and Josh Meyer Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES The blood type of samples recovered at the scene of his ex-wife's slaying match that of O.J. Simpson's blood, a potentially important piece of evidence in the investigation into the killing of the woman and a man she knew, Los Angeles police sources said Wednesday. The former football star's blood type is different from those of the two victims, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman, a source said. Although even rare blood types are shared by many people, any discovery of Simpson's blood type at the death scene could lend credence to the suggestion that he was there, sources said. A more exact test to determine whether the DNA in the blood sample matches Simpson's has not See BLOOD, page A 7 if Other U.N.

sanctions proposed By Barry Schweid The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS With Asian allies skittish about tougher action, the United States is proposing a mandatory arms embargo and other, mild U.N. sanctions to try force North Korea to open its secret nuclear facilities. Only the arms embargo is expected to be painful to the isolated North Korean regime, which derives much of its foreign currency from weapons sales that total about million a year. North Korea claims its nuclear program is entirely peaceful and has barred U.N. nuclear inspectors from suspect sites.

But its secrecy has only deepened suspicions that it is producing nuclear weapons. The talk of penalties that began weeks ago has made the North more bellicose. It has warned it would perceive sanctions as an "act of war" and, this week it withdrew from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear-watchdog agency. "These are significant sanctions that will impose a heavy price in diplomatic isolation," U.S.

Ambassador Madeleine Albright told reporters in announcing the sanctions. "They are calibrated so that the more it (North Korea) breaks the See ARMS EMBARGO, page A 16 Arsonist stalking E. Valley home for elderly, police fear By Jim Walsh The Arizona Republic Someone "screwed in the head" may be setting fire to the beds of elderly people at a Scottsdale nursing home. "That's what we're looking toward, that someone set them," said Sgt. John Cocca, a Scottsdale police spokesman.

"We believe it-was man-made." In the past 13 days, two early-morning fires have broken out in beds at Scottsdale Heritage Court, 3339 N. Civic Center Boulevard. The second fire began Wednesday shortly after 2 a.m., in a room shared by two women. An orderly responding to a smoke detector put out the smoldering fire and helped move the resident and her roommate to safety. Neither woman was hurt seriously.

The first fire occurred June 3, when a 76-year-old woman was burned critically in a fire that authorities blamed on a short circuit in her electric adjustable bed. After Wednesday's fire, police checked for a short in the bed's motor but found nothing amiss. See ARSONIST, page A 19 Knight-Rldder Tribune -s. Reuters O.J. Simpson attended the premiere of his most recent movie, Naked Gun 33ti: The Final Insult, in March with his former wife, Nicole, and their two children, Sidney Brooke, 9, and Justin, 6.

Woman led sheltered, abused life while married to football legend didn't always mesh. Court documents and interviews show that Nicole Brown Simpson, slain Sunday with a male friend outside her Brentwood condominium, was a sheltered woman who had lived in the shadow of her famous husband, who apparently is the subject of police suspicion. According to a therapist who briefly treated her, she was regularly beaten and threatened See JET-SET, page A6 By Deborah Hastings The Associated Press LOS ANGELES She was 18, just out of high school, a waitress with movie-star looks and a dazzling smile. He was 30, a star running back for the Buffalo Bills, with money to burn and a face known around the world. Nicole Brown and Orenthal J.

Simpson were instantly inseparable. They were beautiful, in love and jet-setters. But the public couple and the private one Louis A. Raynor Reuters Relatives of Ronald Goldman, the man killed with Nicole Simpson, talk to reporters Wednesday. Fred Goldman, flanked by his daughter, Kim, 22, and his wife, Patti, says his son "didn't deserve what's happened." Story, A7.

Free trip to China raises conflict issue for Rep. Kolbe Inside 1 Astrology Bombeck Bridge Business E4 E4 E4 Fl El B3 A2 E4 E3 Dl E7 B6 B2 A2 Life Obituaries Prayer Puzzles Short Takes Sports Television Weather Willey Wilson "That's why I asked Jim to go. It made it look like we were a little more serious than the average delegation," said Hellon, of Tucson. "We were received with a little more credibility than other business groups." Kolbe, said he felt the trip was germane to his congressional duties because he has specialized in Congress on trade issues. "I had been looking for a trade trip to China, and this came at a good time for me because it was over the Memorial Day recess from Congress," Kolbe said.

"It was a chance to see firsthand the explosive growth in Beijing. It also was good timing for me because it came at a time of last year's debate over (most-favored-na- See ETHICS, page All By Martin Van Der Werf Republic Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Rep. Jim Kolbe took a five-day trip to China last June that was paid for by a prominent official In the Arizona Republican Party whose private business stands to gain financially from contacts made on the trip. Both Kolbe and Michael Hellon, a member of the Republican National Committee and president of Hellon Associates, a tax-consulting and international-trade firm, said they saw no ethical problem with Kolbe accepting the free trip. The trip was approved in advance by the House Ethics Committee.

Both said the presence of a congressman raised the status of their delegation and brought about an unusually enthusiastic reception by the Chinese government. Chuckle A2 Classified Inside Comics E6, CL8 Dear Abby E4 Pr. Gott E4 Editorial B4 Jim Kolbe Says he felt the trip was germane to his duties..