Hawk Eye (Newspaper) - February 13, 1992, Burlington, Iowa Rooms filling up at motels 3A Third medal for U.S. IB Thursday February 13, 1992 The Hawk Eye Forecast A couple of wet and cold days are in the Keep the umbrellas Page 2A Iowa's Oldest Newspaper 54th year 184 800 Main St. - Iowa 52601 - 754-8461 44 pages - 50 cents staffers hopeful in primary 6y Roy S. Gutterman Special to The Hawk Eye - Sen. Tom strong showing at home has some stafT members here brimming with hope of a repeat We've got I think 'a real nice bump out of the Iowa said Barry D. press Although the four other major candidates bypassed Piatt said 78 Campaign to help Harkin in Story on page percent showing still everyone on their sending a powerful message to New New Hampshire is a lot like most other states and no state is going to be told how to vote by New Hampshire Democratic Committee's executive Russell J. said his state's voters may not be by the caucus Asked about the impact on the nation's first Verney said it will have impact on New Hampshire's primary is he citing Missouri Rep. Richard 1988 Iowa victory but third place finish in New As Harkin campaigned Wednesday in Portsmouth and his campaign staff boasted about his recent jump in the is very observable and Piatt The most recent Boston poll showed Harkin jumping five points to 12 percent of about 400 likely cratic According to the poll conducted Monday and former U.S. Sen. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts gained 26 percent of the knocking Arkansas Gov. Clinton into the second position with 20 U.S. Sen. Bob Kerry of Nebraska had 9 percent while former California Gov. Jerry Brown had 6 New York Gov. Mario who is not on the ballot but is generating support through a write-in had 6 Three percent of those polled would vote for while 18 percent remain Verney played down the poll's influence on other saying New Hampshire voters generally do not decide on their choice until they Primary - Please turn to page 10A Breakfast stop U.S. Sen. Charles selects his breakfast from the buffet at The Holiday with Kiwanis members this Tony Hawk Eye Grassley addressed the club and then fielded questions during his stop in Soviet aid By Ron Parker The Hawk Eye Plans to extend more aid to troubled countries in the former Soviet Union will benefit American farmers and help prevent a return to the Cold U.S. Sen. Charles said here Grassley said failure to help Russia and other commonwealths during these winter months could result in food riots and resulting in a renewal of tension with the United ought to do Grassley referring to a proposal to extend another million in credits to mostly to buy U.S. The move would help move the country toward a free he in our best he said during an interview after speaking to the Early Risers Kiwanis Club of West Burlington at Holiday in United States has pledged a total of about billion to help the but most of it is in the form of to buy U.S. Grassley said he hopes credits will never cost taxpayers because it will help 65 million Russians hopefully to pay off the credits and buy more American In a American lift started earlier this week that includes mainly medicine and food left over from the Persian Gulf The million airlift consists of 64 flights to 23 cities in the 12 nations that replaced the Soviet Russian officials said the humanitarian airlift should help stabilize food Grassley said he has doesn't doubt predictions by Russian President Boris Yeltsin and others about possible widespread starvation in the former Soviet republics this think we ought to consider it he On other Grassley doesn't consider his re-election to be a sure bet this even though he has several million dollars in his campaign fund and is without a well-known Democratic Grassley doesn't view himself to he Grassley said any one incumbent who believes he can't be beaten should look at the 1990 defeat of Republican U.S. Sen. Rudy by a little-known college Paul 'A month before the was 20 ahead in the he you're seeing me raising a lot of be the ' V U.S. Senate should continue efforts to find out who leaked confidential of sexual harassment last fall during Clarence Supreme Court nomination a of the Senate Judiciary have enough respect for the First to the U.S. Constitution to not expect the two reporters who broke the story to reveal their Grassley said he hadn't decided what the Senate should do if the two Nina Totenberg of National Public Radio and Timothy Phelps of Newsday of Long refuse to disclose their sources of U S West to cut pay refunds DES MOINES - Two-thirds of the telephone customers in Iowa will share in a million a year rate cut negotiated between U S West Communications and the office of the consumer Residential customers of U S West would get a refund and see their telephone bills cut by to a month under the agreement announced if it is approved by the Iowa Utilities It should also result in lower long distance are pleased that we have been able to reach a settlement of this case that provides for substantial general reductions in local exchange rates and in rates for other U S West said Consumer Advocate James hope in some small these rate reductions will help lowans cope with difficult economic U S formerly Northwestern Bell Telephone is the largest telephone company in providing local service to about 750,000 customers in Des Council Sioux Cedar Dubuque and many smaller communities throughout the Most residential customers in Iowa served by U S West will receive a refund of about plus interest and future bills will drop between and a month if the agreement is approved by the Utilities Maret U S West serves about two-thirds of Iowa telephone Phone - Please turn to page IDA Truly forced out as chief WASHINGTON - A search is on for a new NASA administrator following the forced resignation of Richard the former astronaut who Truly guided the agency's return to flight after the 1986 Challenger President Bush announced resignation praising his leadership and steady in rebuilding the space shuttle But Truly said he was asked to it wasn't what I had but it's American history for he said in an a situation where the president decided to make a I've always said I served at the pleasure of the Neither Truly nor the White House would say who the leading contenders were for the The agency has been without a deputy administrator since Thompson left in the fall for personal Truly was summoned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1986 from his post as a vice admiral in charge of the Naval Space The Challenger had exploded less than a month killing For three he headed the agency's effort to restore the shuttle and its faulty booster rockets to then Truly - Please turn to page 10A was Cleaning worker falls to death at IBP plant By Brenda Woody The Hawk Eye A 53-year-old cleaning company employee died Wednesday of sustained when he fell while working at the Iowa Beef Processing plant in Columbus Lorenzo Marin of Conesville was pronounced dead at Washington County where he was transported after his a Louisa County Sheriffs Department spokeswoman said The Sheriffs Department is but is considering the death an Marin was an employee of DCS Sanitation the company IBP hires to clean and sanitize the plant on a daily Gary a spokesman for corporate office in referred questions to Lance president of DCS Sanitation Management in don't know for sure what White said Wednesday in a telephone interview from his office in There were no witnesses to the 2 a.m. White Marin fell between six and eight Death - Please turn to page IDA to host rural rally Classified For the Horoscopes 9B 3 supplements Boat operators skirt loss limit By Tom Seery The Associated Press DES MOINES - A bettor could legally lose up to on a single trip to an Iowa riverboat casino despite the state limit of in losses per boat according to Iowa's top gambling State law limits bettors to in losses per three-hour boat But in order to increase business during the some boat operators are letting bettors keep gambling throughout the day for the price of a single Mick told a legislative budget subcommittee a loss leader for said who is executive secretary of the state Racing and Gaming Plan aims to slow bluffs Story on page Lura said the practice does not violate state law that limits individual losses to per boat In the winter the boats remain docked on the Mississippi so the casinos simply open their doors to take in new bettors for a every three Lura who are currently on the boat may go and get a free ticket for the next Lura don't go off the could have up to five he most people don't do Lura also told the legislators that he hopes to beef up law enforcement on the casinos this year even though there will be fewer of the state's top law enforcement officers on board the Under a plan subject to legislative the boats would no longer be staffed by top-ranking agents of the Division of Criminal DCI employees who perform security guard duties would be assigned to the boats during casino Such employees now provide security at the state Lura of the cruises is quite frankly sort of a thankless Boat Please turn to page 10A
