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Learn geography: Jobs are everywhere THE WAY WE LIVE, ID Rookie driver gets i i his chance at Indy i Charlie Vincent, ic II Detroitersstarat 'Cop AT premiere THE WAY WE LIVE, ID Isiah Thomas may run Toronto team DETAILS, SECTION 5f irl 1 Li; 1 1 IP ml 1 1 7 1 lllli Is- Tuesday Metro Final Chance of showers. High 79. Low 57. Wednesday: Mostly cloudy. May 24, 1994 35 cents (50 cents outside 6-county metropolitan area) Home delivery 25 cents in metro area (call 1-313-222-6500) 6 On Guard For 163 Years joins with Fox el 2 cramps ami WHAT WILL CHANGE 8 IV 7 I The move is a huge boost for Fox and a serious setback for CBS, which loses eight affiliates to Fox less than six months after losing its NFL football telecasts to the fourth network.

"This is probably the biggest change ever in Detroit broadcasting," said Maria Drutz, program director at WXYZ-TV (Channel 7), the city's ABC affiliate. It's likely to set off a chain reaction. For starters, it leaves WKBD-TV (Channel 50), the current Fox affiliate, scrambling to determine its future. Channel 50 will have to find pro-See FOX, Page 2A Channel 2 when it becomes a Fox affiliate. Early season Lions and other NFC games may air on Channel 50.

LOCAL NEWS: Rich Fisher and Channel 2's Eyewitness News team remain with their station. Same is true at Channel 50; the local people work for the station, pot the network. Shift could affect affiliation, shows on many stations Channel 2 informed CBS on Monday it would be leaving as an affiliate in six months. "This agreement will forever change the competitive landscape of network television," Rupert Murdoch, chairman of Fox said in a news release. PROGRAMS: Letterman, "60 Minutes" and other CBS programs will air on whatever Detroit station CBS signs up as its new affiliate.

"The Simpsons," "Martin" and other Fox programs will be on Channel 2. Football cbs lost the nfl to Fox this year. So the Lions and other NFC teams will again be on BY MIKE DUFFY AND MARC GUNTHER Free Press TV Writers By the end of the year, Detroit television watchers will find Fox shows such as "The Simpsons" and "Melrose Place" on Channel 2. Where we'll find such CBS favorites as "60 Minutes" as "Murphy Brown" is anybody's guess and CBS' problem. The Fox network Monday announced that it had lured away 12 stations affiliated with other networks, including 45-year CBS affiliate WJBK-TV.

All 12 are owned or will be owned by the same company. The affiliation switch is the biggest in TV history. 1 4 JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS, 1929-1994 Denny's settles bias lawsuits do Sen. Edward Kennedy eulogizes the former first lady: "She was a blessing in its and to the nation and a lesson to the world on how to things right, how to be a mother, how to appreciate history, how to be ft courageous 9 45 million for raced oiir -five she Nation bids her farewell BY MARY OTTO Free Press Washington Staff Flagstar spokeswoman Karen Randall, reached at the company's headquarters in Spartanburg, S.C., declined to confirm or deny the report. But she said the company's chairman and chief executive officer, Jerome Richardson, would appear at a news conference in Washington today concerning "discrimination lawsuit settlements." Lawyers for two groups of black plaintiffs did not immediately return phone calls.

Michigan Civil Rights Commission member Richard Letts said the settlement sends an important message. "You hit a person in the pocketbook and it sends a message," he said. "I think our society needs to get a message that blatant civil rights violations will not be tolerated. "It's becoming apparent that we're regressing when it comes to race relations when we have these kinds of See DENNY'S, Page 2A RLINGTON, Va. To BY MICHAEL J.SN1FFEN Associated Press WASHINGTON The Justice Department has reached a civil rights settlement with the nationwide Denny's restaurant chain, which has been hit with dozens of allegations of bias against blacks, according to a Justice Department official.

Details of the settlement were not immediately available, said the official, speaking Monday on condition of anonymity. CBS reported that Flagstar Companies the parent company of Denny's, would settle the lawsuits by paying $45 million and hiring an outside monitor to check on its civil rights policies. The network didn't provide the source for the report, saying only it had learned the terms of the settlement between the Justice Department and Flagstar. The settlement is to be formally announced today. 1 er.it was the only place 4 for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to be buried, in Arlington National Cemetery, beside John F.

Kennedy and the eternal flame she lit for him nearly 31 years ago. "To my way of thinking, she was never separated from him," said Harriet McMahon, who came from Charles Town, W.Va., with her daughter and grandson to stand at the cemetery gates and watch the hearse whisk past. "It's a remarriage, her being buried with him." By friends and strangers nationwide, Onassis was remembered Monday as the stoic wife i Swiss firm buys Gerl in a deal i -1 4 i i That means a huge payoff for Gerber shareholders, whose stock was worth less than $35 a share last Friday. And it comes at an important time for Gerber, whose U.S. baby food sales have slipped as birth rates declined in the past three years.

Sandoz, a global conglomerate with more than $10 billion in annual sales, has the financial muscle to help Gerber expand faster in growing markets around the world. Meanwhile, Sandoz gains a major presence in the American consumer goods market and a famous brand name that it can promote worldwide. Piergallini said Sandoz officials See GERBER, Page 8A BY HIAWATHA BRAY Free Press Business Writer Baby food maker Gerber Products Co. will merge with a Swiss drugmaker in a deal that promises to expand the Gerber name worldwide, maintain the company's presence in southwest Michigan and make stockholders very, very happy. Alfred Piergallini, Gerber's chairman and chief executive, told community leaders in Gerber's hometown Monday the sale is "a very positive move, a great day for Fremont." Sandoz Ltd.

of Basel, Switzerland, said it will pay $53 a share for the stock of Gerber, America's largest maker of baby food. of a slain president, a heroine, a devoted mother, a lover of beauty and culture. Onassis died Thursday of lymphatic cancer at her home in New York. She was 64. She was remembered by her brother-in-law, Sen.

Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, during a funeral mass Monday morning at St. Ignatius of Loyola Roman Catholic Church on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where she was baptized. "She never wanted public notice in part, I think, because it brought back painful memories of an unbearable sorrow endured in the glare of a See Onassis, Page 8A INSIDE Donation: A foundation established by Aristotle Onassis has promised to give $50,000 to a charity in her memory. Page 8A. The eulogy: "No one else looked like her, spoke like The barn owl, left, is just one of young readers' favorite Michigan animals.

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