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10D DETROIT FREE PRESS MONDAY, MAY 6, 1996 PC 7 v4otfg wtf Zr offer parents in the sfate 5 Families Erst program, ZfeAD cofpfe benefits from LESSONS IN LOVE Akeisha, 4, waits for her mom, Veronica Carter, to finish ironing her jeans. The Families First program stresses child safety, so Carter had told Akeisha to stay away from the hot iron. 7" Left: Veronica Carter listens to daughter Shandrika, 6. Social worker Frances Bowen, who visits the family regularly, watches. Below: Akeisha eats lunch with her father, Shannon Smith, close by.

iv ISiSiiiiy wm f'l'iiv if 1 i i "You talk to kids the way you would want someone to talk to you." VERONICA CARTER j1 lLiiuinm.igiiiiju)ii!l!fflJli.i'll' 4 Liuj.ii i. i ii 1 viwiJmmm If! 1 Veronica Carter, right, kisses Shannon Smith, who moved to Detroit two months ago to be with the family. The two met as teenagers in their hometown of Hattiesburg, Miss. Social worker Frances Bowen lets Shandrika carry toilet paper during a trip to the supermarket with Veronica Carter, left. Assessing household needs is part of die Families First program.

PHOTOS BY PAULINE LUBENS STORY ON PAGE 1A BRIEFLY Was the Unabomber a Don Quixote? uirky ex-Detroit novelist Joyce Carol Oates says the following about Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski, in the New York Observer: "I think of him as a misguided, very quixotic romantic figure of another era. It's not that I'm sympathetic. I just feel I understand him." Well, start writing, JCO the first book on Kaczynski arrived in stores late last week. "Mad Genius: The Odyssey, Pursuit and -Capture of the Unabomber Suspect" i was written by a Time mag team of 'V' Nancy Gibbs, Lance Morrow, Richard Lacayo and David Van Biema. A Bantam book written by ex- Honored: Scandinavian activist Rigmor Cuolahan, African American Matel Dawson, Michigan Opera Theatre chief David DiChiera, Compuware chief Peter Karmanos, Jewish leader Rabbi Charles Rosenzweig and late Lebanese leader William H.

Schervish by International Heritage Hall of Fame, 11 a.m. May 19 at the Detroit Athletic Club. Tickets Can 1-313-871-8600, 9-5 weekdays. Scheduled: Pop artist Robert Williams' one-man show at the Pop Gallery, 515 S. Lafayette, Suite in Royal Oak starting May 17.

Selected: The Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit to be the U.S. and North American representative at the 1996 Festival of Children's Theatre in Copenhagen, Sept. 27-Oct. 5. On sale: "Michigan Press Women: Today and Yesterday." It's available by mail for $14.95 (plus $1.50 for handling; 50 cents each additional book) from Michigan Press Women's Book Fund, Willah Weddon, 4891 Dexter Trail, Stockbridge, Mich.

49285. Appointed: Free Press Publisher Heath Meriwether to the board of the Michigan Press Association. Compiled by John Smyntek from stqff and wire reports Dole's getting 35 percent of the women's vote and he acts like he wants 15 You can't fire a woman because of who she's married to. You ever see how good looking my wife is and how ugly I am? Who do you think is going to be giving the secrets up, me or her?" ATTENTION JFK conspiracy freaks! Currently being shopped about is a book proposal by Gen. Leonid Shebarshin, the last KGB chief and a 33-year vet of spying.

His collaborator is Joseph Bosco. The book by Shebarshin, who pulled Aldrich Ames' strings, reportedly throws new light on the 1963 Kennedy assassination. The Hottest new twosome in Hollywood? TVs "Superman" Dean Cain and movie star and Quincy Jones' ex, Nastassja Kinski. ACTOR James Stacy tells People magazine his conviction and six-year prison term for molesting an 11-year-old girl in California "makes me like a pedophile." Insisting that touching the child's genitals wasn't molestation, Stacy told People: "She wanted to learn acupressure." t2 FBI agent John Douglas was Joyce Carol Oates: Where was Sancho Panza? come." By trial's end, maybe? PETE TOWNSHEND is dickering with putting on his latest theater project, "Psychoderelict," at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival instead of "Tommy" or "Quadrophenia." He says his newest is about "growing old and realizing that some of the dreams you had when you were young aren't ever going to be realized." Oh, OK. JAMES CAMHIE, oh the split between the Dole campaign and his wife Mary Matalin: "She quit (CNBC) to volunteer over there and some Republicans said, 'Well, if she works for Dole, she will tell her husband all the And the Dole people fired her.

And I said, 'You know, DAVID JAMESWamer Bros. supposed to be nrst and was finished 13 days after Kaczynski's April 3 arrest but the G-men had the book 'iTj, tied up for its approval. Noted I Douglas' co-author Mark Olshaken '4 "If this is the FBI's idea of expediency, then I can see why it took them 18 years to catch the Unabomber." An FBI spokeswoman 4 said it was the agency's thought it had -1 30 days to review the book. "We're grinding on," she said. "I really I couldn't say when (approval) will NOT IN KAJiSAS Anybody who thought the fortrKming movie "Twister" has a remake of "The Wizard of Oz" tornado scene just needs to look at this picture of the film's stars Helen Hunt and BUI Paxton.

It's not the Yellow Brick Road that has them worried. 1 as -7.