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1 fx i Flight attendant still loves the job The way WE LIVE, 3F I I law i 77 i Festival starts today with Hart Plaza music Weekend, id YEARS ALOFT Buddy Ball is a pathetic version of football, says Rob Parker DETAILS, 1C AiHiI mvtt mum, Friday August 19, 1994 35 cents (50 cents outside 6-county metropolitan area) Home delivery 25 cents in metro area (call 1-313-222-6500) On Guard For 163 Years A ALUS QIC for rak wontt hurry Enigler U.S. acts, but Archer also wants closer look WHAT'S NEXT The governor won't announce a decision on permitting a casino until receiving a report from a study group, which he is about to appoint. The mayor will press for a large payment from any casino operators, so he can cut Detroit income taxes. A spokesman for the tribes that would own the Greektown casino says it could be ready to open in six months. Gatzaros said he expects Engler to approval the deal because the Greek-town casino group has satisfied all of Engler's requirements, including getting the endorsement of Michigan's seven federally recognized Indian tribes and the approval of Detroit voters for the project.

"Everything he set as a condition we have met; now we look to the governor to keep his part of the bargain," Gatzaros said. The Greektown plan calls for installing a four-story, 100,000 square-See CASINO, Page 8A city and guarantee Detroit is dealt a winning hand." A partner in the proposed Greek-town casino, developer Ted Gatzaros, said, "We're thrilled." Gatzaros, who had been waiting nearly a year for the federal decision, said, "We are pleased that the Secretary of the Interior has seen the necessity to establish a casino to benefit Detroit and counteract the impact of Windsor's casino on tribal gaming." million annual income tax on residents, commuters and corporations in the city. Archer also wants the casino to pay for other costs, such as police and fire protection. "We're satisfied that Secretary Babbitt carefully and thoroughly examined the issue before rendering his decision," said Archer spokesman Cliff Russell. "This doesn't change the mayor's plans to study casino gambling to determine how gambling can serve the conclude their review process before finalizing a decision," Engler said.

He was referring to a panel he plans to appoint this week to assess the impact of casino gambling in Detroit. The announcement came several hours after Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer said he would demand a hefty franchise fee from any casino operators allowed to open shop in Detroit. Archer said he wants enough gambling revenue to reduce Detroit's $296- By Nancy Costello and Tina Lam Free Press Staff Writers Federal officials have approved plans to open an Indian-run gambling casino in Detroit's Greektown, but Gov. John Engler won't issue his decision until at least the end of the year, his spokesman said Thursday. "It took the secretary 20 months to review the proposal and make his decision," Engler said in a news release after being notified that Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt had approved the plan.

"It will not take me that long, but I will wait for the gaming commission to Land deal EMERGENCY IN FLORIDA More Cubans create need, governor says gets expensive for Warren By robin fornoff Free Press Staff Writer Members of a Warren board created to spur development thought they had a deal when they offered fellow board member Anthony Aubrey $460,000 for his bankrupt pawn shop. The board also paid off $11,000 in back taxes and $37,000 for inventory, and agreed to let Aubrey operate the shop rent free for nine months. But a little more than a year later, Aubrey is refusing to vacate the building at 9 Mile and Van Dyke until he is paid $86,000 more plus attorney fees. Warren Mayor Ronald Bonkowski and other city officials said they are outraged at Aubrey's latest demand. But Bonkowski said he thinks it will be cheaper to pay him than to fight it out in court.

"I don't want to pay him any extra money," Bonkowski said Thursday. "He made a deal. But I want him out of there." See WARREN, Page 2A Beach to reopen this weekend 1 4 Free Press Wire Services KEY WEST, Fla. Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles declared an immigration emergency Thursday, but the Clinton administration's response to the largest influx of Cuban refugees in 14 years was: Don't worry.

Attorney General Janet Reno, who supervises the Immigration and Naturalization Service, indicated the administration saw no reason to release emergency money or send the Navy to turn back the Cubans, as Chiles requested. At a news conference at the Key West Coast Guard station, Chiles said he would call out Florida's National Guard units if needed and said that action could come in a matter of days. As he spoke, a Coast Guard boat docked and unloaded 50 more refugees, many of them bedraggled, barefoot and badly sunburned. Chiles compared the increasing flow of Cuban refugees to a hurricane approaching the state and said that like in the case of a hurricane Florida was preparing to meet the crisis. "Hundreds of people, maybe thousands, are lined up on Cuban shores, waiting to leave.

There is no effort by Cuban President Fidel Castro to stop them. In fact, it looks like every effort is being made to encourage them," Chiles said. "There is no question that a true state of emergency exists." He said Castro apparently is carrying out his threat to open Cuba's ports after the worst antigovernment rioting of his 35-year communist rule. On Thursday, Coast Guard cutters picked up at least 330 refugees from small boats and makeshift rafts in the waters between Florida and Cuba. On Wednesday, ships rescued 547.

With almost 3,500 refugees picked up so far in August, the exodus from the Caribbean nation has reached its highest level since the 1980 Mariel See CUBANS, Page 6A int TOMANKnight-Ridder-Tribune Above: A Cuban rafter feeds a chocolate-frosted doughnut to a fellow passenger Thursday after corning ashore in Dade County. Right: Cuban refugees leave the city of Cojimar, 12 miles east of Havana, on Thursday. Cubans flock to the beaches to bid farewell to the scores fleeing for the United States, to comfort those left behind and to wait for their own chance to flee. Page 6A. A summary of facts about the Mariel boat-lift is on Page 6A.

4 BY EMILIA ASKARI AND JEANNE MAY Free Press Staff Writers Macomb County's Metro Beach will reopen this weekend, after health officials ruled Thursday that the fecal contamination that closed the popular bathing spot since late June finally has abated. Park Superintendent Jim Bresciami said the beach will open at 10 a.m. Saturday. "We're in the process of getting lifeguards and other staff back in order," he said. "Hopefully the public will come back and everyone have a good weekend." "We've given the go-ahead to open," Gary White, environmental health supervisor of the Macomb County Health Department, said late Thursday.

The bacteria count in the water at Metro Beach tested below state limits Thursday for the fifth day in a row, he said. Fecal coliform is a bacteria found in human and animal excrement. In waters with high levels of fecal coliform, swimmers can pick up intestinal diseases. A team of state officials studying the contamination at Metro Beach has identified three sources. They are, in descending order, sewage overflows such as the ones in Mt.

Clemens, urban and farm runoff, and contamination from bird droppings. In Mt. Clemens, a city official admitted Thursday that See BEACH, Page 7A IT 4 JOSE GOITIACanadian press At-large felon a known escape risli Helicopter pirate unstable, buyer sap 12F 4B 1C 2E 7F IF 3F 11F ID 3E Names Faces Obituaries Sports Weekend Stock Markets Television The Freep The Way We Live Weather Weekend Your Money Ann Landers 2F Bridge 11F Business IE Classified 7C Comics 10F Crossword Puzzle 10F Death Notices 4B Editorials 10A Feature Page 9F Horoscope 9F Jumble 7C Lottery 2A Michigan Dateline 4B Movie Guide 20 Deputy Police Chief Benny Napoleon said, "It's possible that the officers may have been put on notice that this individual was an escape risk. I have not been able to confirm that. "If they were informed that he was an escape risk and they did not take proper precautions, that is an internal matter that we will have to deal with," he said.

But Napoleon and other police officials said it's routine for the department to use one of its six helicopters to See HELICOFTER, Page 7 A BY L.A. JOHNSON AND STEPHEN JONES Free Press Staff Writers A prisoner believed responsible for grabbing a police officer's gun and pirating a Detroit police helicopter in mid-flight Wednesday was a known escape risk and, according to his lawyer, mentally unstable. It was unclear Thursday, however if the two officers transporting John Cosby, 22, and another prisoner back to separate jails were aware that Cosby was considered an escape threat. Cosby, wh remained at large Thurs- day, now faces federal charges of air piracy and use of a firearm while committing that crime. "He's a very sick young man," Cosby's lawyer, William Mitchell, said Thursday afternoon.

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