7/23/2019 Coach Mac Pats http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/coach-mac-pats 1/1 METRO: LEGISLATURE CHAIRMAN GIVES UP GHOST ON ROCKWELL JAIL SITE B 1 MONDAY JANUARY 7. 1991 ®1991 The Herald Company 30 CENTS SYRACUSE, N.Y. LOCAL STOCKS HIT BY DOWNTURN, GULF Syracuse Portfolio s value falls nearly 20 percent in 1990. Try to guess how it will perform over the next three months. Contest begins today. C1 IS IT A YAM OR A SWEET POTATO? You ll like this versatile vegetable in a number of recipes, no matter what you call it. .D1 BENGALS, BEARS LOWER BOOM QB Boomer Esiason leads the Cincinnati Bengals to a rout of Houston and the Chicago Bears beat New Orleans in the NFL playoffs. SOVIETS TO GET STATE-OWNED LAND Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev orders the distribution of state-owned land to private farmers n an effort to stem the country s food shortages. B5 U.S. Seizes Banks Owned By Bank of New England 'Banks owned by Bank of New\ England Corp. were seized by the federal government in three states Sunday night. Th e chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said the government is negotiating o sell th e banks with government assis- tance. The cost of the bailout w as estimated at $2.3 billion, placing t among t he largest rescues in the agency's history. . The FDIC said customers, even those with deposits greater than the $100,000 federal insurance limit, will have full access to their accounts/A-3. FLURRES POSSIBLE Partly sunny with a light wind and possible flurries. Tonight: cold/A-Z MGK25 LOW.vO Lotiery/A-2 Movtes/D-5 Obituaries/i-4 Readers Pg./A-7 Sports/E-1 Tetevfeton/M Business/C-1 Classified/M Comics/M Editorials/A-* Food/D-1 Local News/B-1 162nd YEAR, NO. MacPherson to Leave SU NFL's Pats Poised To Hire Coach ByDONNIEWEBB The Post Standard The New England Patriots have called a major news conference for 10 a.m. today n Fqxboro, Mass., where they are expected to name Syracuse University's Dick MacPher- son as head coach of the troubled National Football League franchise. , A 'spokesman for the Patriots would no t confirm that MacPherson had been selected as the team's fifth coach in 10 years, but word of the impending selection raced across New England after Boston Globe columnist and NBC-TV analyst Will McDonough announced the choice Sunday during the NFL playoffs pregame show. In typical MacPherson style, one story making the media rounds Sunday night was that the Rev. Norman MacPherson actually broke t he story by announcing Sunday morn- ing to his congregation at St. Joseph's Church in Old Town, Maine, that the next coach of the Patriots would be his brother. MacPherson became much more than a coach to many Syracusans. He was a spokes- man for the city and the game of college football. He participated frequently in local charities, plugging causes at his Monday news conferences and becoming one of the city's most popular citizens. MacPherson's salary is expected to take a significant hike with the Patriots, who paid fired coach Rod Rust more than $300,000 pe r year an d former coach Raymond Berry about $550,000 per year. Syracuse Univer- sity paid MacPherson $116,543 for 1988-89, according to U.S. Internal Revenue Service documents, but his estimated salary was 'believed to be around $250,000 with the addition of camp, television a nd endorsement revenues. MacPherson is expected to get a three- to five-year deal from the Patriots, who undoubtedly will add incentive clauses to the contract. But the total might be tempered because the Patriots still must pay Rust for • MacPherson described scenario or leaving, then followed it/E 1. Possible replacements/E-5. • Players, fans react to news/E-5. • Mac s record, career highlights/E-5. three more years, and general manager Patrick Sullivan, wh o also is rumored to be on the way out, still has several,years remain- ing on his contract' MacPherson could not be reached for com- ment, bu t Syracuse freshman running back Terry Richardson said he was told by assis- tant coach Bob Casullo on Sunday that the head coach of the Orangemen w as leaving. Another Syracuse assistant coach, who did not wish to be named, said MacPherson phoned the staff Sunday morning and told them he was taking the Patriots' job. Th e coach said athletic director Jake Crouthamel later phoned the coaches with the same news. (See PATRIOTS, Page A-4) STEPHEN D CANNERELLI/Tha Post-Standard Syracuse football coach Dick Mac* Pherson reportedly will take over the ailing New England Patriots. Horsing Around C.W. MCKEEN/Ttw Post-Standard Driver Grady OHerlen of Munnsville takes visitor* on a winter snow ride through Highland Forest Sunday. The wagon from Maple Hedge Livery isdrawn by two Percheron horses, Buddy and Christine. Today s weather shoud be partly sunny with • possible flurry and a high of 25 degrees, dipping to 0 to 5 degrees tonight. Appeals Court to Hear DES Exposure Lawsuit By MATTHEW COX lb ny ureau N ew York's highest court will hear argum ents Wednesday in a lawsuit brought by a Chenango County girl who says-she was harmed by a drug to which she was never exposed. The drug , DES, has been blamed for the medical problems of thousands of women whose mothers took it to prevent m iscar- riage. What ma kes this case unusual is that the girl's mother never took the drug — : her grandmother did. . - Nine-year-old Karen Enright claims sh e has cerebral palsy because of her mother's prenatal exposure to DES. A state Supreme Court judge threw out Karen's $150 million lawsuit against six'pharma- ceutical companies, but an appeals court reinstated part of it. The drug companies are appealing that ruling to the state Court of Appeals. The lawsuit is called a third-generation DES case to distinguish it from those involving only a mother an d daughter. A spokeswoman for Eli Lilly an d Co., one of the defendants, said Karen's is the first such suit in the nation to reach a state court of final appeal. The case raises the intriguing question of whether an injured person may sue over a damaging ac t that occurred before he or she. was conceived. In a similar case 10' years ago, the state Court of Appeals threw out a medical malpractice suit brought by a brain-damaged boy who claimed his injuries'were the result of a botched abortion his mother received four years before his birth. Karen's attorneys say dismissing her suit would be like forgiving toxic waste dumpers because the injuries they caused ma y take years to become apparent. Those who are candid and scientifically honest have agreed that DES was a tragic mistake — and those who produced and marketed it should own up to their respon- sibility, papers filed by Karen's attorneys say. • , '. . .. The drug companies, however, .point FHe Photo Karen Enright, shown in • photo taken in 1988, says she s suffered from her mother s DES exposure. out that Karen was never exposed to DES. An d they say a decision in her favor could lead to a flood of third-generation lawsuits, some of which could be filed more than 50 years after DES was taken off the shelves. Lilly does not suggest that pharmaceu- tical manu facturers should be imm une See DES, Page A-8) Saddam War Talk Marks Iraq's Army Day News Service Reports AMMAN, Jordan — Iraqi President Sadda m Hus- sein, making no reference to a political settlement, exhorted his army Sunday to prepare for a long con* flict in defense of occupied Kuwait. Saddam told a nationwide radio and television Army D ay audience, Victory in this battle is cer- tain, Go d willing. The Iraq i armed forces have unshakeable faith in their mission, he said, in their struggle which will not stop regardless of the sacrifices. Army Day, a national holiday in Iraq's martial society, fell four days before scheduled talks in Gen- eva between Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz and Secre- • Saudi King Fahd appeals for peace/A-5. • Strategis ts: Israel has no defense/A-5. • Instant base home for Syracuse Boys /A-4. • Care packages for Homer graduates/B-3. tary of State James A . Baker III, but the Iraqi leader spoke only of war. . The results of this battle will be great and all the world and future generations will talk about ... its positive results, he said. It is the role of the faith- ful to fight against tyranny , against injustice, against corruption and against the foolish and tyrannical U.S. administration and its puppet, the Zionist entity, and against those bad people who have formed with them an alliance of tyranny and injus- tice. Also Sunday, Baker hinted that he will give Aziz dramatic new evidence of allied military prowess when they meet in Geneva. We think that this will get the job done — in terms of getting the message home, he said without spelling out details. Iraq's ambassador to the United States said Baker is welcome to go to Baghdad to meet Saddam, but Baker said that proposal is now off the table. Baker said his meeting with Aziz would be the last high-level American talks with Iraq before the Jan. 15 deadline for its withdrawal from Kuwait. Baker said he would deliver an ultimatum to Aziz personally and in a letter from President Bush to Saddam, and would decline any Iraqi effort to negoti- ate or invite him to Baghdad. Teen-Age Mothers Cause Baby Boom in Schools .• . ••• • ' • '; - : - J By MIKE GROG AN h Post Standard Enough children are born to ado- lescents an d teen-agers in the city of Syracuse every 2'/z weeks to fill a . classroom, according to a report' that will be released today. The Conference of Large City Boards of Education, which com- prises the state's Big Five school districts, will issue a 26-page report that reveals an average of 45 babies are born each day to girls, aged 10 through 19, in Syracuse, Ne w York City, Buffalo, Yonkers and Roches- ter.The study was based on 1988 statistics provided by the state Department of Health that showed that 504 babies were born that year to Syracusans of, those ages. Because teen-age mothers are. often poor students who repeat grades, the 18- and 19-year-old mothers are considered in the school-age population, conference Executive Director Jacqueline Freedman said. . If all 504 young mothers were Syracuse school students in the fall of 1988, they would have made up 8.2 percent of the district's female population among 10- to 19-year- olds. The conference, which is chaired by Syracuse school .board member Joseph Fancy, has scheduled inter- views with media in Albany, Yon- kers, Rochester and Buffalo today and Tuesday to publicize the report. Subsequent media interviews will also be scheduled in New York City.. The report includes 16 recom- mendations for state and local governments to provide better ser- vices to help adolescent mothers stay in school and obtain pre- and post-natal care. While the Syracuse school district has offered such ser- vices for many years, officials want to better coordinate their efforts with the state and county govern- ments. Armed with the study's sta- tistics, city school officials are plan- ning to meet with Onondaga County leaders to devise strategies. Freedman said statistics were not available to determine how many of the girls cited in the study were students when they were pregnant or when they gave birth. Syracuse Superintendent Henry P. Williams, however, said a high per- centage of the 504 Syracuse girls were likely to have been students. He said Fowler Hig h School officials knew.of 76 pregnant girls attending class there last year. The conference's study jibes with findings made by the Onondaga County Health Department over a three-year period. From 1985 See DISTRICTS, Page A-8)