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Thk DksMoinks RkcistkkITiksdav, Nuvkmbkk 22, 3A The Simpson Case For the Record Man says he saved Reagan, is dismissed from jury pool Iowa families adopt children and share love scrutiny in the early 1980s over allegations that he was involved in a group at a Los Angeles police station called "Men Against Women." York was assigned to the station as a watch commander in 1985 as the investigation was concluding, and Simpson's attorneys apparently want to determine whether she was part of the Internal Affairs investigation. If York were allowed to testify in the Simpson case, it could present a conflict of interests for Ito and force him to remove himself from the case. Meanwhile, selection of alternate jurors continued with the dismissal Iowa officials said Monday that 73 Iowa children are available for adoption immediately. The biological parents of these foster children lost their legal rights, and the children often have endured abuse and neglect. These children are categorized as having "special needs" by the Iowa Department of Human Services.

Children with special needs include: minority children; three or more brothers and sisters (a sibling group); children age 8 years and older; children with physical, mental or emotional disabilities; a sibling group of two with one special-needs child; and children with multiple disabilities. Of the 73 adoptable children, the Iowa Citizens Foster Care Review Board said: one child is younger than 1 2 months; three are one is four are four are six are eight are five are five are 14 are 10; seven are 1 1 four are 1 five are 1 two are 14; two are 15; one is 16 and one is 17. For information, call 1-800-243-0756. Peggy York Police captain Defense lawyers contend Fuhrman is a racist who may have planted the glove on Simpson's estate. A source has told The Associated Press that Fuhrman came under -i-t College 1 HO KJi.Vy WJLJL.

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The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use or reproduction ot all local news printed in this newspaper. Iowa Deaths Semor C. Tofte, 83, of Rochester, died of a heart attack Monday at home. Services will be 1 p.m. Friday at First Lutheran Church in Decorah, where he was a member.

Burial will be at Tofte Cemetery in Tofte, Minn. Mr. Tofte was born in Tofte and moved to Decorah in 1937. He served six terms in the Iowa House of Representatives, retiring in 1983. He also served on the Decorah City Council.

He was co-owner and manager of the John Deere franchise in Decorah for 25 years. Surviving are two daughters, Rosemary Hall-quist of Phoenix, and Helen Mundahl of Rochester, two sons, David of Mankato, and Thomas of Rigeway; 14 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. No public visitation is scheduled. The family will visit with friends before and after the church service. Memorial contributions may be made to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.

Miles Tommeraasen, 71, of South Sioux City, died suddenly Sunday in a Sioux City hospital. The cause of death is still pend ing. Mr. Tommeraasen was a former president of Morningside College in Sioux City for 15 years until retiring in 1993. Burial will be at 10 a.m.

on Wednesday at Graceland Park Cemetery with memorial services follow ing at 11 a.m. at First Lutheran Church. Mr. Tommeraasen is sur vived by his wife, Marilyn; two sons, Mark, a student at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and Miles, of Lincoln, one daughter, Marsha Heimann of Allentown, one brother, Owen, of Madison, S.D., anJ four grandchildren, Meghan Heiman, Kyle Heiman, Miles Tommeraasen and Jessica Tommeraasen. ANITA Carl Livingston 82 AURORA Paul Murray 8 1 BELMOND Howard Shahan.

77; Gene Bantord. 74 BREDA Mallory Wesslmg. 8 months; Mike Rein 83 CARLISLE Hattie Burch. 90. Ileane Erma Hudson.

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82. A potential alternate is rejected as both sides prepare for a hearing on conflict allegations. Los Angeles, Calif. (AP) A man who claimed he thwarted two assassination attempts against Ronald Reagan was dismissed as a potential alternate juror Monday in the O.J. Simpson case without being asked a single question.

The unemployed, 42-year-old Los Angeles man was excused as the two sides prepared for a hearing before another judge on a possible conflict of interests for Superior Court Judge Lance Ito. Simpson's lawyers want to ques tion Ito's wife, police Capt. Peggy York, about her working relationship with Officer Mark Fuhrman, who found a bloody glove on Simpson's estate the morning after his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a friend of hers were slain. A matching glove was found at the murder scene. Fled Treatments Runaway teen, cancer puuem, returns home Norwell, Mass.

(AP) A 16- year-old cancer patient who ran away rather than endure more treat ments has come home, his father said Monday. Billy Best flew home Saturday from Texas, where he had fled by bus after selling off some of his pos sessions to pay the fare. "Right now, that's all we're going to say," said Billy's father, Bill. He said the family would hold a news conference Wednesday. "I'm sorry that I had to hurt any body," Billy told the syndicated tele vision program A Current Affair this weekend, in a report to be aired today.

"I wish there were some way I could have done it without caus ing any pain." Billy left home almost a month ago, saying that he felt the treat ments that were supposed to cure him were killing him instead. Billy was diagnosed in August with Hodgkin's disease. About 80 percent of its victims recover with chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Doctors told the teen-ager the dis ease had been eliminated from all but the area around his windpipe. They said he needed tour more months of treatment, or else the cancer would return.

His parents pleaded for Billy to come home, and they and his doctors promised they would modify his cancer treatments. Billy called home from Houston when he saw his story on TV, but said he needed time to think before returning. He had since been in touch with his family by phone. His return flight was paid for by tennis player Andrea Jaeger. Billy was scheduled to meet with doctors today to discuss his treat ment.

College lowers tuition costs WALDORF Continued from Page I A "you're raising the price and you have to turn around and give it back to the students. If that the case, why raise tuition? Why not lower it?" Waldorf, a two-year private college affiliated with the Lutheran church, has cut tuition before. In 1987, the college reduced tuition 29 percent in an effort to boost sag ging enrollment. Enrollment then had fallen below 400. This fall, Waldorf's enrollment is 575, and the reasons for the reduc tion are different.

About 95 percent of all Waldorf students qualify for financial aid, which helps lower- and middle-income students afford higher edu cation. While tuition increases have out paced inflation, financial aid such as the federal Pell Grant have not. Hamm offered this example: the family contribution of a Waldorf stu dent is calculated at $5,000 when tuition is $10,000. If the tuition in creases to $11,000 but federal and state aid does not increase, then Waldorf will have to come up with an other 1 ,000 in inancial aid. "It doesn't make sense to raise prices anymore," Hamm said.

He said the college would likely cut institutional financial aid for next year, but did not expect any cuts in programs, staff or staff sala ries. The average increase in 1994-95 for the 27 members of the Iowa As sociation of Independent Colleges was percent. ADOPTIONS Continued from Page 1A there is an unspoken promise that the child will one day live with a family the child can call his or her own, said DeAnn Jones, director of the state's advocacy agency for foster children. Sandy and Lon Strum began adopting children after learning they couldn't have children themselves. But the couple never figured they'd have such a big brood.

"We feel like all the kids have been born to us," said Sandy Strum, 42, a full-time wife and mom. "This wasn't our intention. It's a lot of work. But it's fun." Lon Strum, 44, a grain and ostrich farmer who also sells real estate, said, "Never would you ever have been able to say, 'Lon, you're going to have 11 I would've said you're out of your mind. We have five ball teams to follow.

We have seven girls and four boys, ages 6 to 15." The seven-bedroom, five-bath split-level house is filled with activity. They've adopted children from Korea, Costa Rica and Colombia. Six of the Strum kids are native Iowans; the four sisters, plus a brother and sister pair. "There are just lots of great kids out there with lots of love to share," Sandy Strum said. "A lot of these kids have been through some pretty tough times." Her family doesn't see adoption as anything but mutual caring, she said.

"We're not doing this to do anybody any big favors. We're doing it because we love these kids." Some people question whether the Strums can afford so many adoptions, she said. "We don't have a lot of money. But we feel like they don't need money things. They need love, a family, and a mom and dad to call their own," Strum said.

"We have gotten some criticism. 'How can you do enough for each of them, or give them individual I can tell you about each one of the kids, what plans they have for today. We've given up a good career and things that will bring us more money. This is more important to us in life." Biker gang in massive SONS Continued from Page 1A ly 200 members in eight states, according to federal authorities. Organized in 1979, the gang has chapters in Cedar Falls-Waterloo and Boone and has had units in Fort Dodge and Denison, according to the 87-page federal indictment returned Friday by a grand jury in Cedar Rapids.

2-Year Probe Evidence leading to the indictments was gathered over 2M years by members of at least 15 law enforcement agencies. Charged in the indictment are: Jeffrey Paul Gruber, 37; Ronald Merrill Gruber, 38; Mark Brian McPherson, 37; David Lester Fair-child, 40; Nicholas Paul Hursh, 35; Gerald Conrad VanBrocklin, 38; James Lee Truesdell, 33; Robert Nicholas Ross, 35; Jacob Harold Ha-zlet, 38; Calvin Leonard Flett, 39; James Lee Leisinger, 37; Kirk Allen Pierce, 38; Lewis Keith Racicot, 38; and Robert Orlando McAlister, 41. Racicot is from Boone; McPherson from Ogden; Ross from Colorado; the rest are from the Cedar Falls-Waterloo area. Both Grubers, VanBrocklin, Leisinger and McAlister are fugitives who are considered dangerous; the status of Ross was unknown late Monday, authorities said. All of the men have nicknames that authorities say are intended to confuse law officials.

Some examples: No Mind, Nick the Knife, Muc, Bear, Bad Ron, Crazy or Louie the Louse. Jeffrey Gruber nicknamed "No Mind," "The King" and "Boss" "for the purpose of maintaining and increasing his position in the Sons of Silence motorcycle club, did assault with a dangerous weapon another individual by cutting two slits in his ear and pulling part of his ear out," the indictment charges. Several of the indicted individuals have criminal records. Hursh, known as "Nick the Knife" and "Nick at Night," was arrested in 1988 for the stabbing death of Duane Niedert, 28, of Cedar Falls, an associate of Sons of Silence members. Niedert was stabbed when Hursh became enraged over gang members using drugs at a Cedar Falls house.

A Black Hawk District Court jury found Hursh guilty of manslaughter; he was sentenced to 10 years in prison and was paroled after serving about three years. At least one person was beaten on of a man who boasted ne twice saved Reagan's life. Ito gave no reason for excusing the man, who was never questioned by the lawyers. But in a questionnaire filled out by prospective jurors, the man, in response to a query about his proudest accomplishment, said: "Thwarting assassination attempts (2) against President (Mr. Ronald Reagan 1976-1984)." He gave no details.

Reagan was president from 1981 to 1989. 1 OlllCialS off limits material has no redeeming social value. "Then you have the problem of where do you prosecute them? Where is it coming from?" he said. Goldberg was referring to the question of what community stan dards should be applied to obscenity-in-cyberspace cases. In 1973, the U.S.

Supreme Court ruled that ob scenity must be judged by local com munity standards. But cyberspace crosses such earthly boundaries. In July, a California couple, Rob ert and Carleen Thomas, were con victed in federal court in Memphis, for sending obscene pictures via interstate telephone lines. Although the verdict might have turn ed out differently in California, the court in the Bible Belt held that the pictures were obscene by the stan dards of the local community. Jay Silberblatt, chairman of the civil litigation section of the Pitts burgh Bar Association, said it would is censorship.

We have obscene books in our library, but the university isn't burning them. The university is burning cyberbooks." Declan McCullagh student body president be difficult to prosecute Carnegie Mellon because the university doesn distribute the words and im ages itself. "They simply buy the computer hardware that allows the distribu tion to take place," he said. Committee Established Carnegie Mellon set up a commit tee to study the controversy and make a recommendation to universi ty President Robert Mehrabian. A Carnegie Mellon neighbor, the University of Pittsburgh, hasn't decided whether to block access but is leaning toward the CMU position, said Kenneth Service, a Pitt spokes man.

"The main reason we have com puters here is for education and research," he said, "and that's where our focus should be. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, the administration has decided to err on the side of academic freedom. "No action that would impede the flow of information was considered to be ap propriate," said Bob Dilorio, an MIT spokesman. 'Superstar' musical Tin Hi i i u's i Nnvs Smvio: Iowa City, la. The national touring production of the Andrew Lloyd WebberTim Rice rock musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" will come to the University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium for five performances at 8 p.m.

Dec. 9, and at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Dec. 10 and 11.

This production reunites the stars of the 1973 cinema version of "Jesus Christ Ted Neeley as Jesus and Carl Anderson as Judas. Jody and Jim Swarbark, 45, an auto dealer office manager from Cedar Falls, have gone through 27 adoptions. They're the parents of children aged 5 to 25. "The special-needs children in Iowa come into care through no fault of their own. They lose all their hopes and their dreams.

You can give them back a life," said Jody Swarbark, 42, a homemaker. After the birth of a son, complications left her unable to bear children. Instead, Swarbark has expanded her family through adoption, with seven children born in Iowa, two from other states, one from the Philippines, and the rest from Korea. "It kind of depends on where your priorities are. We don't have boats or snowmobiles.

We don't go on expensive vacations. Our activities are home-centered," Jody Swarbark said. "This is the right decision for us." charged drug probe the head with a baseball bat wielded by a gang member, the indictment says. Business Fronts The federal indictment accuses the gang of using legitimate businesses as fronts for illegal drug trafficking and investment of drug proceeds. Ronald Gruber is accused of intimidating and threatening another man by shoving him and telling him to "keep his mouth shut" about information he had regarding a homicide investigation.

Jeffrey Gruber, according to the indictment, used various means to ensure his control of the supply and marketing of methamphetamine, increasing the sales territory and discouraging potential competitors for the illegal activity, and "laundering" proceeds from drug sales. Gruber "arranged and directed the purchase and distribution of large amounts of methamphetamine brought into Iowa and Minnesota from various other locations in the United States," the indictment charges. 40 illegal aliens arrested at packer Tut. Rki iistkk's v. Nkws Skrvick Haywarden, la.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service took into custody more than 40 illegal aliens in a raid at a meatpacking, plant here Monday. The people worked at Iowa Lamb Corp. The plant employs just over 100 people, immigration officials said. Officials said deportations could begin as early as today for people willing to forgo a hearing. Those taken into custody were being held at the Dakota County Jail in Dakota City, Monday night.

Eagles' Ames concert rescheduled again TiikRkcistkk's Iowa News Skkyick Ames, la. The Eagles concert at Hilton Coliseum has again been rescheduled, this time for 8 p.m. Feb. 19. The new date replaces a previously announced date of Feb.

25. Iowa State Center officials said the band chose to reschedule the date. Tickets for the Feb. 25 concert, as well as the original October concert, will be honored Feb. 19.

In ternet areas Pittsburgh, Pa. (AP) In a case that has colleges taking another look at their legal responsibilities in cyberspace, Carnegie Mellon University has blocked access to bulletin boards that students can use to call up dirty pictures. About 300 students protested the move earlier this month as an assault on academic freedom, and a public interest group for computer users suggested Carnegie Mellon overreacted. "It is censorship," said Declan McCullagh, student body president. "We have obscene books in our library, but the university isn't burn ing them.

The university is burning cyberbooks." School Fears Prosecution Carnegie Mellon officials said they fear the school can be prosecuted for distributing pornography to minors if it knowingly allows access to the pictures via the Internet to anyone under 18. Most of the school's students are adults, but children as young as elementary-school age also use the university's computer networks. The dispute started when Martin Rimm, a research associate working on a study of pornography in cyberspace, used Carnegie Mellon computers to collect 917,000 dirty pictures, ranging from simple nudity to pictures of men and women having sex with animals. He tracked how often the pictures had been downloaded, or called up by a computer user 6.4 million times. When Rimm took his findings to the administration, Carnegie Mellon could no longer claim ignorance about the material, said Erwin Steinberg, vice provost for education.

"It's a difficult issue, an emotional issue," said William Arms, Carnegie Mellon's vice president for computing services. He received calls from six other schools after the problem came to light. "People want to know which way to go, he said. The school decided to block access to both written and pnotographic pornography. In the face of student opposition, Carnegie Mellon decided not to enforce the block on text.

But X-rated pictures remain off limits. "I have not accessed that material, but I feel that each person has a right to choose what kind of shoes, what kind of ties, what kind of information they want," said Cesar Rios, a graduate student in public management. Freshman Jessica Rhodes dis agreed. "We sort of have to abide by the laws of the state," she said. 'There are other ways of getting pornography.

If people want pornog raphy that bad, they should go buy it themselves." Little Liability Mike Godwin, a lawyer for the Washington-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the chances of Carnegie Mellon being held liable for carrying the pictures are extremely slim. Richard Goldberg, an Allegheny County deputy district attorney, said it would be very difficult to prosecute Carnegie Mellon, for the same reason it is hard to prosecute other kinds of obscenity cases: The prosecutor would have to prove the.