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SPORTS Prep football finales BUSINESS Valley auto 0 Suns bury Bullets, 114-95 Geronimo 'Sister Act 11 sales in 'Wayne's World 2' open Mostly sunny High 77 Low 47 Dtloils, 616 Pueblo Grande Indian Market iiigii.gtJar Final Edition mm 500 Copyright 1 993, The Arizona Republic republic A Friday, December 10, 1993 Phoenix, Arizona 104th year, No. 206 itio e9 Arizona fed up with vio 1 Phoenix's body count of 166 a record and still growing MURDER BY NUMBERS Annual number of killings in Phoenix over the past six years. 4 M) 200-1 165 homicides as of Dec. 9 PUBLIC BACKING CLINTON By a 2-1 ratio, Americans back the president's vow to challenge the NRAand seek tighter gun-control laws, according to a new poll. A17 GUN OWNERS HAVE THEIR SAY Gun advocates complain that the media have misrepresented them, and they are right.

Steve Wilson's column, A2 VAN Guidelines urged for treating youths as adult criminals By Victoria Harker The Arizona Republic A slate blue-ribbon panel urged Thursday that guidelines be established for treating certain juvenile offenders as adults, but it acknowledged that Arizona has turned its back on troubled youths and families for decades. The Arizona Commission on Juvenile Justice, which was appointed to put an end to the "revolving door" for juvenile offenders, unveiled 38 preliminary recommendations after five months of work. Included are ending the current practice of releasing juveniles early from state-run institutions without court approval and providing treatment services to them after age 18. Many of the proposals in the See ADULT, page A 16 150- a By William Hermann The Arizona Republic For the sixth year in a row, a record number of people have been slain ia Phoenix. And 1993 itill has nearly a month to go.

As of Thursday, there have been 166 homicides this year in Phoenix double the number recorded 10 years ago, police say. The total includes a 17-day period in September in which 14 people were slain. Police say 1992's total of 158 was eclipsed in late November. There have been seven homicides since then. That works out to one homicide every 2.07 days, a rate that would give Phoenix at least 176 homicides by year's end.

Phoenix isn't alone in the upward trend; Glendale several months ago eclipsed its 1992 total of 12. The Phoenix figures do not cheer city officials, who point to increasing violence by youth. "We're very concerned about the homicide Police Chief Dennis Garrett said. See PHOENIX, page A 1 7 100- i 1 4 '4 50- '88 '89 '90 '91 '92 '93 Michael GingThe Arizona Republic Phoenix police investigate a homicide in Phoenix. The number of slayings in the city this year 1 65 as of Thursday has doubled since 1983.

The Arizona Republic Clinton's bid to license gun owners gains momentum ft ji i i'l yv an individual may own and a broader version of a proposed ban on so-called assault weapons. Registering guns is not enough, Reno said, because people should be required "to know how to safely and lawfully use a gun" before they can buy one. Underscoring the new prominence of the issue for the administration, Clinton talked Thursday with big-city mayors and police chiefs. "We have to move, and I believe we arc prepared to move," he told officials from 35 See CLINTON BID, page A If gun as a driver's license," Reno said. Justice Department officials are examining ways to test people to determine their knowledge of safe gun handling and of when it is lawful to fire a weapon.

Reno said the department also was considering a limit on the number of guns Republic Wire Services WASHINGTON A day after President Clinton ordered her to study the idea, Attorney General Janet Reno embraced a proposal to require all owners of guns to be licensed. "It ought to be at least as hard to get a Attorney General Janet Reno President Clinton ash brew! BeckI. Heave Ho! Ho! Ho! TV deals over for Suns ga mes 1 1 i II William Jackson The president of CableAmerica Corp. says his customers have "suffered long enough" without Suns coverage. Pay-per-view rules giving bars headaches By Kim Sue Lla Perkes The Arizona Republic The Dimension Cable security force will be policing you in local bars.

They don't care how many beers you consume. Hut if the bar has a Phoenix Suns pay-per-view game on television, you'd better be wearing a colored We can 't make money (on ticket sales). We can only lose money. PAUL BURDICK CO-OWNER OF DAN RYAN'S SPORTS GRILL IN PHOENIX lift Vc Michael MelsterThe Arizona Republic Casey Baker delivers holiday cheer in the form of Christmas trees to a lot Salem, to pick up more than 1,000 trees, was stocking up for this near 36th Street and Thomas Road in Phoenix. Baker, who traveled to weekend, which he said is traditionally the busiest for sales.

Inside Cable firms sue over Dimension 'monopoly' By Pamela Manson The Arizona Republic Two small cable-television operators say their viewers can't catch the hottest show in town because Dimension Cable Services has an unfair lock on nearly half the games of the Phoenix Suns. The operators CableAmerica Corp. and Insight Communication Co. filed an antitrust suit Thursday in U.S. District Court seeking unspecified damages and access to 34 games for broadcast to their 33,000 subscribers in the Valley.

Named as defendants are Times Mirror Cable Television the parent company of Dimension Cable, and the Suns. The suit claims that a deal struck by Times Mirror and the National Basketball Association franchise has stilled competition to broadcast the 34 Suns games. It accuses the company and the team of trying to restrain trade in cable programming by "locking up the most popular programming in the Phoenix area." "All that we are asking for is fair access at a fair price," Pamela See SMALL CABLE, pageAU Welfare reform might require teen moms to live with parents E14 EI4 CI A2 CL1 Astrology Bridge Business Chuckle Classified Comics wrist band showing that you have paid to get in, or you'll be booted out by Dimension employees. The Dimension staff will act as the "hosts" of Suns games in every bar that carries them, spokeswoman Lori Fields said. "They will be doing all kinds of things, helping with promotions, and ticketing and everything," she said.

And one of the main things they'll be doing is ensuring that everyone in the bar has paid the $10 price of admission. The pay-per-view arrangement will allow fans to see home games on television this year that weren't available last year. But some bar owners say they're being asked to assume the financial See SUNS, page A2Q 'iJ'rJ The task force also calls for demonstration projects offering support for two-parent families, with access to food stamps, child care, carned-income tax credits and employment-counseling services. The group's draft also seeks to translate Clinton's campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it" into a plan to impose a two-year limit on benefits while expanding education, training and child care for low-income families. The 29-page draft does not address the cost of reform, how it would be financed or the number of jobs that would have to be created for parents who reached the two-year time limit and were unable to find work.

See WELFARE, page A 12 By Jennifer Dixon The Associated Press WASHINGTON Teen-age mothers would have to live with their parents to qualify for public assistance under a draft White House proposal to overhaul the nation's welfare system and discourage out-of-wedlock births. The idea is one of several that President Clinton's welfare-reform task force is considering to address the rapidly increasing number of births to single women. Another idea: Make it easier for two-parent families to collect cash assistance. Currently, single-parent families often have access to cash and services that are unavailable to equally poor two-parent families, the task force says in a confidential draft report. E14 E14 BI4 E14 Bl E8 CL19 A2 E14 E12 Dl E1J B16 El A2 Dear Abby Dr.

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