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Thursday, June 27, 1996 A2 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL f. listi court: VMI cannot I i 't ban women Associated Press ARIS SARIS Thousands of people in Athens follow the military truck and gun carriage bearing the flag-draped coffin of Andreas Papandreou, Greece's former prime minister. The procession yesterday passed the Roman-era Hadrian's Arch in the city center. Papandreou died Sunday of a heart attack at age 77. 1 ft.

and linger until last call at 2 a.m. Flashing an apparently fake driver's license, the athletically built Holmer, whose blond, shoulder-length hair was styled in a bun, passed for 21. She entered the Back Bay club on Friday evening. She was last seen early Saturday morning, laughing with friends outside the club around closing time. Another Swedish au pair who was there has told authorities that she saw Holmer leave with "an older man" to go to an "after-hours party." Her torso, stuffed into a black plastic trash bag, was found Sunday afternoon in a Dumpster behind' a Boston apartment building.

Her legs and pelvis have not been found. Citing preliminary autopsy results, police believe she was strangled, then cut in half at the waist. Among the evidence retrieved from the Dumpster by Karina Sweden, the U.S. via nanny broker. A Boston au pair's grisly slaying stirs fears in the nanny network 5 1 11 7 i -i i 4.

I I 1 artist's loft near Fort Point Channel in South Boston. He told police he let Holmer stay there occasionally on weekend nights. Holmer came to the United States via an illegal nanny broker in Stockholm who apparently did not arrange for her to get a work visa. "Technically, she was an illegal immigrant," the broker, Tage Sun-din, 46, told Expressen. According to the newspaper, Sundin has twice been convicted and fined by Swedish authorities for operating an employment agency without a permit.

After graduating from high school in the small town of Alaryd in 1994, Holiner went to school to learn the restaurant business. She worked as a waitress and a chef. After winning $1,500 in the Swedish state lottery, she flew off to Boston in March. Police are reportedly investigating two theo- ries about why the body was severed. One theory has it that Holmer was forced to have sex with someone who panicked and strangled her when she threatened to report him.

By disposing of the lower half of her body, the killer wanted to hide traces of semen, which could link him to the crime through DNA matching. The other theory is that the body was simply lopped in two for easier transport and disposal. The justices' ruling was 7-1. to affect The Citadel, also By Aaron Epstein INQUIRER WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON Women broke through the last bastion of all-male public, education yesterday when the Supreme Court overwhelmingly declared that they cannot be excluded from the Virginia Military Institute or relegated to a "pale imitation" of it. The 7-1 ruling is expected to open both VMI and The Citadel in South Carolina to women.

Those strict military-style institutions are the only remaining state colleges that limit classes to one sex. "The constitutional violation in this case is the categorical exclusion of women from ah extraordinary educational opportunity afforded men," declared Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who as a civil rights lawyer a generation ago argued in the Supreme Court for equality for women. "What has been rejected is what Virginia attempted to create one high-quality institution for men and one substandard institution for women," said Attorney General Janet Reno, whose Justice Department led the legal fight against VMI's sex discrimination. The court did not decide the constitutionality of separate but equal state schools for men and women. So, in theory, Virginia could set up a women's program identical to VMI's.

But experts said that would be a practical impossibility, and Deval Patrick, head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, said: "Admitting women to VMI is the only remedy that fits the Constitution." "It's a great tragedy," said Robert Patterson, a VMI graduate and one of the attorneys who represented the school. But George F. Allen, Virginia's Republican governor, said: "The nation's highest court has spoken, and we need to bring Virginia into compliance." The success of women as students in the Army, Navy and Air Force academies, and as members of the armed forces, considerably weakened Virginia's effort to keep them out of VMI, the court said. Officials at The Citadel declined to comment. But the speaker of the South Carolina House, Rep.

David Wilkins, said: "It appears to me there's no other option" than to admit women to The Citadel. Justice Antonin Scalia was the sole dissenter in the case. Justice Clarence Thomas disqualified himself from the case. His son, Jamal, is a senior at VMI. VMI, founded 157 years ago in Lexington, is the oldest military institution in the nation.

It operates unusually rigorous, regimented and stressful programs designed to produce "citizen-soldiers." a By Michael Matza INSURER STAFF WRITER BOSTON The murder and mutilation of a Swedish au pair is sending shock waves through the international nanny network. Karina Holmer, 20, who had worked since March in a Boston suburb, was savagely slain and dumped in the city over the weekend in a trauma affecting parents, nannies and the agencies that place them. "There's no doubt that we'll see a redoubling of efforts to train nannies" about personal security, said Betsy Weaver, publisher of Parents' Paper, Boston-based monthly newspaper that carries a nanny and au pair guide. "It may be that we'll see fewer girls from Sweden in the next few weeks," said Bill Gertz, a spokesman for Au Pair in America, a placement agency that promotes itself as "child care with a cultural flair." News of the killing played on the front pages of the Swedish tabloids Expressen and Aftonbladet yesterday, and a spokesman for the Swedish Consulate in Boston said parents there were concerned. Richard Eisenberg, an attorney whose firm specializes in health insurance for the International Nanny Association, predicted more nannies would begin carrying battery-powered, personal-protection sirens and other security devices.

The killing so gruesome that even veteran homicide detectives were revulsed took place after Holmer left Zanzibar, a ritzy downtown nightclub that caters to an international crowd. Among the patrons are many European au pairs, who often arrive after midnight Inside Todays Inquirer National The Clinton administration proposes a major expansion of reporting requirements for toxic industrial releases. A6. Victims and relatives slated to testify rn the Oklahoma City bombing trial are barred from the courtroom by the judge. A9.

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This time, it will be an all-star cap. Bl. The sad-looking old church at 832 Lombard has seen better days. In fact, it's seen better decades. Bl.

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Compiled by Thomas J. Brady Holmer, 20, of arrived in art illegal The decision is expected state school. The Justice Department, prompted by a complaint from a fe-. male high school student eager to attend VMI, filed suit in 1990 to open the school to women. Virginia sought to preserve VMI's all-male heritage by arguing that its deliberately hostile, high-pressure, physically rigorous military environment would be inappropriate for educating most women, who were said to prefer cooperative methods.

But Ginsburg, announcing the decision from the bench in slow, firm tones, said generalizations and stereotypes about the "typical" man or woman "will not suffice to deny opportunity to women whose talent and capacity place them outside the average description." Some women would want to attend VMI, can meet its requirements and would flourish there, she said. To afford them equal protection of the laws, as required by the Constitution's 14th Amendment, they "cannot be offered anything less," Ginsburg observed. Yet Virginia did offer women something much less, she said. It created "a pale shadow of VMI in the range of curricular choices and faculty stature, funding, prestige, alumni support and influence." She was referring to a program at Mary Baldwin College, a private women's school. A federal appeals court held the separate program, which 41 women attended last year, as "substantively comparable." (In South Carolina, 22 women enrolled in a similar program apart from The Citadel, at all-Jemale Converse College.) Ginsburg likened the Mary Bald win program to the unconstitutional attempt by Texas 50 years ago to set up a separate, unaccredited law school for blacks who were refused admission to the University of Texas Law School.

"Virginia's remedy affords no cure at all for the opportunities and advantages withheld from women who want a VMI education and can make the grade," Ginsburg said In addition, she said, the government must demonstrate an "exceedingly persuasive justification" for such sex discrimination. Scalia argued that Ginsburg's use of that language served to "load the dice" against gender-based acts of government. Although the VMI decision was limited to state colleges and universities, numerous private schools for men or women feared it could hurt them because they accept government money or tax breaks. Scalia fueled that anxiety by suggesting that the majority's reasoning may mean that the government itself would violate the Constitution by providing tax money to single-sex colleges. 4 V' tm I Si i JM Negotiations between the militants and the government broke down In November, and Indian officials have received conflicting reports about whether the four hostages are ulivc.

Today, Schelly plans to meet with leaders of un umbrella organization of 32 pro-independence groups. Besides Hutchings, the militants are holding Paul Wells, 23, of London; Keith Mangan, 33, of Middlesbrough, England; and Dirk Hasert, 26, of Erfurt, Germany. Another American, John Childs of Sims-bury, escaped threa dctys af-' ter being kidnapped. Wife appeals for hostage's return Zyuganov lodges protest over Yeltsin's spending ''J ZlA Arf A 1 1 detectives wearing plastic gloves and face masks was a metal disk that appeared to be from a circular saw. Police are reviewing surveillance videotapes of patrons entering and leaving the club.

They have twice interviewed Frank Rapp, 43, HolmeYs employer. Rapp, a commercial photographer, his wife, Susan Nichter, and their two children live in a quiet, neatly landscaped townhouse in Dover, a tony suburb west of Boston. He rents a studio workspace in an sion. The Communist leader also renewed calls for a televised debate with Yeltsin a proposal the president has repeatedly rejected. Yeltsin, meanwhile, let supporters speak for him on his broadcast spots a tactic he applied successfully ahead of the first round of voting June 16.

Yeltsin finished just ahead of Zyuganov in that 10-man race. One Yeltsin ad showed Soviet documentary footage of famine and civil war in the 1920s, food lines in the '50s and empty shelves in the '80s. "The Communists have not changed even their name. They won't change their methods," a narrator warned. A radio spot promised Yeltsin would "correct Lenin's mistakes." Zyuganov, who supports a return to many Soviet-style economic controls, accused Yeltsin of misrepresenting the Communists.

"I do not think that the millions of voters voted for going backwards, for having gulags, lines," he said. "It is not so." Zyuganov said Yeltsin was "cheating on a massive scale," spending billions of dollars in state funds on his campaign. "This is the same money which is not paid to teachers, doctors, servicemen, pensioners," his protest to the election commission said. "Such illegal practices could call into question the results rthe vote for Yeltsin." git ,4 0 S's pi 7 uaf Kashmir rebels seized Donald Hutchings and others in 1995. A rebel leader's help was asked.

By Dilip Ganguly ASSOCIATED PRESS SRINAGAR, India The wife of an American hostage met with a rebel leader in northern India's secessionist Kashmir province yesterday in her campaign for her husband's release. Jane Schelly and Yasin Malik, president of the outlawed Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, declined to comment after meeting at his home. Earlier, Schelly broke into tears at a news conference as she appealed to militants to free her husband, Donald Hutchings. He and three other Westerners were kidnapped a year ago by the Al-Faran group, one of many Muslim militant groups fighting for independence. "Don, I am here waiting for the day of your release," she said between sobs.

"In my heart, I believe that my husband is alive," said Schelly, an elementary school gym teacher from Spokane, Wash. "We want information about our loved ones. I want to know where my husband is." Hutchings, 42, is an avid mountain climber and a neuropsycholo-. gist who specializes in therapy for people with serious brain injiries. He, two Britons and a German were By Angela Charlton ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW Boris N.

Yeltsin is bleeding public coffers to finance his presidential runoff campaign, his Communist challenger charged yesterday in an official protest to election authorities. Gennady A. Zyuganov accused the Russian president of violating election law by pressuring local government officials to campaign for him and by raiding the budget for campaign money. In a free television ad yesterday, Zyuganov also lashed out at Yeltsin for manipulating the media. The Russian media have been blatantly pro-Yeltsin in the campaign before Wednesday's runoff between Yeltsin and Zyuganov, despite previous criticism of the president: Several prominent media executives are working for Yeltsin's campaign.

"When I see what's happening on television it's a real psychological war against society," Zyuganov said at a news conference after receiving a huge bouquet of flowers for his 52d birthday. The free TV and radio campaign spots that started yesterday may be particularly valuable for Zyuganov, whose lackluster campaign is believed to be short of funds. "For 48 hours a day, from dawn until midnight, we get up with Mr. Yeltsin and go to sleep with him, while talented people in Russia cannot outline their different point of view," Zyuganov said ifi a five-minute spot on Russian Public Televi Associated Press Jane Schelly met with a Kashmir rebel, Yasin Malik (left), In Srinagar to seek her husband's release. They had no comment afterward.

kidnapped while trekking through the Himalayan foothills of Jammu-Kashmir state in July 1995. Jammu-Kashmir is India's only majority Muslim state, and Kashmiri separatists are fighting for autonomy or to unite with neighboring Pakistan. Kashmir was divided between India and Pakistan in 1947, More than 14,500 people have been killed in nearly daily fighting since late 1989. When India turned down a rebel demand to free jailed militants, the Al-Faran rebels decapitated Hans Christian Ostro, 27, a Norwegian hostage also kidnapped last.