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0 INDIAN "7 EDITION DRUG PRICES Health plan wants to limit increaes PAGE 8-4 THURi tm Choosing a grill for your summer cookout PACE D-l MAY 6, 1993 CLOUDY Partly cloudy tonight, low 59. Partly cloudy, chance rain Friday, high near 80. Page C-7. THE DIANAPQ NEWS 35c "Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There Is Liberty' II Cor. 3-17 THETVJFWQ rici" peace plan Bosnian Serbs would endorse the plan in good faith.

Bosnian Serb leaders complain that the peace plan, which would divide Bosnia into 10 provinces, largely along ethnic lines, gives Serbs only 43 percent of the republic's territory. Serb rebels have seized 70 percent of Bosnia in the year-old war and seem intent on creating a "Greater Serbia" connecting Serb-held lands in Bosnia and Croatia with Serbia, the dominant republic in what remains of the Yugoslav feder- See REJECT A-2 U.S. seeks allies input on concluding conflict The Associated Press MOUNT JAHORINA. Bosnia Bosnian Serb lawmakers determined to hold on to the spoils of war rejected a U.N. peace plan today, spurning appeals from sponsors in Serbia and testing the resolve of a U.S.

president. Ignoring intense pressure to accept the plan, the self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb parliament voted overwhelmingly early military action against the Bosnian Serbs have been unavailing. Secretary of State Warren Christopher was continuing talks with the allies. In Brussels, Belgium today, he called the Bosnian Serb maneuver "another ploy to gain delay, and I for one will not be thrown off-track." "We need to talk about stronger measures, we need to talk about some actions on the ground that will bring to an end the aggression," Christopher said before flying to Germany. The Clinton administration had long been skeptical that the if ZT 1 Step by step Dance teacher Angela Junk and her daughter, Natalie, 7, practice their steps at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, while waiting for a group of students from Very Special Arts Indiana to arrive for their session Wednesday.

Tim HalcombThe Indianapolis News hibited the Citizens Police Complaint Board from investigating police-action shootings. I Since then, the panel has lost credibil-; ity and status among both fans and foes of the police. I Critics say members have spent too much time figuring out rules and regula--tions and not enough time acting on complaints. See POLICE A-2 Development continues in Wayne Township with plans for a supermarket and strip mall at Country Club and Rockville roads. Page B-3.

Warren Township children get a hands-on view of history, thanks to an archaeologist. Page B-3. More than 14,500 people are expected to compete in Friday's 500 Festival Mini-Marathon, which this year goes from Downtown to the speedway and then finishes Downtown. Pages B-l and E-l. -1 The Pacers' playoff game tonight with the New York Knicks will start an hour earlier than usual to accommodate a telecast of the contest, but it will be blacked-out in a 35-mile radius because it is not sold out.

Page E-l. Motherhood began last Labor Day for T.J Banes of Butler University and Mike Fender of The News. That was the day they found out she was pregnant and the day she started a journal to give to their baby. One mother's story, Friday in Extra! STAFF JUST NEEDS DI5CIPUNE.GETME ZoEEAIRfc NANNV. President Clinton wants his staff to be more in focus.

He hasn't gotten the picture yet either. The president is hiring an aide to establish discipline. The White House staff is so young it needs training wheels. Clinton did apologize to Rush Limbaugh making this another sorry administration! The president has come up with a plan for 110 enterprise zones across the nation. Too bad Capitol Hill, which has shown no enterprise, wasn't among them.

g. When will the Indiana Legislature return for its special session? A. Hush! Maybe the governor will forget to call it back. Wendell Trogdon THE HEWS Pages Bridge C-7 Business D-4 Classifieds D-6 Comics C-3 Crossword E-8 Editorial A-10 Extra! C-l Free Time F-l Pages Garden D-l Movies F-2 Obituaries E-7 People A-4 Sports E-l Statistics C-7 TV C-4 Weather C-7 i' iiiiMiiii 1 1 -m roposal stirs debate 'olice revie today to instead ask Serbs in the territory its forces control to decide in a referendum. The move amounts to little more than a stalling tactic by an assembly that has already rejected the peace plan twice.

Hard-line Serbs likely to reject the plan dominate the areas where the May 15-16 referendum would be held. President Clinton, who had threatened to bomb Bosnian Serb artillery if the peace plan was rejected, had no immediate comment on the vote early today. His administration's efforts to secure the endorsement of European allies for including police-action shootings. These residents would serve on a new Police Professional Standards Board and would determine whether officers complied with state and federal laws, merit board rules and police department general orders. But not everyone is happy at that prospect.

John Ruckelshaus, lawyer for the Fraternal Order of Police for 27 years, said the current complaint board process warne note after Fipps hung himself in the Marion County Jail Monday morning. It was a contrite Fipps who had appeared in Superior Criminal Court 5 on April 28: "I'm just sorry for what I done. I didn't even know I did it until after it happened. After it happened I just cracked up. It scared the hell out of me when I found out I took a life and after that I just wanted to as long as he can stand the stench from sewage around the pool.

Chris and Lisa Pedersen are preparing to replace wood flooring in their bathroom, rotted from water under their home. Candlelight Village residents attribute most of their problems to lack of drainage throughout the northern Shelby County housing addition. "I would guess that 47 of the 57 houses out here have had problems with sewage and drainage," said Mr. Everts. The situation came to a head last week when residents demanded that the Shelby County Board of Health investigate.

See SEPTIC A-2 board to By KATHLEEN SCHUCKEL The Indianapolis News A proposal that would give residents more control in Indianapolis Police Department misconduct cases has sparked reactions ranging from disgust to skepticism. The 22-member task force on police performance assessment, formed last year by Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, is ex-petted to recommend today that residents oversee some police disciplinary matters nmate By JEFF ZOGG The Indianapolis News All the warning signs were there. At Paul Ernest Fipps' sentencing hearing last week, he told the court he wanted to die. He just couldn't face life knowing he took the life of another, he said. Authorities heard the same sentiments from Fipps five days later posthumously when they found a suicide works just fine.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," he said. But Goldsmith thinks the system needs work. "The current system harasses the police department and doesn't assist citizens who have legitimate complaints," he said. "It's ineffective and burdensome. It encourages police not to take action because that's the least dangerous course for them." In 1990.

the City-County Council pro take my own," Fipps had said. Judge Gary Miller gave Fipps, 41, a 35-year prison term after he'pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for the beating death of Norman L. Overway last June. Overway, a 56-year-old Michigan man, fought with Fipps in a South College Avenue apartment about comments Over-way made about Fipps' wife. Miller said he asked his staff to warn anted death the jail that Fipps was suicidal.

Deputy Don Marshall said he talked with Lt. Gene Tomey before Fipps was. sent back to the jail after his sentencing. "I was told they would talk with him' and evaluate him and take care of Marshall said. "All I know is that he was in the same cell block he was in before See Inmate A-2 Residents raise stink over septic problems i By JERRY GRAFF The Indianapolis News FOUNTAINTOWN, Ind.

When James and Linda Everts bought their home in Candlelight Village near Fountaintown, they never dreamed that the first addition would be a portable toilet, the modern equivalent of an outhouse. The Everts' neighbors, John and Sandra Forehand, wondered why children in the subdivision played In the streets. Now they know. It isn't safe for them to play In wet back yards that may be polluted by septic systems. Vernon Ledford enjoys the swimming pool behind his Candlelght Village home on hot summer days The News Phone Numbers Main Office 633-1240 Circulation 633-9211 Classified Ads 633-1212 Delivered by Carrier, $1.50 Per Week 124th YEAR 1993, The Indianapolis News Tim HalcombThe Indianapolis News Drainage problems have forced James Everts' family to use a portable toilet..

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