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The last resort Betty Ford Center is discreet in treating addictions of celebrities, others 1D flurries high 37, low 20 Partly cloudy Tuesday Details on Page 2A Parrish, Phillies to resume contract talks today 1F etwit Jfee $um Monday March 2, 1987 Metro final 200 For home delivery call 222-6500. 0 1987, Detroit Free Press, Inc. ON GUARD FOR 155 YEARS Volume 156, Number 302 Dole9 Laxalt urge Reagan to apologize Overzealous North became reckless President needs to adopt hands-on style, backers say Soundoff. 13A. By AARON EPSTEIN Free Press Washington Staff WASHINGTON To his admirers, Lt.

Col. Oliver Laurence North's disarming grin, piercing blue eyes, patriotic convictions, boyish ebullience and instinct for the dramatic made him the very model of a movie marine and the ideal man to carry out President Reagan's goals abroad. But last, week, a presidential commission confirmed what many of North's colleagues at the White House's National Security Council had long suspected that North lied on occasion, that he was a flatterer and name-dropper whose obsession with secrecy and can-do attitude added up to recklessness. North's actions as the co-ordinator of covert shipments of weapons to Iran and the mastermind of secret military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels have set off the biggest Washington controversy since Watergate. How did this once-obscure Marine Corps officer become a powerful force in U.S.

foreign policy in less than six years? Current and former NSC and White House officials, all of whom requested anonymity, discussed his meteoric rise to power, and many attributed it to a near-perfect match of man and situation. THE MAN: A charming, zealous Christian and anti-See NORTH, Page 13A By OWEN ULLMANN Free Press Washington Staff WASHINGTON Senate Republican leader Robert Dole and presidential adviser Paul Laxalt asserted Sunday that Ronald Reagan must apologize to the public for selling arms to Iran and demonstrate active leadership for the first time if he hopes to save his presidency. Those suggestions represented the bluntest public criticism the president has received from high-ranking supporters and came as he prepared his first major address on the Iran-contra affair in more than three months. "I hope he tells the American people See BACKERS, Page 13A Reagan's appearance of isolation is confusing. 4A.

Regan's days numbered after run-in with Nancy. 4A. McFarlane 'failed 4A. tt i A I-. I I U.S.

to be cautious on missile deal 1 1 ewuuni addicts By BARRY SCHWEID Associated Press WASHINGTON The Reagan administration, taking a cautious approach to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's call for a quick pact to eliminate medium-range missiles in Europe, will insist on safeguards against cheating and the right to build up short-range nuclear weapons there, U.S. officials said Sunday. Even before Gorbachev's call on Saturday for an agreement "without delay," the two sides had a basic understand ing to withdraw all U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range nuclear warheads from Europe. But until now, an agreement appeared to depend on President Reagan trimming his program to develop a space-based shield against Soviet missiles, a concession he refused to make.

Gorbachev withdrew that demand on Saturday, suggesting that "the problem of medium-range missiles in Europe be singled out from the package of issues" on the negotiating table. State takes custody of many at birth By JACK KRESNAK Free Press Staff Writer Ann pulls the kitchen phone away from her ear for a second and disciplines two-year-old Gino: "Gino, don't step on the cheese. Eat it. Don't play with it," she says sternly. Ann is angry not with Gino, but with Gino's mother, who while pregnant with Gino ingested large amounts of heroin, barbiturates and cocaine.

This is indisputable because Gino was born addicted to drugs. He is among a growing number of babies in Michigan, especially Wayne County, who are born drug addicts. Seven out of every 10 state ward children up to two years old in Wayne County are addicted to drugs, said officials with the state Department of Social Services. About 475 children one day old to two years old were placed in foster care last year, officials said. "I think it's fair to say we have noticed a significant increase in drug-related referrals," said Vaira Rozentals, manager of the Wayne County DSS placement services division.

FOR MANY of those babies, especially those whose mothers used heroin or crack cocaine, the first few weeks after birth can be sheer hell. "They should make these mothers who are on cocaine and stuff see these babies. I Gorbachev JOHN COLLIERDetroit Free Press Babies born addicted to drugs require greater amounts of nurturing and patience, say state officials, child welfare workers and foster care parents. As a result, Terry Schroeder, spokesman for the U.S. arms-control delegation, said in Geneva that his side will formally present "treaty language in the near future" aimed at an accord.

Moscow has called a plenary session of the U.S.-Soviet arms talks for today to make a formal presentation of its new offer on medium-range missiles. of nurturing and patience, say state officials, child welfare workers and foster care parents. "They whine a lot and sometimes they're not real good eaters," said Augustine Dunson, intake supervisor at the Children's Aid Society in Detroit, which finds foster homes for DSS wards. "We try to place them with foster parents who have had experience with this type of children." See BABIES, Page 12A started on drugs again." Another hearing will be held this spring in juvenile court to determine if the baby will be put into permanent custody of DSS, she said. The shortage of foster care homes for children who are wards of the state because they have been abandoned, abused, neglected or exploited is aggravated by an increasing number of infants born addicted.

Those babies require greater amounts tell you, it's pathetic," said Ann, a suburban foster care mother who asked that her real name not be used. "Maybe they'd stop and think twice. I could've easily taken this kid's mother and killed her." Gino's mother began sporadically visiting Gino when he was five months old, Ann said. "She was doing well, evidently she was off drugs, and they were looking for a release date (to return the baby to her) like in August (of last year), but then she THE TALKS, which include three separate negotiating teams on medium-range missiles, long-range missiles and space arms, opened in March 1985. The seventh round was due to end Wednesday, but See PACT, Page 13A Gorbachev offer may help Reagan get off the hook on Iran affair.

11 A. Group fighting violence against children gets name SOSAD is writing a constitution and bylaws and is setting up an organizational structure and, at the same time, planning ceremonies and working in the community. The ceremonies include: A 24-hour vigil Ash Wednesday, this See SOSAD, Page 13A CY By JEANNE MAY Free Press Staff Writer The group that held a memorial for slain Detroit children, that group without a name, finally got one Sunday: SOS AD, for Save Our Sons And Daughters. It won on a voice vote of about 100 members meeting at Mercy College. fl False teeth hint at solution to unsolved slaying By JOEL THURTELL Free Press Staff Writer The false teeth Merle Kern found in his barn were a dead giveaway to some strange, and perhaps lethal, mi i doings.

The teeth were less than 40 -i 1 yards from where- on SePl- 22 Jr LmL 970, witnesses say they saw John mm Burns km the woman who I 1 had spurned him. From a hiding place in the barn at the southeast corner of Pontiac Trail and Joy Road near the Oakland-Washtenaw county line, Burns would have had a full view of Eleanor Farver's orange home, a converted one-room schoolhouse. She was feeding her chickens when Burns, a high school janitor in nearby South Lyon, walked up and spoke to her in view of her family and a farmer in a neighboring field, then fired three 12-gauge shotgun blasts into her, witnesses said. Burns was seen briefly afterward in South Lyon. Then he disappeared, confounding authorities who have tried and failed to find out who John Burns was.

See SLAYING, Page 12A Mortgage investors are bitter after being left out in the cold LOTTO 21, 25, 26, 38, 39, 42 SATURDAY 678 and 1778 inside today ANN LANDERS 2D BRIDGE 12F BUSINESS NEWS 1-7C CLASSIFIED ADS 9-1 3C, 7-1 1D COMICS 12-130 CROSSWORD PUZZLE 130 DATELINE MICHIGAN 14D DEATH NOTICES IOC EDITORIALS 8A ENTERTAINMENT 60 FEATURE PAGE 130 HOROSCOPE 12F JUMBLE 8D METRO DATELINE 5A MOVIE GUIDE 13F NAMES FACES 14F OBITUARIES 14C SPORTS 1-Hf TaEVISION 4-5D THE WAY WE LIVE 1-3D ill II By JOEL THURTELL and DAVID EVERETT Free Press Staff Writers Boris Dvorchanec retired General Motors worker, Troy resident, Yugoslav native and bilked investor has 30,000 reasons to be angry. In recent months, Dvorchanec and others who lost their life savings in the Diamond Mortgage scandal had hoped to recover all or part of their money from the bankrupt company. But hope became frustration Friday with a court ruling that he and about 1,600 other unsecured creditors caught in the Diamond nightmare are not entitled to a share of the company's assets. The $30,000 that Boris and Georgia Dvorchanec saved and invested probably is gone forever. "I find out in this country United States of America there is no justice," Dvorchanec said.

"I'm so disappointed in this damn freedom country; there's no freedom for me in this country." LAST WEEK'S ruling by Bankruptcy Judge George Brody is another blow to the Diamond investors who for months have wondered whether they would recover any money. The company ensnared millions of dollars by offering high interest pay- (j See RULING, Page 13A It A portion of the message on the barn's wall believed to be written by Robert Burns. To place a classified ad, call 222-5000, Monday-Friday 8-6, Saturday 9-5 and Sunday 10-4..