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3 HAY. 7 7993 0 VOL. 115, NO. 127 Copyright 1993 FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1993 (2) 3-STAR 50C SPAT t3 V' (vl L. Odell MitchellJr.Post-Dispatcri Compiled From News Services WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton, reacting angrily to Bosnian-Serb rejection of a U.N.-backed peace plan, said Thursday that the Bosnian conflict could undermine European stability.

He urged reluctant allies to "act quickly and decisively" with the United States against Serb forces in Bosnia. And in other actions Thursday: The U.N. Security Council declared several Muslim towns in Bosnia "safe havens," putting their residents under the protection of the world body. Yugoslavia said it was cutting off all but food and medical supplies to the Bosnian Serbs. It said it was doing so because of the pressure of the U.N.

economic sanctions. Clinton said, "America has made its position clear and is ready to do its part. But Europe must be willing to act with us. We must go forward together." Yet, Secretary of State Warren Christopher was unable to report much support in Europe for bombing of Bosnian-Serb artillery or the arming of Bosnian Muslims. "We have not developed a consensus," said a senior U.S.

official traveling with Christopher. Clinton said that Christopher was exploring "tougher measures which can be taken collectively not by the United States alone but collectively to make clear to the Serbs that we are embarked on a course of peace and they are embarked on a costly course." The president favors a dual approach of limited bombing strikes on Bosnian-Serb artillery and the arming of Bosnian Muslims. But the allies fear that both approaches could widen the war, and Christopher acknowledged that Clinton might have to modify his proposals to win support. See CLINTON, Page 13 Yugoslavia to cut aid to Bosnian Serbs 12A Isolationism rising in the United States? 1C Europeans concerned about further war 1C U.S. To Intensify Diplomatic Effort In Bosnian War By Bob Adams Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau Chief WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton will pursue new diplomatic courses in Bosnia-Herzegovina before opting for military action such as air strikes or arming the Bosnian Muslims.

That was the view as the White House scrambled to deal with the refusal of a self-styled parliament of Bosnian Serbs to approve a U.N. peace plan. The refusal raised the stakes for Clinton. Now that the Bosnian Serbs have, in effect, called his bluff, Clinton risks losing credibility at home and abroad if he fails to move, in his own words, "quickly and decisively." At the same time, new avenues of diplomatic pressure were opened by the decision of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to cut off weapons, fuel, and Other supplies to Bosnian-Serb military' forces. If the cutoff works, it could push the Bosnian-Serbs back to the bargaining table.

On Capitol Hill, lawmakers displayed a widespread reluctance to involve U.S. forces in Bosnia, even as part of a U.N. peacekeeping mission. Those who favored force found new ammunition in the See OPTIONS, Page 13 Blues goalie Curtis Joseph signing an autograph after practice Thursday for Jenny Lovas (center) and Tracey Kuelker. Lovas was getting a shirt signed for her mother.

Bluesmania: Fans Go Fanatic By Tom Wheatley Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Not so long ago, a Blues hockey player could insert his false teeth after a game and roam the St. Louis area incognito. Not any more. Thursday, Blues defenseman Jeff Brown said, "People were honking at me on the road." Brown is the latest hero of the moment for the upstart Blues, who have rubbed out a disappointing season with an emotional playoff run. Brown scored the winning goal in the second overtime Wednesday night in Toronto for a 2-1 Blues victory.

The Blues, behind more sensational goaltending from Curtis Joseph and another goal from star scorer Brett Hull, tied their best-of-seven playoff series with the Maple Leafs at 1-1. The series moves to The Arena tonight and again at noon Sunday. The Blues are on a roll, and the bandwagon is rolling beside them. See BLUES, Page 14 4 vr it DOWN 7.20 CLOSE 3441.90 2B fffm (TV i 4 i 1 Officials Here Reveling In New Center Expanded Cervantes Opens Today By Charlene Prost Of the Post-Dispatch Staff St. Louis' expanded convention center, opening its doors to the public for the first time today, has center Director Bruce Sommer longing to buy a bicycle as soon as he has time.

"If I have to walk from my office to the outer end of the center now," Sommer said, "it takes 10 minutes to get there, and 10 minutes to get back That's 20 minutes I've blown." The complex, originally covering four blocks, has grown with its $120 million bond issue and tax-supported expansion to eight blocks. And it's not finished. When another, $260 million expansion with a football stadium is finished in 1995, the center will cover a dozen blocks. The size of the place known officially as the Cervantes Convention Center at America's Center has already helped make this a near-record year for conventions here. Twenty-six "city-wide" conventions ones that fill at least 1,000 hotel rooms and use more than one hotel are booked.

That's one short of the record of 27 in 1979. Some 7,000 ACE Hardware store owners who gathered there last week even before the official opening came back because of the expansion, said Chris Stone, director of marketing at the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission. "They had met here before. But then they outgrew us," Stone said.

Sommer, who worked closely with the architects at See CENTER, Page 21 "4 i A 1 -J 7 i A Out of Work: Barbara Smith, a nurse at Central Medical Center. Hospital in City Announces Close Central Medical Center in St. Louis announces it will close, putting 400 out of work. 3A Gary BonnPost-Dispatcn Harry Schuler of Heritage Display Group toting a sign up the escalator Thursday to the third floor of the newly expanded convention center downtown. The building called America's Center opens to the public today.

Clark Bridge Gets 'Closure Piece' Today A Deadbeat Bureaucracy (editorial) Backbone Check In Jefferson City (editorial) 2C Last Steel Goes Up; Opening Set Dee. 1 Business 1-8B Classified 2-26F Everyday 1-1 2G Movie Timetable 10G News Analysis 1C Obituaries 4C Real Estate IF Sports HP. Television 9G rem i Southern Group Loses Patent Fight By Kathleen Best Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The South lost again Thursday, this time at the hands of the Senate's first black womfen, Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-3 to deny an extension of the patent protecting the emblem of the United Daughters of the Confederacy a patent that the Civil War descendants group has held for almost a century. Moseley-Braun objected to; the extension because the: group's emblem contains the; original Confederate flag of; three red and white stripes and i seven stars on a field of blue.

"And what does that symbol stand for?" Moseley-Braun' asked her colleagues. "In 1963, George Wallace understood the meaning of the. symbols of the Confederacy; when he ordered the Confeder-' ate battle flag raised over the Alabama state Capitol to protest the federal government's stand in support of civil rights 1993, the Ku Klux Klan understands the meaning of the sym-! bols of the Confederacy when; they raise the Confederate ban-, ner at their marches and. rallies." Moseley-Braun said Congress, See FLAG, Page 14 Scattered Storms By Patrick E. Gauen Of the Post-Dispatch Staff There will be one small hoist for two cranes and one huge boost for the new Clark Bridge when the last section is set in place today 65 feet above the Mississippi River at downtown Alton.

Once workers bolt the green I-shaped steel frame into what has been a 15-foot void, Earl Doerr's $85 million baby finally will be safe. Not that it has been unsafe, exactly. Doerr, resident engineer for the Illinois Department of Transportation, is responsible for the pair of 370-foot sections of framework that jut from separate piers and come within a car length of each other. "They are somewhat vulnerable to high winds," Doerr explained Thursday. "That will end once they are connected." It will be a bittersweet moment for Doerr, 48, of Columbia, 111., as one of the last milestones of his most challenging assignment.

The bridge, scheduled to open Dec. 1, is part of U.S. 67. It links St. Charles County and northern Madison County.

Two cranes on barges in the navigation channel are to maneuver the "closure piece," topped by a U.S. flag, through the opening from below about 9:30 a.m. By afternoon, the steel would expand from the heat of day and no longer fit the gap. It should be a simpler operation than the day almost 120 years ago when James Buchanan Eads wrapped steel in dry ice to make the final pieces fit in his landmark bridge in St Louis, FORECAST: Today: Scattered High 83. Chance of tonight.

Low 66. Saturday: Chance of storms. High 84. Other Weather, 2A Larry WilliamsPost-Dispatch The old two-lane Clark Bridge at Alton is packed with motorists in this 1991 photograph. The last section of the new Clark Bridge is scheduled to be put in place today.

POST-DISPATCH WEATHcHBIRD ished in 1990. "I like them both," he said. "But this one was more complicated." Indeed, the cable-stayed design of the new Clark Bridge has been used only about 100 times in the world. And this one is unique among them. Usually a fan of cables links tall towers to the bridge deck.

In this one, The Eads is Doerr's favorite bridge in the world. "It would be difficult for us to build it even today," he explained. Doerr is about to accomplish twice what Eads did only once spanning the Mississippi. Doerr also was resident engineer for the second structure of the ifferson Barracks Bridge, fin the ends of the cables are attached only to the deck, with the middles slung over the tops of the 250-foot towers without being connected. The longest cables run 800 feet and are almost a foot thick, with strands of steel encased in plastic pipe and the gaps filled by concrete.

While the airy, graceful silhouette See BRIDGE, Page 14 I.