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TUESDAY'S HETRO ii.c. royals nuin ALTODELLI'S DEBUT GLOnm SVJAIISOII, 1090-1903, QUEEfJOF S1LEIIT FILMS She was a top box-office draw, set fashion trends -and claimed an affair with Joseph Kennedy. Film critic Jack Gamer looks at her life and her visits here. Stories on Page 1C Larry Gura's arm and George Brett's bat were too much for Joe Altobelli's Baltimore Orioles as the Royals defeated the Birds at home, 7-2, in the season opener. Story on Page 1D lii mm Spewing an enormous cloud of white smoke, Challenger lifts off to start its five-day '''''SSVV Hh.fl- mission in space.

Its launch was eight fi In It roars into space and lets satellite go By Harry F. Rosenthal Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Flashing through deep space on a five-day mission after a successful launch, the shuttle Challenger late last night deployed the world's largest and most complex communications satellite. With its once-flawed engines pumping at full power, the new shuttle roared aloft from Kennedy Space Center carrying the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite and a rocket that was to propel it to an orbit 22,300 miles above Earth. In the hours before the satellite launching, mission commander Paul J. Weitz relayed the confidence of the four-man crew, 'He was put in the United Press International CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

Astronaut Don Peterson's 86-year-old mother and 91-year-old father clutched each other's hands as they watched their 49-year-old son blast into space aboard the shuttle Challenger. "I'm scared to death about it, of course, but I'm thankful for him because this was his life goal," Mabel Peterson said. "I made up my mind wnen I knew he was going to make this flight that I was not going to let him know how I feel about it He was put in the hands of God." TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1983 CLOUDY HIGH 45 to 50 DETAILS ON PAGE 2A TODAY N.C. State defeats Houston for title Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Lorenzo Charles' dunk shot with one second left gave North Carolina State's Wolfpack a 54-52 victory over top-ranked Houston for the NCAA basketball title.

Story on ID. Buffalo accused of sex-bias Associated Press WASHINGTON In the first suit of its kind, the Justice Department charged yesterday the Buffalo school board and two unions representing teachers and other workers denied sick-leave benefits to pregnant employees and long-term insurance to women disabled by childbirth. The government's sex-discrimination suit is the first charging violations of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978. St. Louis busing plan ok'd Associated Press ST.

LOUIS All but one of the 23 school districts in suburban St. Louis County agreed yesterday to a desegregation plan that would initiate the nation's first widespread voluntary school busing between a major city and its suburbs. The Justice Department now must formally approve the plan. De Lorean's bail still $5 million Associated Press LOS ANGELES A judge yesterday refused to either raise or lower John Z. De Lorean's $5 million bail.

De Lorean's lawyers' claimed the automaker wonjd be "brought to his knees" financially if his bail weren't halved. U.S. prosecutors wanted De Lorean's bail in a cocaine trafficking case be doubled, alleging he's hiding $17 million in Switzerland. U.S. District Judge Robert Takasugi said the claims by both sides were "very low on my scale of believability." King Kong returns United Press International NEW YORK King Kong, the ape who scampered up the Empire State Building 50 years ago, made a return visit yesterday to the skyscraper.

The rubber replica will be anchored to the top 10 storjes, inflated tomorrow night and reign over Manhattan for 10 days to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the movie King Kong. 2nd baby condor on the way United Press International SAN DIEGO, Calif. A second California Condor chick expected to be born today or tomorrow at the San Diego Zoo began pecking through its shell yesterday. The first condor hatched in captivity celebrated its fourth day of life yesterday by stretching and flapping its stubby wings. Injured boy wins settlement United Press International MIAMI A damage settlement that could amount to $120 million has been awarded to a 12-year-old Oneonta, N.Y., Otsego County, boy who was partially paralyzed in a boating accident three years ago.

John D. McCann's skull was split open when a cleat ripped loose from the deck of a 30-foot Chris Craft boat that was towing another boat on the Hudson River. Chris Craft was held liable. 15,000 face utility shutoffs Associated Press BALTIMORE The Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. began shutting off service yesterday to an estimated 15,000 customers with delinquent bills.

The shut offs follow the end of a state' imposed moratorium during the winter' months, a utility spokesman said. Half are expected to pay their bills this week. Slick now threatens only Iran Associated Press MANAMA, Bahrain The giant Iranian oil slick spreading across the Persian Gulf now poses a threat only to Iran, a Saudi Arabian oil expert said yesterday. The spill is about 14,700,000 gallons. QUOTE OF THE DAY 'Everything is going tickety-boo so Paul J.

Weitz, commander of Challenger, moments after the shuttle's perfect launch. Story on 1A. INSIDE vjlui vi ROCHESTER, NEW YORK satellite system (TDRSS) Antenna Space-ground link 16 feet in diameter TDRSS satellite (East) i Satellite Scheduled early next year Source of data AP Bill Farley and Jantt Shaughneiiy Democrat and Chronicle that most police departments may be using the wrong tactics to quell domestic violence. In only a minority of cases do the police arrest anyone for domestic assault, the study says. Instead, they may try to mediate the dispute or seek to' achieve short-term peace by having one party leave the premises.

In other cases, they do nothing. The study was conducted by the Police Foundation, a private, Washington-based research organization, and the Minneapolis police department. It was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Justice, a unit of the Federal Justice Department. During the 16 Vi -month study period, 30 to 35 Minneapolis police officers used three different tactics, selected at random, to handle cases of "moderate" domestic violence those involving simple assaults, but which didn't cause severe or life-threatening injuries. The tactics were: arrest, advice or TURN TO PAGE 3A Foster said his fee was about a third of the total award in this case.

"I feel very good about it," said Foster, 59, who maintains a private law practice. "When this case started out, they were offering the little kid nothing. You don't think about the fee in a case like this. "You think about the little boy and how badly he was injured." Foster and the boys' parents had agreed not to discuss the settlement, but he confirmed last night that figures published in a Wisconsin newspaper were correct. According to an article in the Racine Journal-Times, Mason Kanous suffered spinal damage that left him paralyzed from the waist down during a breech birth on May 10, 1979, at St.

Luke's Hospital in Racine. Foster said it's not clear how the boy's TURN TO PAGE 3A 25 CENTS Tit of a second off schedule. telling the Houston control center, "Everything's going tickety-boo so far." The deployment of the 2 Mi -ton satellite and its 16-ton rocket, the flight's major task, went off as scheduled at 11:32 p.m. EST when the shuttle was 1,400 miles east of Rio de Janeiro. On schedule, mission specialists Story Musgrave arid.

Donald H. Peterson raised the satellite and its rocket so its nose pointed outside the cargo bay. From that point the satellite was deployed. Fifty-five minutes later, the rockets attached to the satellite fired and began hauling the satellite into its final orbit. Weitz, who was on a Skylab mission in 1973, is the only one among the four has flown in space before.

His pilot is Air Force Col. Karol J. Bobko. "You and your ground crew are daring TURN TO PAGE3A hands of God Mabel and Henry Peterson were flown to the Kennedy Space Center Sunday from their Winona, home. "He called us (Sunday) night.

We told him how proud we were and we told him that we loved him. He said he loved us and that says it all," the elder Peterson, sporting a baseball cap emblazoned with the Challenger insignia, said. "I think he's done mighty well and we're proud of him and of course, love him to death," his mother said. lieved to be the first modern hot-water heating district in the United States. Hot-water districts are common in some European and Scandinavian countries.

A new, five-mile network of underground pipes, with inside diameters of 8-12 inches, would be installed in downtown Rochester by Cogeneration to recirculate water heated to 200 degrees Farenheit. Steam users, such as Eastman Kodak office building on State Street, Xerox Tower, Sibley's department store and the Marine Midland office building, could hook up to Cogeneration 's hot-water pipes. Heat from the water would be transferred to the buildings' heating and cooling systems. "We're interested," says Henry Kaska, Kodak's public-information director, "but we're awaiting further information." Xerox TURN TO PAGE 3A Vietnamese soldiers last week's offensive border since a Vietnamese incursion into Thailand in June 1980. After relentless artillery and tank strikes, Vietnamese troops on the Cambodian side of the border overran O-Smach, the headquarters of the guerrillas loyal to Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the deposed Cambodian ruler.

Sihanouk is the nominal president of a U.N. recognized coalition "government" set up in "liberated" areas of Cambodia to spearhead a struggle against 180,000 occupying Vietnamese troops and the Vietnamese-installed government in Phnom Penh, TURN TO PAGE3A spg-A TDRSS WY (D satellite QJJ Ground tormina! A Satellite tl Tt-v new MHiiro Tracking and data relay Has 1,700 watts power 10-year lifespan 'Made ol woven molybdenum mesh; plated with 14K gold Spacecraft 1. Deployed 2. Scheduled for 3. last night August Arrests curb domestic abuse Police should be jailing men to quell violence, study says By Philip M.

Boffey New York Times NEW YORK Arresting men suspected of assaulting their wives or lovers may be the best way for police to prevent repeated domestic violence, a pioneering study of police tactics in domestic assault cases concludes. The findings not only go against many psychologists' beliefs, they support feminist groups' claims that arrest is the best way to protect battered women from more abuse. The findings hailed as a "first" by several leading criminologists also suggest Foster to collect $689,000 fee for malpractice case By Jody McPhillips Democrat and Chronicle The president of the Monroe County Legislature will get $689,000 as part of a $2.7 million out-of-court settlement he negotiated for a 4-year-old Racine, boy and his parents. Rochester lawyer Edwin A. Foster, who earns $45,000 annually as legislature president, will be receiving about $45,933 a year his contingency fee for the next 15 years, he confirmed yesterday.

When a lawyer takes on a medical malpractice case, he or she usually agrees to a certain percentage of the award as reimbursement, if the suit is successful. fr panel Weiaht T5.000 lbs TDRSS s'; Satellite X. i- iririi Hot new system downtown? Cheaper heat from water may lure' businesses By Neill Borowski Democrat and Chronicle Business Editor A New York City company wants to build a $21 million underground hot-water heating system in downtown Rochester. The system to be used by businesses and institutions for heating, cooling and manufacturing may replace the underground steam heating district Rochester Gas and Electric Corp. expects to abandon.

And if the underground hot-water system provides a cheap source of energy, it could be a lure to office developers and others to locate downtown, says a city official. Cogeneration Development pipeline would be similar to one it's installing in Trenton, N.J., to supply thermal energy to state office buildings, a state prison, hospital and other buildings, says Harold E. Ross, the company's vice president. The $32 million Trenton system is be Thai warplanes bomb holding land seized in United Press International ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand Thai warplanes yesterday bombed and strafed Vietnamese forces who seized a strip of Thai territory in their burgeoning offensive against Cambodian guerrillas. The air strikes a major escalation of the five-day-old conflict along the Thailand-Cambodia border came hours after the Vietnamese captured the headquarters of a Cambodian guerrilla group.

Yesterday's air strikes, which failed to dislodge the Vietnamese, marked the first time Thailand has deployed its modern U.S.-built F-5E's in combat It was also the first time Thai warplanes were used along the BRIDGE 9C 4A EDITORIALS BUSINESS 8D 6B HELP! COLUMNISTS 3C 6B MOVIES COMICS 9C 9C PUZZLES CLASSIFIED 4C 1D SPORTS DEATHS 4C 2C TELEVISION Four news sections 151st year Published by Gannett Co. Inc..