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EVERYDAY ID si PD5HBHT ft TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1994 5-STAR VOL. 116, NO. 347 (3) Copyright 1994 ruis Gu no UWGTI LnJ Politicians, Accuser Say Outcome May Deepen Cynicism Of Public the court's decision, which affirmed three articles of impeachment approved by the state House. Her trial ended Friday morning and the court decision came down at 4:30 p.m. Monday.

"They went with the House articles in one working day and they did it readily," she said. After six months of turmoil, this appears to be the end of the road for Moriarty, Missouri's first woman to be secretary of state. Her ouster is immediate and there is no appeal. She is the first statewide official to be removed through impeachment in Missouri's 173-year history. Gov.

Mel Carnahan said the ruling "removes a cloud that has been hang-See MORIARTY, Page 9 By Virginia Young and Kim Bell Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau JEFFERSON CITY In a unanimous opinion Monday, the Missouri Supreme Court convicted Secretary of State Judith K. Moriarty of misconduct and removed her from office. The court found that Moriarty had backdated paperwork for her son, Timothy Moriarty, when he filed for a state House seat last spring. "I'm just numb," Moriarty said in an interview in her home in Sedalia Monday evening. Wearing a green sweatsuit, she dabbed her puffy eyes with Kleenex.

"I thought I could get a fair shake from the court but it just didn't happen," she said. Moriarty criticized the swiftness of A. was not perceived by the public as someone who deliberately violated the law, but rather as someone who did not know any better. Attorney General Jay Nixon, who first investigated the secretary of state's office last spring, said the Moriarty case aggravated an already troubled situation. "It's a challenging time for public officials all the way from school boards to the president of the United States," Nixon said.

"Anything that feeds into the See REACTION, Page 9 By Terry Ganey Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau Chief JEFFERSON CITY The Supreme Court's conviction of Secretary of State Judith K. Moriarty resulting in Missouri's first removal of a statewide official probably will deepen public cynicism about government. That was the reaction Monday evening from some politicians, Moriarty's chief accuser and a former political opponent, to the court's decision upholding House impeachment of the secretary of state. At the same time, some said Moriarty most likely Judith KrMortaTtT-' Maintains "herhnocence- I--1 National Study Finds Teen Drug Use Up 13 Of 8th-Graders Have Used Marijuana Parkway School District will preview a new anti-drug program on Friday 1 0A from 1993. Although this year's overall abuse rates remain below those of the 1970s, there is clear evidence of a gradual upward swing, said Lloyd D.

Johnston, the study's lead researcher. He said this was a reflection of various factors, including peer pressure and a relaxation of efforts by major anti-drug organizations, like the National Partnership for a Drug-Free; America, and constant reminders in music and films that using drugs is acceptable. Carole Robinson, a senior vice president at MTV, said that while she could not speak for the industry, the music video network had "very strict standards," and that its guidelines See DRUGS, Page 10 Compiled From News Services WASHINGTON Drug use is up among American teen-agers this year, but not quite back up to the levels of the late 1970s, according to a study by the University of Michigan that was made public Monday. Authors of the study placed the blame partly on films and popular music, notably rock and rap, that glamorize drugs. One in four eighth-graders more than one in three, if you count inhaling glue fumes and like substances said they had used an illicit drug at least once during their lifetimes, the survey found.

That's a 10 percent jump over last year. Marijuana use among eighth-graders has moi han doubled since 1991. Thirteen percent of eighth-graders surveyed said they had used marijuana at least once in the preceding 12 months. That was up sharply 'hi f. Fumes Force Pupils To Flee Koch Elementary Launches Inquiry By Phyllis Brasch Librach Of the Post-Dispatch Stafl The first sign that poisonous fumes were filling Koch Elementary School came late Monday morning when a steady trail of pupils went to the nurse.

They felt nauseated. Some vomited. Dozens complained that their stomachs and heads ached. The culprit: carbon monoxide. Firefighters believe it leaked from a basement gas furnace and floated through classrooms, cafeteria, gym and halls.

Firefighters who took preliminary tests found carbon monoxide levels in the furnace room 10 times the danger level. Administrators in the Riverview Gardens District canceled classes Monday for 475 pupils at Koch. Dave Knight, a spokesman for the district, said Monday night that classes would be held today. "The fumes were caused by a combustion problem in the boiler room," Knight said. "Repairs have been made and personnel from Laclede Gas Co.

have checked the building and determined that the air is safe." "I felt dizzy," said 6-year-old La-Nita Williams, whose headache began during a first-grade spelling lesson. When she reached the cafeteria, she felt too sick to eat her pork chop on a bun. School administrators called emergency crews just after 11 a.m. For See GAS, Page 8 Martial Arts ROTC At School: Some Salute It, And Some Don'fe Anti-Crime Panel Tries United Way By Joe Holleman Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A new committee aimed at reducing violence plans to use faith, hope and charity in its efforts. The Violence Prevention Initiative, called together Monday by the United Way of Greater St.

Louis, expects to make public a plan this summer that will outline ways to prevent and reduce violent crime in the St. Louis area. The group is headed by Archbishop Justin F. Rigali and St. Louis Police Chief Clarence Harmon.

The United Way will perform staff work for the 29-member committee. Rigali said at a news conference Monday that representation from the "faith community" could emphasize the need for spiritual and human values. See GROUP, Page 8 By Carolyn Bower Of the Post-Dispatch Staff rt 0 Each Thursday at McCluer Higl School in Florissant, 168 young men and women don green uniforms, review military discipline and do some weapons drills. The students are members'of McCluer's Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program. They atten3 POTT rlaccoc airprv Hqu Renyold FergusonPost-Dispatch Teachers, firefighters and paramedics urge Otis Martin, a third-grader, to climb into an ambulance Monday after poisonous fumes filled Koch Elementary School.

The boy eventually boarded a bus with a teacher and headed for home. Leak at school shows importance of furnace checks 8A In the last two years, area high schotpff a have joined hundreds across the county WEATHER INDEX Police Scan Ad Clients For Clue To Fatal Bomb A Bit Warmer Up Ik; A I j0 A On Monday, a United Parcel Service worker who tried to deliver a package to Mosser's mansion was intercepted by police. The package turned out to be harmless. Business 5-11C Classified 5-10B Commentary 13B Editorials 12B Everyday 1-8D Movie Timetable 7D NationWorld 3A News Analysis 11B Obituaries 4B People 2A St. Louis IB Sports 1-4C Television 6D EDITORIAL PAGE FORECAST Today Partly cloudy with a southerly wind at 5-15 mph.High42.

Cloudy tonight. Low 29. Wednesday Cloudy. High 43. Other Weather, 14B in starting KU 1 programs.

Most in the St. Louis area have begun with little fanfare. A proposal to start a JROTC program at University City High School has generated some of the most debate of any school issue in memory there. School, officials have gotten dozens of calls and letters. More than 200 people packed School Board meeting last week.

Some waited up to three hours for the opportunity to speak. Supporters say the program teaches leadership and practical skills, such as how to read a map. They say it opens career opportunities. They say it vides good role models. They say it offers alternatives to gangs and drugs and dropping out.

Superintendent Lynn Beckwith Jr. proposed the idea as a way to help students learn discipline, character and responsibility. Opponents say JROTC is not an answer to violence in schools. Some men-. tion a pattern of discrimination by the military against gays and lesbians.

Some See CORPS, Page 8 Mosser Compiled From News Services NORTH CALDWELL, NJ. Thomas J. Mosser had reached a high point in his career, newly promoted to a top job at Young Rubicam the giant ad agency. Already he had been involved in a number of attention-getting campaigns: handling the media during the Tylenol poisoning scare, helping promote the disastrous new Coke formula and the reintroduc-tion of classic Coke, and organizing the 1984 crosscountry Olympic torch run. But outside Madison Avenue, he was probably unknown to anyone but a very close reader of the business pages.

And somewhere in his list of clients may lie a clue to why the 50-year-old New Jersey man was sent a mail bomb that killed him in the kitchen of his mansion Saturday in North Caldwell, a New York suburb, as he was going through the mail before goipj out to buy a Christmas tree. V- POST-DISPATCH RIO i PAT Of F. A longtime friend, Robert Dilenschneider, said Mosser "was really an all-American kind of person, and the last person you would think this would happen to." The FBI believes Mosser is the latest victim of the man the bureau calls the Unabomber, who since 1978 has killed two people and injured 23. On Monday, investigators could not say why Mosser had been targeted by the Unabomber, whose previous targets had connections to universities, airlines or computers. See BOMBER, Page 13 Stalemate In Bosnia Many Elderly Among 100 Neediest 12B.