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Mfeti THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION SECTION TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 199. "We face one of the toughest fiscal sessions we have ever faced. But when you stop and think of what they face in the Persian Gulf, it pales by comparison." House Speaker Tom Murphy "It is certain that our journey will not be completed in the limited time the people of Georgia have put this public servant in office." Governor Zell Miller rn nrn (1 UUJUMUUJ Budget reform tops day I 1 1 i I v-'1 l- "-4 i fir A I 1 1 I VI 7 fc-- i i STEPS TOWARD CHANGE: After the greatest membership shuffle in 16 years, lawmakers promised to alter policy, filing more than 200 bills. By Rhonda Cook and Charles Walston Staff writers Bills to revamp the budget process and expand regulation of lobbyists gave a reform tenor to Monday's opening of the 1991 General Assembly, as a new Legislature preceded the new administration into the Capitol. After the greatest membership shuffle in 16 years, lawmakers also offered a promise of change in measures that would toughen drunk-driving laws, give voters a say on gambling and begin taking the sales tax off groceries.

The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Terry Coleman (D-East-man), wants to shift the begin- McKinney to lead Fulton delegation F3 A summary of the day's activities F3 Resolution may limit legislators' terms F3 ning of the state's budget year three months earlier, a move that could mean the end of the controversial supplemental, budget process. "It has the potential of virtually eliminating the supplemental budget," Mr. Coleman said of his bill that would move the start of the fiscal year from July 1 to April 1, so it would follow the General Assembly by a few weeks. Gov.

Zell Miller has said he wants to get rid of the supplemental budget. Budget-writers would be in a better position to plot the state's spending for each fiscal year, Mr. Coleman said, if it began the next month rather than Please see BEGINNING, F3 William BerryStaff Sen. Roy Allen (center), a Democrat from Savannah, is sworn into office with colleagues Monday at the Capitol. Cannons, country music for Miller I i 1 it works, try more of it If it doesn't work, try something else.

But for God's sake, try something." Then Mr. Miller shucked his coat and tie, put on a fringed jacket, and ended his inaugural celebrations Monday evening with his 14-year-old granddaughter, Asia Miller, and some country music friends at a free show at the Atlanta Civic Center. .9 A DAY OF CROWDS: The governor spent his first day in office receiving cheers first at the inauguration and then at the country music show. By Jeanne Cummings Staff writer Warning against spreading racism and urging insurance and tax breaks for working families, Zell Miller became Georgia's 79th governor to the booms of cannon fire Monday. Before a crowd of about 5,000 at Georgia Tech's Alexander Memorial Coliseum, Mr.

Miller solemnly dedicated his administration to "every family that works and saves and sometimes comes up a little short at the end of the month." Plugging his promise to create a lottery to fund education projects, Mr. Miller borrowed a line from Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Try something. If 1 i I Joey IvanscoStaff Renee HannansStaff Mr. Miller with George Jones Please see INAUGURAL, F3 Lt Gov.

Pierre Howard (right) with family and Judge Charles Weltner. 9 Youths honoring King learn 'different' is OK Mom sues officers BeKalhshoo ing in By Lorri Denlse Booker Staff writer a- j' I 14 3 called was greater than anything that happened that night," Ms. McKinney said. Ms. McKinney had called police after she and her son argued and he disappeared into his bedroom with a knife.

She said she feared he would hurt himself. Officials from the DeKalb County Department of Public Safety maintained at the time of the incidents and again on Monday, that the shooting was justified because the teenager had lunged at the officers with a kitchen knife. But the boy, then 16, had dropped the knife and was attempting to stand up when he was shot, the lawsuit claims. The suit says police taunted Abdul, and "such unnecessary and unreasonable deadly force was employed mali By Elizabeth Coady Staff writer 1 When her son came home late and shut himself in his room March 23, Bessie A. McKinney telephoned DeKalb police for help.

But she says the police brought her tragedy instead. Abdul K. McKinney was shot three times by DeKalb County Officer S. C. Nelson IS minutes after the officers arrived.

Those injuries led doctors to amputate his right leg and to surgically remove a bullet from his back, Ms. McKinney said. On Friday, Ms. McKinney filed a $5 million federal lawsuit against four DeKalb County police officials alleging they violated her son's constitutional right to due process. "The tragedy that happened after the police were 3 4 Today's schedule Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr. Teach-in Day 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. MLK Teach-in Program. King Center, Freedom Hall Auditorium. Information: 526-8942.

p.m. Federal employees tribute to Dr. King. Information: 730-3155. 1-4 p.m.

Public hearing on education, sponsored by the Georgia Legislative Caucus. King Center, Freedom Hall. Information: 656-6372. p.m. National Coajition of Conscience antiwar march from Central City Park to Ebenezer Baptist Church, 407 Auburn Ave.

The children were sitting on the floor listening to a civil rights presentation when suddenly the adult group leader yelled at a I black girl to move away from her j1. white friends and "sit with her own kind." Then he ordered a Vietnamese boy to move away from the whites and sit farther back. The children, attending the first of King Week's "Celebrate Difference" events, were stunned. The little girl nervously moved. The young Asian boy stuttered that he wanted to sit his friends.

"Exactly," said Gordon Sellers, the civil rights activist who was leading the group. "No one has the right to tell you who should be your friend. Never let anyone tell you that you can't associate with someone because they're different from you or their skin's a different color. "Even today, there are people in this world who feel that way." On the eve of what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King's 62nd birthday, about 2,000 elementary and middle-school students from metro Atlanta gathered at the Georgia International Convention and Trade Center in College Park to attend seminars and talk with people such as former Mayor An- drew Young and othei civil ciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing the NichArroyVStaff Euneka Hogan watches a King Week video presentation at the conference in College Park, attended by 2,000 pupils.

teenager harm." IS school buses marching, singing and holding aloft signs that proclaimed "Nonviolence is Courage," "Nonviolence is Smart" and "Nonviolence Defeats Injustice, Not People." "People want to celebrate King's birthday but now they have to be down there preparing for war," said Angie Denis, whose 20-year-old brother, Jose Silverio, is serving in Saudi Arabia. "It's not fair." special attention this year as the United States faces a possible war in the Persian Gulf. The children looked at displays and watched videotapes about the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Above their heads hung a large sign that read "Edmund Pettus Bridge," the spot in Selma, where police violence aborted a peaceful march in 1965. The student arrived together 6menposingaspoU(robpartygoers ra Suit contends infant's grave bulldozed rights activists.

While the main point of the two-day conference is that cultural and racial differences should not rule out friendships, many of the students said the tenet of nonviolence calls for Monroe: Lap belt study was flawed F2.