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nci MetroRegion News Bl-8 Lottery B2 New England Briefs B8 Comics B4-5' Weather B7 THE BOSTON GLOBE SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1997 Young mom wary of ex-boyfriend's move East (BW By Steven Gray GLOBE COHRESI'ONDENT As she returns to school, he wants role in daughter's life daughter Bailey's life than he could by staying in California. "It's kind of like a gut instinct is telling me this is the right thing to do," Maggiore told the Associated Press. "I've always wanted to be there for her." Ocon, who left Harvard and a full scholarship in the fall of her sophomore year in 1995 when she learned she was pregnant, said yesterday she is stunned by the plan and thinks it is another attempt by Maggiore to "con trol" her and their daughter. "I'm not sure that his reasons are really for Bailey's best interest," said Ocon, also 21. "The real issue here is control.

I can see that every move I make, he can have input. it frightens me." But Maggiore's mother, Theresa, said their family-has fears too. Her son has no job in the Boston area and no place to live. The mother also said she is afraid Ocon may engineer some reason to keep her son from his daughter. "I fear for him going to Boston by himself because he's going to be set up for something," said Theresa OCON, Page B7 When a California judge ruled last month that Gina Ocon could move East with her 1 -year-old daughter to return to Harvard this fall, Ocon thought she had overcome the last hurdle in her feud with her ex-boyfriend, Tommasso Maggiore.

"I felt empowered, and back on my feet," she said in a telephone interview yesterday from her home in Lake-wood, Calif. But on Thursday, Maggiore, 21, told Ocon that he was following her East to play a larger role in their "If' Gay foster it I 1 Pl'l I A IS pareni I 1 XT: it I Syr 3 Like wow? No, not a bit REMEMBER WHEN A Wednesday was Prince Spa-' ghettiDay? Well, it's 1997. In Lowell, 1 J( I the financially troubled Prince pasta factory is up for I. sale and in Worcester, Wednesdays are in even more trouble than that. At WAAF-FM radio, midweek now means WOW -Whip 'em Out Wednesdays.

The station that bills itself as radio "that really rocks" encourages men to place WOW signs in their car windows urging women to show them their breasts. All over Eastern and Central Massachusetts, boys masquerading as men are spelling out WOW in masking tape on their cars' rear and side windows. This sophomoric stunt is the brainchild of two witless disk jockeys, Opie and Anthony, who spend the evening drive-time regaling listeners with memories of such developmental milestones as their first erections on the school bus. Their pubescent preoccupation with bodily functions, from the bathroom to the bedroom, puts them in the mainstream of standard FM radio fare. This is an era, after all, when Howard Stern claims to be the King of All Media, and Time magazine cites Don Imus as one of the 25 most influential Americans.

The First Amendment casts a long shadow; of necessity, it protects the lowest common denominator. And there is much to be said for the argument that women can turn off programs that offend us. But women should not have to turn off the highway to elude the leering pursuit of morons in the adjacent lane. Certainly, even the giant intellects at WAAF-FM must know they work at a third-rate station in a second-rate market and that not every radio in every car is tuned in to its daily diet of Jimi Hendrix and ZZ Top. One woman thought the let -1 11 i fTPJ I I raider fire I -e -Js, -V; K.

1 5. -ft Challengers say placements violated religious freedoms I 4 By Frank Phillips GLOBE STAFF A decade after the issue fueled a raging controversy and then faded, the state's occasional practice of placing "children in the foster care of homosexuals is again under fire, this time in the form of a plea to the US Supreme. Court to declare that the policy violates religious A Belmont man whose son was placed for six months last year in the care of two gay men has charged that Department of Social Services violated his and his wife's deeply held Catholic beliefs about homosexuality. "The petitioner's fundamental Catholic religious beliefs; concerning what constitutes a moral family unit are com- it i i i t- i C-ff i A Belmont man whose son was placed in the care of two gay men has charged that his pletely incongruous and incompatible with this foster placement," the man, whose name is witheld in the court papers, says in his petition to the court. The father said DSS violated his religious freedom, as safeguarded under the First and 14th amendments to the US Constitution.

He says the agency did not inform him or his wife of the foster couple's sexual orientation before making the placement. "The petitioner's constitutional right to guide the GLOBE PHOTO EVAN RICH MAN and his wife Catholic beliefs about homosexuality were violated. SCHOOL SPIRIT Deborah Huff greets her son Lance, 11, outside the Phillis Wheatley School in Roxbury. Parents banded together to fight plans to close the school. B2.

Year later, au pair case unsolved Kin battle pain after slaying, police see a 'task unfinished' By Ric Kahn GLOBE STAFF ters mistakenly had been inverted and should have read MOM; another speculated that the letters stood for Women of Wisdom. Cockeyed opti- mists both. Women, offended by, or unaware of, the meaning of WOW, report being cut off in traffic and nearly driven off the road for failing to comply with the displayed demand. State Police responded to, complaints this week by ordering the station to stop promoting WOW, citing the obvious public safety hazard. But, instead of abandoning their adolescent promotion, Opie and Anthony have spent the last few days polluting the airwaves with attacks on their female critics.

All very thoughtful, of course. On the order of the caller who boasted that he has placed a new sign alongside WOW that reads: "NOW Sucks." Dave Douglas is the program manager at WAAF. He says WOW began this spring as a "lighthearted, fun concept that has grown beyond what we expected." He acknowledges that the campaign "has gotten out of hand and offended some people, but that was not our intention." The road to Hell, Mr. Douglas, He attributes the criticism to "the puritanical nature of this region" rather than to any debasement of women inherent in the WOW concept. Some women, after all, have chosen to bare their breasts, he notes.

The station is "concerned" but will not order Opie and Anthony to stop promoting WOW, says Douglas. That would infringe on the "creative control" of the station's two "artists." Really, he said that about two shock jocks who began their program yesterday announcing that, once again, it was You Friday!" The management of WAAF will "reduce the visibility" of WOW, but Douglas acknowledges that "regardless of what we do, people will continue to do this." WAAF ought to give some thought to the ages of those people. One woman reports being shouted at on the Mass. Pike by a school bus full of boys no older than 12 holding handmade WOW signs. Another reports seeing two 10-year-olds holding a WOW sign on an overpass above 1-95.

Rock 'n' roll, like adolescence, is about rebellion. That's why Opie and Anthony court parody by calling each other "Dude" on the air, as if they were 15-year-old boys instead of middle-aged men. religious future and educa- tion of his child is violated by the minor child's current foster care placement," the man charges in his appeal. The petition quotes a 1985 statement by Massachusetts Catholic bishops, who said homosexual activity is "some-V-thing objectively wrong inasmuch as it falls short of the I ultimate norm of Christian morality in the area of genital t' -expression, i.e., a relationship between male and female within the family Constitutional specialists doubt that the Supreme I'' Court will agree to hear the legal appeal because the foster case has been resolved. The DSS decided late last year.

there was not enough evidence to sustain abuse legations and allowed the boy to return to his home. But the incident has brought a focus -again to an issue that in the mid-1980s erupted on Beacon Hill. Governor Michael-S. Dukakis, reacting to reports that DSS hadj-' placed a child in the home of a gay couple, essentially? FOSTER "It wouldn't give us our daughter back" Holmer, 50, said in a phone interview this week. "I'm normally a very calm person.

I don't wish anyone any bad things," he continued, no longer able to hold back his emotions. "But this creature, animal, he's going to jail and then what? You haven't got the death penalty there." In news accounts from Boston to Stockholm, the grisly details will be recounted and remembered in the coming days: Swedish au pair strangled and slain after an evening of drinking and dancing. Top half of torso recovered in Fenway dumpster, bottom still missing. Police quiz a cast of characters including the photographer, HOLMER, Page B8 It was one of the most gruesome murders in the city's recent history, a mysterious slaying that captured international headlines: SEVERED BODY IS THAT OF AU PAIR. A year later, a squad of Boston homicide detectives is still trying to identify and capture 20-year-old Karina Holmer's killer, tracking down leads from Boston Common to California.

In Sweden, Ola Holmer appreciates the police work but says that even if his daughter's killer is caught, that won't free him from his pain. Doctors' orders: Don't let the bugisbite Start of summer means it's tick, sunburn season By Larry Tye GLOBE STAFF oday's official start of sum mer will find many people eager to fire up the grill or head off for a long, lazy day at the beach. But rebellion is one thing; misogyny is an brush and mosquitoes hatching in rain puddles. While he sounds like the Ebenezer Scrooge of summer, Matyas says it isn't so. In truth, he loves the beach, not to mention walks in the woods and food from the grill.

But as medical chief of the state program that tracks disease trends, Matyas knows the evils that lurk in this season of serenity, and feels duty-bound to warn others. Start with the mosquitos and ticks. Biting humans and other animals is part of their nature, since they need animal SUMMER HAZARDS, Page B7 other. "The days of neanderthals with big clubs are over," Marianne Winters, the director of the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault, 'wrote to WAAF this week. Not so, Ms.

Winters. These days, the neanderthals are calling themselves "artists" and they Not Dr. Bela When he looks at the platters of succulent chicken bound for the barbecue, he sees itsy-bitsy bugs that can roil even a rock-solid stomach. That sizzling sun is fuel for the ongoing skin cancer epidemic. Even a walk in the woods can be treacherous, he says, with tiny ticks the This Is an adult female tick, a carrier of Lyme disease.

GLOBE FILE PHOTO" Some mosquitoes carry a virus that causes Eastern equine encephalitis. have "creative control.".