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John H. ‘Trader' Clark shakes hands with UK President Charles
Wethington yesterday at UK’s Gluck Equine Research Center.

By Anne Jackson
Staff Writer

 

John H. “Trader" Clark, a well-
knowrr figure in the horse commu-
nity, announced yesterday that he
was donating a loo-acre horse farm
to IIK‘s Maxwell H. (‘rluck Equine
Research Center.

“I felt very sincere about wanting
to give something back to this in-
dustry," Clark said after the art-
nouncement.

“I thought, ‘What can l do to
help this business that‘s done so
much for me?‘ and it occurred to
me that we will continue to get
more viruses and equine diseases
that will require research.

“I can think of nothing better that
I can do that will have an irtrpact in
the future."

('Iark witnessed first-hand the
impact of equine research when he
worked on a UK committee several

i felt very sincere about wanting to give
something back to this industry.
—John H. ‘Trader’ Clark,

Local horseman

 

years ago to study a contagious
equine disease.

“He was asked to serve on the
committee with several veterinari-
ans here,“ said Deborah Taylor, ex-
ecutive director of the UK Equine
Research Foundation, “and he saw
the monetary value of equine re-
search in the horse industry."

Clark also has another tie to UK,
which influenced his decision to
give the farm to the Gluck Center.

He is a close friend of Albert G.
Clay, chairman of the UK Equine
Research Foundation and one-time
chairman of the UK Board of Trus-
tees.

Group seeks to aid farmers, earth

 

By Doug Saretsky
Staff Writer

 

In addition to preserving the envi-
ronment, a new Iexington-based
group is seeking to help Kentucky
taxpayers and farmers.

The Future Fuel & l‘iber Farmers
of America, or the 4~F Club, works
to raise awareness of alternative
sources of energy.

“We hope to create solutions for
failing family farms," said Dan
Wooten, 4-F’s founder. “We also
hope to help alleviate poverty in
Kentucky and the social ills that go
with it, such as illiteracy."

The group‘s latest initiative is an
atterrrpt to stop a proposed rate in”
crease sought by Kentucky Utili—

ties. the CHI]-
parry seeks to
increase rates
to pay for co'rl
scrubbers
mandated by
the I 'edcral
Clean Air Act
of 1990.

The scrub-
bers are in-
stalled in WOOTEN
srnokestacks to
reduce harmful emissions of sulfur
and carbon dioxide produced by the
coal KU burns to make elecu icity.

Wooten and 41' suggest KII burn
clean-er fuels like wood pulp.

“If we convert to pulp and wood
wastes, we will not need scrubbers,
zurd we can also give fanners a bil-

 

lion‘dollar crop," Wootert said.

The new method of energy gen-
eration would save Kli the $241.6
million dollars that would have
been used to install coal scnrbbcrs,
he said.

In addition to cleaning the air, 4—
1’ hopes to aid Kentucky farmers by
ruaking them aware of potential err-
ergy-yielding crops like hemp and
soybeans.

Hemp first was used in colonial
times to produce goods like paper
and rope. Because the plant was be-
ing used as a recreational drug, it
was made illegal by the United
States govenrment itr 1937.

live years later, though, the US.
Department of Agriculture encour-
aged farmers to grow hemp to aid
wartime efforts.

Wooten stresses that the hemp
that 4-F is discussing cannot be
used as a drug.

“The hemp we‘re talking about
contains less than .03 percent THC,
so it produces no recreational ef-
fects," he said. “We would not
have to change any drug laws."

Wooten said one acre of hemp
cart produce as much paper as four
acres of trees.

He also maintained that hemp is
completely capable of replacing
fossil fuels as a means of creating
energy and can halt the process of
soil erosion.

Many of the world‘s nations al-
ready use hemp as a viable energy

See GROUP, Back Page

His choice was rooted in nostal-
gia, as well. Clark was born in a
house on Virginia Avenue in 1919.

According to the terms of the
gift, Clark may use the farm until
his death or may opt to give it up
earlier if he wishes to do so.

Though Taylor said the farm it-
self bears no intrinsic value for UK
at the present time, he said it repre-
sents a sizable gift.

The current value of the property,
located in eastern Woodford
County, is $897,500. and Taylom
said it “will do nothing but go up."

Clark, who has bred, raised,and
sold horses since 1939, got his start

 

in the industry at 15. when he start-
ed writing about standardbreds for
the Lexington Leader.

He also has written on the topic
for other newspapers and several
racing publications, and published
Trader Clark — Six Decades of
Racing Lore in 1991.

When he was 20. Clark began his
career as a horse trader. In equine
circles, he soon earned the nick-
name, “Trader.” as well as a system
of buying and selling.

Instead of holding out for the
highest possible price, he quickly
bought and sold horses, thus in—
creasing tumout and profits.

Clark also served as president of
the Thoroughbred Breeders of Ken-
tucky during the 19605 and was di~
rector of the Thoroughbred Club of
America.

lie is interested in polo, as well,
and served as chairman of the rules
committee of the US. Polo Associ-
ation for 10 years.

 

 

By Melissa Rosenthnl
Staff Writer

A Student Government Asso-
ciation Senate committee up
gloved a bill lat night tha
would give the SGA president
lirre~itorn veto power over bills

 

 

Senate committee
OKs line-item veto
for SGA president

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tions of a bill without warning
the bill itself entirely.
"lhisisteellynotanissueof
power,"said Ken Luthy, Nation-
al issues Form: chairman. “This
is just mother check in the sys-
tem of chads and balm.”
Luthy said that giving the
president this option, many new

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Nightmare
may await
in Korea,

Perry says

By John Diamond
Associated Press

 

 

WASHINGTON —- Presi-
dent Clinton’s choice for de-
fense secretary told the Senate
at his confinnation hearing
yesterday that the United
States faces a possible “night-
mare scenario“ in Korea.

William Perry, now the No.
2 man at the Pentagon. said
the end of the (‘old War lras
not eliminated the military
threats facing the United
Smws

“Old threats can still pose
new dangers to peace and se~
curity — I refer to the poten-
tial for conflict on the Korean
peninsula," Perry told the
Senate Armed Services (Tom-
mittee.

“The prospect of the rogue
regime of North Korea acquir-
ing a nuclear weapons capa-
bility to add to their massive
conventional forces is emble-
ntatic of proliferation prob-
lems we face," Perry said.

Perry said the United States
is pursuing aggressive “diplo-
matic efforts to deal with this
nightmare scenario," and said
the presence of 100,000 US.
soldiers, sailors and airmen in
the Western Pacific serves as
adeterrent.

In Russia, Perry predicted,
the path to democracy and sta-
bility will be “rocky and
twisted." He said that the
Clinton administration hopes
to use diplomacy in pmmot-
ing Russian democracy.

The main challenge facing
the defense secretary, Perry

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Billiards expert Mike Massey demonstrates some of his
trick shots yesterday at Cardinal Hill hospital.

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Pool pro cues up for tourney

 

By Stephen D. Trimble
Staff Writer

 

All the experts agree: Don‘t
play pool with Mike Massey.

Massey, a world class pool
player, preacher and crowd-
pleaser, can make the eight-ball-
in-the-comer-pocket shot as easily
as he can drain seven balls with a
single cue stroke.

While some pool players sung-
gle making the cue-stick meet the
cue-ball. Massey sets his stick
down artd snaps it between his fin-
gers for an easy hole-in~one.

Massey and several of the
world‘s other top pool players are
in Lexington this weekend for the
All-Star Championships Pool
Toumanrent today through Sunday
at the Continental Inn.

The toumament’s total purse is
$48,000.

Yesterday, Massey, the 16th-
ranked player on the national cir-
cuit and the 1992 world trick shot
champion, staged an exhibition of
his talents in a benefit at the Cardi-
nal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital in
Lexington.

With shots liked The Woody-
woodpecker, The Banana and The
Hustle bank shot, Massey awed
the crowd with unbelievable per-

forrnances.

In one shot. called The Football,
Massey lined up Buffalo Bills run-
ning back Thurman Thomas
(aka. the nine ball by the left side
pocket) and rocketed him through
Dallas’ double-lined defenders to
the opposite hole.

Too bad for the Bills that Thomas
could not match Massey‘s work.

Massey then plucked Nick Shio-
saki, 13, from the audience and
showed him how to sink four balls
at one time.

Shiosaki managed to sink only
three of the four but was hardly
disappointed by the opportunity.

“Pretty exciting," Shiosaki said
of his first triple-sinker.

Lexington is just one stop on a
list of destinations Massey has
planned. This week he returned
from a 10-week stay in South Afri-
ca and three-week run on Europe.

He will fly out to Beijing next
week.

Massey began playing pool at
the age of 13 and, with a little nat-
ural ability aiding him, “fell in
love with it."

After perfecting his skills
through high school and a tour of
duty in the military, he began trav-
elling the country, hustling and
gambling unsuspecting pool
rooms into banknrptcy.

The lifestyle began to take its
toll on Massey, but he found
peace far from his favorite pool
hall.

“I got in bad shape, became a
Christian and then I got in good
shape,“ he said.

Massey quit the game for a
short period, but returned to it
once more and began preaching at
churches, prisons and detention
homes — sharing his testimony
and showing his tricks.

When the pool toumamcnt cir-
cuit developed in the early l98()s,
Massey entered the professional
ranks and now travels with his
wife 11 months of the year. play-
ing pool and sharing the gospel.

Massey also has worked as a
technical adviser in movies like
“Baron and the Kid." starring
Johnny Cash. He has even written
his own screenplay of a pool-
playing preacher who hustles for
the poor.

“He hustles the greedy to give
to the needy." Massey explained.
“Sort of like Robin Hood."

But in a twist, the hustler gets
hustled. Watch the movie to find
out the rest, Massey said.

Pool has now surpassed even
bowling, Massey noted. as the

See POOL, Back Page

 

 

Clinton weighs ties to Vietnam

 

By Nancy Benac
Associated Press

 

WASHINGTON »- - It is one of
the quirks of history that it could
fall to the president who came of
age as a Vietnam war protester to
undo a remnant of the war's legacy
of distrust.

“This is an issue for the present
day." President (‘linton said
Wednesday as be weighed recom-
mendations to lift the US. trade
embrrgo agimt Vietnam.

t

Aides said the president was pre-
paring to lift the 19-year‘old ban,
urged on by US. businesses and en-
couraged by Vietnam‘s cooperation
in helping resolve questions about
unaccounted-for American soldiers.

bogged during the presidential
campaign by questions about how
he avoided the Vietnam draft, and
shadowed in office by strained rela-
tions with the military, Clinton
would like nothing better titan to
put the war behind him.

He rejected suggestions tint his
pm would make the decision politi-

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cally more difficult. saying. “We
just have to do what's right." Yet
because of who he is — and was -—
the decision could carry special
risks.

One administratim official.
speaking only on condition of ano-
nymity, expressed a fear that “this
issue’s going to eat us alive."

Such concems persist although
the president got some political
cover when the Senate voted last
week to support lifting the ember-

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Somali shootout questioned

Witnesses say Marines fired first

 

By Thomas Wagner
Associated Press

MOGAI)ISHU, Somalia — Evi-
deuce is emerging that the deaths of
eight Somalis in a shootout involv-
ing US. Marines might not have
happened except for the poor coor-
dination among the 25,000 foreign
soldiers in Somalia.

The Marines say their convoy
was returning fire from snipers
when it drove around a corner and
encountered an unexpected crowd
of people waiting for a food hand-
out.

They say some of those Somalis
had rifles and also began firing.

Somali witnesses offered a differ-
ent version of Monday's shooting.
They said there were no snipers and
that the Marines did not fire until
they came upon the crowd and pan-
icked after mistaking the people for
a mob trying to waylay the convoy.
They said some Somalis then shot
in self-defense.

US. officials said the Marines
did not know Saudi peacekeepers
were at an aid center handing out
food. an event sure to draw a crowd

 

in Somalia's war-wrecked capital.
The convoy could have taken a dif-
ferent route through the area, which
the Americans consider one of the
most dangerous in Mogadishu.

Despite criticism from relief
workers and other UN. troops, Sau-
di soldiers often distribute free food
without notifying the UN. com-
mander or relief agencies. said Uli
Schmid, a supply officer for the
World Food Program.

That is what happened Monday.
when hundreds of people lined up
in the street outside a distribution
center waiting to get flour, sugar
and dates.

The commander of Saudi Arabi-
an troops in Somalia, Col. Ali Al-
ghamdi. conceded yesterday that a
crowd jammed the street outside the
food center.

But he scoffed at the idea the
Saudis should warn other peace-
keepers before giving out food.

“We‘ve never had any problem
doing this before, and I have never
heard any complaints," he said in
an interview.

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amred men guarding the Saudi food
trucks joined in the shooting after
the Marines began firing machine
guns and grenade launchers.

He said none of his soldiers or
their Somali guards fired any shots.

No relief agency transports food
in Mogadishu without hiring Soma-
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cause the streets are full of bandits
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In addition to the Saudis not in-
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unit of 150 Bangladeshi peacekeep-
ers guarding a nearby traffic circle
saw the crowd in the street but ap-
parently did not report it.

Even if they had, the Americans
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word in time.

The 22 Marines in the convoy of
three Humvees and two cars are un-
der American direction and are not
part of the UN. peacekeeping
force.

Last month, the departing UN.
commander, Lt. Gen. Cevik Bir of
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forts would not succeed unless na-
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Early in the multinational inter-
vention, Italian troops were criti-
cized for referring all UN. orders to
Rome for approval. Other coun-
tries' troops also have acted inde-
pendently of the United Nations.

That failing in coordination has
been lamented by relief workers.

On Jan. 25, the World Food Pro-
gram stopped shipping food outside
Mogadishu after complaining that
troops from Saudi Arabia, Moroc-
co, Italy and India were not protect-
ing its trucks.

It said many soldiers assigned to
guard its trucks, especially from
Saudi Arabia, often failed to show
up or abandoned them on the road.

“Lack of coordination in the UN.
escort forces has brought our food
convoys out of Mogadishu to a
standstill," said Schrnid, whose
agency trucked 43.800 tons of food
from Mogadishu to other areas of
Somalia last year.

“The many different armies are
only loosely coordinated, and that is
the source of many of the UN.'s
problems here," he said.

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said, is the decline of defense
spending at a time of world insta-
bility.

“Historically, we have not
managed well such budget de-
clines," Perry said. “This time we
must get it right or we will pay
the cost later. either in blood or
treasure or both."

On Korea, Perry said he sup-
ports sending Patriot missile sys-
tems to South Korea but said a fi-
nal decision by the president is
awaiting consultation with the
South Korean government.

The Patriots are defensive mis-
siles designed to deflect or de-
stroy enemy ballistic missiles.
but North Korea has strongly ob-
jected to the proposal to send the
Patriots.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz..
while supporting the Perry nonri-
nation, accused the administra-
tion of pursuing “a policy border-
ing on appeasement" with North
Korea.

McCain said that given the
choice between the carrot and the
stick, the administration is overly
prone to the carrot in its dealings
with North Korea.

“I have no objection to car-
rots," Perry replied.

 

“And there are sticks down-
stream also. I'm not anxious to
precipitate the use of sticks."

The Senate also has been voic-
ing increasing alarm about ten-
sions in Korea and the need to
stem the violence in the former
Yugoslavia

On Korea. the Senate yester-
day overwhelmingly approved
two amendments that seek inter-
national sanctions against North
Korea and a renewed U.S. nucle-
ar presence on the Korean penin-
sula.

Asked about whether the Unit-
ed States should continue to
press for human rights reforms
in China or seek China‘s support
in dealing with North Korea,
Perry said North Korea had to
have priority.

Softening the pressure on hu-
man rights in China would “pale
in comparison with the prospect
of a nuclear war on the Korean
peninsula," Perry said.

Perry, the soft-spoken, book-
ish mathematician known in the
Pentagon as the “Godfather of
Stealth," brought his family be-
fore a welcoming and receptive
committee.

Perry was nominated to re-
place outgoing Defense Secre-
tary Les Aspin after Adm. Bob-
by Inman was offered the job by
Clinton but then backed out.

 

 

Muslim heads of state
Visit besieged Sarajevo

 

By Strecko Latal
Associated Press

 

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-
Herzegovina — As Serbs fired
from surrounding hills, Benazir
Bhutto and Tansu Ciller — women
who beat the odds to lead Muslim
nations — came to Sarajevo yester-
day to comfort its besieged resi-
dents.

After a brief visit to the capital
defended by Muslim-led forces,
prime ministers Bhutto of Pakistan
and Ciller of Turkey appealed to the
world to act decisively to the 21-
month-old war.

Turkey and Pakistan have been
among the strongest backers of
Bosnia’s Muslim-led government,
whose troops are fighting a desper-
ate battle against better-armed Bos-
nian Serbs and Bosnian Croats.

“Rarely in the annals of human
history has a nation been subjected
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Ciller said in a joint statement.

“We who live in peace take life
and peace for granted," Bhutto said
later. “In Sarajevo, we saw shat-
tered people, a shattered city and
shattered lives."

Elsewhere in the city, at least five
people were killed by Serb shelling
yesterday.

Bhutto later called for air strikes
against Bosnian Serbs and exempt—
ing the Slavic Muslim-led govern-
ment from a UN. arms embargo
imposed on former Yugoslavia. She
spoke in Zagreb, Croatia.

Bosnia‘s Muslim president. Alija
Izetbegovic, said the two were
ready to give “material and other
help to our country. I thank them
for that.”

He was not specific.

The visit was welcomed by most
Sarajevans. regardless of religion or
nationality. Many Bosnian Croats
and Serbs remain loyal to the Mus-
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Sporadic gunfire sounded from
the Serb-held hillsides surrounding
the city as Bhutto and Ciller arrived
at the downtown Bosnian presiden-
cy building. A crowd of about 150
braved the dangers of the open
street to cheer the two premiers and
shout “Bosnia, Bosnia!"

“Turkey and Pakistan are our
biggest friends," said Mustafa Ju-
sufbegovic, 70, a Muslim in the
crowd.

Two women burst into tears as
they tried to get close to the en-
trance of the presidency building.
“I’m crying because I’m hungry,
I'm on the street, I'm cold, and all I
want is peace," said Rabija Besic.

The two visitors visited for four
hours, but Bhutto said the brief stay
was “cruel” and left them “emo-
tionally exhausted."

She said UN. Secretary General
Boutros Boutros-Ghali should ap-
prove air strikes against Bosnian
Serbs defying UN. aims — some-
thing that NATO says it’s ready to
do with UN. approval.

She also urged Boutros-Ghali to
exempt the Bosnian government
from the arms embargo imposed on
all warring parties, and said “the
United States should take the lead
in lifting of the embargo."

The United States favors lifting
the embargo on the Muslims.

The Pakistani leader said that
during a visit to a hospital she was
“struck by how tiny the babies
there were."

Earlier, in their joint statement
before leaving Sarajevo. the two
denounced the “appalling human
tragedy being enacted in the heart
of a continent that prides itself on
its commitment to human rights
and respect for human dignity."

War broke out iii April 1992
when Bosnia‘s minority Serbs,
armed by the Serb«led Yugoslav
federal army, launched a violent
grab for territory after the repub-
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NEW YORK -— The family of a
lawyer who successfully sued the
firm that fired him after he contract-
ed AIDS filed a $10 million lawsuit
Tuesday accusing the movie “Phila-
delphia" of stealing his story.

The family of the late Geoffrey
Bowers sued 'l‘ri-Star Pictures, di-
rector Ionathan Demme, producer
Scott Rudin and others associated
with the movie.

The suit was filed in US. District
Court in Manhattan.

“We made the mistake of trusting
people," said Dana Bowers, one of
Geoffrey’s brothers. “They be-
trayed us."

Lawyer Daniel Felber said Geof-
frey’s brothers, Danna and Charles.
and their mother, Albena Bowers,
all of Medford, Mass, shared their
memories with people involved in
the film with the understanding that
they would be paid and that Geof-
frey Bowers would be mentioned in
the credits.

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They said a dollar figure was
never agreed upon, and that they
thought negotiations were still in
progress until the movie came out.

Tri-Star spokesman Ed Russell
denied that “Philadelphia" was the
story of Geoffrey Bowers.

“‘Philadelphia‘ is a fictional story
which addresses a regrettably recur-
ring theme of AIDS discrimination
in this country," Russell said in a
statement issued on behalf of him-
self. Demme and Rudin. “Tn-Star
pictures is very proud of ‘Philadel-
phia,‘ and there is no merit to the
lawsuit. We are confident we will
be vindicated."

Tri-Star has said the movie was
inspired by dozens of cases, includ-
ing that of Clarence Cain, a senior
attorney with Hyatt Legal Services
in Philadelphia who was fired seven
years ago after he learned he had
AIDS. He sued for discrimination,
won $157,000 in 1990, and died
two months later.

Geoffrey Bowers died at age 33
on Sept. 30, 1987, two months after
testifying before the New York
state Division of Human Rights.

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Last December, the state ruled that
Bowers' former employer, the New
York law firm of Baker and
McKenzie, had discriminated
against him.

Charles Bowers said that Rudin
contacted him about a movie deal in
October 1988, and Darna Bowers
said “Philadelphia" contained doz-
ens of similarities to their brother's
life and personality.

Besides the discrimination case,
the movie recreated conversations
and events that only could have
emerged from hours of “highly per-
sonal and extremely emotional" in-
terviews with Bowers' loved ones,
Felber said.

"line family‘s attorneys said Ru-
din sold the movie rights to Orion
Pictures. In December 1991. Tri-
Star acquired Orion’s rights in
bankruptcy court.

“We went to see my brother’s
story, standing out in the cold wait.
ing to buy a ticket like everybody
else," Charles Bowers said. “It
seems like they're saying, ‘Little
guy. go away.‘ That hurts."

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Company buys rundown theater

 

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Associated Press

 

NEW YORK —— People who
measure entertainment value by the
number of “Xs” on the marquee
may have to direct their feet to an-
other street.

The Walt Disney Co. is coming
to 42nd Street to restore a decayed
theater and bring live family enter-
tainment back to a precinct of por-
nography.

So eventually the real “Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs" may
be seen on the titillating thorough-
fare, as Mickey and Minnie and
their gang elbow out the Buxom
Berthas and Sizzling Susans of the
world.

Disney will put up $8 million and
borrow $21 million more, at 3 per-
cent interest, from the city and
state, to reopen the New Amster-
dam Theater for productions adapt-
ed from favorite Disney features
and original stage productions.

“Often where we go, people will
follow," said Michael Eisner, Dis-
ney’s chairman. “We'll see 42nd
Street becoming the Great White
Way that it was."

“This was a sewer and everybody
knew it, right in the heart of New
York City," Cuomo said.

“Now 42nd Street‘s going to be
back. You‘re going to get rid of the
filth and bring back the old values.
People are going to bring their kids,
imagine!"

Vincent Tese, Cuomo‘s econom-
ic development director, said the
deal, which was half a year in the
making, will create 490 jobs worth
$16.9 million during the two-year
restoration phase.

“Then when the theater reopens,
there will be 385 jobs and a direct
impact of $53.1 million a year, not
counting shopping and dining that
will be generated," Tese said.

New York City will realize $4.1
million a year in tax revenue, he
said.

But will the street be safe?

“Absolutely," Giuliani said.

The recession and softening of
real estate sank a grandiose redevel-
opment planned in the 1980s

around giant office towers that were
never built.

But under a revised plan for
mixed entertainment and retail use,
a cleanup already has begun.

“By the time this place opens, it
will be a jewel in a necklace that‘s
already formed." Cuomo said.

The New Amsterdam and several
other theaters on the street just west
of Broadway once staged opulent
musical revues and plays.

But about the time of World War
11 they became movie houses, final-
ly surrounded by smut-peddling
storefronts and menacing street life.
An art nouveau palace. the New
Amsterdam opened in 1903 with a
production of “A Midsummer
Night’s Dream"

It was tlne home of the Ziegfeld
Follies from 1913 through 1927 and
its last live presentation, in 1937,
starred Walter Huston in “Othello."

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The answer, of course, is Life of Agony. With the
band‘s new release, River Runs Red, this New York
City quartet fuses the Alice in Chains/STP/Danzig
vocal bowling with Biohazard's gang choruses and
street-smart grooves. and Fudge Tunnel‘s immense-
ly thick slabs of steroid-laced riffs.

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frightening.

The album opens with “This Time," fueled by an
intense wall of guitars and effective tempo changes.
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