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I30CT241995 fi It) REGION Troy Man Wins $5 million 2A REGION Halloween Thrills Collectors ib SPORTS Indians Fans Flaunt Pride ic Laser Surgery Corrects Sight Excimer lasers will allow many nearsighted people to, throw away their glasses. BUSINESS 6C Keenan Takes 'C From Hull Claiming the move isn't personal, Blues coach Mike Keenan takes the captaincy of the team away from Brett Hull and gives it to Shayne Corson. SPORTS 1C SI1 I I I 1 i (3) 3-STAR 50(t TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1995 VOL. 117, NO. 297 pWllHWil M' 0 Copyright 1995 New manager comes with superstar credentials 1C Bernie Miklasz: Now get him something to manage 1C Russa on Monday was chosen the new Cardinals manager.

He got a two-year contract, with an option for a third year at an estimated $1.5 million a year. La Russa said he was sensitive to most mentions of money, other than the fact that he was proud of reaching the "seven-figure" level a few years back. He made an estimated $1.25 million to $1.35 See CARDINALS, Page 7 Carnahan Pick Is First Black To Serve On State's Supreme Court By Fred W. Lindecke Missouri Political Correspondent In a room filled with applauding jurists, Gov. Mel Carnahan on Monday named appellate Judge Ronnie L.

White as the first black Missouri Supreme Court judge in the 175-year history of the court. "First of all, I'm going to have to prove that I deserve to be on that court, not be- cause I'm the first African-American, but because I can ac-tually do the work," White said to the television cameras. Standing next to his wife, Sylvia, and son, Ronnie, 7, in the Wainwright State Office Building down White heads to the high court from his position as a member of the state Court of Appeals. town, White said he was very proud of "how hard I've worked and it's finally paid off." He said "Judge White will be a fair, reasonable and just judge." About 100 people attended the appointment ceremony, most of them Missouri judges, legislators and other court officials. Among them were three of White's colleagues on the seven-member Supreme Court: Duane Benton, William Ray Price Jr.

and Ste-. See JUDGE, Page 6 Ronnie L. White's appointment inspires his old neighborhood 6A Court of Appeals needs a new black member, legislators say 6A Wayne CrosslinPost-Dispatch Tony La Russa, the new manager of the Cardinals, describes his plans for the team at a press conference Monday. He replaces interim manager Mike Jorgensen. La Russa Agrees To Two-Year Deal As Cards Manager A ntfMS' ft I i jiJ By Rick Hummel Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Noted baseball manager and new-car pitchman Whitey Herzog long has said that the only way to determine how good a manager is would be to employ the "duplicate bridge" theory i.e., give every manager the same players.

For instance, Tony La Russa is considered among the best managers in baseball, but this season his Oakland Athletics finished in last place in the American League West Division. Given talent, La Russa has more often been at the other end of the spectrum. That's why La INDEX Ronnie L. White gets a big hug from his son, Ronnie, 7, on Monday the elder White as the state's first black Supreme Court judge. Wayne CrosslinPost-Dispatch after Gov.

Mel Carnahan selected AFL-CIO President Issues Plea For Unity budgets of federal agencies that enforce labor regulations and run student loan programs, and he threatened to veto proposals to cut Medicare and a tax credit for the working poor I "It is time we learned a fundamental lesson," Clinton said. "Treating working people in a decent, fair, humane, enlightened way gives you a stronger American economy, not a weak-See LABOR, Page 5 control of 55 percent of the votes to be cast Wednesday by federation delegates representing more than 13 million workers. "It's true that we come here today divided on the issue of who will lead us over the next two years," Donahue told 1,047 delegates. "But on Thursday, let there be no question that when we leave this hall to carry on our work, we must do so with our divisions healed, our strength enhanced and our federation more united than ever before." Sweeney, 61, said at a news conference that he would work to heal any divisions caused by his candidacy but insisted that "we're very serious about our program for change." President Bill Clinton said in a speech to the convention that he supported increasing the minimum wage. He called for a tax deduction for anyone paying for higher education.

Clinton has opposed GOP plans to cut the Compiled From News Services NEW YORK With a call for unity to confront the Republican Congress, AFL-CIO President Thomas Donahue opened the annual labor federation convention that will choose between him and a challenger. Donahue's address Monday generally steered clear of the issues that divide him and John Sweeney, president of the Service International Employees Union. Sweeney claims Business 6-12C Classified 6-10B Commentary 13B Everyday 1-8D Movie Timetable 7D NationWorld 3A News Analysis 11B Obituaries 5B People 2A Review 2D St. Louis IB Sports 1-5C Television 6D EDITORIAL PAGE La i 4 -v It AP The United Nations At 50 Crime's Perception And Reality 12B WEATHER Cool And Breezy FORECAST Today Partly cloudy with a westerly breeze of 15-20 mph. High 57.

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Pinckneyville Selected As Site Of New Illinois Prison By Kevin McDermott Illinois State Correspondent Sirens blared, church bells rang and an impromptu parade took shape in downtown Pinckneyville, 111., on Monday when news hit that the state plans to build a prison there, Pinckneyville, a tiny town with a ravaged economy about 60 miles southeast of St. Louis, will become home to a $65 million, medium-security prison that will em ploy 450 people, Gov. Jim Edgar announced Monday at a news conference in Springfield. 1 To most everyone in the town qf 3,400 in Perry County which had an astounding 21 percent unemployment rate last year the announcement was cause to celebrate. "Euphoric," said Thomas Denton Pinckneyville's economic development coordinator, when aSked about the reaction.

Construction of the prison will be-gin next spring, officials said. It is scheduled to open in the fall of 1998. The announcement ends a hard- fought race among dozens of Illinois ft See PRISON, Pagy? Clinton, Yeltsin Set Sights On Peace But Deadlock Remains On Key Issue In Bosnia Compiled From News Services HYDE PARK, N.Y. Russian President Boris Yeltsin promised President Bill Clinton Monday that Russian troops would help enforce peace in Bosnia. But the two leaders remained deadlocked on the key question of whether Russian forces would serve under NATO command.

"We have the responsibility to work together to make the peace work, and we will do that," Clinton said after four hours of talks at Franklin Roosevelt's ancestral home. Yeltsin said the talks defied negative forecasts and were "the friendliest meeting, the best meeting, the most understandable meeting." Despite the declarations of friendship and progress, the two leaders refused to budge from opposite views on how to structure a Bosnian peacekeeping force in the event of a peace agreement, senior administration of- President Bill Clinton breaks into laughter after Russian President Boris Yeltsin (left) takes a humorous jab at the press at their news conference Monday in Hyde Park, N.Y. Clinton said: "Our position is that we're going to have an operation that works. We want Russia to be involved in it." Yeltsin expressed confidence that a solution would be found. "You are underestimating the presence of two See LEADERS, Page 5 NATO run the operation is essential for Clinton.

The two leaders directed Defense Secretary William Perry and Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev to meet this week to find a way to bridge the dispute. "It's not a political impjjsse; it's a military question," a senioi'S. official said. Allies scold U.S. over unpaid U.N, bills 5A ficials said.

Yeltsin insisted that Russians would not serve under NATO, the Western military alliance initially forr.jd against Russia. But having "''oaiswiocr1 9.