AP890101-0001 AP-NR-01-01-89 2358EST r a PM-APArts:60sMovies 01-01 1073 PM-AP Arts: 60s Movies,1100 You Don't Need a Weatherman To Know '60s Films Are Here Eds: Also in Monday AMs report. By HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) The celluloid torch has been passed to a new generation: filmmakers who grew up in the 1960s. ``Platoon,'' ``Running on Empty,'' ``1969'' and ``Mississippi Burning'' are among the movies released in the past two years from writers and directors who brought their own experiences of that turbulent decade to the screen. ``The contemporaries of the '60s are some of the filmmakers of the '80s. It's natural,'' said Robert Friedman, the senior vice president of worldwide advertising and publicity at Warner Bros. Chris Gerolmo, who wrote the screenplay for ``Mississippi Burning,'' noted that the sheer passage of time has allowed him and others to express their feelings about the decade. ``Distance is important,'' he said. ``I believe there's a lot of thinking about that time and America in general.'' The Vietnam War was a defining experience for many people in the '60s, shattering the consensus that the United States had a right, even a moral duty to intervene in conflicts around the world. Even today, politicians talk disparagingly of the ``Vietnam Syndrome'' in referring to the country's reluctance to use military force to settle disputes. ``I think future historians will talk about Vietnam as one of the near destructions of American society,'' said Urie Brofenbrenner, a professor of sociology at Cornell University. ``In World War II, we knew what we were fighting for, but not in Vietnam.'' ``Full Metal Jacket,'' ``Gardens of Stone,'' ``Platoon,'' ``Good Morning, Vietnam,'' ``Hamburger Hill'' and ``Bat 21'' all use the war as a dramatic backdrop and show how it shaped characters' lives. The Vietnam War has remained an emotional issue in the United States as veterans have struggled to come to terms with their experiences. One was Oliver Stone, who wrote and directed the Academy Award-winning ``Platoon.'' ``I saw `Platoon' eight times,'' said John J. Anderson, a Palm Beach County sheriff's lieutenant who served in Vietnam in 1966-67. ``I cried the first time I saw it ... and the third and fourth times. `Platoon' helped me understand.'' Stone, who based ``Platoon'' on some of his own experiences as a grunt, said the film brought up issues that had yet to be resolved. ``People are responding to the fact that it's real. They're curious about the war in Vietnam after 20 years,'' he said. While Southeast Asia was the pivotal foreign issue in American society of the '60s, civil rights was the major domestic issue. The civil rights movement reached its peak in the ``Freedom Summer'' of 1964, when large groups of volunteers headed South to help register black voters. In ``Five Corners,'' a movie about the summer of '64 in the Bronx starring Jodie Foster, her friend, played by Tim Robbins, leaves his neighborhood to volunteer in the South after seeing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on television. Alan Parker's ``Mississippi Burning'' focuses on an incident that clouded the Mississippi Summer Project _ when 1,000 young volunteers from mainstream America swept into the state to help register black voters. The movie is a fictionalized account of the disappearance and slaying of three civil rights workers: Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney. They were reported missing on June 21, several hours after being stopped for speeding near Philadelphia, Miss. After a nationally publicized search, their bodies were discovered Aug. 4 on a farm just outside the town. One of those who recalled the incident was Gerolmo, a student in the New York public school system at the time. The screenwriter said the incident had a powerful effect on his way of thinking. ``It was the first time I ever considered that our country could be wrong,'' Gerolmo said. The film stars Willem Dafoe and Gene Hackman star as FBI agents who try to find the bodies of the missing workers and overcome fierce local resistance to solve the crime. In a more offbeat and outrageous way, John Waters' ``Hairspray'' discusses integration in Baltimore in 1963 when a group of teen-agers tries to break down the barriers of a segregated dance show. Also set in Baltimore is Barry Levinson's ``Tin Men,'' starring Danny DeVito and Richard Dreyfuss as two slick aluminum siding salesmen in the early '60s. The movie mirrored a squarely middle-class culture, one that was not caught up in sex, politics and drugs. Instead of focusing on a well-known historic event, writer-director Ernest Thompson takes a more personal approach in ``1969.'' Robert Downey Jr. and Keifer Sutherland star as college students who battle their parents and each other over sex, drugs and the Vietnam War. ``I was 19 in 1969. It was a fulcrum time for me,'' said Thompson, who was a student at American University at the time. ``I think it was just the right time in my growth as an artist and as a man to try to write about something that happened in my youth.'' ``Running on Empty'' takes place in the '80s but the '60s are much in evidence. Judd Hirsch and Christine Lahti play anti-war activists who sabatoged a napalm plant in 1970 and are forced to live underground with their two children. Naomi Foner, who wrote ``Running on Empty'' and also served as the film's executive producer, grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., the daughter of sociologists. Her own experiences made Foner well qualified to give ``Running on Empty'' its strong political theme. ``I lived through that time and I've wanted to find the right way to present it to this generation,'' said Foner, a member of the radical Students for a Democratic Society while attending graduate school at Columbia University. Foner, who also taught in Harlem's Head Start program and helped register voters in South Carolina, said many young people are curious about what happened in the '60s. ``A lot of them think it was an exciting time that they were sorry to have missed,'' she said. Brofenbrenner said movies are a good indicator of the concerns of the general public: ``The principle impact of the media is that they reflect the values of the larger society. ``Film is a very powerful art medium,'' he said. ``I believe it very accurately reflects not only the prevailing but the coming trends. It's because film writers, like other writers, are perceptive people. They get the message of what's going on.'' AP890101-0002 AP-NR-01-01-89 2359EST r a PM-FutureFactory 01-01 0872 PM-Future Factory,0897 University Erects A Factory Of The Future Eds: Also in Monday AMs report. By DONNA BRYSON Associated Press Writer ROLLA, Mo. (AP) For students working in a miniature factory at the University of Missouri-Rolla, the future of American business is now. ``When our students go into industry, they will have state-of-the-art knowledge'' that will affect decisions about expanding the role of robots and automated machines in the workplace, said Sema Alptekin, designer of the futuristic business laboratory. Ms. Alptekin is a mechanical and industrial engineer who directs the university's computer-integrated manufacturing and packaging laboratory. The lab, established two years ago at a cost of $120,000, is the only project of its kind in the state, and one of the more advanced such programs in the country. Tom Akas of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers said Ms. Alptekin has created ``a model for similar laboratories ... Students can see how the factory of the future operates.'' The Society of Manufacturing Engineers has recognized Ms. Alptekin as an Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer. In her lab, a conveyer belt at waist level carries parts from storage shelves to a robot that dominates the room like a silent, 4-foot metal sentry. The robot is a V-shaped, jointed arm on a pivoting base. The arm can be fitted to allow it to grasp, lift and turn objects of differing sizes to suit a variety of tasks. The robot then swivels to place parts in position at the automated lathe or milling machine. The entire factory would fit inside a basketball half-court. The machinery is of the type used to make small parts in metal cutting shops, Ms. Alptekin said. Students learn to program a computer and automated machines linked to it in a complete manufacturing operation _ retrieving raw materials from the storage shelf unit, which can be programmed to supply appropriate parts from its inventory; lifting and placing the parts in position with the robot's arm; and shaping parts into finished products at the lathe. Students using the lab have designed and produced engraved key chains and intricate mazes and puzzles out of plastic and plexiglass. But the product is less important than the process. Ms. Alptekin said former students have entered fields as disparate as aviation and financial consulting. In the factory of the future, according to the university's model, human chatter will be replaced by the click-clack of machines. ``Ours is quite unique, it's totally integrated,'' Ms. Alptekin said, referring to programming that allows components such as the automated storage system to ``talk to'' the computer that controls the manufacturing process, informing it about the availability of parts. Ms. Alptekin said it is this aspect that sets the lab apart even from industries where robots and automated machines have become almost commonplace. There, she said, robots perform specific tasks in ``islands of automation,'' but human workers remain responsible for keeping inventory and coordinating different aspects of the production line. Ms. Alptekin said automation is widespread in the automobile industry, but she would like to see it expanded. ``It should be used in any industry,'' she said. ``It's difficult to justify economically, but if quality is the concern, then it can be easily justified. ``At least our students will be aware of the enhancements and developments in this area, and when they make decisions as engineers and managers, they will take this into consideration,'' she said. A master's candidate analyzed the existing system with an eye to altering it to create a new product. Ms. Alptekin said the student identified what new production components were necessary and determined how they could be integrated into the system. A doctoral candidate is developing computer software that will allow the system to diagnose itself. The system could be programmed to recognize when a component is not working, and then decide to switch to manufacturing a product that does not involve the disabled component, much as human managers would react. Graduate student Bob Borchelt said the equipment he is using is on the cutting edge of manufacturing. ``Truthfully, I can't say that I was expecting this level of expertise,'' he said. ``I know that our lab is one of the best of its kind in an educational institution.'' The lab, like the entire engineering management program, calls on computing, mechanical, electrical and chemical skills _ and teamwork. ``For us, for managers, the entire system is important,'' Ms. Alptekin said. Ms. Alptekin said she is continually fine-tuning the lab. This past year, the original robot was replaced with one able to perform more tasks. She now is considering purchasing a robot with vision sophisticated enough to act as an inspector. The university spent $30,000 to upgrade lab equipment in 1987. An estimated $60,000 to $70,000 was earmarked in 1988. International Business Machines Corp. recently pledged $1.2 million in computer equipment and software to the university as part of an IBM program to aid 48 college-based robotics labs across the country. ``Studies show that there's a severe national shortage of instructional materials in this growing and critical area,'' said Andy Russell, a spokesman for IBM. ``IBM will benefit because we will be helping to train the (computer-integrated manufacturing) workers and decision makers of today and tomorrow.'' AP890101-0003 AP-NR-01-01-89 0009EST r a AM-FatalFire 01-01 0243 AM-Fatal Fire,0248 Woman, Firefighter Killed In House Fire WICHITA, Kan. (AP) An early morning house fire killed a woman and a firefighter who was fatally injured as he searched the house, officials said Saturday. Four other members of the woman's family were injured. Fire Investigator Ray Mauck said the 4 a.m. fire started in the front room of the house in northwest Wichita but he would not comment on the cause. ``We are fairly sure at this time that it was an accidental fire,'' he said. Killed were Tilda Sue Price, 53, and firefighter C.C. Killingsworth, 39, a 17-year veteran of the Wichita Fire Department. Mrs. Price's husband, Everett Price, 63, and their daughters, Corine, 22, and Valrie, 16, escaped and were in serious condition Saturday night at St. Francis Regional Medical Center, hospital officials said. Another firefighter was treated for minor injuries and released. Killingsworth's colleagues praised him a dedicated firefighter. ``He was a very aggressive firefighter. He loved the work he was in,'' said acting Fire Chief Larry Garcia said. ``He couldn't be bested in terms of his willingness and his ability to do something to help you survive.'' Firefighters never reached Mrs. Price, who was trapped in her bedroom, Garcia said. They had to cut short their rescue effort just before the roof caved in. The woman's daughters escaped from a second-story bedroom by climbing down ladders put up on the side of the house by firefighters. AP890101-0004 AP-NR-01-01-89 0024EST r n AM-D.C.Homicides 1stLd-Writethru a0512 01-01 0652 AM-D.C. Homicides, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0512,640 Dec. 31 Closes The Bloodiest Year in Washington, D.C., History. Eds: SUBS 3rd graf pvs, bgng: ``In 1988...'' to UPDATE number to 371; picks up 4th graf pvs, bgng: ``Although final...'' By RICHARD KEIL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) In the nation's capital, where the federal government's war on drugs is mapped out, young Washingtonians fighting over drugs were killing each other at a rate of more than one a day during 1988. The District of Columbia's drug problems dramatize the two different Washingtons _ the Capitol, the White House and other sites visited by millions of tourists each year, and the squalid neighborhoods tucked away from the traditional seats of power. There, a more vicious power struggle is contested among teens drawn to the status and money that come from selling drugs. In 1988, 371 persons had been killed in the nation's capital as of Dec. 30, far surpassing the previous high total of 287, set in 1969. Police blame drugs _ particularly the arrival of crack cocaine _ for about 60 percent of the slayings. As recently as 1986, drug-related killings accounted for just one-third of the city's homicide total. Although final population and homicide figures have yet to be compared, Washington and Detroit had the two highest per-capita murder rates in America in 1988, meaning the nation's capital could earn the dubious honor of being the nation's murder capital as well. Ironically, the absence of organized crime in Washington may be pushing the murder total even higher. Law enforcement officials note that in cities where organized crime factions control the drug market, there are fewer drug-related slayings. ``What you have here is a lot of young entrepreneurs fighting among themselves for drug turf,'' said Police Chief Maurice T. Turner. ``They are just working for themselves.'' Stemming the city's drug tide has become an increasingly tough battle for Turner and his 3,800 officers. Earlier this year, police switched to .9mm semiautomatic handguns out of fear that weapons commonly found on the street were outclassing the standard .38-caliber six-shot revolver officers have been carrying. The new weapons, which allow officers to fire an extra 10 shots before reloading, were ordered after drug raids frequently resulted in the seizure of Uzi submachine guns and other sophisticated weaponry. Surveying the weapons at a March news conference, Turner called the district's streets ``something out of the Wild, Wild West.'' Officers will have their new guns by 1990. And police have learned that simply arresting more drug suspects hasn't sated the city's appetite for narcotics. A highly-touted anti-drug program, Operation Clean Sweep, has produced more than 46,000 arrests since its August, 1986, inception. However, Turner has complained that the program, which sends swarms of officers through drug-infested neighborhoods to make arrests, has done little more than further clog the city's already-overcrowded jail and court systems. For each drug dealer arrested, another springs forward, according to Turner. ``A lot of these kids are high school dropouts, with few skills,'' Turner said. ``They can make up to a $1 million a year selling drugs. What would you do?'' U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jay B. Stephens, who can prosecute both local and federal crimes, earlier this month announced that he is assigning five senior prosecutors to work solely on drug-related killings in the district. Turner has also called on city officials to spend more money on drug education, prevention and treatment programs. Currently, a three-week wait is common for persons wanting to enroll in the city's treatment centers. What does the future hold? Police hope that as markets are more firmly established for crack, a highly-addictive cocaine derivative, the murder rate will decrease. ``This is one of the last major cities in this country to have an infusion of crack,'' Turner said. ``When crack arrived in other cities, like New York, murder rates went up there too.'' AP890101-0005 AP-NR-01-01-89 0113EST r w AM-S&LBailouts 01-01 0084 AM-S&L Bailouts,CORRECTIVE, 1st Ld-Writethru,a0657 Eds: SUBS to CORRECT spelling of Sasser; Members who used a0691, AM-S&L Bailouts, sent Dec. 29 under a Washington dateline, are asked to use the following story. WASHINGTON (AP) The Associated Press reported erroneously on Dec. 29 that Sen. James Sasser, D-Tenn., wrote a letter to the chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, M. Danny Wall, that questioned the bailouts of insolvent savings and loan associations. The letter was written by Sen. Timothy Wirth, D-Colo. AP890101-0006 AP-NR-01-01-89 0136EST u a AM-NewYear'sEveRdp 3rdLd-Writethru a0646 01-01 0835 AM-New Year's Eve Rdp, 3rd Ld-Writethru, a0646,0861 Revelers Ring in New Year With Parties, Square Dances, Predictions Eds: Leads with three grafs to UPDATE with Times Square celebration and quote; SUBS grafs 8-9, `Members of...trip participants.' with Pikes Peak fireworks and adds graf with quote. Picks up 10th graf pvs, `Music played...'. By JOHN DONNELLY Associated Press Writer Revelers rang in 1989 in celebrations ranging from the neon-lit Times Square in New York City to small square-dance halls in Indiana and a mountaintop in Colorado, some with champagne glasses, others promoting abstinence. Millions watched the traditional New Year's countdown on television as the 600-pound wrought-iron ball descended a pole at Times Square. An estimated 600,000 saw the 81-year-old tradition in person. ``We came here because we watched this on TV every year in California, and one day I said, `We've got to go there one of these years,'' said Claudia Zuniga-Mora, 23, of San Diego, who was visiting friends in New Jersey. A 90-minute laser light show in the nation's largest city also was part of the festivities. Many celebrated without such glitz. In Martinsville, Ind., three square dance clubs were to do-si-do until 1 a.m. in the 4-H Building at the Morgan County Fairgrounds. Betty Conover, president of the Flagtown Steppers, said about 200 people were expected. No alcohol was served. ``Square dancers do not drink and dance. You can't drink and listen to the caller,'' Mrs. Conover said. Members of the AdAmAn Club of Colorado Springs, Colo., chose a more solitary setting to toast 1989. They lit a fireworks display from the top of Pikes Peak, elevation 14,100 feet. The group's 66th annual trek culminated at midnight with 60 giant starbursts exploding over the snowcapped peak, where temperatures dipped to about zero and hikers encountered 50 mph winds. ``It was difficult going above tree line where the snow depth reached thigh level,'' said Jim Bates, who made his 34th climb.. Music played a role in many celebrations. At the Grand Ballroom in the New Orleans Sheraton, the music of the Guy Lombardo Orchestra and swing were king. ``We're still playing the music Guy Lombardo played,'' said Kenny Leighton, the leader of the Guy Lombardo Orchestra. ```The sweetest music this side of heaven.' Isn't that corny? But it's true.'' About 1,000 people had plans to dance 1988 away at a black-tie affair at Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, N.J. They were to step out to the theme of the Broadway musical ``Phantom of the Opera,'' said Mitchell Etess, a hotel spokesman. A group of New Jersey senior citizens also had partying in mind. Residents at the Jewish Geriatric Home in Cherry Hill planned a New Year's party with the usual activities and even champagne. But the party was scheduled to last only until lights-out at 8 p.m., said spokesman Michael Bucci. An estimated 500,000 people jammed downtown Miami for the 55th Annual King Orange Jamboree Parade to watch flashy floats, bands, 20 circus elephants and television stars such as George Wendt of ``Cheers'' and Susan Ruttan and Raymond Burr of ``LA Law.'' In Boston, about a half million people wandered the city's streets and public gardens as part of 13th annual First Night celebration, which has inspired similar festivals in 23 cities from Denver to Charlotte, N.C. More than 1,000 artists performed across Boston. Many appreciated the event's no-drinking policy. ``We used to go out and misbehave like everyone else on New Year's, but now we come to this as a family,'' said Joyce LaVecchia. ``I mean, why not? And there's no headache in the morning.'' Drinking and driving, again, was an issue across the country. About 1,000 state troopers in New Jersey were on duty to encourage motorists to stay at the 55 mph speed limit and reduce the number of traffic accidents. Anheuser Busch Co. in Newark, N.J., offered free New Year's Eve taxi rides home for about 3,000 drinking revelers in six northern New Jersey counties, officials said. One group also moved to stop a dangerous New Year's Eve tradition in Detroit. Save Our Sons and Daughters, which is made up of relatives and friends of slain Detroit children, asked residents to end the city's New Year's Eve skyward shooting spree. For several years, at midnight, some residents have shot guns in the air. ``It's an insane practice, a part of the mores of this community that needs to stop,'' said Fred Williams, a spokesman for the Detroit Police Department. And in Philadelphia, one group eschewed making resolutions. Instead, they issued predictions _ for last year. The Procastinators Club of America released its 1988 New Year predictions Saturday, as usual when the year is ending. ``Somehow,'' said club president Les Waas added, ``we've never been wrong.'' The club's No. 1 prediction was that George Bush would be elected president and then shoot quail over the Christmas holidays while vacationing in Texas. ``That was a real shot in the dark but it was bull's eye,'' Waas said. AP890101-0007 AP-NR-01-01-89 0559EST r i BC-Philippines-NewYear 01-01 0334 BC-Philippines-New Year,0344 Seven Die, More Than 1,000 Wounded in New Year's Celebrations By EILEEN GUERRERO Associated Press Writer MANILA, Philippines (AP) Illegal fireworks injured hundreds of people and ignited six fires in Manila, leaving thousands of families homeless in the New Year, police and doctors said Sunday. Hospital officials said seven people died from stray bullets and stabbings in New Year's celebrations and brawls in Manila and the city of Cebu, 360 miles southeast of Manila. A check with doctors at 20 government and private hospitals in the capital area showed 1,134 people were injured, mostly by fireworks, late Saturday and early Sunday. ``It's like a war zone here,'' said a government doctor who spoke on condition of anonymity. ``Fingers are being amputated. People are wounded by stray bullets. They are still coming in, and our records are still in shambles from last night.'' Fire raged through one slum neighborhood, killing at least one person and destroying 3,000 makeshift houses, said arson investigator Cpl. Edmar Espresion. Hundreds of houses and apartments also were burned in five other fires in which no casualties were reported, Espresion said. ``All of these fires were started by firecrackers,'' Espression said. In Cebu, the second largest city, at least 86 people, several of them children, were treated in government hospitals for injuries from firecrackers. In Bulacan province, north of Manila, 33 people were injured in frenzied revelry on New Year's Eve, hospital authorities said. The manufacture, sale and use of firecrackers are illegal in the Philippines. But the ban is lightly enforced in a nation where people traditionally explode fireworks to usher in the New Year and celebrate other festivals. On Friday, U.S. serviceman Sgt. Michael Kaleda, 29, of Florida, and a 10-year-old Filipino boy were killed when a homemade firecracker prematurely exploded in the American's house outside Clark Air Base. Four other Filipinos were wounded in the blast. An explosion Thursday at an clandestine firecracker factory in Bulacan province killed 11 people and injured 20. AP890101-0008 AP-NR-01-01-89 0911EST u i BC-Brazil-Collision 1stLd-Writethru 01-01 0499 BC-Brazil-Collision, 1st Ld - Writethru,a0666,0510 42 Die In New Year's Boat Accident In Rio Eds: LEADS with 11 grafs to UPDATE with authorities saying boat sank from overcrowding sted crash, details; picks up 8th pvs: The Bateau... RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) A sightseeing cruise boat crowded with New Year's Eve revelers capsized and sank, and at least 42 people drowned, authorities said Sunday. A survivor said foreigners were on board, and Rio morgue officials said they were calling foreign consulates to help identify bodies. The cruise boat, a popular local sightseeing attraction called the Bateau Mouche, was taking people to see a New Year's fireworks display off famous Copacabana Beach. ``We don't know the exact cause of the sinking, but we think it was because of excess capacity,'' said Maj. Oldemiro Santos of the Rio de Janeiro State Fire Department's Maritime Group, who coordinated rescue work. He confirmed the figure of 42 dead and said perhaps 130 people had been on board. Earlier, a radio operator for the Fire Department's Sea Rescue Service said the Bateau Mouche had collided with a private yacht, the Casa Branca. But Santos said the Casa Branca was simply one of many boats that stopped to aid Bateau Mouche victims. Irineu Barroso, the chief of Rio's 10th Police Precinct, with jurisdiction over the bayfront neighborhood closest to the disaster, also said 42 people had drowned. ``It seems there was an excess of passengers, maybe 130 to 150 on board,'' Barroso told The Associated Press. A local radio station said the Bateau Mouche has a capacity of about 100. ``We understand the boat was told to turn back but ignored the order,'' Barroso said. Maj. Santos said the sinking occurred at 11:45 p.m. Saturday (8:45 p.m. EST) ``in very rough seas.'' A Brazilian woman, who said she survived by hanging onto a floating table, told the privately owned Globo TV network she was with a group that included Italians and that there were other foreigners aboard. The woman, whose name was not immediately available, also verified Barroso's statement about the order to turn back. She said Port Authority officals stopped the Bateau Mouche when it already was out on the water, seemed to be counting passengers and made the boat retrun to its bayfront mooring. But then, she said, the cruise boat simply set out again 15 minutes later. The Bateau Mouche makes daily sightseeing cruises across Guanabara Bay, where tourists can admire the mountain scenery that surrounds Rio. The New Year's Eve program, widely advertised in newspapers, was to leave the bay, pass by Sugarloaf Mountain and anchor in the Atlantic Ocean off Copacabana Beach. A fireworks display was set off at the beach at midnight Saturday. Rio's New Year's fireworks show, in the Southern Hemisphere's summer, routinely draws 1 million people to the beach and hundreds of small craft off shore. The Brazilian travel agency that operates the cruise boat, Itatiaia Tourism, did not answer its phone early Sunday. AP890101-0009 AP-NR-01-01-89 1033EST u a BC-DikeBreak 1stLd-Writethru a0668 01-01 0694 BC-Dike Break, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0668,0710 Earthen Dike Collapses, Forces Evacuation Of Communities For Several Hours Eds: LEADS with 13 graf to UPDATE with water receding; interstate still closed pending inspection but residents returning to homes; other detail. Picks up 12th graf pvs, `The south...'. ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) An earthen dike broke early Sunday, forcing the evacuation of an estimated 1,500 people for several hours and closure of a major interstate highway, authorities said. Police said the 2,500-foot-long dike, a section of the Quail Creek Dam on the Virgin River about 14 miles east of here, broke eight minutes after midnight. The 50-foot-high dike released a wall of water 10 feet to 12 feet high, said Mike Brunn, a member of the Washington County Search and Rescue Team who watched the water gush through the river channel. ``If you had had a surfboard, you could have just rode the wave. It was that forceful,'' Brunn said. No injuries were reported. Washington County sheriff's deputies reported seeing apparently empty vehicles carried along by the floodwaters, but there were no immediate reports of people missing. Dispatcher Melody Murdock said deputies reported seeing two recreational vehicles and a pickup in the river. St. George City Manager Gary Esplin said ``numerous'' homes were flooded in some of the areas evacuated in the communities of Bloomington, Bloomington Hills, Washington Fields and parts of Washington city. Washington County sheriff's dispatcher Thad Mattson said about daybreak that people were beginning to return to their homes. ``The water pretty well has receded down,'' Mattson said. ``It's headed down the gorge and into the Arizona end of it. Most of the people who have been evacuated are returning.'' Esplin said three bridges in St. George and Washington city were destroyed or rendered useless. St. George Police Chief John Pollei said water was pouring through an ever-widening gap in the dike, which contains Quail Creek Reservoir on the south side. He said the dam itself, which is also earthen and faces southeast, was not damaged. The high water forced the closure of Interstate 15 _ the main route between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles _ south of St. George where the freeway enters the narrow Virgin River Gorge. The break is located about 250 miles south of Salt Lake City. Utah Highway Patrol dispatcher Shirley Iker said there was no water on the road, but travel through the winding gorge was considered hazardous. Mattson said the road would be closed until later in the day when state officials would inspect a bridge running over the Virgin River as a precaution. Iker said the Nevada Highway Patrol had blocked traffic from approaching the gorge from the south, and Arizona authorities had set up roadblocks on side roads that access the passage. The south end of the gorge is in Arizona, a few miles from the Nevada border. The National Weather Service issued a flash-flood warning for areas along the river southward from the dam to the Arizona border. Pollei said the Virgin River Bridge on Utah 9 below the dam was completely under water, severing the highway between the towns of St. George and Hurricane. The cause of the break was not known, he said. A leak was noticed in the dike as early as 10 p.m. Pollei also said he had no precise figure on how many homes had been evacuated. However, local Mormon Church authorities opened their chapels to evacuated families and local Red Cross officials appealed to community residents to open their homes to the displaced. Congested traffic was reported on Utah 9 west of the bridge and on local arteries between Bloomington and St. George as residents attempted to move their families and livestock out of harm's way. Officials said the evacuation effort initially was hampered by the New Year's holiday. Some residents assumed the city's civil defense siren was being sounded to herald the new year. Also, many residents were away from their houses when authorities ordered the evacuation. The flood knocked radio station KSGI off the air. The station's transmission tower was only 50 feet from the river, said news director Jules Dinoff. AP890101-0010 AP-NR-01-01-89 1123EST r i AM-Thatcher-Women 01-01 0287 AM-Thatcher-Women,0295 Thatcher Says Male Prime Ministers May Eventually Be Fashionable Again LONDON (AP) Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who made history in 1979 when she became Europe's first woman prime minister, noted Sunday she is not alone and joked that male politicians may one day come back into fashion. ``We're getting more women prime ministers,'' she said in a television interview, referring to the recent election of Benazir Bhutto as prime minister of Pakistan. ``And don't forget ... Mrs. Gandhi was a very able, charming, formidable prime minister of India.'' Mrs. Thatcher now is the longest serving leader in the West. Before she came to power, women had governed in Sri Lanka and Israel. Part of the British leader's tenure in office coincided with that of Mrs. Gandhi, who was assassinated in 1984. ``I think male prime ministers one day will come back into fashion,'' she joked with interviewer David Frost on Britain's commercial TV-am channel. Asked about combining her job and her domestic life with her husband, Denis, a retired oil executive, she said ``women have run both the home and work for a very long time.'' ``I mean, every working wife knows that if you decide to have steak and kidney pie for supper, it's no better if you took 20 minutes thinking about it than if you took 20 seconds.'' Frost recalled Mrs. Thatcher's comment ``I never did understand men,'' during an acrimonious meeting last year with fellow leaders of the European Economic Community. Asked if she understood men better now, Mrs. Thatcher replied: ``It may not be understanding of the deepest kind, but I do know what they're likely to do and say. So, one has a certain predictability about it.'' AP890101-0011 AP-NR-01-01-89 1129EST r i AM-Tibet 01-01 0372 AM-Tibet,0384 Students Demonstrate In Tibet; Americans, German Detained ^By JOHN POMFRET Associated Press Writer BEIJING (AP) Hundreds of Tibetan students demonstrated in Lhasa, demanding that Chinese authorities respect their culture and stop carrying weapons, Western witnesses said Sunday. During the march, Tibetans beat five police officers who tried to stop two Americans and one German from taking photographs, witnesses said. Two of the Chinese police were hospitalized, they said. The demonstration, which occurred Friday in the capital of the remote Himalayan region, was the first known protest led by students from Tibet University. Buddhist monks have led other protests during the past 15 months. After the incident, the Americans and the German, all men, were detained for an hour at the Public Security Bureau, Western tourists said. Chinese fined the two Americans $27 each and confiscated their film, they said. A Lhasa city ordinance prohibits foreigners from taking photographs of demonstrations. An English tourist, contacted by telephone from Beijing, said the march began at the Potala temple, one of Tibetan Buddhism's holiest shrines. The demonstrators were carrying banners in Tibetan and Chinese, asking for less restriction on the study of the Tibetan and more respect for Tibetan culture and religion, he said. China in the past, particularly during the leftist 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, suppressed Tibetan culture and language, but in recent years have pledged to respect Tibetan heritage. Another banner requested that all Chinese in Tibet stop carrying firearms and treat Tibetans peacefully, he said. It referred to a pro-independence demonstration on Dec. 10 when at least two Tibetans, including a monk and a child, were killed in Lhasa. A Dutch woman was among the 13 people wounded in the protest. At least 38 people were killed during anti-Chinese demonstrations in March 1988 and in October 1987. Tibetans activists seek independence from China's 38-year rule. China claims Tibet has belonged to Beijing since the 13th century. Tibet's spiritual and temporal leader, the Dalai Lama, fled Lhasa in 1959 and sought refuge in India after an aborted anti-Chinese uprising. An American said the marchers walked down the city's main road and around the city, passing several hotels frequented by foreign tourists. The protest ended an hour later at Tibet University. AP890101-0012 AP-NR-01-01-89 1130EST r i AM-SriLanka 01-01 0500 AM-Sri Lanka,0513 India To Start Withdrawing Peacekeeping Troops ^By PATRICK CRUEZ Associated Press Writer COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) India will start pulling its peacekeeping troops out of Sri Lanka this week at the request of President-elect Ranasinghe Premadasa, the Indian government announced Sunday. Premadasa, who takes office Monday, promised during the election campaign to send the Indian soldiers home. India sent an estimated 50,000 troops to the Indian Ocean island in July 1987, hours after an accord was signed to end an insurgency by Tamil rebels demanding a separate homeland in the north and east provinces. India will withdraw two battalions in the next few days, the Indian High Commission, or embassy, in Colombo announced at a news conference. ``I cannot give you the mathematics of how many troops will be involved but from what I know, from 2,000 to 3,000 troops, making up two brigades, will be withdrawn, said H.M. Dixit, the Indian high commissioner. Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lanka's outgoing president, Junius R. Jayewardene, discussed the withdrawal Saturday during a summit of seven South Asian countries in Islamabad, Pakistan, Dixit said. Opponents of the peace accord had feared Indian troops sent to the island to disarm the Tamil rebels and enforce a cease-fire might remain on the island indefinitely. ``The withdrawal is being done because we respect the public sentiments in Sri Lanka, and this is sincere declaration that we have no intention of staying permanently in Sri Lanka,'' Dixit said. India, the regional power, got involved in the conflict because 60 million Tamils living in southern India are sympathetic to the rebels' cause. More than 626 Indian soldiers have died while trying to enforce the agreement. Tamils, like the Indians, are mostly Hindus. They make up 18 percent of the island's 16 million people. Tamils have long accused the predominantly Buddhist Sinhalese of denying them jobs, education and money for development. The Sinhalese, who make up 75 percent of the country's population, control the government and the military. Militant Tamils have been demanding an independent nation in the north and east provinces, where Tamils concentrate. They have rejected the government's offer of limited autonomy if they surrender their weapons and end the 5-year-old guerrilla war that has left more than 8,500 people dead. The accord also enraged Sinhalese radicals, who contend it grants too many concessions to the Tamils and brought Indian troops across the narrow 18-mile Palk Straits to Sri Lankan soil. Militants have been blamed for the deaths of more than 900 people, most supporters of the agreement. But Dixit said that during the last few months the ``process of normalization has commenced ... And matters can be resolved in a reasonable and amicable way.'' ``As the situation improves further, as the devolution of powers becomes effective. As the Indo-Sri Lanka agreement gets progressively implemented, and as the mischief-making potential of extremist elements opposed to the agreement is reduced, the government is hopeful of making further withdrawals,'' Dixit said. AP890101-0013 AP-NR-01-01-89 1136EST u i AM-Israel-Border Bjt 01-01 0645 AM-Israel-Border, Bjt,0668 Israel Intensifies Search For Guerrilla Infiltrators An AP Extra By G.G. LaBELLE Associated Press Writer AVIVIM, Israel (AP) Israeli soldiers with powerful binoculars peer into the rocky expanse of southern Lebanon after warnings that Palestinian guerrillas opposed to the PLO's peace overtures may try to infiltrate Israel. Armed Palestinians have approached the barbed wire fence along the border twice, on Dec. 26 and Dec. 28, and six of them were killed by Israeli soldiers. Several rockets were fired into the region from Lebanon on Friday. Army officials say they believe radical factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization may step up their attempts to infiltrate and attack Israeli civilians to sabotage the PLO's movement toward negotiation after PLO chairman Yasser Arafat recognized Israel. Maj. Gadi, commander of a battalion stationed in this northern village, sees another new danger in a peace treaty signed in Beirut lass than two weeks ago by the PLO and Amal, the Lebanese Shiite Moslem militia. ``The Amal are acting as guides and bringing the terrorists up to the border,'' says Gadi, whose last name cannot be used under army regulations. To 25-year-old Capt. Yossi and other soldiers, all infiltrators are terrorists whose purpose is to attack civilian settlements, many of them collective farms that grow apples. There have been more than 20 major attempts to sneak into Israel from Lebanon this year, some of them by sea. Battles between infiltrators and Israeli troops have claimed the lives of five soldiers and more than 25 guerrillas. In the more than two months Gadi's soldiers have been stationed in Avivim, they have fought two battles with Lebanese guerrillas. Three guerrillas were killed, Gadi said, but ``we are lucky there are no casualties on our side.'' The three infiltrators carried Soviet-designed Kalashnikov rifles, grenades and rocket-propelled launchers. In the border sector next to Gadi's, Israeli soldiers escaped injury in two recent battles with Palestinian guerrillas. Army officials say the guerrillas' target was Kibbutz Manara, a collective farm visible from a hilltop lookout post near Avivim. Gadi, who at 29 has served 11 years in the army, says 23 civilian settlements lie in the 12-mile border strip under his command. Israel's elaborate border defenses against guerrilla attacks includes a security zone on the Lebanese side patrolled by Israeli soldiers and an Israeli-backed Christian militia in Lebanon. Near Avivim, the zone stretches from 1{ miles to seven miles north of the border. Mines are buried just inside Lebanon, and rusting rolls of concertina barbed wire are strung along both sides of the border. Touching the electronic border fence sets off alarms that army officers say can indicate to within about 100 yards where the trouble is. On the Israeli side, a road is patrolled by Israeli trucks and a dusty strip is swept frequently so that any footprints can be detected. Still, says Yossi, both Palestinian and Lebanese Shiite guerrillas keep trying to penetrate the barrier. ``It takes only five minutes to cut the fence,'' he says. Yossi says the infiltrators' trick is to try to sneak up as close as possible during the day, then cut through the fence at night. ``There are teen-agers sent into the border who don't stand a chance,'' he noted. The army says Palestinian guerrillas have carried leaflets saying they want to take civilian hostages to trade for colleagues jailed in Israel. Claims of responsibility often call for liberating Arab land lost with the creation of Israel in 1948. About 300 yards from the border, an Israeli collective farm called Kibbutz Malkiyya is protected by a soldier at the gate, a nearby army lookout post and rolls of concertina wire. Across the fence, Lebanese farmers can be seen tending fields neatly divided by stones and herding sheep. Arab villages sit on hilltops in the distance. ``It's green and nice until the shooting starts,'' says Gadi. AP890101-0014 AP-NR-01-01-89 1146EST u a AM-JailhouseInformants Bjt 01-01 0844 AM-Jailhouse Informants, Bjt,0868 Nation's Largest DA's Office Wracked by Scandal over Informants By LINDA DEUTSCH Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) Defense lawyers deride them as ``snitches,'' ``swine,'' and ``creeps,'' an underworld of jailhouse informants who curry favor with prosecutors and win rewards for incriminating testimony. Now, a disclosure by one informant of how easily a prisoner can frame someone with bogus testimony has exploded into scandal for the nation's largest district attorney's office. Though prosecutors say only a tiny fraction of cases involve jailhouse informants, they are reviewing more than 130 cases of the past decade for possible taint by lying informants. Among the convictions being reviewed are such high-profile prosecutions as those of the so-called Hillside Strangler, Angelo Buono; the Freeway Killer, William Bonin; and Skid Row Slasher Bobby Joe Maxwell. Also under scrutiny is the ongoing McMartin preschool molestation trial in which an informant was a key witness against defendant Raymond Buckey. The district attorney's office also is re-evaluating its policy on use of jailhouse informants as witnesses. And two attorney groups have asked the grand jury to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the situation. ``It's a corruption of the system. ...,'' said Leslie Abramson, president of California Attorneys for Criminal Justice. ``They (prosecutors) shouldn't be using these people because they should know that they're lying.'' Assistant District Attorney Curt Livesay, third-ranking official in the office, said most prosecutors abhor the use of informants, but they provide valuable information. ``Jailhouse informants are liars, thieves, murderers, criminals. They would put their mothers in prison in their stead if they could,'' he said. ``But they help us solve crimes we wouldn't otherwise solve.'' The incident that spurred the debate in Los Angeles' legal community involves Leslie White, a repeat offender and longtime informant who frequently testified against other prisoners. In return, he said, he received furloughs from prison, a recommendation for parole, a reduction of bail and $1,800 from ``a witness protection fund'' as well as $900 for his wife's relocation. Then, in October, White demonstrated to authorities that by using a jail telephone and posing as a bail bondsman, a prosecutor or police detective, he could gather enough information about a murder case to concoct a confession by a defendant he had never met. A defense lawyer who heard of the demonstration took the story to the media and White became a cause celebre. He admitted he had committed perjury in more than one case and suggested that some men may have gone to Death Row partly because of informants' false testimony. With his newfound celebrity status, the 31-year-old White reportedly has hired an agent to represent him for book and movie deals. The district attorney's office has been under fire since White's disclosures. District Attorney Ira Reiner, who heads an 800-prosecutor agency, promised an investigation that would be ``one of the most thoroughgoing and most forthcoming inquiries that any department has ever made.'' He also defended the use of informants, saying: ``Informants tell us where the body is buried. They tell us where the gun that was used in the killing can be found. ... You can't turn the other ear, nor should you responsibly turn the other way.'' Attorney Robert Berke, who filed a lengthy brief for California Attorneys for Criminal Justice in its campaign for a special prosecutor, says Los Angeles County has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to jailhouse informants, which may constitute malfeasance by public officials. Prosecutors generally describe any payments as expenses, to relocate people who are leaving jail for example. ``When incentives like this are available to people under sentence in jail, desperate people, you get unreliable testimony,'' said Berke. Attorney Gigi Gordon, head of the Los Angeles Criminal Courts Bar Association's Informant Investigation Committee, equated such payments to bribery. ``Where did anyone get the idea that they have to give an informant anything?'' she asked. ``The real tragedy,'' said Ms. Abramson, ``is that they only use these guys in cases where the evidence is weak. So they are increasing the risk of convicting the innocent.'' Livesay said the number of cases in which informants testify make up little more than 1 percent of the total felonies filed by his office each year, and agreed that the cases are often the weaker ones. ``There's not a public prosecutor in the world who wants to call a jailhouse informant as a witness,'' he said. ``It detracts from the case. Typically, they're called when you have a case with a hole in it.'' But the prosecutor expressed skepticism about the role of defense attorneys, saying they sometimes offer to have their own clients turn informant. ``While we have defense attorneys lamenting the use of jailhouse informants, when the informant is their client, they're the first ones in our office,'' he said. ``That's the most despicable thing I've ever heard,'' Ms. Abramson responded. ``When you run around offering immunity to murderers, you have no right to get on a moral high horse. ``My clients are not informants. I do not represent professional snitches.'' AP890101-0015 AP-NR-01-01-89 1146EST r i AM-Koreas 01-01 0428 AM-Koreas,0442 North Korea Leader Invites South Korean President To Meeting TOKYO (AP) North Korean President Kim Il Sung on Sunday invited his South Korean counterpart, Roh Tae-woo, and six other political and religious leaders to a political conference, official North Korean media reported. The Korean Central News Agency, monitored in Tokyo, said Kim proposed a ``political consultative meeting of leadership-level people from the North and South'' to discuss the reunification of Korea. Kim made the proposal in a New Year's speech. He did not name Roh, but extended the invitation to the head of the governing Democratic Justice Party, the agency said. Kim said the meeting also should be attended by the leaders of the three main South Korean opposition parties: the Party for Peace and Democracy, the Reunification Democratic Party and the New Democratic Republican Party. The three parties are led, respectively, by Kim Dae-jung, Kim Young-sam and Kim Jong-pil. Kim also invited Cardinal Kim Su-hwan, the leader of South Korea's Roman Catholic Church; the Rev. Mun Ik-hwan and Mr. Paek Ki-wan, the leaders of a popular movement that has played a prominent role in past struggles against authoritarian governments. Korea was divided into North Korea and South Korea in 1945, when Soviet and U.S. troops ended Japan's colonial rule over the peninsula at the end of World War II. Communist North Korea invaded the South in 1950 to begin the three-year Korean War. In recent months, the two Koreas have traded new proposals for dialogue, and lawmakers from the two sides have met in a series of talks, the latest on Thursday in the border village of Panmunjom. North Korea also has called for political and military talks on arms reductions and other tension-easing measures. It also has called for three-way talks among the two Koreas and the United States, which has 42,000 troops stationed in South Korea. Kim Il Sung's message called for an end to the annual U.S.-South Korean military exercises, called ``Team Spirit.'' The joint exercises held each spring are in preparation for a possible North Korean invasion. ``If the South Korean authorities are ready to bring about a new turn in their policy in response to these endeavors of ours, they should, at least, clearly express their attitude not to stage the ... joint military exercises this year,'' Kim said. South Korea says the exercises are defensive maneuvers, but North Korea maintains that they are a threat to its security. The North last week made a halt to the joint exercises a condition for progress in the lawmakers' talks. AP890101-0016 AP-NR-01-01-89 1152EST r i AM-Eritrea 01-01 0224 AM-Eritrea,0233 Eritrean Rebels Reportedly Agree To Negotiate With Ethiopia KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) An Eritrean rebel group that has waged Africa's longest civil war has agreed to negotiate with the Ethiopian government for an end to the 26-year-old rebellion, a Sudanese newspaper reported Sunday. Omar Reyh, chairman of the Eritrean Liberation Front-Unified Organization, said Sudan proposed the talks after a recent visit to Khartoum by an Ethiopian delegation, the Al-Siyassa newspaper reported. The newspaper quoted Reyh as saying he met Saturday with Sudanese Prime Minister Sadek Mahdi, who suggested Sudan as the site for the negotiations. ``Sudan proposed that there be a preparatory meeting between the Eritrean and Ethiopian sides to prepare for an official negotiating delegation,'' the rebel leader was quoted as saying. ``We have accepted this proposal.'' There was no immediate word from Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, about the Marxist government's position on the proposal. The governments of Sudan and Ethiopia often have exchanged charges of harboring each other's rebels, but relations have improved recently. Three factions of the Eritrean Liberation Front _ which have been fighting 26 years for independence of their northern Ethiopian region _ joined forces on Jan. 23, 1985, as the Eritrean Liberation Front-Unified Organization. The Eritrean revolt, exacerbated by famine, has forced about 850,000 Ethiopians across the border into Sudan in search of safety. AP890101-0017 AP-NR-01-01-89 1213EST u a AM-SpillAftermath Bjt 01-01 0752 AM-Spill Aftermath, Bjt,0774 Litigation, Debate Lingers Year after Oil Spill By TARA BRADLEY-STECK Associated Press Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) In the year since an oil spill fouled two rivers and threatened drinking water in three states, the company responsible has been indicted, inspectors have been fired and new laws proposed. And still in question is the long-term environmental damage of the spill that killed millions of fish in parts of the Monongahela and Ohio rivers. ``We have had a major change in the river that has to be studied and watched. These are of grave concern,'' said Tom Proch, fish biologist with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources. But Dr. Edgar Berkey of the Center for Hazardous Materials Research at the University of Pittsburgh, who supervised a $750,000 study funded by Ashland Oil Inc., said the most significant effects of the spill occurred ``over the short term, and these are largely past.'' Last Jan. 2, a rebuilt Ashland Oil storage tank holding more than 3.8 million gallons of diesel fuel collapsed at the company's terminal 25 miles south of Pittsburgh. A tidal wave of 705,000 gallons of oil surged into the Monongahela, which was swollen and swift from heavy rains. Emergency workers recovered about 30 percent of the fuel. But most of the oil entered the Ohio River at downtown Pittsburgh and kept moving into Ohio and West Virginia, threatening drinking water supplies for millions of people. About 23,000 suburban Pittsburgh residents lost tap water for nearly a week until the heaviest pollution passed their water companies' intakes, and several businesses and schools were closed for a few days. An apologetic Ashland Oil took the blame and paid the bills. It agreed to clean up the soil and ground water at the terminal, inspect its 150 facilities nationwide and pay damage claims associated with the spill. The Ashland, Ky.-based company so far has paid $17 million, or about 80 percent of 6,000 claims, said Ashland spokesman Roger Schrum. But the company's contrition didn't spare it from criminal charges, particularly after engineers determined a dime-sized flaw in the steel wall of the oil tank caused its collapse and a state task force concluded Ashland was negligent. On Sept. 15, a federal grand jury indicted Ashland on two misdemeanor counts for allegedly violating the federal Clean Water and Refuse acts, and a state investigation is still under way. Ashland reacted bitterly to the charges and produced a 1986 memo from the Allegheny County fire marshal's office confirming the company's claim that it had approval to begin construction of the rebuilt tank. County officials had long denied that any permission was given. Three people in the fire marshal's office, including the chief, resigned or were fired over what their superiors called shoddy work practices. Meanwhile, a flurry of federal and state legislation pertaining to above-ground storage tanks has been proposed, but nothing has been enacted. Rep. Doug Walgren, a Pennsylvania Democrat, said he plans to reintroduce his bill to regulate aboveground storage tanks when Congress returns this month. The spill killed roughly 2,000 ducks nesting along the rivers in Pennsylvania and injured others. Few ducklings hatched in the spring. It is believed the kill in Pennsylvania was limited to about 11,000 fish. But downriver in West Virginia, about 3 million dead fish were counted, a state report said. The higher count in West Virginia is believed to be due to a slower current and the oil mixing with sediments and sinking to the river bottom, where fish feed in the winter, explained Berkey. Berkey said heavy rains that began around Jan. 19 dispersed the oil deposited on the river bottom, preventing similar problems downriver. ``The rain pretty much cleaned the system,'' he said. ``The bulk of the spill is south of New Orleans by now ... but in such diluted quantities that it would be difficult to identify.'' Despite the kill, Proch said fishing in the Ohio, Monongahela and Allegheny rivers this year was reported to be good. A major cause for concern, however, is an apparent decline of minnows, a key food for game fish. But Berkey said there have been extreme fluctuations in the minnow population in the past decade for reasons not known. He agreed that additional studies should be conducted. Alan Vicory, director of the Cincinnati-based Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission, said he does not believe the rivers pose a health risk to humans. ``But I certainly think there is a question about the long-term impacts,'' he said. AP890101-0018 AP-NR-01-01-89 1240EST r a AM-MissingBoy 01-01 0580 AM-Missing Boy,0599 Teen Assumed a Runaway By Sheriffs Found After Lost 6 Days in Forest SAN DIEGO (AP) A missing teen whom sheriffs stopped looking for because they considered him a runaway was found hungry and disoriented in a national forest where he had been lost and wandering for six days. Andrew Campbell, 15, was found with frost-bitten hands and toes in an oak grove of Cleveland National Forest by a father and son out for a drive. Campbell's parents were in another part of the forest, still searching for their son who had gotten lost returning from a fishing trip Dec. 24. ``How can you give up when it's your own son? You just can't,'' said Leonard Campbell, the boy's stepfather, who expressed anger at authorities for giving up on the boy. Campbell was listed in fair condition Sunday at Sharp Memorial Hospital, where he was taken Friday by ambulance following his rescue. ``He looks pretty sunken, like he needs to have some food,'' Pauline Renner, a hospital spokeswoman, had said Saturday. ``But aside from that, he's pretty alert and with it.'' Renner said the boy had frostbitten feet and toes. Nighttime temperatures dipped into the 20s for several days while the boy was missing, according to weather forecasters. A staff nurse who refused to give her name said Campbell was transferred out of the hospital's intensive care unit Saturday morning and into a general-care ward. The nurse said the family requested no other information be released. Authorities abandoned the search for Campbell on Tuesday after dogs trailing his scent lost it near a roadside. Despite his parents' protests, sheriff's officials said they believed Campbell, who once ran away from home, hitched a ride out of the forest and was safe. The boy initially was listed as a runaway when his mother, Debbie Campbell, reported to the Sheriff's Department that he was missing. The department changed his status when his parents complained about the runaway designation. At the hospital Friday, Leonard Campbell said he was upset over the sheriff's department's decision to end the search. ``They have their political situation over there and they have things they have to do,'' he said. A statement issued Saturday by the Sheriff's Department said officials will review how the search was handled for Campbell. Volunteer search and rescue units used horses and dogs to look for the teen-ager, until the hunt was called off. The department ``will continue to retrace his tracks to determine how he became lost,'' the statement said. Campbell was rescued by Bill Orsborn, 60, a retired firefighter from La Mesa, and his son, Mark, 29. ``He was just off under some oak trees wandering around,'' Bill Orsborn said Friday night. ``He was disoriented. He didn't know where he was, how long he was out there or what day it was.'' The boy told the Orsborns he survived by eating snow and fish he caught but said little else about the ordeal. Campbell was reunited with his mother and stepfather soon after he was found. As the Orsborns drove him out of the forest, young Campbell recognized the family car in a parking area. The parents were nearby searching for the boy. Campbell said the boy survived because he was resourceful and had warm clothing. ``What saved him was his field jacket because it had a hood on it and he was able to pull it up around his head to keep himself warm,'' he said. AP890101-0019 AP-NR-01-01-89 1243EST r a AM-Brites 01-01 0432 AM-Brites,0445 Brite & Brief GORDO, Ala. (AP) Lucille Hollingsworth House decided about 30 years ago to start collecting, rather than throwing out, anything she could find ``that was old-looking.'' Now, after three decades of bringing home everything from gravy boats to photographs of the Apollo lunar landings, the 79-year-old Mrs. House has what surely must be west Alabama's finest collection of, well, stuff. It's all contained in and around Ma'Cille's Museum of Miscellania. The key word there is ``miscellania,'' as in a serving platter shaped like a fish or the barbed-wire fence exhibit in the rambling, wooden-frame museum adjoining Mrs. House's rural home. The only real advertising Mrs. House does is located along a two-lane highway near Gordo, about 20 miles east of the Mississippi line. A faded sign points down the road toward her home, and another placard at the house lets the curious know they have arrived. Mrs. House says she is still collecting things, but there is one problem. Ma'Cille's museum is getting crowded. On top of the building's tin roof are hundreds _ maybe thousands _ of bottles. An old newspaper clipping about the museum said the bottles are up there so the sun can clean them. Mrs. House has a simpler explanation: ``I ran out of places to put them.'' JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) Some children giggle as they sidle up to the judge's bench to adopt their teddy bears, GI Joes and baby dolls, but they mean every word of their pledges to be good parents. ``The kids come in and I place them under oath, ask them a few questions and issue a certificate,'' said Clark Superior Court Judge George A. Jacobs, who conducts the annual adoption proceedings for new Christmas toys. ``It's a fun thing for the kids, but it also has a positive side. We think it gives a good impression. It shows them that the law is here to help, not hurt, them,'' said Jacobs, 42. Fifty-two children from this southeastern Indiana community trekked to the courtroom on Saturday to become part of the tradition Jacobs began in 1984, when Cabbage Patch dolls complete with their own adoption papers were popular. That year, 700 children participated. Since then, Jacobs has performed 50 to 150 adoptions each year. Some of the children are themselves adopted, brought to the ceremony by their parents to show them what an adoption is like. The adopted toys tend to become permanent playthings, Jacobs said. Instead of losing their luster as the Christmas charm fades, the toys ``become special, have a new lasting importance.'' AP890101-0020 AP-NR-01-01-89 1310EST r i AM-Chile-Killing 01-01 0235 AM-Chile-Killing,0242 Man Killed While Painting Anti-government Slogans SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) Gunmen killed a 27-year-old man and wounded a policeman after officers confronted a group painting anti-government slogans on a wall, the dead man's father said Sunday. Police in the northern city of Arica said by telephone that the incident occurred Saturday night but refused to provide details. A police spokesman said an official report will be issued, probably Monday. A Santiago radio station, Radio Chilena, called the gunmen ``unidentified civilians,'' an expression often used to refer to members of the National Information Agency, the military regime's secret police. Omar Cautivo said his son, Salvador, a worker at a local chemical plant, was shot dead and that a police officer was wounded. Cautivo said his son with with a group of friends painting anti-government slogans on a wall in a suburb of Arica, 1,250 miles north of Santiago. A police patrol appeared and ordered the group to stop, Cautivo said. A group of civilians watching the scene a few yards away opened fire with automatic weapons, killing Salvador and wounding one officer, Cautivo said. The man said police later arrested two daughters of his, one of them at the local hospital where she went to find out about her brother. The independent Human Rights Commission in Arica, which normally reports on this type of incidents, was closed on Sunday because of New Year's. AP890101-0021 AP-NR-01-01-89 1321EST r a AM-Reynolds-PTL 01-01 0552 AM-Reynolds-PTL,0571 PTL Bankruptcy Judge Calls Bakker `Sawed-Off Runt' GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) The judge in the PTL bankruptcy case called for stricter scrutiny of religious groups in newspaper interviews in which he described former PTL leader Jim Bakker as a ``little, sawed-off runt.'' Rufus Reynolds, who retired Saturday as a U.S. bankruptcy judge, told the Greensboro News & Record that television ministries are ``wide open'' for mismanagement or corruption. He also said he received death threats while he was handling the case. ``I think Congress should pass a very strong act forcing the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) ... to make them comply with an accounting,'' Reynolds said. ``We have all kinds of laws protecting consumers. Religion is just another consumer item, just the same as selling soap or washing powders or aspirin.'' In a separate interview with The Charlotte Observer, the 81-year-old Reynolds said he was amazed at the response to the travails that brought down Bakker's evangelistic empire. ``What puzzled me was why people were interested in that little, sawed-off runt,'' Reynolds said. The PTL founder Sunday criticized the judge's comments. ``I am shocked to find Judge Reynolds so prejudiced toward us, and to hear of him making fun of us and the PTL partners,'' Bakker said in a statement released by one of his attorneys. ``He should not have tried the PTL case with these feelings against us.'' The interviews were published Sunday, the day after Reynolds' tenure in the bankruptcy case ended with his retirement. The ministry filed for protection under federal bankruptcy laws in June 1987, three months after Bakker resigned from PTL amid a sex-and-money scandal. Two months ago, Reynolds ordered Bakker, his wife, Tammy, and former aide David Taggart to repay PTL nearly $7.7 million in benefits he found to be excessive. Last month, he approved the sale of PTL assets to a Canadian businessman. It was also last month that a federal grand jury indicted Bakker and former top aide Richard Dortch on criminal fraud and conspiracy charges, accusing them of diverting more than $4 million in PTL money for their own benefit. Bakker is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Charlotte on Jan. 17. Upon his retirement, Reynolds told the Observer that he left the PTL case discouraged and somewhat cynical. For the first time as a bankruptcy judge, Reynolds was guarded by U.S. marshals. He said the FBI investigated death threats. ``I didn't know Christians could be so critical. They would just chew me out,'' Reynolds said. When a woman called the bankruptcy court in Columbia to find out if he was a Christian, ``I said, `You tell her I was when I started this case, but now I plead the Fifth Amendment.''' In talking with the News & Record, Reynolds said he would like to see closer government regulation of all not-for-profit corporations, including churches. ``They're handling (money) the way they damn please. They mold a religion to fit their pocketbook,'' Reynolds said. He dismissed arguments that stricter regulation of broadcast ministries might violate First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and worship. ``The First Amendment has no relation to accounting for money,'' Reynolds said. ``When you go stealing other people's money, you can't say, `The Bible excuses me. I've been forgiven by the Lord.' That doesn't apply.'' AP890101-0022 AP-NR-01-01-89 1322EST r a AM-BrowniesSwim 01-01 0385 AM-Brownies Swim,0396 Boston Swimmers Plunge for Icy New Year's Swim for 85th Year LaserPhoto BX2 By DANA KENNEDY Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) It may not be everyone's idea of a good time, especially coming on the heels of New Year's Eve, but the 49 men and women who plunged into the icy waters of Boston Harbor on Sunday seemed to enjoy themselves. To keep up the 85-year tradition of the L Street Brownies swimming club, men and women ranging in age from teen-agers to octogenarians took the yearly New Year's morning dip in the harbor. Before they ran down the strip of beach into the water, club president Paul Levenson apologized to onlookers for ``the mild weather over which we have no control.'' It was 25 degrees outside. ``Not bad,'' said Al Binari, 55, of Somerville, as he exited the 29-degree water wearing nothing more than a brief pair of swimming trunks. ``It was great!'' said Frances Tobin, who appeared to be in her 50s and said it was her first winter swim. ``I said I was going to do it and I did it.'' Many of the swimmers are longtime members of the L Street Brownies, a swimming club which has its headquarters at the L Street Bathhouse in South Boston. Many, like George Graney, 75, Jerry Collins, 82, and Joe Alecks, 77, have been swimming year-round for decades. ``We do it for health reasons,'' said Graney. ``It's a discipline. We do it every day, like joggers. Some days we have to chop the ice away before we go in.'' ``They do it for their sex lives,'' retorted Paul Wolan, 78, who stopped swimming year-round recently but still takes daily dips from March until November. One of the younger club members, Peter Jurzynski, 37, scoffed at questions about the cleanliness of Boston Harbor, which was an issue in last year's presidential campaign. ``The yuppies go to the Caribbean; we have the crystal clear waters of Boston Harbor,'' Jurzynski said. The group clustered together for a photograph before the swim, several wearing New Year's Eve hats and others reluctant to discard their shirts and sweatpants until the last minute. Collins, who said he's been swimming on New Year's Day since 1925, walked out of the water smiling. ``Really refreshing,'' he said. AP890101-0023 AP-NR-01-01-89 1353EST r a AM-BombThreat-Prof 01-01 0598 AM-Bomb Threat-Prof,0616 Professor Tells How He Was Accused of Airplane Bomb Threat Eds: Stands for story slugged AM-Emergency Landing on AM-News Advisory OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) A bespectacled language professor says no one got his side of the story before mistakenly arresting him because of a note he found that threatened to blow up an American Airlines jetliner. Now that his ordeal is over, Peter M. Canning, 40, said at a news conference Saturday, he's headed for a job interview at Yale University. He was on his way Tuesday to a New Orleans convention, where he hoped to have several job interviews, when a stewardess mistakenly thought a note Canning found in his tray-table was a bomb threat written by him. ``I thought it was a nightmare at first. It occurred to me that I might wake up,'' said Canning, a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley. He said he hasn't decided whether to sue anyone over the false charge of making a bomb threat Tuesday aboard flight 240 from San Francisco to Dallas. He was arrested in Albuquerque, N.M., where the plane made an emergency landing. Charges were dropped Thursday, after an 11-year-old boy admitted he wrote the note and left it on the plane. The boy took the flight just before Canning's and had sat in the same seat as Canning. When the dropping of the charges was announced, Jim Nelson, the FBI's top agent in New Mexico, said he regretted ``any inconvenience or embarrassment suffered by Mr. Canning'' but said the arrest was justified based on what agents knew at the time. Canning's attorney in Albuquerque, Ray Twohig, said he has advised Canning to wait a week or so before deciding what action to take. Canning, in his first statement since charges were dropped, told how he handed the note to a flight attendant after it fell into his lap from a fold-out tray after lunch. ``Part of the note said, `There is bombs planted all over this airplane.' ... Two minutes into reading this, I thought it was placed there as a prank,'' said Canning, a slightly built man who wore tinted glasses, jeans and a wool sports coat. He told reporters he gave the crumpled, two-page note to a flight attendant, who walked to the front of the plane. ``Thirty seconds later she returned and said `Is this your note?' and I said `No, it is not.' But before I could say anything else, she spun on her heels _ she was understandably nervous _ but no one ever came back to ask me for an explanation,'' he said. The plane was diverted to Albuquerque, where Canning was questioned by the FBI for two hours and arrested. Later, authorities asked him to supply several handwriting samples. ``I didn't start panicking, I started getting angry,'' said Canning. He was arraigned in federal court in New Mexico and released on his own recognizance. He learned that the charges had been dropped while driving back to Berkeley in a rental car Friday night because no airline would book him a seat. He had stopped at a restaurant near the California-Arizona border and saw a newspaper headline. ``I'm now relieved, as you can imagine,'' Canning said. Before the incident, Canning was en route to the convention of the Modern Language Association in New Orleans, where the Harvard doctoral candidate hoped to attend several job interviews. Faculty members at Yale agreed to reschedule his interview, he said, adding that it was too soon to tell whether missing several other interviews will hurt his career. AP890101-0024 AP-NR-01-01-89 1358EST r a AM-MontanaCentennial 01-01 0518 AM-Montana Centennial,0535 Centennial Cattle Drive Faces 20th Century Problems _ Water Quality Permit? By FAITH CONROY Associated Press Writer HELENA, Mont. (AP) Organizers hoping to herd 10,000 head of cattle through south-central Montana to celebrate the state's centennial are facing problems never dreamed of by cowboys of 100 years ago. For one thing, no one in 1889 had to worry about a water quality permit. For another, they are planning to move an unusually large number of cattle. But organizers say they're not deterred by questions of environmental impact or such cowboy insider worries as whether the cattle will balk when driven toward a river crossing at midday. The problems will be overcome, they say, and the six-day drive will come off Sept. 4 through 9, one of a year-long series of events celebrating Montana's admission to the Union on Nov. 8, 1889. Interest in the drive spans several continents, according to Jim Wempner, a Billings-area rancher and director of the event. However, only 700 people so far have indicated they will participate, he said. Wempner did not know how many cattle that included, but said each person must consign at least one animal. He said he expects the drive to involve 200 wagons and 5,000 cowboys, including 100 experienced trail hands. ``It's going to happen,'' Wempner said, despite numerous obstacles stemming from a state-level review of the drive's potential environmental impact. ``We do the same thing for 2,000 cattle as we would with 10,000 cattle,'' he said. ``There's not that much of a difference. This is just a larger number.'' Organizers bill it as one of the largest cattle drives in history. But state officials have questioned whether the sponsors will be able to overcome problems, including the handling of wastes created by people and livestock along the 58-mile route between Roundup and Billings. Outgoing Lt. Gov. Gordon McOmber, chairman of the state Centennial Commission, said experienced cattlemen also have criticized the plan. He said they cite behavioral quirks of cattle that could lead to problems, such as a possibility the animals might refuse to cross a river during the heat of the day. The angle of the sun may make it impossible for the cattle to see the bottom, causing them to balk. ``Those things are long forgotten in this day and age,'' McOmber said. Organizers need permits and water quality variances to allow cattle to cross rivers and streams and possibly air quality variances if cattle are moved along dusty dirt roads, officials said. People from across the United States and two from Australia have applied to participate, Wempner said, adding that filmmakers from West Germany, France and Switzerland have shown interest in documenting the event. Wempner estimated it would cost $500,000 to stage the drive. Among the other events planned for the centennial is a 250-mile wagon train trek being organized by the Montana Draft Horse and Mule Association. More than 80 wagons, 17 riding groups, 367 horses and 301 people are registered and about a half-dozen others are on a waiting list for the trip, planned for June and July. AP890101-0025 AP-NR-01-01-89 1405EST r w AM-Congress-Taxes 01-01 0511 AM-Congress-Taxes,490 GOP Hill Leaders Differ on Likelihood of Tax Hikes By JAMES H. RUBIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) House Republican Leader Bob Michel said Sunday a tax increase probably will be part of a bipartisan budget compromise in 1989 despite President-elect Bush's pledge to oppose higher taxes. The Illinois Republican, two days before the new congressional session, said he does not believe there is enough room to cut spending to meet deficit-reduction targets. ``I don't know that there is that much flexibility,'' Michel said. ``When I served on the budget summit the last time around, we found we had to take a measure of that (tax increases). I suspect that down the road a piece that may be part of the answer.'' But Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., said he takes Bush's opposition to more taxes at face value. ``My view is the same as the president-elect, George Bush,'' Dole said. ``I didn't coin the phrase, `read my lips.' But I think he means it. And I don't see any give in that area at this point.'' Bush repeatedly stressed his opposition to taxes during the presidential campaign by urging any doubters to ``read my lips.'' Michel and Dole were interviewed on ABC's ``This Week With David Brinkley'' along with House Majority leader Tom Foley, D-Wash., and Senate Majority leader George Mitchell, D-Maine. The 101st Congress convenes Tuesday for a swearing-in, with committee hearings on Republican Cabinet appointees among the first order of business prior to the Jan. 20 inauguration. The congressional leaders expressed agreement that Bush should make the first move in proposing answers. ``The president-elect should go first,'' Dole said ``We know we're going to have to face it. My own view is it (a compromise) will come together.'' Michel, Foley and Mitchell, questioned about the upcoming trial of former White House aide Oliver North on charges stemming from the Iran-Contra affair, agreed a sitting president should not be forced to appear in court to give testimony. North's lawyers on Friday subpoenaed both President Reagan and Bush to testify as defense witnesses at the trial. ``There are ways a president can become a part'' of a trial, said Foley. ``But his actual appearance in court is discouraged.'' The House members suggested a statement by Reagan or Bush given out of court might be satisfactory. Mitchell said ``there is a strong presumption'' against requiring a president to testify. But Mitchell said Reagan's legal protection against appearing in court may be reduced after he leaves office on Jan. 20. Mitchell also challenged the idea that Reagan's testimony would be helpful to North. The senator said North testified during congressional hearings that he acted without Reagan's knowledge in funneling proceeds from Iran arms sales to the Nicaraguan rebels. Mitchell also said it would be improper for Reagan to be pressured into pardoning North because of the possibility the president could be required to testify. Any special treatment for North would support the idea there are ``two standards of justice'' for government officials and everyone else, Mitchell said. AP890101-0026 AP-NR-01-01-89 1415EST r a AM-Citizens'Arrest 01-01 0346 AM-Citizens' Arrest,0356 Two Men Nab `Suspect,' Wind Up In Jail Themselves ALTON, Ill. (AP) Two men investigating a house burglary on their own used a gun to deliver a teen-age ``suspect'' to police, but it was the two men who ended up charged in the incident, police said Sunday. ``You can't be your own vigilante,'' said Police Lt. James Gabriel. Allen Lane Calvey, 57, and Nikita J. Vambaketes, 36, were charged by the Madison County state's attorney with aggravated unlawful restraint, a felony, following the incident Wednesday, said police in this southern Illinois city. Calvey, whose home was burglarized in late November, also was charged with compelling a confession by force or threat, another felony, Gabriel said. Police said Calvey had apparently been investigating the burglary on his own when he and Vambaketes went Wednesday to the home of 18-year-old Dennis L. Teague. Calvey brandished a gun in the confrontation, and forced Teague to go to the Alton police station, Gabriel said. Calvey took Teague inside while Vambaketes, who then took the gun, stayed in the car, according to Gabriel. Gabriel said police had no evidence that Teague was involved in the burglary, so he was not charged in the incident. But Teague was arrested on a warrant for a past misdemeanor charge of failure to appear in court on a retail theft charge, police said. Calvey was freed on a $25,000 bond soon after his arrest, police said. Vambaketes remained in the Madison County Jail in lieu of $13,000 bond Sunday awaiting a court appearance, said a jail employee who did not give his name. The teen-ager, meanwhile, pleaded guilty Thursday to failure to appear in court, and was released after being ordered to pay a $100 fine and court costs, Gabriel said. Gabriel said he was not sure if anything was taken in the burglary of Calvey's home. Lt. Robert Lahlein, chief of detectives, said the two men exceeded their authority. ``Illinois statute gives certain arrest powers to citizens, but not under these circumstances,'' he said. ``That's why we have police.'' AP890101-0027 AP-NR-01-01-89 1452EST r a AM-People 01-01 0798 AM-People,0825 People in the News LaserPhoto NY44 NICE, France (AP) Singer-actor Yves Montand, one of France's most popular performers, rang in the New Year with a brand new baby, becoming a father for the first time at the age of 67. Valentin Giovanni Jacques was born New Year's Eve to Montand's girlfriend, 28-year-old Carole Amiel, at a private clinic in this Riviera city. The baby weighed in at 9 pounds. Talking to reporters at the clinic on New Year's Day, Montand said he felt ``a mixture of joy and worry. It is both strange, wonderful and moving.'' The singer admitted ``having first been panicked just before the birth, then to see this little superb thing, without false modesty, I was very happy and very happy for Carole. It is a beautiful baby. ... All of a sudden, I feel a new responsibility. I say to myself, `I have a son,' and at 67, life is beginning.'' Montand, born Ivo Livi to a poor family in Italy, immigrated to France with his family at the age of 3. Giovanni, he said, is his father's name, Jacques is for poet Jacques Prevert and Carole's father, ``and Valentin simply because we find it a nice name.'' Montand had no children from his 33-year marriage with actress Simone Signoret, who died in 1985. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Singer Eddie Money is booked for a February festival celebrating improved U.S.-Soviet relations that will feature rock 'n' roll musicians, dance and gospel groups and politicians from both nations. ``It will be a giant celebration _ a potpourri of Soviet and American groups,'' said Dixie Belcher, director of Camai, an Alaska arts organization co-sponsoring the Feb. 24-25 event with the Alaska State Chamber of Commerce. Belcher said the festival was first proposed last summer by Stas Namin, a Soviet rock musician whose records have sold more than 40 million copies. Camai is still seeking commitments from other groups. The Soviet rocker will do the concert for free, while Money, known for such hits as ``Take Me Home Tonight'' and ``Walk on Water,'' will expect to get money, Belcher said. Namin, grandson of a prominent Soviet politician, began his career when Leonid Brezhnev was the Soviet leader and rock music was an underground phenomenon that flourished largely via illegal records and tapes. ``He was not allowed to perform in public,'' Belcher said. Under Gorbachev, Namin and many other Soviet rock musicians have official status as state-supported artists, and some have toured abroad. NEW YORK (AP) Woody Allen is back behind a camera, Aretha Franklin hopes to hit the typewriter keys and singer Lou Reed is preparing a tribute to Andy Warhol, all part of the coming attractions of 1989. The three are among 36 artists who told The New York Times about their projects for the new year, the newspaper reported Sunday. Their previews: _Allen, the director-writer-actor, is filming a ``contemporary comedy,'' set in New York, featuring himself, Mia Farrow, Alan Alda, Martin Landau, Anjelica Huston, Daryl Hannah, Claire Bloom and Sam Waterston. ``It runs a very, very wide gamut from extremely serious material to comic material,'' he said. _Franklin, the gospel and pop singer and songwriter, plans to write a book about her experiences, particularly her days traveling with her father and singing gospel from age 14 to 17. She'll also be performing solo concerts in the East, and she has four new songs in the works. ``Most of my songs are very romantic,'' she said, ``because I'm very sentimental.'' _Reed, the rock singer and songwriter, is working on a show honoring the late artist Warhol that is to be staged in New York in the fall. ``The piece is about Andy, and some of the songs are from his point of view,'' said Reed. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A new trio called Heirloom is aptly named: The three women in it are each members of gospel music family groups that have performed for generations. Sheri Easter of the Lewis Family, Candy Hemphill Christmas of the Hemphills and Tanya Goodman-Sykes of the Goodman Family say they have joined together to form the trio and are in the midst of finishing an as-yet-untitled LP. The album focuses on vocals and each woman contributed a few songs. The result is a mix of ``polished bluegrass all the way to contemporary pop influences,'' Ms. Christmas said. ``The three of us together make a style of our own that is unique, but it's not foreign to what we've been doing on our own,'' she said. The three, who have all recorded solo projects as well as their work with their respective families, say they will continue to record separately and plan a tour together following their debut Friday at a Nashville concert. AP890101-0028 AP-NR-01-01-89 1512EST r i AM-Peru 01-01 0379 AM-Peru,0391 Earthquake, Blackout Bring In New Year In Peru By ROBERT SEAVEY Associated Press Writer LIMA, Peru (AP) The New Year roared into Lima Sunday with a strong earthquake and on the heels of a blackout believed caused by leftist guerrillas, officials said. Civil Defense officials said they had no reports of damage or injury in the earthquake. The quake struck at 5:16 a.m. and registered at 5.5 on the Richter scale, said Miguel Morales, a spokesman for the Geophysical Institute of Peru. He said the epicenter was in the Pacific Ocean, 70 miles southwest of Lima. The New Year dawned with Pervians facing their most serious economic recession this century, with inflation expected to reach 1,800 percent this year. Last year also brought an upsurge in the Shining Path guerrilla movement's eight-year insurgency to impose Marxist rule. Saturday was the second New Year's Eve in a row that Lima, a frequent target of power outages caused by rebels, was hit by a blackout. The problems did not stop Lima residents from enjoying New Year's revelry, including the widespread use of fireworks and burning traditional bonfires on dozens of city street corners. The state power company Electro-Peru said saboteurs blew up power pylons about 10 p.m. Saturday to cause a partial power outage. It said power was cut to isolated areas in a coastal region stetching from Chiclayo, 465 miles north of Lima, to Marcona, 270 miles south of the capital. About half of Lima was blacked out, but energy was restored to most areas by midmorning Sunday, Electro-Peru said. Both of Peru's major rebel groups, the Mao-inspired Shining Path and the pro-Cuba Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, have launched dozens of blackouts and then used the cover of darkness to carry out bombings and other attacks. Officials said they did not know which group caused the New Year's blackout, and there were no reports of any related violence. Police say the Shining Path sabotaged power pylons three times in late November and early December in an escalation of its insurgency, which has claimed more than 12,000 lives. The blackouts forced this city of 6 million to ration electric power and water, which is pumped by electricty, for three weeks before officials could repair the damaged system. AP890101-0029 AP-NR-01-01-89 1529EST r a AM-JailEscape 01-01 0310 AM-Jail Escape,0319 Jail Inmate Strolls By Checkpoints and Out The Door DALLAS (AP) A county jail inmate who noticed his cell was unlocked followed an off-duty sheriff's deputy and wandered past two checkpoints to freedom, authorities said. ``Somebody wasn't paying as much attention as he was supposed to,'' said Assistant Chief Deputy Bob Knowles, detentions commander for the Dallas County Sheriff's Department. But Arthur Tabor, 47, was back in jail early Saturday, a few hours after his disappearance. Police found him at the same address he had given police when he was arrested the first time, a homeless shelter. He faced the original charges of disorderly conduct and public intoxication plus a charge of escape and was held in lieu of $1,568 bond. Tabor was arrested Friday and placed in a holding cell at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center before changing into jail clothes, authorities said. Noticing the cell door was unlatched, Tabor walked out of the cell. Wearing a surgical mask because of tuberculosis, Tabor found a sheriff's officer and apparently followed the deputy because he was unsure of what he was supposed to do, officials said. ``He got into the elevator with the officer, and the officer, not realizing the man was a prisoner, walked out of the building with him,'' Knowles said. ``I don't think he intentionally tried to escape. The charges were so minor. I don't think there was any motivation.'' ``They just opened the door and let him walk. It was like, `Merry Christmas,''' said Sgt. Lonnie Franks, supervisor of the release section at the jail. Franks said Tabor walked through two checkpoints, staffed by uniformed jailers who are supposed to demand identification. The incident embarrassed jail officials, and Knowles said deputies feel lucky that no violent prisoner escaped. ``At least it wasn't someone who went out and hurt someone,'' he said. AP890101-0030 AP-NR-01-01-89 1622EST u i AM-NewYear's-World 2ndLd-Writethru 01-01 0927 AM-New Year's-World, 2nd Ld - Writethru,a0724,0951 New Year: Promises Of Peace, Bursts Of Violence Eds: INSERTS 1 graf after 7th graf `The Japanese...' to ADD that Prince Akihito stood in for ailing emperor in New Year's ceremony at palace. Pickup 8th graf `About 150...', ADDS LaserPhoto numbers LaserPhotos MOS1,MLA1,MLA2,ROM3,RIO5,RIO6 By MARK FRITZ Associated Press Writer New Year's fireworks left thousands homeless in the Philippines and 49 revelers in Rio drowned en route to a pyrotechnics display. The superpowers swapped warm salutations, but a one-sided truce failed to silence the guns in Afghanistan. The new year came in as the old one went out, with promises of peace and bursts of tragedy. Children orphaned by an earthquake got new toys, one Korea offered a tentative olive branch to the other, five Hindus were massacred as they prayed, and the lights went out in Lima for the second straight New Year's Eve. Thousands poured into streets and squares to celebrate the arrival of 1989, from Times Square in New York to Orchard Road in Singapore on the other side of the globe. Revelers in Warsaw paid 100,000 zlotys per couple, about $200, to attend a New Year's Eve ball in the Victoria Hotel, scandalizing many Poles because it was the equivalent of six weeks' pay for the average citizen. An Italian preservation group found Sunday that the tower of Pisa leaned a little more during 1988, tilting another .0508 inches toward the ground. The Japanese went by the millions to temples and shrines Sunday to pray for health and prosperity as the year of the dragon roared out and the snake slithered in. Crown Prince Akihito, 55, stood in for his father, 87-year-old Emperor Hirohito, at annual New Year ceremonies in the imperial palace in Tokyo attended by family relatives, Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita and other leading government officials. The emperor has been ailing since Sept. 19 with internal bleeding. About 150 people boarded a cruise ship in Rio de Janeiro and set sail for a fireworks display off Copacabana Beach. It capsized, and authorities said at least 49 people drowned. ``It seems there was an excess of passengers ...,'' said Irineu Barroso, a Rio police official. ``We understand the boat was told to turn back but ignored the order.'' Illegal fireworks ignited six fires in Manila, leaving thousands homeless, authorities said. Hospital officials said seven died from shootings and stabbings in New Year's celebrations and brawls in Manila and Cebu. A check with doctors at 20 Manila hospitals showed 1,134 people were injured, mostly by fireworks, during the night. ``It's like a war zone here,'' said a doctor. ``Fingers are being amputated. People are wounded by stray bullets. They are still coming in ...'' Fire killed at least one person and destroyed 3,000 makeshift houses in one slum neighborhood, said arson investigator Cpl. Edmar Espresion. He said hundreds of homes also were burned in five other fires. At least 733 revelers in Italy were reported injured by fireworks, none seriously. In the West Berlin, about 200 youths began the New Year with a rampage, hurling bottles, rocks and fireworks at police. Seven were arrested and one policeman was reported injured. At least two deaths on New Year's Eve in West Germany were attributed to fireworks accidents, as were dozens of injuries. Four revelers in East Berlin plunged four stories when the balcony they were on broke off and fell, killing one, the ADN news agency reported. Children injured by the Dec. 7 earthquake in Armenia received toys and clothes from around the world, Tass said. The Soviet news agency said a boy from Spitak was asked what he wanted from Father Frost, a bearded man who brings gifts on New Year's. ``Let him return my mother,'' 8-year-old Armen Kazaryan said from his hospital bed. The new year elicited olive branches from leaders worldwide. North Korean President Kim Il Sung, in a New Year's speech, invited South Korean President Roh Tae-woo to a political conference in the near future. President Reagan and his Soviet counterpart, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, each sent New Year's messages to their countries and each other's. In a message made available to American television, Gorbachev said: ``Americans seem to be rediscovering the Soviet Union _ and we are rediscovering America.'' Reagan said on Soviet television, ``Despite our disagreements, we have been able to find some common ground.'' In Moscow, a 42-foot New Year's greeting card signed by 20,000 Americans arrived Sunday. Tass said signers included ex-presidential candidates Michael Dukakis and Jesse Jackson. In Rome, Pope John Paul II celebrated a New Year's Mass in St. Peter's Basilica before 20,000 worshipers. The pontiff called on nations to give special attention to minorities and for kidnappers to release their hostages. ``Let's hope that it is the year of peace, of justice, of growing solidarity, of social solicitude for each one and for everybody,'' he said. In Afghanistan, the Soviets and the Soviet-backed government promised a cease-fire on New Year's Day. But guerrillas attacked government troops in two villages Sunday in the eastern Nangarahar province, and eight guerrillas were killed, Afghanistan's official Radio Kabul said. Residents in rebel-plagued Lima greeted 1989 with a blackout for the second New Year's Eve in a row. The state power company said nearly half the city of 6 million people was affected. Leftist guerrillas were blamed for last year's blackout. A bomb blast at a temple in India killed at least five Hindus as they prayed on Sunday, 1989's first victims of continuing Sikh militant violence in India's northwestern Punjab state. AP890101-0031 AP-NR-01-01-89 1640EST r i AM-Germany-Libya-Weapons 01-01 0419 AM-Germany-Libya-Weapons,0442 Probe: Did West German Firms Help Libya Make Chemical Weapons? BONN, West Germany (AP) The government has begun investigating U.S. allegations that a West German company helped Libya build a chemical weapons plant, a Foreign Ministry official said Sunday. The Bonn government was informed of the U.S. position through diplomatic channels, the official said on condition of anonymity. He said the review so far has yielded no evidence to support claims ``that German firms were involved in any illegal undertakings.'' ``We have taken this information very seriously and immediately launched an investigation,'' said the official. U.S. officials said last week that a chemical facility at Rabta, about 50 miles southwest of Tripoli, is on the verge of producing chemical weapons. Libya says the facility is a pharmaceutical plant. Companies from West Germany, Japan and Italy are believed to have helped Libya build the plant or the adjacent industrial complex. Japan told the United States its nationals believed they were involved in the construction of a fertilizer plant. At least two West German firms provided Libya with chemicals, technical assistance and special pumps and piping for the plant, U.S. News & World Report said in a report released Sunday. One of the West German companies was identified as Imhausen-Chemie, the New York Times said Sunday, quoting U.S. government officials. The company's president denied any connection with the Libyan plant, the report said. ``We produce medical substances and fine chemicals ... but not so far to Libya,'' the Times quoted Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen as saying. ``I never went to Libya. I don't even know where it is.'' The Times quoted American officials as saying Imhausen was at the center of a covert operation in which materials for the chemical plant were shipped to Libya through Hong Kong and other Asian ports. American officials said they were deliberately misled by a company called Japanese Steel Works, U.S. News & World Report reported. Company officials told U.S. senators the firm was only building a desalinization plant, the report said. The magazine, quoting unidentified government sources, said the State Department has prepared a secret report on the role of West Germany and Japan in helping Libya, Iran, Iraq and Syria to acquire chemical-weapons capability. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley on Friday rejected Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's offer to let the United States inspect the plant. She said a chemical weapons plant ``could easly be modified to appear as a legitimate industrial chemical plant such as a pharmaceutical or fertilizer facility.'' AP890101-0032 AP-NR-01-01-89 1657EST r a AM-BRF--BabyAccident 01-01 0105 AM-BRF--Baby Accident,0106 Baby Nearly Drowns in Bucket of Dog Food, Water NASHVILLE, Tenn. _ A 1-year-old girl who nearly drowned in a bucket of dog food and water was in satisfactory condition Sunday at General Hospital, authorities said. Lillian Lindsey discovered her daughter, Kayla, halfway submerged Saturday in a large bucket of dog food mixed with water, detective Frank Pierce said. The child was taken to the hospital, where she was in satisfactory condition Sunday, nursing supervisor Audrey Farrell said. The baby was being kept for observation and probably would be released the first part of the week, said nursing supervisor Esther Alexander. AP890101-0033 AP-NR-01-01-89 1659EST r a AM-LottoWinners 01-01 0088 AM-Lotto Winners,0088 Five Winning Tickets Sold For $27 Million Prize TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Five winning tickets, including two from the same store, were sold for this week's $27 million Lotto prize, Florida Lottery officials said Sunday. Two of the five were sold at the same retail location in Largo, about 10 miles north of St. Petersburg. ``Now that's what I call starting the year with a bang,'' said Lottery Secretary Rebecca Paul, who called the sale of two winning tickets at one retail outlet ``extraordinary.'' AP890101-0034 AP-NR-01-01-89 1705EST r a AM-Gunman-Hostages 01-01 0426 AM-Gunman-Hostages,0439 Police Chief Says Sniper Acted Properly In Killing Gunman Eds: Cathie in 8th graf is cq OMAHA, Neb. (AP) A preliminary review concluded that a police sniper acted properly in killing a gunman who held up to eight people hostage in a beauty salon, but controversy remained over a mental health board's refusal to commit the man to a hospital in November. Michael Fane, 21, was shot to death by a SWAT team sniper Friday as police, afraid Fane would set off a fire bomb in the beauty salon, rescued the last hostage. Police Chief Robert Wadman said Saturday that a preliminary review indicated that officers followed proper procedure when the police sniper fired the single shot that killed Fane, 21, of Iowa City, Iowa. Fane, who told the hostages he was on a mission for God, was killed 24 hours after he walked into the salon and took eight people hostage. None of the hostages, released at intervals throughout the ordeal, was hurt. Douglas County Attorney Ron Staskiewicz said that his office will decide soon whether to call a grand jury to investigate. ``The last thing I want to do is have police officers who have been involved in a traumatic situation wait a long time,'' Staskiewicz said. ``We want to make a decision. If a grand jury needs to be called, let's get it over with.'' Fane's parents said the standoff could have been avoided if the Sarpy County (Neb.) Mental Health Board had followed the advice of a psychiatrist and the pleas of his mother to commit him to treatment. The request for commitment came after an incident at a restaurant at which Fane began screaming. Cathie Fane of El Campo, Texas, said her son had been diagnosed as having ``drug-induced schizophrenia.'' But during the Nov. 4 committal hearing, a decision was made against institutionalization because he posed no public threat, Mrs. Fane said. ``We knew that he was gone a year ago,'' she told the Houston Chronicle. ``We tried to get help for him. We tried to have him institutionalized, but lawyers fought to keep him out of the institution, so our hands were really tied.'' But board members defended their decision. Richard Wycoff, a clinical psychiatrist, said it was a ``close call'' as to whether Fane should have been committed, but there was not ``clear and convincing evidence'' that Fane was a danger either to himself or to others. Joseph Batorski, the lay member of the three-member board, also said it was not proven Fane was dangerous. AP890101-0035 AP-NR-01-01-89 1707EST r i AM-Britain-Oman 01-01 0284 AM-Britain-Oman,0292 Britain Used SAS Commandos in Oman in 1958, Newspaper Says LONDON (AP) Thirty-year-old documents made public New Year's Day reveal the government sent commandos to Oman to fight rebels threatening British interests in the Persian Gulf state, a newspaper reported Sunday. The documents were released by the Public Records Office under rules permitting publication of selected confidential papers after a 30-year lapse, The Observer said. In 1958, rebels were fighting the sultan of Oman and endangering Britain's plans to use an air base at Masirah and its interest in oil deposits believed to exist in the kingdom, the weekly newspaper said. But the use of regular British troops to crush a rebellion was considered certain to attract international criticism and the newly released Cabinet documents show how concerned then-Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd were to avoid such an outcome, the Observer said. In July of 1958 the sultan accepted 23 British officers for his army, including a commander and the nucleus of an air force to put down the rebels, in return for handing over the base for 99 years, The Observer said. The military assault plan was canceled over concerns about international criticism, but a government panel suggested Britain instead conduct a special operation by commandos of the clandestine Special Air Services regiment. The plan was approved and the cover story, the newspaper said, was that the 100-man SAS squadron was training the sultan's army. A second squadron was sent in December and by January 1959 the SAS had put the rebels to flight, The Observer said. Britain has had close ties with the sultanate _ an absolute monarchy _ for nearly 200 years. AP890101-0036 AP-NR-01-01-89 1717EST r a AM-CholesterolScreening 01-01 0508 AM-Cholesterol Screening,0523 State Challenges Cholesterol Testing in Stores Eds: Heart Chek in 2nd graf is cq SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) A company offering quick, cheap tests of blood cholesterol levels to people while they shop says technology has outpaced state laws governing medical testing, but the state says the company's services don't have the proper licenses and has gone to court. The lawsuit filed by the state Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services against Heart Chek of Sarasota will be a test case for the fledgling industry, attorneys say. Heart Chek has contracts to offer cholesterol readings with several store chains throughout southwestern Florida, including Publix, Albertsons and Walgreen. The procedure involves taking a few drops of blood from a fingertip and running the sample through a machine. A reading is given within minutes for $7. The state contends the process of drawing blood and analyzing it for cholesterol content falls under a 1967 statute regulating clinical laboratories, said department spokesman Stephen Kindland. But Heart Chek, which has been in business since March, believes the regulations are outdated, said company attorney Steve Herb. Herb said the suit was initially filed by HRS against Heart Chek early this September in Sarasota County Circuit Court. But he argued that the 1967 statute cited in the suit was never intended to apply to screening procedures, just clinical laboratories. The technology used nationwide for screening cholesterol was not in existence at the time that statute was written, Herb said Sunday. ``HRS is trying to take an old law and apply it to a situation that could not possibly have been foreseen in 1967,'' he said. The company, which has 20 affiliates across the South and in California, would like the new industry to be regulated by the state, but not under the existing clinical laboratory law, national President John Bell said. ``We're fighting the particular law in Florida, not the idea of being under regulatory control. We recognize the need to keep unqualified people out of the business,'' Bell said. The state told the company it should be licensed by the Department of Licensure and Certification. But Heart Chek ignored a cease-and-desist order, leaving a lawsuit as the only option to settle the question, said state health department attorney Ed Haman. ``We've filed for a court injunction to decide whether Heart Chek does qualify as a clinical lab under the statute. Until that decision comes through, we have no authority to stop the operation or regulate it at all,'' Haman said. The state defines a clinical laboratory as any business performing examinations on material from the human body to obtain information on a medical condition. Heart Chek has filed several countersuits against the state for interference with business, slander and harassment. A hearing on the merits of the countersuits is scheduled for Jan. 13, but a final decision on the state's suit is not expected until at least February, said Haman. ``As far as we know, this is the very first legal challenge to the clinical lab statute,'' he said. AP890101-0037 AP-NR-01-01-89 1719EST r a AM-GarageExplosion 01-01 0425 AM-Garage Explosion,425 Federal Authorities Investigate Explosion Killing Four Youths BETHESDA, Md. (AP) The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms is investigating an explosion that killed four Maryland teen-agers who were apparently experimenting with explosives. Ann Evans, spokeswoman for the Montgomery County Police Department, Sunday said evidence had been recovered from the scene of the explosion and was taken to the Rockville laboratory of the BATF. She did not expect results until the end of this week. ``There is a strong suggestion that four boys were experimenting with some type of explosives,'' Evans said Saturday. The teen-agers were killed before dawn Saturday as the four youths apparently were attempting to make a bomb in a garage at the home of a Brazilian embassy employee, police said. Two of the victims were killed instantly by the blast, while the third person died a short time after being rushed to a local hospital, Montgomery County Police Sgt. Harry Geehreng said. The fourth teen-ager died Saturday evening. The Washington Post reported in Sunday's editions that three of the young men were described as close friends and said that the four were science-oriented students who attended Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda. The newspaper identified the victims as Samir Gafsi, Dov Fischman and Bruno Perrone, all college freshmen whose ages weren't available, and Gustavo Machado, 15, the son of a Brazilian attache. Geehreng said investigators have ruled out any terrorist connection. ``Over the years we've seen young people experimenting and trying to learn about explosives,'' Geehreng said. ``Unfortunately, we've had accidents. But I don't think we've ever had anything this bad. It's just young people, I can't explain it.'' Sharmi Banik, described by the Post as Gafsi's girlfriend, said Gafsi had shown a recent interest in explosives. Gafsi and Fischman were killed instantly by the explosion, authorities said. Machado and Perrone died later after being taken to Suburban Hospital. Machado died about 8:30 a.m. Saturday, while Perrone died following eight hours of surgery. Geerheng said the explosion damaged a car in the garage but there was no evidence that a bomb had been placed in or under the vehicle. The explosion occurred at about 3:10 a.m. at the Bethesda home of Vera Machado, said Geehreng. Ms. Machado and her husband, Richard, were sleeping inside the home and were not injured, he said. A security guard who answered the telephone at the Brazilian embassy in Washington said Ms. Machado was a consular attache. The guard, who refused to give his name, said he did not know her duties. AP890101-0038 AP-NR-01-01-89 1742EST r a AM-FortSheridanFight 01-01 0475 AM-Fort Sheridan Fight,0490 Suburbs Spar Over Lakefront Federal Property CHICAGO (AP) Suburbs that want to stake claim on the lakefront property of a century-old Army base are jockeying for position in a potential land grab should the government go through with plans to close the base. Fort Sheridan, which employs about 4,000 people, half of them civilians, is one of 86 military installations targeted for closure by a Pentagon-appointed panel. If the panel's recommendations are accepted, the bases could close between 1991 and 1995. Lake Forest, Highwood and Highland Park officials are all looking at the base's 700 acres of beachfront real estate. Developing the land could help offset the economic woes that may follow closing the base. ``I do think there is going to be a fight,'' said state Rep. Grace Mary Stern of Highland Park. ``That's prime land along Lake Michigan,'' added U.S. Rep. John Porter, whose north-suburban district includes the base and surrounding communities. ``It's not on the tax rolls.'' Federal law calls for the Army to give other federal agencies first dibs on the base, a cluster of stone buildings that looks like a wooded college campus along a stretch of beach. But Porter said he knows of no federal interest in the land. The state is second in line to get the land, but David Fields, a spokesman for Gov. James Thompson said he was not aware of any state plans for the land. That leaves the three suburbs. It has not yet been determined which, if any, of the communities would have jurisdiction over the land. Highwood tried to annex the whole base in the 1960s, but the move was struck down in court, a spokesman for the fort said. Lake County planning department documents show that the northern 100 acres have been annexed by Lake Forest, and the southernmost 150 acres have been annexed by Highland Park, leaving the middle 450 acres unclaimed. ``All the annexations don't mean a thing,'' said Highwood Mayor Fidel Ghini. ``You can't legally annex federal land.'' Ghini said Highwood has plans for the land, but he refused to say what they are. ``Did your football coach ever tell the opposition what he was going to do?'' he said. Daniel Pierce, mayor of Highland Park, said he opposed economic development of the land. ``The first priority should be open space along the lake,'' Pierce said. Lake Forest Mayor Marshall Strenger could not be reached for comment. The telephone at his home went unanswered Sunday. Porter plans to meet with officials whose constituents would be affected by the closing, including the three mayors, state legislators, and Thompson. ``It will be tough to get this thing reversed,'' Porter said. ``So I want to get all the players together at the end of January to try to get cooperation between state and local officials. AP890101-0039 AP-NR-01-01-89 1750EST r i AM-Salvador-Archbishop 01-01 0216 AM-Salvador-Archbishop,0223 Archbishop Says Civil War Claimed 1,369 Lives In 1988 With AM-Salvador-Killings, Bjt SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) The deaths of more than 1,300 people in El Salvador's civil war last year is part of a ``heart-breaking cry that summons us to keep striving for peace,'' Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas said Sunday. The Roman Catholic archbishop said in his Sunday homily that 1,369 civilians, soldiers or leftist rebels were killed last year in military clashes, rightist death squad operations and car bombings or other terrorist acts. Rivera Damas customarily uses his homily to speak out against the war, which has claimed an estimated 65,000 lives since leftist rebels began battling the U.S.-backed government in 1979. The recent bombing of a Luthern church facility shows ``the path of irrational violence'' El Salavador has taken, he said. Rivera Damas also expressed concern at the resurgence of death squads. ``This situation is a heart-breaking cry that summons us to keep striving for peace with the weapons the gospel has put in our hands: the weapons of light, of hope, of reconciliation, all the fruits of love,'' he said. The archbishop also repeated his earlier condemnations of a new terror campaign by the rebels, whose death threats prompted more than 20 mayors to resign in December. AP890101-0040 AP-NR-01-01-89 1802EST r a AM-WeatherpageWeather 01-01 0502 AM-Weatherpage Weather,0512 Eds: RETRANSMITTING to FIX byline and centering Fog and Unexpected Snow for New Year's By The Associated Press New Year's Day brought an unexpected snowstorm to Maryland and Delaware, surprising even the National Weather Service, which had anticipated just a combination of sleet and freezing rain. Dense fog overnight in portions of California and the central United States lingered Sunday afternoon in parts of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana. Rain and snow fell across the middle Atlantic Coast region Sunday with heavy snow in some of the higher elevations. And light snow extended from Upper Michigan to Nebraska and the Dakotas. Heavier snow was expected in parts of Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia. Baltimore had nearly 3 inches by afternoon and Sault Ste Marie, Mich., and Washington, D.C., each received an inch of snow during the six hour period ending at 1 p.m. EST. Dry weather prevailed across most of the rest of the nation with strong and gusty winds over parts of Southern California. Temperatures were still below freezing early Sunday afternoon from the northern high Plains through the upper Mississippi Valley to Upper Michigan and northern Lower Michigan. Temperatures hovered around the freezing mark through the day in much of Maryland, with the new snow turning to slush in many areas. Readings were in the single digits or below zero Sunday afternoon from eastern Montana through the Dakotas, into Minnesota and across much of the northern Atlantic Coast region. Temperatures were in the teens or single digits in northern New England. Temperatures were generally above 60 degrees from south central Texas to the southern Atlantic Coast, with readings in the 70s across Florida, southern Georgia, South Carolina and into the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Temperatures around the nation at 2 p.m. EST ranged from 8 degrees below zero at Thief River Falls, Minn., to 83 degrees at Cocoa Beach, Fla. The nation's low Sunday morning was 22 degrees below zero at Gunnison, Colo. The forecast for Monday called for snow from the Great Lakes region to northern New England. Rainshowers were expected across the Pacific Northwest, with freezing rain in some of the higher elevations. Rainshowers were also expected across much of Arizona and Southern California and from Texas to the Tennessee Valley. Dense fog was predicted for the Great Basin. It was expected to be fair across the rest of the nation, with windy conditions along the eastern slopes of the Rockies in Montana and Wyoming. Temperatures were expected to stay below freezing all day from the northern and central Rockies to northern New England and in the central Plateau. Highs were expected in the teens or single digits from eastern North and South Dakota to Upper Michigan and in northern Maine, in the 50s and 60s from the southern and central coast of California through much of Texas to the southern and middle Atlantic Coast. Readings were expected to reach the 70s from south central Texas to Florida and southern Georgia. AP890101-0041 AP-NR-01-01-89 1804EST u i AM-Rio-Capsize 3rdLd-Writethru a0713 01-01 0675 AM-Rio-Capsize, 3rd Ld-Writethru, a0713,a0740,0691 More Than 50 Dead In New Year's Boat Accident EDS: SUBS 7th graf `The double-decked...' with 1 graf to RESTORE dropped letter in Mouche. Pickup 8th graf `The boat...'; COMBINES 2nd Ld, a0713, with 1st Ld-Writethru, a0740. With AM-New Year's-World By BRUCE HANDLER ^Associated Press Writer RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) A cruise ship jammed with New Year's revelers bound for a fireworks display at Copacabana Beach capsized and sank after ignoring an order to return to port, officials said Sunday. At least 51 people died and others were missing. The sightseeing ship was carrying at least 131 people _ 31 over capacity _ and sank in 65 feet of water in Rio's Guanabara Bay about 11:45 p.m. Saturday, authorities said. ``We don't know the exact cause of the sinking, but we think it was because of excess capacity,'' said Maj. Oldemiro Santos of the Rio de Janeiro state Fire Department's Maritime Group. Authorities said a search for survivors was continuing. Some were believed trapped in the hull of the vessel, said Col. Jefferson Cardoso de Bem, chief of the Maritime Group. He said he had no accurate number of survivors or the number missing because several boats in the area took part in rescue attempts, and survivors were taken to hospitals throughout the city. Among the dead was the boat's captain. The double-decked ship Bateau Mouche sank between Sugar Loaf Mountain and a small island as it rounded the bend on the western side of Guanabara Bay and prepared to enter the Atlantic Ocean. The boat, a popular tourist attraction that offers daily cruises of the bay, was to anchor in the ocean so passengers could view the midnight fireworks display at Copacabana Beach. ``The top deck was so crowded you could hardly move,'' a Brazilian woman told Brazil's TV Globo. ``The boat was completely full, including lots of children. Then everything began shaking back and forth. People were shouting: `It's going to flip over!''' Passenger Fabricio Calo, who was rescued by a fishing boat, said: ``The boat was turning and shifting. Then tables started flying, glass started crashing, and the whole boat just turned over on its side.'' Survivors said foreigners were on board. The morgue in Rio called foreign consulates for possible aid in identifying bodies, but officials said they had no breakdown. The Rio newspaper O Globo said Sunday that an American may have been on board. A Marine guard who answered the phone at the U.S. Consulate said he was not authorized to give out any information about possible U.S. victims. The vessel was so crowded that a naval vessel ordered it to return to port, but it ignored the order, said Irineu Barroso, chief of Rio's 10th police precinct. Survivors confirmed this account. ``This was not an accident,'' Calo, 38, a businessman from Sao Paulo, said in an interview at the Bateau Mouche's mooring station. ``No effort was made to control the number of passengers who got on.'' Calo said that soon after the excursion started, a patrol boat from Brazil's navy-run Port Authority circled the Bateau Mouche and appeared to be counting people. He said two uniformed men from the boat then boarded the cruise boat and forced it to return to its dock. ``But then, only about five minutes later, the Bateau Mouche went out again,'' Calo said. Paulo Soares, 28, a brother-in-law of the Bateau Mouche's captain, Camilo da Costa, 50, said at the mooring station: ``Camilo didn't want to go out. He said the boat was overloaded, and the sea was too rough. But he had no choice. He would lose his job if he didn't sail.'' A spokesman for the Sol e Mar restaurant, which organized the excursion, said at least 131 people were on board, according to an incomplete reservation list. The spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity, refused further comment. De Bem said the Bateau Mouche's capacity was about 100. The $220-per-ticket dinner cruise was heavily promoted in local newspapers and at tourist hotels. AP890101-0042 AP-NR-01-01-89 1816EST r i AM-France-Bicentennial 01-01 0263 AM-France-Bicentennial,0274 PARIS (AP) The French released hot air balloons in 98 locations Sunday to launch the bicentennial of their revered revolution after preparations hampered by disorganization and modern-day political strife. They also ushered in the New Year by turning on special lights on the Eiffel Tower to mark its 100th birthday. The lights reading ``100 Ans,'' or 100 years, stand 13 yards high and will be kept on all year both night and day at the Paris monument. The balloon launchings are among the first of many special events to be held throughout the year to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. Festivities are to peak July 14 on the 200th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, an event that has come to symbolize the revolution. Organizers acknowledged criticism in recent months that they were far behind schedule in planning the bicentennial events after the deaths of two Bicentennial Mission chiefs forced quick changes of leadership. Moreover, French pride in the watershed historical event did not prevent political bickering over how to remember it. At one point, Paris' conservative mayor Jacques Chirac, who lost to Socialist President Francois Mitterrand in May elections, complained that the government wanted to emphasize those historical details that would serve their cause today. Also in Sunday's kickoff ceremonies, a red and yellow helium balloon took flight at Paris' Tuileries Gardens carrying a man dressed in a wig and period costume. And 300,000 souvenir envelopes bearing a commemorative stamp showing three stylized birds went on sale around the country. AP890101-0043 AP-NR-01-01-89 1817EST r a AM-AcidRain 01-01 0190 AM-Acid Rain,0193 National Study Says Pennsylvania Rain Most Acidic By The Associated Press Rain at a monitoring station in central Pennsylvania registered the highest acid content of 131 sites in 46 states, contributing to the state's No. 1 ranking in acidic rainfall for 1987, an environmental group said. The information was provided by the Natural Resources Defense Council, a Washington, D.C.-based, non-profit group that has lobbied for sharp reductions in pollutants that cause acid rain, such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. The council said federal monitoring data revealed the most acid rain was recorded at the Leading Ridge in Huntingdon County, in central Pennsylvania. Rain there had an average pH of 4.08, which is 33 times more acidic than unpolluted rain, the council said recently. The pH scale measures acidity, with 7 being neutral. The lower the number, the more acidic the rain. Unpolluted rain is slightly acidic, with a pH of 5.6. Many pollutants are emitted by coal-fired power plants, factories and cars. The materials are thought to undergo changes in the atmosphere and fall to Earth as acid rain, snow, sleet, fog and dry particles. AP890101-0044 AP-NR-01-01-89 1828EST r a AM-Jetliner-Landing 1stLd-Writethru a0708 01-01 0216 AM-Jetliner-Landing, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0708,0220 United Jetliner With 297 Aboard Makes Emergency Landing Eds: UPDATES throughout to CORRECT cause of return; deletes reference to emergency landing, CORRECTS number aboard to 269, no pick up. LOS ANGELES (AP) A Washington, D.C.-bound United Airlines DC-10 jetliner returned here shortly after takeoff Sunday when a faulty indicator light said an inboard flap malfunctioned, an airline spokesman said. The pilot of United Flight 52 dumped fuel over the Pacific Ocean to reduce fire hazard before returning to Los Angeles International Airport, where the jumbo jet landed safely shortly before 9 a.m., said Tommy Aina, Federal Aviation Administration regional duty officer. ``The indicator light was malfunctioning and replaced,'' said United Airlines spokesman Rob Doughty from Chicago. ``The flap was fine.'' Failure of the inboard flap to retract would have increased the drag on the aircraft and caused it to burn more fuel, so the pilot decided to return, he said. Fire trucks and other emergency equipment were standing by, but were not needed, Aina said. There were 259 passengers and 10 crew members on the plane, Doughty said. Flight 52 was scheduled to depart Los Angeles at 7:40 a.m., bound for Washington's Dulles International Airport. The same plane took off for Washington after a 2{ hour delay, Doughty said. AP890101-0045 AP-NR-01-01-89 1853EST u i AM-Afghanistan 1stLd-Writethru a0692 01-01 0397 AM-Afghanistan, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0692,0410 Afghan, Soviet Troops Cease Fire, Rebels Attack Villages; Najib Asks Talks Eds: Leads with 4 grafs to UPDATE with Afghan leader offering talks, PICKS UP 2nd graf `Guerrillas attacked...' By MOHAMMED AFTAB Associated Press Writer ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) The Soviet-backed Afghan government began a cease-fire New Year's Day, but U.S.-backed Moslem rebels rejected the truce and attacked government troops in two villages, Afghan radio said. The cease-fire offer was made Friday by Afghan President Najib, and the Soviet Union announced Saturday that its troops would join the truce. In a televised address to his nation Sunday, Najib complained that rebels have expanded operations against his government and repeated his offer of direct talks with them, Tass reported. He also rejected any future Afghan government that excludes the present leadership, the official Soviet news agency said. The rebels recently opened talks with Soviet representatives. Guerrillas attacked government troops Sunday in two villages in the eastern Nangarahar province, official Radio Kabul reported in a broadcast monitored in Islamabad. The radio said eight guerrillas were killed and seven wounded in the attack on the military posts in Gushta and Deh Bala. It gave no casualty figures for government troops, but it said soldiers launched mopping up operations against the rebels after the attack. Rebel leader Ahmad Shah said the cease-fire was ``a condemnable suggestion.'' The seven-party Guerrilla Alliance named Shah head of the Provisional Islamic Governmnent, which has yet to be installed. ``It only shows how desperate Najib is,'' Shah said in a statement issued in Peshawar. ``Najib has repeatedly proposed such meaningless cease-fires, but every time we rejected them.'' Rebel spokesman Masood Khalili said of Najib's offer: ``We did not start our fight because he asked us to. And we won't stop because he asked us to.'' Khalili belongs to the Jamiat-e-Islami guerrilla group. An estimated 100,000 Soviet soldiers marched into Afghanistan in 1979 to help the Marxist government fight Moslem rebels. Half of the Soviet troops left last year under the terms of a U.N.-brokered accord signed in Geneva by Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States and the Soviet Union. The rest of the Red Army troops are to withdraw by Feb. 15. The U.S.-backed rebels, which also are supported by Pakistan, have demanded that a broad-based government be established in Kabul to take over the administration when the Soviets leave. AP890101-0046 AP-NR-01-01-89 1857EST r a AM-BabyCalvin 01-01 0223 AM-Baby Calvin,0229 Florida Baby Doing Well After Experimental Transplants, Doctors Say MADISON, Wis. (AP) A 14-month-old Florida boy who received a liver and small intestine in an experimental transplant was doing well Sunday and may be moved out of intensive care soon, doctors said. Calvin Oliveira remained in critical but stable condition Sunday afternoon at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. He underwent the double transplant Saturday. ``I'm very happy to announce that baby Calvin is doing very well this morning,'' said Dr. Munci Kalayoglu, chief surgeon and director of liver transplants. ``As a surgeon, I'm very happy with the operation,'' Kalayoglu said, adding that the infant could be transferred out of the intensive care unit Monday. Calvin suffered from Short Bowel Syndrome, a rare disorder which left only 5 percent of his small intestine functional. The child's liver deteriorated as a result of the intravenous feeding the condition required. Doctors said the child was near death when the two organs from a Rochester, N.Y., baby became available Friday. Calvin was flown from Deerfield Beach, Fla., to Madison for the eight-hour operation. Despite the initial success of the operation, Calvin was not out danger, Kalayoglu said. The next three months will be critical in determining whether his body will reject the new liver and small intestine, the doctor said. AP890101-0047 AP-NR-01-01-89 1908EST u i AM-Crash 3rdLd-Writethru 01-01 0834 AM-Crash, 3rd Ld-Writethru,a0735,0857 No `Eye For An Eye' Revenge For Plane Bombers, Thatcher Says Eds: INSERTS 1 graf after 10th graf `The idea...' to ADD background on report U.S. requested help from PLO. Pickup 11th graf `Sessions, whose...'; SUBS 24th ( LaserPhoto LON3 By LESLIE SHEPHERD Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher distanced herself Sunday from U.S. vows to punish whoever planted the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103. ``I don't think an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth is ever valid,'' she said in a wide-ranging New Year's television interview. ``The most important thing to do is to try to get the cooperation of all nations to track these people down so that they are brought to justice,'' she said on the ``David Frost on Sunday'' program on the commercial TV-am channel. The danger of revenge, she said, is that ``it can affect innocent people.'' President Reagan said in his weekly radio broadcast Saturday that the United States would punish those responsible for the bomb, which brought the Boeing 747 down in southern Scotland, killing all 259 people on board and leaving 11 on the ground missing and presumed dead. He said a report overseen by President-elect George Bush advocating possible military action against terrorists ``ought to be giving some people sleepless nights'' in the wake of the Dec. 21 bombing. He did not elaborate. Bush vowed last week to ``seek hard and punish firmly, decisively, those who did this, if you could ever find them.'' FBI Director William Sessions said Sunday the investigation of the crash could be lengthy and welcomed any help that PLO chief Yasser Arafat might be able to provide. Arafat ``has a great deal of information, a wealth of information he can give us,'' Sessions said on U.S. network television. The idea of such cooperation arises in the wake of newly opened talks between the U.S. and Palestine Liberation Organization officials that began after Arafat disavowed terrorism and recognized Israel's right to exist. Last week the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Seyasseh quoted an unidentified PLO official as saying the organization was considering a request by U.S. officials that the PLO help in tracking down those responsible for the bombing. Sessions, whose agency is helping in the crash investigation, said he is optimistic of eventually finding out who planted the bomb. He added that he has no evidence to confirm the bomb was the work of terrorists rather than someone acting against someone on board. Mrs. Thatcher allowed Reagan to use U.S. bombers based in Britain to bomb Libya in 1986 in retaliation for alleged Libyan involvement in international terrorism. She said Sunday that no country should grant the Pan Am bombers safe haven or permit them to escape justice. ``I think public opinion is disgusted with nations that will not try to track down terrorists, absolutely disgusted.'' U.S. officials say no group has offered a credible claim of responsibility for the attack. Speculation on suspects has focused mostly on Palestinian extremists and pro-Iranian Shiite Moslems. Searchers in Lockerbie, Scotland, gave up their traditional New Year's celebrations Sunday to continue the hunt for bodies and wreckage. Police said that one more body, thought to be one of the missing local residents, was recovered, bringing the total to 242. Only 35 have been identified and released to relatives for burial. Capt. Bruce Smith, a Pan Am pilot whose English wife, Ingrid, was killed, was quoted in The Sunday Telegraph as saying the Scottish police were ``paralyzed by inexperience and incompetence.'' John Boyd, chief constable of the Dumfries and Galloway police, replied at a news conference, ``I am sure no one would thank me for shortcutting any legal or evidential gathering processes which may ... help to bring the person or persons (responsible) to justice.'' More than 700 people are expected at a memorial service Wednesday in Lockerbie, and 1,000 more will watch on monitor screens in nearby halls. British newspapers reported Saturday that investigators believe the bomb was smuggled onto the flight in Frankfurt, possibly by a Lebanese-born passenger duped into carrying it. The West German government said no evidence supports those reports. Flight 103 originated in Frankfurt with a Boeing 727 jet and switched to a Boeing 747 at London's Heathrow Airport for the trip to New York. The Sunday Times of London said the bomb was loaded into the airplane's forward cargo hold next to the electronic nerve center which keeps the jet airborne. News reports in Britain and the United States said the bomb may have been unwittingly brought on board the flight by Khalid Jaafar, a 21-year-old Lebanese student. Khalid, who was living in Frankfurt, was en route to Dearborn, Mich., to visit his father when he died in the crash. His father, Nazir Jaafar, said the FBI questioned him about the reports Friday and told him ``they have no evidence against my son.'' AP890101-0048 AP-NR-01-01-89 1934EST r i AM-Lebanon-Violence 01-01 0186 AM-Lebanon-Violence,0192 Inter-Shiite Fighting In South Beirut Shatters Cease-Fire, Leaves Seven Dead BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Rocket and artillery clashes between rival Shiite Moslem militias in Beirut's southern slums shattered a short-lived cease-fire Sunday, killing seven people and wounding eight, police said. The wounded included two Syrian soldiers who belonged to a peacekeeping contingent that managed to arrange the cease-fire before midday, a police spokesman said. It was not clear whether the other casualties were combatants or civilians, said the spokesman, who cannot be named under standing regulations. The fighting erupted between gunmen of the Syrian-backed Amal (``Hope'') militia against the pro-Iranian Hezbollah, or Party of God. The two factions are locked in a prolonged struggle for dominance of Lebanon's 1-million-strong Shiite sect. Sunday's clashes came after several days of skirmishing between the two militias. The last serious oubreak of fighting took place in November when 40 people were killed and 87 wounded in Moslem-controlled west Beirut and the slums. Syria maintains about 40,000 troops in east and north Lebanon as well as west and south Beirut under a 1976 Arab League peacekeeping mandate. AP890101-0049 AP-NR-01-01-89 1955EST r i AM-Chile-Fire 01-01 0303 AM-Chile-Fire,0312 New Year's Eve Fire Kills 11 Teen-Agers At Juvenile Detention Center SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) A New Year's Eve fire at a juvenile detention center, apparently started during a jailbreak, left 11 teen-age immates dead and five injured, police reported. Police Maj. Patricio Araya said on the scene that 18 of the detention center's 100 inmates escaped. Authorities said inmates battled with officers who tried to put out the fire. ``The exact causes for the fire are being investigated,'' Araya said. ``But it clearly seems it started when the inmates attempted a escape.'' Authorities at the detention center in the capital also said the fire, which broke out five minutes before midnight Saturday, was ``apparently'' started by the inmates themselves as part of an escape plan. Nine of the victims died in a bathroom where they sought refuge, and 2 others died at the center's dormitory, Maj. Araya said. The fire ``started at the dormitory, at two or three beds. Apparently, it was intentionally caused to trigger a mutiny and escape,'' said a communique issued by the government agency running the detention center. ``When officers tried to put the fire down, they were attacked by the immates, some of them carrying pieces of glass from windows they broke,'' the communique added. It said the fire spread quickly through the old single-story building. Monday morning relatives of the inmates gathered in front of the destroyed center awaiting to hear from their relatives. Many women cried as officials explained them that the victims were still being identified. Justice Minister Hugo Rosende, visiting the detention center Sunday morning, said the inmates in the center were aged 16 to 18. He said because of the lack of money, authorities were forced to lodge ``highly dangerous criminals and petty criminals in the same place.'' AP890101-0050 AP-NR-01-01-89 2011EST r a AM-OilSpill 01-01 0288 AM-Oil Spill,0296 Hundreds of Seabirds Await Cleaning After One of Washington's Worst Spills OCEAN SHORES, Wash. (AP) More oil-covered sea birds were found over the weekend in what revised Coast Guard estimates show was one of the worst oil spills in Washington history. Some 2,000 sea birds have died since Dec. 23, when a damaged barge lost as much as 231,000 gallons of oil off Grays Harbor, state Department of Wildlife spokesman Ron Holcomb said Sunday. The dead birds include about 1,650 found on ocean beaches from Oregon and Washington, about 350 birds that were euthanized because of their poor condition, and some others that died at a bird cleaning center, Holcomb said. Volunteers working daily since the spill have cleaned about 420 birds and released a dozen, Holcomb said. Oil globs washed ashore as far as the northern tip of the Olympic Peninsula, including national wildlife refuges stretching for about 75 miles in Washington. Cleanup crews Sunday focused mainly at La Push, about 70 miles north of where the spill occurred. More than 2,000 live birds have been received at a cleanup center at the Ocean Shores Convention Center, and hundreds of them still needed cleaning, Holcomb said. The Coast Guard on Saturday revised its estimate of the spill and put the amount at 168,000 to 231,000 gallons, said Mark Stewart of the state Division of Emergency Management. Washington state's previous largest oil spill occurred on Dec. 21, 1985, when the ARCO Anchorage ran aground in Port Angeles harbor and spilled about 239,000 gallons of crude. The oil polluted the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which separates the northern Olympia Peninsula from Canada's Vancouver Island and leads from the Pacific Ocean to Puget Sound. AP890101-0051 AP-NR-01-01-89 2011EST r i AM-BRF--Mozambique-Amnesty 01-01 0112 AM-BRF--Mozambique-Amnesty,0116 Government Extends Amnesty for Rebels MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) President Joaquim Chissano has announced a one-year extension of an amnesty offered to anti-government rebels, the national news agency reported Sunday. The year-old amnesty was to expire at the end of 1988, but Chissano said the program will continue for another year ``to save lives and promote the harmony of the nation,'' the news agency AIM said. Under the amnesty, a full pardon is granted to rebels of the Mozambique National Resistance if they give up to authorities. The leftist government says about 3,000 rebels have been given amnesty. The rebels have waged a destructive hit-and-run insurgency since 1977. AP890101-0052 AP-NR-01-01-89 2014EST u i AM-Soviet-NoCaviar 1stLd-Writethru a0706 01-01 0515 AM-Soviet-No Caviar, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0706,0523 Soviets Banning Exports Of Caviar And Other Consumer Goods Eds: LEADS with 4 grafs to CORRECT dollar equivalent of ruble limit to $160 sted $60, PICKS UP 5th `Tass said...' ^By ANN IMSE Associated Press Writer MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union soon will ban the export of consumer goods ranging from caviar to children's shoes and will limit travelers to $160 worth of souvenirs, the official news agency Tass said Sunday. The radical changes in export and customs regulations evidently are aimed at remedying an extreme shortage of consumer goods in the Soviet Union and assuaging citizens angry over the scarcity of such basic items as soap and windshield wipers. Tass said the restrictions approved by the Council of Ministers will take effect Feb. 1 and last until the end of 1990. It did not give a date for the decision. The brief announcement limiting exports of consumer goods to 100 rubles, or $160 under the government-decreed exchange rate, per person specifically included tourists. But it did not explain the effect of the ruling on the Soviet Union's attempts to earn scarce hard currency by selling the best caviar, fur hats and coats, vodka and souvenirs in stores that require dollars, pounds or other freely convertible money. Tass said it will be forbidden to export televisions, refrigerators, freezers, washing and sewing machines, children's clothing and shoes, coffee and caviar. Coffee is not grown in the Soviet Union, and the import duty is up to $15 a pound. The announcement also said customs duties will climb to 20 to 100 percent of the retail price on vacuum cleaners, mixers, coffee-grinders, irons, radios, cameras, automobile parts and other items. It was not clear if this meant import or export duties. Export limits were imposed recently in Czechoslovakia and several other East European countries after complaints that tourists from neighboring socialist nations were stripping their stores bare of consumer goods. The growing practice prompted a Soviet economist, Marina Pavlova-Silvanskaya, to warn in Soviet Culture on Sunday of an impending ``trade war'' among socialist countries. Many Russians travel to Eastern Europe on shopping trips, and Ms. Pavlova-Silvanskaya herself reminisced about trips to East Germany and Poland. She said her boss insisted that ``the program had to include a visit to some institution named for Lenin, lest the Germans or Poles think the citizens of the nation of the Great October Revolution are coming to shop.'' None of the socialist countries of Eastern Europe has fully convertible currencies, and they trade with each other based on exchange rates that often do not cover the exporting country's cost of production, much less a profit. Ms. Pavlova-Silvanskaya noted that capitalist countries don't find an invasion of shoppers a problem _ in fact, just the reverse. On Nov. 7, a holiday in Hungary, 100,000 Hungarians went to Austria and spent $42 million in hard currency, she wrote. Rather than limit exports, the Austrians responded to the horde of shoppers with advertisements in Hungarian newspapers, inviting them back on their next day off, Ms. Pavlova-Silvanskaya noted. AP890101-0053 AP-NR-01-01-89 2017EST u i AM-Israel-Economy 1stLd-Writethru a0697 01-01 0604 AM-Israel-Economy, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0697,0622 Peres Announced Economic Recovery Plan Eds: LEADS with 14 grafs to UPDATE with Shamir reax, Peres comments on uprising's impact, ADD background in 1988 Israeli budget, PICKS UP 10th pvs `Peres, the...' ^By ALLYN FISHER Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) Finance Minister Shimon Peres on Sunday unveiled an economic recovery plan aimed at reducing inflation by cutting wages and spending for defense, health and welfare. Peres said at a news conference he plans to stimulate growth in the economy by pumping money into flagging industries and liberalizing investment regulations. The proposed budget cut is 1 billion shekels, or about $600 million, Peres said. The government adopted a $31 billion budget for 1988. About a quarter of the cuts will come out of defense spending, putting at risk the jobs of up to 4,000 defense industry employees, Israeli news reports said. Peres said his long-range aim is to reduce unemployment, which he said hit 7 percent because of a lack of economic growth in the past year. The plan was the most sweeping economic program introduced since a July 1985 program curbed annual inflation of 440 percent down to a current level of about 20 percent a year. Peres said he wants to reduce inflation to a single-digit figure by year's end. ``We must reach a European level of inflation to survive,'' he said, but did not give a specific target figure. ``Stability is endangered and we are liable to sink into a deep recession with continuing inflation. ... Our economy needs these measures like a breath of fresh air.'' Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said he supports the new program. ``I hope it will be accepted and implemented,'' Shamir said on Israel radio, adding that he hoped ``the budget cuts would not hurt too much.'' The government's figures for last year reflect zero growth in production and gross national product and a drop in exports and tourism, major sources of foreign currency. Many of the nation's farms are debt-ridden and many factories are failing. Israeli officials have blamed the nearly 13-month Palestinian uprising in the occupied lands for some of the economic difficulties, including the decline in tourism. Israel radio quoted Peres as saying that the uprising led to a 2 percent drop in Israel's gross national product, a decrease of about $600 million in exports to the occupied lands, and a 30-percent drop in tourism. Peres, the former foreign minister, proposed curbing inflation by cutting government spending on the army, schools, and hospitals and by halting the longstanding practice of giving automatic cost-of-living increases to salaried workers. Yisrael Kessar, leader of the nationwide Histadrut Labor Union Federation, criticized the proposals. ``It is inconceivable to force workers ... to bear the entire burden of this plan,'' Kessar said on army radio. The Cabinet heard a report about the plan at its weekly session but made no decisions about budget cuts. While the Cabinet was meeting, however, Peres implemented other decisions related to the plan. Subsidies for food staples such as milk, bread and frozen chicken were slashed, raising their prices by up to 26 percent. The Bank of Israel devalued the shekel by 8 percent against the U.S. dollar after a 5 percent devaluation last week. The devaluation was aimed at helping export industries, which have been operating at a loss because the exchange rate was frozen. Peres outlined other proposals to help electronics, textiles and other industries. They include liberalizing regulations to encourage investment from abroad, setting aside more funds for troubled factories that come up with viable recovery plans, and lowering interest rates on loans. AP890101-0054 AP-NR-01-01-89 2039EST r a AM-MarinaFire 01-01 0192 AM-Marina Fire,0197 Between 50 and 60 Boats Destroyed In Marina Fire CLEAR LAKE SHORES, Texas (AP) Workers plucked pieces of boats from the water Sunday at a harbor where at least 50 yachts were destroyed in an explosion that set off a chain-reaction fire. The Saturday night explosion was aboard a pleasure boat moored at the Watergate Yachting Center. The blaze spread to dozens of boats and was brought under control about two hours later. Watergate Harbor Master Tony Buchanon said bystanders first tried to push the boat away from the pier but the wind brought it back. Between 50 and 60 crafts were destroyed, said Buchanon and Chief Frank Janoch of the Kemah Fire Department. Buchanon estimated damage at between $2 million and $4 million. One firefighter was slightly hurt. On Sunday, workers skimmed oil and gas off the water and picked up pieces of boats. Arson investigators also were looking into the cause of the blaze. ``As far as the cause of the fire, we'll probably never know,'' Janoch said. ``It was such as intense fire, and the one that started it all is on the bottom.'' AP890101-0055 AP-NR-01-01-89 2057EST u i AM-Arafat 2ndLd-Writethru a0769 01-01 0615 AM-Arafat, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0769,0632 Arafat Opens Palestinian Embassy in Saudi Arabia Eds: Leads with 1 graf to ADD that Sunday also 24th anniversary of formation of Fatah. Pickup 2nd graf ``Long live...''; SUBS 12th graf `Sunday also...' to CONFORM and add background. Pickup 13th graf `Arafat himself...' By ABDULLAH AL-SHEHRI RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) PLO chairman Yasser Arafat raised the Palestinian flag on the Embassy of Palestine on Sunday, the 24th anniversary of Arafat's Fatah guerrilla group and the group's first attack on Israel. ``Long live the Palestinian revolution. Long live Palestine. Long Live Arafat!'' chanted a crowd of some 500 Palestinians as Arafat kissed the green, white, red and black flag, then hoisted it atop the $5-million sandstone building donated by the kingdom. ``We are your soldiers, Abu Ammar!'' they shouted, using Arafat's nom-de-guerre. Several ambassadors, mainly Asian and Arab, attended the inauguration of the Palestinian embassy. No American diplomat was present. The official Saudi Press Agency later quoted Arafat as saying the embassy was a gift from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia to the ``children of stones, the nation of stones, the revolution of stones, the intefadeh of stones.'' The Palestine Liberation Organization leader was referring to the Palestinian uprising in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip known in Arabic as the intefadeh, where Palestinian protestors use stones for weapons in clashes with Israeli soldiers. At least 345 Palestinians and 14 Israelis have been killed since the violence began Dec. 8, 1987. Prince Salman Bin Abdel-Aziz, governor of Riyadh, said he was praying for the chance ``to raise the flag of Saudi Arabia in a liberated, independent Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine,'' the agency said. Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday that it was granting the PLO office in Riyadh full diplomatic status and its director, Rafik Natsheh, will rank as an ambassador. The kingdom was one of the first countries to recognize the state of Palestine, proclaimed Nov. 15 by the Palestine National Council, the PLO's parliament-in-exile. Algeria and Iraq have also granted PLO offices embassy status. Ninety countries have so far recognized the new Palestinian state, which has no territory and, as yet, no government. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal attended the ceremony Sunday. Arafat arrived at the embassy in a Mercedes limousine flying the Palestinian flag, accompanied by Prince Salman. Sunday also marked 24 years since Arafat formed Fatah, the main guerrilla group belonging to the PLO, which serves as an umbrella organization for several groups. The day also marks Fatah's first attack on Israel. Arafat himself participated in a Dec. 28, 1965, guerrilla attack on an Israeli water installation in northern Israel. There were no casualties in that attack. On the eve of what is known as ``Fatah Day,'' Arafat, 59, addressed Palestinians Saturday through the Baghdad-based ``Voice of the Palestinian Revolution.'' ``We were able to impose our will on the United States to recognize the Palestinian reality,'' Arafat said of the newly initiated PLO-U.S. dialogue. Washington lifted the 13-year ban on dealings with the PLO after Arafat explicitly recognized the state of Israel and renounced terrorism Dec. 15 in Geneva. ``We are looking for the results of this dialogue in the region shortly,'' Arafat said in his address. Arafat said: ``The Israeli enemy has tried but failed over the years of occupation to create alternatives which he can manipulate as he wants to implement his criminal policies. But all his efforts ... have been broken on the rock of the steadfastness of our people. He hailed the uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and said it shall continue until the end of Israeli occupation. ``Now the hour of victory is tolling.'' AP890101-0056 AP-NR-01-01-89 2106EST r a AM-NewYear'sGunfire 01-01 0399 AM-New Year's Gunfire,0409 New Year's Eve Gunfire Kills At Least One Eds: Salomon in 5th graf and Damianakes in 7th graf are cq. By RIC LEYVA Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) New Year's revelers' gunfire struck police cars, knocked out electricity and left one man dead, while another man was killed by police for allegedly firing at an unmarked patrol car, officials said Sunday. Celebratory gunfire on New Year's Eve and the Fourth of July has plagued the city in recent years, prompting lawmakers to enact a new law making such random shooting a felony. But police said most of the shootings at patrol cars on Saturday and early Sunday were intentional. ``Three were definitely directed at the cars, one was possibly just a bullet fallen from the sky,'' said police Lt. Dave Hepburn. The body of a man killed by a gunshot wound to his head was found near a housing project about 2 a.m., the likely victim of random gunfire, said Hepburn. The man's identity was not immediately known. Officer Scott Krowber was grazed in the head by a bullet fired through the rear window of his unmarked patrol car outside the same housing project, where hundreds of bullet casings were found Sunday, said police Lt. William Hall. Two officers in a patrol car following Krowber's fired at the gunman, Hall said. The victim was identified as Salomon Moreno, 29. Krowber was treated and released at St. Francis Medial Center for his head wound, said a nursing supervisor. Earlier, a police sergeant cruising through a southside neighborhood in a patrol car was fired upon about 9 p.m. Two slugs pierced the vehicle and passed through the other side, Hepburn said. About two hours later, another sergeant traveling alone in a patrol car through a neighborhood was fired upon, Hepburn said. Five slugs hit the car but the sergeant was able to speed away and avoid injury. A 2-square-mile area in the Firestone district, about five miles south of downtown, lost electrical power about 11:30 p.m. because of New Year's gunfire, county Sheriff's Deputy Bob Nimtz said. ``Deputies believe holiday revelers firing bullets into the air caused the outage by striking the glass insulators holding the wires onto the poles,'' Nimtz said. Power was cut to about 8,700 Southern California Edison customers and about 500 remained without electricity Sunday, said utility spokesman Steve Hansen. AP890101-0057 AP-NR-01-01-89 2121EST r a AM-PlaneCrash 01-01 0167 AM-Plane Crash,0171 Survivors Found In Wreckage Of Small Plane, One Dies In Hospital MOUNT BALDY, Calif. (AP) At least two people were killed Sunday when a single-engine airplane crashed into snowbound, mountainous terrain, authorities said. The Piper crashed about 10 a.m. near Mount San Antonio in the San Gabriel Mountains about 40 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Roger Peterson. A man was found dead and two women were taken by helicopter from the wreckage, but one of the women later died, officials said. The surviving woman was listed in critical condition at Huntington Memorial Hospital, said nursing supervisor Marlene Wade. Heavy snow and bad weather was slowing the search for other people who might have been on board, said sheriff's Deputy Bob Nimtz. ``The snow is so deep and the wreckage is scattered over such a wide area,'' Nimtz said, adding that high winds combined with the cold to hamper the investigation. No further details were available. AP890101-0058 AP-NR-01-01-89 2120EST u i AM-TowerofPisa 01-01 0186 AM-Tower of Pisa,0191 Tower Leans More In 1988 Than 1987 PISA, Italy (AP) The tower of Pisa leaned more in 1988 than the previous year but is expected to stand for more than another century, an expert who measured the incline said Sunday. Giuseppe Toniolo, head of a group charged with the preservation of the monument, said that during the past year the medieval tower shifted 0.0508 inches. The 180-foot tower leaned 0.028 inches in 1987. Toniolo said the tower has leaned an average of 0.0508 inches over the past 60 years. ``Some years it's a little less, some years a little more,'' he said. ``There is no important variation this year. The only time we would be worried would be if the tilt was more than 2 millimeters (0.08 inches).'' Toniolo said if the tower continues to lean at the current rate it would topple over in 100 to 150 years. Begun in 1173, the tower was only 34 feet high when the soil underneath it began to give way, causing it to tilt. It was completed between 1360 and 1370. AP890101-0059 AP-NR-01-01-89 2129EST r i AM-India-Punjab 01-01 0196 AM-India-Punjab,0203 Bomb Blast Kills Five, Four Others Killed Elsewhere In Punjab State AMRITSAR, India (AP) A bomb blast at a Hindu temple killed at least five Hindus on Sunday, the year's first victims of continuing Sikh militant violence in India's troubled northwestern Punjab state. At least 20 others were injured in the explosion that occurred when Hindus were praying at the shrine in Chawinda Devi town, 20 miles east of Amritsar, police and news reports said. Police blamed the militant Sikh group Babbar Khalsa, one of about a dozen militant underground groups operating in the state, for the blast. Elsewhere in Punjab, at least four others were killed Sunday in Sikh militant violence, Press Trust of India news agency said. Sikhs make up 2 percent of India's population but are in a majority in Punjab state. Sikh militants, claiming they are discriminated against by the country's Hindus who make up more than 80 percent of the population, have waged a bloody campaign of secession since 1982 for an independent Sikh state. At least 2,440 people were killed in militant violence in 1988. Many of those killed were moderate Sikhs opposed to violence. AP890101-0060 AP-NR-01-01-89 2142EST r i AM-Nicaragua 01-01 0358 AM-Nicaragua,0371 Cardinal Attacks Human Rights Conditions During New Year Celebration By RODOLFO GARCIA Associated Press Writer MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) The archbishop of Managua condemned the human rights situation in Nicaragua Sunday during his New Year's Day mass, saying it has caused an exodus of professionals, workers and peasants. ``Will our Nicaraguan brothers continue to abandon the country in search of better horizons because here life is impossible?'' Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo asked in his homily to thousands gathered in front of the ruins of the metropolitan cathedral. The cathedral, like much of Managua, was destroyed in an earthquake shortly before the leftist Sandinistas took power in 1979 and has not been rebuilt. ``Will people continue to die in strange circumstances? Will kidnappings and manipulation of the pain of Nicaragua's mothers continue?'' he asked. The comment appeared to be a reference to charges published periodically in the opposition newspaper La Prensa that the leftist Sandinista government has committed human rights violations. ``No,'' Obando y Bravo exclaimed to loud applause. ``This year cannot be a copy of the one before because we are determined to make it something new.'' He did not elaborate. Obando y Bravo also attacked the government for limiting press freedom, saying there is no freedom of thought without freedom of the press. The government has shut down La Prensa several times and suspended broadcasts of several radio stations. The New Year's mass, part of a ``day of peace'' declared by Pope John Paul II and also a commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Managua archdiocese, was broadcast on the Roman Catholic radio station Radio Catolica. Church spokesman Monsignor Bosco Vivas said other stations refused to carry the service. He did not say why, but other sources said they were acting under government orders. Obando y Bravo is a frequent and outspoken critic of the leftist government. He also heads a national commission that will oversee any peace accord reached by the government and the U.S.-backed Contra rebels. A cease-fire has been in place since March, but talks on a permanent end to the 8-year-old civil war broke down in September. AP890101-0061 AP-NR-01-01-89 2143EST u a AM-DikeBreak 2ndLd-Writethru a0762 01-01 0569 AM-Dike Break, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0762,0585 Governor Declares Flood-Ravaged Southern Utah Communities Disaster Area Eds: REWRITES throughout to trim; no pick up LaserGraphic NY12; LaserPhotos VG1, VG2 ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) An earthen dike gave way early Sunday, sending a 12-foot wall of water down the Virgin River that forced the overnight evacuation of 1,500 people, flooded homes and forced authorities to close Interstate 15. No injuries were reported. ``If you had had a surfboard, you could have just rode the wave. It was that forceful,'' said Mike Brunn, a member of the Washington County Search and Rescue Team. St. George City Manager Gary Esplin said that by noon, electrical, water and other utilities had been restored to areas that were flooded. Evacuees were being allowed to return to their homes as the floodwaters receded. Washington County officials said 50 to 60 homes and 100 apartments were flooded. Numerous abandoned cars, trucks and trailers in low-lying areas also were covered. Interstate 15 _ the main route between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles _ was closed south of St. George where the freeway enters the narrow Virgin River Gorge. Officials reopened the freeway about 14 hours later. Gov. Norm Bangerter, who flew to the area 300 miles south of Salt Lake City, declared the region a disaster area, which will help facilitate federal aid for the southwestern Utah communities. ``Will we rebuild? The answer is `yes' to that, an unequivocal yes,'' the governor said. The failed dike, which helped contain the Quail Creek Reservoir, was built in 1983 at a cost of $3 million. Bangerter said state engineers would try to determine the cause of the 300-foot-wide breach in the dike, located 14 miles east of this town of about 12,000. The 2,500-foot-long earthen dike that broke is a section of the Quail Creek Dam. When the 50-foot-high dike gave way, it left low-lying areas awash. In all, 25,000 acre feet of water rushed through the dike breach, but the flow had been reduced to a trickle by midday, said Ronald Thompson, chairman of the Washington County Water Conservancy District. Thompson estimated it would take at least six months to design and rebuild the dike. State engineers were inspecting bridges and other highway structures in the flood path. Thompson said the dike had a history of seepage dating to when the reservoir was filled in 1985, but previous leakage had been repaired with little difficulty. He said new seepage was discovered about 10 a.m. Saturday, and that by 8 p.m. what had been a small water loss had expanded to a major leak. Heavy equipment was dispatched to reinforce the dike, but by 10:30 p.m. it became apparent nothing could be done to stop the dike from failing and the machinery was pulled out. Authorities said 100 units of an apartment complex sustained water and mud damage. At the flooding's height, water was reported window high. Overnight, local Mormon Church authorities opened their chapels to evacuated families and Red Cross officials appealed to community residents to open their homes to the displaced. There were no reports of injuries, even though there was confusion when civil defense sirens blew shortly after midnight. Some residents thought it was a new year's celebration, not an evacuation warning, officials said. Others, attending New Year's parties, were away from their homes when the evacuation was ordered, said St. George Mayor Carl Brooks. AP890101-0062 AP-NR-01-01-89 2155EST r i AM-Sudan 01-01 0472 AM-Sudan,0488 Beleaguered Prime Minister Blasts Demonstrators By DALIA BALIGH Associated Press Writer KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) Sudan's prime minister promised political change Sunday but charged that demonstrators who rioted against price increases were ``struck by madness'' and seeking illegal political gains. At least four people died, apparently all in one Khartoum shooting incident, during four days of street violence last week that led to a general strike. After the strike began Thursday, the government backed down, rescinding steep price increases and making salary hikes for millions of Sudanese retroactive to July 1. The demonstrators then changed their focus mainly into a protest of Prime Minister Sadek Mahdi's failure to endorse a draft peace accord signed Nov. 16. The protests finally ended Saturday. Trade unions and political parties also remain unsatisfied with the government's stand. They scheduled a meeting with Mahdi on Monday to discuss further economic reforms and peace. In a nationally broadcast speech marking Sudan's 33rd anniversary of independence from Britain and Egypt, Mahdi named no names in his bitter attack on demonstration organizers. ``Some people want to make use of legal differences, some who have been struck by madness,'' Mahdi said at a rally in el-Obeid, 200 miles southwest of Khartoum. ``For them to try and develop these differences into an uprising is harmful and wrong. Mahdi promised political changes but didn't specify whether he meant economic reforms or stepping up efforts to end the war. ``Our next steps in the government are holding wide consultations and serious, responsible studies to review our performance,'' he said in the speech broadcast over the official Omdurman Radio. The Democratic Unionist Party, which negotiated the peace treaty with southern rebels, has quit the governing coalition. Party leaders said they wanted to express sympathy with the strikers and to dramatize their outrage at Mahdis' handling of the proposed agreement to end Sudan's 5{-year-old civil war. The Democratic Unionists dominate the 2-million-member Sudanese Workers' Trade Union Federation, which brought the people into the streets and called the general strike. It acted after the government increased prices of essential commodities by up to 600 percent and imposed a 15-percent across-the-board sales tax. Government sources said the premier is expected to announce a new coalition Tuesday with the fundamentalist National Islamic Front replacing the centrist Democratic Unionists as junior partner to Mahdi's Umma Party. In a radio message from the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Saturday, renegade army Col. John Garang, the rebel leader, described the outlook for peace in the New Year as bleak but said it could have been promising. Garang blamed Mahdi's ignoring the tentative peace plan for the impasse in the peace process. Rebel leader Garang took up arms in 1983 to fight the Moslem-dominated government in Khartoum for economic, social and political changes in the mainly Christian and animist south. AP890101-0063 AP-NR-01-01-89 2208EST r a AM-Obit-Curley 01-01 0312 AM-Obit-Curley,0322 Illinois Professor Dies in Florida Accident CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) Author Daniel Curley, an award-winning novelist whose works include ``Mummy'' and ``How Many Angels,'' was killed in a traffic accident while on vacation in Florida, authorities said. Curley, 70, and his wife, Audrey, 56, were hit by a car Friday night as they crossed a street, said Tallahassee Police Lt. Duane West. Mrs. Curley suffered two broken legs and remained hospitalized. Curley, a University of Illinois professor, won both the Guggenheim and Flannery O'Connor prizes. ``He was very important both for what he wrote himself and what he helped others to write,'' said his friend, Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. ``How Many Angels?'' was Curley's first novel, and was published in 1958. His most recent, ``Mummy,'' won critical acclaim last year for its use of ``magic realism'' techniques, a departure from his usual realistic style. Another novel was ``A Stone Man, Yes,'' which won two national awards. And he published several story collections, including ``That Marriage Bed of Procrustes,'' ``In the Hands of Our Enemies,'' ``Love in the Winter'' and ``Living with Snakes.'' ``Hilarion'' was a children's book he wrote. Curley also encouraged young writers as editor of the literary magazine ``Ascent.'' Originally named ``Accent,'' the magazine was the first to publish several major writers, Flannery O'Connor among them, and continued to be a major literary voice of the 1980s. Curley was planning to retire at the end of this school year. A retirement celebration had been planned in April in Urbana, in which former students would come together to perform readings from his works. The function could still go on as a memorial, said Marcia Kirkpatrick, one of his friends. Curley is survived by his wife, four daughters and a stepdaughter. He was to be cremated and his ashes interred, but no date was set. AP890101-0064 AP-NR-01-01-89 2242EST r a AM-OfficerShot 1stLd-Writethru a0765 01-01 0266 AM-Officer Shot, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0765,0270 Search Continues for Suspect in Navajo County Deputy Shooting Eds: CORRECTS hospital name in 2nd graf to Barrow; SUBS 3rd graf, `Varner apparently...' with 3 grafs to UPDATE number of bullet wounds; no reason yet for why car stopped; picks up 4th graf pvs, `The men...'; DELETES `BRF' designator; RETRANSMITTING to add writethru status WINSLOW, Ariz. (AP) Authorities were searching Sunday for two men who opened fire on a sheriff's deputy during a routine traffic stop on Interstate 40. Navajo County Sheriff's Deputy Bob Varner, 51, was listed in critical condition at Barrow Neurological Center in Phoenix following Saturday night's attack. Varner was shot three times, once in the head and once in each forearm, with one of the latter bullets also hitting his chest, said sheriff's Lt. Terry Deboer. Varner apparently stopped the men about 7:30 p.m. Saturday, but ``we don't know the circumstances of why he stopped that car,'' said Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Sgt. Allan Schmidt. Investigators believed the two men got out of their car and started shooting before Varner was able to get out of his vehicle, Schmidt said. The men fled after the shooting and were believed to have shot at a second police car later Saturday night. No one was injured in the second shooting. The men were wearing camouflage jackets and possibly military boots, and were armed with rapid-fire automatic weapons, Schmidt said. Their car, containing several automatic weapons, was found abandoned on the interstate. More than 100 law officers and three helicopters were involved in the search. AP890101-0065 AP-NR-01-01-89 2255EST u i AM-Israel 4thLd-Writethru a0777 01-01 0779 AM-Israel, 4th Ld-Writethru, a0777,0800 Israel Deports 13 Palestinians To Lebanon Eds: SUBS one graf for 6th pvs `The spokesman...' to FIX typo and give village locator, PICKS UP 7th `Two other...' With AM-Israel-Border By RONI RABIN Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) Israel on Sunday deported to Lebanon 13 Palestinians suspected of leading the year-old uprising, culminating a bloody weekend in which six Palestinians died in clashes with Israeli troops. In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians set off firecrackers and held parades, dancing and waving pictures of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat to mark the 24th anniversary of Arafat's Fatah guerrilla group and its first attack on Israel. At least nine Arabs were shot and wounded in the occupied lands, including a 17-year-old critically wounded by a bullet in the head, Arab and military reports said. The army confirmed five casualties and said it was checking further. A military helicopter flew the deportees over Israel's northern border and dropped them in Lebanon, military sources said. They were each given about $50 in cash, the sources said. However, a police spokesman in Rashaya, Lebanon, said the deportees reported they refused the money. The spokesman said on condition of anonymity that the 13 were dropped off at the border village of Metulla and traveled by car to the Bekaa Valley in the east, where they joined a base run by the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Two other Palestinians agreed to leave voluntarily in a deal with authorities. The army said the two would be allowed to return to their homes in occupied territory if they refrain from anti-Israeli activity during a five-year period of exile. Seven of the Palestinians deported Sunday were from the occupied West Bank, and six were from the occupied Gaza Strip, a military spokesman said. The expulsions brought the number of Palestinians deported since the uprising began a year ago to 49. Twelve more suspected resistance leaders have received deportation orders, a military spokesman said. At least 345 Arabs and 14 Israelis have been killed since the anti-Israel revolt began Dec. 8, 1987. December had the highest casualty toll of any month of the revolt, said the Jerusalem Post daily. Thirty-one Arabs were killed and hundreds were wounded. Three Palestinians died of gunshots in the West Bank on Saturday. On Friday, troops raiding a Gaza Strip hideout killed two Palestinians as they tried to flee; a third Gaza resident was killed when soldiers fired at stone-throwing worshipers after noon prayers. The army on Sunday confined all 650,000 Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip to their homes and strengthened patrols in an attempt to quell the violence, an army spokesman said. The most senior Palestinian leader among the deportees was Abdallah Abu Samhadaneh, 38, a lecturer at the Islamic University in Gaza whom the army accused of organizing a network of underground popular committees. Also deported was Abdel Hamid Al-Baba, a 25-year-old university student from the Amari refugee camp in the West Bank accused of being a member of the Unified National Leadership of the Uprising, the underground group directing the Palestinian resistance. The army said all the 13 deportees received deportation orders on Aug. 17, 1988. The orders were upheld by the military appeals committees, and the 13 have dropped their appeals to Israel's Supreme Court, it said. The United States and other Western nations have criticized Israel for deporting suspected Palestinian activists. In the occupied territories Sunday, underground Palestinian resistance leaders had called for a ``Day Of Escalation'' to mark Fatah Day, which celebrates formation of Fatah and the group's first anti-Israeli attack on Jan. 1, 1965. The PLO is an umbrella organization for several guerrilla groups, the largest being Arafat's Fatah. Arafat himself participated in a Dec. 28, 1965, guerrilla attack on an Israeli water installation in northern Israel. There were no casualties in that attack. Hundreds of Palestinian youths gathered in at least six West Bank villages to hold parades, an Arab reporter said. The teen-agers were dressed in green and khaki-colored vests and wore masks, the Arab reporter said. In Bethlehem, south of Jerusalem, Palestinians spray-painted pictures of Arafat on the wall and flew illegal Palestinian flags on utility poles, an Arab reporter said. Eight Palestinians were wounded in violent incidents in the West Bank, and a curfew violator was wounded in Gaza, Israel radio said. A 17-year-old from Tulkarem in the West Bank was critically injured by a bullet to the head, an Arab doctor said on condition of anonymity. The army spokeswoman said she was unaware of the injury. Israel captured the territories from Egypt and Jordan in 1967. About 1.5 million Palestinians live there. AP890101-0066 AP-NR-01-01-89 2258EST r a AM-BRF--NewYearsBaby 01-01 0090 AM-BRF--New Years Baby,0090 Connecticut Child One of the First Born in 1989 NEW MILFORD, Conn. (AP) James Dux III, weighing 6 pounds, 15.5 ounces and measuring 20 inches long, greeted the world about three seconds into 1989, becoming one of the nation's first born of the new year. ``Everybody's fine. He's a good eater already,'' said Lorraina Zuba, a nursing supervisor at New Milford Hospital. The parents are MaryAnne and James Dux II, who had been watching New Year's Eve festivities on television prior to the birth. AP890101-0067 AP-NR-01-01-89 2302EST u i AM-Pope-NewYear's 01-01 0238 AM-Pope-New Year's,0243 Pope Urges Ethnic and Religious Tolerance in '89 By FRANCES D'EMILIO ^Associated Press Writer VATICAN CITY (AP) Wishing that 1989 will ``be the year of peace, of justice,'' Pope John Paul II on Sunday said respect for minorities and their participation in public life are essential in making a harmonious world. The Roman Catholic church dedicates the first day of the year as ``World Peace Day'' and John Paul, in his sermon during New Year's Day Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, linked achievement of international peace to respect for people of different cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds. The pope, quoting from the church's official message for World Peace Day, said guaranteeing ``minorities' participation in public life is a sign of elevated civil progress'' and honors ``those nations in which all citizens are guaranteed such a participation in a climate of true liberty.'' He did not cite any specific nations or peoples. In his noontime Angelus prayer immediately following the 1}-hour-long Mass, the pope also made an appeal to the ``consciences'' of all kidnappers to release their victims because ``God is the only master of man's life.'' Diplomats and their wives, some of whom covered their faces with black veils, took communion from the pope. Fifty priests, each taking a chalice filled with consecrated hosts fanned out from the high altar under the Bernini's baroque brass canopy and distributed communion the thousands of others. AP890101-0068 AP-NR-01-01-89 2318EST r a AM-BirdKill 01-01 0256 AM-Bird Kill,0264 Thousands Of Dead Birds Discovered; Biologists Suspect Poison AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Hundreds of dead birds found along a three-quarter mile stretch of country road may have been poisoned by a pesticide or other chemical, a biologists said. Residents along the road, about four miles south of Austin, first noticed the dead birds Saturday. Hundreds of birds were visible from the road, flapping on the ground or dangling from tree limbs. Hundreds more could be spotted in fields. The varieties included brown-headed cowbirds, Brewer's blackbirds, redwing blackbirds, Eastern meadowlarks, mourning doves, kildeer and a marsh hawk which died shortly after feeding on a dying cowbird. ``I didn't notice them until about 9:30 (a.m. Saturday),'' said Steve Miller, a teacher and bird watcher who lives near the heaviest concentration of corpses. ``I estimate there are at least 2,000 dead or dying.'' Miller said he counted 276 dead birds Saturday in an area roughly the size of an acre in a pasture next to his home. Jack Ralph, a contaminants biologist with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, said he suspected poisoning, possibly from some type of herbicide, pesticide or related toxin. ``As yet, we can't determine whether this is a natural or man-made event,'' Ralph said. Ralph gathered several of the birds for analysis at a state toxicology laboratory. Test results would be available in about a week, he said. State conservationists scrambled in recent weeks to stem an outbreak of avian cholera that killed more than 2,000 geese along the Texas coast. AP890101-0069 AP-NR-01-01-89 2331EST r a AM-Deaths 1stLd-Writethru a0775 01-01 0333 AM-Deaths, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0775,0341 Eds: ADDS Curley obit; SUBS Hankins obit to give December as end of session; AMs separate on Curley moved as a0791. Daniel Curley CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) Daniel Curley, an award-winning novelist whose works include ``Mummy'' and ``How Many Angels,'' was killed Friday in a traffic accident on vacation in Florida, authorities said. He was 70. Curley and his wife, Audrey, 56, were hit by a car Friday night as they crossed a street, Tallahassee police said, and Mrs. Curley suffered two broken legs and remained hospitalized. Curley, a University of Illinois professor, won both the Guggenheim and Flannery O'Connor prizes. ``How Many Angels?'' his first novel, and was published in 1958. His most recent, ``Mummy,'' won critical acclaim last year. Another novel was ``A Stone Man, Yes,'' which won two national awards. His story collections included ``That Marriage Bed of Procrustes,'' ``In the Hands of Our Enemies,'' ``Love in the Winter'' and ``Living with Snakes.'' Freeman Hankins PHILADELPHIA (AP) Democratic state Sen. Freeman Hankins, who represented west Philadelphia for nearly 28 years until his retirement in November died Saturday. He was 71. Although no cause of death was announced, Hankins had quintuple heart bypass surgery in December 1987 and announced about six weeks later he would retire when the 1988 legislative session ended Nov. 30. A member of the state House of Representatives from 1961 to 1967, Hankins was elected to the state Senate in 1967 and held the seat until his retirement. Clare Ellinwood TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) Clare R. Ellinwood, former co-publisher and half-owner of The Arizona Daily Star from 1930 to 1965, died Sunday. She was 92. Mrs. Ellinwood became co-publisher in partnership with William R. Mathews in 1930 when her husband, Ralph E. Ellinwood, died at age 37. After her husband's death, Mrs. Ellinwood played an active role in the planning and building of a plant for the newspaper and in directing the policies of the women's department of the newspaper. AP890101-0070 AP-NR-01-01-89 2333EST u a AM-FireDeaths 5thLd-Writethru a0799 01-01 0597 AM-Fire Deaths, 5th Ld-Writethru, a0799,0611 Minnesota Blaze Claims 10; 5 Others Die in Fires in Alaska, Wisconsin Eds: SUBS 8th graf, `The dead...' to CORRECT Smischney childrens' ages from 11 and 7 to 10 and 8; picks up 9th graf pvs, `The home... LaserPhoto BRD1 By PAULA FROKE Associated Press Writer REMER, Minn. (AP) A fast-spreading fire swept through a home north of here Sunday, killing eight children and the two adults who were baby-sitting them, authorities said. The fire spread so quickly that it was unlikely anyone awakened before being overcome by smoke, said Remer Fire Chief Leo Renn. The bodies were found still on the couches or beds, he said. Elsewhere, fires killed at least six people Sunday, including four who died in an early morning blaze in an Anchorage, Alaska, trailer house. At least three people died in fires on New Year's Eve. The two-story wooden home where 10 died in Minnesota was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived about 2:10 a.m., authorities said. ``It's probably the worst situation I've seen where 10 people are killed at one time,'' said Cass County Sheriff Jim Dowson. ``It's just devastating,'' he said. John and Nancy Watson, the owners of the house, returned home to find their four children, two nieces, two neighbor children and the two adults had been killed. The dead were identified as the Watson's four children, Jenny, 14, Samantha, 11, Edward, 9, and William, 8; Mrs. Watson's sister and brother-in-law, Jean and Becky Smischney; their two children, Jay, 10, and Kimberly, 8; and the two neighbor children, Michelle and Robin Bastle, ages unknown. The home is in a rural area about one mile north of Remer, which is 20 miles southwest of Grand Rapids in north-central Minnesota. The Watsons were ``hysterical, out of control,'' when they arrived after the fire, Renn said. They had to be sedated and taken to a hospital. The fire spread in minutes, said John Watson's step-sister, Tammy Grover, 18. ``They (the Watsons) just went into town for 20 minutes to get a pack of cigarettes and it just started in that short of time,'' Miss Grover said. Renn said a wood-burning stove and a fuel-oil space heater were each being investigated as possible causes of the blaze. He said lives probably would have been saved if the house had been equipped with smoke detectors. In Maine, an 11-year-old boy was arrested and charged with murder in an apartment fire that killed a 53-year-old man in the southern city of Biddeford on Saturday night, officials said. And in Portland, Maine, a mother and her infant daughter were killed in a house with a defective smoke detector on New Year's Eve, officials said. Victims of the Anchorage trailer fire Sunday were not immediately identified, but police said they were two adults and two children. The early-morning blaze, which was quickly extinguished, ``appears to have been an accidental fire that started in the living room area,'' said Don Barlow, a spokesman for the Anchorage Fire Department. Seven people died in fires in Anchorage during all of 1988, Barlow said. In Wisconsin, New Year's Day fires killed one person in a Waukesha hotel room and another in a Racine residence. One man died in a fire in his room at the Waukesha Hotel about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, said Assistant Fire Chief Wayne Grauer. In Racine, firefighters responding to a report of a blaze early Sunday at a two-story home found a badly charred body, believed to be that of a woman who lived there, a fire department spokesman said. AP890101-0071 AP-NR-01-01-89 2343EST u i AM-NIreland-IRA 01-01 0295 AM-NIreland-IRA,0306 Head Of IRA's Political Wing Criticizes IRA Guerrillas For Killing Civilians BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Gerry Adams, the president of the Irish Republican Army's legal political wing Sinn Fein, has criticized the guerrilla group for killing civilians in bungled bombings. ``My view is quite clear. I think the onus is on the IRA to safeguard the civilians from injury and death,'' Adams was quoted as saying in an interview with Sunday Life, a Belfast newspaper. Nineteen civilians have died in a series of botched IRA operations in the last 14 months. The outlawed IRA prides itself on targeting the security forces while sparing civilians in its fight to oust the British from Northern Ireland, and the blunders have drawn criticism even from some IRA supporters. Last July, Adams called on the IRA to ``get its house in order'' after a bomb exploded prematurely outside a West Belfast swimming pool, killing two of his Roman Catholic constituents. In the interview published Sunday, Adams, a member of the British Parliament, reiterated his view that the IRA ``must avoid circumstances and conditions in which civilians and non-combatants will be killed or injured.'' ``I think the onus is always on the IRA to do that,'' he said. ``The other forces can kill civilians as a matter of policy but the IRA cannot.'' In November 1987, an IRA bomb killed 11 Protestants attending a memorial service to Britain's war dead in Enniskillen, 65 miles southwest of Belfast, sparking international condemnation of the IRA. The IRA claimed British electronic scanners may have triggered the bomb prematurely. In another admitted blunder, a bomb intended to kill a judge instead killed a Protestant couple and their 6-year-old son as they drove home from a U.S. vacation last July. AP890101-0072 AP-NR-01-01-89 2350EST u i AM-Cuba-Foreign 2ndLd-Writethru a0794 01-01 0811 AM-Cuba-Foreign, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0794,0831 Cuba Marks Anniversary of Revolution While Foreign Policy Changes LaserPhotos HAV1,2 An AP Extra Eds: LEADS with 8 grafs to UPDATE with quotes from speech, PICKS UP 5th pvs `The Cuban... By GEORGE GEDDA Associated Press Writer HAVANA, Cuba (AP) President Fidel Castro vehemently reaffirmed his hardline socialist principles Sunday in a nationally televised speech marking the 30th anniversary of his communist revolution. ``Today, we say with more force than ever: socialism or death, Marxism-Leninism or death!'' Castro said. The speech, which carried one of Castro's strongest declarations of ideological purity, comes at a time of new challenges in ties with the Soviet Union, Africa, and Latin America. Cuba's ties with the Soviet Union appear to have entered a period of uncertainty as a result of ideological differences. On other fronts, Cuban diplomats say a visit here by Pope John Paul II may be possible in 1989, and Cuba has hinted that it wants a more constructive relationship with the United States. As part of the anniversary celebrations this weekend, Castro gave his speech Sunday night in the main square of the eastern coastal city of Santiago. He spoke for almost two hours from the balcony of the building where he proclaimed victory for his guerrilla forces on New Year's Day, 1959. A large crowd gathered to hear him in Cespedes plaza next to the building, which is now used as the city hall. Castro told them he was maintaining strict adherence to socialist principles because of the ``enormous responsibility'' Cuba has to the peoples of the Third World. He devoted much of his speech broadcast on state-run television, however, to praising the role played by the people of Santiago and other eastern cities in his revolution and Cuba's independence from Spain in 1902. The Cuban leader considers this city, from which he led his communist guerrillas into revolution, the moral capital of this communist country. On New Year's Eve 1958, Castro ousted a rightist dictatorship, touching off a revolution that has made him the undisputed leader of this Soviet-allied Caribbean nation. But the Cuban-Soviet friendship, although far from breaking up, seems more tenuous now than it has been in decades. A key question is whether Soviet unhappiness with the way Cuba has used economic aid from the Kremlin _ estimated at $5 billion annually _ will lead to cutbacks. Castro has used the economic aid to help build his country's schools and hospitals, the Soviets say, and has neglected industrial development. Castro is an advocate of socialist purity and opposes any policy that borrows from capitalism. He has spoken scornfully of the political and social reforms proposed by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, saying the ``consequences would be hard'' for Cuba if the Soviet experiment encounters ``serious difficulties.'' ``So we may be in for difficulties coming from the enemy camp and difficulties coming from the camp of our own friends,'' he said last month. The recent Cuban commitment to withdraw its 50,000 troops from Angola by 1991 presents another step toward scaling back Cuba's involvement in international conflicts. Cuba has given military support to many countries, but the commitment to Angola was by far the biggest. In Latin America, Castro has been aggressively pursuing interests common to other countries in the area. The evolution of democracy in Latin America, which has been welcomed by the Reagan administration, has also had the ironic side effect of opening diplomatic opportunities for Castro. The Cuban leader, once known for his efforts to promote violent revolution, now seems more interested in pursuing normal ties with elected governments. Castro attended presidential inagurations in Ecuador and Mexico in recent months and may participate in the inauguration of the Venezuelan president next month. During Castro's visit to Mexico in late November, his first since he was exiled there in the 1960s, he said he envisions the eventual unity of Cuba and the rest of Latin America. ``One day, we will make one big giant,'' he said. Western diplomats say Castro may be hoping to gain from the growing restiveness over the devastating social consequences of Latin America's $420 billion foreign debt, which has left the region much poorer than it was a decade ago. Castro has long advocated that Latin America renounce its debt on grounds it is unpayable. Meanwhile, Castro has indicated interest in a more relaxed relationship with the United States. In remarks to the National Assembly last week, he said he would not neglect any opportunity to improve U.S.-Cuban relations. A potential obstacle to an accommodation with Washington is the U.S. plan to beam to Cuban audiences a televised version of Radio Marti, a station operated by the Voice of America whose anti-communist programs are already heard in Cuba. The proposal has drawn an angry reaction from Castro, but he has not said specifically how he would retaliate. AP890101-0073 AP-NR-01-01-89 1632EST r a AM-DigestBriefs 01-01 0638 AM-Digest Briefs,0663 Eds: There will be no Add to this briefs package. By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) FBI Director William Sessions, anticipating a long investigation into the crash of Pan Am Flight 103 in Scotland, said Sunday he welcomes any information PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat can provide. Arafat ``has a great deal of information, a wealth of information he can give us,'' Sessions said. The FBI director added that contacts between the FBI and the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization presumably could be set up by the State Department. U.S. and PLO officials recently opened talks after Arafat disavowed terrorism and recognized Israel's right to exist. Sessions, interviewed on ABC's ``This Week with David Brinkley'' and on NBC's ``Meet the Press,'' said it may take a long time to discover who is responsible for the jetliner crash. LONDON (AP) Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher distanced herself Sunday from American vows to punish those who killed 270 people by planting a bomb on Pan Am Flight 103. ``I don't think an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth is ever valid,'' she said in a wide-ranging New Year's television interview. ``The most important thing to do is to try to get the cooperation of all nations to track these people down so that they are brought to justice,'' she said on the ``David Frost on Sunday'' program on the commercial TV-am channel. The danger of revenge, she said, is that ``it can affect innocent people.'' By The Associated Press New Year's fireworks left thousands homeless in the Philippines, and 49 revelers in Rio drowned en route to a pyrotechnics display. The superpowers swapped warm salutations, but a one-sided truce failed to silence the guns in Afghanistan. The new year came in as the old one went out, with promises of peace and bursts of tragedy. Children orphaned by an earthquake got new toys, one Korea offered a tentative olive branch to the other, five Hindus were massacred as they prayed, and the lights went out in Lima for the second New Year's Eve in a row. Thousands poured into streets and squares to celebrate the arrival of 1989, from Times Square in New York to Orchard Road in Singapore on the other side of the globe. WASHINGTON (AP) Federal regulators, by rescuing or closing a post-Depression record of 217 insolvent savings institutions in 1988, have written a check for $38 billion with money they do not yet actually have. Now it's up to Congress and the administration of President-elect Bush to make sure the check doesn't come back marked ``insufficient funds.'' Not since the Depression year of 1938, when 277 S&Ls went under, has a greater number failed. Twenty-two of the 1988 rescues, requiring nearly $6 billion in government aid, came in a frenzied, 48-hour spending spree that ended late Saturday, just hours before the new year began. Eds: For release at 12:01 a.m. Monday WASHINGTON (AP) Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist threw his weight Sunday behind an effort to boost federal judges' salaries by 51 percent to $135,000 a year. Rehnquist, in his 1988 year-end report on the federal judiciary, strongly endorsed a presidential commission's recommendation of hefty pay raises for judges and about 2,000 other top federal officials. In addition to calling for the big pay raise for the trial judges, who now make $89,500, the commission recommended boosting salaries of federal appeals court judges from $95,000 to $140,000, a 47 percent jump; of Supreme Court associate justices from $110,000 to $165,000, a 50 percent increase; and of the chief justice from $115,000 to $175,000, a 52 percent increase. The recommendations are pending before President Reagan, who can accept or modify the figures before sending his fiscal 1990 budget to Congress on Jan. 9. AP890102-0001 AP-NR-01-02-89 2349EST r w PM-ReaganinHistory 2Takes 01-02 1031 PM-Reagan in History, 2 Takes,1053 Historians' First Rough Draft On Rating Reagan: Fair To Medium Eds: Also in Tuesday AMs report. By W. DALE NELSON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The jury is still out on Ronald Reagan, but history is likely to regard him as an average to good president, according to some scholars of the presidency. With little time left in Reagan's final term, The Associated Press interviewed eight presidential scholars including specialists in history, political science and social psychology. Their tentative verdict: Reagan will get high marks for his use of the White House pulpit to unite the country and will get credit for improving East-West relations even though Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev may have been more responsible for it than he. ``My view is that he will be viewed by the American people as an above-average president,'' said Thomas Cronin, a historian of the presidency at Colorado College who calls himself a moderate Democrat. ``I think the historians and biographers will treat him a little bit more harshly, still ranking him at least an average president but not as high as the American people now do or will.'' But Daniel Franklin, a professor of political science at Colgate University who is critical of many Reagan policies, said, ``I think, in the historical sense, somewhere down the road, that Reagan will be considered as a somewhat worse than average president because of the problems that he has left us.'' If the economy turns sour in the wake of his administration's record budget and trade deficits, Reagan may go down in history like Calvin Coolidge as a president who failed to take action to stave off coming disaster. Some scholars said Reagan's reputation will also suffer from scandals in his administration and from his failure to deal effectively with such social ills as the plight of the homeless. ``I think probably in the short range reaction in the next five or 10 years, even liberal and radical historians will find something good to say about him and that will be that he somehow represented a kind of quality of Americanism and a sense of national unity and he projected that from the White House,'' said Herman Belz, a neo-conservative historian at the University of Maryland. ``Whether or not in the long run our relations with the Soviets will be so good that people will always say it started in the fall of 1988 under Ronald Reagan I don't know, but it would certainly look that way,'' said Vaughn Davis Bornet, professor emeritus of history at Southern Oregon State College and a self-described moderate Republican. Edward W. Chester, a conservative historian at the University of Texas, said it is too early to evaluate Reagan. But, echoing many of his academic colleagues, he said, ``The deficit does bother me. The deficit does bother me.'' ``I think we can say history will probably look most kindly upon him not necessarily for any substantive policy changes that he brought about but for the tone that he brought to the office and for a renewed sense of national pride,'' said Charles W. Dunn, a former Republican congressional aide who teaches political science at Clemson University and has written widely on the presidency. Austin Ranney, chairman of the Department of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley, said, ``On just the externalities of it, I think Reagan's presidency, with one huge `if,' will probably go down as one of the most successful ones certainly in this century and maybe ever.'' However, comparing Reagan with one of the predecessors the president most admires, Ranney also said that ``Reagan may go down in history pretty much the way Coolidge did'' if some economists' predictions of economic collapse come true. ``Coolidge is not seen now as a successful president followed by Hoover, a bum, but as a president whose do-nothing policies led to the huge crash of the early '30s that Hoover was the victim of,'' he said. Dean Keith Simonton, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Davis who has devised a formula for predicting how history will rate presidents, said, ``When you put all the pros and all the cons in the equation, Ronald Reagan comes out as a slightly above average president.'' One of the ``pro'' factors for Reagan, said Simonton, is the improvement in U.S.-Soviet relations that he and Gorbachev have forged. ``He gets nice points for that in foreign policy when actually he didn't take the initiative for that,'' Simonton said. ``In all fairness, Gorbachev deserves more credit than he does,'' said Colorado College's Cronin. ``Still,'' said Southern Oregon's Bornet, ``Ronald Reagan stepped forward as usual and managed to pin it on himself and that's going to be hard to erase, I'll tell you.'' Clemson's Dunn, similarly, argued, ``A good leader also must seize the opportunity, and Gorbachev offered an opportunity to play for high stakes in the international arena. He seized that; he was not frozen in place by rigid ideology, and thus I think one has to give him credit.'' From Berkeley, Ranny said the relaxation of East-West tensions was the most important of Reagan's accomplishments in foreign policy. ``Now you might say that's because he got lucky and had Gorbachev there, and I wouldn't quarrel with that,'' he said. ``Nevertheless, it did happen. And I think when historians look back at that, they will say that he was in terms of foreign policy one of the most successful postwar presidents that we have had.'' Psychologist Simonton said one big factor working in Reagan's favor is the simple fact that he was the first president since Dwight Eisenhower to serve eight years. ``The longer you serve the more events happen that can be credited to you, whether or not you are responsible for them,'' he said. ``You make a thick chapter in the history of America under your name.'' Although Reagan recently pictured himself as the adversary of a ``Washington colony'' protecting special interests at the expense of ordinary citizens, some scholars argued that one of his own chief shortcomings is his failure to be an advocate for those on the outside. MORE AP890102-0002 AP-NR-01-02-89 2350EST r w PM-ReaganinHistory-1stAdd 01-02 0569 PM-Reagan in History - 1st Add,0577 WASHINGTON: the outside. ``There will be a feeling that he was largely indifferent to those without voice in Washington, that he responded much more to upper middle class and middle class America,'' said Cronin. ``The presidency ought to be a place which raises its voice on behalf of those who don't have the powerful lobbies.'' Cronin is self-described as a Democrat with a liberal viewpoint compared with Reagan's, but the more conservative Chester agreed, ``I also think Reagan could perhaps have done more for the homeless.'' The Iran-Contra affair and the investigations and indictments that have marked Reagan's administration also will cast their shadow, the scholars said. ``The people will forget that quickly; the historians won't,'' said Cronin. ``The historians will have chapters on the sleaze stuff and they'll call it as bad or equal to the Watergate mess.'' Some who praised Reagan highly on other grounds conceded he was not as attentive as he should have been to his duties. ``He didn't keep his ear to the ground enough and he didn't have enough interest in political life, the warp and woof of it, to do as good a job as he could have,'' said the neo-conservative Belz. In strikingly similar language, Ranny said, ``I imagine he loses a few points because of the large number of scandals and indictments and things like that,'' and Simonton said that ``he is probably going to get some negative points'' because of such troubles. In comparing Reagan with past presidents, scholars cited the names ranging from Eisenhower to Lyndon Johnson. ``Personality and character issues for 20 years have overwhelmed evaluation of Lyndon Johnson as president and if that's any precedent, then maybe for several decades it will be difficult to get down to serious business with Ronald Reagan,'' said Bornet, who has written extensively on Johnson. Johnson, he said, ``is still the crude, cornpone president, and Reagan is going to continue to be for a long time this image people watched on TV and this person the press correctly portrayed as essentially a lazy president.'' As for Eisenhower, he has undergone a re-evaluation in recent years, with scholars believing him a much more activist president than first believed. Ranney said, ``If future scholarship finds out that behind the scenes and when the truth is known Reagan himself was also a much more hands-on active president than we now believe _ and incidentally it is unlikely that they will find that _ he might undergo the same kind of upgrading.'' Dunn, however, said, ``Definitely a comparison of Eisenhower and Reagan is in order. Eisenhower had a very subtle style of leadership that evidently caused him to lead more effectively than most people thought he was leading. Reagan's leadership I don't think will come off as that kind of subtle hidden hand leadership so much as it has been leadership through orchestration of symbols and movement of the public mind.'' On the other hand, the Clemson political scientist said, Reagan may also be in for the kind of scaling down of his reputation that John F. Kennedy has suffered as the force of his personality recedes. ``There is no longer the Camelot mystique to Kennedy; a lot of that has worn off,'' he said. ``I suspect that with Ronald Reagan there will be a little bit of wearing off of the mystique that surrounds him.'' AP890102-0003 AP-NR-01-02-89 2351EST r a PM-AbortionActivist 01-02 1132 PM-Abortion Activist,1169 Operation Rescue Head: Create `Social Tension' To Change Laws Eds: Also in Tuesday AMs report. By DAVID BAUDER Associated Press Writer BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) Where most people list their job experiences, Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry's resume brags, ``Arrested 26 times in seven cities.'' Terry complains it's out-of-date. ``It might be closer to 30 right now,'' the 29-year-old activist said during an interview at the unmarked storefront office in upstate New York where the latest protests against abortion are being planned. Since its national debut at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta last summer, Operation Rescue has made abortion a high-profile issue again. Terry and his followers have blocked women from entering abortion clinics throughout the country, lying in front of doors until police carry or drag them away under the watchful eye of television cameras. Terry says he is trying to produce the ``social tension'' necessary to change abortion laws by using the non-violent 1960s civil rights protest as a model. ``He's the Martin Luther King of a movement,'' said Dominick Brignola, an Albany lawyer and footsoldier in the anti-abortion drive. Terry's critics claim Operation Rescue, so named because followers try to ``rescue'' the unborn, is an assault on women's rights. ``The civil rights movement was trying to gain rights for people. They're trying to take away the rights of living, breathing human beings,'' said Molly Yard, president of the National Organization for Women. More than 450 anti-abortion demonstrators clogged Atlanta jails during the five-day Democratic convention. Since then, demonstrations have spread to New York City, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia and Boston and still more cities. The activists want the Supreme Court to overturn Roe vs. Wade, its 1973 decision that allows women to have abortions. An estimated 1.6 million women have abortions each year in the United States. Standing at the forefront of Operation Rescue is a used car salesman who once wanted to be a rock star. Terry and his wife, Cindy, began their crusade in 1984 by standing in front of abortion clinics, trying to talk women out of entering. Friends soon joined them, and the couple opened an office that offered women free pregnancy tests and hand-me-down baby clothes. ``God clicked a light on in my head and said it wasn't enough to just be against child-killing, that I had to do something about it,'' said Terry, who's selling his auto dealership because he is too busy with Operation Rescue. Critics concede Terry has a mesmerizing personality. He even tries to convert relatives at family reunions, said Dawn Marvin of Rochester, his aunt. Terry was reared in a low-key Protestant environment but quit high school at 17, dreaming of a career in music, said Marvin, who is communications director for the Rochester chapter of Planned Parenthood, a medical service that anti-abortion pickets frequently target. She stressed that she does not speak for the organization about her nephew. ``He went away and he flipped out,'' she said about Terry's transformation into a born-again Christian. ``He came back a totally changed personality. It was more like a cult reaction than a spiritual quest.'' Marriage and his highly public role as Operation Rescue spokesman have calmed him somewhat, she said. The Terrys have one child and three foster children. Terry dismisses his aunt's comments _ including her assessment that ``he's an egomaniac,'' lapping up news media attention. To Margaret Johnston, administrator at Southern Tier Women's Services in Binghamton, Operation Rescue is nothing new. She said anti-abortion activists have spread nails in the parking lot and glued the clinic's door shut four or five times. Terry's first arrest came in January 1986 when he chained himself to a sink at the clinic, which performs abortions. He was jailed for 22 days for refusing to pay a $60 fine. ``It doesn't matter what you say to him. There is no reason involved,'' Johnston said. ``He doesn't care about women. I think he really hates women.'' Iron pipes now prevent cars from blocking the entrance to the Binghamton clinic. A court order keeps the nearly ever-present demonstrators at shouting distance. ``They really want to make it personal,'' Johnston said. Even when she has run into him on a Saturday in the post office, Johnston said Terry has shouted at her, ``How many babies did you murder today?'' Terry criticizes the anti-abortion movement as being ``too nice'' during the 1980s, pacified by the presence of an ideological friend like President Reagan into not working hard for its goal. ``We cry that abortion is murder, it's child-killing, and yet we carry a picket once or twice a year and write a few letters,'' he said. ``That's not an adequate response to murder. A logical response to murder is physical intervention on behalf of the victim.'' The lean, bushy-haired Terry expects and even hopes his demonstrators will be arrested. He claims Operation Rescue was responsible for 11,000 arrests in 1988 and predicts 500,000 will be arrested in 1989. There are no situations, he said, when abortions are justified. ``In most areas of life it's OK for people to follow their own beliefs, but not when it comes to having innocent children murdered,'' he said. ``That's like saying, `Why can't a white man follow his own conscience concerning owning a black slave? Why can't a German follow his own conscience if he decides he wants to shoot Jews?''' Terry has attracted some prominent supporters, including former presidential candidate Pat Robertson, who said he backs ``any means short of violence'' to stop abortion. If anti-abortion demonstrators set their minds to it, Terry said, they could change abortion laws in six months because the political system is not built to deal with mass protests. Yard dismisses Terry as a ``puppet'' groomed for the role of point man in the latest anti-abortion offensive. ``Women are really outraged by the whole thing,'' she said. ``The reason they have been passive seemingly in the light of bombings (of abortion clinics) and Operation Rescue is that people don't believe Roe vs. Wade can be overturned. ... I'm not so sanguine. All I know is we have to make the biggest outcry we possibly can.'' At Operation Rescue's office, a competing outcry is being plotted. Pinned to the wall is a large map of the United States, with ``abortion mills'' dotted in red. Terry distractedly complains to a staff member about a plane flight later that afternoon that will take him to a television appearance. As a photographer snaps pictures, he removes his foot from his desk, saying ``that's too casual for someone trying to change world history.'' He adds, chuckling: ``It's comical, really. I think God has a sense of humor. Don't you think it's rather funny that a former used car salesman is heading such a movement?'' AP890102-0004 AP-NR-01-02-89 2353EST r a PM-AIDSBrigade 01-02 0805 PM-AIDS Brigade,0828 Ex-Junkie Takes AIDS Prevention To The Streets Eds: Also in Tuesday AMs report. By MICHELLE LOCKE Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) Faced with the choice of trying to kick heroin or going back to jail, Jon Parker fought his way 14 years ago from the murky world of Boston's shooting galleries to the academic heights of Yale University. Now he's back on the streets. He again faces a possible jail term, but this time he's charged with illegally handing out clean needles to people he used to run with _ many of whom already have contracted AIDS by sharing dirty needles. Parker, 33, said he doesn't want to go to jail, but he's willing to risk it to try to change the Massachusetts requirement for a prescription to buy a hypodermic syringe. ``People look down on addicts, but it's through them that AIDS is going to spread to the heterosexual community,'' he says. ``People are going to have to realize that.'' Parker is founder of a 50-member organization called the AIDS Brigade, which includes Yale graduate students as well as former addicts and convicts. It was formed about four years ago and distributes AIDS education materials, bleach and needles in New Haven, Conn., New York City, New Jersey and Boston. Critics say he's a renegade, too far from mainstream efforts to curb the spread of AIDS, most often transmitted through homosexual contact and shared needles. ``I think clean needles clearly is one way of addressing the problem for addicts. It would be nice if they were available, but they're not, so we do what we can through other aspects,'' said Brianne Comella, director of Project Trust, supported by city and state funds. Project Trust volunteers distribute bottles of bleach and show addicts how to sterilize needles. ``I think that there is an absolute need for fringe groups such as the AIDS Brigade to push the system. Unfortunately, I think that they could be more effective if they worked with existing programs rather than as Lone Rangers,'' Ms. Commella said. State health officials estimate there are about 40,000 addicts in Massachusetts, and about one-third are believed to be carrying the AIDS virus. Mayor Raymond Flynn backed a needle exchange program, but it was rejected by the City Council. Dr. George A. Lamb, first deputy commissioner for the Boston Department of Health and Hospitals, supported the attempt at a needle exchange program and said he will testify at Parker's trial, which he hopes will revive interest in the program. Addicts meet AIDS Brigade workers in dingy restaurants and on street corners to get their sets of needles, known as ``the works.'' Parker makes rounds of the neighborhoods where the people he tries to help live, such as Jenny, who used to shoot dope with Parker 18 years ago, but now is trying to stay clean. A thin, pale woman in her 30s with dark circles under her eyes, Jenny spoke at her apartment on condition her last name wasn't used. She tested positive for the AIDS virus last summer, and she's sure she contracted the disease through sharing dirty needles. ``The works are hard to get,'' Jenny says. Parker was arrested this summer and charged with illegal possession of hypodermic syringes, which he buys legally in Vermont. The charge is a misdemeanor, but Parker requested a jury trial, which will probably take place this spring. ``I want to show that this is the logical answer to stop the spread of AIDS,'' Parker said. His attorney, Arnold Abelow, plans a ``necessity defense,'' saying that illegally handing out the needles is justified by the need to curb AIDS. But prosecutors say having a reason for doing something doesn't excuse an offense. ``We're only kidding ourselves to think (addicts) are going to go out and only use the needle once,'' said First Assistant Attorney Paul Leary of the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. Parker says his personal history makes him a better judge of how addicts are likely to respond. He shot heroin as a teen-ager and robbed drug stores for money and supplies. At 17, he served more than two years time, earning his high school equivalency diploma in jail. A month after his release, in 1974, he was caught violating parole and given the choice of checking into a drug rehabilitation center or going back to jail. He chose reform. Since then, Parker has worked a variety of jobs, including driving a cab and a few bouts as a local boxer, to get money to help pay his way through Hampshire College in Amherst, where he studied biology, and then to Yale's School of Epidemiology and Public Health, where he is completing work on a masters degree in public health. He says he wants other addicts to have the same chance he did. AP890102-0005 AP-NR-01-02-89 0008EST r i PM-Salvador-Killings 01-02 0909 PM-Salvador-Killings,0940 Killings Illustrate Surge Of Violence In Salvador Eds: Also in Monday AMs report. An AP Extra By DOUGLAS GRANT MINE Associated Press Writer PIEDRA LUNA, El Salvador (AP) Uniformed men beat up Cecilio Aguilar beneath an avocado tree, marched him and two friends down a wooded path and pounded them to death with rifle butts, witnesses say. Leftist guerrillas captured Francisco Diaz as he was searching for three wayward cows, took him away and shot him. The killings are examples of the growing toll of politically motivated slayings in El Salvador in 1988 as both sides in a 9-year-old civil war grow frustrated with a stalemate. The Roman Catholic Church's Legal Aid office has counted 181 summary killings in the first 11 months of 1988, compared with 129 in all of 1987. Catholic Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas said during his homily Sunday that altogether 1,369 civilians, soldiers or leftist rebels were killed last year in military clashes, rightist death squad operations and car bombings or other terrorist acts. The war has claimed an estimated 65,000 lives since it began. ``It is so hard to see any sort of light,'' said a church worker who has spent nearly two decades in Morazan, an eastern province divided between guerrillas and government forces. ``It's so disheartening because you had the feeling things were getting better. And now you feel them going backward, getting worse,'' the worker said on condition he not be identified. When the uniformed men had finished killing Cecilio, they went back to his house to demand food and his weapon. His mother could give them only tortillas. ``They said he was a guerrilla. But my son had no weapon, only a machete,'' said Dominga Aguilar. In her one-room mud brick home, she recounted through sobs the events of Nov. 12, when men she described as government soldiers swept into this hamlet. Francisco Diaz was the former mayor of another small town, Lolotique, 12 miles from Piedra Luna. He was searching for cows with his brother Dec. 6 when leftist guerrillas captured him, his wife said. They killed him for what they said was his complicity in a U.S.-imposed counterinsurgency plan. The cases in Lolotique and Piedra Luna, a village of a dozen households 90 miles east of San Salvador, are not unique. Respect for human rights improved steadily from 1984 until 1988. The early 1980s were a time of slaughter when soldiers and rightist death squads were blamed for the slayings of about 30,000 people. The United States, which has provided more than $3 billion in aid this decade, told Salvadoran authorities in 1983 that support would dry up if the rights situation did not improve. Salvadoran authorities say the government no longer has any ties with right-wing death squads. The leftist guerrillas have killed eight mayors and 32 other civilians in 1988 for allegedly collaborating with the army. The Catholic Legal Aid office blames the army for 90 summary executions of suspected guerrilla collaborators. Death squads are blamed for 51 murders. The slayings of Aguilar, 17, Hernan Benitez, 18 and Dolores Pineda, 24, devastated their families, the community council they all sat on and the village soccer team. Benitez was the goalie, Aguilar a fullback and Pineda a midfielder. Benitez died with his soccer shoes on. ``I won't play ever again,'' his mother, Amalia, quoted him as saying as he laced up the cleats before being taken away. ``He knew. He lifted the dog's front paws and danced with him. He kissed the baby and said, `This is it, Ma. I'm saying goodbye,''' she said. Those who took them away were government soldiers, six witnesses said. Hernan's mother said the officer in charge repeatedly accused the family of setting corn aside for the guerrillas. Arturo Rivera Damas, archbishop of San Salvador, also has blamed army troops for the Piedra Luna killings and called for an investigation. Lt. Col. Oscar Leon Linares denied army responsibility. He blamed the guerrillas, claiming they wanted to discredit the armed forces. He said army records show no troops near Piedra Luna on Nov. 12. He denied a request to see the records, saying they were classified. He said the case is closed. Aguilar's 15-year-old brother has been a guerrilla for a year, Mrs. Aguilar said. Benitez's father was detained for four days in October, and _ according to his family _ he was severely beaten and accused of guerrilla sympathies. The three young men, though perhaps not outright collaborators, maintained friendly relations with rebels who pass through regularly, villagers said. The community council they sat on functions with tacit guerrilla approval. When the guerrillas kill civilians, they usually announce it on their clandestine Radio Venceremos. The radio announced Dec. 9 that Diaz, the former mayor, was found guilty of ``crimes against the people.'' He was the secretary-general of the governing Christian Democratic Party in Lolotique. He had been kidnapped by the guerrillas for five months in 1985. ``We explained to him how mayors are tools for the implementation of the counterinsurgency plan ... but he did not obey, and continued implementing the plan in Lolotique,'' said the broadcast. ``He helped whomever he could,'' said his widow, Blanca, in their home. The room where she sat contained a sort of shrine _ a crucifix and her husband's photograph surrounded by flowers in coffee cans. ``Maybe they killed him for helping the community,'' she said, a tear tracking down her cheek. AP890102-0006 AP-NR-01-02-89 0010EST r i PM-Sweden-Policy 01-02 0764 PM-Sweden-Policy,0788 Swedish Foreign Policy Scores Success With PLO-US Dialogue Eds: Also in Monday AMs report. An AP Extra By ARTHUR MAX Associated Press Writer STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) When a U.S. ambassador sat down with a PLO delegation for the first official meeting in 13 years, Sweden scored a triumph for a foreign policy variously described as magnanimous or meddlesome. For a small country, Sweden is engaged in other people's troubles to a surprising degree. ``Some people call it international meddling or giving unsolicited advice,'' said Pierre Schori, the Cabinet secretary who is the Foreign Ministry's No. 2 official. But Sweden sees its foreign diplomacy as central to its own well-being. ``Our security has not only to do with our borders. It also is affected by the international climate,'' Schori said. Increasingly, neutral Sweden is being used as a communications channel for parties who can't talk to each other. On Dec. 16, the same day the U.S. ended its formal boycott of the PLO, Sweden's ambassador to Syria, Rolf Gauffin, was instrumental in mediating the release of Peter Winkler, a Red Cross delegate who was kidnapped Nov. 17 by a Palestinian faction in Lebanon. Sweden's approach to world affairs, sometimes criticized as moralistic and preaching, has created some ill feeling, particularly in Israel but also in the United States. The late Prime Minister Olof Palme was blacklisted from the White House for his outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War after he marched through Stockholm with North Vietnamese leaders. ``We believe strongly in human rights, international law and the resolution of conflicts,'' Schori said in an interview in his vaulted 18th century office. ``Our actions are motivated by a combination of self-interest and solidarity.'' The U.S.-PLO dialogue was a personal victory for Foreign Minister Sten Andersson, who worked in secret for nine months to nudge Palestinian Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat to meet U.S. conditions for ending its ban on contacts with his organization. ``The PLO success was the climax of a long process,'' Schori said. ``But the positions were blocked, and what was needed was a midwife. Somebody had to take the initiative. Sten Andersson saw that.'' Andersson, a wily politician with little foreign experience, came to the Foreign Ministry in 1985 after nearly 20 years as secretary of the dominant Social Democratic Party and three years as health minister. He brought with him the typically Swedish approach that any problem is solvable by discussion among reasonable men. Sweden, which allocates 1 percent of its gross national product to foreign aid, also has provided a pool of experienced diplomats for international service. Bernt Carlsson was U.N. Commissioner for Namibia. He died in Dec. 21 Pan Am plane crash in Scotland while on his way to New York to observe the signing of an agreement for Namibian independence from South African rule. Jan Eliasson, Sweden's U.N. ambassador, was tapped by Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar on Sept. 1 to lead Iran-Iraq peace negotiations. In less public roles, Swedish diplomats have been conduits for contacts between rival factions in Nicaragua and El Salvador, among others, Schori said. Last year the Swedes persuaded Cuba to allow the Red Cross to visit prisoners in Cuban jails. Sweden's international activity goes back a long way. Prime Minister Karl Branting won the 1921 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the League of Nations. It has contributed 55,000 men to U.N. peacekeeping forces, which were created by the U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, a Swede. Count Folke Bernadotte, a member of Sweden's royal family, was the U.N.'s first martyr. He was assassinated by Jewish extremists in pre-independence Palestine in 1948. Four years earlier, diplomat Raoul Wallenberg distributed Swedish passports to Hungarian Jews threatened with deportation to Nazi death camps. He was credited with saving 100,000 lives before Soviet forces arrested him at the close of the war and he disappeared. The Soviets say he died in prison in 1947, but his family is convinced he is still alive. Gunnar Jarring, appointed special U.N. emissary to the Middle East after the 1967 Six-Day War, earned a footnote in history as the inventor of shuttle diplomacy, though the credit went later to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Jarring's mission ended in failure. Schori said the relaxation of U.S.-Soviet tension may usher in a less active period for Sweden. ``There's been a need for bridge-building. Now it's changing,'' he said. ``We have no ambition to be mediators. Where we have a contribution to make, we do all we can. But I see this role declining in an era of detente.'' AP890102-0007 AP-NR-01-02-89 0022EST r w PM-S&LRescues Bjt 01-02 0718 PM-S&L Rescues, Bjt,720 Flurry of Thrift Bailouts Leaves Bush With Budget Puzzle By DAVE SKIDMORE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Federal regulators rescued a post-Depression record 217 savings institutions in 1988, leaving Congress and President-elect Bush to figure out the best way to pay the $38 billion bill. Theoretically, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which regulates the S&L industry, expects enough income over the next 30 years _ $45 billion to $50 billion _ to cover the cost. But analysts and many members of Congress say regulators have run up such a huge bill that turning to the taxpayer is inevitable. ``We still don't know the magnitude of the S&L crisis,'' Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas said Sunday. ``We're not even certain what the regulators have been doing the past week, running up a tab of some $40 billion.'' Even with a last-minute spending spree of nearly $6 billion to rescue 22 institutions in the final 48 hours of 1988, regulators still have about 350 more insolvency cases to handle. And, as of last Sept. 30, another 150 savings institutions were sliding toward insolvency with capital levels below 1.5 percent. Estimates of the total cost of paying for the mess run as high as $112 billion, a figure reported last month by the General Accounting Office, Congress' auditing agency. Treasury Department officials are considering a variety of plans for the incoming administration. Most attempt to spread out the burden over time and keep as much as possible from adding to the federal budget deficit. But Dole, in an interview on ABC-TV's ``This Week With David Brinkley,'' said, ``Somebody's going to have to pay. ... We can't hide it by putting it off budget or smoke and mirrors.'' This year's failure and rescue total _ 217 of the 3,100 S&Ls operating at the start of the year _ is more than quadruple last year's total of 48. It is the highest total since a record 277 failures and rescues in the Depression year of 1938. According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which insures the nation's 13,500 commercial banks, 221 banks failed or required government assistance. That is also a post-Depression record, topping the previous record of 203 in 1987. Both the FDIC and the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. draw their funds from an assessment on member institutions. But the FDIC depends on the much-larger banking industry, which as a whole is in much better shape, and enters 1989 in relatively good shape with more than $15 billion in reserves. FSLIC, however, is technically insolvent. So, regulators have been patching together rescue deals with as little cash as possible. Most of the aid takes the form of various commitments secured by revenue that regulators don't have now and in some case won't have for as long as 30 years. Moreover, the revenue projections depend on charging S&Ls a special assessment, originally intended to be phased out in a few years, over the next three decades. Industry officials say that would drive even more S&Ls into the red. The biggest rescue on the last day of 1988 was for the Beverly Hills Savings and Loan Association, a giant California institution whose financial problems had plagued regulators for years. The package called for the government to provide $983 million in assistance in the sale of Beverly Hills to Michigan National Corp., a bank holding company in Farmington Hills, Mich., that is putting $52 million into the deal. Also on Saturday, the bank board pledged: _$243.3 million in aid to Home Federal Savings and Loan, a San Diego S&L putting up $25 million to acquire three institutions in the San Francisco area. They are: Columbus Savings and Loan, San Rafael; Cal America Savings and Loan, Walnut Creek, and First Security, Pleasant Hill. _$151.1 million in aid to California Savings and Loan of Los Angeles, which agreed to put up $20.4 million into the insolvent Broward Federal Savings and Loan of Sunrise, Fla. _$29.9 million in aid to First Network Savings Bank of Los Angeles, which agreed to pay $1.25 million for the insolvent Tahoe Savings and Loan of South Lake Tahoe. _$8 million to Home Federal Savings and Loan of Sioux Falls, S.D., which is purchasing United Federal Savings and Loan of Aberdeen, S.D. AP890102-0008 AP-NR-01-02-89 0024EST r w PM-DCCrime 01-02 0616 PM-DC Crime,630 Last Year Was Bloodiest In DC History: 371 Murders WASHINGTON (AP) The nation's capital also may be the nation's murder capital. In 1988, 371 people were killed in the District of Columbia, far surpassing the previous high of 287, set in 1969. Police say drugs are mostly to blame. Final population and homicide figures have yet to be compared, but Washington and Detroit had the two highest per-capita murder rates in America in 1988. Thus, the nation's capital, where the federal government's war on drugs is mapped out, could earn the dubious distinction of being the murder capital as well. The District of Columbia's drug problems dramatize the two different Washingtons _ the Capitol, the White House and other sites visited by millions of tourists each year, and the squalid neighborhoods tucked away from the traditional seats of power. There, a more vicious power struggle is contested among teens drawn to the status and money that come from selling drugs. Police say drugs _ particularly the arrival of crack cocaine _ are to blame for about 60 percent of the slayings. As recently as 1986, drug-related killings accounted for just one-third of the city's homicide total. The absence of organized crime in Washington may be a factor in the city's murder rate, officials say. Law enforcement officials say that in cities where organized crime factions control the drug market, there are fewer drug-related slayings. ``What you have here is a lot of young entrepreneurs fighting among themselves for drug turf,'' said Police Chief Maurice T. Turner. ``They are just working for themselves.'' Stemming the city's drug tide has become an increasingly tough battle for Turner and his 3,800 officers. Earlier this year, police decided they will switch to .9mm semiautomatic handguns out of fear that weapons commonly found on the street were outclassing the standard .38-caliber six-shot revolver officers have been carrying. The new weapons, which allow officers to fire an extra 10 shots before reloading, were ordered after drug raids frequently resulted in the seizure of Uzi submachine guns and other sophisticated weaponry. Surveying the weapons at a March news conference, Turner called the district's streets ``something out of the wild, wild West.'' Officers will have their new guns by 1990. And police have learned that simply arresting more drug suspects hasn't dulled the city's appetite for narcotics. A highly-touted anti-drug program, Operation Clean Sweep, has produced more than 46,000 arrests since it began in August, 1986. However, Turner has complained that the program, which sends swarms of officers through drug-infested neighborhoods to make arrests, has done little more than further clog the city's already overcrowded jail and court systems. For each drug dealer arrested, another springs forward, according to Turner. ``A lot of these kids are high school dropouts with few skills,'' Turner said. ``They can make up to a $1 million a year selling drugs. What would you do?'' Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, who can prosecute both local and federal crimes, announced in December that he is assigning five senior prosecutors to work solely on drug-related killings in the district. Turner also has called on city officials to spend more money on drug education, prevention and treatment programs. Currently, a three-week wait is common for people wanting to enroll in the city's treatment centers. As for the future, police believe that as markets are more firmly established for crack, a highly-addictive cocaine derivative, the murder rate will decrease. ``This is one of the last major cities in this country to have an infusion of crack,'' Turner said. ``When crack arrived in other cities, like New York, murder rates went up there, too.'' AP890102-0009 AP-NR-01-02-89 0026EST r w PM-NewLaws Bjt 01-02 1134 PM-New Laws, Bjt,1131 Medicare, Pensions Among Changes To Take Effect With New Year By MATT YANCEY Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Ringing in the new year are dozens of changes in federal laws and regulations, many of them aimed at quenching Americans' thirst for security and a few that will make life a little more expensive. Among the most significant of the Jan. 1 changes are a vast expansion of Medicare to cover catastrophic illnesses, faster pension fund vesting that will benefit millions, particularly women, and tax changes reducing the government's subsidizing of purchases on credit. Others that occurred just before the end of 1988 or are scheduled early in 1989 include a ban on lie detector tests by private employers, 60 days advance notice of plant closings and large layoffs and a new law prohibiting landlords from discriminating against the handicapped and families with children. A few of the changes are a little more esoteric but their impact eventually may be felt by the entire population. For example, Environmental Protection Agency regulations implementing the 46-nation ozone treaty took effect Jan. 1. The regulations don't require chemical companies to actually do anything until next July, but then they must cut their production of chloroflourocarbon or CFC compounds by an estiamted 20 percent back to 1986 levels. The treaty is aimed at halting the depletion of the ozone layer 15 to 25 miles up protecting the earth's surface from ultraviolet rays. CFC compounds also contribute to the ``greenhouse'' effect that is warming the planet. As a result of the regulations, consumers may notice fewer plastic food containers from fast-food outlets, thicker insulating panels and possibly even slightly harder seat cushions. The biggest of the immediate changes is the Jan 1. expansion of Medicare coverage for 32 million Medicare beneficiaries to include catastrophic health care costs. Prior to passage of the measure last summer by Congress _ the first major expansion of Medicare in its 22-year history _ the program paid full hospital bills for no more than 59 days a year. With the changes that took effect Sunday, the beneficiary still will have to pay the first-day deductible of $560. But that charge will be assessed no more than once a year no matter how many times the patient has to be hospitalized. The other 364 days are fully paid. That fundamental change in the hospital benefit was the cornerstone of the Medicare expansion set in motion by President Reagan in his 1986 State of the Union message. ``Let us remove a financial specter facing our older Ameicans _ the fear of an illness so expensive that it can result in having to make an intolerable choice between bankruptcy and death,'' he said then. Medicare enrollees will pay for the new benefits through a flat increase in the premium deducted from their monthly Social Security checks and an additional sliding scale premium for approximately 40 percent of the elderly who pay federal income tax. The flat increase will be $4 a month effective immediately, climbing to $10.20 monthly in 1993. The sliding scale premium is projected to rise from a maximum of 15 percent of regular income tax liability in 1989 to about 28 percent in 1993. Many of the Jan. 1 changes grow out of the 1986 Tax Reform Act. The biggest new benefit from that law is faster vesting in pension plans. The maximum waiting period for employees to become fully invested in a pension is being cut in half from 10 years to five years. However, employers can adopt an option that denies full vesting until seven years. To do so, they have to offer 20 percent vesting after three years and an additional 20 percent vesting annually until the seventh year, when it reaches 100 percent. The Employee Benefit Research Institute estimates that the pension changes will provide a retirement stake to 2 million more workers a year. ``We'll especially see more women being vested than in the past because they tend to be in the workforce or with the same employer for shorter periods,'' said Stephanie Poe, a spokeswoman for the institute. Another tax change is that only 20 percent of personal interest payments on everything from car and student loans to credit card charges will be deductible in 1989, compared with 40 percent last year. And while the government is now raising tax brackets, exemptions and standard deductions to keep cost-of-living raises from bumping people into higher brackets, it also is taking more Social Security taxes. The 7.51 percent Social Security tax took a maximum $3,380 out of employee paychecks in 1988. This year the maximum amount of income subject to the tax rises from $45,000 to $48,000, raising the maximum Social Security tax that can be collected from an individual employee to $3,605. The latest change came about just last Thursday, when the Federal Aviation Administration ordered airlines, effective Jan. 1, to either inspect by hand or X-ray all luggage checked aboard U.S. airline flights from western Europe and the Middle East. The new inspections, prompted by the bombing of a Pan Am jet over Scotland on Dec. 21, are expected to delay passenger check-ins by about an hour. Other changes taking effect slightly before or after New Year's Day include: _ The use of polygraph or lie detector tests by private employers to screen job applicants was outlawed, with some exceptions, effective last Tuesday. The American Civil Liberties Union estimates the law will effectively eliminate about 80 percent of the 2 million polygraph exams now administered annually. _ A 47-year-old ban on homework in five apparel trades is being removed on Jan. 8, unless unions which support the prohibitions win a court stay first. Affected are an estimated 50,000 to 75,000 workers in fields such as mittens and gloves, embroideries, buttons and buckles, handkerchiefs and some jewelry trades. They will be able to work legally at home for the first time if their employers obtain a certficate from the Labor Department after pledging to abide by minimum wage and other federal labor standards. _ A law requiring employers to provide 60 days advance notice of plant closings or layoffs affecting 50 or more people officially takes effect Feb. 4. However, there are different interpretations on whether companies are required to have provided 60 days notice beforehand if they close a plant on that date. The Labor Department advised in early December that, to avoid potential liability, they should. _ Regulations implementing a law passed by Congress last summer forbidding landlords from discriminating against the handicapped or families with children take effect March 12. Violators can be fined up to $10,000 for a first offense, $25,000 for a second violation in a five-year period and $50,000 for two or more violations within a seven-year period. AP890102-0010 AP-NR-01-02-89 0024EST r i PM-Chile-Volcano 01-02 0307 PM-Chile-Volcano,0315 Volcano Eruption In Southern Chile May Last Two Months SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) The Christmas Day eruption of the snow-capped Lonquimay volcano in southern Chile is gaining in force and seismologists say they expect it to continue for at least another two months. Authorities have issued masks to residents who are remaining in the area to protect them from a thick cloud of ash spewed by the volcano over a sparsely populated area of about 12 square miles. And scientists estimate that 525 million cubic feet of lava have oozed out of the 8,400-foot volcano, toward an uninhabited valley, since the eruption began. Lonquimay, a peak in the Andes foothills about 400 miles south of Santiago, had been dormant for a century when it erupted on Christmas Day. Authorities say the eruption poses no danger for two nearby villages, Lolco and Malacahuello. Residents of both towns quickly evacuated after the eruption, and some later returned home. But many remain lodged at schools and municipal buildings in Curacautin, a city 50 miles away. Authorities on Saturday issued masks to the few residents who had returned to their homes. Researchers, soldiers and police officers also in the area were also wearing the white masks. On Sunday, the volcano continued to spew smoke and lava through a 300-foot-wide crater. The volcano initially showed three separate smaller fissures, but a series of explosions joined them into a single crater, authorities said. Seismologists from the University of La Frontera, in Temuco, the largest city in the region, said a 1,200-foot-wide, 30-foot-high mass of lava is slowly slipping down the volcano. They said the route followed by the lava is the same as the one in the Lonquimay's previous eruption, in 1889, and poses no danger for the population. Livestock in the area were removed to safer zones, police said. AP890102-0011 AP-NR-01-02-89 0027EST r w PM-McLaughlin Bjt 01-02 0797 PM-McLaughlin, Bjt,790 McLaughlin Says Successor Belongs on Bush Economic Team By MATT YANCEY Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Outgoing Labor Secretary Ann McLaughlin says her successor needs to carve out a place on President-elect Bush's team of top economic advisers to help solve the nation's competitiveness problem. Mrs. McLaughlin, the only woman in the Reagan Cabinet, said in an interview with The Associated Press, ``On occasion I've felt that we were spending too much time looking backward instead of preparing a human resource policy for the future.'' Bush recently named former Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole as the next labor secretary and _ so far _ the only woman in his Cabinet. But he did not give her what Mrs. McLaughlin thinks the labor secretary needs: a designated spot on his top economic team right alongside the heads of the Treasury and Commerce departments and the White House budget office and Council of Economic Advisers. Mrs. McLaughlin, during her 14-month Cabinet stint, sought to heighten business awareness of employee needs such as job retraining, flexible hours and child-care assistance, and emphasized the links between education and competitiveness. ``I see the Labor Department as an economic arm,'' she said. ``I think Bush is headed there. The question is how do we get to the next step.'' ``The name of the game is going to be competitiveness and unless the incoming labor secretary moves in there and ties the human resource issues with the equation ... we're going to have a skills shortage,'' she said. Mrs. McLaughlin, in what she calls her holistic approach to workplace issues, has often complained that too many people in government, labor and business are looking backward and constantly fighting over turf. During her brief tenure, Mrs. McLaughlin spent a good part of her time in those skirmishes, fighting her way into them on occasion and sometimes finding herself on the sidelines. It was on her watch that the AFL-CIO won its first major legislative victories in a decade: a ban on the use of polygraphs or lie detectors by private employers to screen job applicants and mandatory advance notices of plant closings and large layoffs once vetoed by Reagan. With Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., forming an uncharacteristic but also unstoppable alliance on the first, Mrs. McLaughlin helped persuade the White House to acquiesce to the polygraph ban rather than continue opposing it on behalf of some business groups. She was relegated to the sidelines on the second, with then-Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III using the plant closing notices as the primary reason for Reagan to veto legislation overhauling the nation's trade laws. When Republican moderates from northern and midwestern states with large blue-collar constituencies wanted to cut a deal last spring in which labor would get advance notices of plant closings but not other layoffs, Baker said no. Four months later, with polls showing that more than 80 percent of voters favored advance layoff warnings, Baker, then Bush's campaign chief, persuaded Reagan to let the notices for both layoffs and plant closings become law without his signature. ``Plant closing was bigger than all of us,'' Mrs. McLaughlin said. ``There was never a time when the plant closing situation was really thought through. If I'm remiss, I suppose I should have hollered louder.'' As the former No. 2 official in the Interior Department, Mrs. McLaughlin relished playing the broker, mediating disputes between environmentalists and oil companies and cutting deals on Alaskan and offshore drilling. She tried the same approach at Labor, finding that while union leaders and business executives spoke glowingly of cooperation, they were often unyielding in practice. ``Organized labor is not there yet in its role of what it can do for itself and this country with regard to training, a quality work force and all the issues of the workplace as we move into the 21st Century,'' she said. ``And they won't be there, in my view, if they continue just to back mandated legislation piecemeal to address workers' needs. ``On the other hand, business isn't there yet either. It will hold the line on legislation, just like labor will push it, instead of finding out what's driving these things,'' she said. Mrs. McLaughlin said she will keep speaking out on child care, flextime, education, drugs _ the human resource issues that she says will determine the nation's economic health in the 1990s. She claimed she is not surprised not to have a role in the new administration, although she had declared her availability early. ``I expected George Bush to find his team, his people,'' she said. ``It's time to leave because I leave on a high. I join a prestigious group of people who were here only a year or two years.'' AP890102-0012 AP-NR-01-02-89 0018EST u a AM-RetirementHomeSlayings 01-02 0241 AM-Retirement Home Slayings,0248 Two Killed, Four Hurt In Retirement Home Attack DADE CITY, Fla. (AP) Two residents of a retirement home were beaten to death and four were injured in an attack early New Year's Day, and police detained an 88-year-old man for questioning, authorities said. The man being questioned was regarded as a key witness and was taken into custody Sunday night, said Police Chief Phil Thompson. The man has not been ruled out as a suspect, but no charges have been filed, Thompson said. The two killed in the attack in this central Florida city were Max Nickbarge, 90, and Myrtle Smith, 73. The man in custody shared a room at the house with Nickbarge and with Frank Tear Sr., 89, who suffered a fractured skull and was listed in critical but stable condition Sunday night at Tampa General Hospital, authorities said. Frank Tear Sr. is the father-in-law of Helen Tear, who owns the Reflections I retirement home, where the attacks occurred. The man who was taken into custody was missing when the bodies were found Sunday morning by two nurses, Thompson said. One of the nurses slept through the attacks, which took place between midnight Saturday and 8 a.m. Sunday, Thompson said. Esther Kelly, 67, was in guarded condition Sunday night following surgery at a hospital here, Thompson said. Lucy Mitchell, 85, and Ruth Godfrey, 71, were in fair condition at a hospital in Zephyrhills. AP890102-0013 AP-NR-01-02-89 0049EST r a PM-Names 01-02 0668 PM-Names,0694 Names in the News LaserPhoto NY14 NEW YORK (AP) Steven Bochco is developing a TV series about a teen-age doctor, Jackie Mason is tailoring his comedy show for Britons and Ron Howard is preparing to make Jason Robards and Steve Martin into a father-and-son team. Bochco, one of 36 artists who told The New York Times about their plans for the 1989, said he got some inspiration from his father, who was an accomplished violinist by age 7 or 8. He plans a half-hour series to begin on ABC in September about a 16-year-old doctor. ``It's interesting to think that a 16-year-old kid can't buy a six-pack of beer, but he could write you a prescription for morphine,'' said the writer-producer of ``L.A. Law.'' Mason, whose one-man show ``The World According to Me'' was a hit on Broadway, said he is writing new material about the differences in lifestyles between England and New York for the debut of his show in Britain in February. ``In England, politeness is the accent of the whole culture,'' he said. ``I swear if a guy was drowning, he'd be ashamed to holler `help.''' Howard, whose movie credits include ``Cocoon,'' plans to start filming ``a comedy-drama about several phases of parenthood'' later this month. Robards will play Martin's father, Rick Moranis will play Martin's brother-in-law and Dianne Wiest will play a single mother, he said. ``When you get them all in a room, they actually look like a family,'' Howard said. NEW YORK (AP) Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr., who was recently re-elected to his 11th term in Congress, married Mary Ann Tinklepaugh Knauss, a deputy assistant secretary of commerce for intergovernmental affairs. The couple were married Saturday at St. Philip's Episcopal Church-in-the-Highlands in Garrison. It was the third marriage for Fish, a 62-year-old Republican who represents New York's 21st District. His previous two wives died. The new Mrs. Fish, a longtime Republican activist, directed the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign in Connecticut. Her previous marriage ended in divorce. The wedding was the second for a Hamilton Fish this year. Fish's father, Hamilton Sr., the oldest living former member of Congress who turned 100 last month, married his live-in housekeeper in September. NEW YORK (AP) Tenor Luciano Pavarotti will lead a group of stars in performing with the New York City Opera Orchestra in a benefit for Lincoln Center. Also appearing in the Jan. 9 gala will be Mariella Devia, Kallen Esperian, Shirley Verrett, Pietro Ballo, Thomas Hampson, Sherrill Milnes and Ruggero Raimondi. The artists will perform operatic arias, duets and ensembles with the orchestra. Afterward, they will join guests for a supper party on the promenade of Avery Fisher Hall, which will be decorated as a Renaissance garden of an Italian palazzo with troubadours in medieval costumes. Proceeds of the black-tie event will benefit the center's Great Performers Series. HOUSTON (AP) The Chicago Bears' Mike Ditka, who refused to be sidelined earlier this season by a heart attack, is the most charismatic coach in the National Football League, according to an informal survey. ``He hurls gum, he's back a couple of weeks after a heart attack, he says outrageous things, he mocks opposing fans and stadiums,'' said the New York Post's Steve Serby, one of 11 writers and broadcasters surveyed by The Houston Post. ``What more do you want?'' The Bears came out as the most charismatic team overall, finishing first in three of the eight other categories in the survey: stadium, unique characters and fans. Orange County Register columnist Mark Whicker said he would ``love to have a few drinks with the Bears _ and watch them fight.'' The runners-up for the charisma title were San Francisco and Washington. The Atlanta Falcons were the most woesome in the charisma leagues, finishing last in seven categories, including the worst uniforms. That vote wasn't unanimous, though. Washington Post columnist Tony Kornheiser said Tampa Bay's uniforms are so bad, their players ``look like clerks at Disney World.'' AP890102-0014 AP-NR-01-02-89 0051EST r a PM-Lites 01-02 0459 PM-Lites,0476 On The Light Side SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Ants, ants and more ants are marching into San Francisco Bay area homes, crawling up Christmas trees and making themselves a nuisance in unprecedented numbers because of winter's sudden onset. ``They give me the heebie-jeebies. Last night I came back to find the bathtub black with ants,'' said Elizabeth Darling of Menlo Park. The ants, lured by early December's sun and mild temperatures, weren't ready for the recent wet and cold weather. When the weather changed, they went scurrying inside houses, said Joe Neitzel, manager of Rose Exterminator Co. ``I can't remember when it's been this bad. We're being flooded by calls, absolutely flooded,'' said Neitzel. The insects also were lured inside by Christmas trees, which drip sap and are adorned with candy canes, both of which they find irresistible, exterminators said. ``We spray ... everywhere, but it's only a Band-Aid solution. They always come back,'' said Ms. Darling. Exterminators say the Argentine ants _ the Bay area's most common variety _ are hard to get rid of. You may control them for a few weeks, or even months, but the ants will come marching back. ``They were on this planet before us, and they'll definitely outlive all of us,'' said James Pereira of Jackson Pest Control in Novato. ``For people like me, that's what you call job security.'' BOSTON (AP) While others were at home nursing hangovers, the Boston Harbor's icy waters were apparently just what the doctor ordered for those who braved an annual New Year's Day swim. ``It was great!'' said Frances Tobin after her first winter swim. ``I said I was going to do it and I did it.'' Forty-nine men and women took to the 29-degree water Sunday morning to celebrate the L Street Brownies swimming club's 85th anniversary. Before they ran down the beach into the water, Paul Levenson, the club's president, apologized to onlookers for ``the mild weather over which we have no control.'' It was 25 degrees. ``Not bad,'' said Al Binari, 55, as he left the water. Many of the swimmers are longtime members of the swimming club headquartered at the L Street Bathhouse in south Boston. Some, like George Graney, 75, Jerry Collins, 82, and Joe Alecks, 77, have been swimming in the harbor year-round for decades. ``We do it for health reasons,'' said Graney. ``It's a discipline. We do it every day, like joggers. Some days we have to chop the ice away before we go in.'' Peter Jurzynski, 37, scoffed at questions about the cleanliness of Boston Harbor, which was an issue in last year's presidential campaign. ``The yuppies go to the Caribbean; we have the crystal clear waters of Boston Harbor,'' Jurzynski said. AP890102-0015 AP-NR-01-02-89 2354EST u i AM-Czechoslovakia-Defection 01-02 0238 AM-Czechoslovakia-Defection,0247 Czechoslovak Hockey Star In Custody Of Canadian Immigration CALGARY (AP) A 17-year-old Czechoslovakian hockey star who wants to play in the National Hockey League was in the custody of Canadian immigration officials when his teammates flew back home Monday, tournament officials said. Peter Nedved had disappeared from his billet's residence early Monday morning. ``He is currently in the hand of the immigration people,'' said Ted Taylor, chairman of the Mac's Midget Hockey Tournament. Taylor said he doesn't know whether the 6-foot-2, 165-pound forward has asked to stay in Canada. Nedved said in a weekend interview he wanted to return to Canada as a visitor but would ``prefer to play here.'' He led the tournament in scoring and his club, Litvinov, won the event. Spokesmen for the Immigration Department could not be reached, and a spokesman for the External Affairs Department in Ottawa said he had no information about Nedved. His father played on Czechoslovakia's national team alongside his current coach Josef Beranek. An older brother also played before being drafted into the army. That fate would await Peter in Czechoslovakia. ``I should have a better chance to play for the national team, every boy hopes to play for it,'' he said through an interpreter. His dream also includes the NHL. ``I don't plan that far ahead,'' he said with a smile. ``But I'll be able to give you a better answer in five years.'' AP890102-0016 AP-NR-01-02-89 0111EST r w PM-PoliceDeaths 01-02 0212 PM-Police Deaths,190 Deaths of Police Officers Down Slightly In 1988 WASHINGTON (AP) The number of police officers who died in the line of duty in 1988 fell slightly to 153, the National Association of Chiefs of Police said Sunday. The national total was 155 the year before. Eight women officers were included in the 1988 total; three women officers died the year before. In 1988, California led the nation with a loss of 23 officers, followed by 21 in Texas, where five died in Dallas alone, and 13 in Florida. Robert Ferguson, president of the association, said many police killers were on alcohol or drugs. Of the officers killed, 75 died of gun shot wounds, 58 in traffic chases and accidents and the rest in plane crashes, stabbings, drownings and other causes in the line of duty. Their average age was 27. Gerald Arenberg, a spokesman for the association, said the 153 deaths included a broad range of law enforcement officials from county sheriff deputies and local police to FBI and corrections officers. The association has maintained an American Police Hall of Fame listing all officers killed since 1960 when 55 died. In 1988, one office died every 57 hours. On average, 157 are wounded or injured every day. AP890102-0017 AP-NR-01-02-89 0111EST r w PM-Rehnquist 01-02 0408 PM-Rehnquist,410 Chief Justice Backs 51 Percent Pay Raise For Jurists WASHINGTON (AP) Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has strongly endorsed a proposal to raise federal judges' salaries by 51 percent to $135,000 a year. In his 1988 year-end report on the federal judiciary, Rehnquist threw his weight behind a presidential commission's recommendation of big pay raises for judges and about 2,000 other top federal officials. Besides calling for the pay raise for trial judges, who now make $89,500, the commission recommended boosting salaries of federal appeals court judges from $95,000 to $140,000, a 47 percent jump; of Supreme Court associate justices from $110,000 to $165,000, a 50 percent increase; and of the chief justice from $115,000 to $175,000, a 52 percent increase. The recommendations are pending before President Reagan, who can accept or modify the figures before sending his fiscal 1990 budget to Congress on Jan. 9. Under the law, whatever pay increases the president endorses will take effect 30 days later unless both the House and the Senate vote to set them aside. ``Over the past two decades, the purchasing power of federal judicial salaries has been seriously eroded by inflation,'' Rehnquist said. The buying power of an appeals court judge's salary has dropped 30 percent in the past 20 years, said the chief justice, adding, ``While the salary of the median household has increased approximately 200 percent to keep pace with inflation since 1969, the salaries of federal (trial) judges rose by little more than half that amount.'' Rehnquist cited a recent American Bar Foundation survey in which 30 percent of the federal judges who responded said they planned to resign before retirement unless ``a significant increase in compensation'' is provided. ``Dozens of federal judges have resigned from the bench during the past 15 years, far more than ever before, due in large part to financial reasons,'' Rehnquist said. ``And the problem appears to be growing worse.'' He said judicial salaries are directly linked to ``the quality of American justice.'' Comparing justice and medical care, Rehnquist said, ``We are interested in receiving the best medical care available. If the quality of medical treatment is poor, it is little consolation that the cost may be low.'' He added: ``The right to one's day in court is meaningless if the judge who hears the case lacks the talent, experience and temperament that will enable him to protect imperiled rights and to render a fair decision.'' AP890102-0018 AP-NR-01-02-89 0112EST r a PM-FerretHalfwayHouse 01-02 0424 PM-Ferret Halfway House,0440 Unwanted Ferrets Find Shelter at Halfway House LaserPhoto CX8 CHICAGO (AP) Deep in the basement of a suburban family home, 220 ferrets from all around the country frolic with toy balls, crawl tubes and other ferret-phernalia in a makeshift halfway house for the weasel-like creatures. The ferrets, unwanted by their owners or between homes, are the pride and joy of Mary Van Dahm, who keeps 14 of her own upstairs. It started 18 months ago when a group of concerned Chicago-area ferret-lovers formed the Greater Chicago Ferret Association. Mrs. Van Dahm, the only founding officer with a basement, was asked to run the association's shelter. She agreed. So when a Chicago woman recently asked her veterinarian what to do with two ferrets her older son had outgrown, she was told to head for the Van Dahm home. There, the ferrets live in cages until a new owner is found. ``We've gotten ferrets from all over the country,'' said Mrs. Van Dahm, who prefers to keep the location of her home a secret so as not to disturb the neighbors. Some were transported from New Jersey. A batch from Kentucky arrived after animal-welfare officials seized 19 ferrets from a Louisville-area woman who kept them in a cramped back-yard shed. Others come from disenchanted owners. ``It was not what I expected,'' one woman said, complaining that her ferret did not like to sit in her lap to be stroked like a cat. ``They are more exotic than dogs or cats,'' Mrs. Van Dahm said. ``They are good for apartment dwellers because they are small and can be kept in cages most of the time. ``They also have a bit of a wild look, and they don't provoke allergies,'' she said. Of the nation's estimated 5 million pet ferrets, about 10,000 live in the Chicago area, said Janice Miller, president of the Greater Chicago Ferret Association based in suburban Westchester. She said the association was formed because ``so much was unknown'' about ferrets. ``We wanted to say, `Hey, these little guys aren't so bad.'' Ferret lovers say the animal's reputation as a sometimes vicious biter is unfounded. They are often mistakenly considered rodents but related to weasels and mink. Like cats, they can be trained to use litter boxes and will eat cat food. ``They have a strong will to survive,'' said Susan Brown, a Westchester veterinarian and another association member. ``They are easy to work with. I'm seldom bitten. In fact, I'm bitten far more often by iguanas and birds.'' AP890102-0019 AP-NR-01-02-89 0108EST u i PM-Hungary-Parliament Bjt 01-02 0726 PM-Hungary-Parliament, Bjt,0750 Hungary's Parliament No Longer Just A Rubber Stamp An AP Extra By TEDDIE WEYR Associated Press Writer BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) Not long ago, Parliament was a mere rubber-stamp body that met for just four three-day sessions a year. Now, outspoken deputies are openly demanding accountability from Communist authorities. Live television coverage came to Parliament in September, and its 383 deputies have since begun edging the once-tame forum toward democracy. Increasingly, deputies are bringing into the open formerly taboo subjects such as defense spending. They challenge government and Communist Party leaders to adhere to their avowed policy of openness and disclose facts and figures. The changes, more rapid than political reforms occuring in Mikhail S. Gorbachev's Soviet Union, have prompted rare admissions from Hungary's Communist leadership about how parliamentary work was controlled in the past. Matyas Szueroes, head of the party's parliamentary group, was quoted by the government daily Magyar Hirlap as admitting that Communist leaders once met with deputies to tell them how to vote. On live radio and television, constituents watch closely what one Budapest man termed the ``great theater'' emanating from Parliament's 19th century quarters on the Danube _ and are exercising their own rights as a result. Deputy Karoly Eke says he has received a ``tremendous response'' from constituents since the broadcasts began. Just two days into December's session, he had already received eight letters commenting on his behavior in debates. Deputies now meet often, and debate into the night. In December, Parliament held the year's unprecedented fifth session, the third in as many months. The agenda was so long that speaker Istvan Stadinger announced an unprecedented Christmas recess, with business to resume Jan. 10. Mindful of November's exhausting session, when deputies worked 12 hours a day to get through the agenda, he also limited the length of daily sessions in the high, gilded chamber. The non-Communists who make up 25 percent of the deputies then took another unprecedented step, banding together in a formal group intended as a counterweight to the long-established group of Communist parliamentarians. Judit Benjamin, coordinator for the new group, told Magyar Hirlap it aims to obtain the same information as Communist deputies. The non-Communists include one of the most outspoken deputies, Zoltan Kiraly, a television journalist from southern Hungary who was expelled from the Communist party earlier this year for his views. In October, Kiraly stunned the chamber when he and other deputies requested a change in voting procedures on a controversial dam and power plant project opposed by many Hungarians as damaging to the environment. His request for a roll call vote sparked an acrimonious, spontaneous debate that was eventually settled by compromise. Taking government and party leaders at their word that this Soviet bloc country's Parliament should be more independent, Kiraly and other deputies have also called for new elections prior to those planned for 1990. The reformers say the current legislature _ with 75 percent Communist deputies _ is incapable of making independent decisions. In some ways, the changes in Parliament mirror events in the society at large. Within weeks this fall, Hungary went from debating whether a multi-party system was feasible to discussing how soon it would come about. The Communist leadership _ the country's ruling force _ has appealed for patience, saying the package of political reforms it outlined in November will take 18 to 24 months to introduce. Deputy Justice Minister Geza Kilenyi has said a new constitution and a law on establishing political parties will be adopted before the 1990 elections. Non-Communist candidates were allowed to contest and win seats in the last elections in 1985. But debates that seemed fiery and controversial then now seem dull. In December, for example, Budapest transport official Andras Derzsi won only a simple majority when elected to head a new ``superministry'' for construction, transport and communications. Just 25 deputies voted against Derzsi _ the only candidate put forward by Communist premier Miklos Nemeth. But 128 abstained in a vote that was forced into a recount after one deputy complained the 115 tally for absentions was inaccurate. On the dam project vote in October, Szueroes admitted the Communist leadership ``gave a firm orientation'' to party deputies not to support a referendum or the organization of international supervision. But he added swiftly in a December interview, ``This belongs to the past.'' AP890102-0020 AP-NR-01-02-89 0120EST r a PM-ExperiencedGroom 01-02 0334 PM-Experienced Groom,0347 Woman Unconcerned About Husband's 16 Previous Marriages BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) Cleveland Yelder said he believes his latest marriage will last forever. But then, he felt the same way about the previous 16. ``I'm a very optimistic individual,'' said Yelder, who is nearly two weeks into his latest marriage. His shortest marriage lasted two weeks, his longest about five years. ``Some people say once you're married, that's it _ you go through thick and thin,'' said Yelder, 46, sitting on his sofa and stroking a long-haired cat. ``I like this cat, but if this cat scratches me, I'll put it down.'' Yelder's 48-year-old wife, Ethel, was unconcerned about his previous marriages. ``I never heard of a man being married that many times,'' said Mrs. Yelder, who married Yelder nearly two weeks ago. ``But it didn't bother me a bit.'' According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the highest number of verified marriages in the monogamous world is 27. The Yelders live in a small, green house. Mrs. Yelder works as a part-time nurse's assistant. Yelder, who has been unemployed since heart surgery nearly 19 years ago, does the cooking. ``My wife is the breadwinner,'' he said Sunday night. ``I cook and clean up. I'm the house man.'' Yelder said he has no regrets about his previous marriages. He said his divorces can show people that ``there's a way out of marriage without violence. In all those marriages I've never killed any one; I've never shot anyone.'' ``A divorce can be mended, a broken heart can be mended, but once you're 6 feet under, it's all over,'' he said. ``That's my philosophy.'' Probate courts list 16 of Yelder's marriages, starting at age 18 when he married a 15-year-old girl. He said he had only three children during his marriages, but has fathered 11 illegitimate children. As for his new wife, ``If she said tonight, `Baby it's over, pack your grip, make your trip,''' he would end the marriage, Yelder said. AP890102-0021 AP-NR-01-02-89 0127EST r w PM-DividedGovernment 1stLd-Writethru a0423 01-02 0722 PM-Divided Government, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0423,690 WASHINGTON TODAY: Political Combatants Will Come Out Smiling Eds: SUBS lead to correct area to arena; SUBS 7th graf pvs, bgng Democrats, firmly, to fix figure to $32 billion By LEE GOULD Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Like prizefighters entering the ring, Republican President Bush and the Democratic Congress will return to the political arena this month, after two months of preparation, with lots of smiles and a handshake. And as in any championship, high-stakes fight, it will be only a matter of time before someone ends up with a bloodied nose _ the tough, veteran Democrats who have controlled Congress for years, or the Republican administration, which showed in last fall's campaign that when the going got tough, it did, too. The Senate's new Democratic majority leader, George Mitchell of Maine, already has asked the president-elect to approach Congress with ``candor, consultation and trust.'' George Bush, who promised a ``kinder and gentler nation'' in his successful campaign, has indicated he wants a closer relationship with Congress than that enjoyed by his predecessor, Ronald Reagan. Round One won't begin until after Bush is inaugurated on the West Front of the Capitol on Jan. 20 and Congress returns the following Monday, Jan. 23. Then, however brief, will come that Washington institution, the political honeymoon. But unlike other Washington institutions, the honeymoon probably won't last long. Democrats, firmly in control of both the House and Senate, are anxiously awaiting the new president's budget recommendations, starting with his ideas on how to save $32 billion to meet deficit-reduction targets. Then, in May, Bush will have to ask Congress to raise the national debt ceiling above its current $2.8 trillion figure. Democrats also will have their own agenda to push, perhaps a renewed drive for a hike in the minimum wage, and other costly plans to compete for tight budget dollars. And all these problems and programs come wrapped in Bush's promise not to raise taxes. ``The deficit is a time bomb with a lighted fuse,'' Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La., said in a recent interview. ``Bush's tendered solution, his flexible freeze, is deja voodoo all over again. The idea that we can grow our way out of this mess is absolute nonsense.'' The question is: How can a Republican president, elected by a solid majority, deal with a Democratic Senate and House, also elected by a solid majority? History, it seems, is against the president. ``Presidential success is mainly a function of the number of seats in Congress held by the president's party,'' say writers Norman J. Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, Thomas E. Mann of the Brookings Institution and Michael J. Malbin of the House Republican Conference, in their book, ``Vital Statistics on Congress.'' Using figures compiled by Congressional Quarterly, the congressional observers uncovered some stark statistics. ``When one party controls both branches, success never drops below 75 percent,'' they said. ``With divided government, presidents average well below that level of success.'' For example, when Lyndon Johnson swept into office in 1964, his agenda, measured by public positions, was near 88 percent successful in the Congress. Republican Gerald Ford, however, managed only a 58.2 percent ``victory'' rate in first full year in office. When Jimmy Carter marched into the White House in 1976 with his party in control of both houses of Congress, he enjoyed, initially, a 75 percent success rate in pushing his legislation. But that shouldn't be the case in 1989, with Bush vowing no new taxes and Democrats almost daring him to run the country without them. ``It isn't a question of economics, it's a question of mathematics,'' says House Speaker Jim Wright of Texas. ``I want to give him the benefit of the doubt. Surely he must have a plan,'' Wright says. Across the Capitol, Senate leader Mitchell also is offering to reason with Bush. ``The larger objective is to provide to our people the greatest possible individual liberty and economic opportunity,'' Mitchell said. ``Our system, divided or not, can do that. But it can do it only if there is a shared understanding of the need for candor, consultation and trust.'' ``Divided government cannot work in a polarized society, one in which mistrust and deceit are widespread,'' Mitchell added. EDITORS: Lee Gould covers the Congress for The Associated Press. AP890102-0022 AP-NR-01-02-89 0144EST r a PM-PilgrimProtest 01-02 0318 PM-Pilgrim Protest,0329 27 Arrested Outside Pilgrim Nuclear Plant PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) Twenty-seven people were arrested during a demonstration to protest the Pilgrim nuclear plant's restart nearly three years after it was closed for management and maintenance problems. Those arrested, who were among more than 125 demonstrators, were charged with trespassing and released, authorities said. ``It was a symbolic show of our frustration, of our determination not to go away,'' said Donald Muirhead, a member of Citizens for Responsible Energy. The protesters gathered at Duxbury High School on Saturday morning and positioned themselves at the entrance to one of the plant's two main gates. One protester, Priscilla Dean Hatton of West Yarmouth, said she is a 12th-generation descendant of a Pilgrim born on the Mayflower. ``Why are they still making these wasteful products with no place to dump them?'' she asked during the hour-long protest. On Friday, the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission cleared the way for low-power testing of the 670-megawatt reactor for up to 5 percent of its capacity. If the plant's restart schedule is followed, Pilgrim will provide customers power when it hits 10 percent of capacity sometime next month. It will reach full power in four months. Pilgrim had been shut since April 1986, when the NRC called the reactor ``one of the worst-run'' nuclear plants in the country. Boston Edison has spent about $200 million since the shutdown to replace nearly all of the plant's top management, fix mechanical problems and fight skepticism by the NRC and a growing anti-nuclear movement among residents. But the state has vowed to do everything possible to keep the plant from operating. State officials including Gov. Michael S. Dukakis have said evacuation plans for those living near the plant are inadequate despite utility company revisions. They also have said the plant should not reopen until a new study of leukemia rates of nearby residents is complete. AP890102-0023 AP-NR-01-02-89 0155EST d a PM-BRF--Koch-Mouth 01-02 0151 PM-BRF--Koch-Mouth,0157 NYC Mayor: I Won't Shut Up NEW YORK (AP) Mayor Edward Koch says he doesn't intend to change his outspoken manner to win re-election. ``Lots of people have said to me, `Listen, Ed, shut up for the next six months and you'll get re-elected. Automatically.' ... ``I don't want to shut up,'' he said on WABC-TV's ``Eyewitness News Conference,'' broadcast Sunday. Koch, who has said he will run for an unprecedented fourth term this year, alienated many blacks during the Democratic presidential primary by saying Jews would be crazy to vote for Jesse Jackson. ``I do speak out occasionally too much,'' the mayor admitted. ``But I don't think so much too much. I believe that the people of this town want a mayor who's not afraid.'' He added: ``I have a right to maintain my principles and to speak out. And I'm not afraid to do that.'' AP890102-0024 AP-NR-01-02-89 0157EST r a PM-Obit-Calas 01-02 0179 PM-Obit-Calas,0186 Nicholas Calas, Art Critic and Poet, Dies at Age 81 NEW YORK (AP) Nicholas Calas, a poet and art critic whose work focused on young artists and new art movements, has died at age 81. Calas died of heart failure Saturday in his Manhattan home. Calas contributed to Art Forum, Arts Magazine, Art International and other journals. Many of his essays on the deeper cultural meanings of modern art were collected in ``Art in the Age of Risk.'' Calas collaborated with the anthropologist Margaret Mead on ``Primitive Heritage,'' a 1953 anthology of texts chosen for their literary and humanist significance. Born to Greek parents in Switzerland, Calas was educated in Greece, and lived in Paris during the 1930s, where he joined the Surrealist movement. His poems were written in Greek and translated into English for publication here. Calas came to the United States in 1940 and worked for the Office of War Information during World War II. He became a U.S. citizen in 1945. Calas is survived by his wife, the former Elena von Hoershelman. AP890102-0025 AP-NR-01-02-89 0234EST u i PM-Flight103 01-02 0644 PM-Flight 103,0664 Thatcher Opposes ``Eye for an Eye'' Revenge for Plane Bombers LaserPhoto NY6 By BEN DOBBIN Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said all nations must cooperate to track down whoever sabotaged Pan Am Flight 103 but made clear she opposes an ``eye for an eye'' revenge attack that could harm innocent people. In Washington, FBI Director William Sessions welcomed PLO chairman Yasser Arafat's reported offer to help in identifying any suspects. However, he said he still had no evidence linking a terrorist group to the plastic explosives bomb that downed the New York-bound Boeing 747. Mrs. Thatcher distanced herself Sunday from U.S. vows to punish the culprits, saying ``I don't think an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth is ever valid.'' The Dec. 21 explosion and crash at Lockerbie, Scotland killed all 259 people on board. Another 11 people on the ground are missing and presumed dead. ``The most important thing to do is to try to get the cooperation of all nations to track these people down so that they are brought to justice,'' Mrs. Thatcher said in a television interview with journalist David Frost. ``Revenge is never a good word to use because it can affect innocent people,'' she added. The Sunday Express, a London newspaper, reported without attribution that Arafat has vowed to dispatch an assassination squad to hunt down and kill whoever is responsible. The paper said the Palestine Liberation Organization also sent a message to President Reagan pledging ``a traitor's death'' for the bomber if its operatives find him first. U.S. officials say no group has offered a credible claim of responsibility for the attack. Speculation on suspects has focused mostly on Palestinian extremists opposed to Arafat's Middle East peace initiative. Reagan said in his weekly radio broadcast Saturday that a report overseen by President-elect Bush advocating possible military action against terrorists ``ought to be giving some people sleepless nights'' in the wake of the bombing. He did not elaborate. Bush vowed last week to ``seek hard and punish firmly, decisively, those who did this, if you could ever find them.'' Sessions, interviewed Sunday on ABC's ``This Week with David Brinkley'' and NBC's ``Meet the Press'' said Arafat has ``a wealth of information he can give us'' but said he opposes any attempt by the PLO leader to retaliate by killing any suspects. ``We believe in the system of justice,'' the FBI director said. ``We hope those people are handled in the courts.'' He added that contacts between the FBI and Arafat presumably could be set up by the State Department. U.S. and PLO officials opened a dialogue Dec. 17 after Arafat renounced terrorism and recognized Israel's right to exist. Sessions said he anticipated a lengthy investigation into the crash. Mrs. Thatcher allowed Reagan to use U.S. bombers based in Britain to bomb Libya on April 15, 1986, in retaliation for alleged Libyan sponsorship of international terrorism. At least 100 people were killed in the raid. She said Sunday that no country should grant the Pan Am bombers safe haven or permit them to escape justice. ``I think public opinion is disgusted with nations that will not try to track down terrorists, absolutely disgusted,'' she said. Searchers in Lockerbie gave up their traditional New Year's celebrations Sunday to continue the hunt for bodies and wreckage. Police said that one more body, thought to be one of the missing local residents, was recovered, bringing the total found to 242. British newspapers reported Saturday that investigators believe the bomb was smuggled onto the flight in Frankfurt, possibly by a Lebanese-born passenger duped into carrying it. The West German government said no evidence supports those reports. Flight 103 originated in Frankfurt with a Boeing 727 and switched to a Boeing 747 at London's Heathrow Airport for the trip to New York. AP890102-0026 AP-NR-01-02-89 0301EST u i PM-Greece-Terrorism Bjt 01-02 0772 PM-Greece-Terrorism, Bjt,0794 Palestinian Held By Greece May Hold Clues To Pan Am Bombing By PATRICK QUINN Associated Press Writer ATHENS, Greece (AP) A Palestinian held by Greece and wanted by the United States for the 1982 bombing of a Pan Am jetliner may hold clues to the group that blew up Flight 103 over Scotland last month. Whether he will ever tell his story in a U.S. court is an open question. Greece's Supreme Court has twice delayed the extradition of Mohammed Rashid, 39, who is thought by Western intelligence experts to specialize in the planting of bombs aboard jetliners and to be a senior operative in the May 15 Palestinian terrorist group. The Rashid case has taken on extra significance since the Dec. 21 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed all 259 people aboard the Boeing 747 and about a dozen on the ground. U.S. and European officials are focusing on the May 15 group and another extremist group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, as possible suspects in the bombing. On Nov. 15, the Greek Supreme Court indefinitely postponed its decision on extraditing Rashid, saying the United States had failed to supply key documents in the case. The U.S. Embassy in Athens says the requested documents have been turned over to the Greek government. ``The requested papers have been sent. I guess they are being moved from ministry to ministry,'' said an embassy representative, speaking on condition of anonymity. Rashid is wanted in the United States on charges of planting a bomb that exploded on a Pan Am jet as it flew from Tokyo to Hawaii six years ago. A Japanese teenager was killed and 15 people were hurt. Rashid was arrested at Athens airport on May 29 on a tip from U.S. officials and was sentenced to seven months in jail for entering Greece with a false passport. American officials have claimed Rashid and the May 15 organization _ which is named for the date the 1948 Arab-Israeli War began _ also involved in the 1986 bombing of a TWA jetliner over southern Greece that killed four Americans. That blast is not mentioned in the extradition request. The Supreme Court has not said when it will issue its decision. An extradition ruling has to be approved by Justice Minister Vassilis Rotis before it can be carried out. The long delays in Rashid's case, combined with the rejection of an Italian plea for extradition of another Palestinian, have given rise to charges that Greece's governing Panhellenic Socialist Movement is not committed to combating international terrorism. In early December, the government reneged on an extradition agreement with Italy and put 27-year-old Abdel Osama Zomar on a plane to Benghazi, Libya. Zomar was suspected of helping to organize a September 1982 attack on Rome's main synagogue that killed a 2-year-old boy and left 37 people injured. The Palestinian had been imprisoned in Greece since November 1982, when he was arrested at the Greek-Turkish border driving a car loaded with explosives. Justice Minister Rotis said he overturned a 1984 Supreme Court extradition decision because Zomar was ``acting in the struggle for the re-acquisition of his homeland.'' Zomar had been identified as one of two Arabs jailed in Greece with links to the extremist Palestinian faction Fatah-Revolutionary Council, which is headed by terrorist mastermind Abu Nidal. The other is Omar Mabrouki, serving a 10-year jail term for trying to shoot the Jordanian charge d'affairs in Athens in 1984. According to Greek and Western intelligence officials, Zomar's detention may have triggered an attack on the City of Poros cruise ship last July near Athens. Nine people were killed and 11 others were injured in the assault. There have been no arrests in connection with the ship attack, but one of the four men apparently involved in the machine-gun and grenade assault has been identified by Greek police as Mohammed Khadar, 40, the alleged operations officer for the Abu Nidal group. In the past, Greece has been criticized by its Western allies for failing to crack down on suspected Palestinian terrorists operating out of the country. Last year, the government was accused of allowing the Abu Nidal group to operate a logistics office in Athens in return for a promise by the group that it would not launch attacks in Greece. The office was shut down in July 1987 after strong protests from Greece's allies. Greece has repeatedly denied it is soft on terrorism. ``The government condemns all forms of terrorism and takes all measures it deems necessary to fight it,'' government spokesman Sotiris Kostopoulos said recently . AP890102-0027 AP-NR-01-02-89 0318EST u i BC-JapanMarkets Advisory 01-02 0027 BC-Japan Markets, Advisory,0027 EDITORS: Banks, government offices, markets and many businesses are closed in Japan Monday for the new year holiday. The AP AP890102-0028 AP-NR-01-02-89 0357EST r i PM-NewYear'sWorld 01-02 0767 PM-New Year's World,0793 Earthquake, Boat Disaster Rock New Year By DAVID BEARD Associated Press Writer The New Year rumbled into Peru with an earthquake, left thousands homeless in Philippine fireworks accidents and claimed at least 51 lives in Brazil when a tour ship capsized. But 1989 brought a warm exchange of greetings from President Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. It ushered in a prayer for peace by the Roman Catholic leader in war-torn El Salvador and a tentative olive branch from one Korea to the other. In Afghanistan, the guns again roared, despite a New Year's cease-fire resolution by the Soviet-backed regime. Rocket and artillery barrages ended a brief truce between rival Shiite Moslem militias in Lebanon. Traditions persisted. Thousands blew noisemakers in Times Square in New York to watch 1989 begin, and millions of Japanese went more sedately to temples and shrines to pray for health and prosperity as the year of the snake slithered in. In Italy, a preservation group found Sunday that the tower of Pisa leaned a little more during 1988, tilting another .0508 inches toward the ground. At that rate, it will take at least a century to topple. In Havana, President Fidel Castro pledged ``socialism or death'' in a televised speech marking the 30th anniversary of his communist revolution. Revelers on a jammed cruise ship in Rio de Janeiro listened to samba music as they sailed for a fireworks display off Copacabana Beach. The boat capsized, and authorities said at least 51 people drowned. Survivors said few life jackets were accessible when the 100-foot Bateau Mouche went down. Illegal fireworks ignited six fires in Manila on Sunday, leaving thousands of people homeless, authorities said. Hospital officials said seven people died from shootings and stabbings in New Year's celebrations and brawls in Manila and Cebu. A check with doctors at 20 Manila hospitals showed 1,134 people were injured, mostly by fireworks. President Corazon Aquino today called for an end to the widely ignored ban on fireworks and ``some kind of regulation and control to minimize'' accidents. Fire killed at least one person and destroyed 3,000 makeshift houses in one slum neighborhood. At least 733 revelers in Italy were reported injured by fireworks, none seriously. At least two deaths and dozens of injuries were attributed to fireworks accidents in West Germany. An earthquake registering 5.5 on the Richter scale shook Peru, but officials had no report of injuries. It came after the lights went out in Lima for the second New Year's in a row in a power blackout believed caused by leftist guerrillas. Children injured by the Dec. 7 earthquake in Armenia received toys and clothes from around the world, Tass said. The Soviet news agency said a boy from Spitak was asked what he wanted from Father Frost, a bearded man who brings gifts on New Year's. ``Let him return my mother,'' 8-year-old Armen Kazaryan said from his hospital bed. The new year elicited olive branches from leaders worldwide. North Korean President Kim Il Sung, in a New Year's speech, invited South Korean President Roh Tae-woo to a political conference in the near future. Reagan and Gorbachev each sent New Year's messages to each other's country. On Soviet television, Reagan said: ``Despite our disagreements, we have been able to find some common ground.'' In El Salvador, Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas said urged an end to a 10-year-old civil war in which he said 1,369 people died in 1988. ``This situation is a heart-breaking cry that summons us to keep striving for peace with the weapons the gospel has put in our hands: the weapons of light, of hope, of reconciliation, all the fruits of love,'' he said. Pope John Paul II told 20,000 worshipers at New Year's Mass in the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica that nations should give special attention to minorities and urged kidnappers to release their hostages. ``Let's hope that it is the year of peace, of justice, of growing solidarity, of social solicitude for each one and for everybody,'' he said. In Afghanistan, the government had promised a New Year's Day cease-fire. But guerrillas attacked government troops in two villages Sunday in an eastern province and eight guerrillas were killed, official Radio Kabul said. A bomb blast at a temple in India killed at least five Hindus as they prayed on Sunday, 1989's first victims of continuing Sikh militant violence in India's northwestern Punjab state. In Chile, officials said 11 teen-age inmates at a juvenile detention center died in a fire that apparently started during a jailbreak _ five minutes before the new year. AP890102-0029 AP-NR-01-02-89 0409EST r i PM-Cuba 01-02 0491 PM-Cuba,0508 Castro Rejects Soviet Reforms By GEORGE GEDDA Associated Press Writer HAVANA (AP) President Fidel Castro, celebrating the 30th anniversary of his revolution, rejected market-oriented economic reforms and said that for Cuba, it is ``socialism or death.'' Castro's remarks, in a televised speech Sunday night, seemed aimed at the Soviet Union and other Communist countries that have been abandoning strict adherence to Marxist doctrine. ``Today we say with more force than ever, socialism or death, Marxism -Leninism or death,'' he said. Castro spoke to a large gathering from the balcony of the municipal building in the eastern city of Santiago, where he had proclaimed victory for his revolutionary struggle on Jan. 1, 1959. He did not refer directly to the Soviet Union in his remarks, saying only that the contemporary situation has been marked by ``confusion.'' In other speeches, Castro has been more explicit about his rejection of the reform policies of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. He has said that Cuba will never embrace any reforms that ``reek of capitalism.'' He also has acknowledged that the changes under Gorbachev could cause ``difficulties'' for Cuba. The Cuban-Soviet friendship, although far from breaking up, seems more tenuous now than it has been in decades. A key question is whether Soviet unhappiness with the way Cuba has used economic aid from the Kremlin _ estimated at $5 billion annually _ will lead to cutbacks. Castro has used the economic aid to help build his country's schools and hospitals, the Soviets say, and has neglected industrial development. Calling the revolution a ``beacon of light before the eyes of the world'' Castro said Cuba has an enormous responsibility to Third World countries to stick to its present hard-line Marxist-Leninist course. Much of Castro's speech was devoted to reviewing the revolutionary heritage of the people of Santiago and other cities in eastern Cuba. Cuba officials said Castro is expected to deliver a policy address on Wednesday. Despite Sunday's call for ideological steadfastness, Cuban policy has undergone some drastic changes in the past year, including its recent commitment to withdraw its 50,000 troops from Angola by 1991. In Latin America, Castro has been aggressively pursuing interests common to other countries in the area. The evolution of democracy in Latin America, which has been welcomed by the Reagan administration, has also had the ironic side effect of opening diplomatic opportunities for Castro. The Cuban leader, once known for his efforts to promote violent revolution, now seems more interested in pursuing normal ties with elected governments. Castro attended presidential inagurations in Ecuador and Mexico in recent months and may participate in the inauguration of the President Carlos Andres Perez of Venezuela next month. During Castro's visit to Mexico in late November, his first since he was exiled there in the 1950s, he said he envisions the eventual unity of Cuba and the rest of Latin America. ``One day, we will make one big giant,'' he said. AP890102-0030 AP-NR-01-02-89 0423EST r a PM-PTL-Judge 01-02 0529 PM-PTL-Judge,0553 PTL Bankruptcy Judge Calls Bakker `Sawed-Off Runt' CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) The judge who presided over PTL's bankruptcy proceedings said he received threats during the case, and couldn't understand why Jim Bakker's followers ``were interested in that little, sawed-off runt.'' Rufus Reynolds, who retired Saturday at age 81 as a U.S. bankruptcy judge, was guarded by U.S. marshals during the bankruptcy proceedings as the FBI investigated the threats. ``They didn't say, `I'm going to kill you.' They said, `The Lord's going to take you,''' Reynolds said. ``I didn't know Christians could be so critical. They would just chew me out.'' When a woman called the bankruptcy court in Columbia, S.C., to find out if he was a Christian, ``I said, `You tell her I was when I started this case, but now I plead the Fifth Amendment.''' Reynolds said television ministries are ``wide open'' for mismanagement or corruption. ``I think Congress should pass a very strong act forcing the IRS ... to make them comply with an accounting,'' Reynolds said. ``We have all kinds of laws protecting consumers. Religion is just another consumer item, just the same as selling soap or washing powders or aspirin.'' Reynolds also said he was amazed at the response to the travails that brought down Bakker's evangelistic empire. ``What puzzled me was why people were interested in that little, sawed-off runt,'' Reynolds said. Bakker, who resigned from PTL in 1987, responded Sunday, saying: ``I am shocked to find Judge Reynolds so prejudiced toward us, and to hear of him making fun of us and the PTL partners. ... ``He should not have tried the PTL case with these feelings against us.'' The ministry filed for protection under federal bankruptcy laws in June 1987, three months after Bakker resigned from PTL. Two months ago, Reynolds ordered Bakker, his wife, Tammy, and former aide David Taggart to repay PTL nearly $7.7 million in benefits he found to be excessive. Last month, he approved the sale of PTL assets to a Canadian businessman. Also last month, a federal grand jury indicted Bakker and former top aide Richard Dortch on charges including fraud and conspiracy, accusing them of diverting more than $4 million in PTL money for their own benefit. Two other former PTL officials were indicted. Upon his retirement, Reynolds sand he left the PTL case discouraged and somewhat cynical. From the beginning, Reynolds said he believed the only way to save PTL was to keep it intact as a religious operation. ``It's a one-purpose center, a religious center _ a wonderful idea,'' Reynolds said. ``If Bakker had employed reasonable business principles, just on an average, they wouldn't owe a dime.'' Reynolds said he was disappointed at the outcome of the case. ``When you've had 40,000 cases _ at least; when you've had success in lots of them, the majority of them; when you take the one most publicized, best known, and you make a failure, you can't feel very good. It's that simple,'' Reynolds said. ``I'm going to take a bath and forget about it,'' Reynolds said. ``Someone asked me what was the best part of the whole case. I said, `Getting out.''' AP890102-0031 AP-NR-01-02-89 0427EST r a BC-Quotes 01-02 0152 BC-Quotes,0157 Current Quotations By The Associated Press ``I don't think an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth is ever valid.'' _ British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, distancing herself from U.S. vows to punish those responsible for the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland. ``We still don't know the magnitude of the S&L crisis. We're not even certain what the regulators have been doing the past week, running up a tab of some $40 billion.'' _ Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas, on the rescue by federal regulators of 217 savings institutions in 1988. ``We made it because we were strong and could swim. If you weren't in good shape, you simply died.'' _ Passenger Hans Nihaj of Denmark who swam to safety with his wife, daughter and five countrymen after an overcrowded boat capsized New Year's Eve off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. AP890102-0032 AP-NR-01-02-89 0435EST r a PM-BRF--DoubleHomicide 01-02 0144 PM-BRF--Double Homicide,0149 Couple Found Slain In Their Home LARCHMONT, N.Y. (AP) A couple was found dead in the master bedroom of their home in this affluent village's first homicide in nearly a decade, police said. Shanta Chervu, 51, and her husband, Lakshmamrao, 58, both doctors, were stabbed and possibly bludgeoned, said Police Chief William Keresey. A relative called police Sunday evening after finding that the rear door of the home had been broken into, Keresey said. No motive for the slayings was determined, police said. Chervu was a professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine; his wife was a doctor at New Rochelle Hospital, police said. It was the first homicide in this New York City suburb of 6,000 residents since about 1979, when a police officer shot and killed a robber who was holding up a drug store, Keresey said. AP890102-0033 AP-NR-01-02-89 0449EST r a PM-DikeBreak 01-02 0502 PM-Dike Break,0518 Residents Clean Up from Burst Dike ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) Residents of two states today cleaned up homes damaged by a 12-foot wall of water that surged down the Virgin River after an dike broke, forcing 1,500 people to evacuate and closing Interstate 15. The 2,000-foot earthen dike 15 miles east of here gave way early Sunday, flooding 50 to 60 homes and 100 apartment units in southwest Utah and three homes in Littlefield, Ariz., authorities said. No injuries were reported. The dam, which was less than 4 years old, had a history of seepage, authorities said. When civil defense sirens signaled the evacuation shortly after midnight Saturday, some of the 1,500 people in the flood's path mistakenly thought they heralded the new year, officials said. Sherri Hansen of Bloomington and her husband had 20 minutes to evacuate before the water hit. They sat on a hill watching through binoculars. ``We sat there hoping and praying the river wouldn't get us,'' she said. ``The river didn't hit everyone. I don't know how it chose us, but we really got nailed.'' The water surged into the Hansens' home, filling the basement to the ceiling and doing structural damage estimated at $40,000. In Littlefield, Lester C. Taylor, 27, his wife and five children rescued many of their belongings before their adobe home was submerged in 5 feet of water. ``The bad part was making sure my wife and the kids were OK,'' Taylor said. ``I was scared.'' Utah Gov. Norm Bangerter flew to the region 300 miles south of Salt Lake City, declared Washington County a disaster area in an attempt to gain state and federal aid. At a news conference, Bangerter said the dike, built for $23.5 million in 1983, would be rebuilt. He said engineers would try to determine the cause of the 300-foot-wide breach that opened. The dike had helped contain Quail Creek Reservoir. In all, 25,000 acre feet of water rushed through the breach and down the Virgin River, but the surge was short-lived. By midday, it had slowed to a trickle and power had been restored. Interstate 15, closed for 14 hours, was reopened after several bridges spanning the river were declared safe. Two bridges in the St. George area were washed out, closing part of Utah 9. Seepage at the dike dated to 1985, the year the reservoir was filled, said Ronald Thompson, chairman of the Washington County Water Conservancy District. Even before construction, state geologists had warned that the presence of gypsum salt in the bedrock beneath the dike could cause problems. Gypsum dissolves if exposed to water for prolonged periods. Previous leaks were repaired with little difficulty, Thompson said. New seepage was discovered Saturday morning, and by evening what had been small water loss had expanded to a major leak, said Thompson. Heavy equipment was dispatched to reinforce the dike, but by 10:30 p.m. it became apparent nothing could be done to prevent a breach and the machinery was pulled out. AP890102-0034 AP-NR-01-02-89 0515EST r a PM-MissingBoy 01-02 0523 PM-Missing Boy,0539 Teen-Ager Eats Spiders, Snow to Survive Six Days Lost in Forest SAN DIEGO (AP) A 15-year-old who got lost in the Cleveland National Forest survived six days and bitter-cold nights by sleeping in hollow logs and eating snow and spiders, his mother said. ``I don't know how he did it, being out there in 20 degrees and below,'' Debbie Campbell said of her son, Andrew. ``He kept telling himself he had more to do in life. He's a strong boy, and he's got a will to live.'' The boy was in fair condition early today at Sharp Memorial Hospital, where he was being treated for minor frostbite and hunger, hospital spokeswoman Pauline Renner said. ``His feet are swollen ... and very bruised,'' said Mrs. Campbell of rural Guatay. ``He's lost about 20 pounds.'' A father and son who had gone for a drive in the eastern San Diego County backcountry found the missing teen-ager Friday, three days after authorities abandoned their search despite protests by his parents. Though the boy was wearing several pairs of socks, thermal underwear, a flannel shirt and Army field jacket, nighttime temperatures dipped into the 20s for several days while he was missing. ``It's just a miracle that he was found alive out there as low as the temperatures dropped,'' Mrs. Campbell said. The youth had become separated from a friend while returning home Dec. 23 from an overnight fishing trip with a group of boys. He had frostbitten feet and toes when he arrived at the hospital by ambulance, Renner said. Mrs. Campbell said her son couldn't remember some things that happened or the order in which events occurred. But he could recall crawling, walking and jogging through the forest, eating snow and spiders, sleeping in a hollow log and burying himself under a mound of dirt to stay warm, she said. ``I asked him, `How can you eat spiders?' and he said, `I plucked off the legs and ate them,''' Mrs. Campbell said. The boy was rescued by Bill Orsborn, 60, a retired firefighter from La Mesa, and his son, Mark, 29. ``He was just off under some oak trees wandering around,'' Bill Orsborn said. ``He was disoriented. He didn't know where he was, how long he was out there or what day it was.'' While driving him back to Guatay, about 60 miles east of downtown San Diego, Campbell recalled how he ate handfuls of snow because water in the ravines was foul, the elder Orsborn said. ``He mentioned that he had tried to eat some crawdads from a stream, but that they made him sick,'' Orsborn said. Authorities had abandoned their search Tuesday after dogs trailing his scent lost it near a roadside. Sheriff's officials said they believed Campbell, who ran away from home once before, hitched a ride out of the forest and was safe. ``I do feel angry that they just quit,'' Mrs. Campbell said. ``We didn't give up, though. We had a search party ready to go.'' A taped statement issued by the sheriff's department said officials will review how the search for Campbell was conducted. AP890102-0035 AP-NR-01-02-89 0521EST r a PM-LaserWeapon 01-02 0331 PM-Laser Weapon,0338 Report: Pentagon Readying Anti-Satellite Laser Eds: Miracl cq NEW YORK (AP) The Pentagon will present the Bush administration with a proposal to test a giant laser weapon modified so that it can destroy enemy satellites, according to a published report. The proposal could spark controversy, because some members of Congress and others oppose the development of anti-satellite technology on the grounds that it could escalate the arms race. The laser, named Miracl, was designed to shoot down enemy missiles and has been tested successfully at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. But now the Air Force is preparing to engage in anti-satellite tests, which could occur as early as this year, The New York Times reported Sunday. A duty officer at the Pentagon said Sunday there would be no immediate comment on the report. To conduct the tests, the device must be modified so its beams are steady enough to be focused on objects hundreds of miles away. Experts say the modification will be relatively easy, but the laser will have to be tested before anyone knows whether it can actually destroy satellites. It will be tested on old U.S. satellites, the paper said. The decision to upgrade the laser was made early last month by Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, and was reported in the Dec. 19 issue of Aviation Week and Space Technology. However, the military must receive White House approval before the device is tested on satellites. President-elect Bush has given no indication of his position on the issue. Gen. John Piotrowski, commander in chief of the United States Space Command, has said that the Soviet Union has lasers capable of destroying American satellites and that the United States' lack of such equipment is a ``grave detriment to our national security.'' Paul Stares, a research associate at the Brookings Institution, countered that the planned laser could ``undermine the general improvement in U.S. and Soviet relations, as well as progress in arms control.'' AP890102-0036 AP-NR-01-02-89 0530EST r a PM-PlayoffBlues 01-02 0206 PM-Playoff Blues,0212 Police: Man Threatened Children Over Outcome of Football Game CINCINNATI (AP) A man who held police at bay for two hours and threatened to shoot his children apparently did so because he was upset the Cincinnati Bengals beat the Seattle Seahawks in a playoff game, authorities said. The standoff began about 12:30 a.m. Sunday, when the children's mother called to report her husband had barricaded himself with a gun inside the family's suburban Cincinnati condominium, Union Township police dispatcher John Kiskaden said. Officers arrived to find Doran Whitney, 30, formerly of Seattle, threatening to shoot the children, ages 2 years and 3 months, Kiskaden said. The dispatcher said he didn't know the children's sexes. The children later were found unharmed and asleep in their beds. Police said Whitney surrendered peacefully about 2:30 a.m. and was charged with aggravated burglary, aggravated menacing, domestic violence, inducing panic and child endangering. He was being held Sunday in the Union Township jail, Kiskaden said. Whitney became despondent after watching Saturday's National Football League game in which Cincinnati defeated Seattle, 21-13, police said. ``We get them every year,'' Kiskaden said. ``Last year, we had a guy drive his car into a tree because the Bengals lost.'' AP890102-0037 AP-NR-01-02-89 0618EST r a PM-FarmworkerHousing 01-02 0572 PM-Farmworker Housing,0586 Housing Conditions for Farmworkers Hit Lowest Point in Decades g Eds: Stands for MONTERY COUNTY-dated story on New Advisory. SALINAS, Calif. (AP) A family of nine squeezes into an apartment the size of a small studio. Dozens of farmworkers share a single house. Others live in their cars or, worse, in bushes. Housing conditions in 1988 for farmworkers in the Salinas and Pajaro valleys about 120 miles south of San Francisco were the worst in decades, according to Monterey County officials. ``I would say this is probably the worst I've seen in farmworker housing in Monterey County from the standpoint of ignoring the health and welfare of the farmworker,'' said Walter Wong, Monterey County director of environmental health. ``They're putting them in such extreme conditions _ such as sleeping on top of pesticide sacks, sleeping in caves, sleeping in the bushes, cooking in dirt in the ground, with no water, no toilets,'' he said. Wong's agency is charged with licensing farm labor camps and enforcing health codes. In 1988, he set a record by shutting down five illegal camps, yet he concedes that for every camp he raided, many others went unreported. ``The fact is, there's just going to be more of these extreme substandard housing conditions unless there is more housing developed for the farmworker,'' he said, adding that landlords and labor contractors are scooping up 100 percent profits under current conditions. Conditions are as primitive as any the ``harvest gypsies'' of the Depression era endured, Wong said. Inspectors found workers and their families living in garages that were divided only with fabric partitions. Workers at one camp used a discarded bathtub for bathing, building a fire beneath it to warm the water. Monterey County Supervisor Sam Karas toured some of the camps last summer and discovered workers living in outhouses. ``It's really a disgrace,'' said Crescencio Padilla, a former farmworker and longtime community activist. ``I saw the same situation 20 years ago, and it's worse than it was then. We're going backward.'' Just over a decade ago, the Salinas Valley enjoyed a reputation for good working and living conditions following a successful organizing drive by the United Farm Workers union. Many growers provided camps for workers. But conditions have changed since then, and observers cite several pressures that have combined to create the farmworker housing crisis: _ The federal amnesty program for illegal aliens attracted a larger stream of workers and family members to an area where housing costs are twice the national average. At least two workers competed for every job last summer. Rents can quickly eat up a worker's monthly earnings. A two-bedroom house in Salinas rents for about $800 a month, while the minimum wage for farmworkers is $5 an hour and most workers take home only about $200 to $250 a week. _ More families are choosing to live here year-round, filing for unemployment benefits and hoping to find piecework during the off-season. _ The number of licensed labor camps in the county has fallen from more than 200 during the 1970s to 48 as growers and the government have gotten out of the housing business. _ Growers are relying more on independent contractors for their labor supply. The number of contractors in the county has more than tripled in the last three years, according to some estimates, and workers are told a labor contractor's responsibility is to find jobs, not housing. AP890102-0038 AP-NR-01-02-89 0651EST r a PM-WomanKilled 01-02 0287 PM-Woman Killed,0295 Woman Gunned Down After Answering Knock at Door NEW YORK (AP) Police searched today for the men who shot a 62-year-old mother of 14 to death ``like an animal'' through the front door of her home. Doris Smith was shot early Sunday in the borough of Brooklyn after she refused to let three or four men involved in a dispute with a member of her family into her home, police and family members said. ``Before she could turn around they cut loose,'' said her eldest son, Steven, 38. ``She was gunned down like an animal. Everyone panicked and started hollering, and the guys ran away.'' Mrs. Smith was shot six times, and police recovered about 14 spent 9mm bullet casings, said Detective Sgt. Harold V. Paulson. No one else was hit. Smith said four men had come looking for one of his brothers, who had warned his mother not to tell anyone he was home. Smith said a girlfriend was involved. The shooting was the result of a dispute between the gunmen and a member of Mrs. Smith's family, but was not drug-related, said Detective Sgt. Vincent Gerecitano. Paulson said that, as far as police knew, Mrs. Smith was ``an innocent victim.'' Mrs. Smith was a retired housekeeper who was widowed six years ago. Smith said the family had expected to gather on New Year's Day for an annual dinner of his mother's specialities _ roast chicken and apple pie. ``She was a good mother,'' he said. ``She didn't drink or smoke or even go out. She was glad that she lived another year. Now, we have to make funeral arrangements ... It's not easy to start the new year like this.'' AP890102-0039 AP-NR-01-02-89 0656EST u i PM-Soviet-Unrest 01-02 0359 PM-Soviet-Unrest,0371 Armenian Paper Prints Alleged Threat; Activist Calls It a Fake MOSCOW (AP) An official Armenian newspaper has printed a letter purported to be from Armenian nationalists who threaten to wage terrorist attacks with U.S.-made Stinger missiles if their leaders are not freed from jail. Rafael Popoyan, an Armenian activist, called the letter a ``total fabrication from beginning to end.'' He said it was another attempt by Soviet officials to discredit people agitating for annexation of Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian enclave of neighboring Azerbaijan. Published by the local Communist Party daily Kommunist, the letter demands the immediate release of members of the Karabakh Committee, a banned group that has led an 11-month campaign for the annexation of the enclave. If the committee's leaders are not freed, the unsigned document says, ``we will have recourse to mass terror ... in our arsenals, we have `Stingers,' provided by our friends.'' A facsimile copy of the purported document was published in Kommunist's Wednesday editions, which reached Moscow over the weekend. Kommunist said the letter was received by law enforcement officials, and labeled ``to be transmitted to the KGB.'' The letter made no additional reference to the Stingers. Many of the U.S.-made ground-to-air missiles have been shipped by the United States to insurgents fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan. Popoyan said the letter may herald a further crackdown by Soviet authorities on the Karabakh Committee, seven of whose members are now in jail. The other four reportedly are in hiding to avoid arrest. ``Now that so many members of the committee have been arrested, there is no one to answer these ridiculous charges,'' Popoyan said, speaking by telephone from Yerevan, the Armenian capital. ``The press is now closed to anyone from the committee.'' Soviet authorities jailed Karabakh committee leaders after the Dec. 7 earthquake in northwest Armenia, which killed 25,000 people. Authorities have accused committee members of sabotaging the earthquake relief effort and whipping up ethnic tensions by continuing to seek Karabakh's annexation by Armenia, a demand the Kremlin has refused. Since February, at least 60 people have been killed in ethnic rioting in mainly Christian Armenian and mainly Moslem Azerbaijan. AP890102-0040 AP-NR-01-02-89 0713EST u i PM-Soviet-Economy 2ndLd-Writethru a0467 01-02 0477 PM-Soviet-Economy, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0467,0484 Soviets Ban Exports Of Caviar And Other Consumer Goods Eds: SUBS 4th graf to CORRECT to 1990. Picks up 5th, `It also ...' ^By ANN IMSE Associated Press Writer MOSCOW (AP) In an apparent effort to help remedy severe consumer shortages, the Soviet Union announced it would ban the export of goods ranging from caviar to children's shoes. The official news agency Tass also said foreign visitors will be limited to 100 rubles worth of souvenirs. That is $166 at the official rate or $20-$25 at the black market rate. In the report Sunday, Tass said the restrictions specifically applied to tourists. The radical changes in export and customs regulations take effect Feb. 1 and last until the end of 1990. Tass said the Council of Ministers approved the changes, but did not give a date for the decision. It also did not explain the effect of the ruling on the Soviet Union's attempts to earn scarce hard currency by selling the best caviar, fur hats and coats, vodka and souvenirs in stores that require dollars, pounds or other freely convertible money. Tass said it will be forbidden to export televisions, refrigerators, freezers, washing and sewing machines, children's clothing and shoes, coffee and caviar. Coffee is not grown in the Soviet Union, and the import duty is up to $15 a pound. The announcement also said customs duties will climb to 20 to 100 percent of the retail price on vacuum cleaners, mixers, coffee-grinders, irons, radios, cameras, automobile parts and other items. It was not clear if this meant import or export duties. Export limits were imposed recently in Czechoslovakia after complaints that tourists from neighboring Soviet bloc nations were stripping its stores bare of consumer goods. The practice prompted a Soviet economist, Marina Pavlova-Silvanskaya, to warn in Soviet Culture on Sunday of an impending ``trade war'' among socialist countries. Many Russians travel to Eastern Europe on shopping trips, and Ms. Pavlova-Silvanskaya herself reminisced about trips to East Germany and Poland. She said her boss insisted that ``the program had to include a visit to some institution named for Lenin, lest the Germans or Poles think the citizens of the nation of the Great October Revolution are coming to shop.'' None of the socialist countries of Eastern Europe has fully convertible currencies, and they trade with each other based on exchange rates that often do not cover the exporting country's cost of production, much less a profit. Ms. Pavlova-Silvanskaya noted that capitalist countries don't find an invasion of shoppers a problem. On Nov. 7, a holiday in Hungary, 100,000 Hungarians went to Austria and spent $42 million in hard currency, she wrote. Rather than limit exports, the Austrians responded to the horde of shoppers with advertisements in Hungarian newspapers, inviting them back on their next day off, Ms. Pavlova-Silvanskaya noted. AP890102-0041 AP-NR-01-02-89 0718EST r a PM-WeatherpageWeather 01-02 0595 PM-Weatherpage Weather,0610 Fog Covers Nation's Midsection; Travelers Stranded By The Associated Press Fog blanketed the nation's midsection today, and freezing rain and low visibility made travel treacherous in some areas. Dense fog on New Year's Day caused delays for thousands of holiday travelers whose flights were canceled or stalled at airports in Kansas City, Mo., and St. Louis. ``It has been rather hectic,'' said George Small, manager of passenger services for Braniff at Kansas City International Airport. ``We couldn't land because of the fog and had to divert nine Kansas City-bound planes to Omaha (Neb.), several to Wichita (Kan.) and Tulsa (Okla.) and one to Amarillo, Texas.'' Fog was widespread today over the Ohio, middle Mississippi and lower Missouri river valleys. Dense fog advisories were in effect in Indiana and Kentucky. Fog also formed in Texas and Florida. Freezing drizzle was reported in Michigan, New York state and Pennsylvania. In the West, dense fog formed in the Idaho and Utah. A cold front from Michigan to Oklahoma was expected to move eastward and spread drier air across the Midwest, dissipating some of the fog. Behind the cold front, cold arctic air spread across the northern Plains into the upper Mississippi Valley. Temperatures dropped to around 20 below zero in parts of North Dakota and Minnesota. Precipitation was sparse, with some light rain and drizzle in the Pacific Northwest and snow in northern Idaho. Light snow also fell over the upper Mississippi Valley and northern Great Lakes. Winds gusted to 60 mph at Big Timber, Mont., and Cody, Wyo., and to 55 mph at Cut Bank, Mont. Today's forecast called for snow in much of New York state and northern New England, a mixture of rain and snow over southern New England, snow showers in Michigan, rain showers over much of Arkansas, rain in western Washington state and Oregon, and snow from the eastern sections of Washington and Oregon to northwest Montana. High temperatures were forecast in the single digits and teens in the northern and eastern sections of the northern Plains, the upper Mississippi Valley, northern portions of the upper Great Lakes and northern Maine; 20s and 30s in the northern and central Rockies, the remainder of the northern Plains, the central Plains, the middle Mississippi Valley, the remainder of the Great Lakes and northern parts of the Ohio Valley to the remainder of New England; 60s in Southern California and southern Arizona; 60s and 70s in Texas, the lower Mississippi Valley, the Gulf Coast states, much of Florida and the southern Atlantic Coast states; 80s in the southern Florida Peninsula; and the 40s and 50s in the rest of the nation. Temperatures around the nation at 2 a.m. EST ranged from 22 degrees below zero at Warroad, Minn., to 73 degrees at Key West, Fla. Other reports: _East: Atlanta 40 foggy; Boston 34 cloudy; Buffalo 35 cloudy; Charleston, S.C. 49 cloudy; Cincinnati 32 foggy; Cleveland 29 fair; Detroit 27 foggy; Miami 67 fair; New York 37 cloudy; Philadelphia 36 cloudy; Pittsburgh 33 cloudy; Portland, Maine 23 cloudy; Washington 36 foggy. _Central: Bismarck -21 fair; Chicago 26 foggy; Dallas-Fort Worth 56 cloudy; Denver 24 fair; Des Moines 13 fair; Indianapolis 25 foggy; Kansas City 25 cloudy; Minneapoli-St. Paul 1 fair; Nashville 41 foggy; New Orleans 59 cloudy; St. Louis 34 foggy. _West: Albuquerque 31 fair; Anchorage 28 fair; Las Vegas 34 fair; Los Angeles 51 fair; Phoenix 43 fair; Salt Lake City 21 foggy; San Diego 51 partly cloudy; San Francisco 40 fair; Seattle 40 cloudy. _Canada: Montreal 9 snow; Toronto 28 foggy. AP890102-0042 AP-NR-01-02-89 0728EST r a PM-NewYorkNewYear's 01-02 0362 PM-New York New Year's,0370 One Dead, Two Wounded After Shooting; Thousands Gather in Times Square NEW YORK (AP) A man was shot to death, two others were wounded and at least 52 people were arrested as an estimated 600,000 revelers left Times Square to begin another new year, police said. Crowds began assembling for the Times Square celebration at 6 p.m. Saturday. Police began blocking off streets around about 8:40 p.m.; by 10:30 p.m. people were packed in shoulder-to-shoulder. The revelers counted down the last few seconds before midnight and watched a lighted ball slide down a pole, just as it has most New Year's Eves since 1907. When 1989 arrived, the crowd let loose, uncorking champagne, throwing confetti and even pitching a few bottles. ``Last year was a bad year but next year, I mean this year, is going to be cool,'' Paul Stahura, 26, of Lafayette, Ind., said just minutes into the new year. Three men, who were with three friends, were shot early Sunday after arguing with two men who apparently followed them from Times Square, said police Sgt. Raymond O'Donnell. Andrew Tringle, 19, was struck in the heart and died at Bellevue Hospital, O'Donnel said. Christoper Betta, 18, was hit three times in the leg and once in the neck, and Richard McCroy, 20, was wounded twice in the shoulder and once in the neck, said Officer Hugh Barry. Both were in satisfactory condition at Bellevue, said hospital administrator Don Middendorf. No one was arrested in the shootings. Of the 52 arrests in and around Times Square, 18 were for robbery, nine for grand larceny, one for criminal possession of a weapon, 12 for disorderly conduct, six for assault, four for reckless endangerment and two for menacing, O'Donnell said. Thirty-two Sanitation Department workers using eight mechanical brooms, 18 sweepers and three garbage trucks spent the first eight hours of the new year cleaning up the mess left by revelers, said Sanitation Department spokesman Jim Hart. Garbage from past New Year's Eve celebrations has averaged about 25 tons a year; this year's debris won't be tallied up until Tuesday, when the trucks are weighed, Hart said. AP890102-0043 AP-NR-01-02-89 0729EST u i PM-China-Africans 01-02 0678 PM-China-Africans,0703 African Student Sentenced Without Trial To 15 Days By JOHN POMFRET Associated Press Writer BEIJING (AP) An African student from Benin has been summarily sentenced to 15 days in prison following a bloody Christmas Eve brawl between Chinese and Africans in Nanking, an African diplomat said today. It was the first report that a second African had been formally arrested in connection with the brawl that left 11 Chinese and two Africans injured. The diplomat, Benin's first secretary, Gobo Bio Mamah, also quoted African students as saying that Chinese police stripped and tortured two students from Benin when they attacked 140 mostly African students at a guest house outside Nanking on Saturday. ``We have heard that they were made to walk almost naked in the cold as police poked them with electric cattle prods,'' Mamah said. ``They were doing this to make them talk. It appears to be torture.'' The brawl at Nanking's Hehai University sparked five days of anti-black protests and resulted in most of the city's African students being forced by police to the guest house on Dec. 26. The students had wanted to flee the east-central city for Beijing, but were stopped by police at Nanking's railway station. African students said about 400 Chinese police attacked them Saturday in the guest house and removed about half of them, returning some to their universities and sending others to another hotel. The student witnesses said Chinese police beat and detained seven or eight of their classmates. One witness said police charged the students as loudspeakers broadcast platitudes about China's great friendship with African nations. Another said he saw about seven police beating one student from the Congo. Chinese news reports said only that a student from Ghana, Alex Dzabaku Dosoo, had been arrested and three other students held for questioning. No mention was made of a student from Benin. But Mamah said officials from the Public Security Department in Beijing told him Sunday that student Ludovic Dossoumon had been sentenced without trial to 15 days in prison as ``punishment.'' Chinese authorities in Beijing refused to specify Dossoumon's alleged crimes, he said. ``They told me the authorities in Nanking were the only ones who could say anything,'' Mamah said. ``This action is unacceptable.'' Chinese authorities at the Ministry of Public Security said they were ``not clear'' about the arrests. At least 50 students from Hehai remained at the guest house today, apparently because they still wanted to go to Beijing. The rest apparently were at another hotel or at their universities. Jiangsu province said today that they also were ``not clear'' about the arrests and the exact whereabouts of the students, some of whom were from Western Europe, Japan and South Asia. A Ghanian diplomat said China had broken an agreement to keep the students at the guest house until a delegation representing nine African countries returned to Nanking. The delegation came to Nanking last Tuesday for negotiations, returned to Beijing and was planning to go again to Nanking later this week. ``We don't know why they broke the agreement,'' said the diplomat, Y.N. Ohene-Akrasi. ``But in light of the apparent police attack this is the least of our concerns.'' Chinese officials in Nanking have made it clear that no Chinese will be punished for the clash and subsequent demonstrations during which Chinese students destroyed property in African student dormitories and shouted, ``Down with black devils!'' In Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, a standoff continued between 56 black Africans and Chinese at the Zhejiang Agricultural College. The students have locked themselves in their dormitory since Dec. 26 because they allege Chinese officials say they have the deadly disease AIDS. College officials have denied the claim. The weeklong incidents in Nanking and in Hangzhou are the latest in a series of incidents between Chinese and China's 1,500 African students, brought here to demonstrate China's solidarity with the Third World. Relations between Chinese and Africans are tense. Chinese are often openly racist and Africans are frustrated by a culture that is very different from their own. AP890102-0044 AP-NR-01-02-89 0828EST r i PM-Rio-Capsize 1stLd-Writethru a0433 01-02 0718 PM-Rio-Capsize, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0433,0741 At Least 51 Die in Party Boat Tragedy in Rio Eds: Leads with 11 grafs to UPDATE with police seeking homicide charges, search continuing; picks up 6th pvs, ``We don't ...'' LaserPhoto NY5 By LISA GENASCI Associated Press Writer RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) Police blamed overcrowding for the capsizing of a boat packed with revelers planning to watch a New Year's Eve fireworks display off Copacabana Beach. At least 51 people died, and divers searched for other victims today. Authorities today said they would seek homicide charges against those responsible for letting the jammed flat-bottomed craft _ built to hold 100 people _ go out. They said it ignored Port Authority orders not to sail in Saturday's choppy seas. Survivors said few life jackets were accessible when the 100-foot Bateau Mouche went down Saturday night in 65 feet of water about a mile from shore. One survivor, Plinco Donadio, said, ``I watched my wife die because I couldn't untie one of the life preservers to save her.'' As army divers searched the Atlantic Ocean and Guanabara Bay off Rio, confusion continued regarding how many people were on the double-decked sightseeing boat Bateau Mouche. Estimates have ranged from 130-150. The passenger list was on the sunken ship, said the company that booked the cruise. Officials gave no estimate of survivors. ``We think the majority of the bodies already have been taken out, but there always is the possibility of finding more,'' said Lt. Pedro Paulo Albuquerque of the Fire Department's Maritime Group. Irineu Barroso, a police precinct chief, said he hoped to seek an indictment for homicide. ``We are taking statements from survivors, and they are telling us that something aboard that boat was not right.'' Cid Castor, a director of Itatitaia Turismo, which booked the $220-per-person cruise, said his travel company had no responsibility for the operation of the outing. ``We are simply ticket sellers,'' said Castor, who said the passenger list was on the ship. The Sol e Mar restaurant, the boat's operator, referred calls to a local lawyer, but no one answered the number given. ``We don't know the exact cause of the sinking, but we think it was because of excess capacity,'' said Maj. Oldemiro Santos of the Fire Department's Maritime Group. The boat had a seven-piece samba band playing on board and tables set for dinner when it capsized. Passenger Fabricio Calo, who was rescued by a fishing boat, said: ``The boat was turning and shifting. Then tables started flying, glass started crashing, and the whole boat just turned over on its side.'' Luxury yachts and smaller boats heading to watch the midnight pyrotechnics display fished survivors from the stormy seas near the base of Sugar Loaf mountain. ``We rescued about 30 people from the sea,'' said Valentino Ribeiro, captain of one vessel, the Casablanca. ``There were people everywhere screaming for help. We took those we could and left the bodies. We couldn't take on any more.'' Officials said at least 51 people died. They had no reports of Americans on board. Brazil's largest private network, Globo TV, quoted maritime specialists saying the boat was not made to withstand Saturday night's choppy sea waters. But the Sol e Mar's spokesman, Gustavo Blanco, said Sunday that the boat was ``in perfect mechanical shape.'' According to Denmark's Hans Nihaj, who was on the boat with his wife, daughter and five fellow countrymen _ all of whom swam to safety _ there were no adequate life jackets or preservers on board. ``We made it because we were strong and could swim,'' Nihaj told The Associated Press. ``If you weren't in good shape, you simply died.'' Donadio, a photographer who lost his wife and two other relatives, said the life preservers were ``tied onto the railings in the lower part of the boat.'' The vessel was so crowded that a naval vessel ordered it to return to port, but it ignored the order, Barroso said. Survivors confirmed this account. The cruise boat's captain, Camilo da Costa, ``didn't want to go out,'' said his brother-in-law, Paulo Soares. ``He called us to say the boat was overloaded and the sea was too rough. But he had no choice. He would lose his job if he didn't sail.'' Da Costa died. AP890102-0045 AP-NR-01-02-89 0857EST r a PM-GangViolence 01-02 0157 PM-Gang Violence,0160 Year Ends With More Gang Violence In Los Angeles Eds: Raymon in 3rd graf is cq LOS ANGELES (AP) A carload of gang members shouted at a 16-year-old youth, then sprayed him with bullets, in a holiday weekend of shootings that left two dead and capped a record year of gang violence. The death of Adam Lopez, 16, was among more than 330 attributed to gang violence in the county in 1988. In 1987, 284 died. At 9 p.m. Friday, about 15 minutes before Lopez was gunned down, 21-year-old Raymon Smith was killed in a drive-by attack in the same gang-dominated area of south-central Los Angeles. The attackers in the two shootings escaped without being identified, police said. In addition to gang-related shootings over the holiday weekend, New Year's revelers marked Saturday night with a barrage of gunfire into the air that left one dead and 8,700 homes without power, police said. AP890102-0046 AP-NR-01-02-89 0858EST r i PM-Hirohito 1stLd-Writethru 01-02 0411 PM-Hirohito, 1st Ld - Writethru,a0458,0419 Imperial Family Cancels Traditional New Year's Appearance Eds: INSERTS two grafs after 5th graf pvs, `Hirohito and...' to UPDATE with emperor in stable condition and getting transfusion. Picks up 7th graf pvs, `On Sunday...' Minor editing thereafter to trim. By TETSUO JIMBO Assocaited Press Writer TOKYO (AP) The imperial family today canceled a traditional post-New Year's appearance for the first time in 21 years, citing Emperor Hirohito's grave condition. But the family kept the gates to the palace open, allowing at least 19,000 people to walk through and sign registries by early afternoon. The visitors included 90-year-old Kenji Muramatsu, who wore a traditional kimono and carried a tattered Japanese flag from World War II. ``I came to pray for the emperor,'' he said. ``I want him to get well and live as long as possible.'' A 23-year-old college student, who visited the palace with her boyfriend, said ``I'm a big fan of the emperor ... to me he's just an old man who is always smiling.'' Hirohito and his immediate family customarily appear on Jan. 2 behind bulletproof glass on a palace balcony in the East Garden before thousands of well-wishers waving paper red-and-white Japanese flags. The emperor's condition was stable today, with his blood pressure at 98 over 42, said a palace official, speaking on condition of anonymity. A normal reading is about 120 over 80. The 87-year-old monarch, who has been bedridden since a serious hemorrhage Sept. 19, suffered internal bleeding early today and received another transfusion, palace sources said. Hirohito has received 64.4 pints of blood since he fell ill. On Sunday, Hirohito received 2.1 pints of blood after a ``substantial'' hemorrhage, palace officials said. The imperial family's New Year appearance was last canceled between 1964 and 1968 for a major renovation of the palace. The custom, which began in 1948, was also called off in 1952 because of the death of Empress Taimyo, Hirohito's mother. Takeshi Nonogaki traveled 300 miles from Aichi prefecture in east-central Japan with his 16-year-old son Shinichi to see the registry. ``My son said he would like to see inside the palace and I thought it was important to bring him here, especially now that the emperor is gravely ill,'' said Nonogaki, 48, adding that he wanted his son to learn respect and adoration. ``I believe respecting the head of your country leads to respecting your family and your company on individual level,'' he said. AP890102-0047 AP-NR-01-02-89 0917EST r i PM-Israel 1stLd-Writethru a0454 01-02 0583 PM-Israel, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0454,0597 Soldiers Demolish Two Homes of Palestinians Eds: New thruout to UPDATE with four reported wounded, details, economy plan. No pickup. By SERGEI SHARGORODSKY Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) Soldiers today demolished the homes of two Palestinians suspected of firebomb attacks and of distributing leaflets urging resistance to Israeli rule in the occupied lands, the army said. Four Palestinians were wounded in clashes with Israeli troops in towns and refugee camps in the occupied Gaza Strip, Arab news reports and hospital officials said. The army said it was checking the reports. In Arab east Jerusalem, police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse Arab stone-throwers after a woman and a policeman were injured by rocks, police spokesman Rafi Levy said. The destruction of the homes in the Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank came a day after Israel renewed a crackdown on activists by deporting 13 Palestinians to Lebanon. It was the largest number deported on a single day in the nearly 13-month-old Palestinian uprising. Palestinians in Gaza City today shut their businesses and public transportation to protest the expulsions. Six deportees were from the Gaza Strip. The strike followed the lifting of a 24-hour curfew in the Gaza Strip. Many violated the curfew Sunday, which Arabs celebrated as the 24th anniversary of the first attack in Israel by the PLO's mainstream Fatah movement. In the West Bank, Palestinians set off firecrackers and staged parades in villages Sunday, dancing and waving pictures of PLO chief Yasser Arafat, head of the Fatah wing. The suspects from Balata whose homes were demolished are among nine in the camp detained recently who are active with the Moslem fundamentalist movement ``Hamas,'' or ``Zeal,'' an army communique said. The statement did not identify the suspects, but said the group was suspected of involvement in at least two firebombings, one on an army patrol Sept. 26 and the other on a passenger bus Oct. 18. The activists also were accused of participating in riots and distributing Hamas leaflets, the statement said. The organization is one of the underground groups active in the rebellion against Israel. Arab news reports said the houses were home to families of 10 and nine people each, and that they were bulldozed without letting families take out belongings such as furniture. At least 345 Palestinians and 14 Israelis have died since the rebellion began Dec. 8, 1987. Israel has ruled the West Bank and Gaza Strip since capturing them from Jordan and Egypt in the 1967 Middle East war. The army accused the 13 Palestinians deported on Sunday of being senior leaders of the uprising. Most of them also were members of Palestinian guerrilla groups, the army contended. The most prominent deportee was Abdallah Samhadaneh, 38, a lecturer at the Islamic University in Gaza. The military accused him of organizing a network of underground popular committees. Since the Palestinian revolt began, Israel has deported 49 Palestinians and another 12 suspected uprising leaders have received deportation orders, a military spokesman said. The United States and other countries have criticized Israel for deporting suspected Palestinian activists. In another development, Finance Minister Shimon Peres unveiled a sweeping economic recovery plan aimed at halving inflation, now at about 20 percent, by cutting $600 million from the nation's budget. A quarter of the cuts would come from defense spending. Peres, who announced the plan Sunday, said his long-range aim was to reduce unemployment, which he said hit 7 percent this year. AP890102-0048 AP-NR-01-02-89 0932EST r i PM-Netherlands-Protest 01-02 0256 PM-Netherlands-Protest,0263 Peace Activists Damage Military Jets With Sledgehammers WOENSDRECHT, Netherlands (AP) Two peace activists attacked two Dutch air force jets with a sledgehammer, damaging the planes, a Defense Ministry spokesman confirmed today. The activists, one a former army chaplain, remained in military police custody on this southern Dutch air force base where the two NF-5 fighter-bombers were waiting to be flown to Turkey, the planes' next owner. The suspects were not identified in line with Dutch judicial practice. However, the Defense Ministry spokesman said one of them had been a Roman Catholic chaplain in the Dutch army before he quit in the early 1980s to protest deployment by NATO of nuclear cruise missiles in the Netherlands. Woensdrecht air force base, the missiles' planned deployment site, was the scene of numerous anti-nuclear demonstrations before last year's U.S.-Soviet pact eliminating all medium-range nuclear missiles from both Eastern and Western Europe prevented cruise deployment here. Early Sunday, the two men gained entry to the base by cutting a hole in its perimeter fence, according to the spokesman, who spoke in exchange for anonymity in line with ministry practice. Armed with a sledgehammer and an ax, they did an estimated 50,000 guilders ($25,000) damage before they were caught by a military police patrol, according to the spokesman. Dutch air force NF-5s, which have been replaced by supersonic F-16s, are scheduled for delivery to Turkey later this year. In November, activists daubed eight of them with paint here in a protest against alleged human rights abuses in Turkey. AP890102-0049 AP-NR-01-02-89 0941EST r i PM-Lebanon-Shiites 01-02 0482 PM-Lebanon-Shiites,0498 Shiite Factions Clash in Beirut and South Lebanon By RIMA SALAMEH Associated Press Writer BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Rival Shiite Moslem militias today fought street battles for a third day in Beirut's southern slums and exchanged artillery and mortar fire near Israel's self-declared security zone in south Lebanon, police said. Five people were killed and 21 wounded in south Beirut, where gunmen of the mainstream Amal militia and the fundamentalist Hezbollah attacked each other with grenades and mortar barrages, police said. Today's casualties brought the overall toll to 12 killed and 29 wounded since a new round of fighting for dominance of Lebanon's million Shiites began Saturday. Amal, Arabic for hope, is backed by Syria. Hezbollah, or Party of God, is supported by Iran. Both militias accused each other of starting the clashes. Several Beirut radio stations said Syria was considering a redeployment of its 4,500 peacekeeping troops in the slums to ``improve their performance and prevent further fighting.'' The fighting was the first serious clash between Amal and Hezbollah since November, when the two sides fought for six days in west and south Beirut. Forty people were killed and 87 wounded. In May, nearly 300 people were killed and 1,000 wounded in a three-week battle between Amal and Hezbollah. It was then that Syria sent its troops into the 16-square-mile region comprised mainly of cement shanties. Police said thousands of panicked residents have been huddled in basements and bomb shelters in the embattled districts of Shiyah, Ghobeiri, Haret Hreik and Mesharafiyeh since New Year's eve. ``I hope 1989 will wipe out all these criminals and let civilized human beings live and breathe safely,'' said Umm Mohammed, a housewife reached by telephone in Haret Hreik. In south Lebanon, police said Amal and Hezbollah gunners poured mortar fire and Katyusha rockets on each other's strongholds in Iklim el-Tuffah, or Apple Province. The region stretches from the port of Sidon to the security zone, which Israel established in 1985 after withdrawing the bulk of its troops following a three-year invasion. A Hezbollah communique charged that Amal's forces launched a two-pronged, pre-dawn assault from strongholds southeast of Sidon on Hezbollah's positions in and around Mount Safi, just north of the security zone. ``With God's help, our fighters stood fast and repulsed the assailants after two hours of heavy fighting,'' the communique said. The attackers then ``clamped a siege on the area, preventing food and water supplies from going in,'' it said. The communique said Hezbollah's fighters in the area were all from the Islamic Resistance Front, a loose coalition of Moslem factions locked in guerrilla warfare against Israeli forces in the security zone. A terse Amal communique accused Hezbollah of firing first. Police had no immediate casualty report from the south Lebanon clash, the first in the area since a four-day battle in April that left 62 people killed and 150 wounded. AP890102-0050 AP-NR-01-02-89 0949EST r i PM-Sweden-Threat 01-02 0235 PM-Sweden-Threat,0249 Scandinavian Airlines Increases Security After Terrorist Threat STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) Scandinavian Airlines stepped up security in Sweden and abroad after receiving a terrorist threat, officials said today. SAS, the flag carrier of Sweden, Norway and Denmark, received the warning Sunday from Hungarian police through Interpol in Paris, said SAS spokesman John Herbert. He did not specify the nature of the threat, but said it was against SAS planes and its other interests, including affiliated hotels. A security alert was transmitted to about 90 international airports used by SAS aircraft, Herbert said. ``We are acting on the advice of police,'' he said without elaborating. The Stockholm daily Svenska Dagbladet said the warning came from an Iranian Shiite Moslem group, but Herbert said police gave no indication of the origin. ``We only know it was picked up in Hungary,'' he said. The Aftonbladet newspaper reported Friday that it received by mail an anonymous bomb threat against SAS domestic flights in Sweden in connection with the visit last month to Stockholm of Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat. SAS passengers at Arlanda International Airport north of Stockholm were asked to identify their luggage on the tarmac Sunday, delaying flights for up to 30 minutes. Security at Arlanda already has been increased for U.S. airlines following the Dec. 21 bombing of a Pan Am jumbo jet over Scotland in which at least 270 people died. AP890102-0051 AP-NR-01-02-89 1013EST r i PM-Israel-Lahd 01-02 0224 PM-Israel-Lahd,0230 Leader of Israeli-Backed Militia Leaves Hospital JERUSALEM (AP) Lebanese militia leader Antoine Lahd was released from a hospital in northern Israel today, nearly two months after being shot twice in an assassination attempt, a hospital spokesman said. The 61-year-old Lahd will spend the next few days resting in a hotel in Haifa before returning to Lebanon, said Dr. Albert Setinger, deputy director of Rambam hospital in Haifa, where Lahd was treated. Lahd heads the South Lebanon Army, an Israeli-backed 2,000-man militia that operates in Israel's self-declared security zone in southern Lebanon. Israel established the zone in 1985 when it withdrew most of its forces from Lebanon after a three-year invasion. Lahd was shot in the upper arm and chest by his wife's 21-year-old dance instructor on Nov. 7 while he was drinking coffee with her at his home in Marjayoun. The Lebanese National Resistance Front, a coalition of Syrian-backed leftist groups, claimed responsibility for the attack. The dance instructor is being held at the militia's Khiam prison in the security zone pending trial. One of Lahd's major blood vessels was severed by the bullets, and he received blood transfusions and was on a respirator during much of his hospitalization. Doctors originally predicted a two-week recovery but said Lahd's situation became more complicated because of the large amounts of blood loss. AP890102-0052 AP-NR-01-02-89 1035EST r i PM-Libya-US 01-02 0486 PM-Libya-US,0500 Libya Claims U.S. Allegations Are A Pretext To Kill Gadhafi ROME (AP) The official Libyan news agency claimed today the United States is using allegations about a chemical weapons plant in Libya as a pretext to launch an attack and kill Col. Moammar Gadhafi. The JANA news agency, monitored in Rome, referred to a report Sunday in the United Arab Emirates daily Al-Khaleej that quoted unidentified Arab sources as saying the Americans planned to send a ``hit squad'' to kill the Libyan leader during an attack. Al-Khaleej claimed an American task force had trained in Italy, Spain and aboard U.S. warships in the Mediterranean for the attack, which it said could come this month. The newspaper said the strike would include bombing attacks on the nuclear research center at Tajura and the alleged chemical weapons plant at Rabtah. The newspaper report had no dateline but appeared to originate in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. JANA gave the report unusual attention, not only carrying a story but also sending it to foreign news agencies by telex and telefax. ``The uncovering of this terrorist plan reveals and exposes clearly the real motives and dimensions of the hysterical campaign'' against Libya, JANA said. It said the report proves the U.S. allegations about a chemical weapons plant ``were excuses and pretexts for an operation of premeditated individual murder.'' The U.S. government has contended Libya is on the verge of producing chemical weapons at the plant near Rabtah, a city about 50 miles southwest of Tripoli. Libya insists the facility is a pharmaceutical plant. West German officials are investigating U.S. charges that a West German company played a key role in helping Libya build the plant. President Reagan has said the United States had discussed with other NATO countries the possibility of military action against the plant. ``We are confident that the public opinion after knowing these facts will stand on our side...,'' said JANA, referring to the Al-Khaleej report. JANA repeatedly has carried denials by Gadhafi's government that the plant produces chemical weapons as well as statements of Libya's commitment to treaties to ban such weapons. On Christmas Eve, Gadhafi offered to return the body of an American pilot killed in the 1986 U.S. bombing raids on Libya. He also called for the release of two French children held hostage in Lebanon. They were later freed. JANA has carried frequent stories on ``massive demonstrations'' in Libyan cities to denounce the U.S. threats and show support for the government. On Monday, it said a group it called the International League in Defense of the Mediterranean condemned the sailing of a new U.S. 13-ship carrier battle group for the Mediterranean. A U.S. Navy spokesman in Washington called the sailing a routine deployment of the 6th Fleet. A Navy spokesman in Italy said the new group comes at the time of the normal rotation of the ships in the Mediterranean. AP890102-0053 AP-NR-01-02-89 1043EST r i PM-Egypt-Israel 01-02 0373 PM-Egypt-Israel,0385 Israel Criticized Over Deportations, Foreign Ministers to Meet in Paris CAIRO, Egypt (AP) A top Cabinet minister said today that Israel's latest deportation of Palestinians violates human rights, obstructs Middle East peace efforts and runs counter to the Jewish state's own interests. The criticism coincided with the disclosure that the Egyptian and Israeli foreign ministers will meet in Paris on Sunday. Egypt is the only Arab state that has diplomatic relations with Israel. Butros Ghali, minister of state for foreign affairs, took Israel to task in a statement to reporters on the expulsion of 13 Palestinians from the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza to Lebanon. The action Sunday brought to 49 the number of Palestinians deported since an uprising against Israeli occupation began Dec. 8, 1987. Egyptian leaders condemned earlier deportations in terms similar to those used today by Ghali. As Ghali spoke, Foreign Ministry sources said Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel-Meguid will meet in Paris next Sunday with his Israeli counterpart, Moshe Arens. It will be their first meeting since Arens, a member of the right-wing Likud bloc, took the foreign affairs portfolio in the Cabinet formed by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir last month. The last meeting at this level took place about three months ago in New York between Abdel-Meguid and Shimon Peres, then Israel's foreign minister. Peres, of the center-left Labor Party, is now finance minister. Arens and Abdel-Meguid will meet during a Jan. 7-11 international conference on the prevention of chemical weapons that both ministers are attending in Paris. Ghali said Egypt viewed the deportations as ``violations of the human rights of Palestinians and a negative stance that obstructs the (Arab-Israeli) peace process.'' He said the expulsions also ``encourage extremist tendencies among the various parties and conflict with the interests of the Israeli people in taking advantage of available opportunities and a new climate for peace efforts.'' This apparently referred to last month's peace strategy announced by Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Arafat publicly recognized Israel, renounced what he said was all forms of terrorism and offered to hold peace talks with Israel within the framework of an international conference. Arafat's statements led the United States to open a dialogue with the PLO. AP890102-0054 AP-NR-01-02-89 1113EST r w PM-US-Cuba 1stLd-Writethru a0487 01-02 0444 PM-US-Cuba, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0487,450 State Department Official, House Panel Member Disagree on Cuba Eds: CORRECTS spelling of Torricelli in graf 7, Torricelli said. WASHINGTON (AP) A State Department official and a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee disagreed today on whether the United States needs a new policy on Cuba. ``I don't think we need a new policy. I think the policy's working,'' said Elliott Abrams, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs. ``It's a policy of putting pressure on (Cuban President Fidel) Castro to isolate him, to make his economic situation more difficult, to try to force him out of Angola, to try to force him to make human rights concessions. That's what's working,'' Abrams said on the ABC-TV program ``Good Morning America.'' But Rep. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., interviewed on the same program, said ``to have an American policy that is basically based on the idea that we wish the revolution didn't happen, we wish that he'd go away, is really foolish going into a fourth decade.'' Torricelli said he thinks a policy is needed that would require some reforms from Castro in exchange for an improved relationship with the United States, a policy that ``puts a real price on a new relationship, a real price on his policies in Nicaragua and Angola and human rights at home. We may find that that gets some results.'' Castro, celebrating the 30th anniversary of his revolution, said in a televised speech Sunday night that it is ``socialism or death'' for Cuba, as he rejected market-oriented economic reforms. His remarks seemed aimed at the Soviet Union and other Communist countries that have been abandoning strict adherence to Marxist doctrine. Torricelli said that ``despite the rhetoric, I think there's some reason to believe there can be change.'' He said ``the difficulty here is that he doesn't understand what necessarily is required for better relations. And what (President-elect) Bush should be doing is spelling that out exactly. We want some change of policy in Nicaragua, we want him to continue to adhere to not aiding violent revolution in Latin America, we want the Angolan accords fulfilled, we want his promises kept on immigration, we want human rights changes in Cuba.'' Abrams said that if Castro wants a changed relationship with the United States, ``probably his first real step has got to be implementing'' the Angola agreement ``and taking the troops out.'' But, Abrams said, he thinks Castro is ``a first generation communist leader...who is unable to countenance a reduction in his personal power, real democracy, real change. It will take the next generation coming, I think, for there to be real change in Cuba.'' AP890102-0055 AP-NR-01-02-89 1118EST u a PM-Bakkers-TV 1stLd-Writethru a0488 01-02 0607 PM-Bakkers-TV, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0488,0619 Bakkers Return To Television Ministry Eds: SUBS from 6th graf to end, bgng `Bakker, who...', qith 13 grafs to UPDATE with further quotes from show, comment from one station manager that ran program; other detail. With PM-PTL-Judge PINEVILLE, N.C. (AP) Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker returned to television today after a two-year absence with a show broadcast from the living room of their borrowed home to a handful of stations around the country. ``Jim, I think this is probably the happiest day of my life,'' Mrs. Bakker said as the show began. Sporting her trademark heavy eye makeup, she began crying two minutes into the hourlong show. Bakker, the founder of PTL, left his television ministry in March 1987 in the midst of a sex and money scandal. He and his wife had not appeared on a television pulpit since January 1987. Today, Bakker told viewers and his supporters crowded into the house that his last television appearance was to break ground for the Crystal Palace Church at Heritage USA, the home of PTL. ``I believe that was the last straw for Satan,'' Bakker said. ``I think the devil was mad that something so beautiful was being built. ... I believe the devil said, `I have to smash Jim and Tammy Bakker.''' Bakker said he believes that church, which was designed to hold 30,000 people, still will be built. But since the Bakkers left the PTL organization, it has filed for protection under federal bankruptcy laws, and last month a bankruptcy judge ordered its assets sold to a Canadian businessman. Also last month, Bakker and a former top aide were indicted on charges including fraud and conspiracy. Bakker thanked a supporter who had donated the money to put him back on the air, and said the program would be carried by more stations next month. It is scheduled to be shown Monday through Friday. ``We bought time,'' Mrs. Bakker said. ``We had a certain amount of money and that's all the time we could buy, and it's not a lot of money, but it got us back on the air and we are so grateful.'' Bakker did not make any direct appeal for donations, in marked contrast to his old ```PTL Club'' show. He did give an address in Fort Mill, S.C., ``if you want to write us.'' Callers to a telephone number _ not toll-free _ shown throughout the show were asked to give their name, phone number and address but got no appeal for funds. The callers were invited to ask the Bakkers to pray for them. Bakker, who turned 49 today, said the program was being carried by television stations in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Albany, N.Y.; Akron and Canton, Ohio; Asheville, N.C.; and Louisiana. In Amsterdam, N.Y., near Albany, WOCD general manager Fred Wuenschel said the Bakkers paid ``the usual rate per hour'' to be on the station. He wouldn't say what that was. The station has a 30-day contract for the show. He said he will keep the show on ``as long as they keep paying.'' The only mention of Bakker's legal troubles came when the guest on the show, former PTL songwriter Mike Murdock, said he wrote one song in a lawyer's office. Murdock said he knew Bakker ``didn't know anything about lawyers.'' ``Oh no-o-o-o,'' Bakker said with a chuckle. Bakker said he had a message for ``hurting people'' and that viewers should keep their faith no matter what crisis they were facing. ``If Jim and Tammy can survive their holocaust of the last two years, then you can make it,'' Bakker said. AP890102-0056 AP-NR-01-02-89 1206EST r i AM-BRF--BurnedMoney 01-02 0206 AM-BRF--Burned Money,0212 Chef Accidentally Cooks the Profits HAVERFORDWEST, Wales (AP) Chef Albert Grabham cooked the most expensive dish of his career New Year's Day: his restaurant's profits from the night before. Grabham hid the money collected on Saturday night in an oven, but forgot about it the next day when he turned on the oven to cook lunch. The smell of burning pound notes wafted through the New House Hotel in west Wales before Grabham realized what he had done. By the time he reached the oven, more than $360 had gone up in smoke. ``The notes had burned to a cinder, the box had melted and the coins were stuck fast,'' he said Monday. ``I could not face walking up four flights of stairs to put the money away properly. We had had a busy night and I was whacked.'' ``Now I am having to put up with jokes from customers, like hot money and crisp bread,'' he said. ``It serves me right I suppose.'' Grabham said he hopes his bank will understand, and accept any identifiable remains. Hotel owner Hilary Ward said: ``There was such a mess we cannot be sure how much money was in there in the first place.'' AP890102-0057 AP-NR-01-02-89 1206EST r i AM-Cricket-Women 01-02 0225 AM-Cricket-Women,0233 Home of Cricket Considering Female Pavilion Admission LONDON (AP) The home of cricket is taking the first step toward opening its most sacred doors to women. In a newsletter to its 18,000 members, the Marylebone Cricket Club asked the question unheard in its 202-year history: ``Should MCC consider the election of lady members?'' Marylebone is one of just two men-only clubs left in top-flight English cricket. Women can watch cricket at Lord's, the club's headquarters, but not from the Pavilion, which is limited to members only. Not even women accompanying male members are allowed. The newsletter noted that England's national women's cricket team even had played matches at Lord's and that the Pavilion and club-like Long Room had been opened to women on those occasions. ``As we approach the 21st centruy, should this `progress' be taken further?'' the newsletter asked. It also sought to reassure diehard supporters of the men-only rules that no women members were likely anytime soon, not with a waiting list of about 8,000. ``With the current waiting list, none would be elected for some time but should we allow ladies to watch some cricket from the Pavilion, either as members or as guests of members?'' the newsletter asked. Last month, the Lancashire Cricket Club in Manchester voted to remain all-male, defeating a proposal to allow women members. AP890102-0058 AP-NR-01-02-89 1220EST r i AM-Soviet-History 01-02 0388 AM-Soviet-History,0399 Medvedev's Works, Except Criticism of Solzhenitsyn, to Be Published MOSCOW (AP) An unofficial historian says he would like to dispute some of the writings of Alexander Solzhenitsyn but the work of the Nobel Prize-winning author of ``The Gulag Archipelago'' remains off-limits in the Soviet Union. In the interview published Sunday in the newspaper Moscow Young Communist, Roy Medvedev did not detail his criticism of Solzhenitsyn. Both writers have examined the Russian Revolution and the mass repression of Josef Stalin. Solzhenitzyn's three-volume ``Gulag'' is a detailed chronicle of Stalin's labor camps. Medvedev, who is widely known abroad but has seen his own articles published in the Soviet Union only in the past year, said negotiations are under way to publish all or parts of many of his own books, including works on Stalin and on his successors, Nikita S. Khrushchev and Leonid I. Brezhnev. The journal Znamya plans to publish the first part of his new book on Stalin, ``Let History Judge,'' in its first issue this year, Medvedev said. The entire book is slated for ``express'' production by Progress Publishers. But Medvedev said there is still no chance for the one book he would really like to publish here, titled ``Polemics with Solzhenitsyn.'' It consists of six or seven critical essays on the basic works of Solzhenitsyn. ``It's too bad that everything connected with this writer remains a closed area,'' Medvedev said. ``We mine gold from dirt and rock, picking out the best, washing to find the gold,'' Medvedev said. ``It's the same here. Solzhenitsyn must be published. And criticized.'' Soviet intellectuals have called for publication of Solzhenitsyn's works. But the Kremlin ideology chief, Vadim Medvedev, said in November that publishing ``Gulag Archipelago'' and Solzhenitsyn's history of Vladimir Lenin's life just before the Russian Revolution ``would undermine the foundations on which today's life rests.'' The ideology chief, who is not related to the historian, said Solzhenitsyn's writing ``radically contradicts our social and political system, our understanding of the world, of history, our attitude toward Lenin.'' Solzhenitsyn traces Stalin's widescale repression back to Lenin, who is revered in the Soviet Union. Medvedev said his books ``The Troubled Spring of 1918,'' on the beginning of the Soviet Civil War and the socialist system, and another on ``Those Who Stood Around Stalin'' also are scheduled for publication. AP890102-0059 AP-NR-01-02-89 1220EST d a AM-BRF--Robber-Clue 01-02 0124 AM-BRF--Robber-Clue,0127 Bank Robber Leaves Clue Behind SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) A man who robbed a bank left documents for his wife's car loan at the teller's window, police said. A man walked into the Key Bank in Syracuse on Friday and handed a teller a note demanding that she put $100 bills in an envelope. No weapon was displayed, police said. After getting the money, he ran out, leaving behind an envelope containing papers for a car loan in the name of Marcia Leonard. Police arrested Gary R. Leonard, 34, of Syracuse on Sunday after reviewing photographs from the bank's security cameras, police said. He remained in jail Monday and was to be arraigned Monday on charges of third-degree robbery, police said. AP890102-0060 AP-NR-01-02-89 1230EST u i AM-China-Africans Bjt 01-02 0823 AM-China-Africans, Bjt,0848 Forces Beat African Students, Use Electric Shocks Eds: Contents of the following may be objectionable to some readers. By JOHN POMFRET Associated Press Writer BEIJING (AP) Chinese paramilitary forces beat and used electric truncheons on African students during a five-hour attack on 140 foreign students at a Nanking guest house, witnesses said Monday. An African diplomat, Gobo Bio Mamah of Benin, also reported allegations that Chinese militiamen stripped and administered electric shocks to students during Saturday's attack. ``We have heard that they were made to walk almost naked in the cold as police poked them with electric cattle prods,'' Mamah said. ``They were doing this to make them talk. It appears to be torture.'' Mamah also said a Benin student had been sentenced, without trial, to 15 days in prison following a bloody Dec. 24 clash between Chinese and Africans in Nanking. It was the first report a second African had been arrested in with the brawl that left 11 Chinese and two Africans injured. The fight between Chinese and African students at Hehai University touched off five days of anti-black protests in Nanking, capital of Jiangsu province. A student from Mali said he saw Chinese forces at the guest house Saturday using the electric prods all over the the foreigners' bodies, including their genitals. ``They put their electric sticks everywhere but mostly on our sexes,'' said Daouda Diakite, a 24-year-old student at Nanking University. ``Luckily, I succeded in defending myself. I had friends around me.'' ``They treated us like animals,'' said another African, student at the Nanking Pharmaceutical College. ``They used an electric baton on my face.'' A Japanese student at Nanking University said the police were ``brutal'' but she said she did not see them use their electric batons. None of the allegations could be independently confirmed. An American TV crew outside the guest house during the attack was prevented from entering. Chinese authorities say they are ``not clear'' about what happened at the guest house. The problems in Nanking and in another Chinese city, Hangzhou, are the latest in a series of incidents between Chinese and 1,500 African students brought here to demonstrate China's solidarity with the Third World. Relations between the two have been tense. Chinese are often openly racist and Africans are frustrated by a culture that is very different than their own. Chinese and African students fought at Hehai on Christmas Eve after gatekeepers refused to allow two Chinese women to attend a dance given by black African students. Anti-black protests followed and most of Nanking's 139 African students fled to the Nanking train station. They wanted to go to Beijing but were stopped by about 150 police. On Dec. 26, People's Armed Police, a paramilitary group, forced the students to the guest house. The following day, diplomats from nine African countries came to Nanking to speak with the students. An agreement was made to keep the students in the guest house until the diplomats returned this week, according to Y.N. Ohene-Akrasi, minister counsellor at the Ghanian Embassy. But on Saturday, the Chinese broke the agreement, he said. African students said about 400 Chinese militiamen attacked the students in the guest house. Students fought off the Chinese, throwing plates at them from the dining hall, but soon realized that they were outnumbered, Diakite said. The students then agreed to leave the dining hall and gather in a courtyard. One African witness at Nanking Polytechnical College said police charged the students, and another said he saw about seven police beating one student from the Congo. ``I saw people, only men, naked, being shocked by the Chinese and their weapons,'' Diakite said. ``They shocked women, too, though. Also on their sexes.'' Witnesses said Chinese ``arrested'' six to eight African students from Hehai. Chinese reports said one Ghanian student, Alex Dzabaku Dosoo, had been arrested and three other students held for questioning. No mention was made of a student from Benin. But the Benin diplomat said that on Sunday officials from the Ministry of Public Security in Beijing told him student Ludovic Dossoumon had been sentenced to 15 days in prison as ``punishment'' without trial. Chinese authorities in Beijing refused to specify Dossoumon's alleged crimes, Mamah said. ``They told me the authorities in Nanking were the only ones who could say anything,'' he said. Chinese authorities at the Ministry of Public Security said they were ``not clear'' about the arrests. On Monday, at least 50 students from Hehai remained at the guest house, apparently because they still wanted to go to Beijing. Those who hadn't been returned to their schools apparently had been moved to another hotel. Meanwhile in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, a standoff continued between 56 black Africans and Chinese at the Zhejiang Agricultural College. The students have locked themselves in their dormitory since last week because they allege Chinese officials say they all have AIDS. College officials have denied the claim. AP890102-0061 AP-NR-01-02-89 1235EST u a PM-ParadesRdp 1stLd-Writethru a0444 01-02 0872 PM-Parades Rdp, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0444,0892 Parade Lovers Have Pick Of Processions Eds: LEADS with 18 grafs to UPDATE with Rose and Cotton parades under way, color. Pickup 16th graf pvs, `Following the...' LaserPhotos LA2, DNB1 By JONATHAN W. OATIS Associated Press Writer The 100th Rose Parade got under way today with floats that showed off Polynesian dancers, a grateful Vietnam refugee and a couple who exchanged wedding vows in front of 1 million spectators and a TV audience estimated at 300 million. Halfway across the nation, 650 pompon dancers opened today's Cotton Bowl parade in Dallas, a flashier event than in previous years as the city sought to make the pageant competitive with the Rose and Orange parades. Half a million people jammed downtown Miami to watch floats, stars, bands and 20 circus elephants in the 55th Annual King Orange Jamboree Parade on New Year's Eve. And 22,000 marchers _ some dressed as rabbits, Mexican senoritas or California raisins _ strutted their stuff in snow for 52,700 hardy spectators of Philadelphia's 89th annual Mummers parade. People began lining the 5{-mile parade route Saturday morning. Police Lt. Gregg Henderson called the crowd better behaved than last year's. As of 8 a.m. 177 people had been arrested, most for drunkenness. The parade began promptly at 8 a.m. under picture-perfect, sunny skies and temperatures warming into the 60s. The grand marshal was Shirley Temple Black, 60, who enjoyed the same honor 50 years ago when she was Hollywood's child acting sensation. Black recently admitted she's allergic to roses, and she had plenty to sneeze at: more than 20 million roses, chrysanthemums, orchids, carnations, marigolds, irises, daffodils, tulips and other blooms. The first Rose Parade was held in 1890, when the Valley Hunt Club treated the town to a rose-petal-covered procession of horse-and-buggy teams. The 1989 edition featured 275 horses, 20 marching bands and 60 floats _ including its tallest ever, a 70-foot creation depicting a roller-skating giraffe pulling a giant calliope. It won a trophy for the most original float. On a float dubbed ``Romance in California,'' Carie Humphries, 21, and Ron Simms, 23, recited wedding vows before what was said to be the largest audience ever to witness a marriage ceremony. Some of the TV audience of 300 million watched the festivies wearing special 3-D Fox Television glasses. Vietnamese refugee Vinh Nguyen, riding the Home Savings of America float, said: ``I feel very great. I'm really happy. It's the best New Year's I have ever had.'' Eighteen floats won trophies. Unocal's ``Mardi Gras,'' depicting a giant masked reveler with a 26-foot headdress, was the Sweepstakes winner as the most beautiful float. Rose Queen Charmaine Beth Shryock traveled with her court in a float followed by another reuniting many former Rose Queens, including 80-year-old Holly Halsted Balthis, who was the parade's monarch in 1930. After the parade, the University of Southern California and the University of Michigan were to meet in the Rose Bowl. In Dallas, a float containing a 24-foot rabbit popping out a magician's hat won the theme prize for the bigger-than-ever Cotton Parade. It was an appropriate symbol for the event, which organizers hoped to jazz up by tripling the pageant's 1989 budget to $225,000. Some 100,000 spectators gathered for the parade under overcast skies and 55-degree weather, and millions more watched an hour of the event on TV. ``We have a one-hour shot to show that Dallas is not in the dumps,'' said parade chairman Ward Lay. Thirteen floats, three giant balloon figures, 15 bands and five equestrian units followed a new route mapped to avoid shadows from downtown buildings. The grand marshal was country singer Charley Pride. Following the parade, the University of Arkansas and the University of California, Los Angeles, will square off in the Cotton Bowl. The University of Miami plays the University of Nebraska in the Orange Bowl tonight, but Miami had its parade New Year's Eve. Sherman Hemsley, star of TV's ``Amen,'' wore flashing sunglasses and was backed up by three female singers on a float celebrating Ben Franklin and electricity. Other celebrity participants included actor Raymond Burr, ``L.A. Law'' star Susan Ruttan and ``Cheers'' star George Wendt. Marilyn McCoo and Joe Garagiola were the masters of ceremonies. Philadelphians lining the 2{-mile Mummers parade route on New Year's Day were treated to 14 hours of string bands competing for more than $286,000 in prize money and clowns who cakewalked to the event's perennial theme, ``Oh, Dem Golden Slippers.'' Mummery, the prancing and wearing of masks and costumes for the sheer fun of it, traces its origins back 2,400 years to the Greek god Momus. In Philadelphia, the first formal parade was in 1901, but neighborhood parades go back to at least 1877. Some clowns wore traditional garb, but others dressed more topically, suiting up as President Reagan and talk show hosts Morton Downey Jr., Geraldo Rivera and Oprah Winfrey. ``Anything goes in this parade,'' said Philadelphian Lucille Hart, attending her 20th Mummers parade. About 50 miles to the southwest, tiny Middletown, Del., spoofed the Mummers with its Hummers Parade despite rain and snow. About 200 spectators were entertained by 100 marchers, including participants dressed as Betty Crocker, Father Time and Baby 1989. AP890102-0062 AP-NR-01-02-89 1236EST u w AM-CongressReturns Bjt 01-02 0915 AM-Congress Returns, Bjt,890 Relationship With New President Up In Air By JIM DRINKARD Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The 101st Congress ceremonially convenes for its bicentennial session on Tuesday, firmly in the hands of Democrats waiting to see whether the incoming Republican president will be more conciliatory than the departing one. ``We both know there will be things on which we can't agree,'' House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas, said after a post-election meeting with president-elect Bush. But he added that Bush was ``a realist'' interested in forging a better link with Congress. The Capitol Hill-White House relationship will be tested throughout the year as lawmakers grapple with the obstinate problem of the federal budget deficit and seek to map a new path for domestic and foreign policy. But the first difficult item to confront lawmakers will be whether to give themselves as much as a $45,000 pay raise. While there is some new leadership on Capitol Hill _ most prominently George Mitchell of Maine as the new Senate Majority Leader _ the new Congress will look a lot like the last one. Better than 98 percent of House incumbents and 92 percent of sitting senators who sought re-election will return for another term. This year's freshman class is the smallest in history. Eleven new senators _ five Democrats and six Republicans _ will take the oath of office as the first order of business when the chamber convenes. The number includes Republican Rep. Dan Coats of Indiana, appointed to replace vice-president elect Dan Quayle, who was resigning before his Jan. 20 inauguration to let Coats be sworn in early. In the House, 33 freshmen will be sworn in, 17 Democrats and 16 Republicans. They include Georgia Democrat Ben Jones, who played ``Cooter'' on TV's ``The Dukes of Hazzard,'' mountain climber Jolene Unsoeld, D-Wash., and attorney and political novice Ronald Machtley, the Rhode Island Republican who knocked off scandal-tainted Democratic veteran Fernand St Germain. House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas, will be re-elected to a second term as speaker, despite two ethics investigations into his finances and his alleged disclosure of classified information. Wright's first-day speech to the House will set the tone for the new session. It is a day not of substance, but of ceremony. The visitors galleries on both sides of the Capitol will be filled with lawmakers' families. There will be socializing, picture taking and handshaking. A few routine housekeeping details will be taken care of in both chambers, including the organizing of committees and the adoption of rules. Tuesday's ceremonies and festivities will be followed by the formal counting of presidential electoral votes on Wednesday. The Senate will convene, then march as a body across the long corridor to the House chamber. There, Bush _ acting in his constitutional role as president of the Senate _ will open the certificates sent in from each state, announce them in alphabetical order, and declare himself the winner. After two days in Washington, the new Congress will leave again, and not come back until Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. Real business gears up the following week, and while Bush may enjoy a limited ``honeymoon'' period, partisan struggle lurks not far below the surface. Bush's first challenge will be to outline for Congress his budget priorities and to show how he would save the $32 billion or so necessary to meet deficit-reduction targets. He has pledged to do it without raising taxes, and Democrats have been skeptical about whether that can be accomplished. For their part, Democrats will be anxious to set their own policy course in many areas. With a 55-45 majority in the Senate, a one-seat gain from last year, and the House at 260-175, three better than the 100th Congress, the majority party believes it has as much a mandate as the new president. Leading the way will be two new Budget Committee chairmen: Leon Panetta, D-Calif., in the House and Jim Sasser, D-Tenn., in the Senate. Other new chairmanships will go to Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Texas, at the Judiciary Committee; Rep. Henry Gonzalez, D-Texas, and Sen. Don Riegle, D-Mich., at the Banking committees; former Majority Leader Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., as head of Senate Appropriations; and Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., House Government Operations. In addition to the budget, another early and difficult issue for the new Congress will be where to set its own pay. A presidential commission has recommended 50 percent salary hikes for lawmakers and some 2,500 other top government officials in the executive and judicial branches. President Reagan's budget, due on Capitol Hill Jan. 9, will likely include an increase. If both the House and Senate do not vote to stop it, whatever Reagan recommends will automatically take effect on Feb. 8. House leaders have said they plan to let the raise happen, but have promised to expedite a ban on honoraria, the special-interest speaking fees earned by many legislators. Senate committees also will face the immediate task of holding confirmation hearings on members of Bush's cabinet and other top administration appointees. Hearings on former Sen. John Tower's nomination to be Secretary of Defense have been tentatively scheduled for Inauguration week, and the Foreign Relations Committee is expected to hold early hearings on James Baker's nomination as Secretary of State. The 101st Congress is called the bicentennial Congress because it will be meeting during the 200th anniversary of the date when the first Congress was finally able to muster a quorum and officially convene on April 6, 1789. AP890102-0063 AP-NR-01-02-89 1239EST r w AM-CableTV 01-02 0764 AM-Cable TV,790 Cable Prices Going Up Along With Wider Choice By DEBORAH MESCE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Cable television systems are offering more channels to more viewers, but the price for watching is also going up. In the two years since most cable systems were freed from municipal rate regulation, their basic service rates have risen substantially. However, stability in premium channel rates, which were never regulated, has moderated the increase in the average overall cable bill. The Consumer Price Index for the 12 months through November shows that cable TV bills for urban viewers rose 13.3 percent, while the overall index rose 4.2 percent during the period. The cable increase during the previous year was 6.85 percent. Other trackers of cable prices, however, show different figures. Paul Kagan Associates, a Carmel, Calif., research firm that compiles nationwide cable prices, says the monthly rate for basic cable rose about 10 percent, from a monthly average of $13.20 last year to $14.52 in 1988. With premium channels added in, average monthly cable bills rose 5.6 percent over 1987 to $24.73, a rate only slightly higher than inflation, the firm says. Those in the industry say that for the two decades before deregulation took effect in January 1987, municipalities kept basic service rates artificially low. With the freedom to charge what the market will bear, cable systems have added more channels to the basic tier and raised prices. Sharon Armbrust, a senior analyst at Kagan, said the trend in steep increases for basic service is a ``two-year phenomenon'' that already shows signs of stabilizing. ``Regular rates will track fairly closely with inflation and perhaps outpace it simply because of the new services'' being added, she said. ``There could be a consumer backlash if charges go up without new services, but cable operators are sensitive to this. It's a subscription service _ you vote every month whether to buy it.'' For some systems, rates are still taking healthy leaps upward. Cable TV Arlington in Virginia is raising its monthly rate for basic service _ 54 channels _ by 11.1 percent to $19.95. That increase comes on top of an 18 percent increase last August. Media General Cable of Fairfax, Va., is raising its rate for basic service of 83 channels by nearly 19 percent to $18.95. It last raised its rates a year ago. On the more moderate side, TeleCommunications Inc., the nation's largest cable company operating systems with more than 4 million subscribers, says it will raise its basic monthly rates an average of 7 percent in 1989, to an average $15.50. So far, consumers appear to be doing little more than shrugging their shoulders at the increases. The number of homes subscribing to cable service grew this year by about 8 percent to 48.6 million _ representing 53.8 percent of all U.S. television households. About 80 percent of all homes are wired for cable. ``People value television choice in their home, they want to have a lot of channels and they're willing to pay for it,'' said Charles E. Walters, vice president of a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm. Decker Anstrom, executive vice president of the National Cable Television Association, says cable packs a lot of entertainment value for the price. ``Rates are increasing, but if you look at the overall universe, cable is priced quite reasonably,'' he said. ``For about 50 cents a day, the average cable subscriber receives 35 channels. It's a good entertainment buy.'' These arguments have been made to Congress but have failed to assure some, including Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, that consumers' interests rather than a bottom line are being served by cable companies. Metzenbaum plans to introduce legislation in the upcoming session to strengthen the ability of cities to regulate cable rates, said Eddie Correia, an aide to the senator. The deregulation that took hold in 1987 precluded rate regulation in virtually every metropolitan area under the theory that systems in heavily populated areas face competition from other media sources, including many over-the-air broadcast signals. But, Correia said, even in metropolitan areas, cable can lock out competition by refusing to sell its programming to other sources, like wireless cable and backyard satellite dishes. ``It's the worst of both worlds. You have monopolies but you have no ability to regulate them,'' he said. Nicholas Miller, a Washington,D.C.-based communications lawyer who represents municipalities on cable issues, also characterizes cables operators as monopolies based on their pricing practices. ``They price based on what people are willing to pay, not what it costs them to deliver the service,'' he said. AP890102-0064 AP-NR-01-02-89 1240EST r w AM-Inauguration 01-02 0713 AM-Inauguration,730 Only `Tasteful' Items Are In Catalog Commemorating Inauguration Eds: This also ran for PMs By JILL LAWRENCE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The man wearing the visitor card around his neck carried a large framed poster showing George Bush above a 1989 calendar. ``I dream of a kinder and gentler nation,'' read the caption. Alas, politicos and souvenir hunters trying to capture a little of the bicentennial inaugural spirit will not get a chance to buy that poster. Like the George Bush salad plate, the red-white-and-blue pompons, the horned hat and the one that ballooned into something resembling the Pillsbury doughboy, it did not pass muster with the Presidential Inaugural Committee. ``Everything in here is eminently tasteful,'' promotion director Jill Collins said of the 16-page commemorative catalog due for mailing this week to 1.5 million Republicans, historians and collectors. In other inauguration news, with less than three weeks to I-Day: _The Fresh-Up Lounge, a 20-year tradition, announced it will once again serve ``the grooming and personal needs of media men and women'' covering the inaugural. Those needs apparently range from haircuts, Band-Aids and food to a Color Vision Computer. ``See yourself in a variety of hair colors,'' urges the press release issued by sponsors Clairol and Bristol Myers. _Nearly 2,200 bottles of Korbel champagne, the official champagne of the Bush inauguration, were delivered to inaugural headquarters. (Official inaugural candy bars are in the works). _The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has agreed to perform at a musical prelude to the Jan. 20 inaugural ceremony. _The Postal Service will make special I-Day stamp cancellations in six cities _ Milton, Mass.; Greenwich, Conn.; Houston; Kennebunkport, Maine; Huntington, Ind., and Indianapolis. Why? Hint: Bush was born in the first and raised in the second, started a business in the third and vacations in the fourth; the last two have something to do with Vice President-elect Quayle. _Some 60,000 invitations to inaugural events are out, gone, finis. That leaves a mere 400,000 to mail, but there's no rush. They're commemoratives that won't admit anyone to anything. ``I've seen them framed on walls all over the country,'' insists committee spokesman Ed Cassidy. ``They are extremely popular.'' For those who aren't even on the commemorative list, the inaugural catalog offers consolations ranging in price from 95 cents to $1,195. The cheapest item is a schoolbook cover depicting Bush and George Washington in keeping with the inaugural's bicentennial ``George To George'' theme. At the top end of the scale, devotees can purchase eagles _ $1,195 for Steuben glass or Boehm china. For couch potatoes and the politically unconnected, the committee is offering for $29.95 a VCR tape that promises buyers the inaugural bicentennial ``captured for years of enjoyment and historical significance.'' Hollywood producer Jerry Weintraub, a Bush supporter, is making the tape. Half of the one-hour tape will be historical and the other half will hit the high points of the Bush-Quayle inauguration, according to Stephen Studdert, executive director of the committee. He said all schools in the country will be given a copy. For the tradition-bound, the catalog offers the usual medals _ ranging from $29.50 for a bronze art medal to $920 for a collectors' set _ and inaugural license plates, available for $50 and usable in any state until March 31. But not everything in the catalog is generic. Some items have been chosen to reflect the incoming president's tastes and background _ horseshoe belt buckles and key rings, Texas chili mix and coasters made of Maine slate; golf shirts and Navy-style caps like the ones he wears. You won't find official inaugural dried pork rinds. You will find commemorative blazer buttons, but officials strenuously deny that they are there to recall Bush's preppie image _ a distinct liability early in his White House campaign. No, blazer buttons have an important place in inaugural history. Seems George Washington wore special buttons engraved with the arms of the new government at his inaugural ceremony. This year's set, 10 brass buttons for $65, is engraved with the bicentennial inaugural seal. Most of the cost of the inauguration _ expected to top $20 million _ will come from ball and gala ticket sales. But the committee hopes to net more than $2 million from its catalog items. AP890102-0065 AP-NR-01-02-89 1241EST r i AM-Poland 01-02 0290 AM-Poland,0298 Intellectuals, Others Ask Gov't for Free Elections WARSAW, Poland (AP) One hundred professors and other prominent personalities have signed a petition asking the government for open elections to parliament in 1989, spokesmen for the group said Monday. The petition, presented to the government ombudsman's office Dec. 30 and given to Western news agencies, said that any citizen should have the right to run for the Sejm, or parliament, after being nominated by a certain portion of eligible voters. For example, the group said, signatures by 1 percent of a district's electorate could be sufficient to nominate a candidate. Under Poland's current arrangement, nominations to parliament elections are controlled by the Communist Party, which in effect determines how many seats go to communists, to allied political parties and to non-party members. Communists have always received an automatic majority of the seats since the party consolidated power in Poland after World War II and held the first postwar parliament elections in 1947. Elections are planned this year after the drafting of a new election law. Deputies serve four-year terms and the last elections were held in October 1985. In his New Year's Eve message to the nation, Polish leader Wojciech Jaruzelski said he would like the new parliament to ``more clearly reflect the natural differentiation of attitudes and views within society.'' Among those signing the petition to the ombudsman were film director Andrzej Wajda; the rector of Warsaw University, Grzegorz Bialkowski; the leader of the Polish Economic Society, Aleksander Paszczynski; and leader of the Polish PEN Writer's Club, Julius Zulawski. Those who signed included 54 professors. Many were members of a recently formed Citizen's Committee designed to bring the mainstream of the Polish opposition movement into one structure. AP890102-0066 AP-NR-01-02-89 1244EST r a AM-AbortionActivist_1stLd a0504 01-02 1144 AM-Abortion Activist _ 1st Ld, a0504,1177 Operation Rescue Head: Create `Social Tension' To Change Laws Eds: In 29th graf, CORRECTS `this year' to 1988 and `next year' to 1989 By DAVID BAUDER Associated Press Writer BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) Where most people list their job experiences, Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry's resume brags, ``Arrested 26 times in seven cities.'' Terry complains it's out-of-date. ``It might be closer to 30 right now,'' the 29-year-old activist said during an interview at the unmarked storefront office in upstate New York where the latest protests against abortion are being planned. Since its national debut at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta last summer, Operation Rescue has made abortion a high-profile issue again. Terry and his followers have blocked women from entering abortion clinics throughout the country, lying in front of doors until police carry or drag them away under the watchful eye of television cameras. Terry says he is trying to produce the ``social tension'' necessary to change abortion laws by using the non-violent 1960s civil rights protest as a model. ``He's the Martin Luther King of a movement,'' said Dominick Brignola, an Albany lawyer and footsoldier in the anti-abortion drive. Terry's critics claim Operation Rescue, so named because followers try to ``rescue'' the unborn, is an assault on women's rights. ``The civil rights movement was trying to gain rights for people. They're trying to take away the rights of living, breathing human beings,'' said Molly Yard, president of the National Organization for Women. More than 450 anti-abortion demonstrators clogged Atlanta jails during the five-day Democratic convention. Since then, demonstrations have spread to New York City, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia and Boston and still more cities. The activists want the Supreme Court to overturn Roe vs. Wade, its 1973 decision that allows women to have abortions. An estimated 1.6 million women have abortions each year in the United States. Standing at the forefront of Operation Rescue is a used car salesman who once wanted to be a rock star. Terry and his wife, Cindy, began their crusade in 1984 by standing in front of abortion clinics, trying to talk women out of entering. Friends soon joined them, and the couple opened an office that offered women free pregnancy tests and hand-me-down baby clothes. ``God clicked a light on in my head and said it wasn't enough to just be against child-killing, that I had to do something about it,'' said Terry, who's selling his auto dealership because he is too busy with Operation Rescue. Critics concede Terry has a mesmerizing personality. He even tries to convert relatives at family reunions, said Dawn Marvin of Rochester, his aunt. Terry was reared in a low-key Protestant environment but quit high school at 17, dreaming of a career in music, said Marvin, who is communications director for the Rochester chapter of Planned Parenthood, a medical service that anti-abortion pickets frequently target. She stressed that she does not speak for the organization about her nephew. ``He went away and he flipped out,'' she said about Terry's transformation into a born-again Christian. ``He came back a totally changed personality. It was more like a cult reaction than a spiritual quest.'' Marriage and his highly public role as Operation Rescue spokesman have calmed him somewhat, she said. The Terrys have one child and three foster children. Terry dismisses his aunt's comments _ including her assessment that ``he's an egomaniac,'' lapping up news media attention. To Margaret Johnston, administrator at Southern Tier Women's Services in Binghamton, Operation Rescue is nothing new. She said anti-abortion activists have spread nails in the parking lot and glued the clinic's door shut four or five times. Terry's first arrest came in January 1986 when he chained himself to a sink at the clinic, which performs abortions. He was jailed for 22 days for refusing to pay a $60 fine. ``It doesn't matter what you say to him. There is no reason involved,'' Johnston said. ``He doesn't care about women. I think he really hates women.'' Iron pipes now prevent cars from blocking the entrance to the Binghamton clinic. A court order keeps the nearly ever-present demonstrators at shouting distance. ``They really want to make it personal,'' Johnston said. Even when she has run into him on a Saturday in the post office, Johnston said Terry has shouted at her, ``How many babies did you murder today?'' Terry criticizes the anti-abortion movement as being ``too nice'' during the 1980s, pacified by the presence of an ideological friend like President Reagan into not working hard for its goal. ``We cry that abortion is murder, it's child-killing, and yet we carry a picket once or twice a year and write a few letters,'' he said. ``That's not an adequate response to murder. A logical response to murder is physical intervention on behalf of the victim.'' The lean, bushy-haired Terry expects and even hopes his demonstrators will be arrested. He claims Operation Rescue was responsible for 11,000 arrests in 1988 and predicts 500,000 will be arrested in 1989. There are no situations, he said, when abortions are justified. ``In most areas of life it's OK for people to follow their own beliefs, but not when it comes to having innocent children murdered,'' he said. ``That's like saying, `Why can't a white man follow his own conscience concerning owning a black slave? Why can't a German follow his own conscience if he decides he wants to shoot Jews?''' Terry has attracted some prominent supporters, including former presidential candidate Pat Robertson, who said he backs ``any means short of violence'' to stop abortion. If anti-abortion demonstrators set their minds to it, Terry said, they could change abortion laws in six months because the political system is not built to deal with mass protests. Yard dismisses Terry as a ``puppet'' groomed for the role of point man in the latest anti-abortion offensive. ``Women are really outraged by the whole thing,'' she said. ``The reason they have been passive seemingly in the light of bombings (of abortion clinics) and Operation Rescue is that people don't believe Roe vs. Wade can be overturned. ... I'm not so sanguine. All I know is we have to make the biggest outcry we possibly can.'' At Operation Rescue's office, a competing outcry is being plotted. Pinned to the wall is a large map of the United States, with ``abortion mills'' dotted in red. Terry distractedly complains to a staff member about a plane flight later that afternoon that will take him to a television appearance. As a photographer snaps pictures, he removes his foot from his desk, saying ``that's too casual for someone trying to change world history.'' He adds, chuckling: ``It's comical, really. I think God has a sense of humor. Don't you think it's rather funny that a former used car salesman is heading such a movement?'' AP890102-0067 AP-NR-01-02-89 1246EST r i AM-Africa-Economy 01-02 0314 AM-Africa-Economy,0323 U.N. Official Says Africa Falling Behind Developed Nations ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) Almost all African nations were falling further behind the world's developed countries, the executive secretary of the United Nations' Economic Commission for Africa said Monday. The U.N. official, Adebayo Adedeji, also called for fundamental changes in structural adjustment programs mandated by major lending institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Structural adjustment programs usually require significant economic belt-tightening by nations receiving World Bank or IMF aid, and debtor nations frequently complain the measures often lead to hardship and civil unrest. Adebayo, delivering a year-end assessment to an audience of diplomats and economists at the commission's headquarters in Ethiopia's capital, said Africa's economy did not keep pace with its population growth in 1988. He predicted an even more dismal decline in 1989. Adebayo said Africa's combined economy grew at a rate of 2.5 percent in 1988, compared with 1.3 percent in 1987. However, he said, that was offset by population growth of about 3 percent. A decade-long pattern of slow economic growth coupled with rapid population increases has left the average African with an income only about 80 percent of what it was in 1980, Adebayo said. He noted that demand for African exports remains weak and said the continent's economy ``has been sapped and weakened by the burden of debt in spite of the perceptible recovery of the industrial economies.'' He put the combined debt of African nations at $230 billion at the close of 1988, compared with $218 billion in 1987. Adebayo said improved weather conditions that put an end to droughts in many parts of Africa in 1988 were expected to continue in 1989, but that resulting improvements in agriculture were likely to be offset by further declines in commodity prices. Africa's basic agricultural exports are coffee, tea, cocoa and vegetable oils. AP890102-0068 AP-NR-01-02-89 1249EST u a PM-OfficerShot 01-02 0505 PM-Officer Shot,0518 Suspect In Officer's Shooting Surrounded In Cabin WINSLOW, Ariz. (AP) A suspect in the New Year's Eve shooting of a Navajo County deputy sheriff was ``pinned down'' this morning in a cabin near here and fired shots at an officer's car, authorities said. Sgt. Allan Schmidt, a spokesman for the Arizona Department of Public Safety, said shots were exchanged with one of two suspects in the fatal shooting of Deputy Bob Varner, but no one was hit. The owner of the cabin, who does not live there full time, called police this morning after he went to the cabin ``and recognized that something was amiss,'' Schmidt said. Varner died today at Barrow Neurological Center in Phoenix, where he was taken after being shot Saturday night after two men opened fire during a routine traffic stop, authorities said. The man inside the house is believed to be Douglas Savory, 45, who also is known as Douglas Savorey and Douglas Toad Wolf, Schmidt said. He said the man is armed with at least one automatic weapon. The other suspect, identified earlier as Raul Lopez, about 25, is not at the cabin. The two were believed to have split up earlier, Schmidt said. Savory told a couple who were victimized by the two suspects after the shooting Saturday that he was a survivalist and ``don't believe in hurting people, but there are times when it's necessary.'' The two had approached the home of Bud and Betty Hunt, pretending to have car trouble, and then tied up the two and took their car. The Hunts were not injured. After DPS and Navajo County authorities arrived at the cabin today, shots were fired from the house at a sheriff's patrol car, but no one was injured, Schmidt said. He said Interstate 40 was closed in both directions about 3 miles east of Winslow because the cabin where the man is holed up ``is only a few hundred yards from the highway.'' The cabin was surrounded and that at least two helicopters were being used to help keep the building under surveillance. ``We're waiting for a SWAT team from Flagstaff and developing a plan to handle this guy,'' Schmidt said. Schmidt said a California warrant from San Bernardino County accused Savory of robbery and kidnapping in a September gun-store robbery in which five other people have been arrested. Schmidt said he had no other details on the robbery. He also has been investigated in connection with manufacturing and sale of illegal weapons and explosivies, and ``he is well known to authorities at the (California) state and federal level,'' Schmidt said. He said Lopez ``may be a citizen of Mexico but we have very little on his background,'' the spokesman said. Varner apparently stopped the two suspects about 7:30 p.m. Saturday, but ``we don't know the circumstances of why he stopped that car,'' Schmidt said. There were at least 17 bullet holes in the windshield of Varner's car, Sheriff Gary Butler said. He was hit three times. AP890102-0069 AP-NR-01-02-89 1250EST r i PM-Britain-Nuclear 01-02 0431 PM-Britain-Nuclear,0447 Official Papers Show Information Withheld On Nuclear Accident LONDON (AP) The private papers of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan show his government kept secret the details of a 1957 accident at an atomic power plant that contaminated milk at about 800 farms, according to a published report. The release Sunday of Macmillan's papers marked the first time full details have been revealed about the spring 1957 accident at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, northwest England. The papers were cited in a report by The Observer, a London newspaper. The papers show that Macmillan kept the information secret because he feared shaking public confidence in the industry and jeopardizing collaboration with the United States. The Observer cited the documents as saying the accident contaminated milk with high levels of strontium 90, a deadly isotope found in radioactive fallout. The newspaper said the milk was sold to the public without any warning. In a secret memo to Macmillan on Sept. 12, 1957, Agriculture Minister John Hare estimated ``800 or more farms may be affected'' by an escape of strontium 90 and that ``the readings on some of these farms have been many times higher than the national average,'' the Observer said. It said Hare also wrote that no action was being taken ``to prevent milk being consumed or produced on farms in the area.'' The paper quoted John Dunstan, a former director of the state-run National Radiological Protection Board, as saying full details of the amount of radioactivity released in the accident were not disclosed to the board until 1986. The release of the information came in connection with an inquiry into increased childhood leukemia near the plant, now known as Sellafield. The newspaper did not report the cause of the accident and made no mention of any deaths attributed to it. Macmillan's documents were made public by the Public Records Office under rules permitting publication of selected confidential papers after 30 years. Government papers made public a year ago said Macmillan also suppressed a report on Britain's worst ever nuclear accident at Windscale on Oct. 10, 1957. The report said the accident was caused by a fire. Sales of milk from an area measuring more than 200 square miles around the plant were banned after a release of radioactivity. The accident caused no immediate deaths. The problem-plagued plant on the Irish Sea is one of the West's oldest commercial atomic power stations and largest nuclear reprocessing plants. It reprocesses used nuclear fuels from Britain and other countries to extract uranium and plutonium for making nuclear bombs. AP890102-0070 AP-NR-01-02-89 1258EST r i AM-Czech-Art 01-02 0409 AM-Czech-Art,0422 More Than 120,000 See Modern Art Exhibit in Prague By IVA DRAPALOVA Associated Press Writer PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (AP) An exhibition of modern art from the New York and Venice Guggenheim collections drew 121,000 visitors during its display at Prague's National Gallery, officials said. On Sunday, the last day of the exhibit, it took visitors 1{ hours to make it through the line to the second floor of Sternberk Palace, where 50 paintings by 33 artists have hung since early November. The Guggenheim exhibit brought to Prague expressionist, cubist, futurist, constructivist and surrealist masterpieces. It was preceded last summer by a Czech National Gallery exhibit of 60 canvases in New York's Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art. On display in Prague were paintings by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Jackson Pollock and Jean Dubuffet. The two shows were based on a 1986 cultural agreement and a 10-year friendship between Guggenheim director Thomas M. Messer and Jiri Kotalik, the director of the Prague gallery. ``It's a sign of improving relations. It could not have happened five years ago,'' said Messer, adding he saw the exhibit ``not merely as an art show but as a very significant cultural event.'' ``It's the first time ever that a full survey of 20th century paintings ... has been presented in any of the socialist countries,'' he said in an interview. He noted, however, that the show focused on the period 1900-45, and that a second exhibit would be needed to show contemporary art. This thought was echoed also in some of the entries in the visitors' book and complaints that the works on show were already well-known from literature. Most, however, were grateful. ``Thank you, we ourselves are not likely to get to New York,'' wrote one visitor. Another said, ``thanks, but wish there had been more.'' There were so many visitors, up to 4,200 a day, that after a few days the gallery announced it was extending viewing time until 8 p.m. two days a week. ``Artwork necessarily creates an atmosphere of international understanding,'' wrote the trade union daily newspaper Prace. ``Art can speak with the same urgency to people throughout the world.'' The women's weekly Vlasta said, ``We can only wish that the useful international cooperation continues. After all, it brings enrichment for both countries _ for us, especially, an expansion of knowledge of the various trends of contemporary 20th century art.'' AP890102-0071 AP-NR-01-02-89 1312EST u i AM-Cambodia-Soviets 01-02 0607 AM-Cambodia-Soviets,0623 Moscow Seeks Cambodia Solution, Hopes to Reduce its Role An AP Extra By DENIS D. GRAY Associated Press Writer PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) The Soviet Union appears bent on a political solution in Cambodia and has urged its Vietnamese allies to withdraw their occupation forces, Western and Soviet diplomats say. The Kremlin denies pressuring Vietnam to pull out, but Deputy Foreign Minister Igor A. Rogachev has called a partial withdrawal in 1988 an ``avenue toward a speedy solution'' that could improve Soviet relations with China. A summit of the two largest communist powers is expected this year, and Cambodia might head the agenda. Vietnam invaded its Southeast Asian neighbor in December 1978, ousted the bloody Khmer Rouge regime and installed another government. In Bangkok, Thailand, a Western diplomat said of the Chinese-Soviet dispute over Cambodia: ``I think they've both decided to put this one behind them, to sweep this one under the rug.'' Moscow backs Hanoi and its client regime in Phnom Penh. Beijing arms Khmer Rouge guerrillas and other rebel groups fighting that government. The Soviet Union's apparent retrenchment after a decade fits its current policy of shedding or reducing costly foreign involvements. It also does not appear to relish being Cambodia's major donor of foreign aid. ``This kind of monopoly we certainly do not like,'' said a Soviet diplomat in Phnom Penh. He said his country was especially unhappy about having to provide all Cambodia's oil, on credit. Most Western analysts believe the Soviet Union wants to retain its influence in Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos but at a level that would not antagonize China or the non-communist nations of the region, with which Moscow seeks better economic and political relations. Although the Soviet investment in Cambodia is substantial, it does not approach the amount the Kremlin has committed to Afghanistan or to neighboring Vietnam, and Moscow has not carried out pledges of reconstruction made 10 years ago. Official Cambodian media said the Soviet Union extended aid worth $133 million in 1979-80 to help overcome famine and devastation caused by nearly four years of Khmer Rouge governemtn. Aid levels are believed to have been substantially lower since, but no reliable estimates are available. Washington estimates the Soviets pour the equivalent of more than $3 billion a year into Vietnam. Several hundred Soviet advisers are stationed in Cambodia, involved in projects ranging from a ground satellite station to a veterinary medicine center. Soviet pilots fly planes of the Cambodian airline and engineers sent by the Kremlin are renovating the electric power supply system. By 1990, more than 3,500 scholarships are expected to have been provided for Cambodians studying in the Soviet Union. Most of the bill for Cambodia's army and the Vietnamese occupation force also goes to the Kremlin. Western analysts say that is an important reason the Soviets want to get the Vietnamese out and reach a political solution with rebel groups. Little Soviet blood has been shed in Cambodia and Moscow has not installed a naval base at the Kompong Som port, as some observers expected. It also has not built the roads, communications and other facilities needed in a country plagued for nearly 20 years by war, Khmer Rouge rule, invasion and insurgency. According to Soviet diplomats, their government wants to cut unnecessary items from the current aid program. They scoff at some suggestions from their aid bureaucracy, like establishing a circus or getting involved in tourism. One diplomat, noting deficiencies in the Soviet Union's own development of tourism, said the Cambodians ``saw the light'' and decided to invite Hong Kong businessmen to restore a first-class hotel in Phnom Penh. AP890102-0072 AP-NR-01-02-89 1326EST r i AM-BRF--China-Crashes 01-02 0194 AM-BRF--China-Crashes,0200 41 Dead In Two Bus Accidents BEIJING (AP) Two separate bus accidents killed 41 people, official Chinese news reports said Monday. The Xinhua News Agency said 31 people were killed when a bus carrying a bride and her relatives collided with a freight train Sunday in northeast China's Heilongjiang province on the Bingbei Railway Line. The bride, the bus driver and 29 others on board the bus died, the news agency said. It gave no figure for the number of people injured. The cause of the accident was under investigation, it said. In another accident, a bus carrying 46 passengers plunged into an icy river Saturday, killing 10 people and injuring 32 others, the China Daily reported. It said ``hundreds of local people, policemen and doctors'' jumped into the river to help save the passengers. Passers-by smashed the bus windows with axes and bamboo poles in the rescue effort, the newspaper said. Four were still missing, it said. The crash occurred outside of Shanghai when the bus left the road and plunged over a 24-foot-high bridge into a river. The bus landed upside down and was submerged, the report said. AP890102-0073 AP-NR-01-02-89 1328EST u a PM-RetirementHomeSlayings 1stLd-Writethru a PM-Retirement Home Slayings, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0459,0535 Two Killed, Four Injured In Retirement Home Attack Eds: LEADS with 6 grafs to UPDATE with comment from police chief on possible motive, other detail. Picks up 5th graf pvs, `Nickbarge was...'. DELETES 11th graf, `Police chief...', now outdated. DADE CITY, Fla. (AP) An 88-year-old man who had been feuding with the other residents of his small, cramped retirement home was accused today of killing two of them and injuring four others while they slept, authorities said. Henry Thomas, who walks with the aid of a cane, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and was being held without bond in the Pasco County Detention Center, said Police Chief Phil Thompson. Thomas' clothes and cane were bloodstained when he was picked up Sunday evening while strolling through this city about 30 miles northeast of Tampa, police said. He was taken into custody about 12 hours after the victims' bodies were found. The injuries could have been caused by the cane but that hadn't been confirmed, he said. The bodies of Max Nickbarge, 90, and Myrtle Smith, 73, were discovered Sunday morning by two nurses at the Reflections I retirement home, one of whom had slept only a few feet away from where the attack occurred, police said. The victims apparently were asleep at the time of the attack, Thompson said. The police chief said there was bitterness between Thomas and other residents ``that had been building for some time and came to a head.'' While he didn't know the cause of the bitterness, Thompson said cramped quarters in the home, where Thomas lived with two other men in a 9-foot-by-10-foot room, may have contributed. Nickbarge was found in his bedroom, and Smith was found in the living room. The two, last seen around midnight Saturday, had been beaten about the head, neck and shoulders, police said. ``Some furniture had been overturned, and there was broken glass on the floor,'' said police Sgt. Dale Neuner. Four other people were injured, two seriously. Frank Tear Sr., 89, was listed in critical but stable condition today with a fractured skull, cuts and bruises at Tampa General Hospital. Tear is the father-in-law of Helen Tear, who owns Reflections I and a similar home nearby. Esther Kelly, 67, was in guarded condition at Humana Hospital in Dade City with two broken arms, cuts on her face and head, and bruises. Ruth Godfrey, 71, and Lucy Mitchell, 85, were both listed in fair condition with facial cuts at East Pasco Medical Center in Zephyrhills about 10 miles south of here. Godfrey also suffered a broken collarbone. Nine people lived in the home. All six victims had been sleeping in rooms near the front of the house, said Neuner. ``Some residents in the rear of the house said they heard strange noises in the night,'' Neuner said, but no one rose to investigate. The home's three other residents were transferred Sunday to Reflections II nearby. Thomas, a retired fruit picker, checked into the home after his house burned down in November, police said. Neighbors said he often collected and sold junk. AP890102-0074 AP-NR-01-02-89 1328EST r i AM-BRF--Italy-Fire 01-02 0122 AM-BRF--Italy-Fire,0125 Two Injured Escaping Hotel Fire Through Window MILAN, Italy (AP) A man and his daughter were injured Monday when they jumped from their second-floor hotel room to escape a fire, authorities said. Elio Pirrone and his daughter, Antonina Silvana, threw a mattress onto a first-floor balcony 16 feet below their room after hearing a fire alarm and seeing smoke. Pirrone, 53, suffered a dislocated shoulder, and Ms. Silvana, 20, had bruises on her leg, according to doctors at San Carlo hospital. Both also suffered smoke inhalation. The two were among only three guests at the 54-room Hotel Tiziano. The third guest and hotel employees were unhurt in the fire, which may have been caused by a short circuit. AP890102-0075 AP-NR-01-02-89 1331EST r i AM-BRF--SoccerViolence 01-02 0149 AM-BRF--Soccer Violence,0153 Soccer Fan in Coma After Clash BRESCIA, Italy (AP) A 15-year-old soccer fan was hospitalized in a coma Monday after a fight between supporters of rival teams. Davide Fornaroli suffered broken bones Saturday in the violence between supporters of rival teams from Cremona and Brescia, said doctors at the Civil Hospital in this northern city. The 20-minute fight erupted after a championship match when fans of Brescia, which lost 2-0, attacked a train carrying the fans of visiting Cremona team. The Brescia supporters hurled stones at the train, smashing the windows of several cars, railway officials said. Two people were taken into custody. It was the second serious incident in the Italian soccer season. In October, a supporter of the Ascoli team died from head injuries suffered during clashes with fans of Milan's Internazionale team. Three supporters of the Milan team face murder charges. AP890102-0076 AP-NR-01-02-89 1334EST u i PM-Guatemala-Shipwreck 1stLd-Writethru a0527 01-02 0278 PM-Guatemala-Shipwreck, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0527,0285 URGENT Guatemalan Ferry Sinks; 59 Dead, Six Missing Eds: Updates with name of Spanish victim, other details. CORRECTS spelling to Puerto Barrios. No pickup. Adds byline. By ALFONSO ANZUETO Associated Press Writer GUATEMALA CITY (AP) A passenger ferry sank off the Caribbean coast while being towed to port, and 59 people drowned and six are missing, authorities and news reports said today. Capt. Anibal Giron Arreola, a spokesman at the Puerto Barrios naval base, said the ferry Justo Rufino Barrios II sank Sunday afternoon in Amatique Bay. He said by telephone that 59 people died. Juan Jose Gaytan, a reporter at Radio Portena in Puerto Barrios, said the Justo Rufineo Barrios II ran out of fuel midway on a regular 16-mile run from the town Livingston, across the bay, to Puerto Barrios. Gaytan said the boat sank while it was being towed by a tugboat. The Spanish Embassy in Guatemala City confirmed the sinking and said a 40-year-old Spanish citizen, Vicente Daudi, was among the dead. The embassy reported his wife, Rosa Maria Arnal, and a son survived the shipwreck, but two daughters were missing. Daudi was working with a Spanish technical aid and economic development mission in Guatemala, the embassy said. An official at the Puerto Barrios morgue said 13 bodies have been identified. Besides Daudi, the nationalities of the victims were not immediately known. Gaytan said navy patrol boats, fishing vessels and private craft have been searching the bay for survivors and recovering bodies. He said he had no other details on the shipwreck. Puerto Barrios, 187 miles northeast of the capital, is Guatemala's principal east coast port. AP890102-0077 AP-NR-01-02-89 1340EST r i AM-Soviet-Unrest 01-02 0458 AM-Soviet-Unrest,0469 Armenian Paper Prints Alleged Threat; Activists Calls It a Fake MOSCOW (AP) An Armenian newspaper has printed an alleged threat by Armenian militants to wage terrorist attacks with U.S.-made Stinger missiles if their leaders are not freed from jail. The activists called it a fake. The purported letter, published by Kommunist, the Armenian Communist Party daily newspaper, demands the immediate release of members of the Karabakh Committee, a group that has led an 11-month campaign for the annexation of Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian region of Azerbaijan. If the committee's leaders are not freed, the unsigned document says, ``we will have recourse to mass terror. ... In our arsenals, we have `Stingers,' provided by our friends.'' A facsimile copy of the purported document was published in Kommunist's Dec. 28 editions, which reached Moscow over the weekend. Kommunist said the letter was received by law-enforcement officials, and labeled ``to be transmitted to the KGB.'' It made no additional reference to the Stingers. Many of the U.S.-manufactured ground-to-air missiles have been shipped by the United States to Afghan insurgents fighting their country's pro-Moscow government. Rafael Popoyan, an Armenian activist, said the letter printed by Kommunist was a ``total fabrication from beginning to end,'' and another attempt by officials to discredit the Karabakh committee militants. Sergei Grigoryants, an Armenian-Russian activist who was released last week after 30 days in jail in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, for filming soldiers who are enforcing a curfew, said the grammatical construction of the letter was too complicated for most Armenians. The letter was written in Russian, which Armenians learn in school in addition to their own language and alphabet. At a news conference in Moscow, Grigoryants also distributed a copy of an interview with Ashot Manucharyan, a member of the Armenian Supreme Soviet legislature who Grigoryants said is a fugitive because of his nationalist activities. Manucharyan was quoted as saying he was told about such threatening letters by the Armenian KGB secret police five months ago, when no members of the Karabakh Committee were under detention. Popoyan said the appearance of the article may herald a further crackdown by Soviet authorities on the committee, seven of whose members are now in jail and the other four reportedly in hiding to avoid arrest. ``Now that so many members of the committee have been arrested, there is no one to answer these ridiculous charges,'' Popoyan said, speaking by telephone from Yerevan. ``The press is now closed to anyone from the committee.'' Soviet authorities jailed committee leaders after the Dec. 7 earthquake in northwestern Armenia. Authorities have accused committee members of sabotaging the earthquake relief effort and whipping up ethnic tensions by continuing to seek Nagorno-Karabakh's annexation by Armenia, a demand the Kremlin has refused. AP890102-0078 AP-NR-01-02-89 1402EST r a AM-LoveTriangle 01-02 0252 AM-Love Triangle,0258 Judge Says Love-Triangle Slayer May Seek New Trial NEW YORK (AP) A man serving a 25-year to life sentence for the 1978 slaying of a restaurateur who took his cover-girl lover away from him has been granted permission to seek a new trial. Howard ``Buddy'' Jacobson, who says he's being treated for bone cancer in Attica state prison, was granted permission to file new motions on Feb. 1 by Appellate Division Judge Richard W. Wallach, Newsday reported Monday. The ruling was made Dec. 8, the newspaper said. Three previous appeals of Jacobson's conviction of murdering Jack Tupper have been denied. Jacobson, 58, one of the nation's most successful thoroughbred horse trainers in the 1960s and 1970s, maintains that Tupper was a narcotics dealer slain in a drug dispute. ``I'm innocent, plain and simple,'' Jacobson told Newsday from Attica. The government, with model Melanie Cain a major witness in an 11-week trial in 1980, said Jacobson shot and stabbed Tupper to death because Miss Cain left him after four years and moved into an apartment across the hall with Tupper. Jacobson's lawyer, Herald Price Fahringer, said a new trial will be sought on grounds that the prosecution hid statements by a witness who said Jacobson was not one of the three men she saw at the site where Tupper's body was dumped. Miss Cain, 33, now an actress with a 3-year-old daughter, told Newsday she still believed Jacobson guilty and would ``be shocked if it turned out differently.'' AP890102-0079 AP-NR-01-02-89 1403EST r i AM-Soviet-Jet 01-02 0276 AM-Soviet-Jet,0284 Pilots Test New Soviet Passenger Jet MOSCOW (AP) Pilots on Monday made their first test of a new Soviet airliner, the Tupolev 204, that designers say is more roomy and efficient than current Aeroflot jets, the Tass news agency said. The 214-seat airliner is to go into service at the end of 1990 and be one of Aeroflot's principal medium-range carrier in the 1990s, Tass said. The evening TV news program ``Vremya'' showed a yellow twin-engine jet on a tarmac in Moscow preparing for its 32-minute flight. News reports did not say if any problems were found in the flight. The Tu-204 ``belongs to a new generation of airliners, economical, equipped with most up-to-date electronic systems and instruments of Soviet make, and very comfortable for passengers,'' Tass said. Chief engineer of the new plane, L. Lanovsky, told Tass it will have wider corridors and more leg room than the Soviet Union's notoriously cramped airliners. The plane will be built in modules, so first-class and business-class sections also can be built in, he said. Some Aeroflot planes that fly international routes have business-class sections, but there is no such differentiation on domestic flights. It will be much more energy efficient than the Tupolev 154, currently the most efficient Soviet passenger jet, Tass said. Tass said test pilots and engineers will test up to 3,000 components of the plane in the next 12 to 18 months, and that it probably will be displayed at international air shows before it goes into general service. The Tu-204 is likely to replace the Tu-154 on some routes. It has been carrying passengers on regular routes since 1972. AP890102-0080 AP-NR-01-02-89 1416EST r i AM-GandhiAssassins 01-02 0590 AM-Gandhi Assassins,0609 President Rejects Clemency For Convicted Gandhi Assassin NEW DELHI, India (AP) President Ramaswamy Venkataraman on Monday rejected an appeal for clemency for one of the two Sikhs condemned to death for the 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, defense lawyers said. Lawyers for Kehar Singh and Satwant Singh said they would file another round of appeals Tuesday to halt their executions. Ram Jethmalani, the defense attorney for Kehar Singh, said the earliest his client could be hanged was at dawn Wednesday, but said he would launch appeals in the trial court, appellate court and Supreme Court on Tuesday. Under Indian law, a man condemned to be executed has to be hanged within seven days of the issue of the death warrants but not before 24 hours from the time it is issued. S. Mohapatra, superintendent of the maximum-security Tihar jail, where the convicted men are lodged, said Monday he had received the ``black warrants'' for the executions, but refused to say when they would take place. Rupinder S. Sodhi, defense attorney for Satwant Singh, said Venkataraman sent a letter Monday to Kehar Singh's son, Rajinder, informing him of the decision to turn down the plea for mercy. It was the second time he has turned down a mercy petition by Kehar Singh, 54. ``After carefully considering the petition ... the president of India has declined to grant pardon or any other relief ... and has rejected the petition,'' the letter said. It gave no reason for the rejection, which vacated the stays of execution for Kehar Singh and Satwant Singh. The two men are not related. All male Sikhs take the name of Singh, which means lion in the Punjabi language, by doctrine of their faith. Satwant Singh has not filed a mercy petition with the president, but under Indian law his death sentence was automatically delayed when Kehar Singh asked for clemency. Sodhi said Satwant Singh would not ask the president for clemency. Mrs. Gandhi was shot in the garden of her New Delhi residence on Oct. 31, 1984, by two of her Sikh bodyguards. One of them, Beant Singh, was killed in a shootout with other bodyguards minutes later. The other, Satwant Singh, was arrested, tried and sentenced to the gallows. Kehar Singh, an uncle of Beant Singh, was convicted of conspiracy and sentenced to death. Mrs. Gandhi's assassination was in apparent revenge for an army raid she had ordered four months earlier on the Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, to clear the complex of Sikh militants entrenched inside. On Oct. 30, Kehar Singh filed his first mercy petition. It was dismissed by the president Nov. 24 and the two men were ordered to hang on Dec. 2. But Kehar Singh's lawyers challenged the president's decision in the Supreme Court, arguing Venkataraman had powers to review the case. The court granted a stay 15 hours before the two were to be hanged. On Dec. 16, the Supreme Court ordered the president to reconsider the appeal. A trial court convicted them in 1986 and sentenced them to death. The convictions and death sentences were upheld by an appeals court later that year and by the Supreme Court last August. Sikhs, who make up 2 percent of India's 880 million people, claim they are discriminated by the Hindus, the country's religious majority accounting for over 80 percent of the population. Militant Sikhs are fighting a 6-year-old guerrilla war for a separate nation in Punjab. Over 2,400 deaths last year were blamed on the militants. AP890102-0081 AP-NR-01-02-89 1416EST r i AM-BRF--Spain-Strike 1stLd-Writethru a0529 01-02 0150 AM-BRF--Spain-Strike, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0529,0149 Mechanics' Strike Forces Flight Cancellations Eds: UPDATES with 55 flights canceled. MADRID, Spain (AP) A 24-hour strike by Iberia airlines' mechanics forced the cancellation of 55 flights Monday, a spokesman said. The cancellations mostly affected flights to and from Madrid and Barcelona on the domestic carrier Aviaco, said Jose Maria Estrade, an Iberia spokesman. The 1,400-member Spanish Association of Aircraft Maintenance Technicians called the strike to pressure Iberia to accept a separate pay scale and work rules for union members. The mechanics are included in an agreement governing all 21,000 Iberia ground employees. Estrade said 400 mechanics went to work Monday as part of an agreement with the union to provide minimum services. But he said Iberia officials considered the strike illegal and were considering disciplinary action against its organizers. The union has announced more strikes for Thursday and Jan. 9. AP890102-0082 AP-NR-01-02-89 1431EST r a AM-BurnVictim 01-02 0611 AM-Burn Victim,0630 Bus Crash Survivors Learn to Live With Burn Treatments, Stares _ and Kindness LaserPhoto LX2 RADCLIFF, Ky. (AP) She was one of 12 teen-agers left with severe burns after the church bus crash that killed 27 people last year, but Trina Muller is learning to adjust. Friends, counselors and even strangers are helping. ``One day this kid looked at me and said, `What happened to your hands and face?' and my friends ran up to him and said, `If you don't like what you see, don't look,''' Trina said. Garry King, principal at J.T. Alton Middle School, said survivors of the May 14 crash deserve the credit for a smooth transition in returning to school. ``These kids are fantastically courageous,'' King said. ``It's been an inspiration for me.'' Trina must wear skin-tight pressure garments that doctors say will help prevent her burns from leaving hideous scars. She thinks the flesh-colored suit that covers her from her head to her knees is ugly. ``If the doctor told me I didn't have to wear it anymore, I'd throw a party,'' she said. Still, the 14-year-old doesn't let the chin strap prevent her from endless phone conversations with friends or the pressure gloves from wearing several rings over them. Life goes on for Trina and the 39 others who nearly burned to death inside the church bus after it was hit head-on by a pickup truck driver. Police say Larry Mahoney's truck crashed into the bus from the First Assembly of God Church in Radcliff while he was driving the wrong way on Interstate 71. The bus, returning to Radcliff after the church group spent the day at an amusement park north of Cincinnati, burst into flames. The 67 people aboard survived the impact, but three adults and 24 children died as they tried to escape the burning bus. Mahoney, 35, of Worthville, pleaded innocent to 27 counts of murder and other charges, including drunken driving. He was released from jail on $540,000 bond Oct. 10. Aside from periodic absences for surgery, the student survivors are all back in school. Doctors and therapists monitor their healing to see what they can do to limit disfigurement for the seven who had skin grafts. The Hardin County school system has worked to smooth the way for the students by inviting a burn specialist to lead a seminar for school staff in August. Sharon Rengers, a nurse at Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville, gave a similar presentation to students at Alton Middle School in September. She said many teen-agerss associate burn patients with Freddy Krueger, the disfigured character in the ``Nightmare on Elm Street'' horror movies. ``I have to tell them, `Burn patients are not monsters. They're the same people; they just look different.''' But she said it's natural for patients to worry about their looks. ``Physical appearance is a big part of our culture. It's even more important for teens.'' The battle now, therapists say, is to get the patients to wear the pressure garments. Trina said her friends yell at her when she tries to take them off. But other students have resisted the treatment because the garments are noticeable and often uncomfortable. Dotty Pearman said her daughter, Christy, a freshman at North Hardin High School, has come home in tears on several occasions after people commented about her appearance or voice, which is deeper because her vocal chords burned, grew together and had to be surgically separated. Christy also has second- and third-degree burns on her arm and shoulders. Said Christy: ``The memory will always be there. And then you look down and see the scar to remind you.'' AP890102-0083 AP-NR-01-02-89 1443EST u a PM-Sessions-Crash 1stLd-Writethru a0417 01-02 0705 PM-Sessions-Crash, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0417,750 Precede WASHINGTON No Word From Arafat on Crash Probe Aid, Reagan Says Eds: Top 5 grafs new with Reagan saying U.S. has not heard from Arafat; picks up 5th graf pvs, The FBI chief. By W. DALE NELSON Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) President Reagan said today the United States has heard nothing from Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, on help in tracking down those responsible for last month's bombing of a Pan American jetliner over Scotland. ``We've not heard from him,'' Reagan told reporters upon landing here after spending the New Year's weekend in Palms Springs. ``If he has anything to tell us, I'm sure he'll tell us.'' FBI Director William Sessions had said on Sunday that Arafat has ``a wealth of information'' that could help in the investigation of the Dec. 21 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 that killed 270 people. Without the PLO's help, Sessions said on two television interview shows, the govenment expects a lengthy manhunt but is optimistic that those responsible will be found eventually. ``We're set up for the long haul,'' he said. ``We have a pattern and reputation for being able to solve'' such crimes. The FBI chief said he would welcome any help Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization might provide. He said contacts between the FBI and Arafat presumably could be set up by the State Department. U.S. and PLO officials recently opened talks on the Arab-Israeli conflict after Arafat disavowed terrorism and recognized Israel's right to exist. Sessions said Arafat ``has a great deal of information, a wealth of information he can give us.'' Last week the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Seyasseh quoted an unidentified PLO official as saying the organization was considering a request by U.S. officials that the PLO help in tracking down those responsible for the bombing. While welcoming Arafat's help in identifying possible suspects in the Pan Am crash, Sessions said he opposes any attempt by the PLO leader to retaliate by killing any suspects. Arafat has blamed terrorists for bringing down the jetliner, condemning it as an ``inhuman criminal action.'' Asked about reports that Arafat is consider organizing an assassination team to retailiate against those who planted the bomb, Sessions said, ``We believe in the system of justice. We hope those people are handled in the courts.'' Sessions said he has no evidence as yet to confirm the bombing was the work of terrorists rather than a non-political criminal act aimed at an individual on board the jet. He also said that 62 bodies from the crash have been identified through fingerprinting. Meawhile, Alan McArtor, head of the Federal Aviation Adminstration, also appeared on ``Meet the Press,'' and defended the policy of not publicizing threats to airliners. ``These threats are transmitted on a routine basis,'' he said. But McArtor conceded that it was mistake for the United States to warn overseas embassy personnel about the threat to Pan Am jets while not alerting the public. ``Personally, I don't think it was managed well,'' he said. McArtor said an alert has been issued to the Athens airport and others in the Mediterranean area to be on the lookout for false passports. ``There has been movement of some known terrorists who have in their possession false passports,'' McArtor said. He also said the FAA will negotiate with European allies to seek improved airline security. ``This is a threat against civil aviation. It's not just isolated to American carriers,'' he said. On CBS' ``Face the Nation,'' Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine, and Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., said the United States should keep open the possibility of military retaliation against any nation linked to terrorist attacks. ``The military option always has to be there,'' Hamilton said. ``But we don't want to indiscriminately bomb areas.'' In London, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher distanced herself from U.S. talk of punishing whoever planted the bomb. ``I don't think an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth is ever valid,'' she said. ``The most important thing to do is to try to get the cooperation of all nations to track these people down so that they are brought to justice,'' she said in a British television interview. AP890102-0084 AP-NR-01-02-89 1447EST r a PM-FireDeaths 4thLd-Writethru a0498 01-02 1001 PM-Fire Deaths, 4th Ld - Writethru, a0498,1025 10 Die In Minnesota New Year's Fire, 23 Killed in Blazes Elsewhere Eds: SUBS 8-12th grafs to UPDATE fires elsewhere total to 23; UPDATE with mother expected to go home today, add that claim there were no smoke detectors in house disputed by relative. Picks up 13th graf, `A crisis...'. SUBS 27th graf, `In New...', to add detail on second fatal fire in New York state. LaserPhoto BRD1 By PAULA FROKE Associated Press Writer REMER, Minn. (AP) A woman celebrating her birthday with her husband broke into hysteria after returning home to find that a fire had destroyed their wooden house, killing 10 people, including their four children. Firefighters had to restrain Nancy Watson when she repeatedly tried to enter the burned-out two-story house, said Valerie Pound, a witness. ``There was no house to get back into. It was just gone,'' Pound said. ``She kept screaming the names of her four kids in a pattern, one right after another.'' Three walls and the roof already had collapsed when firefighters arrived early Sunday, said Fire Chief Leo Renn. The bodies of the badly burned victims were in or near their beds. ``It's probably the worst situation I've seen where 10 people are killed at one time,'' said Cass County Sheriff Jim Dawson. ``It's just devastating.'' Killed were John and Nancy Watson's children, Jenny, 14, Samantha, 11, Edward, 9, and William, 8; Mrs. Watson's sister and brother-in-law, Jean and Becky Smischney; their two children, Jay, 10, and Kimberly, 8; and Michelle Bastle, 10, and Robin Bastle, 12, daughters of Tony and Nancy Bastle, who live near the Watsons. Elsewhere, New Year's weekend fires killed at least 23 people, including four in Charlotte, N.C., and four in Anchorage, Alaska, since Saturday. Mrs. Watson was kept overnight for observation at Itasca Memorial Hospital early today in the north-central Minnesota city of Grand Rapids, 20 miles northeast of this town of 400 residents. She was expected to be released today, hospital officials said. The fire spread so quickly it was unlikely anyone woke up before being overcome by smoke, said Renn. It was sparked by a wood-burning stove or an oil space heater, Renn said. He originally said the house was not equipped with smoke detectors, which were not required by law. But later, after a relative said there were indeed three smoke detectors in the house, Renn said, ``We may have to retract that.'' The fire was discovered by passing motorists, who stopped at the house of Melody Berczyk across the road from the Watson home. ``It was one big ball of flame right then,'' said Berczyk, who called the fire department. A crisis intervention team was asked to come to the elementary school Tuesday to help the children deal with the deaths of their classmates. ``Hopefully, we'll just all pull together,'' said Principal Mike Doro. The Watsons had left the children with her sister and brother-in-law, who were visiting from Bemidji, to celebrate Mrs. Watson's 32nd birthday on New Year's Eve. Tammy Grover, a stepsister of John Watson, said the Watson children loved the outdoors. ``They had pet rabbits and geese and ducks,'' she said. ``Jenny liked drawing and painting a lot, especially unicorns and horses. She just won $75 in a contest at school, which was a really big thing to her,'' Grover said. The Watsons, who are unemployed, ``were a poor family as far as material things go, but they were a very close family,'' said Pound. She said a fund has been set up for the victims' families at the Security State Bank in Remer. ``In a small town, everyone is family,'' she said. ``This is by far the most devastating thing that has ever happened to this town. ``Everybody will pull together and help in any way you can. Even though it's not going to bring the kids back, the families will know that everyone in this town is hurt by what happened and is behind them. This has touched everybody,'' Pound said. In other fires, Anchorage police said two adults and two children were killed in a trailer fire Sunday. Seven people died in fires in Anchorage during all of 1988, authorities said. Four members of a Charlotte family died and three others were injured in a New Year's Day fire blamed on smoldering smoking materials in their cinder-block house, fire officials said. Killed were a woman, 26, her 18-month-old son, her sister, 11, and the sisters' 65-year-old great-uncle. Two of the injured were in in critical condition, authorities said. Two boys, ages 4 months and 2 years, were killed and a 5-year-old boy was critically injured in a fire at a Philadelphia public housing project this morning, authorities said. The cause was under investigation. A father and son died in a house fire Sunday in Marion, Ohio. The father carried his wife through their burning home to safety before re-entering the house, where he died in an unsuccessful effort to save his 20-year-old son, authorities said. In Wisconsin, New Year's Day fires killed one person in a Waukesha hotel room and one in a Racine residence. In New York state, a couple was found dead in a bedroom closet following an early Sunday fire that destroyed their home in Willsboro along Lake Champlain; and a 7-year-old girl died and her 3-year-old brother was critically injured Sunday evening when a fire engulfed their two-story home in Ogdensburg. In Portland, Maine, a mother and her infant daughter were killed in a house with a defective smoke detector on New Year's Eve, officials said. An 11-year-old boy was arrested and charged with murder in an apartment fire that killed a 53-year-old man in the southern Maine city of Biddeford on Saturday night, officials said. In Wichita, Kan., a house fire early Saturday killed a firefighter and a woman and left her husband in serious condition, authorities said. A 20-year-old Kansas City, Mo., man died in a fire in his house Sunday. AP890102-0085 AP-NR-01-02-89 1447EST u i AM-Crash Bjt 01-02 0718 AM-Crash, Bjt,0743 Part of Tail Section Recovered, Village to Be Rebuilt LOCKERBIE, Scotland (AP) Searchers on Monday recovered part of the tail section of Pan Am Flight 103, and civic officials said they would meet to discuss plans for rebuilding parts of Lockerbie destroyed by the crash. Police Superintendent Angus Kennedy said part of the Boeing 747's tail section was found near Lengholm, about 15 miles east of Lockerbie, along with ``sizable pieces'' of nearby wreckage that has not been identified. ``The area is very rough terrain and there has been no confirmation yet from the accident investigators about what parts of the aircraft are there (other than the tail part),'' he said. Only 20 percent of the jumbo jet had been recovered from the crash site, although other parts of the plane have been seen, he said. All 259 passengers and crew members on the New York-bound jet died in the Dec. 21 crash. Authorities have recovered three bodies of 11 townspeople presumed killed on the ground. Ten houses were destroyed by falling wreckage, replaced by a crater 100 feet long and 30 feet deep. Another 30 homes were badly damaged. Les Jardine, spokesman for Dumfries and Galloway regional council, said council officials would meet with residents to discuss rebuilding plans. Thirteen bodies were identified Monday, including that of passenger Ingrid Smith, Kennedy said. Ms. Smith's husband, Capt. Bruce Smith, a Pan Am pilot, accused local police over the weekend of being ``paralyzed by inexperience and incompetence'' and of delaying the return of victims' bodies to their relatives. Chief Constable John Boyd of the Dumfries and Galloway police force said he sympathized with bereaved relatives, but added everything was being done to positively identify the victims. He said 81 of the 242 recovered bodies have been released. No bodies were recovered Monday. ``Every effort continues to be made to identify and release victims' bodies to their families,'' he said. ``The trauma and grief experienced by relatives continues to be uppermost in our minds.'' In a related development, passengers on Scandinavian Airlines System faced delays Monday as the airline issued a worldwide security alert after receiving a bombing threat, officials said. The warning was received early Sunday from Hungarian police through Interpol in Paris, said SAS spokesman John Herbert. A security alert was transmitted to about 90 international airports used by SAS aircraft, Herbert said. Budapest radio reported that an unknown caller telephoned police headquarters in the Hungarian capital, warning that an SAS airliner would be blown up. The report did not elaborate. Security at Athens airport also was tightened. A police spokesman said security had been increased around Pan Am, TWA and several Arab airline terminals and baggage check-in counters. The Flight 103 investigation is focused on the Lockerbie crash site, Frankfurt Airport and London's Heathrow Airport. The flight originated as a Boeing 727 in Frankfurt and, following a stop in Heathrow, left for New York on the jumbo jet. In Frankfurt, a prosecutor's spokesman said Monday the Pan Am jet had been carrying four U.S. military mail sacks and a bank document pouch that were not checked by Frankfurt airport security officials. The Munich-based weekly magazine Bunte quoted an unidentified security expert as saying the bomb could have been smuggled in with the mail. Spokesman Hubert Harth at the federal prosecutor's office in Frankfurt said the post bags and bank pouch were not checked by airport security ``because they had been continuously under the control of U.S. military officials.'' FBI Director William Sessions said Sunday he welcomed any information Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat could provide in identifying suspects. The Sunday Express, a London daily, reported without attribution that Arafat had vowed to dispatch an assassination squad to hunt down and kill the bomber. Arafat ``has a great deal of information, a wealth of information he can give us,'' Sessions said in an interview. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher distanced herself Sunday from U.S. vows to punish the culprits. ``I don't think an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth is ever valid,'' Ms. Thatcher said on the ``David Frost on Sunday'' program. ``The most important thing to do is to try to get the cooperation of all nations to track these people down so that they are brought to justice.'' AP890102-0086 AP-NR-01-02-89 1451EST r a AM-NewMonitor 01-02 0300 AM-New Monitor,0304 Revamped Christian Science Monitor To Make Debut By ARLENE LEVINSON Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) A revamped Christian Science Monitor makes its debut Tuesday, with color photography, fewer pages and less advertising all aimed at streamlining the newspaper Mary Baker Eddy founded 80 years ago. The changes prompted an exodus in November of top management at the church-run daily newspaper, including the departure of Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Katherine Fanning. But company executives said Monday that five years of research showed the newspaper's readers, faced with other demands on their time, wanted more concise articles and ``greater selectivity'' of coverage. ``In short, they continue to look to the Monitor for the context and perspective of events, and want a serious paper that can be read thoroughly in about 30 minutes,'' John H. Hoagland Jr., manager of the Christian Science Publishing Society said Monday in a statement. The society publishes the Monitor. The newspaper, published Monday through Friday with a circulation of about 170,000, is still a tabloid. But it will now be 20 pages, smaller by about eight pages in its new format which limits national advertising to two pages and eliminates local and classified ads. In addition, the staff of 160 people are among the 800 members of the publishing society and broadcasting operation due for cutbacks of 20 percent to 25 percent, said Don Feldheim, spokesman for publishing society. Supporting the newspaper reportedly has cost the church $20 million a year. Mrs. Fanning, who became the first woman editor of the Monitor in 1983, resigned along with her managing editor and assistant managing editor in November. She said she left rather than see the newspaper reduced in size, while also losing independence under a restructured management that concentrated more on the church's broadcasting arm. AP890102-0087 AP-NR-01-02-89 1500EST r a AM-Chippewa-Deal 01-02 0413 AM-Chippewa-Deal,0428 Small Chippewa Band Considers Settlement on Food-Gathering Rights MOLE LAKE, Wis. (AP) Leaders of Wisconsin's smallest Chippewa band have recommended that tribal members approve the state's proposed $10 million settlement to limit the band's hunting and fishing treaty rights. The Chippewa's exercise of treaty rights has been a source of controversy and protest by sportsfishermen and other outdoorsmen who argue it is unfair for Indians to use methods or seasons prohibited others and that the exercise of the court-upheld food-gathering rights may harm or deplete natural resources. Earl A. Charlton, an attorney representing the Sokaogon Chippewa, said the Tribal Council unanimously adopted the final draft of an agreement with the State Justice Department and recommended it for approval by the community. A meeting is scheduled Tuesday night to introduce the settlement, and a Jan. 14 referendum has been set, said council member Charles Ackley. If the agreement is ratified, it must be approved by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Tommy G. Thompson by Feb. 15, Charlton said. He said the agreement calls for payments of $1 million each year for 10 years and that 75 percent of the money is to go toward economic development and the rest is to pay for health and social programs. The Sokaogon band would have to give up some rights, including spearfishing outside of that for ceremonial purposes. The band would be limited to 100 fish speared per year, he said. The band also would forfeit its right to harvest timber on public land except for firewood, he said. The agreement could be extended for an additional 15 years at the option of both parties. Assistant Attorney General Stephen Nicks, who drafted the agreement, refused to say over the weekend whether offers similar to that prepared for the Sokaogon band have been drawn up for five other Chippewa bands in northern Wisconsin. State and tribal lawyers have negotiated for months in an attempt to reach an agreement over the Chippewa's off-reservation claims to natural resources guaranteed by 19th-century federal treaties. The tribe's insistence on using spears to catch game fish, a technique ordinarily forbidden by the state Department of Natural Resources, has been a volatile subject between tribal traditionalists and treaty critics. Justice Department spokesman Frank Ryan said he could not comment whether similar deals were under consideration by other bands. The Sokaogon is believed to be the smallest Chippewa band in Wisconsin, with about 1,300 members at Mole Lake, Charlton said. AP890102-0088 AP-NR-01-02-89 1503EST r i AM-SriLanka 01-02 0739 AM-Sri Lanka,0762 President Takes Office, Calls For an End to Violence By DEXTER CRUEZ Associated Press Writer KANDY, Sri Lanka (AP) Ranasinghe Premadasa was sworn in as president Monday in a Buddhist ceremony at the Temple of the Tooth, and he again appealed for an end to the ethnic violence that has devastated the tropical island. ``Further delay in finding a solution will enable certain elements to destroy many more innocent lives. This destruction must end because democracy cannot tolerate it,'' Premadasa said in his inaugural address. Premadasa, 64, took the oaths of office and secrecy before Chief Justice Parinda Ranaginshe during a two-hour ceremony in this picturesque hill town, 85 miles east of Colombo, the capital. Heavily armed soldiers surrounded the sacred Temple of the Tooth, where more than 500,000 people gathered to watch the ceremony. Police sharpshooters were perched on surrounding roofs, and troop on the ground checked all those entering the city. Premadasa won a six-year term by defeating two opponents in the Dec. 19 presidential election. He polled 50.4 percent of the vote, although only 55 percent of the 9.3 million eligible voters cast ballots. He succeeds his mentor, Junius R. Jayewaredene, as president after serving as his prime minister for 11 years. The president wields supreme power in Sri Lanka. Premadasa assumes the task of ruling a nation reeling from five years of strife between the predominantly Buddhist Sinhalese and the Hindu Tamils. Nearly 10,000 people have died since 1983 when Tamil militants began fighting for independence from the majority Sinhalese. The fighting also has left the national economy in shambles, ruining the island's crucial tourism industry and reducing agricultural production. Premadasa also faces an uneasy relationship with regional superpower India, which sent an estimated 47,000 peacekeeping troops to Sri Lanka 18 months ago to disarm the rebels and enforce a cease-fire. The insurgency has yet to be quelled, however, and Premadasa said he wants the unpopular Indian soldiers to leave. On Sunday, the Indian government announced it would start withdrawing its troops this week at Premadasa's request. Between 2,000 and 3,000 soldiers are expected to leave within days. The remaining troops will be gradually pulled out, the government said, but gave no timetable. Speaking from the octagonal central courtyard of the ancient Buddhist shrine, Premadasa in his inaugural speech vowed he would not allow ``a single inch'' of Sri Lankan soil to be occupied by any foreign country again. ``Let us settle our problems by ourselves through negotiations and mutual respect. We should not create situations that provoke or invite foreign intervention,'' he said. Unlike most of Sri Lanka's ruling elite, Premadasa was born in the slums of Colombo. During his campaign, he frequently said he was the only candidate who could champion the poor in this country where the per capital annual income of $360. Premadasa joined the United National Party in 1956 and entered Parliament four years later. When the party returned to power in 1977, he became Jayewardene's prime minister. He remained at that post throughout Jayewardene's term, although the two men had some policy differences, most prominently over the Indian-sponsored accord aimed at ending the Tamil rebellion. The pact, signed on July 29, 1987, offered limited autonomy to Tamil community in the north and east provinces and invited India to send peacekeeping soldiers to combat the rebels who still demand independence. Jayewardene signed the accord. Premadasa opposes it. Tamils comprise 18 percent of the island's 16 million people. They claim they are denied jobs and education by the Sinhalese, who make up 75 percent of the population and control the government. The biggest and most militant Tamil rebel group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, rejected the accord, saying it did not meet enought of their demands for self-rule. A radical Sinhalese group, the People's Liberation Front, also denounced the pact, claiming it granted too many concessions to the Tamil community. The Front has been blamed for more than 900 murders since the accord was signed. Most victims have been government supporters. During the campaign, Premadasa took pains not to blame Sinhalese extremists for escalating violence. He has yet to say how he will deal with the radicals, but pledged to provide security to any member of extremists groups. ``I call upon those who have not joined the democratic process to do so,'' he said. ``I am available at any time, anywhere to discuss any problem.'' AP890102-0089 AP-NR-01-02-89 1509EST u i AM-Afghanistan 01-02 0470 AM-Afghanistan,0485 Scores Reported Killed on Second Day of Government Cease-fire By MOHAMMED AFTAB Associated Press Writer ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) Afghanistan reported scores of people killed and dozens wounded Monday, the second day of a New Year's cease-fire proclaimed by the Soviet-backed regime but rejected by the Moslem guerrillas. Two insurgent leaders criticized the Soviet Union for considering a role in a future Afghan government for former King Zahir Shah, who was overthrown in 1973 and lives in Italy. Iran said Yuri Vorontsov, the Soviet deputy foreign minister, arrived in Tehran for talks with Afghan insurgent leaders based in Iran. He met in Saudi Arabia last month with Burhanuddin Rabbani, leader of a seven-faction alliance based in Pakistan. At least 5.5 million Afghans have fled their country during a decade of civil war, nearly all of them to Pakistan or Iran, Moslem nations that are Afghanistan's neighbors on the east and west. Moslem insurgents began fighting after a communist coup in April 1978 and Soviet military forces entered Afghanistan in December 1979. An estimated 115,000 were there when a U.N.-mediated withdrawal agreement was signed April 14, 1988. Red Army soldiers started leaving May 15 and U.N. officials said half were gone by Aug. 15. All are to be out by Feb. 15. The insurgents, supported by the United States and Pakistan, have demanded an Islamic government after the Soviets leave and are trying to overthrow the regime of President Najib. Najib announced the cease-fire Friday, effective New Year's Day, and said government forces would not fire unless fired upon. Insurgent leaders believe Najib's government will fall when the Soviets are gone and rejected the truce because, they said, it would be a disadvantage to them at this stage. State radio in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, said Monday that insurgents attacked Kandahar in the southeast, killing three civilians and wounding six. It said 31 guerrillas were killed and 27 wounded in an ensuing battle with security forces. Kabul radio, monitored in Islamabad, said the guerrillas fired on residential areas of Paktia, near the Pakistani border, and security forces returned the fire, killing 17 insurgents. Two more battles, in which 23 guerrillas were slain, occurred at Jalalabad and Gushta in Nangarahar province, the radio claimed. It did not mention government casualties and there was no independent confirmation of its reports. In Islamabad, insurgent leaders Rabbani and Gulbadin Hekmatyar criticized the Soviets for overtures to the former king. Vorontsov, who also is Moscow's ambassador to Kabul, met with Zahir Shah in Rome on Dec. 24. ``Zahir Shah will certainly not feel safe in the revolutionary Afghanistan,'' Rabbani said at a news conference, and Hekmatyar declared the king ``has no place in today's Afghanistan.'' ``The Afghan people will strongly resist any move against formation of an Islamic government in Kabul,'' Hekmatyar said. AP890102-0090 AP-NR-01-02-89 1512EST r i AM-Burma 01-02 0437 AM-Burma,0448 Students Chant Anti-Government Slogans At Funeral Procession By SEIN WIN Associated Press Writer RANGOON, Burma (AP) Students chanted pro-democracy slogans Monday as they marched in a funeral cortege with 100,000 other mourners to bury the widow of Burmese independence leader Aung San. The students defied a ban on public gatherings to accompany the body of Daw Khin Kyi along the five-mile route from her home to the burial site on the southern end of Rangoon's Shwedagon Pagoda. It was the first student march since a military crackdown in September. No soldiers were seen near the crowds, although some armed personnel stood a distance away. A few police officers kept order. Daw Khin Kyi, 77, died Dec. 27 after a long illness. She was the widow of Gen. Aung San, who was assassinated in 1947. She also was the mother of Aung San Suu Kyi, general secretary of the major opposition party, the National League For Democracy. Aung San Suu Kyi, who returned to Rangoon from her home in England to care for her ailing mother, played a key role in the recent demonstrations against authoritarian rule in Burma. The student-led demonstrations ended when soldiers killed hundreds of protesters and military commander Gen. Saw Maung seized power in a coup Sept. 18, and authorities banned politically motivated public gatherings. The students defied the ban during the 2{-hour funeral procession. ``We won't forget our colleagues who have fallen in the fight for democracy!'' they sang. ``We will continue our struggle!'' Students carried placards with other anti-government slogans. Marchers also carried banners and flags of the National League for Democracy, the All Burma Students Federation and the Rangoon University Students Union. Many people paid their respects to Daw Khin Kyi during the week at her home. On Sunday, Saw Maung signed a condolence book at the house and spoke to Aung San Suu Kyi and her brother, Aung San Oo. Aung San Oo arrived from the United States, where he has been living as an American citizen. Burmese law does not permit Burmese with foreign citizenship to return to the country, even as tourists, but Saw Maung made an exception for Aung San Oo to attend the funeral. Aung San Suu Kyi has remained a Burmese citizen. The government donated about $1,670 for funeral expenses and allowed the construction of a special tomb for Daw Khin Kyi near the tombs of the last queen of Burma and of former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant. Four government ministers attended the funeral and Ne Win, whose 26-year rule of Burma ended with his resignation last year, sent a wreath. AP890102-0091 AP-NR-01-02-89 1513EST r a AM-Bakkers-Television 01-02 0633 AM-Bakkers-Television,0657 Bakkers Return To Television Ministry PINEVILLE, N.C. (AP) PTL founders Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker returned to the television pulpit Monday for the first time in two years with an appeal for ``hurting people'' to keep the faith, but no direct pleas for donations. ``If Jim and Tammy can survive their holocaust of the last two years, then you can make it,'' said Bakker, who left PTL in March 1987 amid a sex-and-money scandal. ``The Jim and Tammy Show'' originated in the living room of the Bakkers' borrowed home in this Charlotte suburb. They said it was sent by satellite to a half-dozen stations in California, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and Louisiana, with the couple's new ministry paying for air time. The hourlong telecast is scheduled Mondays through Fridays. ``We bought time,'' said Mrs. Bakker. ``We had a certain amount of money and that's all the time we could buy, and it's not a lot of money, but it got us back on the air and we are so grateful.'' In their prime at PTL, the Bakkers and their ``PTL Club'' could be seen on about 180 television stations. As in their old show, the Bakkers sat on a couch. Mrs. Bakker wore her trademark heavy eye makeup and broke into tears several times, the first just two minutes into their show. The couple made no direct appeal for funds, but gave an address and telephone number so viewers could request prayers. And the show's guest, former PTL songwriter Mike Murdock, gave Mrs. Bakker a card which he said he had been asked to deliver by a supporter. Mrs. Bakker said the card contained a $1,000 check. John Bland, a volunteer at Jim and Tammy Ministries, said Monday's show drew ``a beautiful response.'' ``A lot of people called in who said they were partners (supporters who gave $1,000 or more to PTL) and glad to see that they were back on TV,'' Bland said. The Bakkers' last appearance as television evangelists was in January 1987, two months before the scandal that drove them from PTL. They had left the air because Mrs. Bakker was receiving treatment for dependency on prescription drugs and for pneumonia, the couple said at the time. ``Jim, I think this is probably the happiest day of my life,'' Mrs. Bakker said as the show began. Bakker told viewers that his last television appearance was to break ground for the Crystal Palace Church at Heritage USA, the home of PTL. ``I believe that was the last straw for Satan,'' Bakker said. ``I think the devil was mad that something so beautiful was being built. ... I believe the devil said, `I have to smash Jim and Tammy Bakker.''' Bakker resigned from PTL following disclosure of his 1980 sexual encounter with a church secretary, Jessica Hahn, and that she had been paid for her silence. In June 1987, the ministry sought protection from creditors in bankruptcy court, and last month a judge approved the sale of PTL's chief asset, the Heritage USA theme park at Fort Mill, S.C. Also last month, Bakker and a top aide were indicted on charges they used PTL funds for private gain. But the only mention of his legal troubles during the show came when Murdock noted a song he said he wrote in a lawyer's office. Murdock said he knew Bakker ``didn't know anything about lawyers.'' ``Oh no-o-o-o,'' Bakker said with a pained chuckle. Fred Wuenschel, general manager WOCD in Amsterdam, N.Y., one of the stations broadcasting the program, said he would show it ``as long as they keep paying.'' He said the station has a 30-day contract for the show, but declined to say how much the Bakkers are paying except to say it was ``the usual rate per hour.'' AP890102-0092 AP-NR-01-02-89 1529EST r a AM-TaxiPatrol 01-02 0309 AM-Taxi Patrol,0318 Cab Drivers On Patrol Against Crime COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) For just $300, police have added 40 recruits to patrol the streets of this northern Kentucky city. They don't make arrests, but they will drive people to jail _ for a fee. The recruits are the drivers of De-Luxe Yellow Cabs Inc., who have enlisted in a 2-week-old program to give police more eyes and ears in the streets. ``This is an excellent opportunity for us to take advantage of the fact that cab drivers operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week on the same streets that we patrol,'' said Sgt. Bill Dorsey, a police administrative supervisor. Under the new program, Taxis On Patrol, cab drivers report suspicious activity to dispatchers over two-way radios. The dispatchers then notify police. ``You name it and we see it,'' said cab driver Bob Sterling. ``We stop fights, rapes and all of those things.'' Still, authorities say they don't want cab drivers to stop crimes, just to tell police about them. ``We're not asking them to do police work or to get involved,'' said city Commissioner Butch Callery. ``They're strictly to call an event in and alert us to the situation.'' Callery proposed the taxi program after reading about similar efforts elsewhere. ``It'll never take the place of more policemen, but it will assist us,'' the commissioner said. The $300 start-up cost of the program covered a 2{-hour training program for drivers and the printing of decals affixed to the taxis. Authorities in Nashville, Tenn., tried a similar system in 1983, but gave up after cab drivers lost interest, said Walter Lawhorn, an inspector for the Nashville-Davidson County Metropolitan Taxicab Board. Assistant City Manager Gregory Jarvis said the Covington program hasn't been in effect long enough to determine its impact. But, he said, ``It certainly can't hurt.'' AP890102-0093 AP-NR-01-02-89 1538EST r a AM-Brites 01-02 0441 AM-Brites,0456 Brite & Brief SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev slowly may be winning converts to his policy of glasnost, or openness, but whether the word merits inclusion in a U.S. dictionary remains under debate. The honor likely to be accorded such all-American terms as ``televangelist'' and ``computer virus'' in upcoming Merriam-Webster dictionaries has so far been denied the word describing Gorbachev's reforms. ``It is still most often found in either italics or quotes and to us that means it has not been completely Americanized,'' said James G. Lowe, senior editor at Springfield-based G.C. Merriam Inc. ``When reporters and writers start using it without explaining what it means it will be ready for consideration for the dictionary.'' The term ``computer virus'' came into wide use too late for this year's book, but it is an almost sure bet for inclusion in the next addendum to the company's unabridged dictionary, Lowe said, thanks to a graduate student who this autumn unleashed a ``virus'' that clogged university and military computers and exposed the vulnerability of computer banks to infection. ``Televangelist,'' ``colorization,'' as used to describe the tinting of old black-and-white films, and ``zap,'' when used to describe what happens to a television commercial when a viewer switches to another channel by remote control, are also likely candidates for the unabridged dictionary, he said. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Monday was a holiday within a holiday for many parents who had the day off but sent their children back to school. The federal and state New Year's Day holiday was observed by many school systems, but it was back to the books for students in public schools here. ``I don't want to go,'' said Joe Alexander, 14, as he boarded a school bus bound for Attucks Junior High. ``It's not fair for us to go on a federal holiday.'' A lot of students _ and parents _ apparently had the same opinion, as the absentee rate shot up to near 40 percent at some schools. Overall, attendance was termed ``fair'' by officials. Frank Tout, principal at Howe High School, estimated that between 60 percent and 65 percent of the school's 1,609 students were in class. Although Christmas vacation started earlier at city schools than at other school systems, another day off would have been nice, most students agreed. ``I don't like it,'' said Jesse Harper, 12, another Attucks student. ``My dad is staying home today and I wanted to stay with him.'' But some were more than ready to return. ``I wanted to go to school today,'' said Missy Frazier, 14, an eighth-grader at Attucks. ``I get bored at home.'' AP890102-0094 AP-NR-01-02-89 1542EST r i AM-Sudan 01-02 0683 AM-Sudan,0701 Trade Unions Ready for More Strikes By DALIA BALIGH Associated Press Writer KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) Sudan's prime minister told trade union leaders Monday the economy still needs price increases, but his listeners hinted that imposing them might lead to a recurrence of violent strikes. Steep price increases announced Dec. 26 led to demonstrations and a general strike. Four people died and scores were injured before union leaders called off the protests Saturday, two days after the government rescinded the price increases. On Monday, more than 500 leaders of trade and professional organizations met with Prime Minister Sadek Mahdi to discuss the impact of the violence and the government's failure to endorse an initiative to end civil war in southern Sudan. In addition to the rollback on prices, the government gave in to a demand by the Sudanese Workers' Trade Union Federation to make salary increases of up to 500 percent retroactive to July 1, instead of Dec. 1 as the government had ordered. While Mahdi conceded the price increases may have been too high _ as much as 600 percent for sugar _ he said prices on some items had to be raised. He promised to stay away from important foods, however, and said subsidies on sorghum, the Sudanese staple, and medicines wouldn't be touched. ``There are other possibilities and other more reasonable (price) increases that I don't want to go into now,'' Mahdi said. He said the price of sugar, extremely important in the Sudanese culture, must be increased to cover its production costs and to prevent smuggling into neighboring countries. ``Any steps must not affect the workers and struggling people and add to their burdens,'' said Abdel-Wahab Sinada, representative of the professional associations. ``We reject any increase in prices. We are ready for civil disobedience and general strikes.'' Professional groups carry considerable weight in Sudan and played a decisive role in the 1985 military coup that ousted the authoritarian pro-Western president, Gaafar Nimeiri. Tradesmen and students were the major forces behind last week's disturbances. Western observers fear the trade and professional unions might join forces with the Democratic Unionist Party, still angered over Mahdi's handling of the peace agreement it reached a month and a half ago with the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army. During the strike, the Unionists resigned from the coalition Cabinet headed by the Umma Party in sympathy with the demonstrators and outrage over the prime minister's stand on the peace agreement. Mahdi apparently refused to officially endorse the agreement because of a clause advocating suspension of the 1,400-year-old Islamic legal code, which was sure to anger the fundamentalist National Islamic Front _ the third-largest Cabinet partner and Mahdi's buffer against his traditional opponents, the Democratic Unionists. Publicly, Mahdi says he objects to the pact's clauses eliminating defense treaties with other countries and ending emergency rule, which has been Nimeiri's overthrow in 1985. The unions have been demanding immediate implementation of the peace plan and a cease-fire in the 5{-year-old civil war on ground it would save the country $275 million a year. Sudan's foreign debt is $14 billion, and Khartoum owes more than $900 million in interest it can't pay. ``It is slowly but surely building up into another explosive situation,'' a Western political observer said on condition of anonymity. ``The (Democratic Unionist Party) is gathering forces with the southern and communist parties and the trade and professional unions, calling for implementing the peace initiative. This will sooner or later spill into the streets in demonstrations, and this could be ugly.'' John Garang, leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, called for Mahdi's resignation in a New Year's Day radio broadcast from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He suggested direct peace talks with Sudanese army generals, ``especially those fighting in the south.'' Defending his views on the agreement, Mahdi told union leaders, ``We do not disagree on the peace issue, but there are specific points in the initiative that have to be resolved.'' He agreed to form a committee with the union leaders to discuss possible solutions to the civil war and the economic situation. AP890102-0095 AP-NR-01-02-89 1555EST u i AM-Lebanon 1stLd-Writethru a0539 01-02 0648 AM-Lebanon, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0539,0662 Rival Moslems Battle in Beirut Slums, Southern Lebanon Eds: LEADS with 9 grafs to UPDATE with more casualties, details. Pick up 8th pvs, ``Amal, a...'' By FAROUK NASSAR Associated Press Writer BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Rival Shiite Moslems fought with grenades in Beirut and rockets in south Lebanon's shattered apple orchards Monday, the third day of their latest battle in a sporadic war that began nine months ago. Police said eight people were killed and 25 wounded in the Shiite slums of south Beirut, and five were slain and 14 wounded in fighting near Israel's ``security zone'' along the border. Moslem-controlled Voice of the Nation radio said Iran was sending Deputy Forei