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72 35 cents ornin A Gannett newspaper Wilmington, Wednesday, June 10, 1987 1987, The News-Journal Co. Eof MeiL the issoe is children New candidate declares: 'They deserve better' By NATHAN GORENSTEIN Staff reporter Portraying America as a nation at risk, U.S. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr.

opened his campaign for president Tuesday before a large crowd outside Wilmington's train station. Biden's speech offered few platitudes and revolved around a topic unusual in presidential campaigns children. "Every issue before this nation in 1988 must be measured against our obligation to our children," Biden said. It will be an election, Biden said, about whether Americans choose self-sat- Biden's quest On the train isfaction, or accept sacri-fices to secure a prosperous future for their offspring. "If we choose the more difficult path, rising to meet our destiny, we will be able to stand before our children as our moth-ers and fathers stood before us, and say, 'We A3 A3 A10 to D.C.

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announces his candidacy for president at the Owens; sister Valerie Biden Owens; wife Jill; son Hunter, with daughter Wilmington train station. Seated (from left) are his brother-in-law, John T. Ashley in his lap; and son Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III. From crowd at train station, signs of support have kept the faith.

"I am absolutely certain that this generation is poised to respond to this challenge," Biden said. "And for my part, this is the issue upon which I will stake my candidacy." Biden spoke with his family arrayed behind him on a platform erected for his announcement. His parents, sister, two brothers, their husband and wives and five small children faced the crowd as the 44-year-old Biden said, "The clarion call for my generation is not 'it's our but rather 'it's our moment of obligation and "Let us pledge that our generation of Americans will pay any price, bear any burden, accept any challenge, meet any hardship to secure the blessing of prosperity and the promise of America for our children." Biden deliberately echoed a famous pledge by former President John F. Kennedy. Unlike Kennedy's call for renewed American commitment overseas, however, Biden told Americans a secure domestir future means hard work and tough choices.

A crowd of 5,000 to 6,000 heard Biden speak, according to Wilmington Police Chief Joseph M. Pennell, although other estimates placed the crowd's size as low as 2,000. Biden's official entry into the race gives Delaware two presidential candidates. Former Gov. Pierre S.

du Pont IV began his quest for the White House on the Republican side in September. See FOR BIDEN A2 apparently felt the speech was running too long. By 12:37 p.m. on the train station clock above and behind Biden, about 15 minutes after he'd begun talking, some people had started drifting away although the glue of the home-court advantage and the fervor of lifetime friends held the bulk of the crowd together. It is possible that the refurbished Wilmington train station may someday boast a plaque which reads "Here, on the 9th of June 1987, Joseph R.

Biden Jr. of Delaware announced his candidacy for the presidency See CROWD A5 emotional things and I felt a strong emotional tie so it was really quite easy." Geiger, hired by the Biden campaign for sign-language interpretation only in Wilmington, said she could tell that members of her audience students from the Sterck School and others from the deaf community in Delaware were "reacting very positively to the speech because they were signing 'I love you' back to Joe." Others in the crowd gave different signs. Avowedly "pro-Joe" and there to wish him well as he began his historic quest, some spectactors nonetheless By BOB LEARY Staff reporter Mary Kay Geiger stood in her bright red dress at the rear of the photographers' bleachers with her back to the candidate. She was not being disrespectful. Dressed to be seen so she could be "heard," Geiger, of the Delaware Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, signed Joe Biden's historic speech announcing his bid for the presidency.

"I had only seen him before on TV," said Geiger of Delaware's junior U.S. senator, "and I thought he would be difficult to sign, but he spoke about very High court boosts owners' land-use rights Delaware officials take a "wait and see" view. A4 landmark ruling that upheld the concept of zoning, said a jubilant Gus Bauman, counsel for the National Association of Home Builders. "It clearly will raise the stakes and the costs of government regulation," said Benna Ruth Solomon, counsel for the National League of Cities, the National Association of Counties and other government groups. "Even if a local government proceeds carefully and regulates in good faith, it now may be second-guessed by a court and See ZONING A4 By DAVID G.

SAVAGE Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON The Supreme Court, in a decision that may profoundly alter the power of government officials to control land use, ruled Tuesday that property owners must be paid compensation if zoning boards or other agencies impose rules that prevent or drastically restrict them from developing their land. The 6-3 vote, on a lawsuit filed by a Glendale, church against Los Angeles County, overturned a California Supreme Court ruling that had largely protected local The decision is likely to spawn extensive new legal controversies and force a rethinking of government actions in such areas as coastal management, flood plain restrictions, open space development and the practice of requiring real estate developers to donate land fo'r parks or other public uses. "This is the biggest land-use decision from the Supreme Court since 1926," when the court issued the governments from suits for compensation by disgruntled land owners and developers. While upholding the power of state and local governments to impose zoning restrictions and placing heavy burdens of proof on property owners who challenge such curbs, the court served notice that if government officials go too far they may have to pay compensation to property owners. Big fish kill prompts warning on shellfish By JEFF MONTGOMERY Dover Bureau reporter State health and environmental officials on Tuesday warned against eating shellfish taken from Indian River Bay while investigators search for the cause of an extensive fish kill that straddled the estuary.

State officials said they were studying "circumstantial" links between the kill, which affected a variety of species, and the presence of microorganisms in the bay that have been connected elsewhere with the toxic "red tide." Red tide occurs when concentrations of a particular microorganism become so heavy that the waters appear stained red or brown, and toxins released by the organisms reach deadly levels. "This is not a typical kill," said Roy W. Miller, supervisor of finfisheries for the state Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. "It's a big kill. Thousands of fish, all different types.

Every species you would expect in the Indian River estuary." Miller said the kill was first reported at about 9:15 a.m. Monday in the Rosedale Beach area. By Tuesday, the agency had two teams of biologists studying the kill, which stretched from Rose-dale Beach on the south to Oak Orchard across the bay, and upstream along Indian River. "This is the first time that everything has been dying," Miller said, pointing out that earlier kills, linked with lack of dissolved See FISH KILL A5 Fee proposal would increase state revenue $3.2 million List of some proposed fee hikes. A4 Few legislators who were queried about the thick volume, which includes drafts of required legislation, said they'd had a chance to review the study.

Among the recommendations: New or increased charges for Justice of the Peace court costs, unchanged since 1974, which would See FEES A4 other charges some unchanged for decades that total nearly $85 million a year. "That represents a significant piece of overall state revenues, and we ought to be managing it like we manage our taxes," Golding said. Sixteen separate pieces of legislation could be required to enact the fee proposals, which were recently submitted to individual legislators. By JEFF MONTGOMERY Dover Bureau reporter DOVER The Castle administration is proposing $3.2 million in new or increased fees affecting seven state departments, after a comprehensive study of revenues from fees, licenses, fines, permits and rentals. Finance Secretary Stephen T.

Golding, whose office conducted the review, said the package would help diversify and stabilize state income. At the same time, Golding said, the changes would bring order to a "disjointed" system of fees and.