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I Pierre's Place Renovated house preserves Longwood's roots PIllS! Christian music in Milton, pops at Winterthur and a multimedia show Special report: (j 0) Phils hold lMinHenl0penACreS55hours a Sports Friday, CI, C6 The News loumal 1995, The News Journal Co. A Gannett newspaper Wilmington, Del. 11 7th year, No. 117 ACrk New Castle County stores; tUVu 50C all other locations FINAL EDITION FRIDAY July 14, 1995 I 6' IE Water woes FDA eyes tighter smoking mm OOu KOI i 4V jr -V 4 Refugees flood camp By SNJEZANA VUKIC Associated Press TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina Forced from their homes by Serbian troops, exhausted by deportation aboard laboring, steaming buses, Muslims purged from the onetime "safe area" of Srebrenica faced a new horror Thursday: meager food, little water and no shelter in a jammed refugee camp. While the new Serbian masters Refugees tell of horrors A2 of Srebrenica rounded up men and boys for interrogation, 8,000 Muslims, many bearing tales of beatings and forced separations from their fathers and husbands, poured into Tuzla, where relief workers could offer them only 1,000 loaves of bread and 5,000 quarts of water.

"They had better take a gun and kill us all," one woman said. Waving her arms toward the weeping, nearly hysterical crowd, she added: "Look at what you did for us, all you governments." The human wave is likely to overwhelm U.N. aid workers for days to come. The Serbs who overran Srebrenica Tuesday said i 'J if VYViVVJTfii 1 1 'i! Ml JJ 1 mm 3 IS-'. Clockwise from front: Zane Goldsborough, his sister Shala and Jennifer Lee Thomas gel cooled off with a garden hose Thursday.

The children were playing in the 900 block of Spruce SI. in Wilmington. Coming soon: city movie house controls From staff and wire reports WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration wants to regulate teen smoking as a "pediatric disease" and is discussing ways' to do it with the White House, officials said Thursday. Talk of imminent action set off a furor in Congress. President Clinton called mature" reports that the FDA i had decided to designate nicotine AMA: Firm knew of smoke risks A5 an addictive drug subject to stringent controls.

"My concern is the impact of cigarette smoking, particularly on Our young people and the fact thatjj cigarette smoking seems to be going up among our young people," Clinton said. Reaction from tobacco-state members of Congress was quick and fierce, especially to a report in The New York Times that the FDA had made a decision to declare nicotine addictive. "The FDA has lost its mind," said House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga. "If you want an example of big government interfering, it would be the FDA picking a brand new fight when we haven't won the far more serious fights about crack and cocaine and heroin." The FDA plays no role in illegal drugs. On smoking, commissioner David Kessler said Thursday the agency has decided its focus "is to find ways to discourage fchildren from starting smoking in the first place." "Smoking begins as a pediatric disease," Kessler said.

"Each day 3,000 children become regular smokers and almost 1,000 of them will eventually die" as a result. Plans under FDA consideration include everything from a ban on cigarette vending machines and stiffer package warnings to such advertising restrictions as barring cartoon characters such as "Joe Camel." The battle against tobacco has to begin with children, using tougher laws and better enforcement, said Dr. Charles Konigs-berg, director of Delaware's Division of Public Health. Tobacco's addictive properties are already known, and "we have to take tobacco as seriously as we do alcoholic beverages," he said. But, Konigsberg added, cigarette sales to minors already are banned in Delaware, and there "are limits to what you can do with enforcement." Clinton OKs base closings With the White House scrambling to control the political fallout in two big electoral states, President Clinton approves a list that closes 79 bases and realigns 26 others across the country.

Story, AS It II Editorial A18 Comics 25-27 Letters A18 Crossword 27 Obituaries B5 Movies 4-7 Public Diary B4 People 25 Scoreboard C2 Television 21 29 HIGH LOW 96 76 Business B9 Sports CI Classified C7 55 Hours: the area was cleared of its approximately 40,000 Muslim residents by Thursday night. The deportations are one of the largest recent incidents of the "ethnic cleansing" that has been one of the darkest elements of the three-year-old war. The U.N.'s peacekeeping mission has been able to do little to blunt the war's savagery. Srebrenica was one of six U.N.-designated "safe areas" in which civilians were to be spared from attack. In Washington, President Clinton warned that unless the integrity of the mission in Bosnia can be restored, "obviously its days will be numbered." In Paris, French President Jacques Chirac called for "firm, and limited military action" to preserve the remaining five Muslim enclaves.

The fate of thousands of Srebrenica residents remained unknown. Serbian fighters were pulling men and boys off the transports to take them to unknown locations. The Serbs said they would be questioned about involvement in war crimes, but there were fears of forced labor or torture. Serbian forces Wednesday appeared to be preparing for an offensive on eastern Bosnia's next vulnerable "safe area," Zepa, a U.N. spokesman said.

City administration officials would not comment on the move, but several City Council members said it cleared the way to bringing a movie theater back to Wilmington. The city has been without one since 1982. "I understand they the developers have commitments from the bank," Council President James M. Baker said. "They've got to get the land committed to them.

Let's just keep our fingers crossed." The development group, which city leaders said would buy the land from Christina Gateway includes basketball great Julius Erving and local entrepreneur David Wooley. "We're elated by all that's taking place at this time," Wooley said. "And we'll have further comment at the appropriate time." Mayor James H. Sills Jr. has promised for months that the city was close to completing a deal to build the $15 million Riverview See RIVERVIEW A4 The News JournalBOB HERBERT W.

Michael McCabe, who was named regional EPA administrator Thursday. WnVTZ r- I Farmers sound familiar refrain: Dry, dry again By PHIL MILFORD Staff reporter The temperature was about 90 Thursday as Middletown farmer Julie Filasky tended rows of tomatoes, squash, cabbage and other assorted vegetables under a searing sun. "They're doing pretty good so far but we haven't had as much rain as we'd like," said the 20-year-old, who helps run Heat wave scorches Plains A3 Seasonal business heats up B1 Beat the heat cheaply B2 the family farm at 1143 Bunker Hill Road. Her father, John Filasky, occasionally has used irrigation pipes this summer, especially on tomatoes, on the 150 acres of land near the Maryland state line. The dry weather "has delayed some things" during the growing season, the elder Filasky said.

"But the rainfall has been just enough" to keep plants healthy. See CROPS A4 The News JournalCARY EMEIGH Middletown farmer John Filasky is afraid below-normal rainfall will ruin his crops, which Include watermelons like this one. 1 1 The News JournalBOB HERBERT 4 A Thursday's high: 92 Thursday's record high: 98 in 1894 Friday's forecast high: upper 90s Friday's record high: 100 in 1954 Today's air quality forecast for Wilmington: Mod-erate-Unhealthful mental issues, most notably organizing the Earth Day celebration Lawyer to replace McCabe A4 in 1980, the year in which he and other activists succeeded in catapulting the event to a new level of national attention. McCabe said his interest in the environment stemmed from six years spent living in Switzerland, after his father was transferred to Europe by the DuPont Co. "Every day, I woke up and saw a beautiful landscape and was very aware of nature," he said.

"I took long walks through the mountains. I skied. I walked everywhere. I didn't drive a car until I was 18. It's a heartfelt, fundamental love for nature." McCabe also has a soft spot for Council's vote clears the way for Riverview Plaza ByTRIF ALATZAS Staff reporter WILMINGTON The first downtown movie house in 13 years is heading to a city near you.

City Council members unanimously approved a plan they expect will complete the long-negotiated deal to build the Riverview Plaza movie theater complex near the Amtrak Station between Market and Orange streets. A 10- to 12-screen theater is planned. The deal allows the city to buy a vacant, 2.4-acre lot owned by CSX Transportation Inc. for $1.1 million. The city will in turn sell the land to Christina Gateway which is run by city and state officials.

That gives CSX a federal tax break on the sale, city leaders said. politics, in which he has earned a reputation for being pragmatic, intelligent and likable. McCabe joined Biden's staff eight years ago, as the Democratic senator embarked upon his unsuccessful presidential bid. "He's able to translate without talking down to people very complicated ideas and notions," said Biden, who championed McCabe 's EPA appointment. "He just exudes confidence and, as such, people in Congress are prepared to listen to him." McCabe's selection was well-received by players on both sides of the environmental battleground: "I have found him to be very sharp and, certainly, a very See MCCABE A4 Bidee aide to lead regional EPA office The "heat index," a discomfort reading combining heat and humidity, could reach 1 10 degrees today and Saturday.

Such high indexes "can indicate a dangerous condition" leading to heat exhaustion or death during prolonged physical activity, officials said. trict of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. McCabe, who will continue to reside in Wilmington, serves at the pleasure of the president. His appointment is not subject to Senate confirmation. McCabe was Biden's director of communications and projects in Delaware, a visible post in which he often served as spokesman or stand-in for the Democratic senator.

McCabe also has two decades of experience working on environ- Appointment comes as agency braces for cuts By TOM CURLEY Staff reporter W. Michael McCabe, a high-profile aide to Sen. Joseph R. Bi-den Jr. with a life-long interest in conservation, was named Thursday as Environmental Protection Agency administrator for Delaware and nearby states.

McCabe, 43, becomes one of 10 regional administrators who enforce U.S. environmental regulations. He'll head the agency's Region 3 office in Philadelphia, which oversees Delaware, the Dis.