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BUSH RAINOUT: President Bush cut short a suburban Chicago campaignvisit because of a drenching rain, but stayed long enough to say thenation's health care system would be run "with the compassion of theKGB" if Bill Clinton becomes president. Bush was raising money forRepublican Senate nominee Rich Williamson. Story on Page 3. SCHOOL BUDGET GLITCH?: Gov. Edgar continues to say he would notspeed $43.7 million in state payments to Chicago schools. That moneywas included in the $2.6 billion Chicago Board of Education budgetapproved late Saturday. But Edgar said the board, which intends topay teachers less than their contract calls for, has not resolvedmatters with the teachers. Story on Page 1. CROATIANS VOTE: Hundreds of Croatians in the Chicago area and somefrom as far away as Milwaukee voted in Croatia's national electionusing two polling places set up in Chicago. Natives of Croatia orpeople whose fathers were born there were eligible to vote no matterwhere they now live. It's Croatia's first national election since itbroke from Yugoslavia. Story on Page 8. THE BOULEVARDIERS: On stretches of the historic 19th centurygreenway system, neighbors and the city are banding together to buildand rehab housing, fight gangs and renew a sense of community. At atime when U.S. cities are coming apart at the seams, Chicago's 28miles of boulevards are a hidden link of unity. Story on Page 5. FUGITIVES BEWARE: Two entrepreneurs with law degrees fromNorthwestern University Law School have started a new magazine forthe armchair sleuth. It's called: Fugitive! Searching for America'sOutlaws. Story on Page 2. PAYBACK TIME: Bob Voss was the coach and Mark Talamonti was the starfootball player back in the late 1970s. Now the player is the doctorwho performed successful cancer surgery on the coach. Talamonti saidit was like paying back a favor. "When you're 17, the biggestinfluences in your life are your parents and, if you're involved withsports, your coaches." Story on this page. BERWYN FIRE: An extra-alarm fire in west suburban Berwyn killed twowomen and injured five people early Sunday. Firefighters from sixneighboring communities were called in to help fight the earlymorning fire. Story on this page.