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fhTl CBS wants station to 'V'-V 1 "frill r- i Iff. i 111 "Th 77JVTr I pi Hlj Z) ij) A CLEAR GUIDE A hi -1 i 1 A CLEAR GUIDE roots TRIAL tx TO THE CASE issues, key figures and evidence so far is on Pages 8A and 9A Jury Associated Press Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were found slashed to death June 13 at her west Los Angeles condominium. Bp v3 yf a. in Detroit WGPR-TVto stay and grow by Mike Duffy Free Press TV Writer The Eye has arrived. CBS officially announced the purchase of WGPR-TV (Channel 62) for $24 million on Friday, and confirmed its resolve to maintain WGPR's Detroit roots and to build multimillion-dollar studio facilities in the city.

"Our intention here, working with the city of Detroit, is to stay within the city limits," Jonathan Rodgers, president of the CBS Television Stations Division, said during a visit to WGPR's studios Friday. CBS Chairman Laurence Tisch has already talked to Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer about keeping Channel 62 in the city, Rodgers said. "This will be a state-of-the-art, year 2000 station," he added. "And we hope to retain a number of WGPR's employees." CBS executives plan to begin talking about site selection in a meeting in New York on Monday. Rodgers also promised an agressive, heavily funded CBS push to boost Channel 62's weak UHF signal "as soon as possible;" launch a daily newscast operation; more than triple the station's staff of approximately 60 to around 200 employees; and hire reporters, anchors and producers from other Detroit TV stations.

See CBS, Page 2A Less-traveled road suggested for interstate I 1 ym screening is to begin Monday. ON FRIDAY: Judge Lance Ito ruled that most items seized in a June 28 search of 0 J. Simpson's home may be used at the trial. Simpson's lawyers had argued that the search by 29 police officers was illegal. Ito denounced a Los Angeles television station for reporting, inaccurately, that DNA tests linked Nicole Simpson to blood found on socks seized from her ex-husband's home.

Ito said he will decide next week whether to restrict broadcast media access to the courtroom. Simpson's lawyers implied that Los Angeles police may have been the source of the leak, and asked Ito to order an investigation. NEXT WEEK, Ito is expected to decide whether to allow evidence from several other searches, including at Simpson's home, Ford Bronco and business office. fJ ma, w- I.1IM1I1 X'7 Associated Press and Knight Rktder Tribune Above left: In 1970, OJ. Simpson was the main man in the Buffalo Bills offense.

Above right: In June, Simpson was charged with murder. Below left: Marcia Clark is the lead prosecutor. Below left: Attorney Robert Shapiro has defended other celebrities. and returned home in time to catch a ride to the airport The defense also has suggested Simpson may have been framed by a racist cop. Today, on Pages 8A-9A, are a review of uch is the national preoccupation with the 0 J.

Simpson murder case that millions of Americans can identify the key evidence by rote: The glove. The Bronco. The knit cap. The blood. The suicide note.

When jury selection begins Monday in Los Angeles Superior by Dawson bell Free Press Lansing Staff LANSING If and when the federal government moves forward on a proposed interstate from the southeastern United States to Michigan, state highway officials would like them to aim it somewhere off the beaten path. Congress approved a conceptual Interstate 73 from Charlotte, N.C., to Detroit earlier this year. But some Michigan officials would like the road to enter the state farther west than Toledo and continue north, on a route not already in the interstate system, Department of Transportation Director Pat Nowak said Friday. Nowak said no specific route has been drawn for the conceptual interstate. There may be no actual new road in Michigan, since the state already has 1-75 running south from Detroit to Toledo.

But the route preferred by some would bring a new interstate into Michigan south of Jackson along the route of U.S.-127, then north on 127 and U.S.-27 to Grayling where it would blend into 1-75. That would add more than 200 miles to Michigan's share of the interstate system and give the state millions of additional federal road dollars. See LVTERSTATE, Page 2A To many, it's inconceivable that Simpson hacked to death his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman on the night of June 12. Was this the same amiable lug who ran through airports for Hertz, or bobbed his way through sideline interviews as a TV sportscaster? Since his arrest, we've seen another side to the Juice. We've heard the 911 tape, the details of Nicole Simpson's 1989 beating, how he bashed in her car windshield with a baseball bat and his compulsive interest in her love life after they separated.

0 J. Simpson says he is innocent, that he loved his ex-wife and was home when the slayings occurred; that he could not have killed two people, ditched his bloody clothing the key facts and important legal issues shaping the Simpson trial, a look at the major figures, and how other California courts have decided such matters in the past 1 Court, Simpson, 47, will become the most famous American ever to go on trial for murder. After three months, the charges against the football legend, which he vehemently denies, still manage to jar. i 1 An BY DAVID ZEMAN, FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER People facing fear of crime take safety into ovn hands -1 i 4frcc Stress Business 12A Classified SB Comics, Crossword 16A Death Notices 11A Doonesbury 16A Editorials 10A Horoscope 8B Jumble 10B Lottery numbers 2A Names Faces 2A Sports 1B Stock Markets 13A Weather 17A Volume 164, Number 143 1994 Detroit Free Press Inc. Printed in the United States Detroit News Accent 1C Bridge 10C Classified 7C Comics 10C Crossword 11C Dear Abby 2C Dr.

Donohue 2C Editorials 12C Gardening 6D 1D Horoscope 10C Movie guide 6C Recordings 36D Tastings 4D TV listings 4C 121st Year, Number 29 Copyright, 1994, The Detroit News, Inc are the trips to Lansing. And when you hear stories about what can happen when people pull over to make calls from a pay phone late at night, I just started thinking that it sure wouldn't hurt. "So far, I haven't had to use it in that way, but I feel better knowing it's there." In cars, at home and at work, fear of crime shows up everywhere for people in Michigan these days, including the voting booth. State voters have in surveys since late 1993 identified See CRIME, Page 6A BY JOE SWICKARD Free Press Staff Writer Pat Wenzel's car phone has come in handy for checking on the kids, clearing up a question from the office or making a quick call from traffic on the way home. But that's not why she has it.

"Safety was my primary concern; that's why," said Wenzel, a surpervis-ing financial analyst with MCN Corp. in downtown Detroit. "I don't often have to work late, but when I do, the streets can be pretty deserted," Wenzel said. "Then, there GEORGE WALDMANOetroit Free Press Pat Wenzel has a car phone: "I feel better knowing it's there." A third of people polled recently said they or someone close had been hit by crime..