Incldo Advice Leisure 12 Ann Landers A-10 Bridge Leisure 1 3 Classified B-6 Comics A-6 Crossword B-8 Dr.Donohue A-10 Editorials A-4 Local news A-3 Mini page A-7 Obituaries B-5 Outdoor Leisure 14 Religion A-8 Sports section Theaters B-1 0 TV log Leisure 4 Community on the grow A-3 Local group build church in Mexico A-0 U.S. stops Norway in hockey B-1 Details on Page 2 28 Pages Appleton-Neenah-Menasha, Wisconsin Saturday, February 20, 1988 35 Cents VocXhcr Cold UIJU5 fL7Y-V Heading the State Medical Association 3 Mediator halts Post-Crescent photo by Bob Boeten peace talks structed his negotiators not to discuss Obando Bravo's proposal at the bargaining table with the Contras. Reichler said Ortega's instructions came by telephone Thursday night, shortly after Obando Bravo offered his plan to break what he called an impasse in a discussion on defining the objectives of a cease-fire. The attorney said Ortega suggested that Roger Fisher, a Harvard professor who heads the Institute for Conflict Resolution in Boston, draw up a new cease-fire plan, drawing on the proposals of the government and the Contras. In a communique, Obando Bravo rejected that suggestion.
1 No new date was set for further negotiations, although both sides expressed their willing ness to continue the talks. The cardinal's communique said that "after all the meetings that they have had, the mediators believe that the acceptance, in principle! of its proposal would favor the rapid advance of the cease-fire negotiations." I The communique also said the governmenf and the Contras should give their negotiators "enough decision-making ability to resolvf) problems that present themselves in the negotiations." In a news conference after the talks endedj Continued on page 2 GUATEMALA CITY (AP) Peace talks between the leftist Nicaraguan government and Contra rebels broke down Friday and their mediator indirectly blamed the Sandinistas for not accepting a new cease-fire proposal. Cardinal Miguel Obandoy Bravo, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Nicaragua, abruptly suspended the talks in mid-afternoon, expressing disappointment that his proposal had not been accepted "in principle" by both sides. Victor Hugo Tinoco, Nicaragua's deputy foreign minister, said the cardinal called off the talks before he could deliver a formal, written response that would have accepted the mediator's five-point plan. The plan, offered by Obando Bravo on Thursday, called on the Contras to accept a cease-fire in exchange for four major concessions by the Sandinistas, including a total amnesty for all political prisoners and full freedom of the press.
Contra negotiators told a news conference Thursday night that they accepted the cardinal's proposal "in principle, while Tinoco called it "interesting and constructive" but said it needed clarification. Paul Reichler, a Washington, D.C., attorney advising the Sandinistas, said earlier Friday that President Daniel Ortega had initially in -If ffimp vi.L: Dr, Kenneth M. Viste Jrj, Oshkosh neurologist, is president of the State Medical Society. Polio doesn't slow doctor's pace Bill Knutson By Maiia Penikis Post-Crescent staff writer Managing editor, "Unless we act, we are pricing ourselves out of business with people who can't pay the full price." Dr. Kenneth M.
Viste Oshkosh neurologist VThe Poit-Cretcent Disputing debate GREEN BAY (AP) A Green Bay man who filed a $100 small claims suit against Miller Brewing Co. because of a hangover has challenged the brewer to a public debate. while there has been no answer to the debate challenge, Miller's attorney in the case is not taking, the $100 suit lightly. In a three-page letter this week to Brown County Court Commissioner John O. Burdick, attorney Frank Daily of Green Bay cited several court decisions to augment the company's request for a dismissal.
Daily said Jerry St. John has nobody but him-self to blame for his hangover. It is common knowledge that you can get a hangover from drinking too much alcohol, Daily said. St. John's suit, filed in November 1987, claims Miller labels should carry a warning that consumption may cause illness.
St. John did not say how many beers he consumed before he woke up feeling ill. In a news release challenging Miller representatives to a debate, St. John said the situation is analogous tocigarettes. Thedangers of smoking are common knowledge but warning labels are still required, he said.
administration about patient care and working conditions. Even then, Viste must have felt it was better to work within the system for change. He hasn't changed his mind on either the necessity for "polite" change or for working within the system, even though he's part of, and even head of, that system. The root of Viste Jr. can be traced directly back to Viste a Scandinavian whose discipline was tempered by kindness.
"My father loved politics and history. He was a county school superintendent," the younger Viste recalled. "All four of us kids were pretty good, I think, but boy, we sure didn't get anything special. We had to work for it. "My sister and I wanted a bicycle one year, I remember.
Dad said that's fine, but asked how we planned to pay for it. So we picked cherries," he said of his grow-ing-up years in Sturgeon Bay. Those years are. especially good to remember because it happened before he contracted polio, which put him in a Continued on page 2 Evers jurors: see the sights inAppleton OSHKOSH Give Dr. Kenneth M.
Viste Jr. one wish and he will ask for more hours in a day. He probably wouldn't ease up his work load, though. He would simply try to squeeze more of his interests into the expanded time. The Oshkosh neurologist, who has managed to do double duty as president of the State Medical Society this past year without giving up his patient load, has a list of interests that haven't even been developed At the top of the heap that's what his office at Mercy Medical Center can be classified as is politics, a passion as well as a part of his profession.
"What do you think about the New Hampshire results?" he asks without preamble. And that flips the switch. For the next half-hour, the visit is a give-and-take on presidential hopefuls. In Viste's case, if you want to visit the State Medical Society president, you also get the man and his kaleidoscope of interests, which may begin with such things as photography and travel but always return to what he terms "the noblest of professions," medicine. "It is the most satisfying profession I can think of," he said.
"In recent years we've gotten some bad publicity, most of it undeserved. I thought I had something to offer that would help change that. That's why I ran for the presidency." In his years as a medical student at Northwestern University, Viste organized the residents to talk "politely" with the Plan to close a Fox River lock gains supporters By David Horst Post-Crescent staff writer electric plant are all at risk. Rep. David Prosser, R-Appleton, who chairs the Sea Lamprey Study Committee, said testimony seemed to indicate a widespread willingness to close the lock, at least temporarily.
He particularly noted Van De Hey's message from the management commission. "What can you say after that?" Prosser asked. Study committee members will be asked to decide by Feb. 26 whether they support closing the Rapide Croche lock this spring and outline their positions in writing. Prosser said he expects majority and minority reports from the committee to be forwarded to Gov.
Tommy Thompson shortly after March 1. Prosser will accompany Thompson to Washington, D.C., Monday to meet with the state Congressional delegation about a variety of topics, including the Fox River locks. The hearing demonstrated there are a "tremendous variety of legitimate interests," Prosser said. Elwin Nelson, retired executive vice president of C.R. Meyer and backed construction of a proposed $1.1 million boat lift he helped design.
He suggested moveable stop logs in the lock to allow occasional barge traffic such as for dryers needed for the expansion of Wisconsin Tissue Mills. Timbers blocking the lock would be removed to allow a barge in, and chemicals would be used to kill any neers reciprocate. He criticized those groups for trying to push responsibility for building a lamprey barrier at the base of the dam onto each other. "There's no question in my mind that the DNR wants out of this system," he said. Talk of forming a local authority to fund the locks system, as suggested by former state Rep.
Gervase Heph-ner of Chilton, is "far premature," Van De Hey said. There first must be negotiations on the responsibilities of federal and state agencies, he said. If they are allowed to abandon the Fox River as a commercial waterway, he said, water supplies for paper mill production, necessary barge traffic and Kau-kauna's new $10 million hydro lampreys in the lock before the barge passed through. Nelson asked whether lamprey could swim upstream through spillways, disputing a DNR estimate that the water flows at 30 feet per second, six times the force a lamprey can navigate. "I question that 30 feet per second because I've stood cn a lot of dams and watched the water go," he said, estimating the water moves two or three feet per second at low flow periods.
Oshkosh City Manager William Freuh said boaters would pay higher lock fees to support a boat lift, but urged no delay in the lock closing. "You can't close that lock soon Continued on page 2 Post-Crescent photo by Ed Deschler GREEN BAY The Fox River Management Commission supports closing the Rapide Croche lock, according to co-chairman Ronald Van De Hey, but only as a temporary measure until other techniques for stopping sea lampreys are developed. "A reality has to be faced, and that is that the lamprey is at hand," the Kaukauna mayor said at a hearing Friday. It is no small token for the locks supporters to come out in favor of closing the lock near Wrightstown, Van De Hey said, and it is time the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Army Corps of engi- Tothe jurors in the Bill Evers trial: Welcome to Appleton.
From what I've been reading, some of you aren't real pleased about having to stay here until sometime between Flag Day and the Fourth of July. I near what you're saying. Four or five months away from home (with the excep tion of every other weekend) can be an eternity. Unless, of course, you're on a world cruise. But a world cruise this trial ain't.
In some respects, you're going to be just as much a prisoner as the guy whose fate you're mulling. Evers cannot get up and leave the courtroom when theurgehits. Neither can you. I Evers' bed is in a jail cell. Yours is in a guarded motel room.
I But he can read the newspapers. You can't. And he can have visitors. You can't. You are going to sit all day listening to details of sordid and perverse things that were supposed to have happened in sleazy massage parlors.
That can work two ways. I You're either going to go back to your motel and throw up, or you're going to go back to your motel and take a cold shower. Either way, it's not easy. And tobea just-married Nah, the judge wouldn't let that happen. You're going to get fat.
Some of you will get real fat. We're generous folks here in Outagamie County. We'll see that you are gorged at breakfast. You'll sit in your jury box until noon, at which time you'll be marched off and stuffed again. You'll sit in the jury box all afternoon, after which you will be herded again to a restaurant for the big meal of the day.
A suggestion was made that the bus be weighed when it brings you here and again when it takes you home come summer, and that 1 chances on the weight difference be sold, with the proceeds going to help offset the cost of the trial. I think that's tacky. Some of you will hate each other after the second day of confinement. That's the way it sometimes is when just two people spend every waking moment together. We're talking 16 people here.
You will spend months hating each other. There is a chance you ight not be in Racine when a grandchild is born. Or a daughter is married. Or a relative dies. Or on Mother's Day.
Or Father's Day. Or the opening weekend of fishing season. Some of you will lose money. Coast Guard's budget would spare more cuts lion fiscal 1989 spending plan. The Coast Guard request would give the agency $30 million more than its estimated current fiscal budget of $1.77 billion.
Last month, the guard announced it was facing a $105 million budget shortfall and instituted a series of budget cuts. Those cuts trimmed back anti-drug smuggling efforts and search-and-rescue patrols by 55. They also resulted in the closing or scaling back of 15 search-and-rescue stations, the closing of an air station and the decommissioning or docking of three icebreakers. i The Coast Guard also announced at that time it was withdrawing operations from the Fox River system. Even if Congress gives in to the White House request for $2.07 billion, "it will not revive those things on the first cut list.
The things on that list stay closed," Siems said. Also, the guard still faces more severe cutbacks later this year unless By Thomas Grose Post-Crescent Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The financially beleaguered U.S. Coast Guard received some welcome news this week when President Reagan sent a fiscal 1989 budget to Congress that would give the agency an operations budget of $2.07 billion. If Congress goes along with that amount, it would allow the Coast Guard to sail full steam ahead on all operational fronts with no more cutbacks, says agency spokesman, Werner Siems. That, assessment was echoed on Capitol Hill by an aide to Rep.
Robert Davis, R.Mich., the ranking minority member of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, which oversees the Coast Guard's budget. "We're pretty optimistic," said the aide, K.C. Bell. "It should be adequate to keep them going." The Coast Guard budget request was part of a $26.1 billion U.S. Department of Transportation budget requested by Reagan in his $1.09 tril- Congress goes along with administration Dlans to "reprogram" the cur The most fragile among you might Tom and Jan Park enjoy cross-country skiing at Reid Municipal Golf Course.
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