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1991 The Herald Company

MONDAY
JANUARY 7. 1991

30 CENTS
SYRACUSE, N.Y.

MacPherson to Leave SU
NFL's Pats Poised
To Hire Coach
ByDONNIEWEBB
The Post-Standard

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.

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The New England Patriots have called a

"major news conference" for 10 a.m. today in
Fqxboro, Mass., where they are expected to
name Syracuse University's Dick MacPherson as head coach of the troubled National
Football League franchise. ,
A 'spokesman for the Patriots would not
confirm that MacPherson had been selected
as the team's fifth coach in 10 years, but
word of the impending selection raced across
New England after Boston Globe columnist
and NBC-TV analyst Will McDonough
announced the choice Sunday during the NFL
playoffs pregame show.
In typical MacPherson style, one story
making the media rounds Sunday night was
that the Rev. Norman MacPherson actually
broke the story by announcing Sunday morn-

ing to his congregation at St. Joseph's Church

in Old 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 spokesman for the city and the game of college
football. He participated frequently in local
charities, plugging causes at his Monday
news conferences and becoming one of the
city's most popular citizens.
MacPherson's salary is expected to take a
significant hike with the Patriots, who paid
fired coach Rod Rust more than $300,000
per year and former coach Raymond Berry
about $550,000 per year. Syracuse University paid MacPherson $116,543 for 1988-89,
according to U.S. Internal Revenue Service
documents, but his estimated salary was
'believed to be around $250,000 with the
addition of camp, television and endorsement
revenues.
MacPherson is expected to get a three- to
five-year deal from the Patriots, who
undoubtedly will add incentive clauses to the
contract. But the total might be tempered
because the Patriots still must pay Rust for

MacPherson described scenario for

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 manager

Patrick Sullivan, who also is rumored to be on
the way out, still has several,years remaining on his contract'
MacPherson could not be reached for comment, but Syracuse freshman running back
Terry Richardson said he was told by assistant coach Bob Casullo on Sunday that the
head coach of the Orangemen was leaving.
Another Syracuse assistant coach, who did
not wish to be named, said MacPherson
phoned the staff Sunday morning and told
them he was taking the Patriots' job. The
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

Syracuse football coach Dick Mac*

Pherson reportedly will take over the
ailing New England Patriots.

Saddam

Horsing Around

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.

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War Talk Marks

Iraq's Army Day
News Service Reports

BENGALS, BEARS
LOWER BOOM

C.W. MCKEEN/Ttw Post-Standard

Driver Grady O'Herlen 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 should
be partly sunny with possible flurry and a high of 25 degrees, dipping to 0 to 5 degrees tonight.

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 in
an effort to stem the
country's food shortages.

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U.S. Seizes Banks Owned

By Bank of New England
'Banks owned by Bank of New\
England Corp. were seized by the
federal government in three states
Sunday night.
The chairman of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp. said the
government is negotiating to sell
the banks with government assistance. The cost of the bailout was
estimated at $2.3 billion, placing it
among the 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 full access to their
accounts/A-3.

FLURRIES
POSSIBLE
Partly sunny with a
light wind and
possible flurries.
Tonight: cold/A-Z
MGK25
LOW.vO
Business/C-1
Classified/M

Comics/M
Editorials/A-*
Food/D-1
Local News/B-1
162nd YEAR, NO.

Appeals Court to Hear

DES Exposure Lawsuit

Lotiery/A-2
Movtes/D-5
Obituaries/i-4
Readers Pg./A-7
Sports/E-1
Tetevfeton/M

By MATTHEW COX
Albany Bureau

New York's highest court will hear

arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit
brought by a Chenango County girl who
says-she was harmed by a drug to which
she was never exposed.
The drug, DES, has been blamed for the
medical problems of thousands of women
whose mothers took it to prevent miscarriage. What makes this case unusual is that
the girl's mother never took the drug :
her grandmother did.
.
- Nine-year-old Karen Enright claims she
has cerebral palsy because of her mother's
prenatal exposure to DES. A state
Supreme Court judge threw out Karen's
$150 million lawsuit against six'pharmaceutical 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 distinguish it from those
involving only a mother and daughter. A

spokeswoman for Eli Lilly and 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 act that occurred before he or
she. was conceived. In a similar case 10'
years ago, the state Court of Appeals
threw out a medical malpractice suit
brought by a brain-damaged boy who
claimed his injuries'were the result of a
botched abortion his mother received four
years before his birth.
Karen's attorneys say dismissing her
suit would be like forgiving toxic waste
dumpers because the injuries they caused
may take years to become apparent.
"Those who are candid and scientifically
honest have agreed that DES was a tragic
mistake and those who produced and
marketed it should own up to their responsibility," papers filed by Karen's attorneys
say. "
,
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The drug companies, however, .point

AMMAN, Jordan Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, making no reference to a political settlement,
exhorted his army Sunday to prepare for a long con*
flict in defense of occupied Kuwait.
Saddam told a nationwide radio and television
Army Day audience, "Victory in this battle is certain, God willing."
"The Iraqi 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 Geneva 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.

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.
And they say a decision in her favor could
lead to a flood of third-generation lawsuits,
some of which could be filed more than 50
years after DES was taken off the
shelves.
"Lilly does not suggest that pharmaceutical manufacturers should be immune
(See DES, Page A-8)

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

spoke only of 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 faithful to fight against tyranny, against injustice, against
corruption and against the foolish and tyrannical
U.S. administration and its puppet, the Zionist
entity, and against those bad people who have
formed with them an alliance of tyranny and injustice."
Also Sunday, Baker hinted that he will give Aziz
dramatic new evidence of allied military prowess
when they meet in Geneva. "We think that this will
get the job done in terms of 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 Kuwait.
Baker said he would deliver an ultimatum to Aziz
personally and in a letter from President Bush to
Saddam, and would decline any Iraqi effort to negotiate or invite him to Baghdad.

Teen-Age
Mothers
Cause BabyJ Boom in Schools
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By MIKE GROG AN

ter.
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The study was based on 1988
Enough children are born to ado- statistics provided by the state
lescents and teen-agers in the city Department of Health that showed
of Syracuse every 2'/z weeks to fill a '. that 504 babies were born that year
classroom, according to a report' to Syracusans of, those ages.
that will be released today.
Because teen-age mothers are.
The Conference of Large City often poor students who repeat
Boards of Education, which com- grades, the 18- and 19-year-old
prises the state's "Big Five" school mothers are considered in the
districts, will issue a 26-page report school-age population, conference
that reveals an average of 45 babies Executive Director Jacqueline
are born each day to girls, aged 10 Freedman said.
.
through 19, in Syracuse, New York
If all 504 young mothers were
City, Buffalo, Yonkers and Roches- Syracuse school students in the fall
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of 1988, they would have made up

8.2 percent of the district's female
population among 10- to 19-yearolds.
The conference, which is chaired
by Syracuse school .board member
Joseph Fancy, has scheduled interviews with media in Albany, Yonkers, Rochester and Buffalo today
and Tuesday to publicize the report.
Subsequent media interviews will
also be scheduled in New York
City..
The report includes 16 recommendations for state and local

governments to provide better services to help adolescent mothers

stay in school and obtain pre- and
post-natal care. While the Syracuse
school district has offered such services for many years, officials want
to better coordinate their efforts
with the state and county governments. Armed with the study's statistics, city school officials are planning to meet with Onondaga County
leaders to devise strategies.
Freedman said statistics were
not available to determine how
many of the girls cited in the study

were students when they were

pregnant or when they gave birth.
Syracuse Superintendent Henry P.
Williams, however, said a high percentage of the 504 Syracuse girls
were likely to have been students.
He said Fowler High School officials
knew.of 76 pregnant girls attending
class there last year.
The conference's study jibes with
findings made by the Onondaga
County Health Department over a
three-year period. From 1985
(See DISTRICTS, Page A-8)