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WMEW! LBONS ONLY SPORTS, ID ON GUARD FOR 173 YEARS metro FINAL TUESDAY Oct. 12, 2004 50 cents www.frccp.com MICHIGAN NATIONAL GUARD I DUTY IN IRAQ Military mom's hard good-bye No Wings? Pistons fill spotlight Marketing blitz thunders as strike idles the NHL 1 IwqtV'W IJJH TOM WALSH V. '4 What do you call a Hockey-town with no hockey? Hoop City, of course. That's Hoop City, as in home of the Detroit Pistons, reigning National Basketball Association champions, who open their exhibition season Wednesday against the Boston Celtics at the Palace of Auburn Hills. That's also Hoop City, as in Hoop City Grille, the name of the new theme restaurant to open next month at the Star Southfield theater complex.

The Pistons organization is launching a full-court marketing press to re-establish the Pistons as Detroit's top sports attraction. For a decade, they've been in the shadow of hockey's Detroit Red Wings, whose entire 2004-2005 may be lost to a labor dispute. No hockey in Hockeytown presents the Pistons a unique window to capitalize on June's stunning NBA Finals victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. New Pistons initiatives for the 2004-2005 season include: A new local TV contract with Channel 20 1 I 1 llllll Mil Please see PISTONS, Page 10A Lawyer says Beatty used job for loan HOMA1N BLANOUARTDMro Fraa Pnsi Joey, 9, is consoled by his aunt Leslie Straughter as his mother, Sgt Ricci Moore, left, a member of the Michigan National Guard's 1225th Combat Support Battalion, says good-bye Sunday. She has been called to serve in Iraq and probably won't see her son for up to two years.

Child care means more work for single parents in service short hours before her bus left the Detroit Light Guard Armory, where the battalion is based, with about 25 other By KIM NORTH SHINE FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER McCoy, before sunrise Monday, with thousands of troops. soldiers. trading her job as sole provider for 9- She'll have administrative duties, The good-bye came at the Detroit ByJIMSCHAEFER and L. ELRICK FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS year-old Joey for a tour of duty in Iraq. probably doing payroll, rather than go- home of Moore's sister Pam Shaw, who Ricci Moore is a single mom.

She's al- Moore, with the Michigan National ing on combat patrols. But, Iraq is a thea- has become Joey's temporary parent. so a soldier. Guard's 1225th Combat Support Battal- ter of action without front lines. The ene- As the tears increased, it felt as Until now, it never came down to mom ion, could be gone for up to two years and my can come with rocket launchers on though someone cranked the thermostat vs.

military. probably won't see her family during donkey carts, suicide car-bombings or all the way. In the heat of the little home's Motherhood was Moore's primary that time. artillery shells rigged in roadside traps, living room, the sobbing seemed ampli- mission. But she became Sgt.

Moore full After several weeks training in Wis- Joey, his mom and their extended time when she boarded a bus to Ft. consin, Moore, 40, will ship out for Iraq family said good-bye Sunday night, a few Please see DUTY, Page 6A In role of activist, Reeve was Superman Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatricx's chief of staff used her title and the mayor's letterhead to persuade a bank to give her a home loan despite her low credit score, according to a lawyer who said he obtained bank documents as part of his lawsuit against the city. In an April 2 letter, Christine Beatty asked a Fifth Third Bank loan officer to overlook blemishes on her credit that jeopardized her chance to obtain a $237,000 mortgage for a home in Detroit's upscale Rosedale Park neighborhood. Beatty, told the Free Press on Monday night that she did not act improperly. She said her loan officer asked her to send him the letter, which she signed, "Chief of Staff, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick." "At no time did I think that this was an ethical violation," Beatty said.

"If I did, then I wouldn't have done it." According to the documents, loan officer By PATRICIA ANSTETT FREE PRESS MEDICAL WRITER Vi -it" if 13 1 field, N.J. Reeve, best known before his May 1995 injury as the actor in the "Superman" movie series begun in 1978, died Sunday, a day after having a heart attack and falling into a coma. He had also developed a systemic infection from a bed sore, a common complica- The testimonials, exchanged at rehabilitation centers, in Internet chat rooms, and in media interviews, eulogized a man who made a contribution far beyond those of other celebrities who lend their names to a health issue. "A strong voice has been lost," said Dr. Tara Jegi, a spinal cord researcher at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan, in Detroit.

Reeve's acting career, his enduring Mackinac Island legacy, and a Susan Ager salute. The Way We Live, 1C Jegi heads a peer counseling and support group program funded with a $45,000 grant from the nonprofit Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation in Spring Actor Christopher Reeve inspired thousands of Americans with spinal cord injuries and raised more than $40 million for improved treatments, an unprecedented sum by an individual in the field, patients and university researchers said Monday. Christopher Reeve inspired many and raised a fortune for spinal cord injury research. Plcase see REEVE, Page 2 A Please see BEATTY, Page 3A Tempers flare over who has the right to feel wronged By DAVID CRUMM FREE PRESS RELIGION WRITER 1 so discovering that tempers are flaring over a basic moral question: Who has a right to be angry about what happened at Sand Creek? Certainly, American Indians, said historian Howard Zinn, the author of textbooks used in many schools across the country. "Sand Creek was part of the whole American expansion into the West, which also was a history of Indian removal.

In contemporary language, we'd call this 'ethnic getting rid of Indians so white people could settle. "What's remarkable about Sand Creek is that it took place in 1864, in the middle of the Civil War, after the Emancipation Proclamation, and as our army presumably was fighting for freedom in the South. But in the West? There, the Anger: What readers think. 7A Day One is at www.freep.com of murdered and mutilated Indian families and European pioneers around Sand Creek, have been summoned to life, after 140 years, in the virtual reality of the online world. A National Park Service plan to build a Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site just east of Eads is driving the emotional debate, focusing worldwide attention on a town of fewer than 700 people and a patch of grassland that's now little more than a few rolling hills of browned-out scrub.

Pearson and other local residents are half horrified, but also half hopeful, that they might reap the kind of development that will save, their fading town. They're al iS- n. 4 I 1 v. 4 EADS, Colo. Sharon Pearson taught herself to build an Internet site as a way to do volunteer work for her community, though she's stuck at home most of the time with her main vocation: raising purebred Maltese dogs, fluffy white pups with coal-black eyes.

"So, in my spare time, I put up this free Kiowa County Web site, just to help out. And, oh my God! I was shocked at what I saw," she said. Suddenly, people from around the world were crowding into a forum she set up, arguing passionately about whether human scalps had been discovered in the prairie just down the road from the tiny town of Eads. Over the past 12 months, ghosts 4 CYRUS McCHIMMONRocKy Mountam New A simple monument memorializes those who died in the conflict between soldiers and American Indians in Colorado. Please see ANGER, Page 7A a ill' CONTACT US INDEX 1H Comics 5C.6C Food 1F MovieGuide 38 I' ll! 66 1 45 r-i 174.

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