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The Pittsburgh Press Section Wednesday, March 21. 1990 Retarded adult housing dispute in Moon settled By Janet Williams The Pittsburgh Press Mentally retarded adults are free to establish group homes anywhere in Moon as the result of a settlement between municipal officials and attorneys representing residents of a home on Winridge Drive. The settlement, filed yesterday in U.S. District Court, bars Moon from passing any zoning regulations restricting the number and location of community-based homes for mentally retarded adults. Chief Judge Maurice B.

Cohill Jr. has approved the' settlement. "We hope this case sends a message to many municipalities that persist in enforcing zoning restrictions (like Moon's)," said Jon Pu-shinsky, one of two attorneys who in May filed the challenge to the town-. ship's zoning regulations. The suit was filed on behalf of Tad Zimmer, 19; Victoria Bradich, 21, and Shawn Boyd, 15, who share a house on Winridge under the supervision of Verland CLA a nonprofit organization for the retarded.

CLA is an acronym for community living arrangement. Moon officials went to state court to get the group home removed from the Winridge neighborhood under its 1985 ordinance prohibiting establishment of such a home within a mile of a similar one. Last fall, the state Supreme Court upheld Moon's ordinance. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Justice Department entered the case on behalf of the three plaintiffs, marking the first time the federal government had ever intervened in a Please see Home, B6 Dan Quayle plans to visit Pittsburgh area today By Ken Guggenheim The Pittsburgh Press When Compunetics Inc.

personnel director Ann Kennedy told co-workers that the vice president would visit the Monroeville firm, they asked, "The vice president of what?" That's vice president of the United States. Dan Quayle planned to tour the firm during his visit to Pittsburgh today. "We were shocked and delighted," Ms. Kennedy said of Quayle's visit. Quayle was to fly into Pittsburgh at 3:50 this afternoon after speaking at a $500-a-plate luncheon in Paoli, Chester County.

He was scheduled to tour Compunetics in the Monroeville Industrial Park and meet with about 25 to 30 leaders of high-technology firms and other businesses. After leaving Compunetics, he was to attend a $150-a-ticket reception at the Westin William Penn hotel, Downtown, followed by a round-table discussion with Republican supporters at the hotel. Before leaving, he also planned to meet briefly with about 50 graduates from the Urban League's Train Now for Tomorrow program. Quayle, who chairs the administration's council on U.S. competitiveness, is interested in growing high-technology companies like Compunetics, said assistant presq secretary, Craig Whitney.

Ms. Kennedy said the company designs and manufactures telephone switching systems, so- Ehisticated instrumentation systems and circuit oards. "This company is sort of a success story in the field of manufacturing high-technology products," Whitney said. Quayle's office contacted the Pittsburgh High Technology Council a couple of weeks ago, inquiring about area high-technology firms, said Timothy Parks, the council's executive director. Quayle's office wanted the vice president to visit a small company that was contributing to the nation's industrial competitiveness.

The council provided Quayle's office with a list of about 25 companies, and the office selected Compunetics for Quayle's visit, Parks said. Compunetics, which employs about 150 people, also is close enough to Downtown that a visit could fit into Quayle's schedule. Ms. Kennedy said she believes Compunetics was selected because it is a successful high-tech company that combines white-collar engineering with blue-collar manufacturing. Parks said the council is "certainly delighted" that Quayle is interested in Pittsburgh's high-tech businesses.

"They see a new Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh technological companies, small entrepreneurial companies, contributing to this country's competitiveness," Parks said. Quayle's appearances were expected to raise more than $50,000 (35,000 after expenses for the state Republican committee, said Thomas Druce, executive director of the state GOP. Coroner sets inquest in lulling by officer: By Robert Baird and Mary Kane The Pittsburgh Press Coroner Joshua Perper has scheduled an inquest April 5 into the death of John W. King, who was shot by a Kilbuck policeman after a stolen car chase in Bellevue Monday night. "It is not a question of determining the manner of death, it is a question of determining whether (the shooting) was justifiable," said James Gregris, chief deputy coroner.

King was pronounced dead Monday night at the scene on Woodlawn Avenue in Bellevue. An autopsy revealed yesterday that King died of a bullet wound in the back. The manner of death was ruled a homicide. Kilbuck Policeman William Barrett and Bellevue Policeman Dennis Loop, two members of the North Boroughs Traffic Task Force, had tried to stop a stolen car driven by King on Route 65, police said. After the stolen car struck a Earked pickup truck, the officers locked the car from the rear.

Loop approached the driver's side and twice ordered King to shut off the engine, but King revved it instead, said Lt. John Brennan, head of the county homicide squad. Melissa FarlowTha Pittsburgh Press John W. King Shot in police confrontation Loop reached into the car and tried to shut off the engine, but King gunned the engine, throwing the officer against the truck and onto the roadway, Brennan said. Barrett said he shot through the back window because he thought King was trying to run over Loop, investigators said.

The car narrowly missed Loop, sped down Woodlawn Avenue for two blocks and struck a tree, Brennan said. From the circumstances outlined by county investigators, "We feel it's Please see Shooting, B6 Few takers Cala Edelstein was in Market Square to give away daffodils, but had few takers as the American Cancer Society launched its Daffodil Days fund-raising campaign. She didn't know if the disinterest was because of the cold wind or the flowers looking like asparagus tips. Father's long search for daughter left here ends with bad news They would have had to have his permission, and I think it would have been easy to trace him if he was in the Army." Ms. Bartoo found a marriage license that showed Alberta Elaine Schambier, 17, had married Arthur H.

DePew, 29, a native of Norwich, N.Y., in February 1957. "It was so easy. It only took a few minutes" to find the license at the City-County Building, she said. Please see Search, B6 By Robert Baird The Pittsburgh Press After years of searching for his daughter, Joseph F. Schambier said it was like "a good, swift kick in the pants" when he learned she died in a car explosion on the North Side in 1957.

"Good, bad or indifferent, I found out finally," Schambier, 73, said yesterday by phone from his home in White River Junction, Vt. "At least in the case came after Nancy Bartoo, who does genealogical research, read about the search last month in The Pittsburgh Press. "I just read the brief article and I thought I could help because I'm familiar with some of these records," said Ms. Bartoo of Bethel Park. Schambier's wife, Garnet, died within hours of Alberta Elaine's birth June 16, 1939.

Schambier said he left the child with a North Side now I can die happy." For Assistant Chief Therese Roc-co, who had helped Schambier in his search, it was a case of a "wonderful man" getting bad news. "I've had numerous contacts with him over the years," said Rocco, the former head of the police missing persons squad. "A lot of people in Pittsburgh have been doing leg work on the case." Rocco distinctly remembers the explosion in which Alberta Elaine Schambier died in a murder-suicide plot by her husband of five months. Rocco said she was a rookie police officer at the time. "I remember that (explosion) like it was yesterday," Rocco said.

"An innocent little girl who was walking past the car with an ice cream cone in her hand was also killed." And seven other people were injured. Schambier's search for his daughter was featured on the NBC show "Unsolved Mysteries," but the break -woman while he went to New England to look for work. He joined the Army Air Corps in New Hampshire and was wounded while serving in the Pacific. On his way to a hospital in Massachusetts in 1944, Schambier tried to contact his daughter while on a stopover at the Allegheny County Airport, but was told she had been adopted. Ms.

Bartoo said Schambier "was assuming that his daughter was adopted, but I didn't think she was. Former KGB agent spies trouble for the Soviet Union Brian O'Neill burgh to teach us and make a little money, too. He's a capitalist now, and yesterday he followed former President Gerald Ford and former wannabe president Alexander Haig into The Rivers Club for its continuing lecture series. He was a little more pessimistic Monday night at Le Mont than he would be with the posh audience at The Rivers Club, however. "I see no hope for Russia," he told me and my dinner, companions.

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is unpopular. Moscow is experiencing problems with crack, the one-syllable nightmare of American urban life. About one in four Moscow high school students is being arrested, Sakharov said, and not for political activity. The Russian Mafia controls the fledgling private economy, and is so adept at stealing VCRs brought in by Russians returning from overseas, an "anti-Mafia" has sprung up to sell protection. This news, friends, comes from a man who has been a believer in who calls Gorbachev "a genius" who will survive the next four years.

So what would he do if he were the propiska, the legal residence permit that plicated, funding is being cut. "They don't know what they're dealing with." Sakharov knows. He was educated at Moscow's prestigious Institute for International Relations. He was groomed for a career at the top of the Soviet intelligence apparatus. But in 1971, disgusted with all the pimping and smuggling in the Soviet foreign service, he defected.

Not that he loves the CIA. "The CIA is like dry fish, sanitized individuals." Sakharov admitted the KGB had "some pretty bad dudes," but it had highly educated good guys, too. Spoken like a man who earned his doctorate in international relations at the University of Southern California, which Sakharov did. He was only in his mid-20s when he defected, so he has been telling Americans about Soviets for most of his adult life. In the early '80s, he was the one who said Soviet leader Yuri Andropov liked Scotch, American jazz and Jacqueline Susann novels.

Of course, Andropov was Soviet dictator for only about an hour and a half. So it seems now, anyway. Couldn't Sakharov be more optimistic? CONTRARY TO WHAT state Rep. Tom Murphy says, not all the best real estate deals are on the North Side. I was in Le Mont on Monday night, eating veal and lobster across the table from a former Russian KGB agent, and he talked about his dream of a Marriott Hotel in Siberia.

Vladimir Sakharov defected to the United States almost 20 years agoafter serving briefly as a CIA double agent in Kuwait. He has known deceit, the double-cross and corruption. So, naturally, he dabbles in real estate. The way Sakharov was talking, Americans have had Siberia all wrong. "Banished to Siberia" doesn't have to be a sentence; it could be a sensation.

Southern Siberia has unspoiled wilderness as breathtaking as any in Alaska, Sakharov said, and a luxury hotel would be an almost can't-miss investment. Not much else in his native land would be, though. "It's going to be progressively more difficult to deal in the Soviet Union," Sakharov said. "The situation is not what the newspapers are writing about." The idea of jacuzzis in Siberia is only an idea, but it shows how little Americans know of the Soviet Union. Sakharov came to Pitts prevents people from moving freely in the Soviet Union.

Legalize the black market, as French President Charles De-Gaulle did after World War II. That would free the stockpiles of everything from panty hose to Tampax that is hidden away in the Soviet Union, he said. End the system of coupons that workers buy for redemption at state stores, and turn the stores over to private enterprise. Let the Japanese in to develop Soviet resources, now about 40 years behind the West. Could you call yourself a communist and do all that? No matter.

Gorbachev is a pragmatist. Though he isn't strong enough to fight all the "little czars" out to protect their local powers, Sakharov said. Will Gorbachev let Lithuania go? Soviet troops were making intimidating noises as we spoke. "The Russian people will tell you he will not let Lithuania go. I think he will have to.

He doesn't want to rock the boat with the western Europeans. He has too much at stake in trade and will have to compromise." It will cost Lithuania, though. Sakharov can see the neighboring Scandinavian countries, West Germany and others fronting the republic the billions it would need to buy itself out from under the Soviet Union. "You know what bugs the hell out of me?" he asked. American universities seem to be losing interest in funding Soviet studies, he said.

When the Cold War raged, these programs were popular. Now that the situation has become infinitely more com Vladimir Sakharov Dreams of hotel in Siberia "That would be so boring if there were a happy ending." (Brian O'Neill's column appears in The Pittsburgh Press every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday.) I at.

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