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SPORTS i i 1, ii i t.iJ WiitiMiMi UJ I THE ATLANTA CONSTIi For JJ9 Years, TAe South't Standard Newspaper OopjrrlM 0 1IM Tht Atlanta CooMltaUM TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1988 SPORTS FINAL 25 CENTS ON AETA pred icts fare will go up 10 to 20 cents on July 1 ByBertRoughtonJr. StaffWriter i MARTA's fare must be raised to as much as 95 cents on July 1 to cover a projected $10.8 million shortfall in the transit system's fiscal year 1989 budget, MARTA General Manager Ken Gregor said Monday. "We are forecasting that, under current wage circumstances, the MARTA fare will have to go up 10 cents to 20 cents," Gregor said. Although any fare increase over the current 75-cent level would have to be approved by the full MARTA board, the authority's only other option to cover the shortfall is to cut service, Gregor said. To make matters worse, depending on the outcome of pending labor negotiations, fares might have to be raised to as high as employee medical plan, which is projected to rise as much as $2 million.

"Also, the system is getting older and we simply need to increase the maintenance expenditures," Gregor said. Gregor said the fare increase will be needed despite a 6 percent increase in sales tax revenues from Fulton and DeKalb MARTA Continued on Page 10A $1.25 within three years, transit officials said. MARTA will spend an estimated $157 million in fiscal year 1989, while its revenue will total $146.2 million. The fare increase could be kept to 10 cents if the authority draws about $5 million from its self-insurance fund to supplement the fares, effectively reducing the fund to zero. MARTA's spending is projected to grow $15 million next year, largely because of the costs of opening two rail stations at College Park and Hartsfield International Airport and the new South Maintenance Yard.

Additionally, the Chamblee station, which was open only six months in 1987, will need a full 12 months' allocation next year. Other increases include the price of electricity, which is projected to rise $1.5 million, and MARTA's expenditure on its it I I I i6 "St" i mmm TV 5 1 $8000 was not bribe Suspended commissioner disputes FBI claim about another alleged payoff pi mmmmmmmmmm 't "i BARRY WILLIAMSSpecial By Gail Epstein StaffWriter A. Reginald Eaves testified Monday in his federal extortion trial, steadfastly maintaining that he took $8,000 in cash from an FBI undercover agent as a loan not a bribe and denying that he ever received a separate alleged payoff Speaking in a calm voice, Eaves disputed the testimony of FBI Agent Clifford Cormany and two other government witnesses, who said he took the $13,000 in exchange for ensuring Fulton County Commission approval of a rezoning request in south Fulton County. Eaves, a suspended Fulton County commissioner, also explained apparently incriminating comments that he made during secretly recorded conversations with Cormany and the other witnesses. As defense attorney Jack Goger led Eaves through selected passages, Eaves suggested that his comments had been misinterpreted by the prosecution.

But Goger's selective review of the recordings omitted other passages that appeared to refute his client's explanations. Eaves testified that he met Cormany in 1985 through former Fulton Commission Clerk Albert Johnson, who was a professional and personal friend. Eaves said Johnson told him he was involved in land development including the south Fulton land tract with Cormany, who was posing as a developer, and oth- EAVES Continued on Page 6A UGA freshman David Bliss, who usually travels by wheel- granite steps of the building that contains the school's handi-chair, makes a graphic point Monday by struggling up the capped services office. The building has no elevator. i Handicapped UGA students protest lack of access New Justice Anthony Kennedy joined call for review of law.

'We're asking for the right to compete. We're second-class citizens here and we're tired of Warren Groves, UGA senior Justices vote to reconsider racial ruling Outcome could weaken legal tool against bias to the building's first-floor veranda. Bliss waited there about 20 minutes until Douglas' assistant, David Fletcher, came downstairs to accept the list "What we're asking for is nothing extreme," said Warren Groves, a 37-year-old senior from Athens who helped organize the rally. "We're asking for the right to compete. We're second-class citizens here and we're tired of it." About 400 of the university's 26,000 students are handicapped.

Groves said that if the students' demands aren't met by next Monday, they will file a for- PROTEST Continued on Page 1 0A By Steve Goldberg Staff Writer ATHENS Angry handicapped students at the University of Georgia Monday demonstrated at what they called the symbol of the school's insensitivity to their needs a building that has no elevator but houses the handicapped student services office on the second floor. About 10 students rallied at the office of Dwight Douglas, vice president for student affairs, with a list of demands chief among them that the handicapped student services office be moved to a more accessible location. At one point during the afternoon rally, David Bliss, a 19-year-old freshman confined to his wheelchair by a birth defect, climbed out of his seat and using only his hands and arms crawled up the stairs of the Academic Building to present the three-page list of demands to Douglas. "We want Douglas! We want Douglas!" the group chanted for about five minutes before Bliss climbed the seven granite steps leading 150 million gallons of sewage flows down the Chattahoochee Inside Today VOL. 120, NO.

220 84 PAGES, 8 SECTIONS Morning showers possible "Chance of morning showers, with clearing skies and a high in the low 70s. 10E. Cily had no plans for dealing with Sunday's accident Page 10A BUSINESS SEqiON METRO STATE SECTION NATIONWORLD SECTION A PEOPLE SECTION SPORTS SECTION Kf mmmsmmmt -mm By Scott Bronstein StaffWriter' More than 150 million gallons of raw sewage from Atlanta coursed down the Chattahoochee River Monday fouling a 35-mile stretch of the river and prompting warnings that downstream residents should prepare for a possible week-long threat to their drinking water. Upstream, at the R.M. Clayton Water Pollution Control Plant in northwest Atlanta, 3 million gallons of untreated sewage an hour continued to gush into the river Monday.

By noon today the total spill was expected to exceed 180 million gallons, and officials say the flow could continue until the end of the week. State officials took water samples from the river in several locations Monday, but despite the size and extent of the spill they said they were unable to say whether the river was any more unsafe for swimming or fishing than it usually is or what environmental damage might be occurring. "I would certainly not want to fall in the water," said Gib Johnston, a spokesman for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). SEWAGE Continued on Page 10A From Wire Reports WASHINGTON Over the angry objections of four justices, the Supreme Court decided Monday to consider scrapping a major legal weapon against racial discrimination. By a 54 vote, with new Justice Anthony Kennedy joining the majority, the court took the unusual step of expanding the scope of a North Carolina racial harassment case to consider limiting the ability of minorities to sue private citizens for monetary damages.

The justices used the pending North Carolina case as a vehicle for ordering arguments in the 1976 ruling in the case of Runyon v. McCrary. That ruling has permitted damage suits against private citizens for racial discrimination in schools, employment and elsewhere. The justices took the surprising step Monday without being asked to do so. Neither side in the North Carolina case nor the Reagan administration had argued that the 1976 decision should be reconsidered.

The vehicle for the arguments on the validity of the court's interpretation of the Runyon case is a suit filed by Brenda Patterson, a black woman who seeks punitive damages for racial harassment by her former employer, a credit union in Winston-Salem, N.C. Lower federal courts said the law in question, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, is designed only to ban racial discrimination in hiring, firing and promotion not racial harassment Ms. Patterson still could charge RACIAL Continued on Page 6A (' 9E 2A 6B 20A 3C 2B 15A 8E IE MOVIES NEWSMAKERS OBITUARIES SCIENCE STOCKS SUBURBAN TEEPEN TELEVISION WILLIAMS 5E 5E 11C 6E 6E 3E 14A 5E 3E ABBY BRIDGE CLASSIFIEDS CROSSWORD DOONESBURY EDITORIALS HELPLINE HOROSCOPE United Press International i A tearful homecoming Monday In Charleston. S.C., welcomes back an uninjured crewman of the USS Boneflsh, the Navy submarine rocked 3A. by explosions and a fire off the coast of Florida late Sunday.

TO SUBSCRIBE, CALL 522-4141 Warner Books captures 'Gone With the Wind' sequel with $4.94 million bid Publishers made their bids after being given an outline and about 39 pages of the sequel, making up the first two chapters. Dell Publishing finished second in the bidding with an offer of $4.8 million, Ms. Herrick said. The richest auction In publishing history was the $5 million William Morrow-Avon Books joint acquisition of James Clavell's re United Prest International NEW YORK Warner Books bid nearly $5 million Monday night to win the right to publish a sequel to "Gone With the Wind" authorized by the estate of Margaret Mitchell, a spokesman for the publisher said. Warner spokeswoman Ellen Herrick said the company agreed to pay $4.94 million for the hardcover and paperback rights to the as-'' yet-unlitlerl novel to be written by Alexandra Ripley.

April 18. Ms. Ripley, 54, a native of Charleston, S.C., must deliver her manuscript in 18 months. Miss Mitchell took 10 years to write "Gone With the Wind," which was made into an equally famous movie starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable in 1939. "Because she is a native of the South and understands it, Alexandra Ripley probably SEQUEl Continued osPagel OA pected to be 700 pages long and will begin at the funeral of Melanie Wilkes.

Miss Mitchell's heirs revealed in the May edition of Life magazine that they had authorized Ms. Ripley; to write a sequel to the Civil War love story of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler, which has sold more than 25 million copies since it was published in 1936. Edward Adler, a Life editor, said the William Morris Agency began showing Ms. Ripley's two chapters and outline to puf ishers cent novel "Whirlwind." The projected publication date of the new itf 1990. Ms.

Herrick said the novel is ex? book.