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Aikman's achin' The Cowboys' quarterback might not play Sunday, but the Packers aren't counting on itC-1 'IS MONDAY, October 2, 1995 500 Many poor losing safety net Parents: Get answers from Judson Hixson As general relief ends, clients have no place to go Get involved with your child's education. Motivational speaker Judson Hixson will respond to your questions and concerns on the subject of parental to them when the county program ends. "They're caught in-between and there's no help," said Angie Allard, manager of Paul's Pantry. Private social services agencies, such as New Community Shelter in Green Bay, expect demands on them to grow. "It's really taking away a safety net for some people who have virtually no other resources," said Phil Puotinen, executive director of New Community Shelter.

"It's not a big group of Please see ReliefA-2 West High School, 966 Hixson BXV1? involvement By Jeff Klelnhuizen Press-Gazette Dan Mcintosh takes three steps up the stairs, heading to his room above a Broadway bar. Then he pauses to rest again. At 59, he's grizzled and stooped, and talks of swollen legs, coughed-up blood, dizziness. The former painter underwent a cancer operation seven months ago. He says his physical condition and age now keep employers from hiring him.

Mcintosh is single, with no dependents. He's not eligible for Aid to Families with Dependent Children, and has few other options. So he signed up for general relief, a program of Jasfc resort that Brown and piany' other Wisconsin counties will end Jan. 1. Mcintosh receives $225 a month in vouchers for rentj Ki'yff in school from 4- 5:30 p.m.

today at Frigo Marcelle 'Self-esteem' 'Difficult but for many necessary food and a bus pass. He works the vouchers off by bagging food at Paul's Pantry, one of the county's work relief sites. Mcintosh and others aren't sure what will happen Shawano Ave. The Chicago-based Hixson will explain ways parents and schools can form partnerships to better educate children. The rally and call-in are part of an initiative to increase parental involvement called Participate to Educate.

the Press-Gazette. To talk to Hixson during those hours, call 431-8327. Hixson also will be in Green Bay for a pep rally for parents at 7 tonight at IPSFWDgiifff Fire destroys landmark restaurant 4 i. i Sheik, pope's visit figure in tighter airport security By Bruce Frankel Gannett News Service NEW YORK Retaliation against Americans and U.S. interests is virtually guaranteed by the conviction Sunday of a Muslim fundamentalism leader, some terrorism experts say.

While few believe a well-financed terrorist organization exists in the United States, federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy says it "would be naive to think that because we have one successful prosecution you have killed the organization." Transportation Secretary Federico Pena ordered security tightened at airports to ward off what he called "a general threat against all U.S. tt '4 i 1 1 it rv: 1 uw 'A3 1 1 i Press-Gazette photo by John Robb Barley's burns: A Howard firefighter watches as the roof injured in the fire, which started at 2:37 a.m. The cause collapses during a blaze early this morning at Barley's of the blaze and amount of damage to the restaurant and Howard Haus, 3832 Velp Ave. in Howard. No one was banquet hall were not immediately available.

Jury's verdict against 1 0 came quickly NEW YORK (AP) The plan was to paralyze Manhattan with a 10-minute spree of bombings at the United Nations, a federal building, two tunnels and a bridge, then kill the Egyptian president and other political figures. But the plot aimed at making the United States change its Middle East policies was foiled and now the 10 conspirators will have to pay for it with lengthy prison terms. In a federal courtroom just 100 feet from one building the militant Muslims hoped to destroy, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted Sunday of seditious conspiracy. The jury in the biggest terrorism trial in U.S. history finished after just 37 hours over seven days of deliberations.

The verdict was reached quickly considering the hundreds of exhibits and more than 200 witnesses jurors viewed over nine months. Defense lawyers said they would appeal. The bombing killed six people, injured more than 1,000 and caused a half billion dollars damage. Four men were sentenced last year to years in prison for the attack. The sheik and Nosair face life in prison when they are sentenced in January; the other defendants face 20 to 30 years.

interests at home and abroad." No specifics were cited, but security analysts are wary because of the verdict, the pope's visit, the United Nation's 50th anniversary and recently signed Mideast pacts. Government officials were short on security Kufska 'proud, boastful' of tape Sheik Omar Muslim leader convicted The Monfils trial Trial has parallels with Simpson case By Anne Klemm Press-Gazette A James River millworker links five of six homicide defendants to a tape recording that apparently led to Tom Monfils' death. But millworker Dave Daniels wasn't able to say when he saw some of those defendants listening to the tape in a control booth for the No. 9 paper machine the day Monfils died. The tape was a copy of Monfils' anonymous call to police, reporting that co-worker Keith Kutska planned to steal an extension cord from the mill.

Prosecutors say Kutska and five others were part of a conspiracy to kill Monfils, whose body was found in a paper pulp vat at the mill Nov. 22,1992. Daniels testified this morning he saw defendants Rey Moore, Mike Him, Dale Basten and Mike Johnson listening to the tape at various times the morning of Nov. 21, 1992. He doesn't recall seeing defendant Mike Piaskowski that morning.

Kutska was playing the tape "to anybody who would listen," Daniels said. "Mr. Kutska was very proud and boastful of the fact that he had this tape and had identified the person on it and that he was going to confront and later did confront Tom Monfils," Daniels said. Daniels saw Kutska take a tape recorder and go with Randy Lepak to another control room to confront Monfils, Daniels said. The two came back 5 to 10 min-, details.

"Some of the measures may end up causing small delays," says airport security consultant Art Kosatka. "But you won't perceive them as being security delays," he says. Pope John Paul II arrives Wednesday in Newark, N.J., for the start of a five-day East Coast visit that will amplify concerns. If history is a guide, kidnappings of U.S. executives abroad, attacks on U.S.

embassies and tourists could follow, says Robert Heibel, a former FBI counterterrorism expert. "The likelihood of a retaliatory strike against a U.S. target is pret ty high," says terrorism expert Steven Emerson. That could be considered particularly true, given the justification offered for bombing New York's World Trade Center in 1993: that it was a reaction to "American aggression against Besides raising security to high levels for the pope, security officials say an even graver concern is the arrival in New York on Oct. 21 of 152 heads of state, including Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Yasser Arafat, for the 50th U.N.

anniversary. "To the extent that Sheik Omar (Abdel-Rahman) represents the hopes for real change and to the that his voice has now been it's realistic "for- glove." Whoops, wrong trial. But fellow lawyer Mike Balskus, an Outagamie County assistant district attorney, can see why someone could have such a Some inescapable similarities in the two trials: Lawyers personalizing the victims.5';; "In both cases, th (prosecutors) have really made an effort to get. the jurors to know the victims," Balskus saidw "Here, they played the Monfils tapes. And in the Simpson they played the Nicole Browrttape where she called the "In both instancesj'you have a victim who's a decent person." Conspiracy theories.

"In the O.J. trial, the defense is claiming a conspiracy by the police. Here, the cops say all the defendants were part of a conspiracy," Balskus said. Circumstantial evidence, "In Simpson's trial, the evidence is more physical --blood Please see TrialA-2 Simpson Jurors are now in controlA-3 By Don Langenkamp Press-Gazette When Macil Kaluza was asked whether she planned to follow the Tom Monfils trial regularly, she said: "I follow both of those trials every day." Both trials? To many people, the Monfils and O.J. Simpson murder trials are intertwined both in timing and circumstance.

That's why Kaluza, a spectator at the Monfils trial last week, and many others may be excused for mentioning the two in the same breath. After all, Brown County District Attorney John Zakowski has done the same thing while discussing the Monfils case during the past months. And Eric Steam, lawyer for Monfils defendant Mike Johnson, even had a Simpsonesque lapse in his opening statement last week when he said there was no sign of blood in the Monfils murder. "Where's the blood?" Stearn asked. "There's no trail, no spot.

There's not even a bloody utes later, and Kutska seemed very pleased, Daniels said, Kutska spent so much time that morning playing the tape for others, he paid little attention to the paper machine, even though it had been producing substandard paper, Daniels said. Defendants Johnson and Basten were called to that area to fix that problem on the machine, but another worker had effectively resolved, the problem before they arrived, Daniels said. Then" Basten and Johnson came into" the control room and heard the tape; Daniels said. 'f Daniels said he first learned Monfils was missing on the job when one or more people entered the No. 9 coop just before 8 a.m.

and said Monfils missed a turnover. Under cross-examination by Kutska's lawyer, Daniels said Kutska continued discussing taking union action against Monfils, even after Monfils' disappearance. Kutska, like others, seemed increasingly concerned as Monfils remained missing, Daniels said. Also, under cross-examination by Piaskowski's lawyer, Daniels said there are heavy weights scattered throughout the paper machine area, including outside the No. 9 paper machine control room.

Americans to be duly concerned," -says defense lawyer Lynne Stewart. While not well-financed or well-! organized, and without the sheik's direction, "passionate adherents" -could retaliate, she says. "He is not, as much as the government likes to think, the godfather." The sheik had been living in self-imposed exile in New Jersey since 1990, when he arrived, from Pakistan on a tourist visa from Sudan, despite having been on a -State Department terrorist watch list. In the 1980s, he was acquitted in the assassination of Egyptian -President Anwar Sadat. Stewart says the verdict held one message.

"Put a Muslim on trial and we'll convict him. I had hoped for more from an American Sunday's SuperCash Forgiveness is at the heartWSTi the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, which takes place this week, but it works for people of Tuesday WeatherOtter says: Rain likely so sot all faithsB-6 io I iO There won't be rftany great pumpkips this fall. Local growers said hot Around the Bay B-3 Classified C-7 Comics B-10 Lifestyle B-6 LocalState Money B-5 Nation A-3 Obituaries B-2 Opinion A-5 Records B-2 Sports C-1 World A-4 SOS Pick 3: 9-9-9 B-2 and dry weather early in the summer stunted development of the crop B-1 More lotteries. 48 Weather: B-10.