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VOLUME 24 4NUMBER93 96 pages 35 cents 60 null it MWMtuuU beyond 80 mil.n frum OoUim i 1ST PRIZE WINNER Friday; Motitly tunny, 60 Saturday: Some run, 65-70 High tide: 12:17 p.m. Full report: Page 66 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1993 FW 16,000 feared 77-" tv He dialed 111 and told an operator that his 'mommy was on the Relatives hope boy, 2, has clues to slayings By Jordana Hart GLOBE STAFF A 2V4-year-old Mattapan boy who dialed 411 for help after apparently witnessing the shooting deaths of his mother and teen-age aunt Wednesday night may be able to lead police to the killer, according to a relative of the victims. Child experts with the Suffolk County district attorney's office Detective, killer sat side-by-side in car, police say. Page 32. were called in yesterday to gently quiz the boy, MaTrez Brown, about the shooting of his 23-year-old mother, Tracy Brown, and her 17-year-old sister, Celine Kirk, in Brown's basement apartment on Oakcrest Police said there was no evidence forced entry to the apartment and -7.

'Sj'--CSR 1 the family member, who asked to re-, main unnamed, said the killer was fmost likely known to Brown and her Ml iwir.riw Ti Villagers sit amid the debris of their homes after yesterday's quake i i in i- i- APR in southern India, while victims' bodies He covered In foreground. Hillary Clinton walks fine line in advocating health care policy Tentative accord to ease Russia standoff reported dead; villages are flattened By Ranjan Roy ASSOCIATED PRESS UMARGA, India The death toll from a major earthquake that rumbled across southern India soared yesterday. Officials feared that India's worst quake in decades may have claimed as many as 16,000 lives. Many villages were leveled so quickly as the earth shook violently and opened crevices that people were crushed inside their homes while sleeping, news agencies reported. "The rising sun created darkness for us this morning, swallowed up our villages, and made our houses into tombs," a survivor said.

Some survived when frantic rescuers heard them shouting for help beneath toppled walls and roofs or saw a hand reaching out from the wreckage. Friends, neighbors and police strained to lift stone, brick and wood by hand to free victims. Soldiers and police officers rushed to the remote area of southwestern India, bringing stretchers, tents, medical supplies, earth movers, bulldozers and mobile hospitals. But relief workers had trouble reaching some villages that recently INDIA, Page 11 But if implemented, the tentative agreement would go far toward resolving the bitter standoff between the Soviet-era parliament and the president trying to pursue his agenda of reform. The accord came after Yeltsin met yesterday with Patriarch Alexy II, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, and agreed to let the patriarch mediate in talks between the two sides.

Yeltsin said the closed-door talks were to start today at the 13th-century Danilov Monastery in Moscow. RUSSIA, Page 13 Inside MUSIC SECTION: Acoustic angels, Page 61 Ads assailed: The Federal Trade Commission charges five large diet programs with deception. Page 17. Opening night: The Boston Symphony Orchestra celebrates the beginning of Seyi Ozawa's 20th season as music director. LivingArts, Page 49.

Battleground: Massachusetts becomes a key in the Clinton administration's push for the North American Free Trade Agreement Business, Page 69. MIL preview: Anaheim, Dallas and Miami bring a hot new look to major league hockey. Sports Plus, Page 77. By Elizabeth Neuffer GLOBE STAFF By Julia Rubin ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW Moving toward easing a tense 11-day-old standoff, negotiators for President Boris Yeltsin and his hard-line foes agreed today to restore services to the besieged parliament if the lawmakers put down their arms, officials said. It was not immediately clear if the tentative accord would be approved by all the lawmakers inside the building.

Some lawmakers have opposed a peaceful settlement of the crisis. Eleanor Roosevelt and to Abraham Lincoln. But while Clinton knows she can make history, she also knows that much of America would balk at the appearance of a president's wife making policy. So when pressed by Bradley, a Democrat from New Jersey, on the gun tax, she hedged her support in deference to the president Indeed, Clinton who has emerged as the president's best Capitol Hill lobbyist on health care is prohibited by public expectations from being as forceful a voice as she might otherwise seek to be. "She has to continue to be a light touch," said Warren Rudman, the former Republican senator from New Hampshire, speculating on Clinton's future on Capitol Hill.

"I think if she gets involved in real legislative brawls, that would be very counterproductive." Yesterday, Clinton backed off from committing HEALTH, Page 6 WASHINGTON That Hillary Rodham Clinton faces a delicate balancing act in her new lead role on health care became evident yesterday, as Sen. Bill Bradley asked her if the administration would support taxing guns to raise money for health care reform. She paused. "Personally speaking, and that's all I can do with respect to your proposal, I'm all for that," she said, choosing her words with care as she testified before the Senate Finance Committee. "We will look at your proposal, but I am only speaking personally." Clinton has, by many accounts, this week redefined the role of a president's wife as she kicked off a national debate on health care.

Lawmakers hailed her leadership and intelligence; they compared her with The early word Boston TV gets 10 p.m. news battle ,1 1 son. "I think she knew the person who killed her, so the boy would know the person also," the family MURDER, Page 15 Murder victims Celine Kirk (above) and Tracy Brown (with her son, MaTrez, at age 1). -J? 1 i I Irate, Bratton defends his investigation By Lynda Gorov and Tom Mashberg GI-OBE STAFF After four days of violence that opened with the murder of a police detective and ended with a young mother being killed, the highest ranking police officer in Boston had had enough. Shoulders shaking, voice cracking, Police Commissioner William J.

Bratton defended the investigators under his command. Like him, they are tired. Like him, they resent the implication that they have not paid equal attention to all the murders that have stunned the city. "I will not stand for it, and I'll have no trouble telling you where to go," Bratton told reporters who questioned whether his department was treating the death of two sisters in Mattapan as seriously as the officer's killing. DJJjVMA, Page 14 By Charles Kenney GLOBE STAFF the jargon of TV demographers, they are known as the "Young Tireds," two-income couples who drag themselves in from work at night only to charge off early the next morning transporting kids to school, themselves to work.

Though they hunger for news and are a prime target for ad WkJ, vertisers, they get home too late for the 6 p.m. newscast (or, more likely, are preoccupied with the kids), and fewer and fewer are able to survive the night long enough to watch news at 11. So it is in large measure to capture the Young Tireds and other stray viewers that the number of 10 o'clock newscasts in Boston is about to triple, triggering what promises to be a full-scale television war for news supremacy at 10. NEWS, Page 12 5 Lottery's Keno kickoff is met with protest by clergy on values FEATURES CLASSIFIED Ask The Globe 94 Classified 38-48 Business 69 Autos 44 Comics 94-95 Help Wanted 40 Deaths 36-37 Real Estate 39 Editorials 18 Apartments 39 Horoscope 94 Comm'lIndl 39 LivingArts 49 Market Basket 44 Lottery 30 YachtVBoata 81 MetroRegion 29 Learning 78 2li2 11 Globe Newspaper Co. TVRadio 67 utes, by calling a news conference and birthday party, complete with balloons and a huge yellow cake in the lobby of their headquarters.

But the celebration was crashed, and guests poured outside, when the delegation of pastors, ministers, and a missionary tramped up the steps to the Lottery building and posted a list of 25 complaints on the door. They said they were borrowing a page from Martin Luther, who in 1517 nailed to the door of a church in By Mitchell Zuekoff and Doug Bailey GLOBE STAFF BRAINTREE The interests of church and state collided yesterday as the Massachusetts Lottery unveiled its newest game while 18 members of the Protestant clergy condemned the state for promoting greed and called for the Lottery to be outlawed. Lottery officials had planned an upbeat ickoff for Keno, a numbers game with drawings every five min FOUR-STAR RETIREMENT With President Clinton (at rear) and an array of other dignitaries on hand, Gen. Colin L. Powell retires as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff yesterday at Fort Myer in Arlington, Va The triumphant leader of Operation Desert Storm offered no clues about his future.

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