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Sabo wants to fly Orioles MBA matchup Knicks down Pacers, 94-90 to face Houston in finals Seagram rolls out the coolers to meet changing market Business Monday, D1 Ex-Red unhappy as reserve Sports, B5 Sports, B1 nPinnn INCINMTI EN sm FINAL35t SET 'y 1 7 wanted to do ii today for those who did not come back' ft 4l Clinton visiting invasion scenes Paratroopers re-create jump Enquirer news services SAINTE-MERE-EGLISE, France The first time around, they parachuted into the dark behind enemy lines, carrying rifles and heavy loads, certain of a hostile welcome. Sunday, they dropped gently into Normandy beneath multicolored parachutes and heard cheers instead of gunfire. Of course, there was one other difference. The 41 World War II veterans who re-enacted the parachute drop that launched the liberation of Europe 50 years ago Sunday night are older now, some in their 80s. But it took a brave nprenn tn stior- 2 w-o jllelili'-V ft gest that any one of them was past his best.

Fear? "No," Alfredo Sepul-veda, 74, of California, answered sharply, as if offended by the suggestion. "I'm in good shape. The wind blew me off course, and I landed behind some trees. But I'm fine. It was very good.

I'm glad I did it." Inside, A5 Photo of Gl endures Flotilla retraces invasion route Roundup of D-Day television coverage German veterans join local celebration Enquirer news services ON THE ENGLISH CHANNEL President Clinton, tracing the route of the D-Day invaders, sailed on Sunday to Normandy where he is spending today honoring the troops who stormed ashore 50 years ago to begin liberating Europe from the Nazis. At ceremonies on beaches and bluffs where the Allies battled for a toehold, Clinton is in the finale of D-Day observances that have attracted large numbers of British, Canadian and U.S. soldiers who took part in the invasion. Early today Clinton will visit Pointe du Hoc, one of the most dramatic scenes of D-Day. There, with machine gun bullets and hand grenades raining down upon them, 225 U.S.

Rangers scaled the 100-foot high rock wall to destroy German heavy guns that could have showered deadly rounds on invading Allied forces at the nearby beaches. Clinton will be flanked by D-Day veterans, hundreds of whom have returned with their families for an emotional visit to the spots where 155,000 Allied troops landed and more than 3,000 died. As the first president born after World War II, Clinton tapped veterans to introduce him at each stop in Normandy. Among them is Kenneth H. Bargmann, one of first Rangers to scramble to the top of the cliff at Pointe du Hoc.

Bargmann was chosen to guide Clinton around the memorial at the cliff for the president's first ceremony in Normandy. Clinton was later to appear at observances at the beaches now known by the code names given them by the invaders, "Utah" and "Omaha." His last appearance today is at the cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer where 9,386 Americans, killed during and after D-Day, are buried. Enquirer file photoMichael E. Keating Former Health Commissioner Dr. Stanley Broadnax, shown in court in February, faces drug-dealing charges today.

Witness veracity is issue Broadnax drug trial will begin today BY HOWARD WILKINSON 1 The Cincinnati Enquirer When the trial of former Cincinnati Health Commissioner Dr. Stanley Broadnax on cocaine-dealing charges begins this morning, it will center on a 28-year-old felon named Darren Jarmon. If the jury in the court of Common Pleas Judge William Morris-sey believes Jarmon's story of buying cocaine from the physician in January and February, Broadnax, 47, could be sent to prison for 16 years. Broadnax was charged in February with six counts of cocaine trafficking after a two-month investigation of the Regional En- forcement Narcotics Unit (RENU). Broadnax's attorney, John Bur-lew, asked Morrissey on Friday to delay the trial, but Morrissey denied the request.

Last month, Bur-lew filed a motion asking that Jarmon, the prosecution's key witness, be held in jail until the case came to trial and that a videotaped deposition in which Jarmon detailed the alleged drug buys be thrown out. Burlew later withdrew those motions. The jury might hear from Jar-i mon directly or see only the video-. tape. Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Longano said he has subpoenaed Jarmon to testify in the trial.

"If he shows up, I will call him to the stand," Longano said. Burlew could not be reached for comment, but Longano said he expects the defense will try to attack Jarmon's credibility. "They don't have to tell us what kind of strategy they will use, but (Please see BROADNAX, Page A7) K. V- 'V. Parachute failure made for a hard landing for one U.S.

veteran and capricious winds pushed others miles off course in the all-too-real recreation of the D-Day drop that freed the first village in France. At least two of the veteran paratroopers were injured in Sunday's jump in Normandy, neither seriously. Most of the pumped-up vets ranging from their late 60s to early 80s described the jump as a piece of cake, despite the shifting winds and their advanced years. "When you make a combat jump, you come out at 900 (feet), you're loaded down with ammunition, it's night and somebody's shooting at you," said Everett Hall, 74, of Kingston, R.I. "Why be afraid today?" James Rizzuto, 69, a veteran of the 82nd Airborne, said he accomplished what he had to when he first jumped into Normandy.

"I wanted to do it today for those who did not come back," he said softly, as friends crowded around to congratulate him. "I did it as a reminder." The old soldiers stole the spotlight Sunday as towns and villages across Normandy stepped up their commemorations of the 50th anniversary of D-Day in preparation for official ceremonies (Please see D-DAY, Page A4) The Associated PressPascal Guyot A U.S. veteran walks from a field after his jump Sunday near Sainte-Mere-Eglise as other veterans re-enacting the assault on Normandy drop in the background. Cincinnatian lies in France i TV Arthur J. Rector was one of the boys who never came back.

He is buried in Plot Row 13, Space 22, between Capt. Frank N. Fitch Jr. of California and Sgt. Romeo J.

Dumont of Rhode Island. In this place, rank knows no privilege. Except for the inscriptions, and the occasional Star of David, the white crosses are identical, and spaced evenly enough for an inspection. They represent a generation to whom sacrifice was essential, and a rare point in history when war could (Please see RECTOR, Page A4) draws, these little ravines that ran up the hill," said Nelson Park, an officer in Rector's unit who lives in California. "It was at the top of the draws that the Germans had their pillboxes and their heavy weapons.

Where Rector was killed was not far from where his tombstone is, between the cliff and that road." Military records show that of the 9,386 American servicemen buried at Colleville-sur-Mer, Rector is the only Cincinnatian who died on D-Day. Other local men were lost on the first day of the invasion of Normandy, but their remains were usually reclaimed by their families. D-Day casualty died trying to take heights BY TIM SULLIVAN The Cincinnati Enquirer COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France The remains of Arthur J. Rector rest close by the spot where he took his last steps. The American Cemetery of Normandy overlooks Omaha Beach.

It occupies the very ground Rector was trying to reach on June 6, 1944. "The only way you could get up the cliff was to penetrate these MWIUIU J. KKCrOK' f(C U) itNi' i niv Of HO ((INI-; 6 WEATHER Scattered showers The Cincinnati EnquirerPatrick Reddy Cincinnatian Arthur J. Rector's burial spot at the American Cemetery of Normandy at Colleville-sur-Mer. High 85" Low 64 Partly sunny today with scattered showers possible.

A chance of showers tonight. Tuesday, mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. kW'l" Industry knew smoking risks, papers show Details, back page this section INDEX Four sections, 154th year, No. 58 Copyright 1994, The Cincinnati Enquirer N. Koreans warned President Clinton renewed threats on Sunday to slap North Korea with sanctions, saying he would seek ways to do so even if the United Nations does not approve them.

Story, A2 Churches debate beer After Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk issued a call to review alcohol sales, an Enquirer survey found that Catholic church-festival patrons will see beer booths operating at least this year. Story, A6 not addictive and that cigarettes are not a proven cause of cancer or heart disease. Brown and Williamson declined to comment on specifics in the documents. Scott Ballin, chairman of the Coalition on Smoking OR Health, says the memos reveal tobacco industry strategy, which has been "to deny, deny, deny.

They clearly had a good idea that these products caused cancer, cardiovascular diseases and withheld that information." link between smoking and "ZEPHYR" an apparent code for cancer. That was seven years before the surgeon general's warning about health dangers of cigarettes. In 1962, Sir Charles Ellis of British-American Tobacco (BAT) opened an international research meeting, telling colleagues, "Smoking is a habit of addiction that is pleasurable." BAT is Brown and Williamson's British affiliate. Brown and Williamson CEO Thomas Sandefur testified before Congress in April that nicotine is rette maker Brown and Williamson reported that three German tobacco industry scientists had confirmed a Japanese study linking second-hand smoke to disease. It also reported a German's charge that the Tobacco Institute published criticism of the study knowing its criticism was wrong.

The memo says scientists intended to publish their findings, but changed their minds a few days later for unspecified reasons. In 1957, industry researchers met to discuss the statistical BY DOUG LEVY USA Today Tobacco executives knew more than a decade ago of research linking second-hand cigarette smoke to health problems, but the research was never published, suggest documents obtained by USA Today. The documents also add to evidence that the executives knew of cigarette dangers, including addiction, more than 30 years ago. The papers show: In 1981, a memo from ciga Abby C2 Obituaries A8 Business D1 People C2 Comics C4 Puzzles C5 Editorials A10 Sports B1 HealthScience D9 Stocks D8 Lotteries A12 Tempo CI Metro A6 TV C8 Nation A2-3 World A2 Classified B8.C7-16.D14 Printed on recycled newsprint using soy oil Ink.