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THE BOSTON GLOBE MONDAY, MAY 18, 1992 Pullout accord cited in Bosnia Roxbury councilor no meek rookie 7 By Tony Smith ASSOCIATED PRESS ft yi "1jm 4 xi tJ? tin JF mmmt i 4 of the republic's population have sided with the Muslims. The rebel Serbs, with the help of the Serb-led federal army, have fought to control areas that could join Serbia. They now hold about two-thirds of Bosnia. In the overnight fighting Saturday, Bosnian radio said seven people died in artillery and machine-gun battles. Croatian radio said 23 people died and 94 were wounded in the last 24 hours in Sarajevo and elsewhere in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Belgrade's Tanjug news agency reported yesterday that the Red Cross in northern Bosnia was appealing for the evacuation of 3,500 Serb refugees in the region, which was surrounded by Muslim and Croat fighters. UN peace-keepers in Sarajevo, the headquarters of the peacekeeping force for neighboring Croatia, used the lull to further reduce their presence to about 120 monitors. A convoy of 40 vehicles carried about 80 people from UN headquarters. The heavier vehicles headed for Zagreb, the Croatian capital. The rest, including those of commander Lt.

Gen. Satish Nambiar and his staff, were bound for Belgrade. Tanjug said yesterday that Su-' dan was withdrawing its ambassador from Belgrade to protest the violence against Bosnian Muslims. Ambassadors from the United States, and the 12-nation European Community have been withdrawn. Turkish media said that President Turgut Ozal suggested to President Bush over the weekend that an international strike force be engaged in Bosnia and that Turkey would be prepared to contribute troops.

There was no US comment SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnian troops backed down from their threat to attack two federal army strongholds yesterday after the government reportedly reached an agreement on a pullout of Serb-led soldiers. Under it, several hundred of the federal troops were to leave the Marshall Tito and Viktor Bubanj barracks with only their personal weapons. Such a plan would lessen the threat of a new surge in fighting in Bosnia's capital. were no signs of a pullout after the 5 p.m. deadline set by Bosnian authorities passed.

Fighting overnight Saturday died down near daybreak, but an exploding mortar shell killed a journalist working for the Spanish daily Avui and wounded an Associated Press photographer, David Brauchli. He was being operated on for shrapnel in the head, groin and arm. The death was the first of a journalist in the Bosnian war, which has killed 1,300 people and created 700,000 refugees in 10 weeks. In Russia, Moscow television reported that Russian Foreign Minister Adrei Kozyrev was due in Belgrade today mediate the crisis. The violence began after Slavic Muslims and Croats in Bosnia voted to secede from Serb-dominated Yugoslavia, which now includes only Serbia and Montenegro.

Much of the fighting pits Slavic Muslims, representing more than 40 percent of Bosnia's 4.3 million people, against Serbs, who comprise about one-third. But some Serbs, and many Croats about 17 percent AP PHOTO KOREAN RALLY-A demonstrator waves a South Korean flag in Kwangju to mark the anniversary of the 1980 uprising that left 200 people dead. About 20, 000 took part yesterday. Financial needs lead church to sell station 'They ignored all financial projections and industry experts in favor of an ambitious plan which research indicated would not CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH SOURCE waved joyfully to his parents and other relatives. That enthusiasm has not been dimmed even by the eye-glazing details of countless budget hearings, of which Crayton has missed none.

Menino, the chairman of the seven-member Ways and Means Committee, had long been accustomed to conducting the hearings with only Councilor James Kelly for company; now, to Menino's delight, he has an eager student of the budget process in Crayton. "He's a fast learner, and he asks questions of department heads that get to the heart of the matter," said Menino. Met department heads Crayton, who made sure to meet privately with every city department head in his first two months on the job, said he views the budget hearings both as a chance to learn the nuts-and-bolts of government and to get on-the-record responses from department heads on matters of concern to his district "He knows his way around the building," observed Councilor Ro-saria Salerno. "He knows the channels from the perspective of one who's worked on the other side." But whatever his prowess and popularity inside City Hall, Crayton knows he will ultimately be judged by how well he delivers for his district, which has the highest poverty and crime rates in the city. Ken Wade, a board member of the Greater Roxbury Neighborhood Authority, said Crayton has been ac- cessible and visible, and has made sure to notify neighborhood groups when the council schedules hearings on issues that concern them, such as public safety, economic development) and education.

"He's been eager to get up to speed on all the issues people havej been working on, and he's been will-i ing to attend all the meetings we've! asked him to attend," Wade said yes- terday. Before-hewas elected to thej 'council after a bruising campaign! last fall, Crayton worked as an ana-i. lyst in the city's employment com-! mission. Among other duties, his job! was to monitor the city's compliance! with requirements that 15 percent of city contracts go to minority businesses an area where the city falls woefully short, he said last week. Crayton also served a stint as president of the Black Political Task Force.

Though he is clearly allied with the council's more liberal faction, Crayton resists ideological labels not left, I'm not conservative. I'm a and pressure on him from some community activists to be "the fiery militant." Seeks revenue sources "When I raise a storm, I want to get results," he said. 'Telling and screaming and holding big demonstrations: all that does is get the Department of Public Works some overtime." Acknowledging he can't "scream for more money when I know the city's budget is in bad shape," he is scouting for new revenue sources so; the city can afford programs in his district and elsewhere. Toward that end, Crayton re-j centiy introduced a home rule peti- tion that would require Chelsea and Revere to pay for a share of the Suffolk County a cost that is now borne primarily by the city of Boston. He also proposes that fines be levied against out-of-town cab companies that "steal" cus-i tomers from Boston taxi drivers.

As for the future, Crayton says! he might consider running for a citywide seat on the council after twoj terms in his district seat providing he wins reelection. That would open up his district seat to a black or His-! panic candidate, which could augment minority representation on the! council, he says. For the moment, whether by forging alliances with other councilors that could help him pass legislation important to his district or by confronting the mayor he once worked for, Crayton is trying to deliver on the promise contained in his campaign slogan: "More! Better! Leadership!" (an allusion to the Spike Lee film, "Mo' Better Meanwhile, the education of Tony Crayton continues. Grabbing a piece of paper, he sketches one of the intricate designs of his kinte cloth, and writes down both the African proverb it illustrates and a translation of the lesson it contains. "No child is born with teeth," he writes.

"You learn as you grow." CRAYTON Continued from Page 1 Angeles from San Diego, where he was on a previously scheduled visit At a rally in Roxbury's Grove Hall on May 1, Crayton let Flynn have it "I think he should come back and take care of the business here," he said. "It leaves the perception that when things get tight he's out of sight." The broadside against the mayor was the latest of several recent signals that Crayton's own path will be an independent one, even though he worked for years as a self-described "minor bureaucrat" in the Flynn administration. Just a month earlier, Crayton had blasted the mayor for "interfering" with Boston School Superintendent Lois Harrison-Jones and warned that his actions were "inappropriate, insulting, and will not be tolerated." Nor does Crayton suffer personal slights like a meek rookie: He was recently overheard at City Hall castigating a mayoral aide because Flynn had scheduled an appearance in his district without notifying him, a violation of political courtesy that other councilors have grown glumly resigned to. Though Flynn said yesterday that Crayton has been "pretty fair and balanced in his criticism, and I welcome that kind of the mayor must wince as he contemplates two new upstart city councilors John Nucci being the other -who are willing, even eager, to challenge him noisily and publicly when they disagree with his policies. The mayor enjoyed a placid working relationship with Crayton's predecessor, Bruce Boiling, and the last thing the race-conscious Flynn administration wants is an ongoing battle with one of Boston's two black city councilors particularly in view of Flynn's dismal relationship with Boston's only other black councilor, Charles Yancey of Mattapan.

Even as he insists he does not intend to become a knee-jerk antagonist of the mayor, Crayton does not retreat from past criticisms or foreclose future ones. "If they think I'm bad now, I could be 20 times worse," Crayton said in an interview last week. "But I'm not out to knock him 24 hours a day. The object of the game is not to beat up the mayor. The object is to get cooperation and respect out of the mayor, and get the services my constituents need." "Respect" is a word Crayton uses often to describe his approach to his new council colleagues.

To him, it means an acknowledgment that he's a newcomer to public office with a lot to learn, and a willingness to ask council veterans for advice and information. That approach which contrasts sharply with the brash style of fellow rookie Nucci has won him many fans on the council and contributed to what is widely seen as a fast start. "He's one of the shining lights on the council," says Councilor Thomas Menino (Hyde Park). "It's great to have him around." Iannella shows friendship Says Councilor Brian McLaughlin (Allston): "Crayton's done his homework, and he has unending enthusiasm. He enjoys it as much, if not more, than the day he started." The council president Christopher Iannella, in a token of his fondness for Crayton, asked him to preside over the appearance of deposed Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in the council chamber last month, an honor that normally would have gone to a councilor with far more seniority.

In the pallid precinct of City Hall, Crayton cuts a figure as vivid as the African kinte cloth that hangs in his office. He is 42 but looks younger, with an ebullient glad-to-be-here demeanor. He speaks with ah eloquence that stops short of grandiloquence, and is given to breezy, half-kidding explanations of how he gets things done fundamental formula is 85 percent friendship, 15 percent On his desk sits a pocket Spanish dictionary, which he pores over so he can communicate better with the 20 percent of his constituents who are Hispanic "I like this view," Crayton says as he gazes out his office window. He liked it from day one. On Jan.

6, the day he first became a city councilor, Crayton could scarcely conceal his excitement Amid the high solemnity of inauguration ceremonies at Old North Church, he beamed and vertising sales staff at the Christian Science Monitor, the church's daily newspaper, further adding to overall losses, the source said. Church officials used Channel 68 to test many of the programs used for the later Monitor Channel, but ignored the low ratings. Raymond Yorke, sales manager for Channel 68, said in a January 1990 report that "programming is an area which we have not yet mastered," since the trend at the station was "audience loss rather than audience growth." Sale faces hurdles According to the local church source, "there was absolutely no logic to what Don Bowersock, Jack Hoagland and Annetta Douglass did. "They ignored all financial projections and industry experts in favor of an ambitious plan which research indicated would not work," the source said. Douglass had succeeded Hoagland as manager of the Christian Science Publishing Company.

The church faces many hurdles as it attempts to sell Channel 68, given the saturated Boston television market, observers say. "Boston has more than 20 commercial signals and is considered by many the most competitive market in the US," according to a local industry source. Channel 68 has comparatively little programming left and has been stripped much of its equipment, a church source said. "The result is a station with virtually no ratings, a minimal amount of equipment and a signal on top of the Prudential tower, which is in a poor location," the source said. "It's going to take an additional $25 million to $30 million to bring Channel 68 to the break-even point" CHURCH Continued from Page 1 June 1 the deadline for sale or dissolution of the Monitor Channel, according to another unusual Sunday press release.

I And following disclosures about financing of the equipment, the church is also announcing it will sell as part of the Monitor Channel package the satellite transponder used to distribute programs to local cable systems. Last week the Globe reported that the transponder the most Costly piece of equipment in the church's media empire was financed with as much as $15 million from one of the church's restricted endowment funds, despite a warning from the church's general counsel that it was improper to do so. The press release stressed that officials "are closing in on a balanced budget for 1992 to 1993," with financial details to be presented at the church's annual meeting June 8. The new plans appear to be an attempt to reassure members before the annual meeting that officials are doing their best to recover money from eostly television operations. i Last week, Charles Terrell, a former member of the church's Finance Committee, pointed out that since last September the church has taken $110 million from its employee pension fund and from trusts and restricted funds to cover losses from new media operations.

I Since the Monitor Channel began operations a year ago, Channel 68 has carried the church's cable service, which is now due to shut down June 1 if no buyer is found. i Channel 68 had low ratings and few resources when the church bought it in 1986, which it was expected to be the first of several inde- against other independent Boston stations and even looked as if it would pass Boston's public station, WGBH (Ch. 2) in some time periods. One church official told the Patriot Ledger of Quincy in February 1989, that the station would be profitable in two years. Content concerns But members were dissatisfied with the commercial programming and the lack of Christian Science content in any of the station's broadcasts.

Although the church had offers to buy the station, Donald C. Bower-sock, then chairman of Monitor Television, and John H. Hoagland then manager of the Christian Science Publishing Society, decided to transform Channel 68 into a local public-service station that would have little advertising and little or no entertainment programming, according to one local church source. "They shelved a lot of the commercial programming, which impacted negatively on the church's books," the source said. He also said that some speculate the decision to change the station's format caused the first transfer from the church's pension plan, in the spring of 1989.

Ratings and revenue promptly fell at Channel 68, at the same time the church decided to dismiss the ad pendent television stations the church would buy. "When it was purchased, Channel 68 essentially had no ratings to speak of," said one local source in the television industry. Competitive goals The church's business plan at first called for establishing Channel 68 as an independent television station, the source said. "Programming was not to be selected with religious connotations, and it was to be a full-fledged, competitive station expected to make a profit within a five-year period." The church bought equipment and syndicated programming to bolster ratings, which at one point reached a 3 share, or 3 percent of the audience watching television in the time period, the source said. "There is no doubt WQTV was airing a wide range of programming, from competitively syndicated, mass appeal dramas like "Charlie's Angels" to high-end documentaries such as the source said.

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