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lows about 70. 14-B 5 sections 64 Highs in the lower 90s, 1 98th Year No. 173 Scattered thunderstorms. Partly cloudy The State June 23, 1989 Friday Columbia, South Carolina pages South Carolina's Largest Newspaper Lawyer: Rose bet on Reds Investigator tells judge of evidence By LONNIE WHEELER N.Y. Times News Service John Dowd, the tor for baseball Bartlett Giamatti, courtroom Thursday tensive evidence that bet on baseball and on Dowd's testimony confirmation by the CINCINNATI special investigaCommissioner A.

told a crowded that he had exPete Rose had his own team. was the first commissioner's Rose Dowd, a Washington attorney, appeared rs a witness in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in an attempt by Rose to obtain a restraining order to block a hearing the commissioner has scheduled for Monday into the alleged gambling activities of the manager of the Cincinnati Reds. Dowd, in his testimony, also disclosed for the first time some of the substance of the 225-page report on Rose he has submitted to Giamatti. Dowd told the court that he had evidence that included telephone records, signed checks and betting sheets in Rose's handwriting as well as the statements of nine witnesses implicating Rose in gambling activities. He said the report also included statements from nine witnesses exonerating Rose.

Of the nine witnesses cited against Rose, three have already been associated with the case: Ron Peters, alleged to have been Rose's bookmaker; Paul Janszen, a friend of Rose's who has produced betting slips that a law enforcement official has said have Rose's fingerprints on them; and Danita Marcum, Janszen's girlfriend. office that it had evidence bet that on Rose baseball. had If Giamatti determines that Rose has bet on Reds games something the manager consistently has denied he could ban him from baseball for life. See Rose, 8-A INDEX Abby 5-B Editorial. 10-A Bridge 8-D Living 4-B Business 8-B Sports 1-C Classified 1-E Television 10-D Comics 8-D Theater 5-D DEATHS Mrs.

Ben F. Adams Union Mrs. Sibyl Ammons, Jackson Mrs. Thelma Anderson, Conway Edward C. Arbogast, Barnwell Mrs.

Ethel N. Axson, Manning Clyde H. Belk, Winnsboro Miss Anna Beverly, Conway Harry M. Coker Columbia Mrs. Ruby Coleman, Columbia Jack Conover, Aiken Mrs.

Sara Craft, W.Columbia Belle Goodson, Darlington James Dunning Columbia Jerado Floyd, Lynchburg Mrs. Fannie F. Gore, Florence Mrs. Mollie Green, Blackville Mrs. Ester Harrell, Hartsville Mrs.

Louise H. Huggins, Aynor Mrs. Ida Kramer, Travelers Rest Richard Lassiter, Hardeeville Sidney B. Mullen Pontiac Miss Annie Pender, Allendale Miss Lorie Ann Rice, Conway Mrs. Nettie Rikard, Charleston Heights Mrs.

Katie D. Senn, Whitmire LeRoy A. Sires Charleston Mrs. Girlena Spencer, Cola. Herbert Newton Estill Willy Stein, Columbia William D.

Stockard, Columbia William Strickland, Columbia Miss Chrystal Sweat, Eutawville Mrs. Allison Tanner, Florence Wilbur W. Thing, Beaufort Ms. Easter Thompkins, Walterboro Hugh Thornton Florence Millen M. Trottie Williston Mrs.

Margie Washington, Cola. Oscar F. Watts, Rock Hill Edward M. Wharton, Mauldin Eugene Williams, Newberry Details, 6-B Holy mania! It's Batman! JUNE 73 3.0000 up Ginger The State Tom Cook, 24, has been collecting Batman memorabilia since he was 14 Fans eagerly awaiting Caped Crusader's film By DOTTIE ASHLEY Staff Writer For Batmaniacs Rex and Gina Burnell, tonight is more exciting than Christmas Eve. "I feel like I just can't wait until we get in that movie!" Ms.

Burnell said. The dark silhouette of the Caped Crusader descends upon South Carolina and the nation today, as more than 2,000 movie screens across America light up with the long-awaited "Batman." In Columbia, "Batman" will play on five screens. The Burnells In WEEKEND: 1 A behind-the-scenes look at a movie that took 10 years to make. Movie critic Pat Berman's review. But what about that campy old TV 'Batman'? Was he really as bad as the purists say? Mother wants fiber evidence used to find child's abductor By DAWN DAWSON Staff Writer Debra Gutierrez Garnsey believes that she has found new ammunition in her struggle to convince authorities that a family friend is responsible for her daughter's abduction three years ago.

Thursday, Mrs. Garnsey asked the South Carolina Victim Assistance Program for help. She believes fiber evidence similar to that used to convict Wayne Williams in the deaths of two Atlanta boys should be used to find her daughter's abductor. She said that fibers found in an abandoned car matched those of her missing child, Jessica Child care gets boost in Senate By JOHN KING Associated Press WASHINGTON The Senate on Thursday endorsed a Democratic child-care package providing low-income parents with subsidies and tax credits. The endorsement followed the defeat of a White House-backed alternative based almost entirely on tax relief.

The Democratic leadership's victory in the showdown left its multibillion-dollar plan as the centerpiece of the Senate's child-care legislation. Under an agreement between the parties, the debate continued Thursday on a number of proposed amendments, with Republicans seeking to tack parts of their defeated tax-credit plan onto the Democratic measure. A final vote was expected today before the Senate breaks for a twoweek recess. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell said he would delay the recess if action on child care dragged past today. House action on child care, at the committee level, is scheduled to begin next week.

In addition to a $1.75 billion subsidy authorization, the Democrats' plan creates a new tax credit of up to $500 to help low-income parents buy health insurance for their children. It also would make refundable in advance the existing dependent care tax credit, a step designed to provide cash to low-income parents who otherwise cannot take advantage of the credit because their incomes are so low they do not owe taxes. Combined, those credits cost the government about $3 billion a year. The defeated GOP plan also allowed poor families to get the dependent care credit up front. Its other major element was an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit to allow low-income parents to receive a credit of $500 for one child under the age of 5 and $750 for two or more eligible children.

Among the amendments Republicans were pressing before a final vote was one to substitute their EITC expansion for the health-insurance credit in the Democratic plan. Senate Democrats predicted their plan would serve as the framework for the measure that ultimately clears Congress. Republicans did not disagree but said likely differences with the House would lead to a conference committee and allow the Bush administration to seek a compromise. The White House on Wednesday raised the prospect that President Bush would veto the Democratic bill, saying that the president's senior advisers would recommend a veto if the legislation reached the White House in its present form. Bush spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, however, said later in the day that the administration hoped for a compromise.

In trying to kill the Democrats' bill, Republicans argued it would create new government bureaucracies and limit parental choice because the legislation recommends that states adopt minimum standards for child care. Lawmakers hope to douse flag burning By LEE BANDY and WILL MOREDOCK Staff Writers will be in line, wearing Batman hats, T-shirts and tennis shoes and dozens of Batman buttons. "I'm planning to paint bat wings on my eyelids," said Ms. Burnell, 30, who has fashioned bat earrings out of two Batman buttons. "I guess my husband, Rex, and I have spent between $700 and $800 on Batman stuff," Ms.

Burnell said. Ms. Burnell's car license plate is "BATMAN 1," and that's just the tip of the Batberg. See Batman, 8-A Calling the U.S. Supreme Court decision a "disgrace to all of us who dearly love America and our symbol of freedom," Republican Sen.

Strom Thurmond and Democratic Rep. Butler Derrick said Thursday they'll introduce a constitutional amendment making it illegal to burn the American flag. That was a wish come true for the South Carolina Legislature, which quickly churned out a resolution calling for such an amendment shortly before state lawmakers went home for the year. The resolution, sponsored by Rep. Larry Martin, D-Pickens, criticized the high court's 5-4 decision Wednesday that flag burning is protected under the Constitution's guarantee of Linda The State Debra Gutierrez Garnsey cries as she discusses missing daughter Thursday Patriots Point project can Campbell says dural point as the 1989 legislative session ticked away, killing the Campbell-backed plan to have Santee Cooper, the state-owned utility, take over the Patriots Point tourist attraction, which includes a bankrupt and unfinished hotel and marina.

That proposal was fought by several Charleston lawmakers and others who said they didn't know enough about the plan and didn't want to free speech. "Five to four," said Rep. Dave Waldrop, D-Newberry. "I think the five ought to be out, 0-U-T, out." Martin called the decision a "very sad chapter in United States history," and said flag burning is an violence" against patriots. The General Assembly was part of a national wave of protest against the decision.

The U.S. Senate voted 97-3 for a resolution expressing "profound disappointment" with the ruling, and President Bush, in a speech in New York, said he understood the legal basis for the decision and promised to "see that the law of the land is fully supported." But Bush added: "I have to give you my personal, emotional response: flag burning is wrong, dead wrong. The flag of the United States is very, See Flag, 9-A Airlines heighten inspections Gutierrez, and that the car had been linked to a 27-year-old friend from West Columbia. She wouldn't say how the car and the friend had been linked. "I feel like I don't have any rights, that this system doesn't work for victims," the Lexington County woman said.

"If they can convict (Williams) based on fibers, they can do the same for my daughter." It could be days before the network determines if it can help Mrs. Garnsey, Sherie Carney, the group's executive director, said. The network provides financial assistance See Missing, 4-A involve the state in what has been a private project. Legislators ended their 1989 session at 5 p.m. without approving the plan.

They could take it up again in January, but Campbell said the state was giving up its efforts to rescue the project. "It has been acted upon responsibly by the executive branch of this government, Campbell said. "The ef- By DOUGLAS JEHL Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON Secretary of Transportation Samuel K. Skinner, still seeking to bolster aviation security in the aftermath of the Pan Am 103 bombing, ordered U.S. air carriers Thursday to intensify their efforts to screen radios, tape players and computers carried aboard planes in Europe and the Middle East.

But Skinner rejected a plan that could have banned such electronic devices from passenger compartments altogether, saying such a move would have unnecessarily inconvenienced millions of business and pleasure travelers. In deciding not to penalize such passengers, Skinner warned that overreaction to the threat of terrorism would "only further the terrorists' objective of disrupting the world's air transportation system." The new regulation, issued nearly See Airlines 9-A Legislative action, 1-B By THOM FLADUNG and CINDI ROSS SCOPPE Staff Writers Gov. Carroll Campbell, burned by the General Assembly in his attempts to rescue a bankrupt project at Patriots Point near Charleston, said Thursday that the project can rot. House opponents raised a proce- fort has been destroyed by the efforts of two or three individuals leading the fight from Charleston. "If it sits out there as an eyesore for five years and rots as it's in bankruptcy, then that's fine.

They can look at it." Campbell and other supporters of See Point, 8-A.