DAILY DIGEST

METRO 11 IN MISTRIAL WILL PLEAD GUILTY: A federal prosecutor said Mondaythat 11 employees of currency exchange owner Leonard Keller willplead guilty to misdemeanors rather than face a retrial onracketeering charges. The announcement was made to U.S. DistrictJudge William T. Hart, who Friday declared a mistrial for all 12defendants charged with money laundering. Assistant U.S. AttorneyJohn Newman said some guilty pleas might be submitted today withothers expected later in the week. Sources said one condition of theagreements would be for the 11 to cooperate with the governmentagainst Keller, 46, of Skokie, who is to go on trial again on June11. POLISH PARADE EXPANDED: The annual Polish Constitution DayParade will be expanded this year to include other Eastern Europeannational groups whose countries are striving for independence fromthe Soviet Union. The theme of the parade on May 5 will be "Freedomfor All Nations," said a spokesman for the Polish National Alliance,the parade's organizer. As many as 10 ethnic groups, including theCzechoslovakian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Latvian and Hungariancommunities in Chicago, may participate in the parade. RETRIALORDERED, DEFENDANT FREED: A federal judge on Monday released theformer owner of the Bijou theater on a $250,000 bond pending retrialon tax-evasion charges. U.S. District Judge James F. Holdermanscheduled a new trial for June 11 for Steven Toushin on chargesalleging a money-skimming scheme. Toushin already has served 18months of a three-year sentence on the tax charges. On Friday, the7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Toushin's 1988 conviction,saying the jury was given an erroneous instruction. Toushin wascharged with three counts of failing to report as income about$160,000 in cash illegally skimmed from the Bijou, 1349 N. Wells,from 1980 to 1982. NATION ADS TAKE ON TOBACCO INDUSTRY: California health officials arebeginning a bold anti-smoking advertising campaign built on the themethat smokers are being duped by cigarette companies. Several of theTV, radio, print and billboard ads will address the advertisingpractices of the tobacco industry, which health officials contendtargets vulnerable groups such as youths and minorities. The statecampaign will focus on the same groups. For example, one adaddresses young blacks and features a song about tobacco by the rapmusician Deezer D with the lyrics: "We used to pick it, and now theywant us to smoke it." The $28.6 million campaign, funded by a statecigarette tax, is expected to provoke an industry counterattack.

TEXAS DEMOCRATS VOTE TODAY: The Texas Democratic primary ends todaywhen voters choose the party's nominee for governor after a runoffcampaign dominated by mud-slinging and charges of past drug use bythe candidates. A poll by the University of Houston Center forPublic Policy indicated state Treasurer Ann Richards held a narrowlead over Attorney General Jim Mattox in a contest that politicalobservers consider one of the dirtiest in the state's history.Whoever wins will face millionaire oilman-rancher Clayton Williams,the Republican nominee in the November general election. WORLD ASSAD ASSURES SENATORS: Senate Minority Leader Robert J. Dole saidSyrian President Hafez Assad is making efforts to obtain the releaseof Western hostages in Lebanon. Dole and five colleagues on aMiddle East fact-finding trip met with Assad in Damascus for what theKansas Republican called "frank and constructive" talks on fightingin Lebanon, the hostages and regional peace efforts. Dole said Assadwas making efforts "to obtain the hostages' release," but he did notgive details. Syria has good relations with Iran, which hasinfluence with the hostage-holders. The senators meet today withEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak. ETHNIC UNREST IN CHINA: China has flown troops into a remotefrontier area to help control anti-Chinese disturbances, Westerndiplomats in Beijing said. One diplomat said an official from theXinjiang Autonomous Region informed him that reports of violenceerupting in recent days around China's westernmost city, Kashgar,were credible. Xinjiang is a sparsely populated region four timesthe size of France. More than half its people are believed to befrom Moslem groups, who look more to the Middle East and Turkey forinspiration than they do to Beijing. The Uighurs form the largestsingle ethnic group in Xinjiang and have protested against Chineserule sporadically in the last decade.