Daily Herald (Newspaper) - July 15, 1991, Chicago, Illinois Sox pound make trade 4 1 V L Syria backs peace conference plans PageS 8 PADDOCK PUBLICATIONS July 6 Sections 35 Cents WEATHER cool Cool temperatures continue to hover about the area with highs only in the 80s under sunny skies Tonight will be cloudy with temperatures in the 60s SUBURBAN NEWS Group dispute Disabled advocates wage a ditch effort to convince ton Heights trustees to abolish restrictions on group homes for the disabled Parental veto power District 214 teachers who plan to discuss potentially sial issues or materials in their classrooms must have prior proval Page 3 INSIDE r Computer war The National Park Service is making a computerized list of Civil War making it easier for people to trace their ancestors JACK MABLEY Pistons In 90 the basketball son will be in full and a great deal of attention will focus on the Chicago Pistons rivalry But is this rivalry just a good bad cop routine set up for Some think so Back Page SHOWCASE Early years j Hersey High School alum Keith who stars in CBS new summer series says that having a reer out East doesn't keep him from coming back home tion Page 3 BUSINESS Delta flies high Delta Air Lines has been far from unscathed by the airline industry's yet it is ing hundreds of new seeking new interna tional routes and trying to a major hub in Taiwan Section Page 6 Yugo sales U.S sales of maligned Yugo cars may be unaffected by the civil unrest in but not by constant jokes Section Page 6 INDEX Business -3 2 SUBURBAN LIVING Give peace a if it were up to the cast of Peace all the world would join hands and set its differences aside Jan the group's director and has faith that if anyone can bring about that it's children Section 2 Driving toward a solution Officials look to smart weapons to help win war on traffic BY JOHN CARPENTER Daily Herald Staff Writer Transportation Secretary Sam Skinner came to Schaumburg last week to promote the experiment in the Northwest Suburbs Daily Herald Boucher Anyone looking for a symbol of transportation planning these days need look no further than the recent image of United States Secretary of Transportation Samuel K Skinner strapped into a com- talking Oldsmobile in Schaumburg Frustrated with constantly ing traffic tion policy while far from abandoning traditional solutions like wider highways and mass are looking more to new gies some might call them gadgets to help clear the roads clear that there isn't enough money to solve all of these Illinois Secretary of Trans- Kirk Brown said got to consider other These include everything from un- tried ideas to fresh twists on old like car pool lanes on cago expressways The bottom Brown and others is that limitations on spending and available as well as rule out many new road construction projects That means moving a greater number of people around without making much more room for them And in suburban where ple for the most part refuse to use public transportation unless they are heading in or out of the that take some imagination Take the for the program Skinner unveiled to F See CONGESTION on Page 4 France j oin in warning Iraq renewed force Associated Press France dent Bush and French President Francois Mitterrand on Sunday their willingness to renew force if Iraq fails to disclose and then destroy its nuclear ons capabilities Baghdad's nuclear program is a of alarm all over the Bush said Mitterrand said military action would be if Baghdad ued development of nuclear weapons or threatened segments of its lation are ready if it's he said before Bush arrived from the United States Bush said he hadn't heard rand's statement before being asked by a but are together in the way we are looking at this situation in the situation being Saddam Hussein's tion of lying and trying to go foward with some nuclear He said he had evidence that Iraq has yet to fully and truthfully de- scribe its nuclear resources He did not elaborate Francois Mitterrand greets President Bush Sunday Associated Press Photo Progress charted on START talks n Iraq offers new list of nuclear program Page 3 The along with economic aid to the old Communist an afternoon of discussions as the two leaders met in advance of this week's economic meetings in London The two men spoke as Iraq was de- livering a new of its nuclear to United Nations inspectors and Bush spoke disparagingly of pre- vious versions which proved to be Mitterrand's summer chateau in 60 miles outside was the first stop of a long European visit for who left immediately afterward for London The three-day economic beginning is expected to focus in large measure on Soviet President Mikhail plea for economic sistance for his battered economy The Soviet president will have lunch privately with Bush on Wednesday before holding talks with all seven summit leaders Mitterrand said it is not likely that a Western aid proposal will be by summit's end on Wednesday The two presidents had a different emphasis when asked about with Mitterrand saying he vored for the Soviet leader to succeed in reform and and Bush saying this was no time for a Japanese spokesman Taizo abe said from London his ment would go along with any deci- sion by the summit to threaten a new attack Mitterrand was the last of the western leaders to agree to use force to oust Iraq's army from Kuwait earlier in the yet his statement on use of force to destroy a nuclear program went beyond what Bush had to say China braces against deadly flooding stands atop a submerged bus in Hefel as a boatful of residents passes Workers dikes in China as runoff from heavy rains threatened lowland refugee camps Wfc i Seepages Associate s t Despite friends rescue Des Plaines teen feared drowned REBECCA CARR Daily Herald Staff Writer A swim in some of the strongest currents of Lake Michigan took a tragic turn Sunday with the strong probability that a youth officials said A rescue crew searched for year-old Ryan of Des from just after 3 to p.m The search for the Maine East High School senior was expected to re- sume at daybreak today Torf was one of six youths who climbed a steel chain fence at the Commonwealth Edison plant in Waukegan for an afternoon police said A local fisherman and his daughter reported that Torf and Josh also of Des jumped into the water on the north side of the apparently ignoring When it appeared Cole and Torf were being pulled under by the three of the other youths jumped in to rescue them but could not defy the said Cole and Michael of Des were taken to Victory pital in Waukegan and released The others included Conrad and David of Des and Steve of Morton Grove is probably no hope that he is said Capt Thomas Gardner of the Lake County Sheriff Emergency Services and er of its marine base ter one hour in cold waters there isn't much and got sucked said who tried to rescue the pair Mike and I tried to pull Steve and I told them to get in We had to fight the rent Josh was just laying on his back out The Waukegan rescue the Lake County Sheriffs Marine Unit and the U.S Coast Guard searched the shore and waters with the ance of helicopters and the Lake County Mutual Aid System The pier is known in the area to be a dangerous place to but it is a place where youths tend to Gardner said Lust year there were two he said t Lri Battles break Yugoslav cease-fire C7 Reuters Yugoslavia Serbs fought Croatian police with machine grenades and mortars in the rebel republic of Croatia killing one policeman and wounding 10 Fighting raged most of the day on the eve of the arrival of the first of 50 European Community observers due in Croatia Monday to monitor the cease-fire The truce has been re- Yugoslavia's warring to it July 7 at dawn when armed bands of Serbian nationalists laid siege to two police stations and forced the evacuation of four entire villages around 250 miles west of police said A Reuter reporter in Petrinja said a column of six Yugoslav army tanks was seen near the four villages and seven armored vehicles and 20 vans carrying hundreds of police perform the changing off the guard Sunday in front of the Croatian parliament in Zagreb Associated Press Photo were heading for the flashpoints Gunfire and explosions were heard a real battle It's a a police spokesman said Police later retook the four es from the Serbian guerrillas trucks and civilian cars ried Croatian police forces up the winding valley road to the villages A counterattack was launched and the guerrillas fled back to the an areas A police officer was killed sitting in his patrol car and four were in- jured when heavily armed Serbs stormed the police station in near Petrinja Six more were ed in the clashes in the besieged the spokesman said The fighting renewed fears of civil war in a Balkan tion created in 1918 but divided by bitter feuds among nationalities that threaten to tear it apart Tensions rose over the weekend ter the collective Yugoslav cy approved the truce brokered by the EC July 7 but immediately dered the republics to demobilize their paramilitary forces and hand in their weapons The violence has increased since Croatia and the richest re- declared independence June 25 The federal army stormed through Slovenia two days but met dogged resistance in clashes that killed 64 people to budget with agreement on tax cap Daily Herald State Government Editor SPRINGFIELD ban property tax relief plan agreed to this weekend by legislators came despite in- tense lobbying by local ments and school districts that fear tax reform will eventually mean cuts in services and school legislators said Sunday seen that on every sue of tax they're going to complain about said House Republican Leader Lee A Daniels of Elmhurst Even though the tax relief sue apparently has been there is still no final ment on other major issues holding up final approval of a state although all sides said one is close Lawmakers will meet today in the 15th straight day of over- time session and hope to have a budget agreement this week One completed part of that nal agreement is expected to be a property tax relief plan that puts a 5 percent cap on the growth in property tax tions of many governments in DuPage and Lake counties Republican are taking some heat from Cook County lawmakers be- cause the cap would not be plied in suburban Cook you're the lead you're liable to get bit in the rear end I'm kind of used to said Senate GOP Leader James Philip of Wood who crafted part of the plan Instead of a Cook County taxpayers face a one-year freeze in their tax bills due to a change the calculation of bills All park districts and have strenuously op- posed the idea of caps because a limitation will cost them ture funding increases needed to keep pace with the rising costs of providing services would think in a year or everyone will be back and say this didn't said Rita A executive director of the Northwest Municipal Con- ference v
