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Planning The Perfect Picnic Katharine Hepburn Turns 90 3g I 1 GET OUT -THE ENTERTAINMENT MAGAZINE Witt "7Zj J7 I' ihrh TOBV. ks -w' PDST-DB SI LOOIS PATCH r- VOL. 119, NO. 135 THURSDAY, MAY 15. 1997 5-STAR Copyright 1997 (6) 5a Ani KlT 1 Officials Withhold Details Of Expansion Agreement Compiled From News Services NATO and Russia struck a deal Wednesday on the expansion of NATO into Central Europe.

But just what they agreed to is being kept secret for now. Eight weeks from now, the 16 member nations of NATO are expected to offer membership to Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Russia is bitter about seeing NATO edge so close to its borders. But with Russia's economy and armed forces in disarray, Russia's leaders have no way to stop NATO. Even so, Russia has fought a rear-guard action against expansion.

First the Russians said they wouldn't tolerate tit it, period. Then they began retreating, comma by comma. By the time Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov sat down in Moscow this week with NATO Secretary General Javier Solana, the Russians were digging in on: Nuclear weapons. The Russians want them barred from the territory of any new members. NATO says it has no plans to move nuclear weapons eastward but insists on its right to do so.

Foreign soldiers. The Russians say that bestowing 'NATO status on, say, the Poles, would be one thing but that stationing an American armored division in Poland would be an entirely different matter. As with nuclear weapons, NATO says it has no plan to shift Western soldiers eastward but insists on keeping its right to do so in case of emergency. See NATO, Page 6 Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov (left) and NATO Secretary General Javier Solana meet the press Wednesday in Moscow. AP The Suspect Coat-To-Coat Killer Eludes FBI Lobbying Ethics1, Payments Focus In Griffin Trial Ex-Senate Leader, Lobbyist Testify About Proper Legislative Conduct 1 1 JpJ Ik .1 I Nationwide Case 1 4 A San Diego man suspected of killing Chicago millionaire Lee Miglin is now linked to at least four murders.

4- San Diego May 9: May 4: April 24 or 25: April 27: May 3: Andrew Cunanan Born: Aug. 31, 1969 Height: 5-foot-9 -Weight: 160 lbs. Hair: dark brown Trail killed in apartment Lee Miglin's mutilated body found at his home Madson's body found at lake near Minneapolis Fearful Friends Go Into Hiding In Aftermath Of Three Deaths CHICAGO (AP) Last month, Andrew Cunanan said he was leaving San Diego to take care of some business in Minneapolis. Now, a former lover and three other men are dead in his wake, friends are in hiding and Cunanan seems to be a step ahead of a nationwide hunt. As police try to piece together evidence in three states, photos and a description of a darkly handsome Cunanan (pronounced koo-NAH-nin) are plastered on the FBI's World Wide Web page and in gay nightspots in New York City.

The pictures suggest a clean-cut, happy 27-year-old man. But authorities say Cunanan is a desperate fugitive who killed a cemetery caretaker in New Jersey on Friday to steal his red pickup. And they say they fear that he may be trying to disappear in New York or another big city. "One of my big concerns is that some guy out on a highway or a city street pulls him over for a traffic Body of a 45-year-old man is found Andrew Cunanan arrives from San Diego to visit David Madson and Jeffrey Trail By Terry Ganey Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau Chief KANSAS CITY The question of where to draw the line on payments by -lobbyists to lawmakers dominates the racketeering trial of former House Speaker Bob Griffin. During Wednesday's testimony in federal court, a lobbyist and.

a lawmaker said they believed it would be improper for a lobbyist to pay money to a legislator or for a legislator to accept such payments. They waffled somewhat when asked if it would be OK if the payments were made for work the legislator had performed. Griffin, a Democrat, is accused of receiving $61,000 from Cathryn Simmons, a political consultant from Kansas City. The government contends Simmons paid the money from contracts she received with the help of Griffin and Michael Fisher, a labor union officer in the Kansas City area. Simmons, Fisher and Steven Hurst, a lobbyist, are also defendants in the government's wen.

Jim Mathewson testified that he did not usually suggest that specific lobbyists be hired. case against Griffin. Lawyers for Griffin and some of the other defendants noted that members of the Legislature were part-time lawmakers who also had jobs. They have said that Griffin, who is a lawyer, did separate legal work for Simmons and that the payments she made to him were fees for that work. Two days of testimony from 17 witnesses have shown that Griffin and Fisher recommended to highway contractors that they hire Simmons to push their interests in the Legislature.

The first time was in January 1992 to gain legislative approval for a 6-cent increase in the See GRIFFIN, Page 4 son had ended the relationship because he considered Cunanan "shady." Investigators say Cunanan told friends in San Diego several weeks ago that he was going to Minnesota to "take care of some business" with Trail and contact Madson. Minnesota authorities have charged Cunanan with murder in Madson's killing. Prosecutor Jim Reuter says authorities believe Madson was killed because he witnessed Trail's murder. See FUGITIVE, Page 13 SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Knight-Ridder Tribune gas company who knew Madson and was a friend of Cunanan before Trail moved last year to the Midwest from California. Four days after Trail's body was discovered, Madson's body was found on the edge of a lake in Chisago County, north of Minneapolis.

He had been shot three times. Police, relatives and friends of Madson say that Madson and Cunanan were once lovers, but that Mad- violation and we end up with some officer killed or badly wounded because this guy's so dangerous," said Lt. Dale Barsness of the Minneapolis Police Department. The cross-country drama began April 29, when Minneapolis police discovered a bludgeoned body rolled in a carpet in the apartment of David Madson, an architect. The dead man was Jeffrey Trail, a district manager for a Minneapolis Firm Pulls Out Of Plan To Build Private Prison INDEX ast St.

Louis will not be rebuilt in a day. MAYOR GORDON BUSH closed session on the contract to break jthe news to the council, and then he read a letter from James H. Ball the corporation's director of business development. Ball wrote that the corporation, based in Nashville, was devoting most of its efforts to pushing an initiative in the Tennessee Legislature that would turn over much of Jhe state's prison system to private management. Ball wrote: "With this in mind, the corporation must regretfully withdraw from participation in the East St.

Louis project. Best of luck in your efforts to return economical well-See PRISON, Page 13 By Margaret Gillerman Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The Corrections Corporation of America has withdrawn its proposal to open a $50 million, private prison in East St. Louis. The decision, made public Wednesday, came as a blow to many city officials, including Mayor Gordon Bush, who had been pushing for the project. Many officials and residents of the city had been counting on the prison for a much-needed economic boost.

The project was to have been the largest in the city since the Casino Queen opened in 1993. Corrections Corporation of Business 1-8C Classified 1-6F Commentary 7B Everyday 1-8G Movie Times 28 Get Out NationWorld 7A Obituaries 5B People 2A St. Louis 1B Sports 1-8D Television 6G Weather 8B EDITORIAL PAGE America had promised to create hundreds of jobs in a city that suffers from unemployment. At a City Council meeting Wednesday night, Bush said that despite the company's decision, citizens should "not feel downhearted. We should persevere.

Rome was not built in a day, and East St. Louis will not be rebuilt in a day. We will continue to pursue new economic development opportunities, especially jobs for our people." The City Council had intended Wednesday night to approve a $29,000 contract with a regional planning agency to help the city get ready for the prison. Instead, Bush called a sr 'WW' Mr. Costello, What About Cueto? The Grand Jury Is Out On Sat.

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Friday Sunny, warming. High 72. Other Weather, 8B By Virginia Young and Kim Bell Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau JEFFERSON CITY A bill banning late-term abortions was sent to Gov. Mel Carnahan early today on a vote of 127-26, with one House member voting "present." The House debated the bill, which bars so-called "partial-birth abortions," until a few minutes after midnight. Under the bill (SB275), doctors who perform a partial-birth abortion could be charged with a felony.

The only exception to the prohibition would be to save the mother's life. Anti-abortion legislators muscled the bill to the floor of the House for debate earlier Wednesday. They successfully fought off attempts to water down the bill. Meanwhile, the House signed off Wednesday on a giant economic development bill that contains something for every corner of the state. Among the winners: The St.

Louis Cardinals, who want the state to study using public money to maintain or replace Busch Stadium. International Speedway which wants millions of dollars in highway interchanges to accommodate a speedway near Kansas City. See HOUSE, Page 14 More legislative stories inside 14A.2B POST-DISPATCH WEATHERBIRD HfO Ul PAT OFF. Kevin ManningPost-Dispatch The Ultimate Road Trip John Burke of Florissant talks to his wife, Helen, and son, Jake, in the family's hot rod, a 1935 Ford, at The Muny in Forest Park. On Wednesday, more than 500 hot rod owners on a trip to Detroit from Los Angeles stopped outside The Muny for a dinner and music break.

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