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A magic U.S. chalet? Is remote haven key to skiers' good fortunes? Sports. Dow falls 35.18 Interest-rate fears to blame. Business. City Edition i Saturday, February 19, 1994 35 Cents 50 cents outside the eight-county Philadelphia metropolitan area udse Voids Stinsorfs Election QJJ Itbklite Jupiter Orders that Marks get the Pa.

Senate seat Jansen's golden moment Larsen loses bid to dismiss charges The ruling set the stage for a criminal trial for the state Supreme Court justice. He is accused of drug violations. hundreds of absentee-ballot packages directly to Stinson's campaign. This practice is illegal under state law, Newcomer ruled. Tartaglione has refused to comment on the case.

Edward V. Schulgen, the deputy for Tartaglione, was incensed with the JJl H' fviS4 By Honry Goldman INQUIRER STAFF WRITER The controversial election in Philadelphia's Second State Senate District was overturned yesterday by a federal judge who declared that the city Board of Elections "participated in and later tried to conceal" massive vote fraud. U.S. District Judge Clarence C. Newcomer ruled that Democrat William G.

Stinson must vacate the district's seat in the Senate and be replaced by Republican Bruce S. Marks. In a 37-page decision, Newcomer declared that Stinson and his campaign had been part of a scheme to defraud the Latino and African American voters of the Second District. He also found that the effort was repeatedly aided by the Board of Elections. "Substantial evidence was presented establishing massive absentee ballot fraud, deception, intimidation, harassment, and forgery," Newcomer wrote in granting Marks' request for a preliminary injunction.

"Stinson knew of and ratified the procedures, and the Board participated in and later tried to conceal its involvement in the scheme." The judge found that Democratic City Commissioners Margaret Tartag-lione and Alexander Z. Talmadge Jr. and city elections supervisor Dennis Kelly "engaged in a covert process" to help Stinson through the delivery of Judge Newcomer blasted Board of Elections. decision. Speaking on behalf of Tartaglione, he called the ruling "a Dred Scott decision of the election code," referring to the pro-slavery 1857 U.S.

Supreme Court ruling. Talmadge said he was outraged at Newcomer's ruling. "I did not participate in any way to destroy the election or taint the election," Talmadge said. "That's not my job. The opinion says we conspired to act discriminatorily for one candidate or another, which is totally not true." The judge found vote fraud in the See ELECTION on A6 Some rejoiced over the ruling.

To others, "it's a rotten deal." A6. After the bombshell, Republicans must decide what to do. Analysis, A7. wmm r- At I- Dallas Morning News ERICH SCHLEGEL Dan Jansen skates a victory lap holding his daughter, Jane, after finally winning an Olympic gold medal in the speedskating race. More photos in Sports Extra, CI.

A saga ends in triumph HAMAR, Norway Savor this Olympic moment. Dan Jansen skating the last 200 meters of this Olympic race like an Indy car, smoking the ice. The raised fists. The hands to the head. The wife screaming and crying and hugging the baby.

The festive, frantic Norwegian fans just cheering and cheering. The Philadelphia Inquirer AKIRA SUWA Bruce Marks beams as his wife, Irene, hugs Ruben Hernandez, a campaign volunteer. The judge said Marks had shown there was scheme to defraud Latino and African American voters in the 2 commissioners draw; stinging comments 1 Judge Newcomer accused Margaret Tartaglione and Alexander Talmadge of complicity. They denied it. By Emilie Lounsberry INQUIRER STAFF WRITER A Pittsburgh trial judge refused yesterday to dismiss felony drug and conspiracy charges against suspended State Supreme Court Justice Rolf Larsen, setting the stage for a criminal trial of the justice in the spring.

Allegheny County Court Judge W. Terrence O'Brien issued the one-page order denying Larsen's request that the case be thrown out. Larsen has contended that his actions in obtaining anti-anxiety drugs did not constitute a crime. Both Chief Deputy State Attorney General Lawrence N. Claus and defense attorney William C.

Costopou-los said they were ready for trial, which is scheduled to begin April 4 "after jury selection March 30 and 31. "It is our intention to pick a jury and try this case without delay," said Costopoulos. Larsen, 59, a Pittsburgh Democrat who was elected to the court in 1977, is charged with two counts of conspiracy and 14 counts of violating the state drug act for obtaining antianxiety drugs through prescriptions written in the names of court employees. Larsen testified before the statewide investigating grand jury that he was taking prescription drugs for longstanding anxiety and depression. He is charged under a section of the drug law that makes it a crime for anyone to obtain a controlled substance through misrepresentation, fraud, deception, forgery or subterfuge.

Costopoulos has argued that Lar-' See LARSEN on A 10 Optimism on Bosnia downgraded A U.N. spokesman said withdrawals were not as great as he had reported. By Carol J. Williams LOS ANGELES TIMES SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina The chief spokesman for U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia sought yesterday to tone down earlier enthusiasm over the first sizable pullback of heavy weapons from Sarajevo by rebel Serbs, saying he was wrong to have suggested entire convoys had been seen leaving the gun batteries ringing the city.

In a sign that the artillery withdrawal remains sporadic in advance of tomorrow's deadline that NATO set for punitive airstrikes if the weapons are not pulled back or neutralized, Col. Bill Aikman amended his previous characterization of the first significant Serbian relocation of heavy weaponry. He said the pace had picked up from the few handfuls of aged artillery pieces turned over to the United Nations in the first week of the 10-day withdrawal period, "but to describe them as convoys was going too far." His widely reported declaration late Thursday that U.N. monitors had watched entire convoys of weaponry being withdrawn had suggested a See BOSNIA on A10 The U.S. shows public support, private doubts on Russian role.

A10. The tears. The gold medal. The salute to the sky. The victory lap he waltzed with his infant daughter.

On his eighth try, when he wasn't expected to get near a medal, Dan Jansen won. He won and he set a world record. He won and American and Norwegian flags were waving in ecstasy. This was a performance for the ages. In probably his last try for an Olympic medal, Jansen won the gold.

No one ever skated faster. At the Olympics Yesterday's action 1 Tonya Harding holds a lengthy news conference, and allows that all the attention has been "kind of fun." CI. Today's events The U.S. hockey team now must go up against the talented and experienced Swedes. C6.

Elvis Stojko loves karate, motorbike racing and figure skating. And he's the guy to watch in the hunt for the gold. C7. Complete coverage in Sports Extra, Section C. Diane Pucin He won and he cried when the national anthem was played.

He won and saluted the sky. He was saluting Jane, his beloved sister who died on the day of his first race at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. He took a victory lap on the darkened oval. A waltz played, and passed down to Jansen from the stands was a smiling, gurgling, blue-eyed baby with a tiny American flag painted on her' face. Her name is Jane.

Jane and her dad waltzed. Dan and his See DIANE PUCIN on A10 Tartaglione, 61, the brassy, tough-talking city political icon, unabashed defender of patronage hiring and undisputed boss of the Board of Elections who has weathered past storms that swirled around the ground-floor office she has occupied for 19 years. And then it shone on Alexander Z. Talmadge 35, the newcomer to the board, Morehouse undergraduate, Georgetown Law, mentor to disadvantaged teenagers, a buttoned-down lawyer with an impressive bio and an idealistic-sounding vision of the electoral process. Along that row of high-ceilinged, windowless City Hall offices Wan-amakers side this was no time for See COMMISSIONERS on A7 S.

Africa behind white teachers: was being led by a militant black group called the Azanian People's Organization (Azapo). But since qualified black teachers are in short supply, many township schools have no choice but to recruit whites, officials said. For several years now, Azapo has waged a campaign to change those hiring practices. Its leaders say black children in South Africa should nor. See SOUTH AFRICA on A2 -1 By Amy S.

Rosenborg INQUIRER STAFF WRITER The judge's opinion spoke of fraud, a covert process, secret dealings, conspiracy, a tainted election. While U.S. District Judge Clarence C. Newcomer yesterday took the extraordinary measure of ordering the eviction of William G. Stinson from the state Senate, he reserved some of those most blistering characterizations for the two Democratic city commissioners the election officials who were supposed to have prevented the Second Senate District vote scandal and who, in Newcomer's judgment, became part of it instead.

The judicial spotlight hit Margaret have eased somewhat. But to outsiders, the township still carries a reputation for racial hatred and violence, especially toward whites. In recent weeks, however, Guguletu has earned another distinction. It is the place where black parents rallied to keep white teachers at Guguletu Comprehensive, an all-black high school that combines academics and technical training. A campaign to oust the instructors Transcending race in Black parents in a conflicted township rally Inside After beating Jim Courier five times, Andrei Chesnokov finally loses to him at the Comcast U.S.

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By Glenn Burkins INqlUHKRSTAFK WRITER GUGULETU, South Africa Whenever racial tensions are discussed in this bleak and impoverished black township, the name of Amy Biehl is almost certain to arise. Biehl, 26, a Fulbright scholar from California, was killed last year by angry youths. Her only offense was being white in Gugulelu. Since then, tensions in Guguletu.