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(AP) Solo careers are often
launched very quietly, to the chagrin
of the soloist.
Peter Cetera has launched his
with some noise, to his delight. He
co-wrote and sings “Glory of Love,”
the theme for “The Karate Kid, Part
If.” "Glory of Love” is on his first
Warner Brothers album, “Solitude-
Solitaire." It's also on the United
Artists soundtrack album.
Since 1968, Cetera was singer and
bassist in Chicago, a group perceived
collectively instead of known as indi
viduals. Except for guitarist Terry
Kath, who died in 1978, Cetera, in
June of last year, became the first
member to leave.
"Basically, Chicago wanted to tour
more and do another album right
then,” Cetera says. “I wanted to do a
solo album and they didn't want to
give me the time to do it. We had a
little bit of disagreement on what
was the next priority. They felt Chi
cago should be. I thought it was time
I took a little break. I he little break
turned into a permanent thing."
He had started his solo album
when a friend told him “The Karate
Kid" was looking for a theme song.
"The song started with some chord
changes David Foster (Chicago’s re
cord producer) and 1 had been mes
sing around with," he said. “We went
and saw the movie and wrote a mel-
One of the problems with the group was that we didn't
see music through the same eyes. Some of the guys
liked jazz. We got labeled a jazz rock group. 1 was al
ways a rock 'n' roll lover and still am. 1 got outvoted.
— Peter Cetera, former member of Chicago.
odv and lyrics for it. Nfv wife Diane
helped with the Ivrics.”
Usually, a song for a soundtrack
goes onlv on the soundtrack album.
But in tliis case, the record compa
nies allowed the same track on both.
Cetera, whose name is pro
nounced Se-TERRA, joined Chicago
about six months after it formed.
“They needed a bass player and
were looking for another singer,” he
says. "1 happened to be a singer-bass
player who was leaving the old
group 1 was in, the Exceptions. That
was a world-renowned bar band but
the world was only the Chicago
area."
He had started writing songs.
“I think I had one song on the sec
ond Chicago album and one on the
third," he says. “Little by little 1 got
my confidence. On the last two al
bums. I was writing the majority of
things."
Singles from those albums, Nos.
16 and 17, included “Hard To Say
I’m Sorry," “Love Me Tomorrow,”
“Stay the Night," “You’re the Inspi
ration’' and “Along Comes a
Woman."
Chicago, which has had popular
ity ups and downs, has been on the
upswing for the last five years, Ce
tera says.
“You can always tour,” he says.
“Chicago did our share of smaller
places when we didn’t have hits for a
couple of years. The size of the ve
nue increases in direct proportion to
the size of flits.
“Before ‘Chicago 16’ I just made a
conscious effort to get my head back
into the right place. I did more writ
ing than I ever did before. I concen
trated on bringing the group back
up to No. 1 where we belonged.
“Complacency had set in for a
couple of years. We weren’t caring as
much as we did for awhile. David
Foster started working with us on
the 16th album. We happened to be
a good song-writing team. ‘Hard To
Sav I’m Sorry’ was Chicago’s first
No. 1 hit in five years. That kind of
brought us back. Young kids
thought we were a new group.”
T he 16th album was on Warner
Brothers, after 15 on Columbia.
“One of the problems with the
group was that we didn't see music
through the same eyes," he says.
“Some of the guys liked jazz. We got
labeled a jazz rock group. I was al
ways a rock ’n’ roll lover and still am.
1 got outvoted."
They all stayed, Cetera says, “be
cause of utter fear. We were brought
up with our first manager telling us
we could be replaced at any time. We
had a fear of being out of work.
“Outside of the music aspect, we
had a lot of fun and were great
friends. We laughed our way
through America and around the
world many times.”
Michael Omartian, who produced
“Solitude-Solitaire,” played key
board bass on it. Cetera says that he
was so intent on singing he ended up
not playing bass at all. He didn’t use
horns on his album, because Chicago
uses horns.
Cetera and Omartian, both Chi
cago natives, co-wrote four songs on
“Solitude-Solitaire.” Cetera wrote
“Big Mistake,” which he says proba
bly will be the fourth single, with
Amos Galpin of Ketchum, Idaho.
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DALLAS (AP) — A 22-year-
,)kl man says he fatally stabbed an
elderlv couple who lived in his
neighborhood af ter spending the
night drinking and smoking for
maldehyde-laced PCP.
Brian Keith Roberson was be
ing held Monday for investiga
tion of capital murder in the stab
bing deaths of James Boots, 78,
and his 75-year-old wife, Lillian.
Police said the slain couple was
found early Saturday by firefight
ers responding to a security alarm
at the Oak Cliff resklenee.
In a jail interview late Sunday
with The Dn I Lis Morning News,
Roberson said he spent Friday
night smoking a form of PCP he
called “wack.” He said the couple
let him into the house after he
asked to use the telephone.
"I want people to know that it
wasn’t me who did it," Roberson
said. "1 wasn’t in a solid frame of
mind. They were the nicest peo
ple on the block. I wish it was me
I hurt because they didn’t deserve
something like this."
Roberson, who is being held in
lieu of $200,000 bond, said he
had lived across the street from
the couple for about 12 years and
knew them well. He said his older
brother frequently mowed the
couple's lawn and the two families
had exchanged Christmas cards
for several years.
“1 know 1 did it, but I don’t
know why,” he said. “1 was just
juiced up. It don’t make sense.”
Roberson said he told police he
had killed the couple, but investi
gators refused to comment on
whether he had confessed. He
was arrested on the basis of evi
dence found at the house, homi
cide investigator Rick Silva said.
Investigators said there were
no signs of forced entry and that
the Bootses probably were ac
quainted with their assailant.
Employment center helps
unskilled refugees find jobs
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Mui
Huyhn is from Vietnam. She has
been in the United States for eight
months and speaks very little En
glish. but she is learning and wants a
job.
Gilma R. Kreider manages the of
fice of the International Service
Center, formerly the Indochinese
Service Center in Lancaster. Mui “is
one of my newest refugees,” Kreider
said. "She is attending the Adult En
richment Center at the Reigart
School for English and comes to me
for job training.”
Mui can sew and, because her En
glish is limited, she probably would
be a candidate for a job in a sewing
factory.
Nop Poy is from Cambodia,
where he was a farmer, and lias been
in Lancaster for two years. He
speaks English, though not fluently
vet. and has worked as a painter.
But he is without a job now and so
is eligible for the center’s program.
"He is willing to learn,” Kreider
said.
Nop has applied to several compa
nies in the area and would like to get
a job — maybe in welding or some
thing similar — where he can get on-
the-job training.
But, Kreider said, “he’ll work any
where. He has a wife and two chil
dren. one only 3 months old.”
Her main job at the center, she
said, is to help the refiigeejs get a job.
"YVe want thenT tone aTle to Took
for work themselves," she said.
“Most of what we teach is that they
trv to become independent and self-
sufficient," Kreider added.
“Thev all want to work," she said.
"Thev don’t want to receive. We are
onlv serving refugees in one aspect
—how to look for a job. where to
look for a job.”
Originally called the Indochinese
Service Center, the center has been
in existence for 10 years, but the
Lancaster satellite office has been
operating for about a year, Kreiger
said.
The name of die agency was
changed to the International Service
Center to reflect its service to all ref
ugees, not just Indochinese.
Kreider said she is serving people
f rom Czechoslovakia and Ethiopia,
among others.
She said that since July 1985 she
lias worked with more than 150 ref
ugees, half of whom have been
placed in full- or part-time jobs.
Gambling draws Turks, not tourists
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — Ca
sinos and slot machines designed to
draw more foreign toui ists have in
stead lured Turks, some of whom
stake thousands of dollars each
night.
T ourism ranks third behind tex
tiles and food exports as Turkey’s
main source of much-needed for
eign currency.
Casinos were legalized in 1983,
when the government passed a law
to attract tourists to the country,
where tourism is a major source of
foreign exchange. But gambling
outside of these establishments re
mains prohibited.
Now, slot machines in casinos at
luxury hotels or special holiday vil
lages draw increasing numbers of
T urks, while houses where locals
play card games like cooncan, bezi-
que, bridge or poker for fun or small
stakes are frequently busted by po
lice.
T he Turkish penal code stipulates
that “whoever holds gambling on
premises open to the public will be
jailed up to six months and the in
struments of gambling seized.”
In Istanbul and other big cities
and coastal towns, the last stop on an
evening out for wealthy Turks is of
ten a casino.
Legally , Turks are allowed to play
slot machines but are barred from
playing roulette or blackjack, unless
they live abroad and earn more than
S25,()()() a year.
“More than 90 percent of the peo
ple visiting the slot machine area of
our casino are Turkish people from
all income groups," said Alexander
Tucek, manager of the Etap Altinel
casino, which is jointly run by Aus
trian and Turkish partners.
Tucek., an Austrian, sees no sub
stantial difference between Turks
and other nationalities in their en
thusiasm for gambling.
But Atilla Bak, an ex-croupier
who lias also worked abroad, dis
agrees. “Turks are as ambitious
gamblers as Japanese and Ameri
cans. who top the gamblers’ list in
the world," he said.
Tucek’s is one of only two casinos
that also have a live game section,
which is off limits to locals.
At present there are 21 casinos,
with over 1,700 slot machines, in
Turkey, official reports say. Most of
the casinos are run jointly with for
eign companies which provide the
machines and the technical know
how and train the personnel.
Only large five-star hotels and
f irst class holiday villages accommo
dating at least 500 people can set up
a casino.
The slots take from 400 to 700 li
ras (60 cents to one dollar). Many
people have been reported losing
significant amounts of money.
Turks pumped 85 billion liras
($125 million) into slot machines last
year, overtaking the national lottery,
horse racing and soccer pools.
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