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INSIDE SECTION 2 City watch 3 Metro state roundup .7 Almanac .8 Obituaries 8, 9 Weather 10 News from CHICAGO AND THE NORTH SUBURBS along with reports from around the region. Tuesday, October 15, 1996 nnLjj. Eric Zorn Mling 1HJW Ji.Liiijiiiij.ii.iyu. friends who were with her that night in the bar: Aalders, 37, i and Richard Fikejs, 29. They are expected to appear in bond court Tuesday morning.

Police said the group stayed at the bar until it closed at 4 a.m. and then went to Mikesh's second-floor apartment in the 6900 block of West 64th Place. "I think they just went back to continue visiting with each See Killing, Page 5. By Graeme Zielinski and Andrew Martin Tribune Staff Writers Trirta Carpenter was so fearful of her ex-boyfriend, Kevin Aalders, that she had the locks on her Chicago Ridge apartment changed. In that fear, she wasn't alone.

A tattooed and muscular ex-convict known as "Lefty," Aalders was, considered a bully a trucking company in McCook, fresh off the late shift, were apparently unaware of Aalders' reputation when they stopped for drinks at a 63rd Street tavern. There, one of the workers, 27-year-old Donald Mikesh, had a chance encounter with a former schoolmate that had violent, and ultimately, fatal consequences. Much of what happened in the hours that followed remains a mystery, but this much is clear: Mikesh and his two co-workers, Keith Chavez, 40, and Kevin Carroll, 39, were beaten and stabbed to death, their throats slashed, in Mikesh's apartment in the Clearing neighborhood on the city's Southwest Side. On Monday, police charged three people with the slayings, including the former classmate, Rhonda Thompson, 27, and two in the businesses and taverns along 63rd Street on the Southwest Side, where one merchant said the very sight of Aalders' car, a dark blue Oldsmobile, sent him scurrying inside the store. "You'd see it coming and you'd run and hide," said the merchant, who requested anonymity.

But early Saturday morning, three freight-dock workers from With new TV ad, abortion foes take aim at children he bloody-fetus commercials promise to be revealing. Wednesday morning, during local news programming on WLS-Ch. 7 and WGN-Ch. 9, viewers will get Map colors give light to problems They show divisions, links of city, suburbs uj The annual Columbus Day Parade takes on special significance when elections are only weeks away. Candidates want to discover votes StzWi Tribune photo by Jose More 3r I By Byron P.

White and Patrick T. Reardon Tribune Staff Writers The brilliant colors of Myron Orfield's maps have the power to shake up entire metropolitan regions. The vivid reds, oranges and blues of his computer-generated grids expose a troubling phenomenon of modern-day metropolitan life: the growing economic disparity between the haves and the have-nots. The disparity, he argues, can no longer be summed up as city versus the suburbs. Orfield's newly-minted maps of the Chicago metropolitan region show a new dynamic, pitting the fi 2m -my aging municipalities at the 1 region's core (Chicago and many of its inner-ring suburbs) against the newer, fresher, and generally more affluent commu- nities sprouting along its edges.

Orfield, a state representative i from Minnesota who has i become an evangelist for region-; wide urban planning, has produced research for cities from Seattle to Baltimore. His find- 1 ings have enlightened decision- makers and raised anxieties, fostered collaboration and led to bitter political battles. This week, Orfield is unleash- ing his maps for the first time on the six-county Chicago met- i i it ii was. "if tMj tit 1. 0, 1M it 7 mi their first look at the $40,000 anti-abortion ad campaign that will bring graphic images of death and dismemberment into area homes some 60 times in the next three weeks.

The 30-second ad opens with a children's tihorus standing in a mock cemetery of "white crosses. "How long must the killing go on?" they sing. "How long must this blood be on our hands?" 1 As they sing, four images of what anti-abortion-rights forces call murdered babies and pro-abortion-rights forces call the products of conception rise on the screen. One is in a bucket. One, in pieces, is in the palm of an adult hand.

"We know that the ads will make people sick," said Michael Bailey, the crusader from southern Indiana who has Frankly, I'll be moved here peeved if they temporarily to serve A mu ft UAr as campaign drag my 6-year- manager for third-Old into this. Party U.S. Senate candidate Chad Koppie of Gilberts. Koppie's "campaign," though, is virtually inactive otherwise, and his candidacy appears to be little more than a legal gambit to get on the air an ad that stations would otherwise reject. Indeed, an irony to this situation is that WLS was the only local station to reject as too controversial a recent ad for Planned Parenthood that featured a warm-fuzzy family scene and a mother saying, "We must women and their families to make the best decision for them when faced with an unplanned pregnancy." And now, said station manager Fran Preston, because of new Federal Communications Commission regulations regarding candidates' rights, WLS must not only air the gruesome footage, it must also, if asked, do so during hours when children are likely to be awake and near the TV.

Bailey said he very much hopes children do see the ads he specifically mentioned 6-year-olds and added that the children's choir was used in the ads just so that young ears would perk up. "There'll be children running to the TV to see other children singing," he predicted. "Then parents will be forced to talk to their Children about this, how Americans have allowed the murder of millions of babies." t. In Your Kid's Face. Frankly, I'll be peeved if they drag my 6-year-old into this.

He can't vote, but he can be traumatized, and it strikes me as more likely that the hearts of parents will turn against those who take it upon themselves to try to take control of the family political dialogue in this aggressive manner, than that they will experience an anti-abortion epiphany while attempting to explain the issue in simple terms, But I have no principled objection to Koppie and Bailey attempting to expose grownups to the imagery of abortion. Last I checked, most TV's still have on-ofif buttons 1 and channel-switching capabilities, and no one who has ever argued a socio-political point can deny the power of photos and specific examples to turn limp abstractions into galvanizing realities. Famine in Africa, for instance, did not particularly move the American public until TV documentarians showed us the starving tots with bloated bellies. Close-up coverage of the Vietnam War is often credited with energizing the anti-war movement. "Once people see the grisly reality of abortion, they will never think about it the same way again," Bailey promised.

He said when the ads ran several years ago in Louisville, the images markedly changed public attitude toward abortion an assessment categorically denied by the Planned Parenthood office and an abortion provider there. In fairness, neither position on abortion should be based on abstractions and so, while the surgical byproducts are part of the often highly complicated story of any abortion that we should not ignore, they are only a part. My guess, which rises to the level of a philosophical objection, is that the bloody ads will further polarize an already polarized debate. They will be revealing, but only of that which partisans think they know: The anti's will see an energizing and conclusive reminder that abortion takes real human life, while the pro's will see satisfying evidence that their opponents are uni-dimensional zealots, easily dismissed because their best argument is a gross-out aimed in part at little kids. And we will all see the chasm widen just abitimore.

I 4 Tribune photo by Jose M. Osorio played Christopher Columbus. John Gallione waves an Italian flag as he marches in front of the Villa Scalabrini float. ropolitan region, with the blessing (and funding) of the John D. and Catherine T.

MacArthur Foundation. Starting Wednesday, Orfield will present his research at three suburban forums. But even those who monitor regional trends aren't sure whether his work will engender understanding or create tension. The source of the tension is Orfield's challenge to traditional political and regional verities. It is also the possibility that his findings will prompt a restructuring of political alliances, with some suburbs link-; ing up with the city in legisla-' tive fights rather than with other suburbs on spending for mass transit, fair housing and the sharing of property tax reve-' nues.

See Maps, Page 2 Donna Recchia (top) prepares for her role as Queen Isabella at a wreath laying. With her is Anthony Fiorentino, who INSIDE Even politicians who aren't running don't miss chance to march By Jake Batsell Tribune Staff Writer In Chicago, political stumping at the Columbus Day Parade has become an autumnal rite, perhaps as quintessential as raking the leaves and tossing around the pigskin. When a general election is just three weeks away, the parade becomes an even more conspicuous political promenade. That was certainly the case Monday, as candidates vying for offices ranging from the U.S. Senate to Metropolitan Water Reclamation District commissioner crammed the streets for the 44th annual event.

Mayor Richard Daley and Gov. Jim Edgar, neither of whom are up for reelection, led a shoulder-to-shoulder phalanx of political candidates and public ifc mmi tr. mnimmuumummmi 111 iidfctfl'r 'tlf llliMiiBiMiiftWiittiiriiimrmiil Tribune photo by Jose M. Osono They're not up for re-election Nov. 5, but Gov.

Jim Edgar (left) and Mayor Richard Daley (center) are more than happy to lead Monday's Columbus Day Parade. en masse today, whether they're being elected or not." If the thousands of parade watchers missed the candidates the first time around, it's likely they caught a glimpse later on down the line. Many candidates See Parade, Page 2 officials for a six-block jaunt along Dearborn Street. "When you're elected to public life, you're always, in a sense, campaigning," Daley said. "You never let the guard down.

The Columbus Day Parade is a huge event, so political leaders are out F7 V4 4 CHA residents given 6 days to pack up and move Two-wheel drive Skateboarders, hikers and bikers such as Mike Bristol make use of the northwest suburbs' Prairie Trail. Page 7 Crime stopper Criminal defense attorney spells out hard facts on crime to teenagers. Page 3 i i- future of the homes. The soon-to-be displaced residents, who have been given no assurances they can eventually return, called a news conference Monday in front of the Addams buildings to express their unhappiness and suspicions. "The time frame they gave us is impossible," said FerreE Freeman, a tenant leader who has I See Residents, Page 2 the tenants, are to cross dangerous gang-dominated territory to relocate in high-rise buildings in another part of the complex, or find their own housing.

CHA officials later denied there were any plans to raze the Addams Homes for private development. They insisted the buildings are being vacated and sealed for court-ordered repairs, but thy were vague about the notice as part of a conspiracy to turn the land over to private interests. Tenants of the Jane Addams Homes, a group of low-rise buildings in the 1300 block of West Taylor Street that are part of the CHA's ABLA development, claim that agency officials gave them six days' notice to vacate their apartments. Their options, according to ABLA group raises fears of land plot By Cathleen Falsani Tribune Staff Writer An angry group of Chicago Housing Authority tenants expressed concern Monday that they are being forced to move from their homes on shorty.