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Chicago Tribune, Saturday. May 24, 1986- Seel ion 1 5 Citysuburbs State House silences proponents of 0 Hare noise measure tinue to fight elements of the Republican's O'Hare package, especially the proposed regional airport authority. Last year, Daniels helped engineer the passage of a plan giving Du Page County control of the board governing the Du Page Airport near West Chicago. Democrats had attached an amendment on the Republican O'Hare package returning control of the Du Page Airport to nearby Kane County, but that provision went down with the rest of the package. Republicans did win one minor victory, however.

Democrats let pass a Republican proposal that allows residents to deduct on their income taxes up to 50 percent of the cost of insulating against noise. In other action in the General Assembly on Friday: To maintain momentum in solving the state's insurance crisis, Senate Democrats supported a bill rife with Republican proposals adopted earlier this week. The bill passed 44-7 and goes to the House for consideration. "Since the House has refused to act this is the only ballgame," said Sen. LeRoy Lemke Chicago.

"We'll have this back in June and do something equitable Daniels Elmhurst insisted after the vote. "It may take a plane crash, it may take environmental problems destroying the health of those residents, but well have ultimate success." But the Republican package, contained in three bills, mustered no more than 56 votes on any of the separate roll calls, short of the 60 votes needed for passage. A handful of the legislature's 67 Democrats, all of them representing districts near O'Hare, voted for the Republican package. The Republican plan would have banned new runway construction at O'Hare, taken away the city's for all sides then." The Senate bill advances sweeping revisions in the state's legal system, including the elimination of a doctrine that can compel defendants in negligence cases found minimally at fault to pay the entire court award. It also caps plaintiffs' attorneys' fees and limits punitive damages in certain circumstances.

Quietly and quickly, the House passed a measure that would make it a crime to kill or injure an unborn child, despite objections from opponents who called it unconstitutional. City reaches out to Bownstaters I fC-y- Misty-eyed Chicago Looking northeast from Sears Tower, Chicago's second day for the damp cloak, formed by warm lakefront is shrouded in fog Friday. It was the and cool airs, to descend on the lakefront. More hands on deck for charity tern Trlbuna photo by Frank Harm St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church of Orland Park on III.

Hwy. 45 between 151st and 159th Streets. President Ronald Reagan on Friday signed a resolution sponsored by U.S. Sen. Alan Dixon HI.

declaring Sunday as Hands Across America Day." Dixon will join the chain in Lincoln Park. Organizers continued to urge people who haven't registered for the event to show up along the 342-mile route in Illinois Sunday to take part. "I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun, but it's not a party," insisted Ruth Bartman, 24, of Griffith, who planned to join the line with a group of friends in South Bend. r'There are a lot of people trying to help out needy people." right to condemn property outside its boundaries for the airport and created a suburban-controlled regional authority to govern Chicago's three airports. House Speaker Michael Madigan Chicago said a Democratic O'Hare plan, passed earlier this month, was a "well-thought position." That Democratic plan, now in the Senate, writes into state law the provisions of a 1982 federal court consent decree that includes a ban on the construction of new runways for "heavy" aircraft until June 30, 1995.

Madigan also pledged to con v. v- i operations manager Rob Baxter. A steady stream of people, including several politicians and celebrities, signed on Friday to join the human chain, which will form at 2 p.m. Sunday. Gov.

James Thompson, who was scheduled to be out of state, changed plans and will join the chain on the 700 block of North Michigan Avenue. He is expected to be joined by Bears quarterback Jim McMahon, organizers said. Mayor Harold Washington will lead more than 1,000 city employees on Michigan Avenue between Congress Parkway and 16th Street. A few blocks away, at 22d Street, talk show host Oprah Winfrey, the Illinois co-chair of Hands Across America, will be in line. Joseph Cardinal Rernardin is scheduled to join 4,000 families of Trlbun photo by Jamn Mayo charity By Tim Franklin and Kurt Greenbaum Chicago Tribune SPRINGFIELD Th Demo-cratic-dominated House on Friday quashed a package of Republican proposals to curb noise and air-pollution at O'Hare International Airport, delivering a crippling blow to many suburban lawmakers' top legislative priority.

Despite the setback. Republican leaders vowed to revive the fight later in the session by tacking on their package to other legislation. "We'll have ultimate success," House Minority Leader Lee jNIU aide to return If or now By Jean Davidson and Kurt Greenbaum I The adviser to Northern Illinois University's student newspaper be reinstated, but only until pune 18 so he can help publish a 'previously scheduled special edition, a federal judge in Rockford jruled Friday. The decision by U.S. District 'Judge Stanley Roszkowski led both sides to claim partial victory.

Jerry Thompson, the ousted staff adviser, was pleased to be reinstated. George Shur, lawyer for the university, was pleased that the reinstatement is only for 3Vi weeks. Officials said they still plan to replace Thompson in mid-June with a new adviser, Donald Brod, chairman of the NIU journalism department Roszkowski reinstated Thompson after finding that without his help in the next week, the newspaper would have insurmountable difficulty publishing its June 2 special orientation issue aimed at visiting prospective students. Under the terms of a temporary injunction issued by the judge, Thompson will be the newspaper's sole adviser through June 2 and then an interim adviser to help put out the next scheduled edition of the newspaper on June 1 8. The temporary injunction did not bar Brod's scheduled takeover as ad- viser on June 16.

Publication of the June 2 orientation issue at NIU's De Kalb campus was thrown into doubt after Thompson was removed as adviser and transferred to a campus public relations job on April 30 by former NIU President Clyde Wingficld. Wingfield was forced to resign as NIU president Thursday by the state Board of Regents. But Carol Burns, regents chairman, said Friday that whatever differences the regents had with Wingfield, his decision to remove Thompson was not one of them. She said the regents will continue to support Thompson's removal. Thompson was ousted after the newspaper, the Northern Star, fublished reports that nearly 100,000 in state funds was spent to remodel the state-owned house provided to NIU's president.

It was determined the remodeling cost $94,000 and that Wingfield played a role in inflating the project costs by ordering additional repainting and remodeling. This amount far exceeded $25,000 the regents had approved for the purpose. The disclosure touched off an investigation by the Illinois legislature. State Sen. Patrick Welch Peru, whose district includes the NIU campus and who led the investigation, called Friday for measures to prevent similar expenditures at other state universities.

Welsh also called for the Illinois attorney general and auditor general to investigate NIU and the Board of Regents to determine if state laws were violated in contracting for certain remodeling services without competitive bidding. Thompson, who contended that there was a direct relationship between the Northern Star's reports on Wingficld and his own removal, raised the issue of freedom of the press and filed a federal lawsuit against NIU seeking reinstatement plus $110,000 in damages. Roszkowski's ruling Friday came as a result of that suit. Wingficld, who testified in the case Friday, said he removed Thompson after receiving a report in February critical of the newspaper's business practices. He said university procedures prevented him from removing Thompson sooner.

Thompson's lawyer, Jordan Gallagher, said Friday ruling "means we're probably going to win." But Shur saw the ruling in another light. "The university is pleased with the result," he said. "It indicates the decision to transfer Jerry Thompson at least preliminarily was not deemed constitutionally improper." By Mitchell Locin Chicago Tribune ROCK ISLAND A rare bird was sighted here Friday, in fact one that has never before been seen along the rolling bluffs that, line the Mississippi River. A golden-throated mayor of Chicago for the first time in anyone's memory visited the Quad Cities to meet with his counterparts and devise a common strategy to oppose the elimination of federal revenue sharing to the cities. Harold Washington spent the day exchanging ideas and touring the region, and the half-dozen mayors who joined him came away impressed with the rare hand of comradery extended from Chicago to Downstate.

"I think it's of historic significance," said East Moline Mayor Denny Jacobs, a Democrat. "I am so pleased that this is happening," said Galesburg Mayor Jerry Miller, a Republican. "I can never remember at 'any time being aware of any Chicago mayor attempting to work with the rest of the state as Mayor Washington has. This is a day I'd never thought I'd see in my lifetime." The issue that brought the mayors together is the threatened loss of $209 million in federal revenue sharing to Illinois cities, townships and counties on Oct. 1.

The revenue-sharing program, begun under President Richard Nixon, is being eliminated as one of President Reagan's budget-cutting measures. The city officials said that numerous city programs and employees would have to be cut if the program is not restored. The mayors agreed to pass a petition among themselves, seek resolutions from their city councils and begin a petition drive for the public, all urging Congress and Reagan to restore revenue sharing. Also in attendance were Mayors Robert Millet of Rock Island, Robert Anderson of Moline, Stacy King of Silvis and Al Hill of Kewanee. But there was more going on than the revenue-sharing issue.

As Washington told a luncheon of Rock Island Democrats, the sessions with the mayors are the be- inning of "a galvanizing and united mechanism to help bring our extortion, racketeering, conspiracy and income tax fraud. During the trial, Ronald Napora, 41, a former vice officer who has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and is awaiting sentencing, testified for the. government that he received payoffs from prostitution operations and split the money with Frasch and others in the unit. Napora also testified that Frasch once told him that Buckendahl and Richard Quagliano, a chief aide to Sheriff Richard J. Elrod, took a bribe from a gambler.

Suagliano has denied the egation. Buckendahl, who now works for another top Elrod aide, Edmund Dobbs, previously had not commented on the allegation. However, on Friday, Gwendolyn Steamey, a secretary who worked in the vice unit under Buckendahl and Frasch, was on the witness stand in the trial. During cross-examination by David J. Stctlcr, an assistant U.S.

attorney, Stearney testified that Buckendahl, 44, was in the courtroom audience. During a trial recess, Buckendahl was confronted by reporters in the hallway and, responding to questions, described Napora as a "liar. It's an absolute lie." He said Napora and another former vice officer, Robert Weincck, who also pleaded guilty to taking bribes and testified for the government, had been "caught with their hands in the cookie jar and now are trying to save their own skin." Later Stctlcr came out of the courtroom and walked over to state together." Washington plans to make three more trips Downstate next month: on June 2 to East St. Louis and Champaign-Urbana, on June 10 to Rockford and on June 1 1 to Springfield. The idea of the Downstate visits started last year when the Illinois Municipal League got mayors together to develop a municipal agenda for the then-pending Build Illinois program.

Out of those meetings, Republican Mayor James MaToof invited Washington to visit Peoria, and Washington was welcomed there with open arms last February. "The trip in Peoria was just a smash, said Hal Baron, Washington's chief policy adviser. "Mayor Washington really got enthusiastic about the possibilities." What Downstaters have been used to from Chicago mayors were rare forays to Springfield and not much else. "Maybe because of the political machine, previous mayors were content to rest on their laurels and devote all their attention to their home district," said Kewanee Mayor Hill, a Democrat In an interview in his limousine between stops, Washington said, "That arms-length attitude and apparent arrogance was hurtful to the city." He said legislators in Springfield would "take advantage of the purported friction and make political hay of it." But, he added, "The time has come for the mayor of the City of Chicago to relate closely and honestly and genuinely with other mayors, village presidents and county board presidents." Washington is probably more attuned to do that than his immediate predecessors, having come from a legislative background in Springfield and Washington where he learned the need to cross party and geographical lines to succeed. Washington touched all the bases during his 360-mile round trip to the western border of Illinois and back.

In a morning breakfast with the mayors, a subsequent bus tour of projects that would be hurt by the federal cutbacks and a press conference in the Rock Island City Hall, he was the preeminent political figure and chief spokesman. stand next to Buckendahl, who stopped speaking for a moment. "Go ahead, I'm just eavesdropping," Stetlcr said. Meanwhile, Jerry Buten, an FBI agent on the team investigating the sheriffs police, walked up behind Buckendahl and quietly began taking notes. Buckendahl turned to face Buten and laughingly commented, "I see we have a new reporter here," and continued answering questions.

He said the testimony implicating him was 'fdouble hearsay." Buckendahl said, "The government has never contacted me. They have never asked to talk to me. They have never asked for my personal records." Then Buckendahl turned to Stctlcr. "Right?" he asked. Stetlcr grinned.

"1 can't com- ment on that," he said. At one point Buckendahl lowered his voice as he talked to one reporter about a pen the reporter had left in the courtroom earlier in the trial. Buten leaned so far forward to catch Buckendahl's words that he bumped Buckendahl's shoulder. Buckendahl's head "Got that down, Jerry?" he asked. The FBI agent, a small smile' playing at the corner of his mouth, continued to write Frasch and Keating erupted in laughter.

Later, Stctler, in response to question about whether Buckendahl was a target of the continuing investigation, said, 1 am not allowed to comment. Sheriffs-office prohe target calls his main accuser a liar' By Bruce Dold Registration for the Illinois link in Hands Across America neared 250,000 people on Friday as organizers made final preparations on the massive benefit for hunger and homelessness. While organizers in Chicago completed plans for handling the hordes of people expected to hold hands through the city and 24 suburbs, a Springfield radio station announced it has convinced tiny Buffalo, 111., the only holdout in the state, to let the human chain through town. WMAY-AM and sister station WNNS-FM agreed to provide police-, medical services, portable toilets and a $2.5 million insurance policy for the village council in the town of 450, said station Three-wheeling for it li ff-l "Nl yli 1 I By Maurice Possley Sgt. Clark Buckendahl, a former commander of the Cook County sheriffs police vice control unit who has been implicated in alleged payoffs, held an impromptu hallway press conference Friday and called his chief accuser, a former member of the vice unit, a "liar." Buckendahl's media session, a strange twist in itself, became even more bizarre when it was joined by a prosecutor in the case, who admitted he was eavesdropping, and a note-taking FBI agent.

Buckendahl, vice unit commander from October, 1975, to September, 1979, spoke to the press as he stood outside the courtroom of U.S. District Judge James Holder-man, where two other sheriffs police officers are on trial on charges of accepting thousands of dollars in bribes to overlook prostitution and gambling in unincorporated Cook County. "It's an absolute lie," Buckendahl said of allegations against him. Buckendahl is a target of a continuing federal investigation of corruption in the Cook County sheriffs office, according to government documents filed last year, but Buckendahl has not been charged in the case. On trial are Sgt.

Bruce Frasch, 39, vice unit commander from August, 1981 to October, 1984, and Lt. James Keating, a former commander of the sheriffs intelligence unit. Both are charged with A tW "'L-" David Santos Ortis left and Paul Sheldon pour on the speed at the University of Chicago Friday. Members of Phi Kappa Psl raced to benefit the Ronald McDonald House to be build for the university Medical Center's Wyler Children's Hospital..