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The Indiana Gazette Thursday, October 25, 1990 Page 4 Buildup continues in Gulf WASHINGTON (AP) Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said today the United States will continue its military buildup in the Persian Gulf, perhaps by sending more heavy armor to Saudi Arabia while bringing lighter units home. "We're not at the point yet where we want to stop adding forces," Cheney said. He declined to say how many troops might be added to the U.S. deployment, which now totals 220,000 troops in and around Saudi Arabia. Pentagon sources said Wednesday the deployment would reach the planned level of 240,000 in three weeks.

But Cheney said the administration "never put an upper ceiling on the deployment." His comments came as President Bush faced several decisions about the makeup of the gulf forces and as his top uniformed commander, Gen. Colin Powell, headed home from talks with ground commanders in Saudi Arabia. The talks included discussion of adding more offensive might to the U.S. forces. The U.S.-led multinational forces now total more than 300,000 but still fall far short of the estimated 430,000 Iraqi troops deployed in heavily fortified positions in occupied Kuwait and southern Iraq.

Pentagon planners, noting a cent decline in polls of public support for the desert deployment, have urged Cheney and other senior administrations to articulate their rea- sons clearly should they decide to expand the force. Cheney said the administration still hoped for a peaceful solution to the standoff with Iraq's Saddam Hussein but wanted to make sure its force in the region offered Bush the option of ordering an offensive. "We want to make certain we've got the forces over there to deal with any contingency," Cheney said on "CBS This Morning." On ABC's "Good Morning America," he said: "We've not yet settled on an upper limit in terms of our total deployment. So for a number of reasons I would expect a continuing flow of forces to the gulf in the period ahead." Labor pacts this year show 3.3% average WASHINGTON (AP) -Contracts settled so far this year through collective bargaining gave workers average annual wage increases of 3.3 percent over the life of the pacts, the government said today. The last time parties covered by those settlements negotiated, usually in 1987 or 1988, wage gains were smaller, averaging just 2.1 percent annually over the contract term, the Labor Department said.

Most of the gains reflected pay gains that were larger than those in previous contracts, particularly for workers in petroleum refining, food stores, parcel delivery and health services, the report said. In addition, there were pay boosts for workers who previously had seen pay cuts or freezes in previous agreements, such as for workers in the steel production industry, the government said. For the 12-month period ending in September, settlements that were reached provided wage adjustments averaging 3.5 percent a year over the contract life, off slightly from the 3.6 percent peak reached during the previous 12-month period. Davis case reopened here under DA Continued from Page 1 Dr. Wecht also said he believes there was a "significant difference in time" Davis may have remained alive after he entered the stairwell, that he may not have been dead five days before his body was discovered.

"That's a busy campus and we're not talking about a gold watch or a ring, we're talking about a body." Dr. Wecht said. "I think someone would have seen it." Streams said at the meeting Dr. Wecht called attention to a stubble of beard on Davis's face in photographs taken at the autopsy, even though family members say Davis never went out unless he was clean shaven. If Davis had remained alive part of that weekend, Streams said, it might explain why no alcohol was detected in his blood: much or all of the alcohol may have dissipated from the blood stream before he died, he said.

District attorney Martin agreed the question of how long Davis may have been alive in the stairwell is one his task force will have to try and answer. "We have to determine if he was there the whole time." Martin said. "And if he was not there, where was he and why was he then placed there?" Congressman resigns os sexual harassment complaint surfaces DRUGS SEIZED IN MOSCOW Seventy kilograms (approximately 154 pounds) of narcotics and various kinds of weapons were confiscated from dope pushers and their clients in Moscow Wednesday. The seizure was the result of a series of operations by the drug fighting squad of the Moscow Interior Ministry Department. (AP Laserphoto) WASHINGTON (AP) Donald E.

Lukens' final days in Congress were spent out of public view, on the telephone with people urging him to resign rather than face a second sexual misconduct investigation. He didn't appear at the House on Tuesday or Wednesday. He slipped out of his congressional office Monday, before the House ethics committee announced it had reopened his case because of a new complaint that he sexually harassed a Capitol elevator operator. Lukens' last official action was a letter of resignation transmitted to Ohio Gov. Richard Celeste shortly after 11:30 a.m.

Wednesday: "Effective immediately, for the good of the Congress and the integrity of the institution, I resign my seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Sincerely, Buz." A top aide said Lukens stayed away from Capitol Hill but kept in contact with supporters, staff, his attorney and party leaders via telephone. House Republican Leader Robert Michel was among those who convinced Lukens, defeated for renomination in Ohio's May primary, that he faced an expulsion vote unless he stepped down. Ethics committee spokeswoman Jan Keyes said Lukens would not have lost his retirement benefits even if he had been expelled.

Lukens will qualify for a pension of more than $2,000 a month beginning in 1993. Under the federal pension system, his payment is determined by combining his congressional service with his 6Vfe years in the Air Force and two years on a congressional staff. Lukens resigned two days after the ethics committee revived its dormant case against him to include the new accusation that he fondled a House elevator operator earlier this month. A source who spoke with the elevator operator said she alleged that Lukens approached her more than once on the same day. After fondling her, Lukens gave the woman his business card and asked her to call him, the source said.

The elevator operator reported the incident to her superiors. She was given leave with pay and assured she would not have to return to work as long as Lukens was around the Capitol, said the source, who requested anonymity. The ethics committee earlier had been examining whether Lukens had violated House rules by having sex with a 16-year-old girl an episode that led to a misdemeanor conviction in Ohio last year. The 59-year-old congressman, who is divorced, has been free on bond while appealing to the state Supreme Court. Lukens' office operations will continue until his successor is chosen.

Ohio law requires the governor to call a special election, even though only 10 weeks remain in his term. A primary must be held if more than one candidate in a party files nominating petitions. The two men vying to replace Lukens both indicated they'll run in the special election. Republican nominee John Boehner is viewed as having the edge over Democrat Gregory Jolivette. If the same candidate wins both the special election and the Nov.

6 vote, he would get a leg up on the House freshman class of 1991. Office space, for instance, is determined by seniority. Thus, someone who takes office in November would be ahead of those who arrive in January. Party leaders pressed Lukens for more than a year to resign, but he ignored them. They largely reacted with relief Wednesday.

Charges reduced against mom who locked child in car NEWARK, N.J. (AP) woman who locked her daughter in a car while at work is otherwise a responsible mother, prosecutors said in reducing charges against her. Meanwhile, others offered the woman jobs and babysitting services. Chante Fernandez, 24, of Elizabeth, told police she locked her 5-year-old daughter, Anjuli, in her car because she didn't have a trustworthy baby sitter while she worked weekends at a shopping mall. She left a rear seat folded down so the girl could sleep in the trunk area.

Ms. Fernandez was charged with criminal restraint after her arrest Saturday and could have received five years in prison and a $7,500 fine. But on Wednesday the charge was reduced to a petty disorderly persons offense, which carries up to a $500 fine. Prosecutor Alan Rockoff said several concerned people had pushed to have the charges reduced against Ms. Fernandez.

"She didn't abandon the child and allow her to drift with the elements," he said. "She did check on the child, did try to give her the necessities and try to make her comfortable during the course of the day." The girl had been found with such items as a flashlight, a book, a stuffed toy and a doughnut on Saturday. Rockoff said Anjuli, who was placed in protective custody after her mother's arrest, would be returned to her mother. Meanwhile, a lumber company that fired Ms. Fernandez from her full-time job as a secretary after learning of her arrest said it was rehiring her.

In addition, a local babysitting service offered her a special rate, and the store where she worked part-time said it had offered her a full-time job and a loan. "We were not aware that she faced such a dilemma," said Gary Lewi, a spokesman for the department store Fortunoff. "Clearly from what authorities are saying, this was not a venal act but a desperate one." Ms. Fernandez told authorities her husband had abandoned her, her father died in January and her house had been burglarized three times. Ms.

Fernandez could not immediately be reached for comment. A call to her home went unanswered Wednesday. Chante Fernandez Immigration levels likely to increase WASHINGTON (AP) Congressional negotiators reached a last- minute agreement on allowing hundreds of thousands more immigrants into the country, particularly those with new job skills. The last hurdles to the legislation were removed Wednesday night when House and Senate sponsors of competing bills agreed to establish special visas for foreign investors who start businesses in depressed rural and urban areas and to provide a temporary legal haven for Salvadorans fleeing violence. The bargainers agreed to split the difference between the two bills on just how much to raise the current quotas.

"It's a good blend," said Sen. Alan Simpson, who had threatened to block passage if more emphasis wasn't put on screening applicants more for criminal records and needed skills and deporting illegal immigrants. He predicted the Senate would pass the legislation today or Friday. Aides to House sponsors of the measure said the House would pass it before Congress adjourns this weekend. Current law allows some 490,000 foreigners to immigrate to the United States each year but requires that 90 percent of them have close relatives here who already have established U.S.

citizenship. Only 54,000 so-called "classic" immigrants seeking job opportunities but with no relatives can be let in annually. Under the compromise, the total cap would rise to 700,000 immigrants a year from 1992 through 1994 and fall back to 675,000 from 1995 on. The existing preferences for immigrants with needed professional, job or educational skills would increase to 140,000. But the agreement also raises the influx of immigrants allowed strictly to reunite families from 436,000 a year now to 505,000 annually over the next three years, falling to 480,000 in 1995.

The United States had few formal immigration policies until the 1920s, when country-by-country quotas were first established. Those quotas were changed in 1965 to shift the emphasis to keeping immigrant families together. Rep. Bruce Morrison, a key author of the House bill and the compromise, called the new legislation the most comprehensive immigration package in the nation's history, in that it addresses both SECOND DAY OF BUS BURNING Bus mechanics prepare to tow a burned passenger bus shortly after suspected communist rebels set it on fire Thursday at suburban Pasig near Manila, Philippines, on the second day of a general strike called to press for higher wages. It was the 19th vehicle burned since Wednesday's strike.

(AP Laserphoto) economic and humanitarian concerns. "It includes language to provide temporary protection to Salvadorans who fear bloodshed in their homeland while strengthening provisions to exclude criminal and terrorists," Morrison said. Simpson had vehemently objected to provisions by Rep. Joseph Moakley, in the House bill that would have granted three-year stays of deportation of illegal Salvadoran, Lebanese, Liberian and Kuwaiti im- migrarts. Under the compromise, those people would have 18-month windows to establish legal status.

The accord also includes Simpson's demand for 10,000 special visas for foreign investors who, as immigrants, establish businesses in depressed rural and urban areas that hire at least 10 American workers. In addition, it establishes 40,000 special visas for immigrants from Europe with distant relatives in the United States who have been adversely affected by the current policy emphasizing reunification of spouses and children with their parents. Employment costs jump over WASHINGTON (AP) Wages, salaries and other benefits paid to American workers rose 5.2 percent in the 12 months ending in September, the government reported today. The Labor Department said its Employment Cost Index, considered one of the best gauges of inflationary wage pressures, was pushed ahead to a large degree by a sharp 6.8 percent rise in benefit costs for private industry workers. The government blamed much of the past year's steep increase on the rising cost of health insurance.

Non- production bonuses, workers' compensation insurance and a rise this year in the Social Security tax rate also contributed to the rapid spurt in benefit costs, the Labor Department said. A year ago, benefit costs had jumped 6.0 percent for the 12-month period ending in September 1989. In another Labor Department report today, the government said contracts settled so far this year through collective bargaining gave workers average annual wage increases of 3.3 percent over the life of the pacts. HARRISBURG (AP) Next Wednesday's Super 7 jackpot will be worth at least $13 million because no player matched seven of the 11 winning numbers drawn Wednesday night, a lottery official said. Lottery director Jim Scroggins said 44 players matched six numbers to win 1,451 players matched five numbers to win $229; and 23,603 players matched four numbers to win $7.

Friday's Wild Card Lotto jackpot will be worth at least $2.3 million. The winning numbers Wednesday in the "Pennsylvania Super 7" game were 04,10,11,22,24,25,28,35,68,76 and 79. HARRISBURG (AP) Here are the winning numbers selected Wednesday in the Pennsylvania State Lottery: Daily Number 8-3-0 Big 4 8-9-9-7 NEW YORK 10 Stocks: AlcanAlum AlcoStand Allco Pw Alcoa AmCvan Ameritech Amoco Armcolnc ArmWIn Asarco Inc AttRichfld BellAtlans BellSouth Benefl Cp Beth Steel Brunswck CBS Chevron Chrysler Colum Gas Comsat ConEdisn DanaCp DowChem EstKodatt :30a.m. (AP) Last 36V4- 56 47VJ 5044 S2V4 yiVt II 3 158 51 "3 26 23 22 1 Chg. 4 Vi 4-V4 4 4 4 Exxon HMCCp FordMotor GTECps GenCorp GnDvnam GenElct GenMills GnMillswi GenMotors GnMotrE GPUCp Genesco Inc Goodrich Goodyear GreyhndD ITT Corp IBM IntlPaper McDermlnt Merck Mobil NCRCp Nynex OlinCp PPGInd PacTetesis 26V4 "4 21 4 41 52V, 4 39 34 1 43 33 3 It, 81 5P', 70Vi 3J i ft fe 'J 0 Sv PenneyJC Penna PwLt PepsiCo PhilaElec Polaroid 5 ProctGamb Quantum SearsRoeb SwstBell Texaco UAL Corp USX Corp UnCarbde UnPacCp US Wests WestshEl viWhiPitStl woolwth ZenithE 4V.

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