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Batman comes to town DeBrosse's review Interview with Keaton Adam West is bitter Bat-questions answered Economy expands But growth may be deceptive a Reds beat Braves, 6-1 0 Hockey stars coming here Dumler, DeGroff Met finalists 12 hit Pik Six at R.D. BusincssB-7 Chinese mourning Cincinnatians honor dead MetroD-l Section TempoSection LLi Kim Basmger: Batman love Michael Keaton: Batman nnir FINAL35G MS ENQ Investigators: Rose bet on Reels I lilt mM.iw,,,,,., I I lam 1 The Cincinnati EnquirerGlenn Hartong Investigator John Dowd testifies before Judge Norbert Nadel that Baseball has evidence Pete Rose bet on Reds' games. "nrn A hi This job no joy for Dowd BY JOHN ERARDI The Cincinnati Enquirer Until John Dowd took the witness stand Thursday, his image among diehard Pete Rose fans was lareelv that of a cold, ruthless investigator who felt no compassion toward his subjects not even baseball legends with 4,256 hits. But that isn't what came out in court, or in a brief walk down Main Street after the hearing had adjourned for the day. "I grew up (in Boston) loving Ted Williams," said Dowd, after more than IV2 hours on the witness stand.

"I used to sit out in the left-field bleachers and watch the 'Splendid Splinter' play. I used to take the subway or the train in and go to Fenway Park It was a lot of fun." Dowd said Williams was a "hero," although Dowd was never one to collect autographs or memorabilia. "I inst- havp a prpat memnrv of him," Dowd said. The possibility that Dowd's investigation might topple a baseball star whose legend might be the greatest since Babe Ruth's gives the lawyer no exhilaration. "I have feelings, feelings of sadness," he said.

"It (the investigation) is very difficult. If you don't have feelings, you're like that piece of marble over there. I'm a human being too. "Human life is very fragile," he said. "Pete is a human being like me or everyone else.

He's done a lot, achieved a lot in his life and it's all very fragile. It's just hard, that's all. He has to live with it. I have to live with it. It's not fun." Dowd was asked whether the 1 1 investigation was more difficult because it involved a baseball star, rather than a former Pennsylvania congressman (Dan Flood) or organized crime figures, whom Dowd also has investigated.

"I don't know I've never compared them," he said. "They (the investigations) all take hard work." But is this investigation unique because it involves a player whose very name is synonymous with the national pastime? "There's no question about that," Dowd said. As Dowd a former Marine Corps officer, at least 6-4 walked down the street after court, a fellow dressed in the colors of Uncle Sam and bearing a sign in support of Rose shouted at him. "Pete Rose is an American hero!" Uncle Sam bellowed. "Give him a break! Give the kids of a America a break! Baseball's suffer- please see DOWD, Page A-10) Four sections 149th year, No.

75 Copyright, 1989 The Cincinnati Enquirer Sullivan Scoreboard-Baseball NationWorld fll Business I i the of Mi III lit Baseball's evidence piles up BY HOWARD WILKINSON The Cincinnati Enquirer Investigators have telephone records and betting slips in Pete Rose's handwriting to prove that he bet on Reds baseball games, the chief investigator for Major League Baseball said Thursday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. John Dowd, the private investigator hired by baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti to investigate Rose's gambling, testified in a packed courtroom that: A handwriting analyst has confirmed Rose's writing is on betting slips provided by bodybuilder Paul Janszen, who claimed to have placed Rose's bets with a bookmaker. An FBI analysis of the betting slips may show Rose's fingerprints on them. Samuel Dash testifies for Rose (Dowd said he has no knowledge of Rose's statement that the slips were altered.) Records of telephone calls from Rose's Riverfront Stadium office and hotels he stayed at on road trips match dates on betting slips and show "enormous phone traffic" during a three-month period in 1987 to Janszen and Ron Peters, a former restaurateur who says he was Rose's primary bookmaker.

One betting slip shows Rose betting on the Reds against the Montreal Expos April 9, 1987, in a game played in Montreal. Even though the Reds played Montreal the day before in Cincinnati, Dowd said that handwriting analysis shows Rose made the mistake on the slip. Dowd's testimony was the first public glimpse into a 225-page report and seven volumes of evidence that could lead Giamatti to ban Rose from baseball for life if he finds that Rose bet on games involving his own team. If Rose bet on other teams, he could receive a year's suspension. Rose attorney Robert Stachler countered Dowd's testimony with a surprise witness: Georgetown University law professor Samuel Dash, who gained fame 16 years ago as chief counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee.

Dash told the court that Dowd's report was "mostly inadmissible evidence and hearsay." "If (the report) had been given to me by any one of my investigators as chief counsel of the Watergate committee, I would have fired him," Dash said. Rose, who was managing the Reds in Atlanta Thursday, did not attend the hearing on his attorney's request for a temporary restraining order to stop Giamatti from conducting a hearing Monday into his alleged gambling. Judge Norbert Nadel will continue the court hearing at 10 a.m. today. (Please see ROSE, Page A-10) Legislators and scientific researchers hailed the department's decision to overturn a 25-year government policy that the records must be kept secret, and they predicted that it would help them determine whether workers at weapons facilities and civilian nuclear power plants could have been silently poisoned by radiation over the past 40 years.

The decision was disclosed in a (Please see NUCLEAR, back page, this section) I If A WHAT HAPPENED THURSDAY John M. Dowd told the court his investigation uncovered substantial evidence including telephone records, signed checks and betting sheets in Pete Rose's handwriting. Rose's lawyer Robert G. Stachler called three witnesses lawyer Robert Pitcairn' former state appeals judge George Palmer and Washington attorney Samuel Dash to support Rose's contention he's not getting a fair hearing. Dash, who was the chief counsel of U.S.

Senate's Watergate committee, attacked Dowd's report as one-sided. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT Pete Rose's legal battle against baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti could take a number of depending on what Judge Norbert Nadel Hamilton County Common Pleas Court decides: If Nadel denies Rose's request for a temporary restraining order blocking Giamatti from conducting a disciplinary hearing against Rose Monday in New York, Rose's lawyers could hurriedly file suit against Giamatti in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati and try to block it. If Nadel grants Rose's request, lawyers from Major League Baseball probably will have to go to Ohio's First District Court of Appeals and ask for the right to appeal Nadel's decision.

In Ohio, temporary restraining orders can't be immediately appealed. The Cincinnati EnquirerGlenn Hartong Thursday for the hearing. More than 1 00 people crowded into court mm Surprise witness of Watergate fame confronts Dowd A-10. Witness denies saying Rose bet on baseballA-10. Analysis: Rose fighting battle no one has ever wonA-11.

RosenotebookA-11. Profiles of hearing's key playersA-11. Media crowd courtroom; city and nation listen inA-11. Tim Sullivan: Rose should resignB-1 Jim Rohrer: Hometown suffering with RoseB-1. Health data of workers at nuclear plants unsealed Colon cancer drug hurried FDA shortens approval process for treatment Nation A-3-6, A-12 World A-7 Healthscience A-8 NYSE Mutual I Metro PI Tempo BY R.

JEFFREY SMITH The Washington Post WASHINGTON The Department of Energy, in a major shift, has agreed to make public the health records of 600,000 Americans who have worked at U.S. nuclear reactors and weapons facilities since the dawn of the atomic age. Scientists consider that data to be the best source of information on the risks of exposure to low levels of man-made radiation. Normally, a new drug is not made generally available until after evidence of its safety and effectiveness has been published in the medical literature where independent experts can examine it and sometimes spot flaws that invalidate the findings. The decision by the National Cancer Institute and the Food and Drug Administra- (Please see CANCER, back page, this section) officials would disclose how much time patients gain.

The added survival time is to be published later in a medical journal. Colon cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States, after lung cancer. The American Cancer Society estimates 107,000 new cases of colon cancer will occur this year, with 53,500 deaths. BY SANDY ROVNER The Washington Post WASHINGTON A new drug for patients with advanced colon cancer has been found effective enough in tests that the government has decided to make it available to the public before the study results are published. The drug does not cure cancer but appears to extend patients' lives.

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