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Eagles sack lifeless Giants/Page 14 •<k :•!<:••' The Hometown Newspaper of Clinton, Essex, Franklin Counties Vol. 103 - No. 91 © Copyright 1995, PwM-Republican Plattsburgh, NY 12901, Monday, November 20,1995 Suggested Price: 50 c 24 Pages ready to sign with PARC Doctor offers primary care to region By RICHARD C. TEN WOLDE Staff Writer PLATTSBURGH - The first private shingle to waggle in the winter winds on the former Plat- tsburgh Air Force Base will be hung this week. Champlain Valley Interna- tional TradePARC repre- sentatives and Dr. James DeLucas will sign a 5-year agreement as soon as the Air Force OKs the terms. But while DeLucas waits for the red tape to tear, he and his staff of three have been busily renovating and preparing build- ing 701 on the Old Base. The lease grants the family Walesa defeated at polls By ANDRZEJ STYLINSKI Associated Press Writer WARSAW, Poland (AP) - A polished former Communist, Aleksander Kwasniewski, defeated faded Solidarity hero Lech Walesa by a slim margin in a presidential runoff Sunday, ac- cording to projections from the state polling agency. Kwasniewski won 51.4 percent of the vote to 48.6 percent for the incumbent, according to unof- ficial ballot results compiled by state television's OBOP agency from 1,150 of 22,472 precincts. The projections had a 1 per- cent margin of error, and the race was so close neither can- didate acknowledged victory or defeat. The election was a symbolic duel between Poland's two major postwar forces. Walesa keyed his campaign to fears of a Commu- nist resurgence while Kwasniewski insisted he could be trusted to transcend his party's totalitarian past. Kwasniewski, 41, had already left his headquarters when the projections were announced, triggering a joyful frenzy among youthful campaign workers. They danced, screamed and sang \May He Live 100 Years.\ The 52-year-old Walesa never appeared at his campaign head- quarters, where supporters fell silent upon hearing the news and slowly began filing out. Walesa, the former Solidarity leader, had steadily lost support during his five-year term. He looked dour as he thanked sup- porters in a brief appearance just after polls closed and retired with his family. Although official results were not expected until Monday at the earliest, the reaction to the OBOP agency's reports reflected its record in accurately predic- ting election outcomes based on a careful selection of precincts. practitioner space for a clinic, Apple Country Family Medicine, in a building formerly used for civilian personnel management. \I'm hoping, in doing this, I can act as a test case or catalyst to bring other businesses to the base,\ said DeLucas during an interview in his new office. The doctor said he has met many obstacles in his struggle to open the clinic, but the advan- tages have driven him to over- come each delay. He's even gambled, investing more than $10,000 to upgrade the building without having a lease. Most of the setbacks were caused by the Air Force's con- stantly evolving rules and re- quirements for reuse groups, he said, but the clinic should be open by Thanksgiving. \We went through a great deal just trying to get the Air Force to agree to a lease,\ said David Holmes, executive director of PARC. \We had to convince them that these first leases are vital to our efforts to redevelop the base.\ The 5-year lease, like other contracts.that will be signed, has no kick out clause, and the only way a tenant can be forced out of a location is if an environmental hazard is found near their facili- ty. It is the National Environmen- tal Policy Act, which has the 30- day eviction clause, that many confuse with a threat the Air Force will return and remove all tenants, according to Holmes. DeLucas' clinic will remain open for five years or longer if he decides to renew, regardless of the military's plans. The most attractive lure to the base for DeLucas was the medi- cal equipment and office fur- niture left by the Air Force to make redevelopment easier. Some of the equipment, like a treadmill and a unit to do gastrointestinal analyses, will allow the clinic to treat more ailments without sending pa- tients to specialists. This flexibility will save money, time and be more conve- nient to customers, DeLucas said. In establishing a practice on base, the retired Air Force col- onel said he's picked an accessi- ble spot the area's military retirees and civilian families know how to find. DeLucas, who retired when the base closed, has spent the past six years tending to thou- sands of retirees. In an area still short on primary care physicians, the doc- tor said, \I think we can serve a useful purpose.\ He added that he hopes to fill the niche that the closure of the base's hospital left for retirees. \The retirees are particularly hard hit because many don't Continued Page 12 You gotta have friends Staff Photo/Robin Caudell Regina Clukey (foreground) sledded away the afternoon with friends Joan Webster (center) and Amanda Breyette in Morrisonville Sunday. WEATHER Today, cloudy with a chance of showers during the afternoon. High 40 to 45. Southeast wind, around 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. To- night, cloudy. Chance of rain or snow. Low 30 to 35. INDEX Bridge 22 Horoscope 19 Business News 11 Ann Landers 19 Classified 20-24 Features 6 Comics A- 19 Public Record 7-8 Editorial ^ 4 Sports 14-17 Entertainment 18 Weather 10 N.Y. Lottery: 279. Tick 4': 5247. Pick 10: 11,19,20,21,23,31,35,36,38, 39,44,47, SO, 52,60,61,70,75, 76,80. SUNY reforms spark statewide interest By KENNETH LOVETT Ottaway News Service ALBANY — More alumni support. Tougher academic stan- dards. Better teaching. Get back to basics. Those who foot the bill for the state's massive university system — taxpaying New Yorkers — have their own ideas how to im- prove SUNY without limiting ac- cess or damaging the quality of education. To Gary Turitz, assistant su- perintendent of Otsego/Northern Catskills BOCES, the solution is simple: Focus more on. the classroom and less on research. \High quality teaching is the primary purpose of a four-year undergraduate degree,\ Turitz says. \Exposing the kids to the best professors at these institu- tions and giving them the highest quality education should be the priority.\ Timmian Massie, a SUNY graduate who now is a spokesman for Marist College in Poughkeepsie, says SUNY should look for more partnerships with businesses. For instance, he said Marist received a new computer mainframe from IBM as part of a research center agreement. \SUNY's got to stop thinking like it's a ward of the state and start thinking like a private enterprise,\ Massie said. Staff Photo/Robin Caudell Dr. James DeLucas unpacks his belongings as he prepares to open an office at the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base. Shutdown over White House, Congress both claim victory in stand-off By DAVE SKIDMORE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Clinton administration and Republican congressional leaders ended a six-day budget standoff Sunday night, sending federal employees back to work after the White House committed to speedy negotiations to balance the budget in seven years. \Tomorrow the government will go back to work and now the debate will begin in earnest,\ President Clinton said, appear- ing in the White House press room shortly after the deal was announced. By voice votes, the Senate and House adopted identical one-day measures to reopen the gov- ernment. The Senate also ap- proved a bill funding the gov- ernment through Dec. 15 and the House planned to follow on Mon- day. President Clinton signed the continuing resolution at 10:10 p.m. The 24-hour measure \per- mits all government employees to return to work tomorrow,\ White House spokesman Jim Fetig said. Both sides declared victory — Republicans because the deal, reflected their seven-year timetable and Clinton because it spoke of protecting programs he considers important. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici, R- N.M., said, \I hope in the next three or four weeks we will pro- duce a balanced budget with the president on board.\ In the four-week spending bill, the White House and Republicans agreed the balanced budget legislation would \protect future generations, secure Medicare solvency, reform welfare, provide adequate fun- ding for Medicaid, education, agriculture, national defense, veterans and the environment.\ The bill does not, as the White House had sought, raise the gov- ernment's $4.9 trillion borrowing ceiling. However, private experts agree the Treasury Department can avoid the ceiling for months by tapping retirement trust funds set aside for the civil ser- vice. Sunday's agreement followed a long day of negotiating against a backdrop of restlessness among federal employees and the public. Forty percent of the federal work force - nearly 800,000 employees — have been on furlough. In a compromise that was key to the agreement, the two sides said the Congressional Budget Office will measure whether or not any eventual budget deal eliminates deficits, but only after consulting with the White House and other government and private economists. The argument over whose technical and economic assump- tions are used is important because the White House budget office's forecast would permit nearly $500 billion more in spen- ding over seven years than the congressional office's prediction. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan,, and House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and their chief deputies held a news con- ference where they were barely able to contain their euphoria. \All I can say is, Yes!'\ House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich, said, thrusting two clenched fists in the air. Republicans credited Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., for the CBO com- promise that proved key to the agreement. A reporter asked Dole, \Who blinked?\ He responded with two words and a smile, \Seven years.\ But Clinton said the agree- ment \represents the first sign of their (Republicans') willingness Continued Page 12 Along those lines, Anthony Moro, the owner of a capital in- vestment company in the Adi- rondacks, believes SUNY's solu- tion lies in large part with tapp- ing into its alumni. Fund-raising is a relatively new concept to SUNY because the state in the past provided almost all the system's funding. But state taxpayers shouldn't be asked to shoulder any more than 50 percent of the SUNY burden, Moro said. Continued Page 5 TODAY Those who foot the bill for SUNY — average tax- payers — have their own ideas about SUNY. Also, a look at the mortuary- science program at Canton College of Technology. TUESDAY New York is cutting direct operating aid to the state's private colleges, too. WEDNESDAY More SUNY schools seek donations as an alternative to raising tuition. FRIDAY Geneseo State College may serve as a model for creating specialty campuses in the SUNY system.
