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MONDAY

JANUARY

  7.

  1991

®1991 The Herald Company

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SYRACUSE, N.Y.

LOCAL STOCKS   HIT

BY DOWNTURN, GULF

Syracuse  Portfolio s value

falls

 nearly

 20

 percent

 in

1990.

 Try to guess how it

will perform over  the  next

three  months. Contest

begins today.

  C 1

IS IT A  YAM

OR

 A

 SWEET POTATO?

You ll like this versatile

vegetable

 in a

 number

 of

recipes, no matter what

you

 call

 it.

  .D 1

BENGALS, BEARS

LOWER

  BOOM

QB

 Boomer Esiason leads

the Cincinnati Bengals to a

rout of

 Houston

 and the

Chicago Bears beat

 New

Orleans

 in the NFL playoffs.

SOVIETS

 TO GET

STATE-OWNED LAND

Soviet President Mikhail S.

Gorbachev orders

 the

distribution  of

 state-owned

land to private farmers n

an

 effort

 to

 stem

 the

country s food shortages.

  B 5

U.S. Seizes

 Banks Owned

By

 Bank  of New

 England

'Banks

 owned

 by Bank of N e w \

England Corp.

  were seized by the

federal

  government

  in

 three

 states

Sunday

 night .

Th e

  chairman

 of the

  Federal

Deposit Insurance Corp. said the

government is negotiat ing  o sell

th e

 banks

 with

 government

 assis-

tance. The cost of the

  bailout

 w as

estimated at $2.3

  billion,

 placing t

among

 t he

 largest rescues

 in the

agency's history.

.  The  FDIC

 said customers, even

those

 with deposits greater

 than

the

 $100,000

 federal insurance

limit, will

 have

  f u l l access

 to

  their

accounts/A-3.

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162nd YEAR,

 NO.

MacPherson

 to

 Leave

 SU

NFL's Pats  Poised

To

  Hire Coach

B y D O N N I E W E B B

The Post Standard

The

  N ew

  England

  Patriots have called a

  major

 news conference for 10 a.m. today n

Fqxboro,

 Mass., where

 they are

  expected

 to

nam e

 Syracuse University's

  Dick

  MacPher-

son as

  head coach

  of the

  troubled National

Football League  franchise.

  ,

A  'spokesman for the

  Patriots  would

  no t

confirm

  that MacPherson had been selected

as the  team's fifth  coach  in 10  years,  but

word

 of the impending selection raced across

N ew   E ngland after Boston Globe columnist

a n d

  N B C - T V a n a l y s t W i l l

  M c D o n o u g h

announced

 the choice Sunday during the NFL

playoffs pregame

 show.

In

 ty pical MacPherson  style, one story

making the

  media rounds Sunday night

  wa s

that the Rev. Norman MacPherson actually

broke

 t he

 story

  by

 announcing

 Sunday

 morn-

ing

 to his congregation at St. Joseph's Church

in  Ol d

  Town, Maine, that

  the

  next coach

 of

the Patriots  would be his brother.

MacPherson became

  much

  more

  than  a

coach to many Syracusans. He was a spokes-

man for the  city  and the  game  of  college

football.

  He  participated

  frequently

  in

  local

charities,  plugging causes at his M on day

news conferences

  an d

  becoming

  one of the

city's

 most popular

  citizens.

MacPherson's

 salary

 is

 expected

 to

 take

 a

significant

  hike with

  the  Patriots,  wh o

 paid

fired

  coach Rod Rust more than

  $300,000

pe r

  year

  an d

  former coach

 Raymond

  Berry

about $550,000 per year.

  Syracuse Univer-

sity paid MacPherson

 $116,543 for 1988-89,

according

 to

  U.S. Internal Revenue

 Service

documents,  but his estimated  salary  was

'believed to be ar oun d  $250,000  with  the

addition of camp, television a nd  endorsement

revenues.

MacPherson  is expected  to get a three- to

five-year  deal  f rom  the  Patriots, who

undoubtedly

 will add incentive clauses to the

contract. But the total might be tempered

because the

  Patriots

 stil l must pay Rust for

•

  MacPherson  described scenario or

leaving, then followed it/E 1.

  Possible

 replacements/E-5.

•  Players,  fans  react to

 news/E-5.

•

  Mac s

 record,  career  highlights/E-5.

three more years, and general

  man age r

Patrick

 Sullivan, wh o

 also

 is

 rumored

 to be on

the way out, stil l has  several,years remain-

ing

 on his

 contract'

MacPherson could not be reached for com-

ment ,

  bu t

  Syracuse freshman

  running

  back

Terry

 Richardson said he w as told by assis-

tant coach Bob Casullo  on Sunday

 that

  the

head coach

 of the

  Orangemen

 w as

 leaving.

Another Syracuse

 assistant

 coach,

 who did

not  wish  to be  n ame d ,

  said

  MacPherson

phoned the  staff

  Sunday morning

  an d

  told

them   he was

  taking

  th e

  Patriots'

  job.  Th e

coach said athletic director Jake Crouthamel

later

  phoned

  the

 coaches with

  the same

news.

(See  PATRIOTS, Page  A-4)

STEPHEN D CANNERELLI/Tha

 Post-Standard

S y r a c u s e

 football

  coach   Dick

 Mac*

Pherson reportedly   will  t ake o ve r

  the

ailing

 New England

 Patriots.

Horsing

 Around

C.W.  MCKEEN/Ttw  Post-Standard

Driver

  Grady  OHerlen

 of

 Munnsville  takes

 visitor* on a winter  snow

  ride

 through

  Highland

 Forest Sunday. The

wagon from  Maple Hedge Livery

 is

drawn

 by two

 Percheron horses, Buddy

  and

 Christine.  Today s  weather shoud

be

 partly sunny

 with

 •

 possible

 flurry  and a

 high

 of 25 degrees, dipping to 0 to 5

 degrees tonight.

Appeals Court to  Hear

DES

 Exposure

 Lawsuit

By  MATTHEW  CO X

 lb ny

  ureau

N ew   York 's  highest  court

  will

  hear

a r g u m e n t s W e d n e s d a y i n a l a w s u i t

brought  by  a Chenango County girl  wh o

says-she  was harmed by a drug to

  which

she was

 never exposed.

The drug , DES, has been blamed for the

medical  problems o f thousands of women

whose mothers took it to prevent m iscar-

riage. What ma kes this case

 unusua l

 is that

the girl 's mo ther never took

  the

  drug

  —

:

her

  g randmother did.  .

-

  Nine-year-old Karen Enright claims sh e

has cerebral palsy because of her mother's

prenatal  exposure to  D E S .  A

 state

Supreme Court judge threw out

 Karen's

$150

  million

  lawsuit against

  s ix 'pharma-

ceutical companies, but an appeals  court

reinstated part of it.

The drug companies are appealing that

ruling to the state Court of Appeals.

The lawsuit is called a third-generation

DES case to d i s t i n gu i sh  it  f rom  those

involving

  only  a  mother  an d  daughter.  A

spokeswoman

  for Eli Lilly an d

  Co.,

 one of

the  defendants, said  Karen's  is the first

such

  suit in the nation to reach a  state

court

 of final

 appeal.

The

 case raises

 the  intriguing

 question

of

 whether

 an injured person may sue

  over

a damaging

 ac t

 tha t occurred before

 he or

she. was

 conceived.

  In a

  similar

 case

  10'

years ago,

 the  state

 C our t

  of

  Appeals

threw out a

  medical malpractice  suit

br ough t

  by a

  b r a in -damage d

  boy who

claimed his injuries'were the result of a

botched abortion his mother received

  four

years

 before

  his

 birth.

Karen's at torneys  say  dismissing

  her

suit would be like forgiving

  toxic

  waste

dumpers because

  the

 injuries they caused

ma y

 take years

 to

 become

  apparent.

 Those who are

 candid

 and scientifically

honest have

 agreed

  that

 DES was a

 tragic

mistake

  — a n d those  wh o

  produced

  an d

marketed it should own up to their respon-

sibility,

papers

 filed by

 Karen's

 attorneys

say.

  • ,

  ' .

  . ..

The

 drug companies,

  however, .point

FHe Photo

Karen  Enright,

  shown

  in •

  photo

taken  in  1988, says   she s suffered

from her mother s   DES exposure.

out that Karen was never exposed to  DES.

An d they say a decision in her  favor  could

lead to a flood of

 third-generation lawsuits,

some

  of which could b e

 filed

  more than

  50

years

  after DES was taken off the

shelves.

  Lilly does not suggest that pharmaceu-

t ical manu facturers should be imm une

 See

 DES ,

  Page A-8)

Saddam

War

  Talk Marks

Iraq's

 Army

 Day

News Service Reports

AMMAN , Jordan — Iraqi President Sadda m Hus-

sein, making no reference  to a political set t lement ,

exhorted

  his

 army Sunday

 to

 prepare

 for a

 long

 con*

flict  in

 defense

  of

 occupied  Kuwait.

Saddam told a nat ionwide radio and te levision

Army

 D ay

 audience, Victory

  in

  this battle

  is

  cer-

tain, Go d

 willing.

The Iraq i armed forces have

 unshakeable faith in

their mission, he said, in their struggle

  which will

not

 stop regardless

 of the

  sacrifices.

Army

  Day,

  a  national  holiday  in

  Iraq's  martial

society, fell

 four

 days before scheduled talks in Gen-

eva

 between Foreign Minister Tariq

 Aziz

 and Secre-

•

  Saudi King

 Fahd appeals  for

 peace/A-5.

•  Strategists: Israel  has no defense/A-5.

•

  Instant  base home for Syracuse

  Boys /A-4.

•  Care packages

 for

 Homer  graduates/B-3.

tary of State James A . Baker III, but the Iraqi leader

spoke

 only

 o f war.

.  The  results of this battle will be great and all the

world  and future generations

  will  talk

  about ... its

positive results, he said. It is the role of the

  faith-

ful t o fight against tyranny , against injustice, against

corruption   an d  against  the  foolish  an d

  tyrannical

U.S. administrat ion and i ts puppet , the Zionist

entity,

  an d aga in s t  those  bad people who have

formed  with them

  an

  alliance

 of

 ty r an n y

 and

  injus-

tice.

Also

 Sunday, Baker

  hinted

  that h e

  will

  give

 Aziz

dramatic

  new

  evidence

  of  allied military

  prowess

when

 they

 meet in

 Geneva.

  We  th ink

 that this

 will

get the job done — in terms o f getting the message

home, he said without spelling out details.

Iraq's ambassador

 to the

 United States said Baker

  is welcome to go to Baghdad to meet Saddam, but

Baker

 said that proposal is now

 off

 the table.

Baker

  said

  his

  meeting

  with

  Aziz

  would  be the

last

 high-level American talks

 with

  Iraq before

  the

Jan.

  15

 deadline

 for its  withdrawal  from  Kuwai t .

Baker said

 h e would

  deliver

 a n u l t ima tu m t o  Aziz

personally and in a  letter

  from

  President Bush to

Saddam,

 and would

 decline

 any Iraqi effort  to

 negoti-

ate or invite him to Baghdad.

Teen-Age Mothers Cause

 Baby

 Boom in Schools

  . • . • • •   •   '   •   ' ;   -

  :

-  J

By  MIKE GROG

 A N

  h

Post S tandard

Enough

 children

 are born to ado-

lescents

 an d

  teen-agers

  in the

  city

of Syracuse

 every

  2'/z

 weeks

 to  f i l l a  .

classroom,  according  to a

 report'

that

  will b e released

  today.

The

  Conference

  of Large City

Boards o f

 Education , which com-

prises the state's

  Big

 Five

school

districts,

 will

 issue a 26-page

 report

that

 reveals

 an average of 45

 babies

are

  born each

 day to girls, aged 10

through 19, in Syracuse, Ne w

 York

City,

  Buffalo,

  Yonkers and Roches-

ter.  

The  s tudy was

 based

 on  1988

statistics

  provided  by the

  state

Department of Health that showed

that

 504

 babies

 were

 born that

 year

to Syracusans of, those ages.

Because teen-age

 mothers  are.

of ten  poor students  w ho

 repeat

grades,

 the 18- and

 19-year-old

mothers

  are considered in the

school-age population,  conference

Executive

  Director  J ac q ue l in e

Freedman   said.

  .

If

  all 504 young mothers  were

Syracuse

 school

 students in the

  fall

of

  1988, they would have  made u p

8.2 percent of the

  district's

  female

population

  among

  10-  to 19-year-

olds.

The conference,

 which

 is

 chaired

by

  Syracuse

 school .board

  member

Joseph

 Fancy,

 has scheduled  inter-

views  with

  media

  in

  Albany, Yon-

kers,

  Rochester  an d  Buffalo

  today

and  Tuesday to

 publicize

 the report.

Subsequent media  interviews will

also be

 scheduled

  in New Yor k

City..

The

  report

  includes  16 recom-

mendations for

 state

  and  local

governments to

 provide

 better

  ser-

vices

 to

 h elp adolescent  mothers

stay  in  school and obtain pre- and

post-natal care.

 While

 the

  Syracuse

school

 district has offered

  such ser-

vices for

  many

 years, officials

  want

to better

  coordinate their efforts

with  the

 state

 and  county govern-

ments. Armed

 with

 the

  study's sta-

tistics, city

 school

  officials

 are

 plan-

ning to meet

 with

 Onondaga

 County

leaders to

 devise

 strategies.

Freedman

  said statistics were

not

  ava i l ab l e

  to

  de te r min e

  how

many of the girls cited in the study

were students

  whe n

  they were

pregnant

  or

  when they gave birth.

Syracuse Superintendent Henry P.

Williams,

 however, said  a  high per-

centage of the 504

 Syracuse

 girls

were  likely to

  have been students.

He

 said

 Fowler

 Hig h School

  officials

knew.of 76

 pregnant g irls attending

class

 there last year.

The

 conference's study

 jibes

 with

f i nd i ng s

  m a d e

  by the

  O n o n d a g a

County Health Department  over  a

three-year  period. From

  1985

 See

  DISTRICTS,

 Page

  A-8)