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174 ILLS, working with Israel on offer TR IB WATCH Hiring prospects bright In Michlana area: Survey The job market looks good in Michi- ana, according to a Manpower Inc. survey. The temporary employment company sees good hiring prospects in the October-December period. Elkhart ii county win ue an especially good piace ior jod seeKers. Ana Micmana in gen eral has a stronger hiring outlook than By BARRY SCHWEID AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON Secretary of State Warren Christopher, seizing on a promising Israeli proposal to give the Palestinians self-rule in Gaza and Jericho, has top aides working on details with the Israeli government.

Christopher directed Dennis Ross, his chief Mideast mediator, and others to try to resolve some of the questions raised by Israel's offer, which Foreign Minister Shimon Peres outlined to Christopher at a secret four-hour meeting on Friday. From his home in Santa Barbara, Christopher also was on the telephone last week to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Sharaa. Syria's approval is a prerequisite for any Israeli deal with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Formal Mideast peace talks are due to resume here Tuesday unless the probable resignation of the chief Israeli negotiator, Elyakim Rubinstein, causes a brief postponement. Rubinstein, an experienced diplomat who helped shape the 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, objects to the concessions Israel is prepared to make to the PLO, diplomatic sources said.

The Israeli negotiating team arrived here Sunday without Rubinstein. He is a career diplomat and protege of the late Is raeli defense and foreign minister Moshe Dayan. Palestinian negotiators sought to have him dismissed when a Labor-dominated government replaced the hard-line Likud regime. The proposal would give the PLO administrative control over Gaza and also the West Bank city of Jericho. The result would be at least a toehold on the West Bank for PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat after decades of diplomatic disappointment.

According to reports from Jerusalem, a settlement also would include mutual recognition by the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel, provided the PLO agrees to call off the rebellion, known also as the intifada, that Palestinians have con- ducted against Israeli control of the West Bank. Christopher's intervention, the meeting with Peres and Israel's secret bargaining with the PLO have taken precedence over the formal negotiations at the State Department, though the talks provide a handy mechanism for working on details. Also, Shimon Sheves, director of the Israeli prime minister's office, is due here this week for talks with Clinton administration officials. Christopher was sufficiently impressed with what Peres told him to have aides work over the weekend by telephone with See MIDEASTPage A2 tne rest or the nation. Page A5 P-H-M science students won't be cracking books MISHAWAKA They're throwing out tne science textbooks in several Penn-Harris-Madison elementary school science classes this year.

P-H-M is shelving the traditional cur riculum for a pilot hands-on science program. Instead of cracking tne doors, students will conduct experiments that accompany each lesson plan, provided in a teachers manual. Teachers see the benefits of the program as encouraging curiosity I 'I'' to-' im fr ft and fostering cooperation. Page B4 Role-playing club lets members escape reality ELKHART There are Undead and cyborgs in the area. Or at least several people in the area who role-play those figures.

Michiana Area Games of Imagination, a for-profit club based in downtown Elkhart, allows people to take a break from reality and inhabit a fantasy world. Dungeons and Dragons, Shadowrun and Vampire are a few of the games members play. Among the members of MAGI are an intensive-care nurse and an artist. Page B1 U.S. unit hits oops U.N.

site By REID G. MILLER Associated Press Writer MOGADISHU, Somalia It sure looked good. Elite American soldiers under the cover of darkness dropped from helicopters on ropes. They tied up people inside and forced them to lie on the floor. It was quick, precise, the stuff of a recruiting commercial.

There was just one problem. They raided the wrong target. In fact, they raided a building housing U.N. personnel. About 50 soldiers, including U.S.

Rangers on their first mission since arriving here last week, stormed the building and briefly detained three foreign U.N. workers and five Somali employees. U.N. military spokesman Maj. David Stockwell called the mission a success, saying, "They were searching a place they had every reason to believe was hostile and they acted appropriately until they determined otherwise." The building's entrance is marked by a sign identifying it as a project office of the U.N.

Development Program, one of many U.N. agencies operating in Somalia. Stock-well said the building was in an "unauthorized area." Stockwell declined to characterize the objective of the 2Vi-hour mission, which involved more than a dozen helicopters, Rangers and soldiers from the Army's Quick Reaction Force. Asked if he would categorically say that 2 111 (r J.U 4 I 5 Tkiflt 4 'uywrr rail BEATING THE HEAT win T1 JCSJt' "'aaniwaiiwiw in Tribune PhotoBAHBARA ALLISON Six-year-old Emory Andrew Tate III observes the chess move of his brother, Tristan, as they play a game recently in their Goshen home. Chess family strives to keep imiiLuu Mr rnoio pressures of game in check the objective was not the capture of fugitive warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Stockwell replied: "No, what I'm saying is that I will not go into detail on the purpose of our operation." But he declared it "a textbook example of how these operations should go" using "lightning speed and overpowering force." An Egyptian woman, who would identify herself only as the administrative officer of the raided U.N.

compound, said she and other foreign employees were tied up and forced to lie on the floor. "They just told us to behave properly, to keep flat on the floor," she said. "Then we started telling them who we are and they said it would be all right, don't worry, but we have to do our thing and that's it." She said three colleagues a Canadian, Irishman and Belizian were taken away by the raiding troops along with five Somali household employees. They were later released. No one was hurt in the action, and the woman said the soldiers "acted properly," although she acknowledged being terrified.

Reporters visiting the walled, two-story villa found several empty shotgun shells on the floor of the entrance, windows blown out, the telephone and radio destroyed and See SOMALIAPage A2 "Dad, I'm playin' bad," Andrew said, about to cry. Tate immediately withdrew him from the tournament, much to his child's relief. "I saved him from crying in front of all those people," Tate said. "It's like any sport," Tate said. "There's a lot of pressure in it.

It all depends on how the parent deals with it." Tate and Michiana Chess Studio owner Carl Brecht are pushing for a chess program in the public schools; in Goshen, Tate will launch a pilot program. Chess, Tate said, improves attention spans and decision-making skills. "The idea would be to start kids out as first- and second-graders," he said. "Kids are a little less rigid, and a little less biased in the way they think. Part of being a child prodigy is you go in without any preconceived notions, and so the real truth and beauty of the game can come through." He's not worried about increasing the pressure on the children.

SeeCHESSPage A2 Of course, after the games they start making noise." Andrew learned to play at 5. He can now beat most kids his age and has trounced 12-year-olds and 16-year-olds. "Every kid wants to be like his dad," the elder Tate said. But father recently limited son's playing time, encouraging other activities. "I don't think that a kid his age should spend so much time playing chess.

As a parent, I'd like to see him become a top-level player, but I realize there's so much more to life than just chess. He learned how to swim this summer, and he plays with his friends and stuff like that." Andrew, however, says he plays because he's "bored all the time. Most of the time I'm bored, and that's the only thing I want to do most." In the film, both parent and child suffer from the intense pressure of the game. It's a feeling that surfaces as well in everyday life. During one adult tournament, Andrew lost three out of five games.

"He got very upset, because he thought he was failing," Tate said. Bv LISA BDRNSTEIN Tribune Staff Writer SOUTH BEND Among the most critically acclaimed movies of the summer is "Searching for Bobby Fischer," the story of a young boy who is a genius at chess but still trying to have a normal childhood. The movie, which has opened in larger markets, has not come to Michiana yet. (Last week, it earned about $1 million at 219 locations.) But when it does come, at least two Michiana residents will identify particularly closely with the story. Emory A.

Tate the state's top-ranked chess player, started playing the game at age 3, and now his son, Emory III (who goes by is a whiz at 6. Tate has taught other children the game, and this year the scholastic championship took place at South Bend's Michiana Chess Studio, 1126 W. Western the third largest studio in the country. "It's amazing," said Tate, 34, of Goshen. "When the tournament is going, you have 40 to 50 kids together, all quiet Carnival worker Bill Soloman of Barbarozo, cools off from the 97-degree heat with the help of a garden hose on the midway of the Kentucky State Fair in Louisville on Sunday.

Goshen company aims to help out Third World GOSHEN Most people in the United States take safe drinking water for granted. But in lesser-developed nations, that isn't necessarily the case. Steve DePue is filling that need. A certified public accountant, DePue and his three employees are producing a portable water filtration system that allows people to drink non-salt water from lakes, rivers and streams. The product, called the Arctic Clear 201, uses filters to remove chemical contamination and ultraviolet light to kill bacteria in the water.

Non-profit groups have already purchased units for relief work in Somalia and Kenya. Page A5 Summer vacation ends as Clintons head home EDGARTOWN, Mass. Golfing, hobnobbing with famous folks, sleeping in sounds like a great summer vacation. And it was for President Clinton, his wife, Hillary, and their daughter, Chelsea. To the surprise of some, the president didn't cut short his first real vacation in four years to head back to pressing business in Washington.

From the first party to the final rally at the airport, Clinton thoroughly enjoyed his 11-day break. Page A4 Medical-fraud probe includes lab records Department, the FBI, the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs, have intensified their investigations of possible health care fraud since early last year. The mquiries accelerated this month. Thursday, federal agents raided offices and hospitals across the country operated by National Medical Enterprises, one of the nation's largest hospital companies. That effort, coordinated by the Justice Department, appears to be an attempt to show that the company had participated in a nationwide conspiracy to defraud patients and insurance companies.

uncovered billing for unauthorized or excessive testing, double billing to federal and private insurers, billing for services that were not rendered and kickbacks to doctors. All four of the companies said they were cooperating. "It seems to be part of the same industrywide investigation, and we will cooperate," John Abrams, a Corning spokesman, said. A spokeswoman for another large testing company, Roche Laboratories, a unit of Hoffmann-La Roche Inc, said she was unable to say whether Roche records had been subpoenaed Several federal agencies, including Health and Human Services, the Justice Corning Inc. and SmithKline Beecham, the nation's largest laboratory companies, confirmed Friday that Coming's Metpath and Damon subsidiaries and SmithKune's Clinical Laboratories unit had received subpoenas from the office of the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Two other laboratory companies, Nichols Institute and Allied Clinical Laboratories, had said Thursday that their records were subpoenaed. Judith Holtz, a spokeswoman for the inspector general's office, declined to specify what the investigators were seeking in the current cases. She said previous investigations of other laboratory companies had By MILT FREUDENHEIM Y. Times News Service In a rapidly widening effort to root out health care fraud, federal officials have subpoenaed Medicare and Medicaid billing records of at least five of the country's largest medical laboratory companies. Although no charges have been brought against the companies, the investigation of the $32 billion-a-year blood-testing industry is the latest of several inquiries by law-enforcement agencies.

Federal officials have said that medical fraud may account for $80 billion to $100 billion of the more than $900 billion that Americans will spend on health care this year. QUOTE OF THE DAY (CfVIobody's going to be arrested Mfor not leaving, but they're probably going to be asked for their next of kin." Dart County (N.C.) spokesman Ray Sturza, commenting on an evacuation order for residents along the Outer Banks off North Carolina's coast as Hurricane Emily approaches. Story, Page A3 See DRUGPage A2.