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High SChOOl fOOtball -Sports, Section Sablno 14 Desert View 22 Santa Rita 13 Amphl 42 Mtn. View 10 Catailna 6 Sunnyside 7 Rincon 0 Tucson 23 F. Wells 39 Pueblo 21 Sahuaro 13 Salpointe 3 Douglas 7 Buena 13 Palo Verde 12 Second chance CyWfy UA faces No-1 again Sports, Page 1C fi untunes 6V 1 992 The Arizona Daily Star Vol. 151 No. 312 Final Edition, Tucson, Saturday, November 7, 1992 U.S.50 In Mexico 68 Pages State's hospitality industry welcomes King holiday's passage holiday, without risking losing voters who had heard over and over again the economic cost to the "People were tired of hearing about a civil rights day," he said.

"Early on, our surveys indicated that people didn't want to hear about the cost anymore." In Tucson, the Metropolitan Tucson Convention Visitors Bureau plans to contact all organizations that wrote letters saying that the lack of a King holiday was the reason they took their business elsewhere. "We'll use direct mail, calls and letters to ask them to come back," said Patrick Tierney, president. "This is the first time the hotel industry has banded together like this and I think it will pay dividends in the future." been turned down for convention business because voters rejected a paid state holiday in 1990. The Metropolitan Tucson Convention Visitors Bureau estimates Tucson lost out on more than $10 million in hospitality revenue. "When it wasn't passed last time, many just pulled their plans and went elsewhere," said Westin La Paloma hotel spokeswoman Nancy Allison.

Resorts statewide are reporting that convention planners are back. Just days after passage of the holiday, one Phoenix-area resort booked 3,000 nights for a convention group that would stay in Arizona only after passage of a King holiday. Sports conventions also will receive a boost from groups that would not come to By LA. Mitchell Arizona Dally Star A day after a Martin Luther King Jr. state holiday was passed, the El Conquista-'j dor resort booked two conventions and 1,300 rooms.

'r Those two conventions, one of which is 'the non-profit Second Harvest, a association of food banks, contacted tthe Sheraton resort in Oro Valley earlier this year but the plans remained contin- IJgent on passage of the King holiday. Marketing director Ken Broom esti-mates that's about $300,000 in business that's "an immediate return on the passage of the King holiday." That type of news Is good for all city resorts that cater to conventions, including Tucson's Westin La Paloma, which has Arizona without a King holiday, said Chris Murray, assistant director of the Pima County Sports Authority. The state's lodging industry had a great deal at stake in the Nov. 3 election, said Art Bouffard, deputy director of the Phoenix-based Hotel and Motel Association. The state lost a variety of hospitality business after groups canceled trips to Arizona in protest of the rejection of a King holiday.

Perhaps the biggest loss was the 1993 Super Bowl. The National Football League moved the game from Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe after the 1990 vote. The lost business prompted a large-scale voter-registration drive by the Hospitality Employees for Arizona's Future, organized by Bouffard's organization and several Tucson properties. The end result: the organization registered more than 60,000 people to vote. "The intent was to organize a grass-roots effort to get employees (of the hospitality industry) to vote and inform them of the importance of the Martin Luther King civil rights day legislation," Bouffard said.

"From an industry standpoint, we tried to get across to our employees that the King day is a moral issue, but also an economic one." The association estimates the voters' initial rejection of a King holiday cost the state between $160 million and $250 million, and 4,000 new jobs in the industry. Bouffard said representatives from the state's hotels and resorts elected to organize a low-key campaign to tout the King Walker probe a waste, members of jury Walker was convicted Thursday of conspiracy and making a false campaign contribution statement, but she was acquitted of bribery, money laundering and other campaign violations. Co-defendant Ronald Tapp, a former ball bondsman, was convicted of seven bribery counts, conspiracy, money laundering and three other charges. Stedino said he felt the jurors were overwhelmed by the evidence. The six-month trial Included long hours viewing video recordings of the sting.

"They missed something," Stedino told The Phoenix Gazette. "They were hit with too much. It was too much for anyone to comprehend. "I'm not mad at the jury," he added. "They (the defendants) were still convicted." On the other hand, another juror, not Identified by See WALKER, Page 2A PHOENIX (AP) Two members of the jury that convicted former state Sen.

Carolyn Walker of some charges but acquitted her of others say they found the AzScam political-corruption investigation distasteful and unnecessary. Juror John Crane said he and his colleagues were "unanimous about one thing this investigation should not have gotten off the ground because of the flimsi-ness of the Initial evidence." "There was no doubt about It, they (the investigators) created the opportunity for the crimes," Crane said. "I think if police carefully craft a sting operation, they can get virtually anybody." But Joseph Stedlno, who posed as an underworld-connected lobbyist for casino gambling with cash to give away, said he can't understand how the jury could fall to convict Walker of bribery after seeing her in video recordings pocketing stacks of cash. 2 advisers who helped Clinton select Gore will head transition -4. w.

i 1 "f' i i i 1 5 i-vf t. i -i i i -J. i3 v'" f--. I i 'a i i Z' jf LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) President-elect Bill Clinton yesterday asked Vernon Jordan and Warren Christopher, two trusted advisers who helped select his running mate, to lead the White House transition team.

"There is a government to be formed," Christopher, a former deputy secretary of state, said simply as Clinton added steam to his effort to select a Cabinet, build a White House staff and fill thousands of jobs at government agencies. Both Christopher and Jordan, a Washington, D.C, lawyer and former civil rights leader, figure prominently in speculation about who will have major roles in a Clinton administration. Christopher said he had no word from Clinton but expected the members of an economic policy team to be among the first appointments. Jordan will serve as chairman of the transition board and oversee its operations in Washington. Christopher will be director the chief The Associated Press The Associated Press The Associated Press Warren Christopher of staff, in charge of day-to-day operations.

"The American people could have no better servants working on their behalf," Clinton said in a statement Vernon Jordan announcing the appointments, his first major personnel decision as president-elect. It fell to spokesman George Ste-See TRANSITION, Page5A to evacuate about 6,000 Bosnians were canceled yesterday because of worries about losing fighters to defend Sarajevo. Story, Page 9A. Dozens of refugees from the Serb-occupied town of Jajce huddle In a temporary center for refugees In Travnlk, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Plans WEATHHt EC members anxious to prevent start of trans-Atlantic trade war i Sunnier, warmer.

Today is 'expected to be mostly sunny and 'warmer, with a high in the mid-70s and an overnight low In the mid-j40s. Yesterday's high was 73, and the low 41. Yuma, at 79, was Arizona's warmest spot yesterday. The overnight low was 10 In Springer-ivllle. Details on Page HA.

INDEX 'Very special' founders of Primavera Foundation say they'll resign in April By Jane Erikson The Arizona Dally Star After 10 years of working to better the lives of the city's homeless, Nancy Bissell and Gordon Packard have decided it's time for a change. Founders and co-directors of the Primavera Foundation, an organization that provides shelter, job training and other services for the homeless, Bissell and Packard announced yesterday that they will resign in April. The two are leaving to pursue new and as yet undetermined challenges, although they plan to continue serving on Primavera's board of directors. "Nothing stays static," Packard said yesterday. There's always change within organizations, and personal changes, and we think 10 years is a good time to pass the mantle on to See PRIMAVERA, Page 2A Despite good news, economy considered 'still in bad shape' NEW YORK (AP) A spate of positive economic reports this week, including a modest drop in unemployment and a pickup in sales for retailers like Wal-Mart and mart, looks at first blush like a sign that the economy is truly gaining strength.

But the reports failed to inspire much enthusiasm about the economy or alter economists' previously held views about the recovery. Mostly, they interpret the numbers as more of the same: evidence of slow growth. Yesterday's report of a fourth straight monthly drop in the nation's unemployment rate, to a six-month low of 7.4 percent in October, followed news from retailers Thursday of solid sales gains last month that may herald greater consumer spending over the critical holiday season. Markley Roberts, an economist at the AFL-00 In Washington, wasnt impressed. "It's clear that conditions are not improving." he See ECONOMY, Page 3A Money It-IK Movie IB Newt summary .14 Obituriei 14C Public recwdi.l4C Sports HC Tbcsm today SB TV 11B Acceot 4-12B Bridge 12B 'Classified 14C-I2D jComics 1IB 2S-21A ISC at Abty J8 ttlortujopt I2B BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) European Community leaders yesterday ruled out quick retaliation over punitive U.S.

tariffs and promised further negotiations to avoid a full-blown trade war. "We have to do everything to avoid a trade war," said Jacques Delors of France, president of the community's executive commission. Delors, who has ambitions to become France's president, denied accusations that he has sabotaged the trade talks to support his home country the main holdout against concessions to the Americans. The 12-nation trading bloc was galvanized to action after the United States announced Thursday that it will Impose 200 percent tariffs on some European products in 30 days if the European Community does not agree to cut subsidies to farmers. The VS.

tariffs target $300 million worth of goods, mainly French white wine, which would cause its price to triple In America. A trade war eventually could threaten hundreds of thousands of jobs on both sides of the Atlantic The United States has taken a crucial step toward fair trade, a UA economist says. Page IOC. Trade ministers from the EC nations began two days of talks yesterday at an English country manor north of London. Michael Heseltine, British trade secretary, told London's Channel 4 news the ministers "were very clear that the community must put forward a very positive view, that it must remain very cool and not in any way exacerbate this already very difficult circumstance." But France, the ECs biggest agricultural producer, defended its farm subsidies again in the face of efforts by Germany, Britain and others to move toward a deal with Washington.

"If we lay down every time the Americans raised their finger, we wouldn't exist," Jean-See TRADE WAR, Page6A Tin i.nii i iii inn.