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Facing daSbt Woman starts law career with plan to repay $91,650 The Way We Uve, 1J ShocEietr Stock market's surge baffles even the experts Business, ID Shocker EB Fielder's 2 homers propel Tigers past Boston, 11-2 Sports, 1E Strategy TV's Nickelodeon aims at everything kids do Entertainment, 1G Partly cloudy High, low, 58 AND Metro Why Inside The Detroit News 6 1 got a lot of grief in me' Pain-stricken dad buries his 2nd son, killed in a neighborhood where violent death stalks young men said Metro 7 s. if 3 (I Holiday fun Weekend features food, fireworks and fun. Page4C Sports Troubled tribute Some veterans of the Negro Leagues plan to boycott an anniversary tribute at Tiger Stadium. Page IE Outlook Who's out there? An area in Nevada is considered a great place to see space aliens or meet those who think they have. Page IB Didn't buy quick-fix claims, despite pleas of GOP friends By Jon Pepper and John Bebow The Detroit News They had a bottle of champagne on ice in the Lansing offices of Marketing Resource Group last week.

Until Gov. John Engler's press conference, the public relations firm's leaders believed they were about to uncork a wild celebration. For months, all signals from the Engler administration indicated their project, the Detroit Foxtown casino, was a "go." Of all the casino proposals unveiled in the past three years, Foxtown seemed to have the dimensions to win over Engler. The $400-million project would have been one of the largest casino complexes in the country. It would have been competitive with casinos in Windsor, backed by the prominent Harrah's casino company and supported by heavy hitters in the Republican Party.

Engler's decision Tuesday, however, assured that the champagne would remain on ice for Foxtown and all the other casino planners for as long as he is in office. After almost saying yes, the governor said no to Detroit casinos last week because of too many doubts, caused by an overwhelming flood of competing proposals; an unwieldy approval process; displeasure with the economic direction of the city; and a caution from an old confidant. Interviews with Engler, his aides, friends, political opponents and casino promoters indicate Engler's politics were far from usual. He shunned casino Please see ENGLER, 11A Nate Guidry I The Detroit News Young friends carry the coffin of Yuserf Hay ward to the grave site last week. Hayward, 21, was shot to death on June 18 Father's Day near his home in northwest Detroit.

'I'M -i j. mmmmmmmimmmmmmmmmmmmmmiMimm Ft -fjm i A (', I A. 1 A sj 1 i i ..1 June 18, on Father's Day, 300 yards from his house, in a fight with another guy his age. He was one of 10 young men who have been killed in the past two years from the 1 -square-mile northwest side area bounded by Schaefer, Greenfield, Fenkell and Fullerton streets, Scott estimated. Yuserfs brother, Kevin, was shot, too, trying to protect his little brother.

On the day of the funeral, Kevin was still in the hospital. Maybe the casket wasn't the hardest part, Scott said. Maybe that was waiting for Kevin to wake up so he could tell him that Yuserf was dead and that of the three Hayward boys, he was the only one left standing. Or maybe it was the ghosts in the room, all the other young boys he loved and then buried; all the other boys, struck by street violence, on whom he also had closed the casket. Please see GRIEF, 10A By Erin Einhorn The Detroit News The funeral is over.

Most of the cars have pulled away. The yellow and white carnations from the bouquet on the casket already have been plucked by loved ones who wanted something concrete to remember their young friend inside. Melvin Scott lingers above the body of his youngest son. It's his last chance to say goodbye in person. He bows his head slightly, wipes a small trickle of a tear from the edge of his eye; then he walks away.

"The hardest part was when they closed the casket," Scott recalled later. "I knew that was the last time I would see him on Earth. I knew he was gone." Yuserf Hayward died too soon. At age 21, he was shot to death JoeDeVera I The Detroit News Veronica Morris, Hay ward's fiancee, cries on Melvin Scott's shoulder. This drawing of Foxtown shows casino at left as part of a thriving entertainment district.

Executed killer's warning preceded Okla. blast Should teaching door be open for experts? 'l Some state school officials want to let artists, business people and musicians step in as teachers without the formal training now required of educators. The state Board of Education may relax standards to let specialists share their knowledge and life experiences with students. "We're missing out on some good people by giving the education schools a monopoly," said board member Gary Wolfram, a member of the board's Republican majority. Members will review the idea this month.

But many teachers and their union say the profession isn't for untrained newcomers. "You can have skills in certain areas, but no skills in how to reach kids," said Dwight Sieggreen, a middle school science instructor in Northville. Mark Hornbeck Snell before his execution showed that he was "smiling and chuckling" as he watched news reports of the bombing. He received a lethal injection later that day. Snell allegedly mentioned the possible bombing to the Rev.

Robert Millar, a white separatist and pastor in Elohim City, a remote religious community in eastern Oklahoma. Millar couldn't be reached for comment. Two weeks before the Oklahoma bombing, Millar got a call from McVeigh. Millar said someone else answered, and he never spoke to McVeigh. Millar said he didn't know McVeigh.

The Oklahoma pastor was present when Snell was executed for the murder of a Texarkana, pawn shop owner he mistakenly thought was Jewish. 'ill Calling The News Home delivery: 313-222-NEWS Toll-free: 800-395-3300 Stories and news tips: 313-222-2300 Robert H. Giles Editor Publisher: 31 3-222-2588 Fax: 313-223-4389 Detroit News Business 1D Classified 1L Comment 3B N.Y. Times Cfossword 3B Death notices 2C Editorials 2B Horoscope 1L Lottery 2A Metro 1C Newsmakers 2A Obituaries 2C Outlook 1B Sports 1E Stocks 2D Weather 2A 121 si Year, Number 307 1 Copyright, 1995, The Detroit News, Inc. Printed in the USA 4frce Susan Ager Books 5H Comment 1F Crossword Puzzle 2J Jane Daugherty 4F Editorials 2F Entertainment 1G Homes Real Estate 1K Horoscope 5G Jumble 5K Movie Guide 6G Joe Stroud 2F BobTalbert 4F The Way We Live Travel 1H Volume 165, Number 58 1995 Detroit Free Press Inc.

Printed in United States April 19, the same day as the Oklahoma federal building attack. Snell'8 name surfaced in a 1983 plot to blow up a federal building in Oklahoma City, using a truck filled with bombs. A fellow white supremacist testified about the plot in a 1988 trial, but Snell and 13 others were acquitted. The FBI recently obtained Snell's prison file from the maximum security unit at Tucker, Abies said. The file included a visitors list and letters.

The agency secured the file as part of an effort to determine who may have assisted in the plot, say sources familiar with the investigation. Only Timothy McVeigh, 27, and Army buddy Terry Nichols, 40, have been charged in the bombing that killed 168 people. Records kept by guards observing By Allan Lengel The Detroit News In the days leading to the Oklahoma City disaster, a white supremacist on Arkansas' death row predicted a major bombing, according to the Arkansas Department of Corrections. Richard Snell, 64, repeatedly told guards and his spiritual adviser about a pending bombing, said Alan Abies, a department spokesman. "He said there was going to be a huge bombing, and not much more than that," Abies said.

"He didn't give any impression that it would be a domestic bombing or something overseas. Just that there would be some confusion as to who did it and the United States was going to blame someone in the Mideast." The inmate was executed for murder More details on the proposed changes in the state requirements for teacher certification. Page 11 A Superfund shock: Mom-n-pop businesses are getting stuck with the tab A jt ft no one has found a better solution to the underlying issue: Who pays for toxic cleanups, and how much? Rep. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, will be one of the key players in the upcoming effort to reform Superfund, which expires this year if not reauthorized, and he thinks that the law should be changed to reduce the litigation.

"What did my constituent do to Please see CLEANUP, 8A mation and Recycling Inc. "Then I called my attorney." The entanglement of mom-and-pop businesses like Evans in the cleanup of Superfund sites has become an all-too-familiar tale since legislation to force the cleanup of the nation's worst toxic waste dumps was enacted in 1980. But while environmentalists and industrialists, Democrats and Republicans agree that the. Superfund law is overly complicated and over-litigated, the cleanup of a 35-acre Superfund site in Indiana. Most of the 812 contributed small amounts of used motor oil to a site that eventually became so polluted it will take $14.8 million and 30 years to clean up.

"I thought it was a joke at first," said Dave Evans, owner of Dave's Super Service in Three Rivers, who was asked to send $3,662.43 nearly an eighth of his annual income to the lawyers handling the cleanup for Wayne Recla By Laura Parker Detroit News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON More than 120 Michigan business owners got a rude shock recently: letters from a Washington law firm demanding they pay for part of the cleanup of a toxic waste dump or face costly litigation. They are among 812 owners of gas stations, auto repair shops and car dealerships in southern Michigan, Ohio and Indiana tapped to help pay for Nidia Wolf.