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WEEKEND SPORTS B1 'Cop Land' Ducks use iM connection Stallone's punch returns A Gannett Newspaper 501,100 Readers Daily Friday August 15, 1997 Final EditionEast 35 cents BUSINESS D12 Inflation fOITIclifiS undo? control A 1 NCINMTI ENQC Alb Yjb Plant fire sends workers scrambling Timothy McVeigh 'Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. i (.1 For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. -Taken from Justice Louis Brandeis' 1928 opinion McVeigh seems unrepentant BY STEVEN K. PAULSON The Associated Press DENVER Making no apologies and no plea for mercy, Timothy McVeigh was formally sentenced to death Thursday after borrowing the words of a Supreme Court justice to suggest the blame for the Oklahoma City bombing rests with the government itself. "Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher.

For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example," Mr. McVeigh said, quoting from a 1928 opinion written by Justice Louis Brandeis in a wiretapping case. Mr. McVeigh, standing before the judge in khaki pants, a tan shirt and orange prison shoes, spoke for less than a minute in clipped, rapid-fire tones, ending: "That's all I have, Your Honor." It was the first time he had spoken at any length in court. Across the courtroom, County demands agency's records PRO Seniors says lists are private BY LUCY MAY The Cincinnati Enquirer Hamilton County prosecutors Thursday pressed in court for release of client names and billing records from PRO Seniors as part of a grand jury investigation into how the non-profit agency billed taxpayers.

Attorneys for PRO Seniors argued that while the agency wants to cooperate', billing records could contain personal information about elderly clients that is protected by attorney-client privilege. But assistant prosecutor Jerome Kunkel urged Hamilton County Common Pleas judge Thomas Nurre to order PRO Seniors to turn over all the records that prosecutors had subpoenaed. "For them to hide behind that privilege, that gives them the license to steal," Mr. Kunkel said. The grand jury hasn't started work because it has no records, prosecutors say.

Judge Nurre said he could rule on the matter today. PRO Seniors provides legal services to county residents 60 and older under a contract with the Council on Aging. The council gets its money from a countywide tax. The grand jury probe appears to center on whether PRO Seniors billed the council for unauthorized services, thereby getting taxpayer dollars improperly. Mr.

Kunkel said PRO Se- (Please see SENIORS, Page A 10) V4 some of his living victims and relatives of the 168 people killed in the April 19, 1995, blast at the Oklahoma City federal building sat stone-faced. Others stared angrily. They heard no admission of wrongdoing, no remorse. Instead, they heard more of the same suggestions made by Mr. McVeigh's own lawyers at his trial that he blew up the building in retaliation for the deadly FBI siege at Waco, Texas.

"He was trying to justify," said Charles Tomlin, who lost his son Rick in the blast. "If the government could do what they did at Waco, then he could do what he done at Oklahoma City. "I don't think he is sorry," Mr. Tomlin said. "He did what he wanted to do and he got the results he wanted." day in state court will be closely watched because they strike at the heart of a long-running power struggle between doctors and health insurers.

"For a long time, physicians have taken issue with the fact that some health plans seem to be rather arbitrary about who is included or excluded from their panels Specialists sue health plan Anthem dropped doctors as approved providers 1 The Cincinnati EnquirerGlenn Hartong Smoke fills the afternoon sky Thursday as fire consumes a loading and storage area at Worthington Steel in Butler County's Monroe. The fire caused several million dollars' damage to the plant A worker and a firefighter were injured slightly. Story, Metro, D1 Mr. McVeigh recited only a portion of Justice Brandeis' opinion, a dissent the justice filed in the case of Olmstead vs. United States.

"If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy," Justice Brandeis wrote in a passage Mr. McVeigh did not quote. Mr. McVeigh, a 29-year-old decorated Gulf War veteran, was convicted in June of murder and conspiracy for using a truck bomb to blow up the nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S.

soil. The jury ordered death by injection, and by law U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch had to impose that sentence. of providers," said Dean, executive director of the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati. The lawsuits claim that Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield wrongfully dumped several prominent Tristate physicians from its networks, even though they had agreed (Please see SUITS, Page AlO) land, works now produce 1.4 million tons of coke annually, most, of the company's requirements.

AK Steel employs 550 in its coke-making operations, including 160 in Middletown, It is unknown whether a new coke battery would mean more jobs in Middletown, or whether one or more of the old batteries would be shut down. Coke, or baked coal, is a key ingredient in the plant's steel-making blast furnace. It supplies heat for melting iron ore -and separates impurities from the iron. AK is looking at a range of options from buying additional coke from outside sources to building new capacity, Mr. McCoy said.

Rebuilding an existing coke battery using current, technology could cost from $300 million to $400 million, while the new, non-recovery process costs about $150 million or so, he said. Although the Wilputte battery meets EPA pollution requirements into the next century, Mr. McCoy said the company is concerned that future EPA rules could jeopardize that status. Study: Spanked kids anti-social AK Steel mulls new coke plant Middletown could get facility BY TIM BONFIELD The Cincinnati Enquirer A handful of Cincinnati's best-known medical specialists have launched a legal battle against one of Ohio's biggest managed care health plans over who controls access to patients. Two related cases one filed last month in federal court and one filed Wednes UPS hints at compromise Negotiators for United Parcel Service and the Teamsters union resumed talks Thursday as the company hinted at new flexibility in bargaining to end the 1 1-day-old walkout AlO Second body found; 8 hikers missing The search continued Thursday for victims of a flash flood in an Arizona canyon.

A second body was found, and officials feared the eight missing hikers were dead. A13 at beach 'We are now able to show that when parents attempt to correct their child's behavior by spanking, it backfires. ing that goes under the eu- a child behaved two years and in an aggressive manner. After two years, Dr. Straus found that the children who were spanked showed an increase in antisocial behavior, including cheating and lying, being cruel to others, and having trouble getting along with teachers.

Of course, every child who is spanked does not engage in anti-social behavior, he said. Equally, there are children who are never spanked who do engage in anti-social phemism of spanking," said Murray A. Straus of the University of New Hampshire's Family Research Center, author of the study. "We are now able to show that when parents attempt to correct their child's behavior by spanking, it backfires," Dr. Straus said.

"In the study, the more they spanked, the worse Fossils reveal ancient day BY RICHARD A. RYAN Detroit News WASHINGTON Call it what you will a spanking, a swat or a whooping it is bad for kids and can lead to anti-social and even violent behavior in later years, a study published Thursday concludes. Because anti-social behavior in a child is associated with violence and other crime as an adult, "society as a whole, not just children, could benefit from ending the system of violent child-rear- WEATHER Storms return High 84Low 67 Showers and if' I thunderstorms are f4 I possible in the instate until evening. Some of I the storms could be strong. Details, back page this section INDEX Six sections, 157th year, No.

128 Copyright 1997, The Cincinnati Enquirer Abby E2 Obituaries D6 Business D12 Puzzles E5 Comics E4 Sports 81 Editorials A16 Stocks D7-11 Lotteries A18 The Talk E2 Metro D1 Tempo E1 Movies Weekend TV E3 Nation World A2.14 Classified B6, C2-12 1 1 footprints oldest tracks of modern humans four years The study involved 807 children ages 6 to 9. It is published in the August issue of the American Medical Association's Archives of Pediatrics Adolescent Medicine. "Spanking" included striking the child's bottom or hands or grabbing the arms searchers who announced the discovery Thursday. The smallish individual who ventured barefoot that rainy day was a black African, probably a woman about 5 feet, 4 inches tall, who "looked just like us," the researchers said. She lived in the same time and place as "Eve," the common genetic ancestor of every human.

The discovery, made in September 1995 north of Cape Town, is described in the September issue of National Geographic magazine and in the August issue of the South African Journal of BY MIKE BOYER The Cincinnati Enquirer AK Steel is pondering an investment of $150 million or more for a new-technology coke plant at its Middletown Works. Company officials said Thursday that no decision has been made, but Middle-town officials, shaken by the company's decision last year to build a $1.1 billion steel-processing plant in Rockport, were encouraged by the news. "I think this is great. It proves my faith in AK Steel," said Bob Lambert, a Middle-town city commissioner involved in an unsuccessful campaign to persuade AK to locate the processing plant in Middletown. Alan McCoy, AK Steel spokesman, confirmed the company is seeking an Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) permit to construct a so-called "non-recovery" coke plant, which burns off the pollutants given off using current technology.

"We're only in the study phase," he said. "We've not made a commitment to do it, or where to do it." The 45-year-old Wilputte coke battery in Middletown and two others at its Ash pn vV-'i BY KATHY SAWYER The Washington Post Footprints left on the sandy shore of a South African lagoon after a violent rainstorm some 117,000 years ago have been identified as the oldest fossilized tracks of an anatomically modern human ever found. The two prints, each measuring a petite 8V2 inches in length barefoot or about a 7 to 7la woman's shoe size represent a rare discovery from the poorly understood period of history when modern humans first appeared, according to re National Leograpi ihic SocietyKenneth Uariett Fossilized human footprints, possibly 1 17,000 years old, stand on the shore of Langebaan Lagoon in South Africa. ENQUIRER ONLINE;.