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152nd Year No. 299 Chicago Triburw 6 Section yahn on the hot seat TODAY'S TISSUES Netai Back home, he's hit with fallout from the Mideast deal i in By Hugh Dellios Triuune Forkign Corrkstondknt JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turned from making peace to saving his threatened government Sunday, telling Israelis that Friday's agreement with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was a reluctant attempt to limit the damage of the 1993 Oslo peace plan. As protesting Jewish settlers tried to block his path back to agreement Friday, when he called Arafat his "partner." Sunday's message was intended for his own supporters and it reflected the difficulty he will have selling the accord to the religious and right-wing parties that make up his ruling coalition. Many of those one-time supporters are now vowing to topple Netanyahu from power for agreeing to surrender another 13 percent of See Mideast, Back Page "We have plugged many of the holes in the Oslo Swiss cheese," 'Netanyahu said at an airport news conference. "We fought like lions to reduce as much as possible the land to be handed over within the framework of obligations Israel had in the Oslo agreement." Netanyahu's remarks had a harder edge than his celebratory words at the White House after signing the land-for-security GOP senator skeptical of CIA's role in Mideast deal.

Page 8. John Kass on the proposal to release Jonathon Pollard. Page 3. Jerusalem, Netanyahu declared upon arriving home that he had secured the "best possible deal" for Israel, accusing the former ruling Labor Party of promising too much to the Palestinians and demanding too little in return. Tribune photo by Wes Pope Reinventing the lakefront Nature didn't create Chicago's gem of a lakefront.

People with vision did. Now, almost a century after Daniel Burnham unveiled his great plan for the shoreline, the city faces a future without a clear blueprint for its most precious civic asset. Even though hundreds of millions of dollars will be spent on improvements Salvi, White in tie race with little time left Name recognition woes haunt both candidates By Rick Pearson Tribune Political Writer At this point in time 2 years ago, Al Salvi was one of the most well-known political names in Illinois, a Republican who beat the GOP establishment's primary candidate and was the party's nominee for the U.S. Senate. At the same time, Jesse White faced a relatively calm re-election bid as the Democratic recorder of deeds in Cook County, an office that isn't very high profile and receives scant publicity outside the county's borders.

over the next 12 years, Chicago nevertheless could fail to realize the lakefront's full potential. Today, the Tribune begins a six-part series by architecture critic Blair Kamin that documents what is wrong with the lakefront and presents a vision for what the city can do to make it right. IN TEMPO 'WH mi Tribune We photo by MHbert Ortando Brown OlisoriVts employed and living In a south suburban apartment. 1 1 i SPCffTS Bears turn tables, steal it from Oilers Taking advantage of a bizarre error by Tennessee at the end of the game, the Bears win their second in a row and third of the season. "Finally," said Bears quarterback Erik Kramer, "we weren't the ones making all the Fire blazes to title in its 1st year Chicago's soccer team scores a pair of early goals, then holds off two-time defending champion D.C.

United to win the MLS Cup as the expansion franchise rises to the top of American soccer in Just its first season of existence. Now, Salvi and White are facing each other for the right to have their name in virtually every Illinois resident's wallet by becoming the next secretary of state. But even with Salvi's advantage in name recognition and White's lack of recognition among voters, the two entered the final two weeks of the Nov. 3 general election campaign in a tie, according to a new Tribune poll Salvi and White each had the support of 39 percent of the voters with an additional 22 percent undecided. Two previous Tribune polls have shown the two statistically tied for a month.

The latest poll, conducted Oct. 17 to Oct. 20 with 1,099 registered voters who said they are likely to vote on Nov. 3, also found Republican Atty. Gen.

Jim Ryan maintaining a huge lead in his re-election bid over Democrat Miriam Santos, whose campaign was jarred by a federal investigation of alleged fundraising irregularities. The survey also found Democrat Dan Hynes leading Republican Chris Lauzen in the contest for state comptroller, although almost half the voters are undecided. And in her bid to be re-elected treasurer, Republican Judy Baar Topinka held the advantage over Democrat Daniel McLaughlin, with more than one-third of the voters undecided. If not for all the attention devoted to the higher-profile races for U.S. senator and governor this See Poll, Back Page Mom could win battle but lose war Even if Tina Olison proves she is a good parent, she could still fail to win custody of her child.

By Robert Becker and Bonnie Miller Rubin Tribune Staff Writers In three weeks of testimony in Juvenile Court about whether Tina Olison is a fit parent, the highlights of the state's case against her are that she gave her 14-month-old a cheese puff and let his then 6-year-old brother go down a slide headfirst and that she became angry when told the state wanted to keep custody of her child. That, and a near decade-old incident of abuse against her first child now a junior at Northwestern University which both sides agree happened while Olison was on drugs, are notable elements of the case. WEATHER Monday: Mild weather with sun and light winds; high 70. Monday night: Mostly clear and comfortable; low 50. Tuesday: Another pleasant day with more sun; high 71.

Tribune me photo by George Thompson Appellate Court Judge Anne Burke with her foster child, Baby T. Even some of those sympathetic to Anne and Edward Burke, the politically powerful couple who want to adopt Olison's child known as Baby have puzzled over what seems on the surface to be a weak case against Olison, now drug free, employed and living in a small but tidy south suburban apartment. Yet though it appears the state could have ai See Baby, Page 91 DETAILED INDEX, PAGE 4 Lincoln Park Lagoon may hold key to salmon mystery XiV.T"m '( they call out "Whale!" and try to "snag" it This year marks the first return to the Lincoln Park Lagoon of salmon stocked in the lake in a new way, the latest in a series of tricks and experiments scientists have employed over three decades to try to get more of the coho and the chinook to return to where they were stocked. And with Illinois' ersatz fall salmon run in full swing, the lagoon and a handful of other lakefront spots are teeming with those engaged in the brutal, annual ritual of snagging. See Salmon, Back Page N.Y.

campaign takes low road D'Amato-Schumer contest slides into volley of insults By Lisa Anderson Tribune Staff Writer TUXEDO, N.Y. Some words, it is commonly accepted, simply are not said in polite society. Certainly not here, in this leafy upstate bastion of civility, home of the mannerly Emily Post and eponymous birthplace of the formal dinner jacket. And generally, not even in the rough-and-tumble world of New York politics do candidates resort to some of the cruder vulgarisms. Not until last week, that is.

Punctuating what is one of the tightest, meanest and most entertaining political slugfests in the nation, three-term GOP incumbent Sen. Alfonse D'Amato blithely called his Democratic challenger, nine-term Rep. Charles E. Schumer, a "putzhead." Now reverberating around the state, this unfortunate, if colorful, expression By Peter Kendall Tribune Environment Writer The Chinook salmon on the end of Mario Rivera's fishing line had no idea, of course, that it was part of a grand experiment With a hook the size of a hawk's talon embedded in a growing crimson wound in its side, the fish just wanted to swim in the opposite direction of Rivera's twitching fishing pole on a recent afternoon in Lincoln Park. It has taken a body of scientific research into the remarkable and mysterious homing instincts of Pacific salmon to lead this fish up the dead-end river that is the Lincoln Park Lagoon, where it and dozens of its kind met Rivera and others lining the concrete banks, hurling hooks.

They peer into the water with polarized sunglasses, and when a big salmon swims within range AP photo U.S. Rep. Charles Schumer (right) responds to Sen. Alfonse D'Amato during a televised debate Sunday in New York. NBC host Gabe Pressman is seated in the middle.

an Italian-American Roman Catholic at a private meeting with Jewish leaders about a Jewish opponent only adds to the surreal quality of the incident. D'Amato first denied making the remark, then acknowledged it, but has See New York, Page 8 amounts to an updated twist on the Yiddish word "putz," a reference to the male anatomy often invoked to disparage someone as a fool or a jerk. More schoolyard than senatorial, "putzhead" is hardly a nice word. That it was uttered by 4.