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1 if i nannm unuE 1980s arrive on boo-tiful day in Pasadena D017L scones National Center on Deafness at California State University at Northridge. Aboard the float were seven members of the International Children's Choir. "It's a real circus," said Ferris Reid of Aurora, 111., of the crowds that waited overnight "But I don't think I'm crazy being here all night Being crazy was staying back in Illinois in the winter." "It was 70 below zero with the wind chill when I left Iowa," said Elise 80, of Newton, Iowa. It was near 50 degrees at parade time. Sixty floats, 22 bands and 275 equestrians were led by grand marshal Sen.

John Glenn, D-Ohio, the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth. In addition to Mickey Mouse and Elvis the flowery head of the King of Rock 'n' Roll adomed Mississippi's float the attractions at the Rose Parade included TURN TO PAGE 3A 1S il dflOUDDUpff' wmm torn IPsnMra 56 soldiers land in Texas The Associated Press and Democrat and Chronicle The 90s rolled in yesterday to a wel- come of parades, football games, sales, skiing and, in a few cases, hangovers from the wretched excesses of New Year's Eve. Zsa Zsa Gabor, on horseback, got booed, as did Sen. John Glenn.

Philadelphia's Mummers had cold feet and stayed home. The birth of twin girls ushered in the new decade in Boston at Brigham and Women's Hospital. "The nurses told me they were born right straight up at midnight," hospital spokeswoman Louise Homer said yesterday. Jennifer and Jessica Rios, daughters of Karen Pizarro, were in neonatal intensive care yesterday and "doing fine," Homer said. An estimated 1 million people lined curbs and sidewalks in Pasadena, to watch the 101st Tournament of Roses Parade on a sunny, balmy day.

Eastman Kodak's float "True Colors Inaugural address Mayor Thomas Ryan gives inaugural Ryan fakes talks of city By John Riley Democrat and Chronicle Surrounded by family, friends and long-time political supporters, Mayor Thomas P. Ryan Jr. yesterday was sworn in for a second term as Rochester's directly elected mayor. Pledging to keep an environment in which "public servants of exceptional quality can continue to flourish," Ryan outlined a series of municipal problems or "challenges" that he said would re- quire a partnership between public and private interests to solve. "It is an approach of inclusion.

It is 0 HIGH 40 TO 45 DETAILS ON 6A nEGIOflAL EDlTIOn Social Security taxes, checks up The Associated Press WASHINGTON The new year is bringing higher payroll taxes for workers and bigger checks for retirees as a long-scheduled Social Security tax increase kicks in and a cost-of-living adjustment boosts retirement benefits. The payroll tax is rising to 7.65 percent from 7.51 percent in 1989. While 130 million workers and self-employed people will be paying more into Social Security in 1990, 38.9 million Social Security beneficiaries will start drawing bigger monthly benefit checks. Checks delivered tomorrow will include a 4.7 percent benefit increase. The cost-of-living adjustment is designed to offset inflation in the past year.

The increase is $25 month for the average retired worker, who in 1989 received $541 a month. The maximum monthly benefit for a worker retiring at age 65 in 1990 will be $975, up $76. Accord reached in 9-month walkout by coal miners The New York Times WASHINGTON With what a me-diator called a "win-win" accord, Pitt-ston Co. and leaders of its coal miners said yesterday that they had resolved their brutal, nine-month strike in the hills of Appalachia. The terms were not disclosed, so that the union could first explain them to the 1,700 striking workers and about 4,000 sick and laid off Pittston workers, all of whom will vote vote whether to ratify the agreement.

Story, 6D. First Lotto jackpot of '90 will be worth $22 million The Associated Press ALBANY Tomorrow night's Lotto drawing will be worth $22 million, state lottery officials said. No one came up with the correct six numbers to claim Saturday's Lotto jackpot, which was worth $18 milion. There were 196 second-prize winners of $2,575.50 each, lottery officials said. Saturday's Lotto 54 numbers were 9, 13, 21, 38, 46, 47.

The supplemental number was 27. Nation's murder capital logs slaying 6 hours into year Reuters WASHINGTON A shooting victim became the first entry for 1990 in the murder log of America's capital. Washington homicide detective A. Shepard said that the first murder of 1990, in what has become the nation's murder capital as well as its political center, was reported less than six hours after the new year began. 8 works by Matisse stolen from his old Nice apartment Reuters NICE, France A cat burglar stole eight works by the French painter Henri Matisse worth a total of $13 million from the artist's former apartment in Nice, police said yesterday.

They said it was not known when the break-in took place but it was discovered on Friday by the painter's daughter-in-law who visits the premises periodically. Her previous visit was in November. Police said the apartment, in which Matisse lived from 1938 until his death in 1954, had not been lived in for more than 20 years. QUOTE OF TOE DAY 'Y ou've got to start with Marlin Fitzwater, the White House press secretary, when asked if enough troops were leaving Panama to constitute a withdrawal. Story on 1A.

INSIDE Democrat and Chronicle wire services SAN ANTONIO The first uninjured American combat troops to leave Panama arrived yesterday at Kelly Air Force Base here for a layover before returning to their home base at Fort Ord in California. Kelly spokeswoman Phoebe Brown said 56 soldiers arrived on a C-141 transport and were scheduled to leave for Monterrey, at 5 a.m. today. Pentagon spokesman Maj. David Super said the troops were from the 7th Infantry Division at Fort Ord.

He said a second plane carrying troops from Fort Ord was due in at Kelley, but he was uncertain when. Marlin Fitzwater, the White House press secretary, expressed the hope that the remaining forces could leave "as soon as possible" but offered no time frame. "You've got to start with one," Fitzwater said when asked if the first redeployment was large enough to constitute a withdrawal. Orange: Notre Dame 21, Colorado 6 Sttgar; Miami 33, Alabama 25 0 Rom: USC 17, Michigan 10 Ftesta: Florida State 41, Nebraska 17 Halt of Fame; Auburn 31, Ohio State 14 Cftrtie: Illinois 31, Virginia 21 Cotton; Tennessee 31, Ark. 27 Coverage begins on 1D.

of Harmony" won no awards. This year's float had the appearance of a giant keyboard, with a strip of floral pictures of musical scenes along its length. It was decorated by members of the Deaf CSUNians, an organization of more than 225 deaf students from the Will Yunnan Democrat and Chronicle address yesterday after being sworn in. oaf again) challenges an approach that says to every individual in this community you can make a difference. It is an approach that says our ability to solve our problems depends on our people." Ryan talked about education, drugs, housing and the revitalization of city neighborhoods and downtown in a speech he gave following the swearing-in ceremony.

The mayor was sworn in by state Assemblyman David Gantt before an audience of city officials and political activists in the atrium of City Hall. A TURN TO PAGE 3A seph Duncan, a vice president and chief economist for Dun Bradstreet, the information conglomerate. "The mart down the street from you, they're saying, 'I want to know everything about everyone who lives within 15 minutes of my Not long ago, a New York City orthodontist called the California state data center, which uses Census data to answer demographic inquiries. "He was moving to California," said Linda Gage, who runs the Sacramento center. "He wanted to know where there were a lot of teen-agers in high-income Jl I Oi The Associated Press Zsa Zsa Gabor smiles through the boos during Tournament of Roses Parade.

WHEN A G.I. DIES 3A "We want them all to come out as soon as possible, except the 12,000 there permanently," he added. "My guess is that we'll see small groups like this coming out on a continuing basis from now on." About 14,000 soldiers were sent to Panama on Dec. 20 for the invasion, which ousted Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, the military leader.

Panamanian President Guillermo En-dara said yesterday that the Vatican should resolve its dilemma over Noriega by turning him out onto the street and letting U.S. troops capture him. Washington wants Noriega to stand trial in the United States on drug-trafficking charges but the Vatican has refused to hand him over to the United States. The United States, the Vatican and Panama are engaged in complex negotia- TURN TO PAGE 3A Mario Cuomo's budget office, and could grow significantly larger. At the same time, many of the major issues before the Legislature revolve around the question of money, issues that include federally mandated changes in welfare laws aimed at getting more recipients to work, a relief package for the state's financially ailing hospitals and demands for greatly expanded anti-drug programs.

So do pleas that the state float new bonds for everything from land acquisition to housing construction. A few issues, of course, will not focus on finances. One of them is the death penalty, which has been passed by the Legislature in each of the past seven years and has been vetoed by Cuomo. Death-penalty proponents say they are closer than ever to gathering enough votes to override a veto, but people on both sides of the issue said it is too early to predict an outcome for the coming year. on their operation, the more questions may be raised about the bureau's role: Is privacy sufficiently protected? Should the bureau seek a share of the profits businesses make from repackaging public data? And are the needs of business distracting the Census Bureau's attention from the needs of government agencies who are among its primary clients? Associate Director William P.

Butz wonders whether Americans will begin to think marketers are getting access to individual Census files something the TURN TO PAGE 3A mm Sttato woes dumped on legislators' laps The New York Times ALBANY After a six-month break, their longest in 19 years, New York lawmakers will gather here tomorrow to begin a new session. But, pressed with demands for greater spending and hemmed in by what appears to be a near-chronic budget deficit, few legislators seem eager to return. "We're coming back to a very depressing situation, especially because it's an election year," said Saul Weprin, the Queens Democrat who is chairman of the Assembly's Ways and Means Committee. As it was in 1989, the state's money problems are expected to be the overarching issue of the session, with the Legislature having two years' worth of fiscal headaches to confront Aside from trying to close a potential budget gap of at least $1 billion in the fiscal year that begins in April, lawmakers must deal with a shortfall in the current year's budget that is estimated to be at least $250 million, according to Gov. Rising demand for Census data has officials uneasy BUSINESS 6D 4A EDITORIALS CLASSIFIED 7C 5C MOVIES COLUMNISTS 3C 3B PUZZLES COMICS 3B 1D SPORTS DEATHS 7C 2C TELEVISION households within 10 miles of the beach between Los Angeles and San Diego." The growing appetite for data, the growth of a private industry to fill this need and the industry's reliance on Census data leaves bureau officials with a sense of satisfaction, but one tinged with unease as the 1990 Census draws near.

Satisfaction, because the widespread commercial use of their product is an affirmation of their technical skill at gathering, sorting, analyzing and packaging information about Americans, at a level of detail no private concern can match. Unease, because the more demands put The New York Times WASHINGTON The federal Census Bureau, conceived 200 years ago as a national adding machine, has in the past decade evolved into something more: the engine of the multimillion-dollar information industry that is battling for the hearts and modems of American business. "The Census has become an integral part of the American economy," said Edward J. Spar, president of Market Statistics, a New York-based demographic services firm. "The 1990 data is going to be used as never before." "Everybody uses Census data," said Jo (O Copyright, 1990 Gannett Rochester Newspapers Five news sections 158th year Published by P.

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