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2A WwlnwUr. Mfch 22 1995 THE TENNESSEAN 3 LifflU ffiorr world in 5 minutes COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY DOLPH HONICKER Professor's in there pitching Dr. Clayton R. Chinn, a numbers cruncher in Vanderbilt's Department of Physics and Astronomy, has come up with a way to end the major league baseball strike. Sports writer David Climer says the prof, at home with a slide rule or a fungo bat, has a 12-step plan with a sophisticated luxury tax formula he considers "far superior to the one being proposed by the players or owners." On 1C.

Quaid sheds his LBJ fat The thin Randy Quaid you see on the screen in Bye Bye, Love "actually lost all the weight about 45 pounds 3 years ago." He put it on to play a pudgy Lyndon Johnson in a widely acclaimed TV minteeries. "I had no particular medical problems, but I just got tired of looking at my fat self. I was in pretty bad shape." On 3D. Argentina's Supreme Court rules that former Nazi SS CapL Erich Priebke can no longer delay extradition to Italy for trial in the World War II massacre of 335 civilians. Priebke, 82, was arrested 9 months ago in Ba-riloche after admitting to a role in the 1944 massacre in the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome.

It was in reprisal for the killing of 32 German soldiers in Nazi-occupied Italy. Priebke says he followed Adolf Hitler's orders that 10 Italian civilians be executed for each dead German soldier. TURKS HIT HARD The second day of an offensive aimed at wiping out an 11-year-old Kurd insurrection finds Turkish jets and troops hitting hard at rebel camps in northern Iraq. Toll: at least 200 guerrillas and eight soldiers killed. The largest military action in modern Turkey's history is sparked by a rebel ambush Saturday that killed 15 Turkish troops.

On 4A. MANILA URGES CALM Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos appeals for "sanity and sobriety" as outraged Filipinos step up protests over Friday's execution of a Filipino maid in Singapore. Protests have alarmed the Singapore government. Flor Contemplacion was convicted in Singapore of slaying another Filipino maid and a 4-year-old Singaporean child.

PLEDGES DUE In Berlin next week over 100 nations will try to devise treaty regulations that could cost them billions but help save Mother Nature. That's when a nearly 3-year-old pledge made at the 1992 U.N. Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro comes due to combat global warming. It's one of the most far-reaching environmental accords ever negotiated. i II tv3- if Lt 'tmmiM0'l- mr i i La AP Arena beer action delayed Lawmakers will brood another 2 weeks over putting brew in Nashville's new arena.

A House committee delays action as some 25 ministers observe. Rep. Standi Ford, R-Talbott, the bill's original sponsor, doesnt want his routine rural zoning proposal to become a vehicle to haul beer to the arena. Baptist pastor Bill Sherman says they'll be back. "Patience is a Christian virtue." On IB.

CROSSES MOUNT An elderly man places forsythias on a snow-covered grave in Sarajevo's crowded Lion Cemetery on a relatively quiet first day of spring. nimii -mi UML1 OHHO GOP starts welfare overhaul Republicans take to the House floor, vowing to break the chains of a welfare system that's "enslaved" millions of poor Americans. Democrats invoke the Holocaust, calling the overhaul "downright low-down." The GOP bill repeals dozens of anti-poverty programs, sending the money to states in lump sum payments; it shrinks spending by $66.4 billion and erases the federal New Deal guarantee of support for single moms and kids. On 8A. 1 ffim-'ji Laws urged to cap tickets Consumer groups urge Congress to fight what they call unfair ticketing practices in the entertainment industry.

They want to cap service fees or force ticket agencies to disclose surcharges. Their chief target is Ticketmaster, which they say has a monopoly on ticket sales through exclusive long-term contracts with arenas and halls throughout the country. Consumer groups say fees often are exorbitant and hidden from buyers. On IE. ALLIED HIT FOR Nashville-based Allied Clinical Laboratories Inc.

will pay $4.9 million to settle a Medicaid fraud case. The settlement involves charges that the medical testing firm inserted false codes into Medicare billings to create the appearance physicians had ordered prostate-related blood tests that actually were performed without authorization. On IE. Heart treatment stirs debate Drugs or balloons? A rancorous debate over how to treat heart attacks, already a plot twist in the hospital drama ER, sharply divides one of the world's largest gatherings of cardiologists. Is it better to disintegrate blood clots causing heart attacks quickly with clot-dissolving drugs like TPA? Or push them aside with tiny balloons (angioplasty)? At stake: lives and money.

LJMLJ Taking fear out of cooker "The new pressure cookers are safer than a knife in the kitchen," says the sales manager of a Swiss brand. The people who buy them, says Robin McKenzie, "are health-conscious and want good food but don't want to spend a lot of time cooking it" On IF. Shying from Prop. 187 President Clinton's staying out of the court challenge to California's Proposition 187. Before the November election, he called the politically charged anti-immigration initiative unconstitutional.

It would ban public education, social services and non-emergency health care to undocumented aliens. Justice Department spokesman Carl Stern says the administration will wait to see how the courts and state officials interpret the measure, now on hold pending several legal challenges. FLOOD RESULTS California floods have reached Boston salad bars. Karen Hart's eyes widen when she learns the price of her $4.29 lunchtime salad goes up by 33 cents today because of the floods. "It's about the healthiest thing you can eat, although I might do more tuna fish instead of something else now." On 6A.

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program has been proposed in Congress as Republicans push to reduce the federal government's role in social programs. The appeal locally is that there would be fewer federal restrictions on how the state spent the money. However, the federal contribution would be capped. And there's the rub. Most states, having done little to control Medicaid expenses, will receive federal funds that grow at a set rate on top of still fat, uncontrolled budgets.

Tennessee will see its federal share grow at the same percentage rate, but on top of a smaller total, now receives. If it is, as officials fear, Tennessee would be the loser since it has reduced the growth of its Medicaid program. Sundquist and former Gov. Ned McWherter both traveled here to guard against the state suffering because of its success. They also are attempting to collect $170 million more in Medicaid funds this year.

State officials took a chance when they created TennCare to slow the rising cost of Tennessee's $2.9 billion Medicaid program. As a result, the cost of providing health care to the poor and working poor here is expected to rise 3-4 next year, rather than 10 or more. It rose 1 this year. By comparison, Kentucky has a $2.6 billion Medicaid program expected to rise nearly 10 next year. It rose 5 this year.

Turning Medicaid into a nationwide block grant Police search for post office shooter Mall construction turns up a dump for the 1880s "ill V. postal box. "He's got nothing to do with the post office," Alison Cross, Grossman's sister-in-law, said in an interview from her Los Angeles home. One of the dead was identified by his sister-in-law as Scott Walensky, a postal worker. She would not give her name as she was escorted behind police lines.

Howard Finney told WCBS Radio that he got off a commuter train and saw police with weapons drawn near the post office. He said he watched as police knocked down the post office door around 5:15 p.m. A few minutes later, he said, about 10 people left the post office or an adjacent doorway and were rushed down the street by authorities. He said one wounded man was brought out on a stretcher about a half-hour later, carried to a nearby playground, then evacuated by helicopter. Grossman was "somewhat alert" when he was brought in, said Rogers Ramsey, a spokesman for University Hospital in Newark.

He was in critical condition with two gunshot wounds to the head.B i v. lett said. "Eventually, you had everyone from slaves to rich people using the spring." The spring still runs underground, some 20 feet below the mall's surface. A massive brick sewer tunnel, which still works today, sits 18 feet below the surface of the mall, draining flood water from as far away as Centennial Park into the Cumberland. It was built in 1892, and state officials were careful not to ding its elegant brick arches with construction equipment The site also includes the city's famed first baseball field, Sulfur Dell, which was at the corner of Fourth Avenue North and Jackson Street It dates back to 1862, when occupying Union soldiers played there.

Houses, hotels and businesses thrived around the mall area. But the mall itself was prone to flooding, so laborers and business owners took to dumping their trash there. There was no organized garbage collection in those days. Nearby, immigrants and freed slaves were building communities, churches and synagogues. "After the turn of the century, things started to go downhill in that area," Bartlett said.

"It became a red-light district and many citizens wouldn't ride on the street car because the ladies of the evening would ride downtown to show off their wares." By the 1940s, many of the houses in the area, often with outdoor privies, were declared "substandard," and urban renewal came to town. It brought James Robertson Parkway, the Cordell Hull Building and other state buildings. The 1950 urban renewal project "literally wiped everything away," Bartlett said. When the mall project is complete, the archaeologists hope their collection will be displayed in a visitors' center near the mall. "What's amazing is that we've found only about 1 of what is there," Stripling said.

Evidence of life in the area before 1880 will remain sealed below the mall itself, where the garbage of Nashville may fuel the imagination of archaeologists. Frank Empson Staff Stonemason Joe Collins positions a piece of granite on the foundation that will support a new railroad overpass at the Bicentennial Mall. Budget cuts take toll on mall plan Kilmore's Swamp Root Remedy." What the archaeologists have found in the last year also tells a story about early trucking and train distribution: There are artifacts from all over the Eastern United States, but virtually nothing from out west To learn the lifestyles and identities of the mall area's first neighbors, the archaeologists have combed the state archives, census records, old city directories and antique books. They've interviewed descendants and scanned ancient maps. Bartlett and Stripling take their treasures back to a tiny state office building on Edmonson Pike, where they scrub them with water and toothbrushes, tag, and photograph them.

They work surrounded by boxes and boxes of artifacts found all over the state, at other construction sites. At the mall site, they have collected 1,800 bottles, 700 ceramic pieces and dozens of things like a doll's broken arm and shat-tcrcd fcicc The oldest relics date to the 1880s, and were found near the railroad trestle along Jo Johnston Avenue, where the mall's deepest point is being dug for an amphitheater. The artifacts date from then through the 1950s. The mall project is too large for a real, detailed archaeological dig. So Bartlett and Stripling were forced to hang around while bulldozers and drills broke the ground.

Then, they could see layers and layers of what was essentially an early landfill. They found the brick foundations of homes and businesses, and using property records and maps for clues were able to make a block by block list of who once lived and worked there. A center point of the mall area was a flowing underground sulfur spring that drew animals and people In prehistoric times. French hunters found the salt lick there as early as 1710. "This area was one of the original reasons that people settled in Nashville," Bart- Capitol building, to answer the carillon's call.

McDonald said there are no other big changes since the mall was designed. The mall will be complete in April or May of next year, he said. A statehood day is set for June 1, 1996. Among the mall's attractions: A amphitheater, currently being dug out will face the Capitol for public events and concerts. A 250-foot granite map of Tennessee will be at the entrance to the urban park.

On the east side of the mall, time capsules from each of the 95 counties will be buried on a walkway. When the first half of the new Fanners Market is complete, tenants will move in and the old sheds will be torn down to make way for the back part of the mall. By GAIL KERR Staff Writer Tennessee's Bicentennial Mall has lost its bells and whistles literally. To keep the project within its $23 million budget a 95-bell carillon has been scrapped as too expensive. Otherwise, construction of the 19-acre monument to Tennessee's 200th birthday is running on time and within budget state officials said.

"We're about 30 complete, and the south part of the new Farmers Market is scheduled to be completed in May," said Bill McDonald, assistant commissioner of finance and administration. "It's going to be quite a sight" The bells were supposed to be set in a circle on top of columns, to represent each of Tennessee's counties. A big bell was to be located at the In a story that ran in yesterday's Tennessean about a new test to determine whether prostate cancer has spread beyond the gland, the Associated Press erroneously reported that the cancer is always fatal if it has spread. Once it has spread beyond the prostate, the cancer is incurable. But only about 20 of people whose prostate cancer has spread die from the disease; the rest typically die of other causes.

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