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1 Monsanffo 'Turn It UpT Every Week Turn It Up, our take viafteovGr NATION Barry Captures DC Primary 3A BUSINESS Sabreliner To Get Midcoast ic SPORTS Tikkanen's Good For Blues id Monsanto's Richard J. on wnere it at, starts a new weekly gig with a peek into student backpacks. EVERYDAY IF Mahoney (left), who'll rett in '95, will be succeeded by Robert Shapiro BUSINES 1C 1 (r si POSHEffiTCH WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1994 5-STAR VOL. 116, NO. 257 Copyright 1994 rim.

-Q)0 -hemw .22 a 3D 0 Down, Mot Out Gaming, Events Soften Baseball Strike's Impact By Thorn Gross and Tim O'Neil Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The baseball strike has inflicted some economic miseries downtown, but riverboat and special events have softened the say business people, spokesmen for downtown commerce and even a few fans. And there's consolation, they say, in knowing that the Cardinals weren't going anywhere this fall. "If there has to be a strike, make it this year," said Phil Andrews, manager of Richard Andrews Restaurant and Bar just south of Busch Stadium. "Just don't let it still be hung up next spring." See MISERY, Page 6 I .7 it 7 Odell Mitchell Jr.Post-Dispatch Terry Moll, a grounds crew worker, washes the turf of Busch Stadium near the bullpen area Tuesday after portable stands were moved following last weekend's high school football games. Baseball ready to pull plug on World Series 1D Clinton Signs $30.2 Billion Plan, Stresses Citizens' Responsibility By Tim Poor Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau WASHINGTON With pomp and ceremony, against the backdrop of the public's fear of crime, President Bill Clinton signed the $30.2 billion crime bill Tuesday.

He said the new programs authorized under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act still needed citizens helping police and parents teaching children.right from wrong. "Our country will not truly be safe again until all Americans take personal responsibility for themselves, their families and their communities," he said. Clinton signed the bill in a ceremony on the south lawn of the White House under a cloudless blue sky, his speech punctuated from time to time by the sound of sirens in the distance. Behind him sat Cabinet officers, congressional leaders and dozens of police, prosecutors and politicians from around the nation, including several from the St, Louis area. See CRIME, Page 4 What Missouri.

Illinois might get in funds 5B New Report On Dioxin Scrutinized EPA Will Hold Off On Suggesting Updated Rules For Incinerators By Bill Lambrecht Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau WASHINGTON A new report from the Environmental Protection Agency linking dioxin to cancer and other health problems could speed a government crackdown on dioxin pollution and threaten construction of new waste incinerators. The report's conclusion that any amount of dioxin can cause problems suggests that the evacuation of Times Beach because of low levels of dioxin was justified. But Dr. Lynn Goldman, assistant EPA administrator, said Tuesday that no new regulations on incinerators that burn trash, hospital waste or hazardous materials would be recommended until the public and more scientists had the chance to study the report and make recommendations. See DIOXIN, Page 8 Resign Now, Moriarty Told Conviction 'Undermines Carnahan Says 1t Mi and for that office, and it needs to end." Moriarty said through a spokesman that she would not resign, setting up a showdown that many predicted would be ugly.

The Legislature returns to the capital today for a veto session, so impeachment proceedings could begin immediately. Moriarty's spokesman, Greg Kindle, said Carnahan "can make all the requests he wants to. It's not his job. See MORIARTY, Page 9 By Virginia Young Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau JEFFERSON CITY Gov. Mel Carnahan told Secretary of State Judith K.

Moriarty Tuesday that she should resign by noon today or face impeachment by the Missouri House. Carnahan said Moriarty's misdemeanor conviction on Saturday on a charge of falsely certifying her son's candidacy for the Missouri House "undermines the confidence in the electoral process. It is a tragedy for her Moriarty 'pw. Carnahan INDEX Court To Rule On Rendering Unto Caesar Government Goes After Bankrupt Couple's $13,450 Tithe; Church Fights Back Tithing is the practice of returning part of one's earnings to a church. Tithe comes from an Old English word meaning "tenth." Traditionally, tithers give 10 percent of their income to their church.

A central issue is whether the federal bankruptcy code violates the First Amendment's guarantee of free expression of religion or free speech when it comes to such See TITHE, Page 6 By Tim Bryant Of the Post-Dispatch Staff By going after the $13,450 a bankrupt couple tithed to their church, the government is reaching into offering plates and striking at the essence of Americans' guarantee of religious freedom. No, a bankruptcy trustee's effort to recover the money is merely the neutral balancing of the rights of debtors and creditors without trampling on anyone's religious beliefs or activities. Those starkly different views will be argued before the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals here on Thursday the first such case to reach so high in the federal courts. Religious organizations nationwide are watching closely.

Churches fear that the case could declare open season on collection plates. Business 1-8C Classified 1-26E Commentary 7B Editorials 6B Everyday 1-10F Movie Timetable 9F NationWorld 3A News Analysis 58 Obituaries 4B St. Louis IB Sports 1-6D Television 8F EDITORIAL PAGE i Highlights of the new report 8A i Environmentalists knock incinerators 8A Mild About Wildwood Wise Retreat To Save GATT 6B WEATHER Taste Of Summer 4 mm i Ill Ill II II Ill 111 111 III II HI I'M IW I I Illl Afcll Mlf" lrfWfaf. AP COPPER. Shorts Earn Attorney A Heave-ho I Just Saw Judge Admonishes By Amy Driscoll 1994, Knight-Ridder Newspapers FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.

Three armed deputies seized attorney Crystal Holjes by the arms, dragged her from a Broward County courtroom Tuesday morning, slammed her 100-pound frame against a wall and handcuffed her. Her crime? Wearing shorts to-court. Holjes, a defense attorney from Pompano Beach, had made the mistake a criminal one, apparently of donning a form of dress that Broward County Circuit Judge Barry Goldstein has prohibited in his courtroom. "Shorts are inappropriate attire," he said. "I think it shows lack of respect for the See SHORTS, Page 6 President Will 'Cock The Gun' Clinton To Give Speech On Haiti Invasion Plan Compiled From News Services WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton, facing widespread public skepticism and intense Republican efforts to block an invasion of Haiti, will address the nation Thursday night in a speech that aides describe as "cocking the gun" aimed by the United States at Haiti's military regime.

As the White House announced Tuesday that Clinton would deliver his speech from the Oval Office at 8 p.m. Thursday, the Pentagon sent soldier-laden aircraft carriers to the Caribbean. The address will be Clinton's first full attempt to offer the public a rationale and explanation of the status of the effort to eject Haiti's military leaders and restore deposed President Jean-Bert rand Aristide. White House officials described the speech as a turning point and evidence that Clinton has no intention of turning back. "Once you go into the Oval Office and in front of the FORECAST Today Partly sunny and humid.

High 89. Partly cloudy and muggy tonight Low 69. Thursday Chance of storms. High 88. Other weather, 88 POST-D'SPHTCH WE ATM RB'HO A A man sits in the shell of a car Tuesday, along a stretch of road in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, where old cars are scrapped and sold for parts.

Because of strengthened economic sanctions, very few new auto parts are available for sale in Haiti. American people, this is serious," an Congress for a full-scale debate on an $770 million to rebuild Haiti official said. "This will be a rationale invasion of Haiti. Even Democrats next year, say Aristide aides the soeech conceded that opposition to an inva- Need of congressional ap- 1 ne announcement ot trie speecn proval for invasion debated 5B also came as pressure mounted in in.tiii,tgci mmmmmmmmmm I .1 09 1100.