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Post-Gazette Harrisburg Correspondent HARRISBURG Democrat Robert P. Casey, who tried harder and longer than anyone else to be Penn- sylvania governor, took the oath of office yesterday and promised an administration that will be "sensible without being insensitive." On a platform specially built for the occasion on the Capitol steps, the white-haired but tall and straight chief executive said in a 15-minute inaugural speech he wants his administration and the Legislature to end petty bickering. "We must bank the fires of partisan political strife in this commonwealth," said Casey to a crowd of about 5,000 people, who appeared excited but generated only modest noise on the heavily overcast, 36-degree afternoon. Referring to efforts that produced the nation's Constitution 200 years ago, the state's 42nd governor called for similar cooperation in "a new Pennsylvania partnership," now when "once more the times are perilous." Repeating his campaign promise of an activist administration that will improve the economy, protect the environment and upgrade education, Casey also gave special and unexpected attention to the need for action on the state's judicial system and on local taxes. The oath, administered by state Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert N.C.

Nix came in the midst of inaugural activities spread over a day and a half, from Monday night's entertainment program to last night's inaugural ball in Hershey. Casey's office announced that his first act as governor outside the Capitol would be a trip to Monessen today to meet with local leaders about the area's problems. The trip would fulfill a campaign promise to go to the Mon Valley on his first full day in office, Casey aides said. The noontime inaugural ceremony started about 30 minutes late, largely because of time needed to get lawmakers, judges and other official guests to their assigned seats. Among them were former Democratic Govs.

Milton Shapp and George Man than 200 state troopers many in their "dress grays" joined Capitol police and Harrisburg city forces in providing security ana traffic control. Two police helicopters circled in the gray skies overhead and officers stood on the roofs Today ISo surprises Partly cloudy today, high temperatures in the upper 20s. Increasing cloudiness tonight, lows in the lower 20s. Details, Page 12. Talking about Iran President Reagan is helping to stitch together places and dates spelling out the Iran-Contra connection.

A White House spokesman says Reagan met twice with Chief of Staff Donald T. Regan for lengthy discussions. Page 2. Helms wins panel vote Jesse Helms of North Carolina ousts Richard Lugar of Indiana as the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. His victory in secret balloting by the GOP caucus is said to owe more to his seniority than to his right wing politics.

Page 2. Teen detained at airport Police detain a youth attempting to board a plane at Greater Pitt and find three handguns, two silencers, $14,000 cash and two expensive watches. He is just 16 years old. Page 4. Crash hearings open Both drug use and equipment tampering have been implicated in the Jan.

4 collision of an Amtrak passenger train and three Conrail locomotives near Baltimore that killed 16 people. Federal railroad officials, appearing at the first in a series of congressional hearings prompted by the crash, say they are severely limited in what they can do about the problems. Page 3. City Center plans delayed The target date for starting construction of a $102 million hotel-retail project Downtown has been pushed back a year, until June 1988. The delay in breaking ground for the Pittsburgh City Center project on Grant Street is tied to uncertainty over federal grant money.

Page 12. Korb critiques Pentagon Lawrence J. Korb, dean of Pitt's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, criticizes administration defense spending policies before a Senate panel. He also recommends ways to repair a budget that he calls "a mess." Page 2. Words to the wise It was the best of times; it was the worst of times no fewer than 47 times in major American newspapers and magazines in 1986.

That's the tally from syndicated columnist TRB, fresh from his annual run through the Nexis computer in search of, well, in search of no easy answers. Page 11. i Paul Vathis Associated Press Gov. Casey is sworn in by Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert N.C. Nix Jr.

At right are outgoing Gov. Thornburgh and Mrs. Thornburgh. employees to return while pact talks continue 25 CENTS Having a Trte state's new first lady, Ellen Casey, above, and the governor end a memorable day with dancing. Page 6.

William W. Scranton III samples life as a private citizen. Page 6. The new governor sees a bright future for the state. Page 7.

Three here in running for Cabinet By Donald I. Hammonds and Grace Rishell Post-Gazette Stall Writers As the Casey administration under way yesterday afternoon in Harrisburg, three men from the Pittsburgh region confirmed they are being considered by the new governor for cabinet posts. David Bergholz, assistant director of the Allegheny Conference' on Community Development, and Roger S. Ahlbrandt, associate provost at the University of Pittsburgh, are among the leading candidates to head Gov. Casey's proposed.

Economic Development Corp. Joseph Widmer, chairman of the Beaver County commissioners, acknowledged he is a candidate for transportation secretary. Another person said to be under consideration for the economic de- visit to the Lebanese capital in his quest to free foreign hostages. Nineteen foreigners are missing in Lebanon six Americans, six Frenchmen, two Britons, an Italian, an Irishman, a South Korean, a Saudi Arabian and a West German. Waite said Monday he had established contact with Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War, and planned to begin direct negotiations with that Shiite Moslem group.

But he expressed fears he could be abducted himself. The Anglican emissary also said he had received assurances from Islamic Jihad, which kidnapped Americans Terry A. Anderson and Thomas Sutherland, that the two were "well looked after. Their condition is generally good." Waite said Monday that "eventually the prospects are good" for the release of Anderson, 39, the AP's chief Middle East correspondent, and Sutherland, 55, acting dean of agriculture at the American University of Beirut. Both men were abducted in 1985.

In a statement yesterday, delivered to the office of a Western news agency in west Beirut, God's Partisans identified the two men whose release it seeks only as Saleh and Abdullah. It gave no nationality or reason for imprisonment. The statement complained that the two were being mistreated at maximum security Spoleto Prison in central Italy and demanded "immediate improvement of our brethren's conditions and then their release immediately afterward." g-? i By Grace Rishell Post-Gazette Stall Writer Workers at three Babcock Wilcox plants in Beaver County will accept a company offer to go back to work at reduced pay and benefit rates while their union and the company attempt to negotiate a contract to end a four-month work stoppage, a union official said yesterday! "We will report as soon as they call us," said James Johnson, chief negotiator for United Steelworkers Local 1082. Johnson said the union will keep its promise to return with no conditions attached. The work stoppage began Sept.

14 olitics (Continued on Page 7, Column 4) (Continued oo Page 7 Colama 4) Waite stays in Beirut, group threatens Italy of revenge Violence rises on the West Bank force declares itself available for work. A official said the company plans to start recalling union employees soon. The letter said the company does not expect to immediately reopen all operating departments because of poor demand and the need to recapture business lost during the work stoppage. Workers returning to the specialty steel plants will have considerably less in their take-home pay than they did when they walked off the job in September. Wage and benefit reductions amount to about $9.20 an hour, including an hourly wage cut of $3.50.

Under the expired contract," the average hourly pay was $11.42. Joe said it would What happens when weathermen blow a big one? Joe DeNardo, granddaddy of Pittsburgh forecasters, had to explain what went wrong with his forecasts of snow, sleet and freezing rain for last weekend and the subsequent anticlimax. "TV news departments like to make big stories out of the weather. It does affect a lot of peoples' lives morning rush hour, kids going to school, travel," he admits. Story, Page 5.

Y', i i lLI" vf and affected plants in Beaver Falls, Koppel and Ambridge. The three facilities employed about 1,350 union members when the dispute began. yesterday sent a letter to the union asking members to begin work under the terms of the company's last offer, which contains deep cuts in hourly wages and benefits. The company letter followed a Steelworkers' offer earlier this week to go back to work under any terms. At that time, union officials said the return-to-work pledge would prevent from hiring permanent replacements.

The federal National Labor Relations Act prohibits hiring new employees when the original Insight 'Vest Bank and Gaza Strip and are making their political views felt. Their views are important for many reasons, most notably that in the years to come, they will be the Palestinian leaders and, perhaps, negotiators. Judging from a wide range of discussions with West Bank Palestin- ian high school students and teach- ers, as well as with college students and professors, two themes in the thinking of this new Palestinian generation are striking. First, although only a tiny number of the young Palestinians would ever think of wielding an ax, many seem to identify clearly with the blind rage of the ax wielders. They no longer seem to view violence as serving as a means toward a particular political objective; most say that they have given up hope for any solutions.

Theirs is simply a politics of revenge. "I think that our generation of Palestinians have reached a point psychologically where we want any means of getting back at the Jews," said MeraT, an 18-year-old Palestinian student at Bir Zeit University, who did not want to give her last (Continued on Page 9, Column 1) By Thomas L. Friedman New York Times News Service BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite canceled his flight home to England yesterday to stay in Beirut for face-to-face negotiations with kidnappers of American hostages. He scrubbed his midmorning departure plans after returning to his hotel from a late-night meeting with Islamic Jihad, sources close to him said. "It looked like he has had a breakthrough," said one source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

"He will have further meetings with the captors." Also yesterday, a hitherto unknown group threatened to carry out terrorist attacks against Italy for allegedly mistreating two jailed comrades. In a typewritten statement in poor Arabic, the group, God's Partisans, threatened to kill the Italian justice minister and the warden of Spoleto Prison, where it said the two were held; to blow up the Italian Embassy in Beirut; to kidnap Italians and to hijack Italian jetliners. Waite, the personal emissary of the Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, appeared at 9:20 a.m. in the lobby of his seaside hotel in west Beirut's Ein Mreisseh district. Wearing a raincoat over his suit in sunny Beirut, the envoy rode in a jeep with three bodyguards to an undisclosed destination.

He returned two hours later and went straight up to his room, refusing to answer questions about his activities and plans. Waite flew in last week on his fifth Wnrdlfas tn thr ws RAMALLAH, Israeli-occupied Wordless to We Wise West Bank In December, on a A number of readers clipped and quiet morning in this Christian Arab assembled Gary Trudeau's Doones- town north of Jerusalem, a 16-year- bury puzzle that ran last week, and old Palestinian schoolboy walked up -some of them didn't get it. Put behind an Israeli pulled an together, it showed a voice coming ax out of his blue schoolbag, started out of the White House saying, "Mr. shouting something about "Pales-'; President, as your special counselor, tine" and began striking the soldier I have to know what you knew and on the head. when you knew it." The president's The wounded soldier was taken to reply is indecipherable, because a hospital with severe cuts.

The there's a piece of the puzzle missing, youth was taken to prison; All the See, that's the gag. What the presi- army spokesmen would say about dent knew is the missing piece, the young Palestinian was that he, was acting on his "own initiative" 1 Kookaburra victorious no one ordered or paid him to do it. Kookaburra III sweeps Australia This scene has been repeated sev- IV in races in the America's Cup eral times in the last year, with defender finals. Before she faces young Palestinians using kitchen Stars Stripes in the finals, howev- knives or sharpened screwdrivers to er, she will hold speed trials with her attack Israeli soldiers or civilians in stablemate, Kookaburra II. Page 20.

daylight. And at Bir Zeit University north of Jerusalem in December, Bv Ed PhilliDS Palestinian students threw stones at heavily armed Israeli troops, who responded with live ammunition. Ann Landers.32 Magazine 25 Two students were shot to death, but Astrology 23 Marriages 21 the stone throwing continued for Business 13 Obituaries 12 another week at schools all over the Comics 32 Sports 17 West Bank. Crossword ....21 Television 29 These young Palestinians are Divorces 21 Theaters 30 members of the post-1967 genera-Editorials 10 Want ads 21 tion, who have spent all their lives Lottery 12 Weather 12 under Israeli rule in the occupied 4.