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T H E P O S T-S TA N D A RWEDNESDAYJANUARY 9, 1991

®1991 The Herald Company

BIG WEEK AHEADIN BIG EASTSeton Hall forward AnthonyAvent is featured, and BigEast coaches react toNCAA basketball reformproposals in this week s BigEast spo tlight.

A PASSPORT PLANFOR PREGNANCIESIn an effort to reduce thelocal infant mortality rate,the county will offerincentives to somepregnant women who seekregular care Cl

CALIFORNIA FREIWIDENS VARIETYGrocers turn to alternativefruits an d vegetables toreplace oranges, iceberglettuce and other popularproduce items lost to frost. B-5

Tensions Soar in BalticsA s Soviet Troops Move In

Officials in the secessionist Bal-tics warned their citizens to bracefor bloodshed a nd prepare fo r civildisobedience as a Soviet ar moredcolumn of 108 vehicles enteredVilnius, the capital of Li thuania ,Tuesday.

Tensions have soared in the 24hours since President Mikhai l S.Gorbachev announced he wassending troops to hal t draf t eva-sion and desertion in the sevenBaltic republics.

Soviet au thorities are t rying tocreate a new conflict artificially ...to suppress the independence ofthe republics, Estonian PrimeMinister Edgar Savisaar said/A-4.

Survey Sa y Whites ClingTo Racial Stereotypes

A majority of wh ites questionedin a nat ionwide survey said theybelieve blacks and Hispanics arelikely to prefer welfare to hardwork and tend to be lazier thanwhites, more prone to violence,less intelligent and less patriotic.

Authors of the su rvey, con-ducted by the National OpinionResearch Center at the Universityof Chicago, said the results showthat despite progress in race rela-tions, whites' negative images ofblacks and other minori t ies con-t inue to be pervasive/A-6.

1 Kilted 248 Hurt in Crash

Of London Commuter TrainA crowded commuter t ra in hit acrash barrier during London'smorn ing rush hour, k i l l ing one per-son and injuring 248. Critics saidthe 10-car tra in, carrying about1,000 passengers, was over-crowded. British Rail suggestedbrake failure/A-4.

COLDER,WHITERPeriods of snow withan inch or so likely;flumes, lake effect

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162nd YEAR, NO.

30 CENTSSYRACUSE, N.Y.

Hard Lines Limit Gulf TalksChoice IsYours, SayBaker, Aziz

News Servce Reports

GENEVA — Secretary of Sta teJames A. Baker III and Iraqi For-eign Minister Tariq Aziz arrivedabout 4 0 mi nutes apart Tuesdaynight , an d their repetition of hard-line positions seems to indicate thattoday's Persian Gulf cnsis talks areheaded f or deadlock.

• Armed services chairman pro-vides war scenario beforeCongress votes/A-7.

B What defectors? Saudi offi-cials ask/A-7.

As he has for weeks. Baker saidthe United States w i l l make nodeals but will simply demand thatIraq reverse its Aug. 2 invasion ofK u w a i t . For his part, Aziz said, I raq does not yield to pressure.

Speaking earlier Tuesday inParis, Baker said, The chance forpeace is in the ha nds of SaddamHussein and in the hands of Iraq.

Arriving at the Geneva hotelwhere the talks will be held, Aziz

said, The decision on war is withMr. Bush; it is not ours.

Baker arrived in Geneva after agrueling day of diplomacy that tookhim from London to Paris, Bonn andMila n in an effort to prevent an yerosion of the international coali-tion demanding that Iraq end itsoccupation of Kuwait.

Despite his hectic schedule, how-ever, Baker was able to reach Gen-eva before Aziz, scoring a victory inthe arcane game of diplomatic pre-rogative. When U.S. officials disco-vered tha t both men were a iming atsimilar arrival times, the Bakerparty hurried away from its f inalstop in Milan to be sure it reached

Geneva first.Also Tuesday:

• U.N. Secretary-General JavierPerez d e Cuellar probably w i l lundertake a last-ditch peace mis-sion to Baghdad before the Jan. 15deadline, U.N. and diplomaticsources said. He also is preparingcontingency p lans for a U.N. peace-keeping effort in the Persian Gulf,i nc lud ing monitoring of any Iraqitroop withdrawal from Kuwait andcreation of a U .N. b u f f e r zonebetween Iraqi troops and U.S. andallied forces.

• Congress raced to vote on theBush administration's gulf pol icybefore Jan. 15. The House and Sen-

ate are expected to begin delibera-tions Thursday that l ikely wouldforce la wmaker s to choose betweenbacking the president's war threator risk def la t ing it.

• President Bush formally askedCongress to permit hi m to go towar with Iraq — the first presiden-tial request for authorization ofmilitary force i n over a quarter of acentury.

• The U.N. resolution calls forIraq to withdraw f rom K uwait onor before Jan. 15 — but it leavesambiguous just when the deadlineis. White House officials privatelysay they assume it means before12:01 a.m. ESTJan. 16.

STEPHEN 0 CANNERELL/The Post-standard

Former Syracuse University football coach Dick MacPherson right shares an emotional farewell Tuesday with Msgr.Charles Borgognoni at the close of his last news conference.

Mac Bids Fond, Sad Farewell

After 10 Years at SU,

Coach Leaves CrowdWith Smiles, Tears

ByDONNIEWEBBThe Post-Standard

As th e plane carrying New EnglandPatriots coach Dick MacPherson made itsfinal approach to Syracuse on Tuesday, it a llbegan to hit home.

MacPherson, Syracuse's University'scharismatic football coach for the past 10years, was leaving to take over the strug-gling Nat ional Football League team.

A n d for a few moments MacPhersonbegan having second thoughts.

He was returning to say his goodbyes, tothe Orangemen and to the school and to the

community. For MacPherson, this would bethe toughest duty of all.MacPherson later said he's not very good

at saying goodbyes. But he did.MacPherson f i r s t met with his former

players to explain his decision, then he metwith the media and a standing-room-onlycrowd of family and friends of the univer-sity.

MacPherson rambled through an emo-

• Columnist Robert R. Haggart covers Professor's last lecture/B-1.

• Report says four SU assistants mayfollow Mac to Foxboro/D-1.

• Payers show mixed emotions/D-6,• Recruits say hey still like SU/D-8.• Carpenter: No comment on NFL/D-6.

tional, tear-fil led news conference at ManleyField House that lasted for more than anhour and ripped at the heart-strings of everyperson in the room and those who watchedon television.

It's a good time and a sad time, and quitehonestly, I didn't dream up this press confer-ence, and it's going to be hard, he said.

MacPherson reflected on his career andhis difficult decision to leave. He told storiesof how he came to Syracuse, how he lived inSyracuse and ultimately, how he found the

courage to leave.MacPherson's wife Sandra and their twodaughters, Janet and Maureen, smiled andcried along with the man who brought themto this place 10 years ago. So did a lot ofothers in the room.

In some ways, the news conference tookon the feeling of a wake or a funeral. It

(See MAC, Page A-8)

MacNuggets: ChoiceWords from a CoachWho Loves Them All

The microphones were open, the tapeswere rolling and the result was classic Mac-Speak. The following are excerpts fromTuesday s press conference, starting withthe coach's story about the night he washired as head football coach at Syracuse Uni-versity:

We were at the chancellor's house, and ifyou people haven't seen it, it's a beautifulhome right there on Harrison and Comstock.There's a nice fire going and I don't want tosqueal on the chancellor, but I think he had alittle n ip or something. I was d r i n k in g coffee'cause I had to get back up to Clevelandbecause we had a balLgame the next day.

The chancellor says, Mac, I th ink I likeyou. He looked over at Mel Holm and he said,M el what do you think? Mel said, yeah, I likehim too.

Then they asked Vice Chancellor Cl i ffWinters what he thought, and I knew wha t hewas going to say. If those two guys like me.

\ See MacNUGGETS, Page A-8)

Part of Woman's Skull Lost; Hospital Sued y M I K E G R O G N

The Post Standard

Af te r an aneurysm was removed fromNancy Cean's brain in Apri l 1988, she knewshe would have to l ive without a portion ofher skull for nearly two years.

Wha t she couldn't know was that the 6-inch-by-2-mch skull piece that was to be re-implanted in her head would be lost by Houseof Good Samar itan Hospital in Watertownwithin those two years.

Just days before Cean was to have thepiece re-imp lanted, she learned from a hospi-tal official that the facility had lost it.

In fact, Cean's attorney, John Cherundoloof Syracuse, said his client learned that thehospital lost body parts belonging to about

25 people. The parts were accidentally dis-carded after the hospital's laboratory under-went reconstruction an d paint ing in March1989 Cherundolo said. The lab's contentswere moved to another location and subse-quently discarded.

Cean and her husband, Robert, both ofAdams, are suing the House of Good Samari-tan Hospital for a total not to exceed $2million. They said the hospital's alleged neg-ligence caused Na ncy Cean mental anguishand will expose her to greater health risksand future medical costs.

David Howe, a Syracuse attorney repre-senting the Watertown hospital in this case,confirmed that the hospital lost a piece ofCean's skull. He, however, said Cean can

safely be treated with a prosthetic, plasticdevice that would cover the portion of herhead where the skull was removed.

Because his firm, Hancock & Estabrook.has been retained to represent the hospitalonly in the Cean lawsuit , Howe said he didnot know whether other body parts had beenlost.

Hospital President Robert J. Kayser wouldnot answer any questions, citing hospitalpolicy not to comment on cases in itigation.

The state Health Systems ManagementOff i ce , wh ich investigates hospitals a ndnursing homes, pl ans to review the hospital'shandling of Cean's case, Area Administrator

(See COUPLE, Page A-7)

SewageFlows intoOnondagaPump StationFor Repair Project

B y R O B E R T W . A N D R E W S h Post Standard ̂•

Onondaga County this week began dump-ing 15 million to 20 million gallons of par-tially treated sewage a day into a tributary ofOnondaga Lake.

While the amount of sewage is consider-able, the county says it must bypass-itsnormal treatment procedures because theL ey Creek pumping station is shutti ng downtemporarily as part of a $5.2 million upgrad-in g project. The discharge will continue for atotal of 12 days.

The State Department of EnvironmentalConservation approved the temporary dis-charge while the construction work is tak-in g place at Ley Creek station, about a mileupstream from the lake.

But some environmentalists, i nc lud ingJulia Portmore, director of the AmericanClean Water Project, contend there mus t bea better solution than just d ump i ng the sew-age into the creek, which flows into Onon-daga Lake.

This is unacceptable, Portmore said. Bureaucrats seem to believe this lake canstand almost a ny k ind o f insult.

The Ley Creek pumping station in Sal inareceives sewage from homes and businessesin Sal ina, DeWitt and a smal l section on theeast side of Syracuse. The sewage is pumpedf rom Ley Creek elsewhere in the county sys-tem for treatment.

Normally sewage flows to settling ponds,where the heavy ma terial sinks to the bot-tom and the waste undergoes ba cterialdecomposition. Additio nal chemicals areadded to disinfect the sewage. The liquid isthen discharged into Onondaga Lake, and thesludge is shipped to a waste bed.

Under the county's agreement with theD E C the county will be allowed to dumpsewage into Ley Creek for the 12-day periodafter ad ding chlorine to it.

Kenneth K a u f m a n , construction adminis-trator for the county Department of Drain-age and Sanitation, said the alternative ofrenting pumps for a short period of timewas at least $574,000 more expensive thanbypassing the treatm ent procedure.

An d even that solution would result in thepartially treated sewage being dischargedinto t he lake fo r about four days, he said.

We had to do this, K a u f m a n said. Weconsidered the alternatives, obtained thenecessary permits and chose a time of yearwhen people will not be doing things aroundthe water.

The discharge began Monday at LeyCreek. Chlorine s being added to the sewageat a ratio of 20 parts per mi l l ion to dis infect

(See COUNTY, age A-7)

Galleries LosesThree Stores

ByJOHNMARlANIAnd DAVE H E R M A N

The Post-Standard

The bleak retailing outlook at the Gal-leries of Syracuse is about to dim fur ther .

Three of the downtown shopping/li-brary/office complex's 13 stores will close atthe end of January, the victims of low salesan d the flight of big department stores fromthe central business district, off ic ia ls saidTuesday.

The stores — Bakers Shoe, J.W. and OakTree — al l are owned by Edison BrothersStores Inc., a St. Louis retail conglomerate.

(See GALLERIES, Page A-7)