Arizona Daily Star from Tucson, Arizona • Page 2

Page Two Section A Arizona Ba'tln Slar Tucson, Wednesday, October 18, 1989 NEWS AT A GLANCE MEIEOSTATE ACCENT sit 1 "Fabulous Baker Boys" good, too. Star critic Robert S. Cauthorn says Hollywood has delivered a rarity here: a big-budget production with soul. Although far from perfect, this adult dramatic comedy has much to offer, Cauthorn finds. Page 5B.

Another Tucson. Star columnist Bonnie Henry writes about the small wooden diner, known originally as The Shack and later as Chew and Choke, that comprised dining at the airport from 1941 to 1948. Page 5B. Wl ,1 1 InnnnriMi munrwr I mum 11 11 I Ulil iVVT Request denied. Pima County supervisors deny the county attorney's request for six workers to notify crime victims about hearings involving their cases.

Page IB. Hazardous waste. Randolph Wood, director of the state Department of Environmental Quality, tells a study panel of legislators that Arizona laws governing hazardous waste are too lax. Page IB. Interstate dangers.

The DPS, in pointing out the dangers inherent in breakdowns on interstate roads, says three people killed recently at breakdown scenes died even though they apparently followed proper procedures. Page IB. COMMENT Deficit reduction. Congress made a game out of deficit reduction and didn't get much accomplished. Page 12A.

NATION MONEY The Arizona Daily Star Cotter Donnel and other Catalina Foothills youngsters are making holiday greeting cards to be sold around town. Their goal: helping UNICEF help needy children around the world. Page IB. The Associated Press reforms. Amid such protests, the East German Politburo holds a meeting that could determine the fate of the country's leader, Erich Honecker.

Page 10A. E. German protest A tram is blocked In Leipzig by tens of thousands of demonstrators taking part In a peaceful march for political Moose killed. A bull moose that had drawn widespread attention by its wanderings in Iowa, far from its normal range, is killed by a coyote hunter. The man, who faces court action, says he fired in self-defense when the animal charged at him.

Page 14A. WASHINGTON WORLD SPORTS Choice of schools. Education Secretary Lauro F. Cavazos, visiting Harlem, says letting parents choose their children's schools is the basis of educational reform. Others tell him it is not enough.

Page 14A. Bank losses. Arizona banks' first-half loss of $132.3 million is the highest among the three states in which banks' lost money, according to a consulting company's report. Page 8C. Value of disabled workers.

Hiring the handicapped makes good economic sense, and the disabled are a untapped labor pool, employers are told at a Tucson seminar. Page 8C. Chase leaving Tucson. Chase Bank of Arizona, which once planned to open eight branches in Tucson, says it will move out of the city on Dec. 1 with the closure of its personal services office.

Page 11C. Boeing strike. A Machinists union official says the Boeing Co. must increase its offer if it is to lure strikers back to work. Page 11C.

Surgeon general nominee. The Bush administration nominates Antonia Novello as the next U.S. surgeon general. The children's AIDS specialist would be the first woman and the first Hispanic to hold the post. Page 6A.

Flag amendment. Sens. John C. Danforth and Warren Rudman, co-sponsors of the proposed amendment to ban flag burning, now say they will vote against the measure. Page 8A.

AIDS "disaster." A think tank predicts that 14.5 million Americans will be infected with the AIDS virus by the year 2002 unless strong measures are taken. Page 9A. Words speak louder. Washington State football coach Mike Price says the UA will not be able to run tackle-to-tackle on his Cougars when the teams play Saturday in Pullman, Wash. Page 1C.

Star scoop. According to several UA football fans, Star sports columnist Greg Hansen has jumped on the Wildcats' bandwagon. Page 1C. One for the ages. J.T.

Smith of the Phoenix Cardinals is among the oldest wide receivers in the National Football League, but he leads the league in receptions. Page 1C. Palestinian deaths. An Israeli human rights group says government soldiers killed 20 Palestinians in the first two weeks of October, after a change in army orders. Page 10A.

Colombian Judge killed. A federal judge leaving his Medellin home is killed by a gunman. Police suspect drug traffickers are to blame. Page HA. Ivory trade ban.

After a long, bitter fight about how best to save the remaining African elephants, an international group approves a ban on ivory trade. Page 11 A. Unusual custody battle. A Denver woman seeks custody of her 12-year-old daughter, saying she was kidnapped as an infant in 1977. But the woman who raised the child says the girl was given away.

Page 14A. Weather forces delay of Atlantis launch; NASA to try again today r. 1 turn t- 1 1 LJ Its' By Harry F. Rosenthal The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Rain offshore, not demonstrators or mechanical problems, stopped the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis and Its nuclear-fueled cargo yesterday.

"It looks like the local weather Is not going to cooperate, we're going to call It a day," launch director Bob Sieck told the five astronauts who had been lying on their backs in Atlantis' cabin for three hours. NASA said It will try again today at 12:50 p.m. EDT (9:50 a.m. Tucson time). Last night's earthquake in northern California gave the National Aeronautics and Space Administration some concern.

The rocket that propels the Galileo space probe is controlled in flight by an Air Force station In Sunnyvale, Calif. NASA said It had received reports the station suffered some damage. The station's condition would have to be assessed before workers started filling the shuttle's fuel tank early today, said Steve Nesbitt, a spokesman at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA's last opportunity to launch the space probe determined by the positions of Earth and Jupiter is Nov. 21, when Earth and Jupiter lose their favorable alignment.

The launch "window" lengthens each day until Nov. 2, then gets shorter by the day. The scrub cost NASA $624,000, more than half of that for the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen used in the shuttle's external fuel tank overnight. Atlantis' mission already delayed for seven years by budget and other problems is to carry the Galileo probe into orbit, the start of its 2.4 billion-mile, six-year trip to Jupiter. The $1.5 billion Galileo is the most expensive unmanned spacecraft ever built.

It Is expected to give scientists their best look at another planet. The weather became a factor in the final hours of the countdown, with clouds building offshore and across the Kennedy Space Center runway. The showers were in an area that Atlantis would have to pass through if an engine were lost shortly after liftoff and the astronauts had to attempt an emergency landing on the runway near the launch pad. Officials also worry that rain hitting a descending shuttle could severely damage the fragile tiles that protect the vehicle from heat during reentry from orbit. For a time it also appeared the three emergency landing sites, in Spain and Morocco, were unusable because of weather, which was another reason for scrubbing the launch attempt.

Protesters had tried to block the launch in court because Galileo's two electrical generators are fueled by highly radioactive plutonium. They feared an accident during launch, like the explosion that destroyed the shuttle Challenger, would release the plutonium In the atmosphere. But promised protests at the launch site did not materialize. One man was arrested after declaring that he would walk through a restricted gate. Eight boats were shepherded out of the protected area offshore, but the Coast Guard said none appeared to be trying to Interfere with the launch.

There were also no Intrusions into the restricted airspace around the launch site. The countdown went without a hitch to the nine-minute mark and Sieck held it there for several minutes to wait out the weather. He then allowed the count to go down to the five-minute mark, hoping showers would move out. NASA had only a 26-minute period during which Earth and Jupiter were in proper alignment for a launch. Sieck had two minutes left when he scrubbed.

hi lit I I J. i sy 4 vy I If 'i The Associatecf Press Three of the five shuttle Atlantis astronauts after their flight was postponed CORRECTIONS KPOL A story in Tuesday's Arizona Daily Star incorrectly attributed comments that the developer of the Brentwood Hills subdivision has no plans to build for a year to City Councilwoman Janet Marcus. That statement was made by a representative of the Southern Arizona Home Builders. The story also Incorrectly said planning officials expect Brentwood Hills and Silverado Hills to violate the city grading ordinance. As long as the developers build on their property or reseed it, they are in compliance with the law.

Mark Sneller is director of the office of pollen and mold in the Pima County Department of Environmental Quality. The office was identified incorrectly in a story yesterday. About corrections: or feJffiate STRlI abUVhe accuracV or faiss of news or features in the Star or a suggestion about imorovina the newsDa-per, please call Leo Delia Betta, the ombudsman at Journal Co. bought KMSB-TV, Channel 11, for $13.2 million. But with six commercial stations, two Spanish-language affiliates, cable television and a full-time public television station, Tucson has twice the number of stations per capita as most markets.

"KPOL never had a chance from the start," said Tuoti. Added Jon Ruby, president and general manager of KVOA-TV, Channel 4, the NBC affiliate in Tucson, "I'm totally amazed that they came In the first place and I'm amazed they lasted this long. I never saw the potential for KPOL to make a profit, but this is America and you're certainly entitled to try." KPOL officials would not say if they had received any offers for the station. Local industry sources said that the two Spanish-language stations one that transmits from Phoenix and another that carries only network programming had made offers to buy KPOL and were rejected. KPOL's owners spent more than $2 million to modernize the station at 2475 N.

Jack Rabbit the station said previously. But the station was jinxed from the day it started service, Tuoti said. It began transmitting assuming that it would have only one independent competitor Channel 11. But it confronted a second competitor when the diocese changed its application from non-profit to commercial status. When the diocese said last November it was going to go off the air, competitors were "ready to throw a party" because they believed they would divide the station's advertising revenues, said Tuoti, who worked as sales manager at Channel 11 last year and who has spent almost four decades in the Industry elsewhere.

But the other stations' hopes were dashed when the station was sold, Tuoti said. Whether Channels 11 and 18 can survive is also in doubt, Tuoti said. Both continue to be burdened by high debt and small audiences. "The owners of Channel 18 have a better chance of becoming profitable because they paid so much less for entrance into the market," he said. Jones Intercable, one of the cable television companies serving Tucson, said yesterday that it would substitute the Cable Ad Channel for KPOL, starting in January.

Cooke Cablevision, which serves most of Tucson, said it had not reached a decision yet about what it would substitute for KPOL. Continued from Page One advertising spots for $10 to $15, less than a tenth what many of its competitors are charging. Its ratings were so low recently that It quit subscribing to the ratings services, industry sources said. The plan to shut down was announced to employees yesterday morning by station manager David Polan. The former Chicago personal Injury attorney, who, with his father, Julian, bought the station In 1984, refused to speak with reporters.

KPOL business manager Wanda Langejans said Polan was "trying to go down with as much dignity as possible." The plan to close continues the turmoil in the local market. Less than a year ago, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson sold KDTU-TV, Channel 18, to Clear Channel Television of Houston for $2.24 million in cash and assumption of debts. The diocese had invested as much as $15 million in the station, which was the first commercial station in the United States owned by a Catholic diocese. Three years ago, the Providence Miss. Democrat wins U.S.

House seat from GOP JACKSON, Miss. (AP) State Sen. Gene Taylor won an overwhelming victory over Republican Tom Anderson in a special congressional election yesterday, giving the Democrats all five House seats from the state for the first time in 17 years. With 94 percent of 372 precincts reported in the race for a successor to the late U.S. Rep.

Larkin Smith, Taylor had 77,081 votes, or 65 percent, to 41,372, or 35 percent, for Anderson. The race was made necessary by the August death of Smith, a Republican, in a small-plane crash. The GOP, which holds both of Mississippi's U.S. Senate seats, had tried to hold onto its only House seat, which it had had since 1972. Taylor, 36, represented Bay St.

Louis in the state Senate. Anderson, 43, was a longtime chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Trent Lott. Lott had held the seat for the Republicans for 16 years before he went on to the Senate.

Smith defeated Taylor for the post last year. "I'm kind of bewildered by the numbers," Taylor said in a telephone interview from Biloxi last night. "We hoped to win, but we're overwhelmed." Taylor, a conservative, said residents of the district "can expect someone who is going to go to bat. Above all, I hope they come to expect honest government." Hjf Arizona Bailij Siar STAR PUBLISHING CO. P.O.

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dal 857267 BX 26887' TuCWn AZ Mass. man claiming $28 million lottery prize lands in jail Mass. (AP) A man who tried to collect a $28 million lottery Jackpot with a forged ticket was arrested by officials who noted the fake was easy to spot: The computer drawing didn't produce a winner. Ralph Brunner, 25, of Newton-ville, was charged Monday with forging a ticket for the Mass Millions lottery, said state Trooper Ken Hal-loran. The fact that no winning number was drawn Friday night was widely publicized, said David Ellis, spokesman for the lotterv rnmmlssion.

"The world knew no one had won it," he said. Officials who examined Brunner's $2 ticket bearing the winning numbers found the computer printing had been altered, Ellis said. The receptionist who accepted the ticket Monday asked Brunner to fill out a claim form while officials studied the ticket. They called police, who arrested Brunner. 4.