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1 1 ATP semis Chang faces Wheaton Stick faces Edberg Coffee costs help push up price index Business, B5 Michael Stich Sports, D1 01 IMNNAII IMER Mi JUL MB rp-n-Tr Overstocked ABOVE: Concertgoers gather hl i1i Wwa UU -ill" 1 vr. Friday at the North that went out of business solely because of our air pollution rules," said Roger Westman, Allegheny County air-quality division manager. Pittsburgh and Cincinnati have much in common: Both are industrial Midwest cities sprawling along river basins. Both have concrete saucers for sports stadiums. Both have been rated as the best place to live in North America by Places Rated Almanac.

Both also have been designated for several years as "moderate" non-attainment areas by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). But while Cincinnati faces being bumped up to "serious," Pittsburgh is asking the agency to recognize it has solved its problem. Pittsburgh officials attacked pol Michael Chang 64 i f7rfr yym The Associated PressAdam Nadel none in 1991 or 1992 and one each in 1993 and 1994. Cincinnati had eight violations in 1991, none in 1992, one in 1993 and two so far in 1994.

As few as two more violations through November 1996 could bump Cincinnati into the serious category. To avoid being bumped up, Tri-state officials are promoting mass transit with 50-cent bus fares. On "ozone alert" days, word goes out via fax to 100 businesses to take pollution-control action, and residents are urged to help by avoiding car trips and delaying lawn mowing. Pittsburgh's pro-active approach eliminated worries of ozone alerts. Compare the two approaches: Business controls The EPA requires factories, (Please see AIR, Page A4) Coming Sunday 24 hours of violence In Part Two of The Enquirer's six-month series examining challenges facing area children and their parents, Everybody's Children logs violence by and against Cincinnati children during a 24-hour period.

The Associated PressRobert Bukaty The and open can be Stage of Woodstock 94 in Saugerties, N.Y. "Frankly, we didn't expect so many people to come so soon," said John Scher, president of Polygram Diversified Ventures, co-promoters of the concert. "We had 30,000 here by midnight Thursday and the system we had set up didn't anticipate that many." Early Friday evening, state police ordered ticket sales suspended because of full parking lots, but promoters scrambled to find other lots and said ticket sales would resume. About 125,000 people had arrived by dusk. RIGHT: Though much of the scene was similar to its 1969 namesake concertgoers strolled the fields naked, wearing tie-dye and getting high there were some notable differences this time.

Bob Jesse of Dallas, who said he arrived at the concert virtually broke, uses an ATM machine. Story, A3 Oil Nothing else agreed to on first day out BY CHRIS HAFT The Cincinnati Enquirer and Enquirer news services While stadiums sat empty on the first day of the players strike, both sides in baseball's labor dispute agreed Friday to seek help from federal mediators. But they didn't seem optimistic that would bridge the wide gap that threatens to wipe out the rest of the season. Management negotiator Richard Ravitch and union chief Donald Fehr said they would meet separately with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service this weekend. "I don't know whether they're going to be of any help," Fehr said.

"All I can say at this point (is) I don't think any harm will come from it." Ravitch said he was "willing to accept help from any quarter whatsoever." But he said no progress would come until the players were willing to discuss a salary cap. Rob Dibble, the Reds player representative, said the move toward mediation was encouraging. "I think it's been the lack of communication over the last couple of years that has hurt both sides. We're as much to blame as they (owners) are," Dibble said. "Though we say our doors are open, our union's pretty tough and it sticks to its guns.

"If it takes a federal mediator, I'm all for it. I want to go back to playing and I want this thing settled. It's not something you want hanging over your head on a daily basis." Reds Chief Executive Officer Marge Schott refused to accept calls from The Enquirer. Club owners issued a gag order on themselves. The mediation service, a branch of the Labor Department, will listen Health bill overhaul foreseen Key Democratic lawmakers said Friday that the health care bill President Clinton is backing in the House faces major changes.

Debate of the bill was delayed, possibly until September. In the Senate, moderates worked to form a bipartisan bill. Story, A2 FINAL350 a (oj ODD Friday: Negotiators for players and owners met for two hours but announced no movement in the dispute. Next: Donald Fehr, the players' labor leader, and Richard Ravitch, the owners' chief labor executive, did agree to meet separately with a mediation service over the weekend. The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service will listen to each side's position, determine how seriously separated the sides are, then decide how to proceed.

No bargaining session is scheduled. In Cincinnati: Reds' player representative Rob Dibble hailed the mediator plan: "If it takes a federal mediator, I'm all for it." Reds owner Marge Schott refused comment. Ravitch advised owners not to talk. Games missed: 14 games, including Reds vs. Rockies in Colorado.

Inside Fans in withdrawal, A4 The issues, A4 Tim Sullivan: Fans part of the problem, D1 Ticket policy, D8 to each side's position and try to cajole them toward an agreement, but it is powerless to force a settlement. In 1981, mediator Kenneth Moffett was unable to get an agree-please see STRIKE, Page A4) Abuse case bungled, 2nd review agrees A second review of how Hamilton County's Department of Human Services handled a call about child abuse, in which the child later died, found the girl should have been removed from her home. The child, April Goodwin, suffocated. Her mother is charged with murder. Story, Bl reducing barriers to trade.

The American side also pledged that it would help North Korea obtain the new light-water nuclear technology and cover North Korea's interim energy needs. In a joint statement, the sides said those elements "should be part of a final resolution of the nuclear issue" but emphasized that "important issues" remained to be resolved. Negotiations are to resume here Sept. 23. Only passing reference was made to the pressing problem of 8,000 spent fuel rods in North Korea, which Pyongyang has argued must soon be reprocessed into plutonium to avert a possible accident.

The United States has urged that they be transferred to a third country. 1 1 1 1 -y yy yfyfi lution earlier and more fiercely than Cincinnati. Pittsburgh has: Tougher pollution standards for a variety of businesses. More money for enforcement of standards. Lower-polluting, reformulated gasoline.

Wider use of vapor-catching nozzles. Tougher emissions testing, first with tailpipe tests and now with treadmill tests. "Some people have argued that we didn't need to do these things, but if we didn't, we wouldn't be getting redesignated," Westman said. Cincinnati and Pittsburgh have had similar air problems. Pittsburgh had 15 air quality violations in 1988, but recorded State University, couldn't get demons off his mind, authorities said.

He couldn't sleep. He didn't eat. He thought his 48-year-old mother was a demon who must Brian Whitacre be exorcised to save him and his younger brother. Judge P. Daniel Fedders of Warren County Common Pleas Court determined that Whitacre is mentally ill and ordered him sent to the Dayton Mental Health Center, a maximum-security lockup, to receive treatment.

(Please see INSANE, Page A3) jttbritAtLdLiiJU'JiiftLi uyi'iIA" Pittsburgh gets clean-air jump on us Emissions testing, strict rules help solve problem BY TIM BONFIELD The Cincinnati Enquirer While Cincinnati tries in desperation to head off a growing air-pollution crisis, the people of Pittsburgh already have a similar problem under control. Pittsburgh has implemented many air-pollution controls that Cincinnati officials still are fretting about including tough pollution rules on business, expanded mass transit and auto-emission testing. The result: cleaner air without wrecking the city's economy. "I can't think of any business WEATHER Cloudy High 88" Low 68" Scattered clouds and sporadic showers this morning. Cloudy and thunderstorms this evening some may be severe.

Details, back page this section INDEX Five sections, 154th year, No. 126 Copyright 1994, The Cincinnati Enquirer Abby C2 Obituaries B4 Business B5 People C2 Churches Comics C10-12 C13 Puzzles C12 Sports D1 Editorials A8 Stocks B6-8 Lotteries A10 Tempo B1 TV CI Metro C9 Nation A2-3 Wheels El Classitied Printed on recycled newsprint using soy oil ink Killer thought his mother was a demon U.S., N. Korea make pact to end standoff New York Times GENEVA The United States North Korea agreed Friday to move toward establishing full diplomatic relations and other measures to settle their dispute over North Korea's nuclear ambitions. After a week of negotiations, North Korea said it would be prepared to its nuclear installations to international inspections and seal off a laboratory where spent uranium fuel be reprocessed into weapons-grade plutonium. It also said it would ready to replace its graphite nuclear reactors with the light-water reactors preferred by the United States.

The United States said it would be willing to end North Korea's isolation through diplomatic representation in Washington and Pyongyang and by Mason 21 -year-old ruled insane in clubbing death BY RANDY McNUTT The Cincinnati Enquirer LEBANON With no objection from prosecutors, a college student from Mason was found not guilty by reason of insanity Friday in the baseball-bat beating death of his mother. When Brian Whitacre attacked Cheryl Whitacre in their Buckeye Court home April 28, he thought he was killing a demon, authorities said at his murder trial in Warren Coun ty Common Pleas Court. Whitacre, 21, a junior at Wright JiAfAuftXIA-'bu'OJ' 3 4.