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162nd YEAR, NO.

MacPherson to Leave SUNFL's Pats PoisedTo Hire Coach

ByDONNIEWEBBThe Post-Standard

The New England Patriots have called a"major news conference" for 10 a.m. today inFqxboro, Mass., where they are expected toname Syracuse University's Dick MacPher-son as head coach of the troubled NationalFootball League franchise. ,

A 'spokesman for the Patriots would notconfirm that MacPherson had been selectedas the team's fifth coach in 10 years, butword of the impending selection raced acrossNew England after Boston Globe columnistand NBC-TV analyst Will McDonoughannounced the choice Sunday during the NFLplayoffs pregame show.

In typical MacPherson style, one storymaking the media rounds Sunday night wasthat the Rev. Norman MacPherson actuallybroke the story by announcing Sunday morn-

ing to his congregation at St. Joseph's Churchin Old Town, Maine, that the next coach ofthe Patriots would be his brother.

MacPherson became much more than acoach to many Syracusans. He was a spokes-man for the city and the game of collegefootball. He participated frequently in localcharities, plugging causes at his Mondaynews conferences and becoming one of thecity's most popular citizens.

MacPherson's salary is expected to take asignificant hike with the Patriots, who paidfired coach Rod Rust more than $300,000per year and former coach Raymond Berryabout $550,000 per year. Syracuse Univer-sity paid MacPherson $116,543 for 1988-89,according to U.S. Internal Revenue Servicedocuments, but his estimated salary was

'believed to be around $250,000 with theaddition of camp, television and endorsementrevenues.

MacPherson is expected to get a three- tofive-year deal from the Patriots, whoundoubtedly will add incentive clauses to thecontract. But the total might be temperedbecause the Patriots still must pay Rust for

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three more years, and general managerPatrick Sullivan, who also is rumored to be onthe way out, still has several,years remain-ing on his contract'

MacPherson could not be reached for com-ment, but Syracuse freshman running backTerry Richardson said he was told by assis-tant coach Bob Casullo on Sunday that thehead coach of the Orangemen was leaving.

Another Syracuse assistant coach, who didnot wish to be named, said MacPhersonphoned the staff Sunday morning and toldthem he was taking the Patriots' job. Thecoach said athletic director Jake Crouthamellater phoned the coaches with the samenews.

(See PATRIOTS, Page A-4)

STEPHEN D. CANNERELLI/Tha Post-Standard

Syracuse football coach Dick Mac*Pherson reportedly will take over theailing New England Patriots.

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Appeals Court to HearDES Exposure Lawsuit

• By MATTHEW COXAlbany Bureau

New York's highest court will heararguments Wednesday in a lawsuitbrought by a Chenango County girl whosays-she was harmed by a drug to whichshe was never exposed.

The drug, DES, has been blamed for themedical problems of thousands of womenwhose mothers took it to prevent miscar-riage. What makes this case unusual is thatthe girl's mother never took the drug —:her grandmother did. .- Nine-year-old Karen Enright claims shehas cerebral palsy because of her mother'sprenatal exposure to DES. A stateSupreme Court judge threw out Karen's$150 million lawsuit against six'pharma-ceutical companies, but an appeals courtreinstated part of it.

The drug companies are appealing thatruling to the state Court of Appeals.

The lawsuit is called a third-generationDES case to distinguish it from thoseinvolving only a mother and daughter. A

spokeswoman for Eli Lilly and Co., one of, the defendants, said Karen's is the firstsuch suit in the nation to reach a statecourt of final appeal. '

The case raises the intriguing questionof whether an injured person may sue overa damaging act that occurred before he orshe. was conceived. In a similar case 10'years ago, the state Court of Appealsthrew out a medical malpractice suitbrought by a brain-damaged boy whoclaimed his injuries'were the result of abotched abortion his mother received fouryears before his birth.

Karen's attorneys say dismissing hersuit would be like forgiving toxic wastedumpers because the injuries they causedmay take years to become apparent.

"Those who are candid and scientificallyhonest have agreed that DES was a tragicmistake — and those who produced andmarketed it should own up to their respon-sibility," papers filed by Karen's attorneyssay. • " , ' . . ..

The drug companies, however, .point

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Karen Enright, shown in • phototaken in 1988, says she's sufferedfrom her mother's DES exposure.

out that Karen was never exposed to DES.And they say a decision in her favor couldlead to a flood of third-generation lawsuits,some of which could be filed more than 50years after DES was taken off theshelves.

"Lilly does not suggest that pharmaceu-tical manufacturers should be immune

(See DES, Page A-8)

Saddam

War Talk MarksIraq's Army Day

News Service Reports

AMMAN, Jordan — Iraqi President Saddam 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 televisionArmy Day audience, "Victory in this battle is cer-tain, God willing."

"The Iraqi armed forces have unshakeable faith intheir mission,""he said, "in their struggle which willnot stop regardless of the sacrifices."

Army Day, a national holiday in Iraq's martialsociety, fell four days before scheduled talks in Gen-eva between Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz and Secre-

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tary of State James A. Baker III, but the Iraqi leaderspoke only of war.

. "The results of this battle will be great and all theworld and future generations will talk about ... itspositive results," he said. "It is the role of the faith-ful to fight against tyranny, against injustice, againstcorruption and against the foolish and tyrannicalU.S. administration and its puppet, the Zionistentity, and against those bad people who haveformed with them an alliance of tyranny and injus-tice."

Also Sunday, Baker hinted that he will give Azizdramatic new evidence of allied military prowesswhen they meet in Geneva. "We think that this willget the job done — in terms of getting the messagehome," he said without spelling out details.

Iraq's ambassador to the United States said Baker"is welcome to go to Baghdad" to meet Saddam, butBaker said that proposal "is now off the table."

Baker said his meeting with Aziz would be thelast high-level American talks with Iraq before theJan. 15 deadline for its withdrawal from Kuwait.

Baker said he would deliver an ultimatum to Azizpersonally and in a letter from President Bush toSaddam, and would decline any Iraqi effort to negoti-ate or invite him to Baghdad.

Teen-Age Mothers Cause Baby Boom in SchoolsO .• . • • • "• ' ' • '; • • • - : - J

By MIKE GROG ANThe Post-Standard

Enough children are born to ado-lescents and 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 CityBoards of Education, which com-prises the state's "Big Five" schooldistricts, will issue a 26-page reportthat reveals an average of 45 babiesare born each day to girls, aged 10through 19, in Syracuse, New YorkCity, Buffalo, Yonkers and Roches-

ter. .The study was based on 1988

statistics provided by the stateDepartment of Health that showedthat 504 babies were born that yearto Syracusans of, those ages.Because teen-age mothers are.often poor students who repeatgrades, the 18- and 19-year-oldmothers are considered in theschool-age population, conferenceExecutive Director JacquelineFreedman said. .

If all 504 young mothers wereSyracuse school students in the fall

of 1988, they would have made up8.2 percent of the district's femalepopulation among 10- to 19-year-olds.

The conference, which is chairedby Syracuse school .board memberJoseph Fancy, has scheduled inter-views with media in Albany, Yon-kers, Rochester and Buffalo todayand Tuesday to publicize the report.Subsequent media interviews willalso be scheduled in New YorkCity..

The report includes 16 recom-mendations for state and local

governments to provide better ser-vices to help adolescent mothersstay in school and obtain pre- andpost-natal care. While the Syracuseschool district has offered such ser-vices for many years, officials wantto better coordinate their effortswith the state and county govern-ments. Armed with the study's sta-tistics, city school officials are plan-ning to meet with Onondaga Countyleaders to devise strategies.

Freedman said statistics werenot available to determine howmany of the girls cited in the study

were students when they werepregnant or when they gave birth.Syracuse Superintendent Henry P.Williams, however, said a high per-centage of the 504 Syracuse girlswere likely to have been students.He said Fowler High School officialsknew.of 76 pregnant girls attendingclass there last year.

The conference's study jibes withfindings made by the OnondagaCounty Health Department over athree-year period. From 1985

(See DISTRICTS, Page A-8)

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THE GULF CRISIS

Air Base Takes on FeelOf a City for 4,000 Troops

IN CENTRAL SAUDI ARABIA (AP) —Four weeks ago, a sprawling air base in themiddle of the desert would have been amirage.

But the real thing now stands, home toabout 4,000 servicemen and 120 sleek U.S.warplanes capable of delivering 1 millionpounds of bombs per day. It is within easystriking distance of Baghdad and Kuwait.

"We have gone from absolutely nothingout here but powdery sand to the largesttactical wing in the modern Air Force," saidCol. Dave Eberly, deputy commander'ofoperations for the 4th Tactical FighterWing.

The last of five squadrons arrived Thurs-day at the' air base in central Saudi Arabia.These latest arrivals include nearly 300members of the 174th Tactical Fighter Wingat Hancock Field, now assigned to the 4th.

About two-thirds of the 1,100-member AirGuard unit from Syracuse has been activatedfor duty at this Saudi air base.

The base's precise location cannot be dis-closed for security reasons, but it puts the air

wing close enough to Baghdad to fly roundtrip missions without refueling, and enableswarplanes to fly twice as many combat mis-sions as before.

The first warplanes arrived Dec.. 17. Onemonth earlier, the only thing here was a 2-mile runway and a 10,000-foot taxiway thatthe Saudis had built in 1989. They hadplanned to open a base by 1994, but SaddamHussein's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait alteredthe timetable. •

Now, the base has more than 600 tents andmany of the amenities of a modern city:water, sewage and garbage collection sys-tems; its own police department; shops, laun-dry, barber, post office, a chapel with astained-glass window, a movie theater, alibrary and a club that features two live bandsbut doesn't serve alcohol.

The base has 30 miles of electrical wire, 25miles of high-voltage cable and 120 miles ofsecurity fence. It covers 220 square miles,about the size of the Dallas-Fort Worth Inter-national Airport in Texas.

"There wasn't anything here higher than a

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Two U.S. Air Force airmen make their way across a wind-swept dusty street in"Camel Lot," a nickname given to a new U.S. air base in Saudi Arabia.

cactus bush. Now it really is a small city,"said Col. Pat Schauffele, 47. His formal title iscombat support group commander; infor-mally, he is called the mayor.

Each of the base's five attack squadrons

comprises 18 to 24 warplanes.The wing has two squadrons of F-15E

Strike Eagles; one squadron of F-15C fight-ers; one squadron of F-16 Falcons; and onesquadron of FA-16 ground support jets.

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Patriots Set to HireOrange's MacPherson

(PATRIOTS, from Page A-l)Crouthamel did not return phone

calls Sunday. Sports informationdirector Larry Kimball said Crouth-amel had left for New Orleans,where the SU coaching staff wasattending the American FootballCoaches Association's annual con-.vention.

. However, Crouthamel did tell theProvidence Journal that, "If he(MacPherson) thinks that's the•right move professionally, it's up tohim."

University chancellor MelvinEggers said he would not commenton MacPherson's status, andRobert Hill, SU's vice president forpublic relations, said it was tooearly for the school to issue a state-ment because the Patriots had notofficially selected MacPherson.

"If the P a t r i o t s m a k e anannouncement that has significanceto Syracuse, I'll have something tosay then," Hill said.

MacPherson, 60, will succeedRust, 62, who,was fired Friday bySam Jankovich, the club's newdirector of football operations, afteronly one season as coach" of thePatriots.

New England finished 1-15 andlost its final 14 games, posting theworst record in franchise history.

Public Relations NightmareThe Patriots became a public

relations nightmare after BostonHerald reporter Lisa Olson said shewas sexually harassed in the team'slocker room by New England play-ers. The story became a nationalsocial issue, one that led to wide-ranging debate over the rights ofwomen in the locker room andeven tua l ly led to more t h a n .$75,000 in fines to the Patriots andreprimands to three players by theNFL. The impact left the franchisereeling.

Jankovich, the former Universityof Miami athletic director, washired by team owner Victor Kiam tostop the bleeding. After watchingthe Patriots for the first time in a42-7 home loss to the Jets on Dec.23, Jankovich said, "This is a teamthat's struggling, a team with a realmorale problem. One of the mostimportant things this team has todeal with now is attitude. It's bleak.We're going to change attitudesimmediately. We're going to bringpeople in who will help make thatchange."

« The Patriots apparently believethey have that man in MacPher-son.

Jankovich said last week hewanted a highly energized coachwho had professional experienceand was a proven winner.

University of Massachusettshead coach Mike Reid said he wasreading Jankovich's description in alocal newspaper over coffee Satur-day and came to the unequivocalconclusion that MacPherson wasthe logical choice for the Patriots.

"I'm telling you right now, if youread that, it fit Dick MacPherson to

. a T," said Reid, who is a close friendof MacPherson. "He was the firstguy I thought of."

Reid said MacPherson will bringto New England the qualities thatendeared him to football fans inSyracuse. Reid said MacPhersonwill use the same honest approachthat made him an ambassador of thegame.

"You know how popular Dick is inSyracuse," Reid said. "He's aspopular right now in New England.He's infectious. I look at him ascoming home."

MacPherson is one of the mostpopular citizens of Syracuse, and hisdefection to the NFL unquestion-ably will bring a sadness to the com-munity.

MacPherson is credited with hav-ing led the SU football programback to prominence and reposition-ing it among the country's best.

U n d e r M a c P h e r s o n , t h eOrangemen have posted a record of36-10-3 in the last four years,including bowl victories in each ofthe last three seasons. Syracuse'srecord during that period is amongthe top 10 in college football. In1990, a young Orange team fin-ished 7-4-2 and blew out Arizona28-0 in the Eagle Aloha Bowl.

MacPherson coached 10 seasonsat Syracuse, f inishing with anoverall record of 63-46-4. The earlyyears were the toughest, with theOrangemen posting two losingrecords and three barely above the.500 mark.

But he eventually turned aroundthe program, shocking the nation in1987 when Syracuse completed theregular season 11-0 and rankedNo. 2. The Orangemen tied Auburn16-16 in the 1988 Sugar Bowl, andthe program had been placed on asolid foundation.

Hard WorkerBut there are some who say Mac-

Pherson pushed too hard in hisefforts to establish Syracuse foot-ball nationally. MacPherson's.demanding style with assistantcoaches, both on the practice fieldand on their time, caused somemembers to quietly look for otherjobs.

At least two SU assistants —secondary coach Randy Edsall andoffensive coordinator GeorgeDeLeone — are considered possi-ble candidates to replace MacPher-son as Syracuse's head coach. Mac-Pherson recommended Edsall andDeLeone for the Boston Collegejob, which was filled recently by for-mer Syracuse player and assistantcoach Tom Coughlin.

Other potent ial candidatesinclude Cornell coach Jim Homer,Georgia Tech defensive coordina-tor George O'Leary and formerBoston College head coach JackBicknell.

Mac's ChallengeThe more difficult task is facing

MacPherson, who takes over afranchise that finished last in theleague in attendance (38,593average), last in the NFL in scoring(181 points), last in the AFC in totaldefense and last in the NFL in rush-ing defense.

To reporters who cover thePatriots, MacPherson's selectioncame out of the blue. The coachesmost frequently mentioned toreplace Rust were Illinois headcoach John Mackovic, Raidersassistant Mike White, MichiganState head coach George Perles andKentucky head coach Bill Curry.

"It seems nobody had him (Mac-Pherson) on their list except Sam(Jankovich)," one reporter said. ,

But the apparent selection ofMacPherson was met with mostlypositive reaction among New Eng-landers.

Boston College athletic directorChet Gladchuk, a former associateAD at Syracuse, said the Patriotshave done themselves proud.

"I'm a Saints fan," Gladchuksaid. "But I'm going to become aNew England fan very quickly.

"I know Mac is a dynamic guy.He'll take New England by storm. Ijust hope it's what's best for Macand-(that) it will work out. I knowSyracuse hates to lose him. I alwaysbelieved he was great for that com-munity, and it will be a true blow ifhe leaves.

"But that program is in place. Heestablished such a tremendousfoundation and with the accomplish-ments he brought to Central NewYork, I know that it's a better placeand a better institution."

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Tensions Soar in BalticsAs Soviet Troops Move In

Officials in the secessionist Bal-tics warned their citizens to bracefor bloodshed and prepare for civildisobedience as a Soviet armoredcolumn of 108 vehicles enteredVilnius, the capital of Lithuania,Tuesday.

Tensions have soared in the 24hours since President Mikhail S.Gorbachev announced he wassending troops to halt draft eva-sion and desertion in the sevenBaltic republics.

Soviet authorities "are trying tocreate a new conflict artificially ...to suppress the independence ofthe republics," Estonian PrimeMinister Edgar Savisaar said/A-4.

Survey Say Whites ClingTo Racial Stereotypes

A majority of whites questionedin a nationwide survey said theybelieve blacks and Hispanics arelikely to prefer welfare to hardwork and tend to be lazier thanwhites, more prone to violence,less intelligent and less patriotic.

Authors of the survey, con-ducted by the National OpinionResearch Center at the Universityof Chicago, said the results showthat despite progress in race rela-tions, whites' negative images ofblacks and other minorities con-tinue to be pervasive/A-6.

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Hard Lines Limit Gulf TalksChoice IsYours, SayBaker, Aziz

News Service Reports

GENEVA — Secretary of StateJames A. Baker III and Iraqi For-eign Minister Tariq Aziz arrivedabout 40 minutes apart Tuesdaynight, and their repetition of hard-line positions seems to indicate thattoday's Persian Gulf cnsis talks areheaded for deadlock.

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As he has for weeks. Baker saidthe United States will make nodeals but will simply demand thatIraq reverse its Aug. 2 invasion ofKuwait. For his part, Aziz said,"Iraq does not yield to pressure."

Speaking earlier Tuesday inParis, Baker said, "The chance forpeace is in the hands of SaddamHussein and in the hands of Iraq."

Arriving at the Geneva hotelwhere the talks will be held, Aziz

said, "The decision on war is withMr. Bush; it is not ours."

Baker arrived in Geneva after agrueling day of diplomacy that tookhim from London to Paris, Bonn andMilan in an effort to prevent anyerosion of the international coali-tion demanding that Iraq end itsoccupation of Kuwait.

Despite his hectic schedule, how-ever, Baker was able to reach Gen-eva before Aziz, scoring a victory inthe arcane game of diplomatic pre-rogative. When U.S. officials disco-vered that both men were aiming atsimilar arrival times, the Bakerparty hurried away from its finalstop in Milan to be sure it reached

Geneva first.Also Tuesday:

• U.N. Secretary-General JavierPerez de Cuellar probably willundertake a last-ditch peace mis-sion to Baghdad before the Jan. 15deadline, U.N. and diplomaticsources said. He also is preparingcontingency plans for a U.N. peace-keeping effort in the Persian Gulf,including monitoring of any Iraqitroop withdrawal from Kuwait andcreation of a U.N. buffer zonebetween Iraqi troops and U.S. andallied forces.

• Congress raced to vote on theBush administration's gulf policybefore Jan. 15. The House and Sen-

ate are expected to begin delibera-tions Thursday that likely wouldforce lawmakers to choose betweenbacking the president's war threator risk deflating it.

• President Bush formally askedCongress to permit him to go towar with Iraq — the first presiden-tial request for authorization ofmilitary force in over a quarter of acentury.

• The U.N. resolution calls forIraq to withdraw from Kuwait "onor before Jan. 15" — but it leavesambiguous just when the deadlineis. White House officials privatelysay they "assume" it means before12:01 a.m. ESTJan. 16.

STEPHEN 0 CANNERELLi/The Post-standard

Former Syracuse University football coach Dick MacPherson, right, shares an emotional farewell Tuesday with Msgr.Charles Borgognoni at the close of his last news conference.

Mac Bids Fond, Sad FarewellAfter 10 Years at SU,Coach Leaves CrowdWith Smiles, Tears

ByDONNIEWEBBThe Post-Standard

As the plane carrying New EnglandPatriots coach Dick MacPherson made itsfinal approach to Syracuse on Tuesday, it allbegan to hit home.

MacPherson, Syracuse's University'scharismatic football coach for the past 10years, was leaving to take over the strug-gling National Football League team.

And for a few moments MacPhersonbegan having second thoughts.

He was returning to say his goodbyes, tothe Orangemen and to the school and to thecommunity. For MacPherson, this would bethe toughest duty of all.

MacPherson later said he's not very goodat saying goodbyes. But he did.

MacPherson first met with his formerplayers to explain his decision, then he metwith the media and a standing-room-onlycrowd of family and friends of the univer-sity.

MacPherson rambled through an emo-

• Columnist Robert R. Haggart covers"Professor's" last lecture/B-1.

• Report says four SU assistants mayfollow Mac to Foxboro/D-1.

• Players show mixed emotions/D-6,

• Recruits say they still like SU/D-8.• Carpenter: No comment on NFL/D-6.

tional, tear-filled news conference at ManleyField House that lasted for more than anhour and ripped at the heart-strings of everyperson in the room and those who watchedon television.

"It's a good time and a sad time, and quitehonestly, I didn't dream up this press confer-ence, and it's going to be hard," he said.

MacPherson reflected on his career andhis difficult decision to leave. He told storiesof how he came to Syracuse, how he lived inSyracuse and ultimately, how he found thecourage to leave.

MacPherson's wife Sandra and their twodaughters, Janet and Maureen, smiled andcried along with the man who brought themto this place 10 years ago. So did a lot ofothers in the room.

In some ways, the news conference tookon the feeling of a wake or a funeral. It

(See MAC, Page A-8)

MacNuggets: ChoiceWords from a CoachWho Loves Them All

The microphones were open, the tapeswere rolling and the result was classic "Mac-Speak. " The following are excerpts fromTuesday's press conference, starting withthe coach's story about the night he washired as head football coach at Syracuse Uni-versity:

We were at the chancellor's house, and ifyou people haven't seen it, it's a beautifulhome right there on Harrison and Comstock.There's a nice fire going and I don't want tosqueal on the chancellor, but I think he had alittle nip or something. I was drinking coffee'cause I had to get back up to Clevelandbecause we had a balLgame the next day.

The chancellor says, Mac, I think I likeyou. He looked over at Mel Holm and he said,Mel what do you think? Mel said, yeah, I likehim too.

Then they asked Vice Chancellor CliffWinters what he thought, and I knew what hewas going to say. If those two guys like me.

\(See MacNUGGETS, Page A-8)

Part of Woman's Skull Lost; Hospital SuedByMIKEGROGAN

The Post-Standard

After an aneurysm was removed fromNancy Cean's brain in April 1988, she knewshe would have to live without a portion ofher skull for nearly two years.

What she couldn't know was that the 6-inch-by-2-mch skull piece that was to be re-implanted in her head would be lost by Houseof Good Samaritan Hospital in Watertownwithin those two years.

Just days before Cean was to have thepiece re-implanted, she learned from a hospi-tal official that the facility had lost it.

In fact, Cean's attorney, John Cherundoloof Syracuse, said his client learned that thehospital lost body parts belonging to about

25 people. The parts were accidentally dis-carded after the hospital's laboratory under-went reconstruction and painting in March1989, Cherundolo said. The lab's contentswere moved to another location and subse-quently discarded.

Cean and her husband, Robert, both ofAdams, are suing the House of Good Samari-tan Hospital for a total not to exceed $2million. They said the hospital's alleged neg-ligence caused Nancy Cean mental anguishand will expose her to greater health risksand future medical costs.

David Howe, a Syracuse attorney repre-senting the Watertown hospital in this case,confirmed that the hospital lost a piece ofCean's skull. He, however, said Cean can

safely be treated with a prosthetic, plasticdevice that would cover the portion of herhead where the skull was removed.

Because his firm, Hancock & Estabrook.has been retained to represent the hospitalonly in the Cean lawsuit, Howe said he didnot know whether other body parts had beenlost.

Hospital President Robert J. Kayser wouldnot answer any questions, citing hospitalpolicy not to comment on cases in litigation.

The state Health Systems ManagementOffice, which investigates hospitals andnursing homes, plans to review the hospital'shandling of Cean's case, Area Administrator

(See COUPLE, Page A-7)

SewageFlows intoOnondagaPump StationFor Repair Project

By ROBERT W.ANDREWSThe Post-Standard ^ •

Onondaga County this week began dump-ing 15 million to 20 million gallons of par-tially treated sewage a day into a tributary ofOnondaga Lake.

While the amount of sewage is consider-able, the county says it must bypass-itsnormal treatment procedures because theLey Creek pumping station is shutting downtemporarily as part of a $5.2 million upgrad-ing project. The discharge will continue for atotal of 12 days.

The State Department of EnvironmentalConservation approved the temporary dis-charge while the construction work is tak-ing place at Ley Creek station, about a mileupstream from the lake.

But some environmentalists, includingJulia Portmore, director of the AmericanClean Water Project, contend there must bea better solution than just dumping the sew-age into the creek, which flows into Onon-daga Lake.

"This is unacceptable," Portmore said."Bureaucrats seem to believe this lake canstand almost any kind of insult."

The Ley Creek pumping station in Salinareceives sewage from homes and businessesin Salina, DeWitt and a small section on theeast side of Syracuse. The sewage is pumpedfrom Ley Creek elsewhere in the county sys-tem for treatment.

Normally) sewage flows to settling ponds,where the heavy material sinks to the bot-tom and the waste undergoes bacterialdecomposition. Additional chemicals areadded to disinfect the sewage. The liquid isthen discharged into Onondaga Lake, and thesludge is shipped to a waste bed.

Under the county's agreement with theDEC, the county will be allowed to dumpsewage into Ley Creek for the 12-day periodafter adding chlorine to it.

Kenneth Kaufman, construction adminis-trator for the county Department of Drain-age and Sanitation, said the alternative ofrenting pumps for a short period of timewas at least $574,000 more expensive thanbypassing the treatment procedure.

And even that solution would result in thepartially treated sewage being dischargedinto the lake for about four days, he said.

"We had to do this," Kaufman said. "Weconsidered the alternatives, obtained thenecessary permits and chose a time of yearwhen people will not be doing things aroundthe water."

The discharge began Monday at LeyCreek. Chlorine is being added to the sewageat a ratio of 20 parts per million to disinfect

(See COUNTY, Page A-7)

Galleries LosesThree Stores

ByJOHNMARlANIAnd DAVE HERMAN

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The bleak retailing outlook at the Gal-leries of Syracuse is about to dim further.

Three of the downtown shopping/li-brary/office complex's 13 stores will close atthe end of January, the victims of low salesand the flight of big department stores fromthe central business district, officials saidTuesday.

The stores — Bakers Shoe, J.W. and OakTree — all are owned by Edison BrothersStores Inc., a St. Louis retail conglomerate.

(See GALLERIES, Page A-7)

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PAGE A-8/THE POST-STANDARD, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 1991

COACH MAC'S FAREWELL

Mac Says Goodbye as Only He Cart(MAC, from Page A-l) seemed

MacPherson was there to deliver his owneulogy, and he struggled to find all the rightthings to say.

Several times, MacPherson's craggy Mainevoice broke up and tears welled up in his smilingIrish eyes.

MacPherson said telling his players, who herecruited to play for the Orangemen, might havebeen the toughest part.

"It's a very, very sad time," said MacPherson."They're concerned about where they're com-ing from, and quite honestly, the thing didn't gothe way I wanted it to go. How do you tell thepeople just exactly how you feel as you're walk-ing out the door? They want to see what you'redoing rather than what you're saying. It's toughfrom that standpoint.

"This is the first time Sandra and I are movingand the kids are staying behind, and that's atough move. You don't know what it's like topass that on to your kids. I told the football teamthis, my daughters love me very much, and theysaid, Daddy, if you want to do it, we're reallyreally excited for you, and we think it's a greatthing. So I said to my football team, I love youguys very much, and if you really love me, youdon't think of anything else but what you think isbest for me, and if I think that's best for me, thenyou should, too, and be happy that I'm going. Ican honestly say that I'm not sure if they loveme or not because there was absolutely noresponse from the football team. I didn't getanything there."

MacPherson spent s lot of time thankingadministrators and local supporters. He thankedthe media. He thanked his family. He thankedjust about everyone he could think of. On oneoccasion, he tried stopping himself from thank-ing so many, and then proceeded to thank a fewmore.

If there was a theme to MacPherson's mes-sage, it was that he came to do a job at SyracuseUniversity and did so to the best of his abili-ties.

He seemed to be groping for support andunderstanding of his decision to jump ship forthe Patriots.

MacPherson said he's leaving Syracuse with-out finishing the job he was hired to do. And forthat, he leaves with regrets. Perhaps that's whyMacPherson probed repeatedly for acceptance.

"I don't know why I'm rambling like this,"said MacPherson. "I just feel we were here,and the thing you have to feel is this: Did youtry to do the best you could all the time youwere there? The people that you worked for,did they think you gave it great effort? Andwere you a giver and not a taker? And quitehonestly, from me and my family, I'm not surewe ever got across the line because of what'shappened to us."

In fact, MacPherson did not seem to wishto be held accountable for his coaching suc-cesses as much as his contributions to the com-munity.

"I would hope my football team and every-body here would look upon my .family and every-body here as givers, and not takers," said Mac-

-Pherson, tears spilling out again. "If they

STEPHEN D. CANNERELLI/The Posl-Slandard

Dick MacPherson says goodbye to SU players Tuesday with a hug from Warren Prisbyand a handshake from Dan Conley.

tion. "The funny part of it was, to show you howcruel I am, I didn't even ask her if she wanted togo or not. I just assumed that we went, and sothat's how crazy this game is at times."

Certainly, there were plenty of lightermoments, often at the expense of one of Mac-Pherson's longtime straight man, athletic direc-tor Jake Crouthamel.

MacPherson has longed poked fun at Croutha-mel, the man who brought him to Syracuse.While he lavished heaping spoonfuls of praise onCrouthamel, who is in New Orleans searchingfor his successor, MacPherson also broke up thetension with a few final jabs at Jake.

He was mentioning the low-point of his careerat Syracuse, a 35-18 loss to Maryland in the1985 Cherry Bowl, when a Crouthamel stolycame to mind.

"The low point would have to be that greatCherry Bowl game that Jake is still got the booksout on waiting to get that money," he said.

MacPherson said he plans to clean out hisoffice the next few days, then report to NewEngland on Friday to begin rebuilding a fran-chise that lost 15 games this past season.

The press conference ended in dramaticfashion with MacPherson asking Rev. Msgr.Charles Borgognoni to sing a blessing, and thepnest did in fact stand before the room and beltout the blessing before a stunned and movedaudience.

"It's an exciting opportunity," MacPhersonwould say, "and I think this: I'm blessed with agreat God with a great family in a profession Ilove and am excited about each and every day Iget up. That's what I tell our football players. If.you've got that, you got something going foryou. To be at my age, and still dream and stillpush, is something I wish for everyone." - -•'.

And with that, MacPherson no longer hadany second thoughts.

STEPHEN 0 CANNERELLI/The Post-Standard

Tearful daughter Janet hugs Dick Mac-Pherson Tuesday after his farewell newsconference.

remember us that way, we're in great shape. Wefooled them if we haven't."

Some of the tougher moments for MacPher-son dealt with his family. He told the story ofhow he left the Denver Broncos for the headcoaching job at the University of Massachusettsin 1971. He recalled how the family moved into abeautiful new home on a tree-covered street inAmherst. MacPherson said he thought he was inheaven.

Then Sandra began hanging a picture thatthe wives of Broncos coaches had given her,and she began to cry.

"Because she didn't want to leave Denver,"said MacPherson, his voice choked with emo-

MacNuggets: Coach Has the Final Say(MacNUGGETS, from A-l)

the vice chancellor, whether helikes me or not, he had to say heliked me, so it went around likethat.

I said this: you just got a newCarrier Dome, Frank Maloney is nolonger here as a coach, all you thinkyou need is a coach. I want you toknow there's something else wrongaround here. It's a beautiful eve-ning. You've got a beautiful homehere. Nick Coyne is dying to get outof here because his wife is therewaiting to go to a Christmas dance.All I want you people to understandis this: you might like me now, butsuppose we go 5-6, 4-7 or 2-9 —and I didn't realize I was being pro-phetic — or 1-10. Will you loveme then? •

And the chairman of the board,Mel Holm says, Mac we'll love you.We don't know where the hell you'llbe coaching, but we'll love you.

On Being GOYou'd be amazed since yesterday

how many people in America knowthat I'm 60.1 don't know if anybodyin here'is 60, but as I traveledthrough airports, I think I'vebecome popular. Everybody over60 is for me. "Go get 'em Mac,you're all right." So I think some-body's for me.

The High and Low PointsThe high point was the day I got

the job, the next high point for cred-ibility purposes was 1984 when webeat Nebraska.

• We thought when we came here,been 15 years before we'd beatenMaryland, 15 years since we'dbeaten Pitt, had a hell of a struggletrying to stay in there with Templeand Navy.

In 1984 we got that victory.I knew it was in good shape

because Father John J. Burke, Godrest his soul, at St. Theresa's at the10:30 Mass, with my family withme, he said there will no more wed-dings on Saturday afternoons ofhome football games. And hewanted to make sure he was there.So I think that was the start...

The low point would have to bethat great Cherry Bowl game thatJake has still got the books out onwaiting to get that money.

But all of a sudden, in 1986, withprogram on the rise, we go 0-4...

The Greatest Win'I asked this question — there are

guys in this room — the greatestwin they had was Penn State whenit was 41-0 and we're 6-0 and therewere six minutes left in the thirdquarter. And what a great delight tohave Penn State fans accuse Syra-cuse of running up the score.

When I used to be over there andthe score was 42-8 and Joe(Paterno) would be throwing theball over, and he'd say Mac, I knowyou understand, this is a young kidand I got to get him someexperience throwing the football.And I'd say, of course I understandfor God's sake, would you like tohave the game continue a little bitlonger?

And the funny part of it is, theguy thinks we're going to believethat. "I'm so, so sorry we're notplaying Syracuse anymore, it's asad, sad time to play this game, thelast one." He gets everybodybelieving it. So they feel bad. He'sthe one that's caused us not play-ing anymore, so he's sad about it. Sowe don't play them anymore.

But then they think of going up toPenn State in 1988 and beatingthem there. Some guys think that'sthe game.

Trying to Get to THTThe other game people talk

about is the West Virginia game.From a drama standpoint, trying toget to 11-0, and all of a suddenyou're down by a touchdown ...

One of the greatest men in all ofSyracuse was proven to be a 55-minute man — I gave him a jerseywith 55 on it — with five minutesleft, he gets mad, starts swearingand left. Steve Rogers, the guy thatruns the newspapers. So we cameback and won the game, went fortwo points, and Mike Owensbrought it in.

There are so many to thank, it'slimitless. I shouldn't get intonames, but I think the big thing isthis — I think the media, how lovelythey've been. I have no problemswith anything that they do.

I've been places where you don'tget anything. And I recognize howimportant it is for them to generatethis interest in the program, and Ibelieve they're part of it. So I thankall the newaoaoers. and I thank all

the radio and TV people ... I thinkyou've been great to us.

They See This Face*Sometimes you don't understand

the power of television, but as yougo across the country, they see thisface and they recognize it, theydon't know who I am, but a lot ofpeople point at it, and I want peopleto know it's because I'm the footballcoach at Syracuse University, and Ithink everybody should know it's ablessing and a gift.

On OpportunitiesI don't know how you make these

decisions. I think you make thedecisions maybe this way:

You've been here for a while, andyou're really very happy in whatyou're doing. Then all of a sudden,you've had these opportunities andyou go to them and they just don'tfit right, and all of a sudden you goto one and it fits just exactly whoyou are and where you are and whatyou want to become. AH of a sud-den, all the puzzle fits.

Been around the game longenough to know these opportunitiesdon't come very often. And you bet-ter take the bull by the horn ifyou're going to take anything.

And so, I go back to what I toldmy players this afternoon ... Eachand every year, we've got toupgrade ourselves to get betterbecause the program never staysthe same. It either goes ahead orgoes behind ... That's what I wastalking to them about.

All of a sudden, I'm sitting uphere as a coach, I'm telling them topush on and push on — how come Idon't do the same thing? So I did. Ireached for another level. And I 'hope they understand that. That'swhat's important.

On Jflke CrouttMrnsjI think people here should know

something about Jake Crouthamel.We coached against each other, andwe decided that he wasn't going tocoach'anymore. He was six windand no losses and he was going toretire at the end of the year.

When Jake coached, nobody wonmore games in a seven-year periodin the Ivy League than Jake Crouth-amel. Jake Crouthamel was the firstguy signed by the Dallas Cowboys.He was the first professional foot-ball player under contract by them.

And never once, in all my careerhere, with all the crazy damn stuffgoing on, did he ever question whatwe were doing offensively, ordefensive or specialty teams.

Now, I've heard he's wild duringa game, but I've never seen it, andhe's never remarked on it to me.And he gets so excited at times,that he's ac tual ly smoked acigarette.

This Thing WM Turn Out1The great lesson as I tried to tell'

the players today — and people arescared to death of change — whatthey have to do is understand this isa great university and a greatadministration, and the athleticdepartment is led by Jake, who hasall the support systems in place forexcellence.

I talked to Jake at 20 after 3 thismorning, and he's not in a very goodmood at that time, so I called himagain from the airport at a quartertill 7, and he's right in it. He was upmost of the night and it's amazing,,you know Jake with that ugly pencilof his and how he puts things downand gets little lists all over theplace, how he can get thingsfocused on just exactly what he'saccomplishing.

I have great faith in everybodythat this thing will turn out. I guar-antee that they'll have that. -

•We Haven't Got It Done1 :People ask me, did you want to

take that thing to a national Mel,and be up there consistently yea£after year, that's what I thoughtthat I could get done by '92, and thisis only'91.

I thought '91 season, '92 season,'if we continue to win and go ttrbowls ... I was very anxious to seewhat we could do on Feb. 6, and we*haven't got it done. I have to admit'that. I thought we'd get it done. Ithink we should have had it done bynow, but we didn't.

I can't emphasize enough to you,that when I have a chance to go upthere and get» whole of a bunch ofguys that are 1-15 and how sad theyare and not feeling good aboutthemselves or the Patriots or foot-ball or anything else, to be able toput them together and maybe havethem run down the field and gethappy and kick the crap out of

, somebody... *

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BALD EAGLE PROJECTFUES IN NEW YORKBird watchers can see baldeagles, once all but extinctin New York, soar inSullivan County, 190 milessoutheast of Syracuse

NASA AT THECROSSROADSDespite spectacular photosfrom spacecraft Galileo,NASA must digest a criticalreport and review a yearfraught with problems. C-3

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Soviet Troops, LithuaniansFace Off over Fate of Union

Attempting to put down thesecessionist movement in the Bal-tic republic of Lithuania, theKremlin deploys troops around thecountry's television tower andlegislative buildings and Georgia'sparliament vehemently rejects anultimatum from President MikhailS. Gorbachev as a "declaration ofwar"/A-3.

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Talks FaU in Total RebuffU.N., France Try Last-DitchEfforts to Bridge Gulf Crisis

iNews Service Reports

GENEVA — The United Statesand Iraq moved closer to warWednesday when high-level diplo-matic talks failed to resolve anyaspect of the 5-month-old PersianGulf crisis.

President Bush, declaring he was"discouraged" by Iraq's "total stiffarm, a total rebuff" said he wouldcontinue to seek peace.

Iraqi leaders, for their part, ren-ewed their pledge to attack Israel ifa conflict erupts, and Iraqi Presi-dent Saddam Hussein warned thatwar will mean Americans "willswim in their own blood."

With the United Nations deadlinefor Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwaitjust six days away, the loomingthreat of war led the United Statesto take further steps to prepare fora conflict, strengthened congressio-nal support for the use of force and

diminished the remaining hopes fora peaceful solution.

After 6J/2 hours of discussions in astark hotel conference room here.Secretary of State James A. BakerIII and Iraqi Foreign Minister TanqAziz'agreed only that the deadlyimpasse remained.

Baker, looking drawn and som-ber, told reporters that "regretta-bly ... I heard nothing that suggeststo me any flexibility whatsoever."He accused the Iraqis of continuingto miscalculate the consequences oftheir Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait.

"If it (Iraq) should choose ... tocontinue its brutal occupation ofKuwait, Iraq will be choosing a mili-tary confrontation which ... willhave devastating consequences forIraq," Baker said.

Aziz said Iraq is tired of beingtreated as an "undefdog" by theUnited States, is ready for war and

Reuters

President Bush: "Nothing I saw today — nothing — leads me tobelieve that this man (Saddam) is going to be reasonable."

will defend itself "in a very boldmanner."

Asked whether Iraq would turnon Israel if a war breaks out in theregion, Aziz replied emphatically,"Yes. Absolutely. Yes."

The last hope for a diplomatic

resolution may rest with Europeandiplomats, particularly the French,and with U.N. Secretary-GeneralJavier Perez°de Cuellar.

Perez de Cuellar said he will go toBaghdad to meet Saddam in a last-minute peace mission before the

• Baker's comments-rock finan-cial markets/A-8.

• Will Congress blink?/A-8.• Ex-hostages urge nuclear

weapons against lraq/A-8.• Defense Department asks for

war emergency/A-8.• Faceoff: Baker, Aziz/A-8.• Peace activists indicted/B-2.• War divides Cortland/B-3.• WCNY to air debate/C-1.

Jan. 15 deadline for Iraq to leaveKuwait. French President FrancoisMitterrand pledged that his govern-ment would work right up to thedeadline to reach a diplomatic solu-tion. However, Bush has rejected asunacceptable Mitterrand's proposalto link Iraqi withdrawal to an inter-national conference to resolve theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict.

Bush, at his news conference,declined to say whether the UnitedStates would defend Israel, callingthe threat "too hypothetical.... I'mnot going to buy into that."

GovernorWarns ofSacrificesTo Come

By LUTHER F.BLIVENAlbany Bureau

Gov.-Mano M. Cuomo Wednesday-warnedlegislators that the state's most severe fiscalcrisis in 60 years will require "sacrifices andin some cases wrenching readjustment" tosolve.

In a somber, unusually long State of theState message, Cuomo vowed that "therewill be no sacred cows and there will be nosacrificial lambs" in the struggle to get statespending under control.

• Local officials react to governor's pro-posals/B-2.

In sharp contrast to previous State of theState messages — this was his ninth —Cuomo did not unveil any costly new pro-grams. The solution to the fiscal crisis, hesaid, lies not in new expenditures, but insharpening priorities and improving existingprograms.

Cuomo devoted a large part of his speechto a stinging criticism of the federal govern-ment — both Republican President GeorgeBush and the Democratic-led U.S. Congress— for its policies and programs, which hesaid have been detrimental to state and localgovernments. He referred repeatedly towhat he termed a "national recession," onwhich he blamed the state's fiscal woes.

The governor and state legislators lastmonth agreed to close a $1 billion gap in the

(See CUOMO, Page A-7)

Governor's \

Message HasHint of Deja Vu

By MATTHEW COXAltany Bureau

If some of 'the proposals in Gov. MarioCuomo's annual message to the legislaturelook familiar, they ought to.

He's made them before.Governors take advantage of the annual

address to lawmakers to float agendas thatcan be grounded as much in political rhetoricas in pragmatism.

In his first State of the State address in1983, for example, Cuomo called for publicfinancing of campaigns for statewide office.The legislature failed to support his plan.

The 121-page list of proposals he gave tolawmakers Wednesday resurrects the sameproposal, with some modifications. Therewere no immediate indications the receptionwill be any different this year.

A Cuomo spokesman said the governorknows many of his suggestions will end up inthe legislative trash bin. But that doesn'tmean they are futile, he said.

"Certain proposals require seasoning and

(See GOVERNOR, Page A-7)

STEPHEN D CANNERELLl/The Post-Siandart

Haw Syracuse coach Paul Paaqualoni, left, on Wednesday takea the big Manley Field House office from the old occupant,new New England Patriots coach Dick MacPharson.

New Syracuse Coach Comes from WithinByDONNIEWEBB

The Post-Standard •

The call came to meet Jake Crouthamel athis New Orleans hotel room at 7:45 a.m.Tuesday.

Paul Pasqualoni hadn't slept for daysanyway, so getting to the church on timewasn't a problem for the lifelong bachelor.

Pasqualoni, 41, was about to hear the uni-maginable. Crouthamel, Syracuse Univer-sity's athletic director, was about to ask Pas-qualoni if he wanted to coach the footballteam ... as in become head coach of theOrangemen.

"I knocked on the door," Pasqualoni said."He said 'Sit down.' So I sat down. I sat downand I listened. When Jake speaks, he doesn't,

• Pasqualoni wants his former SU col-leagues to stay as assistants/D-1.

• Orange players are optimistic aboutthe future under their new coach/D-4.

speak that often, so I listened."Crouthamel offered Pasqualoni the head

coaching job less than 48 hours after it wasabdicated by Dick MacPherson, who leftSyracuse after 10 seasons for the headcoaching job with the New England Patriotsof the National Football League.

The news of Pasqualoni's promotion hitlike a lightning bolt. He had not been consid-ered a candidate by anyone except Croutha-mel. Pasqualoni said he'never considered

himself a candidate until Crouthamel askedhim if he wanted the job.

Pasqualoni's name failed to appear on anyspeculative lists making the rounds, listscompiled by guesses within the athleticdepartment and the current coaching staff.

"This was a pretty well-kept secret... fora day," Pasqualoni said.

So who is this well-kept secret?Paul Pasqualoni is a 1972 graduate of

Penn State, where he was a walk-on line-backer under coach Joe Paterno. Pasqualonijoked that he was the worst linebacker toever play for defensive coach Jerry San-dusky.

(See ORANGE, Page A-9)

Caiiaiidaiglia Wine Under Fire

ANTONIA C. NOVELLOWarn* of HJQh-Powered Win*

Staff and News Service Reports

Consumers are being endangered by a high-alcohol drink made in Canandaigua that looks likea mild wine cooler, but is as potent as five shots ofvodka, Surgeon General Antonia .Novello saidWednesday.

The fortified wine Cisco, which is 20 percentalcohol, is particularly dangerous to unsuspectingteen-agers, who may think they are drinking awine cooler that typically would have a 4 percentalcohol content, Novello told-reporters at aWashington, D.C., news conference.

Cisco is made by Ontario County-based Canan-daigua Wine Co. The company also makes WildIrish Rose fortified wine and Sun Country winecoolers.

Youths who are familiar with Cisco have takento calling it "liquid crack" because of its strongeffect, Novello said.

"It looks like a wine cooler. It smells like a wine

cooler, but it isn't," she said. "It's an incrediblypotent, potentially lethal alcohoi'ic beverage."

Cisco, which is carbonated and comes in fiveflavors, is sold in small bottles shaped like winecoolers and often is stocked in convenience store;near ordinary wine coolers. Some of its point-of-purchase displays tout that Cisco "takes you b>surprise."

Canandaigua Chairman Marvin Sands said thereal problem is underage drinking and alcohoabuse, not Cisco.

He said company officials would meet withNovello.

"We don't really believe that a package changewill solve the problem, but we'll keep an opermind," Sands said.

After earlier criticism, the company agreed tcstate on the label that the drink is not a wine

(See SURGEON, Page A-6)

THE POST-STANDARD/Thursday, Jan. 10, 1991/PAGE A-9

Orange Hires Pasqualoni as Head Football Coach(ORANGE, from Page A-l)"I worked jft being lousy," he

said.But he also worked at being a

coach, his greatest ambition."I was a guy who was very happy

to be there and lucky because Iknew when I went there that Iwanted to be a coach," Pasqua-loni said. "What I used to do duringgames was get in Coach Paterno'sway a lot just to hear what he wassaying and figure out what wasgoing on."

Pasqualoni, a native of Connecti-cut, began his coaching career as anassistant at Cheshire (Conn.) HighSchool, then served stints at South-ern Connecticut State and WesternConnecticut State. He had a 34-17record as a head coach, including a10-1 mark in 1985.

Pasqualoni came to Syracuse in1987 as a linebackers coach andhas coached the position since.

Players know him as one of the'staff's most intense individuals.While he won't be caught deadwithout a tie on around the office,Pasqualoni turns into a fiercelymotivated coach on the practicefield.

Players refer to him as Coach P,but he's also been called Coach Psy-cho.

"At West Virginia, when Glenn(Young) and I were watching 'Psy-cho IV,' " redshirt freshman line-backer Dan Conley said, "he (Pas-qualoni) was in the room and he left,and Glenn looked at me and saidThere goes Psycho V.' "

Pasqualoni said he was "a littlenervous and still in a bit of shock" ashe met with reporters.

Pasqualoni was Crouthamel'schoice all along. The SU athleticdirector said he went to NewOrleans, where the coaching staffwas attending a convention, withthe idea of hiring Pasqualoni toreplace MacPherson.

After a seven-hour "exercise" ofinterviewing each member of thecoaching staff Monday, an exercisein which coaches and administrationshared frank thoughts about thedirection of the program, Croutha-mel said his decision became clear.

"As I went through that process,it became more obvious to me andreassuring to me that the guy on

"I'm in shock. I'm just very,very, very surprised, very

grateful ~ it's justoverwhelming."PAUL PASQUALONINew SU football coach

our staff who was clearly the heirapparent was Paul Pasqualoni,"Crouthamel said.

By Tuesday morning Crouthamelhad made his decision, and byWednesday morning Pasqualoniwas being introduced before theSyracuse media as the 26th headcoach of the Orangemen.

"I'm in shock," Pasqualoni said."I'm just very, very, very sur-prised, very grateful ... it's justoverwhelming."

When asked about his contract,Pasqualoni said he didn't know anydetails: "I'm so naive, I don't evenknow there's contracts."

Crouthamel said he never inter-viewed anyone outside the programfor the job, not George O'Leary ofGeorgia Tech and not Jim Hofher ofCornell. Crouthamel said he had acouple of outside candidates inmind, but only if his initial plan topursue Pasqualoni ran into trouble.

It didn't.Crouthamel said he wanted to

keep the job in-house to have conti-nuity, a word that came up repea-tedly during Pasqualom's news con-ference. In the end, a source saidPasqualoni became the "compro-mise choice," possibly to keepoffensive coordinator GeorgeDeLeone from joining MacPher-son's staff in New England.

"They all," Crouthamel said ofthe SU assistant coaches, "got anequal look. Obviously, you go inwith preconceived notions; every-thing isn't equal. People are differ-ent. Personalities are different.Experiences are different. So I didgo wi th some preconceivednotions."

CFOuthamel said Syracuse is get-ting exactly what it needs, a coachthe players already know, a coachwho knows the program, a coachwho can pull together recruiting,

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and a coach who can keep a goodportion of the staff from bolting toNew England.

Pasqualoni met with the playersfollowing his news conference, thenawaited the return of Syracuseassistants from New Orleans.' Astaff meeting is planned for 7 thismorning, when Pasqualoni shouldget a better idea of who plans tostay and who'plans to leave.

Aside from the urgency in get-ting the program running again,Pasqualoni takes over one of thecity's highest profile positions.

Pasqualoni also said he had nointention of being another CoachMac, something Crouthamel saidwas impossible, anyway.

"I probably won't drink as muchcoffee," Pasqualoni said. "I'm goingto be me."

MacPherson declined to appearat Pasqualoni's news conferenceWednesday. Sports informationdirector Larry Kimball said Mac-Pherson didn't want to take awayfrom Pasqualoni's day.

And what a day it was. Whiletroubled swirled around — what

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"Bear Bryant once said that tim-ing in life is every thing,", Pasqualonisaid. "And last night, it kind of hitme as to exactly what that meant.We've been to the Sugar Bowl, theHall of Fame Bowl, the Peach Bowl;we've been to Hawaii, the KickoffClassic; we've been to Japan, andnow I get to be the head coach. It's adream. It really is."

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