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A I I, • t S d 13 D i, The Hometown Newspaper of Clinton, Essex, Franklin Counties Vol. 103 - No. 47 © Copyright 1995, PreM-Republican Pittsburgh, NY 12901, Saturday, October 7, 1995 Suggested Price: 50 c 28 Pages Pope prays for U.S. families By RICK HAMPSON Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - At a race- track where bettors pray merely for luck, the Holy Father prayed Friday for American 'fathers, asking that they raise the children they bring into the world. NiMo faces And in a city that largely wor- ships power, wealth and fame, Pope John Paul II prayed for love for the weak, the poor, the forgotten. An estimated 75,000 people jammed Aqueduct's stands, in- field and track to celebrate the first sunny day of a papal visit that began Wednesday at a misty Newark Airport. \Yesterday evening, very strong rain,\ the pope greeted his Aqueduct congregation, referring to his Mass at Giants Stadium in New Jersey. \Today very strong wind.\ The gusts whipped the green, white and yellow canvas above the altar and blew the fountains in the infield ponds. The pope's white robes billowed in the 25 mph wind that also forced him to discard his white skullcap. Thursday's rain was water, symbol of new life, he said; Fri- day's wind \a symbol of the presence of the Holy Spirit.\ Later, the pope flew to Yonkers to address seminarians about one of his favorite themes: the importance of attracting and training more priests. Continued Page 14 Pope greets flock ii crisis By DAVID BAUDER Associoted Press Writer ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., saying it had to move boldly to break out of a slump, on Friday proposed splitting its operations and having the state buy or refinance its two nuclear power plants. Without $2 billion in relief from the state government and independent power producers, the troubled utility said it would be forced to declare bankruptcy or substantially raise electric rates. The company said its plan would freeze or reduce rates over the next five years for its 1.5 million electric customers in upstate New York, with businesses getting the biggest benefit. Niagara Mohawk has the largest service area in New York state. \It's going to take a bold plan to undo the years of well-inten- tioned but wrong policies that have created the current situa- Continuad Page 14 Frustration, anguish felt in Opal's wake i * •&F4 \C ** * / r^j6j * «* B&'Ntf * * •» A -»•<• K,7g ? *Y \ a* fcWW, .^, h %V P»i\< J^TI-hTr i«( -BsSjBBlgftfeir » \> H^&kL j. ^v' : ' ? -.r.;$^g • \\ ^'\-'f-Jvf*?^ •••V /.•It\ 1 feS : •'($;•. . ' . «yii* • j^ft^li '\* * JK^UJI^H TJII m*;?m \•ME! * iraSHI W8&'WF P ' fplSfefitf jff ;||C, •?•'• •-.-*--&;• '•;.• •• ..;?••'.'•• -.' •, ! I'-jV- •' *\•• £*$'*•'• - J0 ; ^ __. _„ •• •?-•.'.*:;•••. v'_rV. ^ v ••\•* • ;>';'•'^• i ....... ; : ; ^0; : MM& '*3\S' '£&£ Vi.i('^ 'y^i't^*' vK^ifeiiC* -• ItlwIlHi ESIliP 1 HB^B^HsW^BK^flT **^ ^^HHHT *\ Hsl. ' HH- ^ BK^ v j '- ; : *?^lw?p|? '\|3||3§i| '« S'sSflfcSpli :: i m^ • ,Sff^j;.'. C; . M k \\^fe. 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Oj|^^^^^^^^^^^^H ' The kids are S|S^^^^^^^^^^H planning to B^HB^B^B^B^B^B^B^BI make ^SH^^^^^^^H^H humongous ^^^^^•^^^^^^^^H jack-o'-lanterns H^^^^^^^^^^^^^H °ut of the pum- H^^^^^^^^^^^^H pkins, the big- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H gest of which is •JclBialBwiiWSfiBBM ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H weighs more •EigTiS^wBBHBHj ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^•~ pounds. Haley ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H helped the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H pumpkins' ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H growth by giv- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H ing each plant ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H- five gallons of ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H water a day, ^EISSlWIiEsBvail ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^•', steady diet of ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H water-soluble ^^^^^^^^^^^•' fertilizers. \Next MBRHPEJIBBRMBII ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H to have bigger •- ••• . >-Sfaff ! Ph6t6/Mike Dowd ones, he said. ByBILLBERGSTROM Associated Press Writer * > , Prpfee of Fuhrman-litiked brutality dropped Hurrlcgm cUaiiiip NAVARRE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Residents of areas hit hardest by Hurricane Opal pleaded in vain Friday for a look at what the storm did to their homes. Some who flew over the area burst into tears at what they saw. \Let me stay in my home! I don't have anywhere to go!\ Lor- raine Brown screamed at an of- ficial as she waited with nearly 1,000 other Pensacola Beach residents for permits to visit their homes for eight hours Saturday. \Why do we have to stand here in line to go to our own homes?\ Pensacola Beach and next-door Navarre Beach, on a thin barrier island that took the hurricane's ful] force Wednesday evening, remained closed Friday as areas farther from the storm's center reopened to residents. Authorities said they were limiting access to those with permits to avoid clogging ruined streets with traffic. • Also closed were the eastern Continued Pag* 14 LOS ANGELES (AP) - More than 15 years ago, federal officials opened a civil rights investigation into a brutal police clash that Mark Fuhrman would later describe on tape, but the case was dropped because the victims wouldn't cooperate, documents showed Friday. A Justice Department investigation into a housing project melee highlighted in the Simpson trial closed in March 1980 after vic- tims' attorneys canceled meetings or failed to respond to investigators' calls, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act. Jurors in the Simpson trial never heard Fuhrman's vivid description of how he and other officers chased down a group of people in East Los Angeles to avenge the shooting of two police officers on Nov. 18, 1978. Fuhrman, who testified he had not uttered a particular racial slur in 10 years, was heard using the slur on one tape played for jurors. Some panelists said Fuhrman's credi- bility led them to discount his testimony about finding a bloody glove behind Simp- son's house and acquit Simpson of murder in the June 1994 stabbings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The defense claimed during the trial that prosecutors at best should have known of and at worst ignored Fuhrman's past. Fuhrman's taped tales of police racism Continued Pag* 14 Investigation finds police were justified in fatal shooting By MARK HOLLMER Staff Writer WEATHER Today, showers likely; highs near 70. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent. INDEX Bridge... 22 Hbf«s<iope 10 _ , .. , « Ann Landers ' 0 Business News ]2 p am ,| v 6 Business News Classified 20 Family Religion Comics 10 Public Record v »...8 Editorial f Sports 16-9 Entertainment 11 Weather 13 NX Lottery* 160. 1»kk 4'« 1 197. Take $8 7,21,27, 31,33. Pick 10:,1,3,1, K 17,22,23,24,37.31,M.W.H*,48,51,61,68,73,78 Niw Enflland: tick 3'i 358. Pick 4't 1983. PLATTSBURGH - The shooting death of a man City Police tried to pick up on a men- tal-health order was justified, Clinton County District Attorney Penelope Clute has concluded. And after evaluating a State Police investigation into the Sept. 18 shooting, Clute said Friday; \ther^absolutely no evir r w: l of wrongdoing on the part of the three officers involve Oii: Sept. 18, • Officers :tfu . Ross, Robert LaPier and Rodhe; Cartier were sent to 48 Vi plain St. to pick up Patrick rara, 48, on a merits'\ order. Ferrara stabbed LaPier in arm and Cartier in the arm, neck and shoulder with a 5Va-inch: hunting knife before LaPier snoij; and killed him with a single bullet. Clute said Ferrara's death extremely tragic, but it was . . *;v- the direct result of hie efforts to kill the police bfficera who came; with the mental-health people, to; help him.\ ' ;. Clute displayed all of the evi- dence that led to her decision; ii£ eluding State Police photos bf^the Continued Page 14 AP Photo District Attorney Penelope Clute releases the results of a probe that found a recent shooting by police was justified. The knife used by the man who was killed is shown in the foreground. \
