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With a solemn Moriarty looking on, legislators pressed their voting buttons and watched the roll-call boards light up with green "yes" votes. The key vote to impeach the first to pass was 103-42. Two other impeachment articles passed by similar margins. The House defeated three other proposed articles of impeachment. Afterward, Moriarty said she had no plans to step down and would challenge Gov.

Mel Carnahan's authority to suspend her. "I'm going to take the last step in the road" a trial in the Missouri Supreme Court, she said. Moriarty blamed the House vote on "political pressure" from Carnahan and House Speaker Bob F. Griffin, fellow Democrats. "This whole process is political," she said.

Carnahan said he believed the office was "legally vacated," but since Moriarty is not leaving, Attorney General Jay Nixon will ask the Missouri Supreme Court today to suspend her. "We are going to try not to be confrontational," Carnahan said. "I take no pleasure in what happened. What the See MORIARTY, Page 15 Moriarty didn't speak but saw House verdict 1 5A How legislators voted on impeachment 9D Little Of It Faithfulness The Rule; Obsession The Exception By Bill Smith Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Extramarital affairs are rarer than generally believed, with three of every four American men and six of every seven American women remaining faithful to their spouses throughout marriage, a new study finds. And despite what seems to be a national obsession with sex, there is strong evidence that we are not a country of sexual supermen and superwomen.

More than three of every five men and women between 18 and 59 say they have sex a few times per month or less. Fewer than one in 13 have sex four or more times a week. The findings are among the results from a seven-month survey of sexual attitudes and behavior released Thursday by the University of Chicago. Authors of the survey, the National Health and Social Life Survey, call it the most detailed and most scientifically valid survey ever on sex in America. Edward 0.

Laumann, a professor of sociology at the university and one of the authors of the study, says the results seem "to be very much in contrast to the myths of a lot of heavy sex going on everywhere. There are a lot of people out there who See SEX, Page 6 Secretary of State Judith K. Moriarty (center) waits Thursday evening for Officer Jason Bflyeu of the Capitol Police (foreground) to serve her with articles of impeachment. Earlier in the day, House members voted three articles of impeachment against her alleging misconduct in office. Vs.

fi I CT 7 Margaret "Peggy" Koelling 1990-91 teacher of the year Couple Fatally Stabbed Bridgeton Police Charge Ex-Husband Of Victim By Joe Holleman Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Ronald E. Kovach had stayed away from his ex-wife and children, held at bay by a court order after a bitter divorce. When he finally returned to his old home in Bridgeton early Thursday, he carried a knife, police say. Police found him standing on the front lawn covered with blood. "Shoot me! Shoot me! Go ahead and shoot me," he shouted, holding the knife as officers approached.

His daughter was also screaming. "You killed my mother! You killed my parents!" Kovach, 49, of Warrenton, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of Margaret A. "Peggy" Koelling, 47, and her husband, Richard W. Koelling, 46. Both were teachers at the same school.

Peggy Koelling was a teacher of the year. Two of Kovach's children were in the house but weren't attacked. Authorities say that Kovach lis Senator Is Called Racist Illinois Republican Criticized Minorities By Mike Robinson Of The Associated Press CHICAGO Democratic lawmakers and a powerful union called for resignation of the Illinois Senate president on Thursday as a storm erupted over his remark that some minority state employees have a poor work ethic. "I think it is outrageous, it is racist, it is deplorable, it is not accurate, it is very offensive," Democrat Dawn Clark Netsch, the state comptroller, declared as she campaigned for governor. She said Gov.

Jim Edgar should show "similar outrage" over the comments of Senate President James "Pate" Philip, R-Wood Dale. Edgar, a Republican, said he was in "total disagreement" with Philip's remarks. "His remarks implied that maybe minority workers maybe did not do as good a job or work as hard as non-minorities," Edgar said. "There's absolutely no truth to that. "Philip's comments are unfortu-See REMARKS, Page 14 Disclosure Bill Dies In Senate After Filibuster By Tim Poor Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The Senate killed a bill Thursday that would have widened the public-disclosure requirements for lobbyists and barred them from buying politicians expensive meals, vacations and other gifts.

The 52-46 vote added to a string of recent Republican successes in blocking legislation by conducting filibusters to prevent votes on bills that would otherwise have gained passage. The 52 votes were well short of the 60 that were needed for cutting off debate and bringing the lobbying measure to a vote. Republicans said they did not like See CONGRESS, Page 11 Richard W. Koelling Taught German parked his car on a police station parking lot, then killed the couple about 2:45 a.m. in their home in the See STABBINGS, Page 1 1 Scott DinePost-Dispatch Sharday Watson, 7, "listens" through a balloon to music played by Mary Webber of the St.

Louis Symphony. Sharday is a student at St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf. Symphony's Good Vibrations Hit Strong Chord With Deaf Children WEATHER INDEX Storms Possible LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE Business 1-1 PC Classified 1-26H Commentary 15D Everyday 1-12G Movie Timetable 11G NationWorld 3A News Analysis 13D Obituaries 12D Reviews 3G St. Louis ID Sports 1-8E Television 10G EDITORIAL PAGE FORECAST Today, Chance of storms.

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Other Weather, 16D education, she said. "We have pupils who play the piano, who figure skate to music and dance." But in the past few years, cochlear implants and improved hearing aids have greatly increased deaf children's capacity to listen to music. St. Louis saw its first cochlear implant operation only five years ago. The device, containing 22 tiny electrodes, is implanted in the inner ear and transmits fragments of sounds to nerve cells in the brain.

Thirty-five St. Joseph pupils have implants. Nearly all the rest have worn hearing aids since they were babies. Hearing aids make sounds louder, Buckler said, but not necessarily clearer. Teachers at St.

Joseph help children interpret what they're hearing with their devices. They also teach lip-reading skills and speech. The concert's high point came when the performers went into the audience, playing "Row, Row, Row" in rounds. Without getting louder, the melody lines seemed to multiply, coming from every direction, with improvisational rifs first from a from a french horn, then from a trombone or tuba. The magical, crowning touch came when Susan Slaughter, first trumpet, leaned her horn's bell over a child's balloon.

The child's face lit up. Soon, all five players were offering melodies bell-to-balloon. "It was quite an experience.jSlaughter said. By Virginia Baldwin Hick Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Cami Garland, 8, wants to be a dancer when she grows up. She listened with her feet.

Meena Sripal, 12, who plays the piano, listened with her radio-equipped hearing aid. And Robbie Cassell, 12, listened with his cochlear implant, his baton, his fingers and, well, his whole body. Cami, Meena and Robbie were among more than 100 students at St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf in University City who were treated Thursday to the kickoff for the Children's Concert series. It's sponsored by the St.

Louis Symphony Orchestra and Ronald McDonald Children's Charities. The stagelights glinted off the horns of the Symphony's brass quintet. The children clutched pink, blue and yellow balloons, the better to feel the vibrations Holding their balloons between their knees, they clapped in time. They played conductor, directing the musicians with the long straws attached to the balloons. And the horns played sweet and true familiar patriotic songs, a Sousa march, even improvisations on "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." "Our children enjoy music very much," said Sister Joyce Buckler, principal at St.

Joseph, 1483 82nd Boulevard. Music has always been a part deaf Is POST-DISPATCH WEATHERBIRD Leave The Missouri River Alone Another Small Step With Japan 14D 091gT21100 i.