The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 29

The Kansas City Star 50c MONDAY October 19 1992 JOHNSON COUNTY EDITION TODAY IN THE STAR Military policy reflects new era Stage set for final round DALLAS DAMPER Eaet Lansing After the massive US defense buildup of the the Pentagon is prodded to begin at time In Mich It will be carried live by ABC CBS CNN C-SpanFoxandNBC Moderator Jim Lehrer of PBS Helen Thomas of UPI Gene Gibbons of Reuters and Susan Rook of CNN will ask questions for half the debate Lehrer will be the only questioner for the last half Mors politics A-7-A-9 the Democratic standard-bearer will be able to focus the 90-minute session at East Lansing Mich on his plans for lifting the nation out of the prolonged economic slump As for independent contender Ross Perot his main goal remains what it has been since he announced his candidacy Oct 1: restoring the credibility he lost when he abruptly canceled initial plans for his candidacy last July But if Perot follows past form and the president sticks with the plan to target character the ee CANDIDATES A-S Col 1 Bush advisors plan new attack in debate By ROBERT SHOGAN Lot Angeles Times WASHINGTON Facing their best remaining chance for turning the tide of the election President strategists plan to mount a new assault on Bill character in final campaign debate Advisers to Clinton while braced for the attack are hoping drop defense buildup of missiles bombers and ships At that rate of growth the deficit-supported spending would reach $400 billion a year by the 1990s But then history lurched forward Now successor George Bush and his rival Democrat Bill Clinton are talking about Pentagon budgets in the 1990s that would have been See MILITARY A-8 Col 1 By JAMES WORSHAM Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON Not so long ago President Ronald Reagan raised the specter of an Evil Empire waiting in the Kremlin for the United States to stumble so Moscow could launch a nuclear attack or hold democracy hostage to communism To make sure it happen Reagan launched a shop-till-you- Ths Chiefs are defeated by the Dallas Cowboys 17-10 in Dallas Sports Section Rock spectacle at Arrowhead Party shake-up in China Communists oust some of the hard-liners on Central Committee The New York Times I PHOTO RADAR Ths KC Council will decide soon whether to adopt the system to catch speeders Local Nows Section FIRST LADIES The wives of the three presidential candidates approach the role differently Stylo Section MADE INKCK The Scaly Mattress Co makes bedding almost as fast as you can say need a Business Section CRAIQ SANDSThe Star BEIJING The Communist Party replaced nearly half its Central Committee on Sunday dismissing some hard-liners and generally choosing more educated and pragmatic members The action came as members closed a party congress dedicated to building a market economy While the weeklong 14th Communist Party Congress generally was a victory for change-minded leaders it was not a clean sweep Some hard-liners were promoted and many others kept their jobs And for all the talk about rejuvenation and reform the 189 full members and 130 alternates to the Central Committee are on average slightly older than their predecessors were when they were chosen in 1987 Most of the new Central Committee members appear to be loyal party careerists Some of the hard-liners dropped from the Central Committee are well-known and their dismissal is sure to send a strong signal throughout the country Among those who lost their Central Committee posts are Gao Di the publisher of People's Daily Wang Renzhi director of the Propaganda Department and He Jingzhi the acting culture minister The three men are among the best-known spokesmen for hard-line positions in politics as well as in economics They presumably will have to give up their jobs along with the committee seats Other hard-liners gained seats however deputy at People's Daily Shao Huaze an army man who also was installed at the newspaper after the Tiananmen crackdown is getting a Central Committee post for the first time Also promoted to the commit-See CHINESE A-6 Col 1 Bono the leader singer of the band U2 belted out a lyric Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium U2 warms crowd on chilly night 10 I Music review WEATHER the-top show 2 is presenting nationwide It kept excited fans dancing often enough that the cold matter In the crowd was 1 5-year-old Stephanie Akin of Summit who said she came mainly just to see and hear U2 But she was also interested in the set heard when the show was indoors they hung the cars from the ceiling and the headlights lit up the Stephanie said Rich Mullins 36 of Wichita said the free tickets he held the only reason he came See BAND A-IO Col 1 below-zero lead singer Bono shouted at one point That was just as a belly dancer began undulating on a ministage attached to the main stage by a 50-foot ramp As the woman danced toward the band while they played the hit song an electronic signboard on the right side of the stage told the crowd it was the birthday why Bono was holding a cake out for her as anyone in the stadium could see by looking one of the 12 video screens Suspended cars televisions dazzle fans By WARD TRIPLETT III and AMRITA KANG Staff Writers It was a chilly Sunday night at Arrowhead Stadium before 9:45 when U2 the reason 39800 people braved temperatures that fell through the 40s took to their multimillion-dollar stage is the only city in the world where people dance in strategically positioned around the band And they could see the presentation clearly' under the headlights of one of seven multicolored cars hanging from invisible strings above the band on the left side Throughout the song a strobe-light effect was sending shards of tiny white lights all over the dancing bodies of U2 fans This was the general tone of Zoo TV the intentionally over- PARTLY CLOUDY Forecast C-12 The last hunahs OPINION Voters in 5th District should re-elect Alan Wheat to Congress Section Waste plant loses its honored status TOMORROW IN THE STAR How the final presidential debate went in East Lansing Mich Audit cites Rock handling of industrial material By MICHAEL MANSUR Environment Writer DEPARTMENTS Vol 11 3 No 32 5 Sections that takes and treats hazardous wastes from outside industry That has proved a grand way to make money for the city-owned plant about $400000 a year which helps beat back sewage rate increases for the 60000 residents it serves in western Independence But it also has tarnished the plant In June 1 990 the EPA directed a team of auditors to study how well Rock Creek handles the hazardous wastes it takes from outside industry Their report issued last year found Rock Creek may have violated its state-issued permit It failed to notify the public about the wastes it was taking and it discharged pollutants above accepted limits the audit found EPA officials could not say whether the discharges harmed the environment or downstream water users Few tests were conducted to determine exactly what went into the river Each day you flush or dump down the drain the stuff you want It goes to the sewage plant where workers somehow treat it making it safe enough to dump into the river Out of sight Out of mind Who cares? Wait Sewage plants do matter Just ask the Kansas Citians who rushed this month to buy bottled water But this another story about Omaha dumping raw sewage into the Missouri River It stopped that This is the story of the Rock Creek waste treatment plant in Independence A story of Dick Champion Jr who runs the plant at 9600 Norledge Ave A story of how he and his plant went from winning national attention including the US Environmental Protection top regional award for its record of to local suspicion Why such a turn of fate? The simple answer is that the plant is unique Federal regulators say it is the only one in this region possibly in the nation THOUGHT FOR TODAY Champion though said he is certain they were not harmed JOB LB DPOeDTh Star Now he awaits word from EPA having cut back his hazardous waste program State and federal regulators are discussing a new permit that may carry new restrictions In full armor Greg Oatley (left) took a blow to the head from Dale Lakes' sword during a jousting demonstration Sunday afternoon at the 16th annual Renaissance Festival In Bonner Springs They are members of the New Riders of the Golden Age who tour the country Jousting Sunday was the last day for the festival You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it Margaret Thatcher 1 See INDUSTRIAL A-S Col 3 Ju 0.