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13 72nd Year No. 28 GREENWOOD, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1990 Copyright MM by 1W bdcx-Jmu-Ml Co. 24 Pages 2 Sections 251 IE INDEX-JfO Clean air Mil stalls in senate 1 'We're going to change' change its way of doing business from top management downward. (Staff photo by Johnny Lott) Clemson professor Leu Berger, an industrial and business consultant, tells 190 attendees at a Piedmont Excellence Process meeting that American business must Coal miners aid delays passage WASHINGTON (AP) Senate leaders today abandoned efforts to complete key parts of a clean air bill before an upcoming week-long recess after a dispute emerged over whether the government should provide $700 million in assistance to coal miners. The coal miner assistance proposal, aimed at helping workers who lose their jobs because of tougher acid rain emission controls, threatened a compromise agreement on clean air legislation with the White House, which has vigorously opposed the measure as being too expensive.

"It has become apparent that we cannot complete action on the bill this week," said Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine. He said he expected the remainder of the day to focus primarily on the coal miner assistance proposal. Senate leaders had been prepared Thursday night to bring the amendment, offered by Sen. Robert Byrd, to a vote, but when debate dragged beyond midnight action was postponed. Mitchell said negotiations were under way with the White House to attempt to work out an agreement.

But he said he was opposed to the assistance plan and said he accepts the view of Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, that the issue could scuttle the compromise agree-(See Clean, page 2) Retooling of business encouraged by expert By JOHNNY LOTT Staff writer American business and industry are still clinging to an out-dated "If it's not broken, don't fix it" mentality, says Clemson industrial training professor and business consultant Len Berger. Berger believes that's not unlike a drowning man clinging to an iron life preserver. Up until recent years, Berger said, the U.S. has felt no real pressure to alter its overall philosophy in producing services and goods. Now, he said, the (See American, page 2) TTdDdlaiy Anti-smoking bill RICHMOND, Va.

(AP) Virginia, one of the biggest tobacco-producing states in the country, is poised to become one of the last states to pass a public smoking bill. The state legislature on Thursday approved a bill restricting smoking, and Gov. L. Douglas Wilder is likely to sign it, said Wilder's chief of staff, J.T. Shropshire.

Virginia is among six states with no statewide limits on smoking in public. It is the nation's fifth largest tobacco producer. "I think we can live with it," said Anthony F. Troy, a lobbyist for the Tobacco Institute. "It is a major, positive step toward cleaner air in the commonwealth," said Jane F.

Roberts, a spokeswoman for the Tri-Agency Council, a coalition of cancer, heart and lung associations. But rural lawmakers called the bill another blow to the declining tobacco industry. "We are talking about an industry that has helped build this com-monwealth," said Delegate Charles R. Hawkins. "This vote will change the direction of this commonwealth forever." Subway crash PHILADELPHIA (AP) Investigators believe a loose motor under a subway car tripped a switch that threw part of the train into another track and slammed it into a pillar, killing three people and injuring 94.

A nut holding the motor in place had apparently slipped off, causing the motor to drag under the six-car train before Wednesday's accident, John K. Lauber of the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday. The motor, under the third car, hit a crossover switch, and the tripped switch jerked the last three cars onto a second set of tracks. The fourth car smashed into a steel pillar, Lauber said. All of the dead were in the fourth car.

The accident was the worst in the 21 years the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has operated the regional commuter system. German unification EAST BERLIN (AP) The two Germanys today began preliminary unification talks, preparing for next week's meeting with the four World War II allies on German unity. Ernst Krabatsch, East Germany's deputy foreign minister, was meeting with Dieter Kastrup, head of the political department at West Germany's Foreign Ministry. They declined to comment to reporters. The election commission, meanwhile, said 24 political parties will contest East Germany's first free elections on March 18, the ADN news agency said.

Boris Yeltsin MILAN, Italy (AP) Soviet politician Boris Yeltsin was quoted as saying in an interview published today that he was strongly sedated before being taken to the Moscow Communist Party plenum where he lost his job in 1987. The interview in the Milan-based newspaper Corriere della Sera was the most complete account published to date on Yeltsin's illness at the time he was ousted as the Moscow party boss by Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Yeltsin has become the most prominent reformist critic of Gorbachev and was overwhelmingly elected this week to represent the Urals city of Sverdlovsk in the Russian Millionaire's sons facing murder charges BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) A Hollywood executive and his wife were gunned down by two sons who stood to inherit more than $10 million, police alleged in announcing one son's arrest and an international hunt for the 125-year-old flag emblem in the foreground is 10 feet, eight inches high.

The historic flag was captured from the State House during Gen. William T. Sherman's occupation of Columbia in the Civil War. It went on exhibit today. South Carolina State Museum staff members unroll the giant 125-year-old South Carolina flag, which has arrived on loan from the Iowa Historical Society.

The flag measures 14' 36 and the palmetto tree other. In an eerie twist, the one still at large had co-written a screenplay which his mother helped type about a son who kills his rich parents. Lyle Menendez, 22, was arrested Thursday and charged with his 19-year-old brother Erik with the shotgun slaying of his father, Jose Menendez, and mother, Mary Louis "Kitty" Menendez. The couple were slain in August while watching television in their Beverly Hills mansion. "I've been in this business 33 years and I've heard of few killings as savage as this one," said Police Chief Marvin D.

Iannone said. Police were seeking help from the State Department and Interpol to detain Erik Menendez, believed to be in Israel playing in a tennis tournament. Jose Menendez, a 45-year-old Cuban immigrant, was chairman of Live Entertainment a video and music distribution business affiliated with Carolco Pictures producers of the "Rambo" movies. Investigators dismissed earlier speculation that organized crime was behind the slayings because of alleged business links to Menendez' company. Iannone said the investigation uncovered physical evidence that linked the sons to the killings.

The probe also focused on a vanished computer record concerning Menendez' will. Menendez and his wife were killed by shotgun blasts at close range as they watched television in their library one evening. Their (See Murders, page 2) Heart attack drugs perform equally despite cost difference NEW YORK (AP) A study of more than 20,000 heart attack patients has found that one drug saved lives as well as another that costs about 10 times as much. But officials at Genentech maker of the more expensive tissue plasminogen activator, or TP said Thursday that the treatment procedure in the study hampered that drug's effectiveness. Genentech is consulting U.S.

cardiologists about the need for another study that follows procedures generally used in the United States, said G. Kirk Raab, the company's president and chief executive officer. The research released Thursday at a medical conference in Florence, Italy, was conducted in Italy and elsewhere in Europe. It found that a patient's risk of dying before leaving the hospital (See Heart, page 2) Researchers develop synthetic gene to attack AIDS virus WASHINGTON (AP) A molecule created in a California laboratory has shown in a test tube experiment that it can ambush the AIDS virus and keep the deadly disease from spreading, according to a study published today. Dr.

John J. Rossi, a researcher at the Bechman Research Institute of the City of Hope in Duarte, reports in the journal Science that his laboratory has made a synthetic ribozyme that can genetically cripple the AIDS virus and prevent it from reproducing. The ribozyme, said Rossi, "is inside the cell and it's waiting there like a soldier waiting for the enemy to come." (See Synthetic, page 2) sessions on the 1990-91 district budget. The figures were received as information, and no action was taken. Committee Chairman Audrey Witherspoon has said the committee will probably wait until after its last work session on March 22 before taking any action on the requests.

If full-day kindergarten were put into place at the district's Oldest state flag home for 5-year returns exhibit publicly displayed. "It's in fairly good condition," he said. "It shows some wear, of course, from its age, but in terms of actual damage, it hasn't suffered much at all." Stroup said the blue wool-and-cotton flag is rumored to have flown over the secession convention in Charleston in 1860 and the Confederate Provisional Congress in Montgomery, Ala. But he said he thinks the flag was made later sometime (See State, page 2) COLUMBIA (AP) The oldest-known South Carolina flag in existence was unveiled today at the South Carolina State Museum its first public appearance since it was captured by Union troops more than 125 years ago. The Iowa Historical Society, which has owned the flag for 81 years, agreed to lend it to the Palmetto State for five years, said museum collections director Rodger Stroup.

It will be the first time in more than a century the flag has been Kindergarten, roof costs are reviewed Coining ganday During the early fisoos. potters in the Edgefield area combined ceramic traditions from abroad to develop" durable, decorative and inexpensive pottery. Read about Edgefield Pottery in Sunday's NewsFeatures section. Dwayne Scott and YMCA karate instructor Marty Knight recently participated in a goodwill tour of' the Soviet Union. These and other features will be in Sunday's Index-Journal.

Don't miss them. Lexington man leaves $330,000 to government LEXINGTON (AP) Family members say they aren't sure why Albert Miller left $330,000 to the federal government when he died at about the age of 93. "It was just real strange," said Ruth Cline, a Batesburg resident who was married to one of Miller's nephews. "I was as surprised as anyone else." The money represented most of the life savings of Miller, a frugal man who at one time shopped for clothes at thrift stores. Miller died on Jan.

1, 1989. The gift had until recently been concealed in probate court. U.S. Attorney Bart Daniel announced the donation Thursday. "It's just so unusual and unique for someone with this amount of (See Unusual, page 2) seven elementary schools during the 1990-91 school year, the total cost would be $557,720, according to figures released by Assistant Superintendent for Business Larry Derrick.

Of that amount, $360,000 would go toward teacher salaries; $131,250 would pay for teacher-aide salaries; $47,000 would be spent on furniture and equip-(See District 50, page 2) By DAVID PORRECA Area news editor Full-day kindergarten in Greenwood School District 50 would cost more than $500,000 next year, and a complete replacement of the Greenwood High School roof would cost almost $700,000. Those were some of the figures the Board of Trustees' Finance Committee heard Thursday as it continued its series of work i 1.