Casa Grande Dispatch (Newspaper) - November 1, 1994, Casa Grande, Arizona Area News State Sports CG Board Candidates Profiled p 6 Proposition 300 Addresses Taking of Property p is j Pair Paces CG State Swim Entrants P 9 Final Countys Daily Newspaper 43004434110 INC MICROPROCESSING 2627 E YANDELL DR PASO TX 79903 PATCH CASA GRANDE ARIZONA 85222 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 1 1994 NO 257 VOL 83 83rd Year 35C per copy Powerboat Pollution Targeted WASHINGTON AP Blue skies overhead sleek power boat skims the lake skiers tak ing in the summers beauty But unnoticed the boats engines also are spewing pollution 3 pounds or more an hour into the air After cars and trucks recre boaters are a major source of pollu tion says the Environmental Protection Agency which on Monday announced proposed requirements aimed at turning that around The EPA said beginning in 1998 it will require marine en gine manufacturers to sell boat engines and motors for water skis and sleds The new pollution controls will add 10 percent to 15 percent to the price of a boat engine the EPA estimated but said boat ers will save money from a 30 percent increase in fuel econo my and improved performance The proposal which is expect ed to be final in about a year calls for cutting hydrocarbon emissions from marine engines by 75 percent by the year 2006 and also cutting nitrogen oxide pollution by about a third Both pollutants are precursors of smog A long lead time is being pro posed to avoid requiring boat owners to scrap their dirtier en gines The EPA estimates it could take 20 years or more to replace all the currently used Powerboat page 3 Spooky Night at ONeil Park Staff Photos by Oscar Perez CLOWNS ABOVE line up to be judged during the 21 st An Casa Grande Halloween Carnival Below Jessica Pratt won the Best Witch con test The Scavo family photo at left clockwise from top Joe Carol Shelby and Dus tin took second in Best Cos Family The carnival was sponsored by Casa Grande Parks and Recrea tion the Kiwanis Club and Masonic Lodge Life on Run Reportedly Not Very Glamorous ROME AP With his movie star looks and American companion Ferdinando Mach Di Palm stein seemed like the most glamorous of the fugitives in Italys nearly threeyear corruption scandal Now that investigators have tracked him down af ter an 18month search it appears life on the run wasnt so fascinating after all Di 47 faced five Italian arrest warrants when he was arrested in Paris on Sunday while buy ing Italian newspapers at a kiosk He was indicted Oct 14 with 43 others for the alleged diversion of millions of dollars in Third World aid for Socialist Party coffers and personal use A Milanese of Swiss origin Di was a protege of former Socialist Premier Bettino Craxi and reportedly a key middle man in nailing down contracts and banking the proceeds in secret ac counts around the world But for all the glamour he was reportedly stay ing in the apartment of an Italian actress in Paris a picture has emerged that life as a fugitive was one of betrayal and constant movement He changed hideouts every 20 to 30 the newspaper La Stampa today quoted an Italian police official in Paris as saying He barely escaped other traps set for him accord ing to accounts over the last several months and was said to have been living on yachts in international waters beyond the reach of Italian law Yes he knew many important said Tracy Roberts his American companion reached by La Stampa at their home in But who wants to help a man in difficulty like him More likely they drop him as in fact theyve Di arrest leaves several key figures still missing in the probes that have implicated more than politicians and brought down the former political establishment Craxi lives in at his villa in Tunisia claiming the corruption charges against him are a political vendetta Research Group Gives Trade Pact a B Cuts Barriers To Exports By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON The world trade agreement before Congress deserves a for reducing barriers to exports and hid den costs to American consumers a Washington research group said today The Institute for Economics estimated the trade accord negotiated under the aus pices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade should nar row Americas trade deficit by billion by the year 2000 In a report today the institute estimated that merchandise exports will billion higher that year and imports into the United States will be billion higher because of the GATT tariff cuts Taken together the higher ex ports and lower cost to consumers and businesses of imports will translate into a total gain to the economy of billion by the year 2004 a nearly 1 percent increase That is a tremendous achieve said Jeffrey Schott one of the authors of the new study He said the GATT agreement would produce 10 times the benefi cial effects for the economy as last years North American Free Trade Agreement that creat ed a free trade zone among the United States Mexico and Canada The institutes new book The Uruguay Round An Assess is certain to be used by supporters seeking to rally votes Congress takes up the ac cord in a lameduck session after the November elections In general it produces compa rable although somewhat lower estimates than studies done by GATT itself and the Organization of Economic Coop and Development The institute projected the job increases from GATT by the year 2000 at a modest a num ber the economy is capable of adding in a single month However the institute said that its report undoubtedly Trade page 3 John Paul II Changing College of Cardinals Face By VICTOR L SIMPSON Associated Press Writer VATICAN CITY The Italian influence has waned Thats the major effect of Pope Tohn Paul IIs of 30 new cardinals from 24 countries Sun day The Pontiff the first pope in 455 years has completed a task begun in the 1960s making the College of Car dinals a truly international body A record 62 countries are now represented Although the Italians remain the largest group they will number only 19 among the 120 when the new cardinals are for mally elevated on Nov 26 Ameri cans will comprise the second largest group at 10 It will therefore be ever less likely to consider a future Italian concluded the Vatican cor respondent of the Rome per J Messaggero In naming cardinals for the sixth time in his 16year papacy John Paul has body that will guide the church into the next century and elect the next pope He has appointed 100 of the 120 red hats under age 80 who Gingrich Blamed for Reform Loss WASHINGTON AP Con gress should try to pass lobbying reform again when it convenes briefly in November says a Dem ocrat who accuses House Republi can leader Newt Gingrich of sabo taging the legislation last time around The entire premise on which the Republicans based their oppo sition was Rep John Bry ant said at a news con ference Monday His charges are Lobbying page 3 Inside are the only cardinals eligible to vote for a pope The pope has apparently set the stage for electing a likeminded conservative who would keep up tion abortion and women priests positions that are alienating many liberal Catholics With the 74yearold pontiff showing signs of frailty and poor health Vatican officials have be gun openly speculating on possi ble successors Baltimore Detroit The Popes list of new cardinals includes the archbishops of Balti more and Detroit and the first cardinals from Sarajevo and two former East bloc states Europe still remains the domi nant presence among the electors in the College of Cardinals but European members have slipped below a majority The Pontiff followed the exam ple of Pope Paul VI who led the church from 196378 expanded representation in the college to 31 countries Still he made the choices his own A cleric who stood up to Com in his native Poland be fore the Soviet empire collapsed clearly to re ward others who had taken risks Among those named by the pope were a 91yearold Albanian priest imprisoned for 37 years under the regime of Enver Hoxha an arch bishop from Belarus who spent 10 years in Soviet prison camps and the archbishop of Prague who was harassed by Czech police un der Communism The pope also was sending a support for Christians living under Communist rule by naming cardinals from Cuba and Vietnam and for the besieged people in Sarajevo by his appoint ment of Archbishop Vinko at 49 the youngest of the group This nomination is in fact an appreciation for all those priests and nuns for all the people of God forced to live through the difficult trials of the said in an interview broadcast Monday by Vatican Radio County and Dear For the National Televisi Valley School Board Candidates To Appear at CG Forums H Candidate Profiles P 6 Staff Reports Casa Grandes school board candidates will have the oppor to discuss their views on education this week with a pair of forums The four candidates for the Casa Grande Elementary School District board Jim Hartdegen Omar Mejia Laura Keeton Mims and Donna Zimmerman are to meet Wednesday at 7 at Mes quite Elementary School Darcy Dixon a Pinal County Cooperative Extension agent will moderate the forum which will be sponsored by the Casa Grande Elementary Edu cation Association Members of the public are invited to attend and will be given the opportunity to ask questions The six candidates vying for three spots on the Casa Grande Union High School board Tim Alderson Barbara Crop per Dora E Duarte Cecil Kinser Larry Lenderman and Chuck Walton have been in to appear Thursday at 7 in the schools television studio in the Building The forum sponsored by the Casa Grande Education Asso will be televised live on Dimension Cables Channel 18 Questions for the candidates can be called in during the fo rum to 8366050 Brett Eisele a real estate broker and former Casa Gran de radio station owner will moderate the forum Board President Asks Probe By MARCUS LEDDY Staff Writer The president of the Central Ari zona College board has com about the handling of a re quest for an agenda item by the Pinal County Attorneys Office Gladys Christensen of Coolidge who faces an election challenge next week from former Coolidge Mayor and retired college admin William Flores asked County Attorney Gilbert Figueroa to investigate possible disparities in the definition of acceptable wording for agenda items The request was made in a letter delivered Mon day afternoon to Figueroas office in Florence by Christensen and also involves conduct of the col leges president John J Klein Christensen said the wording of CAC page 3
