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INSIDE: Section Michigan Dateline, Page 6 Obituaries, Page 6 Call City Desk, 222-6600 Hacker who tapped Free-Net is: global trespasser, 8B. Thursday, November 17, 1994 C0NSTRUCTI(M-rC2i more In addition to a police training building, a police and fire department training tower M0r ha been built on the southwest side ot Hugh MCDlARMID Training tower is newest airport inspection problem i roimcs ii Metro Airport, without inspections or i and Darkine I jfft Planned I '0 Police and firel 1 training tower Existin I 1 runways SSII Romney reflects on foil's Senate run fl 11 G0 Romney, Michigan's i still hyperactive, 87-year-old I II, ex-governor, to see if he'd By Dennis niemiec Free Press Staff Writer First, an Uzi pit. Now, a five-story training tower. Romulus building inspectors say they don't know what to expect next at Metro Airport. Seven months ago, inspectors learned that police were routinely firing high-powered weapons into the tire-lined walls of a secret structure at the airport.

The facility, dubbed the "Uzi pit" by some of the workers who built it, was constructed about a half-mile from a busy runway without building permits and inspections, a violation of state law. Romulus inspectors say they were never notified of the construction. Recently, inspectors got another surprise. This time, county officials have built a five-story tower less than 50 yards from the weapons training site. Airport police and fire fighters climb out windows and scale the wooden rappelling tower with ropes and harnesses during training for emergencies.

The tower was built this summer at a cost of about $20,000, airport director Robert Braun said Wednesday. A Federal Aviation Administra- tion review showed that the training building and the tower pose no hazard to aircraft, according to Len Mizer-owski, FAA airport engineer. But the FAA review does not include a building See TOWER, Page 2B returned from the Police training building with firing range Massachusetts campaign wars and, if so, to find out what happened. Wh)oeee! Forjopeners, George said flatly that Sen. Edward (Ted) Kennedy had resorted to "character assassination" in ordej- to get re-elected.

Theft firmly but politely, he said there vjas no way in a quickie HANK SZERLAG Detroit Free Preess rn'j A rnr i 1 1L 1 J' sm 'X ff0 JL.1 i -i- I interview to plumb the deeper lessons he'd learned about how the Kennedy campaign was further evidence of "the deficiencies of our political process," namely the George Romney iLJLJkJk COBO TO DISPLAY JOE LOUIS1 GLOVE FROM FABLED BOUT WITH MAX SCI1MELING huge, ever-increasing reliance on negativism, cheap, 30-second TV attack aids, monied special interests, a complacent news media, and how we'd sure better make some changes before it's too late. Did fie have constructive ideas? You bet he did. And once his nasty, post-election cold is cleared up was as sick as I've ever he'd be glad to sit down and discuss them at length. Meafiwhile Well; the ex-Michigan governor (1963-1969) naturally had more than a passing personal interest in the Massachusetts outcome. "A right to the body, left hook to the jaw and Schmeling is down.

The fight is over. By a technical knockout, Max Schmeling is beaten in one roooound. Clem McCarthy's call when Joe Louis retained his world heavyweight championship title June 22, 1938. BY BILL L. ROOSE Free Press Staff Writer oe Louis' victory over Germany's Max Schmeling became a symbolic triumph for democ- MMr anH attartAH flip mvth ff Above left: Joe Louis stands over Germany's Max Schmeling after flooring him in their 1938 heavyweight title fight.

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The New York fight drew worldwide attention, and nowhere was it more celebrated than in Louis' hometown of Detroit. Now, one of the boxing gloves Louis used to knock out Schmeling will be displayed at Cobo Hall. The I brag." Louis was 66 when he died April 12, 1981, in Las Vegas, Nev. He won 68 professional fights. Schmeling, 89, retired after his loss to Louis and started a mink farm near Hamburg, Germany, where he still lives.

Schmeling were bronzed and kept by Fred Guinyard, Louis' lifelong friend and personal secretary. This year Guinyard's widow, Marguerite, gave one glove to the city to be displayed at Cobo Hall. The other glove is being stored at Cobo and eventually will be displayed in a second-floor room called the Joe Louis Video Memorial. fight," said Moorer, who lost his title earlier this month to George Foreman. "He did a lot for the sport in his time.

"I always wanted to just set goals for myself in boxing, like he did, and reach them. I think I've done that." Louis' great-grand nephew, Clifford Lee of Westland, was beaming. "The city has done a lot for him and his accomplishments," said Lee, 22. "Events like this make me Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame presented the right-hand glove Wednesday to Mayor Dennis Archer at Cobo. The bronzed glove, in an eight-foot glass case, will be displayed permanently behind Louis' statue there.

Detroit's only other heavyweight champion, Michael Moorer, said the dedication ceremony was like witnessing history. "Like many people today, I wasn't fortunate enough to see him SmS Vat far- TVio K-vvina gloves Joe Louis wore when he knocked out Max Thatjs because Kennedy's victim was Roinney's youngest child, Mitt -Romnejf, 47, a Massachusetts venturelcapitalist and moderate Republican who, in his first try for public office, made national headlines with hislspirited attempt to crack the Kennedy dynasty. In fact, polls had the race de4d even until mid-October when well, Democrat Kennedy won big in the end, 58 to 41 percent. "I'll tell you what basically happened," said George, who lives in Bloomfield Hills. "Kennedy mounted a character assassination strategy the sortlof negative campaigning that the current election process in this country Rewards and encourages." The Kennedy camp doubtless has a different view, but George is entitled to his because he lived with Mitt and his famih for much of the fall and campaigned night and day across the Bay State.

And on Wednesday, he mentioned two negatives in particular that turned the tide a virulent, mid-September attack on Mitt's (and George's) Mormon religion that Kennedy subsequently recanted but not, according to George, until "after it had damaged Mitt, especially with and a concerted, hugely publicized October attack designed to tar Mitt as "a hard-hearted, cruel capitalist when, in actuality, he's nothing pf the kind." These attacks and others, said George, were "absolute falsehoods." But they were effective, he said, because in a madcap, sound-bite-filled campaign there is no way to effectively counter them. "The worst falsehood is one people will believe because k's about a subject they don't know enough about to know whether it's true pr false," he said. Romney, of course, has a good deal of perspective to draw on. Way back in 1929-30 he worked in Washington for U.S. Sen.

David Walsh, ironically a Massachusetts Democrat. In 1967-68, as Michigan's governor; he was courted for and actively dursued running for president before eventually dropping out. In 1970, his wife, Lenore (whose 85th some 53 Romney family members celebrated in Boston; last Wednesday), ran and lost for t(ie U.S. Senate from Michigan and, of course, there was Mitt's campaign this year. Is he flepressed? "Look, I would't trade this experience for anything," he said, crediting the late, great, well-educated Bob Jones with the line about how you learn more from defeat thin from victory.

What was the main thing he learned? That the current political process "isn't adequate" to combat the negativism and special interests that infest it, so changes have to be made. Elaboration to follow. We look forward to it BOXCAR EXPLODES Cleric dies of AIDS; blood work blamed Firefighters battle flames in a chemical-laden boxcar Wednesday in Morrice in Shiawassee County. The boxcar, en route from Chicago to Montreal, burst into flames and exploded, spewing fumes that prompted evacuation of about 30 homes and at least two schools. No one was injured.

CHRISTOPHER HANKINSAssodated Press Schools sue, claim building is unusable BY WYLIE gerdes Free Press Staff Writer The Rev. Msgr. Thaddeus Ozog, longtime pastor of St. Florian Roman Catholic Church in Hamtramck and once a candidate for Detroit auxiliary bishop, died Monday of AIDS, his brother said Wednesday. Msgr.

Ozog, 64, apparently contracted the AIDS virus in September 1981 when he was given a shot of gamma globulin as part of treatment for encephalitis, said Dr. Stanley Ozog of Detroit, his brother and his physician at the time. Dr. Ozog said shots of gamma globulin, a part of the blood rich in antibodies, were given routinely in the early 1980s. Screening for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, was less sophisticated than now, Dr.

Ozog said. The monsignor did not know he had the HIV until 1988, when he tried to donate blood. Dr. Ozog said. The cleric never talked about the disease, Dr.

Ozog said. "He was a very private person, very religious. He accepted it as a cross he had to bear," Dr. Ozog said. Msgr.

Ozog died in Reese at the home of his sister, Ann Ozog. A mass is scheduled for 11 a.m. today at St. Florian. He is to be buried in St.

Hedwig Cemtery. See Monsignor, Page 8B Commerce and Business Administration and the Ethelene Crockett Technical High School at the 455 W. Fort building. It also claims Reed didn't have the permission of Smith Hinchman Grylls, the architectural firm that sold him the building on a land contract, to lease the building to the district. The suit was filed Tuesday in Wayne County Circuit Court The board wants the 10-year lease terminated.

And at a court hearing Friday, the board will seek a restraining order against Reed to prevent him from spending $558,600 the board paid in advance on the lease. "The board wants out of the current lease," said its attorney, Floyd Allen of Floyd Allen Associates. "We feel there has been a breach of lease, and the board wants to recover its advance payment and any other costs associated with the lease." See Lawsuit, Page 6B by Stephen Henderson Free Press Education Writer In an attempt to walk away from an embarrassing $5-million rental agreement for a downtown building unusable as a school, the Detroit Board of Education this week sued the building's owner, Detroit-based Market Makers Inc. The suit claims company President Donald Reed broke the lease when he failed to acquire permits to legally house students from the new High School of Airline explains service cutback, Page 4B. Detroit sets standards for homeless shelters.

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