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Boat accident kills Indians' Sunny masmx fono nff Ditchi HIGH 89 LOW 61 Details, A12 iUUVi Ull hoi Prince concert date set at Desert Sky Cards sign jv Redskins' Gary Clark Urn-Suns' I 1 Final Edition TMe Ammma Eepu 50c Copyright 1993, The Arizona Republic Tuesday, March 23, 1993 Phoenix, Arizona 103rd year, No. 310 I Mi Simper Bowl for Valley lit NFL makes it official for '96 Talking 'money, man, By Dennis Love The Arizona Republic The parking valet, all posture and polish, stood curbside at the front entrance of the Phoenician Resort and smiled broadly at the very thought. "The Super Bowl?" he asked, as if savoring a fine vintage. He rubbed his thumb and fingers together. "Money, man.

Money." The Super Bowl is coming, and, with it, fabulous predictions of weeklong visits by fat cats and high rollers with dough to burn. And although the NFL's Main Event is synonymous with hyperbole everyone knows the football game itself rarely matches its feverish promotional swirl the economic impact on the host city is undeniable. "This is the single largest and most valuable piece of business that takes place anywhere in this country in any See SHOWCASE, page A6 SUPER BOWL FACTS. FIGURES Where: Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe Stadium capacity: 73,473 Revenue: 1 87 million, estimated Visitors: 60,000 to 90,000 to the Valley, estimated TV viewers: 134 million in the United States, 1 billion worldwide, estimated Tickets: $200 estimated cost MORE INSIDE: Your chances of getting a Super Bowl ticket, A6 Celebration at Cardinals training facility, A6 Reaction from Valley residents, A6 Casstevens on Bill Bidwill, Dl By Steve Schoenf eld The Arizona Republic PALM DESERT, Calif. Minutes after the Valley landed the 1996 Super Bowl on Monday, Phoenix Cardinals owner Bill Bidwill was talking about getting another one.

"The good news is we have Super Bowl XXX in January of '96," Bidwill said. "The better news is that we aren't going to wait a couple of years to apply for another one'. We are going to do it before the end of this year and try to get a second Super Bowl for the Valley of the Sun." National Football League owners opened the general session of their annual meeting Monday by awarding Super Bowl XXX to the Valley. The game will be played Jan. 28, 1996, at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe and is expected to generate $187 million for Arizona's economy.

Owners will meet again in May to decide the formula for determining future Super Bowl sites. Then, at a later date, John SamoraThe Arizona Republic In high spirits, Phoenix Cardinals owner Bill Bidwill (left) and Bill Shover, chairman of the Phoenix Super Bowl Committee, field questions in Palm Desert, Calif. they will pick the sites for the games in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000. The Cardinals are expected to bid for the 1998 game because it will be the 100th anniversary of the franchise, which began as the Racine (Wis.) Cardinals. See '96 SUPER BOWL, page A 7 Yeltsin action Jr.

i Vv violates law, court decides ft r1 ,4 1 But finds no ground for impeachment How do you spell fear? N-U-K-E Babbitt pushes deal on gaming Seeks compromise for Arizona, tribes By Martin Van Der Werf and Mary Jo Pitzl The Arizona Republic WASHINGTON Hoping to i broker a compromise on Indian gaming, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt on Monday suggested that Arizona tribes be allowed to have gambling machines in their casinos, but not table games such as roulette, craps and blackjack. In return, the state would allow every federally recognized tribe in Arizona to have a minimum of 250 gaming machines. Larger tribes could operate more. It was unclear whether the tribes and the state would play with the deck Babbitt proposed. Neither side indicated any immediate intent to resume the stalled negotiations, although both signaled a willingness to talk through Babbitt.

Currently, none of Arizona's tribes runs casino-style table games, although three tribes' proposals to do so i won the endorsement of a federal mediator last month. Gov. Fife Symington issued a brief statement Monday thanking Babbitt for his "constructive role." Symington said he hopes to find a compromise on the issue, but said Babbitt's guidelines need clarification. See BABBITT, page AS 4" By Deborah Seward The Associated Press MOSCOW The Constitutional Court ruled that Congress has no grounds to impeach President Boris Yeltsin, the Interfax news agency said today. Interfax, citing sources on the court, said it decided that some of what Yeltsin said when he declared emergency rule and called for a national vote of confidence Saturday was unconstitutional, but it was not grounds to remove the president.

The hard-line legislature had sought a court decision in what was seen as a step toward impeaching Yeltsin. The court, like the Congress of People's Deputies, which has blocked many of Yeltsin's reform efforts, is dominated by former Communists. It was expected to rule against Yeltsin, because its chairman, Valery Zorkin, had already publicly denounced the president's Saturday declaration as See YELTSIN, page A2 By Owen Ullmann Knight-Ridder Tribune WASHINGTON America's anxieties over the power struggle unfolding in Russia can be reduced to one four-letter word: nuke. With 7,100 long-range nuclear warheads and 15,000 battlefield nuclear weapons in the Russian arsenal, who controls the country, and its nuclear command structure, is an issue of concern to the West. "If Russia falls into anarchy or lurches back to despotism, the price that we pay could be frightening," U.S.

Secretary of State Warren Christopher warned in a speech he gave Monday to the Chicago Council on Foreign tions. "Nothing less is involved than the possibility of renewed nuclear threat, higher defense budgets, spreading instability, the loss of new markets and a devastating setback for the worldwide democratic movement." See RENEWED, page A2 --4 Boris YurchenkoThe Associated Press Pro-Communists, one with a poster criticizing President Boris Yeltsin, demonstrate near the Russian Parliament building in Moscow. Yeltsin's foreign minister said the president is ready for political battle. Shuttle malfunction puts halt to launch with 3 seconds to go Inside Astrology E6 JV airS Bombeck E6 SCX CMlTlS A photo taken BridSe E6 afToIncf from NASA TV CI agaillSl shows the firing Ruckle A2 pOD of Columbia's. Classified CL1 three main Comics E7, CL5 See Page A2 engines just Dear Abby E6 before the space Editorial AlO shuttle's Obituaries CLIO 10W 10 get shutdown Prayer A2 tO Sesame Monday.

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Two of the engines had fired for about three seconds, and the third, the one with the problem valve, never reached full ignition. See MALFUNCTION, page A 12 Republic Wire Services CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. In possibly the most serious malfunction to strike the space-shuttle' program since flights resumed after the Challenger disaster in 1986, the Columbia's planned launch was halted Monday by on-board computers just three seconds before liftoff, apparently, because of a faulty fuel-system valve. The incident comes as the whole shuttle concept is being challenged. All safety systems performed "flawlessly," officials said later, and the seven-man crew was in no danger.

This was only the third time that a shuttle launch has been cut short after the main National Aeronautics and Space Administration.