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FEB 2 1 199 VOL. 113, NO. 52 Copyright 1991 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1991 (3) 3-STAR 25 CLOSE i DOWN 2899.01 33.17 Tariq Aziz 2B I yN, Consumer Price Index lQ-4 Percent change from prior month, seasonally adjusted 1.0 0.6 04 0.2 vT 'J I JFf! 'ill ir iTrr'- i 1 sT WV1 YiJ FMAMJJASONDJ 1990 '91 las Vx I hit---. nao 4' I Source: U.S. Depl ot Labor AP Greenspan Foresees Recovery Consumer prices shot up in January while several indicators plunged, but Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan still expects the economy to rebound this year, and hints at lower interest rates.

IB Returning To Moscow Compiled From News Services BAGHDAD, Iraq President Saddam Hussein has decided to send his foreign minister back to Moscow to convey Iraqis response to a peace proposal that the Soviets hope will spare the region an all-out war. Baghdad Radio said Saddam chaired a meeting on Wednesday of the Revolutionary Command Council to study the proposals by Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz delivered the proposals to Baghdad from Moscow on Monday. The council decided to dispatch Aziz to Moscow "soon, to convey the leadership's response to the Soviet proposal," the radio said.

It did not indicate whether the leadership had agreed to the Soviet plan. In Moscow, the Soviet Foreign Ministry said Saddam's response need not be hand-delivered to the Kremlin. A spokesman, Vitaly Churkin, said, "The See DIPLOMACY, Page 18 Hundreds Of Iraqis Captured Compiled From News Services RIYADH, Saudi Arabia U.S. Army helicopters destroyed an Iraqi bunker complex near the Saudi border Wednesday and captured 400 to 500 stunned Iraqi soldiers, the U.S. military command said.

As darkness fell, Army CH-47 Chinook helicopters were completing the task of ferrying the prisoners of war to a holding camp in northern Saudi Arabia. Marine Brig. Gen. Richard I. Neal, chief spokesman for the command, said a final count was pending on the roundup of prisoners, roughly the better part of an Iraqi infantry battalion.

In another skirmish along the border, one American was killed and seven wounded by Iraqi artillery, the command said. Military sources said that clash occurred when a U.S. task force engaged Iraqi forces just south of the Kuwaiti-See WAR, Page 18 AP A boy carrying a tray of sausage Monday in an area of Baghdad that Iraq said had been hit by allied planes. The area was identified as a residential section west of the Al-Ahrar bridge. HIGHLIGHTS Mayor Holds Key To School Post Mayor Vincent C.

Schoemehl Jr. indirectly holds the key to the choice for the next school superintendent. 3A -A B-52s attack P51 U.S. planes destroy TiJ Scud missile site. 28 Iraqi tanks, 4 26 other vehicles, TURKEY three guns.

JTSYRIA ISRAEL- IRAQ Baghdad RAN i yr SAUDI ARABIA Z- KUWAIT cfa I U.S. Army helicopters rC xx destroy Iraqi bunker near One American killed, I 200 miles 1 Saudi border, capture more seven wounded J- i i 1 I than 400 Iraqi soldiers. by Iraqi artillery. President Saddam Hussein decides to send his foreign minister back to Moscow to convey Iraq's response to a peace proposal. Meanwhile, the United States and Britain draw up their own list of conditions, which includes a timetable for an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait and restoration of the former government of Kuwait.

Story begins on Page 1A i Army helicopters destroy an Iraqi bunker complex near the Saudi border and capture 400 to 500 Iraqi soldiers, the U.S. military command says. In another skirmish, one American is killed and seven wounded by Iraqi artillery.1 A WAR ANALYSIS i A withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait would be fraught with difficulties and could take weeks or months Soviet Legislators Censure Yeltsin The Soviet Parliament formally censures Russian leader Boris N. Yeltsin for urging Mikhail S. Gorbachev to resign.

10A Gathering Storm: Everyone in Saudi Arabia tensely awaits start of ground war. 16A even under a cease-fire. 1C dinosaur to dynamite 1C Additional stories on 16A, 17A, 18A andlC. i The Navy's opinion of the usefulness of battleships seems to vary from Hull Says 'Yes' To Team USA The Blues' Brett Hull, the National Hockey League's leading goal-scorer, says he will play for Team USA and not Team Canada in September's Canada Cup tournament. ID Energy Program By Bush Stresses New Production The Grammys Two For Rapper M.C.

Hammer: 'U Can't Touch This' And Video St. Louis Area Grows In People, Dips In Ranking By Fred W. Lindecke Missouri Political Correspondent The St. Louis metropolitan area grew in the last 10 years but still dropped to 17th in national population rankings, down from 14th. The latest compilation of 1990 figures from the Census Bureau show that the St.

Louis area grew by 2.8 percent in the past decade, to 2,444,099. But other metropolitan areas were growing faster, pushing ahead of St. Louis in the national standings. The metropolitan area consists of St. Louis and the Missouri counties of St.

Louis, St. Charles, Jefferson and Franklin, plus Madison, Monroe, St. Clair, Clinton and Jersey counties on the Illinois side. The Missouri side has about 1,856,000 people; Illinois, about 589,000, the Census Bureau said. The Kansas City metropolitan area remained the second-largest in the state and 25th nationally, growing 9.3 percent during the decade to 1,566,280 in 1990.

George D. Wendel, director of the Center for Urban See CENSUS, Page 13 A More Representative School Board (editorial) The Art Of Compromise (EDITORIAL) 2C NEW YORK (AP) Rap sensation M.C. Hammer captured two awards and veteran Quincy Jones took one as the 33rd annual Grammy Awards began Wednesday at Radio City Music Hall. In awards announced before the televised ceremony, Hammer won for best rhythm and blues song Can't Touch This." Hammer shared the songwriter's award with Rick James and Alonzo Miller. The song borrowed riffs from James' hit single, "Super Freak." Hammer also won for best music videolong form for "Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em the Movie." Jones, along with rappers Ice- Melle Mel, Big Daddy Kane, Kool Moe Dee and Quincy D.

Ill, won for best rap performance by a duo or group. The rap group Public Enemy, which planned to boycott the ceremony, vied for the same category. Public Enemy labeled as racist the decision to present some of the rap Grarhmys before the televised part of the show. Sinead O'Connor, up for four awards, said she would not attend the event. She said her decision was based on the Grammys' recognition of sales over art.

Another track from Jones' "Back on the Block" album See AWARDS, Page 4 By Bill Lambrecht Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Amid a foreign war partly about oil, President George Bush submitted on Wednesday a new domestic energy plan that puts more stock in producing new fuel than in conservation. The president's long-delayed National Energy Strategy calls for swifter licensing for nuclear power plants and more oil drilling offshore and in the sensitive Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska. The plan avoids any dramatic initiatives to save oil, such as fuel efficiency requirements for automobiles and higher gas taxes, observers noted. Nor does it seek to discourage gas-guzzling autos or promote renewable energy sources with tax credits. In announcing the new plan, the president said that it would lead to a future that is "secure, efficient and environmentally sound" by relying on market forces and avoiding new energy taxes.

"We want to build an energy future that is based on a See ENERGY, Page 15 Business 1-8B Calendar 1-16F Classified S-8C Commentary 3C Editorials 2C Everyday 1-8E Movie Timetable 14F NationWorld 10A News Analysis 1C Obituaries 4C People 4A Reviews 2E St. Louis 3A Sports 10 Television 5E Body In Box Reportedly Prostitute's 'What He Did To Her He Should Get' iff Fair, Mild -AWARPS i i If FORECAST: Today: Mostly sunny with a high of 63. Mostly ciear tonight. Low 38. Friday: Continued mostly sunny.

High 58. Other Weather, 2A William C. Lhotka and Kim Bell Of the Post-Dispatch Staff "I wake up crying and I go to bed crying and I'll never get over it." With those words, Arthur Liscombe, 73, broke into tears Wednesday morning at his home in Ferguson, where he and his wife, Rose, talked about the arrest of a suspect in the murder of their daughter. St. Louis County police officer JoAnn Liscombe was shot to death while she was on patrol Jan.

11. On Tuesday, Dennis A. Blackman 21, of North County, was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in her death. "We are relieved and still angry," Rose Liscombe said. "We are relieved they got him without any more shooting.

That was my main worry What he did to her, he should get, too." Said Arthur Liscombe: "I just don't understand how that man could kill her in cold blood. He is a cold-blooded murderer." Blackman, the son of a St. Louis By Bill Bryan Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A badly decomposed body that was found Sunday in a box was tentatively identified Wednesday as being that of a 21-year-old prostitute from south St. Louis, police sources said. Similarities to other unsolved killings and suspicious deaths of women over the past several months made investigators immediately increase their efforts in the case.

A string of 10 other unsolved killings and suspicious deaths of women over the past year have led law enforcement authorities to question whether the deaths could be the work of one or more serial killers. Florissant Police Chief Robert G. Lowery, commander of the St. Louis Area Major Case Squad, announced Wednesday that 10 more detectives would join the 12 officers already investigating the case of the body In the box discarded along Interstate 70 in St. Charles County.

Lowery said the squad's duration See BODY, Page 12 Mi POST-DISPATCH WEATHERBIRO REO PAT. OFF Robert LaRouchePost-Dispatch Rose and Arthur Liscombe, parents of St. Louis County Police Officer JoAnn Liscombe, who was murdered Jan. 11. A suspect has been charged with the killing.

police captain, is expected to plead dence linking him to the shooting. mementos of their daughter, who was innocent at an arraignment this week. The living room of the Liscombe 33 and a i6-year veteran of the North Police say they have physical evi- home on Wylin Court is filled with See LISCOMBES, Page 12 9.