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Vynl tii ii I r-' r' Jt 'Sv i li ii i SPORTS BUSINESS White Sox Blue Jays put wraps on AL crowns Page 1C Rep Hawkins tells EDC tourist crimes are down Page 7B Li" IffWpBW rv iTWriMy 1 '1 flsmV i 4 V- VH i Collier newspaper Tuesday September 28 1993 35 cents a copy ATF director retires before Waco report Review to be critical President gives conditions for US peacekeepers in Bosnia Fort Worth Star-Telegram WASHINGTON -Stephen Higgins direc-tar of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms abruptly announced his retirement Monday just days before release of a critical Treasury Department inquiry into the raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco Texas In a testy letter to Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen the 55-year-old career law-enforcement officer said he is stepping down because of concern that the forthcoming review will treat his agency unfairly He also quarreled with endorsement of a proposal to merge the ATF with the FBI The massive report tentatively scheduled to be released at a news conference Thursday is expected to sharply criticize the ATF leadership for its handling of the Feb 28 raid which left four agents dead and 16 others wounded A See CULT Page 9A can participation in a peacekeeping force there The president's lengthy list conditions is likely to fuel questions about whether his administration will ever actually commit the 25000 troops it has earmarked for peacekeeping in the Balkans Clinton assured the United Nations that the United States would pay its long overdue 8400-million bill for peacekeeping operations and another $400 million in unpaid dues That money is about to be approved by Congress But the president mindful of congressional concern about rising UN costs emphasized that the United States would no longer continue supporting peacekeeping operations if the world body did not become more discriminating in the jobs it undertakes and did not lower American dues to reflect the United diminished economic status' relative to Germany Japan and other industrial states NY Times News Service UNITED NATIONS President Clinton on Monday laid down a long list of American conditions for sending peacekeeping troops to Bosnia and called on the United Nations to be much more selective about where it sends such troops in the future saying the United States could not afford to go on subsidizing open-ended missions In his first address to the UN General Assembly which has just begun its annual fall session Clinton also proposed a worldwide treaty that would ban production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons But the thrust of his remarks was an appeal to overhaul the peacekeeping machinery of the United Nations and to define more clearly its mission in the post-Cold War world Clinton made only scant reference to Bosnia in the speech but at a news conference later spelled out the terms for Ameri Associated Press President Clinton takes center stage at the United Nations See PEACE Page 12A Things not getting any better for Meadowood Parent of WNPL files for bankruptcy By BILL ROGERS Staff Writer Around 75 residents showed up at the Meadowood Apartment Clubhouse in Golden Gate on Monday night to let the management know that solid footing is needed at the complex But tne meeting abruptly ended when the apartment manager Debbie Affleck grabbed a tape recorder from a man who apparently lives at the complex a deputy from the Collier County Sheriffs Office showed up and the crowd started to walk out The Meadowood Club Apartments in Golden Gate where a patio collapsed Thursday night injuring two men have had problems Defore tenants say Tom Paris said he told management officials seven months ago that the ceiling on the patio above his first-floor apartment was black with mildew and was buckling Nothing has been done about it Paris said And he is worried to stop my ceiling from falling Jeffrey Scott McFalls who lives in Apartment 5 at Meadowood and Scott Gray-Pezzulo of Golden Gate were on the patio Thursday night when a portion of the floor gave way and the men fell through McFalls 27 remained in stable condition at Naples Community Hospital on Monday night He said he has lower back pains numbness in both legs and is unable to stand Gray-Pezzulo a construction worker was released from the hospital Sunday His mother Mary Pezzulo said her son has a herniated disc and a fractured vertebrae McFalls and Paris both say a Meadowood maintenance man who lives in the complex reinforced his patio with 4-by-4 pieces of wood County inspectors determined that 110 of the 144 stairways at Meadowood which was built in 1986 were unsafe as were as all See APARTMENTS Page 3A By MICHAEL RINKER Staff Writer Seeking to stave off creditors and prevent a sale of its office furniture and equipment the parent company of WNPL-TV Channel 46 on Friday filed a bankruptcy petition with a federal judge in Tampa Attorney Edward Miller who represents Southwest Florida Telecommunications Inc said the emergency Chapter 11 petition was filed just after 6 pm before US Bankruptcy Judge Alexander Paskay Chapter 11 prevents creditors from pursuing the assets and gives its management 120 days to set up a plan to run the station and pay off its debts Miller said A trustee will be appointed to supervise the management of the station during that time Management must submit monthly reports to the trustee After a reorganization plan is submitted the creditors then vote to approve or reject the plan If no plan is submitted within 120 days assuming there are no extensions granted the creditors have the right to submit their own plans The station claims liabilities of more than $1 million and assets of between $500000 and $1 million according to documents filed in US Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida The station also claims it has between 50 and 99 creditors and lists the 20 largest unsecured creditors It says it owes the most $209200 to World Vision Enterprises of New York City Among the others are Turner Broadcasting System the Associated Press and US West Marketing Resources Group Inc which have each filed suits against the station in Collier Circuit Court this year Another creditor is the Bank of See BILLS Page 3A Associated Press A hard-line deputy of Russia's parliament lands in the crowd as he was tossed back from barricades at the building where opponents of President Boris Yeltsin have holed up Yeltsin: No compromise with opponents INSIDE Speaking confidently on national TV Yeltsin rejected proposals for simultaneous presidential and parliamentary elections as a way to end the stand-off that began when he dissolved parliament last week He insisted on sticking to his plan for a parliamentary election in December with presidential balloting six months later He said compromise was and could lead to conflict I am not making such compromises with any organs any more I am categori-cally against Yeltsin said See RUSSIA Page 15A By DEBORAH SEWARD Associated Press MOSCOW President Boris Yeltsin ruled out any compromise Monday with hard-line lawmakers who remained barricaded in parliament with dwindling support and no electricity hot water or telephones tough stand and constant pressure from hundreds of flak-jacketed riot police appeared to be eroding the will of his opponents who were weakened by defections and miserable conditions inside the Russian White House or parliament SHEVARDNADZE FUEES TBILISI Georgia Abkhazian separatists captured Sukhumi on Monday after 12 days of bitter combat forcing Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze to flee the devastated city he had vowed to defend More than 3000 people have been killed and 100000 made homeless in the yearlong war one of the fiercest ethnic conflicts to rise from the ruins of the Soviet Union Story Page 14A State awaits tourist-murder fallout Indicted senator vows to fight back dicted vindication both in court and at the ballot box all this is over I predict that the people of Texas will stick with me" she said at a hastily arranged news conference in her Senate office of the charges has any merit" See TEXAS Page 9A gunned down Sunday night while going to a restaurant with his cousin and his wife A motorist pulled alongside his car and fired a single shot through the passenger window hitting Sanchez in the head this point we really do not have a said Metro-Dade police spokesman Ralph Fernandez No arrests were made he said Sanchez was a parking attendant in New York See TOURISM Page 5A Related story 7B Associated Press MIAMI Just as travel agents from Germany were getting a VIP tour to persuade them to keep sending tourists to Florida another out-of-state visitor was shot to death on a Miami highway The seemingly senseless killing unleashed a flurry of negative publicity about crime against visitors in a state with a $31 billion a year tourist industry Miguel A Sanchez 40 of New York City was Fort Worth Star-Telegram WASHINGTON She called herself a woman under siege and as she faced the television cameras after her indictment Monday Sen Kay Bailey Hutchison lost no time firing back Blaming the charges against her on the Texas Republican confidently pre iw i mu I-ft 1 iiWbidl.