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oun TOWNS STREAKING GLOWING REVIEW Local firefighters have nice, warm feeling about Backdraft People I ic News that matters to your neighbors and neighborhood Wings win third straight, 7-2, against Louisville I ID PARTLY SUNNY HIGH IN THE MID-80s DETAILS ON 10A 2 II SIX 35 CENTS NEWSSTAND ROCHESTER, N.Y. sunniSE EDITION He admits embarrassment, appoints panel move led to calls for his resignation, as well as protests in support of him. It also led to an investigation by the Democrat and Chronicle that revealed extensive and long-standing ties between RIT and the CIA, including the funneling of mil- lions of CIA dollars into RIT to fund By Jennifer Hyman Democrat and Chronicle Rochester Institute of Technology President M. Richard Rose announced yesterday he would suspend all personal ties with the Central Intelligence Agency and appoint a "blue-ribbon" commission to investigate RIT's extensive links with the clandestine agency. Until the commission reported, he said, he would have no further contact with the CIA and would refuse to consult with the agency.

Rose said he had considered resigning as president, but had been persuaded to delay a final decision until after he addresses the RIT community June 6. "I am the representative of an institution that has been severely damaged and I have a responsibility to do what I have to for the institution," he said. Rose sparked controversy on the RIT campus when he announced he was taking a four-month sabbatical to work as a consultant at the CIA's Langley, headquarters. His research, educational programs and training of potential student employees. Rose also announced yesterday that would take steps to "distance" himself and his office from Andrew Dougherty, his executive assistant and the chief liaison on the RIT campus.

authored the controversial wr Lawia Democrat and Chronic Rose at editorial board meeting yesterday. Editorial, 8 Biography box, 10A. seDsed! pirDsm the CIA and wrote a foreword to his ties with the CIA, or his ties TURN TO PAGE 12A Officials negotiate; armed guards go in The New York Times PINE CITY Inmates yesterday took over part of the prison for New York's most unmanageable convicts and held three guards as negotiations continued this morning. State correction officials, including Commissioner Thomas A. Coughlin III, conducted the negotiations at the Southport Correctional Facility.

Between 50 and 55 inmates were involved in the uprising, in which three other guards were injured. Union officials identified the three hostages as Kim Burgett, Mark Brown and Robert Tuttle. All three men are in their early 30s. State officials said that no deadline had been imposed on the talks. They said that they did not know exactly what had set off the trouble, in a recreation area at the prison, and that they would not discuss the inmates' demands.

They said the only deal they had made with the prisoners was that the inmates would be allowed to speak to a television crew once the hostages had been released. In a report addressed to the Department of Correctional Services earlier this month, IKtestacjes In state M. Richard Inside: I HS17S BfflEFS U.S. to challenge AZT monopoly The Associated Press WASHINGTON The National In-statutes of Health wants to break the monopoly on supply of the anti-ATDS drug AZT in hopes that competition will lower the price, officials said yesterday. NIH Director Bernadine Healy said the AZT patent should have named the National Cancer Institute as co-inventor with Burroughs Wellcome now the sole source of the drug.

That would enable NIH to license other companies to produce the drug. Healy said NIH and Burroughs Wellcome do not disagree significantly about the nature of their scientific contributions to the development of AZT, but they do about the patent-law consequences. Burroughs Wellcome now holds a patent on the use of AZT to treat AIDS, giving it a legal monopoly on the drug. The price of AZT treatment, currently about $3,000 a year, could be cut by one-half to two-thirds if the drug were made a generic one. Big bird on lam in Yates: 7-foot emu rushes off farm Democrat and Chronicle RUSHVILLE A 7-foot-tall emu a flightless bird resembling an ostrich escaped from a farm in this Yates County village yesterday and was last seen wandering near Route 247.

The 1 -year-old bird tore a comer off of a plastic fence at 11:20 a.m. and took off "like a streak of lightning, said a frantic Gisela Klinke, who was breeding it on her farm at 484 Middle Road. The birds weigh about 80 pounds and can run up to 35 mph, but are docile and can be easily captured, Klinke said. She asked that people volunteer to catch the wayward bird. Unfortunately for Klinke, law enforcement agencies will conduct emergency searches for lost people, but not a wandering emu, she said.

State bets that NFL lottery could add budget numbers The Associated Press ALBANY State lawmakers said yesterday they want to start a new lottery game this fall based on the scores of the three New York state teams in the National Football League. The game would be based on the scores of the Buffalo Bills, New York Giants and New York Jets games, said Claudia Huttoh, spokeswoman for Gov. Mario Cuomo's budget division. It's expected to raise $15 million for the state's depleted coffers. It would be run like the traditional office football pool, with a person selecting one of 100 squares that are assigned two numbers from one to 10.

If the person's numbers correspond with the final digits of the score, that would be a winner. Ramsey Clark to head panel to investigate LA police Los Angeles Daily News LOS ANGELES A coalition of civil rights groups is forming an unofficial "Grand Jury on Police Crime" to probe the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department. The move is being made in response to doubts about the independence of the Christopher Commission, which already is conducting an investigation, said a spokesman. The five-member "Grand Jury" panel will be headed by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, said lawyer Stephen Yagman, a coalition spokesman.

The panel, which also will include former New York police officer and reformer Frank Serpico and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles, will conduct a one-month investigation into police brutality, Yagman said. IFJSIBE CIA THE CAMPUS CONNECTION report, "Japan: 2000," for it in Rose's name. "He may have to sever 'l Amwtti L(n Dwnocral and Chronicle sinking a putt on the ninth green to win with partner Martha Foyer at Locust Hill LPGA players. Story, ID.

A 4a 7 -i- 8 I i he CIA's Dougherty Watch the birdie i 4 i fti it Eft 1 XX '(Juli Inkster is obviously pleased $fter the Procter Gamble Skins Game Country The'game featured 10 NEW YORK'S BUDGET DELAY ESssf S3 without a state budget Cost to taxpayers so far: The losers are: School districts and local governments paying interest on money borrowed to replace state aid. County governments losing planned Medicaid savings. The state not collecting planned new taxes and fees. The losses go up about $750,000 a day. Source: Gannett News Service Bush's water supply lobe tested for link to disease Seneca Co.

Seneca Lake Prisoners at Southport Correctional Facility seized hostages at about noon yesterday. Tompkins uo. iTioaa ICrt 224 IrlTi PennBylvanla Democrat ami Chronicie Prisoners' Legal Services listed a series of inmate grievances, which it said was based on 100 letters that the office had received during the time Southport was converted to a "maxi maxi." Southport, which was built as a prison, began to be transformed into a "maxi maxi" prison in Janu- TURN TO PAGE 12A The Bush family pet has lupus, which, like Graves', is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body's own organs or tissues. Bush expressed amazement that his water supply was being checked. Although his physicians have told him that "the odds against two people in the family having (Graves' disease) are 1 in 3 million," he said "many people live in the same house together, one of whom has thyroid.

So I'm not going to lose confidence in the water at the White House until we know a little more about this." Dr. Larry Mohr, one of Bush's White House doctors, said the tests were being conducted "largely to answer the kind of speculation that is being propagated right now." He added: "We think the probability of that being a cause of this is very small legislators agree i New York's history. The budget, for the state fiscal year that began April 1, is late for the seventh straight year. The tentative budget agreement would raise taxes by more than $1 billion for the third straight year. During that time, New York state has been battling persistent budget deficits.

The $51.9 billion budget plan would provide smaller reductions in state aid to schools, local governments and some other programs than requested by Cuomo. However, it would do so largely by reducing tax dollars going to support state agencies below the level sought by the governor. "Unfortunately, there's going to be a lot of pain to be shared by all of us in terms of operating government," said Miller. ocnuyier 1 96 1 CO. "M-i i 366 1 5 miles AXL A 96BJ Ml Ira i I viiviiiwiiu 1 Pine cl Elmlra Qity -vpJUj Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON Baffled by the extraordinary coincidence of both President Bush and the first lady developing Graves' disease, experts are analyzing the water supply at the White House, the presidential retreat in Maryland, the Bush vacation home in Maine and the vice president's residence, where the Bushes lived for eight years, the White House said yesterday.

The Secret Service has been asked to search for unusual levels of iodine and lithium, which have been associated in some instances with thyroid problems, Bush spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said during a briefing from Kennebunkport, Maine. Fitzwater said Dr. Charles Christian, a New York specialist, "has been asked to review the medical history of the first family, including Millie," the White House dog. BUDGET TOO LATE FOR ROCHESTER 10A REGENTS SCHOLARSHIPS GONE? 10A Meanwhile, Wall Street analysts warned that the new budget would have to be approved this week or the state's credit rating and that of the financially beleaguered New York City and other communities could be in jeopardy. Aides to Marino and Miller said budget approval was possible before the end of the week and Gov.

Mario Cuomo said that looked possible. For the ninth straight week, the Legislature approved emergency spending bills to pay state employees and a few other crucial bills in the absence of a state budget The budget delay is now the longest in 'We've got a top N.Y. BUSINESS 12D 8A EDITORIALS CLASSIFIED 4C 4B MOVIES COLUMNISTS 3C 2A N.Y. LOTTERY COMICS 5B 1D SPORTS DEATHS 2B 2C TELEVISION The Associated Press ALBANY Rank-and-file legislators got their first look yesterday at a tentative state budget deal that would raise taxes substantially even while slashing aid to schools and local governments. Legislative leaders said their colleagues appeared willing to accept what they had seen.

"I think we have an state Senate Majority Leader Ralph Marino said after a four-hour meeting with his Republican senators. "We've got a budget" State Assembly Speaker Mel Miller, the Legislature's top Democrat, said after an almost three-hour, private meeting with the Assembly's Democratic majority that his side was also ready to finalize the deal This newspaper is printed bO In part on recycled paper and is recyclable Copyright, 1991 Gannett Rochester Newspapers Five news sections 159th year III 18622 00021.

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