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BILL SKEET. Free Press Smith grasps education, environment freshmen should be seen and not heard, Vermont's former lieutenant governor has chosen two issues education and the environment that he says, "I want people to know me by." The task may be difficult because, generally speaking, Republicans in the House have little influence on the governing process. In part, that is the consequence of the large majority the Democrats enjoy in the lower chamber. Without the need for Republican votes, the Democrats can afford to ignore their counterparts. But Smith speaks confidently about building bridges across the ideological spectrum to cure some of the nation's problems, especially in education.

In his view, the American public school system has become a national security issue. Noting the nation's changing demography Smith insists that schools must improve their record of teaching black and Hispanic youths, who will account for a growing percentage of Top of the news Settlement reached at Union Butterfield Workers will be back for the third shift tonight at the Union Butterfield Tivoly machine tool plant in Derby after coming to terms with management Saturday. About 250 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers went on strike Feb. 19. A union official said then that the major sticking points were pay, health benefits and pensions.

Reading from a joint statement of union and management, Don Cobb, vice president of industrial relations, said, "The settlement included pay increases of 45 cents per hour in each of the first two years of the contract and 43 cents in the third year. The settlement also included increases in sickness and accident benefits, employee life insurance benefits, jetireee life insurance benefits and a $100 -lump sum bonus payment to all active employees returning to work." In addition, a labor-management committee will be formed "for the discussion and resolution of future problems," Cobb said. President of the local union, Jim Crowe, called the three-year contract It's not quite what people wanted, but it's a settlement." Crowe said workers walked off the job at the plant because "we wanted higher wages. That was the bulk of the strike." The wage increases in the settlement were exactly the same amounts the union rejected last week. Crowe said most workers earn $7 to $8 per hour.

He noted there were improvements in pensions and life insurance and cited the labor-management committee as a positive step. University bans group for 'strong-arm' religion Gannett News Service NASHVILLE In an unusual move, Vanderbilt University has banned a religious group from campus for continuing an "intrusive" evangelism style, disrespect for other faiths and unwillingness to iollow campus rules. Campus Advance, a church group related to the controversial Boston Church of Christ, was rejected by Vanderbilt's Community Affairs Board in a meeting earlier this month. "It's clear they hadn't been following university policy, and they weren't indicating that they were really bothered that they weren't following policy," said Johan Madson, Vanderbilt's dean of students. Since the Central Nashville church was established here last year, it has been the target of criticism from local Church- es of Christ, which complain that the new church is guilty of "strong-arm Note to readers: You may notice a change in the listings of the Free Press' TV This Week.

Many of the channel numbers have been changed to an easier-to-read format. The numbers are in black on a white background. Before, most numbers were harder to read because they were white on a black background. The listings also will change to that format in the daily Living section of the Free Press beginning Monday. Numbers VERMONT LOTTERY: The numbers 205 and 9167 were drawn Saturday.

TRI-STATE MEGABUCKS: The numbers were drawn Saturday. Weather Sunny early, then clouding up with a 30 percent chance of light snow in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 20s. Regional forecast, 12A Inside Books 5D Money- 1E 9D -2A Bride Groom Classified 1F Comics Crossword 7F Deaths 2B Movies. Nation- Outdoors 6C Sports 1C TV Independent prevails in Free Press survey By Sam Hemingway Free Press Staff Writer Independent Peter Clavelle holds a lead over his closest rival, Democrat Nancy Chioffi, in the race to succeed Bernard Sanders as mayor of Burlington, according to a Free Press poll of likely city voters.

Of the 342 voters surveyed last week, 40 percent said they support Clavelle, the former city economic development director. Chioffi, a Ward 5 alderwoman and president of the aldermanic board, got 31 percent, Greens candidate, lawyer Sandra Baird, took 6 percent, and independent Michael Hackett, a computer instructor, 2 percent. The telephone poll, conducted by Macro Systems Inc. of Burlington Wednesday evening, showed that the race is far from over, however. Of those surveyed, 21 percent said they didn't know who they would support or refused to say who they favored.

The poll has a 6V2 percent error margin. Those surveyed gave their answers in response to a sentence that listed all of the candidates for mayor, followed by the question, "If the election were held today, for whom would you vote?" The respon-Turn to POLL, back page Free Press mayoral endorsement, 4E better and give them the latitude to do that," he said. Smith sees his seat on the House Government Operations Committee as the way to dealing with his other priority, the environment. The panel's envi- rnnmpnt cnhpnm- PETER SMITH mittee has broad jurisdiction over the workings of the Environmental Protection Agency. Smith maintains the agency must be reorganized so it "can meet the needs we see coming at us in the 1990s." Looking at environmental problems as we understand them today, "We would set up the EPA quite differently than we did 15 years ago," Smith said.

Bush gets serious on Tower flap By Robin Wright Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON The Bush administration begins a full-court press today to win Senate backing for the embattled nomination of John Tower as secretary of defense. Among those leading the assault will be Tower himself. After weeks of public silence on the alle-gations about his excessive drinking and womanizing, the for mer Texas senator is to TOWER give his first public response to the Senate Armed Services Committee's 11-9 vote against his nomination during an appearance on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley." Tower also is being scheduled to speak at the National Press Club in mid-week. "Tower has never taken this to the media before. He had stayed silent because he was confident that the committee would get the facts and make the right decision," said a longtime Tower associate and supporter.

"Now he is going to fight the committee's decision in the media, because it (the committee) has come up with an utterly groundless decision," the associate said. Ironically, the Saturday announcement of Tower's plans coincided with a spate of editorials in his home state calling on him to withdraw his nomination to save the Bush administration from its first defeat. Turn to TOWER, back page i UlL ten children entering the public school system over the next decade. "If we don't figure out how to improve our record of success, as a country we will go backwards, not because we've been out-competed in the marketplace, but because we won't have an educated workforce," he said. Casting education reform as a national security concern might help Smith win Democratic backing on the House Education and Labor Committee, on which he serves.

An open secret on Capitol Hill is that the clout of committees rises and falls as the national agenda shifts. In the 101st Congress, with tax and spending matters shaping up as the big issues, education legislation may suffer. But Smith believes school reform is a compelling issue with enough political sex appeal for a future. "We are recognizing increasingly that within limits we have got to empower teachers, parents and school administrators to decide how they want to perform rr if The Associated Press what appeared to be an overhead compartment and some personal belongings and a Coast Guard Cutter was en route to retrieve those objects Six Americans, two Australians and a New Zealander aboard United Flight 811 were instantly blown through the opening, and at least one was sucked into one of the jet's engines, authorities said. The airplane was at 20.000 feet when the Turn to FLIGHT, back page I 1 I By David Bauman Gannett News Service WASHINGTON After six weeks on Capitol Hill, Vermont's freshman congressman, Peter Smith, does not have the dew-eyed look of Jimmy Stewart in "Mr.

Smith Goes to Washington." Despite an early mishap in his short tenure missing two votes on opening day the 43-year-old Republican lawmaker has firm ideas about his job and how to make a name for himself in the 101st Congress. "There is so much going on here, unless you focus on what your top priorities are going to be, it just becomes a hubbub and a rush and a blur of activity," Smith said recently. Acknowledging his first two months involved an "enormous amount of time" setting up a congressional office, Smith said he believes that he has set a course that could lay the foundation of a productive legislative career. Disregarding a Washington adage that Flight 81 1 fuselage suspect By Steve Elliott The Associated Press HONOLULU Navy and Coast Guard ships Saturday searched 3,000 square miles of ocean for debris from a jumbo jet to determine whether structural failure ripped open the plane, hurling nine people to their deaths. Investigators began examining the damaged United Airlines jet, which made an emergency landing Friday with a 10-foot-wide, 40-foot-high hole in its right side.

The Boeing 747 had been en route to Auckland, New Zealand, with 336 passengers and 18 crew members aboard. Aviation experts said the most likely cause of the tragedy was metal fatigue. However, three FBI bomb experts from Washington were sent to join the investigation. Between 70 and 100 people are participating in the investigation, including 16 from the National Transportation Safety Board, to look into every possible cause, said NTSB investigator Lee Dickinson. "The FBI is also here working with us because, as I've said earlier, all doors are open," said Dickinson.

"All doors are completely wide open." Investigators may make some preliminary findings, but it will take nine to 12 months to determine the cause of the accident, Dickinson said. A key question for investigators is whether the loss of a cargo door was a cause or a result of the plane tearing open. The government last July ordered airlines to improve cargo door lock systems on older Boeing 747s after one I VT HI w- MS ft- HELPING HAND: An unidentified flight attendant aids a passenger on United Airlines Flight 81 1 Friday, after nine people were sucked through a hole in the plane's fuselage. partly opened in flight. United followed the directive as far as an initial inspection, but had not added an aluminum and steel part required to be installed on the door by Dec.

31 of this year, spokesman Russell Mack said in Chicago. United has completed the addition on six of 25 aircraft it applies to, he said. The Coast Guard said Saturday afternoon that a Navy helicopter spotted USA Weekend Vermont 1 Washington 3A World 6A Editorials- 4E 6E Insight- Ann Landers 2D Living 1.