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l'3Ui'F ST. PAUL SPORTS The coach is a Haskins Clemette rebuilds Dayton's program Mexico's president reveals austerity Nebraska is No. 11 Moisturizing winter skin Testing 'dime-store' lotions and creams tag rca93n "Struct; Oiiy If I fcO C7' WO WEDNESDAYJanuary 41995 NEWSPAPER FT HE TWIN CITIES 4 -N ready The Longest Day' Today Is D-day in Washington: The Congress convenes with Republicans in the majority, and it promises to be a very long day. Most of the action will be in the House, where an energized GOP plans to work late Into the night. Legislators get back to business 1 104th CONGRESS ymielni lit III rjjJLlaS -Si LEGISLATURE ytDmi third, a ban on proxy voting in committee, requiring open meetings, and term limits for committee and subcommittee chairmen and the speaker of the House.

One bill will be brought to the House floor for a vote: legislation that would apply several federal labor Both chambers will swear in newly elected members at 11 a.m. Twin Cities time. i New Speaker Newt Gingrich addresses the House at 1 p.m. Republicans will begin voting In changes in House rules, including cutting committee staff by a laws to Congress from which the institution is now exempt. TV coverage C-SPAN will provide live coverage of the House session and C-SFWJ2 will cover the Senate, both beginning at 11 a.m.

CNN will provide coverage throughout the day, including Gingrichs address at 1 p.m. New Congress begins bid to reshape government Senate Republicans said they hope to cut spending by perhaps $450 billion by 1999. Page 9A. By Carol Byrne Washington Bureau Correspondent Washington, D.C. At noon today the Republican revolutionaries seize control of Capitol Hill as the new Congress bursts into action with a 100-day blitzkrieg.

So much is at stake. After 40 years of wandering in the minority wilderness, the Republicans feel that at last they have a chance to reinvent government along conserva tive principles based on rugged individualism. Succeed, and they could control Congress for the next generation; fail, and they could be doomed to a single term. The political wars of this Congress will set the stage for the 1996 presidential election. They will be fought on three main battlegrounds social programs, crime and, most important, the budget.

But they are about more than individual personalities or "There's enormous enthusiasm for returning power to the states," said incoming House Majority Leader Newt Gingrich. He vows that Republicans will produce "more proactive reform than at any time since the 'Great Society' of Lyndon Johnson." Partisan sniping follows i pledges of cooperation Grandiloquence and solemn optimism were in abundant I supply on the opening day of Minnesota's 79th Legislature and at the inauguration of Gov. Arne Carlson. The day was also marked by the first official pledges of bipartisan cooperation, the first official partisan sniping and the first official shouting protesters in the Capitol rotunda. Carlson began his second term at an interfaith service at House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St.

Paul. He was later sworn in at a ceremony at the Landmark Center in St. Paul, where he offered a defense of the great liberal reform movements and this century's growth of government. At the Capitol, legislators returned to work and renewed their; vows of no tax increases, pledging to work cooperatively to spend public money as if they were their own. But shortly after noon, Senate Independent-Republicans initiated action aimed at expelling a DFLer.

Gov. Arne Carlson declared on his second Inauguration Day that Minnesota has reached a crossroads. Page 1 B. Shortly after the Legislature reconvened, things got political or "normal." Page 1B. Gov.

Arne Carlson began his second term with an interfaith service. Page 2B. Capitol Briefing: The place to look for summaries of action at the State Capitol. Page 2B. individual issues.

The underlying conflict is over how government works and how the nation will govern itself as it moves into the next century. The Republicans would reshape the federal government make it smaller and more efficient' dismantle the welfare state and cut taxes. Congress continued on page 8A Duplex goes up in flames i Eight-year-old Benjamin Abrams tried out his dad's chair as he, his brother and mother visited Rep. Ron Abrams on Tuesday for the swearing-in of state House members. Families and friends joined the House members at noon for the official opening of the 1995 session of the Legislature.

Russians step up Chechen air raids Bombs answer rebels' gains From News Services Grozny, Russia Thwarted in their assault on Grozny, frustrated Russian forces reverted Tuesday to relentless aerial bombardment of the Chechen capital, its outlying roads and village marketplaces. The extent of the debacle suffered by the Russian invaders in their push on the city was becoming more evident. The news agency Interfax reported that the bodies of as many as 100 Russian servicemen were strewn around their wrecked armored vehicles near the presidential palace. Elsewhere in the capital, bodies and burned-out tanks dotted streets filled with the debris of fighting and airstrikes. In their latest assaults, Russian jets attacked civilian targets along the main road connecting Grozny to the outside world.

Three airstrikes against a tractor, a group of cars and a roadside market killed at least 22 people. Russian legislator Anatoly Shabad said that more than 100 people were killed Tuesday evening when Russian planes bombed the town of Shali, 20 miles southeast of Grozny, commercial Moscow Echo radio reported. According to Shabad, a member of Russia's lower house of parliament, the Shali hospital was destroyed and bombs hit the town's Chechnya continued on page 6A TV images of Russians lying dead in Chechnya stir bitter opposition. Page 6A. Staff Photo by Joey McLeister i.

j't -Mi. fail-. 1 -M II ill Fire kills 94-year-old; trapped in her home Til fl! 1 in a first-floor bathroom from freeze ing, as they did last winter. She said her mother apparently was unable to get a deadbolt and other locks on her front door open and tried unsuccessfully to flee through a back door near the bathroom. Bob Junkin, rescue coordinator for the city's volunteer fire department said the two-story frame house at 6115 E.

Concord Blvd. was ablaze! when firefighters arrived at 1:09 a.m.J eight minutes after a passing motorist called police. Fire continued on page 5A By Jim Adams Staff Writer Unable to escape through her locked and bolted front door, a 94-year-old Inver Grove Heights woman died early Tuesday when fire destroyed the 140-year-old house where she had lived for more than half a century. Birdie Edith DeRuiter was found in a first-floor room where she apparently was overcome by smoke, said her daughter, Csharlie Yokanovich, 67, of Hastings. She said officials told her family that the fire apparently was started by a space heater her mother used to prevent water pipes riT i urn i I Staff Photo by Bruce Bisping Minneapolis firefighters battled a three-alarm County Medical Center in critical condition with blaze that started at 9:23 p.m.

Tuesday at 2013 burns on 50 percent of her body. Two dogs be- 10th Av. S. One woman was taken to Hennepin longing to the house's owner died. Page SB.

Almanac 673-4000 General Information News inside 673-7000 Classifieds Sauro gets 20-day suspension In one of his final acts before leaving office, Minneapolis Police Chief John Laux handed a 20-day suspension to Lt. Mike Sauro, whom a federal jury found liable for beating a handcuffed college student, costing the city $1 million. The disciplinary action was described lenient" by the head of the city's Civilian Police Review Authority. Page 1 B. Circulation 673-4343 or 1 -800-775-4344 Salvi in jail, enters no plea The man accused of killing two abor-'.

tion clinic workers in Massachusetts and shooting up a clinic in Virginia wa3 in jail Tuesday as prosecutors tried to work out which state would get first crack at him. John C. Salvi entered noi plea to charges of shooting at an oc- cupied building. U.S. prosecutors said; they may file death penalty charges in federal court against Salvi in the Mas- sachusetts killings.

Page 7A. i Many thousand thanks Minnehaha Park meant a lot to Harold Manguson. When he died the year before last at age 54, his mother decided to use the money from his estate to give back to the park. After donating $25,000 to the Minneapolis Park Board last month, Alice Manguson gave another $25,000 toward the park's restoration Tuesday. And she has allocated yet another gift, which the board will receive after she dies.

Page 1B. Wednesday, January 4, 1995 4th day; 361 to go this year Sunrise: 7:51. Sunset: 4:45 Partly sunny and cold weather today in the Twin Cities, with west to northwesterly winds at 15 to 25 miles per hour. High 5. Tonight, partly cloudy and chilly.

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