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I l.n.il,.,.1,..,..ll..-..lu.-.,JUu..l.,.l Z3 Bb Gets Cheaper Northwest launches 2-for-l fare Business, IE 1 -T-n-ii-liMiMir iin -ir i 1, 1 iumi -Minn i- in 'House That Crack Built' Tigers Rip royals Should a children js book show hard reality? Gullickson wins 6th in row, 8-1 jj The Way We Live, IF Sports, ID Metro Fiiiai Wednesday Mostly sunny. High 62. Low 41. Thursday: Sunny, milder. May 27, 1992 For home delivery call 222-6500 25 cents (50 cents outside 6-county metropolitan area) On Guard For 161 Years Woman feared for her life 'Lord, kt me out of this, 'she prayed Abortion Becomes i -j" divisive V-rt for GOP after man abducted her at cemetery BY wylie Gerdes AND NANCY ANN JEFFREY Free Press Staff Writers A 35-year-old White Lake Township woman abducted at gunpoint Sunday while laying a wreath at her mother's grave said she wakes up with nightmares of her ordeal and fears her attacker will come back to "finish the job." "It's continually on my mind; it just keeps replaying itself," the woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said Tuesday.

"When I'm in bed, I'll reach Roseville, who disappeared on Oct. 11 from a Romulus Holiday Inn. Her body was found in Van Buren Township about two weeks later. She had been shot. Late Tuesday, police were searching a northwest Detroit home where Williams had been living.

Williams faces charges including See ABDUCTION, Page 2A Abducted Bellevue woman found unhurt in trunk. Story, 3B. Leslie Williams also is being investigated in other cases. HOMEARAMA SELLS DETROIT '4 I llci 11 an -e II mil iff I ii ii in li mi, irtw.a. r-H.

')'-' Jt juih i in the Oakland County Jail on $1 million bond. Police said Williams also is being investigated in the disappearance of other area women, including Cynthia Jones, 15, from a Milford park on Jan. 4, and the murder of Cheryl Sanders of 1 3 4 PATRICIA BECKDetroit Free Press Ann Landers Bookmarks Bridge Business Classified Index Comics Crossword Puzzle Dateline Michigan Death Notices Editorials Entertainment Feature Page Food Horoscope Jumble Lottery Movie Guide Names Faces News Summary Obituaries Sports Stock Markets Television The Way We Live Weather Your Money 2F 2F 7F IE SC 6F 6F 2B 2B 8A 3F 5F 1C 5F 6C 2A 5B 8F 2A 2B ID 3E 3F IF 7F 3E Volume 162, Number 20 1992 Detroit Free Press Inc. out just to see that my husband's there. I'm afraid to stay alone.

I'm like a 35-year-old baby." Leslie Williams, 39, was arrested and charged in the abduction. Williams, who was on parole for a 1983 attempted kidnapping and assault, is being held wmttwm 'mil 'ii fcnw leave in style 'Aii-our tab Alaric Jackson has a big senior-year budget: Trip to Florida and the Bahamas $800 Prom and next-day trip to Cedar Point $800 Graduation pictures $230 Class dues $125 New suit $530 Announcements $50 Total $2,535 there. Jackson spent $230 on photos showing him in four outfits, from a shorts set to traditional cap and gown. He paid $125 in class dues to cover costs of his yearbook, cap and gown and other expenses. And, of course, to strut across the stage at Chene Park on See GRADUATION, Page 6A it i nl ii HI mil.

I j-f- I Clash dominates pbtform hearing BY ROBERT S. BOYD Free Press Washington Staff SALT LAKE CITY Republican supporters and opponents of abortion rights clashed passionately over the divisive issue Tuesday, giving President George Bush another headache to accompany his skidding popularity polls, In news conferences, public rallies and hotly worded statements to a Republican Platform Committee hearing on family issues, the warring factions rejected any hint of compromise. They called each other liars, hypocrites and extremists and accused one another of hurting the party and the president's '92 CAMPAIGN chances of re-election in November. Abortion-rights advocates vowed to carry the battle to the Republican 1. National Convention in Houston in August in an effort to drop or soften the strict antiabortion plank in the 1988 platform.

They said that if they lose there, as they admit they probably will, their goal would be to nominate a pro-choice Republican for president in 1996. "We're in this for the long haul," said Mary Dent Crisp, a former national Republican co-chairwoman who now heads the National Republican Coalition for Choice. "We will never give up." Antiabortion forces led by Phyllis Schlafly, chairwoman of the Republican National Coalition for Life, countered that the party must not water down its abortion plank "because we have not only the right position, but the winning position." She warned the president and other party leaders not to waffle on abortion, saying voters "will not stand for President Bush saying he is personally pro-life while the platform is mushed up to appease the same crowd that runs the Democratic Party." Tuesday's abortion debate, a preview of what promises to be the most contentious issue at the August convention, had been scheduled to take only one hour of an all-day platform hearing on social issues. Witnesses urged reforms in health care, welfare, education and the legal system. There were traditional Republican calls for upholding family values See ABORTION, Page 2A High school BY EBONYA WASHINGTON Free Press Staff Writer What does it take to finish high school these days? Hard work, motivation, supportive parents and teachers and two to three grand.

That is, if you're like Alaric Jackson, who says he will have spent more than $2,500 to graduate in style from Detroit's Renaissance High School. "But being a senior is a one-time thing. Why not go all out?" he said. Going all out is transforming high school graduation from a rite of passage to a rite of the privileged. First, the senior trip, usually over spring break.

Jackson, 18, and some of his classmates spent four days in Florida and took a one-day cruise to the Bahamas. The trip was planned outside of school; the Detroit public school system does not sanction such trips. Total cost: $800. Then there is the June 5 prom at the St. Regis Hotel.

Tickets for Jackson and his date will cost $70. Plus he needs to rent a tux and wants to rent a Ml A't mvml Above: A worker on Tuesday puts finishing touches on the Phoenix, part of Detroit Homearama. In the background are the smokestacks of Detroit Edison's Conner Creek power plant. Right: More dwellings, christened the Coventry, left, the Essex, and the Kingsway, line a street in Victoria Park on the city's east side. Next month, the publicis invited to view homes in Detroit's first new single-family subdivision in 30 years.

Photostory, Page 8F. Gamble pays off for devebpers By Judy Rose Free Press Homes Editor Detroit Homearama is an event people said could never happen, filling a need people said didn't exist. They were proved wrong on both counts. The financial, esthetic and human success of Homearama, plus the new Victoria Park subdivision that encompasses it, should finally nail down a point that used to be a hard sell in the city: Detroit has a long pent-up need for good middle-priced houses that are new. "If you build it, they will come," said Anthony Adams, who worked on the east side project for the mayor's office.

So they have. Homearama doesn't open to the public until June 4, but most of the 25 houses already are sold, as are two-thirds of the 87 houses that will be built this year in Phase One. What's more, Standard Federal Bank has pre-approved mortgages for 200 more buyers who are standing by for Phase Two, which will bring the total number of lots to 256. And several developers lured by $1 lots are saying they will keep building in the city and without the kind of city subsidy that made Victoria Park possible. Contrast this to a 1990 Homearama in Brighton that showed 10 houses from $350,000 to $750,000.

Most sat unsold for months, even a year after Homearama closed, forcing some builders into bankruptcy. Detroit Homearama's 25 houses by 13 builders are priced from $80,000 to $145,000. They sit in Victoria Park, which could be any upscale suburban subdivision. It has curving streets, cul-de-sacs, underground utilities, new landscaping and suburban-size lots wide enough to allow attached two-car garages. All houses are freestanding; all See HOMEARAMA, Page 6A Johnathan Macon with his 5-month-old daughter, Taryn.

promising Future The birth of Johnathan Macon's daughter has focused the goals of the 26-year-old Detroiter. He watches spending to put his child first. "I know exactly what my priorities are now," he says. He's a member of the Free Press confidence panel. Story, Page IF.

1 Ch ei: an after-prom party if his parents approve and a trip to Cedar, Point the next day will bring total prom-related costs to $800. The graduation tab doesn't stop E.il7WtfWTn.SiliTii"'W mi. seniors spend plenty to PAUUNE LUBENSDetrort free Press Detroit Renaissance High senior Alaric Jackson and mother Deborah Jackson know invitations and tassels are only a small portion of the costs. 1 car. Then there's dinner at a nice testaurant before the prom.

Dinner is served at the prom, but students say it's not considered cool to eat there. Renting a hotel room with friends for.