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2 Section 1 Chicago Tribune, Saturday, April 14, 1990 From Page 1 Threat 'I FY'" Poles urge prosecution of massacre dence on the Soviet Union is all but complete. A report prepared Jy a special commission uf ttye Lithuanian legislature earlier this year stated: "Today's Lithuania does not possess an economic structure characteristic of a sovereign, independent state. Until now our economy has been developed and functions as an integral part of the economy of the USSR. Above all, there is a complete dependence on the resource base of the USSR." Bush, at a news conference In Pembroke, Bermuda, reacted cautiously when asked, about Gorbachev's latest action. He said he had seen only a brief wire service report about it and thought it "inadvisable" to comment in anything but general terms.

The president has beea emphasizing the need for resolving the Lithuanian crisis through talks rather than and his comments Friday reflected his continuing refusal to be drawn into saying anything negative about Gorbachev. The subject of Lithuania dominated the 30-minute news conference Bush and Thatcher held. Thatcher said she and Bush had established a "very wide measure of agreement just as you would expect" on international issues, including keeping a united Germany in NATO and "preserving NATO as the heart of the West's defense." Aboard Air Force One en route to Bermuda, Bush was asked if the world should forgive the East Germans for the Holocaust, as they requested. "Well, I'm one who believes in forgiveness," he said. I'm inclined to think we ought to forgive not forget, necessarily, because I think you learn from history, learn what not to do wrong.

Tribune correspondent Janet Cawley contributed to this report from Pembroke. 7 I I. C' national report Milk survey finds sulfa drug traces From Chicago Trlbun wires WASHINGTON A Food and Drug Administration milk survey found traces of sulfa drugs in most of the samples tested, but all were far below levels that would threaten public health, the agency said Friday. Also, of the 70 samples tested, three were found to contain traces of sulfamethazine, which is not approved for use in lactating cows because it may cause cancer at some levels, the FDA said. "The traces, while not of safety concern, nevertheless show that a few dairy farmers or veterinarians have improperly used the drug," the agency said.

The study suggested that milk from "only a few animals" that are being treated improperly is reaching the market. Friday's milk survey completes an FDA study started in February after the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group, said it found milk samples in 14 metropolitan areas contaminated with antibiotics and sulfamethazine. Rescued satellite sent back to space CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. An Indonesian communications satellite plucked from orbit by space-walking shuttle astronauts more than five years ago was launched back into space Friday evening aboard a Delta rocket. The $60 million satellite was one of two spacecraft rescued from, a uselessly low orbit by shuttle Discovery in November 1984.

Police' standoff ends in murder-suicide LEXINGTON, Ky. A man distraught over the breakup of his marriage wounded two men, killed his estranged wife and held two children hostage overnight, then killed himself Friday to end a 17-hour standoff, police said. The bodies of Mike Purcell, 38, of Col-linsville, and Jeannie Purcell, 33, of Lexington, were found in Mrs. PurcelPs sister's house, police said. Police decided to storm the house after a breakdown in negotiations.

Mrs. Purcell apparently had been dead since Thursday night, police said. The children were released Friday morning. Continued from page 1 bergis as saying. The economic threat followed earlier demands for, among other things, the renunciation of the republic's March 11 declaration of independence and the disbanding of a volunteer force composed mainlv of Lithuanian deserters frbm the Soviet armed forces.

Friday terse letter mentioned three specific actions by the Lithuanian leadership that the Kremlin said had to be rescinded within two days: a law requiring identification cards, which Moscow said discriminated against non-Lithuanians living in the republic; a decision to halt the spring military draft; and what Moscow called "illegitimate" attempts to seize property, apparently a reference to government buildings and their contents. "Such actions, the list of which continues, can no longer be tolerated," the letter said. Although it did not specify other objectionable measures, it seemed the Kremlin was demanding that Lithuania withdraw its March 11 declaration of independence. It said Lithuania's authorities should "restore the republic's position to that of March 10, 1990." Tuskenis, the Supreme Council spokesman, quoted Landsbergis as saying, "We cannot revoke the declaration of independence." Moscow had been, hinting for days that some form of economic pressure would be the next step against Lithuania, which was forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union 50 years ago. The letter said other republics had begun to express concern over the situation in Lithuania and to ask the Kremlin why it continued to supply Lithuania with goods that are in short supply elsewhere.

Lithuania's economic depen Miscellaneous classified is on Winners' Circle Daily Lottery Apr. 13, 1990 Pick 4 Apr. 13, bid 552 7638 Michigan Lottery Dally-3 Apr. 13 759 Daily -4 Reuters photo A man places flowers Friday at a memorial in Warsaw to the Poles who were massacred by the Soviets in Katyn in 1940. From Chicago Tribune wires WARSAW Poles called on the Soviet Union Friday to prosecute the perpetrators of the Katyn massacre, and some said the Soviet admission of guilt was not enough to redress more than 50 years of lies.

In Moscow, President Mikhail Gorbachev gave Poland's President Wojciech Jaruzelski cartons of documents the Soviet leader said "indirectly but convincingly" prove the Soviet secret police killed thou-. sands of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest in the spring of 1940. "It is not easy to speak of this tragedy, but it is "necessary," said Gorbachev, as the Soviet government for the first time officially accepted responsibility and apologized for this long-denied crime of the Stalinist regime. Jaruzelski said, "The Soviet statement about the crime of Katyn is, for our people, especially important and valuable from a moral point of view. For us, this was an unusually painful question." "The fact that they admitted this is an important thing, but in what form the final admission and statement will be made is also very important," said Cezary Chlebowski, a professor of history at Warsaw University.

"If this will just end with this statement, this is not the way to do it. We expect there should be activities of the prosecutor to find the perpetrators of this crime." "It's good that criminals admit their crimes," Solidarity leader Lech Walesa said in Gdansk. But he said that "unsettled questions" remain, including war reparations, the "punishment of those responsible for the crime of genocide" and "free access to places within the territory of the Soviet Union that are important to Poles' Bronislaw Geremek, leader of Solidarity's parliamentary faction, said: "This acceptance of guilt is Prices Continued from page 1 the largest monthly increase in 15 years, after the record December cold wave that killed Southern vegetable crops and created a temporary fuel shortage that raised the price of gasoline and heating oil. By February, wholesale prices stabilized, as energy and food prices began to soften in what economists at the time said was the start of a correction from January's sharp increases. Economists now predict further declines in food and fuel costs will hold down wholesale prices this month.

Vegetable prices, for instance, are still about 11 percent above their year-earlier levels, and gasoline is about 10 percent higher. "So we could see prices drift a little lower in April," said Donald Ratajczak, director of Georgia State University's Economic Forecasting Center. In a separate report Friday, the Commerce Department said business inventories fell 0.4 percent in February, while sales rose 1.3 percent. The report was positive for the economy, since rising inventories can lead to production cutbacks and layoffs. TV license Continued from page 1 Walter Thompson ad agency; and Loop attorney Howard Gilbert.

They alleged that WSNS severely cut back on non-entertainment programming in its transition. An administrative law judge agreed and said Video 44 was not entitled to a "renewal expectancy." But the commission overturned that. Monroe petitioned the U.S Court of Appeals in Washington, contending that a dropoff in non-entertainment shows was significant and that the FCC should have considered the allegedly obscene and indecent programming. A three-judge panel, composed of two President Reagan appointees and one Jimmy Carter ap Drugs Continued from page 1 tive for at least one drug; last year it was 67 percent, and last month 60 percent. About 64 percent of those arrested in the city in 1988 tested positive for cocaine, and the figure declined to 62 percent in 1989 and 57 percent last month.

Use of the drug PCP among those arrested dropped sharply, from 33 percent in 1988 to 17 percent in 1989 and 10 percent last month, he said. "We are unaware of any other city in the country that shows comparable proportional declines over the last 12 to 15 months," Sec. 2, page 3. April 14 Lotto Jackpot: $6 million 1990 Uttle Lotto Apr. 13, 1990 02 10 11 18 34 Apr.

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Prices also fell for beef and veal, dairy products and coffee. They rose for eggs, rice, pasta, pork, chicken, turkey, fish, soft drinks and cooking oils. Energy prices overall dropped 2.4 percent in March after declining 5 percent in, February and jumping 13.6 percent in January. Gasoline prices slipped 2.8 percent, and the price of natural gas declined 2.5 percent. Fuel oil prices rose 10.6 percent, but they had fallen 30.2 percent in February.

Clothing prices for men and children rose, while the cost of women's clothing fell. Passenger-car prices, in the face of weak sales, declined 0.3 percent in March after no change in February and a 0.7 percent fall in January. The various changes put the index for all finished goods, one stop short of retail, at 117 in March. That means a hypothetical selection of goods that cost $100 in 1982 cost $117 last month, up from $1 12.10 a year earlier. Price pressures in earlier stages of the production process also eased in March.

Intermediate goods showed no change, while crude goods slipped 1.4 percent. An example of a finished good would be bread, which was flour in the intermediate stage and wheat in the crude stage. probably is several years away. The attorneys said they were confident that the owners, who moved to Spanish-language programming in 1985, would retain the license. Meanwhile, Gilbert of Monroe Communications said his firm would not change the Spanish-language element, but only would seek to improve the content, if it wins its challenge.

Monroe would target programming to Mexican and Central American Hispanics, he said. According to John Feore, a communications attorney not involved in the matter, the decision is signficant Jbr raising questions about how "renewal expectancy" is established, with the judges suggesting that the FCC "will do anything to find a renewal expectancy." Bennett insisted that these statistics reflected "the great American change of mind about the use of illegal drugs. During the news conference, Bennett ducked questions about Mayor Marion Barry, who faces trial on cocaine possession and perjury charges stemming from his January drug arrest. "We are pleased with our work ing relationship," he said of his contacts with city officials. "The mayor has a lot of things to be concerned about.

Sterling Tucker, director of the city's drug-control policy, said he confers almost daily with the mayor about policy. "He is very important for Polish-Soviet relations The truth of what happened in the forests of Katyn has been, as Gorbachev said Friday, one of the "historical knots" that has complicated Soviet-Polish relations. Gorbachev's admission of Soviet culpability in the killings during Jaruzelski's visit to the Soviet Union could serve as a boost to the Polish president, one of the last Communist 'leaders to survive the turmoil in Eastern Europe as he struggles to hold his position against a challenge by more liberal forces. About 15,000 Polish officers and others disappeared after they were Economists had anticipated that the January jump in the producer price index, followed by higher retail prices, would be temporary. But their concern was that even temporarily higher prices could lead to demands for larger wage feeding a wage-price spiral that would push up the underlying inflation rate.

The underlying inflation rate, excluding food and energy, rose 0.3 percent in March after rises of 0.4 percent in February! and o.l percent in Tfee-size-of the March increase was held down by an unusual decline in women's clothing prices, apparently reflecting early discounting of spring fashions by retailers. The overall producer price index rose at an annual rate of 6.7 percent for the first three months of 1990. But economists expect the wholesale inflation rate by the end of the year will come in close to last year's rate of 4.8 percent. Food prices dropped 0.6 percent in March, the sharpest decline since June. Vegetables, led by tomatoes, celery and cabbage, fell 25.5 percent, the biggest drop since such recordkeeping began in 1967.

However, that marked only a partial recovery from jumps of 23.3 percent in February and 58 percent in January. pointee, unanimously concluded that the commission gave insufficient weight to the dropoff of non-entertainment programming at one point, news was less than 1 percent of all broadcasts and to consider evidence of obscenity or give a better rationale for not considering it In concurring, Judge Laurance Silberman said that the FCC "shrinks from the prospect of taking the license away from the incumbent" and acts as if incumbency and renewal expectancy "were a property interest, which it is not." M. Frank Wiggins and Brian DeBoice, attorneys for the current owners, said Friday that the FCC must decide whether to seek a hearing before the court, try to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case or conduct further proceedings. Whatever happens, resolution Bennett said.

Bennett said federal officials expect the city to move forward quickly with prison construction and drug treatment centers. Statistics also showed declines in the number of hospital emergency-room admissions in Washington in which patients mention drug use. Based on data from the first three months of 1989, Bennett estimated that overall drug use in the city dropped 13 percent last year. Specifically, the number of admissions in which patients mention cocaine are expected to have declined 3 percent, while heroin totals are predicted to have pulled back 17 percent after soaring 75 percent from 1986 to 1988. Chicago Tribune Delivery Newsstand Sales 6:30 a.m.

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Monday-Friday World report Nepalese opposition to head government From Chicago Tribune wires KATMANDU, Nepal King Birendra has agreed to let an opposition alliance head an interim government, a leader of the 7-week-old movement reported Friday. A separate opposition statement said it was willing to allow the king to head the government, but would step in if he chose not to. Birendra proclaimed five days ago, after popular demonstrations, that he would lift the 29-year-old ban on political parties. He then invited the Nepali Congress Party and United Left Front, which together led the pro-democracy movement, to join the interim government. Alleged spy's arrest called a big catch HAMBURG, West Germany Officials arrested four people this month as spies for the East, and a national magazine said Friday one is a bigger catch than the Commu-.

nist spy who forced the 1974 resig-; nation of Chancellor Willy Brandt. Last week, Heinz-Helmuth Werner, 45, a cipher clerk at West Ger- many's NATO mission in Brussels, was arrested and an unidentified 38-year-old engineer suspected of working for the Soviet KGB was jailed in southern West Germany. This week two senior government employees were arrested on suspi- cion of providing secrets to "an East European country." Der Spiegel magazine quoted a West i German counterintelligence source as saying Werner disclosed far more sensitive material to the War- saw Pact than did the 1970s East German spy Guenther Guillaume, Brandt's top aide. Israel says terrorist attack was foiled BEIRUT The Israeli navy sank a dinghy carrying four Palestinian guerrillas trying to enter northern Israel from the Lebanese coast, Lebanese and Israeli security sourc-. es said Friday.

They said the guer-; rillas, equipped with machine guns and grenades, left late Thursday night from a small port near the Rashidiyeh refugee district. The fate of tiiose on board is not known. Lebanese security sources in Tyre said the guerrillas belonged to Fatah, the PLO group led by Yasser Arafat. Meanwhile, rival forces battled for control of Lebanon's tiny Christian en-'. clave.

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