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Oct. 18,1990
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IOWA TODAY, FINAL EDITION CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA VOL. 108, NO. 282 50 CENTS

A regional newspaper^serving Eastern Iowa

FORECAST: Cold; some sun today. Highs 43-47; lows 27-31. Today's daylight: 10 hours, 59 minutes. See page 12D.

INSIDE...

Senate deficit plan survives

The votes left intact a compromise budget that How the House and Senate plans stack up, page 11A mildly raises income taxes on the rich, cuts Medicare benefits and boosts the federal gasoline tax from 9 cents per gallon to 18 Vi cents. Overall, the Senate plan unraveled the entire package, leaders said. "I'd say to those who want to kill the package, vote includes a broader-based tax increase than the soakwith the senator from Idaho," said Senate Minority WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate blocked a rank- the-rich House version that President Bush has said Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., just before the vote on the and-file Democratic effort Wednesday to redirect the he will veto. gasoline tax. pain of a bipartisan deficit-reduction bill more heavily Lawmakers rejected the tax-the-rich proposal, of The defeated effort to tax the rich, proposed by Sen. at the wealthy and less sharply at the middle class. The $250 billion budget-cutting measure then with fered by Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., by 67-32. They then Kent Conrad, D-N.D., sought to capitalize on what stood its second crucial test as lawmakers turned voted 59-40 against an amendment by Sen. Steve legislators say is growing public disenchantment with aside an effort by Western senators to kill a doubling Symms, R-Idaho, that would have blocked the gasoline Please turn to 11 A: Budget tax increase. Adoption of either effort would have of the gasoline tax.

Dropping gasoline tax, 'socking the rich' rejected

SPORTS
C.R.'s Shane Dunlevy comes on strong for Cyclones
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Bush gets rights bill, vows veto

WASHINGTON (AP) The House Wednesday approved a civil rights bill designed to combat job discrimination and sent it to President Bush, who promised a veto on grounds that it would lead to hiring quotas. "I hope that President Bush will reconsider the unwise and unjustified course he is on," Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said following House approval of the bill, 273-154. The margin was 12 votes short of the two-thirds needed to override a veto and pass the bill over the president's objec tions. Thirty-four Republicans and 239 Democrats voted for the bill while 15 Democrats and 139 Republicans were opposed. Iowa Democrats Dave Nagle and Neal Smith and Republican Jim Leach voted for the bill. Republicans Fred Grandy, Jim Lightfoot and Tom Tauke op posed it. The Senate Tuesday ap proved the bill but also fell short of the support needed to override a veto. Somber civil rights forces planned a final campaign to persuade Bush to relent and sign the bill. The bill represents the civil rights movement's top priority on Capitol Hill this year. It would overturn six decisions on job discrimination that cre ated a furor when the Supreme Court handed them down last year. Provisions range from a ban on racial harassment in the workplace to punitive damages in extreme bias cases. The greatest controversy, however, came over complex changes in rules on how job discrimination cases are de cided. They would make it easier for minorities filing suit to win and harder for employ ers to defend themselves.

Farewell to a trooper

IOWA TODAY
Kirkwood students will benefit from $1 million grant
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BRIEFLY 'You can beat it'

A woman's fight against cancer
Former Iowa City resident Cindy Seydel Friend has been in a whirlwind since she was diagnpsed as having cancer in 1988. Now she awaits a bone marrow transplant at University Hospitals. Details on page I B .

G a z e t t e photos by Lisa Powell

Iowa state troopers carry the casket of Trooper Al Nieland to its burial site Wednesday at Memory Gardens Cemetery in Iowa City. Nieland was killed Sunday when his State Patrol plane crashed during a chase.

Trooper funeral draws law officers together

By Dave Gosch
Gazette staff writer

Gas crunch
Troopers drive less, save fuel
State troopers are now parking in highly visible locations 30 minutes each day, instead of cruising highways, to save fuel. Details on page IOC.

Housing upstart
Local figures buck U.S. trend
Housing starts in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City rose in September, at direct odds with the sinking rates nationally. Details on page 8D.

'Innocent' hunter
Verdict reached by Maine jury
The hunter on trial for fatally shooting a former Iowa woman he mistook for a deer was found innocent of manslaughter Wednesday. Details on page 11D.

IOWA CITY Columns of brown- and blue-clad officers filed into an Iowa City church Wednesday to give strength to the family and friends of fallen Iowa State Trooper Al Nieland. Nieland's funeral, also at tended by Gov. Terry Branstad, attracted an estimated 300 to 400 officers from around Iowa and the nation. Nieland, 41, died Sunday when his State Patrol plane c r a s h e d n e a r t h e Little Amana interchange of Inter state 80 during a chase. Officers were pursuing a pickup driven by Walter Garris, no known address, who

was charged with homicide by vehicle for creating a chase in which someone died. "Law enforcement is kind of a close community. We depend on each other and when we lose one, we come together," said State Patrol Chief Blaine Goff, after burial services at Memory Gardens Cemetery. "I think of him as a dedi cated officer who loved the State Patrol," Goff recalled of Nieland. "He was a fun-loving person who loved life and loved his work." During Monday afternoon's funeral at Our Redeemer Lu theran Church, the Rev. Rob Please turn to 11 A: Trooper

Julie Nieland and her 18-month-old son are embraced by an Iowa state trooper after the burial of her husband, Trooper Al Nieland.

Bad wiring
Cause of church fire found
A short in electrical wiring was the cause of a fire that destroyed a 119-yearold Tripoli church last week, Fire Chief Richard Milius said Wednesday. Fire investigators found a shorted ground wire Sunday while sifting through the remains of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Milius said. A passing motorist discovered the fire at 8:30 a.m. Although local fire departments arrived on the scene almost immediately, the church could not be saved. Milius said damages could total $200,000; the church was insured for $125,000.

Her life sounds like a movie to Barry Morrow

By Heather Sloman Woodln
Gazette Johnson County Bureau

Documents tie senators more closely to Keating

WASHINGTON (AP) Three senators under investi gation for their ties to Charles Keating, ex-owner of the failed Lincoln Savings and Loan, had more extensive dealings with him than they acknowledged publicly, Senate documents show. The Senate Ethics Committee documents detail efforts made by Democratic Sens. Dennis DeConcini of Arizona, Alan Cranston of California and Donald Riegle of Michigan on Keating's behalf. They also shed new light on some of Keating's fund-raising efforts. The committee's special counsel has recommended the probe of those three be intensi fied. He also proposed the in vestigation be dropped against Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and John Glenn, D-Ohio, the other members of the so-called "Keating Five." The documents, obtained by the Associated Press, show: Keating's fund-raising ef forts for Riegle were far more extensive than previously known, and some information in the documents does not match Riegle's account in state ments to the public and the committee. Cranston, in a memo, thanked Keating for a $250,000 contribution solicited by the senator for a voter registration project. At the same time, he expressed his pleasure that Keating met with the top thrift regulator to air his complaints about an examination of his S&L, Lincoln Savings and Loan of Irvine, Calif. DeConcini assisted Keating in his crusade to have former top thrift regulator Edwin Gray referred to by Lincoln's owner as a "mad dog turned loose" removed from the examination of Lincoln. After Gray left office, the senator wrote Keating, "Maybe things will change now that he is gone. I sure hope so." A former top U.S. banking regulator, Roger Martin, said that just weeks before the government seized Lincoln, he received "highly unusual" calls from Cranston and DeConcini at his unlisted home number urging sale of Lincoln rather than seizure. Cranston's call came after 10 p.m. and DeConcini's at 5:30 a.m. the next morning. "It sounded to me as if they were reading from the same script or memo," Martin told the committee.

INDEX
Abby Births Bonus Bridge City Briefs Classified Comics Crypto-Quote Daily Planner Deaths Deupree Doonesbury Editorial Horoscope 6B 2B C 5B 10C 3-10C 4B 10C 2A 2B 2A 5C 8-9A 7C Iowa News Legals Log Lottery Money Movies Nation People Puzzles Sports Stocks Super Quiz TV World B,C,D 11D 3B 2B 8D 5B A 12D 4B 1-7D 9-1OD 5B 5B A

OWA CITY Helene Scriabine's life story is filled with tragedy and triumph. It's a tale that started in the Soviet Union and ends in Iowa City. Oscar-winning screenwriter Barry Morrow thinks it would make a great movie. In Leningrad in 1941, Scriabine looked out her window and saw bombs dropped by Germans. She watched people die. She was separated from her husband and never reunited. "You cannot imagine," she said of the things she saw and the horrors she lived through. Scriabine's life had a good beginning. Her father was in the Russian parliament and the family was well off. But they lost it all during the Revolution. Things got worse during World War II. Somehow, Scriabine, now 84, found the strength to survive. She came to the United States in 1950 and ended up in Iowa City, where she founded the Russian department at the University of Iowa. Today she serves as unofficial ambassador to Soviets who visit Iowa City.. Morrow, a former Iowa City resident who now is a writer in California, met Scriabine seven years ago, while working on the television movie "Bill." He requested copies

Helene Scriabine
"Make (movie) quick. I'm not young" of the 11 books she has written, including diaries kept during the war. He talked to her about creating a movie, perhaps a television mini-series, based on her life. After "Bill" won an Emmy Award, Morrow went on to write "Rain Man," which earned an Academy Award.
Please turn to 11 A: Movie

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