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3AU UV'J I ft I t. Section 2 (fhicafiO (Tribune Friday, June 27, 1986 Mbjw toes sMtlneir mix it By John McCarron Urban affairs writer With Mayor Harold Washington having little success in promoting his plans for a football-baseball stadium south of the Loop, a top adviser to the mayor has approached the Chicago Bears about playing in a football-onlv stadium that would be part ot a huge West Side sports complex. Bears president Michael McCaskey confirmed Thursday that he received the alternative proposal from Angelo Geocaris, a member of the mayor's stadium advisory team. al candidate would be the Bulls, the, team is owned by Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdon. The Bulls, however, have six years remaining on their lease at the Chicago Stadium.

Omitting football could be the mayor's way of showing impatience with McCaskey, insiders say, because the Bears' executive has voiced little but criticism about the proposal for a football-baseball facility. McCaskey has spoken with great optimism about the Bears' own plan to build a stadium in the suburbs. But the new and seemingly conflicting proposals also suggest that the mayor and his advisers are scrambling to find a combination of site and stadium layouts that would keep the Bears and the Sox from making good on threats to move to Du Page County. When asked about Geocaris' proposal Thursday evening, Washington stuck to the Near South Side plan. "I'm talking about one site here.

It hasn't changed," Washington said. But the more combinations the mayor tries, say insiders, the McCaskey declined comment on the plan, however, saying he first wanted to respond directly to Geocaris. Washington also talked Thursday about an alternative to his football-baseball stadium proposal, but did not mention the West Side plan. Washington said another alternative would be to build a baseball-only stadium fpr the White Sox on the Near South Side site, at Roosevelt Road and the Chicago River, alongside an indoor arena. But he did not indicate who would play in the arena.

A logic less vulnerable he will be to criticism if either team decides to leave the city. There is political risk, however, if the public interprets the last-minute shuffling as a sign of confusion at the top. Under Geocaris' West Side proposal, the Bears and Sox would play in side-by-side stadiums, each tailored to the specifications of their respective sports. In effect, Geocaris wants to revive the architecture but not the location of a side-by-side stadium plan submitted last autumn by the Chicago Central Continued on page 2 Detention Trlbunt photo by Phil QrMr Madigan clarifies remarks House Speaker Michael Madigan apologized Thursday for suggesting that Aid. Edward Vrdolyak plotted with Gov.

James Thompson to sabotage the campaign of Adlai Stevenson. Page 6. Businessman pleads guilty The former owner of a printing firm pleads guilty to making over $250,000 In payoffs to get business. Page 3. Rape-murder conviction The man prosecutors say kidnaped and fatally stabbed a 16-year-old Downers Grove girl Is convicted.

Page 6. -y 1 hj 4. I 7- i -ni "'L Secrets led to Spilotro rites denial policy gets; handcuffed By William B. Crawford Jr. A federal judge ruled unconstitutional Thursday a Chicago Police Department practice allowing criminal suspects to be detained without charge for extended periods of time.

The ruling, by Judge George Leighton of U.S. District Court, clears the way for thousands of people imi properly detained by police to sue the City of Chicago for damages. Leighton ruled that police policy violated a 1975 U.S. Supreme Court decision barring officers from holding criminal suspects in custody for unreasonable lengths of time before bringing them before a judge for a "probable cause" hearing. At issue was the police department's General Order 78-1 that allows officers to detain suspects without bringing them before a judge when "there is a necessity for the detention for a period of time longer than that which might routinely be expected, in order that they may continue the investigation." Leighton found that the order clearly violated a 1975 U.S.

Supreme Court de? cision that ordered timely probable-cause hearings be held for those arrested without warrants. Under the high court decision, a suspect is entitled to a prompt hearing before a magistrate or judge who decides if a police officer or prosecutor has enough evidence to keep the person in custody after arrest. Criminal defense lawyers frequently argue that unauthorized detention is used to pressure suspects into making admis" sions, but police officials say extra time is sometimes needed to make background and fingerprint checks. The lawsuit was brought by attorney Kenneth Flaxman on behalf of a suspect detained for three days before a court hearing was held. Flaxman could not say precisely how many people would be able 1 tp claim damages as a result of Leighton's ruling, and he could not estimate how much in damages the city; might be liable for.

Leighton's decision affects only those people who had been arrested without a warrant and then held for extended periods without a probable-cause hearing. Neither Edwin Bishop, an assistant to. Police Supt. Fred Rice, nor a spokesman for the department's legal affairs would say whether the general order still was in effect. Diane Larsen, an assistant corporation counsel for the city, said the police de-Continued on page 4 Trtbun photo by Michael Fryer Chemical plant burns; neighborhood seethes By Jack Houston The decision to 'deny Roman Catholic funeral rites Friday to mobster Anthony Spilotro and his brother Michael was based both on canon law and criminal information secretly obtained by local Catholic officials from sources outside the church.

Church officials Thursday declined to disclose the source of their information, except to say that it came from individuals outside the church and dealt specifically with matters of a criminal rather than a religious nature. "People werfe calling us and saying, 'How can you rely on So I went to some sources outside of the church," said Rev. Thomas Paprocki, a lawyer and the vice chancellor of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, who ruled against allowing a public funeral for the Spilotro brothers. Father Paprocki ruled Tuesday that the men would be denied Catholic funeral rites Confronting two officials of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Thursday, Dorothy Maeda shouts, "You had better do something for this community, or else." She was speaking out for Near Northwest Side residents concerned about health threats from chemical plant at 1322 N.

Western Ave. that caught fire in January. Story, Page 8. Tillman blocks funds to spite group because of their ties to organized crime, despite pleas by Michael's fami- Father Paprocki said he used the criminal data he obtained as the Drimarv basis for denv- By John Camper Chicago aldermen rarely try to keep government money out of their wards, but Aid. Dorothy Tillman 3d dares to be different.

MI know it sounds strange," Tillman said Thursday as she vowed to continue blocking $86.7 million of federal aid to Chicago as long as the city insists on giving $18,750 of it to an obscure organization in her ward. "But. I operate from principle," she said. "And maybe that's different from how things are usually done in On Wednesday, Tillman refused to provide the necessary 25th vote in the Chicago City Council to approve the city's application for the $86.7 million of federal community development block funds. She said the reason was that 0.02 percent of the money would have gone to the 47th Street Business Association, which promotes economic development in her ward and the adjoining 4th Ward of Aid.

Timothy Evans, council floor leader for Mayor Harold Washington. In addition to denying her ward money, her action embarrassed Washington and Evans by exposing a weakness in their council control. It was particularly rankling for Evans, who is a strong supporter of the business organization Tillman opposes. "This group has done a lot of beneficial things he said. "They've put out publications that describe the programs that businesses in the area can benefit from, and they've provided a lot of technical advice: seminars on banking, economic development and security." But Tillman disagreed.

"I don't know what they've been doing with the money they've been getting," she said at a news conference in her ward headquarters at 4650 S. King Dr. "They haven't taken 47th Street and made it grow. They haven't been able to pull the businesses up." But she said she did not know of any other group in' the neighborhood that could put the money to better use. "There are no alternative groups that exist," she said "I don't have a group.

Maybe next year there'll be a group. The business people will be able to put it together." The 47th Street Association has re-Continued on page 4 1 ing the rites when he n'V- advised the chancellor of the archdiocese, Rev. Robert Kealy, and the vicar general, Rev, James Roache, of his decision. Th infArmatin Michael piiotro cather Panrocki ob For many honorary consuls, it's just thanks for being here tained was given him on the condition that he not reveal its source, he said. The brothers are to be buried Friday in Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside, after an 11 a.m.

service in a funeral chapel at 1857 N. Harlem Ave. Sam Giancana, a well-known mobster slain 1 1 years ago this month, also is buried A the Catholic cemetery. Giancana did not have a church funeral, and his family did not request one, church officials said. Ar-chdiocesan officials have denied Catholic funeral rites to Chicago mobsters in the past.

Michael, of Oak Park, and Anthony, of Las Vegas, were found buried in an Indiana cornfield several days after they had been reported missing by Michael's wife. Both men had been beaten to death. Law enforcement officials regarded Michael, who owned a restaurant, as a minor hoodlum. Anthony was reputed to be boss of the Chicago crime syndicate's Las Vegas and West Coast rackets. Authorities believe Michael was slain only because he was with his brother at the wrong time.

Each man was married, and each had three children. Anthony, 48, moved from Oak Park to Las Vegas 15 years ago. Michael, 41, is known by neighbors as a model husband and father and as a large financial contributor to St. Bernardine Catholic Church in Forest Park. Asked how the church can accept money from a parish family and then deny the family a church funeral, Father Paprocki said that in the case of the Spilotro brothers, i didn't ask whether they donated to the church." On the other hand, he said, "The church must distinguish between monies donated." Most donations arc given privately, he noted.

If the funds donated are known to be ill-gained and there is a "public staging" of the gift by the donor, such funds should not Continued on page 5 i v-A -v, 4. By Michael Arndt You probably would be forgiven if you mistook the Bolivian Consulate for a suburban doctor's office. For that, you sec, is what it is. The consulate is just off the lobby of the Medical Arts Building in Melrose Park, a narrow five-story structure on Superior Street in a suburb not particularly known for its Bolivian population. It is there in Room 101 that Jaime F.

Escobar listed in the building's directory between Dr. Eghrari, urology, and Dr. Fncdman, hematology is both doctor and diplomat, practitioner of internal medicine and promoter of Bolivian trade and tourism. The arrangement, which Escobar says is necessary because his impoverished and inflation-ravaged homeland cannot afford separate quarters for a consulate, is but one of the curiosities of Chicago's honorary consular corps. Consider the consul of Sri throat specialist and the Burun-dian consul for 16 years, puts it.

Honorary consuls are stand-ins. As Americans or permanent alien residents, they represent the Icclands of the world-nations whose budgets or American interests are too limited to afford a full-fledged consulate. According to the U.S. State Department, 64 of the world's 227 self-governing entities have consular offices in Chicago, ranking the city fourth behind Washington, New York and, Los Angeles in American cities. Of these offices, 43 are categorized as career offices, which means they are headed by professional foreign diplomats.

Most of the career consulates have Loop or Michigan Avenue addresses and trained staffs with as many as two dozen employees. Among the nations with career consulates in Chicago are France, Germany, Poland, Isra-Continued on page 4 Lanka, an 89-year-old man who describes himself as an "Iowa farmboy." He never has been to the island nation he represents, he speaks neither of the two native languages and he cannot remember the last time he talked to a Sri Lankan official. Then there is the consul general of Lithuania, a nation that to much of the world does not exist. The Lithuanian consul has absolutely no contact with officials in his homeland, whom he derides as "occupiers." And those same officials, who govern Lithuania as a Soviet republic, would bar him from any visit. The honorary consul of Nepal says she has neither the time nor the facilities to answer inquiries, and the Burundi.

consul says his chief diplomatic duty is simply letting people know there is a Burundi. Burundi, in case you have forgotten, is a Maryland-sized former Belgian colony that is wedged between Zaire and Tan Tanzania in central Africa. "At the crossroads of Africa," as Dr. Jay Schmidt, an ear, nose and Trlbunt photo by Jos Mor Jaime F. Escobar, Bolivian diplomat and Melrose Park doctor, says his impoverished country cannot afford separate quarters for a consulate.

About 5,000 Bolivians live in the Chicago area..