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Tv IN SPORTS ON PAGE 1C: fRed October' A review of movie with Sean Connery. 1B Rifles fall; Tigers, La Salle square off USCS tumbles in NAIAs Clemson, Explorers tip off to Birmingham Southern at 2:37 at NCAAs in Hartford it- MM DAYBREAK A plea from hostage's daughter Ire (r mk Mass Wholesale prices Percent change in Producer Price Index for finished goods, seasonal) adjusted. 2.0 I JT ki I 1.5 1.0 0.5 0 ft MAM JA SONDJF Judge-gives him 30 years in PiedmonUlanor shootings 7 Monthly change Jan. Feb. Finished goods 1.8 0 Intermediate 1.2 Crude goods 2.4 0.4 Foods 2.1 0.9 SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics (t I Knight-Ridder Tribune News After a 1.8 percent rise in January, wholesale prices fall flat in February.

Page6C. Cult prepares for nuke war Hundreds of members of a religious cult preparing for nuclear Armageddon poured into their underground fallout shelters as part of a surprise drill, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Terry Anderson's four-year-old daughter, pleaded for the father she loves but has never Sulome, lights a candle beside a photo of her met to come home Friday, the day Anderson father with the help of Nicosia Community began his sixth year as a hostage in Lebanon. Church Pastor Rev. Alistair Wynne. Sulome Page 14A.

Company president pleads guilty to 1 20 charges in illegal aliens case By Jeannle Farls New staff writer Just before Kerry Dwight Babb was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison for the shootinj death of a 16-year-old boy af- Piedmont Manor last year, he-apologized for his actions. "I am sorry for what happened, but I didn't just go and try to hurt someone with no reason," Babb told Circuit Judge William Traxler Jr. "I did have a reason for what I did." Babb was charged with murder and assault and battery with intent to kill in the shooting of eight youths at the public housing complex on March 29, 1989. He testified that he shot in self-defense when he killed Christopher Whitney and wounded seven others. A jury deliberated more than 10 hours over the course of two days before finding Babb, 27, guilty of voluntary manslaughter.

As a clerk read the jury's verdict, Babb smiled slightly and nodded his head. Behind him, his mother smiled. But across the courtroom, Whitney's tearful parents were solemn. "We miss (Christopher) daily," Charles Whitney, his father, said later. "Whatever a jury does to (Babb) won't help us.

But I wouldn't want him walking I church officials said Friday in Livingston, Mont. "Our goal was to see if we could get everybody in the THE NEWS RAY ORONBERQ shelters at midnight," said Murray Steinman, spokesman for Kerrv Dwlaht Babb at Walhalla plant. The charges included conspiring with others in a pattern of hiring aliens between August 1985 and last July, 117 counts of harboring aliens and two counts of falsifying payroll records. Immigration authorities raided the Piedmont Quilting plant in July and subsequently deported 86 illegal aliens to Mexico and Peru. Federal officials termed the raid the largest of its kind in the Southeast, outside of Florida.

The federal Immigration and Naturalization Service fined Piedmont Quilting $580,000 in December, the largest administra-tive fine levied by the government since immigration laws were revised in 1986. The company appealed the fine, and the INS agreed Friday to lower it to $225,000, according to officials. See Aliens, Page 9A By Matthew Burns News staff writer A New Jersey man faces potential penalties of almost 600 years in prison and more than $30 million in fines after he pleaded guilty Friday in Greenville federal court to harboring more than 100 illegal aliens at his Walhalla textile plant. Piedmont Quilting Corp. President Alfred Mizhir pleaded guilty to 120 charges related to illegal aliens working at the company's Greenville County Courthouse Friday around the streets with someone else's kids." Traxler said he gave Babb the maximum sentence for voluntary manslaughter, which is kill-ing without malice or forethought.

Babb will be eli- See Babb, Page 9A the Church Universal and Triumphant. 1 It apparently was the first 1 large-scale occupation of the church's shelters, which include a 756-person complex near Corwin Springs in south-central Montana. Steinman refused to say how many people participated late Thursday, but said the drill "included a large percentage of the people who will be slated to inhabit the shelters in the event of a nuclear war." Idaho nearlng OK on tough abortion law Legislation that advocates say would give Idaho the nation's toughest anti-abortion law cleared a state Senate committee Friday and was headed for final legislative vote. The bill would ban abortion as a means of birth control. It would outlaw abortion except in cases of nonstatutory rape reported within seven days, incest if the victim is under 18 years old, severe fetal deformity or a threat to life or physical health of the mother.

Alley, longtime coach, AD at Furman, dies Led basketball teams to mid-'50s prominence By Rudy Jones News staff writer Jesse Lyles Alley, a former standout athlete at Furman University who later served the school as coach and athletic director, died Friday at Greenville Memorial Hospital. He was 81. Alley, a member of the S.C. Athletic Hall of Fame and a charter member of the Furman University Athletic Hall of Fame, had suffered a heart attack on Wednesday. All 1 I SOUTH CAROLINA I i i Test-tube twins will mark a quiet 1st birthday By Matthew Burns News staff writer Laura and Rebecca Paxton plan to have a quiet birthday for a change, spending Saturday at home with their family.

A year ago, the two basked in the glow of television lights and the close scrutiny of reporters and photographers, as Upstate media heralded the birth of South Carolina's first test-tube twins. But parents Fred and Mary Paxton said Saturday will be a quiet family day around their Taylors home as the twins celebrate their first birthday. "We'll have two cakes and a video camera, and that's about it," Mrs! Paxton said. 1 I The day will culminate "a very busy, sleepless year" for the Paxtons, who had tried unsuccessfully for several years to have a child before turning to in vitro fertilization two years ago. Mrs.

Paxton discovered about eight years ago that her fallopian tubes were blocked, and surgery to correct the problem, fertility See Twins, Page 9 A Furman basket- ball teams to na- Insurance rate hike A proposed compromise would give Allstate Insurance Co. a 1.9 percent rate increase less than a fourth the amount requested by the state's second-largest auto insurer. Page 2A. i a i prominence in the mid-1950s, when the Pala Dan Foster's column on Lyles Alley. Page 1C onymous with Furman during his 30 years of service to the university as coach and athletic director," said Dr.

John Johns, Furman's president. "He was important and he was respected in the Greenville community. He'll be missed by all." "Furman University has lost an outstanding man and great friend in Lyles Alley," Furman Athletic Director Ray Parlier said. "As a coach, administrator and person, Coach Alley was greatly admired and respected by everyone he worked with. He was like a father to the many players, coaches and staff who knew him, and a true gentleman in every sense.

He was what I would call the ideal ambassador for Furman University." Alley lived at 1180 Haywood Road, Haywood Estates Retirement Center. Born July 9, 1908, in Spartan burg County, he was a son of the late Jesse Cleveland and Minnie Bradley Alley. He was a 1933 graduate of Furman, where he was a four-year letterman in track, baseball, football, and basketball. See Alley, Page 11 A dins led the na SPORTS tion in scoring three consecutive cad rvn TTnlAv Baseball talks resume Baseball's players union began negotiating again with the owners after receiving a new proposal. Page 1C.

INSIDE Alley Alley, Frank Sel- vy set a major-college single-game record when he scored 100 points against Newberry College on Feb. 13, 1954. Selvy and Dar-rell Floyd each led the nation in scoring twice in the mid-1950s. Alley compiled a 249-257 record as basketball coach before he retired in 1966. He continued to serve Furman as athletic director until he retired from that position in 1975.

"I'd say his name became syn- THE NEWS FRED ROLUSON Fred and Mary Paxton with their daughters, Laura, left, and Rebecca Heavy rain on tap Saturday in the Upstate brings a 100 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms, heavy at times, becoming mostly sunny by Sunday. Highs will be in the upper 60s, dropping to the mid-60s by Sunday. Lows Saturday night will be in the mid-40s. Page 2A. Three sections, 48 pages Atwater: 1 can't imagine getting back in a fighting mood' to shrink the olive-sized growth.

Atwater has received thousands of phone calls, get well cards and flowers from friends, and a few adversaries, wishing him well. The response has caused him to sit up and take stock of his life and re-evaluate his priorities. "I fooled myself into thinking I was in- going to be mean. It's going to be hard for me to be as tough on people," said a repentant Atwater, who has earned a reputation as a practitioner of a pit bull style of politics and as a specialist in negative campaigning. Does that mean Atwater is going to forgo the rough and tumble world of politics? Not at all, Atwater said.

"What I'm Knight-Ridder WASHINGTON Lee Atwater says his experience with a brain tumor has changed his life. "Seventy percent of the things I was frantically pursuing didn't matter anyhow," the Republican National Committee chairman confessed. "I can't imagine me getting back in a fighting mood. I don't see how I'm ever ,.,4. going to do is take a new approach to how I proceed, because politics is people.

I've always loved people. But I have a better sense of humanity, a better sense of fellowship with people than I've ever had before." Last week, doctors determined that Atwater, who collapsed while delivering a speech, has a non-malignant brain tumor. He is receiving daily radiatyon treatments -i Abby 5B Ask Beth 7B Bridge 5B Business 6C 10C Comics 6B Donohue 5B Editorials 4A It's Saturday Obituaries 10A 1 2-1 3A S. Carolina 2A Sports 1C Television 3B Theaters See Atwater, Page 9 A.