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Pro football Book updsitscl Federal spending critiqued Moneyplus, Page ID Lions 26 Cardinals 20 Saints 16 49ers 13 Rams 28 Vikings 15 Oilers 13 Packers 13 Dolphins 22 Colts 23 Bills 13 Browns 10' Sports, Section 1993 The Arizona Daily Star Vol. 152 No. 270 Final Edition, Tucson, Monday, September 1993 35 U.S.50 In Mexico 48 Pages IlDpllnroiDi) raftiiora to ivwM 'I i i i jrgWWIWWWWlpipWW'W wifWii Is i p' MOP ''z CDs' I I I k' i I II i J. 1 2-year mission described as 'magnificent' By Jim Erlckson The Arizona Dally Star ORACLE More than 2,000 people gathered outside Biosphere 2 yesterday morning to greet the project's eight crew members as they emerged, gaunt and pale but smiling, after two years in the giant terrarium. Trumpets sounded a fanfare and the crowd rose to its feet and applauded as the four men and four women stepped through the airlock doors and walked down a red carpet at about 8:25 a.m.

Abigail Ailing, 34, the first crew member out, appeared to be trying to catch her breath as she stepped to the microphone to address the crowd. "It's really a very different atmosphere," Ailing said, gasping. Oxygen was pumped into Biosphere 2 twice because levels of the life-sustaining gas declined slowly but relentlessly throughout the two-year experiment. "This has been an extraordinary experience and a magnificent journey for the last two years," said crew member Linda Leigh, 41. "I glimpsed paradise." Critics lambasted the $150 million Biosphere 2 project throughout the experiment, dismissing it as more show business than science.

Even Biosphere 2's own scientific advisory committee said the project's research program was plagued by See BIOSPHERE, Page4A Russians turnout for Yeltsin Hard-liners remain dug in at Parliament MOSCOW (AP) Thousands of Russians cheered Boris N. Yeltsin at a concert on Red Square yesterday and at least 10,000 people marched in the biggest demonstration of support for the president since he disbanded Parliament five days ago. 1 Across town, hard-liners who have sought to impeach Yeltsin and name their own government dug in their heels. "If need be, we will stay here for a year," said Parliament speaker Rus-lan Khasbulatov, leader of the approximately 100 lawmakers who remain holed up in the building, known as the White House. Late yesterday, in a potentially significant development, a top aide was quoted as saying he believed Yeltsin would agree to simultaneous elections for Parliament and presi-dent But Deputy Prime Minister -Sergei Shakhrai stressed he was ex-' pressing his personal opinion, an official said.

Shakhrai's comments came at a meeting of regional leaders on the crisis, in which they urged both sides to cancel decrees Issued during the crisis and hold simultaneous elections immediately. Yeltsin has set new parliamentary elections for December and said presidential elections could be held in June. Khasbulatov's group wants simultaneous elections in March. Yeltsin dissolved Parliament last Tuesday after struggling for 18 See RUSSIA, Page 2A i Clinton today to define U.S. I role in world By Thomas Friedman 1993 The New York Timet NEW YORK President Clinton today will make his first comprehensive effort to spell out his vision of the world and the role of American foreign policy.

In his address to the U.N. General Assembly at 8 a.m. Tucson time, Clinton will lay out several new initiatives for limiting the spread of nuclear arms, ballistic missiles and chemical weapons, administration officials said yesterday. The president will also discuss how the U.S. plans to make up the roughly $1 billion in unpaid dues and peacekeeping bills that It owes the world organization.

As one official remarked, "We're not going to go and ask the United Nations to do all kinds of things without at least saying something about how we might pay for it" But officials said Clinton will emphasize that payments have to be made in the context of changes of U.N. institutions. He will argue that just as his administration is trying to "reinvent government" the United Nations needs to be "reinvented" as an institution if it is to remain rele- See ARMS, Page 3A Linda Sagw Salazar, The Arizona Dally Star way, the eight crew members of Biosphere 2 emerge from the terrarium that was home for two years State panel to weigh resurrecting environmental trust fund for CAP f. -14 1 committee with Symington. The proposal rejected by the committee would have created a trust fund of $5 million, $10 million or $15 million from a surcharge on CAP water deliveries, DeMichele said.

Under the new proposal, the fund would start at $500,000 and gradually increase over several years to $8 million. Details on funding remained unclear late last week as panelists tried to find a revenue source that would not raise water prices. As state officials scrambled this year to overhaul the CAP'S long-term financing and operations, environmental groups pressed for the project to allocate water and money See CAP, Page 5A By Enrlc Volante The Arizona Dally Star Last of a two-day series A state panel today is to reconsider creating an environmental trust fund for the Central Arizona Project. Gov. Fife Symington's CAP Advisory Committee voted Sept 2 to reject the trust fund of up to $15 million.

It was sought by environmentalists to restore some of Arizona's dry or damaged river systems. Mayor George Miller helped kill the fund, saying he feared it would drive up water bills in Tucson, which relies heavily on CAP water. But a scaled-down proposal emerged last week as environmentalists and others hustled to craft a Proposal to raise taxes for CAP unpopular With Abigail Ailing leading the Sunday: Subsidizing Arizona farmers Today: Politics and the environment compromise aimed at relieving Miller's concerns. "We think there is a good possibility there are a sufficient number of votes to pass it this time," said Mark DeMichele, president and chief executive officer of Arizona Public Service Co. He co-chairs the 1 INDEX Sheltering women Plight Considered.

International sympathy Is growing for abused women fleeing their homelands because of sexual persecution. PagezA. Tourist killed In Florida 10th Victim. A New York Qty man is shot to death on a Miami highway, police say. The man was the 10th tourist slain In Florida In less than a year, a trend that Is harming the state's $31 bllllon-a-year tourism industry.

Page 2A. Acceat S4B MsaeyplM MID CUntfe Newt mbuut IA Cemics IB 1H1A Cramer 11C DevAboy Heretcepe IB Obiturics IK Speru UK TVUitiip 7B CAP already are lining "That would water purchased sense," said Senate Tucson. Any tax hike who are unlikely See TAXES, By Francle Noyes The Arizona Dairy Star It is the lightest of trial balloons, but it still may not fly. Today the Governor's Advisory Committee on the Central Arizona Project will recommend a property tax hike to help farmers struggling to pay for their share of the Central Arizona Project The tax increase is only a suggestion, but opponents up to shoot it down. make homeowners pick up the bill for for the farmers.

It doesn't make any Democratic leader Cindy Resnick of must be approved by state legislators, to do so, said Senate Majority Leader Page5A Jim Davis, The Arizona Dally Star CAP trust fund could target Santa Cruz River, shown near Tubac U.S. confronts Russia over Korean War POWs WEATHER Windy and warm. Today 4s expected to be sunny and warm with southeast winds of 20 to 35 mph diminishing to 15 to 25 mph by afternoon. Look for a high near 100 and an overnight low In the mid-60s. Yesterday's high was 98, the low was 60.

Temeperatures are expected to climb a bit more by Wednesday. Details on Page A. and July 1956. Both times the Soviet government denied any knowledge of U.S. POWs on its soil.

Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin said last year that Soviet records showed that 59 captured U.S. servicemen in Korea were interrogated by Soviet officials and that 12 crew members of U.S. aircraft shot down during reconnaissance missions unrelated to the Korean War were transferred to Soviet territory. But the Yeltsin government has yet to concede that Americans were taken from Korea.

In the three years of fighting in Korea, In which the United States led a U.N. force on the -side of South Korea against Communist North Korea, 54,246 Americans were killed. The government lists 8,140 as unaccounted for, although the number of missing for which there is no direct evidence of death is estimated at 2,195. Many of the unaccounted for were not recovered because See POWS, Page 2A was mainly politically motivated with the intent of holding them as political hostages, subjects for intelligence exploitation and skilled labor within the camp system." The report asserts that the evidence gave a "consistent and mutually reinforcing description" of Soviet intelligence services forcibly moving American prisoners of war to the Soviet Union at a time when the Soviet military, including anti-aircraft units, was active in North Korea. The report does not assess how long the American servicemen mostly Air Force aviators may have lived, or whether any might still be alive in the chaotic former Soviet Union.

Just last year, the VS. government said it had no evidence of such transfers. However, Washington has known since the end of the war that some evidence existed that VS. POWs from Korea had been taken to the Soviet Union. The United States asked Moscow for information on this in May 1954 WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S.

government has confronted Moscow for the first time with evidence that hundreds of U.S. Korean War prisoners were secretly moved to the Soviet Union, imprisoned and never returned. The allegation, supported by new information from a variety of American and Russian sources, was made in a detailed presentation by a State Department official at a meeting with Russian officials in Moscow earlier this month. The evidence is spelled out in a government report titled "The Transfer of U.S. Korean War POWs to the Soviet Union." It was given to the Russians at the Moscow meeting but the Clinton administration has refused to release it A copy of the report was obtained by The Associated Press.

"The Soviets transferred several hundred VS. Korean War POWs to the and did not repatriate them," the report says. This transfer 7 llLoi36u 30001 1 5,.