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Homes The missjnfflree factor months with seven babies Weather High: AT Low: 66 f.w Sunrise: 5:28 tiM'" Sunset: 9:03 'JV 178th day; 187 until '99 BIO MetroState Composer finds new colors in Garland's rainbow Bl UP i A all named McCaughey is? ft LJ1 mm St. Paul Saturday JUNE 27, 1998 QlleJli ml NEWSPAPER OF THE TWIN CITIES JD li a 5 1 -Nr- Arrests mar ceremony; talks yield agreements Air-. Y- Gardebring resigning from state high court for job at 'U' 7-year justice to take post as vice president By Robert Whereatt and Conrad deFiebre Star Tribune Staff Writers Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Sandra Gardebring, the last court member to be appointed by former Gov. Rudy Perpich, submitted her resignation Friday. It is effective Sept.

7. Gardebring will take a job with the University of Minnesota as vice president for institutional relations; she will oversee public and alumni relations, lobbying in St. Paul and Washington, D.C., and china Day of reckoning TIANANMEN: Ghosts of the crackdown still haunt survivors. Turn to A18. TIBET: China's top religion official rejects the notion proposed by the United States of autonomy talks with "relic" Dalai Lama.

Turn to A19. RELIGION: China is taking cautious steps toward religious freedom. Turn to BS. CULTURE: Regional opera is one of the nation's high points. Turn to El.

was followed by similar protests from National Security Adviser Santiy Berger and other aides to their counterparts in Beijing. "People are not debiis to be swept up for a visit," Berger said in a meeting with reporters Friday afternoon jn Xian. In more pointed language later, he added, "China's human rights record is terrible." But he softened his criticism by saying that China was trying to make the summit a success and that the action against dissi-' dents was not as harsh as it has been in the past. Turn to CHINA on M8fan Deals on two security issues. From News Services BEIJING In a ceremony heavy in symbolism, President Clinton was received by Chinese President Jiang Zemin today in a military ceremony at Tiananmen Square, the sprawling plaza thick with memories of China's bloody crackdown against democratic change nine years ago.

Clinton plans to tell Jiang in private talks this weekend that China's fresh arrests of several dissidents at the outset of the summit is "not acceptable." On Friday, Clinton directed the U.S. ambassador to China, James Sasser, to lodge an official protest with Beijing. The move Associated Press President Clinton and President Jiang Zemin reviewed the troops upon Clinton's arrival today In Beijing, it was the first visit by a U.S. president since the '89 crackdown. 'I got it! I got it! I got 11 A Downtown Target store OK'dwithout office tower the university toundation, which is in charge of fund-raising.

Most lawyers would consider a Supreme Court position the capstone of a career, but Gardebring, 51, said Friday that she never intended it to be her last job. "I didn't want to be a judge for 27 years," she said, referring to the span that would have taken her from her appointment in 1991 to mandatory retirement at age 70. Life on the court, while challenging and rewarding, restricted nersonal relationshiDS and activi i ties, Gardebring said. For example, she couldn't sit on a public board in her home city of Shoreview and had to decline to invite a lawyer friend to her house to watch a Super Bowl game because he was scheduled to appear before the court. Turn to GARDEBRING on A17 fan The court at a glance.

By John Windrow Star Tribune Staff Writer After an emotional appeal by Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton, the Minneapolis City Council voted 7-5 Friday to go ahead with the downtown Target store project without an office tower. "This is a tough decision," the mayor said, "but it's the right decision to make now." Opponents, however, denounced the $71.7 million plan by Ryan Properties as corporate welfare. John Griffith, Ryan vice president, said Friday that the developer would issue a "go-ahead letter" to the city before the end of the year and that demolition on the 900 block of Nicollet Mall could start by February 1999. "Our next big piece of work is finding appropriate homes for the businesses on the block," he said. Turn to STORE onAlOon Council members' votes and views on the matter.

And on B3: New rules for antique stores are approved. 'si Star Tribune photo by Cheryl Diaz Meyer "I miss being out in public life," Justice Sandra Gardebring, 51, said Friday in her chambers. Star Tribune photo by Martai Levison Fans In the left field seats reach for a Mark McGwire batting practice blast, one of eight he hit before Friday night's Twlns-St Louis Cardinals game at the Metrodome. McGwire wasn't nearly as successful once the real game began, going hitless in four at-bats. The Twins' Matt Lawton and Marty Cordova, however, launched home runs to lead Minnesota to a 5-1 victory.

Turn to CI. Sex-harassment rulings put employers on notice New Minneapolis law will require repairs before a home is sold By Steve Brandt Star Tribune Staff Writer A tougher law requiring repair of safety flaws before the sale of a house squeaked through the Minneapolis City Council on a 7-5 vote Friday. Backers say that fixing major health and safety defects that turn up ii NEWS HIS! Man left boat before accident A Minneapolis man missing after a boat accident at a Mississippi River dam turned up alive Friday morning. Authorities say he told them that he and a friend had been drinking before the boat went over the dam, killing the friend. Turn to BL More votes for peace in N.

Ireland Protestants who support the peace agreement in Northern Ireland appeared to be winning enough seats in its new Assembly to guarantee a strong start for the agreement. The Assembly is the linchpin of the accord. Turn to A8. wnen a nouse is soia INSIDE New energy code will require most new houses in Minnesota to have mechanical ventilation for fresh air and for the safe operation of furnaces. Turn to Bl.

will help bring the city's aging housing stock up to date. They say that a 23-year-old home-sale inspection law that lacks such teeth has left homeowners vulnerable to unsafe conditions. The fix-up amend The Supreme Court: Other key rulings: MINNESOTA CASE: The justices gave 16 women who won a sex-harassment and discrimination lawsuit against a Minnesota mine company a chance to boost monetary damages. Turn to DL EXPLICIT MAGAZINES: The court let the government continue banning the sale of Penthouse and other sexually explicit magazines on military bases. Turn to A15.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY: In an unusual double-jeopardy ruling, the court made it easier for states to slap habitual criminals with stiffer sentences based on their past crimes. Turn to A15. RELIGION IN SCHOOLS: The justices turned away a dispute over a Utah public school teacher's alleged in-class religious activities, letting stand a ruling that has raised concern among supporters of strict church-state separation. tricts financially responsible. Friday's decisions said employers always bear such responsibility when a supervisor's harassment results in some tangible professional injury such as a firing, a demotion or an undesirable reassignment.

Under the rulings, if a harassed employee has not suffered such a tangible injury, the employer may try to limit or avoid liability by proving: That it "exercised reasonable care to prevent and correct promptly any sexually harassing behavior." And that the complaining employee "unreasonably failed to take advantage of any preventive or corrective opportunities provided or to avoid harm otherwise." Turn to COURT on MA fan Rulings affirm what Minnesota courts have held for years. AhoonAH: Impact on the Paula Jones case. From News Services WASHINGTON, D.C. Employers are responsible for the sexual misconduct of supervisors, even if they knew nothing about the behavior, the Supreme Court ruled Friday. The decision sets a strict new standard for harassment on the job and raises the.

stakes for companies accused of permitting it in their workplaces. The court closed out its 1997-98 term in dramatic fashion, issuing a pair of 7-2 decisions that make companies easier targets for sexual harassment lawsuits. Together, the two rulings spell out the court's most clearly defined guidelines for when businesses can be held accountable for on-the-job harassment. The decisions came four days after a ruling that made it far more difficult for students who are sexually harassed or abused by teachers to hold school dis Please icau General Information Classifieds 673-7000 Circulation 673-4343 or 1-800-775-4344 anrl recycle ment applies to houses that go on the market starting Jan. 1.

"It's really a historic change," said city inspector Lynn Ogren, who helped draft the changes. The city's inspections division estimated that most homes will require less than $800 in repairs. UN Ill Saturday. June 27. 1998 Copyright 1998 Star Tribune Volume XVtlNo.

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