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MARKETPLACE Personal finance A return to the basics of investing may be in order Lode of precious metals discovered near Ely3B Anderson blanks A's1C s. chatenoen's V. chief 1Q gets new sHenn pubc defend, er3B frictions e'gb urged on rrei Public nigh in "ses9s WEDNESDAYSeptember 281 988 NEWSPAPER 0 FT IN CITIES 13 Pat Miles quits WCCO TV, signs contract with KARE its 10 p.m. newscast, which has been in a tough battle for viewers with KARE's late news for two KARE currently is the 10 p.m. ratings leader and hopes that with next month's introduction of "Cosby Show" reruns at 4:30 p.m., its third! ranked 5 p.m.

and 6 p.m. newscasts will become more competitive. WCCO-TV General Manager Ron Miles continued on page 10A chor of Channel 1 l's 5 p.m. or 6 p.m. newscast next Sept.

1, when the noncompete clause in her WCCO contract expires. Colleen Needles, co-anchor of WCCO's 6 p.m. newscast with Dave Moore, stepped in for Miles as Don Shelby's 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. co-anchor last night.

Miles, 38, said last night that her decision had been "long and agoniz Pat Miles Most S'iD upportin and I was working nights then, too." Miles WCCO contract expired at the end of August "Channel 1 1 got wind of that, and they sat down with me and made me an offer," Miles said. "It was based on what they thought I'd want, and they were right." Miles said that she did not ask WCCO for a counter offer because she knew the station was adamant about her remaining as co-anchor for Staff Photos by Charles Bjorgen By Noel Holston Staff Writer Pat Miles is going to KARE. Miles, an 1 1-year WCCO-TV veteran who has been co-anchor of the station's 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts since 1981, resigned Tuesday morning and signed a five-year contract with WCCO's arch-rival that afternoon. She is scheduled to become co-an pDaon 2-1 ratio include a position statement from the Roman Catholic Church in Minnesota.

The Minnesota Catholic Conference will take up the issue and may decide oppose the lottery at its quarterly meeting Thursday, said the Rev. James Habiger, executive director of the conference. i The 10 bishops of the conference will discuss the moral ramifications of a lottery, whether the state has a need Lottery continued on page 9 A first stage of our withdrawal (from Afghanistan.) We have not yet begun the second stage." Asked if the withdrawals would proceed on the internationally agreed schedule calling for the removal of all Soviet forces by Feb. 15, Shevardnadze replied, "We will wait and see. There have been violations of the agreements that have taken place." In his speech, Shevardnadze complained of "a nonstop production line of violations" of the Geneva accords, which require the Soviet U.N.

continued on page 9A rf rr Minnesota jPoll tary It's favored by Copyright 1988 Staf Tribun By Robert Whereatt Staff Writer Support for a lottery continues strong among Minnesotans, who by a ratio of almost 2 to 1 say they want their state to establish a gambling business. The Star Tribune's latest Minnesota Poll shows that likely voters support a lottery by 63 to 32 percent. That is practically a carbon copy of a Minnesota Poll conducted in late June when the split was 63-33. The most recent survey of 601 adults was taken Sept. 16 through Sept 20.

Though the strength of support is 'impressive, it was measured weeks Before some church-related groups and others are expected to begin an antilottery campaign. The church opposition will come largely from Protestant denominations, but may also to ing, but I made it basically on personal concerns. I have two small children (ages Yh and 2Vi), and I had an opportunity to go over there and do one show, one of the early shows, and it would give me the opportunity to have a more normal life. And I need to do that. "I haven't had much of a personal life in the last 10 years," she said.

"I've been working nights all that time. I started out. doing weekends, I- OQO Soviet men beat U.S. in basketball semifinal The Soviet Union defeated the United States 82-76 in basketball. Steve) Lewis led a U.S.

sweep In the men's 400-meter dash. Tonight's TV highlight U.S. women's basketball team vs. Yugoslavia for the gold medal. Details in sports section Heidi Smith hugged her cat, Stanley, after they were blown out of their home by an apparent natural gas explosion.

The house in south Minneapolis, above, was destroyed by the blast and resulting fire. Explosion causes nightmare for south Minneapolis family 1 Seconds later the house collapsed. Minutes later the debris was engulfed in flames. Heidi's mother, Debra, and housemate Tom Kurtz, asleep on the first floor, were buried under the rubble. Walls had tumbled on them.

Their waterbed was squashed by the force of the explosion. Debra Smith looked up. She could see sky where the ceiling used to be. Tuesday afternoon the three could sit and talk about minor injuries. All escaped the explosion and fire that destroyed the 1 '2-story house and severely damaged two neigh-Explosion continued on page 13A Afghan pact violated, Soviet says at U.N.

By Mark Brunswick Staff Writer It was 2 a.m. and 1 1 -year-old Heidi Smith was dreaming she was in a car accident; the car had broken off and she had fallen out the bottom and come to rest in a Christmas tree lot with her cat, Stanley. The truth was even more bizarre. Heidi, who was sleeping in a second-floor bedroom of her home at 3740 19th Av. Minneapolis, had been blown into a neighbor's front yard by the force of an apparent natural gas explosion.

The Christmas tree lot in her dreams was the two pine trees in her front yard. From News Services United Nations Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze called Tuesday for a 'special U.N. Security Council meeting to ensure compliance with the Afghan peace accords and hinted that the Soviet Union might suspend its tfoop withdrawal if the United States and Pakistan do not end military aid to rebels fighting to oust the Moscow-backed government. Speaking to reporters after an other-wise conciliatory appearance at the General Assembly, Shevardnadze said: "We have completed the Almanac Wednesday, September 28, 1 988 272nd day; 94 to go this year Sunrise: 7:07. Sunset 7:00 Today's weather -Wet and mild Mostly cloudy, 60 chance of rain.

High near 60, low in upper 40s. index .1 ft First Lewis is back on track to win four Olympic golds, as he did in Los Angeles in 1984. He was to go for his third early this morning, Twin Cities time, in the 200 meters. Second, because of Johnson's expulsion from the Games, Lewis became the first sprinter in history to defend his 100-meter crown, just as he became the first long jumper to win two Olympic golds in a row. Yesterday, Lewis was restrained about Johnson.

His only full-length statement came on paper, handed out by the U.S. Olympic Committee. Lewis continued on page 13A Shroud of Turin dates only to 14th century, Carl Lewis shares his faith on a day of belated triumph bishop's which were conducted at Oxford University, the University of Arizona and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at the University of Zurich. The shroud 14 feet, 3 inches long and 3 feet, 7 inches wide bears the faint image of a whipped and crucified man. Some have maintained the herringbone-patterned linen is the burial cloth of Christ, while others have dismissed it as a clever forgery.

"We are certainly disappointed in knowing that the shroud has a medieval date, but this is because it is a cherished object," Gonella told Britain's domestic news agency, Press Associated Press Rome, Italy Laboratory tests show the Shroud of Turin was made in the 14th century and could not be the burial cloth of Christ, the scientific adviser to the archbishop of Turin said he learned Tuesday. Prof. Luigi Gonella said that he has not seen the official report from the three laboratories that conducted the carbon-14 dating tests, but that after several press reports dating the shroud to the 14th century, "Somebody let me understand that the rumors were right." Gonella refused to say who had told him about the results of the tests, By Jay Weiner StafT Writer Seoul, South Korea On his day off at the Olympics, Carl Lewis won a gold medal. Later, to celebrate, he went to one of his favorite nightspots, the Yoido Full Gospel Church. There, in front of 1 5,000 evangelical Koreans, Lewis testified about his faith in God and its direct connection to this week's mind-blowing events.

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