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Cildi ton WEATHER SUIIIJY Warm. Low 40, high 64. Page C2 SPORTS SUNRISE FOOL'S GOLD Oil OSCAR IIIOHT A look back at the academy's worst picks. Page B1 THE FINAL FOUR IS FINALLY COMPLETE North Carolina outlasts Cincinnati; Michigan whips Temple. Page D1 Indiana "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty" Cor.

3:17 SINGLE COPY Star Crowds rally to Yeltsin after ouster bid fails Town gives slain officer final salute North Vernon youth hit hard by tragedy strating for half the day: "The Communist coup d'etat did not take place." To cheers, he said. "This Is a victory for the people, for reform, for democracy. Young Russia has won and wIU continue progressing." In the chilly night air, under the By Will Englund THE BALTIMORE SUN Moscow Rebellious members of Russia's Congress torpedoed a compromise reached by President Boris N. Yeltsin and his rival, Rus-lan I. Khasbulatov, on Sunday and then tried to impeach them.

in Yeltsins case, they came close. But In the end, both men survived to resume their Kremlin confrontation today. Conservative deputies who for several hours Sunday broke free of their leadership and took control of the Congress fell 72 votes short of carrying In the Congress a resurrected motion to Impeach the president. Their attempt to dismiss Khasbulatov, the chairman of the legislature, failed by a larger number. Although the votes By Jenny Labalme STAR STAFF WRITER North Vernon, Ind.

The community was shuddering with grief Sunday. So were the flags as they quivered at half-mast. On North Main Street, the sign outside Hardee's wasn't advertising burgers. Its plain black letters had a more important message. One side read, "We will miss you Anthony and Lonnle." The other side said, "Sympathy to the families." Patrolman Anthony B.

Burton, 29, and Reserve Officer Lonnie E. Howard, 22, were killed Wednesday when a man, apparently distraught over the loss of his girlfriend, rammed his car Into their vehicle. Jonathan E. Warnell, 30, of Country Squire Lakes was charged with murder in Jennings Circuit Court. Warnell is in serious condition at Humana Hospital in Louisville, Ky.

Howard was burled Saturday In Whites-burg, Ky. Sunday, about 1,500 showed up at the Jennings County High School gym to pay their respects to Burton, his family and his wife, Diane, who Is eight months pregnant, with their first child. Some 400 In the audience were law enforcement officers who traveled from across the state, as well as from Florida, Ohio and Louisville. "Anthony took an oath to protect and serve; to die so young he did not deserve," said John Willis, a North Vernon police reserve officer and pastor of the First Apostolic Church, who concluded his eulogy with his own poem. Below Willis and the podium was Burton's flag-draped casket.

A collection of silver See OFFICER Page 2 m. rw --4, i ri Associated Press HAIL TO CHIEF: A jubilant Russian shows his support for Boris Yeltsin. mr 1 left nothing resolved In the continuing struggle between Yeltsin and the legislature, the president rushed out Sunday night to Red Square as soon as he heard the news. There, he told a throng of thousands of his supporters who had been waiting and demon brilliantly Illuminated dome of St. Basil's Cathedral, the crowd began chanting, "Russia! Russia!" The exultant scene culminated a day full of twists and extremes.

See YELTSIN Page 2 'fa -of' )( Exploding At The Seams: Second of two parts Coal industry support runs deep in legislature Moves to toughen regulation beaten back i -i Ti By Kyle Niederpruem STAR ENVIRONMENT WRITER 1 hen coal Industry offi fl fl cials wanted a law pro 71 UU hibiting tougher state regulation of their QUIET GRIEF: Diane Burton, wife of slain Patrolman Anthony B. Burton, holds back tears at her husband's funeral in North Vernon. She is eight months pregnant with their first child. More than 400 officers attended the service Sunday at Jennings County High School. Star Staff Photos Patrick Schnekfer Movement builds: Activists from 26 coal-producing states are lobbying for change.

Page A5. boss when they both worked at Amax. As House majority leader, Gregg also was an Influential sponsor. "We try to keep Indiana coal marketable," Gregg said. "You've gotta realize If every time you make our law tougher, and other states don't, they've got market advantages we don't." That kind of access to Influential legislators, some say, keeps citizens' voices muted In the de- bate over how coal mining affects communities.

See COAL Page 5 business, they turned to one of their own Rep. John R. Gregg, D-Sandborn. Gregg, an attorney, authored an amendment to a 1991 bill that barred the state from passing more stringent standards for coal mining than those adopted by the federal government. The Industry knew Gregg would be sympathetic.

He was a former lobbyist for Amax Coal Co. And J. Nathan Noland, president of the Indiana Coal Council, had been Gregg's Teens' world growing more violent Trooper refuses to be cowed by emergency delivery at farm New report shows death rate climbing across United States Heloise BS Dr. Lamb B5 Landers B5 Lotteries C2 Movies B3 Obituaries A7 People B2 Sports D1-7 Statistics A7 TV-Radio B8.7 Weather C2 36 pages INDEX Almanac 66 Bridge B6 Business Children's Express D8 Classified Ads C4 Comics B4 Crossword B6 Doonesbury 'Editorials A8 Graham A7 PRAYER How Indiana rates The Kids Count report ranks states and the District of Columbia in each of 10 categories and with an overall rating. The highest rating means the lowest incidence of the problem cited.

Overall, Indiana was ranked 29 out of 51, just below the average. Here's how Indiana did in the 10 categories: Teen violent death rate: Rank, 15. Low birth-weight babies: Rank, 22. Infant mortality rate: Rank, 32. Child death rate, ages 1-14: Rank, 26.

Ratio of single-teen births to all births: Rank, 36. Juvenile violent crime arrest rate, ages 10-17: Rank, 35. Rate of high school graduation: Rank, 26. Rate of teens not in school or labor force, ages 16-19: Rank, 27. Rate of children in poverty: Rank, 31.

Children in single-parent families: Rank, 37. to have it, but she was having difficulty," Jones said. Hedge's veterinarian was out of town; no farmhands were working. Jones has never lived on a farm and doesn't know much about animal births, but he offered to help. Following instructions from Hedge, he straightened out one of the calf's front legs inside the birth canal.

Then he attached a special chain to the other front leg and pulled out the calf. The newborn, though, was having trouble breathing. So Jones cleared out its mouth and pushed on its lungs and abdomen to help it breathe regularly, said State Police Detective John Mlshler. On Sunday, Mlshler confirmed that "cow and calf are doing fine." Jones said he was happy to help and thought it showed the versatility of state troopers. "We do everything from that to traffic to homicides.

A lot of people think we spend all our time at Dunki Donuts. But our department keeps us pretty busy." By Rebecca Buckman STAR STAFF WRITER Indiana State Trooper Daryl Jones always keeps a pair of boots and some coveralls in the trunk of his patrol car. In rural Putnam County, he says, officers occasionally respond to calls that require such gear like wading through marshes or catching a possum inside somebody's home. But Jones never thought he'd be wearing his protective clothing for a calf birth. "I've done some strange things In this department, but this Is one of the most unusual," said Jones, a seven-year trooper who helped deliver a calf at a farm near Reels-ville on Saturday.

Jones said he was on routine patrol when he stopped to check on an elderly neighbor. Betty Hedge told him she was worried about one of her Polled Hereford fcows that had jtet gone into labor. "She (the cow) was about ready By Diana Penner STAR STAFF WRITER Darrell Junior Stennls was shot and killed a year and a half ago while he played basketball In a neighborhood park. For his mother, Martha Stennis, he became a memory, which comes to life as she carefully handles her few dog-eared snapshots. For the officials of the world, her son, nicknamed Scooter by his family, became another statistic.

The violence, which caught up with him at age 23, had followed him a long time. Stennls was shot twice as a teen-ager, but could not beat the odds a third time. Nationally, more and more teenagers are dying violent deaths, according to data released today by the AmVe E. Casey Foundation and the! Center for the Study of Social Policy. The report, called How great You are, dear Lord.

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633-1200 i Volume 90, No. 297 1993, The Indianapolis Star dent in 1990. the last year for which data were available. The report ranks Indiana 15th among the lowest rates of "teen violent death." The position Is the state's highest ranking among 10 categories. Overall, Indiana ranks Just below the average 29th out of 51, Including te District of Columbia.

See TEENS Page 2 Kids Count, covers 10 areas of child well-being. The Casey foundation is a Connecticut-based philanthropic organization devoted to disadvantaged children. The center is a research and policy analysis group based In Washington, D.C. Both are private and nonprofit. Kids Cmnt shows that more than 12,500 teens died violently including by suicide and acci.