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Part-time jobs teach (ids full-time lessons Teen-agers get more out of part-time jobs than just a paycheck, learning everything from discipline to responsibility. D-l 1 ,75 ($2 MICHIGAN ONLY) SUNDAY, MAY 23, 1999 www.greenbaypressgazette.com INSIDE "Bob Harlan probably doesn't get the national respect he deserves" Paul Tagliabue, National Football League commissioner 1 iV 1 1 ri KID Q1M Tribes question study's motives Gannett News Service Mm Harlan "4 Ill 1 i i SI 1 ti -hi i Hi 1 1 A1 I hi it leads Pack to decade of success 'V v. tin '1 vx WASHINGTON Indian tribes that have cashed in on the $7 billion-a-year tribal gambling business fear new criticism from a federal gambling commission about their refusal to share financial information. At a meeting next month, the National Gambling Impact Study Commission will decide how harshly to rebuke tribal casinos for fail 1 If By Pete Dougherty Press-Gazette In spring 1989, Judge Robert Parins handpicked Bob Harlan to succeed him as the Green Bay Packers' president. Harlan's training for the job spanned 16 years in sev v'V ing to provide information about how much they make and spend.

While the commission could slam tribes for lack of disclosure, the nine-member Hill Challenges commission Patrick FerronPress-Gazette During his 10-year tenure as president of the Green Bay Packers, Bob Harlan added a Super Bowl trophy to those won during the Lombardi era. Now, Harlan faces the daunting task of keeping the Packers financially strong and competitive on the field. Harlan endorses a successor eral front-office capacities with the Packers, including public relations and negotiating contracts. He knew the organization intimately, and he had a good touch in working with people both inside and outside the franchise. But the Packers' executive committee, which ultimately would decide whether to hire Harlan, had one major concern: Was Harlan, who had a reputation for decency, too nice a guy? Could he make the tough decision for the good of the franchise even if it would hurt a person he didn't want to hurt? Parins asked Harlan point-blank.

And Harlan replied, "Judge, if that's their only concern, please tell them not to worry about In the 10 years since, Harlan has presided over one of the most successful eras in the 79-year history of this storied franchise. In that time, he's made several decisions that substantially changed the way the team is run and certainly upset some people. Most notably, he fired one general manager and then gave another more power over the Packers' football decisions than any man since Vince Lombardi. He successfully walked a public-rela- Please see Pack, A-2 Versatile John Jones, who's been a sportswriter, a journalism teacher and an adminis- The big day is finally here Kristie Moss, left, and Althea Reetz help each other before UWGB's graduation on Saturday. B-1 'Menace' hype may be hurting ticket sales Associated Press LOS ANGELES According to Yoda: "Size matters not." Except, of course, at the box office, where the ancient, green sage might have expected a little more.

After a strong midweek opening, ticket sales for Stars Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace fell short of some predictions Friday with a take of $18.4 million. "It's still doing terrific business! no question about it," said Paul Dergarabedi-an, an entertainment analyst with Exhibitor Relations Co. "It's just that the first day was so high that anything coming after is going to seem low." The sci-fi epic opened with $28.5 million Wednesday, and garnered $13.2 million Thursday. Analysts expected the first non-school night showing of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace to draw hordes of children and shatter box office records. But rather than help the film, the hype may have hurt it.

Many people may have avoided the film Friday because they thought the shows would be sold out, Dergarabedian said. "They turn on the television and see all the long lines and the people in costume, and parents and those who aren't really voracious fans decide to try seeing the film next week instead," he 'said. The Phantom Menace was expected to rebound Saturday because fewer people have to work. Saturday figures were expected to be released today. xraiorwiin 1 the National 1 mJi iii 1 Football Jones League, the Jacksonville Jaguars and now with the Green Bay Packers, could be the next Parkers nresirient after Rnh panel approved several recommendations this week that acknowledged the casinos' role in lifting some tribes out of poverty.

But the tribes wary of any criticism that could give their opponents in Congress and statehouses new ammunition to fight Indian gambling business have mounted an offensive, saying the commission has demonstrated an anti-Indian bias and will paint an incomplete picture of tribal casinos. The commission, which does not have enforcement powers, is nearing the end of a two-year, $5 million study of gambling's effect on society and will issue a report to Congress, the White House and other government officials June 18. Tribes aren't waiting for that final report. The National Indian Gaming Association, a trade group that represents gambling tribes, recently called on Congress and its General Accounting Office watchdog agency to launch an investigation of the commission's work. Rick Hill, the group's chairman and also the former Oneida Tribe of Indians chairman, said the commission has "blatantly ignored rules and allowed commissioners to make ignorant and inflammatory remarks about American Indians and tribal governments." The Oneidas have one of the most successful Indian gaming operations in the state at Oneida Bingo Casino in Ashwaubenon.

Commission Chairwoman Kay Coles James dismisses Please see Tribes, A-3 Harlan retires. A-2. Press-Gazette Press-Gazette Bob Harlan has many Green Bay Packers President Bob Harlan convinced Bob Harlan answers a challenges left, including NFL owners to allow the Packers to sell additional stock question during a news building a new stadium for in is shown giving a stock prospectus to conference June 6, 1989, the Packers to replace Tom Senecal of Green Bay before a game against the after being named Packers Lambeau Field. C-1. Dallas Cowboys on Nov.

23, 1 997. president. NATO mistakenly attacks KLA stronghold More on A-12 Milosevic, NATO, KLA all claiming own victories flict through diplomacy continued. Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, who has met repeatedly during the past two weeks with Russian Balkans envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, briefed U.N.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan on his talks. "On the main issues, we all see eye to eye," he said after meeting Annan. bia was thrust into darkness by NATO attacks early Saturday in what the alliance said was its most intensive night of sorties in the air campaign. NATO said Saturday it had hit power installations, ammunition dumps, highway bridges, army barracks and a presidential retreat and leadership command and control center at Dobanovci. Attempts to end the con border post more than a month ago and had been using the site as a major staging area to battle Serb forces.

International monitors said at least one KLA guerrilla was killed and at least 15 others wounded in the strike. KLA leader Hashim Thaci was conciliatory, calling the bombing a "technical Meanwhile, much of Ser Associated Press BELGRADE, Yugoslavia NATO forces mistakenly hit an ethnic Albanian rebel base, the alliance said Saturday, the same day its jets and missiles knocked out power to much of Serbia and destroyed a residence of President Slobodan Milosevic. NATO acknowledged it ac-cidentally attacked a stronghold of the Kosovo Kosovar student hopes to stay at UW-Oshkosh, B-9 Liberation Army on Friday, believing it was a position still held by the Yugoslav army. The rebels seized the Columbine seniors honor slain friends WEATHER Quality marks Bush's legacy at Schreiber 4 60 1 Showers and thunderstorms More on B-9 I1UDEX Lotteries B-1 Associated Press GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. With the snowcapped Rockies as a backdrop, Columbine seniors wearing blue-and-silver gowns marched single file Saturday in a graduation ceremony that mixed celebration and sorrow for classmates slain in last month's massacre.

The estimated 440 students filed into an amphitheater near the school and took their seats while a Columbine band played traditional commencement music. Tears of joy mixed with the many tears of anguish shed since Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold scattered gunfire and bombs at Columbine, killing 12 students and a teacher, before committing suicide. "I'm ready to move on and get past this," said Megan Kelley, 18. "We needed this." Several students who were Local students say events a wake-up call, B-1 wounded in the April 20 attack drew applause as they walked or were taken in wheelchairs across the stage to collect their diplomas. The crowd cheered as sen7 ior Lauren Townsend's mother held up the slain student's blue-and-silver gown and kissed it on stage.

Three of Townsend's siblings accepted her diploma. "I haven't cried a lot but when I saw them up there, holding her gown, I cried," said Krissa Eggert, 18, who escaped from the school's weight room uninjured during the attack. The ceremony ended when the seniors tossed their blue mortarboards in the air. Columbine has been closed since the shooting as investigators work on the crime scene. Students are finishing the school year at Chatfield High school.

Movies D-8 Nation A-4 Obituaries B-7 Opinion A-14 Real Estate F-1 Sports C-1 Tom Perry B-1 TV Week Insert Careers G-1 Classified H-1 Crossword H-3 Ann Landers D-2 Legals B-6 Lifestyle D-1 LocalState B-1 Money E-1 By Thomas Content Press-Gazette For five decades Bob Bush has helped transform the cheese business and guided some of Green Bay's most prominent academic and community institutions. Still, he doesn't consider himself a visionary. "I see myself as a picture straightener," he said with a gentle smile Friday as he concluded 53 years with Schreiber Foods the company his father co-founded and he led for more than 20 years. "If something isn't quite right, you try to fix that. IS you fix a lot of little things, all of a sudden something big has happened." These modest words come from a man credited with being a pioneer in the packaged and sliced cheese business and guiding a company that turns America's hamburgers into cheeseburgers.

The name Schreiber isn't on the lips of most of the millions who stop at fast-food joints across the nation and overseas. But there's a 9-in-10 chance that the cheese on that burger is a Schreiber product. Based in the Firstar building on Pine Street in downtown Green Bay, the company doesn't covet the limelight. Its cheese is sold on other companies' burgers, and its prepared entrees and other products are sold by supermarkets under their Please see Bush, A-3 1-1 Copyright 1999 Green Bay A Gannett newspaper Patrick FerronPress-Gazette Bob Bush stands in the boardroom where he presided over the Green Bay-based company for two of his five decades with Schreiber Foods..