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RRSTEDmON SO A TT TT A 17 Copy Fiesta fetes Tucson's diversity TV58 to join dial in Tucson Public unveiling Scrimmage puts '97 Cats on display Sports, 1C Volunteer WIN lends hand to business folks Money, 3B Accent, ID Below '-fiwuftwintiw I if -r I -t-TV, I L27 I Star Serving Tucson and Southern Arizona MrA ICC OOCX First Edition, Tucson, Saturday, August 23, 1997 500 U.S.$1.00 in Mexico 73 Pages it- 1' FAMILY FARE TV channel will air from Sierra Vista Conviction might not mmeaim fast resignation to verse verdict." State law would force the governor to step down if he is found guilty of any of the 21 criminal charges against him. In recent weeks, Symington aides have told reporters he would step aside within two or three days of a guilty verdict. But Dowd said that was before a dismissed juror suggested some members of the jury may have discussed evidence they were told to ignore or en SYMINGTON ONiTRJAL WB Television Network programming, to be seen on Channel 58 locally, will be family oriented, according to the network. Prime-time offerings include: "Alright Already," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "The Jamie Foxx Show," "Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher," "The Parent 'Hood," "7th Heaven," "Sister, Sister," "Smart Guy," "The Steve Harvey Show," "The Tom Show" with Tom Arnold, "Unhappily Ever After" and "The Wayans Bros." The WB Kids Lineup includes Steven Spielberg's "Animaniacs" and "Pinky the Brain." Non-network programming on KWBA will include reruns of "Friends," "Grace Under Fire," "Mama's Family," "Fresh Prince, of Bel-Air," "The Nanny," "Rose-anne," "Matlock," "Hawaii Five-O," and "Andy Griffith." By Shaun McKinnon The Arizona Daily Star PHOENIX Gov. Fife Symington might not resign immediately if he is found guilty by a federal jury, his attorney said yesterday, a position that could lead to yet another court battle.

John Dowd said lingering questions about possible jury misconduct must be answered before Symington does anything that can't be undone. "He has a lot more to By Alan D. Fischer The Arizona Daily Star I Southern Arizona television' viewers will have a new channel choice early next year when KWBA-TV58 hits the airwaves. The new station, to be seen on Channel 58, is a WB Television retwork affiliate. Warner Broth-1 vrs is the majority owner of WB.

The station will be licensed in Sierra Vista and will offer that community a line-of-sight signal rjtfrom a tower to be located in the Santa Rita Mountains, said station official Gary Marshall. Marshall said the Sierra Vista residents currently find it difficult if not impossible to get television "reception because the Santa Rita "Mountains block the signal from Tucson-area towers. The station's 5-million-watt 1 ft gaged vote trading. Those allegations should be investigated before Symington is put in a position to resign, Dowd said, even if it means staying in office until sen-' tencing, which is when federal verdicts are officially entered. In federal court, sentences typically are imposed about 60 days after the verdict, although the process has dragged on as long as nine months in high-profile cases.

Dowd's comments capped a chaotic five days See SYMINGTON, Page 14A TELEVISION signal will also cover Tucson and Pima, Cochise and Santa Cruz counties, he said. Operations will be based in Tucson. Marshall said the station See CHANNEL, Page 3A lose than most defendants," Dowd told reporters. "If you leave the record where it is today, then you've got some very serious questions. I don't want these issues unresolved in the event of an ad- Slots on reservations all illegal, judge rules Court sets date to hear suit by Paula Jones LITTLE ROCK, Ark.

(AP) Paula ones sexual narassment lawsuit against President Clinton can go forward, a federal judge ruled yesterday, attempts by defense lawyers to nave tne case tnrown out. U.S. District Court Judge usan Web- ber Wright did dismiss the allegation Tthat Clinton had defamed Jones and missed a claim that the former state ployee had been denied due process. By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services PHOENIX Slot machines on Indian reservations are illegal, no matter what the voters and state lawmakers have said, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled yesterday. In a six-page ruling, Judge Michael Dann blocked Gov.

Fife Symington from signing any new gaming compacts with tribes tp let them have slot machines, keno or other forms of video gambling. Dann said the fact that these devices are not allowed elsewhere in the state prohibits their use in tribal casinos. Technically, Dann's ruling affects only the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, which wants to open its own casinos. The tribe financed Proposition 201 to force the governor to sign a gaming compact with it, similar to those already granted to 16 other tribes. Attorneys for both sides agree, though, that the decision undermines the legality of those existing compacts, paving the way for new lawsuits to close those casinos.

That contention was disputed by the Arizona Indian Gaming Association. Philip Shea, attorney for the tribe, vowed to appeal the ruling. Federal law allows Indian tribes to conduct the same kind of gaming on their reservations that is allowed elsewhere in the state. But it requires each tribe to sign a compact with the state government. Symington at first refused to allow video gaming devices, since they were not permitted elsewhere in the state.

But faced with a federal court lawsuit and a legal opinion by former state Chief Justice Frank Gordon that charity "casino nights" were sufficiently similar the state agreed to allow limited casino-style See SLOTS, Page 14A Successful Mir repair job dispels Spektr of failure "I'm just glad it's going to proceed and go forward," said Jones, who flew in from her California home to watch the hearing. The judge set jury selection for May 27 and said she hoped the case could be tried in about a week. Lawyers had estimated four weeks. "I would hope we could try this case in five 'or six days it doesn't look like a case that's worth anything more than that," she said. Jones' central allegation of sexual ha-' rassment was allowed to stand in the civil lawsuit.

Clinton, who would be the first presi- dent to stand trial on sexual harassment allegations, will not be required to attend any proceedings. The judge an appointee of former President George Bush who was one of Clinton's law students two decades ago dismissed Jones' claim that she was denied due process rights in being to a dead-end job after re-J jecting Clinton's alleged advances. Also rejected was her claim that Clinton de-rtr famed her after she came forward with -her allegations. But the judge ruled that Jones had met legal requirements to bring a case claiming sexual harassment an alleged 'threat of losing her job and a connec- -tion between her rejection of Clinton's alleged advances and a reportedly hos-; jiile work environment. HIT ,1 i A -x 7 i 1 cealing the joy and relief shared by Vinogradov and his Russian and American mates.

"I think this is a super day," NASA astronaut Michael Foale told mission control in Korolyov, just outside Moscow. "We carried out everything we set out to do and more." In his more than three months aboard Mir, Foale has been subjected to power failures, breakdowns in the oxygen-supply system and the most serious incident in Mir's 11 -year history, a June 25 collision with an unmanned cargo craft. So Foale could be forgiven if he overstated a bit the crew's success. In fact, mission control was disappointed Vinogradov was unable to spot See MIR, Page 3A Chicago Tribune KOROLYOV, Russia Shaking off the kinds of setbacks that have turned life on Mir into a daily guessing game about what can go wrong next, Russian cosmonauts completed a critical and complex repair job yesterday designed to restore power to the limping spacecraft. Flight engineer Pavel Vinogradov donned a bulky spacesuit, squeezed into the damaged, dark and depressurized Spektr module, then quickly but methodically hooked up a series of cables to the capsule's solar power system.

Whether the task worked as designed, whether Spektr's solar panels will help snap Mir out of its low-power doldrums, will not be tested until tomorrow or Monday. But there was no con The Associated Press Paula Jones leaves Little Rock court with her husband, Steve Jones WEATHER Tomorrow in the Star Judge orders new Teamsters election comeback Quite a Simmer till done. Today is expected to be partly cloudy with a slight chance of afternoon thunderstorms and a 20 percent chance of rain. Look for a high near 104, a low in the mid-70s. Yesterday's high was 104 and the low was 78.

Details on Page 15A. A month after standout Salpointe Catholic High School swimmer Nick Miner came out of a coma, he was on hand for the Lancers' first workout. INDEX 50 Accent. Bridge- i. Money 3-8B Movie times 2D Noon to Noon -3D Obituaries 14A Sports 1-7C TV listings 70 Wheels l-22 Hoffa Carey Knight-Ridder Newspapers A federal official yesterday ordered a rerun of last year's election between Teamsters President Ron Carey and challenger James P.

Hoffa. Fund-raising irregularities by Carey's campaign had so prejudiced a fair election, she said, the balloting must be conducted again. The decision came as Carey was basking in this week's victory in the UPS settlement, his most triumphant moment since winning the hard-fought battle with Hoffa last December to head the nation's largest private-sector union. Court-appointed election officer Barbara Zack Quindel also fined and barred from any future Teamsters activity Carey's campaign manager and several other individuals who had assisted Carey's re-election effort. It has been at least several generations since the federal government has ordered such a drastic remedy in a national union election, and the decision I to kick back union money to the campaign.

The 134-page decision did not find evidence Carey had knowledge of the irregularities, nor has he been implicated in any criminal investigation. "The conduct of these consultants has no place in the Teamsters union," Carey said in a statement yesterday. "It flies directly in the face of all the reforms our union has implemented in the past 5V6 years." The Teamsters have ended their relationship with the consultants and will cooperate with the provisions of Quindel's decision, he said. Quindel said a new election, which would occur by mail ballot, would take 112 days once a federal judge has approved her plans for the rerun. She has instituted new rules that include increased disclosure requirements on contributions, a ban on contributions from non-Teamsters and stricter limits on contributions by Teamsters mem-See CAREY, Page 3A Classified Comics 6D Comment -16-17A Crosswords 8C Deaf Abby 4D Homes on hold Hundreds of Tohono O'odham families are waiting for houses stalled more than a year while the contractor is investigated for fraud in Texas.

was a blow to Carey's reputation as a reformer as he tries to change the image of the once corruption-riddled Teamsters. Further damaging to Carey's image is that the FBI, a federal grand jury and congressional investigators also are scrutinizing his campaign finances. One of his political consultants has been charged with fraud, and the owner of a marketing firm who worked for Carey has pleaded guilty in a scheme i I 00001' 36.