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Sports Final Edition I Phils' Telemaco suffers first loss Sports if 172d Year, No. 355 MONDAY, MAY 21, 2001 www.philly.com 75 cents sofne locations PlMTG outside the menoooMan area xj a 3 5ff iv tf CI le mmm Bring on the Bucks Bush calls for a new Milwaukee poses final test in East. D6 Bill Lyon: No busted hearts this time. Dl N. J.

killer back in jail; no karaoke, no Web site Arrest after 27 years reveals 'insane cover. 76ers squeak into East final. Dl, D4-5 j. if- Jt 'V 'i 1 i xln i pfJ I- I heaved up his shot, the Sixers escaped with a heart-stopping 88-87 victory over the Raptors yesterday at the First Union Center to earn a berth in the NBA's Eastern Conference finals. It is the first time since 1985 that the Sixers have made it to the conference finals.

They will meet the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 1 at the First Union Center tomorrow night f-' jaws' -4 'assault on poverty' Corporations, charities and citizens will play larger parts, he said, with much more focus on spiritual issues; By Ron Hutcheson INQUIRER WASHINGTON BUREAU SOUTH BEND, Ind. Calling for a new "assault on poverty," President Bush said yesterday that average Americans could help end poverty by meeting the emotional and spiritual needs of poor people. "Much of today's poverty has more to do with troubled lives than a troubled economy. And often when a life is broken, it can only be restored by another caring, concerned human being," Bush said in a commencement address at the University of Notre Dame. The speech was Bush's clearest statement to date about the role of faith and spirituality in combating social problems.

He described his vision of a faith-based social safety net as the third stage in a war on poverty that began with Lyndon Johnson's Great Society welfare programs in the 1960s. Bush said the second stage came in 1996, when Congress approved welfare-to-work legislation that dismantled some of Johnson legacy. In describing the change, Bush offered rare praise for the man he replaced in the Oval Office, calling the legislation a tribute to Congress "and to the president who signed it: President Bill Clinton." In the next phase, Bush said, corporations, charities and private citizens will play a bigger role in fighting poverty, with much more focus on spiritual issues. "Welfare as we knew it has ended, but poverty has not," he said. "The easy cases have already left the welfare rolls; hardest problems remain people with far fewer skills and greater barriers to work." See POVERTY on A4 At Yale, protest over U.S.

policy on AIDS awaits the President. A4. and chairwoman of the national financial-aid group. "It discriminates by your familys socioeconomic status, because if you're from an affluent family, you won't be penalized, and I have a problem with that," said Walter Cathie, dean of financial aid at Widener University in Chester. "I don't consider myself liberal, by any means, and I do See STUDENTS on A9 Aaron McKie and Dikembe Mutombo (right) celebrate after Toronto's Vince Carter missed a chance to win the series.

76ers oust Raptors in last-second thriller It may have been the longest two seconds in the history of the 76ers. Even upbeat team president Pat Croce looked stressed. But after a 23-foot desperation shot by Toronto's Vince Carter clanged harmlessly off the rim, the wait proved worth it. Leading by only one point with two seconds remaining before Carter College aid curbs for drug convictions criticized By Robert Moran INQUIRER STAFF WRITER ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.

For the last few years, he was Daniel "Danny Catalano, self-proclaimed "bad boy" of doo-wop and former lead singer of the oldies group Sha Na Na. With his rakish shades and well-coiffed silver mane, he looked the part. He wore a satin Sha Na Na jacket and a gold Sha Na Na necklace. He drove a customized, black conversion van with the vanity plate "SNN1" and said he lived in a "palatial" estate overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. The clincher, though, was his voice.

By most ac In Florida, Elmer Edward Solly lived as "Danny Catalano. counts, he could re ally sing. Then, shortly be fore 10 p.m. May 10, as he stood next to a small inlet dock outside his real home, the Sand Cove Apartments, Catalano was confronted by six deputy U.S. marshals.

Just like that, Danny C's gig was up, and 27 years on the run were over. Catalano admitted to the marshals that he was Elmer Edward Solly, 55, a convicted child killer who had escaped from a South Jersey prison in 1974. "At one point," said Billy Holmes, one of the deputy marshals in on the arrest, "he was asked if he had in fact been part of the Sha Na Na group. His answer was ho. So ended the bizarre ruse of a man who had decided not only to hide in plain sight but to take the stage at car See fugitive on ah Findings due today on Mideast violence A U.S.-led commission is due to issue its final report on eight months of Israeli-Palestinian violence today after fighting again flared across the West Bank.

Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell's commission is to issue its report in New York. It is expected to demand that both sides halt the violence and call for Israel to freeze Jewish settlements, a demand rejected by the Israeli government. Updatefs on the crisis, Stories, Pages A2 and Bl.

Pope gathers his cardinals An extraordinary meeting that begins today could offer a look at a potential successor. A2 Tobacco-law turf wars A bill designed to unify tobacco controls could preempt laws some say are tougher. Bl Ail in the name of baseball? The Scranton summer league's intention was to keep players playing. Some of its practices, though, ran afoul of the law. Bl Getting tough on cholesterol A look at changes in government recommendations, which put more emphasis on preventing heart disease.

Health Science, El A focus on retirement A special issue of Philadelphia Business looks at issues affecting older workers. Fl On the Web News and sports, updated throughout the day. http:inquirer.philly.com 2001, Philadelphia Newapapere. Inc. CaH 21565-1234 or 1 -800-523-9068 lex home delivery.

Pllllllilfllll The law dismays school officials, who say it is difficult to enforce and discriminates against low-income students. 1998 law that is being fully implemented for the first time. The law is nearly impossible to adequately enforce, government and college officials say, and has produced an unlikely alliance of critics groups such as the National Associa Raiding the Rain Forest JERRY LODRIQUSS Inquirer Staff Photographer at 8:30. The winner of that series will go on to the NBA Finals. Amid the raucous postgame celebration, Sixers guard Allen Iverson reveled.

"We're a team," said Iverson, who outfoxed the Raptors by passing the ball instead of shooting it for much of the last six minutes. "For the first time in my life I'm on a team." tion of Student Financial Aid Administrators and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws who say it amounts to double punishment for drug offenses and unfairly penalizes low-income students. "It's a bad law. We should not be using the financial-aid system to enforce social behaviors," said Rachel Lohman, chairwoman of financial aid at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, were as familiar now as in French colonial times, and the village's forest ended up back in the hands of foreign timber interests. "This is all new to us," said Ge'Ometre, manager of the Bosquet forest.

"We want to nullify the contract and start again." This tale is being repeated across Cameroon's Eastern Province, where Bosquet and its neighboring villages stand in the path of some of the world's most intense tropical logging. Money from Europe and Asia is fueling a push into the 435-million-acre Congo Basin, the world's second-largest rain forest. Legally and illegally, timber companies, often with the aid of well-connected politicians, are descending on these dense and tangled forests. The scramble for tropical timber isn't limited to Cameroon. Throughout the tropics, from Africa to South America to Papua New Guinea to Cambodia, well-financed, multinational conglomerates are overwhelming ef- Logging fuels crimes, corruption in Cameroon By Jake Wagman INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF Thousands of current and future college students who have been convicted of drug-related offenses and admit it are ineligible for federal tuition aid for at least one year under a Stress and pregnancy A study in Philadelphia is whether "social stressors" contribute to premature delivery.

Health Science, El Columnists Art Carey: How to fight back against osteoarthritis. El Gail Shisten WPVI and WCAU are neck-and-neck again at 11 p.m. E8 Weather A rainy week ahead. Cloudy and cool today, with occasional rain and drizzle. High 64; low 58.

Full report, BS Index Comics E10 Newsmakers Editorials A10 Obituaries B4 Legal Notices. Television E8 Movies E6 Triclassifieds 1 Second of three parts By Mark Jaffe INQUIRER STAFF WRITER BOSQUET, Cameroon How much is the rain forest worth? The men from the Lebanese timber company who came to this Pygmy village of mud huts, hemmed in by the thick, dark woods of the Congo Basin, had their own idea. "The loggers gave us 5,000 francs about $70 sacks of rice and salt, a carton of soap, and two demijohns of red wine," said village leader Kanga Simon Ge'Ometre. For that, and a vague promise of more money later, the village elders last fall signed a contract allowing the company, LeSolet, to log Bosquet's new community forest. The government-granted, forest was supposed to be the Baka Pygmies' economic toehold in Cameroon's rich forests, valued by the World Bank at $70 billion.

But the designs of foreign loggers The valuable cargo Is taken to port in Cameroon. One analysis found that illegal cutting and corruption are flourishing in the timber trade there. forts to regulate logging. And in the rush, illegal cutting and government corruption are flourishing. A recent World Bank analysis found that "in many countries, illegal logging is similar in size to legal pro-See CAMEROON on A6 i.