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:.*e«:f •'--.\! w • .-V The Hometown Newspaper of Clinton, Essex, Franklin Counties Vol, 103 r. N9.7? Plciftsbmgh, NY 12901,^0^0/, November^ 1995 Suggested Price: 50 c 24 Pages leaders gather for Rabin funeral today ByKARINLAUB Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) - An endless procession of Israelis, man# wejepjng, many, bearing flowers, silently filed past the simple wooden coffin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Sun- day./World leaders were con- vening for a final salute to the assassinated soldier, statesman and man of peace. Hundreds of thousands of mourners came from all over the shocked and saddened country to a courtyard in front of the Israeli parliament. The vigil was ex- pected to continue all night until the start of a state funeral Mon- day attended by dozens of world leaders, including President Clinton. Even as Israelis mourned, they tried to grasp the enormity of the upheaval thrust upon their coun- try when a Jewish opponent of Rabin's peacemaking gunned him down. tFnd\er a bright, warm Jerusalem sun, many placed MEMORIAL . SERVICE There will be a memorial service for Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to? day at 7 p.m. at Temple Beth Israel on 1 Bowman St., Plattsburgh. Rabin was assassinated Saturday in Tel Aviv. Tfte metriorial service is open to the public. bouquets of flowers on stone tiles near the flag-draped coffin in which the 73-year-old slain lead- er lay. Others; saluted the former army chief of staff who became Israel's standard-bearer for peace. \I feel that half the country has died,\ high school student Pini Cohen said as he and a group of friends huddled and lighted candles in parliament's courtyard on a hill, overlooking Continued Pagi 12 Staff Photo/Robin Caudell illlMi^^l: Clockwise from left: Samantha Worthington, Alexa Ciciretti, Briana Holland and Kaye Robinson make festive fat the HafiUkkSfr \Festival of Lights\exhibit at the open house held at Temple Beth Israel Sunday. Visitors had a chance to tour the sanctuary and sample traditional foods associated, with Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Tub'Shvat and other Holy Days. vm$ vimm. By OIANNE HENK Associated ; Pre$TWriter^ ALBANY (AP) - ,The State University of New York?s heavy reliance -on state funding has dragged its credit rating below, those of other major public universities, according to a Wall Street firm. \To have 40 percent of your money coming from state gov- ernment is very high tbi -dayB.\ said jFohn-'NelscmMr.assis- fcant- y^ce^fesident fprj Mbedy's Investors Service.. ••, ) \_• ' The University of Michigan, by comparison, got 13.8 percent of its budget from its stat£ tax- payers in 1994. The University of Virginia depended on its state for 14.7 percent of its budget. Closer to SUNY was the Texas A&M University System, which .^mf^^^ refliP 'biv^Rsfclte fi^3R7^i^™™ *1 <! iit Milt •!:• -W'% SkdS. V.& vJ&* o *w_ ', f ••'** • .... » 4 — \a 1 treal, wjbehjis ex- p><fted ft cofiSiftue; Moody's S^^|fcl^^99l^t994^ race ters^tate comparisons, because I know, from experience it's pineapple and bananas unless you define it very carefully,\ said SUNY Chancellor Thomas Bartlett. State government support of public universities has declined across the country for the last s;v,for -public University systems fell from 36.4 percent to 34.1' percent; at SUNY^ the na- tion's largest public university system, it dropped from ii4.9 per- cent to 40.4 percent. Those figures reflect all funds handled within the systems, in- cluding hospital revenues and research grants, not just T>perattng4judgetsr ••- — • \SUNY's a little behind other systems in their degree of in- dependence from the state,\ Nelson said. \Most other big systems started this process long ago in some cases and in the '80s in other cases.\ In 1988, SUNY received about 85 percent of its operating budget from tax dollars, Bartlett said. That percentage has dropped-to -about_49. percent this year. \Few states will have made that big a change,\ Bartlett said. \We started from a high point, but the rate of change for the last seven years — I think I'd stack that up against anybody.\ Continued Page 12 Council 82, state agree on terms; vote By SHANNON MeCAFFREY Associated Press ALBANY (AP) - The Pataki Administration has reached a tentative four-year agreement with the union representing pris- on guards and other security of- ficers, state and labor officials announced Saturday. The pact caps a roller-coaster year for Council 82, which has been plagued by political in- fighting and allegations of fiscal mismanagement. The agreement must still be ratified by the union's 23,000 members. Rank-and-file members rejected an earlier agreement by a 4-to-l margin in April. , \Although this agreement has been met on this date this ten- tative agreement is less than what was voted down by rank- and-file in June of this year,\ said the Union For Correction Officers & Law Enforcement Association Representative Paul Costello in a statement. . TUFCO is a Council 82 rival group. \Council 82 still wishes to ac- cept the offer by New York state because, in pur opinion, it will stop the TUFCO challenge against them,\ he added. \If the contract is ratified, I do believe it will stop an outside union challenge at this time,\ said Council 82 Local 1660 union member Mark LaForest, a cor- rection officer at the Altona Cor- rectional Facility. \They cannot challenge while there is a legal contract between Council 82 and the state,\ LaForest added. Union officials say the new agreement is the best possible under current budget con- straints. \We think we got every possi- ble penny that was available, but of course the ultimate decision is in the hands of our members,\ Council 82 spokesman Bob Lawson said Saturday. Lawson said the state has agreed to move up the date on two of the pay increases to April 1. The third pay increase re- mains in October. It also pro- vides that the raises be com- pounded. Th4 new agreement gives the average Council 82 member a $4,000 pay increase over four years, Lawson said. That is almost $600 more than the previous contract, he said. The new agreement calls for no ? salary,increase for the 1995- Contlnuxl Paga 12 Poland election close; Walesa faces run-off ByANDRZEJSTYUNSKI Associated Press Writer toddy, mostly sunny. High near 50. South wind 10 mph. Bridge Business News.. Classified Coirntcs lajfil 22 Horoscope 7 Ann Landers.. .20-24 Features, ,..,..19 Public Record. 4 Spotts.,,.... . 11 Weather iC*. Lottery: 495. 'Pick 4 1 :4701. . Pick lOi 5,6,9,17,19,20,27,30,35, 38,43,44,49, W,53;54,*7,72,7«,77. > nment... t ptg t nears Election s to some to be that unofficial have >! Andrew Ab- w^h of> slightly pmiM 19 19 6 ....9 1448 iSill^l^ Poland! president Lech Walesa seen early Sunday celebrating as voters went to the polls for the coun- try's second democratic presidential election. wiirace election Abdallah said he is not aware of any polls, but he has received positive feedback from phone calls to voters. \We've tried some telephone contacts to people, and we've got- ten some good comments when we talk to them, but that's not a good way in my mind to really gauge (the raqe),!'AJjdajfehiSiaid. WARSAW, Poland (AP) - President Lech Walesa and a youthful ex-Communist were headed for a runoff after each won about a third of the vote Sunday in Poland's second demo- cratic presidential elections, early results showed. Aleksander Kwasniewski won 34.9 percent of the vote against 33.3 percent for the former Soli- darity hero, according to unof- ficial results from 1,000 of 22,000 polling stations. The two men will meet in a Nov. 19 runoff. Kwasniewski, 41, heads the reconstituted Communists, who have dominated Parliament and the Cabinet since 1993. Winning the presidency could give his Democratic Left Alliance a significant say in shaping a new constitution six years after the Communists were toppled. But Poles remain divided over whether former Communists can be trusted to lead the nation without restoring corrupt ap- paratchiks to power. A former regional communist boss, Jozef Oleksy, is the current prime minister. To gain re-election, Walesa will need the backing of Poles who voted Sunday for centrists among the 17 candidates on the ballot. They include Jacek Kuron,. a former Solidarity adviser, who finished third with 8.7 percent, according to the early results. Finishing fourth Sunday was rightist former prime minister Jan Olszewski with 7.1 percent, followed by Peasant Party leader Waldemar Pawlak with 5 per- cent, the early results showed. a good polls, \I don't buy irilqkpolls much. I tHink people find them offen- sive,\ he said. \Of course I know Emlh ei race and I'm giving evety bit of time and effort, and I feel coiiljclent.\ Mannix said he gets his own iM : File Photo File Photo Andrew Abdallah Martin Mannix indications how the race is shaping up by what he hears when he campaigns door to door. \I think that is far more accu- rate than paying some guys from Continued Paga 12 lp|i^^ !\'$i:' x - *#r.;^ii'-\ 1% ****:'*\ f ... ' ..•*\ ^ ?;„ L
