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cbe Gkan Collegiate I METRO: UMC hosts legislative forum page A3 jssvsbtjss newspapers MA a BOM: Anti-Saddam action OK'd page Aft li L'ving SPORTS; Chargers win, Chiefs fall page P1, Vol. 128 No. 164 I Sioux City, Iowa Today's readers: 128,735 CITY EDITION day I All I quiet in Slim attendance expected as non-campaigns end DKS MOINES (AP Democrats heading MALLARD A young Mallard boy will get to see Disney World to more than 2,000 precinct meetings Monday with his family, thanks to the tace only one question: now Dig oi a victory will they give home-state Sen. Tom Harkin? Make-A-Wish Foundation. Pag A3 Republicans don nave mat many cnoices.

The absence of a fight led political leaders to predict that many Iowans would find something else to do Monday. They predicted only about 5 percent of the state's 482,880 registered Republicans and 579,875 registered Democrats would show up. Though President Bush faces a conservative SEE IOWANS continued on page A1 4 In the months leading up to Monday's caucuses, only former California Gov. Jerry Brown ventured into the state and he used the occasion to complain the caucuses are rigged in Harkin's favor. Harkin himself focused on New Hampshire, campaigning extensively in his home state only on the final weekend before the caucuses.

"The caucuses are dead," Brown declared. "The caucuses are going to Iowa Democratic Chairman John Roehrick said. "Most people are going to say they aren't going to spend the time and energy they have in the past." Harkin jumped into the Democratic presidential field in September, and his grip on the machinery of the state Democratic Party kept other candidates from challenging' him in the caucuses. The precinct caucuses, tne urst scneauiea test of presidential candidate strength, come after a non-campaign that contrasts with the past and may signal a new role for the state in the future. BRIAR CLIFF ROYALTY Briar Cliff Colleae celebrates Homecoming 1 992 with the Teen-ager wanted Still going strong at 1 20 crowning of the king and queen.

Page A3 in death of family CREDIT UNIONS MERGE nabbed in Florida Merger joins Teachers Credit Union and Sioux Valley Credit Union. Page B1 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) Police captured a 15-year-old Menoken boy at a Florida motel Saturday in con 3 nection with the slayings of his parents and two siblings at the fami TEEN-AGER SUES OVER )Mu i fctniindLll ly rural home. SUSPENSION A teen-ager Heavily armed otticers tound in Burbank, sues the school district for $50,000 after her Michael Neugebauer and his girlfriend, Jackie Hieb, 16, of suspension for wearing a Bismarck, at a Sarasota motel. sweatshirt imprinted with Old Authorities say Neugebauer is a Enalish-stvle letters mourning a DD; a nrV classmate apparently slain by gang members who mistooK nim for someone else.

School officials say the lettering Is a gang symbol. Page A8 bodies of Neiigebauer's Ronald, 44; his mother, Maureen, his sister, Michelle, 16; and his brother, Ryan, 12. The youth reportedly picked up; Hieb, whom he had been dating, in-Bismarck the morning after the kill-', ings. Students at Bismarck High School said they saw Neugebauer with about $1,000 in cash that mor- ning. The youths checked into the motel,) about four miles north of downtown-Sarasota, at about 5:30 p.m.

Friday said motel manager Manny; Rodoussakis. Hieb, who paid the $32.70 room tab with a $50 bill. tol Rodoussakis that Neugebauer was her brother. Rodoussakis suspected nothing, unusual. "They were just a couple of blond kids from the Midwest," he said.

Neugebauer was arrested on a. federal warrant for flight to avoid pro-' secution. He may be charged in adult court with murder, but Burke declined to confirm he would be. "Generally speaking, in cases involving serious crimes such as this, that is certainly a consideration, and something that we would con' template Burke said. Hieb is simply considered 3 runaway, Burke said.

NEW ERA Quayle's cheerleadlng, Steinbrenner's suspect in the killings. Neugebauer tried to open his motel room's back window before shouted warnings from police made him think better of it, a witness said. The couple eventually came out the front door shortly after 2 a.m. Their car, a white Pontiac with North Dakota -license plates, had been found earlier in the parking lot of the Rhoads Motel in Sarasota. Central Florida authorities had been alerted to "look for the car the previous day.

Burleigh County State's Attorney Patricia Burke declined comment on how police knew the couple might be in the area. She did not know why Neugebauer and Hieb went to Florida. I "Maybe it was for fun in the sun," Burke said. The search for Neugebauer began Jan. 27, when police found the promises of money push huge, confident U.S.

team into new era of the Olympics. Page D1 The Rev. John Wilzewske is pastor of S.D. The country church has been in existence Dalesburg Baptist Church In rural Beresford, for 1 20 years. (Photo by Loretta Sorensen) Ll2llil2lu Here are the numbers drawn in Saturday's "Iowa's $100,000 Cash Game Congregation en 3-4-8-13-17.

oys unity church in rural Beresford Winter Olympics open with Alpine pageantry Cloudy today, with a 40 percent chance of light snow, highs in the upper 20s and southeast winds at mph. Partly cloudy tonight, with a 20 percent chance of light come from the church, but no matter where you are in the community you'll probably be in coifr tact with someone from church. We probably know each other on a more personal level than members of a larger congregation because a lot of our members work together and are neighbors." Farmers made up the majority of the congregation in the early days of the church, but economic changes and ease of travel now bring people from every kind of occupation into the membership. "Some people from the university (University of South Dakota) drive up. We have one couple that moved to Sioux Falls, but they still come here for Sunday morning service.

What we have in common is faith and a personal relationship with Jesus Christ," Wilzewske snow, lows near 1 5-20. school to infants, and we have services Sunday morning and evening and Wednesday night. We have a home fellowship night when we gather at different homes for food and games and we're getting such a good turnout (50-60 people) that we're thinking we'll have to divide up into smaller groups." Church youths take part in Sunday night services, provide a choir and a variety of instruments and a monthly service at the Sioux City Gospel Mission, and recently went to Chicago's inner city to assist with city ministry there. Adults meet for adult fellowship, choir, women's ministries and Sunday school classes. Wilzewske said emphasis is put on mission and outreach and efforts are accommodated by the sense of unity the congregation enjoys.

"We're a close-knit group; everyone knows each other," he said. "Primary friendships (often) By Loretta Sorensen Journal correspondent BERESFORD, S.D. In communities across the prairies of South Dakota, roosters still crow in the morning, cows come home at milking time and people still gather to worship in little country churches. The lofty white spires of Dalesburg Baptist Church, rural Beresford, have stretched up over the roofs of neighboring bams and farm houses for more than 120 years to beckon members of surrounding communities to services and church activities. Pastor John Wilzewske said the congregation has seen many triumphs and trials but currently is enjoying a time of prosperity.

"Our members come from the Beresford, Centerville, Alcester, Wakonda and Vermillion communities," he said. "We have 40 youths in our Sunday school, high cois-Cyrille Grange. The local schoolboy sent a fireball sailing up thin cable to the Olympic bowl, completing its trip from Greece. That marked the start of the ceremonies, a spectacle created by choreographer Philippe Decoufle. Musicians dangled above the stadium and dozens of gymnasts swung on elastic bands during the performance, delighting the enthusiastic crowd.

The teams were, introduced by short poems featuring stilted rhymes playing off the nation's name and read in English and French. In the first competition of the Games, France came out a 3-2 loser to hockey powerhouse Canada. The Unified Team, representing five republics of the former Soviet Union, looked strong in an 8-1 hockey blowout of Switzerland. Action starts in six other medal sports today. By Associated Press ALBERTVILLE, France (AP)' The Winter Olympics opened Saturday with a dazzling ceremony that featured elements of the aesthetic, athletic, ornate and corny on a clear, cool evening beneath the snow-capped majesty of the Alps.

The United States was the largest of the 64 national teams that paraded past dignitaries, including French President Francois Mitterrand, at the opening eeremonies. Mitterand welcomed more than 2,000 athletes. The festivities entertained an estimated 2 billion people watching worldwide and 33,000 in the stadium. They marked the return of the Winter Games to France after 24 years. The Olympic flame was carried into the stadium by French national soccer team manager Michel Platini, who handed off to 8-year-old Fran- Last Wednesday's mini editorial writer suggests that Sturgeons support in different aspects of life is frightenting.

Quite the contrary, what is frightening Is that the writer suggests that women not oe allowed choice, that terminally people be forced to suffer and that people he feels should be SEE POPULATION continued on page A1 4 murdered, should be. Cathy PratharDailay 4134VanBurenSt. Probe calls DeKoster back to service finrf vour mini with vour name, gddress and daytime telephone number to Mini Editor. The journal, box no. By Dave Dreeszen Capitol correspondent Ten years' ago, Lucas DeKoster gave up his Iowa Senate seat, but remained a public servant.

After he retired from the Senate, DeKoster agreed to serve on the rnrnn 7 SECTIONS-94 PAGES A11 A11 Ann Landers Gun control foes boo Brady, wife LAS VEGAS (AP) Former White House press secretary James Brady and his wife were booed off stage by gun cpntrol opponents during an appearance at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The group heckled Sarah Brady throughout her 40-minute speech Friday night. The Bradys. cut short their address on gun control legislation when the heckling failed to subside. "You may think sitting there that you're putting us through something, but this is nothing like we've been through in the past," Sarah Brady told the hecklers as her husband sat beside her in his wheelchair.

Age: 73 Education: Hull High School; Iowa State University, bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering; Cleveland Marshall Law School in Cleveland, doctor of law degree. Background: Served two terms in Iowa Senate, current Senate Ethics Committee citizen member. Former member of Iowa Board of Education. Currently practices patent law in Hull. B8 non-partisan Legislative Service Bureau because a hearing -had not been held.

Even without- the proposed censure, DeKoster said, the committee would have filed a report critical of Welsh and would have printed it in the Senate Journal. "Joe Welsh's name would have been spread in the Journal for all time," he said. Public pressure persuaded Ethics Committee Chairwoman Jean Lloyd-Jones to reopen the investigation three days after it was dropped. Later, Senate Minority Leader Jack Rife filed a detailed ethics charges against Welsh. In an interview, DeKoster expressed disappointment with the ethics legislative body's Ethics Committee as a i i member.

Until late Boyd Business Classified Ads before," DeKoster said. Last month, DeKoster, a Republican, found himself in the midst of a controversial decision to drop the Welsh probe. DeKoster and three Democratic senators voted to halt the investigation the day after Welsh resigned as president. The two Republican senators opposed the motion. "I had a couple of calls from peo- Ele chastising me for voting with the icmocrats to drop it," DeKoster said.

DeKoster tried to get the committee to publicly censure Welsh for not being "totally candid" with the panel. An independent counsel had told the committee that Welsh's earlier testimony before the panel was "inconsistent with the facts." But DeKoster's motion was ruled out of order by a lawyer for the B1-B5 C3-C14 Comlcs1-8 last year, his tenure Comics on the committee Editorials A12 B8 was rather Horoscope -uneventful. The! panel usually met i vd Llving1-6 B8 B6 only once or twice a year, and then primarily to deal Living Movies Obituaries Puzzle Sports TV Listings Weather. B5 D1-D8 B7 was summoned to Des Moines for an ethics probe of former Senate presi dent Joe Welsh's ties to the Iowa Trust scandal. "We never had anything like this with organizational DeKoster duties A2 SEE ETHICS continued on page A14 But in December, the Hull lawyer.