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Reno Gazette-Journa; 50C ho nulsido itiiMro jrci. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1995 The (i.ii-nc-Journal is pnntcii umm rt ycleil pajwr, mmmmsmsmmmmm Rebuilding Bosnia Bosnia needs up 1 $6 billion in i reconstructii HH tef Mil him tefflf) uam xr EcoWiy. output was ft norrlkitWri QQO Inwolc administration and operations, assigned to set up not only a U.S. Dole hedges on Bosnia support: Senate majority leader wants a concrete plan. 4A Deployment getting under way: NATO, U.S.

troops to eventually total 60,000. accord in Paris on Dec. 14, Clinton administration officials said Friday. Despite the friction, however, it was a day when the hazy outlines of the Bosnia deployment came much more sharply into focus. President Clinton, traveling in Ireland, strongly defended his decision to send U.S.

troops as part of the peacekeeping force, saying the slaughter in Bosnia was a problem for the world at large, for all of us who have democrat ic values." U.S. Army officials in Germany said most of the hundreds of U.S. troops slated to go in with the enabling force will be traveling by keep the warring Balkan factions apart. The decision by NATO ambassadors to send the initial "enabling force" into Bosnia this weekend came amid bickering among the allies over details of the peacekeeping operation. France and the United States, in particular, disagreed on several aspects of the plan, including the way it treats the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.

The first main elements of the 20.000-troop U.S. peacekeeping contingent will arrive in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Dec. 15 or Dec. 16, a day or two after the scheduled signing of the Balkans peace headquarters in the northeaster city of Tuzla but also headquartJs tor NAIO and the allied KaJ Reaction Corps in the Sarajevo area. Army officials said.

Also joining the early arrivals will be a psychological operations team, whose primary initial mission is to spread the word through posters, broadcasts and loudspeakers about the purpose of the NATO force. The "psy ops" messages contain a warning against interfering with NATO troops. The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times reports. Reno lights dim for World Evidence more land rather than air. More than a dozen trains, each more than 400 yards long, have been lined up to carry the vanguard units, dominated by communications specialists and their gear, from German staging areas near Mannheim and Kaiserslau-tern across Austria and Hungary into the Balkans.

The advance party will include experts in intelligence, logistics. AIDS Day Joe Gosen bazette journal rrgSJJJ i Bj -vi rffl III 'fVTTmTiirmriiiiniMraiMr-r'' inmflfr i I TIfilWl AIDS Day observance. Events were held on a global A MOMENT TOGETHER: It was lights; out for five minutes on the Reno Arch and some casinos as a grcup gathers at 7:45 p.m. Friday as part of World cultures and time zones. There have AIDS deaths in Washoe County.

KRXI-TV takes to the Per capita income: 3 $1,900 1995 1 $500 Infrastructure: Thirty-five percent of roads and 40 percent of bridges have been damaged or destroyed. Source World Bank Associaied Press 4- at on notice that this was his last chance to keep the building secure. But a report in the building's security log showed that someone had pulled out copper piping and punched holes in the wall within the last two weeks. Inspectors found other problems. Farr said the building has a series of fire safety problems.

"It's like a giant chimney," Farr said after completing the inspection. "The building is old and it hasn't been used in 10 years. It's in pretty bad shape." Farr said all the doors to the various rooms there are open, allowing a small blaze to feed off plenty of air and spread. In addition, holes poked into the ceiling would allow a fire to spread up and down in the building. Farr said he also was concerned about the building's structural integrity during a fire.

A report from the inspection will be presented to the council Tuesday. air Sunday By Wayne Melton GAZE TTE-JOl RNAL When KRXI-TV Channel 11 crackles to life on televisions around northern Nevada at 6 a.m. Sunday, you've got to believe Luther Mack is going to breathe a sigh of relief. Channel 1 1 is the first new VHF station in the United States in 20 years, and its birth is the direct result of Mack's 10 years of hard labor. Hard work, a morc-than-Sl-million investment and some good old-fashioned wheeling and dealing, that is.

Mack has made his name in the Truckee Meadows as the owner of six McDonald's restaurants. But if you thought 50 million hamburgers served was widespread exposure, wait till Channel 1 1 is up and running: its potent VHF signal from a Peavine Peak transmitter will someday rival KOLO-Chan-nel 8's for power and coverage in northwest Nevada. You'll be able to pull Channel 1 1 into your homes with an antennae, but it's also being included on basic service provided by TCI. Continental Cablevision and Co-Sec STATION on page 7A Hatfield leaves Senate; Simpson also may retire Mark Hatfield the fiercely independent Republican from Oregon on Friday became the 1 1th senator to announce plans not to seek re-election in 1996. "Thirty years of voluntary separation from my state has been enough," the five-term, 73-year-old senator said during an emotional speech from the small Oregon town of Silverton.

The departure of the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee is another blow to congressional moderates. Meanwhile Friday, sources said Sen. Alan Simpson, also is expected to announce his retirement today. This is the largest group of senators to voluntarily leave office since 1914. when direct election of senators began.

Story, 2A found Hotel PARIS NATO authorized the dispatch of the First 2.600 peacekeeping troops to Bosnia Friday, formally setting in motion a complex and riskv deployment that will eventually station 60,000 soldiers along a tenuous frontier to rriTxripxTTi here: Bill Murray, Woody Harrelson and Randy Quaid have been seen. They're in town for the filming of "Kingpin." If you spot them, call our TalkLine at 324-0225. code 6402. 1E Cutting your own Christmas tree: Time is running out. 1E Miami Hurricanes hit: The NCAA announces sanctions that will cost Miami bowl berth this year and a reduction of at least five scholarships each season through 1997.

1F HIGHLOW 54 26 Today: Siirmv. 10A Woodujfting Atlbwed Homefinder News Opinion RenoSparks MetroWatch Lottery Obituaries Business Markets Classified Auto 1-6C 1-100 1-10A 9A 1-6B 2B 2B 5B 7-10B 7-9B Sierra Life 1-10E Dear Abby Couples TV Watch Comics Crossword Sports 2E 4-5E 7E 9E 9E 1-6F Clinton lauds Irish CHEERS IN DUBLIN: People President Clinton concludes his 100,000 helps president wrap up V' 1 W- wave his entries By Aric Johnson GAZETTE-JOl'RNAL The paper note left inside the old Riverside Hotel was proof that the abandoned building wasn't empty "Went to breakfast, meet me at St. Vincent's for lunch." Reno Fire Marshal Larry Farr, along with a cadre of building and health inspectors, toured the dilapidated hotel Friday to check its safety and to see if people were living there. The group, who found the note, discovered other evidence that people were still getting into the hotel. They found beer bottles and clothes scattered throughout the building.

In September, the City Council warned that any break-ins at the long-closed hotel would result in the city demolishing it as a public safety hazard. The council ordered around-the-clock security and fire equipment fixed. They also put owner Peter Eng What you'll see: News from Oakland will be among features on the new station. 7A Promotional campaign: It's under way to get people acquainted. 7A fear," said Mike Godwin, general counsel for the Electronics Frontier Foundation, formed five years ago as an Internet civil liberties group.

"There are a lot of congressmen who think that America Online and other on-line systems are hotbeds of immoral behavior," he said. With such fears of harsh congressional censorship in the air, The New York Times reported in today's editions that some civil liberties groups and on-line services have agreed to support a proposal to jail people who transmit smut by computer. The proposal is being drafted by Rep. Rick White, as a compromise to a telecommunications bill that has already passed the Senate but not the House of Representatives, the Times said. Riverside basis, spanning been 294 known on smoking residences sports.

"He had trouble breathing." Healy said. "And the other kids they didn't ask for this. They live there and they have no choice." When Healy talked to the boy's counselors with the complaints about air quality, he was told that since the counselors were private contractors and owned their home, they could smoke where they wanted. Though the boy has moved out of the foster care system, Healy's efforts haven't ceased. "It's not like they adopted the kids.

These people are getting state money," Healy said. He's asking for support to lead an effort to require the state to impose designated smokhig areas in foster care homes. "It's a noble effort," said Keith McDowell, operator of McDowell Youth Homes the agency that Healy's complaints target. McDowell said he would support Healy's efforts, but cautioned that such a move would lead to a drastic drop in the num- See SMOKING on page 7A Jean Dixon.Gazette Journal TEAM'S IN PLACE: Luther Mack, seated, with sales director Steve Cummings, left, and general manager Kevin O'Brien. Limits urged in foster care By Sevil Omer GAZETTE-JOURNAL An Incline Village lawyer wants to clear the air in some of the state's foster care homes, charging that smoking guardians and secondhand smoke pose a health hazard to children.

But state officials say Nevada has no regulations on the subject. Even if laws were in place, they said, enforcement could scare off the tiny pool of foster families in a state where the number of displaced youths continue to grow. Steve Healy's recent concern was triggered while volunteering as a mentor to a teen-age boy, who over time, had lived in three separate group foster care homes in Washoe County. Ffcaly, who also is a foster parent, said every time he visited the boy in each of three group homes, both Healy and the boy's clothes and hair were permeated with the smell of tobacco smoke. The unidentified boy had also complained about the air quality in the homes to his house parents, its effects on his health and his ability to compete in school peace efforts Associated Press Irish and American flags as speech Friday and a crowd of visit to Ireland.

Story, 5A America Online: Word breast can stay 1 i TV Week: Lists KRXI's programs, with a Page 3 story that details what moved where from KAME Channel 21, including Fox network shows. dance with regulations prohibiting "use of obscene or vulgar language." But in a statement Friday, the company said the ban was an error. The company said its service agreement doesn't specify what words are considered vulgar, but "body parts that might be named in medical diagnoses do not fall under the category of offensive online communication." With a debate flaring in Congress over whether to hold on-line services responsible for knowingly transmitting pornography to children or allowing their systems to be used as a conduit for pornographic material, some in the industry say the AOL "breast" controversy may be a harbinger of things to come as services rush to censor themselves hoping that Congress thus won't see a need to doit. think they're doing it out of Firm reverses itself: Effort aimed at cleaning up the net. BOSTON (AP) The four-letter words and the racial epithets were easy.

There was wide agreement that America Online should ban them from cyberspace. But the word "breast?" That, too, got axed in the effort to clean up the net, until the country's largest on-line commercial computer service reversed itself, having never considered the word a key to vital discussions of cancer among women. America Online began purging the word breast last week in accor k. i..