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SPORTS Canucks Shut Out Blues The Four Amigos ID BUSINESS Clothes To Sport Dr. Seuss 9D Four Mizzou basketball seniors have had a close relationship since early in their freshman seasons. SPORTS ID NEWS ANALYSIS Getting Gangs Out Of Schools sb What's Eating Johnny Depp? Not much of anything, now that he can select offbeat, sensitive roles such as the one in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," here with Mary Steenburgen EVERYDAY IF POST SILO a FRIDAY, MARCH 4 994 SyOL.1l6N0.63 (3). Copyright 1994 (MM) Fenton's Plant No. 2 Chosen To Build Pickups By Robert Manor Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Chrysler Corp.

said Thursday that it will create at least 1,500 jobs next year when workers begin building trucks at the company's Plant No. 2 in Fenton. Chrysler's decision means that for the first time in several years, every auto plant in the St. Louis area will be in operation. Plant No.

2, which now makes minivans, had been scheduled to close next year when production of its minivans moves to the adja- cent Plant No. 1. Chrysler's decision to make its hot-selling Ram regular and club cab pickups at Plant No. 2 guarantees its future for years to come. Chrysler said it will hire 900 new blue-collar workers for Plant No.

2. About 600 jobs that would have been lost when production of minivans was moved will be saved. An undisclosed number of white-collar workers, are enough to reduce unemployment in the area. The payroll for the truck workers could amount to as much as $68 million a year. Last year the average Missouri autoworker earned a little more than $43,000, Clark said.

"Its kind of ironic that back in 1980, No. 2 was closed when it was building pickup trucks," Clark said. "It has come full circle;" Car sales surged last month based on pent-up demand 9D perhaps 100 or more, will also be needed at No. 2. "This is good news," said Randall Clark, a labor analyst with the state Department of Employment Security He said the new jobs no (1 3 tun ifwi'W vet Jr Chrysler said it will spend $300 million to renovate Plant No.

2 beginning next January, when the plant will temporarily close. It is to reopen in the fall of 1995. Few workers, if any, will be furloughed because Plant No. 1 is to open next January, staffed with the workers from Plant. No.

2. Chrysler does not have enough room in its assembly plants to meet demand for its new line of cars and trucks. Buyers seeking a Ram See CHRYSLER, Page 7 Billikens Will Play Ball At Kiel SLU, Center Partners OK Deal For At Least 2 Years By Tom Uhlenbrock Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The St. Louis University basketball Billikens finally have a home. After often bitter negotiations, Kiel Center Partners and the university signed an agreement Thursday to have the Bills play their home games at the new $170 million Kiel Center.

Under the agreement, the Billikens will have to play at least the next two seasons at Kiel Center but then could be free to look elsewhere. SLU Coach Charlie Spoonhour, who had threatened to leave if the dispute was not resolved, said he was relieved the bickering was over. "It's been a distraction," he said Thursday night. "I haven't had a chance to look at the finalized dates for scheduling, but I'm cautiously optimistic that everything will be fine." Playing dates had been the main sticking point in the negotiations, with St. Louis University and its fans complaining they were being treated like third-class citizens.

SLU athletic director Debbie Yow said it was fair that the St. Louis Blues, as the anchor tenant for the new facility, got priority See LEASE, Page 15 A Bridge Too Far? Kingshighway Viaduct Lights Up A Debate By Tim O'Neil Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Because the old Kingshighway viaduct went out with a smashing tumble, it's fitting that the new one is creating a noise of its own. The new bridge is anything but standard government girder and concrete. It has 232 old-fashioned lights along its rails, pale-red concrete sidewalls and sidewalks, and fleur-de-lis cast into the walls. As with anything loud, reactions are strong, ranging from love to loathing.

"It's outrageous, it's inappropriate, it's way overdone," said Eugene Mackey, a local architect. "Every time I see it, I just laugh. The city doesn't even have enough people to change the light bulbs." Most of the handful of architects who were polled unscientifically for this unschol-arly review disliked one or more aspects of the new viaduct. Most said it was overdone. A few were horrified.

Some of the lay locals agreed. "Oh, to hell with all of that," said Jamie Cannon, 1994 president of the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects. "Any mistakes the city made were on the See VIADUCT, Page 10 0 1 4 'i Wendi FitzgeraldPost-Dispatch A night view of the new $6.1 million Kingshighway viaduct. The view is from Interstate 44, looking north on Kingshighway. The bridge has a total of 232 old-fashioned lights along its rails.

INDEX DNA Labeling Errors Raise Doubts In Conviction This story was researched and written by Cheryl Dahle and David Protess, freelance writers, and William H. Freivogel of the Post-Dispatch staff Allen's lab report says he analyzed the genetic material in a vaginal swab from the crime scene. But he later acknowledged that his report was mistaken. He never was sent a vaginal swab for testing. At a point when his test was still inconclusive, Allen wrote a letter to the prosecutor expressing "hope" that the rest of the test would yield results against the "presumed assailant," an attitude that smacks of bias in See TEST, Page 5 semen found on Naab's body.

Allen's test was the linchpin of the prosecution case the only physical evidence tying Heaton to the scene of the crime. But court records raise questions that weren't raised at Heaton's trial in 1992 about the way the test was conducted. The records show that: The number labeling Heaton's blood sample changed several times as it was tagged by state police, then transferred to Allen's lab and finally entered into evidence at trial. 1994, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Mistakes in labeling crucial evidence have raised new questions about the validity of a genetic test that helped convict a Southern Illinois man of murdering a teen-age girl.

Court records show discrepancies in the identification of several key exhibits, including the blood used in the genetic test linking Stuart Heaton to the stabbing death in 1991 of Krystal Naab, 16, of Ramsey, 111. Dr. Robert Allen, who conducted the test Business 9-16D Classified 2-24E Commentary 7B Movie Timetable 11F NationWorld 3A News Analysis 5B Obituaries 4B Reviews St. Louis IB Sports 1-8D Television 10F EDITORIAL PAGE while he was science director of the St. Louis Red Cross, testified that genetic material, or DNA, in Heaton's blood "matched" a sample of Foster Files Destroyed, U.S.

Grand Jury Told Student Worker: Law Firm Ordered Shredding Gov. Edgar's Rosy Scenario Warmann Windfall And Capital Needs 6B WEATHER Pleasant t- 1 i i 1 A IT-' i MKi mtni-inr Clinton Takes Aim At Japan Renewed Provision Allows U.S. To Identify, Punish Unfair Traders Compiled From News Services WASHINGTON In a move to ratchet up pressure on Japan to open its markets, President Bill Clinton signed an executive order Thursday reviving a retaliatory trade law that has been bitterly opposed by Tokyo. The law, known as Super 301, has been the United States' bluntest instrument to punish other nations for closing down markets to U.S. products.

It has provisions that allow the administration to draw up a "hit list" of countries with unfair trade barriers and impose punitive tariffs on their products. Super 301, which Congress set up as part of the 1988 Trade Act, was phased out in 1990. By renewing it, Clinton is trying to underscore that he means business on trade, analysts said. "We have a dysfunctional trade relationship with Japan," said Michael Maibach, director of government affairs for Intel a major producer of semiconductor chips. "This is a signal to Japan that he intends to bring change to our relationship." Early today, Japan expressed regret over the decision.

"Japan cannot keep silent" with its concerns over the decision to revive the Super 301 trade clause, said a government spokesman, Masayoshi Takemura. He urged the United States to act in a "sensible manner" and hoped the United States saw the need for a "restrained response." Super 301 is loathed by other countries, mainly because of the stigma it carries. Under the process, the precisely what he had shredded but that he was certain the papers had come from Foster's files, sources said. He testified that he looked inside the box and saw that the papers were separated by binders marked with the initials "VWF," the firm's typical abbreviation for Foster. The box itself also bore Foster's initial.

No other employee at the Rose firm has those initials. In a brief statement, the Rose firm said, "In the process of a lawyer changing offices, a box of old files containing internal Rose firm materials, such as copies of notes of firm committee meetings, was destroyed earlier this year." Foster's files are potentially important to investigators. While he was at the.Rose firm, he worked on a wide array of legal matters for the Clintons, including the sale of the Clintons' share of the Whitewater Development a real estate venture in the Ozark Mountains. At the time of his suicide, Foster was working on various personal matters for rncTrn FORECAST Today Sunny, breezy. High 64.

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Other Weather, 8B 1994, New York Times News Service LITTLE ROCK, Ark. An employee of the Rose Law Firm told a federal grand jury that in late January he was ordered to destroy a box of documents from the files of Vincent W. Foster sources say. Foster is the White House lawyer whose suicide is under investigation by a special prosecutor. Sources said the employee, an in-house courier, said he had told the grand jury that he and a colleague had used a shredder in the firm's basement to destroy the papers.

He testified that he had done so at the request of a clerk in the firm. The firm's former partners include Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of President Bill Clinton; Webster L. Hub-bell, the associate attorney general; William H. Kennedy III, an associate White House counsel; and Foster, the deputy White House counsel who committed suicide in July. All left the firm to go to Washington last year.

The courier is a college student among several assigned to run messages and errands. He told the grand jury on Feb 16 that he did not know POST-DISPATCH WEATHERBIRD mq PAT. OFF. AP Trade Representative Mickey Kantor tells reporters Thursday, "No one should fear that a so-called trade war will ensue." president will single out for retaliation the worst of the worst among U.S. trading partners.

Although Clinton's administration made a point Thursday of not linking Japan to the renewal of Super 301, the action comes just three weeks after the failure of talks to See TRADE, Page 6 09 1100" i.