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Cards Fall 7 Games Back Rob Murphy walks in the winning run as Philadelphia wins 6-4, sweeping the three-game series and pushing the Cards seven games out of first place SPORTS ID Unemployment Rises Here June's heavy rain helped push St. Louis unemployment to 7.1 percent, and the jobless crest is still to come. BUSINESS 9D EVERYDAY The Hubbub Over NATION National Service WORLD Reformer In Line Hooters' Help if Plan Stalls 3A To Lead Japan 12A -f -rniriiiiar mimm SPAT FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1993 -mJ Copyright 1993 Goats on the little dry ground JVUDSS 5 t- Vol i i57no. 21T" A Walk On The Mild Side New Findings Back Moderate Exercise jT WASHINGTON (AP) There's new hope for couch potatoes. i The latest government guidelines say 30 minutes of imoderate, intermittent exer-' cise during a day like a brisk walk, stair climbing and gardening does almost as much good as one heart-pounding, nonstop workout in a gym.

"You don't need to be an athlete in order to get the health benefits of physical activity," Dr. Walter R. Dowdle, acting director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thursday. Steven N. Blair, director of epidemiology at the Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas, said, "We made a mistake by insisting early on that it must be sustained, aerobic activity." Instead, the Centers for Disease, Control and the American College of Sports Medicine, backed by the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, are backing this new exercise credo: "Every American adult should accumulate 30 minutes or more of moderate-intensity physical activity over the course of most days of the week." means at least four days a week and preferably more, experts said in a news conference.

The American College of Sports Medicine's old recommendations were that people engage in at least 20 minutes of continuous aerobic activity, which stimulates the heart and See EXERCISE, Page 12 Water Digs Up Cemetery By Virgil Tipton and Terry Ganey Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The Missouri River crumpled a railroad bridge in central Missouri, squeezed traffic on Interstate 70 west of Columbia and carved into a cemetery, sending dozens of vaults floating downstream. Also Thursday, engineers in north St. Louis drilled carefully into part of the city's flood wall, a step in plugging a 13-foot-wide hole under the wall. The work was risky enough that workers kept life jackets handy. They also kept an emergency plan in mind: "Our plan is, 'Hey, fire department, come get said George Postol, chief of the Army Corps of Engineers geotechnical unit.

"I don't know if I'm fast enough to outrun water." And in the latest visitation of what seems like a recurring nightmare, forecasters predicted yet again that the crest the flood's high point would roll past St. Louis a day later than they had thought. The National Weather Service predicted that the Mississippi River would crest at St. Louis on Wednesday at 48 feet. The prediction the day before called for the crest on Tuesday.

A crest of 36 to 37 feet on the Missouri will roll past St. Charles on Tuesday, the service predicted. An earlier prediction called for the crest Monday. What all that means is simple: The high water will plague us even longer. "I don't think the flood's ever going to be over," lamented Candy Green, a spokeswoman for St.

Louis' emergency response crews. Elsewhere: See FLOOD, Page 9 1 Flood Translation: What all the numbers mean. 9A Weekend Warrior: Flood has been guardsman's job since July 15 10A Flood Giving: Donors continue to respond to victims' needs 10A River Rescue: Four survive eight hours in Missouri River after boat overturns 10A Flood Aid: How to get flood assistance or give it 11A County Gambling: Council gives preliminary approval to putting gambling issue on Nov. 2 ballot 12A U9 AP Lupus is near Columbia. AP a sandbag on a line Thursday in fighting the Missouri River.

is overrun by the Missouri River. Bettv Kempt, 69, passing along Defiance, where volunteers are Flood Effect Slight, Top Economist Says 'Small Positive' May Even Result By Jon Sawyer economic activity that takes place in Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau Chiel that tiny amount of land is not that WASHINGTON The Great big," said Blinder, who came to the Flood of 1993 will cause barely a blip council from Princeton University, in economic statistics for the country Nine states of the upper Midwest frV V. 1f left Thursday in Lupus, which have been affected by the flood, in- eluding many counties in Missouri. Current estimates still preliminary given that the Mississippi River will not crest in St. Louis until the middle of next week place the damage in excess of $12 billion.

But Blinder said and Tyson agreed that in overall economic impact, the flood will not match even the storm in March that brought blizzard conditions and hurricane-force wind to the East Coast. The flood's reach, Blinder said, "is not nearlv the size that was imoacted by the blizzard, not even close. So it's See TYSON, Page 9 'V Reuters John Demjanjuk holding his release papers after being cleared Thursday. Israel ordered Demjanjuk, 73, deported after the court's ruling. The United States stripped him of his citizenship in 1981, and only his native Ukraine loomed Thursday as a See DEMJANJUK, Page 7 ''W.

as a whole, President Bill Clinton's top economist said Thursday. The net effect for the entire year will actually be "a small positive," said Laura D'Andrea Tyson, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, as federal dollars pour in for reconstruction. Tyson's upbeat assess Tyson INDEX Business 9-16D Classified 1-26E Commentary 7B Everyday 1-14F Movie Timetable 13F NationWorld 3A News Analysis 5B Obituaries 4B People 2A St. Louis 1-4B Sports 1-8D Television 12F EDITORIAL PAGE Help U.S. Airlines, Modestly Missouri Moves Up A Notch 6B Boys' Home Won't Be Charged St.

Joseph's 'Did Not Commit A Crime' In Cave Deaths, Prosecutor Says ment in a briefing for re- porters Thursday on the flood was matched by fellow council member Alan Blinder. He said the flood-im- pacted region of the Midwest was "a veryconfined piece, a ribbon of land. "It's a very small geographical area, and consequently the amount of Israel Court Frees, Ousts Demjanjuk 'Reasonable Doubt' Cited In Reversal Compiled From News Services JERUSALEM John Demjanjuk, cleared of being the Nazi mass murderer "Ivan the Terrible," won his freedom Thursday, but the United States said the retired autoworker was not welcome back. In a decision that shocked and outraged many Holocaust survivors, Israel's five Supreme Court justices unanimously revered Demjanjuk's 1988 conviction and death sentence for being "Ivan," the sadistic gas chamber operator at the Treblinka death camp during World War II. They cited reasonable doubt.

"We clear the defendant because of reasonable doubt," Chief Judge Meir Shamgar said summarizing the 405-page ruling. Shamgar said that in view of conflicting evidence, the truth migljt never be known. By Kim Bell Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Prosecutors will not file criminal charges against St. Joseph's Home for Boys or any of its staff involved in the field trip to Cliff Cave last Friday in which six people drowned. St.

Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch said Thursday that he made his decision after reviewing a lengthy police report. "We're not exonerating them of all wrongdoing, but I'm saying they did not commit a crime," McCulloch said. "It doesn't mean they made good choices. It means I can't meet my burden of proof" in a criminal case, he Development runoff added to cave's water rush 1B added. McCulloch said he had focused on the charge of "endangering the welfare of a child." To convict a person of that charge, prosecutors would have to show that someone "knowingly subjected a child to a substantial risk of serious physical injury." Knowingly, in that sense, means that the person was aware of the risk and "consciously disregarded it," McCulloch said.

Asked what would constitute a deliberate disregard of WEATHER Sunny, Hot FORECAST Today Mostly sunny and hot. High 94, with light winds. Fair tonight. Low 72. Saturday Mostly sunny, continued hot.

High 95. Other Weather, 8B Does It POST-DISPATCH WEATHERBIRD MO PAI 6FF. 09189V7100 Edgar Hiring Fewer Women, Minorities By Tim Novak Illinois State Correspondent 1993, St. Louis Post-Dispatch SPRINGFIELD, 111. One of the keys to Republican Gov.

Jim Edgar's election in 1990 was support from blacks, who traditionally vote for Democrats. And after he defeated Democrat Neil Hartigan, Edgar chose a Cabinet that reflected the ethnic and racial diversity of his supporters. But there has been a steady fall in the percentage of women and jnorities working for the 57 agencies run! by Edgar, according to state employment records obtained by the Post-Dispatch. At the same time, the percentage of white males has risen, the records show. White men make up the only group that has consistently increased its numbers as the state work force has shrunk because of layoffs and early retirements.

White men who constitute about a third of the state'9 population have been getting about half the jobs. White men got 52.6 percent of tJie 8,231 jobs filled in See HIRING, Page 6.