AP890920-0001 AP-NR-09-20-89 0002EDT u a AM-Hugo 4thLd-Writethru a0800 09-20 1046 AM-Hugo, 4th Ld - Writethru, a0800,1072 Killer Hurricane Devastates Caribbean; Threatens U.S. Eds: SUBS 5th graf, `At 10:30 ..., with 2 grafs to include Hugo's track, speed; picks up 6th graf: `Hurricane warnings ... LaserPhotos PAR3, PAR4, WX10, PAR9; LaserGraphic By DAN SEWELL Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) Hurricane Hugo, the Caribbean killer blamed for 25 deaths, seethed past the Bahamas Tuesday on an uncertain path that threatens an area from Florida to North Carolina by Friday. Disaster teams found death and destruction in Puerto Rico and a string of resort islands clobbered by the mightiest storm in a decade in the northeastern Caribbean. More than 50,000 people were homeless, and military planes ferried radios, drinking water, generators, chainsaws and other equipment to stricken areas that pleaded for more help. ``Whole buildings just picked up and left,'' said James Grissim, a resident of Water Island in St. Thomas. He recalled ``sheet metal roofing flying through the air, singing as it went, and glass, the sound of glass breaking all over the place.'' Forecasters used computers, satellites and charts of old storms but could not predict Hugo's wobbly path. It lurched to the north and west because other weather systems seemed to be blocking it from heading into the open Atlantic. At 10:30 p.m. EDT, the hurricane's center was near latitude 23.8 degrees north and longitude 69.5 west, about 190 miles northeast of Grand Turk Island, a British island off the southern Bahamas, according to the National Weather Service. Hugo was moving northwesterly at about 12 miles per hour, but its winds were down to 105 mph, and forecasters expected some fluctuations in Hugo's strength overnight. Hurricane warnings were downgraded to storm warnings for the southern Bahamas as Hugo skirted past, but the Bahamian government issued warnings for the central islands of the archipelago. Islanders boarded up their homes as a precaution. ``No one is relaxing their vigil because it can change direction,'' said Bill Kalis, press secretary for the government's information office. In Florida, NASA officials said they would wait until Wednesday before deciding to move the space shuttle Atlantis, scheduled for launch Oct. 12, from its launch pad and into shelter. They also put off a decision on whether to remove a Navy communications satellite from an Atlas-Centaur rocket on another launch pad until more is known about Hugo's path. ``I think Hugo has certainly got people nervous,'' said Kathleen Hale, director of the Dade County Office of Emergency Management. Fred Krounse, spokesman at Brevard County's emergency management office in Rockledge, Fla., said volunteers were getting 100 telephone calls an hour. Cruise ships steamed out of the way, while American Airlines' heavy Caribbean service, which uses San Juan as its hub, was suspended. In San Juan, National Guardsmen with automatic rifles patrolled streets to help police with rescue and to prevent looting. Police spokesman Tony Santiago said 40 businesses reported looting, much of which occurred at the height of the storm. Police had arrested 30 people on looting charge, he said. Puerto Rico, Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon said he would ask the federal government to declare the island of 3.3 million, a U.S. commonwealth, a disaster area and seek immediate relief aid. Looting by machete-wielding mobs was also reported on the island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Relief officials asked for cots and plastic sheetings to use for shelters for the thousands of islanders whose homes were crumpled by Hugo, the fourth hurricane of the season and the first to hit Puerto Rico since 1956. Coast Guard vessels from Puerto Rico would scour the waters off the island because of reports ``there are a lot of people stranded (on boats) out in the water,'' said Coast Guard Lt. Stan Douglas. Hugo walloped the northeastern part of the island, then skirted its populous northern coast on Monday. It churned on to the northwest and toward open water. It whirled past but missed the Dominican Republic. At least 25 people in the Caribbean died from the storm, said Cizanette Rivera, a spokeswoman for the Civil Defense in Puerto Rico. Two people died on Puerto Rico while trying to remove a TV antenna Sunday in preparation for the storm, according to Maria Dolores Oronoz of the governor's office. She said no other deaths had been reported on the island. However, American Red Cross spokesman Brian Ruberry said in Washington there were reports of 12 deaths and 100 injuries in Puerto Rico, and that three-fourths of the island's residents were without power. Hugo's winds overturned cars, peeled roofs off houses and office buildings and sent chunks of concrete plunging into streets in San Juan. Fifty airplanes were reported destroyed, mangled into twisted wrecks at the Isla Verde airport. In Hawaii, Secretary of the Interior Manuel Lujan said $500,000 in emergency assistance funds were released to aid storm-stricken areas of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Federal teams reached the U.S. Virgin Islands to assess damages Tuesday before deciding whether to recommend disaster relief. Sailboats were blown out of the water and thrown up to 150 feet on shore in St. Thomas, and some waterfront businesses have disappeared. Hugo's itinerary included some of the most idyllic pearls in a 750-mile long necklace of Caribbean isles, beginning early Sunday with the French resort of Guadeloupe in the Leeward Islands. Five were killed, 80 injured and more than 10,000 lost their homes there. Also damaged were the lush British isle of Montserrat, Antigua, St. Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands of St. Croix and St. Thomas and Puerto Rico. Forecasters said it was the region's worst storm in terms of wind strength since Hurricane David, which killed 1,200 people in the Caribbean and Florida in 1979. Last year, Hurricane Gilbert walloped the western Caribbean and took a southern route through the Gulf of Mexico, killing more than 300 people and causing billions of dollars of damage in nine nations. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Iris was building up, although forecasters said its strengthening would be slowed by Hugo's wake. Iris, with 70 mph winds, was about 275 miles northeast of the Leeward Islands on Tuesday and was moving northwest at about 12 mph. At 10:30 p.m., Iris was near latitude 21.3 north, longitude 60.6 west. AP890920-0002 AP-NR-09-20-89 0030EDT r a PM-Lites 09-20 0387 PM-Lites,0403 On the Light Side CRETE, Neb. (AP) With a moo moo here and a cluck cluck there, a jack-of-all-trades thinks he has found his calling. Joel Vavra, who lives in the southeastern Nebraska town of Crete, won earlier this month the Nebraska State Fair's ``Do Your Moo'' contest, which follow his victories in three national ``cluck-off'' contests held in Wayne. The 39-year-old Vavra, a self-employed carpenter and plumber who grew up on a farm, once blew the public address system while doing his moo at the state fair. But that's old moos, er, news now, he said. ``That was three years ago and I failed to qualify. The next year I was scared, I guess, and I mooed too softly. But there was a lot to offer this year, so I gave it a try,'' Vavra said. Gillette Dairy offered the winner a trip for four to Florida. ``They had 4,247 people moo into the tape recorder, and I won,'' he said. While the father of six tries not to be too cocky, he said he can imitate any barnyard animal. ``If I can hear something once or twice I can do it. I can even do exotic animals,'' he said. ``Do you wanna hear me do Tarzan?'' While Vavra is happy in his work, he said he may try to capitalize on his nickname, ``Captain Cluck,'' and look to do television commercials or offer his services as a mascot for a sports team. ``Look at the San Diego chicken. All he does is pantomime. Think what I could do with that body,'' Vavra said. OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Grubs lurking underneath lawns have attracted raccoons and skunks, and one resident has found a solution. Roy Palmquist, who said raccoons have torn up his yard, set up three floodlights and plays a radio outside. So far, the grubbers have stayed away. John Fech, an extension agent-horticulturist for the Douglas County Extension Service, said the white grubs damage grass, but their predators rip up the lawns. Grubs are short, fat, wormlike larva of certain insects. He said two to three people a day have called his office to report damage from the animals. Fech said that since both raccoons and skunks are nocturnal animals, residents could discourage them by keeping their yards well-lit. AP890920-0003 AP-NR-09-20-89 0030EDT r a PM-People-MissOklahoma 09-20 0231 PM-People-Miss Oklahoma,0238 Hospitalized For Undisclosed Reasons TULSA, Okla. (AP) Miss Oklahoma Tamara Toshiko Marler was hospitalized for observation. A hospital official said it was unrelated to a concussion she suffered when struck by a bottle before the Miss America Pageant. Miss Marler was admitted Tuesday to St. John's Medical Center here, said nursing supervisor Kay Hutchinson, who refused to give a reason. ``She is just in here for observation and medical tests,'' Ms. Hutchinson said. ``I can't say any more.'' Neither Miss Marler nor her family responded to telephone messages left at the hospital. Miss Marler was hit on the head by a bottle thrown from the crowd Friday during a parade before the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, N.J. She spent Friday night in a hospital but went on to compete among the 10 finalists Saturday night. On Monday, Miss Marler complained that pageant officials treated her and other contestants ``like little girls,'' and that they prevented her from talking to the press from her Atlantic City hospital room. Pageant director Leonard Horn responded that each contestant was given a hostess to help with her duties in the pageant. The ban on hospital interviews, he said, was so she wouldn't get more media exposure than other contestants. ``I'm shocked if she had anything to say but appreciative words about what we did for her,'' said Horn. AP890920-0004 AP-NR-09-20-89 0039EDT r i PM-SovietShuttle Bjt 09-20 0947 PM-Soviet Shuttle, Bjt,0968 Soviet Space Shuttle Program Scraping for Money Eds: An accompanying story is PM-Soviet Space City. LaserPhotos MOSB1-2, Sent Sept. 15. By ANDREW KATELL Associated Press Writer BAIKONUR COSMODROME, U.S.S.R. (AP) Asked how much money the Soviet Union has set aside for its space shuttle and other payloads for its new superbooster, the rocket's designer dug into his pocket and pulled out a handful of coins. Boris I. Gubanov, a gray-haired man of 59, was joking _ in fact the government is spending $2.1 billion a year on the Energia booster rocket and the shuttle Buran it carries into orbit. But beyond the mirth Gubanov and other Soviet space officials are under pressure to economize and are facing serious criticism not unlike that faced by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its shuttle program. ``We have stubbornly continued spending money on this hopeless affair,'' Konstantin P. Feoktistov, an engineer and former cosmonaut, said of the Soviet shuttle at a recent roundtable discussion in Moscow. When the gleaming white and black Buran, Russian for ``snowstorm,'' soared into orbit for the first time last fall, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev hailed it as ``one more confirmation of the kind of huge possibilities the Soviet Union has to solve any problem.'' Perhaps just as important, Buran's pilotless, remote-controlled flight and return to Earth proved that the Soviets were still very much in the space race with the Americans. But Feoktistov, in remarks reported by the weekly Moscow News, said none of the technology developed for the shuttle has yet been applied to improve the lives of the Soviet people and that launches of cargoes by the Buran will be 20 to 40 times more expensive than by expendable rockets. Roald Z. Sagdeyev, a space scientist and member of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament), said the Soviet Union developed a shuttle solely as a ``symmetrical reply'' to the U.S. version, even though officials knew it was not really needed. He told the roundtable the program that resulted in a lookalike Soviet version of the U.S. shuttle was ``the last refuge of windowdressers.'' The attacks, fueled by chronic problems in the Soviet economy, were targeted at a space program that had long been a sacred cow. The cosmos had been a source of national euphoria and pride ever since the Soviet Union ushered in the space age in 1957 with the launch of Sputnik, the first manmade object put into orbit. The mounting criticism has already forced cuts and delays in the Soviet shuttle program, which began in 1976 and culminated in the first and only flight of the Buran in November. Space officials spoke initially of launching the shuttle again in 1990, building a fleet of five or six and launching 10 by 1997. Now they say the next flight won't take place until 1991, that only three shuttles will be built and that only five missions will be conducted through 1995. The whale-sized Energia, the world's most powerful rocket booster that flew a test mission in 1987 and propelled Buran into orbit, has also suffered cutbacks. Gubanov, its chief designer, told reporters who recently visited the Baikonur Cosmodrome 1,560 miles southeast of Moscow that five or six of the rockets could be produced annually but that he only has enough money for one a year. Gubanov and other project officials are countering the criticism with a public relations campaign to put the best face on the cutbacks and point out the program's benefits. The Energia designer told a Moscow news conference in August the project had come up with 600 innovations that can be applied in the economy and that within the next 10 years, the value of such spinoffs could reach 20 billion rubles ($32 billion). Other officials defended the long waits for the next shuttle flights, a 1991 unmanned mission to dock with the orbiting space station Mir and the first piloted flight in 1992. ``We don't plan to launch several times a year like the Americans,'' Yuri P. Semenov, the chief Soviet spacecraft designer, told a recent news conference in Leninsk, the city near Baikonur where space center workers live. ``They do this for business, out of necessity. We don't have such a need.'' The veteran cosmonaut Alexei A. Leonov, who flew aboard a Soyuz capsule that linked up with the U.S. Apollo spacecraft in 1975, has said people shouldn't be surprised that Soviet officials are moving ahead cautiously with the shuttle. ``We must have comfortable deadlines which don't force us to rush,'' said Leonov, who now works in the Star City cosmonaut training center near Moscow. At Baikonur, there are few signs that work on Energia and the shuttles has slowed. New launch pads, assembly buildings and a runway have become part of the landscape, and Gubanov said 10,000 workers are involved in the project at the sprawling spaceport alone. In the hangar where Energia is assembled, one rocket booster is being prepared for a test flight next year, without the shuttle but with a payload still to be determined. The Buran, meanwhile, sits in a huge hangar where it is being analyzed following its flight. The doors to the shuttle's payload bay are open and specialists are removing some of the 40,000 delicate and expensive heat-shielding tiles to inspect the skin underneath. A second shuttle is being assembled in another section of the hangar. Soviet officials have said the shuttle's tasks will include transporting repairmen to space to repair satellites and for rescuing crews stranded aboard space stations. But the Supreme Soviet could put the shuttle under renewed scrutiny and Gubanov said he is worried even further cuts might come. AP890920-0005 AP-NR-09-20-89 0043EDT r a PM-FuneralVideos 09-20 0813 PM-Funeral Videos,0831 Deceased Remembered Through Funeral Videos Eds: Also in Wednesday AMs report. By JAMES L. ENG Associated Press Writer SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) Arthur ``Bud'' Brown was 79 when he died, but Florence Brown remembers her husband as a younger man _ not the man who lay in the casket but the one in the videotape playing on a TV screen behind it. There he was, flanked by three friends as he sat proudly in the '29 Chevy roadster he used to court his wife. Cut to a 1952 photo, the Browns at a party thrown by merchants on Garland Avenue. In one from the mid-1970s, Brown is at the wheel of the motor home that took the couple on scenic vacations. The six-minute video played at Brown's funeral July 28 interspersed family snapshots with stills of majestic Northwest sunsets, lakes and mountains, all to the tune of ``Just A Closer Walk With Thee,'' his favorite gospel song. ``We thought it was wonderful,'' said Mrs. Brown. ``So many of the people that were there that I have seen and talked to since couldn't just get over the beauty of the whole thing. I had several say that it was so beautiful that they almost clapped for approval. They just thought it added a lot to the funeral.'' The ``Tribute'' video is the brainchild of Merrill Womach, founder and president of National Music Service, a Spokane company that has been providing recorded music and sound systems to funeral homes and mausoleums since 1958. ``I first thought about it when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. I looked at all the things that were done for him, and rightfully so,'' Womach said. ``And I thought to myself, `Why can't a tribute be paid to us normal peons rather than just reserved for heads of state? Do not our families love us as much as JFK was loved?' I think everbody who's lived deserves a memorialization or a tribute paid to their life, no matter whether they were a president or a king or a brick layer or a garbage collector.'' The idea got sidetracked until Womach's mother died 3{ years ago. He remembered seeing her in a nursing home in her last three months, haggard and weakened from several strokes. Every time he thought of his mother, it was this somber scene. Then last year, he gathered some old family album pictures of her cheerful, spirited and smiling. The pictures were reproduced onto videotape. ``Now when I think of my mother, you know what comes to my mind? Instantly it's that picture on the video.'' Several thousand ``Tribute'' videos have been sold in 17 states, most through funeral homes, since they were introduced in April. The videos, which can be played on a standard VHS recorder, cost an average $100-$125. The music comes from National Music's 2,500-title library and is recorded with the company's proprietary process. Acquaintances of actress Amanda Blake _ Miss Kitty in the TV series ``Gunsmoke'' _ bought a ``Tribute'' video that was played on a huge TV monitor at her Aug. 24 memorial service in Sacramento, Calif. ``What we're trying to do is to celebrate the life of the individual. We resurrect a memory,'' said Womach, who almost died in a Thanksgiving 1961 plane crash and has had a ``Tribute'' produced of himself. Partly because of the soaring demand for its videos, National Music plans to double its staff of 100 next year. ``It's a very meaningful way to express a person's life and how he lived it,'' said Larry Rayburn, a funeral director at Riplinger Funeral Home, where ``Tribute'' tapes have been played at about 15 funerals, including Brown's. ``I personally think funeral services are something people do not like to go to,'' Rayburn said. ``This is a way ... to notice that a death has occurred but also to celebrate a person's life.'' In Warren, Mich., the family of a 5-year-old girl killed in a car accident ordered a ``Tribute'' video after her funeral. Don Temrowski, director of D.S. Temrowski Funeral Home, said the death was especially traumatic because the girl died in her stepfather's arms and her body was grossly disfigured. After viewing the videotape, the girl's mother remarked, ``My baby will live on continually,'' Temrowski said. Cathy Robertson of Sandpoint, Idaho, who works in a funeral home, ordered a video of her parents, who died within three months of each other. ``It has been five years since they passed away and it's almost like having them back for those few minutes,'' she wrote to Womach. ``I have watched my 11-year-old daughter watch it over and over .. . ``What a beautiful and lasting remembrance to pass on to the grandchildren, especially the younger one when the memories are starting to fade. Yes we have picture albums, but there is something very different about the video.'' AP890920-0006 AP-NR-09-20-89 0044EDT r a PM-NielsensList 09-20 0592 PM-Nielsens List,0662 List of Week's TV Shows Ratings Eds: Year-to-date rankings not available. With PM-Nielsens NEW YORK (AP) Here are the prime-time television ratings as compiled by the A.C. Nielsen Co. for the week of Sept. 11-17. Top 20 listings include the week's ranking, rating for the week, and total homes. A rating measures the percentage of the nation's 90.4 million TV homes. 1. ``Roseanne,'' ABC, 25.9 rating, 23.4 million homes. 2. ``Chicken Soup,'' ABC, 21.8, 19.7 million homes. 3. ``Miss America Pageant,'' NBC, 20.0, 18.1 million homes. 4. ``Golden Girls,'' NBC, 19.5, 17.6 million homes. 5. ``Sister Kate Special,'' NBC, 19.1, 17.3 million homes. 6. ``60 Minutes,'' CBS, 18.8, 17.0 million homes. 7. ``NFL Monday Night Football: Giants vs. Redskins,'' ABC, 17.8, 16.1 million homes. 8. ``The Cosby Show,''NBC, 17.4, 15.7 million homes. 9. ``Cheers,'' NBC, 17.3, 15.6 million homes. 10. ``Life Goes On Special,'' ABC, 17.2, 15.5 million homes. 11. ``A Different World,'' NBC, 16.4, 14.8 million homes. 12. ``Wonder Years'' ABC, 15.8, 14.3 million homes. 13. ``CBS Premiere Preview,'' CBS, 15.5, 14.0 million homes. 14. ``Growing Pains,'' ABC, 14.9, 13.5 million homes. 14. ``FM Special,'' NBC, 14.9, 13.5 million homes. 16. ``Who's the Boss?'', ABC, 14.8, 13.4 million homes. 17. ``Wolf Special,'' CBS, 14.0, 12.7 million homes. 17. ``Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel'' _ ``NBC Monday Night Movies,'' 14.0, 12.7 million homes. 19. ``Full House,'' ABC, 13.8, 12.5 million homes. 20. ``In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders'' _ ``Movie of the Week-Tuesday,'' NBC, 13.8, 12.5 million homes. 21. ``Unsolved Mysteries,'' NBC, 13.7. 22. ``Empty Nest,'' NBC, 13.6. 23. ``48 Hours: Return to Crack Street,'' CBS, 13.4. 24. ``Murphy Brown,'' CBS, 13.3. 25. ``L.A. Law,'' NBC, 13.1. 25. ``Just the Ten of Us Special,'' ABC, 13.1. 27. ``Life Goes On Special,'' ABC, 12.8. 27. ``The Hogan Family,'' NBC, 12.8. 29. ``Golden Girls Special,'' NBC, 12.4. 30. ``ALF,'' NBC, 12.2. 31. ``ABC'S Comedy Sneak Peek,'' ABC, 12.1. 32. ``Roxanne'' _ ``CBS Sunday Movie,'' 11.7. 33. ``20-20,'' ABC, 11.5. 33. ``Designing Women,'' CBS, 11.5. 33. ``Newhart Special,'' CBS, 11.5. 36. ``41st Annual Emmy Awards,'' FOX, 11.4. 37. ``Matlock,'' NBC, 11.3. 38. ``Night Court,'' NBC, 11.2. 39. ``ABC'S Monday Night Football: 20th Anniversary Special,'' 11.1. 40. ``Rescue: 911,'' CBS, 10.9. 41. ``Family Ties,'' NBC, 10.8. 42. ``Kate & Allie,'' CBS, 10.5. 43. ``Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman'' _ ``NBC Sunday Night Movie,'' 10.4. 44. ``Newhart,'' CBS, 10.3. 45. ``Unholy Matrimony'' _ ``CBS Friday Movie,'' 10.2. 45. ``Designing Women Special,'' CBS, 10.2. 47. ``Prizzi's Honor'' _ ``ABC Sunday Night Movie,'' 9.7. 48. ``Paradise,'' CBS, 9.3. 49. ``Koppel Report: Television-Revolution In A Box,'' ABC, 8.8. 50. ``60 Minutes: Retrospective,'' CBS, 8.7. 51. ``Mission: Impossible,'' ABC, 8.6. 51. ``Quantum Leap Special,'' NBC, 8.6. 53. ``Parent Trap III,'' Part 2, _ ``Magical World of Disney,'' NBC, 8.2. 54. ``Between The Darkness & The Dawn'' _ ``Movie of the Week,'' NBC, 7.8. 54. ``Primetime Live,'' ABC, 7.8. 56. ``ABC Mystery Movie: Columbo,'' 7.6. 57. ``Agatha Christie's Man-Grown'' _ ``CBS Tuesday Movie,'' 6.9. 58. ``Mr. Belvedere,'' ABC, 6.8. 59. ``Incredible Sunday,'' ABC, 6.7. 59. ``Great Adventures-Quests,'' CBS, 6.7. 61. ``ABC News Special: Survival Stories: Growing Up, Down, And Out,'' 6.6. 61. ``Fall Preview Special,'' ABC, 6.6. 63. ``Homeroom Special,'' ABC, 6.4. 64. ``Yesterday, Today, Tommorrow Special,'' NBC, 6.1. 65. ``Hot Paint'' _ ``CBS Special Movie,'' 5.9. 66. ``COPS,'' FOX, 5.7. 67. ``US Magazine Live At Emmys,'' FOX, 4.7. 68. ``The Reporters,'' FOX, 4.2. 69. ``Tommy: `The Who,''' FOX, 3.9. 70. ``Beyond Tomorrow,'' FOX, 3.2. AP890920-0007 AP-NR-09-20-89 0045EDT r a PM-People-Maazel-Poland 09-20 0193 PM-People-Maazel-Poland,0199 Orchestras Donating Musical Items To Poland PITTSBURGH (AP) American musicians are banding together to give music, instruments and musical supplies to people in Poland, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conductor Lorin Maazel said. ``Music has always been a way to bring people together in peace and harmony, and we hope that our gift will send a message of friendship and support to our brothers and sisters in Poland,'' Maazel, the United Nations Ambassador of Good Will, said from New York on Tuesday. The Pittsburgh orchestra is coordinating the month-long drive for much-needed music and scores, recordings, books, strings, reeds and other replacement parts for instruments. The effort is endorsed by the U.S. Information Agency and the American Embassy in Poland. In New York, Maazel presented a complete set of scores and orchestral parts for Beethoven's nine symphonies to Ryszard Krystosik, minister-counselor of the Polish People's Republic. Musical items have been contributed by numerous organizations, including the National Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony. Maazel will lead the Pittsburgh Symphony in two performances in Warsaw next month as part of the orchestra's eight-country European tour. AP890920-0008 AP-NR-09-20-89 0046EDT r i PM-Cambodia-Vietnam 09-20 0855 PM-Cambodia-Vietnam,0881 Vietnam's 11-Year War Began With Christmas Day Assault Eds: Also in Wednesday AMs report. With PM-Cambodia Withdrawal. By PETER ENG Associated Press Writer PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) Vietnam's 11-year war in Cambodia began with a tank-led assault in the season of joy. Early Christmas Day 1978, columns of tanks charged down Route 14 from Ban Me Thuot in the Central Highlands to start Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia and war with its former Communist comrade, the Khmer Rouge. Shielded by massive artillery and air barrages, a dozen divisions surged west across the border including Route 7 and Route 1 leading to Phnom Penh. One after another strategic points fell on the east bank of the Mekong River: Kratie, Stung Treng, Neak Luong. On Jan. 6, the Vietnamese crossed to the west bank at Neak Luong and the next day marched into Phnom Penh. So unexpectedly swift was the strike that the Khmer Rouge rulers left behind half-eaten meals and tons of arms as they fled. On Jan. 10 a new Communist government was proclaimed, led by a former regional leader, commander Heng Samrin, and other Khmer Rouge defectors who had fled to Vietnam from the regime's bloody purges. All major towns were in Vietnamese hands within a few weeks. A sweep in April left the Khmer Rouge in tatters and scattered along the mountains and malarial jungles of the Thai border to the west. But sanctuary from Thailand and arms from China soon raised the Khmer Rouge up from its knees into a potent guerrilla insurgency. The Third Indochina War, which was to split almost all Asia into two hostile camps, was just beginning. North Vietnam helped build the Khmer Rouge in the 1950s and armed its insurgency against the U.S.-backed Lon Nol government in 1970-75. But its quarrel over territory, race and ideology flared in the open with skirmishes in disputed areas just after the Khmer Rouge seized power from Lon Nol in April 1975. The Khmer Rouge regime killed 1 million Cambodians in torture chambers and slave labor camps as it attempted to fashion a pure agrarian society. The fanatics began raiding and shelling undisputed Vietnamese territory in April 1977, burning down hundreds of villages and beheading and mutilating men, women and children. Vietnamese officials said the border conflict in 1977-78 killed 30,000 Vietnamese. Vietnamese forces made a major incursion in October 1977 and the fighting continued up to the full-scale war 14 months later. They set up secret camps in Vietnam to train an army of Khmer Rouge defectors. Phan Hien, then a key Vietnamese negotiator, held talks on the border clashes with Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot. ``Nothing came out of it. They didn't want to negotiate,'' said Phan Hien, now minister of justice, in a recent interview in Hanoi. The Khmer Rouge planned to try to seize Tay Ninh province and perhaps even the southern commercial center of Ho Chi Minh City, said Gen. Tran Cong Man, editor of the official Vietnamese army newspaper Quan Doi Nhan Dan. No one in the leadership had reservations about invading because Vietnam had no other choice, Man said, ``although we knew the world would not respond favorably.'' ``We wanted to withdraw as soon as possible, but ... they (the Khmer Rouge) got support from China and Thailand,'' said Vietnam's current ambassador to Phnom Penh, Ngo Dien. China went further. On Feb. 17, 1979, the People's Liberation Army sent human waves across the frontier for a 16-day strike to ``punish'' Vietnam for invading Cambodia. Tens of thousands died in the fighting that laid waste to vast areas of northern Vietnam. Vietnam obtained arms from the Soviet Union, with whom it signed a 25-year treaty the month before the invasion. Most non-Communist Asian and Western nations joined China and Thailand in at least diplomatic backing for the guerrillas. In June 1982, the guerrilla backers helped form a coalition joining the Khmer Rouge with the non-Communist forces of former Cambodian monarch Prince Norodom Sihanouk and former prime minister Son Sann. Each year, the struggle for Cambodia alternated between intensified dry season fighting and diplomacy in the fall at the United Nations, where the coalition was overwhelmingly supported as Cambodia's government in the General Assembly. Vietnamese forces broke the cycle with a five-month offensive in 1984-85 that overran all major guerrilla bases inside the Cambodia border. They drove the guerrillas and the 300,000 civilians they controlled into Thailand. Fighting then subsided into mostly limited guerrilla ambushes and psychological warfare in the villages. Vietnam once declared the situation in Cambodia ``irreversible.'' But diplomacy increased after a Communist Party congress in late 1986 gave top priority to economic reconstruction. In 1987, Sihanouk held his first talks with Phnom Penh's Prime Minister Hun Sen. Vietnam first negotiated with the guerrillas in 1988. Nineteen nations conferred for a month in August in Paris. But they all failed to settle the quarrel over whether the Khmer Rouge should participate in Cambodia's political future. Vietnam claims it began annual partial troop pullouts in 1982. The departure of what it calls the last 26,000 opens a new phase of the war. AP890920-0009 AP-NR-09-20-89 0021EDT u a AM-Kemp-Homeless 1stLd-Writethru a0733 09-20 0782 AM-Kemp-Homeless, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0733,0801 Kemp Jeered at Soup Kitchen, Calls For More Help For Homeless Eds: SUBS 5th graf, `But many ..., with 5 grafs to UPDATE with NYTimes intvu; picks up 6th graf pvs: ``Johnson, Nixon ... LaserPhoto HF1 By GORDON FAIRCLOUGH Associated Press Writer HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Housing Secretary Jack Kemp was jeered during a visit to a soup kitchen Tuesday before he gave a speech pledging to speed up government aid to the homeless. Kemp offered few specifics during an impassioned talk to a group of federal officials and portrayed the fight against homelessness as part of a wider battle against poverty and despair. ``There are people in this country who are hurting. Those that have been blessed have an obligation to be a blessing to someone else,'' Kemp said. Discussing the federal government's contribution to ending homelessness, the secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development said, ``Is it enough? No. Are we going to do more? Yes.'' Meanwhile, in an interview with the New York Times, Kemp proposed ways to rid the troubled agency of influence-peddling. He said he would seek to base the awarding of HUD subsidies on merit rather than on the discretion of department officials, and to require that consultants register their fees. ``I'm not chairman of the Republican National Committee,'' Kemp said. Funding decisions ``will be based on objective criteria, competition, merit, and need, not who you know or what your party is,'' he said. Under Kemp's predecessor, Samuel Pierce, HUD officials steered housing subsidies to developers who had hired politically connected Republican consultants. Kemp said he would propose a mix of administrative, regulatory, and legislative measures, as well as making all financing decisions public. In Hartford, many of those eating at the St. Elizabeth's House soup kitchen, where Kemp stopped before his speech, doubted Kemp's words would result in action. ``Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush. It's always the same thing. It's just another name and we never get anything,'' said a homeless woman who jeered the secretary during his visit to the dining room crowded with about 100 people. The woman, who asked not to be named, said she was angered that Kemp chose the soup kitchen as a backdrop for a photo opportunity. ``I don't feel that they should come in here with their jackets and ties on to have their pictures taken with homeless men, women and children. Nobody asked our permission. It's humiliating, degrading and total exploitation,'' she said. Kemp was surrounded by reporters and photographers in the doorway of the soup kitchen, and never made it inside the room. Kemp's visit to Hartford began with a tour of a homeless shelter that was empty for the day and ended with a pep talk to the Interagency Council on the Homeless, where he announced a rent-subsidy grant program. ``President Bush wants an all-out effort to wage war on homelessness and despair, on drugs and poverty, and I plan to be a leader in that fight,'' Kemp said. Kemp's speech gave an outline for what he termed the ``first steps'' in the effort to end homelessness. The secretary called for improved coordination among federal, state and local officials and non-profit organizations aiding the homeless. He also said the government would cut through red tape and make it easier for homeless people and those who provide for them to receive government help. Kemp announced a joint venture between HUD and a philanthropic group, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to create as many as 1,200 housing units in eight cities. HUD will provide rent subsidies worth about $36 million over five years and $2.4 million in foundation grants will be used for support services. Kemp conceded that government procedures have resulted in a poor record for helping the homeless. He said that since 1983 only 293 homes have been leased and 183 sold to organizations helping the homeless. Kemp said HUD has 49,200 houses available at a 10 percent discount for purchase by non-profit organizations that can pay cash at closing. In the past, he said, eligibility for such sales were limited to tax-supported entitities, shutting out charitable groups that had no funding from the government. Such groups now will be able to receive the same benefits, he said. Kemp said help provided by his department will be part of a broader anti-poverty strategy with the Department of Health and Human Services. ``We will pool our resources and our ingenuity,'' he said in his prepared remarks. ``If it requires waivers, we'll grant waivers. If it requires new legislation, we'll propose it ... And if our efforts require new money, I'll ask for it,'' the HUD secretary said. AP890920-0010 AP-NR-09-20-89 0024EDT u i AM-Hugo-PuertoRico 4thLd-Writethru a0776 09-20 1158 AM-Hugo-Puerto Rico, 4th Ld-Writethru, a0776,1191 National Guard Halts Looting in Hugo's Wake, 50,000 Lose Homes Eds: LEADS with 20 grafs to UPDATE with nine reported dead in Montserrat, governor's comments and Red Cross shipment. Picks up graf 16 pvs, `I escaped ...' By KERNAN TURNER Associated Press Writer SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) National Guardsmen patrolled San Juan Tuesday to prevent looting after Hurricane Hugo devastated the island, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless and causing food and water shortages. A spokeswoman for the island's Civil Defense said two Puerto Ricans were among the 25 people killed in eastern Caribbean islands as Hugo slashed through the region Sunday and Monday with 125 mph winds. Ham radio operators reported their contacts in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands said law enforcement had collapsed and that there was widespread looting. They also were told some prisoners had escaped from a jail, probably in Christiansted, and were roaming free, according to Norbert Chwat of the Emergency Communications Service Radio Club in Queens, N.Y. Chwat said one St. Croix resident, who identified himself as a retired doctor, claimed local National Guardsmen and police had joined in the looting and appealed to the U.S. government to send troops to the island. St. Croix has a population of about 53,000. A British navy frigate, Alacrity, landed 16 Royal Marines late Monday on the island of Montserrat to clear the airport and another 100 went ashore Tuesday to help restore communications and health facilities. Cmdr. Colin Ferbrache, Alacrity's commanding officer, was interviewed by radio by AP Network News, and said, ``The damage _ it's absolutely devastating. The locals are calling it `trashed.' And I think that's a pretty good summation of it.'' Reports late Tuesday said nine people were killed on Montserrat, a British island with a population of 12,000. Earlier reports had placed the death toll at six. Montserrat Gov. Christopher Turner toured the island and told reporters the damage would run into many millions of dollars. ``It looks as if some water will be available for people at different times of the day,'' he said. ``We are doing a survey of what stocks we have. Providing we get a landing barge with a supply of food, people won't starve.'' Turner said 40 people were injured during the storm. Queen Elizabeth II sent messages of sympathy to leaders of Britain's Caribbean territories and other nations struck by Hugo, Buckingham Palace announced. In Puerto Rico, Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon said, ``This is a tragedy of major proportions'' and losses from the storm would amount to ``hundreds of millions of dollars. ... At least 50,000 people lost their homes or had them severely damaged.'' Water in some areas was reported cut off or in short supply, with residents of poorer communities outside San Juan using buckets to bathe or store drinking supplies. The governor initially estimated late Monday that 27,900 people had been made homeless by the hurricane. Colon said he would ask the federal government to declare the island, a U.S. commonwealth, a disaster area and seek immediate relief aid. The American Red Cross announced in Washington that it is sending its first relief supplies to the hurricane area at 9 a.m. Wednesday on a plane leaving from Philadelphia. Red Cross spokesman Brian Ruberry said the flight to San Juan will carry supplies and 50 volunteers. The Red Cross also is collecting 15,000 tents, blankets and kits containing soap, toothpaste and other personal items and sending them to McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey for shipment to the islands, Ruberry said. He said 400 Red Cross volunteers already are working in Puerto Rico. Two Puerto Ricans were killed Sunday, a man and his cousin electrocuted by a high-voltage power line while trying to remove a television antenna, but no other storm-related deaths were reported in Puerto Rico , according to Maria Dolores Oronoz, spokeswoman for Colon. Civil Defense spokeswoman Cizanette Rivera said the storm killed 25 people in the eastern Caribbean but she had no island-by-island breakdown of the deaths. Previous reports said in addition to the nine killed on Montserrat, five perished on the French territory of Guadeloupe and two were killed in Antigua. In the southeastern Puerto Rican town of Humacao, one woman screamed, ``My house! My house!'' when she returned to what remained of her home. ``I escaped with my father and when I returned this morning I didn't have a house,'' said Anita Martinez Arzuaga. ``I wasn't able to save anything.'' Hugo, the most powerful storm to hit the northeastern Caribbeean in a decade, cut power to more than half the island's 3.3 million people, officials said Tuesday. Tree branches, shattered glass and metal sheeting littered the streets of the capital. Bulldozers worked to clear them Tuesday. Damage to Puerto Rico's electricity network was estimated at $20 million, said Jose A. Del Valle, executive director of the Puerto Rico Electrical Power Co. He said 35 of the island's 78 municipalites had no electricity Tuesday. Del Valle said the company expected to have service completely restored to San Juan by Wednesday and to 80 percent of the island by the weekend. Damage to San Juan's Luis Munow International Airport, which remained closed Tuesday, also was estimated at $20 million. The governor said two islands, Vieques and Culebra, were the most severely affected areas of Puerto Rico. He said Culebra's only hospital was heavily damaged and most of the patients were transferred to a makeshift hospital established in a retirement home. Colon's wife, Lela Mayoral, in a radio announcement, appealed to Puerto Ricans to bring food and supplies, especially baby food and disposable diapers, to La Fortaleza, the governor's mansion, for distribution to the needy. Ms. Oronoz said the government called out 2,500 National Guardsmen to help police with rescue and security. Guardsman with automatic rifles were riding with police in their cruisers. Much of the looting occurred at the height of the storm. Police spokesman Tony Santiago said 40 businesses had reported looting. Police arrested 30 people on looting charges, he said. A woman who called in to a talk-show program on WOSO, San Juan's English-language radio station, said looters burst into her home and started removing her possessions just after some windows blew out. ``These people are crazy,'' she said. Damage was extensive in the capital's Condado tourist and residential district on the beachfront, which is dotted with hotels, high-rise condoniniums, boutiques and restaurants. Hugo appeared to have dealt a heavy blow to Puerto Rico's tourism industry. Many hotels were damaged, although most managed to stay open. There appeared to be heavy damage to agriculture. Luis Orama, mayor of the mountain town of Maricao, said loss to the coffee harvest would run in the millions of dollars. Banana and orange crops also were hard hit. Civil Defense director Heriberto Acevedo said also hard-hit was Ceiba, where Hugo's eye first passed over the Puerto Rican mainland. AP890920-0011 AP-NR-09-20-89 0040EDT r a PM-RockvsRachmaninoff Bjt 09-20 0758 PM-Rock vs Rachmaninoff, Bjt,0782 Classical Music Fights for Its Life as Speculators Crash the Radio Market By JOHN HORN Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) The switch by one of the nation's most successful classical music stations to rock 'n' roll today underscores fears that high finance is silencing high class on the nation's radio waves. Four months after being sold for $55 million, 58-year-old KFAC is casting off Beethoven, Brahms and Bizet for the beat of contemporary pop music, leaving the nation's No. 2 radio market with no full-time commercial classical station. ``It's a great tragedy,'' said Robert Goldfarb, KFAC's departing vice president for programming and operations. From its debut in 1931, KFAC-AM, and later FM, was distinguished as a citadel for the symphonic arts. But that legacy was to end at 1 p.m. today, and classical radio outlets elsewhere are hearing the same tune. Melodious orchestral maneuvers aren't soothing the number crunchers who have become increasingly influential in the radio business, now that stations regularly trade hands for tens of millions of dollars. ``Can any fringe format _ not just classical _ survive these kinds of selling prices?'' asked Bob Caulfield, president and general manager of Milwaukee classical station WFMR. KFAC's new owners, Evergreen Media of Irving, Texas, hope the programming change will yield an audience five times larger than KFAC's. Although KFAC enjoyed a loyal following and generated profits of up to $3 million a year, it never attracted more than a fraction of local listeners. ``Economics have dictated that this change is necessary to make,'' said KFAC's new general manager, Jim de Castro. Since there's limited space on the dial, an established station with a powerful signal offers a new owner the prospect of sizable capital appreciation and healthy tax writeoffs. No matter how well-managed, a typical classical station will rarely attract more than 2 or 3 percent of listeners. A hot rock station can grab more than three times that. While most classical stations are unlikely to change formats soon, commercial classical broadcasters are having to tune in to the realities of this marketplace. ``I don't think anyone in the commercial radio business in the classical music field hasn't realized that we have to play by the same rules that all of our competitors are playing by. We've got to generate attractive bottom lines,'' said Caulfield. That may mean reinventing the classical format. ``The perception ... is that classical radio is dull and boring and you have to have majored in it in college before you can turn the radio on,'' said Matthew Field, senior vice president and general manager of New York City's WNCN. ``And a lot of stations do nothing to turn that idea around. This is no longer a time for ivory tower thinking.'' Although it has attracted critics, WNCN has sought to enliven its classical format with a morning drive-time team, comedy skits, a classical ``hit''-oriented playlist, European vacation giveaways and guest disc jockeys like actor John Cleese and ``Phantom of the Opera'' star Michael Crawford. Field said the station, bought by GAF for $2.2 million in 1976, is profitable and should make about $2 million this year. Contests and promotions aside, it could be that many people's interest in classical music stops at third-grade piano lessons. ``It's true ... that classical stations can't make enough money to be worth the value of the asset. Why is that? It's because there aren't enough people who like classical music,'' said Goldfarb. ``Radio stations would be happy to program classical music if enough people wanted to listen to it.'' In California, with 686 commercial and public stations, there are only 27 classical stations, down from 29 in 1988. In New York state, of 431 stations 18 are classical _ down from 19 a year ago and only three more than big-band. Rather than a large audience, what classical stations offer advertisers are sophisticated, upscale listeners. ``The retailers and the merchants realize that we deliver less waste audience,'' said John Ver Standig, president of Ver Standig Broadcasting, owner of WGMS in Washington. ``We deliver almost exclusively a demographic that both by age and by income is the prime buyer for any merchant that is selling anything of value.'' Despite the audience's quality, it still isn't big enough for some. ``Many stations are now bought and sold more as speculative moves than bona fide intents to operate and own a broadcast service,'' said Mike Langner, past president of the Concert Music Broadcasters Association. ``The speculators are driving out the broadcasters.'' AP890920-0012 AP-NR-09-20-89 0028EDT u p AM-SeattleMayor 1stLd-Writethru a0731 09-20 0422 AM-Seattle Mayor, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0731,0432 Anti-Busing Campaign Leader and Black Candidate Lead Seattle Mayoral Race Eds: Leads with 10 grafs to UPDATE with early returns; picks up at dash. By DAVID AMMONS Associated Press Writer SEATTLE (AP) City Attorney Doug Jewett, co-sponsor of an anti-busing initiative, and former King County Executive Randy Revelle led the early vote count among 13 candidates for mayor in a primary election Tuesday. Running a close third was City Council member Norm Rice, a black community leader making his second attempt to become the city's first black mayor. Partial returns from 44.5 percent of the precincts in King County, and absentee ballots showed Jewett with 5,231 votes or 27.5 percent, Revelle with 3,586 or 19 percent and Rice with 3,388 or 18 percent. Two other City Council members, Jim Street and Dolores Sibonga, were next with 14 percent and 9 percent, respectively. The top two vote-getters advance to the general election Nov. 7. Mayoral primaries were also held in Tacoma, Spokane and other Washington cities and hamlets. With no legislative or statewide races on the primary ballot, the often-overlooked city and county elections had the spotlight. In populous King County, where the Seattle mayor's race, school board, port and county races have sparked interest, a 25 percent turnout was predicted. Jewett, the only Republican among the top mayoral contenders for the nonpartisan job in a heavily Democratic city, has been the municipality's chief legal officer for 12 years. In his last bid for higher office, a run for the U.S. Senate in 1982, he was trounced by the late Sen. Henry M. Jackson. Mayor Charles Royer is stepping down in January after an unprecedented 12 years as mayor of the city of 500,000 to become head of the Institute of Political Studies at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Rice was a last-minute entry in the non-partisan mayor's race, but quickly jumped to the head of the field of candidates. Rice, 46, is a former broadcast reporter, Urban League official and a banker. He lost to Royer four years ago and finished second in a Democratic primary for Congress last year. He said he jumped into the fray because of what he called a divisive anti-school busing initiative. The measure will be on the November ballot. Jewett is co-sponsor of the initiative, and backers said he could ride it into the mayor's office. Revelle is an attorney who headed King County government for four years after a stint on the Seattle City Council. AP890920-0013 AP-NR-09-20-89 0042EDT r a PM-Nielsens 09-20 0482 PM-Nielsens,0497 ABC's `Roseanne' and `Chicken Soup' Lead Ratings By JERRY BUCK AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) ABC's new Tuesday night comedy combo, ``Roseanne'' and ``Chicken Soup,'' led the A.C. Nielsen Co. ratings last week. ``Roseanne'' won big with its early season premiere and took the new comedy series ``Chicken Soup'' along for the ride. The Roseanne Barr show was 5 ratings points ahead and captured 40 percent of the audience. ABC also had two other shows in the Top 10 last week, according to the A.C. Nielsen Co. NBC became the first network in television history to sweep every week of a broadcast year from one season premiere to another. ABC was second last week, followed by CBS. NBC won every week except for a tie the week CBS telecast the miniseries ``Lonesome Dove.'' In all, NBC was first for the last 65 weeks. ABC's ``Chicken Soup'' stars comedian Jackie Mason as a former pajama salesman who takes a new job at a community center. Preseason forecasts were that ``Chicken Soup'' would be the biggest hit of the new season. The three networks previewed some shows this past week, but the season officially began Monday. NBC's highest-ranked show was its coverage of ``The Miss America Pageant,'' which was third. A rerun of NBC's ``Golden Girls'' was fourth and a preview of the network's new comedy ``Sister Kate'' was fifth. CBS' ``60 Minutes,'' back with new shows, was sixth. ABC's ``Monday Night Football'' game between the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins was seventh. Reruns of NBC's ``The Cosby Show'' and ``Cheers'' were eighth and ninth. ABC's Tuesday preview of the new fall drama ``Life Goes On'' was 10th. Its Friday preview of the same episode tied for 28th place. ``The Emmy Awards Show'' on Fox Broadcasting was in 37th place. Only 19 percent of the audience watched the Sunday night show. The pre-awards show on the arrival of the stars was 68th. NBC won the week with an average prime-time rating of 12.4. ABC had 11.8 and CBS 11.0. The ratings is the percentage of the nation's estimated 90.4 million homes with televisions. The CBS preview of ``Wolf'' tied for 17th place with the rerun of an NBC ``Perry Mason'' movie. ABC's ``Just the 10 of Us'' season preview tied for 26th place with a rerun of NBC's ``L.A. Law.'' The premiere of ABC's new comedy series ``Homeroom'' was 64th. CBS' ``Paradise,'' with another show featuring Hugh O'Brian reprising his role as Wyatt Earp, was 49th. Fox's special telecast of the rock opera ``Tommy'' starring The Who was 70th. The top-rated news show last week was ``The CBS Evening News'' with a 9.4 rating. NBC had 9.0 and ABC 8.9. The usually high-rated ABC's ``World News Tonight'' was pre-empted or not telecast on 18 West Coast stations on Monday because of the return of ``Monday Night Football.'' AP890920-0014 AP-NR-09-20-89 0043EDT r a PM-TreePlanter Bjt 09-20 0963 PM-Tree Planter, Bjt,0991 Utah's Johnny Appleseed Makes a Desert Bloom With LaserPhoto EDITOR'S NOTE President Bush has been making news in the West this week by planting trees and urging Americans to dig holes in their backyards and do the same. In Utah, a modern Johnny Appleseed has been planting trees, against all good advice, for 30 years. By DAVID FOSTER Associated Press Writer MAGNA, Utah (AP) Even as a boy, Paul Rokich sensed his future was tied to the barren hills behind Smelter Camp, the mining town where he was born. The hills were black as tar and just as dead. Decades of logging, grazing, wildfires and sooty smelter fumes had whittled a once-verdant forest down to a couple of old snags atop a ridge. ``When I was 6, I saw those two dead trees,'' Rokich recalled, ``and I knew I was going to go up and plant those mountains.'' Fifty years later, Paul Rokich has done just that. The long-abused northern end of the Oquirrhs, a range of hills south of the Great Salt Lake, has come alive with grasses, flowers, shrubs and trees. It's a marvelous transformation, but it would never have started had Rokich listened to the experts. As a young botany student at the University of Utah, he told professors of his dream to revive the Oquirrhs (rhymes with smokers). They told him the eroded hills were beyond hope. On May 7, 1959, Rokich set out to prove them wrong. In the dead of night, he parked his car, hoisted a pack and hiked into the hills. He was trespassing on land owned by Kennecott Copper Corp. Sulfurous mist from the smelter hung in the air. ``It was so quiet and still, you couldn't believe it,'' he said. ``There was no vegetation, no animals, nothing.'' That first trip, Rokich planted a Russian olive tree and two plots of tall wheat grass. Over the years, he planted anything he thought might grow in the ``desert pavement'' of the Oquirrhs. To finance his obsession _ for that is what it became _ he borrowed money from relatives, begged donations from seed companies and dug into his modest earnings as a construction worker. Once, one of his three boys was sick and the family was down to $10. Rokich spent $5 on medicine, $5 on trees. ``We didn't have extra money to spend on what he was doing,'' said his wife, Ann, ``but he had a vision.'' He also had the strength of a mule. At 6-foot-1 and 200 pounds, Rokich still hikes fast enough to leave a visitor half his age gasping. In the early days, he would start at 4 a.m., hiking and planting for 15 hours. To leave room for seedlings, he packed neither food nor water. He chewed elderberries found along the way, spit out the seeds and planted them. He had many setbacks. Young trees succumbed to drought, early frosts, rock slides and hungry rabbits. One year, a sheep herder burned off a hillside, killing 3,000 new Douglas firs and ponderosa pines. But slowly, grass took hold. Elderberry and sumac shrubs became thickets, and trees reached skyward. After years of looking the other way, Kennecott in 1973 sent officials to inspect Rokich's work. They hired him. Rokich no longer had to smuggle in seedlings. He drove a company truck, planted trees by tractor and spread grass seed by the ton from a helicopter. Today, in the canyon where Rokich started, fir trees are ``coming in like hair on a dog's back,'' he said. Even Kesler Canyon, the area closest to the smelter and the most devastated, is being reclaimed. ``It was supposed to be impossible to grow things here in Kesler,'' Rokich said during a recent visit. ``But look!'' Ten-foot-high locust trees poked up from a sea of grass. Sunflowers waved in the breeze. A mule deer peered from a thicket. ``I bet you there are 50 deer out there right now, lying in the bushes and watching us,'' Rokich said. There are also rabbits, partridge, bobcats and coyotes. Golden eagles and yellow-tailed hawks soar, and in autumn, the once-silent canyon echoes with the bugling of 200 elk. Kennecott modernized its smelter in 1977, reducing pollution and giving vegetation a chance to grow. But company officials hand Rokich most of the credit for the Oquirrhs' revival. ``Sure, the company would have done revegetation work,'' said Frank Fisher, external affairs director. ``But it wouldn't be anywhere as far along without a guy like Paul. He's truly a zealot.'' Rokich figures he has personally planted 60,000 trees and shrubs on 14,000 acres. That first Russian olive tree is now 25 feet high; last winter, an old bull elk looking for a place to die found shelter under its spreading limbs. The years have turned Rokich's hair white, but at 56 he is no fading bull. His youthful optimism remains, evidenced by a perpetual grin and earnest brown eyes always scanning the next ridge for some happy surprise. The mountains have kept him young, he says, and his work has kept him satisfied. Sometimes he sits in his truck and reads the hillside like others read a newspaper. Each precious plant has a history, and Paul Rokich knows the details, for it's his history, too. ``You know, I thought that if I got this started, then when I was dead and gone, people would come and see it. I never thought I'd get to see it myself.'' He stretched his arms wide, as if trying to embrace everything: the trees, the birds, the swaying grass. ``I'm amazed,'' he said. ``Look at what I've done. What more could you want?'' EDITOR'S NOTE David Foster is the AP Northwest regional reporter, based in Seattle. AP890920-0015 AP-NR-09-20-89 0105EDT r i PM-Speedy 09-20 0393 PM-Speedy,0407 Tortoise, Owner Identify Each Other in Police Lineup By GRAHAM HEATHCOTE Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) Police in Birmingham held a tortoise lineup and claimed later to have solved the case of Speedy the wanderer. ``I am quite certain we have found the right owner,'' said police superintendent Martin Burton, whose force in the English Midlands plucked the runaway reptile from thundering traffic on a highway on Monday. Paul Dunn, 13, given time off school to attend Tuesday's lineup, picked out Speedy as the pet that had been missing for two weeks. ``I knew that if it was Speedy I could prove it because he has a dent in his shell and if I breathe heavily into his face he will breathe back,'' said Paul. Burton said highway patrol sergeant Brian Wevill spotted the slow-moving tortoise walking on the M-6 highway on Birmingham's outskirts. One truck driver had halted to avoid running over the animal and other vehicles were forced to filter around the tiny traveler, Burton said. When a radio newscast reported the rescue, the police said they were flooded with calls from across Britain claiming ownership of the tortoise. One woman called from Australia to offer a home. Owner and pet were reunited after police organized a lineup at the Birmingham Nature Center zoo, where Burton had an infra-red marking put on Speedy's shell to make sure it wouldn't get lost in the crowd. ``We called him Speedy when we found him and it's just an amazing coincidence that he really is called Speedy,'' the superintendent said. ``Speedy loves greener pastures,'' explained Paul's mother, Eileen. ``He has gone missing three times before and we have found him walking down the road. But this is the first time he has ventured on to the motorway. He has walked just over a mile in two weeks so it is pretty good going.'' The number of claimants to Speedy was not surprising. Tortoises are difficult to buy in Britain because of import restrictions imposed following warnings from conservationists that the creatures are fast diminishing in their native Greece and north Africa. Speedy will be going into winter hibernation soon and needs plenty of nourishing meals to build up energy reserves. Mrs. Dunn gave the wanderer a bowl of bread and strawberry jam, soaked in milk. ``It's his favorite,'' she said. AP890920-0016 AP-NR-09-20-89 0115EDT r i PM-CambodiaWithdrawal 09-20 0732 PM-Cambodia Withdrawal,0757 Vietnam Predicts Long-Term Fighting In Cambodia After Its Pullout By JOHN POMFRET Associated Press Writer HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) Vietnam is predicting that factional fighting will continue in Cambodia after its army withdraws from the neighboring country it invaded nearly 11 years ago. The last Vietnamese soldier is supposed to leave Cambodia within a week. Maj. Gen. Nguyen Van Thai, chief spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, made the tacit acknowledgment Tuesday that Vietnam had failed in its goal to wipe out Cambodian resistance. He also claimed that Vietnam's major achievement during the war was not strategic but involved saving the Cambodian people from genocide at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. The officer spoke at a news conference to announce the start of the last stage of Vietnam's withdrawal, begun in July 1988. The movement will mark the end of one phase of conflict and the beginning of another in Indochina, which has not seen peace since before World War II. Between Thursday and Tuesday, 26,000 Vietnamese soldiers are supposed to return to Vietnam, leaving behind a Cambodian government army of an estimated 50,000 regulars and 60,000 to 80,000 poorly trained militia. Facing them will be a resistance coalition of roughly 45,000 men. Recent reports from the Thai border indicate the fighting has heated up, especially around the gem-rich area of Pailin and in Siem Reap province. Thai corroborated the reports and claimed resistance forces recently had received ``a massive shipment of weapons.'' ``There might be trouble and fighting might continue without an end in Cambodia,'' Thai said. The first in a series of farewell parades, orchestrated by the Cambodian government, is to kick off in Siem Reap Thursday morning. More than 500 journalists from all over the world will be in Cambodia to witness the troop movement, an action Vietnam hopes will better its international reputation. The country, one of the poorest in the world, is badly in need of Western aid, which was mostly cut off after it invaded Cambodia. Thai denied allegations by Cambodian resistance factions that the withdrawal was a sham and Vietnamese soldiers were being disguised among the ranks of the Cambodian army. ``Absolutely, there will not be any Vietnamese troops remaining in Cambodia after Sept. 26,'' Thai said. He said he was confident that Cambodia would be able to defend itself against the resistance coalition led politically by the former Cambodian king, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, and militarily by the radical Communist Khmer Rouge. However, he did not rule out a Vietnamese military return to Cambodia. ``In case of a threat of the genocidal regime coming back then I think the government of the state of Cambodia would call on the international community for help,'' he said. If called on for assistance, Thai said, the Vietnamese army ``would then announce its decision.'' Vietnam invaded Cambodia in December 1978, ending the bloody four-year rule of the Khmer Rouge and installing a pro-Vietnamese government in its place. During its rule, the Khmer Rouge killed hundreds of thousands of people in trying to turn the country into an agrarian commune. Since it was installed in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, the pro-Vietnamese government has gained some legitimacy in the eyes of Cambodians. Buddhist monks are no longer harshly persecuted and the economy has improved slightly. Since 1979, Vietnamese and Cambodian government forces have battled against a guerrilla coalition comprised of troops loyal to Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge and Son Sann, a former premier of Cambodia. China, which fought a brief border war with Vietnam in 1979, is the main military backer of the resistance coalition, which also receives humanitarian support from the United States and the capitalist countries of Southeast Asia. The Soviet Union is the main military backer of Vietnam. A series of internationally sponsored negotiations have failed to arrive at a political solution to the conflict. Recent talks in Paris collapsed because of a disagreement over the future role of the Khmer Rouge in the Cambodian government. When asked what he thought Vietnam's 10-year occupation of Cambodia had accomplished, Thai said it had saved the Cambodian people from genocide. In terms of strategic aims, Thai said, Vietnam had succeeded in defending itself. Thai said Vietnam lost 55,300 troops during its fight with Cambodia, 25,000 of whom died during border clashes with Cambodia in 1977-78. Another 55,000 troops were seriously wounded. AP890920-0017 AP-NR-09-20-89 0104EDT u a AM-GoetzRelease 1stLd-Writethru a0786 09-20 0503 AM-Goetz Release, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0786,0512 Goetz Released from Jail Eds: Leads with four grafs with release; picks up 5th graf pvs, `Ryles said .... NEW YORK (AP) Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz was released from jail early Wednesday after serving more than eight months in the shooting of four youths on a subway train in 1984. Goetz left the Brooklyn Center of Detention through a side door to avoid about 30 photographers, reporters and eight camera crews who were waiting for him by the front entrance. ``He refused to come out the front door,'' said Deputy Chief of Operations Pete Mahn. Before the release, Correction Department spokeswoman Ruby Ryles said a privilege that Goetz and other inmates have upon being discharged is to be driven to the nearest subway station. Mahn did not say if Goetz was taken to the subway. Ryles said Goetz, who became something of a folk hero among those who saw him as a lone individual taking a stand against crime, whiled away much of his time playing chess with fellow inmates in his 18-cell protective custody block. Others in the block included convicted child killer Joel Steinberg, Jewish militant Mordechai Levy, and Bensonhurst race attack suspect Joseph Fama. Goetz, 41, had been a self-employed electronics technician before he was arrested in the shooting on Dec. 22, 1984, of four teen-agers he said were trying to rob him on a subway near the World Trade Center when they asked him for $5. The youths claimed they wanted the money to play video game machines. In June 1987, following a two-month trial, Goetz was cleared of attempted murder and assault but convicted of illegal possession of the gun he used to shoot the youths. State Supreme Court Justice Stephen Crane sentenced him to six months in jail, a $5,000 fine, 250 hours of community service and ordered him to undergo psychiatric treatment. Goetz and his lawyers appealed the sentence, calling it illegal. The prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Gregory Waples, and the State Supreme Court's Appellate Division agreed. The appeals court sent the case back to Crane for resentencing. In January, Crane sentenced Goetz to one year. With time off for good behavior, he was expected to serve eight months in jail and would have been released two weeks ago, but jail guards found a plastic safety razor in his cell and he was ordered to serve 14 days more as punishment. Goetz said jail officials had given him a dirty razor and he was afriad of getting AIDS. Ryles said inmates are given fresh, unused razors every day. She said he refused to surrender the razor to guards, claiming he was keeping it as evidence, and he drew the extra two weeks in jail. Goetz still faces a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed by the family of one of his victims, Darrell Cabey, who was left brain-damaged and paralyzed. Goetz, who lives in Manhattan, has said he might leave New York City after he gets out of jail. AP890920-0018 AP-NR-09-20-89 0554EDT d a PM-BRF--CardinalKrol 09-20 0128 PM-BRF--Cardinal Krol,0131 Cardinal Krol Undergoes Brain Surgery PHILADELPHIA (AP) Cardinal John Krol underwent surgery to remove a fluid buildup from his brain, and doctors expect the 78-year-old retired Roman Catholic archbishop to make a complete recovery. During Tuesday's 30-minute operation, Graduate Hospital's chief neurosurgeon, Dr. Michael J. O'Connor, drilled a small hole in the left side of Krol's skull. ``The cardinal is doing very well,'' O'Connor said. ``He was awake during the operation, joking during surgery. The prognosis is excellent.'' The operation was similar to that performed successfully on former President Reagan, according to the Rev. John Sibel, spokesman for the Philadelphia archdiocese. Krol, who retired 1{ years ago, will remain hospitalized for six days, O'Connor said. Doctors noticed the fluid during a brain scan. AP890920-0019 AP-NR-09-20-89 0129EDT u a AM-PasterExecution 1stLd-Writethru a0734 09-20 0473 AM-Paster Execution, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0734,0483 URGENT Former Elvis Impersonator Linked To Five Murders Executed In Texas Eds: UPDATES throughout with exeuction. LaserPhoto DN3 By MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press Writer HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) A man described as ``Satan personified'' was executed by injection early Wednesday for one of five slayings he was accused of committing. James Paster, 44, a onetime lounge singer and Elvis Presley impersonator, was pronounced dead at 12:17 a.m. Paster was sentenced to death for the 1980 contract killing of a 38-year-old Houston man, said Bill Zapalac, an assistant attorney general. On Tuesday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refused to grant a reprieve. Defense attorneys contend jurors at Paster's trial should have been allowed to consider evidence of his abused childhood. Paster's attorney, Stanley Schneider, said he spoke with Paster by telephone Tuesday and found his client upbeat, but declined to divulge the nature of the conversation. Paster also was serving a life prison term for the rape and murder of an 18-year-old Conroe woman. Stephen McCoy, Paster's co-defendant in that case, was executed earlier this year. Paster also pleaded guilty to the slaying of another woman and has confessed to killing two other Houston-area women, although he never was tried for those offenses. In April, Paster and another condemned killer unsuccessfully tried to escape from death row by squeezing through a 1-foot-square air vent and sawing through an exhaust fan opening. ``I'm about as smart as a box of rocks,'' Paster, whose left arm is adorned with a large tattoo of a swastika with the word ``Hero'' written through it, said recently in a death row interview. ``I'm not trying to justify any darn thing. There's no justification for what I've done.'' Paster was condemned for the Oct. 25, 1980, shooting death of Robert Edward Howard, for which he said he was paid $1,000 and a motorcycle. Howard was gunned down as he emerged from a Houston bar. ``Had I ever known this individual, had a drink or beer with him, I wouldn't have done it,'' Paster said. ``It made it easier, like hitting someone on the highway. I never got out of the car. ``It's not hard to take a life _ one shot, 20 feet away, in the head,'' he said. Howard's ex-wife, Trudy Howard LeBlanc, 42, is serving a life prison term for hiring Paster and brothers Gary and Eddie LeBlanc to commit the murder. Paster served time in California and was in custody in Alabama when he was arrested for the Howard killing. California officials described him as having serious sexual problems and the potential for being extremely dangerous. Paster was the third inmate executed in Texas this year and the 32nd since 1982 _ the most of any state since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976 allowed capital punishment to resume. AP890920-0020 AP-NR-09-20-89 0220EDT r i PM-ProsciuttoReturns 09-20 0760 PM-Prosciutto Returns,0784 After Two Decades, Prosciutto Ham from Parma Returns to United States Eds: Also in Wednesday AMs report. By DENNIS REDMONT Associated Press Writer PARMA, Italy (AP) Barred from the United States for 22 years, prosciutto from Parma makes a comeback this fall. Italians demonstrated to the Department of Agriculture that the air-cured, raw ham is not hazardous to your health. Parma had long exported its famous Parmesan cheese, along with the opera music of its native Giuseppe Verdi and its conductor Arturo Toscanini. But its light pink, tender, sweet-tasting prosciutti were kept out in 1967, when swine fever swept Italy. Fearing foot-and-mouth disease and hog cholera, the U.S. government closed its borders. Americans had to make do with Swiss ham from Tessin or imitations from Pennsylvania or Connecticut. ``But,'' claims Giorgio Orlandini, ``no one could ever match the curing by sweet and foggy air drifting through pine, olive and chestnut forests and the tradition of pork pummelers massaging hog shoulders into tenderness for at least a year before they reach the store.'' Orlandini, director of the Industrial Union of Parma, helped lead the battle to get prosciutto back to the United States. Only pigs bred in a special area on a combination of Parmesan curds and other feed _ but not slop _ can be candidates for prosciutto. They must reach 330 pounds at the end of a year before going to registered slaughterhouses. After hardening for 24 hours in deep freeze, hog shoulders are pared of fat, salted, seasoned and frozen for another month. The hams emerge to the kneading bench for the first of many massages to squeeze out the salty juice and tenderize the meat. They are kept at least 400 days in ventilated storage halls that contain slats opened from time to time at night to allow the balsamic air to waft through the hanging hams. Finally, the hams are scrubbed with warm water, sandpapered to an attractive finish and kept in a moist chamber until selling time. At almost every stage, the ham massager gives them another quick rubdown. Inadequate hams are eliminated, with the 214 members of the prosciutto ham corsortium able to take a tax deduction. The Parma ham symbol _ a ducal crown with five points _ burnt into the prosciutto and a specially stamped metal joint guarantee it is the real thing. Parma produces over 8 million prosciutti a year, about half of Italy's total raw ham production. Processors say the long seasoning destroys all potentially present microorganisms and should trim the ham to nearly half its original weight, but no less than 15.4 pounds. Stung by the U.S. ban, the consortium fought to prove that swine flu had been licked and that the slaughtering, seasoning and pummeling were as hygienic as in America. A veterinarian from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service was sent to visit the 21 companies accredited for export to the United States. Changes were made _ but five-century-old traditions remained, such as ceremonial ham-by-ham ``smelling.'' An expert still inserts a thin bone from a horse's tibia to discern if the aroma in the processing is just right. ``Finally, the innocence of prosciutto has emerged,'' says Franco Scatozza, dean emeritus of veterinarian medicine at the University of Parma. ``It would be absurd to suspect that if the animals suffered an infection, these organisms would survive a long period of processing and seasoning. And these illnesses would not be contagious for humans.'' Scatozza said the U.S. government finally was persuaded, after government-supervised experiments on both sides of the Atlantic, that the long curing of the ham triggers self-sterilization and eliminates any viruses. On April 8, 1987, the news spread through this gastronomic capital of Italy: the U.S. Department of Agriculture had lifted the ban. After clearance procedures, the go-ahead was flashed for shipments to America this month. The thin, silky slices of ham retail in Italy for about $15 a pound. The price should hover around $20 a pound in the United States, selling under such labels as ``Il Numero Uno.'' Macy's was reported ready to sell it for $14.95 a pound. About 40,000 hams are scheduled for export to the United States before yearend. Two million prosciutti are exported yearly, mainly to other European countries. Prosciutto agent Thomas Phiebig of Englewood Cliffs, N.J., says prosciutto will be found initially at East Coast specialty shops after an Oct. 1 gala dinner to welcome back the Italian ham at New York's Hotel Pierre with Gov. Mario Cuomo in attendance. AP890920-0021 AP-NR-09-20-89 0223EDT r a PM-SuperpowerRendezvous Bjt 09-20 0640 PM-Superpower Rendezvous, Bjt,0656 Jackson Locals Not Impressed with International Hoopla GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) Residents say they'll welcome the U.S. and Soviet foreign ministers this week as long as the tete-a-tete in the Grand Tetons doesn't crimp elk hunting or trout fishing. Bob Lunger, owner of Spike Camp sport shop, was too busy outfitting dozens of hunters for the just-started elk season to worry about the presummit meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. ``This is my busiest time of year,'' Lunger said. ``I don't have time to pay much attention to that stuff.'' Lunger's attitude isn't much different from that of many Jackson Hole locals, who are about as impressed with visiting dignitaries and celebrities as backcountry bull moose or black bears that wander into the town of Jackson. ``There are a lot of celebrities that come through here. We just don't make a big deal about it. We just go on about our business,'' said Amy Jones, floor manager for The Get Your Buns In Here Bunnery in downtown Jackson. President Bush has been a frequent visitor to the area, known for its blue ribbon fly fishing, art galleries, wooden sidewalks, skiing and towering 13,766-foot Grand Teton. Former presidents Kennedy, Ford, Carter and Teddy Roosevelt all vacationed in the area, which also has been home to movie stars, artists and wealthy industrialists. Actor Harrison Ford of ``Star Wars'' fame often is spotted at local cafes and the Rockefellers and DuPonts have ranches in the area. While the presence of celebrities may be passe in this cosmopolitan mountain town, the bakery manager conceded, ``this (presummit) itself is a little more exciting than Bo Derek making a movie.'' The superpower talks and accommodations will be at the 385-room Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park, about 30 miles north of Jackson and just south of Yellowstone National Park in northwestern Wyoming. Earlier this year Baker, who owns a ranch about 75 miles south of Jackson, enticed Shevardnadze to agree to the meetings in Wyoming after showing him photographs of the Tetons. From the lakeside lodge the delegations will be able to gaze through 60-foot tall windows at the snow-dusted mountains. A short walk will take them through stands of golden aspen and, if they're lucky, give them a view of a moose or two wading across Willow Flats or into Oxbow Bend of the Snake River. While the two delegations discuss arms control, human rights, international law, the Middle East and the global environment, an estimated 400 journalists from throughout the world will crowd Jackson's motels, restaurants and bars. The press will have little access to the lodge, prompting tourism officials to try to take advantage of possible idle time for members of the media. They have compiled hundreds of feature story ideas about the area. The setting itself can't help but provide a humbling environment for the global powers to meet, said Gov. Mike Sullivan, who plans to greet Baker and Shevardnadze upon their arrival Thursday night. ``Anybody that's been there knows there's a special aura about the beauty of the Tetons and the peaceful nature of the valley,'' Sullivan said. ``You can get very close to nature in Jackson _ that's always helpful to any kind of deliberations.'' But can they get close to the western flavor of the area, settled by fur trappers and mountain men in the early part of the 19th century and now populated by the wealthy, ranchers, environmentalists, shopkeepers and ski bums? ``I don't think you can be in Jackson Hole without experiencing the flavor of the West,'' Sullivan said. ``Even if ensconced in meetings, they'll feel the mountain air and see the clear rivers and oversee the beautiful mountains _ if we don't get a cold front that moves in.'' AP890920-0022 AP-NR-09-20-89 0226EDT r a PM-Legionnaires'-Vaccine Bjt 09-20 0561 PM-Legionnaires'-Vaccine, Bjt,0580 Experimental Vaccine Protects Lab Animals Against Legionnaires' Disease By PAUL RAEBURN AP Science Editor HOUSTON (AP) Two experimental vaccines protected lab animals against a lethal dose of the bacteria that cause Legionnaires' disease, raising hopes for a vaccine to protect humans, a researcher says. Between 600 and 1,000 cases of Legionnaires' disease are reported to the federal Centers for Disease Control each year. Estimates of the actual number of cases range as high as 100,000 a year, said the vaccine's developer, Dr. Marcus Horwitz of the University of California, Los Angeles. ``It's clearly a major problem in hospitals,'' Horwitz said Tuesday at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. ``It's a major cause of death from hospital-acquired pneumonia.'' The first vaccine Horwitz developed consisted of a weakened, mutant strain of the bacteria Legionella pneumophila, which causes the deadly disease. Then Horwitz developed a vaccine consisting of a single chemical from the virus. The single-molecule vaccine protected 21 of 26 guinea pigs from a lethal dose of Legionella bacteria. None of 26 unvaccinated guinea pigs survived after the same dose, Horwitz said. Guinea pigs were used because they develop a disease similar to Legionnaires' disease in humans, he said. Dr. Robert Breiman, a Legionnaires' disease expert at the CDC, said the vaccine, if it ultimately proves successful in humans, could be especially useful for the transplant recipients, cancer patients, the elderly and people taking steroids. They all have weakened immune systems and are especially susceptible to Legionnaires' disease, he said. Horwitz and his colleagues ``have very nice results,'' Breiman said. The vaccines ``look like they protect animals very nicely against Legionella.'' ``It remains to be seen whether this sort of vaccine would protect these people'' who are especially at risk, said Breiman, who worked with Horwitz before going to the CDC. ``It's a long way to a vaccine in humans.'' Horwitz said it would be at least two or three years before he was ready for a trial of the vaccine in humans. He said he was surprised that ``you can immunize an animal with a single molecule.'' Such a vaccine should be safer, easier to use and cheaper than the mutant bacteria vaccine. The molecule is called the major secretory protein, and its function in Legionella infection is not understood, Horwitz said. He does have a good theory of how the vaccine works, however. Legionella bacteria infect certain white blood cells called monocytes and then hide inside where the body's immune system can't find them. The immune system, primed by the vaccine, secretes substances that change the monocytes in such a way that they lose most of their ability to absorb iron as they normally do. Legionella bacteria depend on iron, and when they don't get it, they stop growing. The next step in the research will be to show that the vaccine can protect animals against various strains of Legionella pneumophila, and against other species of Legionella. Legionella pneumophila is responsible for 90 percent of Legionnaires' disease, but five or six other species of Legionella also cause disease, Horwitz said. Another question to be answered is how long the immunity induced by the vaccine will continue to protect against disease, he said. Legionnaires' disease takes its name from its first known outbreak _ at the Pennsylvania American Legion convention in Philadelphia in July 1976. AP890920-0023 AP-NR-09-20-89 0233EDT r a PM-Cancun-Disease 09-20 0343 PM-Cancun-Disease,0354 Outbreak of Infection in Mexico Could Lead to Epidemic By PAUL RAEBURN AP Science Editor HOUSTON (AP) An estimated 500 Americans came home from Cancun, Mexico, last year with a severe form of dysentery that sent some of them to the hospital for a month, according to a U.S. government study. The disease was caused by a strain of bacteria almost identical to one that infected 500,000 people in Central America between 1969 and 1972, killing 20,000, said Dr. Julie Parsonnet of Stanford University. ``This is one of the most infectious organisms there is'' and one ``with a very high hospitalization rate,'' she said Tuesday at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, where she presented the results of an investigation of the 1988 Cancun epidemic. The occurrence of the epidemic raises concern that the disease, which tends to peak every 25 years or so, may be on the rise again in Mexico and Central America, she said. She said that Americans should not cancel trips to Cancun, a popular resort, because of the epidemic. ``The risk of getting this illness is extremely small,'' she said. Tourists who do visit Cancun should take the precautions recommended for all visitors to Mexico, she said: Don't drink water or beverages with ice and avoid uncooked foods. Parsonnet, who until recently was at the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, said she and her colleagues identified 51 Americans with infections of Shigella dysenteriae in 1988. Forty-four had been to Mexico and 33 had been in or near Cancun. Three of the 51 had life-threatening complications, and one 9-year-old girl almost died, Parsonnet said. The symptoms include bloody diarrhea and abdominal cramps that women have described as being similar to labor pains. The exact source of the infection in Cancun could not be identified, she said. Cases of the disease are still being reported to U.S. officials. An increase is expected as reports from the summer begin to come in, because the disease tends to peak in the summer, she said. AP890920-0024 AP-NR-09-20-89 0234EDT r w PM-SovietPentecostals Bjt 09-20 0625 PM-Soviet Pentecostals, Bjt,600 Evangelical Christians Fear for Their Soviet Brethren By RUTH SINAI Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) New U.S. efforts to stem the flow of Soviets _ most of them Jews _ into this country may leave evangelical Christians at the end of the line to face severe repression at home, an evangelical group says. The National Association of Evangelicals, through its World Relief arm, is campaigning to prevent the Oct. 1 implementation of an administration plan that would cut off the Christians' main escape route through Vienna and Rome. ``This administration must not impede the escape of persecuted individuals for the sake of bureaucratic convenience,'' said a letter from World Relief to Congress. ``We fear for their safety in a nation where political stability is, at best, precarious and where persecution of this group remains unabated.'' Rep. Bruce Morrison, who chairs the House subcommittee on immigration, said he planned to take up the evangelicals' plight in a meeting today with Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and other administration officials. Evangelical Christians, most of them Pentecostals, have been seeking to leave the Soviet Union since the 1960s. It was only last year, with the opening of the Soviet Union's doors to massive emigration, that evangelicals were able to leave in large numbers among the flood of Jews and ethnic Germans. However, in an effort to save money and streamline the processing of the Soviet applicants, the administration has decided that all Soviets seeking to come to the United States must apply at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow starting Oct. 1. The Rome and Vienna facilities will be closed. The plan calls for allocating 50,000 refugee slots to Soviet emigres in fiscal 1990 starting Oct. 1, far short of the estimated 150,000 expected to apply. In addition, according to State Department figures, the backlog of applicants _ most of them Jews _ in Rome and Vienna will exceed 30,000 by Oct. 1. Another 65,000 are already in line in Moscow. The new plan means evangelicals may have to get in back of the Moscow line and could wait as long as two years just for an interview with an INS officer about their application, said Serge Duss, who coordinates the Soviet Refugee Program for the NAE. ``I am very disturbed by the administration's galloping ahead with the Oct. 1 deadline when many problems, including the evangelicals, haven't been resolved,'' Morrison said. ``There is no question they continue to be persecuted and deserve priority treatment.'' A State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said some evangelicals may get priority treatment even if they have not yet applied to leave. But Duss said that in private consultations, his organization _ which claims 15 million members _ had not received any such assurances. ``Many evangelical Christians believe glasnost is merely a breathing spell before more repression begins against religious activity,'' he said. In 1963, 35 evangelical Christians were turned away from the U.S. Embassy where they sought help in emigrating. In 1978, seven Pentecostal families, known as the Siberian Seven, found refuge in the basement of the U.S. Embassy where they stayed for five years until being allowed out. Since January 1988, some 12,000 evangelicals obtained exit visas for Vienna and Rome, where they applied for U.S. refugee status. In recognition of the persecution they suffered, all but 5 percent were granted refugee status, according to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. There are an estimated 800,000 evangelical Christians _ Pentecostals, Baptists and Methodists _ in the Soviet Union but only about 25,000 of those want to leave. ``The only reason they want to leave is so they can practice their religion,'' Duss said. ``They're the closest thing to the American Pilgrim we have these days.'' AP890920-0025 AP-NR-09-20-89 0236EDT r w PM-Congress-Drugs Bjt 09-20 0541 PM-Congress-Drugs, Bjt,520 Republicans Offer to Boost Bush Anti-Drug Package By JIM DRINKARD Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Senate Democrats are taking another look at President Bush's anti-drug proposal in light of a Republican offer to boost it by $800 million over the original plan. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., said he would present the GOP offer to his Democratic colleagues today. ``We'll take another look at the figures,'' Byrd said. But he added that while the numbers may be flexible, two principles in the more expensive anti-drug package he proposed last week remain non-negotiable: a greater emphasis on drug treatment and prevention, and an across-the-board cut of most federal programs to pay for the stepped-up drug war. The logjam over the size, shape and funding of the war on drugs is holding up not only the anti-drug package but also a series of spending bills needed to keep the government running after the current fiscal year ends Sept. 30. Byrd said his goal in demanding even cuts in defense and domestic programs is to avoid pitting program against program, senator against senator _ as would occur if the money were sought from specific targeted agencies. That could lead to even more delay in getting the spending bills through, he said. At a meeting in the Capitol late Tuesday, Senate Republicans offered to add some $800 million to the $7.9 billion drug war Bush outlined Sept. 5, and agreed to pay for about half of the improvements with an across-the-board spending cut of one-fourth of 1 percent. The remaining $400 million in increased funding would come from cuts in a yet-to-be-selected assortment of defense and domestic programs drawn from Bush's original proposal, said Sen. Mark O. Hatfield, R-Ore., the chief GOP negotiator. Of the $800 million increase, about $200 million would go to local law enforcement programs and $600 million would go for drug-abuse prevention, education and treatment programs. ``We've talked to the agencies. There's only so much money they can absorb at this time,'' said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a member of the Republican task force. ``We don't want to just throw money at it. We don't want to be stupid with this approach.'' The new GOP package represented a middle ground between Bush's original proposal and a beefed-up $10.1 billion package Byrd proposed last week, which put the emphasis on drug abuse prevention and treatment. Byrd's proposal would finance the programs through a cut of 0.575 percent across the board on all discretionary domestic and military programs. That would take a $1.8 billion bite out of the Pentagon budget alone, a cut deemed unacceptable by the White House. ``The ball is in their court,'' Hatfield said Tuesday. He said Bush administration officials who were present throughout the day, including budget director Richard Darman, had gone along with the sweetened offer, but ``not willingly.'' But the reality on Capitol Hill is that the drug issue holds a substantial political risk for anyone perceived not to be wholeheartedly in the fight, Hatfield said. ``The president has captured the public's concern,'' he said. ``The down side is if the public perceives that Congress is squabbling over nickels and dimes... It's not going to help any of us.'' AP890920-0026 AP-NR-09-20-89 0239EDT r i PM-Amnesty-Executions 09-20 0665 PM-Amnesty-Executions,0683 Amnesty International Renews Appeal to End Death Penalty By LESLIE SHEPHERD Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) Amnesty International stepped up its campaign against capital punishment today, appealing to the United States, the Soviet Union, China, South Africa, Iran and Iraq to abolish it. The London-based human rights organization said it has documented at least 1,600 legally sanctioned executions worldwide during the first eight months of this year but believes the true number to be much higher. Amnesty International has long opposed the death penalty, calling it a cruel and unusual punishment inflicted disproportionately on the poor, ethnic minorities and political opponents. It released a study of capital punishment worldwide in April, urging 100 countries to wipe it off their lawbooks. Today, the organization said it was renewing its appeal to six countries because a change in their practices could ``turn the tide of state-sanctioned killings.'' Amnesty also announced that its branches in 46 countries would lobby embassies of the six governments during the next week, sending them hundreds of telex, telephone and facsimile messages. Amnesty said 13 people have been executed this year in the United States and 37 in South Africa. It said at least one person is known to have been executed in the Soviet Union and five are awaiting imminent execution after losing their appeals for clemency. It said the Soviet Union has refused to publish statistics on executions for more than 50 years. Precise figures are also difficult to obtain from Iraq because of government secrecy, but Amnesty said hundreds are reported to have been executed there this year. In Iran, there have been at least 1,200 executions in the same time period, more than half for drug-related offenses, it said. Amnesty said that of 242 people known to have been executed in China this year, 137 were killed after the army's bloody crackdown on the pro-democracy movement June 3-4 and included people accused of involvement in the protests. It reiterated earlier concerns that the total of Chinese executions was much higher. Amnesty said it was ``gravely concerned'' by legal and political developments regarding the death penalty in several countries in the last year. It singled out a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that the execution of juvenile offenders and the mentally retarded does not violate the constitution, adding: ``Since the ruling was handed down at least one U.S. prisoner believed to be mentally retarded has been executed. Horace Dunkins, aged 28, was electrocuted in the state of Alabama on July 14. The first jolt of electricity failed to kill him, reportedly because the electric chair had been wired incorrectly. He was only declared dead 19 minutes after the lever was first pulled.'' On South Africa, Amnesty cited the death sentence imposed on 14 men and women in May in connection with the killing of a police officer. It said 13 of the defendants were found only to have thrown stones at the officer's house after security forces broke up a protest meeting near the town of Upington, but were convicted of sharing a ``common purpose'' in the murder. This month, the chief justice of South Africa's Supreme Court said 13 of the 14 could appeal both conviction and sentence, and the other could appeal the sentence. Amnesty said that since April, one country, Cambodia, has announced its decision to abolish capital punishment. Moves for abolition are under way in several other countries, it said, including Italy, where lawmakers called in August for the death penalty to be removed from the country's military penal code, and Switzerland where moves have been made in parliament to abolish the death penalty for all offenses. In Ireland, two political parties in the governing coalition proposed in mid-July to abolish capital punishment; in Jamaica 10 prisoners had their death sentences annulled in March and July, some after having been on death row for 11 years; and in Hungary, the death penalty was abolished for crimes against the state in June. AP890920-0027 AP-NR-09-20-89 0242EDT r w PM-CatastrophicCare 09-20 0592 PM-Catastrophic Care,590 Panel Wants Administration in on Catastrophic Compromise By JIM LUTHER AP Tax Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Finance Committee appears ready to salvage two-thirds of catastrophic medical insurance for retirees _ but not before forcing the Bush administration to take some of the heat for reducing benefits. The panel is considering a plan by leaders of both parties that would reduce the surtax that pays for most of the program while repealing benefits for most prescription drugs and scaling back coverage for skilled nursing care. But before the committee could begin discussion of that proposal Tuesday, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, the chairman, abruptly adjourned a meeting because Louis Sullivan, the secretary of health and human services, was not on hand to answer questions. ``I am deeply disappointed that Dr. Sullivan is not here. He has no more important measure before his department,'' Bentsen said. ``I want to understand where the administration is on this issue.'' An HHS spokesman said Sullivan had personally told committee members earlier Tuesday he could not attend the session. He said he did not know whether Sullivan would attend the committee's meeting this afternoon. William Diefenderfer, deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, complained at Tuesday's hearing that ``we are in a politically unstable situation with catastrophic.'' Bentsen and even some Republican lawmakers have complained that the administration had offered little guidance on how Congress should respond to heavy pressure from some older Americans who want the catastrophic coverage changed. Bentsen's tactic of adjourning Tuesday's meeting is unlikely to affect the fate of the program. But it does pull the administration into public debate over the issue and to share whatever blame there might be for reducing benefits. Still unknown is how many of the 33 million people eligible for Medicare want the program to continue as is and how many of them want it scaled back. Most of the mail has been coming from opponents. Even if the committee were to approve the bipartisan plan for salvaging most of the program, there will still be serious efforts on the floors of the House and Senate to repeal it entirely. The program was enacted a year ago to insure older Americans against being bankrupted by a catastrophic illness. Some retirees, who have catastrophic coverage financed by their former employers, are fighting the mandatory program on grounds they don't need it. Other complaints comes from some of the 40 percent of retirees whose incomes are high enough that they pay more than $150 a year in income tax; they pay a 15 percent surtax that finances most of the program. The package under consideration by the committee would: _Reduce the surtax rate from 15 percent of income tax over $150 to 12 percent, and the maximum surtax this year from $800 per Medicare enrollee to $585. _Increase to $1,780, starting in 1991, the annual amount of physicians' fees a beneficiary would have to pay before the catastrophic program starts paying 100 percent of approved charges. Present law sets that ``copayment'' at $1,370. _Eliminate catastrophic coverage for most prescription drugs. _Require that patients spend three days in the hospital before qualifying for coverage for care in a skilled nursing facility. _Permit a retiree to drop catastrophic coverage but only if Medicare Part B coverage _ which pays physicians' fees for routine illnesses _ is dropped as well. Under the proposal, the cost of catastrophic coverage for the five years from 1989 through 1993 would drop from $42 billion to $29.1 billion. AP890920-0028 AP-NR-09-20-89 0243EDT r w PM-FarmScene 09-20 0967 PM-Farm Scene,940 Bargains Showing Up at Turkey Counters By DON KENDALL AP Farm Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Larger grain crops this year are lowering costs for turkey producers and are paving the way for some bargains at supermarket poultry counters, say Agriculture Department economists. Retail turkey prices dropped slightly in August after rising for five straight months, according to the Consumer Price Index announced Tuesday by the Labor Department. Despite the decline _ less than half a cent per pound _ the average retail turkey price last month was still slightly more than $1.04 per pound, compared with 96 cents a year earlier. USDA economist Larry Witucki said he expects further declines the rest of the year and that there has been ``a lot of featuring going on'' by supermarkets to sell more turkeys. Witucki said in a telephone interview that USDA analysts don't think the Labor Department surveys fully reflect the many price specials grocery stores feature on turkeys and many other products. Although retail turkey prices are easing down from their summer peak, Witucki said they may still average about 99 cents per pound for the entire calendar year, up from 95.7 cents in 1988 but below the annual average of more than $1.01 in 1987 and almost $1.07 in 1986. Meanwhile, the department's Economic Research Service said in a report to be published in the October issue of Farmline magazine that lower prices for corn and soybean meal are expected to reduce turkey production costs in the last half of 1989. Economist Mark Weimar said production costs last year, when drought-reduced crops drove up feed prices, rose to as high as 73 cents per pound of whole dressed turkey. But with larger harvests in 1989, costs may decline to around 58 cents per pound and possibly as low as 55 cents before the end of the year, he said. Per capita consumption of turkey averaged 16 pounds in 1988, four times the rate in 1950. Beef is still the leader at 72.7 pounds last year, followed by pork, 63.1 pounds, and chicken, 63.1 pounds. But turkey is gaining. ``Today, consumers do not have to buy a 14-to-20-pound turkey in order to have a turkey meal,'' Weimar said. ``Rather, they can choose a breast or a package of thighs.'' Other cuts such as drumsticks, wings and tenderloins, ground turkey, sausage and lunch meats are some of the other choices that enable turkey to compete with fresh meats. Most of the increase in consumption is due to ``further-processed'' turkey, meaning cut-up birds or processed meat. But whole birds still comprise nearly 40 percent of the turkey Americans eat. The statistics show consumers are not necessarily willing to substitute turkey for beef or chicken, but they are willing to substitute for pork, the report said. Ham is turkey's biggest rival for shoppers' attention. WASHINGTON (AP) An Agriculture Department report says cigarette production is declining this year and so is the average smoking rate among Americans _ for the 16th consecutive year. Total output is expected to drop from last year's 695 billion cigarettes because of higher prices, health concerns and smoking restrictions, the department's Economic Research Service said Tuesday. Cigarette use may drop about 3.5 percent from last year's average of 3,096 cigarettes, or fewer than 155 packs of 20 each, the report said. The average is for all Americans 18 years and older, smokers and non-smokers alike. It is a statistical comparison only and does not indicate the actual smoking habits of the population. Cigarette smoking peaked in 1963 at an average of 4,345 _ more than 217 packs _ before beginning its long-time downward trend. The annual average has blipped higher in several years, but USDA records show the last increase was in 1973 when it rose to 4,148 cigarettes from 4,043 in 1972. Total U.S. tobacco production this year is up about 9 percent from 1988, mostly because of increased acreage, the report said. ``Even with the larger crop and the continuing decline in U.S. cigarette consumption, flue-cured (the most abundant type of U.S. tobacco) auction prices are higher than a year ago,'' the report said. ``The higher prices result from tightening supplies because of reduced carryin (old inventories), a relatively good quality crop, and higher price supports.'' Analysts said prospects for world tobacco use next season indicated ``a small increase in sales and use of cigarettes and unmanufactured tobacco.'' U.S. exports of unmanufactured tobacco leaf ``may rise a little'' from last season. WASHINGTON (AP) A survey of sheep ranchers by Agriculture Department researchers shows flocks are less likely to be attacked by coyotes, wild dogs and other predators if a burly guard dog is on watch. The department's Agricultural Research Service said Tuesday that scientists began studying guard dogs 10 years ago at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station in Dubois, Idaho. ``At that time, the dogs were considered a novelty,'' Jeffrey S. Green, a wildlife biologist at the station, said in a report by the agency. ``Livestock producers who had guard dogs were thought to be foolish, brave, desperate or a combination of all three. Today, much of the skepticism is gone.'' Green and his colleagues sent out 1,000 questionnaires to ranchers and farmers who rely on the dogs to safeguard sheep, cattle and goats. More than 80 percent of the 399 who responded said a guard dog was well worth its initial cost of about $500, plus the dollar or two a day it takes to feed them, Green reported. The dogs weigh 100 to 120 pounds and come from several breeds _ Great Pyrenees, Komondor, Akbash and Anatolian. Green estimates that over the last decade as many as 8,000 of the guard dogs have been used on 4,000 ranches throughout the United States and Canada. AP890920-0029 AP-NR-09-20-89 0244EDT r w PM-Hugo-Safety 09-20 0482 PM-Hugo-Safety,450 Early Warning Important to Surviving Hurricane With PM-Hugo Bjt By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Planning ahead is the key to hurricane safety, and with Hurricane Hugo posing a threat to the United States, residents of coastal areas may want to consider how to cope with the danger. The storm surge, a wall of water pushed ahead of these storms, poses perhaps the greatest threat, although high winds and flooding are also major hazards, weather experts warn. For low-lying communities, evacuation is the safest measure, and officials have warned that many fast growing communities lack plans and proper roads to get everyone to safety in the face of a fast-approaching storm. The time needed to evacuate many coastal areas is greater than the available warning time, the American Meteorological Society has said. And many people are complacent or unaware of the danger, with 80 percent of the 40 million people living on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts never having experienced a hurricane. ``It is imperative that coastal residents and visitors alike take the threat seriously and acquaint themselves with hurricane safety rules, and evacuate immediately if advised to do so,'' says Robert Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables, Fla. Safety suggestions compiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Federal Emergency Management Agency include: _Keep track of the developing weather through local radio and television or NOAA Weather Radio, which broadcasts on special frequencies that can be received by inexpensive weather radios. _Learn local evacuation routes and shelter locations. If in a vulnerable area, be prepared to leave, and do so promptly if authorities recommend it. _Keep the automobile fully fueled, and make a supply of fresh water, batteries and food is available. _Tape, board and shutter windows and tie down mobile homes before leaving. Wedge sliding glass doors to prevent them from lifting off their tracks. _Bring in pets. _Anchor small boats or move them to a safe shelter if there is time. _Secure outdoor objects that might be blown away and become dangerous missiles. These include such things as garbage cans, garden tools, signs, porch furniture and so forth. _Remain at home only if it is sturdy and not in an area subject to flooding. If staying home, keep away from windows. Fill containers and bathtubs with several days supply of water. _Avoid loose or dangling wires and report them immediately to your power company. Report broken water mains, since low pressure may hamper fire fighting. After the storm has passed: _Seek assistance if needed in Red Cross shelters. _Stay away from disaster areas unless you are qualified to help. _Be wary of fly-by-night repair services rushing into an area, collecting money for work and then disappearing or doing shoddy repairs. Check references, and wait if necessary. _Check refrigerated food for spoilage if the power has been off. AP890920-0030 AP-NR-09-20-89 0244EDT r w PM-AirlineCompetition 09-20 0479 PM-Airline Competition,470 Government Says Smaller Cities Getting More Airline Choices By JERRY ESTILL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Air travelers in smaller cities are benefiting from increased competition brought on by airline deregulation even though a few major airlines tend to dominate the major markets, says an administration official. Assistant Transportation Secretary Jeffrey N. Shane told a House panel Tuesday that deregulation had brought the smaller cities more alternatives in airlines even as travelers in large cities are finding few choices. Shane there is an ``apparent paradox'' between increased concentration of air travel in a few big airlines at a few big hubs and more competition when the air travel system is viewed as a whole. Even though there are fewer carriers now than in 1979 when deregulation took effect, he said, some of those remaining ``had phenomenal growth as they expanded the scope of their operations from a regional to a national basis.'' Shane told the Public Works and Transportation aviation subcommittee that the use of hub cities gave them a strong incentive to expand ``because they can cross-connect passengers at their hubs only if they provide service to the passengers' ultimate destinations.'' For example, he said, when Piedmont decided to establish a hubbing center at Charlotte, N.C., it was little more than a regional carrier in the East. ``For Charlotte to succeed as a hubbing center, Piedmont had to, and did, expand service to major cities nationwide,'' he said. ``Most other major carriers have matched this expansion of ocean-to-ocean and border-to-border route systems. So, while hubbing has resulted in high levels of concentration at connecting hubs, it has also greatly expanded the numbers of competitors in (smaller) markets.'' Earlier studies have concentrated on hubs, but Shane said they have not distinguished between passengers who travel only to the hub and those who connect for other points. ``Most passengers at a hubbing airport fall into the latter category and they are typically able to enjoy competitive service from other carriers, often many other carriers, who offer connecting service from the same origins to the same ultimate destinations over different connecting hubs,'' he said. And contrary to widely held perceptions, he said smaller cities that are the ``greater beneficiaries of the hub-and-spoke system of operation.'' Citing a department study of 1988 routes, he noted Akron, Ohio, for example, where Piedmont was the only choice for people flying to Piedmont's hub at Dayton. But he said passengers in Akron also had access to six other cities that were hubs for other airlines. ``And, obviously, when Akron passengers move beyond one of the connecting hubs, many competitive alternatives are typically available.'' Shane said Akron illustrates the ``good news and bad news'' aspect of air travel under deregulation. ``It simultaneously increases concentration at a connecting hub and creates competitive alternatives for passengers moving beyond the connecting hubs,'' he said. AP890920-0031 AP-NR-09-20-89 0245EDT r w PM-NewspaperRecycling 09-20 0514 PM-Newspaper Recycling,490 Publishers Oppose Laws Requiring the Use of Recycled Paper By MIKE FEINSILBER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The nation's newspaper publishers say they favor using more recycled paper but decry as ``intolerable'' laws that would compel them to do so. ``Government should not impose mandatory quotas affecting newsprint use or purchasing,'' the publishers said through a policy statement adopted by the board of directors of the American Newspaper Publishers Association last week and made public Tuesday. ``Governments should not intervene in determinations of newsprint quality.'' The statement added: ``Regulating newsprint is regulating newspapers and it is intolerable in a free society.'' So far, 14 state legislatures have received proposals to steer newspapers toward the greater use of recycled paper, ANPA said. Connecticut is the only state to enact a law directing newspapers to use recycled paper. The law would requires in-state papers and of out-of-state papers that have a Connecticut circulation of over 40,000 to use recycled paper for 20 percent of their production by 1993 and for 90 percent by 1998. A Florida law that took effect Jan. 1 imposes a 10-cent per ton waste recovery fee for every ton of virgin newsprint use by a publisher and grants a 10-cent credit for every ton of recycled newsprint used. Additionally, ANPA said, proposals to require the use of recycled paper or to impose taxes on the use of virgin paper or grant tax credits for the use of recycled paper have been offered in 12 other states _ California, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia and Wisconsin _ with no final legislative action taken. The harshest measure is one pending before the New York State legislature which would prohibit the sale of newspapers in the state after 1991 unless at least 10 percent of their paper was recycled paper. While opposing such legislation, the ANPA statement called on newspapers to encourage recycling by providing a market for recycled paper. ``Recycling newsprint for reuse and for energy can help extend supplies of a valuable natural resource, help extend the useful life of municipal landfills and help provide energy through environmentally-sound incinerator facilities,'' it said. The statement also said: ``Old newspapers are already extensively recycled into many products, and the newspaper business has worked hard to make that happen. Newspapers will be asking for more recycled newsprint and are working with newsprint manufacturers to help municipalities and recyclers to increase recycling. ``More recycling can and will be accomplished, but it will not be helped by government controls on the newsprint that makes a free press possible. More voluntary effort will cause recycling to increase most quickly and efficiently. Meanwhile, the development of additional products that use old newspapers, the recycling of old newspapers to energy and some use of landfills will be necessary.'' ANPA said a task force chaired by Frank A. Bennack Jr., president and chief executive officer of The Hearst Corp., was looking into ``ways that newspapers, communities, collection agencies, newsprint suppliers and government officials can cooperate in encouraging recycling.'' AP890920-0032 AP-NR-09-20-89 0247EDT r w PM-US-Soviet 09-20 0618 PM-US-Soviet,620 Baker Advises Soviets to Save Money by Pulling Back From Regional Conflicts By BARRY SCHWEID AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) On the eve of new high-level talks, Secretary of State James A. Baker III is advising Moscow to pull out of regional wars around the world and put the billions of dollars saved into the ailing Soviet economy. The former treasury secretary, at a news conference Tuesday, also fired back at Democratic critics of the Bush administration's cautious foreign policy and sought to lower expectations that a date was about to be set for a superpower summit meeting. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze is due to see President Bush at the White House on Thursday. Then Baker and Shevardnadze fly to Jackson Hole, Wyo., for talks through Sunday morning. At their last meeting in Paris in late July, Shevardnadze said, ``If we prepare well and carefully, then of course the summit will take place rather soon.'' Baker, more cautious, said at the time that ``obviously yes, at some point'' a summit would take place. At the news conference Tuesday, his first since taking over as secretary of state eight months ago, Baker was asked about a summit between Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. ``What I will say for you,'' he replied, ``is that it is anticipated and intended that we have a full discussion about the possibility of a summit.'' Bush said on Monday, ``I feel under no rush on that subject.'' The stance struck by the president and his secretary of state reinforced the cautious character of U.S. foreign policy, particularly in dealing with the Soviets and Eastern Europe. Turning to the sagging Soviet economy, Baker said, ``there are no simple or quick fixes.'' But he suggested the Soviets withdraw from conflicts in Central America, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Cuba, Ethiopia and elsewhere. Besides contributing to international stability, Baker said, ``It could also save the Soviets billions of dollars that we still see spent in a disappointing pattern of support for those who fuel conflict...'' He was especially harsh about Soviet support for the Marxist government of Nicaragua. While Gorbachev promised to end direct Soviet military aid to the Sandinistas, Baker said weapons and other supplies were being channeled to them indirectly. He apparently referred to Cuba and some East European countries. ``We think they (the Soviets) could have a significant influence on reducing (Sandinista forces) if they so chose,'' Baker said. ``They are spending billions of dollars in regional conflict situations that we think could be put to better use to assist the process of perestroika,'' he said, using the Russian word for reconstruction. Baker rejected Democratic criticism that the Bush administration was overly cautious on arms control and in responding to economic problems in Eastern Europe. He said he hoped to conclude a chemical weapons agreement with Shevardnadze by the weekend. And Baker announced that the Bush administration will drop its proposal for a ban on U.S. and Soviet mobile missiles. With Bush urging Congress to finance development of the single-warhead Midgetman, Baker acknowledged that the U.S. negotiating position has been confusing. He said his aim was ``to start the ball rolling'' in the slow-moving talks in Geneva to reduce globe-girdling U.S. and Soviet nuclear bombers, submarines and missiles by 30 to 50 percent. Sen. Albert Gore, D-Tenn., called Baker's announcement ``a very small step that has long been awaited and expected because the proposal for a ban always was considered irrational, even within the administration.'' Still, Gore said in an interview, ``the decision to remove it now is symbolically important. It points toward a reliance on singe-warhead missiles by both sides, which greatly reduces vulnerabilities and fears of aggression.'' AP890920-0033 AP-NR-09-20-89 0250EDT r w PM-CapitalPunishment 09-20 0507 PM-Capital Punishment,500 Strengthen Death Penalty, Shotgun Victim Urges Senators By MIKE ROBINSON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A South Carolina woman hit in the face with a shotgun blast a decade ago says Congress should enact strong capital punishment laws and have executions carried out more swiftly. ``The problem I see with the death penalty is the lengthy appeals process,'' Wanda Summers of Pawley's Island, S.C., told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday as it weighed capital punishment measures. Mrs. Summers, at times composed and other times fighting back tears, described how she was attacked and left for dead the night of Feb. 22, 1979, when two men went on a murder spree that left four dead. The one surviving attacker is now on death row. ``I believe the terrible crimes he committed do warrant the death sentence,'' said Mrs. Summers. ``He did not give the four other people the option of life or death.'' Mrs. Summers told the committee how she and a fellow worker at a convenience store were taken to a deserted road, raped and shotgunned. Her assailant, Ronald Woomer, left her for dead. She turned her head at the moment of the shotgun blast, which took away part of her mouth and her jaw. Despite her wound, she was able find help. But her co-worker died. Police found the assailants that night in a Myrtle Beach motel. One of the assailants committed suicide. Woomer was captured, convicted of murder and has been on death row since with his case on appeal. Mrs. Summers spoke in even tones as she told the committee how reconstructive surgery and psychiatric care have helped her. She fought back tears, however, as she told of the pain inflicted on her family. She also said it ``is hard to get up in the morning and look in the mirror.'' ``It's hard when little kids stare at you and adults try not to. Its hard to smile when you know how you look when you do.'' The two assailants were ``drugged up'' on PCP and alcohol when they went on their rampage, South Carolina state Solicitor James C. Anders said. As part of last year's anti-drug law, Congress approved capital punishment for drug kingpins whose activities result in homicide. A 1972 Supreme Court decision blocked use of a number of death penalty provisions then on the books, calling unconstitutional the discretion the law allowed juries and judges on whether to impose execution. As a result, Assistant Attorney General Edward S.G. Dennis told senators, a jury can impose the death penalty for the murder of a Drug Enforcement agent investigating a case but not for the murder of an FBI agent responding to a bank robbery. Legislation before the committee would restore the death penalty for murdering a member of Congress, the Cabinet or the Supreme Court. It would extend capital punishment provisions to murdering foreign officials and official guests, kidnapping resulting in death, attempted presidential assassination, murder for hire and murder in aid of a racketeering enterprise. AP890920-0034 AP-NR-09-20-89 0252EDT r w PM-CleanAir 09-20 0654 PM-Clean Air,650 Bush Forces Win First Test Vote on Clean Air Bill By LARRY MARGASAK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Bush administration is getting its way in the first test vote on clean air legislation, but stiff tests still lie ahead for the pollution-cutting plan. The Bush forces outmaneuvered environmental groups Tuesday in a 12-10 House subcommittee vote defeating a bid to toughen the administration's anti-smog requirements for cities, less populated areas and small business. The vote came as President Bush challenged the Democratic-run Congress to quicken its pace on the legislation. He commented at a Spokane, Wash., centennial tree-planting ceremony. White House lobbyists, who were credited by their chief opponent with making the difference Tuesday, must work even harder to save the most controversial part of the legislation _ letting automakers comply with anti-pollution requirements by averaging emissions of engine families. The administration Tuesday proposed a modification of the averaging language, to make clear that pollution reduction goals must be met. The issue could face a vote in the House Energy and Commerce environment subcommittee today, with environmental groups making an all-out attempt to halt the emission averaging proposal. During the next several weeks, the administration must defend against challenges to other portions of the bill. It will try to preserve language to prevent growth of sulfur dioxide once it is reduced by 10 million tons over the next decade. This provision could stunt the growth of electric utilities that use high-sulfur coal, the chief source of acid rain. There also will be attempts to force the administration to accept nationwide cost-sharing of acid rain reduction, a burden that may otherwise fall chiefly on nine states with dirty, coal-burning power plants. The administration opposes cost-sharing, believing the polluters should pay the cost. The attempt to toughen the administration's proposed requirements for reducing urban smog failed under a barrage of criticism. Bush backers argued that jobs in small business would be lost, areas statistically attached to cities in federal groupings would be forced to meet stiff pollution-cutting standards, and cities could not meet the proposal's deadlines. ``We should never be in a posture where we legislate absurdity,'' said Rep. William Dannemeyer, R-Calif., who supported Bush. Rep. John D. Dingell, chairman of the full Energy and Commerce Committee and chief Democratic sponsor of the Bush bill, called the alternative ``harsh'' and ``punitive.'' Also working hard to defeat the plan was ranking committee Republican Norman F. Lent of New York. The vote in the Energy and Commerce environment subcommittee was a defeat for the panel's chairman, Rep. Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., champion of the environmental groups' positions and sponsor of the amendment. ``The White House took it very seriously and was working hard against it,'' Waxman said after a loss that followed a long day of political maneuvering. The Bush forces made the first major move of the day when Lent, backed by Dingell, introduced the administration's package that would modify auto emissions averaging. While preserving the averaging concept, the package would explicitly state that reductions in auto pollutants must equal the improvement that would be achieved if each car were forced to meet the emissions standards. Under current law, each car must pass the test. Even though the Bush plan would set tougher standards for automakers to meet, environmentalists want to wipe out averaging altogether because it would allow some cars to flunk anti-pollution tests. Other cars would have to meet the standards with a considerable margin of safety. Environmental organizations argue that the margin of safety would not be enough to offset the cars failing to meet the requirements, and emissions would rise. Other parts of the administration package would prevent a weakening of current law on pollution from tall smokestacks; set requirements for planning and responding to toxic chemical accidents; strengthen motor vehicle inspection and maintenance programs; protect air quality in national parks, and require diagnostic equipment on autos. AP890920-0035 AP-NR-09-20-89 0253EDT r w Bush-Democrats 09-20 0527 Bush-Democrats,520 WASHINGTON TODAY: Bush and Foley `Together' By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) It had the makings of a collector's item: a campaign-style button showing President Bush alongside the nation's top-ranking Democrat, House Speaker Tom Foley, bearing the inscription: ``Together.'' Ironically, it came at a time when Bush and the Democratic-controlled Congress are at odds on a variety of issues, including the environment, Bush's drug program, crime, taxes and education spending. Actually, the button bearing side-by-side faces of Bush and Foley had nothing to do with politics, even though it made Bush and Foley look like running mates. It was a souvenir issued at a celebration on Tuesday in Spokane, Wash., Foley's hometown, to commemorate Washington state's 100th anniversary. The button, given out to the several thousand who lined the banks of the Spokane River at the city's Riverfront Park on Tuesday to view the ceremony, proclaimed: ``Together: Saluting Washington's Centennial.'' Bush has been mixing tree-planting with politics on his trip out west to visit states celebrating their 100th anniversary. Although Bush and Foley traded compliments _ Foley saying Bush's visit was ``a proud moment for the state of Washington'' and Bush saluting the Democratic leader as ``a man of integrity, decency, fair play'' _ there was underlying tension in the get-together. Bush pushed for speedier congressional action on his proposed revision of the 1974 Clean Air Act. The environmental legislation is just one of many Bush initiatives now in congressional limbo. So far, Bush has sent to Congress the bulk of his 1988 campaign agenda: proposals on child care, the environment, crime, drugs, ethics, adoption, aid to Poland and Hungary. And yet, with only a week left before the start of the 1990 fiscal year, only a few of Bush's initiatives have been addressed by Congress. Bush, as he has done on a budget blueprint and on the bill bailing out the savings and loan industry, has signaled his willingness to compromise with the Democratic leadership in Congress. ``I've been one who is chastised for too much compromise from time to time,'' Bush told a news conference in Helena, Mont., earlier this week. Even on his drug strategy, Bush administration officials have made it clear that they're willing to deal on details of funding the war on drugs. Thus, the Bush-Foley ``Together '' buttons may point to a period ahead of accommodation with Congress. Still, Foley, who rode back to Washington with Bush on Air Force One, was less than enthusiastic about the prospects for cooperation. ``I think there'll be plenty of disagreements,'' Foley said. ``This is a divided government, with Democratic leadership of the Congress and a Republican president. And I think we're going to cooperate on a great number of things, and we're also going to have our disagreements.'' Foley said he disagreed with Bush's charges that Democrats were always seeking to spend more and tax more. ``In a democratic society, we ought to put our best ideas forward and see if we can come forward with the best of both the administration's approach and that of Congress,'' Foley said. ``Sometimes constructive competition is not bad,'' said the Democrat. AP890920-0036 AP-NR-09-20-89 0255EDT r w PM-MinimumWage 09-20 0432 PM-Minimum Wage,420 Democrats Seek Votes, Lower Target For Minimum Wage By MATT YANCEY Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Democrats, renewing a fight with President Bush they have already lost once this year, are trying to increase the minimum wage without the lower pay scale for all new workers that Republicans are demanding. On a party-line voice vote Tuesday, the Democratic-controlled House Education and Labor Committee bowed to Bush's demand for an increase only to $4.25. But the bill would raise the minimum wage in two years instead of three and would set a subminimum wage only for first-time workers. Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole repeated Bush's vow to again veto any bill which raises federal wage floor to $4.25 in less than three years or that does not set a lower floor for six months for newly-hired workers. Bush vetoed a bill in June that called for three annual increases to $4.55 an hour by Oct. 1, 1991. The new bill would provide annual increases of 45 cents in January and again in January 1991 in the current minimum wage, which has been $3.35 since 1981. The committee chairman, Rep. Augustus F. Hawkins, D-Calif., said the previous target was being reduced by 30 cents to gain support from southern Democrats and some Republicans for another expected attempt to override Bush's veto. ``There are some Republican members ready to change their votes if the president doesn't'' compromise, Hawkins said. Senate sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the bill could be brought up there within the next three weeks. Just before Congress recessed in August, the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee again approved the same $4.55 minimum wage bill Bush had vetoed, although senators said it would likely be modified on the Senate floor. Bush, like former President Ronald Reagan, has insisted on establishing a subminimum floor that would allow employers to pay any newly hired worker 20 percent less for up to six months, regardless of the worker's previous job experience. Democrats and unions who had bitterly opposed such a subminimum, agreed for the first time earlier this year to a ``training wage'' but only for 60 days and only for first-time entrants in the job market. Both Republicans and Democrats indicated a willingness Tuesday to negotiate over their differences on the duration of the subminimum period, but neither side is budging on who the lower floor applies to. Rep. Austin Murphy, D-Pa., said Bush's proposal would allow employers to pay a $3.40 subminimum wage perpetually by rotating new hires in and out every 60 days to six months. AP890920-0037 AP-NR-09-20-89 0256EDT r w PM-FHALoans 09-20 0570 PM-FHA Loans,570 Senate Boosts FHA Loan Cap to Nearly $125,000 By ALAN FRAM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate wants to boost the ceiling on housing loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration by nearly $24,000, a victory for the White House over Democrats who wanted to eliminate the cap. In a reversal of an earlier vote, the Senate voted Tuesday to increase the current $101,250 limit to $124,875. That tally came shortly after lawmakers rejected an increase to $118,000 in favor of Democratic language to remove the ceiling entirely. The provision is part of a bill providing $67.2 billion for housing, veterans, environmental and space programs for fiscal 1990, which begins Oct. 1. The measure includes $1.85 billion for NASA's space station program, $1.6 billion for Superfund toxic waste cleanups, and $11.5 billion for veteran's medical care. The future of the FHA loan ceiling language is in doubt, however. The House version of the bill, approved July 20, contained no such language. Negotiators for the two chambers will have to fashion a compromise before it can be sent to President Bush for his approval. The new cap, which would last for one year, would boost home purchases by about $5 billion, said aides to sponsor Sen. Don Nickles, R-Okla. It would pave the way for FHA loans for more expensive homes to borrowers in metropolitan areas including Boston; New York City; Stamford, Conn.; Washington, D.C.; San Francisco; Los Angeles and San Diego, they said. The FHA insured loans for the purchase of 855,000 homes last year at an average cost of $63,500. The agency insures loans of up to $101,250 or 95 percent of the cost of the median home in the state or metropolitan area, whichever is lower. The legal national limit of $101,250 is higher in two states: Hawaii, where it is $151,850, and Alaska, where the maximum is $135,000. The Bush administration announced its opposition to elevating the loan ceiling, arguing that reforms were needed to avoid deepening the FHA's financial problems. The agency's main insurance loan fund lost $452 million last year, its first losses since its founding in 1934, and Comptroller General Charles Bowsher has said it has ``very serious'' management problems. ``If we want to have a son of S&L, we have one in the making right here,'' Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas said, likening the FHA's problems to the massive bailout recently approved for the nation's thrift institutions. But with Democrats standing firm behind their proposal to drop the cap entirely, Nickles began offering his amendments to set some limit on the size of the loan. The Senate rejected a $118,000 ceiling by 50-49, but signed on to the nearly $125,000 maximum, 55-43, as most Republicans were joined by several Democrats. Nickles and his supporters argued that eliminating the cap would shift a greater share of the FHA's monies to help well-to-do home buyers. Low-income borrowers couldn't afford expensive housing even with the ceiling removed, they said. Democrats said, however, that rising housing costs have hurt ``hundreds of thousands of hard-working families whose dreams are being frustrated.'' Under the program, the FHA guarantees loans banks make to borrowers, lowering the institution's risks and thus permitting them to offer more attractive terms. Although all work on the measure was completed, final passage was held up pending resolution of a partisan dispute over an unrelated anti-drug financing package. AP890920-0038 AP-NR-09-20-89 0257EDT r w PM-CigaretteExports 09-20 0500 PM-Cigarette Exports,500 Industry Sees Thai Market Opening Despite Anti-Export Sentiment By GENE KRAMER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Despite some strong U.S. public criticism of tobacco exporting, an industry official says tobacco sellers may succeed in getting Thailand to lower its barriers to the sale of American cigarettes by the end of this year. ``When Thailand appreciates that certain norms have to be respected, I expect they will devise some method of behaving to international (market access) standards,'' said Owen Smith, president of the U.S. Cigarette Export Association. Thailand, Syria and Iran are the only non-communist countries that ban the sale of U.S. cigarettes, Smith told reporters at a hearing Tuesday on his group's petition to force Thailand to allow the sale and promotion of American cigarettes. Under threat of trade retaliation, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan have opened markets to American cigarettes since 1986, offsetting a decline in U.S. domestic sales. Thailand's government runs a tobacco monopoly. The cigarette association filed a petition with the U.S. trade representative seeking government intervention after informal discussions with Thailand ``didn't seem to be making headway,'' Smith said. ``I hope it will be resolved toward the end of the year,'' Smith said at the hearing before a special committee of the U.S. trade representative. Carla Hills, the U.S. trade representative, is to recommend to President Bush by May 25, 1990 whether to formally accuse the Southeast Asian country of unfair trade practices and order reprisals. The tobacco exporters are facing opposition in the United States, however, with health organizations and other critics comparing their pursuit of Asian markets to the 19th Century ``Opium War'' triggered by efforts of British merchants to force China to import narcotics. The argument for selling cigarettes abroad resembles that used in the Britain in 1840 _ ``that if Britain did not profit from the sale of opium, someone else would,'' said Dr. Anne Marie O'Keefe, vice president of Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights. ``When we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the flow of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco,'' said U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. But Gov. Jim Martin of North Carolina, the major U.S. tobacco-growing state, said that by raising health concerns, ``the Thais speak out of both sides of their mouths in a simple effort to protect the Thai cigarette monopoly.'' The Thai government did not testify but two Thai witnesses predicted the aggressive promotion of foreign cigarettes would reverse a decline in smoking recently achieved by a 15-year campaign against tobacco use. They justified the government tobacco monopoly system as a means of regulating and discouraging consumption under their national health policy. ``Where is the concern for humanity once felt by the United States?'' asked Thai Parliament member Surin Pitsuwan. He said promotion of U.S. cigarettes in Thailand could distract the Asian country from working with the United States against growing of opium poppies and trafficking of heroin and other hard drugs. AP890920-0039 AP-NR-09-20-89 0258EDT r w PM-Jackson-Mayor 09-20 0293 PM-Jackson-Mayor,290 Democratic Chairman Believes Jackson Will Run WASHINGTON (AP) Democratic National Committee Chairman Ronald H. Brown says he believes the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who recently moved to the District of Columbia, will run for mayor of the city next year. ``Most of the people close to (Jackson) believe he will run ... and if he runs, I think he will be elected,'' Brown told a group of reporters Tuesday. His remarks were published in today's editions of The Washington Post. Questions about a possible Jackson candidacy arose as he moved to the district, but he has not announced his candidacy and has said that he would not run against Mayor Marion Barry, who says he is seeking re-election. Brown said whether Jackson runs for mayor in 1991 or for president the following year, Jackson ``will continue to be a significant force in Democratic politics. But the much more likely event is that he will run for mayor.'' Brown, who was convention manager last year for Jackson's run for the Democratic presidential nomination, said his remarks on a mayoral race were not based on any ``inside'' information. ``I don't want to indicate that Rev. Jackson has told me he is running for mayor,'' Brown said. ``He has not confided (that decision) in me.'' Brown criticized Barry, who is being investigated as part of a federal probe into alleged drug dealing by Barry associate and former city employee Charles Lewis. ``There's no question there's been an erosion of support in the city, but he seems determined to hang tough,'' Brown said, ``and I doubt anything but legal proceedings will keep (another Barry campaign) from happening.'' Barry said on Monday that he still has no indication that Jackson intends to run for mayor. AP890920-0040 AP-NR-09-20-89 0217EDT u i BC-Japan-Stocks 09-20 0026 BC-Japan-Stocks,0025 Stocks Down In Tokyo TOKYO (AP) The Nikkei Stock Average closed at 34,470,58, down 0.49 points, on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday. AP890920-0041 AP-NR-09-20-89 0305EDT r a PM-Hoffa 09-20 0664 PM-Hoffa,0682 Interview: Hoffa's Dismembered Body Buried in Football Stadium Eds: Note contents of 11th and 12th grafs, ``They plugged ...'' ^By LINDSEY TANNER Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) Former Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa was killed because of union and underworld rivalries, and his mutilated body was buried in concrete near the end zone at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, an ex-convict says. Donald ``Tony the Greek'' Frankos, a self-described freelance hitman, told Playboy magazine he was supposed to kill Hoffa but was in prison when the labor leader disappeared on July 30, 1975. So others killed him and described it to him later, Frankos said. His account, one of many over the years purporting to reveal what happened to Hoffa, appears in November's Playboy. Frankos said Hoffa was shot in the forehead at a home near Detroit, his body dismembered in the basement, then stored in a freezer until his burial in the football stadium near New York. The FBI refused to say if it finds the account credible. An official with the State Commission of Investigations in New Jersey called the story ``possible but ... improbable.'' And Jim Minish, stadium assistant general manager, said workers dug nearly 4 feet into the concrete while replacing the artificial surface during the past year and found nothing. Frankos, a federally protected witness in the forthcoming New York trial of reputed Mafia boss John Gotti, says he told the FBI in 1986 that Hoffa was killed by alleged Irish mob boss Jimmy Coonan at a house in Mount Clemens, Mich. Frankos said that Coonan, armed with a .22-caliber pistol with a silencer, ``hit him twice in the forehead with the bullets _ exploded his brains.''. With the help of John Sullivan, described by Frankos as a mob hitman, Coonan carried the body into the basement. ``They plugged in the bucksaw and they also had a meat cleaver to cut away any tendons,'' Frankos said. ``On the table was all these black-plastic bags and cut rope. Coonan was cutting and Sullivan was bagging 'em up. Coonan severed Hoffa's head and, with a pocket knife, cut a lock of hair from the side of Hoffa's head and kept it for good luck,'' Frankos said. The body was placed in a freezer and several months later was trucked in an oil drum to the East Rutherford, N.J., site where Giants Stadium was under construction, Frankos said. He said alleged mob affiliate Joe ``Mad Dog'' Sullivan, no relation to John Sullivan, buried the remains at the stadium, where the New York Giants and Jets play. Frankos said Hoffa was slain in a dispute over his desire to regain control of the Teamsters upon his release from a federal penitentiary where he was serving time for mail fraud and jury tampering. A second motive, Frankos said, was Hoffa's prison fight with Tony ``Tony Pro'' Provenzano, a New Jersey Teamster official and reputed mobster. Coonan and Joe Sullivan are serving lengthy prison terms in unrelated cases, Frankos said. Provenzano is dead, and John Sullivan ``is the only one that's out there today who was an actual killer,'' he said. John Sullivan's whereabouts could not be determined. FBI spokesman in Chicago, Washington, Detroit and New Jersey said they could not comment on the article because the Hoffa investigation remains active. ``We do believe that we have a much better understanding as to what happened and why it happened and who the participants were,'' said John Anthony, an FBI spokesman in Detroit. ``The one piece to the puzzle that remains unsolved is the disposition of the body ... and of course the conviction'' of those involved, he said. Frankos' story ``is possible but it's improbable,'' said Justin Dintino, chief of organized crime and intelligence with the State Commission of Investigations in New Jersey. ``In my opinion it's somewhat unlikely,'' he said. ``I think the onus here is on the FBI, if they take it serious enough to start digging up the Meadowlands.'' AP890920-0042 AP-NR-09-20-89 0305EDT r a PM-Hoffa-Columbia 09-20 0191 PM-Hoffa-Columbia,0196 Official: Columbia U. Band Joked About Hoffa at Stadium With PM-Hoffa EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) Columbia University's marching band got a big laugh a few years back when they did a half-time routine that suggested the final resting place of Jimmy Hoffa might be right under their noses. But New Jersey's top sports official was not laughing Tuesday about a Playboy magazine report suggesting the former Teamsters union leader may have been buried beneath Giants Stadium in East Rutherford. Robert Mulcahy, president and chief executive officer of the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority, on Tuesday called the report ``an unsubstantiated rumor.'' Mulcahy earlier referred to antics several years ago by the Columbia band in which members formed an arrow pointing toward midfield, purporting to point the way to Hoffa's body. According to a report by a self-described mob hitman in Playboy's November issue, Hoffa is buried next to the west end zone in the football stadium. William Steinman, Columbia's sports information director, said the team played four times at Giants Stadium in the late 1970s and the early 1980s but he does not remember the routine. AP890920-0043 AP-NR-09-20-89 0306EDT r w PM-Teton-Tete-a-Tete 09-20 0708 PM-Teton-Tete-a-Tete,710 U.S.-Soviet Meeting Occuring in Shadow of Great Change By BRYAN BRUMLEY Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of State James A. Baker III is meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze in Wyoming at a time of tumultuous change in superpower relations brought about by what both sides agree is a ``revolution'' in the Soviet bloc. The changes in the communist world have brought pressure on Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who is probably sending his foreign minister to the White House with new ideas for cuts in strategic arms, experts say. The installation of the first non-communist regime in a Warsaw Pact nation since the Cold War began 40 years ago also leaves the future of the Soviet alliance uncertain. ``The general secretary has called it a revolution, and we would agree with that characterization,'' Baker said Tuesday at the State Department. Shevardnadze will see President Bush at the White House on Thursday before he and Baker fly to Jackson Hole, Wyo., for talks through Sunday morning. Speaking in advance of the meeting, Baker said the administration was dropping a demand that had presented a major obstacle to conclusion of a proposed treaty to cut nuclear arsenals by up to 50 percent. The administration will no longer insist on elimination of mobile missiles, Baker said, acknowledging the demand complicated the negotiations. The Soviets have already deployed two mobile missiles and the United States is developing two of its own. Administration officials say that although they have no advance word, they are prepared for Shevardnadze to push hard for arms control progress and say he may be carrying a new Kremlin proposal when he meets Bush. It would be customary for Shevardnadze to bring a letter from the Soviet leader, and ``Gorbachev being Gorbachev, it would not be too surprising for it contain some dramatic proposals,'' said one official, speaking on condition of anonymity. Since Baker and Shevardnadze last met in July, a Solidarity-led government has been installed in Poland, the first non-communist regime in the Soviet bloc. Hungary, another Warsaw Pact nation, is also moving toward a multi-party system and has seen relations strained with an ally, East Germany, over the flight of East Germans to the West through the Hungarian frontier. ``The tremendous change in the nature of our discourse with the Soviet leadership is primarily the result of unprecedented and exciting developments which are taking place in the Soviet Union,'' Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger said in a speech Tuesday. But the crackdown on pro-democracy forces in China, and warnings by Gorbachev of a possible conservative coup in the Soviet Union are reminders that moves toward freedom could be reversed, and that U.S.-Soviet relations could worsen again. Gorbachev, in reforming Soviet foreign policy, has withdrawn threatening tank forces from Eastern Europe and announced a cut of 500,000 in the Red Army. The administration has reacted with restraint to the changes so far, however, leading to criticism from some members of Congress who want the White House to encourage change in the Soviet Union and supply more aid to nations like Poland that are adopting reforms. The White House announced in the past week plans to double food deliveries to Poland to $100 million and grant Hungary most favored nation status to reduce tariffs on Hungarian exports to the United States. The administration has also tried to expand the U.S.-Soviet dialogue into such areas as fighting terrorism and drug trafficking and cleaning up the environment. ``Today, we are witnessing what are potentially the first steps in the transformation of a totalitarian society into one governed by the rule of law,'' Eagleburger told a meeting of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. ``And as these changes unfold, the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union could move from an adversarial to a cooperative one,'' he said. Although the United States is dropping its demand to ban mobile missiles, other sticking points remain in the proposed Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). Shevardnardze and Baker, meeting in the shadow of the Grand Tetons in Wyoming, are expected to announce several important steps on other topics, including the environment, chemical weapons and the verification of treaties on testing the largest nuclear weapons. AP890920-0044 AP-NR-09-20-89 0330EDT r i PM-GorbachevExcerpts 09-20 0702 PM-Gorbachev Excerpts,0724 Excerpts of Gorbachev Speech to Central Committee With PM-Soviet-Ethnic, Bjt MOSCOW (AP) Here are excerpts of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's speech Tuesday to the Communist Party Central Committee. It was translated by the official Tass news agency. Deformities in inter-ethnic relations, the baneful effects of excessive centralization and bureaucratic administration, and injustices done to a number of peoples have recently come under extensive and harsh criticism. If somebody today claims that in terms of national development and inter-ethnic relationships Soviet power has not wrought essential changes as compared to the situation in pre-revolutionary Russia, he is engaged in dishonest distortion of reality intended to whip up nationalistic passions and to motivate various extremist demands. There are no grounds to question the decision by the Baltic republics to join the U.S.S.R. and the choice made by their peoples. It is also clear that the Soviet leadership, taking a variety of measures to strengthen the country's security in the face of the Nazi threat, committed gross violations of the Leninist principles of foreign policy which rejects division into spheres of influence. We resolutely condemn this. The outrages against ethnic groups and their banishment from their native parts during the Great Patriotic War must be condemned. We should do everything to restore the flouted rights of the Soviet Germans, Crimean Tatars, Meskhetian Turks, Kalmyks, Balkars, Karachais, Chechens, Ingushes, Greeks, Koreans, and Kurds. From this point of view, the gamut of measures affected as part of perestroika means a new and landmark stage in implementing nations' rights to self-determination. In present-day conditions the principle is best reflected in self-management, protecting ethnic identity and the right of each ethnic group to enjoy all the fruits of sovereignty and to decide all issues of its development _ economic, political and cultural _ as it sees fit. The current phase in the self-determination of nations makes it imperative to markedly broaden the rights of republics and decisively remove the distortions and deformities of the past, whose adverse effects are still being felt in various areas of society's life. While the union will retain the powers needed to perform the common tasks of the federation, it is proposed to make fundamental changes to earlier procedures whereby the union had the right to take up and decide virtually any issue, making the competence and sovereignty of republican authorities in many ways a mere formality. To embark now on recarving the country's administrative and territorial map would mean only complicating what is already a difficult solution, to delay indefinitely the attainment of the real goals of perestroika, which aim to imrove the life of the whole of the Soviet people, all nations. Our new nationality policy is designed to provide broad possibilities for meeting the specific interests of every nation and at the same time strengthening the guarantees of citizens' rights, irrespective of their nationality. We encounter ever increasing attempts by enemies of perestroika, anti-social elements and groups to play `the nationalist card,' to channel people's displeasure, which has accumulated over decades, into the sphere of inter-ethnic relations. Any manifestation of nationalism and chauvinism, or the instigation of enmity to any nation are unacceptable to us. In modern conditions ... attempts by relatively prosperous republics and regions to isolate themselves and fence themselves off would be extremely dangerous. This can bring fairly negative consequences for those who embark on this road. We need at this plenary meeting to say this once again in the face of all peoples of the Soviet Union so that they do not give in to demagogues, who conceal what the implementation of their slogans, served under the `pleasant sauce' of independence, secession, etc., may lead to. This is irresponsible gambling with the destinies of the people. We are on the correct path and we should be firm in defending the chief directions of the policy of perestroika. It is being claimed that we are unable to resolve problems facing the country without introducing capitalism into the economy. On the other hand, I would say from the right, it is being claimed that the entire policy of perestroika was imposed on us by the West. This is nonsense. AP890920-0045 AP-NR-09-20-89 0306EDT u i AM-Japan-Markets 09-20 0136 AM-Japan-Markets,0141 Dollar Up, Nikkei Down TOKYO (AP) The U.S. dollar rose against the Japanese yen Wednesday, while share prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange declined slightly. The dollar closed at 146.25 yen, up 0.52 yen from Tuesday's close. After opening at 146.23 yen, the dollar ranged between 146.05 yen and 146.45 yen. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average fell 0.49 points, or 0.001 percent, to finish at 34,470.58. It lost 1.47 points Tuesday. A dealer with the Bank of Tokyo, who spoke anonymously, said the dollar would remain ``steady'' at about the 146-yen level in advance of an international monetary conference scheduled to begin Saturday in Washington. Participants in the so-called Group of Seven meeting include monetary officials and central bank officials from Japan, the United States, West Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada. AP890920-0046 AP-NR-09-20-89 0355EDT r a PM-Hugo-HamNetwork 09-20 0551 PM-Hugo-Ham Network,0566 Amateur Radio Operators Pitch in on Hurricane Relief Effort With PM-Hugo, Bjt By PETER JACKSON Associated Press Writer BELGRADE LAKES, Maine (AP) From the serene stillness of a lake 2,000 miles away, amateur radio operator Glenn Baxter oversees a bustling network that is providing a vital link to the hurricane-ravaged Caribbean. Baxter is the manager of the International Amateur Radio Network, whose 2,000 members in 45 countries volunteer their expertise and equipment to help disaster victims obtain emergency aid or contact worried relatives. ``It's like a worldwide volunteer fire department,'' said the 47-year-old Baxter. A sampling of messages that had accumulated since Hurricane Hugo began its devastation Sunday included a facsimiled query from the Los Angeles County sheriff's department seeking information about a person in Antigua. An Australian radio operator was trying to track down someone in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A Maine woman anxious about her daughter's safety in St. Croix broke down crying while talking by telephone with Baxter. ``This is so important. This lady is hurting inside,'' Baxter said Tuesday. ``And we're the only ones that can help her feel better.'' The network, born in the aftermath of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, also works with the Red Cross and the Salvation Army in directing disaster assistance to the areas that need it most. Occasionally, the local ham operators themselves make arrangements for medical supplies and equipment. Baxter takes special pride in the speed with which the network can reach disaster areas, communicating with victims while official relief efforts are still gearing up. ``We're there in minutes,'' he said. ``They take days.'' Baxter himself also has become a source of information for several news organizations, relaying recorded transmissions from ham operators at the scene and gathering details that are impossible to obtain otherwise in the hours following a disaster. ``I'm their roving reporter,'' said Baxter, a pleasant, talkative type who said he agreed on a moment's notice to go on the air live with the British Broadcasting Corp. on Tuesday morning. ``I'm just pumping for informaton, because we need it just like they do.'' Messages to and from the Caribbean began flowing in earnest Monday and, by midafternoon Tuesday, the network had dispatched about 1,200, using voice transmissions as well as material that is written on computers and transmitted by short-wave radio signals. Each inquiry is given a code, so that responses can be expedited, Baxter said. On the islands, at least 100 radio operators were communicating with network members in other parts of the world Tuesday, and Baxter was working to assemble teams of operators from other countries to travel to the Caribbean to spell weary resident operators. The network, which last year provided services to victims of Hurricane Gilbert and the Armenian earthquake, maintains a decidedly humble world headquarters. The small wooden building next to Baxter's home on Great Pond in this central Maine town 65 miles north of Portland is crammed with radio consoles, computers and other equipment. Radio signals are beamed from antennas mounted atop 75-foot pine trees. The lake provides a natural buffer from interference. Baxter, who is trained as an industrial engineer, works part-time in the same building repairing equipment sent to him from other ham operators. But when disaster strikes, he plunges full-time into the network. AP890920-0047 AP-NR-09-20-89 0355EDT r w PM-Bush-Democrats 09-20 0532 PM-Bush-Democrats,0549 RETRANSMITTING a0463, adds cycle designator. WASHINGTON TODAY: Bush and Foley `Together' By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) It had the makings of a collector's item: a campaign-style button showing President Bush alongside the nation's top-ranking Democrat, House Speaker Tom Foley, bearing the inscription: ``Together.'' Ironically, it came at a time when Bush and the Democratic-controlled Congress are at odds on a variety of issues, including the environment, Bush's drug program, crime, taxes and education spending. Actually, the button bearing side-by-side faces of Bush and Foley had nothing to do with politics, even though it made Bush and Foley look like running mates. It was a souvenir issued at a celebration on Tuesday in Spokane, Wash., Foley's hometown, to commemorate Washington state's 100th anniversary. The button, given out to the several thousand who lined the banks of the Spokane River at the city's Riverfront Park on Tuesday to view the ceremony, proclaimed: ``Together: Saluting Washington's Centennial.'' Bush has been mixing tree-planting with politics on his trip out west to visit states celebrating their 100th anniversary. Although Bush and Foley traded compliments _ Foley saying Bush's visit was ``a proud moment for the state of Washington'' and Bush saluting the Democratic leader as ``a man of integrity, decency, fair play'' _ there was underlying tension in the get-together. Bush pushed for speedier congressional action on his proposed revision of the 1974 Clean Air Act. The environmental legislation is just one of many Bush initiatives now in congressional limbo. So far, Bush has sent to Congress the bulk of his 1988 campaign agenda: proposals on child care, the environment, crime, drugs, ethics, adoption, aid to Poland and Hungary. And yet, with only a week left before the start of the 1990 fiscal year, only a few of Bush's initiatives have been addressed by Congress. Bush, as he has done on a budget blueprint and on the bill bailing out the savings and loan industry, has signaled his willingness to compromise with the Democratic leadership in Congress. ``I've been one who is chastised for too much compromise from time to time,'' Bush told a news conference in Helena, Mont., earlier this week. Even on his drug strategy, Bush administration officials have made it clear that they're willing to deal on details of funding the war on drugs. Thus, the Bush-Foley ``Together '' buttons may point to a period ahead of accommodation with Congress. Still, Foley, who rode back to Washington with Bush on Air Force One, was less than enthusiastic about the prospects for cooperation. ``I think there'll be plenty of disagreements,'' Foley said. ``This is a divided government, with Democratic leadership of the Congress and a Republican president. And I think we're going to cooperate on a great number of things, and we're also going to have our disagreements.'' Foley said he disagreed with Bush's charges that Democrats were always seeking to spend more and tax more. ``In a democratic society, we ought to put our best ideas forward and see if we can come forward with the best of both the administration's approach and that of Congress,'' Foley said. ``Sometimes constructive competition is not bad,'' said the Democrat. AP890920-0048 AP-NR-09-20-89 0555EDT d a PM-BRF--FuelLeak 09-20 0167 PM-BRF--Fuel Leak,0172 1,000 Evacuated Following Fuel Leak BETHEL PARK, Pa. (AP) Two underground tanks leaked gasoline and explosive fumes through a suburban Pittsburgh sewer system, forcing about 1,000 people to spend the night away from their homes, authorities said today. ``The condition is extremely dangerous,'' Mayor Reno Virgili said. About 60 people stayed overnight in a Red Cross shelter set up at a school, said Joyce Brinkley, the group's disaster health specialist. The rest of those evacuated apparently stayed with friends or relatives, said Ida Matthews, the Red Cross chapter's director of emergency services. Bethel Park and Allegheny County authorities planned to meet today to determine when the evacuation order would be lifted, firefighters said. The leaks developed after an explosion and fire last week at a TV repair shop. No injuries were reported. Officials determined the evacuation was not necessary until Tuesday, Virgili said. The leak was traced to two 6,000-gallon gasoline tanks, at a convenience store and a nearby county maintenance warehouse. AP890920-0049 AP-NR-09-20-89 0417EDT r a PM-Kemp 09-20 0522 PM-Kemp,0538 Kemp Calls For Better Effort Against Homelessness By GORDON FAIRCLOUGH Associated Press Writer HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) U.S. Housing Secretary Jack Kemp called on Americans to meet their obligation to society, saying the work of volunteers is absolutely essential to conquering the problem of homelessness. ``There are people in this country who are hurting. Those that have been blessed have an obligation to be a blessing to someone else,'' Kemp said in a speech to a group of federal officials Tuesday. The secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development pledged to cut red tape and improve coordination among government agencies and non-profit groups who help the homeless. Kemp portrayed the fight against homelessness as part of a wider battle against poverty and despair. Kemp's pep talk to the Interagency Council on the Homeless, where he announced a rent-subsidy grant program, followed a tour of a homeless shelter that was empty for the day and a visit to a soup kitchen, where he was jeered. Meanwhile, in an interview published in The New York Times today, Kemp proposed ways to rid the troubled HUD agency of influence-peddling. He said he would seek to base the awarding of subsidies on merit rather than on the discretion of department officials, and to require that consultants register their fees. ``I'm not chairman of the Republican National Committee,'' Kemp said. Funding decisions ``will be based on objective criteria, competition, merit, and need, not who you know or what your party is.'' Under Kemp's predecessor, Samuel Pierce, HUD officials steered housing subsidies to developers who had hired politically connected GOP consultants. Kemp said he would propose a mix of administrative, regulatory, and legislative measures, as well as making all financing decisions public. At the St. Elizabeth's House soup kitchen in Hartford, Kemp was surrounded by reporters and photographers in the doorway and never made it inside the room for a complete tour. His speech gave an outline for what he termed the ``first steps'' in the effort to end homelessness. He said the government would cut through red tape and make it easier for homeless people and those who provide for them to receive government assistance. ``We would not be a moral society, we would not be a Judeo-Christian society, if we did not recognize our obligation'' Kemp said. Kemp conceded that government procedures have resulted in a poor record for helping the homeless. He said that since 1983 only 293 homes have been leased and 183 sold to organizations helping the homeless. Kemp said HUD has 49,200 houses available at a 10 percent discount for purchase by non-profit organizations that can pay cash at closing. In the past, he said, eligibility for such sales were limited to tax-supported entitities, shutting out charitable groups that had no funding from the government. He also announced a joint venture between HUD and a philanthropic group, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to create as many as 1,200 housing units in eight cities. HUD will provide rent subsidies worth about $36 million over five years and $2.4 million in foundation grants will be used for support services. AP890920-0050 AP-NR-09-20-89 0503EDT r a PM-PlayingHooky 09-20 0585 PM-Playing Hooky,0601 Black Boycotters Warned They Could Be Prosecuted Under Truancy Law By KATHY EYRE Associated Press Writer JACKSON, Miss. (AP) A new state law punishes parents whose children skip school, and black parents are being warned it could be used to force an end to the classroom boycotts they use to air grievances. The law, intended to cut truancy, makes parent of truants under age 17 subject to a maximum of one year in jail and $1,000 fine. During the last few years, classroom boycotts have been used to put pressure on school officials to address blacks' grievances. ``Boycotting is the only effective tool that a minority of any class or group of people have to sustain their rightful place in society,'' said Robert Phillips, a former school board member in Lowndes County in northeast Mississippi, who is leading a boycotting parents group. Phillips, whose granddaughter is among about 385 pupils boycotting the new Motley Elementary School, said parents aren't worried about the truancy law. ``It must be some scare tactics of the school board I imagine,'' Phillips said in a telephone interview Tuesday. ``The jail's not going to hold all of us anyway. We're going as a package and not as individuals.'' Tom Saterfiel, deputy state superintendent of education, said Mississippi officials are warning parents of the consequences if they don't enroll their children within 15 days after the start of the school year or permit their child to accumulate more than 10 unexcused absences during the year. ``If the truant officers see that we have some kids absent more days than the law allows, then they petition the judge and the judge would decide whether to take action against the parents,'' Saterfiel said. He noted that state officials are most concerned about 15- and 16-year-olds who are legally required to attend school for the first time this year under the state's amended 1982 Education Reform Act. Mississippi traditionally has had among the highest dropout rates in the nation. Last year, 32.5 percent _ or about one third _ of the Mississippi students who had completed eighth grade failed to get a diploma. However, that's down from a 40 percent dropout rate in 1980. During a meeting last week of the black parents angry with the Lowndes County School Board, the use of the compulsory attendance law against them was raised. State Rep. Alfred Walker of Columbus warned the parents of boycotting Motley Elementary School students that they could be prosecuted if they keep their children out of class more than 10 days. ``I came strictly to inform them of the compulsory law and its consequences,'' Walker said after the parents' meeting. The parents say their children won't attend the school until the newly elected school board agrees to give it the name approved while the school was under construction _ Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School. The parents also said they're upset the cafeteria and library wasn't completed before the school opened last week. But more than 350 people at the meeting called by the Lowndes County chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the West Lowndes Parents Group said they weren't worried about the truancy law and were willing to face the consequences. School Board President Gary Chism failed to return phone calls for comment. However, the school board voted Monday night to try to set up meetings with the black parents group, and Phillips said discussions had been tentatively scheduled for Friday. AP890920-0051 AP-NR-09-20-89 0502EDT r a PM-People-Estefan 09-20 0266 PM-People-Estefan,0275 Pop Star Gloria Estefan Sues Ex-Managers MIAMI (AP) Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine were bumped from a charity concert tour when Bruce Springsteen decided he wanted more time to sing, and now the pop band is suing its ex-agent over the foul-up. In a $1.5 million lawsuit filed recently U.S. District Court, the Sound Machine claims it rejected offers for $500,000 worth of appearances during time set aside for last year's Amnesty International concert tour. The suit against the Los Angeles firm of Moress-Nanas claims the group also missed out on valuable publicity when it was dropped from the tour at the last minute. ``They said we were booked on the tour, and that we should not accept live performance or production engagements,'' said the Sound Machine's attorney, David Bercuson. Moress attorney Philip Ryan said the Sound Machine was dropped from the tour when Springsteen decided he wanted to play 90-minute sets instead of the 20 minutes originally planned. The tour, set up by London-based Amnesty to mark the 40th anniversary of the International Declaration of Human Rights, was whittled down to headliners Springsteen, Sting and Peter Gabriel, Ryan said. Ryan said the real issue is nearly $1 million in fees the group owes their former agents. In its own suit in federal court in Los Angeles, Moress has accused the Sound Machine of failing to pay $750,000 in management fees and $200,000 for its work on a $2 million CBS record deal. ``The Moress organization took the Miami Sound Machine and turned it into a hit-making machine,'' Ryan said. AP890920-0052 AP-NR-09-20-89 0404EDT u i BC-FrenchPlane 1stLd-Writethru a0490 09-20 0242 BC-French Plane, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0490,a0493,0245 Military: Wreckage Of Missing Plane Located Eds: COMBINES urgent series; No pickup. PARIS (AP) The wreckage of a DC-10 aircraft of the French airline UTA that disappeared en route from the Congo to Paris with 171 people on board was located Wednesday in southeast Niger, the French Ministry of Defense said. There was no immediate information on whether there were any survivors. Among the passengers on Tuesday's flight was Bonnie Pugh, wife the U.S. ambassador to Chad, Robert L. Pugh, the U.S. Embassy in Chad said. The plane was found shortly after dawn Wednesday by a Transall aircraft sent by the French military contingent in the Chadian capital. The ministry said the wreckage was spread over a wide, rocky and sandy area in the Termit mountains, between Lake Chad and Agadez. UTA said contact was lost with Flight 772 less than an hour after it took off from N'Djamena, Chad, on Tuesday afternoon after a stopover on a flight that originated in Brazzaville, capital of the Congo. There were 156 passengers and 15-member crew on board, the airline said in a statement Wednesday. The search began at dawn with the French military in Chad sending a Transall aircraft from N'Djamena to follow the path the UTA flight should have taken north and slightly west across Niger. Relatives and friends of passengers on board kept an overnight vigil at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. AP890920-0053 AP-NR-09-20-89 0501EDT r i PM-Hugo-Bahamas 09-20 0484 PM-Hugo-Bahamas,0503 Bahamians Follow Daily Routine, Preparations for Storm Subdue With PM-Hugo, Bjt By PATRICK REYNA Associated Press Writer NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) Busy shoppers and tourists from the bustling cruise ship trade clogged downtown Nassau, displaying only modest concern that Hurricane Hugo's 105 mph winds were blowing a few hundred miles offshore. On Tuesday, the government issued no emergency instructions or orders, no evacuation route signs were visible about the city, no emergency shelters were set up and there was no sense of urgent storm preparation. The prime minister, Lynden Pindling, was out of the country. Pindling left the archipelago Monday for a Commonwealth Finance Ministers meeting in Kingston, Jamaica. He was to head to Washington, D.C., at week's end. Forecasters early today said that if Hugo maintained its current path, it would continue moving parallel to the Bahamas, bringing high winds and rains to the islands but not the death and destruction seen in other parts of the eastern Caribbean. Officials at the Bahamas Meteorological Department in Nassau said late Tuesday, however, there was cause for concern. ``It's not enough to deliver a devastating blow,'' said Meteorolgist Nicholas Small. ``But it's not far enough away for us to relax. We're going to get a healthy tropical wind ranging between 39 and 73 mph, and possibly higher in gusts.'' The government has begun some preparations: a work crew began boarding up windows of government buildings. Reuben Henderson, nailing plywood sheets over windows on a government office building, said he and his crew had been given those instructions. Dorothea Seymour, a shopkeeper in the busy downtown Straw Market, didn't seem too concerned. ``Some people care, some people don't,'' she said. ``We're always hearing about storms, but they never come.'' With her business 15 feet from Nassau Harbour, Ms. Seymour said if the storm came, she would simply pack up her stock of straw handbags, dolls, hats and T-shirts. Four cruise ships were tied up at Prince George Wharf just yards away, their passengers browsing through shops about the city. ``We have not had any cancellations of cruise ships,'' said Cordell Thompson, a spokesman for the Ministry of Tourism. ``And there have been no cancellations of air service.'' Thompson said he didn't think the Bahamas could avoid Hugo's effects altogether. ``I suspect we're going to get a lot of rain and a lot of high winds,'' he said. If the hurricane made a sharp turn to the northwest or the west _ toward the Bahamas _ ``we might start getting nervous,'' Thompson said. Few vacationers appeared worried about facing a hurricane on New Providence, the Bahamas' most populous island. Michael Belt, and his wife Rachelle, of Henderson, Ky., were among them. ``I guess all the people here have to ride it out and I guess I'll have to ride it out with them,'' Belt said. ``I think we'll make it through,'' said Mrs. Belt. AP890920-0054 AP-NR-09-20-89 0500EDT r i PM-Hugo-Glance 09-20 0550 PM-Hugo-Glance,0568 Hugo's Path of Destruction By The Associated Press Hurricane Hugo, the mightiest storm to hit the northeastern Caribbean in a decade, has spun a web of destruction across the popular tourist islands of the region. Here is an island-by-island look based on initial damage reports. PUERTO RICO: Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon estimated damage at ``hundreds of millions'' of dollars and said the homes of at least 50,000 people were destroyed or damaged in the U.S. commonwealth with a population of 3.3 million. By Tuesday, 92 percent of the island had telephone service and 75 percent electricity, the governor said. He said 60 percent of the island remained without water and that fully restoring water could take a few days. Some 2,500 National Guardsmen were aiding the cleanup and trying to stop widespread looting. The Pentagon said some of its facilities, including U.S. Naval Station at Roosevelts Roads in Puerto Rico, were heavily damaged. GUADELOUPE: Five people reported killed, 84 injured and more than 15,000 homeless on the French island of 340,000 people. Roofs were torn off, power lines downed and crops damaged. France's Defense Ministry assigned 3,000 soldiers, two military transport aircraft and four cargo vessels to assist in restoring communications and emergency services to the French territory. ANTIGUA: Two people killed and widespread wind and rain damage reported. Island hotels reported water and wind damage. MONTSERRAT: Nine people were killed and hundreds of buildings were flattened on the British island. The British government said nearly all of the 12,000 island residents were homeless. Royal Navy marines landed on Montserrat to help clear the airport runway so planes could deliver supplies. British Overseas Aid Minister Lynda Chalker said Britain would provide $1.57 million in emergency aid to British islands struck by the hurricane. ST. KITTS: Houses damaged and trees toppled but no reports of casualties. Communications nearly severed across the island. U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS: Popular tourist islands of St. Croix and St. Thomas hard hit. Widespread looting reported, including raids by machete-wielding gangs. Ham radio operators in New York were told by contacts in St. Croix that prisoners had escaped from a jail and were roaming free and that some National Guardsman and policemen were joining in the looting. Ham radio operators also reported that 97 percent of the buildings were damaged or destroyed on St. Croix, which has a population of 53,000. Sailboats were blown out of the water and thrown up to 150 feet on shore in St. Thomas. Some waterfront businesses disappeared. BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS: Trees uprooted and power and communications knocked out. On the resort island of Tortola, residents said there were numerous injuries and scores of homes destroyed. Inns reported widespread damages. THE BAHAMAS: Islanders boarded up homes and stocked up on supplies as Hugo moved westward. Weather officials said the hurricane would begin affecting the British colony of Turks and Caicos Islands southeast of the Bahamas chain Tuesday night. The storm was moving on a parallel course east of the Bahamas. UNITED STATES: Forecasters said it was likely Hugo would hit the U.S. mainland later in the week, but it was too early to predict where. Forecasters said U.S. residents from the Florida Keys to North Carolina should watch Hugo's path carefully. AP890920-0055 AP-NR-09-20-89 0515EDT r a PM-FilmTreasures 09-20 0756 PM-Film Treasures,0779 Government List of Films Draws Favorable Response in Hollywood By BOB THOMAS Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) Director Billy Wilder, actor James Stewart and other members of the film industry joined in praise of the Library of Congress list of 25 films deemed ``culturally, historically or esthetically significant.'' ``I'm delighted,'' responded Wilder on Tuesday. His ``Some Like It Hot'' and ``Sunset Boulevard'' appeared on the list. ``I wish things would go forward to reconstruct those films as they were, not colorized and not butchered by cuts.'' Also on the list was Frank Capra's ``Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,'' which starred Stewart. ``The first thing that crossed my mind, is that I'm glad that Frank is still with us and can enjoy his vindication,'' Stewart said. Capra has been in failing health at his home in La Quinta. Stewart made his comments in Washington, D.C., before a visit to the Senate to campaign for film preservation. He recalled the premiere of the movie at Constitution Hall in 1939. Senators became restive at the film's depiction of political corruption. The film broke during the screening, Stewart recalled, and by the time Capra returned to his seat after climbing to the booth to repair it, ``half his audience was gone. ... The press was completely against the picture, too.'' The aim of the list, said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington in announcing the first 25, was to promote movies as an American art form and generate public interest in preservation. ``I think it's as good a list as we can expect the first time out,'' said Dave Kehr, a member of the National Film Preservation Board and chairman of the National Society of Film Critics. A board of 13 film figures made the final selection, drawing from a thousand nominations from the public. The major surprise among the selections for the National Film Registry was the ``The Learning Tree,'' a semi-autobiographical film of a black boy's rural childhood by Gordon Parks, famed Life magazine photographer. ``I'm surprised, pleasantly so,'' said Parks at his New York residence. ``I'm very happy. The film was very well received in its release, and it's still playing in Europe and on television here.'' The National Film Registry is the outgrowth of protests by filmmakers over colorization and editing for television of classic films. Congress last year passed the National Film Preservation Act, which called for the naming of 25 classic films annually for three years. ``I'm delighted to be one of the 25, but I'm horrified at the necessity of the act,'' said Stanley Donen, the director of the musical ``Singin' in the Rain.'' Donen said that the act will do nothing to keep broadcasters from editing movies for length or duplicating them with poor quality control onto videocassettes. Wilder was his usual acerbic self in calling for greater protection for films: ``The television people call in a butcher, who has failed at the Ralphs grocery store, to supervise the cutting of pictures so they can slip in the Noxema commercials. Frankly, nobody gives a ----.'' There were other surprises besides ``The Learning Tree.'' D.W. Griffith's mishmash of history, ``Intolerance,'' was selected, but not his classic, ``The Birth of a Nation,'' perhaps because of its sympathetic portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan. King Vidor's ``The Crowd'' was included but not his more impressive ``The Big Parade.'' John Ford Westerns are represented by ``The Searchers'' and not his landmark ``Stagecoach.'' Among the missing: ``The Treasure of the Sierra Madre''; ``It's a Wonderful Life''; ``It Happened One Night''; ``All about Eve''; ``Shane''; ``Top Hat''; ``The African Queen''; ``Rebecca''; ``From Here to Eternity.'' Besides Wilder, double selections were Victor Fleming, who directed both ``Gone with the Wind'' and ``The Wizard of Oz'' in 1939, and Ford, ``The Grapes of Wrath'' and ``The Searchers.'' The top movies, listed alphabetically, were: ``The Best Years of Our Lives,'' 1946; ``Casablanca,'' 1942; ``Citizen Kane,'' 1941; ``The Crowd,'' 1928; ``Dr. Strangelove; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,'' 1964; ``The General,'' 1927; ``Gone With the Wind,'' 1939; ``The Grapes of Wrath,'' 1940; ``High Noon,'' 1952; ``Intolerance,'' 1916; ``The Learning Tree,'' 1969, and ``The Maltese Falcon,'' 1941. Also, ``Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,'' 1939; ``Modern Times,'' 1936; ``Nanook of the North,'' 1922; ``On the Waterfront,'' 1954; ``The Searchers,'' 1956; ``Singin' in the Rain,'' 1952; ``Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,'' 1937; ``Some Like it Hot,'' 1959; ``Star Wars,'' 1977; ``Sunrise,'' 1927; ``Sunset Boulevard,'' 1950; ``Vertigo,'' 1958, and ``The Wizard of Oz,'' 1939. AP890920-0056 AP-NR-09-20-89 0555EDT d a PM-BRF--ClassroomRobbery 09-20 0167 PM-BRF--Classroom Robbery,0171 Sixth-Grade Class Watches as Teacher is Robbed NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Twenty-seven sixth-graders saw a stranger walk into their classroom and take $2 and some jewelry from their teacher. Teacher Carolyn Hudson said the intruder entered her classroom at Wharton Middle School about 9 a.m. Tuesday and whispered he would kill her if she did not give him her money. She said the man never displayed a gun but a bulge was visible under his sweatshirt. Hudson, 49, said the children did not realize what was going on at first. ``I was frightened because I didn't know what he might do,'' she said. ``Anyone who would come into a classroom of students with the police next door meant business and could hurt somebody.'' Hudson, who has taught for 26 years in Metro Schools, told her students they could assist police by writing down what they saw. ``We told them we were not going to give them a grade on handwriting today,'' she said. AP890920-0057 AP-NR-09-20-89 0531EDT r a PM-DissidentRockers 09-20 0516 PM-Dissident Rockers,0530 Chinese Dissidents use Rock 'n' Roll to Sell Democracy Message By EVE EPSTEIN Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) Dissident Chinese students have spiced up their message of democracy with a new rock 'n' roll beat. The student leaders mixed politics and rock at a Boston recording studio, taping three songs they hope will climb to the top of the democracy charts. ``They were pretty good singers,'' said Harry King, who is co-producing the tape. ``I was shocked. Politicians usually aren't good singers.'' The students recorded three songs Sunday. The titles, translated from Chinese, are ``Hold On Until Tomorrow,'' ``Back to the Square'' and ``For Momma,'' King said. The rockers include Wu'er Kaixi, best known as the student who challenged China's Premier Li Peng before troops stormed pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The others are Liu Yan, who escaped with Wu'er, and Shen Tong, who was on the Chinese most-wanted list when he escaped from China. Wu'er is now a student at Harvard University, Shen is at Brandeis and Liu is studying at Boston University. Money earned by sales of the tapes will go to a Democracy for China fund, Shen said. But money wasn't on the students' minds when they made the recording. The songs in Chinese are one more way to keep the democracy movement's message alive, Shen said. The students plan to distribute the tape in Hong Kong and Taiwan. ``A lot of people travel between Hong Kong and China,'' he said. ``If the song becomes very popular and it's in everybody's mouth, it's easy to spread in China.'' Shen wrote the words to ``For Momma,'' a dialogue between a mother and her son. ``It's a mother very worried if her son is safe,'' said Shen, 21, whose father died about a month ago in China. The three students used a backup band whose sound is similar to Bruce Springsteen's, King said. But Shen likened the songs to the ``slower rock'' he prefers, like the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel. Shen said he sang songs like ``The Sound of Silence'' in high school. The music was written by Jimmy Jang, who approached the students with the idea, Shen said. Musicians donated their time, and the studio, Soundtrack, did the recording at bargain-basement prices, King said. Ordinarily, it would cost about $45,000 to produce three songs in a studio, King said. He estimated the tapes will cost only about $1,200. A Taiwanese television station taped the recording session for a news program, and may try to edit that into a video for a variety show, said Yueh Chiou, a correspondent for the station. The students also may try to distribute the tape in the United States. ``I really want American students and American people to know about the movement too,'' Shen said. Shen, a biology major, said he isn't prepared to give up his studies if rock stardom comes his way. Liu, speaking through an interpreter, echoed his sentiments. ``I have no intention to become a rock star, but I want to be a good student,'' she said. AP890920-0058 AP-NR-09-20-89 0556EDT d a PM-BRF--StolenRecipes 09-20 0192 PM-BRF--Stolen Recipes,0197 Burglar Makes Off With Acclaimed Chef's Recipes BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) A burglar who made off with Lindsey Shere's purse got a lot more than her wallet. The thief got the notebook with 18 years of irreplaceable dessert recipes collected by the acclaimed pastry chef. The burglar slipped into the Chez Panisse chef's home early Friday and fled through with the purse. ``I feel a little numb,'' Shere said Tuesday. ``I've lost things that I don't even remember. But I have to assume it's gone and go on from there.'' The notebook contained recipes for ice creams, sorbets, brioches and the secrets the restaurant's famed green walnut liqueur. She is offering a reward for the recipes and said no questions would be asked. She didn't say how much the reward would be. ``Losing something like that is like losing your manuscript,'' said Barbara Ury, a pastry chef at Wolfgang Puck's new San Francisco restaurant, Postrio. ``It's sad. That's a serious loss.'' Many of the recipes were to have been published in Shere's second book on desserts. Her 1985 Chez Panisse Desserts Cookbook was a best-seller for Random House. AP890920-0059 AP-NR-09-20-89 0535EDT r i PM-Niger-WreckageSite 09-20 0413 PM-Niger-Wreckage Site,0423 Area Where Plane Found A Remote, Sunbaked Moonscape With PM-France-Plane By MORT ROSENBLUM AP Special Correspondent PARIS (AP) The fragments of a lost French airliner, which disappeared mysteriously with 171 people abroad, are strewn across a sunbaked moonscape of southeastern Niger, best reached by camel. A French Air Force plane sighted the wreckage between the Chadian capital of N'Djamena and the Niger city of Agadez, ancient crossroads of Tuareg tribesmen who roam the remote region. Rescuers found debris near the rocky crags of the Termit, outcroppings on a West African sea of rolling sands and scrubby trees, for years a center of fierce drought and passing famine. UTA flight 772, heading to Paris from Brazzaville, in the Congo, passed over Lake Chad, heading northward toward the uranium-rich Air Mountains. It lost contact after leaving N'Djamena. Colonial literature is rich in explorers' tales of the desolate region which the French fought hard to subdue. In 1897, Commandant Toutee _ he used no first name _ was reminded of Egypt. More recent visitors are struck by the same characteristics: vast sweeps of multi-hued emptiness, sharp breaks in terrain, blazing hot days and cold nights _ and silence. After some attempts at settlement, it is still the unchallenged domain of the Tuareg, the fabled ``blue men of the desert'' who float through occasionally on their way to somewhere else. French administrators once built a locust-control center in the village of Termit, at the center of the 60-mile-across mountain chain. After independence, Niger kept a small military post there. Now Termit is peopled by a few dozen residents in crumbling old barracks and mud hovels, visited only occasionally by Tuareg caravans which stray off their preferred Bilma-Agadez route, across easier terrain to the north. The French petroleum company ELF built a short, packed-earth runway near Termit several years ago, but its use is limited and it is not listed on aeronautical charts. When the Paris-Dakar Rally passed through the region in January, only a handful of small aircraft and a DC-3 were able to set down on the 2,600-foot strip. Four-wheel drive vehicles can negotiate much of the zone, but progress is slow, sometimes impossible, over the wide corridors of high dunes, the sharp ravines and the dry watercourses. Even in times of plenty, medical supplies, fuel and food are in measured stocks. Niger's capital, Niamey, is a hard day's drive from Agadez, the nearest major urban center to the crash site. AP890920-0060 AP-NR-09-20-89 0502EDT u i PM-Japan-Markets 09-20 0271 PM-Japan-Markets,0280 Dollar Up, Stocks Nearly Unchanged TOKYO (AP) The dollar rose against the Japanese yen today, while share prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ended nearly unchanged for the second consecutive day. The dollar closed at 146.25 yen, up 0.52 yen from Tuesday's close of 145.73 yen. It opened at 146.23 yen and ranged between 146.05 yen and 146.45 yen. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues declined 0.49 points, or 0.001 percent, closing at 34,470.58. The index had edged down 1.47 points Tuesday. On the foreign exchange market, dealings were slow and cautious ahead of the meeting of the finance ministers of seven major monetary nations in Washington Saturday, dealers said. Volume totaled $6.315 billion, compared to a daily average of about $10 billion. Many market players also were wary about possible central bank market intervention after monetary authorities sold dollars in the United States Tuesday in efforts to stem the dollar's upswing. ``It's pretty much a wait-and-see attitude,'' said a dealer with the Mitsubishi Bank. Other dealers said they were concerned about whether the finance ministers of the Group of Seven _ the United States, West Germany, Japan, Britain, France, Italy and Canada _- would discuss measures aimed at discouraging the dollar's surge. On the stock market, the Nikkei index started on a firm note with broad small-lot buying, but then turned weak over uncertainties about prospects for exchange rates, dealers said. In slow trading, volume totaled 600 million shares, down from Tuesday's 650 million. ``Investors remained on the sidelines, trying to assess current fluctuations and prospects for the market,'' a securities company employee said. AP890920-0061 AP-NR-09-20-89 0542EDT r i PM-UN-Garba 09-20 0487 PM-UN-Garba,0500 New U.N. General Assembly President Leader In Fight Against Apartheid By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) Maj. Gen. Joseph Garba, the Nigerian U.N. ambassador who will serve as president of the General Assembly, has distinguished himself as a soldier who has led the battle against apartheid. Garba, 46, an author and scholar, will preside in December over the first special session of the General Assembly to focus exclusively on South Africa's system of racial segregation and its effects on all of southern Africa. Born in Langtang, a town in Nigeria's middle belt with a tradition of producing the country's leading military officers, Garba began his career at age 13 when he enrolled in the Nigeria Military School. At 19, he was commissioned as the youngest second lieutenant in Nigeria's army after he attended the British military school in Aldershot; from 1972 to 1973, Garba also attended the Staff College in Camberly, England. He was appointed leader of the elite presidential guard for the head of state, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, who was overthrown by a military coup in July 1975. Garba came to public prominence by announcing Gowon's ouster and became foreign minister of the military government. He won respect for the tough stance Nigeria took when it nationalized the local subsidiary of British Petroleum, and for his involvement in the negotiations that led to the independence of Zimbabwe. In an interview published last month in the Nigerian newspaper The Lagos Vanguard, Garba said he was ``probably one of the luckiest foreign ministers alive because we had a very active foreign policy and we had the resources to back it up.'' ``Nigerians felt proud that we were involved in international events like the independence of Zimbabwe and Angola,'' Garba was quoted as saying. Nigeria's military government supported the Cuban intervention in Angola to reinforce the Marxist-oriented MPLA party, which has held power in the one-party socialist state since 1975. When civilian government returned in Nigeria in 1978, Garba left the Foreign Ministry to take charge of the country's top military school, the Nigerian Defense Academy. In 1980, Garba retired from the army with the rank of major general. He briefly attended India's National Defense College that year, then spent four years at Harvard University as a Fellow at the Institute of Politics of the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Center for International Affairs. Nigeria appointed Garba ambassador to the United Nations in 1984. Since then, he has been chairman of the U.N. Special Committee Against Apartheid and the U.N. Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations. Garba is the author of ``Revolution in Nigeria _ Another View,'' published in 1981; ``Diplomatic Soldiering (Conduct of Nigerian Foreign Policy),'' published in 1987, and the forthcoming ``The Role of the Military in African Development.'' Garba is a devoted squash and basketball player, and also enjoys photography. He is married and has six children. AP890920-0062 AP-NR-09-20-89 0542EDT r a PM-TexasExecution 09-20 0513 PM-Texas Execution,0528 Man Described as `Satan Personified' Executed Eds: Note contents of 7th graf, `Paster also ...' By MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press Writer HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) A former lounge singer described as ``Satan personified'' was put to death early today for one of five slayings he was accused of committing. James Paster, 44, was declared dead at 12:17 a.m., seven minutes after corrections officials injected drugs into veins in his arms. Paster, whose lounge act included an impersonation of Elvis Presley, was condemned for the contract killing of Robert Edward Howard, 38, who was gunned down as he left a Houston bar on Oct. 25, 1980. Paster said he received $1,000 and a motorcycle for the slaying, which allegedly was set by Howard's ex-wife. ``I hope Mrs. Howard can find peace in this,'' Paster said in his final words. It was unclear if he was referring to the victim's ex-wife or mother. He took two deep breaths, then gasped. There was no further movement. ``He doesn't deserve to be on this earth,'' said Dorothy M. Howard, Howard's 74-year-old mother. ``He's getting his just due. It's good riddance for this universe. I don't know if God agrees, though.'' Paster also was serving a life term for the rape and murder of an 18-year-old woman who had a nail driven up her nose by Paster to ensure that she was dead. Paster's co-defendant in that case, Stephen McCoy, was executed earlier this year. Paster also pleaded guilty to killing another Houston-area woman and confessed to killing two other women, although he never was tried for those offenses. ``The death penalty was made for people like James Paster,'' said State District Judge Ted Poe, who presided over Paster's trial. Paster's execution was the 118th in the nation since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing states to resume capital punishment. It was the third execution this year in Texas and the 32nd since 1982 _ the most of any state since the Supreme Court's decision. About three dozen death penalty opponents gathered outside the prison before the execution, chanting ``Say No To Death Row'' and ``Reject The Injection.'' The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Tuesday refused to grant Paster a reprieve and his attorneys declined to appeal to the federal courts. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an emergency request. Howard's ex-wife, Trudy Howard LeBlanc, 42, is serving a life prison term for hiring Paster and brothers Gary and Eddie LeBlanc to commit the murder. Eddie LeBlanc, 34, also is serving life, while Gary LeBlanc, who Paster said hired him, gave him the gun and drove him to the murder site, is serving a 35-year term in exchange for his testimony. Paster served time in California and was in custody in Alabama when he was arrested for the Howard killing. California officials described him as having serious sexual problems and the potential for being extremely dangerous. Texas prison documents described him as ``Satan personified.'' ``If you knew me, I would be an unforgettable character,'' Paster said. ``I'm a very likable individual.'' AP890920-0063 AP-NR-09-20-89 0543EDT r a PM-ZsaZsaTrial 09-20 0565 PM-Zsa Zsa Trial,0584 Zsa Zsa Sobs and Calls Slap `Self-Defense' LaserPhoto LA2 By JEFF WILSON Associated Press Writer BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) Zsa Zsa Gabor's cop-slapping trial took a bizarre twist even by Hollywood standards, with the actress bolting the courtroom in tears on the day her accuser was injured in a traffic accident. The flamboyant Miss Gabor also took the witness stand Tuesday and testified that her June 14 arrest by Officer Paul Kramer had frightened her more than the Nazi invasion of her native Hungary during World War II. ``He hated me, I could see it in his eyes,'' said the 66-year-old former Miss Hungary. ``He was very handsome, but he was very scary to me.'' The star of such movies as ``Picture Mommy Dead'' and ``Queen of Outer Space'' was to continue her testimony today. Earlier Tuesday, she bolted the courtroom shouting, ``I can't take this. It's a lie,'' as another officer who assisted Kramer testified that she cursed him and threatened to use her friendship with former President Reagan to get him fired. As the trial continued in the afternoon, Kramer suffered a head injury and severe cuts and bruises when his motorcycle collided with a police car. The officer, who was answering an emergency call in pursuit of suspected gunmen, was treated at a hospital and released. Miss Gabor admitted Tuesday she scuffled with the 6-foot-4-inch officer after he pulled her over for having expired license tags on her Rolls-Royce. ``I'm a Hungarian woman ... not a milquetoast,'' she said. But she added that she acted in self-defense. ``It was in self-defense,'' she said. ``He was unbelieveably insulting. He can only talk to a streetwalker like that, not to a lady.'' Kramer, a foot taller and 100 pounds heavier than Miss Gabor, testified the attack was unprovoked. The Beverly Hills cop stopped the actress twice on June 14, the second time after she drove away as he attempted to cite her. When he closed in on her a second time, she testified she feared he was going to shoot her. ``I was saying to myself `Uh oh, Zsa Zsa Gabor. Now you've had it.''' She said Kramer cursed her during both traffic stops, dragged her out of her car and handcuffed her. ``I screamed `Officer, you're hurting me, and he liked it. He was smiling, he was enjoying hurting me,'' she told the court. Earlier, Officer Scott Thompson testified that Miss Gabor cursed him as he assisted Kramer. ``She looked at me and said, `You (expletive), I'm having your job. I'm calling the Reagans on this,''' Thompson testified. Miss Gabor, a longtime friend and neighbor of the former president, got up and left at that point. Defense attorney William Graysen immediately led her back into the courtroom and she broke down in sobs. Municipal Judge Charles G. Rubin ordered a recess while she regained her composure. Until Tuesday, Miss Gabor had been relatively calm during the trial, doodling on a pad and sketching pencil portraits of the judge, clerk, bailiff and even a respectable rendition of Kramer. Miss Gabor is charged with batery on a police officer, disobeying an officer's orders, driving with an expired license and having an open container of alcohol _ a flask of Jack Daniels whiskey in the glove compartment _ in her car. If convicted, she faces a possible 18-month jail sentence. AP890920-0064 AP-NR-09-20-89 0553EDT r a PM-People-TrumpTV 09-20 0330 PM-People-Trump TV,0339 Trump It Up: Donald Goes Video By LARRY McSHANE Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) Move over, Vanna, and make room, Monty. Billionaire developer Donald Trump has unveiled his own syndicated game show, ``Trump Card,'' which will debut next year. Trump, who could buy enough vowels to create his own alphabet, predicted Tuesday his game would follow in the successful tradition of his Trump Shuttle, his Trump Plaza and Trump Castle casinos, and his book ``Trump: The Art of the Deal.'' ``I think it will be tremendously successful. We're trading on the glamour of the Trump Castle, the Trump Princess,'' Trump told reporters _ in the Trump Tower. ``The Trump name has never been hotter,'' he added after producing Miss America 1990 Debbye Turner to say a few nice things about him. Trump said his share of the profits on the show will go to charity. The show, which will be syndicated and air Monday through Friday, is based on a top-rated British game show called ``Full House,'' said Lorimar Television President David E. Salzman. Lorimar developed the program and Warner Bros. will distribute it. Trump said he decided to go with the idea after getting a one-on-one sales pitch from a Lorimar executive he accidentally encountered on one of his helicopters. ``This idea stopped us in our tracks,'' said Dick Robertson, Warner Bros. president for domestic television distribution. ``It's the best single new idea we'd seen in years.'' The show, to be filmed at the Trump Castle Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, N.J., will feature three contestants trying to answer questions and thereby filling in their ``Trump Card'' _ a box of 15 squares. Prize money for the winners has not yet been determined, said Salzman. The show's host has not been decided yet either. Trump hinted he may be appearing on the program himself. ``If that opportunity presents itself, I might just do it _ as long as I win,'' said Trump. AP890920-0065 AP-NR-09-20-89 0558EDT r a PM-GoetzRelease 09-20 0424 PM-Goetz Release,0437 Goetz Freed, Turns Down Subway Ride By HERB LASH Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) Subway gunman Bernard Goetz, freed from jail early today after serving 8{ months for shooting four teen-agers in 1984, turned down the city's standard offer of a ride to the nearest subway stop. Goetz was led out a side door of the Brooklyn Center of Detention, avoiding eight camera crews and about 30 photographers and reporters. He did not want to face the news media, said Pete Mahon, the jail's deputy chief of operations. Ruby Ryles, a spokeswoman for the city Correction Department, said a police officer drove Goetz from the jail, but she did not know if he was met by friends as planned. One privilege offered inmates being discharged is a ride to the closest subway station, Ryles said. Goetz was brought to the receiving room at 11:45 p.m. Tuesday and ``he was processed out at 12:01 a.m.,'' she said. Goetz, 41, was arrested on Dec. 22, 1984, for the shooting of four teen-agers who he said were trying to rob him when they asked him for $5 on a train near the World Trade Center. Dubbed the subway vigilante, Goetz became something of a folk hero among those who saw him as an individual taking a stand against crime. He had been a self-employed electronics calibrator before his arrest. Ryles said Goetz whiled away much of his time playing chess with inmates in an 18-cell protective custody block. Others in the block included convicted child killer Joel Steinberg and Joseph Fama, the alleged triggerman in the Bensonhurst racial attack. In June 1987, following a two-month trial, Goetz was cleared of attempted murder and assault charges but convicted of illegal possession of the gun he used to shoot the youths. The trial judge, Justice Stephen Crane, at first sentenced him to six months in jail, a $5,000 fine, 250 hours of community service and ordered him to undergo psychiatric treatment. Goetz and his lawyers appealed the sentence, calling it illegal. The appeals court agreed, sending the case back for resentencing. In January, Crane sentenced Goetz to one year. With time off for good behavior, Goetz was to serve eight months. Two weeks were added to his sentence when guards found a plastic safety razor in his cell. Goetz now faces a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed by one of his victims, Darrell Cabey, who was left brain-damaged and paralyzed. Goetz has said he might leave New York City after he gets out of jail. AP890920-0066 AP-NR-09-20-89 0607EDT r a PM-SouthernBaptists 09-20 0442 PM-Southern Baptists,0456 Government Report on Homosexuality Angers Southern Baptist Leader By SHERA GROSS Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Southern Baptists should be incensed by a government report calling homosexuality ``natural and healthy'' and blaming fundamental religion for many suicides among homosexual teens, a church leader says. Albert Lee Smith, spokesman for the denomination's lobbying effort in Washington, D.C., told top church officials on Tuesday that Southern Baptists should register their dismay with Congress over the task force report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ``Taxpayer dollars are being used to promote something completely contrary to Baptist convictions,'' Smith told the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee during its semiannual meeting. Smith, an Alabama congressman from 1981-82, outlined a plan to contact congressmen and government officials and to organize grassroots campaigns on such ``church-state matters.'' ``The greatest asset we have on legislation is the numbers of Baptists,'' the Birmingham layman said of the 14.8 million-member denomination. The report, published in January and written by San Francisco therapist Paul Gibson, explores the high risk of suicide among homosexual youths. The report noted that homosexual teen-agers were unduly pressured in fundamentalist churches, such as the Southern Baptist church, and traditional faiths, such as Catholicism, to renounce their sexuality as immoral. ``Gay youths ... may feel wicked and condemned to hell and attempt suicide in despair of ever obtaining redemption,'' Gibson wrote. Smith said the study contained ``anti-religious'' sentiment and criticized it for calling homosexuality a ``natural and healthy expression of human sexuality.'' The executive committee also was advised that the number of Southern Baptist missionaries is at an all-time high. However, officials said the church's goal of 5,000 missionaries by the year 2000 will founder without more money. Records show 3,827 missionaries are spreading God's message in the United States, its territories and Canada, said Larry L. Lewis, president of the Home Mission Board. ``In no time in the history of our agency since (its creation in) 1845 has God called out so many,'' Lewis said. The nation's largest Protestant denomination has set a goal of having 5,000 missionaries and 50,000 churches by the year 2000. The number of new churches grew by 1,000 to 37,567 in 1988 and the number of chaplains increased to 2,014. ``More new churches were constituted in any year since 1963,'' Lewis said. ``More chaplains have been endorsed now than in any year in our history.'' These advances were accomplished despite ``stringencies in budget and reductions in staff,'' Lewis said on a 9.6 percent cut in his board's upcoming budget. As a result, 26 positions have been eliminated at the board's headquarters in Atlanta. AP890920-0067 AP-NR-09-20-89 0615EDT u i PM-Dollar-Gold 09-20 0268 PM-Dollar-Gold,0284 Dollar Edges Up, Gold Little Changed LONDON (AP) The dollar edged higher in early European trading today and gold prices were little changed. Foreign currency dealers said trading was uncertain as the market waited for central bank actions, interest rate movement and a weekend meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized nations. ``People are very unsure, very nervous,'' said a trader at a large U.S. bank in Frankfurt. ``The market is waiting for news that will help give the dollar a trend,'' said one analyst in Milan, Italy. In Tokyo, where trading ends before Europe's business day begins, the dollar rose 0.52 yen to a closing of 146.25 yen. Later, in London, it was quoted at 145.98 yen. Other dollar rates at midmorning compared with late Tuesday: _1.9513 West German marks, up from 1.9505 _1.6912 Swiss francs, up from 1.6870 _6.5960 French francs, up from 6.5875 _2.2021 Dutch guilders, up from 2.2000 _1,408.25 Italian lire, up from 1,406.50 _1.1838 Canadian dollars, up from 1.1833 In London, the dollar was little changed. It cost $1.5718 dollars to buy one pound at midmorning today, compared with $1.5720 late Tuesday. Gold opened in London at a bid price of $360 a troy ounce, compared with late Tuesday's $360.50. At midmorning today, the city's five major bullion dealers fixed a recommended price of $360.75. In Zurich, the bid price was $360.80 compared with $360.50 late Tuesday. Earlier, in Hong Kong, gold fell 34 cents to close at a bid $361.42. Silver was quoted in London at a bid price of $5.08 a troy ounce, compared with Tuesday's 5.09. AP890920-0068 AP-NR-09-20-89 0640EDT r a PM-WeatherpageWeather 09-20 0261 PM-Weatherpage Weather,0268 Rain from Atlantic Coast to Nation's Midsection By The Associated Press Rain spread from the Atlantic Coast into the nation's midsection today and thunderstorms rumbled across sections of the desert Southwest. Meanwhile, Hurricane Hugo, which spread destruction through the Caribbean and has been blamed for at least 25 deaths, appeared about to deal the Bahamas a glancing blow. Forecasters said it could hit somewhere on the East Coast by week's end. A combination of moist air from the Atlantic and an upper level low pressure system caused showers and thunderstorms over much of the Atlantic Coast states. In some areas, the rainfall was heavy. More than 3 inches fell in Elizabeth, N.J., and 3 inches of rain was recorded at Hamilton Square, Pa. Showers and thunderstorms also fell over southern Nevada, while scattered showers and thunderstorms reached across New Mexico and southeast Colorado. Temperatures around the nation at 3 a.m. EDT included: _East: Atlanta 67 partly cloudy; Boston 62 drizzle; Buffalo 51 foggy; Charleston, S.C., 66 drizzle; Cleveland 53 foggy; Detroit 54 foggy; Miami 77 partly cloudy; New York 72 foggy; Philadelphia 74 foggy; Portland, Maine, 59 rain; Washington 64 rain. _Central: Bismarck 50 fair; Denver 62 partly cloudy; Des Moines 57 fair; Fort Worth 65 fair; Indianapolis 53 foggy; Kansas City 59 fair; New Orleans 65 fair; St. Louis 62 fair; Minneapolis-St. Paul 65 foggy. _West: Albuquerque 67 fair; Anchorage 47 showery; Las Vegas 58 fair; Los Angeles 60 fair; Salt Lake City 58 cloudy; San Diego 59 fair; San Francisco 55 fair; Seattle 55 fair. AP890920-0069 AP-NR-09-20-89 0654EDT r p PM-SeattleMayor 09-20 0383 PM-Seattle Mayor,0393 School Busing Opponent, Supporter Square off for Mayor of Seattle By DAVID AMMONS Associated Press Writer SEATTLE (AP) Two candidates with opposing positions on school busing will face off in November's mayoral election after finishing atop a 13-candidate field in the primary race. City Attorney Attorney Doug Jewett, a Republican and co-sponsor of an anti-busing initiative, finished first in Tuesday's primary. City Council member Norm Rice, a Democrat and leading opponent of the measure, finished second. It is Rice's second bid to become Seattle's first black mayor. With a voter turnout exceeding 31 percent and nearly all votes counted, Jewett had 23,299 votes or 24 percent and Rice, 20,763 votes or 21.4 percent. Former King County Executive Randy Revelle was next with 14,880 votes or 15.4 percent, followed by City Council members Jim Street, 14,473 or 14.9 percent, and Dolores Sibonga, who had hoped to become Seattle's first Asian-American mayor, 11,422 votes or 11.8 percent. David Stern, advertising executive and creator of the ``Happy Face,'' had 5,311 votes for 5.5 percent. Mayor Charles Royer, a liberal Democrat and former president of the National League of Cities, is stepping down after an unprecedented 12 years in office. He'll become head of the Institute of Political Studies at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Rice was rated the pre-election favorite because of the name familiarity he built in a losing 1984 mayoral race and congressional bid last fall. Jewett's campaign focused on his backing of Initiative 32, an attempt to end mandatory busing in the city. The measure, which is being challenged in court, is scheduled to appear on the city ballot Nov. 7. All the other major candidates opposed the initiative and supported the new ``controlled choice'' program, adopted this year to reduce the reliance on mandatory busing that has angered both white and minority parents who want their children in neighborhood schools. Rice, 46, who said the school initiative was the main reason he ran, told cheering supporters, ``This election is one of clear choice.'' He accused Jewett and other initiative backers of being racially divisive. Jewett, 43, dismissed the criticism. ``The school issue is not a racial issue,'' he said. ``It's a matter of choice and parents being able to send their children to quality neighborhood schools.'' AP890920-0070 AP-NR-09-20-89 0700EDT r i PM-Colombia 09-20 0624 PM-Colombia,0645 Defense Minister Says He Did Not Know of Mercenaries By SUSANA HAYWARD Associated Press Writer BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) Appearing before lawmakers, the defense minister denied charges that he did not act on information that mercenaries trained paramilitary death squads for Colombia's drug bosses. During a heated debate in the Senate on Tuesday, Gen. Oscar Botero Restrepo said he was aware of rumors that Israeli and British mercenaries were training paramilitary forces but was unable to verify the information. The British ambassador said the Colombian government knew about British mercenaries as early as March, but did not mention Botero. The special Senate session came after arrest warrants were issued Monday for two Israelis, former army Col. Yair Klein and civilian Arik Acek, accused of training hit squads for drug lords. Israel has concluded an investigation into the case and the Supreme Court there has to decide what, if any, action to take. Israel and Colombia do not have an extradition treaty. Klein and Acek are accused in Colombia of helping train civilians to carry out paramilitary operations, mostly in the Magdalena Media region of central Colombia where drug-backed death squads are said to operate. They reportedly arrived in Colombia in August 1988 and are said to have returned to Israel sometime after the Colombian media reported on April 10 that foreign mercenaries were training Colombians. Klein, now home in Tel Aviv, has said he trained Colombian farmers to protect themselves against leftist guerrillas and knew nothing about any links to drugs traffickers. ``I want to tell you honorable senators that since late last year, our intelligence services had knowledge of rumors circulating in the country that this type of activity was going on,'' Botero said. ``But we were not able to verify the information.'' On Tuesday night, British Ambassador Richard Neilson told Colombian television: ``The government of Colombia had information about British mercenaries in Colombia in March and we were in a position to help them (the government).'' Neilson said he would work to extradite to Colombia the British citizens allegedly involved. Sen. Alberto Rojas Puyo of the opposition leftist Patriotic Union party is leading the attack on Botero. The party alleged on April 24 that Botero was involved with Atlas Security, a Colombian company, and claimed Klein was employed by it. Botero, who commands the country's 250,000-man army, has denied the allegation. Rojas told the Senate, ``The history of Colombia will change because the conscience of Colombians now dictates we re-evaluate the conduct of our institutions.'' He said the turning point came Aug. 16, when Sen. Luis Carlos Galan, the nation's leading presidential candidate and outspoken drug foe, was assassinated. Drug-backed terrorists have been blamed for the killing. ``We Colombians were all to blame for his death because we turned our backs to reality and allowed the country to fall under the tragedy of corruption,'' Rojas said. The government began its crackdown on cocaine traffickers after the murder. President Virgilio Barco revived Colombia's extradition treaty with the United States, where the top cocaine lords are wanted on drug charges. So far one trafficker has been extradited and proceedings are under away against two others. The traffickers have retaliated with bombings, shootings and arson. The debate on mercenaries began last week after Gen. Miguel Maza Marquez, head of the country's Administrative Security Department, similar to the FBI, renewed allegations that foreigners were training death squads. Senators also asked Botero on Tuesday about the security provided to Galan as he was to give a speech in Soacha, a town on the outskirts of the capital of Bogota, before being killed. Botero said 65 police, 15 undercover security agents and Galan's own bodyguards were around the podium before Galan was shot to death. AP890920-0071 AP-NR-09-20-89 0719EDT r a PM-Auschwitz-Vatican 09-20 0438 PM-Auschwitz-Vatican,0454 Jewish Groups Welcome Vatican Offer to Move Convent NEW YORK (AP) Jewish groups welcomed the Vatican's decision to move a convent from the site of the Auschwitz death camp, but one group pressed for a timetable. The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity issued a statement by Wiesel that thanked the Vatican but added, ``What is missing is a deadline. Many of us hope that the Vatican in another statement will offer a timetable.'' One deadline for the convent's removal already has passed. The Vatican's decision was announced Tuesday by its Commission for Religious Relations with Judaism. ``It's time to move on and implement the agreement,'' said Executive Director Elan Steinberg of the World Jewish Congress. Steinberg said the Vatican's decision would improve Catholic-Jewish relations which had been severely strained over the Polish convent and had also divided Catholic cardinals in a highly unusual public split. ``We welcome this very important step in restoring the good word of the church,'' he said in a statement. Jewish groups have said they were offended by the presence of the convent and a 23-foot cross at the Auschwitz-Birkenau site, where an estimated 2.5 million Jews were among 4 million people killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Wiesel said that while he was ``gratified to know that there are Catholics who try to understand our sensitivity, and who speak out to help others understand as well,'' he was ``saddened by the anti-Semitic remarks'' made by Cardinal Jozef Glemp, the Polish primate. Speaking in Bristol, England, Glemp said removal of nuns was a ``scandal.'' But in its first public declaration on the controversy, the Vatican diplomatically but firmly rejected the position held by Glemp. The offer by the Roman Catholic Church's heirarchy included helping to pay build a new prayer center outside the camp. Glemp said the convent may be moved but the Jewish protests had ``touched the dignity'' of the nuns serving there. He said building a prayer center away from the death camp would be a ``great step, we hope, in order to solve this problem.'' In February 1987, Jewish and Catholic representatives agreed in Geneva to move the Carmelite nuns from the convent at the edge of the camp site. The nuns were to be moved in February, but the deadline passed and no prayer center was erected. On Aug. 10, the archbishop of Krakow, Cardinal Franciszek Macharski, announced he was suspending the agreement because Jewish protesters had created an ``atmosphere of aggressive demands.'' Glemp fueled the controversy by saying the accord should be renegotiated and that the Polish church lacked money to build a prayer center. AP890920-0072 AP-NR-09-20-89 0742EDT u i PM-Yeltsin 09-20 0545 PM-Yeltsin,0561 Moscow News Criticizes Pravda for Printing Yeltsin Article By JOHN IAMS Associated Press Writer MOSCOW (AP) The Moscow News today said that an article in the Communist Party daily that accused political maverick Boris N. Yeltsin of boorish behavior on a U.S. tour was ``a joke in poor taste.'' The feisty weekly, in an unusual slap at Pravda, dismissed Yeltsin's alleged drinking and shopping spree as irrelevant and criticized the Soviet press for ignoring most of what Yeltsin said on his U.S. lecture tour. On the morning of his return to Moscow Monday, Pravda reprinted a scathing article that appeared in the Italian daily La Repubblica depicting Yeltsin as leaving behind ``a wake of catastrophic prophecies, insane expenses, interviews and above all the perfume of Jack Daniels Black Label'' whiskey. Yeltsin called the article ``garbage'' and accused Pravda of seeking ``revenge for the fact that Americans received us with admiration.'' Organizers of Yeltsin's tour and reporters who covered it said the 58-year-old opposition legislator, who became a hero to many Soviets by criticizing special privileges for party and government officials, did not appear drunk during his speeches and interviews. In its editorial, written by deputy chief editor Vitaly Tretyakov, Moscow News did not challenge the accuracy of the La Repubblica account but said Pravda failed to tell its readers whether the report was reliable. Moscow News, which is published in English and has a limited circulation, has been at the forefront of newspapers that are promoting perestroika, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's economic reform program. ``It's difficult to take the article from La Repubblica as anything but a joke in poor taste,'' Moscow News said. As it appeared in Pravda, the article described the tour as ``a holiday, a stage, a bar 5,000 kilometers long'' and said Yeltsin was downing two bottles of vodka and four bottles of scotch daily. ``Yeltsin was delivering lectures, gave seven interviews every day and talked with the U.S. president for 15 minutes. But in the Soviet press, only a few short articles appeared,'' Moscow News said. Noting that the Soviet press practically never tells readers which of their leaders drink or about their shopping habits abroad, the editorial said: ``About Yeltsin, we now know. Pity that such a leap forward in the sphere of glasnost was made by the Soviet press not on its own, but with the help of Italian newspapers.'' Moscow News said Yeltsin should be seen as a political leader and what he may have drunk or bought in the United States was not important. During his nine-city tour, Yeltsin said Gorbachev could face a revolution if he fails to improve living conditions soon. Yeltsin, the former Communist Party chief of Moscow, was stripped of the job almost two years ago by Gorbachev, who criticized him as politically immature and overly ambitious. But, in a remarkable political comeback, the populist won 89 percent of the vote when he ran against an establishment candidate to represent Moscow in the Congress of People's Deputies. A month and a half ago, he was elected along with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei D. Sakahrov and a handful of other reformers to the steering committee of the first organized opposition in the Soviet parliament in almost 70 years. AP890920-0073 AP-NR-09-20-89 0820EDT r a PM-Gorillas 09-20 0349 PM-Gorillas,0359 New York Researcher Chosen to Continue Dian Fossey's Work By PAT MILTON Associated Press Writer STONY BROOK, N.Y. (AP) Dian Fossey's fight to save Africa's mountain gorilla from extinction will be continued by a 33-year-old New York woman. Diane Doran, a researcher at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, was chosen from 15 applicants to be the next director of the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda. Fossey, who was portrayed in the movie ``Gorillas in the Mist,'' set up the center 1967 to study and preserve the mountain gorilla. She was slain in her mountain hut in 1985. Two others have served two-year stints as directors since then. ``I consider it a privilege,'' said Doran. ``Being able to study animals in the wild is magical ... something very few people will ever get to do.'' The Digit Fund, an animal conservation organization in Engelwood, Colo., that finances the center, chose Doran in June. The fund is named after one of Fossey's favorite gorillas. A native of Whitesboro in upstate New York near Utica, Doran is completing her doctoral thesis comparing pygmied and common chimpanzees. She has worked in Africa and is fluent in Lingala, an African language. At the center, Doran will supervise research on the mountain gorilla, assist in conservation efforts and oversee an anti-poaching program. She will live alone in a cabin high in the mountains on the border between Rwanda and Zaire. Fossey, who studied the mountain gorilla for 20 years, set up anti-poaching patrols to protect the threatened species, of which about 300 remain. She became an enemy to poachers who slaughtered the gorillas and sold their heads and hands to be made into ashtrays and other souvenirs. Doran said she never met Fossey but admired her pioneering work. ``When she went there it was unheard of for a woman or anybody to study great apes,'' said Doran. She said she doesn't fear for her safety because the Rwandans have become supportive of conservation. Tourists who want to see the gorillas are the country's third-largest source of revenue. AP890920-0074 AP-NR-09-20-89 0831EDT r i BC-DeKlerk-Excerpts 09-20 0483 BC-De Klerk-Excerpts,0499 Excerpts of South African President's Speech With PM-South Africa, Bjt PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) Here are excerpts from the speech delivered by F.W. de Klerk after he was sworn in for a five-year term as president. He spoke in English and Afrikaans during the speech. A text in English was made available by the government. Our goal is a new South Africa; a totally changed South Africa; a South Africa which has rid itself of the antagonisms of the past; a South Africa free of domination or oppression in whatever form; a South Africa within which the democratic forces _ all reasonable people _ align themselves behind mutually acceptable goals and against radicalism ... We accept that time is of the essence and we are committed to visible evolutionary progress ... While we are quite prepared to be tested against our undertakings, we cannot accept responsibility for over-enthusiastic or even twisted versions of our policy. For years progress was hampered by, among others, lack of cooperation, suspicion and mistrust. And, as critics of the government would surely want to allege, also by actions and-or failures on the side of the government... The time has come for South Africa to restore its pride and to lift itself out of the doldrums of growing international isolation, economic decline and increasing polarization... During the term of the new government we shall concentrate especially on five crucial areas: _We shall set everything in motion to bridge the deep gulf of mistrust, suspicion and fear between South Africans ... _The negotiation process will, from the start, receive incisive attention... _We are going to open the door to prosperity and economic growth. We shall do this by breaking out of the international stranglehold which, for political reasons, has been applied to our growth potential... _We are going to develop a new constitutional dispensation in which everyone will be able to participate without domination. _We shall continue to deal with unrest, violence and terrorism with a firm hand ... _We shall work urgently on proposals with regard to the handling of discriminatory legislation. The continued removal of discrimination remains an important objective ... _We shall work just as urgently on the formulation of alternative methods of protecting group and minority rights in a non-discriminatory manner. This includes urgent attention to the place and role of a human rights bill... _The process of the release of security prisoners, which was started by my predecessor, will be continued ... My call to the international community is: take note of what is happening in South Africa. There is a determination amongst millions of South Africans to negotiate fair and peaceful solutions. Use your influence constructively to help us attain that goal ... And to the the leaders and the people of South Africa my appeal is: help me and the government to make a breakthrough to peace. AP890920-0075 AP-NR-09-20-89 0833EDT r a PM-People-Nixon 09-20 0204 PM-People-Nixon,0212 Hometown Proclaims Nixon Birthday a City Holiday Eds: Wedaa is cq. YORBA LINDA, Calif (AP) The birthday of former President Richard Nixon is now an official day of rest for municipal workers in the city of his birth. The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to make Nixon's birthday, Jan. 9, a holiday for about 100 employees in the city 30 miles from Los Angeles. ``We're not here to judge history, we're here to recognize it,'' said Mayor Henry W. Wedaa. Nixon, who was born in a Yorba Linda farmhouse in 1913, said ``he's pleased'' with the honor, Wedaa reported. The proposal to make the date a holiday was met warmly, Wedaa said, despite Nixon's 1974 resignation in the Watergate scandal. ``Many of us have felt it was time for a holiday for President Nixon, and the time has come,'' Wedaa said. The Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library already is under construction here. ``Fifteen years have elapsed since President Nixon's resignation and history has shown the importance of his presidency, particularly with respect to his brilliance in foreign policy,'' the holiday resolution said. Assistant City Manager Bruce E. Channing said the holiday will cost the city about $100,000 a year. AP890920-0076 AP-NR-09-20-89 0847EDT r i PM-Quayle 1stLd-Writethru 09-20 0678 PM-Quayle, 1st Ld - Writethru,a0523,0692 Vice President Calls North A Continued Major Threat Eds: Leads with 3 grafs to move up references to trade surplus, human rights. Pickup 2nd pvs, `Quayle said...' By PAUL SHIN Associated Press Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) Vice President Dan Quayle said today that U.S. forces will remain in South Korea to block threats from Communist North Korea, which he said remains a major threat to peace in the region. Quayle also met with a top opposition leader who says the government is waging a campaign against dissent. U.S. officials said privately that Quayle told South Korean officials to respect human rights. The vice president also discussed South Korea's trade surplus with the United States, which has caused friction between the two governments. Washington wants South Korea to lift restrictions on U.S. imports. Quayle said the Bush administration remained committed to keeping U.S. forces in South Korea at existing levels despite calls by some U.S. lawmakers for troop cuts or a phased withdrawal. Washington has 43,000 troops in South Korea under a mutual defense treaty. ``Our commitment to Korea's security remains unwavering. U.S. forces will remain in Korea as long as our two nations want them and as long as they can contribute to peace and stability,'' Quayle said in a speech to the Korean Newspaper Editors Association. Quayle claimed North Korea poses a threat to South Korea's security and the Soviet Union has been helping to bolster the north's military capability with advanced new weapons. He said Soviet aid to Pyongyang cast doubt on Moscow's claims to want peace and stability in the region. ``The north (Korea) retains an extraordinary willingness to use force and terrorism against the south,'' he said. Radical students staged scattered protests against Quayle's visit for a second day. About 50 students chanted ``Get out Quayle'' at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul but did not clash with police. About 400 students yelling anti-American slogans battled riot police with firebombs and rocks at Kyongbok University in the central city of Taeju, police said. Quayle assured President Roh Tae-woo and other South Korean leaders in private meetings that the Bush Administration will keep its forces in South Korea, U.S. officials said. Some U.S. lawmakers have called for troop cuts, saying South Korea is capable of defending itself. South Korean leaders insist U.S. forces are vital in preventing a North Korean attack. But dissident groups have been calling for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops and an end to close ties with Washington. Quayle, on the first leg of an Asian trip that will also take him to Japan, the Philippines and Malaysia, also praised the Korean people for their efforts to build a democracy after years of authoritarian rule. He praised Roh for helping bring in broad democratic reforms. U.S. officials, who declined to be named, said Quayle urged South Korean officials privately to respect human rights and avoid abuses of past regimes. The United States has expressed concern over the arrests of hundreds of anti-government dissidents in recent months. Two dissidents, Kim Dong-gil and Park Hyung-kyu, were invited to have breakfast with Quayle along with a selection of other Korean ``opinionmakers.'' The dissidents criticized the Roh government at the meeting with Quayle, but U.S. officials would give no details. Quayle also met the leaders of the top three opposition parties at the National Assembly, including Kim Dae-jung, who has been indicted on charges of not reporting an opposition lawmaker's secret trip to North Korea. Kim contends the charges are an attempt by the government to discredit him and cripple the opposition. Quayle also discussed trade with Roh and other government leaders as part of attempts to resolve friction between the two nations over Seoul's huge trade surplus with Washington. The United States wants free access to South Korea for its exports. The United States intervened to aid South Korea when it was attacked by North Korea in 1950 at the start of the Korean War. U.S. forces remained in South Korea after the war ended in 1953. AP890920-0077 AP-NR-09-20-89 0857EDT r w PM-WashingtoninBrief 1stLd-Writethru a0469 09-20 0408 PM-Washington in Brief, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0469,400 Eds: CORRECTS spelling of Secord in first graf of 3rd item. Leland Memorial To Be Built WASHINGTON (AP) Feed the Children, a worldwide hunger relief organization, says it will build a feeding center in Ethiopia as a ``living legacy'' to the late Rep. Mickey Leland. Feed the Children president Larry Jones said the Oklahoma City-based organization plans to raise the estimated $150,000 needed to build the facility, to be called the Mickey Leland Memorial Feeding Center. The center would initially be used to store food, prepare a hot meal a day for children at an area school, and to distribute food to needy families, Jones said. Leland, a Houston Democrat who founded the House Select Committee on Hunger, died in August when his plane crashed into an Ethiopian mountain on its way to a refugee camp. It was Leland's sixth trip to Ethiopia since 1984 on behalf of the hungry in the Horn of Africa. ___ ^Toy Bear Recalled WASHINGTON (AP) One member of the popular ``Kensington Bear'' toy family has been recalled because buttons may detach from clothes the bear wears and choke small children, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The CPSC said Tuesday the recalled model is number S7417. The brown, 14-inch stuffed bear is clad in a maroon print dress trimmed with pink and blue ribbons at the hem and three heart-shaped buttons on the front. No injuries have been reported although 1,800 bears have been on the national retail market since January 1988, the panel said. Consumers may keep the bear or return it for a refund from the manufacturer, Heartline, a division of Kansas City, Mo.-based Graphics International, Inc. by calling 1-800-821-7200. ___ Secord Criticizes Prosecutor WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. District Court Judge Aubrey Robinson has rejected an attempt by Richard Secord to delay Secord's Iran-Contra trial while an advisory panel investigates prosecutors. Robinson said Tuesday that such a move would mean ``We're looking at about a year'' delay in Secord's trial. Lawyers for Secord contended Tuesday that prosecutors made ``an irreparable mistake'' by failing to get Justice Department permission before investigating Secord's congressional testimony for perjury. Secord, the retired Air Force major general enlisted by Oliver North to run arms to the Contras and assist in the Reagan administration's secret Iran initiative, is accused of obstructing Congress, perjury and making false statements. His trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 13. AP890920-0078 AP-NR-09-20-89 0900EDT u i PM-SouthAfrica 4thLd-Writethru a0535 09-20 0811 PM-South Africa, 4th Ld-Writethru, a0535,0831 F.W. de Klerk Sworn In as President, Promises End To White Domination Eds: Leads with 6 grafs to UPDATE with opposition comment, more de Klerk quotes. Pickup 6th graf, `He said...' By LAURINDA KEYS Associated Press Writer PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) F.W. de Klerk was sworn in as president today and appealed to South Africans of all races to help build a nation ``free of domination and oppression.'' He took the oath of office at a Pretoria church as reports spread that his government would free jailed black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela next year. Newspapers quoted officials as saying the release would be part of several moves aimed at drawing blacks into negotiations on a new constitution. ``Our goal is a new South Africa, a totally changed South Africa, a South Africa which has rid itself of the antagonisms of the past, a South Africa free of domination or oppression in whatever form,'' de Klerk, 53, said during the swearing-in ceremony. A leading anti-apartheid activist, the Rev. Allan Boesak, said he would give de Klerk six months to prove that blacks' skepticism toward him is unfounded. ``If he does not move by then, our fears will be tragically fulfilled,'' said Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. ``If he does move, then I think we might find ourselves in a situation where one may begin to be hopeful.'' De Klerk said his government would move to eliminate discriminatory laws, give ``urgent attention'' to adopting a bill of rights and release prisoners such as Mandela if that would promote peaceful solutions. He said he hoped to ``gradually move away'' from the 3-year-old state of emergency, which has severed restricted militant anti-apartheid activity. ``Protest regarding past injustice, or alleged injustice, does not bring us closer to a solution. Nor does unrest or violence,'' he said. ``There is but one way to peace, to justice for all: that is the way of reconciliation.'' He reiterated his vision of a new political system in which the now-voteless black majority would be able to participate without dominating the white minority, and he cautioned against unreasonable expectations for his program. De Klerk's eyes watered when a minister preaching at the swearing-in ceremony urged him to press forward without fear. Chief Justice Michael Corbett administered the oath of office before about 1,500 people in a Dutch Reformed Church near the University of Pretoria. In an indication of South Africa's international isolation, no foreign heads of state were present. As the ceremony began, a group of human rights lawyers in Pretoria announced that de Klerk had commuted the death sentences of seven prisoners on Death Row. It was the second time in five weeks that de Klerk took the oath. He became acting president on Aug. 15, a day after the Cabinet forced President P.W. Botha to resign after his 11 years in power. De Klerk did not mention Mandela by name in his speech, but said security prisoners would be released if public order was not threatened and prospects for peace could be enhanced. Mandela has been jailed since 1962 and is serving a life sentence along with other leaders of the outlawed African National Congress guerrilla movement for plotting anti-government sabotage. Since succeeding Botha, de Klerk has repeatedly stressed the need for speedy reform and has called white domination of the black majority unfair. His National Party lost seats to both the left and right in elections Sept. 6, but retained its parliamentary majority on a platform calling for a vote for blacks on the national level by 1994. Although he has spoken out against discrimination, De Klerk opposes outright black majority rule, and favors segregated neighborhoods and schools for whites who want them. His personal style, conciliatory and affable, translated into immediate political gain when he declared that police would no longer interfere with peaceful anti-government protests. Last week, tens of thousands of people of all races participated in two of the largest marches in South African history. Some of his staunchest black opponents praised de Klerk's decision, seen as an attempt to defuse bitterness and encourage black leaders to negotiate with the government. But under the state of emergency, which grants police almost unlimited powers to limit freedom of speech, press and assembly, police continued to detain black leaders without charge while the marches went on. Throughout his 17 years in politics, including 10 years in the Cabinet, de Klerk has been a low-key, loyal supporter of the National Party and a policy of gradual, limited reforms. De Klerk practiced law before entering Parliament in 1973. From 1978, he held a series of Cabinet posts and in 1982 took on the powerful job of National Party leader in Transvaal, South Africa's most populous and wealthy province. De Klerk and his, Marike, wife have three children. AP890920-0079 AP-NR-09-20-89 0939EDT r a PM-BoiledBody 09-20 0378 PM-Boiled Body,0388 Dead Dancer's Boyfriend Called Himself the Anti-Christ Eds: Note contents. NEW YORK (AP) A spurned lover charged with killing his dancer-girlfriend and reducing her body to boiled, peeled bones called himself the anti-Christ and advocated the overthrow of the government, newspapers reported today. ``I say that I'm the new Lord,'' the New York Post quoted Daniel Rakowitz as saying in an interview two months ago with a free-lance writer. ``And I will take leadership of the satanic cultists to make sure they do everything that has to be done to destroy all those people who do disagree with my church.'' Rakowitz, 28, was arrested Monday before a bucket of bones was found at a bus terminal. He remained jailed today in the slaying of Monika Beerle. Neighbors said Rakowitz carried a live rooster on the street. In the interview, Rakowitz said New Yorkers should smoke marijuana, kill cocaine and heroin dealers and overthrow the government. A free-lance videographer and writer, Clayton Patterson, had interviewed Rakowitz after he took part in a melee with police last year in a park. Patterson said Rakowitz had shouted during the riot, ``Kill the pigs and feed them to the hogs!'' Miss Beerle, 26, lived with Rakowitz for two months before she broke off the relationship Aug. 19 and asked him to move out, said police. Miss Beerle came to New York last year from her native Switzerland to study dance. Miss Beerle was beaten and stabbed and her body slowly dismembered and boiled to separate bone from flesh, said Deputy Police Chief Ronald Fenrich. The flesh was flushed down the toilet of the apartment, where another couple also lived, he said. ``We have a female witness who is now living in New Jersey and a male witness,'' Fenrich said. ``These witnesses had heard something and seen the body parts, which led us to the suspect.'' Rakowitz was arrested at a Brooklyn restaurant where he had worked for two days as a cook. Bones in a five-gallon bucket were discovered in a baggage claim area of a bus terminal. ``He was calm, not excited, didn't appear to be under stress, did not offer any resistance and came voluntarily,'' Fenrich said. ``His statement led us to the baggage check-in.'' AP890920-0080 AP-NR-09-20-89 0945EDT u i PM-Hugo-StCroix 1stLd-Writethru 09-20 0609 PM-Hugo-St Croix, 1st Ld-Writethru,a0552,0627 Authorities Join Looters in U.S. Virgin Islands Eds: Adds 5 grafs after last pvs to include background on report of prisoners escaping, geography on islands, other damage from Hugo. No pickup. With PM-Hugo, Bjt CHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) Law enforcement collapsed on St. Croix after Hurricane Hugo devastated the island, and hundreds of looters were ransacking stores and loading garbage bags full of food and jewelry, witnesses said today. Tourists pleaded with reporters landing on this U.S. Virgin Island to take them off, and the U.S. Coast Guard today said gunshots and looting occurred during the night. ``It's very bad, extremely bad,'' said San Juan reporter Gary Williams. ``When we landed (in a helicopter on St. Croix), we were pounced upon by about 15 tourists. They said, `Please get food! Please get water! Please help us! They're looting. We've seen police looting. We've seen National Guard looting. There's no law and order here.' ``The women were in panic. Some were crying. They didn't know what to do or how to get out of there,'' Williams said in a telephone interview. Ham radio operators reported Hugo's winds on Sunday night and Monday destroyed or damaged 97 percent of the buildings on St. Croix, which has a population of 53,000. Civil defense officials reported no deaths on the island. In San Juan, Coast Guard Petty Officer John Ware said Coast Guard cutters were steaming offshore St. Croix today, ``showing the flag and awaiting instructions (on possible military assistance).'' He said there were ``gunshots in the night, lots of looting going on in the night. We have reports of widespread looting and civil unrest.'' Williams said his helicopter flew over Sunny Isle shopping center in Christiansted. He said there appeared to be 1,000 people in the parking lot, many walking in and out of shattered shops with garbage bags. ``They were walking to their cars with stuff,'' he said. ``The Grand Union (supermarket) was just crammed with people at the door.'' At one jewelry store, ``We saw three men and a women walking out with garbage bags loaded with stuff.'' He said one man was wielding an iron bar. At another nearby jewelry store, where the store window had already been shattered, people were trying to break open the metal bars to get in, Williams said. He said he saw two women carrying large boxes overflowing with toys. ``We did not see one cop in Christensted, and that's the main town,'' he said. ``We saw a National Guard truck filled to capacity with all kinds of stuff in it.'' When the guardsmen saw the reporters, they moved away quickly. Miami Herald reporter Carlos Harrison today also said he saw a National Guard truck loaded with merchandise. ``They didn't look like they were delivering things,'' Harrison said. Ham operators also heard reports that law enforcement had collapsed. One, Stuart Haimes of Queens, N.Y., said an undetermined number of inmates had either escaped or been released because of prison damage and also were looting. Officials said St. Croix suffered more damage than St. Thomas or St. John, the other two islands in the U.S. chain southwest of Puerto Rico. More than 50,000 people across the Caribbean lost homes in the storm. A Civil Defense spokeswoman in Puerto Rico, Cizanette Rivera, said the storm claimed 25 lives Sunday and Monday as it churned westward through the Leeward Islands and hit Puerto Rico before heading northwest. Two people were killed in Puerto Rico and other independently confirmed deaths included nine people on the British Island of Montserrat, five on the French territory of Guadeloupe and two on Antigua. AP890920-0081 AP-NR-09-20-89 1012EDT u w PM-DC-10Safety 1stLd-Writethru a0448 09-20 0650 PM-DC-10 Safety, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0448,610 Top Aviation, Safety Officials Say DC-10 Safe Eds: SUBS 4th graf, Within hours, to update with French airline saying bomb most likely cause of latest crash. Laserphoto WX6 By DAVID BRISCOE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Engine inspections and design modifications are being ordered for the DC-10 following an Iowa crash that killed 112 people, but top aviation and safety officials still say the wide-body jetliner is safe. A congressional transportation subcommittee summoned the heads of the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Transportation Safety Board and a McDonnell Douglas vice president Tuesday to discuss the trouble-plagued airliner. All said DC-10s are safe _ as safe as any other wide-body jet _ and there is no reason to ground the more than 400 in service. Within hours after the hearing, there was another incident involving a DC-10. The French airline UTA said a bomb most likely caused the crash of one of its DC-10s carrying 171 people from N'Djamena, Chad, to Paris. The scattered wreckage was found in south-central Niger and there was no word on survivors. FAA Administrator James B. Busey announced to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation subcommittee an order to inspect the fan disks of 220 DC-10 engines similar to the one investigators believe failed prior to the July 19 crash of a United DC-10 in Sioux City, Iowa, that killed 112 people. James Kolstad, safety board chairman, told the same hearing that a DC-10 modification recommended by aircraft builder McDonnell Douglas last week should be made mandatory for all of the jetliners. The manufacturer said the change would prevent the loss of all hydraulic flight controls which occurred before the July 19 United Flight 232 crash in Iowa. Kolstad said DC-10s and other wide-body airliners are among ``the safest airplanes in history.'' The subcommittee chairman, Sen. Wendell H. Ford, D-Ky., said the hearing was called to get reassurances that the government is adequately policing safety of the DC-10. Busey described several government and industry groups set up to look into possible improvements for the DC-10 and other airliners. ``At the outset I believe it is important that I assure you and the public that the FAA considers the DC-10 to be a safe aircraft,'' the administrator said, adding that there was no reason to ground the airliner. Busey said that although investigators had not determined what caused the explosive engine failure in the Iowa crash, one possible scenario is the development of a crack in the engine fan disk ``as the result of an internal flaw in the disk material itself.'' Inspections ordered by the FAA cover all General Electric CF6-6 engines built for the DC-10 using a ``double-vacuum'' melt process during the formation of titanium material from which the rotor disks are forged. ``The (inspection order) is needed to identify and remove from service Stage 1 fan disks which may have metallurgical imperfections. Such imperfections can adversely affect the service life of the disk,'' the FAA said. FAA officials earlier said a microscopic flaw was found in analysis of six engines built from the same metal used in the Iowa DC-10. Busey said 55 engines would be inspected by Nov. 21, and the remaining 165 before February 4. Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, D-S.C., questioned the timetable, calling for the FAA to say what is being done ``to minimize the risks that those aircraft in operation pose until they clear FAA inspections.'' Kolstad said the safety board's investigations into DC-10 accidents ``to date have uncovered no common thread that would suggest a fundamental design flaw of the airplane.'' He said there is nothing to indicate that the DC-10's operating history is significantly different from that of other wide-body transport airplanes. ``While, in retrospect, all of these airplanes may have benefited from some design improvements, their operating records have placed them among the safest airplanes in history,'' he said. AP890920-0082 AP-NR-09-20-89 1021EDT r a PM-CompoundQ 09-20 0361 PM-Compound Q,0369 Underground Tests of AIDS Drug Show Promise, Dangers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Organizers of underground tests of an AIDS drug derived from Chinese cucumber roots say early results show promise but also dangers. ``You can't use the word dramatic to describe the results of such a preliminary, early study, but you can say it had a significant effect,'' Martin Delaney, co-director of Project Inform, said Tuesday. The San Francisco-based AIDS information group secretly organized the study of the drug, Compound Q, in May without authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. Project Inform has said that desperate AIDS patients already were experimenting on themselves with the drug and wouldn't wait for government action. More than 300 people crowded into the room where Delaney announced results of the study of 34 patients from San Francisco and New York. Tests results have not yet been tabulated for those taking part in Los Angeles and Miami. Two patients died after receiving Compound Q and three others suffered severe dementia or seizures but recovered. All already had severely disabled immune systems, and doctors did not blame the deaths on Compound Q, Delaney said. ``This drug has serious risks associated with it, but it's too important to be dismissed,'' said Delaney, who called for accelerated federal research. The promising effects in some patients treated with Compound Q included slight rises in T4 lymphocyte cells, which are crucial for a healthy immune system. Others showed drops in levels of p24 antigen, a protein the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS, is thought to release as it reproduces in cells. Delaney and the San Francisco doctors who designed the study _ Alan Levin and Larry Waites _ said the results indicate the compound could be valuable in combination with other drugs such as AZT. ``These numbers are a little squishy,'' Levin said. ``But if you get four squishy numbers and they're all pointing in the same direction, you know you're on to something.'' Project Inform initiated its study after University of California-San Francisco researcher Dr. Michael McGrath reported that Compound Q appeared to selectively kill cells infected with the virus in test tube studies. AP890920-0083 AP-NR-09-20-89 1028EDT u w PM-CongressionalPay 1st-Ld-Writethru a0466 09-20 0655 PM-Congressional Pay, 1st-Ld-Writethru, a0466,620 Foley Says House Will Consider Ethics Reform Package Eds: LEADS with 5 grafs to update with Foley comments on ethics reform package, picks up 2nd graf pvs, The proposal... By LARRY MARGASAK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) House Speaker Thomas Foley said today the House would consider an ethics reform package this fall, but took no position on a task force's tentative plan to raise congressional pay 35 percent over two years. Foley said the task force has not presented the House leadership with its preliminary recommendation, which, a congressional source said, also includes a proposal to phase out controversial honoraria payments. ``We've made no decision on that,'' Foley told reporters. ``We'll listen to whatever recommendations are made.'' All recent attempts to reform House ethics rules have included a pay increase along with reform of the honoraria system. Asked if the House would still consider an ethics reform package this year Foley said, ``I think we will consider an ethics package this fall.'' The proposal would increase pay by about 10 percent next year, another 25 percent in 1991 and tie pay boosts afterward to the cost of living, the source said Tuesday night, speaking on condition of anonymity. The final recommendation of the 10-member bipartisan task force is expected to be presented to congressional leadership this week. The proposal is subject to change and is expected to go before the full House by the end of October. House and Senate members currently are paid $89,500 annually, and leaders are paid more. A 35 percent increase would make the salary $120,825. A key part of the new plan would be a two-year phaseout of honoraria _ fees for making speeches, often to organizations lobbying for legislation. House members now may keep honoraria totaling 30 percent of their pay, while the limit for senators is 40 percent. The proposal also would eliminate a provision in current law allowing House members who were in office by January 1980 to convert excess campaign money to personal use. The task force has not decided when that proposed change should take effect, according to the source. The plan also would tighten disclosure requirements for receipt of gifts. The task force reportedly is considering several proposals to allow outside earned income other than honoraria, including the possibility of letting members keep 15 percent of their outside earnings. Former House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas, established the task force earlier this year after lawmakers suffered through their latest bitter feud over a pay increase. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader led what became a public outcry against a plan to raise lawmakers' salaries by 51 percent, a raise that could have gone into effect without a vote if Congress had gone along with the recommendations of a presidential pay commission and former President Reagan. Wright sought to save part of the raise by having the House vote on a 30 percent increase that would have been offset by a phaseout of honoraria, but the House rejected such a plan. Congressional watchdog group Common Cause and other organizations have called repeatedly for an end to honoraria, which usually is a $2,000 per appearance fee for lawmakers who are invited to speak to groups that have an interest in legislation. Critics say the fees too often amount to a reward just for showing up, sometimes at conventions at plush resorts for which the member's expenses are picked up by the sponsors. Backers of a raise say members have not taken cost of living increases in recent years and need a substantial increase to catch up with inflation. Many members feel they must maintain two homes, one in Washington and one in their home districts, and face expenses that others with similar salaries don't have, the supporters say. The task force of 10 members is equally divided between the parties and chaired by Reps. Vic Fazio, D-Calif., and Lynn Martin, R-Ill. AP890920-0084 AP-NR-09-20-89 1042EDT r i PM-Refugees 09-20 0486 PM-Refugees,0501 400 New Refugees Arrive in West Germany, Some Moved from Warsaw Embassy By NESHA STARCEVIC Associated Press Writer FRANKFURT, West Germany (AP) More than 400 East German refugees arrived in West Germany overnight, a border officials said today. Some emigres said they swam the Danube River to get to Hungary and the open border to the West. Most of the new arrivals apparently made their way from Czechoslovakia via Hungary and Austria. Several of the refugees interviewed by West German television said Czechoslovakia's Communist authorities were trying to prevent East Germans from reaching Hungary, even though the refugees had valid travel documents and visas for Hungary. Some refugees told West German television in the border city of Passau that they swam across the Danube River to reach Hungary. One man said he was prevented from crossing to Hungary, went back to Poland and then flew to Budapest. None of the interviewed refugees was identified. A West German border police spokesman, Klaus Papenfuss, said 416 East Germans crossed the border into West Germany overnight, most in special buses. Hungarian media on Tuesday confirmed previous reports by refugees and relief workers that Czechoslovak authorities were trying to prevent East Germans from reaching Hungary. Hungary last week opened its borders to East German refugees and more than 17,000 have since used the opportunity to emigrate to West Germany. Newspaper reports said the number of East German refugees in the West German Embassy in Prague today swelled to at least 520. In Bonn, Foreign Ministry spokesman Juergen Chrobog said 16 of 120 East Germans who had taken refuge in the West German Embassy in Warsaw had been moved to a nearby Roman Catholic seminary. The influx of refugees to the cramped embassy forced the West German government to close the mission to the public on Tuesday. The refugees are demanding free passage to West Germany. Chrobog told reporters in Bonn the seminary was made available by the Warsaw diocese at the request of West Germany's ambassador to Poland, Franz-Joachim Schoeller. Schoeller told West German television late Tuesday that Poland has promised a ``pragmatic'' solution for the refugees. The mass-circulation newspaper Bild said Poland's new government, dominated by non-Communists and led by Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki, had assured Bonn that no East German refugees would be sent back against their will to their hard-line Communist homeland. Poland has a bilateral agreement obliging it to repatriate East German refugees to East Germany, but the new government in Warsaw is committed to respecting the 1975 Helsinki agreements guaranteeing freedom of movement, Bild said. Hungary had a similar bilateral agreement with East Germany but suspended it on Sept. 10 and allowed thousands of East Germans to cross Austria and enter West Germany, where they receive automatic citizenship and help settling. The dispute over the refugees is straining relations within the Warsaw Pact, as well as between the two German states. AP890920-0085 AP-NR-09-20-89 1049EDT r a PM-HaitianBabies 09-20 0664 PM-Haitian Babies,0684 Haitian Immigrants, Stopped at Sea, Threaten to Drown Their Babies By ALAN COOPERMAN Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) Haitian refugees trying to reach the United States in small boats have adopted a grim new tactic: threatening to throw their babies into the sea unless the Coast Guard gets out of their way. In the most recent incident, 103 Haitians aboard a rickety, 40-foot sailboat in the Bahamas turned seven of their infants into hostages Saturday night to try to keep a 110-foot Coast Guard cutter at bay, said Lt. Paul Wolf. When a larger, 205-foot cutter arrived Sunday morning, the refugees gave up and were returned to Haiti, said Wolf, a spokesman at the Coast Guard's East Coast operations center in Boston. It was the third time in seven months that people fleeing the depressed and strife-torn Caribbean island have threatened their children's lives in a desperate effort to reach Florida, the Coast Guard said. Both previous incidents, on March 25 and June 1, also ended with the peaceful return of the refugees to Haiti. In no case was any infant tossed overboard. But Coast Guard officials said they are concerned that the tactic is spreading and may eventually result in death or injury. ``It's a variation on a hostage-taking, obviously a very delicate situation, and the fact that you're on the open water makes it even more delicate,'' said Lt. Cmdr. Jeff Karonis, a Coast Guard spokesman in Miami. ``You're at the mercy of the weather all the time. It can get dark. You have to worry whether they have enough food and whether their vessel is going to sink. ... It can get very hairy.'' In all three incidents, the Coast Guard's response has been to open negotiations with the refugees, try to calm them down and wait them out. But there is no formal policy on how to handle the threats, and the commmander on the scene has wide latitude to act as he sees fit, Wolf said. ``If it's a nice calm day, where the vessel is seaworthy, there's time to talk and defuse the situation,'' Wolf said. ``But on other days when the water is rough and the boat is in danger of sinking, we might have to take immediate action.'' In the March 25 incident, a 50-foot sailboat packed with 250 Haitians held off a Coast Guard cutter for 30 hours before giving up. One woman jumped into the water during the standoff, but none of the babies was injured. Refugees brandished machetes and knives during the second incident, an eight-hour standoff June 1 between a boatload of 109 Haitians and three cutters. The refugees' leader allegedly threatened to toss five babies into the water. The wave of small boats trying to make the perilous one- to three-week voyage to Florida began in the 1970s with worsening economic conditions and political ferment in Haiti after the death of dictator Francois ``Papa Doc'' Duvalier. Up to 2,000 illegal Haitian immigrants were reaching Florida each month before the Coast Guard interdiction program began in 1981, said Henry Chomentowski, an Immigration and Naturalization Service officer in Miami. In recent years the number of refugees has fallen sharply, but false rumors of a change in U.S. immigration policy were blamed for a huge increase in March, when the Coast Guard intercepted 1,500 Haitians, the highest monthly total in eight years. Aliens leaving their homeland for economic reasons are sent back. Those trying to escape political repression are given asylum hearings. Of the more than 20,000 Haitians intercepted since 1981, however, only 6 have been brought into the country for asylum hearings, the INS said. Coast Guard officials said the Haitians know that if they are stopped, they are virtually certain to be sent home. ``Most of them submit passively,'' said Karonis. ``But when they have been crowded in those boats for days and they think they have nearly made it, they can get very agitated and hostile.'' AP890920-0086 AP-NR-09-20-89 1053EDT r a PM-BarredAliens 09-20 0420 PM-Barred Aliens,0433 Government Must Reveal Why it Bars Some Aliens NEW YORK (AP) A judge has ordered the Immigration and Naturalization Service to partially reveal its secret list of barred aliens, believed to number as many as 40,000, and its reasons for keeping them out of the country. U.S. District Judge John M. Walker issued the order Tuesday in connection with a lawsuit demanding to know why Patricia Lara, a Colombian journalist, was barred three years ago. Walker said the public had an interest in knowing the reasons the government gives for barring aliens. However, he said that while the barred aliens' occupations and the reasons for their exclusion had to be revealed, their names would not be made public. ``Some individuals could be placed in grave danger in their own countries if it were learned that the American government suspects them of being affiliated with terrorist organizations,'' he said. The list, formally the National Automated Immigration Lookout System, also is called the Lookout Book. Walker exempted from disclosure documents involving national security, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Chad A. Vignola. The list probably will not be revealed until related documents have been examined for national security considerations, said Miss Lara's lawyer, Arthur C. Helton of the Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights. ``She still wants to come to the United States and she is still vitally interested in learning what it was that kept her out,'' Helton said. Miss Lara, 35, a 1980 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, was working on a free-lance basis for El Tiempo, a Bogota newspaper, when she came to New York in 1986 as a winner of a Maria Moors Cabot Prize. The prizes are awarded for advancing inter-American understanding and freedom of information. She was detained at Kennedy Airport, her visa was revoked and she was sent back to Colombia without a hearing. An immigration regional commissioner, Michael D. Mosbacher, said Miss Lara came under sections of the law dealing with people the INS believed were likely to engage in subversive activities, or whose presence would be prejudicial to public interest or endanger security. The lawyers' committee sought the reasons for barring her, but the government produced only a few documents. The committee then sued the FBI, CIA, State Department and INS. Miss Lara reportedly was linked to a Colombian terrorist group. She maintained she was barred for writing articles critical of American policy in Central America. She married Colombia's attorney general, Alfonso Gomez Mendez, in April. AP890920-0087 AP-NR-09-20-89 1115EDT u i PM-Soviet-Ethnic 2ndLd-Writethru a0540 09-20 0751 PM-Soviet-Ethnic, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0540,0768 Communist Hard-liners Back Gorbachev's Call for End to Anarchy Eds: Leads with 15 grafs to UPDATE with Georgian, Lithuanian leaders defending their republics. Pickup 12th pvs, `Yuri Yelchenko...' By MARK J. PORUBCANSKY Associated Press Writer MOSCOW (AP) Communist hard-liners supported President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's warning about anarchy and ethnic separatism by calling for a crackdown on groups seeking more freedom from Moscow, reports said today. But leaders of Lithuania and Georgia, two republics where ethnic issues are causing the Kremlin headaches, blamed their problems on processes taking place nationwide or on outside provocation intended to cause a crackdown. Absamat Masaliev, Communist Party chief of the Central Asian republic of Kirghizia, told a meeting of the party's policy-making Central Committee that the ``time has come ... to bring to order those who openly speak out against our structure, our unity, sabotage perestroika and abuse democracy.'' Masaliev said that calls to turn the party into a union of independent groups, or to introduce a multiparty system, were ``an extremely dangerous and destructive tendency.'' His comments and those of other party leaders were made Tuesday and distributed today by Tass, the official Soviet news agency. The Central Committee continued its work today, and Tass said it debated a blueprint for ethnic relations offered by Gorbachev as part of his reform drive. The president opened the meeting Tuesday by offering the 15 Soviet republics more power to decide economic issues. But he said the Kremlin would not tolerate anarchy or what he called separatist demagogues. Ethnic disputes have become one of the most complex and serious problems in this land of more than 100 nationalities during the period of Gorbachev's reforms. They have resulted in more than 200 deaths in the past 18 months, the virtual blockade of one republic and calls for independence from Moscow. In April, 20 people were killed by soldiers during a nationalist protest in Georgia, and activists said the violent crackdown was ordered by Moscow. The Georgian Communist Party chief, Givi Gumbaridze, claimed today that ``excesses on nationalist grounds often are orchestrated by outsiders, forcing authorities to impose curfews and special forms of administration.'' He did not identify the outsiders. Gorbachev urged Soviets ``not give in to demagogues'' with slogans ``served under the pleasant sauce of independence, secession, etc.'' He recounted how the Kremlin has tried to bring peace to the Caucasus Mountain republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan, where Soviet officials say the current situation is more tense than at any time during an 18-month standoff over control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The Kremlin has imposed direct rule on the region to no avail, and Gorbachev said the party was contemplating ``resolute measures'' to quell the violence. Addressing demands in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to recognize that they were forcibly absorbed by dictator Josef Stalin as World War II broke out, Gorbachev said Stalin's policy was wrong but that the Baltic republics joined the Soviet Union voluntarily rather than face Adolf Hitler's Nazi forces alone. Algirdas Brazauskas, the Lithuanian party chief, said today that Lithuania does not intend to try to leave the Soviet Union. But he defended his republic by saying the transformation taking place in the entire country under Gorbachev's reforms is simply moving ahead faster in Lithuania. Yuri Yelchenko, a secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party, said a ``series of independent formations have clear anti-socialist platforms, the basis of which often lies in bourgeois nationalism.'' He said such groups were especially active in the western Ukraine, and he accused the Narodni Rukh grass-roots political movement of seeking to seize power from the Communists. Local party leaders said they support plans to give them more control over their economies. They complained that since many of the factories and offices in their republics now are under the control of national ministries in Moscow, they pay little in the way of local taxes. In its first decision Tuesday, the Central Committee backed Gorbachev's proposal to hold the next party congress ahead of schedule, in October 1990. The sessions are held every five years and the last one opened on Feb. 24, 1986. A congress gives Gorbachev the broadest possible opportunity to remake the party leadership. It is theoretically the most powerful party body, responsible for broad policy outlinesa as well as electing the Central Committee. Since the 1986 congress, Gorbachev has been able to demote committee members or promote others, and only such a session can give him an entirely new Central Committee. AP890920-0088 AP-NR-09-20-89 1118EDT r a PM-OilSpill 09-20 0346 PM-Oil Spill,0356 Captain, Owner Of Tanker Sued For $40 Million In Oil Spill By ALAN FLIPPEN Associated Press Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) Commercial fishermen have filed a $40 million lawsuit against the captain and owner of the tanker that spilled nearly 300,000 gallons of oil into Rhode Island Sound in June, a lawyer said today. Richard K. Corley said he represents about 440 plaintiffs, including clam diggers, shellfish dealers, lobstermen and other fishermen who claim they were damaged by the June 23 spill from the tanker World Prodigy. The suit, filed Friday in federal court, seeks $5 million in compensatory damages and $15 million in punitive damages apiece from Ballard Shipping Co. and Iakovos Georgudis, captain of the Greek-registered tanker. It accuses Ballard and Georgudis of reckless conduct and negligence. The plaintiffs charge they were harmed by the closing of Narragansett Bay shellfish beds for several days after the accident and that consumers have been reluctant to buy local fish since then. Corley said clam diggers who normally would earn 20 cents per clam taken from the bay received 15 cents per clam in the two months after the spill. Bradford Gorham, a lawyer for Ballard, and Thomas Walsh, representing Georgudis, declined to comment. They said they not seen the suit. Environmental officials said they closed the shellfish beds as a precaution after the spill, which occurred about when the tanker, operating without a harbor pilot, struck a reef. There were no widespread reports of dead shellfish because the heating oil floated and did not endanger bottom-dwelling clams, lobsters and other shellfish, environmental officials said. An unknown number of fish and free-floating shellfish larvae were killed, however. Ballard, a Liberian company, and Georgudis pleaded guilty to violating the federal Clean Water Act. U.S. District Judge Ernest C. Torres refused to sentence them Friday without more information about their backgrounds and Ballard's willingness to pay for the cleanup. The Coast Guard has estimated the cleanup cost at $3 million. Gorham said Ballard's insurer had promised to pay up to $7.7 million in cleanup costs. AP890920-0089 AP-NR-09-20-89 1125EDT r a PM-Obit-Doreau 09-20 0148 PM-Obit-Doreau,0151 Bernard Rene Doreau, French Author and Journalist NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) Bernard Rene Doreau, a French author and journalist best known in this country for a history of the du Pont family, has died at age 88. Doreau, who died Sunday, wrote several books on French history and international family fortunes under the pen name Max Dorian. The only one to be translated into English was ``The du Ponts _ From Gunpowder To Nylon,'' which reviewer Virginia Kirkus described as ``indispensable to the student of economic history.'' The son of an army general and nephew of a longtime mayor of Paris, Doreau came to the United States in 1949 as a correspondent for several French newspapers. He retired in France but returned to the United States to live in Newport in 1982. He is survived by his wife, Dixie Reynolds, a son and two grandsons. AP890920-0090 AP-NR-09-20-89 1133EDT r i PM-Israel 09-20 0420 PM-Israel,0434 Seminary Student Stabbed; Authorities Battling Forest Fire By ALLYN FISHER Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) An Arab attacker today stabbed a Jewish seminary student in Jerusalem's crowded Old City, police said. Six Palestinians were reported wounded in clashes with soldiers in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. A soldier also was injured when he was struck by a stone thrown by a Palestinian youth in the West Bank town of Beit Jala, the army said. In northern Israel, air force helicopters joined firefighters in battling a huge forest fire blamed on Arab arsonists that raged for a second straight day along the slopes of the Carmel Mountains. Police said the flames destroyed 2,000 acres of pine groves, vegetation and grassland, killing and injuring rare animals at a nature reserve. In Jerusalem, an Arab assailant stabbed Yehuda Avrahami, a 23-year-old Jewish seminary student in a marketplace near the walled city's Damascus gate, police spokesman Uzi Sandori said. Avrahami, who was slightly wounded, said he was returning from praying at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, when he was attacked. Police rounded up more than a dozen Arabs for questioning. In the West Bank and Gaza, soldiers shot and wounded six people in clashes, including a 10-year-old boy in the town of El-Bireh near Jerusalem, hospital officials said. In Gaza City, Palestinians staged a general strike to protest the shooting death of a 21-year-old activist Tuesday by Israeli soldiers, Arab reporters said. At least 573 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers or civilians during the uprising. Forty Israelis also have been slain, and 114 Palestinians have been killed by fellow Arabs as suspected collaborators with the occupation government. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir blamed the fire in northern Israel on ``enemies who want to burn and destroy everything alive in this country,'' Israel radio reported. Northern Police Commander Albert Mussafia said six suspects were in custody. ``There is no doubt this was arson because the fire broke out in five places at the same time, at distances of about 1{ kilometers from each other. This doesn't happen coincidentally,'' Mussafia said. Israeli media said a man with an Arab accent phoned Israel radio Tuesday night and claimed the fire was the work of a previously unknown group called ``Direct Revenge.'' Underground leaders of the Palestinian uprising have repeatedly called on activists to set Israeli forests ablaze. In the summer of 1988, thousands of acres of forests and grasslands were destroyed by fires blamed on the uprising. AP890920-0091 AP-NR-09-20-89 1133EDT r a PM-HostageTaker 1stLd-Writethru a0558 09-20 0550 PM-Hostage Taker, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0558,0561 Teen Gunman Meets Father, Pleads Guilty Eds: LEADS with 9 grafs to UPDATE with comments, quotes from family after meeting; PICKS UP 5th graf, `Clay County ...'; ADDS 3 grafs with background on Stephen King novel, quote from author. By ROB WELLS Associated Press Writer McKEE, Ky. (AP) A teen-ager pleaded guilty to holding 11 classmates hostage at gunpoint for up to 10 hours, then got his demand to see his father for the first time in 13 years. Dustin Pierce, 17, had said during the siege Monday at Jackson County High School that he was angry with his distant father and wanted to see him. The boy, who had stormed the school with a shotgun and two pistols, surrendered after firing two shots. ``There's a lot that has been resolved. There's also a lot that needs to be resolved. We've got 13 years here to get caught up on,'' the father, Donald Pierce of Delray Beach, Fla., said Tuesday. ``We talked,'' he said. ``There was a lot of misunderstanding, a lot of ...'' His voice trailed off and Pierce dropped his head in his hands and cried. The younger Pierce on Tuesday pleaded guilty to 26 counts of kidnapping and wanton endangerment at a juvenile hearing. Hours later, he met with his mother and father, whom he hadn't seen since he was 4, at a State Police post, Detective Robert Stephens said. ``When we were negotiating, we agreed that this meeting would take place,'' Stephens said. ``We agreed with them we would not talk about what they said and we are not going to.'' The family later emphasized that Dustin didn't want to hurt anyone during the standoff. ``He just wanted to see his dad,'' said his mother, Carol Pierce. Clay County Attorney Clay M. Bishop Jr. said he decided to prosecute Pierce as a juvenile. That means the boy, who turns 18 in July, probably will spend less than a year in custody. If tried as an adult, he could have received 325 years in prison. ``I think what you've got is just a scared, mixed-up little kid,'' the prosecutor said. ``He didn't appear to us to be a criminal. We're just trying to do what's best for him.'' Pierce was held for psychological tests. No sentencing date was set. Police said the normally well-behaved, straight-A student blew out a classroom window with a shotgun shortly after taking over his world-civilization class at the 500-student school in the rolling Appalachian foothills. No one was injured. ``He was real nice. He didn't want to hurt anybody,'' said Brian Bond, 17, one of the hostages and a close friend. The boy apparently was acting out the scenario of a Stephen King novel, ``Rage,'' in which a youth takes over a classroom in pursuit of what the author describes as a ``pathological rage fantasy about his father.'' King, who lives in Bangor, Maine, said he believed that Pierce was acting out ``Rage'' even before it was reported that police had found the novel in the boy's home. But he denied that the book was to blame for the incident. ``If they didn't do it one way, they would do it another way,'' he told the Bangor Daily News. ``Crazy is crazy.'' AP890920-0092 AP-NR-09-20-89 1134EDT r a PM-StrugglingCounty 09-20 0224 PM-Struggling County,0232 County Puts Aside Bankruptcy Money OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) Butte County is running out of money, but it has put aside just enough to pay lawyers if it's forced into bankruptcy because of a stagnant property tax base and rising welfare costs. Such a step would make Butte, a ranching and agricultural area about 100 miles north of Sacramento, the first county in California to go bankrupt. Library servie was drastically cut back, the emergency reserve raided for $518,000 and a $2.8 million state debt for fire service deferred to balance the county's budget Tuesday. It was the state's willingness to give the county 10 more months to pay for fire service that enabled supervisors to erase a $3.5 million deficit and balance the $128 million budget. The budget includes about $200,000 to pay lawyers who specialize in bankruptcy cases should the county decide to declare insolvency. Supervisors said they did not know if court action will be necessary. They blamed the money troubles on a low property tax base and a higher-than-average number of welfare cases among its 167,000 residents. Will Randalph, county administrator, said tax revenue has grown 26 percent in the last 10 years, while inflation has risen 48 percent in the same period. In the same time, county costs have increased by 261 percent, he said. AP890920-0093 AP-NR-09-20-89 1140EDT r i PM-SriLanka 09-20 0289 PM-Sri Lanka,0295 Indian Troops Declare Cease-Fire in Sri Lanka By DEXTER CRUEZ Associated Press Writer COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) Indian peacekeeping troops today declared a cease-fire in their 2-year-old battle against Tamil guerrillas fighting for an independent nation. The rebels said they would honor the truce. The government said at least 53 people had been killed in ethnic violence since Tuesday. The victims included seven family members shot and hacked to death by suspected Sinhalese extremists. Indian soldiers halted its military operations against the Tamil rebels at 6 a.m. The suspension was part of an agreement signed earlier by India and Sri Lanka that calls for all 42,000 Indian soldiers to leave Sri Lanka by Dec. 31. But Lt. Gen. A.S. Kalkat, commander of the Indian troops, said his forces will take any action needed to maintain order in the northeast, where they were deployed in July 1987 to supervise an arms surrender by Tamil guerrillas. Tamil rebel groups, including the largest and most militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, also said they would honor the cease-fire. ``We will observe the cease-fire if the Indians cease all armed operations against our cadres,'' the Tamil Tigers said in a statement. ``We reserve the right to self-defense if the Indian army launches any armed action. Indian troops have on at least three previous occasions briefly suspended military operations against the Tamil rebels. But for the first time, the cease-fire that began today will be monitored by an observer group headed by the Sri Lankan army commander, Hamilton Wanasinghe, and Kalkat. By midafternoon today, Sri Lankan army officials and residents in the northeast said Indian troops were patrolling northeastern towns, but there had been no immediate reports of confrontations. AP890920-0094 AP-NR-09-20-89 1142EDT u a PM-DeltaReport 1stLd-Writethru a0571 09-20 0542 PM-Delta Report, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0571,0553 Newspaper: NTSB Report Cites Delta, Crew in 1988 Crash Eds: SUBS 6th graf pvs, `Delta's management ...' to CORRECT `casual' to `causal.' DALLAS (AP) The government's final report on a Delta airline disaster that killed 14 people found that the crew didn't set the flaps for takeoff but still might have averted the crash if it had followed emergency procedures, a newspaper reported today. The National Transportation Safety Board report on the crash last year at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport put the blame on Delta Air Lines, the flight crew and the Federal Aviation Administration, according to the Dallas Times Herald, which said it obtained a copy of the report. The Boeing 727 bound for Salt Lake City crashed on takeoff Aug. 31, 1988. Fourteen of the 108 people aboard were killed. The 174-page report will be formally presented to the NTSB for approval on Tuesday. Although the NTSB can alter the report, it usually makes few changes in its staff reports. The report concludes that the crew's failure to follow preflight checklist procedures and ``complacent'' cockpit behavior led to its neglecting to set the wing flaps, which provide lift for takeoff, the Times Herald reported. Delta's management policies ``with respect to crew guidance and training were deficient and directly causal to this accident,'' the report says. It also also accuses the FAA of contributing to the accident by failing to correct ``known deficiencies'' in Delta operations. Earlier this year, Delta said an internal investigation showed the crew had caused the crash by failing to set the flaps. The Atlanta-based carrier accepted responsibility for the accident and fired three crew members. Jackie Pate, an Atlanta-based Delta representative, Tuesday night would not comment on the report. Neither would the captain, Larry Lon Davis. At an October 1988 NTSB hearing, crew members said they performed their jobs properly, although none could specifically remember moving the flap handle or checking the flap gauges. A cockpit recording, which indicates the crew and a flight attendant talked about non-business topics in violation of federal rules, ``clearly indicated a relaxed, almost complacent attitude in the cockpit of Flight 1141,'' the report says. The tape indicated that at the point where the co-pilot customarily lowered the flaps, he was interrupted by ground controllers and later conversations with the captain and a flight attendant. ``The flight attendant's lengthy presence in the cockpit possibly contributed to the flight crew's failure to visually'' check the flap gauges, the report says. Had Davis ``exercised his responsiblity'' and asked the attendant to leave, ``the flap position discrepancy might have been discovered,'' it says. The report also says the ``accident may not have been inevitable.'' It says the accident might have been avoided had Davis advanced the throttles to full power and lowered the nose of the plane shortly after encountering trouble. A few months after the crash, Delta tightened its preflight checklist procedures and began new training methods. The report recommends that the FAA ensure that the roles of flight crew members be clearly delineated in all carriers' operations manuals. It also recommends that the agency require that verifying the flap position and proper procedures to save a faltering airplane be included in manuals. AP890920-0095 AP-NR-09-20-89 1156EDT r a PM-FactorySlaying 1stLd-Writethru a0591 09-20 0166 PM-Factory Slaying, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0591,0165 Man Sought in Slayings at Bag Factory Eds: RESTORES dropped `when' to lead. MACOMB, Ill. (AP) Police using dogs searched a wooded area today for a man accused of shooting to death a former girlfriend and another co-worker when they arrived at a plastic bag factory. Fred Hopkins fled Tuesday from the Webster Industries Inc., then abandoned his car about 50 miles southeast of Macomb, said Police Chief Richard Clark. Hopkins, 36, killed Pam Bucy, 29, of Table Grove, and factory foreman Jimmy Cobb, 31, of Bardolph, Clark said. Clark said Bucy and Hopkins had dated but that Bucy apparently broke off the relationship recently. Hopkins ``was trying to get the relationship going again,'' the police chief said. ``How the other guy got involved, we're not quite sure.'' A .38-caliber gun was recovered at the plant, Clark said. Clark said Hopkins had worked at the plant for about four years and was considered a good worker. AP890920-0096 AP-NR-09-20-89 1202EDT u a PM-Hugo-Bahamas1stLd-Writethru a0498 09-20 0579 PM-Hugo-Bahamas 1st Ld - Writethru, a0498,0597 Bahamian Prime Minister Returns Home, Hugo Veering East Eds: LEADS with 6 grafs to UPDATE with prime minister returning home, morning commuter conditions, shift in Hugo's position; PICKS UP 4th graf pvs, `Forecasters today ...' With PM-Hugo, Bjt By PATRICK REYNA Associated Press Writer NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) Prime Minister Lynden Pindling cut short an official visit to Jamaica and returned to the Bahamas today because of Hurricane Hugo, but it appeared the killer storm would spare the islands a direct hit. Tropical storm warnings were posted for the central and northeastern islands. However, light winds and scattered clouds greeted morning commuters in Nassau. The center of Hugo was well to the east, in the open Atlantic, and was on a course that would carry it safely past the northernmost Bahamas. Late Tuesday, when Hugo appeared more threatening, shoppers and tourists from the bustling cruise ship trade clogged the city's downtown, displaying only modest concern that Hugo's 105 mph winds were blowing a few hundred miles offshore. The government issued no emergency instructions, no emergency shelters were set up and there was no sense of urgent storm preparation. Pindling left the Bahamas on Monday for a Commonwealth Finance Ministers meeting in Kingston, Jamaica. He was to head to Washington at week's end. Forecasters today said that if Hugo maintained course, it would continue moving parallel to the Bahamas, bringing high winds and rains to the islands but not the death and destruction seen in other parts of the eastern Caribbean. Officials at the Bahamas Meteorological Department in Nassau said late Tuesday, however, there was cause for concern. ``It's not enough to deliver a devastating blow,'' said meteorolgist Nicholas Small. ``But it's not far enough away for us to relax. We're going to get a healthy tropical wind ranging between 39 and 73 mph, and possibly higher in gusts.'' The government has begun some preparations: a work crew began boarding up windows of government buildings. Reuben Henderson, nailing plywood sheets over windows on a government office building, said he and his crew had been given those instructions. Dorothea Seymour, a shopkeeper in the busy downtown Straw Market, didn't seem too concerned. ``Some people care, some people don't,'' she said. ``We're always hearing about storms, but they never come.'' With her business 15 feet from Nassau Harbour, Ms. Seymour said if the storm came, she would simply pack up her stock of straw handbags, dolls, hats and T-shirts. Four cruise ships were tied up at Prince George Wharf just yards away, their passengers browsing through shops about the city. ``We have not had any cancellations of cruise ships,'' said Cordell Thompson, a spokesman for the Ministry of Tourism. ``And there have been no cancellations of air service.'' Thompson said he didn't think the Bahamas could avoid Hugo's effects altogether. ``I suspect we're going to get a lot of rain and a lot of high winds,'' he said. If the hurricane made a sharp turn to the northwest or the west _ toward the Bahamas _ ``we might start getting nervous,'' Thompson said. Few vacationers appeared worried about facing a hurricane on New Providence, the Bahamas' most populous island. Michael Belt, and his wife Rachelle, of Henderson, Ky., were among them. ``I guess all the people here have to ride it out and I guess I'll have to ride it out with them,'' Belt said. ``I think we'll make it through,'' said Mrs. Belt. AP890920-0097 AP-NR-09-20-89 1209EDT u i PM-Lebanon-Israel 2ndLd-Writethru 09-20 0367 PM-Lebanon-Israel, 2nd Ld-Writethru,a0573,0378 Israeli Warplanes Raid Palestinian Targets Eds: Leads throughout to UPDATE with at least two fighters wounded, guerrillas taken by surprise. No pickup. ADDS byline. By MOHAMMED SALAM Associated Press Writer BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Israeli warplanes today raided a Palestinian guerrilla base south of Beirut, and Palestinian sources said at least two guerrillas were wounded. A Lebanese police spokesman said two Israeli planes flew in from the Mediterranean, dived low over the target and fired two missiles near Naameh, 10 miles south of Beirut. They quickly climbed and flew southward. Guerrilla defenders ``opened up from twin-barrelled 23mm anti-aircraft guns after the planes fired the missiles. They were obviously taken by surprise,'' said the spokesman, who could not be named in line with standing rules. He said smoke and dust billowed from the stricken base as ambulances and fire engines rushed to the area. In Jerusalem, the Israeli army identified the target as a base of the Ahmed Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. A short statement said the radical group used the position to plan attacks on Israel's northern border but did not elaborate. The group, backed by Libya and Syria, is opposed to Palestine Liberation Orgnization chairman Yasser Arafat and his peace overtures. The Lebanese police spokesman said he could not tell which Palestinian group controls the stricken base. The area's wooded hills that overlook the Mediterranean house several Palestinian guerrilla bases. Guerrillas ``sealed off the area, preventing police patrols from inspecting the damage.'' Palestinian sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said two wounded guerrillas were taken to a nearby hospital. They gave no other details. It was Israel's 13th air strike on Lebanon this year. By police count, 17 people have been killed and 101 wounded in the previous 12 air attacks since Jan. 11. Israeli fighter bombers blasted Palestinian guerrilla bases in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp near the southern coastal city of Sidon on Thursday. Three guerrillas were wounded in that attack, which targeted a base of the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the PLO's second-largest faction, and two others belonging to the dissident Fatah-Revolutionary Council of the terrorist mastermind Abu Nidal. AP890920-0098 AP-NR-09-20-89 1219EDT r a PM-StaynerDeath 09-20 0192 PM-Stayner Death,0202 Suspect in Hit-and-Run Surrenders MERCED, Calif. (AP) A worker at a tomato packing house was jailed today in the hit-and-run death of Steven Stayner, a former child kidnapping victim whose story was told in the TV movie ``I Know My Name is Steven.'' Antonio Loera, 28, surrendered as he crossed the border from Mexico on Tuesday and was flown back early today to Merced, where he lives. Friends had identified him as the driver of a car that pulled in front of Stayner's motorcycle Saturday near Merced, about 125 miles east of San Francisco. Stayner, 24, was abducted from a street as he walked home from school when he was 7. He lived for seven years as the son of Kenneth Parnell, who sexually abused Stayner before his escape in 1980. Parnell served five years in prison. The story was told this spring in the NBC movie. Loera was to be charged with felony hit-run and misdemeanor manslaughter, California Highway Patrol spokesman Tom Sawyer said. Although companions said Loera was drinking before the accident, he was not captured soon enough to give a blood-alcohol test, Sawyer said. AP890920-0099 AP-NR-09-20-89 1225EDT u w PM-Homosexuals-Politics 1stLd-Writethru a0455 09-20 0894 PM-Homosexuals-Politics, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0455,870 Frank Rejects Suggestions He Would Resign EDs: LEADS with 12 grafs to update with Frank's remarks today rejecting resignation, response to Michel, picks up 7th graf pvs, Frank, a ... By JOAN MOWER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Rep. Barney Frank today rejected suggestions he would resign, saying that would be ``cowardly and inappropriate,'' while the House ethics committee probes his acknowledged involvement with a male prostitute. Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat who asked for the ethics inquiry following the charges against him by Stephen L. Gobie, also disputed suggestions that congressional and Democratic Party leaders have urged him to resign. ``I haven't been asked by anybody to resign,'' Frank told reporters today. He repeated his intention to remain in office and await an inquiry by the House ethics committee. ``I think that resignation would be a great mistake,'' he said. ``It would cut off the ethics committee process. And I think that would be a cowardly and inappropriate way to proceed.'' Frank termed an ``inaccurate accusation'' remarks by Rep. Robert Michel of Illinois, the House Republican leader, who on Tuesday said the Frank case was becoming ``a stain upon the House of Representatives'' and suggested Frank was benefiting from a double standard. ``If it were anyone other than Barney Frank ... If I were to have a woman prostitute in my employ for my own self-gratification, I'd be run out of town,'' Michel told a news conference. Frank responded: ``I think it'd be a great mistake for anyone to suggest that the ethics committee is somehow going to be administering a double standard. I don't see that at all.'' With Frank under Republican attack, homosexual activists say the controversy over his personal life raises a debate on whether to respect the privacy of politicians who are secretly homosexual but publicly appear anti-gay. ``It's not a new debate, but with the whole Barney Frank thing, people are focusing in on it,'' said Don Michaels, publisher of The Washington Blade, the city's homosexually oriented newspaper. The Washington Times today quoted anonymous congressional Democrats who said the party leadership was working on a way to get Frank to resign. ``They are trying to figure out a way to do it, to get the word to Barney,'' said a congressman the Times identified only as a liberal Democrat from a Western state. ``The death drums are pounding and he must go.'' Frank, a liberal who disclosed his homosexuality in 1987, has come under scrutiny since acknowledging his relationship with a male prostitute, Stephen Gobie. Frank paid Gobie for sex in 1985 and then hired him as a personal assistant. Gobie contends he provided prostitution services from Frank's Capitol Hill home and Frank knew about it, but Frank has denied having any such knowledge. The congressman has asked the House ethics committee to review his case, and will await the panel's decision before deciding his political future. Ronald Brown, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said the ethics committee's investigation should go forward, but he conceded that ``pressure is building'' for Frank's resignation. The Boston Globe, Frank's hometown paper and long his editorial supporter, has called for him to resign. Homosexual activists, meantime, said Frank should not quit. ``I hope he doesn't resign ... it's up to the voters,'' said Robert Bauman, a former Republican congressman from Maryland who was defeated after revelations that he engaged in homosexual sex with a juvenile. Kevin Berrill, a spokesman for the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, said he was angry about GOP attacks on Frank. ``I am disturbed by a pattern of incidents that are emerging from the Republicans,'' he said. Besides attacks on Frank, Berrill cited a memo that originated earlier this year from the Republican National Committee implying that House Speaker Thomas S. Foley, D-Wash., was a homosexual. RNC chairman Lee Atwater disavowed the memo and the staffer who wrote the memo resigned. One of those upset by the Foley episode was Frank, who, at the time, threatened to reveal the names of Republican congressmen he said he knew were homosexual. Homosexuals said anger in the gay community over the Frank affair has spurred the debate over whether to expose homosexual politicians who fail to support gay rights. ``I can understand people getting so angry fighting bigots who practice what they rail against,'' said Michaels, the newspaper publisher who has been openly homosexual since the 1960s. He said he opposed ``bringing anyone out of the closet against their will,'' but he would publish the name of a homosexual politician who ``actively worked at odds with gay movement objectives.'' The Blade would have to have ``incontrovertible proof'' the person was homosexual, such as a sworn statement from a partner, before a name was published, he said. ``It's a complex issue,'' said Eric Rosenthal, political director of the Human Rights Campaign Fund. ``Generally questions of sexual orientation are private. They don't have a bearing on how politicians do their job.'' But Rosenthal said hypocrisy _ having a homosexual life while seeming to be anti-gay _ is ``an important part of character. One should make an issue of that.'' He drew an analogy between a politician who actively worked against the South African regime because of its racial policies while at the same time holding financial interests in the white-ruled nation. ``That's hypocritical,'' he said. AP890920-0100 AP-NR-09-20-89 1224EDT r i AM-BRF--WarGames 09-20 0138 AM-BRF--War Games,0142 Japan, United States Set to Hold Biggest Military Manuever TOKYO (AP) Japan's defense forces and the U.S. Navy will stage their biggest joint naval exercises this month, a Defense Agency official said Wednesday. The war games begin Sept. 29 and last until Oct. 14, the official said. About 20,000 Japanese military personnel, 100 ships and 120 aircraft will take. 60 U.S. vessels and 230 aircraft will be the Pentagon's contribution. ``It will be the largest ever joint naval exercise in terms of aircraft and vessels,'' the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The two nations began joint naval manuevers in 1984. The official said the games are intended as training in marine tactical warfare and will include two U.S. battleships armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles _ the New Jersey and the Missouri. AP890920-0101 AP-NR-09-20-89 1227EDT r k BC-EditorialRdp 3Takes 09-20 0872 BC-Editorial Rdp, 3 Takes,0911 By The Associated Press Here are excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers throughout the country: Sept. 19 Delaware County Daily Times, Primos, Pa., on the homeless: While estimates on the current number of homeless people range between 655,000 to 4 million, Congress has found a possible answer. Spend as little money as possible and let as many people as possible try to find as many cures as possible. This is impossible. As proof, we have seen the federal government slash $25 billion from housing programs since 1981 while cities and states conduct half-hearted, uncoordinated and underfinanced efforts to combat the homeless problem. Nothing has worked, because the number of homeless is growing 20 to 40 percent each year. The main federal program, the Stewart McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, empowers the government to spend up to $3 billion over five years for programs for the homeless. Yet, since the legislation was enacted in 1987, Congress has only provided $1.1 billion in funding. What's the deal? State and local governments, which are left in a precarious position scrambling to fill the funding gaps, are reluctant to do much, hoping that the federal government will step back in and take charge. No such luck. We see homelessness as a national problem, something that must be coordinated properly from the top. Allocating a few bucks and considering the matter resolved doesn't cut it. Sept. 19 The Flint (Mich.) Journal on the importance of the U.S. Constitution: Most of the nation's self-proclaimed patriots must have been too consumed with wrapping themselves in the flag or with hand-wringing over proposed flag-burning legislation to have noticed the 202nd anniversary of the signing of U.S. Constitution Sunday. That's too bad because it is our Constitution, more than our flag, that is really the premier icon of U.S. freedom and governance. We celebrate with great gusto, as we should, our Declaration of Independence and, to a lesser degree, Flag Day. But it is our precious Constitution _ the oldest written constitution continuously in force _ that we should especially celebrate and respect. More than a symbol to ourselves and the rest of the world, this document is a specific declaration of who we are and what we stand for. Sadly, while many Americans claim pride in our Constitution, survey after survey reveals appalling public ignorance about what it says and means. Perhaps our nation should spend less time arguing about the flag and spend more time reading or rereading this four-page 5,000-word document that gives our flag meat and meaning. Why not turn off the tube and start tonight. Sept. 16 The Seattle Times on the evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut: Thirty years of U.S. diplomatic presence in Lebanon ended this month with the evacuation of the American Embassy in Beirut. For Beirut, the epicenter of sectarian violence, the chaos of 1989 is just another moment in 3,500 years of destruction at the hands of religious enemies and foreign invaders. ... Since 1975, Beirut has been self-destructing in bloody fits and starts of civil war and sectarian vengeance. Christan and Moslem forces are now locked in a final frenzy of destruction. The battles are over the corpse of a once celebrated center of trade, learning and cosmopolitan sophistication. Beirut's demise affirms an eternal verity: Religion and government do not mix. Intolerance poisons secular affairs. ... U.S. presidents and their diplomatic envoys hardly cut and ran from Lebanon. They endured bombings, assassinations, hostages, and vicious shellings. But the hatreds were too old and too misunderstood for Uncle Sam to prevail. Beirut is dead, but it may flourish again. Renewal, like destruction, is part of the city's history. Sept. 19 Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine, on the Alaska oil spill: So what do we learn from this disaster? Primarily, that prevention is a lot better than attempted cure. Once the oil is out of the tanker, it's too late. Quick response to the accident _ totally lacking in Prince William Sound _ would have helped, but even that isn't a sure thing. A smaller oil spill off Rhode Island a month later wasn't successfully contained despite quick response because rough seas broke up the oil. Yet prevention is receiving relatively little attention. Congress is spending more time haggling over the liability for future spills than on keeping them from happening. Common sense solutions to make another Exxon Valdez less likely have been getting short shrift. Two are particularly important: _ A requirement that all oil tankers built for U.S. service have double hulls. A double hull probably would have prevented serious leakage from the Exxon Valdez, despite the extent of the damage it sustained. Existing single-hulled tankers should be phased out. _ Much stricter licensing standards for tanker crews should be adopted. Inexperience and inattention played a huge part in the Exxon Valdez grounding. Most of the time, tanker operations are routine _ but in an emergency every second counts. Crews should have the expertise necessary to help protect against the huge risks of another spill. It's fine to debate the merits of the Prince William Sound cleanup. But it's much more important to keep such an accident from happening again. MORE AP890920-0102 AP-NR-09-20-89 1228EDT r i AM-Japan-Typhoon 09-20 0147 AM-Japan-Typhoon,0151 Typhoon Wayne Leaves Seven Dead and One Missing TOKYO (AP) Typhoon Wayne pounded Japan's Pacific coast Wednesday, leaving seven dead and at least one person missing, police said. A National Police Agency official said the fatalities included three children who drowned when they fell into swollen rivers after the storm first hit the island Tuesday. Three people died in mudslides, including a 46-year-old housewife who was buried when a landslide destroyed her house in Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku, the police official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. More 4,000 homes have been flooded and landslides have occurred in 33 prefectures, or provinces, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the official said. Weathermen said Wayne, the 22nd typhoon this year, was centered at a point in the Pacfic Ocean about 150 miles off Iwaki in northern Japan and moving in a northeasterly direction. AP890920-0103 AP-NR-09-20-89 1231EDT r k BC-EditorialRdp 1stAdd 09-20 0911 BC-Editorial Rdp, 1st Add,0949 UNDATED: happening again. Sept. 19 The Indianapolis Star on firearms sales: Would a stricter firearms sales law have kept Joseph T. Wesbecker from legally buying the AK-47 rifle he used in a killing rampage in a downtown Louisville printing plant? Seven people were shot to death (an eighth died later) and 13 others wounded, three critically, when Wesbecker, who had been put on permanent disability leave last year because of mental illness, sprayed bullets as he went from floor to floor and then killed himself. ... Louisville police said he had spent time voluntarily in mental institutions. Federal law prohibits firearms purchases only by people who have been committed to a mental health facility under court order. ... Relatives said Wesbecker was a manic depressive who had attempted suicide three times. A former co-worker said he had threatened his bosses before being put on leave. ... Almost at once the Louisville massacre brought an outcry for bans on gun sales. Nothing is to be gained by enacting new laws that would keep responsible persons from buying or owning guns. But the Louisville rampage and others like it point to a need for revising legislation to prevent sale of firearms to the mentally ill. A law that fails to keep someone as unbalanced as Wesbecker from acquiring a high-powered arsenal is a fatally ineffective law. Sept. 13 The Bulletin, Bend, Ore., on the link between coffee prices and cocaine: Lower coffee prices prompt more Andean planters to shift to another cash crop; coca leaves and paste, but the Bush administration is unwilling to acknowledge the connection. Early this summer ... the Colombian government pleaded with the United States to support an extension of the International Coffee Agreement to keep coffee prices stable. Instead, the U.S. trade representative's office helped dismantle the agreement, which has unleashed a price war and caused coffee prices, in real terms, to drop to their lowest level in 40 years. ... More farmers will abandon coffee and turn to the more profitable venture (of coca). ... The result is more economic muscle for the drug kingpins. ... The coffee issue makes Bush's recent speech to the nation ring hollow. Bush promised a ``coordinated, cooperative commitment of all our federal agencies'' in the war on drugs. Isn't the U.S. trade representative's office a federal agency? Sept. 15 Worthington (Minn.) Daily Globe on fighting substance abuse: Many of these new tough anti-drug and anti-alcohol proposals being proposed by members of both political parties are missing a key ingredient. Rather than tougher penalties and prison (sentences) and heavy fines for chemical users, more of the funding should be placed into chemical dependency treatment programs. Rather than force the drug users to pay fines, the judges should require defendants to go to treatment programs and pay their own way whether it be in-patient or out-patient programs. Many people have witnessed the ``miracles'' of the treatment programs in Minnesota, a leader in this field. More also need to see this side of the story. Maybe President Bush should spend some of his time visiting some of these treatment centers and programs. Tougher penalties often don't help. Not until a person gets caught. Sept. 13 Valley News, Lebanon, N.H., on the term ``drug war'': In some ways the image of war is apt. And a declaration of war carries the proper implication of seriousness of purpose. But this language offensive stretches the lines of communication too far. War is hell and so is the drug problem, but that's not all that need be said. Only war is war; debased rhetoric is only debased rhetoric. The image we need to replace that rhetoric is that of a national movement that produces a social revolution in drug attitudes; that offers a compassionate hand to the addicted; that protects constitutional rights; that wisely and patiently educates our children. Sept. 17 The Sun-Herald, Biloxi, Miss., on the Social Security earnings limit: Some people in Congress have discovered a no-new-tax way to increase the federal government's revenues and the method is eminently sensible: Do away with the Social Security earnings limit. The House Republican Research Committee got a report from two Texas organizations that showed the government would clear an estimated $140 million by simply not penalizing Social Security recipients for earning income. Older workers between 65 and 69 now lose $1 in Social Security benefits for every $2 they earn above $8,800. Eliminate that earnings limit, the reports says, and at least 700,000 additionally elderly retirees would enter the labor market, increasing government revenue by $4.9 billion. That would more than offset the higher Social Security benefits that would be paid. There was a time when one of the purposes of Social Security was to encourage the elderly to retire from the workplace to make room for younger workers. Things are different now. The Social Security system has undergone many changes. This would be one of the more beneficial. Doing away with the earnings test would benefit the government by increasing revenues, the retirees who would like to return to work but not lose their benefits, and the near-retirees who would like to continue working. It also would do no harm to the retirees who want to stay retired and the near-retirees who want to quit working. This is such a no-lose proposition that the full Congress ought to run it through on the fast track. MORE AP890920-0104 AP-NR-09-20-89 1232EDT r i AM-BRF--Snakes&Frogs 09-20 0118 AM-BRF--Snakes & Frogs,0118 Food For Thought: Frog Imports Jumping SEOUL, South Korea (AP) A demand for health potions has spurred a jump in frog and snake imports to South Korea, a government report said Wednesday. Some Korean men believe snake soup and frog meat build stamina. According to an Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry report to the National Assembly on imports of foreign food items, South Korea's imports of snakes in the first half of this year climbed to $380,000, surpassing the $295,000 in imports during all of 1988. The report also said that South Korea imported $48,000 in frogs in the first six months of this year, compared with $37,000 through all of last year. AP890920-0105 AP-NR-09-20-89 1235EDT r k BC-EditorialRdp 2ndAdd 09-20 0899 BC-Editorial Rdp, 2nd Add,0940 UNDATED: fast track. Sept. 17 Las Cruces (N.M.) Sun-News on smoke-free flights: The space in which the smokers of America can indulge their craving keeps shrinking. Smoking is now banned in many public buildings. Private employers have banned it in office and workplace, or restricted it to certain areas. Latest defeat for smokers, and the tobacco industry, came when the Senate approved a ban on smoking on all domestic airline flights. The tide is clearly running against the tobacco habit. America's propensity for proscribing bad habits doubtless traces in part to the puritanism inherited from our early forefathers. But part is certainly attributable to the exceptional concern Americans have with their health. And, of course, we give a wide berth to anything that poses a risk of cancer. Tobaccos happens to be near the top of that list. That doesn't bode well for the tobacco industry. Smokers are doubtless destined to become an ever-smaller minority increasingly subject to the displeasure of a vehement majority. Smokers may complain of the tyranny of the majority. But that's the American way. The people impose the curbs on personal behavior. The government just ratifies them. Sept. 16 Daily Tribune, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., on smoke-free flights: It was good to see the U.S. Senate stand up to the pressures of the tobacco interests and do something positive for Americans' health. The Senate ... voted to ban smoking on all U.S. airline flights. The action is in the interest of health and safety. Non-smoking sections on airplanes typically are in the same cabin as designated smoking areas, so the smoke can bother those who don't care to inhale it, and studies have pointed out the negative effects of second-hand smoke. There already is a temporary ban on cigarette smoking on all domestic flights of two hours or less. That measure will expire in April. The House of Representatives last month passed a measure to permanently ban smoking on the flights of two hours or less. Now, a Senate-House conference committee will attempt to work out a compromise. One would think that means the Senate should back down from the total ban. However, four-fifths of all domestic flights are two hours or less, so why not make the smoking ban easy to follow by simply applying it to all flights? Airline passengers can't step outside to get away from the smoke. They deserve to have clean air to breathe while they're locked up in these aircraft. In addition, banning all smoking would enhance fire safety on the planes. One careless smoker can cause a lot of harm if a discarded cigarette starts a fire. In an era when more Americans are trying to be health-conscious, it seems reasonable to make the skies smoke-free. Sept. 13 The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette on TV commercials that offend: Stroh Brewing Co. pledged $600,000 for National Audubon Society television specials. But one show about harmful logging in the Pacific Northwest _ ``Ancient Forests: Rage Over Trees'' _ caused Northwest loggers to threaten a boycott of Stroh's beer. The brewery announced it will ``review'' its funding of Audubon shows. A Stroh's spokesman said the decision wasn't related to the boycott threat _ that the company just wants to cut costs. That's not credible. Stroh's ... is worried about offending customers. The review is a sellout of the environmental movement. ... Meanwhile, the other Audubon sponsor, maverick broadcaster Ted Turner, still is paying his share for the controversial show, scheduled to air Sept. 24. Turner doesn't mind boycotts. In fact, he invites them. When anti-abortion groups protested a Turner Broadcasting System show on a women's right to choose, he suggested that they watch a different channel. Sept. 13 The State, Columbia, S.C., on the East German exodus: The mass emigration of East German refugees to West Germany by way of Hungary is an extraordinary development that signals a radical shift in policy behind the Iron Curtain. Significantly, the exodus celebrates the free will of human nature and concedes the fallacy of authoritarianism and repression as effective tools of governance. ... Nobody really knows at this juncture how many East Germans will ultimately cross over into West Germany. Some estimates go as high as 100,000 by the end of the year. Taking note of that possibility, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has urged East Germany's leaders to introduce the sort of reforms that are being tried in Poland and Hungary. If life in East Germany improved, he reasoned, more East Germans might stay at home. Freedom-loving people everywhere watch and listen with cautious approval, mindful that in today's uncertain world of realpolitik and trigger-happy turbulence, a populist celebration can change rapidly into a tragic hangover. Sept. 15 The Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin on the defeat of Edward Koch: (New York City Mayor Edward) Koch's defeat at the hands of David Dinkins ... has been treated in the press as something like the triumph of good over evil. That is not only unfair but untrue. The man who began his political life as a Greenwich Village reformer had scarcely lost sight of his Democratic orgins, or progressive ideals; he had merely combined them with pragmatism and common sense that offended some observers. So be it. This interesting combination of liberal conservative policies pleased the voters of New York for three successive terms. End Editorial Rdp AP890920-0106 AP-NR-09-20-89 1248EDT r a PM-NumericalRevolt 1stLd-Writethru a0458 09-20 0334 PM-Numerical Revolt, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0458,0336 Residents Revolt at Selectmen's Attempt at Renumbering Houses Eds: INSERTS one graf after 3rd graf pvs, ``People were ...' with details on numbering. ADAMS, Mass. (AP) After a revolt by residents, selectmen decided against trying to straighten out the confusing house numbering system in this Berkshire Hills village. Irate residents voted unanimously to reject an attempt by town officials to renumber the maze of Victorian homes in order to help police, fire and ambulance crews respond to calls. ``People were attached to their house numbers. It's like taking away your grandmother,'' said Tony McBride, who helped organize the Committee Against Numerical Tyranny. The confusing system stems from the age of the village, founded in the 1700s. The village has many duplicate numbers and duplicate street names, and the streets that wind around textile mills and quarries and spread up hillsides. McBride said the selectmen's number changes meant 98 percent of the 9,000 residents would have to change addresses on everything from Social Security checks to credit cards and driver's licenses. Businesses also would have faced thousands of dollars worth in changes in billing lists. ``It's amazing what little issues can drive people up a wall,'' McBride said. ``In 20 years, I've never seen emotion and irritation with government so openly expressed. If the people could have voted to unseat the selectmen right then and there, they would have been gone.'' After the 126-0 vote in Monday night's town meeting, the two sides agreed to establish a study committee, comprised of three residents and two selectmen, to find a compromise. The phones started ringing in Town Hall immediately after the new numbering system, which assigned a grid of house numbers to every 50-feet of street, went into effect July 28. ``It's taken all our energies for the past two months,'' said Matthew J. Wilk Jr., chairman of the selectmen. ``Our decision will have to be reversed. I'm not really happy, but the majority will rule.'' AP890920-0107 AP-NR-09-20-89 1250EDT u i PM-Hugo-Damage 2ndLd-Writethru 09-20 0895 PM-Hugo-Damage, 2nd Ld-Writethru,a0555,0919 Gas Line Explodes, Catches Fire at San Juan Airport; 2 Injured Eds: Leads with 13 grafs to UPDATE with airport reopening, fire in Delta terminal, two other deaths. Pickup 11th pvs, `Hotels, businesses...' With PM-Hugo, Bjt By PIERRE-YVES GLASS Associated Press Writer SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) A propane gas line exploded and caught fire at Puerto Rico's international airport today as it reopened after Hurricane Hugo. At least two people were reported injured. On St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, food and water were in short supply, looting was rampant and law enforcement had collapsed. Witnesses said today that hundreds of looters were ransacking stores on the hard-hit island and loading garbage bags full of food and jewelry. Tourists pleaded with reporters landing on the Virgin Island to take them off, and the U.S. Coast Guard today reported gunshots and looting in the night. ``We did not see one cop in Christensted, and that's the main town,'' said Gary Williams, a San Juan reporter who flew to the island. ``We saw a National Guard truck filled to capacity with all kinds of stuff in it.'' The propane gas explosion occurred in a Delta Air Lines terminal being built at San Juan's Luis Munos Marin International Airport, and firefighters were battling the blaze, said Jose Felix, superintendent of airport security. He said two people were overcome by gas fumes and taken away in an ambulance. The airport remained open, despite the blaze. Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon of Puerto Rico said Tuesday that damage to his island alone would run in the hundreds of millions of dollars. ``This is a tragedy of major proportions, which has left desolation among the people and a swath of destruction,'' he said. More than 50,000 people across the Caribbean lost homes in the storm. Civil Defense spokeswoman Cizanette Rivera said the storm, the region's worst in a decade, claimed 25 lives Sunday and Monday as it churned westward through the Leeward Islands and hit Puerto Rico before heading northwest. She had no island-by-island breakdown of the deaths. Police in Puerto Rico said today that a power authority lineman, William Cancel Armai, 40, was killed Tuesday and that authorities discovered the body of a man on a pleasure boat off the eastern port of Fajardo. Police identified him as Robert Williams of Michigan, but gave no age or hometown. The latest reported deaths bring the toll to four people killed in Puerto Rico. Other confirmed deaths included nine people on the British Island of Montserrat, five on the French territory of Guadeloupe and two on Antigua. Hotels, businesses and homeowners on the U.S. commonwealth were busy cleaning up and doing repairs Tuesday, but it appeared that damage was so extensive that it would be weeks before life would return to normal. The American Red Cross said in Washington that it would send its first relief supplies including 15,000 tents to Puerto Rico today on a flight from McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey. A plane chartered by the British Red Cross was to leave Britain today with plastic sheeting, 1 million water purification tablets and blankets for Antigua, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands and St. Kitts. In London, British honeymooners and vactioners returning home from the Caribbean today likened Hugo's devastation to World War II. ``It was a bit like the Blitz,'' said 84-year-old Vera Herridge, referring to the Nazi bombing of London. Others among the 250 British tourists told of hiding from the storm in bathrooms, closets and under beds while hotel balconies collapsed and palm trees crashed through windows around them. Ham radio operators reported that 97 percent of the buildings were damaged or destroyed on St. Croix, which has a population of 53,000. There were reports of gangs moving through the streets with rifles. Witnesses said authorities were joining in the looting. Ham operators corroborated the report of the collapse of law enforcement. One, Stuart Haimes of Queens, N.Y., said an undetermined number of inmates had either escaped or been released because of prison damage and also were looting. On Montserrat, which has a population of 12,000, Gov. Christopher Turner said the island suffered millions of dollars of damage and that tourism would be set back by at least six months. British sailors ``working like Trojans'' today reopened Montserrat's airport and worked to restore power and roads links, said captain of the Royal Navy warship Alacrity, Cmdr. Colin Ferbrache. Hernandez Colon, who has requested federal disaster aid, said he would ask the Bush administration to delcare 55 of the U.S. commonwealth's 78 municipalities disaster areas eligible for federal help. Most hotel managers in San Juan would not give dollar estimates of damages but Hugo shattered the windows of many and flooded rooms. ``We have much more than $100,000 in damage,'' said Henry Walther, general manager of the Condado Plaza and Casino, one of Puerto Rico's swankiest hotels. Juan Miguel Domenech, director of Puerto Rico's Department of Tourism, said the government will begin a U.S. advertising campaign to offset any negative effect on local tourism caused by the hurricane. Nearly 860,000 tourists visited the island last year, spending about $1.1 billion. Hernandez Colon said at least 50,000 people in Puerto Rico either lost their homes or had them severely damaged. Officials said 27,000 people were housed in temporary government shelters Tuesday. AP890920-0108 AP-NR-09-20-89 1254EDT u a PM-BakkerTrial 1stLd-Writethru a0507 09-20 0595 PM-Bakker Trial, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0507,0606 Bakker: `Not Here to Make Money' Eds: LEADS with 7 grafs to UPDATE with today's presentation; PICKS UP 5th graf pvs, ``I'm sincere.'' By PAUL NOWELL Associated Press Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Prosecutors today showed videotapes of Jim Bakker assuring viewers he's ``not here to make money'' as they sought to portray the TV evangelist as a big spender whose money came from believers who could hardly make ends meet. ``This is a deal of a lifetime,'' Bakker said in an 1986 broadcast played in court. ``There are no fees. This is not a profit-making organization.'' Bakker was offering a new program that promised $500 donors three days and two nights' lodging in 16-unit facilities called bunk houses. Only one bunk house was completed when Bakker quit the evangelical empire in 1987. ``We're not here to make money,'' Bakker said in another videotape. ``I hope my critics wake up and realize I'd be a fool if I tried to make money off something like this.'' The prosecutions contends that Bakker used PTL funds raised for ``partnerships'' to live in high style. PTL ``partners'' were guaranteed lodging at the ministry's hotels. According to evidence, in September 1986, after Bakker had sold 34,000 bunkhouse memberships, PTL builder Roe Messner sent him a memo agreeing to reduce the number of bunkhouses from six to three. In six hours of tapes of Bakker's ``The PTL Club'' shown Tuesday, Bakker appealed for donations and asked his followers to trust him. ``I'm sincere,'' Bakker told viewers in 1984. ``I would not lie to you about anything.'' But over and over, prosecutor Deborah Smith halted the tape to ask FBI agent John Pearson to compare Bakker's statements to behind-the-scenes testimony about Bakker's television ministry. In a 1984 videotape, Bakker urged his audience to pay for partnerships with a credit card, saying he bought his with a credit card because he didn't have any cash. The same year, prosecutors said, Bakker received $1 million in salary and bonuses and bought a Palm Desert, Calif., home and a Rolls-Royce. Bakker is accused of diverting more than $3.7 million in PTL money raised from the partnership sales to pay for personal luxuries. If convicted of the 24 counts against him, he could be sentenced to 120 years in prison and fined more than $5 million. Pearson testified that from 1984 through 1986, Bakker repeatedly misled viewers about how many donors, or ``lifetime partners,'' had taken part in the program, which offered three nights' lodging each year for life in return for $1,000. At first, Bakker exaggerated the number of partnerships PTL had issued, apparently to project a sense of urgency, Pearson said. Later, the FBI agent said, Bakker understated the tally and didn't acknowledge that he had exceeded his own ceiling and endangered the partners' chances of using their lodging privileges. Earlier in the trial, prosecutors put on the stand several PTL partners _ including the wife of a retired coal miner suffering from black lung disease and living on disability pay _ who testified they bought partnerships but could not get rooms. Others have testified that partnerships were oversold and that the money from such promotions often was used to cover PTL's day-to-day operating costs rather than finance construction of the guaranteed rooms and buildings. Pearson said more than 66,000 partnerships were sold to viewers by the time Bakker left PTL in March 1987, despite a publicized limit of 25,000. Bakker didn't watch much of the videotapes. He scribbled notes and looked through documents. AP890920-0109 AP-NR-09-20-89 1352EDT d a AM-BRF--BountyHunters 09-20 0116 AM-BRF--Bounty Hunters,0119 PTAs Recruited As `Bounty Hunters' OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) PTA members have been acting as bounty hunters, collecting rewards for ferreting out young people who had not started school. Superintendent Arthur Steller said he established the one-week reward program because more than 650 students hadn't shown up for class two weeks into the school year. Members of Parent-Teacher Associations were urged to call or visit the absent students' homes. By the end of the program, 53 students had enrolled, officials said. PTAs earned $25 for participating, plus $10 for each high school student who enrolled. The bounty on elementary students was $5. District officials said they paid $937 to 27 participating PTAs. AP890920-0110 AP-NR-09-20-89 1254EDT u w PM-Senate-Poland 2ndLd-Writethru a0598 09-20 0716 PM-Senate-Poland, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0598,700 Democrats Vote to Boost U.S. Aid to Poland, Hungary EDs: SUBS 3rd graf to CORRECT billion to million By LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, overriding objections from the Bush administration, voted 10-1 today to endorse a Democratic aid plan for Poland and Hungary that would send nearly $1.2 billion to the East Bloc nations over three years. Republicans, accusing Democrats of playing politics on the issue, walked out before the vote. Only Sen. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana stayed to register the lone no vote, calling it ``an egregious mistake.'' The economic development funds in the Democratic measure, which dwarf the $100 million requested by President Bush over a three-year period, represent an urgently needed ``gamble for freedom'' in Eastern Europe, said Sen. Paul Simon, D-Ill. Raymond Seitz, assistant secretary of state for European Affairs, testified that although the legislation contains most of the elements of the Bush proposal, ``the administration cannot endorse the higher funding levels.'' ``To do so would be contrary to the budget principles of the Congress and the administration,'' Seitz said. Seitz said the surging reform movements in Eastern Europe are genuine and ``something we have hoped for all of our lives.'' ``It would be the saddest thing if we wrecked it in some sort of procedural or partisan wrangle,'' Seitz said. ``We're headed for the rocky shoals of a partisan debate which is not going to result in anything good for the Poles,'' said Lugar who said no additional funds are available to pay for increased assistance for the two countries. ``In my view this is an attempt to tweak the president, to cause a partisan row on the Senate floor,'' Lugar said. ``But the rest of the world is not amused by this kind of irresponsibility.'' Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., called the Bush proposals ``pathetically timid'' and said they ``failed to grasp the historic opportunity at hand.'' On Monday, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, also criticized the administration's proposed aid for Poland and Hungary as a failure to exploit an historic opportunity in the Soviet bloc. Secretary of State James A. Baker III said Tuesday that Mitchell was playing politics on the issue. ``The president is rocking along with a 70 percent approval rating in foreign policy,'' said Baker. ``And if I were the Senate majority leader I might have something like that to say, too.'' Mitchell called Baker's response to his remarks ``predictable and disappointing.'' Baker ``will better serve the nation and the president if he addresses the substance of my remarks, rather than resorting to accusations about politics,'' said Mitchell. The $1.18 billion Democratic aid proposal would authorize $423 million in the 1990 fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 and $381 million in both the 1991 and 1992 fiscal years. Additional Democratic-sponsored legislation to boost food aid to Poland is pending before the Senate Agriculture Committee. President Bush initially proposed $119 million in aid for Poland over three years. Last week, in response to congressional pressure, including appeals from Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas, he proposed another $50 million in food assistance. The centerpiece of the Democratic proposal is an annual $300 million ``enterprise fund'' over the next three years to support economic development in Poland. Itwould also authorize spending $75 million for each of the next three years to provide a similar fund for Hungary. Cranston said Democrats would skim the money from the $40 billion spent by the Pentagon each year for research and development. The bill, which combines elements of the administration's aid proposals with proposals by congressional Democrats, would also: _Authorize the extension of Overseas Private Investment Corp. guarantees to U.S. businesses investing in Poland and Hungary. _Authorize the extension of trade preference benefits to Poland. _Authorize $11 million in scientific and education exchanges along with medical assistance and help in building democratic institutions for Poland and Hungary. _Authorize $25 million in aid to help modernize Poland's telecommunications system. _Authorize $3 million for Peace Corps activities in Poland and Hungary. _Direct the president to encourage debt-for-equity swaps and debt rescheduling negotiations to help Poland deal with its massive foreign debt. _Authorize the president to pursue other initiatives, including a possible airlift of food to the Polish people. AP890920-0111 AP-NR-09-20-89 1310EDT r a AM-LAWater 09-20 0294 AM-LA Water,0303 Bottled and Filtered Water Preferred Over Tap H2O LOS ANGELES (AP) A majority of city residents drink bottled or filtered water rather than that from from household taps, a survey found. Respondents said tap water doesn't taste good, and treated water is considered safer, according to the survey released this week. Another survey found that those relying on bottled or filtered water include a majority of city Department of Water and Power employees. The first survey of customers reported 64 percent use bottled or filtered drinking water, with 53 percent preferring only bottled water, and 19 percent using home filters. Some used both. Employees surveyed indicate that 59 percent use bottled or filtered water, or both. Employees from inside and outside city limits were surveyed. DWP officials were concerned about the findings, but were not completely surprised because of publicity given to toxic contamination levels in some water supplies. ``We're just fighting an uphill battle to try to get out the correct information about the water supply,'' said Dan Waters, a DWP assistant general manager. DWP provides water and electric power to the more than 3.3 million city residents. Better taste was cited by 54 percent of the customers who used alternative sources, while 40 percent said they were concerned about safety. Douglas Nelson, president of the International Bottled Water Association, estimated that one of every two residents of Southern California drinks bottled or filtered water. Nelson said the findings of the survey indicated the ``highest incidence in the country'' of bottled and filtered water use. Independent researchers from Reichman-Karten-Sword Inc., of San Francisco, interviewed 1,001 DWP customers for the survey. Another firm, Evaluation and Training Institute of Los Angeles, interviewed 1,688 of DWP's 11,573 employees for the other. AP890920-0112 AP-NR-09-20-89 1305EDT u w PM-Education-Democrats 2ndLd-Writethru a0579 09-20 0738 PM-Education-Democrats, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0579,750 Democrats Proposing National Education Goals EDs: INSERTS two grafs after 2nd graf, bgng ``Arkansas Democratic'' and three grafs after 10th graf, bgng ``At a;'' DELETES 17th graf. ^By TAMARA HENRY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Congressional Democrats, trying to get a jump on President Bush's education summit, announced a series of goals today aimed at upgrading America's school system. Declaring ``our leadership in education is indisputable,'' the Democratic leaders proposed six performance goals ``to reinvigorate the American partnership in education to set a benchmark for the education summit with the governors.'' Arkansas Democratic Gov. Bill Clinton, in charge of the National Governors' Association's preparations for the summit, insisted that money is not a key issue and that funding would ``fall in line'' once there is public commitment from everyone. But Sen. Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island said, ``The emphasis on funding is needed so that the proven programs we have begun can do even better work, and so that, together, we might achieve the ultimate goal of educational opportunity for all.'' The goals are: _ Increase each year the number of preschool children attending early childhood development programs _ such as Head Start _ until all disadvantaged 4-year-old children are served by 1995. _ Raise the basic skills achievement of all students to their grade level, and sharply reduce the discrepancy in test scores among white, black and Hispanic students by 1993. _ Improve the high school graduation rate every year by reducing the number of dropouts and the number of illiterate Americans. _ Annually improve the math, science and foreign language performance of American students. _ Increase college participation by all Americans, especially minorities, by 1993, and reduce the imbalance between grants and loans in financing a college education by the year 2000. _ Increase each year the number of fully qualified teachers available in the schools. ``Proposing specific goals is in itself a bold step forward,'' the Democrats said in a joint statement. ``Never before have Congress, the White House, or the states sought to develop performance goals for our schools and colleges. Our list is the basic minimum, but vital and necessary. These goals will, if achieved, result in enormous improvements.'' At a separate news conference, Keith Geiger, president of the National Education Association, released ``A Classroom Agenda for the Education Summit'' that proposed essentially the same types of activities as outlined by the congressional Democrats and the National Governors' Association. Geiger insisted that money should be a key focus of the summit and noted that for every $3 state and local governments added to education in the 1980s, the federal government took $1 away. He said the federal share of the school dollar for elementary and secondary schools declined from 9.2 percent in 1981 to 6.3 percent in 1989. ``This is no way to meet a national challenge,'' declared Geiger. ``Now more than ever, we need to guarantee adequate funding for education at all levels: local, state, and federal. The federal government must become a more active partner in promoting progress.'' Senate Democratic Leader George Mitchell of Maine and House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri said they were not trying to upstage the president by releasing their proposal a week before the summit. ``The Democratic Party has long championed educational opportunity for all Americans,'' said Mitchell. ``The major federal education programs were Democratic initiatives. Our leadership in education is historic and enduring.'' The congressional leaders, joined by Sens. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., and several House Democrats used a highly acclaimed suburban Maryland high school as the backdrop today to announce the ambitious goals. Bush, who will lead the education summit with the nation's governors in Charlottesville, Va., next week, has supported the view of many governors that discussions should focus on how to establish national performance goals or targets. The president has indicated actual goals would be set later, after educators, parents, members of Congress and others give their opinions. The Democrats say their performance goals can be used by the White House as they hammer out more details and specific numerical targets in finalizing national standards. The summit will mark the third time a president has called the governors together to tackle one subject. Theodore Roosevelt brought the governors together in 1908 to discuss how to conserve America's natural resources. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt sought governors' advice on the Great Depression. AP890920-0113 AP-NR-09-20-89 1305EDT u w PM-Bush 2ndLd-Writethru a0597 09-20 0571 PM-Bush, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0597,590 Republican Leaders Predict Massive Cuts in Government Programs EDS: Inserts grafs 4-5, White House, with Fitzwater comments. By CHRISTOPHER CONNELL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Republican leaders said today it is almost certain Congress will fail to agree on a deficit reduction measure by mid-October, leading to automatic spending cuts in hundreds of government programs. Sen. Pete Domenici, after a meeting with President Bush, said the cuts would total about $16.8 billion, including a 5.3 percent cut in domestic spending, and about 4.6 percent from defense programs. The Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law requires Congress and the president to reduce the deficit to within $10 billion of the $100 billion 1990 deficit target by that date. Failure to come in under that ceiling triggers automatic spending cuts in almost all budget categories under the law. White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater agreed there was a ``somewhat bleak prospect'' for averting the spending cuts. Several spending issues stand in the way of agreement, he said, and he urged Congress to overcome the problems. The deficit reduction bill needed to avert those cuts is threatened with defeat in the House because most Democrats oppose its cut in the capital gains tax rate. Republicans oppose other provisions, including child care legislation. It is ``almost certain'' that Congress will fail to reconcile competing financial interests and get the budget passed by the deadline of Oct. 1, the beginning of fiscal year 1990, said House Republican leader Newt Gingrich. After the GOP meeting, Bush held the second in a series of pre-education summit consultations with leading educators, saying he hoped they did not feel ``they were talking to a deck that had already been stacked.'' The annual spending bills needed to keep the government operating are stalled in the Senate, where Republicans are blocking action in an attempt to force Democrats to back down on their plan to expand the president's anti-drug plan. Gingrich said Bush was firm in his opposition to a tax rate increase to help raise revenues to offset the deficit. To propose such an increase is ``to guarantee a veto,'' as is inclusion of add-on spending projects that Bush opposes. ``If in fact it has a childcare bill that is unacceptable, and if it has pension proposals that are unacceptable, he'll veto it.'' He blamed the House and Senate leadership for the failure to get agreement on the budget, and said the cuts, which would begin Oct. 16 would ``lead to a tremendous amount of confusion,'' throughout the government as programs such as student aid, drug and enforcement and other areas try to cope with the cuts. On the education front, the educators have not been invited to Bush's summit with governors in Charlottesville, Va., next Wednesday and Thursday. Bush, explaining the educators' exclusion, said, ``I'm putting a lot of stock in the governors' conference because they have expressed a keen interest in this. They are on ... the cutting edge, and we think it's an appropriate way to have a national conference. ``The fact that it's the governors does not mean that we want to limit the input to governors alone,'' the president told the educators, including University of Tennessee President and former governor Lamar Alexander and Ernest L. Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Bush urged them to offer their recommendations to the governors as well as the White House. AP890920-0114 AP-NR-09-20-89 1305EDT u w PM-US-HurricaneRelief 09-20 0152 PM-US-Hurricane Relief,150 Bush Declares Virgin Islands Disaster Area WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush today declared the Hurricane-ravaged Virgin Islands a disaster area and his spokesman said a similar declaration was expected soon for Puerto Rico. Presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater also said that the Interior Department had made available $500,000 ``for immediate use'' in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He said the money would be spent to buy food, emergency supplies and safety items. A disaster declaration makes an area eligible for disaster relief, low-interest loans for home and business rebuilding and grants for police work and for repair and rebuilding of roads and other public structures. Fitzwater said paperwork was not yet complete for the disaster declaration for Puerto Rico, but such a declaration was ``anticipated soon.'' He said that the U.S. military was providing a variety of cargo planes, personnel and equipment for relief efforts in the stricken areas. AP890920-0115 AP-NR-09-20-89 1328EDT r a PM-TeacherTest-Blacks 09-20 0300 PM-Teacher Test-Blacks,0309 Blacks Disproportionately Failing Teacher Test COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Most black college students aspiring to become teachers in South Carolina fail a test that ninth-graders should be able to pass, state education officials say. Over the past five years, 31 percent of the blacks who took the state Education Entrance Examination passed it on the first try, compared with 80 percent of whites, according to a state Department of Education review. College students have three chances to pass the test, a requirement for admission to a teacher education program. After the third attempt, about 91 percent of the 11,999 whites who took the test had passed. Blacks did better, too, with 46 percent of the 1,802 who took it passing. Not everyone who fails takes the test again. ``One of the main problems is that minorities have a history nationally of not doing well on standardized tests,'' said Elmer Knight, director of teacher education and certification. But Earline M. Simms, dean of education at South Carolina State College, a predominantly black school, said the difference probably has more to do with how rich or poor the students' families were and whether education was emphasized in their homes. Simms said she was ``sick and tired of that excuse'' about standardized tests being a problem for blacks. ``We do have a crisis in black education,'' Simms said. ``We do have a crisis in the black family. It's disintegrating. But it's not just a black problem. ... There are many white students reading at a sixth-grade level.'' The test was first given in 1982 to weed out students who didn't have basic reading, writing and mathematics skills. Knight said the test had produced better teacher candidates by forcing some who were borderline to go back to strengthen their skills. AP890920-0116 AP-NR-09-20-89 1307EDT u w PM-Bush-Visits 09-20 0174 PM-Bush-Visits,150 Mexican and Egyptian Presidents to Visit WASHINGTON (AP) Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak will travel to Washington next month to meet with President Bush, the White House announced today. Salinas, making his first official trip to Washington since Bush's inauguration, will be in the United States fropm Oct. 1 to Oct. 5, with a state dinner planned in his honor on Oct. 3. He also will meet with Cabinet, congressional and State Department officials as well as private sector individuals interested in Mexico. He will travel to New York for a series of meetings, and will receive an honorary doctoral degree Oct. 5 at Brown University, said White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater. Bush and his wife Barbara will host Salinas and his wife for a weekend visit to the presidential retreat in Camp David, Md., Fitzwater said. Mubarak will come to Washington on Oct. 2 for a private visit with Bush. Mubarak made an official state visit to the United States in April. AP890920-0117 AP-NR-09-20-89 1331EDT r w AM-HurricaneHistory 09-20 0828 AM-Hurricane History,800 Hurricanes Haunt America's Past With AM-Hugo, Bjt By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) From the storm that threatened Christopher Columbus in 1494 to last year's powerful Gilbert, the death and destruction wrought by hurricanes have been an intimate part of life in America. ``Good God, what horror and destruction,'' wrote a 15-year-old Alexander Hamilton after experiencing a hurricane in the West Indies in 1772. ``The roaring of the sea and wind, fiery meteors flying about in the air, the prodigious glare of almost perpetual lightning, the crash of falling houses and the ear-piercing shrieks of the distressed were sufficient to strike astonishment into angels,'' Hamilton reported in a letter to his father. ``Hurricanes have played an awsome role in the American panorama. They have touched the lives of Americans great and small and, at times, changed the course of our destiny _ as well as the shape of our coastline,'' writes Patrick Hughes, managing editor of Weatherwise magazine. The deadliest of these massive storms killed 6,000 people, sweeping away much of Galveston, Texas, in 1900. And thousands have perished in other storms over the years. Yet one hurricane may have prevented war between the United States and Germany, another inspired Shakespeare's play, ``The Tempest,'' and a third caused a young planter's daughter to leave her Caribbean home for France, eventually to wed Napoleon and become Empress Josephine. Columbus and his crew were probably the first Europeans to encounter a hurricane, sailing through the fringes of one near Hispaniola in 1494 and confronting another at full force near Santo Domingo in 1502. A weather-wary seaman, Columbus recognized the signs of the approaching tempest and took his ship into a protected cove to ride out that second storm. Others refused to heed his warning and set forth for Spain. Twenty ships and 500 men led by Adm. Frencisco de Bobadilla were never seen again. In the next few years, both Ponce de Leon and Hermando Cortes were shipwrecked in hurricanes, though both went on to become famous explorers. In 1609, the English were seeking to settle the New World, and one small fleet heading for Virginia was overwhelmed by a hurricane. While many ships limped into Jamestown, the ship Sea Adventure was feared lost until 10 months later when its passengers and crew arrived in a small boat they had built from the wreckage of their ship. The Sea Advanture had been driven ashore on Bermuda, an island unknown to sailors until that event. When the account of their harrowing voyage and discovery was published in London in 1612 it intrigued William Shakespeare, who was inspired to write the play, ``The Tempest.'' It was August 13, 1766, when a hurricane swept over the tiny Caribbean island of Martinique, wiping out the farms of wealthy planter Joseph-Gaspard Tascher. With the family facing poverty, one of his daughters, Josephine Marie Rose, returned to France where she met and married an ambitious young army officer named Napoleon Bonaparte. A storm just six years later sent America one of its young revolutionaries. Hamilton's letter to his father describing the 1772 storm so impressed local planters on the island of St. Croix that they took up a collection and sent him to college in America. Weather historian David M. Ludlum speculates in his book ``The Weather Factor'' that a hurricane may have prolonged the American Revolution. British and French fleets were facing off near Rhode Island in 1778, with the French upwind and holding the advantage until a hurricane arrived, damaging many ships and scattering the vessels. Had the French been able to engage and defeat the British, Ludlum suggests, they might have achieved naval supremacy and thus hastened the American vistory. Another hurricane thousands of miles away and just over a century later may have prevented a war. The 1880s were a time when many nations were establishing colonial empires, and Germany sought control over several islands in the Pacific. In 1888, a German naval task force seeking to take control of Samoa shelled a native village. Some American property was destroyed and an American flag was torn down by German sailors. American warships rushed to the scene and naval vessels of the two nations faced one another at Apia harbor on March 16, 1889. But before hostilities could begin, a savage hurricane overwhelmed the area, and ships of both nations were wrecked or driven aground. Sailors from both sides came to one another's aid in the struggle to survive. Nearing the present, no hurricane can compare with the toll of 6,000 American lives lost when a hurricane driven surge of water swept over Galveston Island in 1900. Another 1,000 likely died elsewhere in that storm, though the exact toll may never be known. Gilbert, in 1988, was perhaps one of the stringest hurricanes of this century, though it spent most of its fury in the islands and Mexico, claiming only a few lives in Texas. AP890920-0118 AP-NR-09-20-89 1334EDT r a AM-Obit-McShain 09-20 0179 AM-Obit-McShain,0187 Constructor of Pentagon and Kennedy Center NEW YORK (AP) John McShain, a contractor and developer responsible for the Pentagon and the Kennedy Center, died of a stroke in Killarney, Ireland. He was 90. John McShain Inc., based in Philadelphia, was one of the largest construction companies in the country before and after World War II. Other projects he was responsible for in Washington are the State Department and the Jefferson Memorial, as well as the 1951 renovation of the White House, The New York Times said Wednesday. McShain died Sept. 9. He erected several important buildings in Philadelphia, including the original Philadelphia International Airport, the Naval Hospital, the Municipal Court House and the State Office Building. McShain was also a major property owner in Philadelphia, including the Barclay Hotel, where he lived. He entered thoroughbred racing in the 1950s and established stables in the United States and Ireland that produced several trophy winners. He spent summers for the last three decades at his Irish estate. McShain is survived by his wife, Mary, and a daughter. AP890920-0119 AP-NR-09-20-89 1327EDT u w PM-Hinckley 09-20 0397 PM-Hinckley,400 Hinckley Says He Does Not Have Serious Mental Illness By PETE YOST Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Presidential assailant John Hinckley said today he does not have a serious mental illness and wants to conduct up to two interviews a month with the news media to demonstrate that. Barred by the government from meeting with the press, Hinckley said he has been placed in a maximum-security ward at a mental hospital by federal officials who want to keep him isolated from the press. ``I wish to be able to meet with somebody ... who is not part of the hospital ... or ... the government,'' Hinckley told U.S. District Court Judge June Green during a hearing on his request. A directive at St. Elizabeths Hospital where Hinckley is held bars maximum-security patients from conducting personal interviews with the media. It permits such patients to correspond with the media by mail. Hinckley said he wants ``somebody who is impartial'' to ``talk with me and decide for themselves if I am mentally ill or not and then report that finding.'' He said the government has ``orchestrated'' a campaign to portray him as psychotic and that ``for me to battle ... without being permitted to show otherwise'' is ``a great handicap to me.'' ``The way the situation is now we have the blackout going where I can never in any way be seen or heard by anybody who is in the least bit impartial,'' Hinckley said under questioning by his lawyer, Mark Lane. ``I think it's set up that way intentionally. I don't believe I am this seriously ill person.'' He said he wants to conduct interviews with The Washington Post and ABC News. He said he doubts he would do two interviews a month, even if permitted to do so. He said he specified that number in his request ``so the court doesn't think I would go hog wild.'' Hinckley was acquitted in 1982 by reason of insanity of shooting President Reagan, then-presidential press secretary James Brady, a Washington police officer and a Secret Service agent. The shooting has left Brady partially paralyzed. Excerpts from a psychiatrist's 1987 evaluation of Hinckley said his mental condition was showing improvement and that he exhibited remorse and guilt over the 1981 shooting incident. In 1982, the evaluation noted, Hinckley said the incident was akin to shooting ``a mannequin.'' AP890920-0120 AP-NR-09-20-89 1334EDT r a PM-CoalStrike 09-20 0212 PM-Coal Strike,0221 Judge Gives Strikers Ultimatum ABINGDON, Va. (AP) A federal judge today gave striking miners until dusk to end their occupation of a Pittston Coal Group plant. U.S. District Judge Glen Williams said the nearly 100 United Mine Workers could leave before the deadline without penalty for shutting down the plant since Sunday. ``Hopefully, the union will peacefully vacate without having to do so by force,'' the judge said. Union attorney Judy Scott said the order would be delivered to the miners. Union leaders were not in court. The National Labor Relations Board had requested the hearing to punish the union for defying a court order to end the occupation in Russell County. Pittston had sought fines against the miners. UMW spokesman Joe Corcoran said no damage would be done to the plant, where 98 miners barricaded themselves inside the control room with gas masks, sleeping bags and a week's worth of food. Coal is cleaned and sorted at the plant and then loaded on rail cars and trucks. Pittston's 1,695 UMW employees from Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky have been on strike since April over wages and working conditions. The union has been fined roughly $22 million by state and federal judges for illegal demonstrations and violence. AP890920-0121 AP-NR-09-20-89 1328EDT u w BC-AmericanVictims 09-20 0095 BC-American Victims,100 With France-Plane WASHINGTON (AP) Following are the names of the American victims on board the French DC-10 jetliner that crashed Tuesday in Niger, according to the State Department: 1. Mrs. Bonnie Barnes Pugh, wife of the U.S. ambassador to Chad. 2. Ms. Margaret Schutzius, U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Chad. 3. James Turlington, Esso Exploration. 4. Mark Corder, Esso Exploration. 5. Patrik Huff, Parker Drillig Co. 6. Donald Warner, Parker Drilling Co. 7. Mihai Ali Manestianu (no affiliation given). The ages and U.S. hometowns of the Americans were not provided. AP890920-0122 AP-NR-09-20-89 1337EDT r a PM-WilliamBuckley 09-20 0296 PM-William Buckley,0302 Buckley Says U.S. Should Buy Soviet Arsenal FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) William F. Buckley Jr. says he's come up with a idea to simultaneously help the Soviet economy and eliminate the threat of attack _ buy the Soviet arsenal and dump it in the ocean. ``I would propose a purchase of non-replenishable Soviet military equipment _ nuclear and non-nuclear _ at $100 billion per year for the next three years,'' said the merrily provocative host of television's ``Firing Line'' and founder of the conservative magazine National Review. ``The missiles and warheads, and tanks and submarines and armed carriers would file out of Soviet ports onto U.S. shipping, and upon reaching the continental shelf the cargo would be jettisoned out to sea,'' he said Tuesday at the University of North Alabama. ``The financing of the enterprise would be done by reducing our own military budget by $100 billion per year for three years, which under these special circumstances we could afford to do,'' he said. Buckley called his proposal ``complicated in detail ... but not inconceivable.'' On another subject, Buckley said the war against drugs will result only in ``more of the same _ more crime, more corruption, more hospitalization, more deaths.'' The author received an ovation with his proposal that the sale of all drugs be legal to anyone over the age of 21, at a price that would prevent the rise of a black market for drugs. He also said anyone convicted of selling drugs to a minor should be given the death penalty. ``The two proposals have, I think, the advantage psychologically of expressing society's acceptance of biological realities, while at the same time allowing our society to express the gravity with which it views the drug problem,'' Buckley said. AP890920-0123 AP-NR-09-20-89 1347EDT r w AM-No-HandsComputer 09-20 0563 AM-No-Hands Computer,580 Controversial High-Tech Center Opens By JAY ARNOLD Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A Virginia center for high technology, criticized by some for being too costly and secretive, opened Wednesday with a splashy display of gadgets designed for business, medicine and the military. The Center for Innovative Technology, formally dedicated five years after being chartered by the state General Assembly, displayed a dozen center-supported projects, including a computer operated with eye movements and a bed designed to benefit both hospital patients and insomniacs. Reporters attending an open house Tuesday in advance of Wednesday night's official dedication of the $34.5 million center also were shown a fiber-optic sensing system designed to warn of aircraft vibrations or help make submarines quieter and a device that allows handwritten data to be entered into a computer. There was a fire-extinguishing system for computers; electromagnetic bearings that can replace traditional lubricating systems for machines; a briefcase-size computer workstation and facsimile machine that can send encrypted messages by cellular telephone; and a testing kit to find bacterial infections in milk cows. The controversial center, which symbolizes the nationwide push by state legislatures to attract and hold high-technology businesses, is located in an inverted pyramid-shaped building near Washington Dulles International Airport. It has been under fire since 1984, when Virginia lawmakers approved a plan by then-Gov. Charles Robb to establish a non-profit facility to link private enterprise with the state's college and university research programs. The center has had four presidents in as many years, investing more than $37 million in research projects while attracting nearly $56 million in matching funds from private industry and other sources. Its 1988-90 budget is $27.2 million and it is seeking $41.6 million for 1991-1993. It has a staff of 30. Critics say its mission remains unfocused, it is too costly and secretive, and that the money could better be spent by Virginia educational institutions. Its president, former Virginia Gov. Linwood Holton, said Tuesday he thinks the center is ``over that hump.'' But Holton acknowledged there is an image problem caused as the center tries to balance being accountable to taxpayers with not revealing trade secrets that have potentially high economic values. CIT officials say nearly 400 companies have been persuaded to co-sponsor more than 450 research projects, including the Eyegaze computer system developed by LC Technologies of Fairfax, Va., based on research at the University of Virginia. The machine costs between $32,000 and $68,000, and two have been sold to disabled individuals. A third was sold to the Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Services. CIT received a $1,600 royalty check from one of the private sales, Holton said. Eyegaze looks like a personal computer, but uses a camera system that interprets the eye movements of the operator. By focusing briefly on a keyboard on the computer screen, a user may type messages, open or close files or gain access to IBM-compatible software. Eye movements also will operate household appliances such as lights and televisions with LC Technologies software that links the machine with off-the-shelf mechanical hardware. Another invention, the Good Turn Bed, can contort into seven different positions to relieve patient suffering, or it can aid insomniacs by continually moving to reduce tossing and turning during sleep. The center also has helped develop a machine that harvests cucumbers without bruising them and a process to remove polluting sulfur from coal. AP890920-0124 AP-NR-09-20-89 1350EDT r a PM-CocaineAttorney 09-20 0258 PM-Cocaine Attorney,0267 Uninvited Lawyer Slapped for Subpoena BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) A Miami lawyer who showed up in court unexpectedly to represent two alleged cocaine smugglers was slapped with a subpoena for a grand jury investigation into whether he had been sent by far-off drug bosses. ``This is an outrage,'' said the lawyer, David S. Markus. ``This is what U.S. attorneys do to discourage people from hiring their own attorneys.'' The two drug suspects already had been given court-appointed attorneys when Markus joined them at the defense table during a bail hearing Tuesday. Federal prosecutors immediately subpoenaed him. ``Our obligation, the court's obligation and the bar's obligation is to assure that lawyers actually represent the clients in the courtroom and not a drug boss located far away who's only interest is to shut up the defendant and to hamper law enforcement,'' said U.S. Attorney Raymond Lamonica. ``We will use all lawful means to determine the scope of a criminal conspiracy and those involved.'' The drug suspects, Leonardo Eugenio Macchiavello, 35, of Miami, and Hector Baraditt, 39, of Elmhurst, N.Y., were accused of attempting to transport $17 million worth of cocaine through Baton Rouge in a station wagon. One of the court-appointed attorneys, David Stanley, told U.S. Magistrate Stephen Riedlinger that he and the other court-appointed counsel received a phone call last week from an unidentified man who said lawyers had been retained by the families of Macchiavello and Baraditt. But Macchiavello and Baraditt told the magistrate Tuesday that they were happy with their court-appointed lawyers. AP890920-0125 AP-NR-09-20-89 1411EDT r a AM-Mecham 09-20 0665 AM-Mecham,0682 Arizona Supreme Court to Hear Impeachment Appeal By LARRY LOPEZ Associated Press Writer PHOENIX (AP) Evan Mecham, the first governor removed by impeachment in nearly 60 years, is asking the state Supreme Court to overturn his conviction, reinstate him and pay him about $500,000. The maverick Republican conservative, who is running for governor again in 1990, says he expects to win in federal court if the state high court rejects the arguments he'll present Thursday. But government lawyers defending Mecham's House impeachment and Senate conviction say the Supreme Court should not even take jurisdiction of such a ``frivolous'' case, much less grant Mecham's motions. Attorney General Bob Corbin is asking that the case be thrown out and that Mecham be assessed costs of bringing the lawsuit. Lawyers on both sides know of only one case, a 1919 ruling in Alabama, in which an impeached official was reinstated. Courts generally have held that impeachments are political in nature and that they are not subject to court review in the absence of a major violation of constitutional rights. Mecham was ousted by the Senate on April 4, 1988, on civil charges that he misused money in a state protocol fund and obstructed justice by trying to thwart an investigation of allegations that one of his aides had threatened another aide. He had taken office less than 16 months earlier, after a bruising campaign during which he upset several establishment favorites to become governor on his fifth try. And though he had predicted smooth sailing with the Republican-controlled Legislature, he drew criticism with vetoes, controversial appointments, cancellation of a holiday honoring Martin Luther King, and statements that appeared to insult women, homosexuals, blacks and Orientals. By the time impeachment proceedings began in earnest, he was telling audiences that Attorney General Bob Corbin, a fellow Republican, had been spying on him with laser beams. ``Mecham was not impeached and convicted for `high crimes, misdemeanors or malfeasance;' instead, he was impeached and convicted for being Mecham,'' his attorneys argued in briefs filed before Thursday's hearing. ``The sad truth is that, notwithstanding Mecham's election to office by the people of Arizona, Mecham was a political outsider, having few partisans among established legislators or in the media.'' Mecham's lawyers argue the impeachment should be overturned because the senators failed to vote separately on each subcharge within each main charge, leaving it unclear whether lawmakers ever reached the required two-thirds majority on any one accusation. They also say the protocol fund statute was unconstitutional to begin with because of a drafting flaw and that Mecham was denied his right to due process by irregularities in the Senate trial, including the absence of some of senators at times. The government's lawyers say it doesn't matter whether the protocol fund statute was constitutional because Mecham's representatives signed a contract agreeing to abide by it and that Mecham committed malfeasance when he violated the contract. They also say the state constitution clearly gives the Senate the right to make its own rules about such things as attendance and charges. Furthermore, they say, Mecham waited too long to bring the lawsuit and should have filed it in a lower court. In addition to reinstatement as governor, Mecham wants about $200,000 for attorneys' fees in the impeachment, about $182,000 to cover his costs in preparing for a recall election that was canceled by his ouster, the $92,000 that was in the protocol fund, and back pay as governor. He also is seeking return of the protocol fund in a Maricopa County Superior Court suit filed earlier. The money came from campaign supporters but, after questions were raised over whether it had been collected legally, campaign aides administering it agreed it would be used as a protocol fund. Besides Mecham's claims, Thursday's 90-minute hearing involves an overlapping set of motions by two long-time Mecham supporters who claim their constitutional rights were abridged by the impeachment because lawmakers were told not to listen to their constituents. AP890920-0126 AP-NR-09-20-89 1413EDT r w AM-Stars&Stripes 600 09-20 0618 AM-Stars & Stripes, 600 Renewed Charges of Censorship At Military Paper By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER AP Military Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Amid expressions of concern from two members of Congress, a Pentagon-appointed ombudsman has left for the Far East to look into allegations of censorship and employee harassment at the Pacific edition of the military newspaper Stars & Stripes. The ombudsman, Philip M. Foisie, planned to meet with the newspaper's staff during his trip, as well as with the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, Adm. Huntington Hardisty, a Pentagon official said Wednesday. The official spoke on condition he not be named. Foisie, a former Washington Post editor, was appointed to the post of ombudsman for the Pentagon's military newspapers earlier this year, partially in response to the ongoing problems at the publications. Rep. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said in an interview Tuesday that civilian employees have contacted her office with allegations of censorship and actions taken against employees who have dealt with Congress about the problems. ``What we have here is harassment of whistle blowers and censorship,'' Boxer said. ``It's bad enough to censor the news. Our men and women in uniform deserve the news as all of us get it, as harsh as it is. But they're not getting it.'' The General Accounting Office, assisted by the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, reported last year that it found evidence of censorship and improper management at the government-run daily paper. Boxer and Earl Hutto, D-Fla., chairman of the House Armed Services readiness subcommittee, have written Hardisty, asking him to investigate the situation. Pentagon spokesman William Hart said the paper's military editors deny the claims of censorship and contend they have not been given solid evidence to back up the allegations. ``We'll let the ombudsman play his role,'' Hart said. ``These newspapers are essential to the military overseas. If there is evidence of censorship, that needs to come out. But if it is only editorial judgment that is being exercised, that needs to come out too.'' In her letter, Boxer cited ``evidence of harassment of journalists who have expressed their views to senior management and to members of Congress.'' Boxer cited the cases of Bill Bartman, who was removed from his position as the Washington bureau chief of the Pacific edition, and Pacific editor Dewey Brackman, who has been temporarily relieved of his duties and assigned work as a supervisory editor. Hutto, in a letter obtained by the Associated Press, said he had received information about ``questionable management and personnel practices, including continued efforts at news management'' at Stars & Stripes. The GAO recommended that the editor-in-chief should be a civilian _ rather than a military officer _ with solid journalism credentials. The House Armed Services Committee, in the defense authorization bill report for fiscal 1990, said the editor should have solid journalistic credentials but stopped short of calling for a civilian in the post. The GAO investigation was launched last year at the request of former Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis. Although frequently referred to as one newspaper, the Stars and Stripes is published in two separate editions by largely autonomous bureaus in West Germany and Japan. They were designed to serve as the ``hometown paper'' for American servicemen posted overseas. The papers have a long history that dates to publication in France during World War I. The Pentagon describes the papers as ``authorized but unofficial publications.'' Both operate under a charter to provide ``a free flow of news and information ... without censorship or news management.'' Reporters who have worked for the papers say they walk a tightrope between reporting the news and satisfying military commanders worried about local sensitivities in the host country. AP890920-0127 AP-NR-09-20-89 1425EDT r a AM-RacialPrank 09-20 0354 AM-Racial Prank,0362 Naked White Fraternity Members Dumped at Black College Campus Eds: Note language 5th graf, `Witnesses said...' OXFORD, Miss. (AP) Members of a University of Mississippi fraternity painted racial slurs on the naked bodies of two white pledges and dumped them on the campus of a mostly black college nearby. ``They had no idea that there were racial connotations in it. They should have, but they appeared not to have viewed it that way,'' Ole Miss public relations director Ed Meek said Wednesday. ``When I was informed of it I was shocked and angered,'' university Chancellor Gerald Turner said Tuesday night. He said he had apologized to Rust College and had instructed the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, which was involved in the Monday night incident, to do the same. Ishmell Edwards, dean of students at Rust, 25 miles north in Holly Springs, said the fraternity chapter's officers apologized in person and in writing to college officials. Witnesses said the two naked fraternity members, with ``KKK'' and ``we hate niggers'' painted on their chests, ran into the Rust College security office to escape pursuing Rust College students. ``We're treating this as a very serious violation of good taste and ethics on our campus and we're doing a thorough investigation,'' Meek said. He said a closed disciplinary hearing ``for perhaps individuals as well as the fraternity'' has been scheduled for Friday. Ole Miss officials probably won't announce results until Monday or Tuesday. ``My impression is it was a small group of students, all of whom where freshmen,'' Meek said of those involved in the prank, adding that ``it was not students who were familiar with campus rules'' or who were ``more mature.'' Fraternity Treasurer Brad Gunner, a senior from Tupelo, said national leaders of Beta Theta Pi had suspended the Ole Miss chapter's charter and were coming to Oxford to investigate. ``Personally, I believe there's going to be a lot of cleaning house in that there will be a totally different chapter in about two weeks if a chapter at all,'' said Gunner, who is also president of the campus Interfraternity Council. AP890920-0128 AP-NR-09-20-89 1408EDT u i AM-SouthAfrica Bjt 09-20 0756 AM-South Africa, Bjt,0776 New President Sworn In; Promises Blacks Role in Government LaserPhoto JOH1 By LAURINDA KEYS Associated Press Writer PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) F.W. de Klerk was sworn in as president Wednesday and promised a new constitution that would bring blacks into South Africa's government by the end of his five-year term. He appealed to South Africans of all races to help build a nation ``free of domination and oppression. ``We accept that time is of the essence and we are committed to visible, evolutionary progress,'' de Klerk said in his inaugural speech. He has vowed to eliminate discrimination and allow blacks, who currently cannot vote, participation in government under a five-year plan. But he did not specify any apartheid laws he would repeal. Nor did he say how he would implement his goal of providing limited political rights to the 28-million black majority while maintaining the political domination of the country's 5 million whites. De Klerk, 53, took the oath of office as reports spread that his government will free jailed black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela early next year. Newspapers quoted official sources as saying the release will be part of a package of reforms to draw blacks into constitutional talks. ``The negotiation process will, from the start, receive incisive attention,'' de Klerk said in the speech following his swearing-in ceremony. His conciliatory words, affable style, and new policy of allowing peaceful protests against the government have generated optimism among foreign observers and many South Africans. But de Klerk rejects the basic demand of most black leaders: majority rule. The Rev. Allan Boesak, a leading anti-apartheid activist and president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, said he will give de Klerk six months to prove that blacks' skepticism is unfounded. A tear rolled down de Klerk's cheek at a Dutch Reformed Church when the Rev. P.W. Bingle, a family friend preaching at the swearing-in, urged the new president to press forward without fear. Chief Justice Michael Corbett handed de Klerk a paper from which he read the oath of office in Afrikaans and English before about 1,500 people. No foreign heads of state were present, an indication of South Africa's international isolation. Motorcyle policemen, a cavalry unit and white-jacketed presidential guards with drawn swords lined the route of de Klerk's motorcade to an amphitheater at Union Buildings, the seat of the executive branch of government, on a ridge overlooking Pretoria. Black and white choirs sang hymns and African songs, three Impala air force jets flew over trailing smoke in the blue, white and orange colors of the South African flag, and several people among the crowd of 3,500 screamed when a 21-gun salute began announcing de Klerk's arrival. In his 20-minute inaugural speech, de Klerk said his goal is ``a South Africa free of domination or oppression in whatever form.'' ``We hope that he will ... demonstrate that he is serious about his vision for a new South Africa, because that is the vision we want,'' Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner, said in Windhoek, Namibia. De Klerk said his government will move to eliminate discriminatory laws, give ``urgent attention'' to adopting a bill of rights, ``gradually move away'' from the 3-year-old state of emergency, and release security prisoners. De Klerk did not mention Mandela by name, but said political prisoners would be freed if public order was not threatened and their release would enhance peace prospects. Many South Africans consider Mandela their top leader and his freedom has been demanded as a condition for negotiations. Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1962 for allegedly plotting to overthrow the white government. As Wednesday's ceremony began, a group of human rights lawyers in Pretoria announced de Klerk had commuted the death sentences of seven convicted murderers, including a black activist convicted of burning to death of a black constable during nationwide anti-government unrest that prompted former President P.W. Botha to impose the national emergency. De Klerk became acting president Aug. 15, a day after the Cabinet forced Botha to resign after 11 years in power. De Klerk's National Party retained power after national elections on Sept. 6 but suffered huge losses in Parliament to leftist and rightist factions. De Klerk practiced law before entering Parliament in 1973. From 1978, he held a series of Cabinet posts, and in 1982 took on the powerful job of National Party leader in Transvaal, South Africa's most populous and wealthy province. De Klerk and his wife, Marike, have three children. AP890920-0129 AP-NR-09-20-89 1412EDT u a AM-Leona Bjt 09-20 0524 AM-Leona, Bjt,0537 Leona Helmsley Inspires Books, TV Movies, Songs Eds: Ransdell is cq in 11th graf. LaserPhoto NY20 By BETH J. HARPAZ Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) First came the ads featuring Leona Helmsley as the perfectionist queen of her hotel empire. Then came her trial and conviction for tax evasion. Now Leona is coming to bookstores, piano bars and TV screens near you. At least three books, several songs and two television movies in the works pay tribute to the arrogant penny-pincher whom Mayor Edward I. Koch once dubbed ``the Wicked Witch of the West.'' Mrs. Helmsley may also be a big hit on Halloween. Said Paul Blum, owner of the Greenwich Village novelty shop Abracadabra: ``We do have a Leona Helmsley wig, and then we put you in a prisoner outfit with a crown.'' In August, Mrs. Helmsley was convicted of evading $1.2 million in taxes by billing $3 million in personal expenses to her business. Her husband, Harry, 80, was declared incompetent to stand trial. According to testimony from disgruntled former employees, Mrs. Helmsley insisted that bottles be returned for the nickel deposit, billed $8 worth of underwear to her business, and once said: ``Only the little people pay taxes.'' She will be sentenced Nov. 14. ``She epitomizes the 1980s to an extreme,'' said Newsday reporter Michael Moss, whose book ``Palace Coup'' was published by Doubleday in April. ``She was an incredibly selfish, self-centered, insecure person who hurt dozens of decent people in her unbridled lust for power.'' Or, as singer Christopher Mason put it: ``Everyone simply adores to loathe her.'' Mason wrote a ditty about Leona to the tune of ``I'm Just Wild About Harry.'' The lyrics include the lines: ``The moral of the story, as if you couldn't guess, is it doesn't pay to mess with the IRS.'' Franklin Roosevelt Underwood, who like Mason sings at parties and piano bars around town, wrote lyrics about Mrs. Helmsley to the tune of ``Ramona.'' The refrain goes, ``When Leona's at the helm of the Helmsley.'' After the trial, Bantam Books rushed into paperback with ``The Queen of Mean: the Unauthorized Biography of Leona Helmsley,'' by New York Post reporter Ransdell Pierson. The book will be available nationally Friday. ``People are fascinated by why rich people do things that even us not-rich people wouldn't think of doing,'' said a Bantam spokesman, Stuart Applebaum. New American Library is bringing out ``The Helmsleys'' by Richard Hammer next spring. ABC is making a TV movie based on the book starring Anne Bancroft as Leona. Spector Corp. in Los Angeles has bought an option to turn Moss' book into a TV movie also. Mrs. Helmsley's rags-to-riches story and subsequent fall makes for good drama. Daughter of a poor hatmaker, she made $1 million in real estate before marrying billionaire Harry. Together, they ran a $5 billion hotel and real estate empire. ``It's the ultimate degradation for someone who's very rich and very powerful to become a common felon and they sentence her to live behind bars where she's not going to wear fancy gowns anymore or live in a penthouse,'' Hammer said. AP890920-0130 AP-NR-09-20-89 1416EDT u a PM-Hugo 5thLd-Writethru a0607 09-20 0903 PM-Hugo, 5th Ld - Writethru, a0607,0925 Hugo Expected to Brush Bahamas, Appears Likely to Hit U.S. Eds: UPDATES with emergency declaration, emergency preparations on East Coast. EDITS to shorten. No pickup. LaserPhoto staffing By SANDRA WALEWSKI Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) Residents from Florida to North Carolina stocked up on groceries, flashlights and window-reinforcing tape for Hurricane Hugo's expected assault and the Navy sent ships to sea today to ride out the killer storm. Looting broke out on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the wake of the storm blamed for at least 25 deaths in the Caribbean. President Bush declared the islands a disaster area, and the government made available $500,000 for food and emergency supplies there. Forecasters said the chances of the hurricane hitting the East Coast late this week were steadily increasing, and most projected paths had the storm hitting between Cape Canaveral and Cape Hatteras, N.C., by early Saturday. The storm today brushed northeast of the Bahamas with winds of 105 mph and was expected to bring mostly high wind and rain. Workers boarded up government buildings, and Prime Minister Lynden Pindling cut short a visit to Jamaica. ``Although the indications are that it's going to move east of the more populated areas, no one is relaxing their vigil because it can change direction,'' said Bill Kalis, a spokesman for the Bahamian government. At noon EDT, Hugo's center was 360 miles east of Nassau in the Bahamas. Its coordinates were 25.8 north latitude and 71.5 west longitude and it was moving northwest at 12 mph, a course it was expected to maintain through today. The Navy today began to send ships to sea from a base at Charleston, S.C., to avoid storm damage. Looters ransacked stores and law enforcement collapsed on St. Croix, where tourists pleaded with reporters for help in getting out. ``When we landed, we were pounced upon by about 15 tourists,'' said Gary Williams, a reporter for a San Juan newspaper. ``They said, `Please get food! Please get water! Please help us! They're looting. We've seen police looting. We've seen National Guard looting. There's no law and order here.''' Hugo so far has left millions of dollars in damage, more than 50,000 Caribbean residents homeless and hundreds of injuries. It ripped away roofs, flattened houses, flipped planes, damaged cash crops and knocked out power and communications. The death toll was incomplete, and officials feared it would grow as rescuers searched collapsed buildings. On Monday, the hurricane's 125 mph winds smashed directly into Puerto Rico, where officials said 10,000 people were homeless and 25,000 were in shelters. Two Coast Guard planes carrying fresh water, food and lumber arrived in Puerto Rico late Tuesday, and several other relief flights were planned today. President Bush was expected to declare the island a disaster area. The hardest-hit islands were still cut off from normal communication early today. On the tiny British island of Montserrat, officials said nearly every building was destroyed, including the only hospital on the island of 12,000. ``It's as if a bomb has been dropped in the buildings and everything has been blown out. All trees are like stubble. There's not a flower left standing,'' said Cmdr. Colin Ferbrache of the Royal Navy vessel H.M.S. Alacrity, which was stationed off Montserrat. National Hurricane Center specialist Bob Case said the East Coast would feel the storm's fringe effects of rain and some gusty winds at least through Thursday night, if Hugo stayed on its track parallel to the Bahamas. In Georgia, residents stocked up on batteries, food, plywood and generators. Insurance companies told agents to hold up writing some types of policies until the storm passed. Boaters were advised to move inland. Sheriff Van Findley in Effingham County, Ga., said he was rounding up generators for emergency medical headquarters and shelters and arranging for chainsaws for use in cutting trees that may block evacuation routes. ``I see a lot of people buying water and canned goods like pork and beans,'' Bryan Raleigh, manager of a grocery in the Wilmington, N.C., area. ``It's been pretty steady all morning.'' Off Charleston, S.C., a ship salvaging $400 million in gold from a sunken 19th-century steamship sought safe harbor. In Myrtle Beach, S.C., officials began moving bulldozers to where they would be readily accessible if the storm hit. A Mount Pleasant, S.C., hardware store manager said residents grabbed batteries, masking tape, flashlights and lamp oil. ``I think people are taking it seriously,'' said Louis Middleton. ``There are some old-timers who have memories of Hazel and Gracie,'' hurricanes that hit South Carolina in the 1950s. Others took a wait-and-see attitude. ``We have quite a few tourists still, but everybody seems pretty calm,'' said Mabel Gaskins of coastal Ocracoke, N.C. ``Most of them are waiting for Thursday or Friday to see what it does.'' Workers at Kennedy Space Center were ready to move space shuttle Atlantis, scheduled for launch Oct. 12, from the launch pad to a hangar if necessary. They also were prepared to remove a Navy communications satellite from an Atlas-Centaur rocket on another pad. Decisions on both missions might not come until Thursday, NASA said. Meanwhile, forecasters said Tropical Storm Iris is weakening because of its closeness to Hugo. At noon, Iris was near latitude 21.5 north and longitude 62.8 west, or 230 miles north of the Leeward Islands and moving northwest at about 12 mph. AP890920-0131 AP-NR-09-20-89 1420EDT u a PM-Hugo-Relief 2ndLd-Writethru a0588 09-20 0762 PM-Hugo-Relief, 2nd Ld - Writethru, a0588,0780 First Relief Flights Arrive; More Ready to Go Eds: LEADS with 7 grafs to UPDATE with disaster declaration, federal aid. PICKS UP 6th graf pvs, `Money to ...' With PM-Hugo, Bjt By CATHERINE WILSON Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) U.S. relief efforts intensified today in the hurricane-battered Caribbean as the Red Cross dispatched 50 specialists to help distribute supplies airlifted into Puerto Rico by the Coast Guard. President Bush today declared the hurricane-ravaged Virgin Islands a disaster area in the wake of looting and other violence on St. Croix, and the government made $500,000 available for food and emergency supplies there. The White House said a disaster declaration was expected soon for Puerto Rico. The American Red Cross launched its biggest domestic relief project in four years, packing 15,000 cots and cartons of blankets for shipment when airports are able to receive them, spokeswoman Barbara Lohman said in Washington. About 200 Red Cross workers were running shelters for more than 8,000 people Tuesday night in Puerto Rico, she said, and 50 other disaster experts from across the country left from Philadelphia this morning. They were told to expect to spend at least three weeks in Puerto Rico, where authorities estimate Hurricane Hugo has caused damage in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The Red Cross expects to spend more than $2.5 million for relief, Gary Miller, the director of the effort, said today. A federal disaster declaration makes an area eligible for loans, grants and other relief to rebuild homes, businesses and public works. Money to rebuild is Puerto Rico's most crucial need, said Nydia M. Velazquez, a spokeswoman for the commonwealth in New York. Fund-raising in the New York area, which Velazquez said has about 1.5 million people of Puerto Rican descent, included concerts, telethons on Spanish-language stations and special bank accounts. Red Cross volunteers in the Carolinas were on alert and two hurricane-watch centers were opened in Florida and Georgia as the latest forecast indicated the highest chance _ just over 10 percent _ of Hugo hitting the U.S. mainland was between Fort Pierce, Fla., and Morehead City, N.C., by 2 a.m. Saturday. ``We are definitely moving on the mainland right now, and obviously we're doing all we can in the Caribbean to help those people,'' Ms. Lohman said. A Coast Guard cutter was due this afternoon in Montserrat, one of the worst-hit islands, and the State Department asked the vessel to ferry 200 medical school students from Montserrat to the nearby island of Antigua. Coast Guard C-130 cargo planes from Florida, South Carolina and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reached San Juan on Tuesday with water, food and lumber, said spokesman Steve Sapp in Miami. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the nation's lead agency for long-term disaster recovery, flew a C-141 transport from Martinsburg, W.Va., to the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the National Guard reported damage to 90 percent of the buildings. Hamilton International Airport in St. Croix was open _ but without its tower, lights and radio, said Bill McAda, an agency spokesman in Washington. ``We flew in in a C-141, blind if you will,'' he said. ``One of the things we want to do is have our own first-hand look at what's going on.'' Two planes carried communications vans to re-establish contact with the U.S. mainland. McAda said one aboard the transport plane that landed in St. Croix was capable of serving as a control tower. American Airlines arranged a special Airbus flight from Miami this morning to send in technicians to examine the San Juan runways and terminal. The carrier also scheduled four commercial flights today to San Juan from New York and Miami. With widespread telephone outages in the islands, helicopter pilots and bulldozer operators were among the first to report widespread damage in outlying towns. In Miami, the government tourist office for Puerto Rico was flooded with calls from people who hadn't heard from relatives, but regional manager Teresa Morales said she couldn't reach anyone either. ``We're in the same boat,'' she said. ``I do have all of my relatives down there, and I haven't been able to get through.'' In Texas, the Puerto Rican Association of Dallas began arrangements with companies to send drinking water to the island. Among those in Texas with relatives in Puerto Rico are two members of the Texas Rangers baseball team _ outfielders Ruben Sierra and Juan Gonzalez. ``It's family, especially my mother,'' Sierra said. ``It makes it hard. You can't concentrate on the game when something like this is happening.'' AP890920-0132 AP-NR-09-20-89 1429EDT r a AM-FalwellVisit CORRECTIVE 09-20 0086 AM-Falwell Visit, CORRECTIVE,0085 Eds: Members who used a0618 or a0679, 1st Ld, AM-Falwell Visit, sent Sept. 11 under a Tucker, Ga., dateline, are asked to use the following story. TUCKER, Ga. (AP) The Associated Press erroneously reported Sept. 11 that the Rev. Jerry Falwell called abortion rights protesters ``skinheads, Nazis and gays'' during an appearance at a suburban Atlanta church. Falwell actually said he had heard that protesters outside the church included ``skinheads, Nazis, pro-abortionists and gays. ... They probably deserve each other.'' AP890920-0133 AP-NR-09-20-89 1432EDT r w AM-McNamara'sIdea 09-20 0666 AM-McNamara's Idea,630 Strike a Deal to End the Cold War, McNamara Urges With AM-US-Soviet, Bjt By MIKE FEINSILBER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Even if Mikhail S. Gorbachev is ousted in the upheaval he has touched off in the Soviet Union, his ideas will survive, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara predicts in a book urging the United States to seize Gorbachev's offer to end 40 years of mutual hostility. ``If Gorbachev's efforts fail _ and they may _ his successor will face the same problems,'' McNamara writes. ``To solve them he will be required ultimately to introduce the same solution. There may be steps forward and steps back, but for the next decade or two it is likely the Soviet Union will move in the general direction laid down by the general secretary.'' So, McNamara argues, there is little risk in striking a deal with Gorbachev. In ``Out of the Cold,'' the former president of the Ford Motor Co., who served in the Pentagon during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and then headed the World Bank, offers his ideas for shaping a post-Cold War relationship. Gorbachev's ideas have been ``so dramatic, so revolutionary as to literally imply a desire to end the Cold War,'' says McNamara, but the United States has found it difficult to offer anything but ``skeptical, unimaginative and very cautious'' responses. In an interview, McNamara declined to join fellow Democrats in blaming President Bush for a timid response to Gorbachev. ``I think all of us are skeptical,'' he said. ``We're captive of this Cold War mentality.'' Senate Democratic Leader George Mitchell of Maine this week accused the administration of acting as though it were ``almost nostalgic about the Cold War.'' Secretary of State James Baker III characterized Mitchell's comment as partisan and responded, ``When the president of the United States is rocking along with a 70 percent approval rating on his handling of foreign policy, and I were the leader of the opposition party, I might have something similar to say.'' McNamara said that what he would ask Bush to do is ``visualize a world without the Cold War. That seems simple and obvious and naive, but it isn't. My whole life has been lived as a participant in the Cold War.'' He said in writing the book that he went back to the world before the Cold War. He proposes an update of the Atlantic Charter, framed by two world leaders of that day _ Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The ``Code of Conduct'' McNamara offers calls for settling disputes through diplomacy rather than by military threat and agreeing to stay out of regional conflicts, particularly those on the doorstep of a rival superpower. If such a code had been in effect in place of the Cold War, Soviet intervention in Afghanistan would have been avoided, he says, as well as Soviet intervention in Angola via the Cubans, in Indochina via the North Vietnamese and in Korea via the North Koreans. And the world would have been spared American intervention in Vietnam _ of which he was an architect _ as well as in the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Grenada and the Persian Gulf; and French and British intervention in Egypt. Even in the Soviet Union, there has been much speculation that the processes Gorbachev has started will lead to his downfall. In his book, McNamara said most U.S. experts on the Soviet Union appear to believe that Gorbacev has moved so fast and so far that he will be unable to survive. He said he does not share that view. But glasnost _ the system of openness and new thinking Gorbachev has unleashed _ will prove irreversible, McNamara wrote, and the United States should take advantage of its opportunity to forge a new relationship. Even if Gorbachev stumbles, Soviet leaders and intellectuals ``understand there is no alternative to his political and economic reforms if long-term economic crises and resultant political disorders are to be avoided,'' McNamara said. AP890920-0134 AP-NR-09-20-89 1446EDT r w AM-Congress-NewMembers 09-20 0266 AM-Congress-New Members,270 Congress Swears in Two New Members By JENNIFER DIXON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Democrats from Texas and California were sworn in by House Speaker Thomas S. Foley on Wednesday, filling seats left vacant by the resignations of House leaders Jim Wright and Tony Coelho. Pete Geren of Fort Worth was elected to the seat vacated by Wright, who served in the House for 34 years and was speaker when he resigned in June in the wake of an ethics committee investigation into his personal finances. Gary Condit, who represents California's 15th District, replaces Rep. Tony Coehlo, the majority whip. Coehlo resigned over the summer after questions were raised about his financial dealings. After the swearing in, Geren introduced his first piece of legislation, was coached on talking to the cameras in the House broadcast press gallery and gave his first news conference as a congressman. He said his first bill would give the president broad authority to deal with countries that aid drug trafficking. Geren, who won the seat by a razor-thin margin last week in a run-off with Republican physician Bob Lanier, said he had some ``awfully big shoes to fill'' in taking Wright's place as the 12th District representative. Condit, who won with 57 percent of the vote in his San Joaquin Valley district, was introduced by Democratic Rep. Don Edwards, dean of the California delegation. ``Gary comes to us with fine experience as an elected officer,'' Edwards said, pointing to his 1972 election as mayor of Ceres, followed by his election in 1982 to the state Assembly. AP890920-0135 AP-NR-09-20-89 1519EDT r w AM-EconomicOutlook 09-20 0536 AM-Economic Outlook,510 Economy Growing At a Mixed Pace By JOHN D. McCLAIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The economy continued to grow late this summer at a pace ranging regionally from slow to moderate, while inflation eased over much of the nation, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday. Analysts said the report indicates the Fed continues to attain its goal of easing inflationary pressures without slowing the economy so much that it is driven into a recession. ``It says there's some softness, but no declines,'' said Samuel D. Kahan, chief financial economist for Kleinwort Benson Government Securities Inc. in Chicago. ``It suggests yet again the `soft-landing' scenario seems to be unfolding,'' In a survey of economic conditions around the country, the central bank said most of its districts ``describe the growth of economic activity as modest or slow, although regional variation in activity is substantial.'' The survey also found that pricing pressures have eased in five of the 12 Fed districts, while increasing only in the Kansas City region. The survey by the 12 district banks is compiled in the Fed's ``beige book'' every six weeks to prepare for the next meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed's monetary policy-setting arm. The next meeting is Oct. 3. Kahan said the report is likely to lead the Fed ``to put monetary policy on hold even though its bias is toward easing'' interest rates. While growth was generally mixed from region to region, the survey results were consistent with the Fed's earlier findings this year. Fed districts reported Aug. 9 that the ``nation's economy continues to grow slowly'' and on June 21 said ``economic activity for the most of the nation continues to advance'' with ``ebbing rates of expansion'' in some regions. The economy was growing at ``a moderate, sustainable pace'' in the May 3 survey. In its latest survey completed Sept. 12, the Fed reported ``consumer spending has been mixed, but most districts report strong sales of apparel and cars recently.'' In some districts, it found, increased sales of women's apparel spurred overall apparel growth. ``A surge in auto sales has helped reduce auto inventories over most of the nation,'' it said. However, auto sales were driven by incentives during much of the summer and dealers in several districts expressed fears that those sales would cut into purchases of 1990 models later this year. Demand for loans also continued to vary considerably by region and type of loan, the survey said. Auto loans appeared to be a major factor in determining consumer loan growth. The survey found manufacturing performance generally satisfactory or improving in the South and West, but weakening in New England and much of the Midwest. Manufacturing inventories generally were at satisfactory levels. It also said there was ``substantial variation in the strength of construction and real estate activity,'' with several districts reporting falling mortgage rates had stimulated the construction and sales of existing homes. Only three districts _ Boston, St. Louis and San Francisco _ reported labor shortages. ``Agricultural conditions have improved over much of the country,'' the survey said, while ``the mining ndustry has showed increased activity in the Minneapolis, Dallas, Atlanta and Kansas City districts in recent months.'' AP890920-0136 AP-NR-09-20-89 1457EDT u i AM-ArmsTalks 09-20 0635 AM-Arms Talks,0654 NATO to Present New Arms Cut Proposals By GEORGE JAHN Associated Press Writer VIENNA, Austria (AP) NATO will present new proposals that for the first time foresee limiting the number of troops taking part in military exercises across Europe, diplomatic sources said Wednesday. The proposals are in a package of conventionial arms control cuts that the Western alliance intends to present Thursday to the Warsaw Pact, the sources said on condition of anonymity. They would oblige both sides to give advance notice of a major mobilization of reservists and of large troop movements and concentrations, said the sources. Other proposals they outlined would mandate easy access to specific weapons depots holding up to a fifth of each side's arsenals, and simplify surveillance of equipment in units with a low level of readiness. The package is little changed from one that was to be offered two weeks ago at the opening fall session of East-West non-nuclear talks, which was delayed by squabbling among NATO members. New is the suggestion both sides limit war games to a ceiling of several tens of thousands of troops or several hundred battle tanks, the diplomatic sources said. They refused to be more specific about the figures. At the Sept. 14 session, both sides expressed hopes for speedy progress toward a treaty reducing conventional forces of both military alliances from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural mountains. Soviet chief delegate Oleg A. Grinevsky pledged to get down to hard work at the six-week session on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. Stephen J. Ledogar, his U.S. counterpart, welcomed Warsaw Pact agreement to try and reach a draft treaty within a year. President Bush challenged the East bloc to accept that time frame in May when he proposed limiting foreign-based U.S. and Soviet troops to 275,000 each. Bush's package also envisioned slashing numbers of military aircraft and other weapons. NATO proposals drawn from Bush's speech were presented to the Warsaw Pact at the end of a second round of talks July 13, but the Soviets and their allies have yet to respond. Stances seem furthest apart on air forces, with NATO proposing each alliance have no more than 5,700 combat aircraft and 1,900 helicopter gunships. The July 13 initiative also would restrict any one country to 3,420 combat aircraft and 1,140 combat helicopters. While not presenting specific figures, the Warsaw Pact insists combat interceptors based near Moscow and the Urals be excluded _ a stand NATO rejects. Other thresholds proposed by the West would limit each alliance to 20,000 tanks, 16,500 artillery pieces and 28,000 armored personnel carriers. The Warsaw Pact has been more vague, suggesting overall reductions of 10 percent to 15 percent in aircraft and five other weapons categories by 1994. That would be followed by a further 25 percent cut by 1997, with the ultimate goal of purely defensive forces by the year 2000. While the Warsaw Pact has dropped decades of objections to NATO claims that it is outmanned and outgunned, wide differences continue to exist on numbers. The new NATO proposals were not presented during the opening fall session after Greece voiced a last-minute objection to provisions mandating that only maneuvers with 40,000 or more reservists and 1,200 or more armed carriers be announced in advance. Athens, wary of NATO partner Turkey's greater military strength, wanted a lower limit. Without elaborating, the sources said the dispute has been papered over. Because of other internal disagreements, the NATO proposals remain purposely vague on how to exchange information on force makeup and verification of compliance with an eventual arms treaty, said the sources. Western negotiators at the 23-nation talks have said the United States and Canada are seeking strict surveillance, while their European partners object to frequent inspections of their facilities by the Warsaw Pact. AP890920-0137 AP-NR-09-20-89 1525EDT r i AM-MotherTeresa 09-20 0272 AM-Mother Teresa,0281 Mother Teresa Better, But Not Out of Danger By FARID HOSSAIN Associated Press Writer CALCUTTA, India (AP) Doctors treating Mother Teresa said the Nobel laureate was getting better Wednesday, but added it is too early to determine whether she is out of danger because of the chance of a relapse. ``The mother had a comfortable day without chest pains or fever,'' said one of her physicians, Dr. A.K. Bardhan. He said the 79-year-old Roman Catholic nun's temperature was normal and she had had no chest pains since Monday night. Although her general condition is improving, Bardhan said, Mother Teresa must remain hospitalized for at least two more weeks. ``The possibility of a relapse always exists,'' Bardhan said. ``But if her condition maintains this level of improvement, she should be out of intensive care in a few days ... we cannot say she is out of danger until another 48 hours have passed.'' Mother Teresa has had intermittent chest pains since she suffered a heart attack on Sept. 8, three days after being admitted to Woodlands Nursing Home with a high fever and acute vomiting. After she leaves the hospital, doctors said, she will have to give up the hectic schedule that earned her a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Despite health problems in recent years, the Yugoslav-born nun has traveled widely to offer care and comfort to the poor and suffering. Mother Teresa devoted her life to the dying and destitute and founded the Missionaries of Charity in October 1950 to work in the slums of Calcutta. The order now has 3,000 nuns working in 87 countries. AP890920-0138 AP-NR-09-20-89 1501EDT u w AM-Senate-Poland 09-20 0633 AM-Senate-Poland,590 Committee, Minus Republicans, Endorses More Aid for Poland, Hungary With AM-US-Soviet, Bjt By LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday endorsed nearly $1.2 billion in aid for Poland and Hungary, far more than President Bush has requested, after all but one of the panel's Republicans walked out. Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana was the only Republican left in the room as the committee voted 10-1. Before leaving, many of Lugar's GOP colleagues denounced the Democratic initiative as a politically motivated slap at the president. For their part, the Democrats said Bush's request _ $100 million in development funds for Poland and $25 million for Hungary, spread over three years _ was ``pathetically timid.'' The vote came after Raymond Seitz, assistant secretary of state for European Affairs, testified that while the Democrats' proposal contains all the elements of the president's proposal, ``the administration cannot endorse the higher funding levels.'' Saying that the surging reform movements in Eastern Europe are ``something we have hoped for all of our lives,'' Seitz told the committee, ``It would be the saddest thing if we wrecked it in some sort of procedural or partisan wrangle.'' Lugar told the panel that it was ``headed for the rocky shoals of a partisan debate which is not going to result in anything good for the Poles. ... ``In my judgment, this is an attempt to tweak the administration, to cause a partisan row on the Senate floor. That may be interesting to watch, but the rest of the world is not amused by this kind of irresponsibility.'' Yet, the Democrats hailed their proposal as ``a gamble for freedom'' and an urgently needed signal of support to the non-communist reform movements in Poland and Hungary. ``Democracy now has an opportunity to prove it can work in Poland,'' said Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif. ``The administration proposals are pathetically weak. They have fumbled the ball. They have failed to grasp the historic opportunity that now exists.'' The $1.18 billion Democratic aid proposal would authorize $423 million in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 and $381 million in each of the next two years. The centerpiece of the plan is an annual $300 million ``enterprise fund'' to support private economic development in Poland. The plan also would also authorize spending $75 million in each of the next three years to provide a similar fund for Hungary. Cranston said Democrats propose skimming the money from the $40 billion spent by the Pentagon each year for research and development. But Republicans said the funds Bush proposed for Poland and Hungary are sufficient to spur democratic progress and are all that can be responsibly provided in a time of severe budget constraints. ``You call the president of the United States timid for political reasons,'' said Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C. ``It's one-upmanship.'' Helms expressed the fear that the United States might find itself being ``snookered'' by the communist parties of Eastern Europe. Nevertheless, some Republicans appeared to signal an interest in an eventual compromise that would increase aid for Poland and Hungary at some later point. ``I would press for a compromise somewhere in between'' the Bush plan and the Democratic proposal, said Sen. Frank Murkowski, R-Alaska. And Sen. Gordon Humphrey, R-N.H., indicated all-out support for significantly increased aid levels. ``The press indicates the president is worried about support for this on the right,'' Humphrey said. ``Frankly, I'm a very conservative fellow and I'd like to see more. We may all end up with egg on our faces. But there may be a window that will close if we do not act with imagination and daring. ``The opportunity that exists could be the last for a generation or two if we don't respond aggressively enough,'' Humphrey said. AP890920-0139 AP-NR-09-20-89 1530EDT r w AM-Leakey-Elephants 09-20 0371 AM-Leakey-Elephants,380 Leakey Sees Japan as Key to Saving Elephants By CARL HARTMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Japan is the key to saving the African elephant, the director of Kenya's Wildlife Conservation said Wednesday. ``If Japan has stopped importing ivory, the elephants can start dancing,'' Richard D. Leakey said in an interview. Japan, a leading center for the manufacture of ivory products, Friday announced it would ban imports at least until the end of the year. Most of the world's ivory comes from the tusks of the African elephant. Japan imported 106 tons of ivory last year, compared with 143 tons in 1987 and 475 tons in 1983. Conservationists warn that illegal slaughter could make the African elephant extinct in the wild by the mid-1990s. Leakey predicted that elephants will one day only live in national parks or other reserves. Leakey, who wore a necktie with a pattern of skulls, is known for his research on the first humans. He made his most important find at the age of 26 on a hillside in his native Kenya: a skull and other bones he judged to be nearly 3 million years old. The discovery provided important evidence about the early stages of human development. The 103 governments that signed the Convention on Illegal Trade in Endangered Species are to meet in Lausanne, Switzerland, beginning Oct. 9. A major issue will be whether to switch the African elephant from a ``threatened'' to an ``endangered'' species. Trade is banned in products from endangered species, though limited exceptions may be granted. Some countries, including Zimbabwe and South Africa, may oppose the switch on the ground that they are effectively managing their own elephant herds, so that there should be no objection to their sales of ivory. ``For South Africa that's probably the case, for Zimbabwe, probably not,'' Leakey said. Leakey praised the United States government, which has banned ivory imports, and the American public for its attitude toward buying ivory objects. The public attitude is more important than any government ban because illegal slaughter has risen only because of increased demand, he said. ``When the people of the world stand up to be counted, ivory will no longer be sold,'' he said. AP890920-0140 AP-NR-09-20-89 1536EDT r a AM-People 09-20 0604 AM-People,0632 People in the News LaserPhoto NY44 SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) Actor Harvey Korman plans to pack it in if his new television show ``The Nutt House'' isn't a hit. ``The show feels right, and we have a strong lead-in (Night Court). If we blow the lead-in and I'm wrong about the show, then that's it ... definitely,'' he said of Wednesday's debut on NBC. Korman, 62, has been trying for a hit since ``The Carol Burnett Show.'' The show, produced by Mel Brooks, will be try No. 4. ``I have my four Emmys and I have my place in `Who's Who.' And that should be enough, but to tell you the truth, I need the activity,'' Korman said. ``That's why I took this job. My wife keeps asking me why I put myself through all this, but a man has to work.'' The show co-stars Cloris Leachman and is set at a rather odd New York hotel. Eds: Also moved on sports wires. IRVING, Texas (AP) Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones plans to skip the sidelines during Sunday's home opener to entertain Elizabeth Taylor in a private, stadium suite. ``She asked if she could become involved in coming to see the football game,'' Jones said Tuesday. ``All of my life I've watched her as many of us have and I'm a big fan.'' Miss Taylor was coming to Dallas anyway to promote her perfume, Passion. She'll have quite a view from the suite in Texas Stadium. ``I might make a friend out of Elizabeth,'' Jones said. ATLANTA (AP) A chauffeur-driven Mercedes-Benz and a trail of autograph-seekers make Emmanuel Lewis something of a spectacle on the campus of Clark Atlanta University. Now 18, the plucky former star of television's ``Webster'' began freshman classes in August. He plans to major in mass communications and move soon to a room at a boys' dormitory that's big enough for his body guard. ``I came to get away from the lights and dig down deep into studies,'' Lewis said in an interview published Wednesday by The Atlanta Constitution. Lewis' older brother, Chris, is a sophomore at the school. Lewis has been commuting to classes from his family's summer home south of Atlanta. The 3-foot-7 Lewis said he doesn't mind on-campus fans who seek him out for autographs. ``I think it's neat,'' he said. MADRID, Spain (AP) Prince Felipe de Borbon, heir to the Spanish throne, has the White House on his list of stops during a 10-day tour of the United States and Canada that he began Wednesday. The 21-year-old son of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia plans a visit Sept. 29 with President Bush. Among his Canadian stops are Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, where he will visit with former classmates at Lakefield College. In the United States, the prince will dedicate a museum wing for Hispanic art in Sante Fe, N.M., and tour the Texas cities of Austin, Houston and Clearlake. YORBA LINDA, Calif (AP) City employees have former President Nixon to thank for a holiday Jan. 9. The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to make Nixon's birthday a holiday. Nixon was born in a Yorba Linda farmhouse in 1913. ``We're not here to judge history, we're here to recognize it,'' Mayor Henry W. Wedaa said. Nixon said ``he's pleased'' with the honor, Wedaa reported. About 100 employees of the city 30 miles from Los Angeles will take Jan. 9 off each year. The proposal to make the date a holiday was met warmly, Wedaa said, despite Nixon's 1974 resignation in the Watergate scandal. AP890920-0141 AP-NR-09-20-89 1546EDT r w AM-Bloch 09-20 0356 AM-Bloch,370 Bloch's Wife Quits Foundation Job By JOAN MOWER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The wife of suspected spy Felix Bloch has resigned as executive director of a charitable foundation, and an official of the group said Wednesday that the investigation into her husband's alleged activities damaged her job effectiveness. Lucille Bloch resigned from the American Austrian Foundation about two months after revelations that her husband was being investigated. No charges have been filed against Bloch, who has denied any wrongdoing. ``Just imagine the terrible pressure and the problem she is having,'' said Thomas J. McGrath, a Manhattan lawyer who serves as the group's secretary. ``I'm sure every time she turns around, they say, `Oh, you're that man's wife.''' McGrath said Mrs. Bloch's effectiveness had been damaged by the investigation. A secretary at the group's Washington office said Mrs. Bloch was not available for comment, and she did not immediately return a message left on her home answering maching. McGrath said the foundation, which received private contributions as well as about $39,000 from the Austrian Foreign Ministry in 1988, accepted Mrs. Bloch's resignation at a board meeting in New York. The foundation will close its Washington office and move to New York. McGrath said the foundation is will hire a successor to run programs that include fellowships for young journalists to visit Austria and sponsorship of cultural events. Bloch, the former No. 2 official at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna and a veteran of 30 years in the Foreign Service, has been under surveillance by FBI agents since June. The Justice Department launched its probe after Bloch was photographed handing a briefcase to a suspected Soviet agent in a restaurant in Paris in May, U.S. sources have said, commenting on condition they not be named. Bloch, 54, was placed on administrative leave with pay in June, a month before allegations against him were made public. Bloch was trailed for weeks by reporters and photographers as he went about his business, operating from his apartment. More recently, he has disappeared from the media spotlight. The FBI refused to discuss the status of the case. AP890920-0142 AP-NR-09-20-89 1608EDT r a AM-ToddlerCocaine 09-20 0235 AM-Toddler Cocaine,0243 Girl, 3, Dies With Cocaine In Her Blood; Probe Begins SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) Police are investigating the death of a 3-year-old girl after cocaine was found in her blood, authorities said Wednesday. Samantha Allen died Sunday from pneumonia brought on by a series of seizures that weakened her, according to an autopsy performed Monday. ``They've been unable to determine if the cocaine is connected with the seizures or her death,'' said Sgt. Timothy Erwin. ``We are trying to ascertain how the child got the cocaine.'' Police don't know if the child was given the cocaine or if she accidentally ingested it herself, Erwin said. Two weeks ago, the girl's mother, 38-year-old Lois Smith of Syracuse, was placed on five years probation for fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. ``Our investigation revealed there was considerable drug use in the house,'' Erwin said. The mother has not been charged in the child's death. He said the child had problems with seizures since birth and was taking an anti-seizure medication. The mother ran out of the prescription Aug. 26 and took her daughter to the hospital Aug. 29 after she suffered severe seizures, the sergeant said. ``The mother did try to get some of the medication that Saturday, but the drug store was closed,'' Erwin said. ``She contacted another doctor, but he wouldn't give her any medication because he didn't know her.'' AP890920-0143 AP-NR-09-20-89 2216EDT d a AM-BRF--SchoolGift 09-20 0194 AM-BRF--School Gift,0198 School Library Given New Furniture AUSTIN, Texas (AP) More than 30 years after Ruben Acosta learned multiplication tables at Metz Elementary School, he returned with a gift. Acosta and eight other employees at Texwood Furniture on Tuesday delivered about $5,000 worth of new furniture for the school library. Through the Adopt-A-School program, the employees donated bookshelves, card catalog units, a magazine rack and dictionary stand. ``We are so used to settling for second-, third- and fourth-best at this school that when we get a gift like this, I'm not really quite sure how to say thank you,'' Principal Jorge Luis Rodriguez said. ``I've heard a lot about the problems,'' said Acosta, 44. ``That's why I think what we are doing here today will mean so much to the kids.'' ``This is like a birthday,'' said school librarian Patricia Kaplan. ``We adopted Metz because it's very close to us,'' said Texwood President Carolyn Lewis. ``It is largely Hispanic and our work force is about 90 percent Hispanic. When we found out that some of our employees had attended Metz or had children going there, it seemed like the perfect school.'' AP890920-0144 AP-NR-09-20-89 1522EDT u w AM-GeneticTests Bjt 09-20 0740 AM-Genetic Tests, Bjt,710 Panel Says Tests Of Genetically-Modified Plants, Microbes Safe By PAUL RECER AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Field testing of genetically modified plants and microorganisms ``will not pose any hazard'' to the environment if done carefully under existing laws, a National Academy of Sciences panel concluded in a study released Wednesday. Genetically engineered plants and microbes are ``not intrinsically dangerous,'' the study found. But the experts said field tests should be allowed only after evaluating the effect on the environment if the modified organism were to ``escape'' from the test area. ``We feel fairly confident that if this thing is done right it will not pose any hazard,'' said Robert H. Burris, an emeritus professor of biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin. ``We hope that this will be reassuring to the public.'' Jeremy Rifkin of the Foundation on Economic Trends, a long-time opponent of field testing of genetically-altered organisms, attacked the report as ``irresponsible public policy.'' He said science has no way to evaluate the risks of releasing such organisms into the environment. Burris, who was chairman of the academy's committee on evaluation of introduction of gene-modified microorganisms and plants, said that some 80 modified plants and microbes have been tested in the environment and ``we haven't had any accidents as yet.'' The committee said that federal agencies reviewing field test proposals should base approval on three points: how familiar scientists are with the modified organism; how well the organism will be confined or controlled, and the probability of adverse effects on the environment if the organism were to escape from the field test. Science is now able to manipulate basic characteristics of plants and bacteria by adding, removing or rearranging genes. For instance, a bacteria that resists the formation of ice has been sprayed on strawberries to help the plants resist frost. Some bacteria has been experimentally altered so that it would break down pollutants. And some tomato plant genes have been altered to make the fruit more firm. Rifkin's organization and some other public advocacy groups, however, have objected that field testing genetically-altered organisms runs the risk of releasing into the environment a plant or bacteria that could cause ecological disaster. He said some other nations, including Japan and Denmark, have put a five-year moratorium on testing genetically-altered organisms because of the uncertainty of the risk. Rifkin said the National Academy of Sciences report is ``politics and not science'' and added, ``We will oppose these recommendations.'' Burris said, however, that the committee examined the dangers and believes the hazards can be controlled if federal agencies follow the three-part guidelines in considering field test applications. The report said the ``major environmental risk'' from genetic modification of plants is that an altered plant will escape cultivation and become a weed species, or that it will pollinate wild plants and create a new type of weed. ``The likelihood of enhanced weediness is low for genetically modified, highly domesticated crop plants,'' the report said. Modified microorganisms, such as bacteria, pose another kind of hazard because they are prone to spontaneous mutations, suggesting the possibility that a damaging organism could developed from one that had been manipulated by man. The report said that such a hazard could be controlled by adding to the modified microorganism a ``suicide gene.'' This would be a genetic instruction that would cause the organism to die when it encounters a temperature change or is deprived of certain types of nutrients. Genetic manipulations of this type, the report said, could ``guarantee that the organism could not survive outside the target environment.'' The committee determined that there was no need to change existing laws. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency currently regulate field testing of modified organisms. ``The laws that exist now are adequate for this,'' said Burris. ``We're not suggesting that any laws be changed.'' Burris said genetic manipulation of microorganisms and plants has great promise for a wide variety of uses. Some manipulated bacteria, he said, could be used to remove sulphur or other undesirable elements from mineral ore, leading to a concentration of minerals in an ore that might otherwise not be economically recovered. Microbes also could be manipulated so that they would ``eat'' toxic pollutants, changing the poisons in chemical dumps, for example, into inert gasses, he said. By manipulating genes, agricultural scientists could develop food plants that are resistant to insects, disease or drought, Burris said. AP890920-0145 AP-NR-09-20-89 1623EDT r a AM-King-SchoolHostages 09-20 0368 AM-King-School Hostages,0378 Novelist Agrees that Kentucky Hostage Scenario Had Familiar Ring BANGOR, Maine (AP) Author Stephen King said that although a high school student who held 11 classmates hostage at gunpoint was acting out the scenario of one of his novels, books don't cause such incidents. ``If they didn't do it one way, they would do it another way,'' he told the Bangor Daily News. ``Crazy is crazy.'' King said he knew from the time he watched a television news account of Monday's classroom standoff in McKee, Ky., that it was a case of imitating the plot of ``Rage,'' the novel he wrote in 1977 under the pen name Richard Bachman. ``It was my story,'' King said, adding that he reached that conclusion even before it was reported that police had a copy of ``Rage'' in the home of 17-year-old Dustin Pierce, the student taken into custody after the standoff. State police and FBI agents also described ``Rage'' as a blueprint for Monday's hostage-taking. But Pierce denied Tuesday that he was influenced by King's novel, saying he had never read it. In King's novel, the main character, gun in hand, takes over his classroom in pursuit of what King described as a ``pathological rage fantasy about his father.'' Police said Pierce demanded to talk to his father, who he had not seen in years. King said he was grateful no one was injured in Monday's standoff and that Pierce had surrendered peacefully. In ``Rage,'' the young protagonist kills his teacher and a classmate. This is not the first time that a King novel has been part of a blurred image of reality. The Bangor resident said he has received news clippings about police finding the word ``redrum'' near bodies of murder victims. The word, which is murder spelled backward, appeared in the 1976 novel ``The Shining.'' King said his works aren't the only ones in which life has imitated art. One man stabbed his grandmother to death after seeing Alfred Hitchcock's ``Psycho,'' he said, while the Charles Manson murders had references to Beatles music and the 1986 Tylenol cyanide poisoning cases were preceded by a book which depicted poisoned drugs being used to commit murder. AP890920-0146 AP-NR-09-20-89 1537EDT u w AM-CongressionalPay 09-20 0422 AM-Congressional Pay,380 Members Recoil at Prospect of Another Battle over Pay By STEVEN KMOAROW Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) House Speaker Thomas S. Foley said Wednesday he would examine a plan to raise congressional salaries 35 percent, but many lawmakers looked warily at reviving the unpopular issue. ``I don't think the wounds have healed from February,'' said Rep. Mike Synar, D-Okla., recalling the bruising battle for a 51 percent pay raise that helped speed the downfall of former Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas. Rep. Beryl Anthony of Arkansas, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, chuckled that a pay hike could pass _ ``if it's a private vote in the middle of the night.'' GOP leader Robert Michel of Illinois called any talk of a pay raise now ``just that _ talk.'' The House Democratic and Republican leadership is expected to receive the report from their bipartisan task force on ethics Thursday. A key part of the recommendation is a phase-out of speech honoraria coupled with a 35 percent raise for lawmakers over the next two years. Senators and representatives now earn $89,500 a year, except for each chamber's officers, who earn more. In addition, members of the House are allowed to accept honoraria up to 30 percent of their salary, senators up to 40 percent. ``I suppose we will listen to whatever recommendations are made ... among other things, questions regarding compensation,'' said Foley. ``Here we go off into the valley of death,'' cracked Rep. Pat Williams, D-Mont., who said he could support a modest pay boost if it were tied to honoraria elimination. ``Talking up front about 35 percent seems to doom it,'' he added. Foley has said he expects that an elimination of honoraria, money for speeches that lawmakers take from special interest groups, would have to be coupled with a pay increase for his colleagues to approve it.. He also said that President Bush's support would be needed. There was no immediate White House reaction. Bush supported that 51 percent raise proposal earlier this year. Synar said he doubted public sentiment had changed since then, when the prospect of higher congressional pay drove many constituents to write to Congress. At a recent town meeting in his district, he said he asked the crowd how many favored replacing that ``dirty, filthy special-interest money'' with a nice, clean pay raise for Congress. ``And not a single hand went up,'' he said. ``No, the House is not ready to deal with the pay raise,'' said Rep. David Nagle, D-Iowa. AP890920-0147 AP-NR-09-20-89 1627EDT r a AM-Hugo-SpaceShuttle 1stLd-Writethru a0658 09-20 0316 AM-Hugo-Space Shuttle, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0658,0309 Hugo Slows But Does Not Stop Preparations for Shuttle, Satellite Launches Eds: LEADS with 3 grafs, satellite launch postponed a day; picks up 3rd graf, `We're continuing'; DELETES now-redundant last graf, ``The Atlas-Centaur...'' With AM-Hugo, Bjt CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Hurricane Hugo on Wednesday did not appear to pose a major threat to this space center, but it once again delayed a satellite rocket launch and NASA said it was ready to move space shuttle Atlantis off a launch pad if the storm shifted toward the cape. Officials put off from Sunday until Monday the launch of an Atlas-Centaur booster with a Navy communications satellite. Liftoff had been set originally for Friday but that earlier was put off two days after the rocket's fuel tank was drained as a Hugo precaution. Space agency spokesman George Diller said the additional day's postponement would give launch officials more time to assess Hugo's direction before ordering refueling of the Atlas-Centaur. ``We're continuing to prepare both the shuttle and the Atlas-Centaur for launch, but we'll be ready to take protective measures if the storm suddenly turns this way,'' said NASA spokesman Karl Kristofferson. Forecasters said if Hugo continued on its present northwest course it would pass at least 150 miles east of Cape Canaveral, not close enough for its wide-ranging wind and rain to affect the shuttle or the Atlas-Centaur. To prepare for a possible Atlantis move, workers parked a giant tracked transporter at the base of the launch pad to carry the shuttle to the safety of an assembly building. The transporter, moving at maximum speed of 1 mph, would take about six hours to cover the 4.2 miles to the building. Atlantis is scheduled to be launched Oct. 12 with a crew of five astronauts who are to send the Galileo spacecraft on a six-year journey to the planet Jupiter. AP890920-0148 AP-NR-09-20-89 1630EDT r w AM-Barry-Gesture 09-20 0462 AM-Barry-Gesture,450 Washington Mayor Apologizes for Gesture By RICHARD KEIL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Mayor Marion Barry apologized Wednesday for making a vulgar gesture to hecklers at a street festival, but brushed aside questions on possible damage to his re-election campaign. Jesse Jackson, considered by many a likely rival in the race, was cheered by the same crowd last Sunday. Democratic National Chairman Ronald Brown said Tuesday that he expects Jackson to run in the November 1990 election. Barry said he had spoken Wednesday with Jackson ``and he is not running.'' However, Jackson, who moved his headquarters to Washington from Chicago this year, has not publicly ruled out such an effort. As for Barry's gesture with his middle finger, the mayor said at his monthly news conference, ``When I got there, there was a small group of people who were cursing ... calling my wife names, calling my mother-in-law names, and I reacted. ... If I offended some people, and I'm sure I did, I want to apologize.'' When asked whether the incident will hamper his campaign for a fourth term, Barry dismissed the question and refused to answer other queries on the matter. While Barry was booed and heckled at Sunday's gathering, Jackson was greeted with cheers when he was introduced a few moments later. Talk of a Jackson candidacy got a further lift when Brown suggested the two-time Democratic presidential hopeful will run ``and if he runs I think he will be elected.'' Brown, who handled Jackson's operation at the Democratic National Convention last year, said he had no inside information and was just giving his opinion. When Barry was asked about that, he said, ``I talked to Jesse Jackson this morning, and (we) talked on Sunday night, and he knows that I am running for mayor, and he is not running. ... What other people say is their business.'' Jackson has said he would never run against his old civil rights colleague, but he has left open the possibility of a bid for the office if Barry dropped out. The mayor has testified twice to a grand jury that is part of a federal drug probe of former Barry associate and city employee Charles Lewis. Published reports have said Lewis has told prosecutors he and Barry used cocaine together during a visit Barry paid to the Virgin Islands in early 1988 and during a trip by Lewis to Washington last December. The federal probe began after reports that city police called off an attempt to make an undercover drug buy from Lewis last December when they learned that Barry was in Lewis' downtown Washington hotel room. The mayor has acknowledged visiting Lewis' room on several occasions but has repeatedly denied he saw, used or purchased drugs. AP890920-0149 AP-NR-09-20-89 1652EDT r a AM-GoetzRelease 09-20 0506 AM-Goetz Release,0518 Goetz Free _ To Face $50 Million Lawsuit By LARRY McSHANE Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz was out from behind bars Wednesday for the first time since January but due in court next week for the $50 million lawsuit filed by the one of the young men he shot nearly five years ago. His 12:01 a.m. release from jail ended one chapter in the highly publicized case, which began Dec. 22, 1984, when Goetz fled Manhattan after shooting four teen-agers on a subway train, leaving one paralyzed from the waist down. ``This morning, Goetz walked out of prison. Darrell Cabey will never walk out of his prison,'' Ron Kuby, an attorney for the paralyzed 23-year-old said Wednesday. ``Darrell gets no time off for good behavior. No parole, no appeal. And it's that way for the rest of his life.'' Goetz, who spent 250 days in jail after his Jan. 13 sentencing, left through a side door, avoiding eight camera crews and 30 reporters and photographers gathered at the front door, jail officials said. Neither supporters nor demonstrators turned out for the release of Goetz, who became a folk hero to some and a symbol of racism to others after the shooting. Goetz, who is white, claimed the four young black men were about to rob him; the teen-agers said they were panhandling for change to play video games. A police officer drove the 41-year-old Goetz away from the jail, and he arrived at his apartment early Wednesday, dodging photographers as he entered the building. Phone calls to his apartment went unanswered through the day. Goetz whiled away much of his time in jail playing chess with inmates in an 18-cell protective custody block, Ruby Ryles, a spokeswoman for the city Correction Department, said. Others in the block included convicted child killer Joel Steinberg and Joseph Fama, the alleged triggerman in the Bensonhurst racial attack. Goetz said before his release that he might leave New York City to escape the constant attention his presence generates. ``For the past 4{ years, he has been a prisoner of the media. Perhaps it's time for Bernhard Goetz to be left alone,'' said his attorney, Barry Slotnick. ``Fortunately, this episode in his life is closed, and it's time that he be left alone.'' But his reclusiveness will end Sept. 29, when Goetz is scheduled to give a deposition in the Cabey lawsuit, said Kuby. ``I'm going to try to open it up to the public. There's no reason for it to be closed, and there's certainly public interest,'' said Kuby. Depositions, although a part of the public record, usually are done in private. Slotnick would not comment Wednesday on the civil lawsuit. He and co-counsel Mark Baker had tried unsuccessfully to cut Goetz's one-year sentence, taking his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Goetz was convicted of illegal gun possession on June 16, 1987, by a jury that acquitted him of four counts of attempted murder and assault. AP890920-0150 AP-NR-09-20-89 1653EDT r a AM-JaffeFuneral 09-20 0182 AM-Jaffe Funeral,0186 Service Held For Former National Job Corps Director PHILADELPHIA (AP) A funeral service was held Wednesday for Richard A. Jaffe, former national director of the Job Corps, who died of a heart attack. He was 56. The service was held at Goldstein Funeral Home, followed immediately by burial. Jaffe died Monday in his office. Jaffe served in the 1960s as a founding member of President Lyndon B. Johnson's task force for establishing the Office of Economic Opportunity and the Job Corps program. In the early 1970s, he became Philadelphia regional director of the Job Corps and in 1979 he was appointed national director of the Job Corps and also the National Young Adult Conservation Corps. After leaving the government in 1984, Jaffe worked as a private consultant before joining Rollins Environmental Services Inc., a national firm that specializes in hazardous waste cleanups and is based in Wilmington, Del., where Jaffe died in his office. He is survived by his wife, Audrey Braude Jaffe, two daughters and four brothers. He and his family lived in Elkins Park, Pa. AP890920-0151 AP-NR-09-20-89 1550EDT u i BC-Soviet-Politburo 1stLd-Writethru 09-20 0293 BC-Soviet-Politburo, 1st Ld-Writethru,a0679,0302 URGENT Three Politburo Members Retired With PM-Soviet-Ethnic Eds: New thruout to UPDATE with more background on retired men and more on their successors. No pickup. MOSCOW (AP) Three members of the ruling Communist Party Politburo were dropped Wednesday in a dramatic consolidation of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's power. The most important was Vladimir Shcherbitsky, 71, a holdover from the Brezhnev era and the Ukraine Communist Party chief. A Politburo member since 1971, he was considered one of the most conservative forces on the body. Also retired was Viktor Chebrikov, 66, who had moved from head of the KGB in September to a new party position overseeing legal affairs. The third was Viktor Nikonov, 60, who has been a Central Committee secretary and a Politburo member since 1987. Chebrikov's successor as KGB chief, Vladimir Kryuchkov, was elevated to the Communist Party's ruling body, the Tass news agency reported at the end of a two-day meeting of the party's policy-making Central Committee. The head of the state planning commission, Yuri Maslyukov, also was promoted from candidate to full membership in the Politburo. Two candidate members of the Politburo, Yuri Solovyev and Nikolai Talyzin, also were retired, Tass said. Solovyev is the Leningrad Communist Party chief. The news agency said Gorbachev ``warmly thanked'' the three Politburo members for their ``many years of fruitful activity'' in the party, indicating they were retiring in good graces. In a series of stunning changes capping a Central Committee meeting devoted to ethnic affairs, two candidate members of the Politburo also were named. Tass said that Yevgeny Primakov, head of the Soviet of the Union legislative chamber, was named a non-voting Politburo member, as was Boris Pugo, head of the party commission overseeing discipline. AP890920-0152 AP-NR-09-20-89 1739EDT r a AM-Hugo-Relief 09-20 0625 AM-Hugo-Relief,0642 Coast Guard, Red Cross Lead Relief Efforts With AM-Hugo, Bjt By CATHERINE WILSON Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) Relief groups on Wednesday gathered tons of cots, blankets, communications gear and other emergency supplies for the hurricane-battered Caribbean islands, while Coast Guard cutters helped to restore order. ``We can act pretty quickly. We're geared to. If someone calls on the phone and says they need help, we can go,'' said Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Jeff Karonis. ``The problem is with these islands, the communications have been lost.'' President Bush declared the U.S. Virgin Islands a disaster area and freed $500,000 for immediate use by the Interior Department, and a similar declaration was expected soon for Puerto Rico. The Coast Guard cutter Bear off St. Croix, where law enforcement collapsed amid heavy looting, served as a combination command center, satellite communications platform and helicopter pad, Karonis said. Officers also planned to send an armed party ashore. The Coast Guard also was summoned to tow a disabled 200-foot cargo ship into port after its anchor broke off St. Johns, to deliver 10 tons of relief supplies and to evacuate 200 medical students from the island of Montserrat. Crewmen also moved Coast Guard families left homeless on St. Thomas, where 1,800 people have been served by the American Red Cross. ``A lot of people lost a lot of things in St. Thomas,'' Karonis said. Helicopters and boats shuttled supplies in Puerto Rico from San Juan to the devastated island of Vieques, where 1,000 of 6,000 families were receiving Red Cross aid. About 12,000 people remained in more than 100 shelters Tuesday night in Puerto Rico, said Barbara Lohman, Red Cross spokeswoman in Washington. ``Once we can start moving in, it's a question of what else do we need and how do we get it in there,'' she said. The British Red Cross flew a planeload of blankets, rolls of plastic, water storage containers and 2 million water purification tablets to Antigua, a staging area for aid to Montserrat, and the Canadian, Australian and German Red Cross societies also promised aid. Coast Guard cargo planes capable of carrying up to 20 tons of equipment carried Red Cross supplies to Vieques and a communications satellite van to St. Thomas to re-establish contact with the island, while another C-130 flew to Miami to pick up electronics gear, plywood and roofing materials. In Dayton, Ohio, Red Cross disaster workers stuffed supplies into four semi-trailers for shipment to the nearby Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and wherever it is needed next. The relief effort included 8,500 cots, 5,050 blankets and more than 700 cases of comfort kits containing basic toiletries, said Dianna Klein, director of disaster services for the Dayton area chapter. ``They're essentially emptying the warehouse at this point,'' she said. ``There is not a flight plan at this time.'' Gracela and Carmin Seijo, two Orlando sisters who were born in Puerto Rico, were called back from retirement to join a charter flight of 50 Red Cross disaster experts flown from Philadelphia to Puerto Rico to help the 500 volunteers already in place. ``It's an offer you can't refuse,'' said Gracela, who served 23 years with the Red Cross. Word had been received that a third sister living outside San Juan survived the hurricane. In New York, home to about 1.5 million people of Puerto Rican descent, weekend fund-raisers were in the works, including a pop concert with stars such as Lisa Lisa, and a telethon on local Spanish-language television stations. ``There is a mixed feeling of happiness and sorrow'' as relatives received good news of storm survivors coupled with reports of heavy damage, said Nydia M. Velazquez, secretary of the Puerto Rican government office of community affairs in Manhattan. AP890920-0153 AP-NR-09-20-89 1559EDT u w AM-US-Hungary 09-20 0609 AM-US-Hungary,570 Speaker of Parliament Says Hungary Wants To Be Neutral With AM-US-Soviet, Bjt By RUTH SINAI Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The speaker of the Hungarian Parliament said Wednesday that his country would like to eventually withdraw from the Warsaw Pact and become neutral. He urged the United States to hasten economic aid to help that process along. Matyas Szuros, a leader of the reformist wing of Hungary's ruling communist party, also said his nation was structuring its economic and political reforms in such a way that if the reforms espoused by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev fail, Hungary's changes would not be rolled back. In a conversation with several reporters at the Hungarian Embassy, Szuros said he had told administration officials like Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft that Hungary would like the NATO and Warsaw pacts to become political rather than military blocs. Once that happens, Hungary, which is currently a member of the seven-nation Soviet bloc alliance, would leave. ``It's not right now that we want to leave,'' but within a decade or so, he said. ``Hungary would like a status of neutrality, with international guarantees,'' such as the model adopted by Finland and Austria after World War II, Szuros said. ``The basis of neutrality must be prepared gradually, without losing touch with reality,'' he cautioned. Szuros indicated he did ot think the Soviet Union would block such a move if it were done in a measured way. ``The Hungarian process is getting more and more independent from the Soviet Union, but it's only natural that the Soviet Union is an important hinterland for us,'' he said. Just as Hungary would like the Soviet reforms to succeed, so Gorbachev wants the Hungarian moves toward democracy to bear fruit, the Speaker said. But, ``we are striving to create conditions under which failure in the Soviet Union would not divert us in our way,'' he said. Szuros predicted that Czechoslovakia, one of the most repressive communist societies, would undertake reform, and the expected leadership change in East Germany could also lead to liberalization. But Romania is a ``rather dark, nepoticstic dictatorship'' and no movement should be expected there soon, he said. Hungary's move toward a multi-party democracy, including general elections scheduled for next year, cannot succeed without Western help, Szuros said. Until recently, the Bush administration had adopted a ``wait-and-see attitude'' of making future U.S. aid conditional on full implementation of democratic change, he said. But from his conversations with officials here, Szuros said he got the impression the United States is now aware of the urgency of Hungary's needs. In a reference to the dispute between Democrats and Republicans over the levels of U.S. aid for Hungary, Szuros said Hungary had become part of ``internal policy debates'' in the United States. ``I'm glad to see this interest in my country,'' he said with a laugh, but ``I hope the result will be constructive.'' As he spoke, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted for a Democratic plan to aid Poland and Hungary with nearly $1.2 billion over three years, far more than that proposed by President Bush, whom Democrats accused of missing a historic opportunity to champion reform in the communist world. Republicans, accusing Democrats of playing politics on the issue, walked out before the 10-1 vote, warning that the partisan wrangling could endanger the future of U.S. aid to the Eastern bloc nations. Szuros said that what his country needs most are favorable trading arrangements with the United States, liberalized credits to help ease its foreign debt, an easing of limitations on technology transfers and investment by American entrepreneurs. AP890920-0154 AP-NR-09-20-89 1625EDT u w AM-Bush-UN 09-20 0279 AM-Bush-UN,270 Bush to Address United Nations Next Week WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush will travel to New York next week for his first speech as president to the United Nations General Assembly, and meet with representatives of several countries. Combining politics with the international focus of the trip, Bush will first stop in New Jersey to speak at a fund-raiser for Rep. Jim Courter's gubernatorial bid, address a luncheon sponsored by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese in Boston and spend two nights at his vacation home in Maine. On Monday, Bush will speak before the 44th United Nations General Assembly. He also will visit the U.S. Mission, meet with U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar and with the new General Assembly president, Joseph Nanven Garba of Nigeria, said White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater. The president also will consult with foreign ministers of the NATO Alliance, and representatives of Japan, Korea and Australia, as well as other countries. Bush's last speech before the United Nations was last year as vice president, when President Reagan dispatched him to explain the U.S. position regarding the shooting down of an Iranian civilian jetliner by a Navy warship. During their long day in New York, Bush and his wife, Barbara, will host a reception for senior dignitaries from the international community, and a dinner for heads of state, government and foreign ministers. Bush travels this Friday to New Jersey for the New Jersey State Republican Party fund-raising event for Courter, before heading to his seaside vacation home in Kennebunkport, Maine. He will take a day trip to Boston on Saturday to speak to the Archdiocese of Boston Catholic Lawyers Guild luncheon. AP890920-0155 AP-NR-09-20-89 1958EDT r a AM-TMIStorage 09-20 0329 AM-TMI Storage,0338 NRC Staff Approves Environmental Review Of TMI Storage Plan HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A plan to put the heat-damaged reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant into long-term storage does not threaten the environment, the staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has concluded. The staff released its final environmental impact statement on the Post-Defueling Monitored Storage plan, NRC senior project manager Michael Masik said Wednesday. The staff is now working on evaluating the plan's safety and a hearing may be held sometime next year before any NRC final vote, Masik said. TMI Unit 2 was damaged in March 1979 in the worst accident ever at a U.S. commercial nuclear power plant. A combination of operator and mechanical errors led to loss of cooling water and over half of the radioactive uranium fuel core melted. Radioactive gas escaped to the atmosphere. Fuel removal will be completed next month, said Doug Bedell, a spokesman for the plant operator, GPU Nuclear Corp. Less than 1 percent of the fuel will remain in hard-to-reach places, but will not pose any hazard, the company has said. Under GPU's long-term plan, the reactor containment building will be closed and monitored for 20 to 30 years by a staff of about 50 people. All water will be removed from the plant and lighting and ventilation will be maintained, Bedell said. The NRC reviewed nine alternatives, including no further action, immediate dismantling, and long-term storage. The only option not acceptable to the NRC staff was taking no further action. GPU Nuclear favors storage because it will allow time for natural decay of high radiation levels in the plant's basement and because more immediate steps to dismantle the plant could expose workers to higher doses, Bedell said. He also said the company felt it wasn't prudent to start knocking down a building with 4-foot thick concrete walls on the same site as an operating nuclear power plant, the undamaged TMI Unit 1. AP890920-0156 AP-NR-09-20-89 1643EDT u i PM-France-Plane 10thLd-Writethru a0665 09-20 1034 PM-France-Plane, 10th Ld-Writethru, a0665,1061 URGENT Jihad Claims Responsibility for Downing French Plane Eds: Leads with six grafs to move higher claim of responsibility by radical Shiites for downing plane. Picks up graf 6 pvs, `French army ...' By CHARLES CAMPBELL Associated Press Writer PARIS (AP) A radical Shiite group today claimed responsibility for the downing of a French DC-10 jetliner over a desolate stretch of northern Africa in which all 171 people aboard were killed, the airline UTA said. The airline said a bomb most likely caused the crash of the jetliner, which exploded in the sky Tuesday shortly after taking off from Chad for Paris. UTA said it received an anonymous call from a man claiming responsibility for the crash on behalf of the Moslem terrorist group Islamic Jihad. The airline said it was not in a position to judge its authenticity and informed the French Foreign Ministry. The wreckage of the aircraft was found today scattered widely across the rocky, sandy and remote section of south-central Niger. Later today, an unidentified man telephoned a Western news agency in London and read a statement in English said to be from Islamic Jihad. The statement linked the crash to Israel's capture of a Shiite Moslem cleric, Sheik Abdul-Karim Obeid, in southern Lebanon on July 28. ``In the name of Allah and Imam Khomeini, the Islamic Jihad issued this statement: We are proud of this action which was very successful. We would like to say the French are warned not to exchange information regarding Sheik Obeid with the Israelis no more. We demand the freedom of Sheik Obeid and otherwise we will refresh the memories of the bombings in Paris of '85 and '86. Long live the Islamic Republic of Iran,'' he said. French army soldiers stationed in neighboring Chad were the first to reach the crash site. They said all 15 crew members and 156 passengers, including eight children, died in the crash. The passengers included the wife of the American ambassador to Chad and a member of the Chadian Cabinet. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said today that it was sending a team of U.S. investigators to help determine the cause of the crash. Contact was lost with the Paris-bound jet less than an hour after it took off Tuesday from the capital of Chad, N'Djamena, after originating in the Congo. ``It exploded at high altitude, leaving every reason to believe it was a bomb,'' UTA airline spokesman Michel Friess said on French television. He said it was possible, but less likely, that a technical failure was to blame. ``It appears to have exploded in flight at high altitude,'' said a Foreign Ministry spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity. ``The pieces are widely scattered, so it didn't crash on impact.'' Islamic Jihad is among several radical fundamentalist groups in Lebanon presumed to be part of Hezbollah, the Iran-financed guerrilla group that is believed to hold most of the 16 Western hostages in Lebanon, including eight Americans. On Dec. 21, a New York-bound Pan Am jumbo jet exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people aboard and 11 on the ground. Investigators said a bomb disguised in a radio-cassette player was put aboard Flight 103 in a suitcase at Frankfurt, where the flight originated. Investigators also said the main suspect in the bombing is an Arab terrorist group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. On March 10, 1984, a bomb exploded on a UTA DC-8 flying the same route just before the plane was to take off from N'Djamena, injuring 25 people on board. An otherwise unknown group calling itself ``Group Idriss Miskini'' claimed responsibility but the Chadian government blamed Libya for the bombing. Chad fought with Libyan-backed rebels for more than a decade, but the situation has been calm for the past two years, and Chad and Libya recently signed an agreement to settle their border dispute peacefully. Among the passengers who boarded in N'Djamena was Bonnie Pugh, wife the U.S. ambassador to Chad, Robert L. Pugh, the U.S. Embassy in Chad said. The French news agency Agence France-Presse, quoting unidentified sources, said Chadian Planning Minister Mahamat Soumahila was also on the plane, headed for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund in Washington. Most passengers appeared to be French, Chadian and Congolese, said the Foreign Ministry spokesman. There were 156 passengers and 15-member crew on board, the airline said. A UTA spokeswoman declined to say when it would release a passenger list. The wreckage was found shortly after dawn by a Transall aircraft sent by the French military contingent in N'Djamena, the Chadian capital. The Defense Ministry said the wreckage was spread over a wide rocky and sandy area in the Termit mountains, north of Lake Chad. French military spokesmen said twin-engine Puma helicopters were being dispatched from N'Djamena with medical crews for immediate aid to survivors, if any are found. The Transport Ministry said it also was sending investigators. UTA said contact was lost with Flight 772 less than an hour after it took off from N'Djamena after a stopover on a flight that originated in Brazzaville, capital of the Congo. The airline said the last radio contact between the plane and air traffic controllers indicated everything was normal. It reported no unusual weather. UTA purchased the aircraft in 1973 and it had logged 60,000 hours in the air. UTA said the plane was in excellent condition. Civil aviation authorities in France said the plane had CF6-50 engines made by General Electric. The plan disappeared just hours after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ordered a detailed inspection of the fan disks of 220 CF6-6 engines built by General Electric for the DC-10. An explosion in the tail engine of a United Airlines DC-10 on July 19 severed hydraulic lines operating the airplane's controls, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing near Sioux City, Iowa, in which 112 people died. FAA Administrator James B. Busey and National Transportation Safety Board Chairman James Kolstad subsequently declared the DC-10 to be safe. A Korean Air Lines DC-10 crashed on landing July 27 at Tripoli, Libya, killing 78 passengers and four people on the ground. AP890920-0157 AP-NR-09-20-89 1644EDT u w AM-Mammography 09-20 0422 AM-Mammography,400 First Lady Joins Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign By DEBORAH MESCE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Barbara Bush on Wednesday helped the National Cancer Institute launch a national breast cancer awareness campaign, urging all women 40 and older to have regular mammograms. The president's wife asked these women to ``pick up the phone and make a life-saving appointment for a mammogram.'' Breast cancer strikes one in 10 American women. It is the leading type of cancer among women in the United States and is second only to lung cancer in cancer deaths among American women. This year, breast cancer will be diagnosed in 142,000 women in the United States and will cause 43,000 deaths, according to the American Cancer Society. Mrs. Bush called on about 200 leaders of women's, community and business groups attending the Women's Leadership Summit on Mammography to ``get the word out'' about early detection of breast cancer and the need for regular mammograms. The cancer institute recommends that women with no symptoms have a mammogram every one to two years and a clinical breast exam every year beginning at age 40. After age 50, all women should have both exams annually, the cancer institute says. Women with a family history of breast cancer should consult with their doctor about the frequency of exams. Deaths from breast cancer could be reduced by at least 30 percent if all women 40 and over had regular mammograms, said Louis Sullivan, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. A 1987 survey shows that only 17 percent of U.S. women age 40 and older had had a mammogram in the previous year and only 37 percent of all women in this age group had ever had a mammogram, said Samuel Broder, director of the cancer institute. Beginning Jan. 1, 1990, Medicare will cover mammography tests every two years for women 65 and over. For women eligible for Medicare because of disability, mammography will be covered annually for those 50 to 64 and for those 40 to 49 who are at high risk of developing breast cancer, and every two years for those 40 to 49 not at high risk. One mammography exam will be covered for women 35 to 40. Legislation introduced in the House this week by Rep. Barbara Vucanovich, R-Nev., would require state Medicaid plans to provide coverage of mammograms under the same schedule as in the Medicare regulations. It also would change the Medicare law to provide mammogram coverage annually for those 65 and over. AP890920-0158 AP-NR-09-20-89 1649EDT u w AM-US-FrancePlane 09-20 0554 AM-US-France Plane,560 RETRANSMITTING to CORRECT cycle designator U.S. to Help in Niger DC-10 Crash Probe With AM-Niger-Crash, Bjt By DAVID BRISCOE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A U.S. team will help investigate the downing of a DC-10 that French UTA airline officials say exploded over northern Africa, killing all 171 people on board. Airline officials said the plane apparently was brought down Tuesday by a bomb, but they didn't rule out the possibility of a mechanical failure. Seven Americans were aboard, including Bonnie Pugh, wife of the U.S. ambassador to Chad, Robert L. Pugh. The wreckage was scattered over a wide area in a rugged part of Niger. Representives of the National Transportation Safety Board, the Federal Aviation Administration and builders of the plane and engines, McDonnell Douglas and General Electric, were to leave late Wednesday for Niger, said NTSB spokesman Ted Lopatkiewisc. U.S. investigators are routinely sent to assist in the investigation of crashes in other countries when they involve U.S.-built jetliners, Lopatkiewisc said. In separate telephone calls to the airline and to a Western news agency, a caller claiming to represent the Moslem extremist group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for downing the plane. Presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said the government had offered its assistance to France and Chad. ``The obvious wide-spread nature of the debris suggested it blew up in the sky and not on the ground,'' Fitzwater said, adding that President Bush had been briefed on the mishap. The FAA on Wednesday announced $630,000 in fines against Pan American World Airways for alleged security violations related to another flight downed by a bomb: Pan Am Flight 103 that exploded Dec. 21 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people. The FAA accused the airline of failing to properly screen passengers and cargo before the flight's departure from airports in Frankfurt, West Germany, and London. Also Wednesday, the House authorized $270 million for modern security equipment at many U.S. and foreign airports. The legislation, approved 392-31, orders a wide array of security measures and would require commuter airlines for the first time to screen passengers and their carry-on luggage. The disappearance of the French plane on a flight from Chad to Paris, came a few hours after a congressional hearing in Washington at which the top officials of the FAA, the safety board and McDonnell Douglas gave assurances that DC-10s are structurally safe. U.S. participation in the investigation, Lopatkiewisc said, is not related to increased concern over the DC-10 after the July 19 crash-landing of a United Airlines DC-10 that killed 112 people at Sioux City, Iowa. That crash has been blamed on an explosive engine failure that cut off hydraulic flight controls. Lopatkiewisc said investigators would be looking for anything they can learn about the aircraft. Safety board representatives going to the site included chief investigator Barry Trotter and an airliner structural specialist. The investigation will be led by French or Niger authorities. The FAA on Tuesday ordered inspections of 220 General Electric-built DC-10 engines such as those used on the Iowa plane to look for microscopic defects that officials say could have led to cracking of the engine's fan disk. McDonnell Douglas also has recommended additions of valves to hydraulic lines in all DC-10s that would prevent pilots from losing all steering control when the lines are cut. AP890920-0159 AP-NR-09-20-89 2216EDT d a AM-BRF--NoAbortion 09-20 0173 AM-BRF--No Abortion,0177 ACLU Joins Pregnant Woman's Case PITTSBURGH (AP) The American Civil Liberties Union asked state Superior Court to overrule a judge's order barring a 26-year-old woman from having an abortion because her boyfriend said he wants to raise the baby. The ACLU filed its request Tuesday in Pittsburgh after Blair County Judge Norm Calan ruled in Altoona in favor of the woman's boyfriend. Marion Damick, associate director of the ACLU in Pittsburgh, said Wednesday the organization will represent the woman in arguing that Calan overstepped the law Monday in issuing the preliminary injunction. Calan said he the abortion laws unsettled and he preferred to err on the side of the fetus. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1976 that states cannot give husbands veto power over their pregnant wives' decisions to have abortions, and lower courts have applied the ruling to unmarried couples. In keeping with the Supreme Court ruling, Pennsylvania has no law to support Calan's ruling, according to the ACLU and the National Abortion Rights Action League. AP890920-0160 AP-NR-09-20-89 1656EDT u i AM-Refugees 09-20 0675 AM-Refugees,0700 Daily Refugee Arrivals Top 800, Set Off Worldwide `Emotional Wave' By CAROL J. WILLIAMS Associated Press Writer BONN, West Germany _ More than 800 East Germans still are flooding to the West every day, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher reported on Wednesday. The West German government urged East bloc leaders to be pragmatic about the exodus, and an East German politician asked for reforms to stop ``children of the revolution'' from fleeing. Genscher said the refugee crisis has set off ``an emotional wave affecting the whole world,'' government spokesman Hans Klein reported. Klein told reporters the rush of East Germans escaping through Hungary continued, with 416 new arrivals in West Germany in the 24 hours ending noon Wednesday. He said an additional 400 East Germans with permission to emigrate have been arriving in West Germany daily over the past few days. More than 17,500 East Germans have come to West Germany through Hungary in the past 10 days, swelling the emigration tide through mid-September to the 100,000 mark earlier predicted for the entire year. As many as 200,000 are expected to get to West Germany this year, a record of legal emigration and refugees since the Berlin Wall was built in 1961. Most refugees are young families fleeing economic stagnation and a Stalinist political system that East Berlin's leaders refuse to change despite reforms sweeping the communist world. Manfred Gerlach, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats aligned with the East German Communist Party, on Wednesday suggested some rethinking. ``We must ask ourselves why they are resigning, these who are mostly children of the revolution, raised and politically educated here,'' Gerlach wrote in the party daily, Der Morgen. His comments were the first by an influential politician to suggest changes, but his calls were vague and his support for a socialist government unwavering. The main East German party newspaper, Neues Deutschland, ignored Gerlach's commentary. It has accused Bonn of luring East German citizens westward and has defended the policies of ailing Erich Honecker, the 77-year-old Communist leader. Bonn's embassies in Eastern Europe are sheltering about 650 other East Germans demanding to emigrate. At a Cabinet meeting Wednesday, the government called on East bloc leaderships to seek ``pragmatic and humanitarian resolution'' to the exodus, Klein told reporters. Genscher presided over the meeting in the absence of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who is recovering from prostate surgery. Kohl received a telegram from President Bush on Wednesday wishing him a speedy recovery, Klein said. He said Kohl talked with Cabinet members by telephone. The Cabinet also asked Czechoslovakia to stop impeding East Germans with legal travel documents for Hungary. Several refugees have accused Prague authorities of trying to do this. Foreign Ministry spokesman Juergen Chrobog said Bonn is trying to resolve the problem through diplomatic channels. It is much easier for East Germans to obtain travel permission to Hungary than authorization to emigrate. Many of those arriving in West Germany used the escape route that became available in May when Budapest took down barbed-wire fences on its border with Austria. East Germans can travel freely to Czechoslovakia, and hundreds have escaped across to Hungary to make their way West. Newspaper reports said 520 East Germans are at the West German Embassy in Prague, seeking Bonn's help in emigrating. Czechoslovak barriers have prompted some East Germans to try risky escapes. Refugees told West German TV Wednesday they swam across the Danube River to reach Hungary. One man said he was kept from crossing to Hungary, so he went to Poland then flew to Budapest. Those interviewed were not further identified. Chrobog said 16 of 120 East Germans who took refuge in Bonn's Warsaw embassy were moved to a nearby Roman Catholic seminary, since West Germany had to close the cramped embassy to the public on Tuesday. Bonn's ambassador to Poland, Franz-Joachim Schoeller, told West German TV Tuesday that Poland has promised a ``pragmatic'' solution for the refugees. The newspaper Bild said Poland's new government, led by non-communists, assured Bonn no East German refugees will returned home against their will. AP890920-0161 AP-NR-09-20-89 2012EDT r a AM-People-Pauley 09-20 0239 AM-People-Pauley,0247 Jane Pauley Talks with NBC About Her Future on `Today' NEW YORK (AP) NBC News executives are talking with Jane Pauley about her future with the ``Today'' show. But they won't comment on speculation that she is unhappy with changes affecting the show and wants to leave it, an NBC spokeswoman said Wednesday. ``Conversations are taking place which we feel are appropriate, timely and private,'' said the spokeswoman, Peggy Hubble. She said Pauley's talks with NBC News President Michael Gartner and NBC Sports President Dick Ebersol, who also is the news division's vice president for ``Today,'' concerned her future with the program. Other than to confirm that talks were taking place, ``we have no further comment on it,'' Hubble said. Pauley joined ``Today'' as a co-anchor in October 1976. There have been two major changes at the show this month. One was NBC's announcement Tuesday that it has hired David Nuell, executive editor of the syndicated ``Entertainment Tonight'' series, as senior executive producer of ``Today,'' among other duties. The other was the shift of John Palmer, the ``Today'' news anchor, to the earlier ``NBC News at Sunrise,'' and the move of that program's anchor, Deborah Norville, to the ``Today'' slot that Palmer held for seven years. Norville this summer signed a five-year contract with NBC News, which she joined in January 1987. Like Pauley, she previously worked as an anchor at NBC-owned WMAQ-TV in Chicago. AP890920-0162 AP-NR-09-20-89 2013EDT r a AM-SweetheartSlayings 09-20 0257 AM-Sweetheart Slayings,0262 Man Convicted of Murdering Couple in Car Theft and Robbery Plan SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) A 27-year-old man was convicted Wednesday of murdering a pair of college sweethearts who were abducted during a car theft and shot to death in a field four years ago. Stanley Bernard Davis of Los Angeles was found guilty by a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury on 10 counts including murder, kidnapping, arson, grand theft and burglary. Special circumstance allegations were also proved, allowing the death penalty to be considered. The penalty phase of the trial begins Monday. Davis was the triggerman and mastermind of a plot to grab Brian Harris, 20, a sophomore at California State University, Northridge, and Michelle Ann Boyd, 19, a freshman at the University of California, Los Angeles, in order to commandeer Harris' car for a store robbery, a jury found. Harris and Miss Boyd, who had been sweethearts since attending high school, were on a date near UCLA on Oct. 1, 1985, when Davis and others stole Harris' car with a plan to drive to Barstow and rob a liquor store. Harris was stuffed into the trunk of his car and Miss Boyd was forced into the back seat. They were only allowed out of the car after Davis drove to a secluded field, where he shot the couple. Two other men were previously convicted of murder for their roles in the crime. One received 18 years to life in prison and the other was sentenced to a life term. AP890920-0163 AP-NR-09-20-89 2014EDT r a AM-SpyTrial 09-20 0277 AM-Spy Trial,0285 Turkish National Sentenced to Life in Spy Case SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) A federal judge Wednesday sentenced a Turkish national to a life term in federal prison for conspiring with a Fort Stewart warrant officer to commit espionage against the United States. Judge B. Avant Edenfield also ordered that Huseyin ``Meister'' Yildirim, 61, of Belleair Beach, Fla., be ``banished from the United States, never to return'' if he ever wins parole. Yildirim was convicted July 20 of scheming with James W. Hall, an intelligence analyst in the G-2 section of the 24th Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, to sell military intelligence to East German and Soviet agents. Yildirim, who did not testify at his trial, told Edenfield in a rambling statement Wednesday that he was innocent and had acted on behalf of America. ``In the reality, I am not guilty. I protected America,'' Yildirim said. Edenfield rejected pleas by Yildirim and his court-appointed lawyers that his sentence be comparable to that given Hall by a military court. Hall admitted his role in the espionage scheme and was sentenced by a military judge to 40 years in prison. He will be eligible for parole in 10 years. ``The only proper sentence for Mr. Hall would have been death at a firing squad,'' Edenfield said. ``Mr. Hall did not get justice.'' Prosecutors contended that from 1982 to 1988, Yildirim carried classified military intelligence from Hall to East Bloc agents and returned with money. According to evidence, Hall had access to all levels of intelligence during tours at the Army's Field Station Berlin listening post and in Frankfort, West Germany; Fort Monmouth, N.J.; and Fort Stewart. AP890920-0164 AP-NR-09-20-89 1844EDT r a AM-Brites 09-20 0284 AM-Brites,0296 Bright & Brief OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A woman who gave birth at the same time on the same date this year and last said Mercy Hospital will have to do without her next Sept. 16. Dianne Overby of Oklahoma City gave birth both times at exactly 7:40 p.m. She even had the same labor and delivery nurse, Theresa Tobin. Last year, Ms. Overby had a son. This year, it was a daughter. Ms. Overby went into the hospital a few hours later this time, but the labor was quicker. Ms. Tobin said it was a first for Mercy Hospital. Ms. Overby said it will be a last, at least for her. ``We will not be back at the same time next year,'' she said. HOPE, Ind. (AP) A 136-year-old, one-room schoolhouse is headed for a new life as a museum after it gathered dust on a farm for most of this century. The Simmons School, adopted for refurbishment by residents, was hauled off Kenneth and Julia Bense's property on Tuesday and placed between two modern schools. Residents and businesses donated about $40,000 to turn the brick building into a museum, complete with an old-time classroom. The school closed in 1906 and has been used for storage on the family farm ever since. The couple donated the school to the Flat Rock-Hawcreek School Corp. for fixing up. ``We want it as a part of our school site, as the focal point of the school complex,'' Superintendent Glen Keller said. The 125-ton school was so wide it crossed both sides of a state highway, so traffic had to be diverted Tuesday to transport it by truck to its new home. AP890920-0165 AP-NR-09-20-89 2021EDT r a AM-People-Bush'sMother 09-20 0120 AM-People-Bush's Mother,0122 President's Mother Remains In Fair Condition GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) Dorothy Walker Bush, President George Bush's 88-year-old mother, remained in fair condition Wednesday while undergoing treatment for pneumonia, a spokeswoman said. Mrs. Bush, who lives in Greenwich, was admitted to Greenwich Hospital on Monday and was expected to remain several more days, hospital spokeswoman Michelle Brown said. ``There's no fever. She's feeling much better than yesterday,'' Brown said. ``But the doctors are still not guessing whn she'll be going home.'' Mrs. Bush spent four days in Greenwich Hospital in May for treatment of a blood clot in her right leg. She had been admitted with a 102-degree temperature. The president visited her here later that month. AP890920-0166 AP-NR-09-20-89 2025EDT r w AM-FarmOutlook 09-20 0434 AM-Farm Outlook,420 Financial Condition of Farmers Improving, USDA Says By DON KENDALL AP Farm Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Agriculture Department said Wednesday the financial condition of farmers continues to improve from the crunch of the mid-1980s. Recent surveys show that farm bankruptcy filings in 1988 were down 50 percent from 1986, the peak year for the decade, the department's Economic Research Service said in a preliminary report. ``Despite the 1980s farm financial crisis, farm numbers fell less than in preceding decades,'' the report said. ``Farm numbers declined by 266,600 (per year, on the average) during 1980-89, compared with 1.7 million in the 1950s, 1 million in the 1960s, and 516,000 in the 1970s.'' The brief analysis was in a summary of the October issue of Agricultural Outlook magazine to be issued later this month. Greg Gajewski, the magazine's economics editor, said the summary's account did not portray fully, however, the impact of the decline in farm numbers during the 1980s. ``There were proportionately more of the large, commercial farms that went out of business in the '80s than in the earlier decades,'' Gajewski said in a telephone interview. But the peak of financial stress for farmers, collectively, has passed, he said. There are still exceptions, including many who are having problems repaying loans made by the department's Farmers Home Administration. Others with debts to commercial banks and the Farm Credit System are faring much better than they were a few years ago. The report also said that 1989 ``net cash income'' of farmers is still expected to decline 5 percent to 13 percent from last year's record of $59.9 billion. That was unchanged from the forecast a month ago. Higher expenses associated with larger crop plantings are major factors in the expected decline in cash income this year. Also, federal payments to farmers will be lower. Net cash income is the amount of gross cash income generated by farmers during the calendar year minus cash operating expenses. It includes the sales of inventory stocks build up over previous years. Last year's drought helped push up 1988 net cash income as farmers sold accumulated inventories at higher prices. Another measure used by the agency is ``net farm income'' accounting, which measures the value of the current year's production plus government payments, minus total costs. Allowances also are made for the value of family dwellings and other factors. By this method, net farm income could rise 5 percent to 16 percent this year to a range of $48 billion to $53 billion from $45.7 billion in 1988, also unchanged from the August forecast. AP890920-0167 AP-NR-09-20-89 2025EDT r w AM-Bush-TopJobs 09-20 0277 AM-Bush-Top Jobs,270 Democrats Say Bush Still Behind in Nominations WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush has been so slow in staffing key positions in his administration that serious questions arise as to ``whether the Bush administration will ever reach full strength,'' a report by House Democrats said Wednesday. Eight months after his inauguration, Bush has yet to fill 55 percent of the top jobs in government, according to the report by the House Democratic Study Group. As of Sept. 18, the report said, Bush has made known his choices to fill 178 of the top jobs in U.S. departments and agencies. But it said 219 positions, representing 55 percent of the total, remained vacant. While the number of nominees submitted to the Senate for confirmation in the 40 days before Sept. 18 grew from 60 to 68, ``the principal problem remained the inability of the White House to make nominations,'' the report said. The pace of recent presidential nominations does little to cut into the ``enormous number of remaining vacancies,'' the report said. ``It raises serious questions as to whether the Bush administration will ever reach full strength,'' the report said. Since 1961, it said, presidential appointees have, on average, remained in their jobs for 18 to 20 months. Thus, in an average month about 5 percent of the top-ranked jobs became open, it said. ``Since Aug. 9, the Bush administration has made 12 appointments per month, equal to about 3 percent of the total number of appointive jobs,'' the report said. ``In other words, the current rate of appointments is not even sufficient to maintain stability in Executive Branch staffing over a full four-year term.'' AP890920-0168 AP-NR-09-20-89 1747EDT u a PM-NightStalker 1stLd-Writethru a0664 09-20 0226 PM-Night Stalker, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0664,0228 URGENT Jury Returns Guilty Verdict in `Night Stalker' Case Eds: LEADS with 2 grafs to UPDATE with guilty verdict. LOS ANGELES (AP) Richard Ramirez was found guilty of multiple murder counts today from a list of 43 verdicts returned by jurors who agreed Ramirez was the devil worshiping ``Night Stalker'' who terrorized Southern California during the summer of 1985. Readings of the verdicts were delayed when Ramirez asked to be excused. He was led from the courtroom to a cell one floor below, where he reportedly listened to the rulings via remote loudspeaker. Ramirez, a 29-year-old drifter from El Paso, Texas, is accused of 13 murders and a series of assaults that terrified Los Angeles in the summer of 1985. The prosecution claimed Ramirez is the ``Night Stalker'' who left symbols of demon worship at some murder scenes and gouged out one victim's eyes. The defense claimed that Ramirez was a victim of mistaken identity. Superior Court Judge Michael Tynan agreed at the outset of deliberations to give attorney Daniel Hernandez six hours to fly from his home for the verdict. The jury, which considered 13 murder and 30 felony charges, had to restart deliberations twice _ once when a juror was dismissed for napping, and again when a member of the panel was slain by her boyfriend. AP890920-0169 AP-NR-09-20-89 1804EDT u w AM-PowellNomination 1stLd-Writethru a0686 09-20 0537 AM-Powell Nomination, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0686,500 Powell Nomination Approved by Senate Armed Services Committee EDs: TOPS with 3 grafs with committee approving nomination of Powell; picks up 3rd graf, bgng, Powell, who xxx By DONNA CASSATA Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved Gen. Colin L. Powell, President Bush's nominee to head the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The panel voted 20-0 to recommend the nomination to the full Senate. If confirmed, the 52-year-old Powell would be the first black and the youngest officer to hold the nation's top military job. The committee decision followed nearly three hours of a confirmation hearing in which Powell told Congress that cuts in the Bush administration's budget request for various weapons programs could undermine a U.S.-Soviet pact on reducing strategic arms. Powell, who served as President Reagan's national security adviser, told lawmakers that political changes in the Soviet Union should not lead to cuts in the Star Wars program, land-based nuclear missiles or the B-2 stealth bomber. The House bill that cuts $502 million from the administration's $1.1 billion request for the multiple-warhead, rail-garrison MX missile and eliminates all $100 million earmarked for the single-warhead, truck-mobile Midgetman ``would completely unhinge our START negotiating position,'' Powell said. His remarks came one day after Secretary of State James A. Baker III announced a shift in the U.S. position on the land-based missiles. The administration will no longer insist on elimination of mobile missiles, according to Baker, who conceded the position has complicated negotiations. The Soviets have two mobile missiles while the administration is asking Congress to fund the MX and Midgetman. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze will meet with Bush on Thursday before traveling to Wyoming for sessions with Baker this weekend. During nearly three hours of questioning, Powell told the committee that scaling back the program to build 130 stealth bombers, considered the most expensive plane in history at $530 million a copy, would force the United States to go rethink its position. ``If there is no B-2, we have essentially started a phase-out. ... Without the B-2, we no longer have the same START position that we did for the last several years and I believe it most unlikely that there will be a treaty up here to ratify,'' he said. ``We would have to go back quite a ways and renegotiate a different type of treaty.'' On other issues, Powell said: _He supported using the armed forces in the war on drugs and in response to terrorist attacks. _Cuts in troops in South Korea, Europe and other overseas posts in response to the growing sentiment in Congress for U.S. allies to share more of the defense burden should not be done unilaterally. Powell said he was ``very hesitant'' to do it to satisfy current budget demands. Powell, a decorated veteran of two combat tours in Vietnam, is commander of the Army Forces Command in Fort MacPherson, Ga. He was hailed by Democrat Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee and Republican Pete Wilson of California as likely the best appointment made by Bush. If confirmed by the full Senate, Powell would succeed Adm. William J. Crowe Jr., who is retiring Sept. 30. AP890920-0170 AP-NR-09-20-89 1800EDT u i AM-Niger-Crash 2ndLd-Writethru a0692 09-20 1020 AM-Niger-Crash, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0692,1049 Authorities Believe Terrorist Bomb May Have Felled Jetliner Eds: LEADS throughout to UPDATE with U.S. team to travel to crash site, raise background on Islamic Jihad, recent hostage crisis. No pickup. LaserGraphic NY17 By JEFFREY ULBRICH Associated Press Writer PARIS (AP) A Moslem extremist group claimed responsibility Wednesday for the downing of a French DC-10 jetliner in southern Niger that killed all 171 people on board. U.S., French and UTA airline authorities said they believe the plane, bound Tuesday from Chad to Paris, was blown out of the sky by a bomb. A U.S. team of investigators was to leave later Wednesday for Niger. Two callers who claimed to represent Islamic Jihad but did not give their own names made their claims of responsibility in separate telephone calls to the airline and to a Western news agency. Islamic Jihad is among several radical fundamentalist groups in Lebanon believed to be part of Hezbollah, or Party of God, the umbrella groups thought to hold 16 Westerners hostage in Lebanon, including eight Americans. Hezbollah was at the center of a hostage crisis earlier this summer, when Israeli forces in southern Lebanon kidnapped a group member, Shiite Moslem religious leader Sheik Abdul-Karim Obeid. Three days after the July 28 abduction of Obeid, the pro-Iranian Organization of the Oppressed on Earth claimed it retaliated by hanging U.S. Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, abducted while on U.N. duty in Lebanon. Doubt has been cast on claims Higgins was hanged or whether he died earlier. Among the passengers on the French jetliner were seven Americans, including Bonnie Pugh, wife of the U.S. ambassador to Chad, Robert L. Pugh. UTA Flight 772 was on a flight from Brazzaville, Congo, to Paris when it crashed Tuesday shortly after making a stop in N'Djamena, Chad. Debris was scattered over a 16-mile expanse of desert about 400 miles northwest of N'Djamena. The French army, whose troops stationed in neighboring Chad were the first to reach the scene, said the 15 crew and 156 passengers died, including eight children. Authorities said indications are that the aircraft was felled by a bomb. ``It exploded at high altitude leaving every reason to believe it was a bomb,'' said UTA spokesman Michel Friesse. He said it was possible, but less likely, the explosion was due to technical failure. A Foreign Ministry spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity, echoed that sentiment: ``The pieces are widely scattered, so it didn't crash on impact.'' ``The obvious wide-spread nature of the debris suggested it blew up in the sky and not on the ground,'' presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said, adding that President Bush had been briefed on the mishap. Representives of the National Transportation Safety Board, the Federal Aviation Administration and builders of the plane and engines, McDonnell Douglas and General Electric, were to leave Wednesday night for Niger, said NTSB spokesman Ted Lopatkiewisc. U.S. investigators are routinely sent to assist in the investigation of crashes in other countries when they involve U.S.-built jetliners, Lopatkiewisc said. UTA said it had received an anonymous phone call from a man claiming responsibility on behalf of Islamic Jihad. In London, an anonymous caller also telephoned a Western news agency and said: ``In the name of Allah and Imam Khomeini, the Islamic Jihad issued this statement: We are proud of this action which was very successful. We would like to say the French are warned not to exchange information regarding Sheik Obeid with the Israelis no more. We demand the freedom of Sheik Obeid and otherwise we will refresh the memories of the bombings in Paris of '85 and '86. Long live the Islamic Republic of Iran.'' The Ministry of Transport sent four investigators from the Civil Aviation Authority to the scene of the crash. The authority said military helicopters had reached the site and found debris scattered over 16 miles of desert. Cargo aircraft made fuel drops at the desolate site so the helicopters could refuel for the return flight. The DC-10, which went into service in May 1973, took off from N'Djamena on the five-hour flight to Paris. The plane made a last contact with the N'Djamena airport control tower about 40 to 50 minutes after it took off, UTA said. The crew did not indicate any trouble. The wreckage of the plane was found at daylight Wednesday by a French military aircraft. Chadian authorities said 77 passengers boarded the plane in Brazzaville and 79 during the stop in N'Djamena. Security is considered tight at the N'Djamena airport, and access to planes is restricted to passengers. The Brazzaville airport also restricts access but does not routinely check luggage. On March 10, 1984, a bomb exploded aboard a UTA DC-8 flying the same route just before the plane was to take off from N'Djamena. Twenty-five people were injured. A group calling itself ``Group Idriss Miskini'' claimed responsibility, but the Chadian government blamed Libya, with whom it had been fighting a war in the north, for the bombing. On Dec. 21, a New York-bound Pan Am jumbo jet exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people aboard and 11 on the ground. Investigators said a bomb disguised in a radio-cassette player was put aboard Flight 103. Investigators also have said the main suspect in the Lockerbie bombing is an Arab terrorist group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. UTA, which said the aircraft had logged 60,000 hours in the air, said the plane was in excellent condition. Civil aviation authorities in France said the plane had CF6-50 engines made by General Electric. The plane disappeared just hours after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ordered a detailed inspection of the fan disks of 220 CF6-6 engines built by General Electric for the DC-10. An explosion in the tail engine of a United Airlines DC-10 on July 19 severed hydraulic lines operating the airplane's controls, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing near Sioux City, Iowa, in which 112 people died. FAA Administrator James B. Busey and National Transportation Safety Board Chairman James Kolstad subsequently declared the DC-10 to be safe. AP890920-0171 AP-NR-09-20-89 2031EDT r w AM-AirForceRadar 09-20 0451 AM-Air Force Radar,430 Report Says Fighter Defects Undermine Combat Readiness By DONNA CASSATA Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Test equipment used by the Air Force to determine the effectiveness of radar-warning receivers and other electronics on tactical fighters has been faulty and unreliable, says a report released Wednesday. The General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, said the problems with the test equipment undermine the combat readiness of the aircraft and the ability of the planes to fly combat missions. The aircraft are equipped with electronic warfare systems consisting of a radar-warning receiver that alerts the pilot when his airplane is being tracked by enemy radar and a jammer that transmits signals to deceive enemy radar. Specifically, the study found that at five tactical units in the United States, Europe and Asia, almost half of about 455 jammers the Air Force deemed ready for combat had undetected defects. ``The cost for this kind of carelessness can be staggering,'' said Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., the chairman of the House Government Operations subcommittee on legislation and national security. ``And the risk it poses to our national security and to the lives of our pilots is simply unacceptable.'' Conyers' subcommittee had requested the GAO report. The study attributed the problems to the Air Force's acquisition process. In one instance, the Air Force purchased 72 test sets at a cost of $272 million before testing them. ``The Air Force has not adhered to policies requiring that test equipment be developed and deployed simultaneously with electronic warfare systems,'' the GAO said. ``To deploy the warfare systems as quickly as possible, the Air Force has not taken steps to assure that the electronic warfare system can be adequately maintained in an operational environment. ``The Air Force's strategy may result in additional cost and will continue to place combat readiness at risk.'' The report also said that the Air Force is relying on its contractors to keep its electronic warfare systems operating. According to the GAO, in one year contractor technicians made 60 percent of all repairs at one tactical unit in Asia. In Europe, at another unit, contractor technicians made 40 percent of the repairs. The price tag: An average annual cost of $154,000 to $215,000 for each technician. Defense Department officials told the GAO that they had ``used the strategy of concurrent development and production of electronic warfare systems to expedite fielding of the systems.'' ``They (Pentagon officials) said the fielding of test equipment has lagged behind deployment of new electronic warfare systems,'' the GAO said. The Air Force declined comment on the report until it had reviewed the study, said Capt. Susan Strednansky of the Air Force public affairs office. AP890920-0172 AP-NR-09-20-89 1818EDT u w AM-CatastrophicCare 09-20 0426 AM-Catastrophic Care,400 Administration Bill Back Overhaul By JIM LUTHER AP Tax Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Bush administration announced Wednesday it would support major overhaul of catastrophic medical care for retirees to stave off repeal of the new Medicare program. ``We want to do everything we can to preserve the core benefits'' in the program, Louis Sullivan, secretary of health and human services, told the Senate Finance Committee. ``Repeal would be a big mistake.'' Sullivan said specifically that the administration would support a plan recommended by Senate leaders of both parties that would repeal coverage for most prescription drugs and significantly reduce the income surtax that pays for most of the program. That plan would scale back reimbursement for physicians' fees but would retain full coverage of hospital costs. The committee could vote on that proposal Thursday. Nearly two dozen times during a 90-minute session, Sullivan repeated that the administration prefers that the catastrophic care program be kept intact. Nevertheless, he said that ``I recognize you have been under tremendous pressure from throughout the country'' and that some changes are inevitable. Congress has been receiving heaps of mail from older Americans who oppose one or more parts of the programs. Much of the mail is from federal retirees who already have a government-paid catastrophic care program and don't want another. Complaints also are pouring in from higher-income retirees who object to the surtax, which applies only to them. As a result, there is strong sentiment in Congress to repeal the program outright. Although Bentsen opposes such action, he told reporters that the House seems certain to vote for repeal. Bentsen and some colleagues have complained that the administration's hands-off policy has allowed the president to avoid facing the issue and to dump the whole problem into Congress's lap. After failing to attend a Finance Committee session Tuesday, Sullivan showed up Wednesday and promised administration backing for any amendments that represented good health policy, that did not worsen the budget deficit and that were ``politically stable.'' At least two members of the Finance Committee, Sens. William Roth, R-Del., and John C. Danforth, R-Mo., want to repeal the program. Danforth said that the nation should look at all its health needs and set priorities before rushing into a major new health program. Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., said any discussion of repeal should include recognition that ``people's lives are at stake.'' Repeal, he said, would amount to ``denying someboey the right to get an operation in a hospital and allow them to live ... without going bankrupt.'' AP890920-0173 AP-NR-09-20-89 2038EDT r w AM-Cousteau-Treasure 09-20 0227 AM-Cousteau-Treasure,200 Cousteau Hasn't Found a Treasure Ship _ And He's Glad of It WASHINGTON (AP) Jacques-Yves Cousteau says he's glad his undersea explorations have led never him to a treasure ship _ and if they did, he wouldn't admit it. The famed French explorer and captain of the research vessel Calypso was asked at a National Press Club appearance if he ever thought he had gotten into the wrong profession in light of a pending salvage operation off the coast of the Carolinas, in which that crew hopes to recover up to $1 billion in sunken booty. Cousteau, who has discovered more than his share of natural treasures under the sea, fished a penny out of his pocket and declared, ``Absolutely not.'' ``First of all, I'd lose my crew, because they would all want a share,'' he laughed. Cousteau then explained that France requires its citizens to report and turn over any such treasure to the government _ which can then force the finder to assist it in the salvage effort. Any compensation is left to the government's discretion, he said. ``So, knowing of those regulations, I would really hate to find a treasure ship,'' he said. ``And if I did, I would look the other way.'' Besides, the 79-year-old Cousteau added, ``I'm trying very hard to leave not 1 cent when I die.'' AP890920-0174 AP-NR-09-20-89 1820EDT u w AM-Cousteau-Antarctica 09-20 0583 AM-Cousteau-Antarctica,600 Cousteau Wants U.S. to Scuttle Antarctica Treaty By LEE BYRD Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau launched a campaign Wednesday to persuade the United States to scuttle a treaty that could open Antarctica, ``the last unspoiled area of our planet,'' to mineral exploration. ``The results of an industrial accident there would be incalculable,'' said the 79-year-old captain of the research vessel Calypso. Had the Exxon Valdez spilled its oil off Antarctica instead of Alaska, he said, ``it would take hundreds of years to repair the damage.'' Cousteau, at a speech and news conference at the National Press Club, assailed a treaty adopted last year by the 39 signatory nations of the original Antarctic Treaty of 1961, which included the United States and Soviet Union. ``Why should we needlessly pillage the last unspoiled area of our planet?'' he asked. The so-called Wellington Convention, adopted in Wellington, New Zealand, would open Antarctica to mineral exploration and development, though stringent, if not insurmountable, environmental guidelines would apply. The treaty lacks an enforcement mechanism for the environmental rules and Cousteau argues that ``once `careful' mining is allowed, careless mining can happen.'' The treaty is virtually dead already, despite backing by the Reagan and Bush administrations, because France and Australia, two of the seven nations with veto authority, have suspended ratification. ``I am here because the United States is extremely important as the nation which has done the most scientific research in Antarctica,'' Cousteau said. ``Accordingly, it has increased responsibility'' to discourage mineral exploration. No one has demonstrated the commercial feasibility of mining Antarctica for oil or any other mineral resource. The best possibility, said Cousteau, ``is drilling for oil offshore _ the worst thing imaginable. To do that would present a far greater danger than it does in the North Sea.'' The dangers, he said, would apply both to the environment and those who would attempt exploration. ``We're talking about the harshest weather conditions in the world. And that, sooner or later, would cause an inevitable disaster,'' Cousteau said, citing heavy fog and dagger-like winds that often reach 200 mph among the hazards. After the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound last year, he said, ``4,000 people were sent to clean it up. Can you imagine 4,000 people being sent to Antarctica? Certainly not.'' He said that the benign bacteria that act as nature's own scrubbers of oil spills, even in the cold waters off Alaska, are virtually non-existent in the harsher Antarctic climate. Antarctica comprises 90 percent of the ice and 70 percent of the fresh water in the world, yet its climate is classified as desert because it receives less rain than the Sahara. The frigid waters team with krill and plankton, icefish and sponges. Whales, seals, skuas, albatrosses and penguins also thrive within the continent's boundaries. The continent already has endured pillaging. Long ago, crews slaughtered more than half the seals and 90 percent of the whales. Earlier this year, an Argentine supply ship ripped open its hull on a rock and spilled several tons of oil. Thousands of birds were killed, and a small area of the sea was sterilized, jeopardizing scientific research at the U.S. Palmer Station. The Antarctic Treaty of 1961 affirms that ``it is in the interest of all mankind that Antarctica shall continue forever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene or object of international discord.'' It did not specifically bar commercial exploitation of its resources. AP890920-0175 AP-NR-09-20-89 2047EDT r a AM-SchoolsChancellor 1stLd-Writethru a0698 09-20 0590 AM-Schools Chancellor, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0698,0600 Miami Superintendent to Head New York's Schools Eds: INSERTS 2 grafs after 9th, `New York ..., to UPDATE with with teachers union comment and no-comments from mayoral candidates; INSERTS 2 grafs after 11th graf pvs, `In 1987 ..., to UPDATE with quote on ambivalence toward job. By RONALD POWERS Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) Miami school Superintendent Joseph A. Fernandez was named Wednesday to head New York's public school system, the nation's largest and one beset by educational and criminal problems. Fernandez, a 53-year-old native New Yorker, will start as school chancellor in January or February and be paid $195,000 a year, Board of Education chief Robert Wagner Jr. said. ``He will stand as a splendid role model,'' Wagner said. His selection to replace Richard Green, who died in May of an asthma attack, means that a minority group member will continue to lead a school system in which 80 percent of the 940,000 children belong to minority groups. Green, hired away from Minneapolis, was the first black chancellor. His two immediate predecessors were Hispanic. Fernandez was born in East Harlem of Puerto Rican heritage and attended public schools in New York. He dropped out of high school, but received an equivalency diploma while in the Air Force and went on to attend Columbia University. A high dropout rate among Hispanic students is one of many problems Fernandez will face as chancellor, along with overcrowded and dilapidated buildings, corruption, a difficult bureaucracy and the infiltration of guns, gangs and drugs even at elementary schools. Fernandez's entire educational career has been in Florida, where he started as a math teacher. Within 10 years of joining the Miami school system in 1962, he became the city's first Hispanic principal. As superintendent of the Miami-Dade County system, Fernandez began a decentralization experiment that has reached 100 out of the city's 260 schools. In those schools, principals teachers and parents confer to make decisions that previously were made at a central office. New York City's schools were decentralized by legislation in 1970, resulting in a system often criticized as flawed by patronage. The United Federation of Teachers, which represents 102,000 New York City school employees, welcomed the appointment and praised Fernandez for emphasizing ``school-based management and shared decision making.'' Democratic mayoral nominee David Dinkins and Republican Rudolph Giuliani had no immediate comment on Fernandez's selection. Dinkins had suggested the board pick a chancellor before the November election, while Giuliani had favored waiting until the new mayor is chosen. Fernandez was one of three candidates considered by the New York board. Robert R. ``Bud'' Spillane, superintendent of schools in Fairfax County, Va., was interviewed Tuesday and the third, Matthew W. Prophet, superintendent in Portland, Ore., withdrew from consideration. In 1987, during the search that was to lead to Green's appointment, the board had asked Fernandez to apply but he said the timing was wrong, since he had just been named to lead the Miami system, the nation's fourth-biggest. When approached anew this year by the city's search committee, Fernandez initially expressed interest. Then he said he did not want the job, but last week changed his mind. ``He was torn between his sense of commitment to Miami-Dade and his sense of the challenge of taking on the problems of the city,'' Wagner said. New York offered him a $40,000 raise over his Miami salary of $155,000 a year, or $45,000 more than Green was paid. Fernandez and his wife, Lily, have four grown children. AP890920-0176 AP-NR-09-20-89 1852EDT u i AM-Greece-Wiretap 09-20 0384 AM-Greece-Wiretap,0396 Parliament Approves Sending Former Premier Before Court By NIKOS KONSTANDARAS Associated Press Writer ATHENS, Greece (AP) Parliament agreed Wednesday to send former socialist Premier Andreas Papandreou before a special high court on charges of masterminding a wiretapping network while in office. The court will be made up of the Supreme Court president and 12 Supreme Court or Appeals Court judges. It will investigate the charges against Papandreou and try him if it finds enough evidence. The 300-seat Parliament voted for the proposal, 169-2, after a two-day debate. The 124 members of Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement boycotted the vote. The lawmakers acted on the recommendation of a 12-member parliamentary committee, which concluded that Papandreou was behind the wiretaps of both political friends and foes from May 1987 to last April. Papandreou was defeated in elections in June after eight years in power. The conservative New Democracy party and the Communist-led Coalition of the Left and Progress are in a governing alliance that has declared its aim of putting on trial Papandreou and several former ministers and officials of his party. It accuses them of involvement in scandals. The 70-year-old former premier boycotted parliamentary sessions to investigate the scandals. However, he sent a memorandum on Tuesday charging that his opponents were ``penalizing political life, slandering political figures, and undermining institutions and normality.'' The parliamentary commission of inquiry reported last week that Papandreou had ``willfully instigated through national intelligence chief Costas Tsimas and intelligence service employees ... the decision to commit illegal acts and carry out the tapping of telephones.'' The report named former Greek Telecommunications Organization managing director Theofanis Tombras and Tsimas as Papandreou's accomplices and called for their prosecution as well. In an open vote, Parliament approved sending Tombras and Tsimas to the special court along with Papandreou. Tsimas is now a member of the European Parliament. Constantine Mitsotakis, head of the New Democracy party, presented Parliament with official intelligence documents which he said proved that reports from wiretaps were sent to Papandreou. Another parliamentary commission reported last week that enough evidence existed against Papandreou and four people who served as his ministers to send them before a special court in connection with the purported embezzlement of $210 million from the Bank of Crete. Parliament will debate that proposal next week. AP890920-0177 AP-NR-09-20-89 2047EDT r a AM-AlaskaQuake 09-20 0199 AM-Alaska Quake,0203 Moderate Quake Shakes Islands PALMER, Alaska (AP) A moderate earthquake occurred in the western Aleutian Islands on Wednesday, but there were no reports of damage, the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center said. The quake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale was centered in the Rat Islands of the Aleutian chain and occurred at 5:19 a.m. ADT, officials at the Palmer center said. The quake was felt in Amchitka, an Aleutians community about 30 miles from the epicenter. The 1964 ``Good Friday'' earthquake in Alaska measured 8.5 on the Richter scale and was centered in Prince William Sound. It generated large waves that devastated several coastal communities and killed 131 people as far south as Oregon and Hawaii. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number means a tenfold increase in magnitude. Thus, a reading of 7.5 reflects an earthquake 10 times stronger than one of 6.5. An earthquake of magnitude 3.5 can cause slight damage, 4 moderate damage, 5 considerable damage, 6 severe damage. A magnitude 7 quake is a major earthquake, capable of widespread damage; 8 is a ``great'' quake capable of tremendous damage. AP890920-0178 AP-NR-09-20-89 1903EDT u a AM-WeatherpageWeather 09-20 0316 AM-Weatherpage Weather,0327 Rain Up And Down East Coast As Hurricane Approaches By The Associated Press Hurricane Hugo continued its track toward the continental United States on Wednesday, while Tropical Storm Iris weakened and locally heavy rain fell along much of the Eastern Seaboard. Hugo, still packing wind blowing at a sustained 105 mph, was southeast of Savannah, Ga., during the afternoon. Forecasters warned that the storm blamed for at least 25 deaths in the Caribbean could come ashore late Thursday or early Friday anywhere from northeastern Florida to Cape Hatteras, N.C. Behind Hugo, Tropical Storm Iris began to weaken, having gotten too close to Hugo. The storm, north of the northern Leeward Islands, had maximum sustained wind speed of only 55 mph. Rain fell across much of New England and along the middle Atlantic Coast and showers and thunderstorms were scattered along the rest of the coast. North Carolina, New York state, Vermont and the middle Atlantic Coast reported 1 to 3 inches of rain during the 24-hour period up to 8 a.m. EDT. Three to 6 inches of rain drenched sections of eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. During the 6 hours up to 2 p.m. EDT, 1.50 inches of rain fell at Richmond, Va. Syracuse, N.Y., got 1.77 inches of rain Tuesday, a record for the date. Coincidentally, on the West Coast, Los Angeles also had a record rain amount for the day, at 0.27 of an inch. Two to 3 inches of rain was reported in New York state's Essex County early in the day, prompting a flood warning for the Au Sable River. Elsewhere, showers and thunderstorms developing along a warm front were scattered from northern Utah to Nebraska and the Dakotas. A few showers and thunderstorms developed over the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Wednesday's low in the Lower 48 states was 24 degrees at West Yellowstone, Mont. AP890920-0179 AP-NR-09-20-89 2054EDT r w AM-AIDFraud 09-20 0308 AM-AID Fraud,300 High-Living Bookkeeper Pleads Guilty to Fraud By JAMES ROWLEY Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A bookkeeper who bought 17 mink coats and was driven to work in a limousine pleaded guilty Wednesday to pocketing $355,200 from two organizations that administered federal grants. Tara Gloria Lewis purchased 17 mink coats plus one fitted for her Barbie doll during the time she diverted the money from two bank accounts she managed, according to sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. Co-workers reported that Ms. Lewis rode to work in a chauffeur-driven limousine, said the sources. Ms. Lewis faces a possible 10-year sentence for pleading guilty to bank fraud and wire fraud, charges that made no mention of her purchases. She admitted she had diverted $268,578 from the International Council on Education and Teaching by forging signatures of the organization's officers onto checks payable to herself and others. She also admitted forging signatures on bank wire-transfer authorization forms to divert an additional $86,650 from that organization and from the Council on Education for Teaching, another organization that employed her as a consultant to do bookkeeping and accounting. The two organizations administered Agency for International Development grants and Ms. Lewis knew that most if not all of the money she diverted came from AID, prosecutor Richard W. Roberts told U.S. District Judge June Green. AID said in a press release that the diversion of funds from the grant was discovered during an annual review of the agency's Bureau for Food and Voluntary Agencies. According to a plea agreement filed in court, the government agreed that for the purposes of sentencing, Ms. Lewis admitted diverting only $340,000. Under this agreement, the court cannot order her to pay restitution of more than $340,000. In addition, Ms. Lewis could be fined $250,000 or three times the loss to the victim. AP890920-0180 AP-NR-09-20-89 1913EDT u i AM-Soviet-Ethnic 1stLd-Writethru a0676 09-20 0961 AM-Soviet-Ethnic, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0676,0986 Party Adopts Ethnic Policy, Gorbachev Demands Order Eds: LEADS with 7 grafs to UPDATE with Politburo shake-up. Picks up graf 5 pvs, `The party ...' with minor editing thereafter to conform By MARK J. PORUBCANSKY Associated Press Writer MOSCOW (AP) The Communist Party on Wednesday demanded that the nation's troubled republics quiet their growing calls for independence but promised to grant them more control of their economies. President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, speaking at the close of a meeting by the party's policy-making Central Committee, said it was time to ``strike a determined blow at those who offer us inss and serious affairs, adventurist platforms.'' The session was called to adopt a program addressing burgeoning ethnic tensions and unrest among the Soviet Union's numerous nationalities. Later Wednesday, Tass news agency reporttead of politiced a stunning shake-up of the ruling Communist Party Politburo by Gorbachev. Gorbachev, who is party general secretary as well as the country's president, retired three full members in a dramatic consolidation of power. Those stepping down were former KGB chief Viktor M. Chebrikov, 66; Viktor P. Nikonov, 60, and Ukrainian party chief Vladimir V. Shcherbitsky, 71. That will leave Vitaly I. Vorotnikov of the Russian republic as the only one left on the 11-member as not appointed by Gorbachev. At Wednesday's Central Committee session, Gorbachev spoke extemporaneously and jabbed his finger in the air for emphasis as he asked party members to fall in behind the program aimed at curbing unrest. He said the country could not afford to be ``dragged into any reshaping of borders ... changing shapes of national formations.'' The party platform, under development for the past 18 months, is a blueprint for calming the tensions that have caused more than 200 deaths and brought calls in some republics, particularly in the Baltics and the Caucasus republic of Georgia, for outright independence. It declared that republics have the right to own and manage their resources without Kremlin central planning. It said that the republics should ``enjoy broad opportunities to invigorate their economy and culture'' while relying on the overall strength of the national economy. In adopting the program, the Central Committee called the program the ``political basis for the renewal of the Soviet federation.'' In the two-day debate, party officials split on thorny ethnic problems with hard-liners calling for a crackdown on disorder in the republics and reformers shooting back that they cannot be blamed for processes unleashed by the reform-minded Gorbachev's tolerant views. The differences in the Central Committee, evident in speeches distributed by Tass Wednesday, reflected Soviet society's polarization over calls for sovereignty. ``Part of the population has fallen under the influence of extremist political slogans, another part is of a conservative mood, not feeling real changes in the social conditions of life,'' Politburo member Vitaly I. Vorotnikov told the meeting. In a critique that apparently included Gorbachev, Vorotnikov said party officials from the local level up through the ruling Politburo were guilty of mistakes in analyzing the political situation. Local Communist leaders, in remarks reported Wednesday, supported plans togive local officials more control over their economies. Officials said that many factories and offices that are under direct control of government ministries in Moscow pay little or no local taxes and therefore do little to improve the living standards in the provinces. That contributes to local discontent, they said. But Absamat Masaliev, Communist Party chief of the Central Asian republic of Kirghizia, said the line must be drawn at calling for outright independence from the Soviet Union. ``The time has come ... to bring to order those who openly speak out against our structure, our unity, sabotage perestroika and abuse democracy,'' he said. Masaliev said calls to turn the Soviet Communist Party into a union of independent parties or to introduce a multiparty system represent ``an extremely dangerous and destructive tendency.'' Yuri Yelchenko, a secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party, said legislation must be passed to disperse what he called ``nationalistic or chauvinistic organizations and groups.'' A score of people were killed by soldiers during a nationalist protest in the Georgian republic in April, and some Georgian activists have charged that the violence was ordered specifically by officials in Moscow. The Georgian Communist Party chief, Givi Gumbaridze, charged that ``excesses on nationalist grounds often are programmed ahead and intended to require curfews, imposition of special forms of administration, and that means a rejection of democratic principles.'' Algirdas Brazauskas, party chief of the Baltic republic Lithuania, said his republic had no intention of trying to leave the Soviet Union. But he said the stormy discussions taking place there about the future of the republic are only a reflection of the forces unleashed by Gorbachev's reforms. Brazauskas said the party platform on ethnic relations did not go far enough to condemn the abuses of Josef Stalin, who absorbed Lithuania and its neighbors Latvia and Estonia, then killed or exiled thousands of their residents. Gorbachev said Tuesday that Stalin's policies were wrong but that the Baltic republics joined the Soviet Union voluntarily rather than face Adolf Hitler's Nazi forces alone. Moscow is faced with one of its toughest ethnic problems in the Caucasus republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan, which have been locked for the past 18 months in a bloody dispute over control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region, a predominantly Armenian enclave within the territory of Azerbaijan. About 100 people have been killed in ethnic violence there, including two policemen who were knifed on Tuesday as Gorbachev was telling the nation the Kremlin would not tolerate anarchy there. Armenian Communist Party chief Suren Arutyunyan asked officials why they had done nothing over nearly two months to stop what he said is an economic blockade of his republic by Azerbaijan. AP890920-0181 AP-NR-09-20-89 2054EDT r a AM-Delta1141-Report 09-20 0420 AM-Delta 1141-Report,0433 Newspaper Says Federal Report Finds Delta, Crew to Blame in 1988 Crash DALLAS (AP) Federal investigators are blaming a 1988 Delta crash on the flight crew and the airline, which has already accepted reponsibility for the disaster which killed 14 people. Delta Air Lines has admitted that the flight crew failed to properly set wing flaps before takeoff Aug. 31, 1988, from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The Boeing 727 crashed and exploded on takeoff, killing 14 people; 95 survived. Investigators for the National Transporation Safety Board reached the same conclusion, according to a draft report obtained by the Dallas Times Herald. The crew also failed to follow proper emergency procedures, the newspaper reported in Wednesday's edition. NTSB spokesman Michael Benson said the report is not necessarily the government's final word on the crash. ``The report is unofficial,'' Benson said Wednesday. ``The only time it becomes official is when the five-member NTSB board votes to take action on the report. They may make revisions or adopt the report as is.'' The board meets next Tuesday to consider the 174-page report. The newspaper said the report concludes that the crew's failure to follow preflight checklist procedures and its complacent cockpit behavior led to its neglecting to set the flaps. Cockpit tapes revealed that the crew talked about a previous fatal plane crash, politics and other non-flight related issues before takeoff, in violation of federal rules. The management policies of Delta regarding crew guidance and training ``were deficient and directly causal to this accident,'' the report says. It also finds fault with the Federal Aviation Administration, which it contends contributed to the accident by failing to correct ``known deficiencies'' in Delta's operations. Jackie Pate, an Atlanta-based Delta representative said Wednesday that Delta officials had not seen the report and would not comment until the board's findings were made official. Delta has fired the three crew members of Flight 1141, and the crew is appealing the firing. The NTSB draft report also says that the accident might have been averted had the captain advanced to full power and lowered the nose of the airplane shortly after encountering trouble. A few months after the crash, Delta tightened its preflight checklist procedures and began retraining. The report recommends that the FAA ensure that the roles of flight crew members are clearly delineated in all carriers' operations manuals. It also recommends that the agency require that verifying the flap position and proper procedures to save a faltering airplane be included in manuals. AP890920-0182 AP-NR-09-20-89 1910EDT u i AM-Hugo'sAftermath 4thLd-Writethru a0764 09-20 1020 AM-Hugo's Aftermath, 4th Ld-Writethru, a0764,1057 URGENT Coast Guard Evacuates People from St. Croix Because of Looting Eds: LEADS with 14 grafs with details of troops, disorder; picks up graf 14 pvs `Tourists pleaded....' SUBS graf 27th pvs `In Washington...' to CONFORM; pickup 28th pvs `The Federal...' ADDS byline With AM-Hugo, Bjt By JEAN McNAIR Associated Press Writer CHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) The Coast Guard on Wednesday began evacuating people from the resort island of St. Croix because of security fears following widespread looting after Hurricane Hugo. In Washington, President Bush authorized sending U.S. troops, including military police units, to the U.S. Virgin Islands ``to help restore order,'' the White House announced Wednesday. Earlier, Bush ordered federal troops to help Puerto Rico, which was also battered by the hurricane. The president declared the U.S. Virgin Islands a disaster area, making the island chain south and east of Puerto Rico eligible for emergency relief. On St. Croix, a popular U.S. vacation site about 70 miles east of Puerto Rico, frantic tourists pleaded for evacuation, and witnesses said police and some National Guardsmen took part in the looting. ``The private citizens around here are beginning to walk around with pistols on their hips, and there's going to be real trouble if somebody doesn't come in and quiet it down,'' Stu Ragland, a doctor on St. Croix, told an amateur radio operator. A Coast Guard office in Miami said personnel from the 270-foot cutter Bear went ashore Wednesday. Petty Officer John Ware, of Coast Guard headquarters in San Juan, said the cutter came ashore and took 40 people. Allen Burd, also a petty officer in San Juan, said anybody would be taken off who wants to get leave, but he had no immediate information on where the evacuees would be going. A source in the Puerto Rican government said they were being taken to that island. Coast Guard officers earlier described the looting as ``serious'' and said the crew was evacuating ``all people from the island who fear for their safety.'' The statement added that a C-130 cargo plane in Puerto Rico was ready to help if needed. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said, ``The president has authorized the deployment to the U.S. Virgin Islands of such Department of Defense forces as are necessary.'' There was no immediate statement, however, about numbers of troops being deployed. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh said earlier that he ordered 100 U.S. marshals and FBI agents to St. Croix, said David Runkel, a Justice Department spokesman. Tourists pleaded with reporters landing in the St. Croix city of Christiansted to take them off. ``When we landed (in a helicopter), we were pounced upon by about 15 tourists,'' said Gary Williams, a reporter for the San Juan daily El Nuevo Dia. ``They said, `Please get food! Please get water! Please help us! They're looting. We've seen police looting. We've seen National Guard looting. There's no law and order here.''' Jose Antonio Resto, 30, supervisor for a bakery chain in St. Croix, also said looting was widespred. ``Everybody is taking part in the looting, even policemen, in the entire island,'' Resto said Wednesday. ``Police tried to stop the looting yesterday by shooting in the air, when they saw that it was of no use, they started looting too.'' ``It's like a free giveaway. There's no light, there's no water, there's no food.'' He said he saw U.S. Army personnel arrive by plane on Tuesday and a Coast Guard helicopter arrive on Wednesday. The U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday a total of six cutters were in area of St. Croix, the largest island in the Virgin Island chain, to help restore order. It said gunshots were heard overnight. Ham radio operators heard reports that inmates had either escaped or been released because of prison damage and also were looting. The National Guard reported Hugo's winds on Sunday night and Monday destroyed or damaged 90 percent of the buildings on the U.S. Virgin Islands. No deaths were reported on the islands. Looting was also reported in St. Thomas and Puerto Rico, and more than 50,000 people in the eastern Caribbean were homeless. A Civil Defense spokeswoman in Puerto Rico, Cizanette Rivera, said Hugo claimed 25 lives Sunday and Monday as it churned westward through the Leeward Islands and hit Puerto Rico before heading northwest. Officials of the British Virgin Islands reported damage of more than $150 million. The government said more than a third of the private homes were ruined on the island of Tortola. The Caribbean island chains are plagued by poverty and unemployment and heavily dependent on the travels of well-off tourists. Deep currents of resentment often surface during disasters. In Washington, Fitzwater said the Interior Department had made available $500,000 to buy food, emergency supplies in the Virgin Islands. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the nation's lead agency for long-term disaster recovery, flew a C-141 transport Tuesday from Martinsburg, W. Va., to St. Croix. Hamilton International Airport in St. Croix was open _ but without its tower, lights and radio, said Bill McAda, agency spokesman in Washington. Williams said his helicopter flew over Sunny Isle shopping center in Christiansted on Tuesday. He said there appeared to be 1,000 people in the parking lot, many walking in and out of some of the 40 shops with garbage bags. ``They were walking to their cars with stuff,'' he said. ``The Grand Union (supermarket) was just crammed with people at the door.'' At one jewelry store, ``We saw three men and a women walking out with garbage bags loaded with stuff.'' ``We did not see one cop in Christiansted, and that's the main town,'' he said. ``We saw a National Guard truck filled to capacity with all kinds of stuff in it.'' Miami Herald reporter Carlos Harrison also said he saw a National Guard truck loaded with merchandise. ``They didn't look like they were delivering things,'' Harrison said Wednesday. Officials said St. Croix, which has 53,000 residents, suffered more damage than St. Thomas or St. John, the other two islands in the U.S. chain south and east of Puerto Rico. AP890920-0183 AP-NR-09-20-89 1919EDT u i AM-Peru 09-20 0247 AM-Peru,0256 Peru Declares Area Curfew After Mayor is Assassinated AYACUCHO, Peru (AP) Peru imposed a nighttime curfew in the provinces of Ayacucho and Huancavelica in response to the assassination of the mayor of this historic Andean city, authorities said Wednesday. Mayor Fermin Azparrent was killed Tuesday in his home by three young men firing submachine guns, police said. They said the killers escaped and identified them as members of the Maoist Shining Path rebel group. Police said Shining Path rebels also killed a village mayor in the Amazon jungle, and that two rebels died in a shootout with a police patrol in the central Andes. Fifty mayors now have been killed in political violence in Peru in the past five years. Relatives said the 64-year-old Azparrent received numerous death threats from leftist guerrillas and from paramilitary death squads and survived at least eight earlier attempts on his life. He recently resumed his duties in Ayacucho, a mountain city of 120,000 people 235 miles southeast of Lima, after spending months in the capital because of the death threats. Government officials say the Shining Path is out to sabotage nationwide municipal elections scheduled for Nov. 12. The curfew affects about 1 million people in the two Andean provinces, already under state of emergency restrictions due to the violence. The indefinite curfew restricts free movement and gatherings. It is the sixth curfew in the city of Ayacucho since the Shining Path launched its armed insurgency in 1980. AP890920-0184 AP-NR-09-20-89 1919EDT u a AM-Hugo-Glance 09-20 0317 AM-Hugo-Glance,0326 A Glance At Hugo's Aftermath, Relief Efforts, Path With AM-Hugo, Bjt By The Associated Press Here is a glance at developments related to Hurricane Hugo: STORM PATH: Forecasters said Hugo could come ashore by late Thursday or early Friday anywhere from northeastern Florida to Cape Hatteras, N.C., with residents from Savannah, Ga., to Charleston, S.C., most likely to be in harm's way. PREPARATION: Coastal residents from Florida to North Carolina stocked up on batteries, canned goods and other emergency supplies, as well as plywood, tape and materials to protect their homes. The Navy began sending ships from the Charleston Navy Base in South Carolina to sea to ride out the storm and prevent damage at dockside. LAW ENFORCEMENT: The Coast Guard had six ships near the U.S. Virgin Islands and sent an armed landing party to help restore order after violence and widespread looting was reported on St. Croix. President Bush authorized U.S. troops, including military police, to help restore order. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh ordered 100 U.S. marshals and FBI agents to the island. Bush also directed the Pentagon to make troops available for relief efforts in Puerto Rico, where National Guardsmen were trying to stop widespread looting. Attorney RELIEF EFFORTS: Relief groups from Ohio to Florida gathered tons of cots, blankets, communications gear and other emergency supplies for the hurricane-battered Caribbean islands. President Bush declared the U.S. Virgin Islands a disaster area and freed $500,000 for immediate use by the Interior Department. Coast Guard planes flew Red Cross supplies to St. Thomas and other islands. DAMAGE: Hugo caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage in Puerto Rico alone. The British Virgin Islands reported more than $150 million in damage and the National Guard said 90 percent of the buildings were destroyed or damaged on the U.S. Virgin Islands. Guadeloupe, Montserrat and other islands also reported widespread damage. AP890920-0185 AP-NR-09-20-89 2104EDT r w AM-ArlingtonAshes 09-20 0322 AM-Arlington Ashes,350 House Panel OKs Burial of Ashes at Arlington By ROBERT GREENE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) An area of Arlington National Cemetery would be set aside for the unmarked burial of the ashes of veterans as a way to prevent overcrowding, according to legislation approved Wednesday by a House panel. The ashes, which would not be placed in urns, would be buried under sod or in small holed. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Charles E. Bennett, D-Fla., envisions a well-tended green area for the remains, with a wall bearing the names of those whose ashes are buried there, according to a Bennett aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The House Veterans Affairs Committee approved the measure. Such burial would be optional and would not use any space designated for caskets. ``We don't know what kind of response this is going to get,'' the aide said, adding that the Army would insist on a fitting ceremony and interment to address concerns ``that it may seem like a mass grave.'' Arlington, on a hillside directly across the Potomac from Washington, is expected to run out of casket space in 2020. The columbarium, where urns are stored, is expected to be full in 2029. Veterans may request burial at Arlington or other national cemeteries. More than 9 million World War II veterans are still alive. The number of veterans over 65 total nearly 6 million and should be nearly 9 million by the turn of the century. Restrictions were placed on burials in 1967 in the first effort to prevent the cemetery from filling too rapidly. About 190,000 people are buried in the 612-acre cemetery. In another action, the committee approved legislation to create a World War II memorial in or near the District of Columbia, paid for by donations and taxes. No cost estimate is possible because no decisions have been made on size, location or design. AP890920-0186 AP-NR-09-20-89 1921EDT u a AM-Hoffa 1stLd-Writethru a0708 09-20 0564 AM-Hoffa, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0708,0576 Playboy Editor Says Hoffa Story Checked Out Eds: SUBS 6th graf, `FBI officials ..., with 2 grafs to UPDATE with quote from FBI official in Chicago. By DARLENE E. SUPERVILLE Associated Press Writer NEWARK, N.J. (AP) An editor at Playboy magazine said Wednesday that extensive investigation turned up no reasons to disbelieve an informant who says former Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa was buried beneath Giants Stadium. ``I lived with this story for seven months,'' said Peter Moore, an associate articles editor for Playboy. ``You're kind of walking on eggs on a story like this.'' The story in the Chicago-based magazine's November issue quotes Donald ``Tony the Greek'' Frankos, a self-described hitman and federally protected witness in the upcoming New York trial of alleged organized-crime boss John Gotti. Frankos claims he told the FBI in 1986 that Hoffa was shot to death by alleged Irish mob boss Jimmy Coonan and dismembered in a house near the Detroit suburb of Mount Clemens. Coonan is serving a lengthy prison term in an unrelated case. Frankos says Hoffa's body was stored in a freezer until it was buried in concrete next to the west end zone of the football stadium near New York. FBI officials have declined to comment on Frankos' account, one of many purporting to explain Hoffa's July 1975 disappearance. In Chicago, FBI spokesman Bob Long said Wednesday that ``aside from saying there is still an active investigation, there wouldn't be any statement. We would not be commenting on the validity or lack of validity on that story.'' New Jersey state police Superintendent Col. Clinton L. Pagano said he places little credibility in the report. That view is shared by Robert Mulcahy, president and chief executive officer of the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority, which runs Giants Stadium. Frankos says Hoffa was killed in a dispute over his desire to regain control of the Teamsters union after his release from federal prison in Lewisburg, Pa., where he was serving time for mail fraud and jury tampering. ``Confirmation, for me, would be finding the body,'' Moore said in a telephone interview. ``We confirmed it to the degree that it is possible when you're dealing with major underworld figures.'' Moore said he received a telephone call seven months ago from someone with a husky voice, offering information on where Hoffa's remains could be found. Moore said he was doubtful, but began research. Moore said he and at least three staff members conducted scores of interviews, checked on the relationships Frankos claimed to have and were able to uncover no inconsistencies in Frankos' story. ``We got to the point where we believed that enough of Don Frankos' story was checking out that we had to run with it,'' Moore said. ``It was a real game to get information that can corroborate a story like this,'' he said. ``There are people trying to put him in jail for the same thing we're trying to report on. We were doing a dance for a while.'' The only person to meet Frankos was Lake Headley, a private investigator. Moore only spoke with Frankos by telephone. Headley, of Wysocki & Associates in Las Vegas, conducted the interview which will appear in Playboy's November issue. He was en route Wednesday to New York and could not be reached for comment, according to his partner, Mike Wysocki. AP890920-0187 AP-NR-09-20-89 1926EDT u i AM-Hugo-PuertoRico 09-20 0543 AM-Hugo-Puerto Rico,0562 Water, Gasoline Shortages Plague Puerto Rico in Hugo's Wake With AM-Hugo, Bjt, and AM-Hugo-Aftermath, Bjt LaserPhoto By ROBERT GLASS Associated Press Writer SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) Thousands of people lined up with water buckets at National Guard tanker trucks in 91-degree heat Wednesday as crews struggled to restore water and electricity to this hurricane-wracked island. Utility officials said 70 percent of the island was still without running water and 35 percent without electricity two days after Hurricane Hugo slammed into the U.S. commonwealth of 3.3 million people. In Washington, President Bush ordered federal troops to help the island get back on its feet. He also authorized soldiers to help restore order in the nearby U.S. Virgin Islands, which were wracked by widespread looting. Esteban Romero, assistant director of the Puerto Rico's Electrical Energy Authority, said power could be fully restored by Wednesday night to San Juan, the capital where one-third of the population lives. However, the official said hard-hit towns in the extreme northeast could be without water for up to three weeks. Police spokesman Baltasar Vazquez said that in one San Juan neighborhood, police had to be called after residents mobbed firefighters distributing water. People stood in double file, 150 to a line, at National Guard tanker trucks filling water buckets. Residents opened fire hydrants to bath. Thousands of Puerto Ricans converged on the southern coastal city of Ponce, which escaped the worst of the storm, to stock up on bottled water, ice and gasoline. ``I came from San Juan to buy gasoline in Ponce,'' said Carlos Gonzalez. ``I need gasoline because I'm a salesman.'' The state morgue appealed to private funeral parlors to bring corpses there because it had a generator-operated cooler to preserve the bodies. The storm-related toll in Puerto Rico rose to four with reports of the death of one man in a pleasure boat and a power linesman who was electrocuted making repairs. Civil defense officials say a total of 25 people were killed Sunday and Monday as Hugo churned north and westward through the Caribbean. Hundreds of tourists jammed San Juan's Luis Munoz Marin International Airport, which reopened Wednesday for the first time since Sunday evening. Many were turned back because of fully booked flights. ``If I had known what was going on, I never would have come here,'' said Jennifer Hargreaves, 25, of Philadelphia. The tension at the airport intensified when a propane line exploded at the construction site of a new Delta terminal, igniting a fire and sending up billows of heavy smoke. Two people were reported injured. Juan Garcia, director of the Association of Insurance Companies, said ``claims are going to be in the order of eight figures. We are talking tens of millions of dollars.'' Officials estimateddamage to roads at $40 million and to the electricial system and the airport at $20 million each. Acting Agriculture Secretary Alfonso Davila said 80 percent of the coffee crop was lost, thousands of chickens were killed, and losses to the milk industry were running at $600,000 a day. Coast Guard and National Guard cargo planes were flying food, water and other supplies to the offshore islands of Culebra and Vieques, where hundreds of people remained cut off from the mainland. AP890920-0188 AP-NR-09-20-89 2111EDT r a AM-BakkerTrial 09-20 0637 AM-Bakker Trial,0655 Prosecutors Wrap Up Case Against Jim Bakker By PAUL NOWELL Associated Press Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Prosecutors wrapped up their case Wednesday at PTL founder Jim Bakker's fraud trial, saying his ministry had sold $157.9 million worth of lodging rights to 152,903 believers by the time he quit. The government showed the jury a final piece of videotape showing Bakker urging his followers to send money for so-called lifetime partnerships in his ministry. Prosecutors contend that Bakker used the money raised through partnership sales to finance a lavish lifestyle instead of building lodging he had promised the partners, who were supposed to get a few days of free lodging every year. The government case in Bakker's fraud and conspiracy trial started Aug. 28. Before presenting their evidence, Bakker's attorneys asked that the charges be dismissed, saying Bakker's rights were being violated, not those of his followers. ``What we have is a ministry, a religious entity,'' said Attorney Harold Bender said. ``Everything it did was religious in nature. The Constitution prohibits government interference in a religion.'' Prosecutor Jerry Miller disagreed, saying: ``This is not a case about religion. It is a case about lying to the people on television and cheating them out of their money.'' The motion was denied by U.S. District Judge Robert Potter, and the defense began by showing the jury more tapes of the PTL television show. Earlier, FBI agent John Pearson recapped testimony showing that as of May 31, 1987 _ two months after Bakker resigned _ PTL had 152,903 fully paid partnerships costing $157.9 million. Pearson said contributors sent $66.9 million for Heritage Grand partnerships and about 52.8 percent of that was spent on construction of the hotel. More than $74 million was spent for Towers Hotel partnerships, Pearson said, and 15.4 percent of that was spent on the partially built hotel. About $17 million was sent by believers for partnerships in bunkhouses and 5.6 percent was spent on construction of one 16-room bunkhouse. Testimony showed that Bakker sold lodging rights in a 16-room bunkhouse to more than 42,000 people and agreed to cut the number of bunkhouses in half while urging more people to send money. During a broadcast of his ``PTL Club'' show, Bakker told viewers he wasn't trying to profit from lifetime partnership sales at PTL's Heritage Park USA complex in Fort Mill, S.C. ``We're not here to make money,'' Bakker said in an August 1986 broadcast. ``I hope my critics wake up and realize I'd be a fool if I tried to make money off something like this.'' ``This is a deal of a lifetime,'' Bakker told viewers in another August promotional broadcast. ``There are no fees. This is not a profit-making organization.'' Bakker's comments came while he offered a new lodging program called the Family Heritage Club. Donors of $500 would get three days and two nights in 16-unit ``bunkhouses,'' he said. Only one bunkhouse was completed when Bakker resigned in disgrace in March 1987. Bakker is accused in 24 fraud and conspiracy counts of diverting more than $3.7 million in PTL money raised from the partnership sales to pay for personal luxuries. If found guilty of the 24 counts against him, he could be sentenced to 120 years in prison and fined more than $5 million. At one point, Bakker said all the partnerships available had been sold. Then in March 1987, second-in-command Richard Dortch said in a telethon that more partnerships in the never-finished Towers Hotel were available because 70 percent of the people on the monthly installment plan had not lived up to their obligations. The first defense videotape showed a July 4, 1984, dedication ceremony at Heritage USA for three facilities: a water park, a home for handicapped children called ``Kevin's House,'' and Fort Hope for the homeless. AP890920-0189 AP-NR-09-20-89 2216EDT d a AM-BRF--AlumniDonations 09-20 0154 AM-BRF--Alumni Donations,0158 Kentucky College Retains No. 1 Alumni-Donation Ranking DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) For the sixth consecutive year, Centre College is No.1 in the nation in the percentage of its alumni that provide donation, according to the school's Office of Development. Centre received annual donations from 6,023 of 7,993 alumni for a participation rate of 75.4 percent, tying the school's national record set in 1987-88. The school's annual fund also attained $1,573,609, a 5 percent increase from 1987-88. Rounding out the top five were Willliams College (Mass.), 65.4 percent; Bowdoin College (Maine), 62.7; Hamilton College (N.Y.), 62.5; and Dartmouth College (N.H.), 61.0. Amherst College (Mass.) headed the second five with 60.9 percent, followed by University of the South (Tenn.), 60.1; Lehigh University (Pa.), 60.0; Randolph-Macon College (Va.), 59.0; and Gustavus Adolphus (Minn.) 58.5. Centre is among the nation's 20 oldest coeducation liberal arts colleges. It has an enrollment of about 860 students. AP890920-0190 AP-NR-09-20-89 2003EDT u i AM-Soviet-Politburo 1stLd-Writethru a0754 09-20 0952 AM-Soviet-Politburo, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0754,0979 Gorbachev Completes Major Politburo Shake-up Eds: LEADS throughout to UPDATE with details. No pickup By MARK J. PORUBCANSKY Associated Press Writer MOSCOW (AP) Mikhail Gorbachev pulled off a major shake-up of the Communist Party Politburo on Wednesday, retiring a quarter of the ruling elite in one stroke and promoting his KGB chief and his top economic planner. Dropped from power was the 71-year-old Ukrainian party chief, Vladimir V. Shcherbitsky; former KGB chief Viktor M. Chebrikov, 66; and Viktor P. Nikonov, 60; leaving only one pre-Gorbachev appointee on the 11-member Politburo. KGB Gen. Vladimir A. Kryuchkov, who presided over a partial opening up of his secrecy-bound agency, and economic planning chief Yuri D. Maslyukov, were promoted. At a time when economic failures and ethnic violence prompted some Soviets to fret openly about the possibility of a coup or civil war, the move demonstrated Gorbachev's firm control at the pinnacle of Soviet power. It also gave him a stronger hand in Moscow as the leadership writes a new program and rules to govern the party in the 1990s. The Central Committee on Tuesday moved up the date for the next congress to October 1990, handing Gorbachev an early opportunity to reach deep into party ranks to completely remold its top echelon. Gorbachev is both the nation's president and the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. The shake-up came at a meeting of the party Central Committee after the 251-member policy-making body approved a program demanding that restive Soviet republics stifle calls to leave the union but acceding to demands for more local control of the economy. The oft-delayed session was called to address burgeoning ethnic tensions and unrest among the Soviet Union's numerous nationalities. It sought to calm the strife while drawing a line at calls for independence or secession. For activists in some republics, the removal of Shcherbitsky and Chebrikov probably will ease the sting of Gorbachev's toughly worded rejection of drives for sovereignty. Tass, the official news agency, said Gorbachev thanked the three Politburo members warmly for their ``many years of fruitful activity'' in the party, indicating they were retiring in good grace. Shcherbitsky, regarded as a conservative force both in Moscow and his native Ukraine, was the last Politburo member other than Gorbachev still serving from the time of President Leonid I. Brezhnev. His retirement makes Vitaly I. Vorotnikov of the Russian republic the only pre-Gorbachev appointee remaining on the Politburo. Brezhnev was in power from 1964-82. Rumors of Shcherbitsky's impending retirement circulated for years because of his conservative views. He presumably will remain party chief in the Ukraine until a replacement can be named. Chebrikov had moved from head of the KGB last September to a new party position overseeing legal affairs. Said to be one of those responsible for Gorbachev's selection as party chief in 1985, he nevertheless has been regarded recently by some Western analysts as a foe and potential rival to Gorbachev. His departure was likely to please activists in Georgia especially, where Chebrikov was suspected of having prior knowledge of a military assault that killed a score of nationalist demonstrators in April. Nikonov had described himself earlier this year as a deputy to Yegor K. Ligachev on party agricultural policy. He appeared to serve no clear function on the Politburo, and his views on major policy questions were not well known. In Dallas on Friday, opposition Soviet politician Boris Yeltsin singled out Chebrekov and Shcherbitsky as two Politburo members he said must go. Yeltsin, chairman of a newly formed independent caucus in the Soviet congress, said Ligachev and Vitaly Vorotnikov were two others who must leave the Politburo. He said their departure was needed ``to reduce the pressure on Gorbachev from the right, which is preventing him from acting more decisively.'' Yeltsin also had called for a party congress soon during his U.S. visit. Newly designated Politburo member Kryuchkov is a career intelligence officer who has engaged the KGB in a charm offensive. He has undergone an unprecedented legislative confirmation hearing, begun granting interviews and authorizing news conferences, and said the KGB seeks to cooperate with its Western counterparts to control terrorism and drug trafficking. Maslyukov, the head of the State Planning Committee, also was promoted to full Politburo membership. His difficult tasks include sorting out economic relations with republics that are clamoring for more economic independence from Moscow. Three regional party chiefs with agricultural expertise, Yegor S. Stroyev of Orel, Yuri A. Mananyenkov of Lipetsk and Gumer I. Usmanov of the Tatar region of Russia, were promoted to the Central Commmittee's secretariat in Moscow. So, too, was Andrei N. Girenko, a long-time Communist official who ran the party organization in the Crimean peninsula. Two candidate, or non-voting members of the Politburo, Yuri Solovyev and Nikolai Talyzin, also were forced out. Their places were taken by Yevgeny Primakov, head of the Soviet of the Union legislative chamber, and Boris Pugo, head of the party commission overseeing discipline. Solovyev was embarrassed in March when he was rejected in an election for the new Congress of People's Deputies parliament even though he ran unopposed. He subsequently was removed as Leningrad party chief. Talyzin was Maslyukov's predecessor as planning chief, but was demoted twice before finally being dropped from the Politburo. Gorbachev on Tuesday told the Central Committee the Kremlin could tolerate neither anarchy nor separatist demagogues. He said in closing remarks Wednesday it was time to ``strike a determined blow at those who offer us instead of politics and serious affairs, adventurist platforms.'' He called for support of the program, saying the country could not afford to be ``dragged into any reshaping of borders ... changing shapes of national formations.'' AP890920-0191 AP-NR-09-20-89 2122EDT r w AM-Carter-Nicaragua 1stLd-Writethru a0717 09-20 0628 AM-Carter-Nicaragua, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0717,620 Group Questions Carter's Effectiveness in Monitoring Elections Eds: SUBS 8th graf pvs `The Nicaraguan ...' with 3 grafs to UPDATE with Carter's meeting with Bush on Thursday; administration plan to ask Congress for $9 million for opposition campaign. Picks up 9th graf pvs `Although there ...' By W. DALE NELSON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Members of a conservative-backed group denied entry to Nicaragua to monitor elections there questioned Wednesday whether a delegation led by former President Carter will be able to effectively judge the fairness of the voting. ``We would hope that their people will get out into the countryside and do what we would have done,'' said Curtin Winsor, co-chairman of the Bipartisan Commission on Free and Fair Elections in Nicaragua and former Reagan administration ambassador to Costa Rica. ``If they don't, I am afraid that at best their work will be incomplete and at worst it will be badly flawed.'' Another commission member, Alan Keyes, assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs in the Reagan administration, said he didn't think the Carter group ``is going to help us one bit to make our judgment about the process over time; they are only going to help, perhaps, to make a judgment about election day,'' Commission member Elaine Kamarck, a writer and teacher who has been an adviser to Democratic presidential candidates, said Carter ``did a wonderful job'' as an election observer in Panama, where he denounced the May elections as fraudulent. He ``certainly has some credibility,'' she said, adding that the former president will need input from observers who are less well-known than he. ``I have every faith that Jimmy Carter will process all information and data appropriately,'' Ms. Kamarck said. ``I think the problem will be making sure that he gets the right information.'' The Nicaraguan elections are scheduled for Feb. 25. Carter, who ended a three-day visit to the country Tuesday, will meet with President Bush at the White House on Thursday to discuss the elections. Also Wednesday, congressional sources said the Bush administration would ask for $9 million for direct and indirect aid for Chamorro's campaign. The money _ to be funneled both directly to the opposition political coalition and indirectly through the quasi-governmental National Endowment for Democracy and United Nations election observers _ would meet an estimated 80 percent or more of Chamorro election budget, according to administration estimates. ``Although there are problems, the agreements reached ... give us optimism that the elections will be free and fair,'' Carter said before leaving Managua, noting that the opposition had accused the leftist Sandinista government of failing to live up to agreements. He said his team would organize an independent vote count the night of the elections, but won't release its tallies until after the official returns are announced. The Nicaraguan government, the Supreme Electoral Council and the political opposition invited Carter to observe the elections as chairman of the Council of Freely Elected Heads of State, an Atlanta-based organization. The United Nations and the Organization of American States also will send observer teams. The privately financed Bipartisan Commission was created by the conservative World Freedom Foundation to establish criteria for the election and observe its fairness. The Nicaraguan Embassy announced Sept. 13 that it had denied the group visas, saying that the president of the foundation had recently visited Contra camps in Honduras and expressed his support of the rebels. Winsor, Keyes and Ms. Kamarck appeared at a luncheon at the conservative Heritage Foundation. The commission's other members are former Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis., who with Winsor is co-chairman of the group; Sergio Bendixen a Democratic political consultant who has worked in Latin American campaigns; and Vic Gold, an aide to then-Vice President George Bush. AP890920-0192 AP-NR-09-20-89 2126EDT r w AM-Budget 1stLd-Writethru 09-20 0749 AM-Budget, 1st Ld - Writethru,a0745,700 Democrats Propose IRA Tax Relief as Capital Gains Cut Alternative Eds: ADDS six grafs on drug spending meeting By STEVEN KOMAROW Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) House Democratic leaders said Wednesday they would fight President Bush's capital gains tax cut with an alternative that would raise levies on the wealthy to partially restore tax breaks for middle-class individual retirement accounts. Republican leaders predicted the Capitol Hill budget battle would push past Congress' deadlines for enacting deficit-reduction legislation, forcing nearly $17 billion in government-wide spending reductions. The House Democratic plan was modeled loosely on a proposal by Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, to provide a 50 percent tax deduction for money put into individual retirement accounts, said Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill. In addition, IRA contributions could be withdrawn without penalty if the money were used for education or a first-time home purchase. To pay for the IRA program and raise more money toward reducing the deficit, the Democratic plan would raise to 33 percent the marginal tax rate for the nation's wealthiest taxpayers. Most now pay a top rate of 28 percent on most of their income, even though some in the upper middle class pay 33 percent on part of their income. According to a study earlier this year by the Congressional Budget Office, extending the 33 percent rate into the upper incomes would raise $42.9 billion over the next five years. The exact cost of the IRA tax break had not been determined because details of the proposal were still being worked out. However, Rep. Leon Panetta, D-Calif., said it would be less than the money gained from the upper-class tax increase and leave ``a significant amount for deficit reduction.'' The Democratic leadership plan will be offered as an alternative to the capital gains tax cut supported by Bush, House Republicans and a group of mostly conservative Democrats. Republican leaders, after a meeting Wednesday with Bush at the White House, said it was almost certain Congress would fail to agree on a deficit-reduction measure by mid-October, the deadline in the Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing law. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., the senior Republican on the budget committee, said the cuts would total about $16.8 billion, half from defense and half from domestic programs. The Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law requires Congress and the president to reduce the deficit to within $10 billion of the $100 billion 1990 deficit target by Oct. 15 or cuts are mandated to bring the deficit down. However, the lion's share of the deficit reduction needed this year is contained in the big budget bill carrying the capital gains provision and a host of other contentious issues, including child care and revisions to the catastrophic health insurance program. White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said there was a ``somewhat bleak prospect'' for averting the spending cuts. House Republican Whip Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., speaking after the morning meeting, said Bush was firm in his opposition to a tax rate increase to help raise revenues to offset the deficit. To propose such an increase is ``to guarantee a veto,'' as is inclusion of add-on spending projects that Bush opposes. ``If, in fact, it has a child care bill that is unacceptable, and if it has pension proposals that are unacceptable, he'll veto it.'' Meanwhile, senators of both parties met for more than an hour and Republicans agreed to consider a Democratic proposal to add $1 billion to the war on drugs with money saved through a .425 percent, across-the-board cut in all federal spending programs. The two sides were negotiating not only in an effort to pay for the drug war but to get appropriations moving again on the Senate floor. Republicans have stalled action on the money bills with 10 days before the start of the new fiscal year as means of gaining leverage in the dispute over the narcotics program. Democrats initially sought a 0.5 percent, across-the-board cut as a means of finding $2.2 billion to add to the drug war, mainly in the realm of prevention, education and treatment. The Bush administration balked at that on grounds that it would hit too hard at the Pentagon. The Democratic plan really was a counterproposal to a Republican offer made earlier of a 0.25 percent, across-the-board cut combined with targeted spending reductions in specific programs. Sen. Mark O. Hatfield, R-Ore., the chief Republican negotiator, said afterward that the meeting was ``all very positive.'' ``It certainly narrows the gap in many ways,'' Hatfield said. AP890920-0193 AP-NR-09-20-89 2030EDT u a AM-NightStalker 3rdLd-Writethru a0774 09-20 1317 AM-Night Stalker, 3rd Ld-Writethru, a0774,1357 Ramirez Convicted on All Counts in `Night Stalker' Serial Murders Eds: Leads with 11 grafs to UPDATE with Ramirez quote, penalty phase set for Sept. 27, lawyer comment; DELETES grafs 8-9 pvs, ``Ladies and ..., to tighten; picks up 12th graf pvs: `The jurors spent ... LaserPhotos LA7,9 By LINDA DEUTSCH Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) Richard Ramirez was convicted of 13 murders and 30 felonies Wednesday by a jury that decided he was the devil-worshiping ``Night Stalker'' whose nocturnal attacks terrified California in 1985. In addition, the jurors found 18 special circumstances existed, making Ramirez eligible for the death penalty. The defendant, convicted on all counts against him, demanded to be absent from court when the 63 separate verdict forms were read by Superior Court Judge Michael Tynan. The judge granted his request, saying a recent appeals court decision gave him no choice. Ramirez, who left the courtroom with shackles rattling around his ankles, heard the verdicts from loudspeaker in a nearby holding cell. His attorney said later that Ramirez had no reaction while listening to the verdict. As he was taken from the courthouse, Ramirez flashed a two-finger ``devil sign'' to photographers. Asked what he thought about the verdicts, the 29-year-old El Paso native said only: ``Evil.'' The jurors found that Ramirez was the demonic killer who committed crimes of rape, sodomy, oral copulation, burglary and attempted murder in addition to murder. They found that 12 of the murders were first-degree, but decided the killing of Tsai-Lian Yu was murder in the second-degree. She was dragged from her car and killed as she screamed for help on March 17, 1985. In the packed courtroom, relatives of three of the victims sat with their heads bowed as the verdicts were read. Tynan said the penalty phase of the trial would begin Sept. 27. The trial lasted more than a year and it took more than a month for the jury to reach its verdicts after bizarre interruptions _ including the murder of a juror _ required them to restart their deliberations twice. ``My personal feeling is the jury could no longer be objective after the death of the juror,'' defense attorney Daniel Hernandez said after the verdicts were delivered. ``And the media was so overwhelmingly decided of his guilt that no one could give him a fair trial.'' The jurors spent 22 days in their second set of talks after the slaying. The juror's murder was a likely basis for the defense appeal of Ramirez' conviction. It came on the heels of the dismissal of another juror for sleeping during deliberations. The jury was then 13 days into its talks. A day after deliberations restarted with an alternate replacing the sleepy juror, the panel was jolted again. Juror Phyllis Singletary failed to appear one morning and was found beaten and shot to death at the home she shared with her boyfriend. The next day, the man committed suicide and left a note saying he killed her in an argument. Jurors wept when they learned of the tragedy, and Tynan was faced with his most trying legal challenge. Lawyers said there were no legal precedents for the situation. Defense attorneys argued that the jurors were too distraught to resume their talks and noted that Ms. Singletary's murder was similar to the gruesome attacks attributed to the ``Night Stalker.'' Tynan decided to move forward. ``We must get on with the task life has given us,'' he told jurors, ordering them to begin deliberations with an alternate replacing the dead juror. The defense motion for a mistrial was denied. The verdicts came four years after Southern California's searing summer of terror. In 1985, residents slept behind locked doors and windows fearing a demonic killer who struck in the night, often leaving a husband dead and a wife raped and beaten. The news media dubbed the assailant the ``Night Stalker.'' Some of the crimes were grisly beyond imagining: A woman's eyes were gouged out after she was slain. A man was murdered in his bed and his wife was raped beside the dead body. The killer beat a small child and attempted to sodomize him. There were signs of devil worship _ a pentagram drawn on the wall at one murder scene and survivors' accounts of being ordered to ``swear to Satan.'' The first killing was in 1984, but 12 of the murders attributed to the same killer happened between March and August of 1985. There were other murders in Orange County and San Francisco. By July, the killer was striking only a few days apart. On some days, he struck twice. On July 21, police released a drawing of the ``Night Stalker'' suspect, a man with dark curly hair and bad teeth. But it was not until Aug. 30 that authorities linked a fingerprint found at one murder scene to Richard Ramirez. His photo was published in newspapers and shown on TV. Soon, police were inundated with reports that the suspect had been sighted in East Los Angeles and they launched an air and ground search. On Aug. 31, citizens captured Ramirez after he pulled a woman from her car and tried to grab her keys. She screamed, ``It's the killer, the killer!'' Neighbors grabbed metal pipes and sticks and began chasing the man. ``We ran after him halfway down the street,'' said a man who joined the chase. ``We just all gang tackled him and we just held him down.'' Law enforcement officers who arrested Ramirez formed a human chain of 50 officers to protect him from a crowd shouting, ``Kill him! Kill him!'' With Ramirez' capture, the case moved into the courts with lawyers vying to represent the famous defendant. Ramirez chose a pair of relatively inexperienced attorneys from San Jose. Daniel and Arturo Hernandez, not related, frustrated judges and the prosecutor, Deputy District Attorney P. Philip Halpin, with repeated maneuvers for delay. More experienced counsel were appointed to assist them. Ramirez' court appearances drew crowds. The lanky, shaggy-haired defendant rarely stood still, rattling shackles around his ankles as he danced in place to imagined music only he could hear. At one court session, Ramirez shouted, ``Hail, Satan!'' and displayed a pentagram drawn on the palm of his hand. In 1986, a preliminary hearing disclosed for the first time the ghastly details of each victim's ordeal, and Ramirez was ordered to stand trial. Various judges came and went from the case until it was finally assigned to Superior Court Judge Michael Tynan, who pushed for a speedy trial. Jury selection began in July, 1988, and took six months. Testimony opened in January. By then, Ramirez was a subdued figure slumped in his chair at the counsel table as witness after witness identified him as the ``Night Stalker.'' ``I know it's him because I'll never forget his face, even today,'' said a woman who had been raped and beaten by the assailant who killed her husband. Ramirez laughed as a tiny, foreign-born woman struggled to describe her rape. A woman who had seen her husband slaughtered lashed out at Ramirez from the witness stand. ``You son of a bitch, why did you kill him?'' she shouted. ``I gave you everything you wanted. ... What's wrong with you? ... He was such a nice man.'' Ramirez' defense was mistaken identity. Attorney Ray Clark, who assisted Daniel Hernandez after the lawyer said he was ill from stress, said that witnesses were too traumatized to make accurate identifications. Defense witnesses included Ramirez' father, who claimed his son was in El Paso, Texas, for a family gathering when two murders occurred. Clark argued that there was reasonable doubt of his guilt. Halpin urged conviction on all counts. ``These were murders of men in their sleep, rapes and sodomy of women after their husbands were dead,'' said Halpin. ``These were consummate acts of cowardice.'' AP890920-0194 AP-NR-09-20-89 2052EDT u i AM-Israel 09-20 0547 AM-Israel,0565 Arab Stabs Jewish Seminary Student in Jerusalem JERUSALEM (AP) A Jewish seminary student was stabbed by an Arab Wednesday after praying in Jerusalem's Old City, and a soldier underwent emergency surgery after running into a stone-throwing ambush in the Arab village of Beit Jala. Israeli troops meanwhile shot and wounded 11 Palestinians in clashes in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, Arab hospital officials said. The army was checking the reports. Student Yehuda Avrahami, 23, was slightly wounded when stabbed in a crowded market in the Old City. He said he was returning from praying at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site. He told Israel radio ``everybody closed their shops and ran away'' and that he stumbled to nearby Damascus Gate where paramilitary police called an ambulance. Police spokesman Uzi Sandori said 54 Arabs were held for questioning in the stabbing but all were released. The soldier, whose name was withheld, was injured when Palestinian youths pelted with stones a water truck in which he was traveling in Beit Jala near Bethlehem, the army and Israel radio said. In Gaza, two Palestinians escaped from Israeli troops after a submachine gun was found in their car, but were later caught, army officials said. The body of a 45-year-old woman, apparently an American tourist, was found Wednesday in the Arab neighborhood of A-Tur on the outskirts of annexed east Jerusalem, Israeli media reports said. Israel Television said the woman was a guest at the house of a local leader and Israel radio said no signs of violence were found on the body. The woman carried no documents. An autopsy was planned. The military command said an army force patrolling the border with Jordan captured two Jordanian infiltrators who planned to attack an army patrol. It said the men were armed but did not resist when captured Sunday. No explanation was given for the delay in the announcement. The military said the two were seized near Mt. Sodom on the Dead Sea, 43 miles southeast of Jerusalem, and belonged to no Palestinian guerrilla group. Firefighters aided by air force helicopters brought a major forest fire under control on Wednesday on Mt. Carmel near Haifa. Forestry officials estimated the two-day blaze destroyed 2,000 acres of woodland and the fire consumed 80 percent of a natural reserve on Mt. Carmel, killing 20 rare animals. Two Arab groups, the Lebanon-based Islamic Jihad and the previously unknown Direct Revenge, claimed responsibility for the fire. Police said six Arabs were detained for questioning. Underground leaders have repeatedly urged Palestinians to use arson as a weapon in the 21-month-old revolt against Israeli occupation of the territories. Israeli soldiers or civilians have killed at least 573 Palestinians since the uprising began in December 1987. Forty Israelis also have died, and 114 Palestinians have been killed by fellow Arabs as suspected collaborators. In Lebanon, Palestinian sources said at least two guerrillas were wounded on Wednesday when Israeli warplanes raided a Palestinian guerrilla base south of Beirut. The Israeli army in Jerusalem identified the target as a base of Ahmed Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. A Lebanese police spokesman in Beirut said two Israeli planes fired two missiles at the target near Naameh, 10 miles south of the Lebanese capital. AP890920-0195 AP-NR-09-20-89 2057EDT u i AM-Soviet-PolitburoList 09-20 0350 AM-Soviet-Politburo List,0371 A List of Soviet Politburo Members With AM-Soviet-Politburo MOSCOW (AP) With the changes announced Wednesday, the Communist Party Politburo consists of the following people. The dates shown after their names are their dates of election to their current Politburo seats. FULL MEMBERS: 1. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, October 1980, Soviet president and the country's leader as Communist Party general secretary since March 11, 1985. Born March 2, 1931. 2. Nikolai I. Ryzhkov, April 1985, Soviet prime minister. Born Sept. 28, 1929. 3. Vitaly I. Vorotnikov, December 1983, president of the Russian federation. Born Jan. 20, 1926. 4. Lev N. Zaikov, March 1986, Moscow party chief. Born April 3, 1923. 5. Yegor K. Ligachev, April 1985, Central Committee commission chairman for agriculture. Born Nov. 29, 1920. 6. Nikolai N. Slyunkov, June 1987, Central Committee commission chairman for socio-economic policy. Born April 26, 1929. 7. Eduard A. Shevardnadze, July 1985, Soviet foreign minister. Born Jan. 25, 1928. 8. Alexander N. Yakovlev, June 1987, Central Committee commission chairman for international policy. Born Dec. 2, 1923. 9. Vadim A. Medvedev, September 1988, Central Committee commission chairman for ideology. Born March 29, 1929. 10. Yuri D. Maslyukov, September 1989, chairman of the State Planning Committee. Born Sept. 30, 1937. 11. Vladimir A. Kryuchkov, September 1989, chairman of the KGB. Born 1924. CANDIDATE (NON-VOTING) MEMBERS 1. Georgy P. Razumovsky, February 1988, Central Committee commission chairman for personnel issues and party construction. Born Jan. 19, 1936. 2. Gen. Dmitri T. Yazov, June 1987, Soviet defense minister. Born Nov. 8, 1923. 3. Alexandra P. Biryukova, September 1988, Soviet deputy prime minister and head of the State Social Development Bureau. Born Feb. 25, 1929. 4. Anatoly I. Lukyanov, September 1988, Soviet vice president. Born May 7, 1930. 5. Alexander V. Vlasov, September 1988, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian federation. Born Jan. 20, 1932. 6. Yevgeny M. Primakov, September 1989, chairman of the Soviet of the Unions legislative chamber. Born Oct. 29, 1929. 7. Boris K. Pugo, September 1989, chairman of the Communist Party Control Committee. Born Feb. 19, 1937. AP890920-0196 AP-NR-09-20-89 2155EDT r a AM-BRF--IngersollPrizes 09-20 0153 AM-BRF--Ingersoll Prizes,0157 Ingersoll Prizes Go to Novelist and Educator ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) The 1989 Ingersoll Prizes, honoring authors whose works affirm Western civilization's moral principles, were awarded Wednesday to novelist George Garrett and educator Edward O. Wilson. The awards include cash prizes of $20,000, said John Howard, president of The Ingersoll Foundation, which makes the awards. Garrett will receive the T.S. Eliot Award for Creative Writing, while Wilson is honored with the Richard M. Weaver Award for Scholarly Letters. Garrett has published more than 25 works of fiction and poetry and is the Hoyns professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia. He has recently completed ``Entered From the Sun,'' a mystery. Wilson is Frank B. Baird Jr. professor of science and curator of entomology at Harvard University. His books include ``Sociobiology: The New Syntheses.'' The Ingersoll Foundation is the philanthropic division of Ingersoll Milling Machine Co. in Rockford. AP890920-0197 AP-NR-09-20-89 2117EDT u w AM-Bush-Appointments 1stLd-Writethru 09-20 0190 AM-Bush-Appointments, 1st Ld-Writethru,a0770,150 Bush Nominates Judges in New York, Illinois, Arkansas Eds: Adds two grafs on Arkansas judgeship; CORRECTS style on titles in 1st graf WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush said Wednesday he intends to nominate U.S. District Judge John M. Walker to the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. Walker, 48, is a former assistant secretary of the treasury who has been a federal judge in New York since 1985. If confirmed by the Senate, he would succeed Irving R. Kaufman on the appeals court. Bush also said he will nominate an Illinois jurist, George W. Lindberg, to the federal bench in Illinois. Lindberg, 57, an appellate court justice for Illinois since 1978, would succeed Prentice H. Marshall as U.S. District judge for the Northern District of Illinois. Lindberg is a former state representative. Bush also said he will nominate Susan Webber Wright, a law professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, to be a federal judge in Arkansas. Ms. Wright, 41, of Little Rock, would succeed Elsijane Trimble Roy as U.S. district judge for the eastern and western districts of Arkansas. AP890920-0198 AP-NR-09-20-89 2124EDT u i AM-Hugo-Islands 09-20 0533 AM-Hugo-Islands,0550 A Glance at Conditions on Islands Wracked by Hurricane Hugo With AM-Hugo, Bjt; and AM-Hugo-Aftermath, Bjt By The Associated Press Hurricane Hugo, the strongest storm to hit the northeastern Caribbean in a decade, wrecked havoc on several popular tourist islands of the region Sunday and Monday. Here is an island-by-island look at the status of the worst-hit areas Wednesday. PUERTO RICO _ At least four deaths are reported on this island. Seventy percent of the island is without running water and 35 percent without electricity. Officials estimate damage at $80 million to the island's roads, the electrical system and major airport. In addition, 80 percent of the coffee crop is reported to be lost. This island of 3.3 million people, about 1,000 miles southeast of Florida, is a U.S. commonwealth; its capital and largest city is San Juan. It is a mostly mountainous territory of 3,435 square miles. Puerto Rico is the easternmost of the West Indies group called the Greater Antilles. U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS _ Severe, widespread looting is reported on St. Croix, the largest and most populous island of this group. Coast Guard personnel have begun to evacuate those who want to leave, and President Bush has authorized use of American military forces to restore order. Widespread looting is reported and some hotels are posting armed guards for protection. Almost all the buildings on St. Croix are reportedly damaged or destroyed; food and water is reported in short supply. Slightly less severe damage and fewer reports of looting on St. Thomas, the second most populous of the Virgin Islands with about 52,000 residents. Hotels there reported structural and water damage but no serious problems. Some cruise ships in the main bay also reported slight damage. No immediate report of problems from St. John, the smallest of the three major Virgin Islands. The island group consists of St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John as well as 50 smaller islands and cays. St. Croix lies about 70 miles east of Puerto Rico. The total land area of the islands, known for their clear waters, jungle-like terrain and near-steady temperatures yearround, is only 133 square miles. MONTSERRAT _ Nine people are reported dead on this little-known British island. A British frigate is at the scene for assistance. Island officials say food will last only until the end of the week. The island, only 33 square miles with a population of 12,000 people, is about 300 miles southeast of Puerto Rico near Antigua and Guadeloupe. GUADELOUPE _ Five people on these densely jungled French islands are reported dead. The French government is mounting a major relief effort. These islands lie about midway along the arc between Puerto Rico and Grenada, at the southern end of the Lesser Antilles. Guadeloupe consists of the islands of Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre as well as five island dependencies. The population of 328,000 lives on a territory of 657 square miles. ANTIGUA _ This island, part of the independent nation of Antigua and Barbuda, reports two deaths. Antigua and Barbuda, formerly a British colony, has a population of 82,000. The country is about 300 miles southeast of Puerto Rico next to Montserrat. AP890920-0199 AP-NR-09-20-89 2201EDT r i AM-UN-Lebanon 09-20 0170 AM-UN-Lebanon,0174 Security Council Endorses Arab League Effort for Lebanon Truce With AM-Lebanon UNITED NATIONS (AP) The 15-member Security Council on Wednesday unanimously declared its support for the Arab League effort to arrange a truce in Beirut and a political settlement to end Lebanon's 14-year-old civil war. It backed the League's appeal ``for an immediate and comprehensive cease-fire, the implementation of the security arrangements and the establishment of the necessary conditions for national reconciliation in Lebanon.'' The statement supported Arab League efforts to guarantee Lebanon's ``full sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and national unity,'' but did not mention the presence of Syrian and Israeli troops in Lebanon. Council President Paulo Nogueira-Batista of Brazil read out the statement. The Arab League sought council endorsement after the Security Council prodded the League into renewing its peacemaking efforts. The League's three-member committee on Lebanon _ consisting of Algeria, Morocco and Saudi Arabia _ had announced on Aug. 1 that it was suspending its efforts because they had come to ``a dead end.'' AP890920-0200 AP-NR-09-20-89 2204EDT r a AM-Hugo-Sheets 09-20 0465 AM-Hugo-Sheets,0480 Director of Hurricane Center Thrives in Pressure-Cooker Atmosphere By SANDRA WALEWSKI Associated Press Writer CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) After flying into about 200 hurricanes, Bob Sheets doesn't appear at all fazed by his responsibility as director of the National Hurricane Center to predict the path of the ferocious storms. Sheets, 52, friendly and low-key, is in his third season as head of the worldwide command center for hurricane data in this suburb of Miami. ``You look out there and see the chaos ... but it really works,'' he said Wednesday while surveying the low-ceiling, wide-open room jammed with forecasters and reporters, cameramen and photographers covering Hurricane Hugo. Hugo, whose winds dropped to 105 mph after churning through the Caribbean, is the most powerful of nine named storms this year, six of which became hurricanes. Storms like Hugo make Sheets a household name. Killer hurricanes like Hugo, which left at least 25 dead, tens of thousands homeless and millions of dollars in damages in its rampage through the eastern Caribbean, make Sheets a household name when they threaten the U.S. mainland. A typical half hour for Sheets: do live feeds for the networks and local television stations; squeeze in a few minutes with a print reporter; grab a phone to talk with a government official in Myrtle Beach, S.C.; consult with his team of forecasters on incoming data. Then it starts all over again. ``He's a cool, collected person _ the ideal person for this pressure job,'' said Gil Clark, a 34-year veteran of the hurricane center. ``He's got a real feeling for hurricanes and everything that goes with it.'' Sheets also gets high marks from his colleagues for scientific ability and poise. ``He worked here as a forecaster before becoming deputy director and then director,'' said hurricane specialist Hal Gerrish. ``He's not just an administrator. He can sit down and be able to pull one of the shifts with us.'' One of the biggest pressures on Sheets is to pinpoint where a hurricane will blast ashore _ a decision that can result in evacuations and huge expenditures. It is one of his biggest frustrations. ``It's frustrating not to be able to say with a great deal of confidence this is where it's going to move,'' said Sheets. Hugo has been an especially difficult storm to forecast beyond a couple of days, but he said the devastation in the Caribbean had been lessened because of forecasts and warnings issued by the center. Sheets, in 16 years of research flights, had his share of close calls flying into the eye of hurricanes. He says he finds his current job very fulfilling despite offers to join reconnaissance crews checking Hugo. ``There's nothing there that I need to go and experience again,'' he said, grinning. AP890920-0201 AP-NR-09-20-89 2146EDT u i AM-Colombia 09-20 0602 AM-Colombia,0619 Corruption, Mercenaries Shake War on Drugs By SUSANA HAYWARD Associated Press Writer BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) For the first time in a month Columbia had a day without bombings Wednesday, but the war on drugs reeled from allegations that the cocaine cartels have paid spies at work in the government, army and police. The Senate on Tuesday night heard six hours of testimony from Defense Minister Gen. Oscar Botero Restrepo, who denied opposition charges he is connected to foreign mercenaries training assassination squads for drug bosses. Botero said the government was aware since late 1988 of rumors that Israeli and British military trainers were operating in the Magdalena Medio, a central mountainous region known as a haven for paramilitary groups and cocaine labs. But he said he could not confirm the reports until Colombian media reported about them in April. Video tapes of civilians getting explosives training, shooting from moving cars and attacking houses were sent to lawmakers. ``The government never authorized or helped foreign mercenary groups that came to Colombia,'' said Botero. British Ambassador Richard Neilson told Colombian TV On Tuesday night, ``The government of Colombia had information about British mercenaries in Colombia in March and we were in a position to help them (the government).'' The special Senate session came after arrest warrants were issued Monday for two Israelis, former army Col. Yair Klein and civilian Arik Acek, accused of training assassination squads for drug lords. The drug cartels have used the paramilitary groups against leftist guerrillas, considered enemies of the traditionally right-wing traffickers. The guerrillas often wage their battles in the same regions drug lords have processing labs and hideouts. Death squads are also believed to have been used in an internal war between the Medellin and Cali cocaine cartels, which compete to smuggle drugs to the United States. Interior Minister Orlando Vasquez Velasquez told senators he knows ``there is a massive infiltration of narco-traffickers in the government, the armed forces, police and congress.'' Officials say 85 members of the army and national police have been dismissed this year and charged with wrongdoing, most for alleged links to cocaine merchants. Criminal investigations director Omar Henry Velasco said Tuesday the government is in the process of producing proof of corruption in high echelons of society here. A group of senators urged the government to make public a rumored ``black list'' of politicians and journalists allegedly being paid by the drug cartels. Many in Congress also allege the U.S. Embassy has a list of politicians denied visas to the United States because of purported ties with traffickers. The embassy denies such a list exists but a U.S. Embassy official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said many Colombians have been denied visas this year because of involvement in drug trafficking. There was a lull Tuesday in the daily barrage of terrorist bombings retaliating for the government crackdown. But police reported two Colombians fighting the cartels were killed Tuesday by gunmen. Police said army Lt. Cesar Augusto Garcia was shot in a restaurant Tuesday in Medellin, hub of the cocaine cartel. A police inspector in Puerto Parra also was reported shot in the back by two men. The deaths bring the toll to at least seven people killed since President Virgilio Barco launched the drug war. Many more are believed to have been slain but it is difficult to differentiate between deaths connected to other criminal activity and those related to the drug war. Barco's action was triggered by the Aug. 18 assassination of popular presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan, reportedly by gangs opposed to the senator's staunch anti-drug position. AP890920-0202 AP-NR-09-20-89 2212EDT r i AM-Israel-Egypt 09-20 0488 AM-Israel-Egypt,0506 Egypt's President Asks Israel to Accept His Peace Plan By ALLYN FISHER Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak appealed to Israelis on Wednesday to accept his ideas for starting peace talks with Palestinians instead of ``banging your heads against the wall.'' In an unusual interview with Israel's state-owned radio station, Mubarak asked Israelis if they balked at accepting Palestinians from outside the occupied territories as negotiators for fear they would ``bite.'' Mubarak, interviewed in Cairo, addressed his remarks to the Israeli public. ``Do you not understand that nobody in the (occupied) territories can do anything without a green light from Palestinians abroad?'' he asked. Mubarak's remarks, translated by the interviewer from Arabic into Hebrew, were broadcast a day after Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir rejected Egypt's 10-point peace plan. Mubarak proposed basing negotiations on the land-for-peace principle and letting the 140,000 Arabs in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem vote in the Palestinian elections. Egypt is the only Arab country to have a peace treaty with Israel. It is seeking to mediate between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, which the Jewish state views as a terrorist organization. Shamir said he mainly objected to these Mubarak points: trading land for peace, letting east Jerusalem Arabs vote, and letting Palestinians from outside the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip take part in peace talks. Israel's peace initiative, approved in May, calls for Palestinian elections leading to negotiations between Israel and representatives of the West Bank and Gaza Strip on limited autonomy for the occupied territories. The Israeli government has not taken an official stand on Mubarak's plan. The coalition Cabinet is divided on it, with Shamir's right-wing Likud bloc opposed and the left-of-center Labor Party in favor. Leading Likud opponents of the plan, headed by Trade Minister Ariel Sharon, gathered Wednesday to declare their ``total rejection of the ... joint initiative by the PLO and the president of Egypt,'' Sharon told Israel radio. Deputy Premier David Levy, also a Likud member, said, ``Egypt's initiative envelops the two dangers we have warned about: the PLO and a Palestinian state.'' In his remarks, Mubarak suggested including either Palestinians deported by Israel or those living in the United States as two representatives to a peace dialogue. ``What will two of a delegation of 10 do? These two from abroad, will they bite? And if Israel says it will never speak to the PLO, I'll bring two from outside the territories who have no sign saying they are PLO,'' Mubarak said. He scoffed at Israeli fears that by letting outside Palestinians join peace talks, they would open the door to thousands of people to try to return to homes their families left during the 1948 Independence War. ``A Palestinian in Egypt or elsewhere who has struck roots isn't going to return to you,'' Mubarak said. He suggested Israelis would never find Palestinian dialogue partners not linked to the PLO. AP890920-0203 AP-NR-09-20-89 2210EDT u w BC-Hugo-USTroops-List 09-20 0114 BC-Hugo-US Troops-List,170 WASHINGTON (AP) Here are the units being sent to the Virgin Islands to restore order, according to the Pentagon's announcement Wednesday night: The 16th Military Police Brigade Headquarters from Fort Bragg, N.C., with about 75 people. The 720th MP Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas, with about 470 people. The battalion is made up of these companies: _258th MP Company, Fort Polk, La. _411th MP Company, Fort Hood. _463rd MP Company, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. The 503rd MP Battalion, Fort Bragg, N.C., with about 560 people. The battalopn is made up of these companies, all based at Fort Bragg: _21st MP Company. _65th MP Company. _108th MP Company. AP890920-0204 AP-NR-09-20-89 2212EDT u i AM-St.Croix-Witness 09-20 0355 AM-St. Croix-Witness,0369 Island Devastation Startling to This Witness An AP Extra With AM-Hugo's Aftermath EDITOR'S NOTE Hurricane Hugo has left devastation in its wake. Here is an eyewitness account by an Associated Press reporter who visited St. Croix on Wednesday. By JEAN McNAIR Associated Press Writer CHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) As our chartered helicopter landed Wednesday amid overturned seaplanes on a tiny runway in Christiansted, one resident rushed to the aircraft. ``They're tearing the island up,'' said John Delamater, an employee of the seaplane company. ``Anything at all that they want to steal, they're taking.'' During our six-hour visit to the island of St. Croix, which was virtually devastated by Hurricane Hugo, residents and tourists were anxious to talk about the storm damage and the lawlessness that followed. The world did not know what they had suffered, they said, because all communications had been cut. Telephones were out, lines down, supplies of food and water dangerously low. Pure devastation, they said, of an island usually thought of as a Caribbean paradise. But even though many residents carried guns or knifes, somehow we never felt in danger. Even the looters, the poorer locals who picked over the remaining merchandise in the wrecked stores, moved at a leisurely pace. They tolerated a photographer and easily answered my questions about why they were stealing. Everybody was doing it, they said, and residents were worried that they were going to run out of food and supplies. The friendliness of the residents was amazing, considering what they had gone through. Although gasoline supplies were running out, we found several residents happy to drive us around the island and point out the worst damage. I had never visited the Virgin Islands before but had envisioned the place as a lush paradise. Now, its trees are stripped of all greenery, leaving a barren brown landscape riddled with rubble. Even so, several residents predicted that the tourism industry on this island of 53,000 will recover in a few years. Delamater was not quite so optimistic. ``There's no way this place will recover in two years,'' he said. AP890920-0205 AP-NR-09-20-89 2227EDT r a AM-BRF--LiteraryAwards 09-20 0185 AM-BRF--Literary Awards,0190 Six American Authors Receive Awards NEW YORK (AP) Six American writers have been chosen to receive the first Lannan Literary Awards, which encourage high-quality contemporary literature in the English language, the Los Angeles-based Lannan Foundation said Wednesday. This is the first year the foundation, established by the late collector and entrepreneur J. Patrick Lannan, has bestowed the award which offers each winner $35,000. A special award for outstanding literary achievement was awarded to Kay Boyle, a poet, essayist and novelist who founded the San Francisco chapter of Amnesty International. The award for poetry was given to Cid Cemon, author of more than 60 books, who owns and operates a small home-made ice cream store in Kyoto, Japan. Environmentalist Wendell Berry, whose works focus on the earth's limited resources and the problems of agriculture, won the award for non-fiction. Novelist and screenwriter John Berger won the fiction award. For the past 15 years Berger has been living in a village in the French Alps and writing about peasant life. Two California poets, Peter Levitt and George Evans, won special literary fellowships. AP890920-0206 AP-NR-09-20-89 2238EDT r i AM-France-Trains 09-20 0487 AM-France-Trains,0502 Premier Inaugurates High-Speed Trains to Western France PARIS (AP) A new high-speed rail line with trains that can go 185 mph opened its first link between Paris and western France on Wednesday _ but the first two trains were late, thanks to protesters. The sleek locomotives are called TGV for the French ``train a grande vitesse,'' or high-speed train. They will cut traveling time from the capital to Brest from 5 hours, 33 minutes to just under four hours. Premier Michel Rocard praised the state railway Societe Nationale des Chemin de Fer, or SNCF, as he inaugurated the line at Montparnasse and predicted the service would prove a technical, financial and commercial success. ``At a time when many were questioning whether the train was an obsolete form of transportation, the SNCF applied itself to proving the contrary,'' Rocard said. ``It has given railwaymen confidence in the future.'' But the first train of the day on the Nantes-Le Mans-Paris run was 12 minutes late and the second more than an hour. Protesters blocked the tracks and covered the trains with stickers to demonstrate against ticket prices. Prices on the new lines are subject to a peak-time sliding scale. For the one-hour run from Le Mans to Paris, for example, the one-way price can vary from $25 to $43. In its first phase, the TGV Atlantic will serve 12 cities in northwestern France including Angers, Brest, Guincamp, La Baule, Laval, Le Croisic, Le Mans, Morlaix, Nantes, Rennes, St. Brieuc and St. Nazaire. The service is to expand to the southwest in September 1990 with main lines running through the Bordeaux wine country, the Toulouse region and the coastal resort of Biarritz. When complete, the Atlantic service will include 97 of the blue-and-silver trains, each with two electric engines and 10 passenger cars. The railway estimates their worth at about $1.21 billion. New track and improvements to existing rails push the cost up a further $1.5 billion. The government hopes to offset part of the development cost by selling rolling stock and technology to other countries. Rocard said recent Spanish and Australian interest in the French technology ``shows the TGV has a future outside our borders.'' The new-generation TGV differs in some ways from its predecessor, which has been running from Paris to southern France since Sept. 27, 1981. Its top speed is 185 mph compared to 165 mph for the old model and rides more smoothly. It also comes equipped with telephones as the SNCF makes a push for business travelers. The towns closest to Paris along the new TGV line hope the trains will carry industry their way as well as passengers. In Le Mans, one hour from Paris on the TGV compared to one hour, 40 minutes on standard rail, the municipal government has invested in a complex of hotels, high-technology industries and office buildings in anticipation the TGV will bring economic growth. AP890920-0207 AP-NR-09-20-89 2243EDT r i AM-Panama-Hunger 09-20 0355 AM-Panama-Hunger,0367 Former Presidential Candidate Declares Hunger Strike PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) Former opposition presidential candidate Guillermo Endara said Wednesday he is going on a hunger strike to call attention to a campaign to cut revenues for the government installed by Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega. ``From this moment, I'm on a hunger strike until the `Not One Penny More' campaign is known and supported by the people of Panama,'' said Endara, who won the May 7 presidential election by a 3-1 margin, according to international observers. The Noriega-controlled government annulled the vote and named a provisional president on Sept. 1, when the former president's term was expired. The opposition wants Panamanians to avoid playing the government lottery, gambling in casinos or betting on horse races to cut government revenue. The government, hurt by U.S. economic sanctions, has been depending on gambling revenues for much of its money. The United States has been trying to oust Noriega since February 1988, when he was indicted on drug trafficking charges in Florida. As commander of Panama's Defense Forces, Noriega is the most powerful political and military figure in Panama. Endara said he was initiating the hunger strike ``as a personal offering to a people who are suffering from hunger for justice, democracy and liberty.'' ``During this strike I will follow Mohandas Gandhi's rules. I won't eat anything, and will limit myself to water, medicine prescribed by my doctors and the sacred host when I take communion,'' said the 53-year-old Endara. The opposition has demanded that its May election victory be recognized and that Noriega step down as Defense Forces chief. The government instead appointed economist Francisco Rodriguez as provisional president and said the situation would be reviewed in February to determine if new elections would be called. Endara conceded that the opposition campaign could affect the income of lottery ticket sellers, but asked for understanding. He said ticket sellers could set up their own raffles and asked the public to take part if that happened. Endara said he would be staying in opposition party headquarters in a room furnished with a chair and a small bed. AP890920-0208 AP-NR-09-20-89 2247EDT r i AM-Afghanistan 09-20 0224 AM-Afghanistan,0231 10 Reported Killed in Rocket Attacks on Kabul ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) More than a dozen rebel rockets slammed into the Afghan capital of Kabul on Wednesday, killing 10 people and wounding 15, state Radio Kabul said. The broadcast also said government defenders killed 32 rebel fighters around the besieged garrison town of Khost, about 10 miles west of the Pakistani border. The radio, monitored in Islamabad, blamed the Kabul rocket attack on U.S-backed insurgents headquartered in Pakistan. In other reports Wednesday, guerrilla sources in Pakistan claimed they shot down a transport plane attempting to resupply Khost. They said the plane was shot down Wednesday with sophisticated American-supplied anti-aircraft Stinger missiles. They also said they downed a Soviet-made jetfighter. The guerrillas launched an offensive against the heavily fortified government garrison at Khost earlier this month. A rebel victory at Khost would open a direct supply link from Pakistan to guerrilla fighters in northern and western Afghanistan. The insurgents have also been battering Kabul with almost daily rocket attacks since June, killing more than 300 people and injuring 700. However, they have failed to capture a major city since the Soviets withdrew their last troops in February. Moscow continues to supply the Kabul government with weapons. The Moslem guerrillas have been fighting for more than a decade to overthrow successive Marxist governments. AP890920-0209 AP-NR-09-20-89 2243EDT u w AM-Hugo-USTroops 10thLd-Writethru a0835 09-20 1007 AM-Hugo-US Troops, 10th Ld-Writethru, a0835,950 Bush Directs Troops to Virgin Islands Eds: INSERTS 3rd graf with governor's denial that he made request By CHRISTOPHER CONNELL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush on Wednesday ordered more than a thousand U.S. military police to the Virgin Islands ``to help restore order in the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo'' and suppress widespread looting. The Pentagon announced later Wednesday night that two MP battalions of three companies each and a headquarters unit would arrive in the Virgin Islands in 16 Air Force transports early Thursday morning. Some confusion over the origins of the decision to act arose later Wednesday night. Though Bush said the governor of the islands requested the troops, the governor denied doing so. A White House spokesman, Steve Hart, said later the governor's denial was ``contrary to the information I have.'' A presidential executive order said ``members of the armed forces of the United States will be used to suppress the violence'' in the Virgin Islands. Presidential assistant James Cicconi was asked what orders would be given the troops about the use of force. He replied, ``I'm sure they'd use only that which was necessary and appropriate.'' A Pentagon official, who spoke on condition he not be identified by name, said troops would not arrive before daylight because there appeared to be no lights available to guide landing planes. Top generals met in the underground operations center at the Pentagon to work out details of dispatching the 720th MP Battalion and its companies from Fort Polk, La., Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., totaling about 470 people; the 503rd MP Battalion and its companies, all from Fort Bragg, N.C., with about 560 and the 16th MP Brigade Headquarters from Fort Bragg with another 75. The MPs will take three OH-58 helicopters, some of their vehicles and ``appropriate medical support'' aboard 16 C-141 Starlifter transports. said the Pentagon announcement. Army spokesman Lt. Col. Keith Schneider said the soldiers would take with them their ``individually assigned weapons.'' He did not specify what those weapons were, but MPs usually carry a pistol. The troops would join U.S. marshals and FBI agents on St. Croix, where and armed Coast Guardsmen landed from cutters earlier Wednesday. Troops already had been ordered to help relief efforts in Puerto Rico. ``I have been informed that conditions of domestic violence and disorder exist in and about the Virgin Islands,'' Bush said in a statement. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Bush ``authorized the deployment to the U.S. Virgin Islands of such Department of Defense forces as are necessary.'' Defense Secretary Dick Cheney was visiting the Marine Air-Ground Combat Center at Twenty-nine Palms, Calif. The Pentagon official said Cheney ``has been kept informed'' and would not interrupt his trip. The last time federal troops were used to suppress riots was in 1968 in Washington, D.C., after the assassination of Martin Luther King. President Reagan authorized the use of troops in 1987 to deal with prison riots in Atlanta, but that trouble subsided before they were deployed. Meanwhile, Attorney General Dick Thornburgh ordered 100 U.S. marshals and FBI agents to St. Croix, said Justice Department spokesman David Runkel. They will protect federal officials and property, but their presence would also help bolster local law enforcement, Runkel said. A small team of FBI agents was sent in to set up a command post. Earlier Wednesday, armed Coast Guard crewmen from at least one of the six Coast Guard ships in the area went ashore on St. Croix to help restore order after National Guardsmen and police reportedly joined prison escapees and others in wild looting by machete-armed mobs. Gunshots were fired, and ham radio operators heard reports that inmates had either escaped or been released because of prison damage and were looting. Tourists pleaded with reporters landing on the island to take them off. Coast Guard cutters evacuated frightened tourists and residents. Usually, the National Guard would be used in such cases, but the situation in the Virgin Islands was unclear, officials said. ``We can't be sure what's happening. We've heard the reports of looting,'' said another Pentagon official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity. A spokesman for the Pentagon's National Guard Bureau, Maj. Bob Dunlap, said the reports of looting by National Guardsmen were not confirmed. Federal law normally prohibits the use of regular military forces, which in peacetime does not include the Coast Guard, as civilian law enforcement officers. The president does have to power to use troops in that way if he finds local law enforcement is not up to the job. Fitzwater said Bush was authorizing use of the troops ``including military police units to help restore order in the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo.'' ``The president's decision was based on a thorough assessment of the situation by appropriate federal authorities and followed a request this afternoon from Gov. (Alexander) Farrelly of the U.S. Virgin Islands requesting federal assistance.'' Bush's proclamation, headed ``Law and Order in the Virgin Islands,'' said he was taking the action because ``the law enforcement resources available to that territory, including the National Guard, are unable to suppress such acts of violence and to restore law and order.'' Bush on Wednesday declared the Virgin Islands a disaster area and his spokesman said a similar declaration was expected soon for Puerto Rico. On Tuesday night, Bush directed the Pentagon to make Defense Department troops and equipment available for relief efforts in Puerto Rico, Fitzwater said. U.S. forces stationed in Puerto Rico were to help restore electricity and water on the island, he said. It was the first such presidential authorization under a disaster assistance act passed by Congress last year. Fitzwater said also that the Interior Department had made available $500,000 ``for immediate use'' in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He said the money would be spent to buy food, emergency supplies and safety items. Fitzwater said that the U.S. military was providing a variety of cargo planes, personnel and equipment for relief efforts in the stricken areas. AP890920-0210 AP-NR-09-20-89 2246EDT u w AM-Hugo-Governor 1stLd-Writethru 09-20 0327 AM-Hugo-Governor, 1st Ld-Writethru,a0841,230 Virgin Islands Governor Says He Did Not Request Troops Eds: INSERTS grafs 6-7 with White House reaffirmation WASHINGTON (AP) The governor of the Virgin Islands said Wednesday night he did not ask for the federal troops ordered to the island by President Bush. Interviewed by telephone by AP Network News from his offices in Charlotte Amalie, Gov. Alexander Farrelly said, ``We spoke to Washington as to whether, if we requested assistance, under the control of my adjutant general, whether that would be OK. ``And we got the impression that if we asked for help we would get it.'' The adjutant general is the top National Guard officer. There have been reports that National Guard troops joined looters in the islands. Asked whether he had in fact asked for federal help in restoring order, Farrelly said, ``We have not done so yet.'' White House spokesman Steve Hart, informed of Farrelly's remarks, said, ``That's contrary to the information I have.'' Hart said the White House would stand by its earlier statement, which said in part: ``The president's decision was based on a thorough assessment of the situation by appropriate federal authorities and followed a request this afternoon from Gov. (Alexander) Farrelly of the U.S. Virgin Islands requesting federal assistance.'' Told that troops were being sent to the islands, Farrelly said, ``That may or not be correct. I can't tell you that.'' Bush has ordered two military police battalions and a headquarters unit totalling about 1,100 men to the islands to restore order. There was this exchange with the governor: Q: So, if troops are being sent to the island, they are not being sent at your request? A: Not yet. As to reports of looting and rioting, the governor said: ``There is some looting, no doubt about that. But there is no near state of anarchy. And I should know. I'm in the streets every day and I'm the governor of this territory.'' AP890920-0211 AP-NR-09-20-89 2350EDT r a AM-NightStalker-Movie 09-20 0143 AM-Night Stalker-Movie,0149 Night Stalker Movie Wraps Production on Friday With AM-Night Stalker, Bjt LOS ANGELES (AP) A television movie on the investigation and arrest of the man convicted as the ``Night Stalker'' serial killer wraps up production on Friday. The NBC movie, tentatively titled ``Trackdown: The Search for the Night Stalker,'' ends with the arrest of Richard Ramirez, said Gillian Rees, NBC director of media relations for movies and miniseries. It is expected to be telecast in November during the ``sweeps'' month. The movie focuses more on the investigators than Ramirez, 29, who appears only briefly in the film when he is arrested. Ramirez was convicted of 13 murders and 30 felonies Wednesday by a jury that decided he was the devil-worshiping ``Night Stalker,'' whose nocturnal attacks terrified California in 1985. The sentencing phase of Ramirez' trial begins Sept. 27. AP890920-0212 AP-NR-09-20-89 2350EDT r a AM-Gallo-Thunderbird 09-20 0383 AM-Gallo-Thunderbird,0398 Gallo Withdraws Cheap Wines From U.S. Skid Rows By JACK SCHREIBMAN Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) E.&J. Gallo Winery, the world's largest winemaker, on Wednesday stopped selling its high-alcohol Thunderbird and Night Train brands to retailers in Skid Rows throughout the country. The Skid Rows were not identified. Thunderbird and Night Train, cheaply made with a hint of wine flavor and laced with grape brandy to make them about 18 percent alcohol, usually sell for 90 cents to $1.50 for a screw-top, three-quarter liter bottle. Gallo, which accounts for more than 26 percent of U.S. wine sales and reportedly has annual sales of more than $1 billion, said it would wait six months to see whether the removal makes any difference. The company called the wines ``an affordable alternative to other alcoholic beverages.'' A wine industry economist estimated that Gallo annually sells about nine million gallons, or about four million cases, of these wines. Gallo's move, ordered by Chairman Ernest Gallo, follows by about three months the removal of the brands from groceries in San Francisco's derelict-inhabited Tenderloin district. A drive to get the wines off Tenderloin shelves was started by Safe and Sober Streets, a citizen group which complained that resident were harassed and attacked by drunks drinking Gallo and other cheap wines. Gallo challenged the communities where Skid Rows and winos exist to enforce laws to prevent sellers of high-alcohol wines from dealing with alcoholics. Gallo's announcement Wednesday said the company was convinced that most people who drink the so-called fortified wines are ``many thousands of moderate and responsible consumers, many of whom are retired and on fixed incomes.'' Gallo said it was ``regrettable'' that a few retailers sell the wines to obvious alcoholic derelicts. ``This practice has led to the assertion that these products cause Skid Row conditions and, therefore, that stopping the sale of high-proof wine the problem of Skid Row can be solved,'' the winery said. ``We believe this thinking is naive and that the use of these products on Skid Row is merely a symptom and not a cause.'' Gallo said the derelict problem ``will never be solved until state and local regulatory agencies enforce existing laws which forbid retailers from selling alcoholic beverages of any kind to the habitual drunkard.'' AP890920-0213 AP-NR-09-20-89 2313EDT u w AM-ForeignAid 2ndLd-Writethru 09-20 0875 AM-Foreign Aid, 2nd Ld-Writethru,a0725,780 Senate Lifts Restrictions from Aid to El Salvador Eds: Inserts gtrafs 9-10 bgng: ``However, the,'' with Iran-Contra language retained By JIM DRINKARD Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Heeding pleas to give El Salvador's new president ``a chance to succeed,'' the Senate voted Wednesday to boost his country's aid to $90 million for the coming year and remove restrictions on the money. On a vote of 67-33, the lawmakers stripped from a $14.4 billion foreign aid bill a provision that would have cut the aid into three slices to be sent at four-month intervals and would have given Congress what amounted to veto power over the final installment. Minutes later, they approved a substitute that would increase the military aid from $85 million to $90 million and offered rhetorical praise for peace talks now taking place between the Salvadoran government and the leftist FMLN guerillas. That vote was 82-18. To have attached strings to the aid would have been an unfair gesture of no confidence in Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani at a time when there is a chance to end a decade of civil war in his country, opponents of the restrictions argued. Cristiani was sworn in June 1 as the winning candidate of the rightist Arena party. ``It will be a blow to him politically, at the very moment _ the very hour _ when we ought to be encouraging him to go forward,'' said Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who joined in a rare alliance with conservatives, including Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., to oppose the restrictions. ``He is doing exactly what we've been trying to accomplish over the last 10 years. We ought to give President Cristiani a chance to succeed.'' Proponents of the restrictions, led by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., argued that Cristiani's party has been linked to death-squad activity in the past and has still not completely eliminated human rights violations. The Senate still has to complete work on the overall aid measure, then work out differences with the House before sending the bill to Bush for his signature. However, the measure contained one provision which Republicans said would alone be sufficient grounds for a presidential veto: a prohibition on using U.S. aid to other countries as bait to get those countries to carry out policies which are prohibited by U.S. law. The restriction grew out of the Iran-Contra affair, in which the United States pressured other nations to aid the Nicaraguan Contras despite a ban on direct U.S. aid to the rebels. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., sought to redraft the section at the request of the State Department, but failed on a vote of 57-41. The annual foreign aid money bill pays for a wide variety of programs aimed at bolstering the military power of friendly countries, supporting economic development and giving direct infusions to foreign governments. In the first concrete gesture of congressional disenchantment with Bush's response to Eastern Europe, the bill contained $45 million for economic aid to Poland, substantially bettering the administration's $10 million request for next year. Poland has for the first time in more than four decades elected a non-communist-dominated government, making it an irresistible target for rewards by lawmakers. As they worked through a series of other controversial issues in the bill, the lawmakers voted 52-48 to reverse a four-year-old policy and resume U.S. aid to the United Nations Population Fund, over objections that the fund supports Chinese forced-abortion policies. Lawmakers backed a provision in the bill providing $15 million to the United Nations population control agency, which last received U.S. money in 1985. The Reagan administration shut off aid then in light of charges that China has a one-child-per-family policy enforced through compulsory sterilization and abortions. President Bush has continued that policy. ``The People's Republic of China continues to engage ... in ethically heinous, grievous violations of the human rights of parents'' and of unborn children, argued Sen. Gordon Humphrey, R-N.H., an abortion opponent. But the sponsor of the policy change, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., said even the State Department's Agency for International Development has found that while the UN agency operates in China, it does not engage in or support such objectionable policies. She included in her provision a stipulation that all U.S. money be kept in a separate account and that none of it go to pay for operations in China. As usual, the largest recipients of aid in the bill are Israel and Egypt, a reward for their participation in the Camp David peace process. Israel would get $1.8 billion in military aid and $1.2 billion in economic assistance, and Egypt would get $1.3 billion in military and $815 million in economic aid. Another large benefit would go to the Philippines, which would get at least $160 million toward the U.S. share in a multinational economic development program led by Japan. That amount was $40 million less than Bush asked for. Other money was earmarked for: Pakistan, $230 million each in military and economic aid; $565 million in development aid for Africa; $500 million in military aid for Turkey; $350 million in military aid for Greece; $115 million for the war on drugs; $615 million for the Export-Import Bank and $370 million for refugee programs. AP890920-0214 AP-NR-09-20-89 2322EDT u w AM-WorldBank-China 09-20 0227 AM-World Bank-China,200 World Bank to Resume New Loans to China WASHINGTON (AP) The World Bank expects to resume making new loans to China soon, bank President Barber Conable said Wednesday. Conable held up seven loans worth $780 million after the Chinese government used the army to shoot down protesters in June. The bank has kept on disbursing loans previously granted to China. Averaging $2 billion a year, China is its bigget borrower after India. ``There are 1.1 billion poor people in China and we don't want to give up contact with them,'' Conable told reporters. He spoke on the eve of annual meetings among representatives of the 152 governments that own the bank and its sister organization, the International Monetary Fund. Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady will represent the United States and President Bush is expected to speak. China will be represented and Conable said resumption of new lending will be among the subjects discussed. The bank's staff in Beijing, withdrawn in June, has now returned. He said he believed that most of the member governments would like to see loans resumed, but prefer not to have a vote on that now. The United States has the largest vote, over 16 percent. ``We have every expectation that the lending will resume in a reasonable time,'' he said, but he declined to specify a date. AP890920-0215 AP-NR-09-20-89 0547EDT r a PM-DigestBriefs 09-20 1000 PM-Digest Briefs,1038 By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) Former Housing Secretary Samuel R. Pierce Jr. faces a subpoena vote today by House investigators seeking at least three appearances to testify about alleged mismanagement at his department. Republicans said they would join Democrats in voting to subpoena Pierce, who failed to appear as requested last Friday to testify about reports of fraud, influence-peddling and mismanagement at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. ``The chairman has total support of the committee on this,'' said Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., the ranking Republican on the employment and housing subcommittee of the House Government Operations Committee. Pierce's attorney, Paul L. Perito, said the former secretary _ who appeared voluntarily before the panel in May _ was willing to testify but needed another two weeks' time for preparation. GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) Residents say they'll welcome the U.S. and Soviet foreign ministers this week as long as the tete-a-tete in the Grand Tetons doesn't crimp elk hunting or trout fishing. Bob Lunger, owner of Spike Camp sport shop, was too busy outfitting dozens of hunters for the just-started elk season to worry about the presummit meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. ``This is my busiest time of year,'' Lunger said. ``I don't have time to pay much attention to that stuff.'' Lunger's attitude isn't much different from that of many Jackson Hole locals, who are about as impressed with visiting dignitaries and celebrities as backcountry bull moose or black bears that wander into the town of Jackson. WASHINGTON (AP) Mikhail Gorbachev's ideas will survive the upheaval he touched off in the Soviet Union even if he doesn't, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara predicts in a book urging the United States to seize Gorbachev's offer to end the cold war. In ``Out of the Cold,'' McNamara faults the United States for ``skeptical, unimaginative and very cautious'' responses to Gorbachev's initiatives on the world scene. The Soviet leader's ideas have been ``so dramatic, so revolutionary, as to literally imply a desire to end the cold war,'' said the one-time president of the Ford Motor Co., who served in the Pentagon in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and then headed the World Bank. McNamara finished writing the book in April. He does not mention President Bush or his administration's response to Gorbachev's initiatives. But his views run parallel to those recently expressed by a number of Democrats who say the president lacks imagination in dealing with the Soviets. WASHINGTON (AP) New U.S. efforts to stem the flow of Soviets _ most of them Jews _ into this country may leave evangelical Christians at the end of the line to face severe repression at home, an evangelical group says. The National Association of Evangelicals, through its World Relief arm, is campaigning to prevent the Oct. 1 implementation of an administration plan that would cut off the Christians' main escape route through Vienna and Rome. ``This administration must not impede the escape of persecuted individuals for the sake of bureaucratic convenience,'' said a letter from World Relief to Congress. ``We fear for their safety in a nation where political stability is, at best, precarious and where persecution of this group remains unabated.'' Rep. Bruce Morrison, who chairs the House subcommittee on immigration, said he planned to take up the evangelicals' plight in a meeting today with Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and other administration officials. WASHINGTON (AP) A House ethics task force is proposing a 35 percent congressional pay raise over two years while controversial honoraria payments are phased out during the same period, according to a congressional source. The proposal would increase pay by about 10 percent next year, another 25 percent in 1991 and tie pay boosts afterward to the cost of living, the source said Tuesday night, speaking on condition of anonymity. The final recommendation of the 10-member bipartisan task force is expected to be presented to congressional leadership this week. The proposal is subject to change and is expected to go before the full House by the end of October. House and Senate members currently are paid $89,500 annually, and leaders are paid more. A 35 percent increase would make the salary $120,825. WASHINGTON (AP) Senate Democrats are taking another look at President Bush's anti-drug proposal in light of a Republican offer to boost it by $800 million over the original plan. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., said he would present the GOP offer to his Democratic colleagues today. ``We'll take another look at the figures,'' Byrd said. But he added that while the numbers may be flexible, two principles in the more expensive anti-drug package he proposed last week remain non-negotiable: a greater emphasis on drug treatment and prevention, and an across-the-board cut of most federal programs to pay for the stepped-up drug war. The logjam over the size, shape and funding of the war on drugs is holding up not only the anti-drug package but also a series of spending bills needed to keep the government running after the current fiscal year ends Sept. 30. WASHINGTON (AP) A new military ombudsman is heading to the Far East to investigate allegations of censorship and employee harassment at the Pacific edition of Stars & Stripes, the military newspaper. ``What we have here is harassment of whistle blowers and censorship,'' said Rep. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. ``It's bad enough to censor the news. Our men and women in uniform deserve the news as all of us get it, as harsh as it is. But they're not getting it.'' Civilian employees have contacted her office with allegations of censorship of their stories, Boxer said, creating what she called ``an intolerable situation.'' The General Accounting Office, assisted by the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, reported last year that it found evidence of censorship and improper management at the government-run daily paper. AP890920-0216 AP-NR-09-20-89 1016EDT a a PM-JunkArt-PhotoPkg Adv27 09-20 0576 PM-Junk Art-Photo Pkg, Adv 27,0595 $Adv27 For Release Wed PMs, Sept. 27, and Thereafter An AP Photo Package: Junk Art Makes a Statement LaserPhotos by Lennox McLendon By KELLY L. ANDERSON Associated Press Writer DETROIT (AP) Looking around artist Tyree Guyton's neighborhood, some people see abandoned drug and prostitution houses and vacant lots strewn with broken glass and garbage. Guyton sees hypocrisy. To convey that vision artistically, he has taken over five abandoned houses and at least as many lots _ and decorated them with hundreds of discards he has collected over nearly three years: from hubcaps to armless baby dolls, old shoes to street signs. ``I see things around me and I want to make people aware of what's going on,'' said the 33-year-old artist. ``These kids are in an area where they see nothing but trouble. What's to stop them from becoming criminals?'' One sculpture of painted doors on Heidelberg Street symbolizes the closing of doors in a child's face, and the opening of a door for someone to climb out of a rut, the artist said. In another project, ``Baby Doll House,'' he festooned an abandoned drug house with scores of dolls, some naked and dirty, some hanging upside down, some aboard broomsticks. ``Each doll represents something,'' Guyton said in an interview before the building, long on the city's demolition list, was razed. ``They tell the horrors of drugs and the pity of a neglected child.'' As one of 10 children in a single-parent home, Guyton knows neglect. Through an addicted brother, he's observed drug abuse. He hopes his art will warn children away from drugs. Few neighbors understand Guyton's art, but some think it has improved the looks of the neighborhood. ``Every time I look out my front door I wonder what color the bench will be that day,'' said Tina Bell, who lives two lots east of Guyton's blue two-story wood-frame house, spared decoration other than an often-changing sculpture on the front porch. Bell said she remembers Guyton's first project, ``Fun House.'' Initially, she said she thought her neighbor was crazy. ``He told me these were the things that were going on in his head,'' she said. ``I can't always see his statements but I know it's there.'' Anthony Dicus has a personal interest in one of the objects. ``That turquoise bike hanging on the tree is my first bike,'' said the 24-year-old Dicus. ``One man's garbage is another man's art.'' Guyton's art is beginning to look more and more like garbage to some neighbors and a Detroit City Council member who say it is becoming an eyesore. ``If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, this guy must be blind,'' Councilman Jack Kelley said. Still, the full council awarded Guyton and his wife, Karen, ``Spirit of Detroit'' pins in June for the creative work on the vacant lots and abandoned houses. Dorothy Jones, who lives two blocks away, is another detractor. ``Art is supposed to be beautiful, right? That's not art,'' she said. The works attract gawks from the occupants of thousands of cars that cruise the neighborhood about five miles northeast of downtown. Visitors have come from far away, as three 2-inch-thick guest books filled with signatures attest. ``The neighbors loved it when I introduced them to some Japanese men who bowed before them,'' Guyton said. ``I see people who would never dream of coming in this neighborhood.'' End Adv for Wed PMs, Sept. 27 AP890920-0217 AP-NR-09-20-89 0826EDT a e PM-APonTV-Duncan Adv21 09-20 0816 PM-AP on TV-Duncan, Adv 21,0836 $Adv21 For Release Thurs PMs, Sept. 21, and Thereafter Sandy Duncan Stars in Movie About Singing Trio's Reunion LaserPhoto LA1 of Sept. 19 By JERRY BUCK AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) The movie's plot is this: The Bouffants split up after their only hit song 25 years ago. They haven't seen or spoken to each other until they're reluctantly reunited for a nostalgic television special. But it takes a lot of persuasion to get the trio, played by Sandy Duncan, Jill Eikenberry and Judith Light, to reprise their hit on the NBC movie, ``My Boyfriend's Back,'' which also is the name of their song. Duncan sympathizes with her blast-from-the-past character. ``It's awful to live long enough to see your music become nostalgia,'' she says, then adding, ``I love the music of the '60s. It's feel-good music. It's snap your fingers and dance. It was before the protest music.'' The movie, which also stars Stephen Macht, Alan Feinstein and Robert Costanzo, will air Monday. It follows NBC's ``The Hogan Family'' in which Duncan plays the divorced sister of a widower with three sons. ``My Boyfriend's Back'' may bring happy memories for rock 'n' roll fans, particularly those who now are fortysomething. It features cameo appearances by Mary Wells doing ``My Guy,'' Gary Puckett singing ``Young Girl,'' Gary Lewis reprising ``This Diamond Ring,'' and Peggy March doing likewise with ``I Will Follow Him.'' In the film, it is explained that the Bouffants, after their solo hit, broke up after arguments between Eikenberry's and Light's characters over who would be lead singer. Duncan was the peacemaker. ``I wasn't the lead singer,'' said Duncan, who starred in ``Peter Pan'' on Broadway. ``My kids didn't understand that. Jill was the lead singer and Judith and I were the backups.'' In the film, a television producer, working on a '60s retrospective, finds the three singers, one by one, and brings them together. There have been some changes since their Bouffant days. Duncan is married to a sportscaster, played by Feinstein, and has children. Eikenberry is now an executive of a large cosmetics company and her singing career is a well-kept secret. Light never gave up her dream. But now she sings in bowling alleys and lounges. When they reunite, Duncan said, ``It's a coming of age thing, since we're now in our 40s. The three of us really hit it off.'' But it's a rough go at first, she explained, because Eikenberry's character ``doesn't want to commit to the show. When things don't work out she walks away. My character is the one who makes it work and look easy. ``Any one of the three of us could have played any role. There are aspects of ourselves in each character. When we get back together we're loving and fighting all over again. Each walks away from the experience with a new sense of her own identity.'' Ensemble singing is not the easiest of tasks. But the three co-stars recorded their characters' group vocalizing in the film. ``We do our own singing,'' Duncan said. ``Jill did a Broadway musical while I was doing `Peter Pan.' Judith has done a lot of singing in summer stock. We certainly sing well enough for what we were required to do.'' Duncan enjoyed making the film. One reason for her enjoyment: ``It was wonderful to be on a show where they don't have food fights.'' ``I showed a tape of it to my father,'' she said. ``I guess he liked it. He said, `At least I didn't fall asleep during it.''' The actress recently returned from Paris, where ``The Hogan Family'' filmed a three-part story about the family's visit to France. The episodes began Monday and will conclude Oct. 2. The plot is the standard one for a European visit. A member of the cast, Jason Bateman, in this case, falls in love with a girl who turns out to be a princess. ``It's a travelogue,'' Duncan said. ``We stood in front of every landmark in Paris. We ended up with a ball in a hotel and I danced with a count. ... We were there for two weeks, then came back and went back to work immediately to finish the interiors.'' Duncan said her next project will be to develop a TV movie called ``Mountain Charley,'' based on the true story of a woman who led a double life as a woman and a man in the 1800s. Elsewhere in television: RODDY COME HOME ... Roddy McDowall, who starred in the first ``Lassie'' movie in 1943, will make a special appearance on the new syndicated ``Lassie'' series. Dee Wallace Stone and Christopher Stone star with the seventh-generation Lassie, owned and trained by Robert Weatherwax. The dog in the 1943 movie was trained by the late Rudd Weatherwax, Robert's father. End Adv for Thurs PMs, Sept. 21 AP890920-0218 AP-NR-09-20-89 1027EDT a a PM-OntheMoney Adv21 09-20 0651 PM-On the Money, Adv 21,0669 $adv 21 For release PMs Thursday, Sept. 21 Saving for a Rainy Day a Way of Life for the Japanese By ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press Writer TOKYO (AP) The Japanese may appear to be the world's most avid consumers of luxury goods, but they're just as enthusiastic about stashing money in the bank. Japan's 39 million households held an average of about $130,000 in personal savings last year, according to a recent report by the Bank of Japan. Total personal savings rose 11.4 percent to $5.15 trillion in 1988, more tha double the 4.5 percent growth in consumer spending. It was the third straight year that personal savings grew at double-digit rates. The figures count savings deposited at banks and postal offices or held in the form of stocks, bonds and insurance. It was also a clear indication that the Japanese haven't abandoned their habit of saving a substantial part of their incomes in financial assets. Japanese are more likely to put their money into paper property, while Americans are more likely to invest in housing. Housing is not counted in personal savings figures, which is one reason the reported savings rate is much lower in the United States (5 percent to 6 percent) than in Japan (16 percent), says Richard C. Koo, senior economist at Nomura Research Institute. The habit of saving has created a massive pool of capital for Japanese industry, a foundation of Japan's powerhouse economy. ``While the value of land in Japan tends to appreciate, housing actually depreciates. People know that their houses will not be worth much 10 years from now, so they don't invest in housing,'' Koo said. ``Americans put their savings into keeping their homes up, because they expect them to appreciate in value,'' he explained. Traditionally, housing in Japan _ vulnerable to earthquakes and fires _ has been torn down and rebuilt rather than maintained. Numerous surveys say the Japanese put money into savings rather than housing to prepare for illness and disaster, for retirement and education fees for children. ``I've always stashed whatever I could in the bank, so I'd have a nice nest egg,'' said Seitarou Komatsu, 41, an employee of a major Japanese industrial firm. The prospect of long years of retirement is a crucial reason behind the high savings rate in Japan. Average life expectancy here is 82.1 years for women and 75.9 years for men, while the mandatory retirement age at many companies is 55 to 60. ``The Japanese are much less confident about the future than Americans in many ways,'' said Koo. ``They know how much things cost here, and they're wise to prepare for their old age.'' The expansion of two-income families has contributed to the growth in personal savings, along with rising values of financial assets. The average monthly wage for a Japanese worker in a company with 30 employees or more was $2,317, while monthly spending per household averages $2,000. Averages tend to distort the actual level of savings per individual family. A survey by the Management and Coordination Agency of 6,000 families nationwide showed average family savings of more than $61,000 in 1988, but median savings per household of only a little more than $14,000. This indicated that the savings of a wealthy few tend to skew the average, with the majority of families holding much more modest nest eggs. The median is the dividing line where half the households have more savings and half have less. Families of aged persons hold the largest savings, $386,000 in average cash assets, according to a poll of 2,000 elderly couples conducted by the Tokai Bank in 1988. ``There's a lot of very, very rich people _ including anyone with land in Tokyo _ but most people are penny-pinching their way through ... wondering how to plan their old age,'' Koo said. End Adv PM Thurs Sept. 21 AP890920-0219 AP-NR-09-20-89 1103EDT a a PM-ReligionintheNews Adv22 09-20 0755 PM-Religion in the News, Adv 22,0773 $adv22 For Release Fri PMs Sept. 22 or Thereafter Dialogue Concludes East-Bloc Religious Persecution Self-Defeating By DAVID BRIGGS Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) Soviet leaders apparently have decided the best way to win converts to atheism is to grant greater religious freedoms, say Western participants in a dialogue between humanists and atheists in Moscow. Delegates from the International Humanist and Ethical Union and the Soviet Institute for Scientific Atheism concluded that more than seven decades of militant atheism have been self-defeating in swaying Soviet believers from their faith. ``It's my opinion the situation in Poland made the Russians aware that attacking religion may paradoxically support it,'' Rob Tielman, a co-president of the humanist union, said in a telephone interview from his home in the Netherlands. ``By giving freedom to religion ... the Russians hope atheism will develop in a more positive way.'' The July dialogue was the first in a planned series of meetings between Soviet atheists and Western humanists. A Soviet delegation has been invited to the 11th Humanist World Congress in Brussels, Belgium, in August 1990. Humanists distance themselves from doctrinaire atheism by saying that although they reject belief in God, they stand for human freedom, including religious freedom. Paul Kurtz, a co-president of the humanist union and a philosophy professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, said he thinks the humanists receive ``an insight others don't get'' into Soviet thinking because the Soviets view them as comrades in theology because of their shared skepticism of religion. Soviet attempts to supplant religion with atheism, ranging from persecution of religious to the introduction of ``naming celebrations'' to replace baptisms, have failed, Soviet delegates told Western participants. Under Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Tielman said, the Soviet Union has decided to take a more practical approach, recognizing that Soviet society needs less mistrustful citizens if it hopes to enlist them in rebuilding its shattered economy. ``They seem to be moving toward a policy of a neutral state, a neutral view of religion,'' said Kurtz. ``Atheism will no longer be the official doctrine.'' Kurtz said they were told by Soviet atheists that 2,000 churches have reopened in the past two years, seven new seminaries will open in the fall, and the publication of limited editions of the Bible and the Koran, the Islamic holy book, has been permitted. On his own visit to Arbat Street in Moscow, Kurtz said he even noticed Hare Krishnas were being permitted to proselytize. In July, the Vatican appointed a bishop in the Soviet republic of Byelorussia, the first bishop there since the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. Several religious leaders have been elected to the new Soviet Parliament, including Russian Orthodox Patriarch Pimen; Metropolitan Pitirim, head of church publishing; Leningrad Metroplitan Alexei, and Armenian Catholicos Vaskin I. For Jews, greater tolerance by the Kremlin has meant a rise in emigration _ an eight-year high of 20,000 Jews departed in 1988 _ less harassment at Jewish holiday celebrations and the opening of a private Jewish museum and library in Moscow. Within the Soviet Union, many still seek greater religious freedom. Last Sunday, tens of thousands of Ukrainian Catholics marched through the city of Lvov demanding legal status for their church. The human rights organization Amnesty International says Soviet citizens still can be prosecuted for exercising freedom of religion. But Tielman and Kurtz said the Soviets indicated they learned a lesson from Poland, where an entrenched Roman Catholic Church prevailed over official attempts to limit its influence. In Poland, Tielman said, ``in a way, they forced people that were not sympathetic to the Communist Party into the church.'' The humanist leaders said Soviet atheists were particularly concerned about the growth of Moslem fundamentalism. Up to 50 million Moslems live in Soviet Central Asia. The advice the humanists gave the Soviets: If you want to beat the church, don't turn atheism into a form of state religion. ``One of the reasons why atheism did not succeed completely is that it was identified completely with party politics,'' Tielman said. The humanist delegation encouraged the Soviets to allow people who do not believe in God to meet in private groups free of state control to promote atheism as an alternative to religion. ``We don't believe the state should either promote theism or atheism,'' Kurtz said. ``The key point is the free mind. ... Any effort by the state to repress it is going to be counterproductive.'' End Adv Fri PMs Sept. 22 AP890920-0220 AP-NR-09-20-89 1409EDT a a PM-BusinessMirror Adv21 09-20 0710 PM-Business Mirror, Adv 21,0734 $adv21 For release PMs Thursday, Sept. 21 A Rare Situation in the Job Market By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) More than six million members of the labor force are without work, but many companies are having a hard time filling good-paying entry jobs that require no special skills and no experience. The rare situation isn't a national phenomenon, but it could become one. Already it exists in pockets in most geographical areas of the country, from border to border and coast to coast. In Wilton, Conn., a supermarket with ``excellent progressive salary scale, paid holidays, vacations, sick pay, life insurance, medical plan and pension'' must advertise for part-timers at $6.50 an hour. The jobs, as clerks and cashiers, require no experience, because the company trains those it hires and raises their hourly rate to $6.85 after six months. Those assigned to night shifts begin at $7.60 an hour. Not many years ago such jobs would be snapped up before the employer advertised. There might have been a waiting list too, and some people would have considered themselves lucky to be on it. Times have changed. The situation results from an economy operating at the limit of its ability to produce new workers. The U.S. labor supply is growing, but at a feeble rate, likely to average less than 1.5 percent a year into the 1990s. It is forcing companies such as the supermarket and fast-food outlets into ``niche'' hiring, or finding workers who might not ordinarily be in the labor force, such as 15-year-olds, homemakers and the retired. ``Attention senior citizens,'' declares a headline in the supermarket ad. ``We ... welcome seniors who long to get back into the work force. A part-time position with Stop & Shop can help you ... ``Supplement your income. ``Develop a new social outlet. ``Become a role model for younger employees.'' Beneath it is another headline: ``Attention 15-Year-Olds. We have positions available for you to earn money and spend the proper amount of time on schoolwork.'' How can this be when, in August, 6.4 million workers were unemployed? These weren't labor force dropouts; in order to be included in the work force they must have been actively looking for work and obviously not finding it. Sociologists never will run out of explanations: _The unemployed list constantly changes. Many of those listed as jobless are merely between jobs _ temporarily unemployed and all but assured of finding work within a few weeks. _National figures do not apply locally. In some areas the jobless rate is even lower than 5 percent. _The jobs are inappropriate for skilled adults. _High as the beginning pay is _ almost double the minimum wage _ it is insufficient in communities where rents might run $1,000 a month and public transportation might not serve the job site. _Some job seekers cannot pass basic health or competency tests, may have police records, may have demonstrated in previous jobs that they are unreliable. Some may have chemical dependency problems. _Some just don't want to work, though they remain in the work force and, for the record, are looking for work. Employers, therefore, must seek new sources. Audrey Freedman, a Conference Board analyst, says two likely niches are the 14 million women who stay home with the kids and 3.3 million early retirees. Youngsters are another. However, even this group is reduced by sickness and by life styles that do not leave time for work. Under examination it quickly reduces. Moreover, some of these people _ though not officially in the work force _ have jobs from time to time. Official data show only 19 percent of Americans between ages 20 and 65 remain out of the work force all year long. In order to makes themselves attractive, niche employers also have to create niche jobs. In some of these jobs, for example, the hours are whatever the employee chooses to work. The employer is happy to adapt. In the short term, a recession could reverse the situation, conceivably making people line up for such positions. If the economy continues to expand, however, niches are likely to be part of the scene for several more years. End advance for PMs Thursday, Sept. 21 AP890920-0221 AP-NR-09-20-89 1401EDT a a AM-RaceRelations Adv25 09-20 1058 AM-Race Relations, Adv 25,1096 $Adv25 For Release Mon AMs, Sept. 25, and Thereafter Black Leaders Bend Attitudes in Race Workshops By SONYA ROSS Associated Press Writer ATLANTA (AP) Nervous laughter and friendly small talk floated above the 17 whites and eight blacks closeted in a hot conference room. Five minutes later, it was quiet. Charles H. King, minister, civil rights activist and former professor, had just told the whites they are the reason racism thrives in America. They were clearly offended. Before long, a furious black woman lunged at an argumentative white man two feet away. The air rang with teary curses from the woman and shouts from King. The races were separated, shaken blacks shuttled into another room where some cried. Equally shaken whites discussed what they saw and why they did not intervene on the woman's behalf. Some were beginning to believe King was right. Then came illustrations of the Black Man's Raw Deal in slides, recordings and diagrams on a blackboard. In the end, everybody came out smiling, agreeing with the King theory: bigotry reigns because (1) white people let it, (2) they want it that way and (3) black people are all but powerless against it. Companies are sending executives and office managers to race relations seminars, hoping to create understanding that can be applied in the workplace. The workshops also have found their way into courts: Ku Klux Klansmen agreed to a seminar as part of the settlement of a lawsuit stemming from a 1979 clash between Klan members and black civil rights marchers in Alabama. King has been at it for 20 years, and has instructed at least 28 others on his technique to send it into companies across the country. Generally, the workshop puts people on uncomfortable chairs in uncomfortable rooms for anywhere from four hours to two days, forcing frank, often heated discussion of what racism is and isn't. ``I had no idea of what the black person experiences,'' said Robert Miskimins, a white sales executive for Chicago-based Inland Steel. ``Now, I think more black, because I'm more aware of what blacks feel.'' ``It reaffirmed my blackness. It made me feel good about me,'' said Linda Eastman, one of Miskimins' co-workers. ``It made me feel better able to articulate my feelings in an intellectual way.'' Inland sent 19 employees, mostly from its sales department, to King's workshop. One black sales executive, Oliver Copeland, said he hopes to learn King's technique in order to start an in-house program by 1990. The workshops aim to enlighten whites through oppression. There are no apologies from King, who pioneered the technique in 1968 during an angry moment in a all-white class he taught at an Ohio college. ``They were just arguing back with me. And I really gave them all the feeling and anger I had. No matter what you say, if it's to a black person's favor and a white person's detriment, they always argue back. ``When you directly approach a white person with emotion, they begin feeling, for the first time in their lives, what blacks are saying.'' The Rev. C.T. Vivian, a civil rights activist who learned his workshop technique from King, said demand for his 14-year-old seminar rose meteorically after it was dramatized on ``The Oprah Winfrey Show'' this year. ``They saw something that worked. People are concerned about racism but they just don't want to talk about it because they feel it's useless to talk about it.'' Vivian's Black Action Strategies & Information Center workshop booked solid through January 1990 and already has March dates. King, who has run seminars for federal agencies ranging from the Defense Department to the FBI, will do one for the Navy in Germany later this year. His pace has been slowed by recent cancer surgery but he's booked through the year. ``They're vying for space,'' he said. ``I have to turn people down now.'' Both workshops teach that discrimination and prejudice toward one black affects all blacks; that blacks often undergo racial identity crises when they are placed in a white environment; that whites are prejudiced because of what they were taught and blacks because of the way they've been treated; and that whites profess to be ignorant of racism in order to avoid it. Participants arrive thinking they may not like what they hear. They're often not wrong. ``There is no reason for a white male to not succeed in this country,'' King shouted during a recent workshop. ``What do you have holding you back? You're not black; you're not women.'' ``We all can't be president,'' one white participant said. King whirled in anger. ``Don't get smart with me. Don't try to change the subject, move it to that level. That ain't what we're talking about.'' Inland Steel's Edna West was arguing with a white co-worker when she branded ``all white people'' with an obscene description. Another man in the workshop intervened, and so did King. ``Don't interrupt an angry black woman! Don't try to stop black anger! What do you want to stop her for?'' Ms. West said afterward that the confrontation ``showed me I shouldn't just sit back and silently condone what they continue to do.'' King asked blacks to describe what it is like to work in a majority white situation. They spoke of isolation, despair, dashed hopes for promotions. King said ``any progressive-thinking businessman'' would want to combat those feelings because ``that's a stick of dynamite in your personnel file.'' For that exact reason, an Atlanta business forum, Leadership Atlanta, has been sending participants to King's Urban Crisis Inc. workshops for 13 years, said spokeswoman Elaine Alexander. About 800 of the 1,200 executives who have gone through Leadership Atlanta also went through King's workshop. ``Virtually everyone who participates in one of Dr. King's seminars is changed by it,'' Alexander said. ``It's a very emotional experience. It enhances their sensitivity toward the total community.'' Eighty-six percent of business participants and 94 percent from colleges said in follow-up surveys by BASIC that the seminars had changed their outlooks on race, Vivian said. ``It's a beautiful thing to see, man. Black people say, `Yeah, we've seen 'em change here, but how long is it going to last?' But up to 94 percent effectiveness? On an issue as deeply emotional as this?'' End Adv for Mon AMs, Sept. 25 AP890920-0222 AP-NR-09-20-89 1400EDT a a AM-LakesAccess Adv26 09-20 0889 AM-Lakes Access, Adv 26,0908 $Adv26 For Release Tues AMs, Sept. 26, and Thereafter `Golden Pond' Symbolizes Struggle Over Access to Lakes With LaserPhoto By NORMA LOVE Associated Press Writer HOLDERNESS, N.H. (AP) Thirty years ago, a friend gave Dr. Henry Crane a lakeside boat ramp so he'd have easy access to his home on an island in Squam Lake, one of New Hampshire's largest and prettiest. Crane opened the ramp to all comers, making it the only free public access to Big and Little Squam Lakes, scene of the 1981 movie ``On Golden Pond.'' Few know about Crane's ramp. It isn't on maps, and locals don't go out of their way to advertise it. Public access for a price is almost as bad; the few facilities open to the public handle only small boats or have limited parking. Squam is one of 1,021 lakes New Hampshire owns for the public benefit. It illustrates how the state, while touting outdoor recreation as part of its high quality of life, has relinquished much of its stewardship to lakefront owners. About 500 lakes, including Squam, have no state-owned access, virtually excluding those unable to afford property selling for an average $2,000 a foot of shorefront. On New Hampshire's largest lake, Winnipesaukee, the state owns one park and one public boat ramp along 240 miles of shoreline. Rather than buy access, the state traditionally has relied on the good will of people like Crane and lake associations that open areas to the public. ``I think that lake belongs to the public,'' said Crane, 70. ``I guess I'm old-fashioned.'' Such hospitality is disappearing. And even when there is access, said state Sen. Roger Heath, lake associations and many residents have a ``slightly conspiratorial attitude ... not to post access points.'' Such silence by townspeople has proven an effective way to restrict usage since the state has no published map or list of ways to get to the water. Gov. Judd Gregg has called improving lake access a priority, but critics find little encouraging in the state's recent record. Though land has been added to some parks, the last new state park with water access was built more than 20 years ago. New Hampshire has no park on Squam Lake, its second largest, or on another large lake, Winnisquam, though it owns undeveloped land there. A new state program given $38 million to preserve open space has bought a dozen properties with access mostly to rivers. Its most notable purchase is a wilderness area far from population and tourism centers. From 1940 to 1979, the state, using mostly federal funds, built or bought 250 shallow-draft boat ramps for fishermen, but only 110 are functional. The program contained no money for maintenance, bathrooms, trash disposal or parking. Some of the narrow roads to ramps are overgrown; others have been taken over by land owners. Towns complain that neglect makes them garbage dumps and teen hangouts; some want ownership so they can close them to outsiders. The state's 2-year-old attempt to regulate boat moorings, the poor man's dock, on five large lakes also has failed to increase public access. When it regulated moorings, the state gave shorefront owners the power to veto permits letting strangers moor in front of their property, even though the moorings are on state waters over state land. The trade-off was the creation of two types of mooring fields, one for use by anyone, the other for grous like sailing clubs. Dozens of applications have been filed and approved for restricted fields, but only one has been approved for the public. The lone public operator is Merrill Fay, owner of Fay's Boat Yard on Lake Winnipesaukee, who says requirements for a public field are so stringent that few could afford to put one in. Aside from bathrooms and similar amenities, the state requires a boat taxi service, dinghy docking, access to highways and liability insurance. The state also controls rental fees. The state restricted moorings ``assuming towns would use some of their property around the lake for public fields,'' said Robert Danos, until recently the supervisor of the state Marine Patrol. ``It's not being done.'' Some say there is much the state could be doing, and at little cost. ``Every time a condominium development has been given 50 docks, they should've said, `You dedicate 10 of them to public use,''' said Fay. ``Everybody ought to be helping out.'' Until recently, the state routinely granted requests for major dock developments, like marinas, in perpetuity. Dock developers now get renewable leases but older marinas are taking advantage of the old policy to sell slips for thousands of dollars. The state has not challenged such sales as a change in use subject to state review. As the demand for lake access has grown, it has spread to smaller, uncrowded lakes, prompting residents to pressure lawmakers for controls. An effort to ban jet skis is but one example. The conflict has even led to talk of limiting the number of outsiders allowed on public waters on a given day. Heath would rather see more public access. ``The state has walked away from it. We make so much of our lakes, and rightfully so, we ought to let some of our citizens get on them and enjoy them.'' End Adv for Tues AMs, Sept. 26 AP890920-0223 AP-NR-09-20-89 1612EDT a a AM-Education-Choice Adv25 09-20 1049 AM-Education-Choice, Adv 25,1083 $Adv25 For Release Monday AMs, Sept. 25, and thereafter In East Harlem School District, Choice Triumphs, But Money Still Talks Eds: Education Summit is Sept. 27-28. With Laserphoto By LEE MITGANG AP Education Writer NEW YORK (AP) Outside the battered metal doors of Intermediate School 117 in East Harlem, crack vials litter the pavement and row after row of tenements stand empty and graffiti-scarred. But inside is what President Bush has called ``the single most promising idea'' in education _ an idea certain to be high on the agenda at the education summit this week between Bush and the nation's governors in Charlottesville, Va. The idea is ``choice'': the belief, as espoused by Bush and others, that if parents are allowed to choose the best public schools for their children, the resulting competition would compel schools everywhere to improve. Minnesota, Iowa and Arkansas have already adopted ``open enrollment'' plans permitting parents to choose among schools throughout those states. Many other states offer more limited choice options aimed at gifted students or youngsters with academic problems that only certain districts can handle. Scores of local districts have offered magnet and alternative programs for years. A Gallup education survey in August found Americans support the principle of school choice by a 60-31 margin, with 9 percent saying they weren't sure. Minnesota's plan, voluntary for two years, became mandatory this fall for districts with at least 1,000 students. In Iowa, a law signed this year gives students the right to apply to any school in the state. They must stick with their choice for at least four years. Arkansas this year passed a comprehensive open enrollment law permitting students aged 5 through 18 to choose schools across district lines as long as there is room and as long as it doesn't upset desegregation efforts. But advocates say no place offers better proof than East Harlem that choice's benefits can extend even to urban America's neediest. In 1972, District 4 ranked last among New York City's 32 school districts in reading and math achievement. Only 15 percent read at or above grade level. With federal and private funds, then-superintendent Anthony Alvarado gradually broke up or replaced existing schools in the district with magnet schools and alternative ``schools within schools,'' small enough to give students individual attention and academically attractive enough to draw pupils from all over the city. Some are selective, like the gifted programs or the school for the performing arts. Others take nearly all comers. The district has weathered some recent problems. Last December, superintendent Carlos Medina was suspended on allegations he and fellow board members funneled district money into a secret bank account and used it for trips, food, liquor and improper loans. And citywide school budget cuts may force reductions this year in some of the district's innovative magnet programs, said assistant superintendent John Falco. Still, everyone agrees the district has been transformed for the better by the bracing effects of competition. Even Keith Geiger, president of the National Education Association, which has given only qualified support to the idea of choice, calls District 4 ``choice at its very best.'' Today, reading scores of District 4's 14,000 pupils rank 16th in the city, and 65 percent read at grade level or higher. Pupils can choose among 23 alternative schools specializing in such areas as science and humanities, performing arts and environmental science. Choice has also meant that poor programs which no longer attract students don't last. A school specializing in maritime science was closed about three years ago, Falco said. It reopened recently with a new director. I.S. 117 was once a failing, impersonal middle school bulging with more than 2,000 students. It now houses four academies, or schools within schools, each occupying one floor and each with only about 200 pupils. There is a gifted and talented program; the ``Harbor School'' for the performing arts; the ``Career Academy,'' which helps poorly prepared students take a seemingly outlandish goal such as becoming a lawyer and plan how to attain it; and the ``Key School'' with classes of no more than 18 students and intensive instruction for youngsters with emotional difficulties. Most pupils come from East Harlem. But the magnet schools are so appealing that this once-downtrodden district is drawing students of all races and economic circumstances from every corner of the city. Nearly 200 children from around the city applied for 70 places in the entering class of the Harbor School this year, says assistant director Harold Roth. Fourth-grader Chenoa Rommereim takes a car pool each day from the Bronx to attend I.S. 117's gifted program. She is one of the estimated 15-25 percent non-minority students in District 4 magnet programs, Falco said. Even staunch supporters of choice note its limitations. District 4 has shunned choice for elementary schools, Falco said, because at that early age it's more important for parents and children to maintain neighborhood ties. Sy Fliegel, an early architect of choice in District 4, recently wrote that choice worked in East Harlem because it came gradually, one school at a time. And successful programs were kept small. It's far better to have parents clamoring for a few excellent programs than to offer lots of poor choices. ``When I hear about a school district deciding to become a complete choice system in one blow, I worry,'' Fliegel wrote. And as the Bush education summit approaches, educators here greet their fame with a mix of pride and frustration. Some worry that District 4's accomplishments are being used to demonstrate that choice alone, without additional money, will fix the nation's schools. Few here believe that choice is an educational cure-all. ``In the final analysis the folks in Washington seem to be saying: `Federal dollars aren't necessary. What's needed is to have more schools like THAT one,''' said Phil Batton, a computer and Spanish teacher who has been at I.S. 117 for 24 years. ``I have two feelings,'' said Maria Bonet, director of Northview Tech, a magnet school on East 116th Street specializing in computers and writing. ``It's very positive that people are noticing us. Let them notice. But send us more money.'' EDITOR'S NOTE Lee Mitgang has covered education for the AP since 1981. End Adv for Mon AMs, Sept. 25 AP890920-0224 AP-NR-09-20-89 1404EDT a i AM-ReligionToday Adv22 09-20 0904 AM-Religion Today, Adv 22,0929 $adv22 For Release Friday AMs, Sept. 22, and thereafter New Edition Highlights Neglected Genius of English LaserPhoto By ROBERT BARR Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) The salt of the earth. The signs of the times. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Those well-worn phrases, as William Tyndale intended, have become as familiar to the laborer as to the scholar. Incorporated into the King James Bible, they became part of common English, while the author sank into obscurity. David Daniell, who has edited Tyndale's 1534 New Testament for modern readers, regards the translator as a neglected giant of English prose. ``I think the Authorized (King James) Version deserves its tremendous reputation ... except that it is a stolen reputation from Tyndale, and that is grossly unfair,'' Daniell said in an interview. Tyndale, a 16th century scholar-priest, was the first to translate Scripture from the original Hebrew and Greek into English. For that he was branded a heretic, his books were burned and so, eventually, was he. Only a dozen of the books are said to survive. Tyndale's translations were as much a threat to ``the powers that be'' _ another of his phrases _ as the ``samizdat'' manuscripts of banned books that were passed from hand to hand in the Soviet Union before the era of glasnost. Thomas More _ scholar, chancellor to Henry VIII and eventual Catholic martyr _ condemned Tyndale as ``one of the hell-hounds that the devil hath in his kennel.'' For the new edition published by Yale University Press, Daniell rendered Tyndale's work in modern spelling but found no need to tamper with the text. ``If you read Tyndale, particularly the New Testament translation, against any other prose of the 1530s, you are astonished by its modern clarity,'' said Daniell, senior lecturer in English at University College, London. ``Tyndale's power is in getting a Greek that is the Greek of the common people into an English that is the English of the common people, with incredible beauty.'' Where the King James version differs from Tyndale, it often rejects the Anglo-Saxon word or phrase for what Daniell calls a self-consciously ``posh'' alternative rooted in Latin. For instance, Tyndale's ``the old things are gone'' became ``the former things are passed away'' in the King James version. If readers prefer the latter, ``then Tyndale will be disliked and there is no way to mend it,'' Daniell writes in the introduction to the book. He points also to the last verse of the sixth chapter of Matthew: ``Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof,'' says the King James Bible, while Tyndale says, ``For the day present hath ever enough of his own trouble.'' ``One is mandarin. One is saying you have to know the word `sufficient,' it's a Latin word, you have to be a little bit clever to understand Jesus,'' Daniell said. ``The other is saying, no you don't, because everyone can say each day hath enough of its own trouble.'' John Foxe, who compiled the ``Book of Martyrs'' in 1563, tells of the young Tyndale arguing theology with a scholar, and exclaiming, ``If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plow shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost.'' There had been earlier Bibles in English, prepared around 1400 by followers of John Wycliffe, but these were translated from the Latin Vulgate version. In reaction, the English bishops in 1408 banned biblical translations. A century later, reform was boiling in Europe. Erasmus, the great humanist scholar, published a Greek New Testament, and in 1517 Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door. Tyndale, born in 1494 in Gloucestershire and a graduate of Oxford University, was caught up in the new ideas. He offered his services as a translator to Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall of London, a friend of Erasmus, but was turned down. Tyndale moved to the continent in 1524, and published his first New Testament translation in Cologne in 1525. Tunstall was the most enthusiastic buyer, consigning Tyndale's books to bonfires at the rear of St. Paul's Cathedral. More and Tyndale exchanged insults in pamphlets that did neither man much credit, but Daniell said Tyndale was right and More wrong on specific points of translation. For instance, Tyndale translated the Greek word ``ecclesia'' as ``congregations.'' More, following the Vulgate, thought it should be rendered as ``church.'' Likewise, Tyndale translated ``repentance,'' something anyone could do at home, where the Vulgate said ``do penance,'' which requires confession and the direction of a priest. In 1535, Tyndale was imprisoned in Belgium and the following year he was strangled and his body burned at the stake. Ironically, England by then was a Protestant country, and the stubbornly Catholic Thomas More had been beheaded a year before Tyndale's death. As a pioneering translator, Daniell said, Tyndale had to invent some words, including Jehovah, passover, scapegoat, peacemaker and mercy seat. Daniell included a glossary of words from Tyndale's time that have fallen into disuse: advoutry (adultery), debite (deputy), earer (plowman), noosell (train or nurture), pyght (pitched), weet (know) and weenest (supposes). Daniell said one or two words defied definition, ``but I think there are only two, and that tells a story about Tyndale,'' he said. ``Because he is writing in everyday English, he is not going to use outlandish words.'' End Adv for Fri AMs, Sept. 22 AP890920-0225 AP-NR-09-20-89 1629EDT a e AM-APArts:FilmFestival Adv22 09-20 0832 AM-AP Arts: Film Festival, Adv 22,0852 $adv22 For Release Friday AMs, Sept. 22, and thereafter New York Film Festival Opens With French Comedy By MARILYN AUGUST Associated Press Writer Short, lumpy and nearing middle age, French actress Josiane Balasko makes her American debut when the prize-winning ``Too Good for You'' opens the 27th New York Film Festival. Written and directed by Bertrand Blier, the movie won a special jury prize at this year's Cannes film festival and established Balasko _ admired for her roles in sidesplitting French comedies _ as one of France's foremost actresses. The film opens the annual festival Friday with a special screening at Avery Fisher Hall. The festival will feature 26 other movies from the United States, Finland, Japan, Taiwan, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Ireland, Burkina Faso, Poland, Canada, Australia and Hungary. Closing night on Oct. 9 will showcase Bill Forsyth's ``Breaking In,'' an engaging story of two small-time thieves written by John Sayles and starring Burt Reynolds. It is the festival debut for the Scottish director of ``Local Hero'' and ``Gregory's Girl.'' The festival will have a special avant-garde program devoted to new, innovative works by Abigail Child, Warren Sonbert and Pat O'Neill. ``Too Good for You'' is the story of a car dealer (Gerard Depardieu) who betrays his beautiful and refined wife (Carole Bouquet) by falling passionately _ and inexplicably _ in love with his ordinary-looking, overweight temporary secretary. ``The film's theme is a cliche _ adultery and the rejected woman, but everyone I know was touched, one way or another, by it,'' said Balasko. ``What happens in the film can happen to anyone, and we all know it.'' Balasko said Blier, whose past hits include ``Going Places'' (1973) and ``Get Out Your Handkerchiefs'' (1977), wrote the film especially for the cast. ``The character played by Gerard is completely passive, which is not the way audiences are used to seeing him,'' she said. ``Here he's swept along by his own emotions, torn between his wife, Florence, whom he describes as so perfect there's no room for fantasy, and Colette, who's fat and ugly and ordinary, but with whom he has a lot in common.'' Blier heightens an overriding sense of malaise by eliminating straightforward narrative techniques. Instead, his characters jump ahead, imagining what life might be like, and flash back, remembering happier times. In one tricky scene, Depardieu and Bouquet's wedding party turns into a nightmarish, stuffy bourgeois dinner for their narrow-minded nouveau riche friends who cannot understand why Depardieu throws over Bouquet for the dumpy Balasko. ``The film is disturbing because it's full of interior monologues performed as speeches,'' Balasko said. ``In one scene I have to get up and say, `I know I'm ugly and fat.' These are the kinds of things people think to themselves, but never say out loud. It was extremely difficult.'' She's not exactly ugly and fat, but Balasko hardly fits the stereotypes of stardom. She has none of the sex kittenish charms of Brigitte Bardot or the chiseled features of Catherine Deneuve. Instead, she is a small, heavyset redhead who likes to wear T-shirts, baggy black pants and red eyeglasses. In the movie, she is made to look her worst, dying her hair dark brown and sporting unflattering skirts and tight sweaters that emphasize her full form. Critics have praised Balasko for her ``courage'' in playing Colette, and touted her as a front-runner for best actress in next year's Cesar awards _ the equivalent of an American Academy Award at Cannes. Balasko has 18 films to her credit, including ``Les Bronzes'' (``The Suntanned''), a satire on Club Med-type organized vacations, and ``Le Pere Noel Est une Ordure'' (``Santa Claus Is Rubbish''), in which she plays an uptight do-gooder who gets stuck in an elevator on Christmas Eve. Balasko, who has written and directed many films of her own, says she is not a part of the French film establishment and never expects to be. Blier, in fact, is the first internationally known director to write a script with her in mind. Blier's ``Menage'' was one of the hits at the 1987 film festival, which also showcased ``Get Out Your Handkerchiefs.'' Betrand Tavernier (``Round Midnight'') returns to the New York cinema fete with the poignant ``Life and Nothing But,'' set during World War I. American director Jim Jarmusch returns with ``Mystery Train,'' the third in a filmic trilogy that includes ``Stranger Than Paradise'' and ``Down by Law.'' The festival will also show the documentary ``Thelonius Monk: Straight, No Chaser,'' a portrait of the brilliant and moody jazz artist. D.W. Griffith's epic 1916 masterwork, ``Intolerance,'' will be shown as a retrospective. As part of an eight-year restoration project by the Museum of Modern Art, the film has been reconstructed to a color-tinted print with more than 30 minutes of newly discovered footage. Four separate stories set in Babylon, Roman Palestine, Reformation France and industrial America, grapple with the theme of intolerance. End Adv for Friday AMs, Sept. 22 AP890920-0226 AP-NR-09-20-89 1355EDT a a BC-BehindtheWheel Adv30-01 09-20 0786 BC-Behind the Wheel, Adv 30-01,0805 $adv30 $adv01 For Release Weekend Editions, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, and thereafter Oldsmobile Silhouette: Olds Enters the Minivan Fray With LaserPhoto, LaserGraphic By ANN M. JOB For The Associated Press Move over, Chrysler. Oldsmobile wants a piece of the minivan action, and it's going nose-to-nose with all comers to get it. Yes, Olds dealers for the first time are selling a van, although you wouldn't know it by driving their new vehicle, the Silhouette. It feels more like a car. In fact, it feels distinctly like an Oldsmobile car _ soft ride over the bumps, smooth acceleration, an upscale experience. This minivan, being sold under the Olds, Chevrolet and Pontiac nameplates, has plastic, rust-resistant body panels glued to a steel frame _ a first in the industry. In fact, the Oldsmobile Silhouette, along with its sister vans, the Chevrolet Lumina APV and Pontiac Trans Sport, are the world's largest mass-produced plastic-skinned vehicles. That's not all. These General Motors minivans are the first to feature separate rear seats that can be removed individually. No more struggling with big, heavy bench seats. The folks at Oldsmobile aren't shy about saying they're going after buyers of Chrysler's popular minivans, the Plymouth Voyager and Dodge Caravan, which started the minivan craze early this decade. But Oldsmobile also is trying to appeal to that group's upper crust, people who appreciate a cushioned ride, a well-appointed vehicle, even optional leather seats. They will be buyers of some means, given the $19,000-plus price tag of the leather- and accessory-appointed test vehicle. In contrast, Chrysler's basic minivans start at $11,995. Buyers ``will be families who may not have real young children; the children might be 10 years of age, not 2,'' said Craig Oppenlander, manager of the utility vehicles business team at Oldsmobile. ``Buyers will be in their late-30s to mid-40s. Annual income will be up in the $60,000s. The majority will have college education, and they'll be in professional, white-collar jobs.'' They're also folks looking for contemporary utility. The Silhouette has a rakish, aerodynamic outer design with a long nose that takes some getting used to. I kept stopping more than a foot short of where I wanted until I adjusted to that big snout. The rear lighting was something new. Brakelights and blinker were up high, on posts beside the rear window. This high-tech look was eye-catching, especially when combined with darkly tinted rear windows. Inside, the Silhouette had plenty of room, even for a burly passenger in the rear-most seat. One sliding door on the passenger side offered easy entry. The test vehicle came fitted with six bucket seats. A seventh could be added in the middle row. It was pretty simple to take the four rear seats out. They weighed considerably less than the bench seats of other minivans, and they were smaller and easier to maneuver. The Silhouette seats even had little rollers underneath to help guide the latches back into the floor holes during installation. Each of the four back seats had a flat, vinyl back with indentations for holding cups, a thoughtful touch for tailgaters. I also enjoyed sitting in the rear-most seat and putting down just the seat backs of the middle seats and using them as ottomans. But the Silhouette's cruise control buttons protruded awkwardly from the turn signal stalk. As I've done in other GM vehicles, I found myself accidentally moving the lever to the on position a few times. The cruise doesn't activate unless another button is pushed, but it's unnerving, nonetheless. And the huge windshield wipers took some getting used to _ they looked like insect claws. They need to be big to cover the mammoth front windshield, fully a third larger than that of most large sedans. Don't worry about the heat such a large windshield might transmit, especially in a sunny climate _ GM puts a layer of metallic film in the glass to reflect heat energy and reduce the ``solar load'' by 30 percent. The Silhouette's 3.1-liter V-6 was teamed with a three-speed automatic, the only transmission offered. It performed well and responded smoothly. Oldsmobile wouldn't give sales projections, noting that its portion of van production at the Tarrytown, N.Y., assembly plant _ shared with Chevrolet and Pontiac _ will be allocated based on demand for all three vehicles. The plant's production capacity is more than 200,000 minivans annually. Because the Silhouette is new, Consumer Reports magazine does not have an owner complaint report. EDITOR'S NOTE Ann Job, former executive business editor of The Detroit News, writes biweekly automobile reviews for The Associated Press. She has covered the automobile industry for seven years. End Adv for Weekend Editions, Sept. 30-Oct. 1 AP890920-0227 AP-NR-09-20-89 1356EDT a a BC-BehindtheWheel-SilhouetteBox Adv30-01 09-20 0121 BC-Behind the Wheel-Silhouette Box, Adv 30-01,0134 $adv30 $adv01 For Release Weekend Editions, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, and thereafter With BC-Behind the Wheel, b0660 With LaserPhoto, LaserGraphic 1990 Oldsmobile Silhouette BASE PRICE: $17,195. AS TESTED: $19,587. TYPE: Front-engine, front-drive, six-passenger minivan. ENGINE: 3.1-liter V-6. MILEAGE: 18 mpg (city) 22 mpg (highway). TOP SPEED: not available. LENGTH: 194.2 inches. WHEELBASE: 109.8 inches. CURB WT: 3,648 lbs. ASSEMBLED AT: Tarrytown, N.Y. OPTIONS: Package with power options (includes power windows, power driver seat, power door locks, floor mats) $960; value package (includes leather seats and AM-FM stereo with cassette player) $540; rear window defogger $160; touring suspension $232. DESTINATION CHARGE: $500. End Adv for Weekend Editions, Sept. 30-Oct. 1 AP890920-0228 AP-NR-09-20-89 1521EDT s a BC-AsbestosRefugees Adv24 09-20 1002 BC-Asbestos Refugees, Adv 24,1027 $adv24 For Release Sunday, Sept. 24, and thereafter Refugees From Asbestos Blast Distraught Despite Their Resources LaserPhoto planned By BETH J. HARPAZ Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) Susan Saltrick, her husband and 3-week-old daughter are unlikely refugees _ affluent New Yorkers who left behind Japanese prints and a thousand prized books to take shelter in a rent-free apartment that is anything but home. Even less likely, they and 350 neighbors, also cast from their homes, have hired a public relations firm to try to persuade ``60 Minutes'' to focus on their plight. But their misfortune is very real. On Aug. 19, a steam pipe wrapped with asbestos exploded, showering their neighborhood with potentially cancer-causing fibers and rendering them homeless. They left behind possessions collected over lifetimes. They suffer anxiety and depression. And they have no idea when or if they will return to their contaminated homes. ``You try real hard to keep up a good face and be strong and tough and get through it all,'' said Saltrick, who gave birth 12 days after the blast. ``We're alive, we're healthy, my daughter is fine, you basically have your health and that's pretty important. But I do get depressed, worrying about where we're going to be.'' Shoeless and pregnant, Saltrick clambered down a fire truck ladder when the underground steam pipe blew up in front of her building at 32 Gramercy Park South on the east side of Manhattan. One of her neighbors, the mother of a 5-month-old boy, was killed when steam and debris wrecked her apartment as she napped. Also killed were two workers for Consolidated Edison, the electric utility that owns the steam pipes. A geyser of mud 12 stories high roared like a rocket for four hours; some residents later sought psychological help for nerves frazzled by the deafening noise. Only later did people learn the mud was full of asbestos. Saltrick and her husband, John Meyer, spent the night at a friend's house. The next day they found their apartment untouched by the blast and moved back. Saltrick and others turned on air conditioners and vacuumed the dirt they tracked in. Unwittingly, that may have spread asbestos into units that might otherwise have remained uncontaminated. Con Ed had tested for asbestos but said nothing about possible contamination in the neighborhood. Building managers discovered the asbestos three days later through tests of their own. Lawyers for the buildings as well as city officials have accused Con Ed of a cover-up. The utility has been cited six times since 1988 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for allegedly failing to test accurately for asbestos in other cases. On Aug. 23, Saltrick, Meyer and neighbors were given three hours' notice to leave their homes for what they thought would be a few days. Days turned into weeks. Con Ed spokeswoman Pat Richardi now says the buildings should be cleaned up by Thanksgiving. But victims say Con Ed is again denying reality. Saltrick and Meyer, with the baby on the way, were counting on selling their one-bedroom cooperative apartment to finance purchase of a bigger unit. The man who'd agreed to buy Saltrick's co-op before the blast has since had mortgage applications rejected by two banks. Con Ed is paying about $500,000 a week for the 350 displaced residents to stay in hotels, eat out every night and replace essential items _ including computers for some who had worked at home. Saltrick says Con Ed offered her only $200 to replace all the baby furniture she left in her apartment. Nine months pregnant, she stood up at a public meeting to complain; the utility agreed to pay for whatever she needed. But Saltrick didn't want to bring newborn Sarah back to a hotel. One hour before she went into labor, she found a one-bedroom apartment through a company that houses executives on short-term transfers. Con Ed pays the $2,000 monthly rent. Everyday, Saltrick contacts Con Ed and her building managers for the latest on the cleanup. Then she spends hours shopping for the basics her new apartment lacks: spices, a garbage can, toiletries. Sarah will never get to use the baby-shower gifts still sitting in her old apartment with the toys and crib she and Meyer bought months ago. Their $15,000 homeowner's insurance policy won't begin to cover the rugs, clothes, upholstery and other porous items that will have to be discarded because they absorbed asbestos fibers. Richardi says Con Ed expects plenty of hefty claims and lawsuits once the cleanup is complete. Until 1975, Con Ed wrapped its steam pipes in asbestos to reduce heat loss. Other insulating materials have been used since scientists determined long-term exposure to the fiber causes cancer. But no level of exposure to asbestos is considered safe. ``Doctors are telling these people, `Come back every six months for the rest of your life and I'll let you know if you've been affected,''' said David Jaroslawicz, a lawyer who filed a $30 million lawsuit against Con Ed on behalf of the building at 151 E. 20th St., which was evacuated the same night as Saltrick's building. The cleanup is an enormous undertaking. Entire buildings have been swathed in plastic. Environmental officials hired a special company to decontaminate art objects, antiques and computers. Contractors have even scrubbed down trees. Dan Sitomer, a lawyer retained by Saltrick's building, says the victims of Gramercy Park are to be no less pitied because they have the resources to demand and get the help they need. ``There's no class system when a disaster strikes,'' he said. ``There are only people who have been touched and hurt.'' Sheldon Adler, president of Saltrick's co-op board, is confident that Saltrick and other victims will ultimately force Con Ed to make appropriate restitution. ``We had the terrible misfortune of having our building damaged,'' he said. ``But Con Ed had the misfortune of running up against people who know what they're doing.'' End Adv for Sunday, Sept. 24 AP890920-0229 AP-NR-09-20-89 1540EDT s e BC-APArts:MetOpera Adv24 09-20 1018 BC-AP Arts: Met Opera, Adv 24,1063 $adv24 For Release Sunday, Sept. 24, and thereafter Metropolitan Opera Opens New Season With LaserPhoto By MARY CAMPBELL Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) The Metropolitan Opera opens its new season Monday with an all-star cast singing ``Aida.'' But the most anticipated performance will come a few days later with the debut of an exciting young American tenor, Richard Leech, singing Rodolfo in ``La Boheme.'' Monday's ``Aida'' stars Aprile Millo and Placido Domingo. On the second night, Teresa Stratas returns to the Met after eight years. Leech will sing Saturday. Leech, 32, walks like an athlete, with a brisk spring in his step _ and that's part of his appeal. ``I try to allow the fact that I'm young and can move around to creep into the action on stage, when it's appropriate,'' said Leech, who did some diving and played football in high school. In ``The Elixir of Love'' at the Tri-Cities Opera in Binghamton, N.Y., he slid 15 feet from a roof to the stage, about 15 feet to the ground, an unusual staging for the opera. Leech, who grew up in Binghamton and started as a teen-ager in the opera's chorus, is confident on stage since he's been performing so long. The first three ``La Boheme'' productions in which he performed were in Binghamton. He was in the chorus, then the small part of the toy vendor. ``By the time I got around to singing Rodolfo, `La Boheme' was an old friend,'' he said. ``Growing up on stage is how I look at myself. When you're on stage it's no big deal _ that's how it needs to be. Then you have the presence of mind to deal with it when you go on in your debut in Vienna in `Rigoletto' with no rehearsal. ``That's a standard in some European houses that the Met has managed to avoid _ the attitude that in the standard repertoire everybody knows how it goes. That's no way to get great performances. I did `Lucia di Lammermoor' in Berlin the same way.'' ``La Boheme'' is a particular favorite for Leech. He made his New York City Opera debut in the opera in 1984, and his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut in it in 1987. He'll sing in the first eight performances at the Met this season. He'll make his La Scala debut next May as Pinkerton in ``Madama Butterfly,'' which he performed as his debut in Florence, Italy, and Washington. ``That's another of my favorites. I don't have much to sing in the second act, but the first act love duet makes the whole opera worthwhile to me,'' he said. A recent feather in his cap was singing in the Verdi ``Requiem'' at the opening of the new Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas in early September. As debuts at the Met and other major opera houses approach, Leech is not too overly excited. ``I find that I tend not to,'' he said. ``I'm excited because it's the proper progression of things and it's nice to have happening. It is very much fun. But excited in the sense of nervous or too much anticipation, I don't do. Placing too much importance on that one night, you set yourself up to fail that night.'' Leech looks at a debut as just another performance. The tenor was born in North Hollywood, Calif., the middle one of three children. When Leech was 8 his father took a job with IBM in Binghamton. His school took classes to the opera, and Leech saw his first, ``Romeo and Juliet,'' in seventh grade. ``I fell in love with Juliet.'' When he was 15, his choir teacher said he should take voice lessons. ``Since we had this opera company, we went there and I began studying with Carmen Savoca and Peyton Hibbitt, the two men who founded the Tri-Cities Opera. They're rare and incredible teachers. I just fell into the luck of being in the right place at the right time.'' He decided at 17 to stay in opera. And he stayed in Binghamton. He went to the Eastman School of Music for a semester, decided he preferred the training at home and returned to Savoca and Hibbitt. In 1980 he entered the Caruso competition for tenors under 25 in Milan, Italy, and tied for first place with William Matiuzzi. Part of the prize was studying two years at La Scala. Leech declined and went back to Binghamton. Leech went on to be hired by regional operas _ Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Baltimore, San Diego, Washington. His European debut, much commended, was in 1987 in Berlin, as Raoul in a new production of ``Les Huguenots.'' So he had some international acclaim before coming to the Met. ``I'm relatively outspoken when it comes to talking about what I will and will not do. From Day 1 (of talks with the Met) they were aware I wasn't going to come in and work my way up from the bottom of the ladder again,'' he said. Leech's wife, Laurie, is assistant stage director of the Tri-Cities Opera. ``She supports me very well in what must be a very difficult thing to do,'' he said. ``I wouldn't want to be a tenor's wife. ``As much as a tenor tries not to be neurotic I think he tends to be. You always worry about your health. Inevitably, when it comes down to being nervous about health or performances, I think opera singers will take it out on those around them. I try not to do that but I have a feeling I occasionally do. Laurie is masterful at being able to balance when to give me room and the support I need. ``Her ability to understand singers' psyches also makes her a good stage director.'' Leech is amazed by the Met's schedule for the season. ``I cannot imagine trying to get on the number of performances they have here,'' he said. ``I'm glad that's not my job. My job is simple compared to that. I just sing.'' End Adv for Sunday, Sept 24 AP890920-0230 AP-NR-09-20-89 0050EDT r f PM-BusinessHighlights 09-20 0850 PM-Business Highlights,0891 WASHINGTON (AP) Consumer prices did not rise at all last month as big declines in the cost of gasoline and women's clothing combined to provide the best news on inflation since early 1986, the government said. The August performance of the Labor Department's Consumer Price Index followed modest increases of 0.2 percent in both June and July and left analysts marveling Tuesday at the better-than-expected showing on inflation. ``The August inflation result was outstanding from the point of view of the consumer,'' said Allen Sinai, chief economist of the Boston Co. WASHINGTON (AP) Housing construction, depressed by a spike in mortgage rates, fell by 5 percent in August, the government said in a report many analysts viewed as only a temporary setback for the housing industry. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that new homes and apartments were built at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.35 million units last month, down from 1.42 million units in July. It was the first decline since May and the largest setback since a 12.7 percent fall last February. NEW YORK (AP) Campeau Corp. obtained a $250 million rescue loan enabling its department stores to pay creditors and suppliers but forcing the heavily indebted company's founder, Robert Campeau, to relinquish control. Word Tuesday that the Canadian property and retailing company had secured the emergency funds from Olympia & York Developments Ltd. soothed financial markets. Much of Campeau's troubles can be traced to the huge amount of high-interest junk bond debt it accumulated in building a coast-to-coast retail empire. LONDON (AP) Ford Motor Co. announced plans to buy up to 15 percent of Jaguar PLC, saying it wanted a long-term relationship with the unprofitable British luxury automaker. Jaguar, which has been battered by flagging sales in its principal U.S. market during the past year, maintained Tuesday that it wanted to remain independent but didn't rule out collaborating with another car company. Ford, which already has a huge European presence and is negotiating a possible transaction with Swedish automaker Saab, could benefit from an association with the well-known Jaguar line, analysts said. WASHINGTON (AP) The nation's top aviation official and the head of the board investigating the DC-10 crash in Iowa told Congress the McDonnell Douglas Corp. jetliners are safe, but they also called for mandatory inspections and changes. James B. Busey, head of the Federal Aviation Administration, announced an order Tuesday to inspect the fan disks of 220 DC-10 engines similar to the one investigators believe failed prior to the July 19 crash of a United DC-10 in Sioux City, Iowa, that killed 112 people. CHICAGO (AP) Most of United Airlines' 24,000 non-union workers face a 10 percent pay cut if the $6.75 billion employee buyout of parent UAL Corp. goes through as planned, according to a published report. Meanwhile Tuesday, United pilots, who are spearheading the takeover effort, demonstrated their good faith by flying the airline's new Boeing 747-400 jets, something they had refused to do since June due to a labor dispute. In Washington, Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner pledged to prevent excessive debt or foreign control from threatening the U.S. airline industry. Skinner said he would revoke an airline's certificate to fly if a buyout or other transaction threatened its continued fitness. WASHINGTON (AP) Federal and state regulators said commercial banks, despite record post-Depression failures, are not falling into a crisis similar to that experienced by the savings and loan industry. But they told a House Banking subcommittee Tuesday they are keeping a wary eye on potential trouble spots, including Third World debt, leveraged buyout loans, junk bond failures and real estate losses. NEW YORK (AP) Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank's planned investment in Manufacturers Hanover Corp. represents the latest effort by cash-rich Japanese banks to gain firmer footing in the United States, particularly in financing of mid-sized, bread-and-butter companies, experts said Tuesday. In recent years, Japanese banks have made significant inroads in the U.S. market by adding and expanding their own branch offices here, or buying into established financial units, from banking to securities operations. NEW YORK (AP) Chasing business while living out of a suitcase can be a wearying battle _ but the ``Road Warriors'' who do so are the heroes of a new $25 million marketing campaign by the Howard Johnson hotel chain. Howard Johnson Franchise Systems Inc. wants to expand its 8 percent share of the $3.5 billion that it says business travelers spend on mid-priced hotels, which generally charge $35 to $70 a night. By The Associated Press The stock market closed narrowly mixed in featureless trading Tuesday. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials lost 0.19 point to finish at 2,687.31. The dollar turned mixed in nervous worldwide trading amid reports the Federal Reserve intervened to keep the currency down. Gold prices declined. Treasury bond prices inched lower. Soybeans for spot delivery fell to a 22-month low; oil futures were sharply lower; cocoa futures advanced; livestock and meat futures were mixed; and precious metals inched lower. AP890920-0231 AP-NR-09-20-89 0051EDT r f PM-Campeau Bjt 09-20 0777 PM-Campeau, Bjt,0804 Campeau Retail Empire May Be Revamped By MARYBETH NIBLEY AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) Campeau Corp., rescued from a cash shortage with a $250 million emergency loan, may have to dismantle its coast-to-coast retail empire to permanently resolve its debt troubles. For the time being, the Canadian holding company may continue to have a credibility problem with major suppliers to its department stores, possibly making it difficult for them to stock up adequately for peak Christmas demand. Despite announcement Tuesday that Campeau had reached a definitive loan agreement with Olympia & York Developments Ltd., analysts said the financial ailments at Campeau's Allied Stores Corp. and Federated Department Stores Inc. divisions aren't automatically cured. ``It will be a precarious situation with the Federated and Allied stores through Christmas,'' said Herbert Wittkin, a New York retail consultant. Meanwhile, Heller Financial Inc., a company that acts as a middleman for retailers and vendors, said it was continuing to monitor Campeau's condition. Last week, Heller advised its clients that if they shipped goods to Campeau-owned retailers, they would have to do so at their own risk; Heller said it temporarily wouldn't accept the risk due to Campeau's uncertain situation. John Brooklier, a Heller spokesman, said Campeau's announcement Tuesday didn't immediately alter Heller's position. Heller, based in Chicago and owned by Japan's Fuji Bank Ltd., is one of the biggest factoring firms in the retail business. Factoring companies buy retail receivables from apparel makers and often act as their credit managers, thereby exerting considerable influence in the way vendors do business. The loan pact gives Olympia & York more clout in the management of Campeau and reduces the financial stake of Robert Campeau, the company's founder, who remains chairman and chief executive officer. Olympia & York, an investment holding and real-estate development company closely held by Toronto's wealthy Reichmann family, gained three seats on a new 10-member Campeau board and got the right to buy almost 16 million shares of Campeau stock. Olympia & York also was given authority to help steer Campeau through a major financial overhaul, which Wall Street analysts expect could bring change in Campeau's retail operation. The previously announced sale of the Bloomingdale's chain could be followed by more sales of selective holdings. ``There is such a lot of debt, they're going to have to get the money from somewhere,'' said Pamela Stubing, an analyst at Moody's Investors Service Inc. ``I would assume ... that there would be assets on the block. I would think they wouldn't try to dump a lot of them on the block because that would depress the market.'' Campeau spokeswoman Carol Sanger said possible asset sales would be among many options considered by a newly formed restructuring commmittee. For now, Campeau is seeking buyers for Bloomingdale's only, she said. Numerous potential bidders are believed interested in New York-based Bloomingdale's. Bloomingdale's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Marvin S. Traub has said he would try to lead a management buyout of the 17-store chain he has run since 1978. Crown American Corp., a privately-held firm that is a major U.S. shopping mall developer, also said it may go after Bloomingdale's. Under the definitive agreement with Olympia & York, a new board of directors was appointed. Three members of the new board come from the Campeau group, three from Olympia & York and four represent minority shareholders. The board formed a restructuring committee headed by one of the three Reichmann-appointed members of the board, Lionel Dodd. The company's U.S. arm will select a chief executive officer and chief financial officer, who will report directly to the board and restructuring committee. The executives' main mission will be to supervise the restructuring of Campeau's U.S. retail operations, which also include the Jordan Marsh, Stern's, Ralphs, Lazarus, Burdines and Rich's-Goldsmith's chains. The first portion of the loan from Olympia & York became available immediately. The agreement calls for up to $150 million to be channeled to Federated and the remainder to Allied, which are both based in Cincinnati. ``With these loans, Federated and Allied anticipate being able to continue to meet all of their obligations to suppliers and creditors in a timely manner,'' the company said in an announcement issued by its Toronto headquarters. In return for providing the cash, Olympia & York will receive warrants entitling it to purchase up to 15.625 million ordinary Campeau shares at $16 each until Sept. 18, 1991. The share purchase would raise Olympia & York's current 24.5 percent stake in Campeau to about 38.4 percent, on a fully diluted basis. Meanwhile, Robert Campeau's stake will drop to 43.2 percent from about 54 percent under the agreement. AP890920-0232 AP-NR-09-20-89 0052EDT r f BC-Campeau-States 09-20 0189 BC-Campeau-States,0216 States With Campeau Operations With PM_Campeau, Bjt NEW YORK (AP) Here is a list of the U.S. retailers and properties owned by Campeau Corp. and the states in which the holdings are located, according to the company's 1989 annual report: Allied Stores Corp.: Jordan Marsh, 26 stores _ Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island. Maas Brothers-Jordan Marsh, 28 _ Florida, Georgia. Stern's, 24 _ New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania. The Bon, 39 _ Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming. Federated Department Stores Inc.: Abraham & Straus, 15 _ New Jersey, New York. Bloomingdale's, 17 _ Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia. Burdines, 30 _ Florida. Lazarus, 43 _ Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia. Ralphs, 134 _ California. Rich's-Goldsmith's, 26 _ Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee. Shopping Centers: Shoppers World, Framingham, Mass. Northshore Mall, Peabody, Mass. Tacoma Mall, Tacoma, Wash. Northgate Mall, Seattle, Wash. Bergen Mall, Paramus, N.J. Columbia Shopping Center, Kennewick, Wash. Office and Mixed_Use: 333 Bush Street, San Francisco Business Parks: United States, 937,000 square feet of net rentable area. AP890920-0233 AP-NR-09-20-89 0053EDT r f PM-FactoryWorkers 09-20 0190 PM-Factory Workers,0197 Manufacturing Company Employees Want More Training, Survey Says NEW YORK (AP) More than half the participants in a survey of 22,000 manufacturing company employees said they see a need to improve the climate in which they work, a consulting firm said. Rath & Strong, which conducted the survey and released it Tuesday, said the most often-cited desires were for better feedback on performance, more training and career development, and better ways of resolving conflicts. ``More and more employees are getting more and more restless,'' Dan Ciampa, president of Rath & Strong, said in an interview. Fifty-four percent rated their supervisors as effective managers and 67 percent of all hourly employees said their jobs are not reviewed enough to keep employees as productive as possible. ``This information suggests that production employees care as much, perhaps even more, than managers about quality, but are frustrated by their company's slowness to respond,'' John Burns, a vice president of the Lexington, Mass.-based consulting firm, said in a news release. The survey covered 22,600 employees of Fortune 500 manufacturing companies. About 46 percent were hourly workers and 54 percent salaried. AP890920-0234 AP-NR-09-20-89 0053EDT r f PM-BearRecall 09-20 0188 PM-Bear Recall,0196 Buttons on Kensington Bear Pose Choking Hazard WASHINGTON (AP) The Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled one member of the popular ``Kensington Bear'' toy family because buttons may detach from clothes the bear wears and choke small children. The commission said Tuesday the recalled model is number S7417. The brown, 14-inch stuffed bear is clad in a maroon print dress trimmed with pink and blue ribbons at the hem and three heart-shaped buttons sewn on the front. The bear's outfit also includes white lace bloomers and a straw hat with a pink bow. The panel said the buttons ``may pose a potential choking hazard for children under age three'' who might loosen and pull the buttons off the dress and swallow them. No injuries have been reported although 1,800 bears have been on the national retail market since January 1988, the panel said. Consumers may keep the bear or return it for a refund from the manufacturer, Heartline, a division of Kansas City, Mo.-based Graphics International, Inc. by calling 1-800-821-7200. The commission recommends consumers keep the toy remove and dispose of the buttons. AP890920-0235 AP-NR-09-20-89 0054EDT r f PM-US-JapaneseBanks Bjt 09-20 0697 PM-US-Japanese Banks, Bjt,0724 Japanese Banks Gaining Further U.S. Foothold By VIVIAN MARINO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank's planned investment in Manufacturers Hanover Corp. is the latest effort by cash-rich Japanese banks to gain firmer footing in the United States, particularly in the financing of mid-sized, bread-and-butter companies, experts said. ``You can say that their interests are in two areas: learning the tricks of the trade here ... and in diversifying to increase earnings,'' Masaru Kakutani, an associate director of the investment research firm Moody's Investors Service Inc., said Tuesday. In recent years, Japanese banks have made significant inroads in the U.S. market by adding and expanding their own branch offices here, or buying into established financial units, from banking to securities operations. In California, for example, Japanese-owned banks reportedly account for nearly 20 percent of the banking business. And in New York, eight of the 10 largest foreign bank branches are part of Japanese banks. Japanese institutions make about 5 percent of all U.S. loans and hold about 9 percent of U.S. banking assets, according to Kakutani's estimates. He and some other experts predict those figures will climb steadily in the next 18 months as Japanese banks try to maintain a competitive edge with each other. But Dai-Ichi, the world's largest bank with assets of $414 billion, made the biggest commitment in U.S. banking thus far when it agreed to acquire a 4.9 percent stake in Manufacturers Hanover and a 60 percent interest in CIT Group, the bank's financial services unit, for about $1.4 billion. The deal, announced by both banks Monday and subject to regulatory approval, was part of a sweeping recapitalization plan by cash-hungry Manufacturers Hanover, the seventh-largest U.S. bank with $70 billion in assets. That plan includes a $950 million addition to loan-loss reserves to cover shaky Third World debt and the issuance of as much as $500 million in new common stock by year's end. Because Manufacturers will retain a minority stake in CIT and current management will remain intact under the deal, Dai-Ichi will be receiving the American know-how it needs for expansion while saving money in the long run, some analysts said. Leasing and lending to medium-sized U.S. companies, which is CIT's primary business, are areas Japanese companies have been eager to enter because they are among the most profitable parts of the U.S. financial market. Profits are larger in the middle market because such companies have less access to the stock and bond markets than the larger corporations, and therefore, less say in negotiating loan terms, said Richard A. Mueller, an analyst with Duff & Phelps Inc. in Chicago. At the same time, James J. McDermott Jr., of Keefe Bruyette & Woods in New York, said startup efforts in those areas are costly and time consuming. And Yuko Oana, Dai-Ichi's senior managing director, conceded, ``We lack the technology ... and local expertise.'' He said CIT ``will enable us to offer a considerably broader product line to our customers around the world ... (and) at the same time, we believe that CIT will benefit from the international exposure and prespective that DKB can provide.'' Other Japanese banks have made similar deals. As the Dai-Ichi-Manufacturers Hanover announcement was being made Monday, Daiwa Bank Ltd. said it agreed to acquire the U.S. commercial banking operations of Britain's Lloyds Bank PLC for about $200 million. Earlier this summer, Mitsui Bank Ltd. agreed to pay $100 million for a 5 percent stake in a Security Pacific Corp. finance unit that includes leasing, commercial and consumer finance. In 1984, Fuji Bank paid $425 million for control of Heller International Corp., a commercial finance company like CIT. Even Japanese companies outside of banking have gotten into the act. In August, Orix Corp., a major Japanese leasing company, agreed to pay $190 million for a capital equipment financing subsidiary owned by First Interstate Bancorp. In addition, a number of big Japanese banks control primary dealers in U.S. government securities. U.S. financial institutions, on the other hand, have been slower to expand in Japan, primarily because access to Japanese markets hasn't been as open as access for Japanese firms to U.S. markets. AP890920-0236 AP-NR-09-20-89 0054EDT r f PM-AirlineBuyouts 09-20 0401 PM-Airline Buyouts,0416 Skinner Warns Against Excessive Debt for Airlines With PM-Airline Competition, Bjt By DAVID BRISCOE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner says he would revoke an airline's certificate to fly if debt incurred by a buyout or other transaction threatened its fitness. Skinner also told an international aviation industry group Tuesday that he was keeping close watch on investments by foreign carriers in U.S. airlines. The Transportation Department is expected to complete within a few days an assessment of the takeover of NWA Inc., parent company of Northwest Airlines, by California investor Alfred Checchi in a deal that leaves the carrier with $3.1 billion in debt. The department also has begun examining the planned $6.75 billion buyout of United Airlines' parent company by a group including its pilots and current management. ``I will not allow excessive debt in the airline industry to jeopardize the public interest, especially in the important area of safety,'' Skinner said in a speech that did not refer directly to the Northwest or United takeovers. He said that if an airline's fitness is called into question, ``rest assured that the department will not hesitate to make adjustments to the airline's operating certificate.'' ``Or, if absolutely necessary, and I hope that doesn't take place, we will revoke the certificate,'' he said. On foreign investment in U.S. airlines, Skinner said, ``As long as I am secretary, you can rest assured that I will keep an eagle eye on these transactions. The interests of the American public cannot and will not be sacrificed.'' Royal Dutch Airlines has a share in the Northwest deal and British Airways PLC would hold a minority interest in UAL, parent company of United, in that buyout. Other foreign airlines recently have acquired minority shares of U.S. airlines. Under law, foreign investment in a U.S. airline is limited to a 25 percent stake. ``They are not cookies. They are not hairspray. They are a valuable natural resource,'' Skinner said of U.S. airlines. He expressed support for increased international trade and investment but said foreign investment in U.S. airlines raises national security questions and poses problems in negotiating for air routes. ``In some circumstances, I think we would have to reconsider our practice of sharing our negotiating position (on foreign routes) with the U.S. airlines,'' he said, indicating that the information might be made available to the airlines' foreign partners. AP890920-0237 AP-NR-09-20-89 0109EDT r f PM-WorkingMother-Companies Bjt 09-20 0613 PM-Working Mother-Companies, Bjt, Magazine Lists Top 60 Companies For Working Moms By RICK GLADSTONE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) Sixty U.S. companies have taken extraordinary steps to accommodate working mothers, with benefits and other inducements that range from child care centers to generous parental leave, Working Mother magazine reports. Its survey on ``The Best Companies for Working Mothers,'' published in the October issue on sale today, includes corporate giants such as International Business Machines Corp., DuPont and Merck & Co. Inc., as well as smaller concerns such as regional banks and hospitals. ``The pity is there aren't more companies. It's too bad it's not the 600 best companies,'' Judsen Culbreth, editor of the magazine, said Tuesday. ``But we do want to credit these companies as being forward-thinking.'' The working mother is the fastest-growing category of the labor force. More than half of all women with children younger than 6 years old work outside the home, vs. 12 percent in 1950, the Labor Department says. By the year 2000, the department estimates 84 percent of all women of childbearing age will be working. Nonetheless, less than 1 percent of all U.S. companies provide child care aid to their employees. Culbreth said the 60 companies on the list recognize ``there's a labor shortage and they see family benefit packages as a real recruiting tool.'' Working Mother deputy editor Susan Seliger said the list was based on questionnaires mailed to hundreds of American businesses, as well as follow-up interviews with managers and employees. She said the company did not attempt to rank the finalists from best to worst due to the difficulty of doing so. ``It's not like the Fortune 500, which is cut and dried,'' she said. ``This is something subtler, more difficult to quantify.'' The magazine said the finalists were chosen based on salary, advancement opportunity, support for child care, and a benefits package that included maternity leave, parental leave, adoption aid, flexible schedules, part-time work, job sharing and support for care of elderly dependents. It said the top 10 companies were selected based on their superior showing in these categories. Among the top 10, for example, is Apple Computer Inc., which provides one of the most competitive pay and benefit packages of any U.S. company. It offers a child care center at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters that is open until 7 p.m. Apple also bestows $500 on all new babies of its employees and provides up to $3,000 in adoption aid. At Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM, where 20 percent of managers are women, mothers get three years of unpaid leave with benefits and employees have a two-hour window within which to arrive and leave work. Merck, the world's largest producer of prescription drugs, is breaking ground for a new child-care center at its Rahway, N.J., headquarters, provides part-time hours for new mothers returning to work and allows employees to work at home. Other entries include Cary, N.C.-based SAS Institute, a computer software maker where nearly half the managers are women and the company provies a free on-site child care center; and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, where nurses can earn up to $63,000 a year, and nursing mothers can use breast-pump stations so they don't have to abandon breast feeding when they return to work. Other members of the top 10 included DuPont of Wilmington, Del; Fel-Pro Inc. of Skokie, Ill.; Hoffman-La Roche Inc. of Nutley, N.J; Morrison & Foerster of San Francisco; and Syntex Corp. of Palo Alto, Calif. Working Mother, a 10-year-old magazine headquartered in New York, has a circulation of 460,000. Formerly part of the Working Woman-McCalls Group, it is now published by Lang Communications Inc. AP890920-0238 AP-NR-09-20-89 0110EDT r f PM-WorkingMother-List 09-20 0286 PM-Working Mother-List,0349 With PM-Working Mother-Companies NEW YORK (AP) Here is the 1989 roster of the 60 best companies for working mothers published in the October issue of Working Mother magazine. The companies are listed alphabetically, with dashes denoting companies in the magazine's top 10 list: Aetna Life & Casualty, Hartford, Conn. America West Airlines, Phoenix, Ariz. American Bankers Insurance Group, Miami, Fla. American Express, New York. AT&T, New York. _Apple Computer, Cupertino, Calif. Arthur Andersen, Chicago. Atlantic Richfield, Los Angeles. Baptist Hospital, Miami. Barrios Technology, Houston. _Beth Israel Hospital, Boston. Campbell Soup, Camden, N.J. Champion International, Stamford, Conn. Corning, Corning N.Y. Digital Equipment, Maynard, Mass. Dominion Bankshares, Roanoke, Va. Dow Chemical, Midland, Mich. _DuPont, Wilmington, Del. Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y. _Fel-Pro, Skokie, Ill. First Atlanta, Atlanta, Ga. Gannett, Washington. Genentech, South San Francisco, Calif. General Mills, Minneapolis. Grieco Bros., Lawrence, Mass. Group 243, Ann Arbor, Mich. G.T. Water Products, Moorpark, Calif. Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, Mo. Hechinger, Landover, Md. Herman Miller, Zeeland, Mich. Hewitt Associates, Lincolnshire, Ill. Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, Calif. Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos, Boston. _Hoffmann-La Roche, Nutley, N.J. _IBM, Armonk, N.Y. Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J. S.C. Johnson & Sons, Racine, Wis. Lancaster Laboratories, Lancaster, Pa. Leo Burnett, Chicago. Lincoln National, Fort Wayne, Ind. Lost Arrow, Ventura, Calif. _Merck, Rahway, N.J. 3M, St. Paul, Minn. _Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco. NCNB, Charlotte, N.C. Nordstrom, Seattle Official Airline Guides, Oak Brook, Ill. Pitney Bowes, Stamford, Conn. Polaroid, Cambridge, Mass. Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati. _SAS Institute, Cary, N.C. Steelcase, Grand Rapids, Mich. Stride Rite, Cambridge, Mass. _Syntex, Palo Alto, Calif. Time-Warner, New York. Trammell Crow, Dallas. UNUM Life INsurance, Portland, Maine. US West, Englewood, Colo. Warner-Lambert, Morris Plains, N.J. Xerox, Stamford, Conn. AP890920-0239 AP-NR-09-20-89 0136EDT r f PM-BankHearing 09-20 0540 PM-Bank Hearing,0559 Regulators: Commerical Banks Not Heading Toward Crisis By JOHN D. McCLAIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Federal and state regulators say that commercial banks, despite record post-Depression failures, are not falling into a crisis similar to that experienced by the savings and loan industry. But they told a House Banking financial institutions subcommittee Tuesday they are keeping a wary eye on potential trouble spots, including Third World debts, leveraged buy-out loans, junk bonds failures and real estate losses. ``The Bank Insurance Fund is solvent and can meet the obligations as we foresee them today,'' L. William Seidman, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., testified. Subcommittee Chairman Frank Annunzio, D-Ill., scheduled three days of hearings on the state of the bank and credit union insurance systems in light of the failure of the savings and loan insurance fund and the subsequent congressional authorization of $50 billion to bail out the industry. At Tuesday's opening session, Annunzio claimed there are similarities between the two financial sectors. ``While thrifts were making bad loans in the United States, banks were making bad loans all over the world,'' he said. ``While thrifts made ADC (acquisition, development and construction) loans, banks made LBO (leveraged buy-out) loans.'' Annunzio pointed to other problems: _In 1988, the FDIC, which insures individual deposits against losses up to $100,000 each, had a net loss of $4.2 billion, its first loss in its 50-year history. _Two hundred banks failed in 1988. _Another 1,000 banks are rated as problem institutions. ``Some observers of the banking industry have suggested that commercial banks will soon face a crisis similar to that experienced by the savings and loan industry,'' Comptroller of the Currency Robert L. Clarke testified. ``In my view, such concerns are overstated and are inconsistent with observable trends in bank performance,'' he said. Seidman also noted the bank failures and the cost of assisting troubled banks but said, ``We believe that the worst of the problems in the banking industry are behind us.'' ``We expect this year's failure rate to be similar to or slightly better than last year and we project the pace of bank failures to slow next year,'' he said. Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Manuel H. Johnson, noting the large number and the size of the failed banks, told the subcommittee the recent problems have demonstrated the strength of the bank insurance fund. But he added: ``In our view, for the system to remain sound, it must be governed by an adequate supervisory framework that strikes the proper balance between reasonable prudential rules, such as minimum capital standards, and an adequate on-site supervision and examination program.'' Jill M. Considine, chairman of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, also noted the debate over capital standards and said they should not be lowered just because thrifts entering the bank insurance sytstem cannot meet a specified standard. She also called for a separation of bank chartering and insurance functions, saying ``the essential conflict between the proactive, perfomance-oriented goals of the charterer and the risk-adverse attitude of the insurer demands balance. ``We saw this breakdown in the Federal Home Loan Bank Board,'' which until the new savings and loan law was enacted, both chartered and insured thrifts, she said. AP890920-0240 AP-NR-09-20-89 0141EDT r f PM-FHALoans 09-20 0634 PM-FHA Loans,0657 Senate Votes Cap for FHA Loans By ALAN FRAM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A divided Senate voted to boost the price ceiling on home mortgages the Federal Housing Administration can insure, heading off a Democratic effort to eliminate the cap entirely. Adoption of the measure Tuesday, increasing the current $101,250 limit to $124,875, was a reversal by the lawmakers. Minutes earlier, they narrowly rejected a similar provision that would have raised the ceiling to just $118,000. Democrats, with a sprinkling of Republican support, had sought to eliminate the price ceiling on mortgages, arguing that the move would benefit borrowers living in the nation's priciest housing markets. But sensing a campaign issue, Republicans said the Democratic proposal would mostly benefit well-to-do people and divert FHA resources away from poorer home buyers. ``This is a classic case where my colleagues on the other side talk about the poor and the underclass and low-income and medium income, and are reaching out again to help the rich,'' said Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan. The provision is part of a $67.2 billion measure financing federal housing, veterans, space and environmental programs for fiscal 1990, which begins Oct. 1. By a 55-43 vote, the Senate rejected a Democratic attempt to scuttle the proposed $124,875 ceiling. The cap, which will last for one year, was then adopted on a voice vote. ``I think people were knowledgeable that I was going to keep working at it,'' said Sen. Don Nickles, R-Okla., who sponsored both the $118,000 and $125,000 cap proposals and had threatened to keep introducing amendments until one was adopted. Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., who fought for removing the cap entirely, said afterward that his side was ``caught by surprise'' by Nickles' repeated efforts. That vote came after the chamber rejected, 50-49, to reject the proposal to raise the limit to $118,000. Thirty-nine Republicans and 16 Democrats voted against blocking the $124,875 ceiling proposal. Only 36 Republicans and 13 Democrats had supported the lower cap on the earlier vote. Aides to Nickles estimated the $125,000 ceiling might stimulate about $5 billion worth of additional home purchases. They said metropolitan areas where borrowers would be able to take advantage of the higher cap include Boston; New York City; Stamford, Conn.; Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles; San Francisco; and San Diego. The Bush administration had opposed removing the FHA mortgage cap, arguing it would be unwise to do so without reforming the fiscally troubled agency. Opponents of eliminating the cap entirely said that would expose the government to huge losses from additional loan defaults. The FHA's main insurance fund lost $452 million last year, according to a congressional report, as default payments outweighed collected fees. Congress was told last month by Comptroller General Charles Bowsher that FHA has ``very serious'' financial management difficulties. Opponents also argued that removing the ceiling would in effect shift more of the FHA's resources from low-income to high-income people and would be most beneficial to buyers in wealthy areas such as New York and California. ``If they ever want a fat-cat provision, this is it,'' said Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C. Supporters of scrapping the $101,250 ceiling argued that it would make more FHA loans available in many of the country's most expensive areas. In 18 states plus Washington, D.C., the median home price already exceeds that limit, according to the National Association of Home Builders. More than 17 million families have used FHA insurance since the agency was founded in 1934. Under the program, borrowers obtain their loans from banks, and the loans in turn are guaranteed by the government. Because the bank is making a risk-free investment, it is able to offer better terms to borrowers. The House version of the bill, passed July 20, did not contain the FHA provision. AP890920-0241 AP-NR-09-20-89 0142EDT r f BC-EmbezzlingCharges 09-20 0321 BC-Embezzling Charges,0332 Former AMC Official Accused of Embezzling KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) A former executive of AMC Inc. was indicted Tuesday on charges of stealing more than $2 million from the Kansas City-based motion picture theater company. George B. Jones, 42, of Olathe, Kan., was charged in a 21-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury, said Frank J. Storey, agent in charge of the Kansas City FBI office. Storey said Jones, AMC's former vice president of accounting, is charged with 12 counts of interstate transportation of stolen money, four counts of money laundering and five counts of income tax evasion. Storey said the indictment resulted from a 10-month investigation by the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service, begun after AMC officials discovered irregularities in vendor payments allegedly arranged by Jones. Jones declined to comment Tuesday. His attorney, James Wyrsch, said: ``At this point, until we have an opportunity to evaluate the evidence, we don't have any comment. At some point we intend to make our side of it known.'' The indictment said Jones asked AMC to issue checks to Designs Unlimited, described as a fictitious business he established and represented as a project he was administering for the chairman of the board. According to the indictment, Jones deposited the checks into the account of D.L. Jones Construction Co., doing business as Designs Unlimited, at a bank where he had established lines of credit in both names. Jones allegedly took cash advances from the lines of credit and repaid them by depositing embezzled AMC checks, resulting in a loss of $2.3 million to the company. The indictment also charged that Jones filed false income tax returns by understating his income for 1983 through 1987, and that he engaged in money laundering by depositing embezzled funds into the bank. Conviction on all counts could mean a sentence of up to 185 years and fines of up to $4.5 million. AP890920-0242 AP-NR-09-20-89 0143EDT r f PM-RoadWarriors 09-20 0629 PM-Road Warriors,0653 Howard Johnson Hotels Target `Road Warriors' in New Marketing Campaign By SKIP WOLLENBERG AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) The Howard Johnson hotel chain is inviting ``road warriors'' to spend the night and isn't the least bit concerned that the guests will trash the place. The road warriers whom Howard Johnson wants to reach through a $25 million marketing campaign unveiled Tuesday are business travelers who spend about 50 nights a year away from home. Howard Johnson Franchise Systems Inc. wants to expand its 8 percent share of the $3.5 billion that it says business travelers spend on mid-priced hotels, which generally charge $35 to $70 a night. The leader in this market segment is Holiday Inn, industry executives say, while Ramada and Best Western also are major competitors. In an effort to boost its share of the market by 15 percent, Howard Johnson has targeted frequent business travelers with humorous new advertising, front desk amenities ranging from panty hose to contact lens solution, and a frequent-lodger incentive program. In television commercials that debut Sunday on the CBS pro football telecast, a knight dons armor, an Indian applies warpaint, an Amazon checks her weaponry and a Viking adjusts his horned headdress. ``There's a special breed of people who do battle day after day,'' a narrator says in an ominous tone. ``Their arena ... the business world. Their territory ..the road,'' the announcer adds as they leave their rooms and stride to the elevator. But just before the door closes with all four aboard, the knight recognizes the Indian. ``Ray? Ray Camp!'' the knight says. ``Dave!'' the Indian replies. ``On the road again, huh?'' the knight says as the door closes. ``Three times this week,'' the Indian is heard to reply. In the lobby, all four exchange pleasantries as they head for the door in full war regalia. But once they pass through the hotel door, they emerge in regular business clothes. ``Howard Johnson. Home of the Road Warrior,'' the announcer says. Chris Browne, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Howard Johnson, said the business travel segment offers stronger growth potential than leisure travel market does for the lodging industry over the next five years. He said the new ad campaign, produced by the agency Lintas:New York, was designed to get the attention of business travelers who may not perceive much difference among mid-priced hotels and are staying elsewhere out of habit. The concept of a ``road warrior,'' he said, conveys immediately that this hotel is for business people who may spend 50 nights a year or more in hotels. Browne said under the new program, frequent business travelers will be encouraged to register for an express check-in card which will be plastered with a ribbon for every 10 or 15 nights they stay at one of Howard Johnson's 400 North American hotels, lodges and suites. They also will earn credits toward rewards of merchandise, travel or services under a program that begins Jan. 1. He said Howard Johnson plans to spend $8 million on the advertising that will continue through October on TV broadcasts of college and pro football and the Major League baseball playoffs as well as on radio and in print. The total cost of the marketing program is $25 million through the end of 1990. The campaign replaces ads that for the past three years have called attention to the $320 million in renovations that its hotels have undergone. Shortly after the hotel company was acquired by Prime Motor Inns Inc. of Fairfield, N.J., in late 1985, it ran a campaign called ``We're Turning Howard Johnson Upside Down'' and followed it in 1987 with ads that showed surprised guests admiring the new facilities and asking, ``This is Howard Johnson?'' AP890920-0243 AP-NR-09-20-89 0119EDT r f PM-Next Bjt 09-20 0804 PM-Next, Bjt,0830 Jobs' Next Inc. Sees New Software as Key to Business World By STEVE WILSTEIN AP Business Writer MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) Steve Jobs, pitching Next Inc.'s pricey workstation to the business world, recalled the first time he saw a computer spreadsheet. It was 1977, and one of the creators of the spreadsheet was showing it off at Apple Computer Inc., the Cupertino company co-founded by Jobs. ``Somebody was ushering him through, saying it's the most incredible thing we've seen in software,'' Jobs remembered. ``We hardly knew how to spell software back then. It was this visual calculator and they were trying to decide what to call it.'' The name chosen was Visicalc, and the product turned the Apple II, co-invented by Jobs, into a practical business computer and a huge success. ``That was the first education we got as to how important these things were going to become in our lives,'' Jobs said. ``Any of us who went through that experience never forgot how much a spreadsheet shapes the future of the computer. We saw the same thing with Macintosh.'' Jobs, who left Apple after a dispute, believes his new company, Next Inc., will have even greater success cracking the business market after the introduction Tuesday of the versatile Wingz graphic spreadsheet from Informix Software Inc. and completion of Next's 1.0 operating system. Next recently began shipping its sleek, black $9,995 workstation, and demand is picking up rapidly, said David A. Norman, chief executive officer for Businessland, Next's U.S. distributor. Norman said he is sticking by his estimate that Next will account for $100 million in sales within 12 months. ``We have sold hundreds of (Next) machines into the corporate marketplace and we need to sell thousands,'' said Norman. ``What we needed was, one, an operating system, and two, real applications. Today marks the beginning of real applications.'' Jobs said Next's heavily automated plant in Fremont is ready to speed up quickly for high-volume shipments to match Norman's sales expectations. ``It has a large enough capacity to support a $1 billion company,'' Jobs said. ``We have ambitious goals. I think we've passed some real significant milestones. But I think we have a lot of work left to do.'' Jobs said that when Apple developed the Macintosh under his direction, ``we kind of went into corporate America through the back door. We weren't really accepted in the front door.'' The Next machine, though, was designed to meet the needs of businesses that want to develop their own software quickly and efficiently and use it on an easily operated and reliable workstation. ``Next is coming in the front door now,'' Norman said. ``We're getting the heads of management information systems to see this product and take the factory tour. It's a lot easier for us to get the products evaluated and get on the approved lists so people can buy the products.'' Part of Jobs' ambitious plans are tied to a software development relationship with International Business Machines Corp. _ a company he once disparaged in ads as ``Big Brother.'' IBM's interest in Next stems from the usefulness of NextStep in speeding software development and the desire by IBM to get software for its workstations into the marketplace quickly. The two companies struck a deal giving IBM the right to evaluate NextStep and establish royalty rates and contingency payments if IBM decides to offer it. NextStep, which programmers say allows up to 33 percent faster development of software, was used by Informix to create its Wingz version for Next. NextStep is a layer of software that sits between the operating system, which controls the inside of the computer, and the application programs, such as word processors and spreadsheets. If the Next-IBM relationship proves successful, it could mean big trouble for software leader and longstanding IBM partner Microsoft Corp., and workstation manufacturers Sun Microsystems Inc., Digital Equipment Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Corp. ``Jobs' wooing of IBM is just the opening skirmish in what has become a sordid battle for intellectual leadership of the industry,'' says Stewart Alsop, editor of P.C. Letter. Jobs is working with more than 70 software companies, including Lotus Development Corp., encouraging them to ``do to Microsoft with the Next computer what Microsoft did to them with the Macintosh.'' Microsoft gained its preeminence in the industry by developing software for IBM and then capturing nearly the entire business application market for the Macintosh. Jobs, who seeded Next with $7 million of his own money in 1985 after he left Apple, owns 50 percent of the company, which has a total valuation of $600 million. Canon Inc. of Japan, which invested $100 million in Next earlier this year, owns 16.67 percent of the company, and the Perot Group, headed by investor Ross Perot, owns 12.51 percent. Next employees own 20 percent. AP890920-0244 AP-NR-09-20-89 0759EDT r f PM-ResortsInternational 09-20 0545 PM-Resorts International,0564 Resorts International Plans to Restructure Debt By JOYCE A. VENEZIA Associated Press Writer ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) Resorts International Inc. wants its bondholders to accept a bond exchange plan aimed at cutting its extensive debt. The hotel-casino company owned by entertainer Merv Griffin also indicated in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it was considering the possible sale of several Atlantic City properties, including land leased to the Showboat Hotel and Casino. Under the exchange plan announced to bondholders Tuesday, Resorts bondholders would trade in their existing bonds for new debentures, cash totaling about $54 million and common stock amounting to 25 percent of Resorts' outstanding shares. Resorts operations this year are not likely to generate enough money to cover its debt payments. Griffin took on $900 million in debt when he purchased the casino company from developer Donald Trump last November. To help ease its cash crunch, Resorts would have the option of not paying interest on the bonds given to its junior bondholders for five years, while for three years it would have the option of paying interest to senior bondholders in the form of additional notes. The investment firm Salomon Brothers Inc. of New York presented the refinancing plan at a bondholders meeting that Griffin did not attend. Resorts' bondholders must approve the reorganization plan, but no voting date has been scheduled. Ninety percent of each class of bonds must approve for the plan for it to take effect. Resorts officials said bondholders might organize and select representatives to discuss the plan with the company. ``We believe it makes more sense to work with us ... than to throw up your hands and make it collapse,'' Resorts President David P. Hanlon said. ``Salomon believes that Resorts is a healthy company, is profitable and is making money,'' said Jay F. Higgins, a vice president of Salomon Brothers. ``But we believe an unhappy marriage exists between the operations of the company and the liability structure, and it needs to be changed.'' Some bondholders already have filed a class action suit against Resorts, charging that the company's top officers inflated the worth of the company in a prospectus. Issued by Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. last year, the prospectus offered $325 million of notes on top of more than $600 million of Resorts' existing notes. Resorts faces payments of more than $133.5 million in interest and principal this year. Its operations in the first half of 1989 generated just under $16 million in cash flow. Resorts' problems stem partly from competition from newer casinos that have sprung up in Atlantic City, poor management and deteriorating physical facilities, said Hanlon. The company also poured money into its massive Taj Majal casino project, which remained unfinished when Trump took control of Resorts. Trump retained the Taj Majal when he sold the company to Griffin. In its SEC filing, Resorts indicated that required renovations and improvements at its Atlantic City hotel and casino operations were more extensive than management originally estimated and could take $50 million more than normal and recurring expenses. Properties that Resorts is considering selling include the land leased to the Showboat, which is part of a 27-acre tract, plus various other undeveloped sites in Atlantic City. AP890920-0245 AP-NR-09-20-89 0803EDT r f PM-CumminsStock 09-20 0224 PM-Cummins Stock,0230 Asian Investor Ups Stake in Engine Maker COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) A Hong Kong-based investment firm has increased its stake in Cummins Engine Co. to 11.5 percent, but a spokeswoman for the company says it does not suspect a takeover attempt. Industrial Equity Pacific Ltd. said it has purchased an additional 164,000 shares of Cummins stock, increasing its total to 1.175 million shares. In a document submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission in July, Industrial Equity said it was seeking regulatory approval to increase its share to as much as 24.9 percent. ``We have received a copy of the filing and it seems pretty straightforward,'' said Cummins spokeswoman Maureen Phillips. ``There seems to be no change in their intent. We view it as a kind of an update,'' she said Tuesday. In the July SEC filing, Industrial Equity, a unit of New Zealand's Brierley Investments Ltd., said it had acquired the Cummins stock as an investment. That filing came the same month that two members of the Miller family that had founded Cummins paid a $5 million premium to buy out a 9.79 percent stake in the company owned by a British concern, Hanson PLC, and quell takeover fears. Robert G. Sutherland, president of Industrial Equity's North American office in La Jolla, Calif., could not be reached for comment. AP890920-0246 AP-NR-09-20-89 0809EDT r f PM-CFM-IrishEngines 09-20 0125 PM-CFM-Irish Engines,0130 CFM to Provide Engines for Irish Airline EVENDALE, Ohio (AP) A jet engine manufacturer jointly owned by General Electric Co. and a French company has received an order worth at least $1 billion to build at least 200 jet engines for GPA, an Irish airline. CFM International Inc. said Tuesday that GPA Group has agreed to buy the engines to power Airbus Industries and Boeing jet airplanes. The order from GPA Group, one of CFM International's major customers, means more than 900 of the CFM56 engines will be in service with GPA worldwide by the year 2000, said Richard Shaffer, marketing director for CFM International. CFM International is a joint venture of General Electric Co. and the French manufacturer SNECMA. AP890920-0247 AP-NR-09-20-89 0847EDT r f PM-MGMGrand 09-20 0340 PM-MGM Grand,0357 MGM Grand Plans Movie Theme Park, Hotel in Vegas LOS ANGELES (AP) MGM Grand Inc. intends to bring a little Hollywood glitz and glamor to the desert gambling oasis of Las Vegas with a movie theme park slated to include a behind-the-scenes studio tour. Fred Benninger, MGM Grand's chairman and chief executive officer, said Tuesday that the new park would incorporate the company's MGM Grand Hotel, which will have more than 4,000 rooms when completed. Benninger said the park's attractions would be drawn from existing movie studio theme parks in Orlando, Fla. and Los Angeles. ``We envision this theme park as a comprehensive trip to Hollywood,'' Benninger said. On Sept. 6, MGM Grand filed suit against the Walt Disney Co. in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas seeking a determination to use the MGM Grand name and related trademarks in an amusement park whose central theme is the movie industry. In 1985, Disney acquired certain rights from MGM@UA Communications Corp. to use the MGM name, but not the MGM Grand name, at its Orlando Disney-MGM Studios theme park. That license currently is the subject of litigation between MGM@UA and Disney. MGM Grand had obtained a license to use the MGM Grand name in 1985 from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., predecessor of MGM@UA, to use in connection with its hotel and casino business. Australia's Qintex Corp. on Friday topped a bid by Rupert Murdoch to buy out MGM-UA for $1.5 billion. MGM Grand may tie its planned theme park to its 821-room Desert Inn Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, but is reviewing alternate sites for the park, Benninger said. Also Tuesday, Benninger announced that MGM Grand had agreed to purchase 143 acres of land it presently leases at the Desert Inn site for $28 million. MGM Grand also agreed to acquire a 110,000 square-foot Beverly Hills office building from MGM@UA, MGM Grand said. The building will go for the higher of $43 million or its independently appraised value, including an outstanding construction loan, the company said. AP890920-0248 AP-NR-09-20-89 0926EDT r f PM-Australia-Bond 09-20 0366 PM-Australia-Bond,0381 Bond Sells Half Stake in Australian Brewery to New Zealand Firm PERTH, Australia (AP) Australian businessman Alan Bond is selling half of his brewery empire to a New Zealand company to raise cash for his debt-burdened Bond Corp. Holdings Ltd. Bond intends to sell his holdings to Auckland-based Lion Nathan Ltd., a brewer and retailer, for more than about $760 million. Analysts said the move shattered Bond's dream of creating a major world-size brewer to complement his holdings that span the United States and Australia in media, property and natural resources. Bond, a hero in his own country for winning the America's Cup in 1983, on Tuesday unveiled a complex series of corporate maneuvers but gave few financial details of his plans. Under the transaction, Lion Nathan buys a 50 per cent interest in and management of Bond Corp.'s Swan, Tooheys and Castlemaine breweries, and the group's hotel and associated liquor interests. The brewery concern is one of Bond's most valuable assets. Bond Corp. was reported by Australian media to have outstanding debt of around $4.6 billion. Bond deferred for 12 months any decision to part with his U.S. brewery interest, G. Heileman Brewing Co. Bond's maneuvering increasingly is seen as crucial to his survival. In other developments Tuesday, Bond Corp. agreed to sell its 67.7 percent interest in the Harriet oil field off the northwestern coast of Australia. The decision followed one last week that saw Bond Corp. bailing out of its 20.4 percent stake in British conglomerate Lonrho PLC for $490 million. Bond said in a statement that the brewery deal was ``another positive step in the restructuring and strategic refocussing'' of his group. He said it would create a ``formidable brewing alliance'' in the region, aimed at the Pacific as well as Asia. Under the proposal, the brewing assets will be folded into a new joint venture company, Australian Breweries Pty. Ltd., equally owned by Bond Corp. and Lion Nathan. Bond Corp. on Wednesday issued a statement saying it would not ``enter into fuller public discussion'' on the deal. Separately, the National Companies and Securities Commission was due Wednesday to start an inquiry into some of Bond Corp. transactions. AP890920-0249 AP-NR-09-20-89 1007EDT r f BC-PeugeotStrike 09-20 0275 BC-Peugeot Strike,0285 Strikers Paralyze Production At Peugeot Plant MULHOUSE, France (AP) Striking workers halted production at the Peugeot SA auto plant Wednesday as management and union activists appeared to harden their positions in the two-week pay dispute against the French automaker. Between 600 and 800 strikers blocked access roads to Peugeot's plant at Mulhouse in eastern France with barricades and burning tires, witnesses said, preventing non-strikers from going to work. The assembly lines were shut down because ``they are missing workers,'' a Peugeot spokesman said. The plant employs 12,000 workers and manufactures Peugeot's economy 205 model. Four unions representing metalworkers at Mulhouse and Peugeot's plant in nearby Sochaux went on strike Sept. 5 to force the company into negotiations over a pay plan to take effect Oct. 1. But Peugeot President Jacques Calvet maintains the proposed raises exceed the rate of inflation. The company has offered a 2.4 percent cost-of-living and 1.4 percent merit-based increases, while the unions seek salary hikes between 10 percent and 15 percent, plus increased benefits. The average Peugeot worker with 15 years on the job earns about $21,000, the company says. At the Sochaux plant, the company's largest with 23,000 employees, between 1,000 and 3,000 strikers demonstrated in the work areas Wednesday to slow down the assembly lines. They failed to bring a full halt in production to the 605 luxury model, the Peugeot spokesman said. The car was introduced recently amid much fanfare to compete against Mercedes-Benz and BMW. The two-week series of slowdowns, walkouts and interference with the assembly lines has meant the loss in scheduled production of an estimated 16,000 cars, the company said. AP890920-0250 AP-NR-09-20-89 1020EDT u f PM-WallStreet10am 09-20 0290 PM-Wall Street 10am,0307 NEW YORK (AP) Stock prices inched ahead today, renewing their bid to rally from the market's early-September decline. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials rose 5.32 to 2,692.63 in the first half hour of the session. Gainers slightly outnumbered losers in nationwide trading of New York Stock Exchange-listed issues, with 457 up, 423 down and 560 unchanged. Volume on the Big Board came to 22.84 million shares as of 10 a.m. on Wall Street. Analysts said stocks had apparently pulled back enough since they hit a record high before Labor Day to attract some catch-up buying by investors who had been waiting for an opportunity to increase their stockholdings. But brokers also noted uneasiness over the market's uninspired showing Tuesday, when the Dow Jones industrials gave up a gain of about 10 points to finish slightly lower. That represented a sluggish response to the news that the consumer price index held steady in August, providing fresh encouragement on the inflation outlook. Upjohn dropped 1\ to 35[ in active trading. The Food and Drug Administration said an advisory committee was investigating the safety of Upjohn's prescription sleeping agent Halcion. AMR, whose American Airlines subsidiary posted fare increases to take effect next week, rose | to 77[. The NYSE's composite index of all its listed common stocks gained .26 to 192.72. At the American Stock Exchange, the market value index was up .80 at 379.63. On Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.19 to 2,687.31. Advancing issues narrowly outpaced decliners in nationwide trading of New York Stock Exchange-listed stocks, with 739 issues up, 696 down and 536 unchanged. Big Board volume came to 141.61 million shares, up from 136.94 million in the previous session. AP890920-0251 AP-NR-09-20-89 1042EDT u f PM-Britain-RTZ 09-20 0204 PM-Britain-RTZ,0212 RTZ Sells Chemicals Group To Rhone-Poulenc LONDON (AP) RTZ PLC, a British natural resources company, said today it agreed to sell its chemicals group to France's Rhone-Poulenc SA for about $892 million. Under terms of the deal, Rhone-Poulenc will pay RTZ $804 million in cash and assume debt totaling $88 million. The RTZ chemical businesses had an after-tax profit of $37 million, with net assets of $364 million at the end of last year. The announced sale puts RTZ closer to its goal of strengthening its interest in base and precious metals mining while selling off parts of its largely natural resources-based group. RTC disposed of two major oil-production assets last year, and earlier this year, purchased the minerals and mining businesses of British Petroleum Co. PLC. ``RTZ is now even more clearly focused on its low-cost mining portfolio and its leading related industrial manufacturing businesses,'' Chief Executive Derek Birkin said in a statement today. The acquisition will boost state-controlled Rhone-Poulenc's presence in the high-margin area of specialty chemicals and complement its previous U.S. expansion moves, including the purchase of Union Carbide Corp.'s agrochemicals division in 1986 and its 1987 purchase of the basic chemicals operations of Stauffer Chemical Co. AP890920-0252 AP-NR-09-20-89 1104EDT u f PM-TalkingEncyclopedia 1stLd-Writethru 09-20 0679 PM-Talking Encyclopedia, 1st Ld-Writethru,0703 Perfect School Tool for TV Kids: A Talking Encyclopedia Eds: SUBS 4th graf, Compton's MultiMedia ..., and INSERTS 1 graf after 12th graf, The compact ..., to CLARIFY that special kind of CD player required; picks up 15th graf, A single .... LaserPhoto NY9 By PETER COY AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) The publishers of Compton's Encyclopedia are launching a computerized ``talking'' version that has everything from snatches of Mozart to Richard Nixon saying, ``I'm not a crook.'' The talking encyclopedia, scheduled to be announced today, is intended for schools teaching students in the fourth through eighth grades, although Compton's says other students could learn from it as well. Compton's, not sparing the hyperbole, said there has not been such a significant development in publishing ``since Gutenberg originated the method of printing from movable type.'' Compton's MultiMedia Encyclopedia comes on a compact disc that works in conjunction with a special kind of CD player and a personal computer. The student can search through the disc by typing on a computer keyboard or clicking a hand-held device called a mouse. Besides sounds, the talking encyclopedia has animated pictures, such as a moving skeleton; 15,000 still pictures, maps and charts; the full text of the 26-volume standard Compton's Encyclopedia; and the 65,000-entry Merriam-Webster Intermediate Dictionary. A student who types in a single word _ say, ``castle'' _ will be given references to all kinds of related topics, including construction techniques and the history of the Middle Ages. Compton's, a unit of Encyclopedia Britannica Inc., appears to be in the lead in the field of talking encyclopedias. Grolier Inc. has had the text of its Academic American Encyclopedia on disc since 1985, but it does not have any pictures or sound. Encyclopedia Britannica itself also is available on compact disc, although in text only. The talking encyclopedia appears well-suited to the the channel-flipping TV generation, since it encourages casual browsing. Students who look up ``bees'' can click on one symbol to see a picture of bees and another symbol to hear them buzzing. ``The sound is no gimmick, but rather an important component of the multimedia approach that makes learning compelling and more rewarding,'' Stanley Frank, president of Britannica Software, said in a statement. Students can zoom in on things that interest them. For example, they can zero in from a picture of the globe to a continent to a particular portion of one country in seven stages. The same goes for a timeline of U.S. history and a color anatomy of the human body. The compact disc requires an IBM-compatible personal computer with a color screen, a speaker and a compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM) player, which together cost about $3,000. The disc itself costs $895, compared to $695 for the regular encyclopedia. Britannica Software said compatible CD-ROM players are available now from Sony Corp., Hitachi Ltd. and Amdek. A single disc can serve a network of 15-20 computers, Compton says. A few bugs remain to be worked out. The animated sequences are not yet ready and a brief look through the disc Tuesday turned up a typographical error. Although the publishers say a student can type in a question and be directed to an answer, the program tends to get hung up by even simple questions. About 250 schools have bought the unfinished version for the fall semester, and it will officially go on sale Jan. 1, 1990. The talking encyclopedia isn't suited to long stretches of reading, but Compton's hopes it will stimulate students to go off in a corner and read the regular volumes. The talking version isn't just for students who lack concentration, said Norman J. Bastin, executive director of planning and development for Encyclopedia Britannica. He said he has a 14-year-old daughter who loves it. ``She plays with the atlas for three or four hours at a time.'' Nationwide, sales of compact disc information products totaled about $125 million last year and are growing almost 20 percent a year, estimates Link Resources Corp., a New York-based consulting firm. AP890920-0253 AP-NR-09-20-89 1117EDT u f PM-WallStreet11am 09-20 0251 PM-Wall Street 11am,0265 NEW YORK (AP) Stock prices eked out a small gain today, renewing their bid to rally from the market's early-September decline. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials rose .76 to 2,688.07 by 11 a.m. on Wall Street. Gainers slightly outnumbered losers in nationwide trading of New York Stock Exchange-listed issues, with 582 up, 546 down and 554 unchanged. Analysts said stocks had apparently pulled back enough since they hit a record high before Labor Day to attract some catch-up buying by investors who had been waiting for an opportunity to increase their stockholdings. But brokers also noted uneasiness over the market's uninspired showing Tuesday, when the Dow Jones industrials gave up a gain of about 10 points to finish slightly lower. That represented a sluggish response to the news that the consumer price index held steady in August, providing fresh encouragement on the inflation outlook. Upjohn dropped | to 35} in active trading. The Food and Drug Administration said an advisory committee was investigating the safety of Upjohn's prescription sleeping agent Halcion. Jaguar PLC rose { to 8 5-16 in the over-the-counter market. Ford Motor's European arm said Tuesday it was interested in buying as much as 15 percent of the luxury car manufacturer. The NYSE's composite index of all its listed common stocks gained .12 to 192.58. At the American Stock Exchange, the market value index was up .87 at 379.70. Volume on the Big Board came to 47.32 million shares at midmorning. AP890920-0254 AP-NR-09-20-89 1143EDT u f PM-BoardofTrade Open 09-20 0336 PM-Board of Trade, Open,0348 Crop Futures Rise On Frost Potential CHICAGO (AP) Grain and soybean futures prices were mostly higher in early trading today on the Chicago Board of Trade, partly in reaction to forecasts for frost in the Corn Belt early next week. The early rally followed two days of sharply lower prices. At least one major private forecasting firm was calling for frost late Monday as far south as northern Illinois, northern Indiana and parts of Ohio. But meteorologists were divided on the chances for frost, and analysts said freezing temperatures at this late stage of the growth cycle would pose little threat to the crops. ``In realty, it won't do anything but speed up the leaf-drop stage of the soybeans in Illinois and Indiana _ but it would hurt the Ohio beans,'' said William Biedermann, director of research with Allendale Inc., a futures brokerage in Crystal Lake, Ill. He said the markets also were supported by extremely light farmer sales of grain, a function of the recent drop in prices. In early trading, wheat futures were } cent to 1\ cents higher with the contract for delivery in September at $3.81 a bushel; corn was \ cent to 1 cent higher with September at $2.34\ a bushel; oats were { cent lower to 1 cent higher with September at $1.33{ a bushel; soybeans were 2 cents to 5} cents higher with September at $5.65 a bushel. Cattle futures were lower while pork futures were mixed in early trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Live cattle were .12 cent to .30 cent lower with October at 71.02 cents a pound; feeder cattle were .07 cent to .40 cent lower with September at 83.10 cents a pound; hog futures were .05 cent lower to .23 cent higher with October at 41.65 cents a pound; frozen pork bellies were .10 cent to .30 cent lower with February at 47.37 a pound. Cattle futures settled mostly lower on Tuesday while pork futures were mixed. AP890920-0255 AP-NR-09-20-89 1210EDT u f PM-WallStreetNoon 09-20 0267 PM-Wall Street Noon,0282 NEW YORK (AP) Stock prices were little changed today in a quiet, drifting session. The noon Dow Jones average of 30 industrials stood at 2,687.31, unchanged from Tuesday's close. Gainers just slightly outnumbered losers in nationwide trading of New York Stock Exchange-listed issues, with 625 up, 614 down and 547 unchanged. Analysts said stocks had apparently pulled back enough since they hit a record high before Labor Day to attract some catch-up buying by investors who had been waiting for an opportunity to increase their stockholdings. But brokers also noted uneasiness over the market's uninspired showing Tuesday, when the Dow Jones industrials gave up a gain of about 10 points to finish slightly lower. That represented a sluggish response to the news that the consumer price index held steady in August, providing fresh encouragement on the inflation outlook. Upjohn dropped | to 35} in active trading. The Food and Drug Administration said an advisory committee was investigating the safety of Upjohn's prescription sleeping agent Halcion. AMR, whose American Airlines subsidiary posted fare increases to take effect next week, rose \ to 76}. Jaguar PLC added 7-16 to 8\ in the over-the-counter market. Ford Motor's European arm said Tuesday it was interested in buying as much as 15 percent of the luxury car manufacturer. The NYSE's composite index of all its listed common stocks gained .05 to 192.51. At the American Stock Exchange, the market value index was up .51 at 379.34. Volume on the Big Board came to 70.36 million shares at noontime, against 66.72 million at the same point Tuesday. AP890920-0256 AP-NR-09-20-89 1214EDT r f PM-CarpentersUnion 1stLd-Writethru f0026 09-20 0576 PM-Carpenters Union, 1st Ld-Writethru, f0026,0592 Union Sues Advisers Over $95 Million in Bad Real Estate Loans Eds: SUBS grafs 8-9 pvs, Empire attorney ..., with two grafs to CORRECT spelling of Sorkin. A version moving on general news wires. By JOHN KING AP Labor Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A 600,000-member union says bad real estate loans are threatening $95 million of its $200 million general treasury, a financial crisis it blames on negligence by its financial advisers. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners said Tuesday it was suing the consultants and hopes to recover the money but that it is establishing a $45 million reserve to reflect anticipated losses. ``We're taking every step necessary to stabilize the situation,'' union President Sigurd Lucassen told reporters. He said the loans were approved by his predecessor, Patrick Campbell, and that he would no longer involve the union in risky, direct real estate loans. He said any losses would not affect union operations or services. The money is from general treasury reserves and does not involve pension assets. The union has filed suit in District of Columbia Superior Court against Empire Contracting Consulting, a New York-based firm that also serviced and monitored the loans. Lucassen said Empire and its top two officials, Paul W. Adler and Stanley J. Burns, repeatedly assured union officials the loans and projects were ``in great shape'' but that all now had either been foreclosed or are near foreclosure. The suit filed alleges the officials failed to properly analyze the loan proposals, failed to monitor the performance of the developers and misled the union. Empire attorney Ira Lee Sorkin denied the allegations and said the company was being drawn into an internal dispute between Lucassen and Campbell. ``Empire worked to the best of its ability to represent the best interests of the union,'' Sorkin said. The most expensive project is a Baltimore waterfront condominium development that is partially completed and occupied and now being run by the union. The union took it over from the developer, who has filed for bankruptcy. The project, Henderson's Wharf, got a $34.6 million loan from the union, according to its attorney. The other troubled projects are: _Clermont Condominiums in Nyack, N.Y., developed with an $18.1 million union loan. _Reddie Point, a land development in Jacksonville, Fla., financed with a $14.8 million loan from the carpenters' union. _Towne Square, a retirement center in Merrillville, Ind., which got a $13.1 million loan from the union. _Butler Care Center, in Warrandale, Pa. The developers received a $2.7 million loan from the union to convert a motel into a nursing home. In addition, the union's general board authorized spending an additional $7 million to pay for necessary work at some of the projects, either to complete them or secure the buildings. A sixth Empire-recommended loan for a development in Illinois is not in default. In all, the loans and related expenditures total $95 million. Lucassen said the union hoped to recover as much of the money as possible through sales of the properties or its lawsuit but said it might have to spend more first to complete work that would make the projects more attractive to buyers. Unions generally are tight-lipped about their finances but must file annual reports with the Labor Department. Lucassen said the union's report would be filed soon and the organization wanted to first publicly disclose the problems so it would not be accused of hiding them. AP890920-0257 AP-NR-09-20-89 1303EDT r f BC-DebitCards 09-20 0184 BC-Debit Cards,0193 Utah Joins Suit Against Visa, Mastercard SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) Utah has joined a dozen other states in suing Visa U.S.A. Inc. and MasterCard International Inc. for allegedly conspiring to slow the introduction of debit cards. The suit claims the credit-card companies violated antitrust laws by conspiring to prevent competitors from launching national debit card networks, and to inhibit the use of a debit card they developed jointly. Visa and MasterCard have called the charges unfounded. A debit card can be presented at stores like a credit card, but the money is automatically transferred from the cardholder's bank account to the merchant's. With a credit card, credit companies extend funds to a merchant to cover the purchase and then bill the consumer. Credit card companies typically receive a fee from the merchant, based on a percentage of the purchase price, and charge consumers interest on unpaid balances and annual fees. Besides Utah, which filed suit on Tuesday, California, Connecticut, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, W. Virginia, Wisconsn and New York states are plaintiffs in the case. AP890920-0258 AP-NR-09-20-89 1306EDT u f BC-Dollar-Gold 09-20 0287 BC-Dollar-Gold,0304 Dollars Wanes, Gold Up Eds: AMs planned by 5:30 p.m. EDT LONDON (AP) The U.S. dollar declined in European trading Wednesday as dealers worried about a possible West German interest rate hike. Gold rose sharply. Saturday's meeting of financial officials from the Group of Seven industrial nations added to traders' qualms. The dollar was quoted in London at 1.9400 Deutsche marks, down from 1.9505 marks late Tuesday. ``There is distinct nervousness about a German rate hike,'' said the chief dealer at a U.S. investment bank in Frankfurt, West Germany. If West Germany does nothing, he said, the dollar is likely to bounce back on Thursday but only to around 1.9550 marks. The market also was worried that participants in Saturday's G-7 meeting might express concern over the dollar's recent strength. The dollar tested the 2.00-mark level late last week, before dropping to 1.9350 marks Friday. In Tokyo, the dollar rose 0.52 yen to a closing 146.25 yen. Later, in London, it dipped to 145.55 yen. Other late dollar rates compared with late Tuesday: 1.6800 Swiss francs, down from 1.6870; 6.5585 French francs, down from 6.5875; 2.1890 Dutch guilders, down from 2.2000; 1,399.50 Italian lire, down from 1,406.50; 1.1824 Canadian dollars, down from 1.1833. In London, the pound traded at $1.5820, down from $1.5720 late Tuesday. Gold traded late in London at a bid price of $363.25 an ounce, up from $360.50 a troy ounce late Tuesday. In Zurich, the closing bid price was $363.50, up from $360.50 late Tuesday. In Hong Kong, gold fell 34 cents to close at a bid $361.42 per troy ounce. Silver was quoted in London at a bid price of $5.13 a troy ounce, up from Tuesday's $5.09. AP890920-0259 AP-NR-09-20-89 1333EDT u f BC-Britain-Stocks 1stLd-Writethru 09-20 0195 BC-Britain-Stocks, 1st Ld-Writethru,0202 London Shares Close Higher Eds: UPDATES with close LONDON (AP) Stock prices in London closed higher Wednesday on a flurry of bargain-hunting and some renewed takeover-related interest. But the session overall was marked by modest volume and the continued absence of active institutional participation. The Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100-share index, closed at 2,369.6, up 8.3 points, or 0.4 percent. But it was substantially off its session high of 2,379.8, hit in an early rush. The session low was the opening of 2,366.3. Volume was 513.1 million shares, up from Tuesday's light 393.5 million shares. Dealers said the news Tuesday that Ford Motor Co. plans to buy up to 15 percent of Jaguar PLC gave the market a much-needed shot in the arm. They said that speculation over prospects for other friendly or hostile suitors for Jaguar helped to rekindle general takeover speculation on the London market. The government has limited stakes in Jaguar to 15 percent each until the end of next year. Some buy programs early in the session also helped support the market, dealers added. They attributed the buying the bargain opportunities presented by Tuesday's moderate declines. AP890920-0260 AP-NR-09-20-89 1343EDT r f BC-MercFine 09-20 0220 BC-Merc Fine,0230 Firm Penalized by Merc CHICAGO (AP) A commodity options firm accused of defrauding its customers has been fined $100,000 by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which stopped short of banning the company from trading. The firm, Siegel Trading Co., agreed to improve record-keeping and withdraw from clearing membership at the exchange. Clearing members are the highest-ranking members of futures exchanges, with authority to process the trades of lower-ranking member firms. Siegel agreed to pay the fine while neither admitting nor denying guilt, exchange officials said Tuesday. Last week, the Chicago-based company was charged by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission with using high-pressure sales tactics to bilk its customers out of more than $30 million. An exchange committee said Siegel, which operates primarily in California, ``favored its own rather than its customers' best interests.'' Siegel referred calls to its lawyer, William Phelan, who was not immediately available to comment on the Merc action or the CFTC accusations. Between January 1984 and May 1989, Siegel made about $40 million in commissions while its customers lost $33.6 million, the CFTC contends in its lawsuit. In the same lawsuit, the CFTC says another trading firm, International Trading Group Inc. of San Mateo, Calif., made $233 million in commissions while its customers lost $428 million. International Trading has denied the allegations. AP890920-0261 AP-NR-09-20-89 1424EDT s f BC-StLouisSun Adv24 09-20 1154 BC-St Louis Sun, Adv 24,1193 $adv24 For release Sunday Sept. 24 Newest Newspaper About to Debut LaserPhoto planned By RANDOLPH PICHT AP Business Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) Sure, it's exciting, nerve-racking and unique to start a major metropolitan newspaper like the St. Louis Sun from scratch. It's also a little weird. Take it from Kevin Horrigan, lead columnist of the tabloid that premieres Monday. He traded a columnist job at the historic St. Louis Post-Dispatch, founded by Joseph Pulitzer nearly 111 years ago, to join the Sun, which has no history and as it turns out, no typewriters. Horrigan scoured the Sun's color-coordinated, high-tech 11th floor newsroom, which overlooks Busch stadium and the Mississippi River, for a typewriter. ``Here we are ... this is all going to be 21st century technology, but excuse me, I'm used to having a typewriter,'' said Horrigan. ``I went out and paid 50 bucks for my own manual typewriter as sort of a security blanket.'' There are no scraps of obsolete lead type at the Sun, no dusty boxes holding 1950s photographs. The Sun has attracted enormous attention in the stagnant newspaper industry because it is new, from the newsroom computer terminals and electronic page imagers to the cafeteria furniture. If the Sun succeeds, it could reverse the conventional thinking that new newspapers are a thing of the past. Without printing a word, the Sun already has attracted 40,000 subscribers and the number is growing daily, said the newspaper's Editor-In-Chief Ralph Ingersoll II, who also is chairman and chief executive officer of Ingersoll Publications Co., a fast-growing communications concern. The newspaper's $2.5 million promotional campaign evidently is working. Advertisements have been pouring in so fast that the Sun's sales staff hasn't made sales calls, Ingersoll said. ``We were expecting in the Show Me state, a much more stand-offish, skeptical, show me, prove it to me attitude,'' he said. ``Not a day goes by here that we don't pinch ourselves and ... say what the hell is going on here.'' Ingersoll's venture in St. Louis comes against a background of signs that the newspaper business is suffering in many parts of the country. Total newspaper circulation in the United States has been flat for at least 20 years and the percentage of Americans who read newspapers has been declining, American Newspaper Publishers Association statistics show. In 1988, 64 percent of the adult U.S. population read a daily newspaper compared with 73 percent in 1973, said association spokesman Joe Lorfano. ``No matter what happens in St. Louis, I don't think you're going to see many people rushing to try the same thing around the country,'' said John Morton, a Washington-based newspaper analyst. Morton said only 19 American cities still have two competitive newspapers, and it appears that number will shrink. ``There still are some good old-fashioned newspaper wars, but no one has sought that kind of thing out,'' Morton said. Ingersoll said he's not wading into a newspaper war unarmed. He noted that as recently as five years ago the now-defunct St. Louis Globe-Democrat was the area's most popular paper and total paid daily circulation for the Globe and the Post-Dispatch was about 500,000. Today, the Post-Dispatch has a paid daily circulation of about 370,000 and a Sunday circulation of 550,000. Ingersoll said he hopes the Sun will lure many readers lost when Newhouse Newspapers decided to shut down the Globe-Democrat. ``I think it's pretty clear that print has a good future. I haven't the least doubt the St. Louis Sun will be profitable. It's one of the lower risk ventures we've undertaken,'' he said. Ingersoll, 43, plans to move from his native Connecticut to St. Louis and is shopping for a home in the city's historic Central West End District. His other weapons include an energetic staff of 80 editorial employees and an established chain of 43 free weekly or bi-weekly newspapers distributed to 700,000 homes in suburbs around the city. The first bomb in what could be a newspaper war came when the Sun was announced in March and Ingersoll hired away Thomas M. Tallarico, general manager of the Post-Dispatch, to be his publisher. The most recent salvos came when he hired Horrigan, a popular Post-Dispatch columnist, and won exclusive use of Knight Ridder News Service in the Sun. ``We definitely welcome competition,'' said Post-Dispatch Managing Editor David Lipman. ``We find it exciting and challenging. It has accelerated some changes that had been proposed or approved but not necessarily scheduled.'' He said the Post-Dispatch has redesigned its editorial page, added a news summary on page two, moved its news columnist, Bill McClellan, to page three and revamped its calendar section on Thursdays. On the frontlines of any battle will be the Sun's staff, assembled from all over North America including Los Angeles, New York, Winnipeg, Miami, Boston and Houston. They've spent the last few weeks getting ready for the big debut. ``The joke around here has been that we all get cranky unless we get our three hours of sleep,'' said Managing Editor Peter O'Sullivan, who was editor-in-chief of the Houston Post before coming to St. Louis. One problem with bringing in journalists from all over is communication, said Mike Thompson, the Sun's editorial cartoonist who came from Milwaukee. ``The lingo that's used is so different. I remember having a conversation with someone who was telling me to get what they called a flat and it's something I had always known to be a galley sheet,'' said Thompson. Other problems: no one knows each other, no one knows what the person at the next desk is doing and everyone is learning as they go along. The who's who problem has been compounded because Ingersoll has brought in about 20 editors and reporters from some of the company's other 47 daily newspapers around the country. ``It's like putting a basketball team on the court and you don't know who can rebound, who can dribble, who can shoot,'' said Horrigan. ``It's bizarre to take all these people and say, `OK, here's what we're going to do, we think.''' Ingersoll, however, says he has a clear vision of what's ahead. Rob Dudley, the Sun's art director, calls it ``Ralph's vision.'' He defines it as a sophisticated, colorful, quick-read newspaper. ``We have to get people, through our design, to trust the editorial content,'' Dudley said. The newspaper will be about 90 to 100 pages, with color photos and artwork on the cover and section fronts. It will cost 25 cents on weekdays and $1 on Saturday. The paper will publish its expanded weekend edition on Saturday, instead of Sunday, an idea aimed at further differentiating the Sun from the Post-Dispatch. The editorial position of the newspaper will be a pragmatic, issues-oriented approach that will probably be perceived as leaning toward the conservative, Ingersoll said. The Post-Dispatch is considered to take more liberal editorial positions. End adv for Sunday Sept. 24. AP890920-0262 AP-NR-09-20-89 1516EDT r f BC-LatinDebt 09-20 0288 BC-Latin Debt,0299 Latin Nations Demand More Support for Debt Relief CANCUN, Mexico (AP) Seven debt-burdened Latin American nations are demanding more support from multilateral development organizations, commercial banks and industrialized nations in renegotiating their foreign debt. In a communique released Tuesday night at a conference of Latin American economic officials, finance ministers said that even more aid, beyond debt relief, will be necessary if Latin American nations are to make an economic recovery. The effort to reduce the debt burden is an ``important first step in the solution of the crisis,'' the ministers of the so-called Group of Eight said. The Group of Eight consists of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, Peru, Venezuela and Colombia. Panama has been excluded temporarily because of the political crisis there involving Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega's rule. The communique noted that the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are holding important meetings next week where debt reduction will be discussed, and that the presidents of the Group of Eight are to meet in Lima, Peru, on Oct. 11-13. The three-day conference included finance ministers, central bank governors and other financial officials of Latin American nations, Spain and the Philippines. Officials agreed that inflation, debt and the social cost of implementing economic reform have reached a dangerous level in Latin America. The problems threaten democracy because of the social conflicts they represent, Enrique Iglesias, president of the International Development Bank, told reporters. Gert Rosenthal, executive secretary of the Economic Commission for America, said economic austerity has ``reached a stage where social pressures could overflow.'' Rosenthal said economic austerity caused in part by the need to make foreign debt payments has translated into an unprecedented deterioration in Latin American standards of living. AP890920-0263 AP-NR-09-20-89 1515EDT u f PM-WallStreet3pm 09-20 0266 PM-Wall Street 3pm,0281 NEW YORK (AP) Stock prices declined slightly today in a quiet, drifting session. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials slipped 2.66 to 2,684.65 by 3 p.m. on Wall Street. Losers outnumbered gainers by about 7 to 6 in nationwide trading of New York Stock Exchange-listed issues, with 631 up, 742 down and 541 unchanged. Analysts said stocks had apparently pulled back enough since they hit a record high before Labor Day to attract some catch-up buying by investors who had been waiting for an opportunity to increase their stockholdings. But brokers also noted uneasiness over the market's uninspired showing Tuesday, when the Dow Jones industrials gave up a gain of about 10 points to finish slightly lower. That represented a sluggish response to the news that the consumer price index held steady in August, providing fresh encouragement on the inflation outlook. Upjohn dropped { to 35~ in active trading. The Food and Drug Administration said an advisory committee was investigating the safety of Upjohn's prescription sleeping agent Halcion. AMR, whose American Airlines subsidiary posted fare increases to take effect next week, rose 1 to 77{. Jaguar PLC added 7-16 to 8\ in the over-the-counter market. Ford Motor's European arm said Tuesday it was interested in buying as much as 15 percent of the luxury car manufacturer. The NYSE's composite index of all its listed common stocks lost .09 to 192.37. At the American Stock Exchange, the market value index was up .49 at 379.32. Volume on the Big Board came to 116.04 million shares with an hour to go. AP890920-0264 AP-NR-09-20-89 1523EDT u f BC-BoardofTrade Close 09-20 0233 BC-Board of Trade, Close,0243 Crop Futures Advance on Frost Fears, Export Hopes CHICAGO (AP) Grain and soybean futures prices closed mostly higher Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade, boosted by fears of frost and hopes for new export sales of U.S. grain. The soybean and soybean oil markets led the rally, charged up by rumors the Agriculture Department may be planning to offer vegetable oil to Poland and the Soviet Union at subsidized prices. The talk was keyed to upcoming talks between Secretary of State James Baker and the Soviet foreign minister. Indications that China was seeking to buy vegetable oil also supported the markets. Corn and soybean prices were bolstered by forecasts for freezing temperatures in the Midwest early next week, although analysts said the frost no longer posed much of a threat to the crops. The September grain and soybean contracts expired at noon CDT with wheat at $3.80 a bushel, corn at $2.34{ a bushel, oats at $1.35 a bushel and soybeans at $5.68\. At the close, wheat futures were { cent to 3 cents higher with December at $3.91} a bushel; corn was \ cent lower to 1{ cents higher with December at $2.28} a bushel; oats were } cent lower to \ cent higher with December at $1.39{ a bushel; soybeans were 5} cents to 6} cents higher with November at $5.75 a bushel. AP890920-0265 AP-NR-09-20-89 1549EDT u f AM-Poland-U.S.Commerce 09-20 0586 AM-Poland-U.S. Commerce,0608 Mosbacher Remains for Talks To Build Business Confidence By DRUSILLA MENAKER Associated Press Writer WARSAW, Poland (AP) U.S. Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher on Wednesday signed investment and tourism agreements and extended his stay to negotiate a pact to persuade American companies to do business in the new Poland. The proposed accord would address the concerns of U.S. companies considering investing in the economically and politically volatile country, which has the East bloc's only non-communist-led government. Mosbacher and Polish Foreign Trade Minister Marcin Swiecicki are discussing how far the new government is willing to go to increase Western investment through a series of favorable agreements. The pacts would address removing profits from Poland, offer guarantees against expropriation of property, protect technology, patents and other intellectual property, and govern taxation. ``I think this will add confidence and comfort and a level of excitement for American businesses and bring more ... to invest in Poland,'' said Mosbacher, who extended his stay by one day to Thursday. Mosbacher's visit comes as Poles are looking to the West for support of the new government's efforts to dismantle four decades of communist rule amid what Solidarity Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki calls ``economic chaos.'' In Washington, Democrats contending the Bush administration is failing to back the reforms have proposed a $1.8 billion aid plan that would dwarf a $100 million package offered so far by the White House. Neither the comprehensive ``Business and Economic Agreement'' under discussion nor the agreements signed Wednesday has any significant cost to the U.S. government, Mosbacher said. But they do represent a largely unprecedented encouragement of U.S. commerce with a communist country in transition. Solidarity leader Lech Walesa met with Mosbacher in Gdansk on Wednesday and said it will likely be some time before the benefits of investment are felt. ``The Americans propose that Poland reduce inflation first and then they will provide us with some specific help,'' he said. ``I think I managed to persuade (Mosbacher) that it should be the other way around because I am sure that without this help we will not make it,'' Walesa said. ``It would be a vicious circle.'' Mosbacher and Swiecicki, one of four remaining communist cabinet members, signed an agreement to foster contact between American business and the developing private sector in Poland. Under the pact, business experts will be brought to Poland and management training programs will be developed for an economy in which companies have been run by a centralized bureaucracy. The other agreement is to improve tourism and expand opportunities for U.S. investment in hotels and other travel projects in Poland. Mosbacher stayed at the Marriott Hotel, expected to open next month in a skyscraper that was unfinished most of the decade due to lack of funds. The project is considered a prime example and key test of the potential for U.S. investment. Tourists now have legal access to a more favorable exchange rate that had been only available only on the black market until currency laws were changed earlier in the year. But they still are required to exchange set amounts and pay for lodging and other services at the lower ``official'' exchange rate. A series of programs now before the U.S. Congress include a $100 million fund to promote development of private firms in Poland and the rewriting of tariff laws to allow 4,100 products to be imported to the United States without tariffs. About $70 million of current Polish exports would be covered, including furniture and light machinery. AP890920-0266 AP-NR-09-20-89 2200EDT s f BC-LayingLow Adv24 09-20 1131 BC-Laying Low, Adv 24,1170 $adv24 For Editions Sunday Sept. 24 Takeover Strategists of the Past Keeping a Low Profile LaserPhoto planned By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) Asher Edelman, T. Boone Pickens Jr. and Herbert Haft used to make big headlines by stalking big companies, but you haven't heard much from these takeover strategists lately. They haven't left a business that became a major trend of the 1980s. Yet for reasons that range from rising costs to court-sanctioned obstacles, they've been keeping a low profile, one they're likely to maintain for some time. Probably the biggest reason is money: Prices are too high and financing is harder to get. Now that Campeau Corp. has stumbled following its acquisition of Federated Department Stores Inc. and Allied Stores Corp., big investors will be even more cautious. ``People don't want to chase deals at these high levels,'' said economist Lawrence Chimerine of Wefa Group, a Bala Cynwyd, Pa. economic forecasting firm. Said Leon Lowenstein, a professor of corporate finance at Columbia University's School of Law, ``The prices were sensible years ago and in the last five, six years, increasingly left sanity behind.'' It is clear that many takeover strategists agree. Last year, Edelman, who bid in the past for Lucky Stores Inc. and Fruehauf Corp., decided he'd had enough of the high prices in the United States, and began to look for new business in Europe. He made a friendly $1.2 billion offer for British retailer Storehouse PLC earlier this summer, but was rejected. Some big investors are pursuing deals in this country, but their targets are smaller than earlier targets. Earlier this year, groups controlled by Revlon Group Inc. Chairman Ronald O. Perelman bought Coleman Co. Inc., a camping equipment maker, for $545 million; New World Entertainment Inc., a television production company, for about $120 million; and Marvel Entertainment Group Inc., the comic book company, for $82.5 million. These transactions are a far cry from the unsuccessful $4.12 billion bid Perelman made for Gillette Co. in 1986 or the $1.83 billion he paid for Revlon the previous year. Perelman did undertake a billion-dollar acquisition late last year _ but the deal was financed by the federal government. Perelman's group bought five insolvent Texas savings and loan institutions for $315 million and got a $5.1 billion cash infusion from government. This last transaction illustrates what takeover strategists are looking for _ deals that are low-priced or that carry low risks and low debt. The panic in the junk bond market caused by Campeau's inability to handle its $11.5 billion debt load will only heighten investor caution. Junk bonds suffered heavy losses after Campeau said it had to restructure and sell its coveted Bloomingdale's store chain. Campeau's buyout strategy had relied heavily on financing provided by the sale of junk bonds, debt securities that pay high rates of interest in exchange for the high risk of owning them. With junk bonds currently out of favor, it is going to be difficult to use them to back a buyout. To further complicate matters, ``There's been a movement toward caution, particularly among commercial banks in financing these deals,'' said Alfred Rappaport, a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. ``The higher the price, the more difficult the financing.'' Chimerine said, ``Some people have probably concluded this is a time to be more cautious and conservative.'' But some takoever strategists have individual reasons for laying low. Pickens, whose record includes unsuccessful bids for Phillips Petroleum Co., Unocal Corp. and Gulf Corp., decided earlier this year that the hostile takeover business was too frustrating and ultimately unsatisfying. ``You make the offer and you go through a routine that's similar to the last go-round and then you don't get the company,'' he said in a recent interview. One of Pickens' objections _ which Edelman has also cited _ was the number of legal obstacles to buying a company. His 1985 bid for Unocal was stopped by the Delaware courts. Also like Edelman, Pickens is exploring his options overseas. Through his privately held Boone Co., Pickens has bought a 26 percent stake in Japan's Koito Manufacturing Co. Pickens used his Mesa Limited Partnership and its predecessor, Mesa Petroleum Co., to launch past bids, but Mesa has been preoccupied recently with absorbing a Tenneco Inc. subsidiary purchased for $715 million last year. Herbert Haft and his son Robert made a string of hostile attempts for retailers including Safeway Stores Inc., Supermarkets General Corp., Dayton Hudson Corp., and most recently, a $4.32 billion bid for Kroger Co. in September 1988. Their company, Dart Group Corp., never acquired their targets, but the Hafts profited handsomely from their stock in the companies and earned reputations as corporate raiders. Observers questioned whether they were serious about acquiring a retailer. In October 1988, Dart disclosed that the Securities and Exchange Commission staff was investigating whether the firm should be forced to register as a company that invests in securities for a pool of small investors. Dart was never forced to take that step, but the SEC action may have clipped the Hafts' wings _ they haven't made a bid since. The Hafts declined to be interviewed, but a source close to Dart said the company has focused on running its Trak auto supply and Crown book stores and Shoppers Food Warehouse operations. Trans World Airlines Chairman Carl Icahn, another veteran of big takeover battles, has been sitting on a pile of cash ever since he sold his Texaco Inc. holdings for more than $2 billion in June. Immediately after the sale, speculation arose that he would bid for USX Corp., in which Icahn holds a large stake, or that he would purchase an interest in Continental Airlines. Icahn has not made a move and has turned aside questions about his plans. It is likely that if the right deal came along, any of these investors would go for it. ``I'm not going to completely close the door,'' Pickens said. ``Something could come into range.'' One investor who has been notoriously active lately is Harold Simmons, who has substantial stakes in Georgia Gulf Corp., which he has considered bidding for, and Lockheed Corp. But caution is his watchword, too. ``I don't go into a major investment or an attempt to buy another company unless I'm ready, all the factors are ready,'' Simmons said in an interview. ``I have to have my own house in order, my operations all working smoothly, and I have to have available financing and money.'' Simmons said he was looking for ``a good deal, and the market conditions have to be right.'' Meanwhile, he said, ``I'm always doing something. It may not be in the process of a takeover.'' End Adv for Sunday Sept. 24 AP890920-0267 AP-NR-09-20-89 1620EDT u f PM-WallStreetClosing 09-20 0111 PM-Wall Street Closing,0121 NEW YORK (AP) Stock prices posted a small loss today in a drifting session. Trading was quiet. Analysts said stocks had apparently pulled back enough since they hit a record high before Labor Day to attract some catch-up buying by investors who had been waiting for an opportunity to increase their stockholdings. But brokers also noted uneasiness over the market's uninspired showing Tuesday, when the Dow Jones industrials gave up a gain of about 10 points to finish slightly lower. That represented a sluggish response to the news that the consumer price index held steady in August, providing fresh encouragement on the inflation outlook. MORE AP890920-0268 AP-NR-09-20-89 1955EDT r f AM-GELawsuit 09-20 0314 AM-GE Lawsuit,0326 New York Sues General Electric To Clean Area Surrounding Dump By DAVID BAUDER Associated Press Writer ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) New York state sued General Electric Co. on Wednesday to force it to clean up an area surrounding a dump where fish containing 22 times the acceptable level of PCBs have been found. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court asks GE to return to work near a Rensselear County dump the Fairfield, Conn.-based company spent five years and $2.3 million cleaning up earlier this decade. But a GE spokesman said the company already has agreed to pay for the necessary cleanup and will continue to work with the state. During the 1950s and 1960s, GE dumped 37,530 tons of the cancer-causing PCBs and other chemical wastes at the former Dewey Loeffel dump. The company agreed to pay the state $2.3 million in 1980 to clean the dump, a job that was finished in 1984. Testing done recently showed that PCBs had leaked into the nearby Nassau Lake and Valatie Kill, state Attorney General Robert Abrams said. Fish were found to contain PCBs at 22 times the level the federal government regards as safe to eat. The state has advised the public not to fish in Nassau Lake, formerly a popular fishing hole, Abrams said. The lawsuit asks General Electric to pay for any necessary cleanup and for damages to the environment. The state hasn't estimated what those damages might be, Abrams said. GE spokesman Jack Batty said the company signed an agreement in November 1988 to pay for damages to the area around the dump. But Abrams spokeswoman Nancy Connell said GE agreed last November only to discuss the cleanup, not to pay for it. Waste from GE plants in Schenectady, Waterford, Fort Edward and Pittsfield, Mass., were dumped in the landfill before GE stopped in 1968, officials said. AP890920-0269 AP-NR-09-20-89 2012EDT r f AM-American-Miami 09-20 0560 AM-American-Miami,0579 American Announces Expansion Plans; Eastern Continues to Add Flights By JOAN THOMPSON Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) An American Airlines executive announcing an increase in the carrier's Miami service said Wednesday that American wants to become a ``major player'' in the Miami market even without strike-crippled Eastern Airlines' prized Latin American routes. Meanwhile, an Eastern spokesman said the company's rebuilding efforts, regardless of American's competition, are moving along at a ``healthy clip.'' American officials announced plans to nearly double daily flights, mostly through commuter service, by the end of the year. The number of employees is conservatively predicted to double to more than 2,600 within the next several years, officials said. American is taking advantage of opportunities for expansion by making the Miami airport the headquarters for the company's new Florida-Caribbean-Latin America division, said Don O'Hare, vice president of field services for the new division. ``We want to be a major player in this market,'' O'Hare said. Efforts by Dallas-based American, the nation's largest carrier, to buy Eastern's Latin American route network recently fell through when Eastern decided not to sell them. But O'Hare said American would seek government approval for routes on its own. O'Hare and other executives Wednesday dedicated the airlines' new $27 million Concourse D, occupied primarily by Eastern before Eastern's massive strike beginning last March. American, which currently has 35 flights out of Miami, expects to have about 70 by year's end with nearly all but a couple of the additional departures by its commuter service, American Eagle. American Eagle, set to begin service next month, would fly into smaller south Florida cities and, with government approval, cities in the Bahamas. American plans to begin service to Grand Cayman in the Caribbean next month. At Eastern, spokesman Robin Matell said his company will increase its Miami departures to about 80 flights by the end of the year. Eastern, which peaked at 105 daily flights out of Miami before the strike, currently has about 27 departures, Matell said. ``We've been rebuilding at a very healthy clip and the rebuilding program has been going extremely well,'' he said. American has asked the U.S. Department of Transportation for route authority between Miami and Cancun, Cozumel and Merida in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. But Matell said the Miami-Cancun route belongs to Eastern and the airline plans to restore service on Dec. 1. ``It's our position that we are the designated carrier on that route,'' he said. American, along with Pan Am Corp., also is asking the Transportation Department for non-stop route authority between Miami and Toronto. New York-based Pan Am recently announced plans to expand its Miami service. Although Eastern hasn't flown the route since the strike began, it will be flying between Miami and Toronto by November, in time for the peak winter travel season, Matell said. The DOT has not issued a decision on any of the routes. But Matell said the two airlines' applications for the Miami-Toronto route should be denied. Bilateral route agreements between some foreign governments and the United States require that service be controlled and authorized by the United States and the foreign government. American, often a leader in fare increases, plans to raise its prices on advance-purchase discount fares beginning next week. But O'Hare said the proposed increases would not ``place us at a competitive disadvantage in the Miami hub.'' AP890920-0270 AP-NR-09-20-89 1731EDT u f AM-WallStreet 1stLd-Writethru 09-20 0477 AM-Wall Street, 1st Ld-Writethru,0497 Eds: Updates with closing prices throughout. By CHET CURRIER AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) Stock prices hovered in a narrow range Wednesday, contining their recent sluggish trend in a quiet session. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials dropped 3.42 to 2,683.89. Advancing issues and declines ran about even in nationwide trading of New York Stock Exchange-listed stocks, withwn and 547 unchanged. Volume on the floor of the Big Board came to 136.64 million shares, down from 141.61 million in the previous session. Nationwide, consolidated volume in NYSE-listed issues, including trades in those stocks on r 697 up, 726 doegional exchanges and in the over-the-counter market, totaled 164.94 million shares. Analysts said stocks had apparently pulled back enough, since they hit a record high before Labor Day, to attract a little catch-up buying by investors who had been waiting for an opportunity to increase their stockholdings. But brokers also noted uneasiness over the market's uninspired showing Tuesday, when the Dow Jones industrials gave up a gain of about 10 points to finish down .19. That represented an unethusiastic response to the news that the consumer price index held steady in August, providing fresh encouragement on the inflation outlook. A.C. Moore, director of research at Argus Research Corp., said his ficcelerated space exploration. Keith Geiger, president of the National Education Association, said Wednesday the idea of a slogan the president can leave with the nation at the end of the two-day gathering in Charlottesville, Va., was broached during a recent White House meeting with educators. ``That's one of the things we talked about with the president and at several other meetings'' among education leaders, Geiger said. ``It has to be something that's catchy and doable.'' Despite brainstorming over the idea, Geiger, who took over the helm of the nation's largest teacher's union this month, has come up empty handed so far. President Kennedy, in his second State of the Union message of 1961, called for America to achieve the goal, ``before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth.'' Such achievement, Kennedy said, demanded ``a major national commitment'' and a ``degree of dedication, organization and discipline which have not always characterized our research and development efforts.'' In July 1969, astronauts Neal Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed on the moon. ``What we need in this country,'' New Mexico Gov. Garrey Carruthers said at a recent National Governors' Association news conference, ``is a clear cut policy statement of the caliber of Kennedy's.'' Geiger said a catchy slogan would force a ``discussion not on what we are going to do but what we need to do to achieve it.'' AP890920-0271 AP-NR-09-20-89 2022EDT r f AM-CarbideSettlement 09-20 0415 AM-Carbide Settlement,0430 Union Carbide $15 Million Settlement With Former Employees Approved DANBURY, Conn. (AP) A New York court Wednesday approved a $15 million settlement between Union Carbide Corp. and 375 former employees, ending a dispute over payments due from the sale of some product lines in 1986. The former employees, or the estates of those who have died, will receive about $38,000 each under the settlement approved by the New York State Supreme Court, according to their attorney, Frederick T. Davis. The money was owed under a managment incentive program operated by Union Carbide from 1959 to 1970. The settlement approved by Judge Elliot Wilk also includes $660,000 for legal fees and $81,000 for ``other disbursements,'' Davis said. Union Carbide spokesman Ed Van Den Ameele said officials at the Danbury-based corporation had no comment on the settlement. The dispute arose in 1986 when Union Carbide successfully fought a hostile takover bid by GAF Corp but cut staff, repurchased some of its stock and sold off divisions. Union Carbide also promised to pay a ``special dividend'' to shareholders based on proceeds from the sale of its Everyready battery line to Ralston Purina for $1.4 billion and the sale of its line of Prestone antifreeze, Simoniz wax and Glad plastic products to First Brands Corp. for $800 million. The dividend was to be equal to the proceeds of two deals less book value of those divisions and totaled about $33 a share. Both deals were completed in April 1986. Under the terms of the program, the 375 former Carbide managers were eligibile to receive dividend equivalents giving people who may or may not own stock the right to cash payments equal to dividends paid shareholders. But the company said the special dividend was not covered by the incentive program and decided not to pay the former employees. Union Carbide filed suit in New York Supreme Court seeking a judgment it was not obligated to pay the dividend equivalents. The 375 former employees filed a class-action counterclaim seeking payment. The two sides reached a tentative agreement to settle July 18, pending approval by the former employees and the court. Davis said payments will be made to the former employees 30 days after the judge signs the settlement order. The surviving former employees, who range from 54 to 88 years old, and the estates of the other former employees will receive 9 percent interest on their dividends dating from July 18 until actual payment, Davis said. AP890920-0272 AP-NR-09-20-89 1744EDT u f AM-Dollar-Gold 09-20 0433 AM-Dollar-Gold,0448 Dollars Wanes, Gold Moves Higher NEW YORK (AP) The dollar slumped in skittish trading Wednesday as investors worried that West Germany might raise its interest rates. Gold prices moved higher. Analysts said the dollar was buffeted by rumors the Federal Reserve was intervening in the market to push the already weak U.S. currency lower. Also troubling traders was the prospect that the West German central bank, the Bundesbank, would move interest rates in that country higher on Thursday. Such a move, unless matched in this country by the Fed, would likely weaken the dollar. Overseas dealers said Saturday's planned meeting of financial officials from the Group of Seven industrial nations added to traders' qualms. The market was concerned that participants in the meeting might want to see the dollar decline. The dollar fell against the British pound. In London, sterling was quoted at $1.5820, up from $1.5720 late Tuesday, and in later New York trading it was quoted at $1.5835, up from $1.5710. Other late dollar rates in New York, compared with late Tuesday's prices, included: 1.93965 West German marks, down from 1.9535; 1.6815 Swiss francs, down from 1.6905; 6.5560 French francs, down from 6.6010; 1,399.00 Italian lire, down from 1,406.50; and 1.18325 Canadian dollars, down from 1.18455. In Tokyo, the dollar rose 0.52 yen to a closing 146.25 yen. Later, in London, it dipped to 145.55 yen and in New York, it slipped to 145.10 yen from late Tuesday's 145.85. Other late dollar rates in Europe, compared with late Tuesday's rates, included: 1.9400 Deutsche marks, down from 1.9505; 1.6800 Swiss francs, down from 1.6870; 6.5585 French francs, down from 6.5875; 2.1890 Dutch guilders, down from 2.2000; 1,399.50 Italian lire, down from 1,406.50; and 1.1824 Canadian dollars, down from 1.1833. In gold trading in New York, a troy ounce of the precious metal picked up $3.70 a troy ounce to close at $364.90 in trading on the Commodity Exchange. Republic National Bank later quoted a bid of $363.60 for a troy ounce of gold, up $3.60 from late Tuesday. Gold traded late in London at a bid price of $363.25 an ounce, up from $360.50 a troy ounce late Tuesday. In Zurich, the closing bid price was $363.50, up from $360.50 late Tuesday and in earlier Hong Kong trading, gold fell 34 cents to close at a bid $361.42 per troy ounce. Silver rose 5.8 cents on the Commodity Exchange in New York, closing at $5.119 a troy ounce. In earlier London trading, silver was quoted at a bid price of $5.13 a troy ounce, up from Tuesday's $5.09. AP890920-0273 AP-NR-09-20-89 1759EDT u f AM-CommodityRdp 09-20 0687 AM-Commodity Rdp,0712 Coffee Futures Rally on Slim Hopes for Quota Accord By DAVID DISHNEAU AP Business Writer Coffee futures prices surged Wednesday on New York's Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa Exchange amid developments that at least momentarily appeared to improve the chances for a resumption of export quotas to support coffee prices. On other markets, futures prices for energy, precious metals, grains and pork all advanced, while cattle futures prices declined. Coffee futures settled 1.88 cents to 3 cents higher with the contract for delivery in December at 82.55 cents per pound of green, unroasted coffee. The market, which had languished for most of the day, surged late in the session on news that President Bush had offered support to Colombian President Virgilio Barco for a revival of coffee export quotas. Coffee prices have fallen by about a third, hurting Colombia's economy, since the International Coffee Organization suspended export quotas in July due largely to U.S. dissatisfaction with the system. But the market quickly lost interest in the letter from Bush after learning the president had not altered the United States' previously stated conditions for rejoining the coffee pact: no more sales of coffee to non-member nations and greater availability of high-quality arabica coffee beans. ``The president had a very sympathetic response but our objectives remain unchanged,'' said Bert Ruiz, a vice president with the futures brokerage Balfour Maclaine Corp. in New York. The letter quickly was replaced by another ostensibly bullish factor _ a report that Jorge Cardenas, president of the Colombia National Coffee Federation, would meet in Washington on Friday with U.S. trade negotiator Robert Murphy before both of them travel to London for a two-week meeting of the International Coffee Organization beginning Monday. The report renewed speculation that U.S.-Colombian cooperation would lead to a new coffee agreement. But analyst Kim Badenhop of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets Inc. said the Murphy-Cardenas meeting had been planned for some time and predicted the ICO meeting would produce nothing substantial. ``The most positive thing to come out of that meeting would be that maybe they would talk about quotas and agree to come back at a later date,'' Badenhop said, ``but I don't even think we'll get that.'' Energy futures rose sharply on the New York Mercantile Exchange, led by the gasoline market on fears of Hurricane Hugo's threat to refinery operations in the Caribbean Sea and the U.S. Gulf Coast. West Texas Intermediate crude oil settled 8 cents to 34 cents higher with November at $19.68 a barrel; heating oil was 1.05 cents to 1.60 cents higher with October at 56.55 cents a gallon; unleaded gasoline was 1 cent to 2.07 cents higher with October at 59.74 cents a gallon. Gold and silver futures rose strongly on New York's Commodity Exchange in response to oil's gains and a weaker dollar. Gold settled $3.50 to $4.30 higher with October at $365.70 a troy ounce; silver was 5.5 cents to 6.8 cents higher with September at $5.119 a troy ounce. Grain and soybean futures ended mostly higher on the Chicago Board of Trade, boosted by fears of frost and hopes for new export sales of U.S. grain. Wheat futures settled } cent to 1{ cents higher with December at $3.91} a bushel; corn was \ cent lower to 1\ cents higher with December at $2.28{ a bushel; oats were } cent lower to 1 cent higher with December at $1.35 a bushel; soybeans were 6 cents to 7 cents higher with November at $5.75{ a bushel. On the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, frozen pork belly futures soared the 2-cents-a-pound daily limit in a rally inspired by technical factors, analysts said. The runup supported hog futures, which also settled higher, but cattle futures finished slightly lower. Live cattle settled .07 cent to .28 cent lower with October at 71.15 cents a pound; feeder cattle were .15 cent to .38 cent lower with September at 82.90 cents a pound; hog futures were .10 cent to .63 cent higher with October at 41.77 cents a pound; frozen pork bellies were unchanged to 2 cents higher with February at 49.50 cents a pound. AP890920-0274 AP-NR-09-20-89 1817EDT u f AM-MissingMercedes 1stLd-Writethru f0183 09-20 0679 AM-Missing Mercedes, 1st Ld-Writethru, f0183,0695 Mercedes Benz Missing From EPA Auto Mileage List Eds: SUBS 3 grafs for grafs 9-10 pvs, `Indeed, 11... to note new total of guzzlers, include that Mercedes made 1989 list in time; PICKS UP `11th graf pvs, `The Mercedes... By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Call it the mystery of the missing Mercedes _ 15 of them, in fact. The luxury cars, most of them gas guzzlers, all failed to show in the Environmental Protection Agency's auto mileage survey this week. Was it an innocent lapse or by design? Among the 981 cars, whose expected gasoline efficiency was detailed in the EPA list and then widely distributed by the news media, were cars ranging from the 58-mpg Geo Metro to the 6-mpg Lamborghini Countach, not to mention a half dozen versions of the Rolls-Royce. But no Mercedes-Benz. Don Larson, branch manager at the EPA's auto testing laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich., said that every year some cars _ perhaps 80 or 90 _ do not make the list because manufacturers do not provide the testing data for certification early enough to make the deadline for sending the list to the printer. Nevertheless, he said, ``it would be unusual for a manufacturer to have his entire product line not listed.'' Federal law requires automakers to submit the data and have it approved before a car may be put on the market. But Larson said there is no requirement that the test data be submitted by a specific date or meet the deadline for the initial list, which gets the widespread publicity. Larson said in a telephone interview, ``I don't know what was in the minds of Mercedes in making their decision. But they do have relatively fuel inefficient vehicles.'' Indeed, 11 of the Mercedes cars showed overall mileage of 18 miles per gallon or less and are subject to a ``gas guzzler'' excise tax, according to figures provided upon request to The Associated Press by the EPA. Those 11 would bring the number of official guzzlers to 43 in the 1990 model year compared with 40 on the initial list for the previous year. At least three of the 1990 Mercedes models had mileage so low they likely would have been among the ``worst ten'' in mileage for 1990 had they been included in the EPA survey. The original list of 1989 models did include 12 Mercedes cars, seven of them official gas guzzlers. The Mercedes mileage figures were submitted to the EPA's certification office in Ann Arbor on Sept. 9, four days after the agency deadline and two days after the information already had gone to the printer, according to Eldert Bontekoe, an official at the certification office. A.B. Shuman, manager of public relations at Mercedes-Benz of North America in Montvale, N.J., said in an interview that the mileage performance of the cars was ``absolutely not a factor'' in the data being submitted late. ``It was just getting it all done,'' said Shuman, who said that the company had been unable to complete all of the testing in time. EPA officials said they were unaware of any testing backlog at Mercedes-Benz. Shuman also noted that Mercedes does not put its 1990 models on the market until Nov. 1 and therefore, absent any specific government deadline, has more time to submit the test data than many other automakers whose 1990 models hit the showroom in September and October. ``We sometimes miss the filing deadline, I guess. It's not the first time we haven't been included in the first publication of the mileage list,'' said Shuman. He said at times a delay has ``worked to our disadvantage'' when diesel models with relatively high mileage weren't included. The mileage data for the Mercedes cars _ along with figures for any other cars submitted late _ will be included in an updated mileage list in February. But EPA spokeswoman Martha Casey acknowledged that the revised list usually gets little public attention. The EPA normally doesn't even distribute a press release, she said. AP890920-0275 AP-NR-09-20-89 1827EDT u f BC-Tyson-HollyFarms 1stLd-Writethru f0131 09-20 0252 BC-Tyson-Holly Farms, 1st Ld - Writethru, f0131,0257 Tyson Plans To Sell Three Holly Farms Divisions To Ease Debt Burden Eds: New throughout to CORRECT that Holly Farms planning to sell only two divisions, DELETE reference to $500 million being raised, CLARIFY Dixie Portland portion. No pickup. SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) Tyson Foods Inc. is considering the sale of two divisions of recently acquired Holly Farms Corp. to raise about $300 million and help ease the debt load stemming from the takeover, Tyson said Wednesday. Tyson General Counsel Jim Blair said divisions being negotiated for sale are Dixie Portland Flour Mills Inc. and National Byproducts Inc., which handles rendering operations. He declined to name the prospective buyers. Tyson acquired Holly Farms of Memphis, Tenn., in July for $1.29 billion after a seven-month battle with ConAgra Inc. Blair said Tyson is ``temporarily over-leveraged'' with more than $1 billion in debt and needs to raise the $300 million through asset sales. Tyson expects to sell Dixie Portland Flour Mills and one of its subsidiaries, White Lily, within a week, said Blair. He said the sale of other pieces of the flour and bakery division, Globe Products Co. Inc., Rustco Products Co. and Diana Fruit Preserving Co. Inc., is likely but may be weeks away. He also said the sale of National Byproducts was weeks away. The nation's largest poultry producer also is considering selling the distribution division of Harker's Inc., a subsidiary of Holly Farms, but bids have not been requested, Blair said. AP890920-0276 AP-NR-09-20-89 2048EDT r f AM-PublicTV 09-20 0216 AM-Public TV,0240 Corporate Sponsors Donate $70 Million to PBS WASHINGTON (AP) Corporate backers donated a record $70 million for national public television programs in fiscal 1989, with 20 corporations giving more than $1 million each, the Public Broadcasting Service said Wednesday. The $70 million in fiscal 1989, which ended June 30, was 6.9 percent higher than the previous year, PBS said. Seventeen corporations and their foundations were in the $1 million club in 1988. The companies and the programs they helped support were: Aetna Life and Casualty Co., ``The American Experience.'' AT&T, ``The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour.'' Bell Atlantic Corp., ``Science Journal.'' Chevrolet Motor Division, ``Hometime.'' Chevron USA, ``National Georgraphic Specials.'' Chrysler Corp., ``Learning in America.'' Chubb Group of Insurance Cos., ``American Playhouse'' and ``War and Peace in the Nuclear Age.'' Control Data Corp., ``The Mind.'' Digital Equipment Corp., ``Evening at Pops'' and ``The Infinite Voyage.'' Exxon Corp., ``Live From Lincoln Center.'' GTE Corp., ``Discover: The World of Science.'' Jos. E. Seagram & Sons, ``Sixteen Days of Glory.'' Johnson & Johnson Family of Cos., ``Nova'' and ``Innovation.'' Martin Marietta Corp., ``Great Performances.'' Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., ``Adam Smith's Money World.'' Mobil Corp., ``Masterpiece Theatre'' and ``Mystery.'' Nestle Co., ``The Power of Choice.'' NutraSweet Co., ``Bodywatch.'' Southwestern Bell Corp., ``Smithsonian World.'' Weyerhaeuser Co., ``This Old House.'' AP890920-0277 AP-NR-09-20-89 1905EDT u f AM-ClaridgeSale 09-20 0470 AM-Claridge Sale,0489 Claridge Sale Deal Canceled By JOYCE A. VENEZIA Associated Press Writer ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) An investor group said Wednesday it has canceled plans to buy the Claridge Casino Hotel, leaving the financially strapped business again looking for a buyer. Alfred J. Luciani, president of A.L.M. Moonstone Inc., said his investor partnership could not reach agreement with Claridge officials ``over money and time.'' The deal originally contemplated an Aug. 15 closing, but Claridge officials said continued negotiations made it unclear whether the deal could close this year. A statement issued Wednesday announced that the Claridge board of directors voted Monday to stop negotiations with A.L.M. Moonstone. Instead, the Claridge Corp. will concentrate on renewing its gaming license, which expires Oct. 31. ``The way the deal was structured, it would have left us with severe tax consequences if itclosed in 1990,'' said Shannon Bybee, chairman of the Claridge board of directors. ``It wasn't a problem when we were talking about an Aug. 15 closing, but the Claridge decided it was just too risky to continue negotiating,'' he said. ``Too many things could happen to prevent it from closing this year.'' Luciani, who is a former vice president of the former Golden Nugget Casino, and 11 other partners signed an agreement April 15 to buy the struggling Claridge, a 501-room gaming hall one block from the Atlantic City Boardwalk. The purchase price was undisclosed. At the time, Luciani announced plans to rename the Claridge, restructure the gaming floor and offer better odds to gamblers. The Claridge lost about $20 million in 1988 on revenue of $174.6 million. In June, Claridge Corp. took control of the casino hotel from the Del Webb Corp. of Phoenix after completing a financial restructuring plan. Luciani said the deal fell through because ``there were questions about whether the deal was worth it under their terms and time constraints.'' Failing to meet the Claridge directors' deadline, he said, would have led to economic consequences that ``would have created a substantial increase in price.'' The Claridge's casino license expires Oct. 31, and company attorneys need to spend time concentrating on the relicensing hearings next month, Bybee said. ``At this point, we feel comfortable that we can convince the Casino Control Commission that we will be financially viable for the next two years,'' he said. But Bybee said the Claridge still needed to find a buyer that would provide the capital infusion needed for refurbishing the hotel-casino. ``We would have to do things piecemeal, and we believe it's important to the Claridge's long-term viability to get it done. So the simplest way to do it is to sell,'' Bybee said. Bybee, who said the Claridge would consider a sale again next year, had received numerous contacts by interested parties after the Aug. closing date passed. AP890920-0278 AP-NR-09-20-89 1916EDT u f AM-MoneyLaundering 09-20 0624 AM-Money Laundering,0646 Government Breaks Up Alleged 13-State Money Laundering Scheme By SHERI T. PRASSO Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) The government said Wednesday it broke up a 13-state, $2 million money laundering scheme, indicting a dozen people and seizing 67 currency exchanges in what prosecutors called the largest bust of its kind. A nine-month sting operation by undercover Internal Revenue Service agents found a string of currency exchanges willing to launder money they were told came from the sale of a ton of cocaine, U.S. Attorney Anton Valukas said. The exchanges were concentrated in Chicago, Texas, Georgia and Massachusetts, he said. Valukas said cash was delivered to the exchanges, which would break down $20,000 amounts into four separate $5,000 money orders. Federal law requires currency transaction reports to the IRS on amounts over $10,000 and prohibits restructuring transactions to evade requirements. ``The apparent willingness of some financial institutions to put their facilities at the disposal of people whom they believe have ties to the criminal and narcotics community presents an enormous problem for American society,'' Valukas said. ``This is the single largest indictment of its kind involving currency exchanges,'' he added. The 61-count racketeering indictment alleges that Leonard Keller of Skokie, who has a half or partial interest in all 67 exchanges, arranged to have the dealers facilitate currency transactions of more than $10,000. During the undercover operation from June 1988 to March 31, Keller's exchanges illegally processed $2 million in government money _ ranging from $14,000 to $200,000 at a time, the indictment says. The exchanges, under the name of ``Check Cashers'' in most of the states, were placed under the control of the U.S. Marshals Service. They will continue operating under the agency's supervision, Valukas said. The exchanges could be forfeited under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act if the defendants are convicted. A judge froze the 13 defendants' interests in the currency exchanges Wednesday. Harvey Silets, Keller's attorney, denied the charges and called the seizure of control of the exchanges ``an outrageous exercise in government authority.'' Drug traffickers often convert large amounts of cash into small money orders and avoiding attention they would otherwise draw from investigators if they were to use large amounts to make purchases, Valukas said. Keller is charged with two counts of racketeering, 30 counts of structuring currency, 22 counts of evading reporting, six counts of using interstate facilities for racketeering and one count of making false statements to prosecutors. He faces 365 years in prison if convicted on all counts, fines of $28 million and forfeiture of his business interests in the exchanges. David Weisbaum, a manager of a Chicago exchange, is charged with two counts of racketeering, three counts of structuring currency and two counts of evading reporting. Charged with racketeering and use of interstate facilities for the practice are exchange managers Carl Franco, Atlanta; Mark Brotman, Decatur, Ga.; Philip Singer, San Antonio; Edward Franco, Boston; Steven Waitzman, New Orleans; Timothy Urwin, Cincinnati; and Robert Peterson, Jacksonville, Fla. Charged only with racketeering are Minerva Franco, a cashier in El Paso, Texas; Mark Sonshine, a manager in Indianapolis; and Herman Diehl, a manager in Portsmouth, Va. The defendants face possible maximum penalties of five years and $500,000 on each violation of reporting requirements, 10 years and $250,000 for use of interstate facilities, and 20 years and $250,000 for racketeering. Nine Chicago exchanges operated under various names, including North Central, Chicago Crawford and Currency Exchange, the indictment charges. In Texas, they carried the ``Cash-It-Here'' name. Other exchanges named in the indictment operated under the ``Check Cashers'' name in Jacksonville, Fla.; Indianapolis; New Orleans; Detroit; Charlotte, N.C.; Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio; Nashville, Tenn.; Boston; Portsmouth, Newport News, Norfolk and Richmond, Va.; and Milwaukee. AP890920-0279 AP-NR-09-20-89 2120EDT r f BC-MissingMercedes-List 1stAdd 09-20 0109 BC-Missing Mercedes-List, 1st Add,0042 WASHN: not listed. Model@ ^Cy Hw Cm Cid-Cy Tr TWO-SEATERS Mercedes 300SL-G 16 22 18 181-6 A5 Mercedes 300SL-G 15 21 17 181-6 M5 Mercedes 500SL-G 14 18 15 304-8 A4 SUBCOMPACTS Mercedes 300CE-G 17 21 18 181-6 A4 COMPACTS Mercedes 300E 17 22 19 181-6 A4 Mercedes 300E-G 4wd 17 21 18 181-6 A4 Mercedes 300SE-G 16 19 17 181-6 A4 MID-SIZE CARS Mercedes 560SEC-G 14 17 15 338-8 A4 Mercedes 300SEL-G 16 19 17 181-6 A4 Mercedes 420SEL-G 15 18 16 256-8 A4 Mercedes 560SEL-G 13 17 15 338-8 A4 MID-SIZE WAGONS Mercedes 300TE Wag-G 17 20 18 181-6 A4 AP890920-0280 AP-NR-09-20-89 2149EDT r f BC-Celtics-WFXT 09-20 0243 BC-Celtics-WFXT,0254 NBA Club to Purchase Fox Station BOSTON (AP) The Boston Celtics Ltd. Partnership and Fox Television Stations Inc. announced an agreement in principal Wednesday to sell the network's Boston station, WFXT-TV, to the National Basketball Association club. In a statement, Fox President Robert Kreek and Celtics Chairman Don Gaston announced the agreement but did not provide details. ``Now the deal is that the two parties have not yet announced a final agreement. They're working on one and it is assumed it will take several weeks to complete,'' said Joe Robinowitz, general manager of WFXT. The Federal Communications Commission would have to approve any sale. Robinowitz said the team began seriously negotiating to purchase the UHF station about two months ago. In April, the Federal Communications Commission granted a request by media magnate Rupert Murdoch, who controls Fox, to transfer ownership of WFXT to a trust to comply with FCC rules that bar ownership of a broadcast station and newspaper in the same city. Murdoch's holdings including the Boston Herald. David Zuccaro, a Celtics spokesman, said he had not been informed of the deal prior to the announcement and could not elaborate. Fox has more than 120 affiliates across the United States. It owns seven of those television stations, Robinowitz said. The Boston Celtics basketball games are broadcast on cable TV's Sportschannel and WLVI-TV in Boston. The team's contract with WLVI reportedly ends at the end of the 1989-1990 season. AP890920-0281 AP-NR-09-20-89 2122EDT u f AM-MacintoshPortable 09-20 0559 AM-Macintosh Portable,0577 Apple Unveils Portable Macintosh Computer By E. SCOTT RECKARD AP Business Writer UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. (AP) Apple executives defended their new portable Macintosh computer Wednesday as a friendly PC whose spectrum of features makes up for its heavy construction, bulky build and intimidating price. At a lavish, laser light-laced unveiling of the Portable Macintosh, John Sculley, Apple Computer Inc.'s chairman and chief executive officer, said he was confident people will want the portable computer, despite the fact it is too heavy for many laps and more expensive than some new cars. ``We have had people say, `I wish it were lighter, I wish it were cheaper. How can I buy one?''' Sculley said. ``We went for a Macintosh product without compromise.'' The Macintosh Portable gives users all the power and features they would find in a full-size Macintosh, including snazzy graphics, with the added bonus of portability and battery operation for up to 12 hours, the company said. Cupertino-based Apple hopes to sell the Macintosh Portable to people who already own or use the full-sized Macintosh and want an easy-to-use, compatible portable. The company also is looking to sell it to colleges and universities, traveling business people and operators of small companies. Allan Loren, president of Apple USA, said that as of Wednesday, 20,000 Macintosh Portables had been ordered for $100 million in revenue. But computer industry analysts have greeted the new offering with a lukewarm response, citing the computer's weight and high price. The portable lists at $5,799, or $6,499 with an optional 40-megabyte hard disk to store data. It costs an extra $449 for a modem for communication over phone lines. The computer weighs 13.7 pounds, or 15.7 pounds with the optional hard disk _ too heavy to reasonably be called a lap top. That makes it heavier by more than a pound than portables manufactured by International Business Machines Corp. and Compaq Computer Corp. Jean-Louis Gassee, president of Apple, acknowledged that the computer's weight may worry some would-be buyers, but stressed that its computer's features make up for any disadvantages. ``All I know is, when people touch it, when they put their hands on it, they want it, even if its heavier,'' he said. The Macintosh Portable's screen, though one-tone rather than color, is unusually sharp, thanks to a separate transistor for each screen dot, or picture element. The screen has more than 250,000 picture elements in a 640 by 400 array, making the screen 50 percent larger than the screen on a Macintosh SE. Sculley declined to say whether a Japanese company supplied the screen, but said, ``We are confident we have a good supply.'' To conserve the portable's battery power, Apple used a low-power kind of memory chip and a version of the Motorola 68000 processor chip that requires 80 percent less power. The rechargeable lead acid batteries last six to 12 hours, Apple said. Apple also announced the Macintosh IIci, an advanced version of the Macintosh IIcx, which it billed as ``the most powerful Macintosh that Apple has ever developed.'' The Macintosh IIci ranges in price from $6,269 to $9,152, putting it in the price range of some computer work stations, machines designed for scientists and engineers. The Macintosh IIci delivers 55 percent higher performance than the Macintosh IIcx or IIx and has built-in video capabilities, Apple said. AP890920-0282 AP-NR-09-20-89 2203EDT r f BC-Mexico-Telephones 09-20 0436 BC-Mexico-Telephones,0458 Government Increasing Private, Foreign Participation By JOHN WRIGHT Associated Press Writer MEXICO CITY (AP) Private investors will begin to provide services such as cellular phones and data transmission in competition with the government telephone monopoly, the Salinas administration said Wednesday. Communications and Transportation Secretary Andres Caso said the change would be part of the transfer of majority control of Telefonos de Mexico to the private sector, announced Monday by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. The plan to decrease state ownership in the company, known as Telmex, from 56 percent to 25 percent comes under a program of government withdrawal from non-strategic and unprofitable firms. Caso said the government will focus on what he said was its basic responsibility, meeting the country's social needs. Plans call for $10 billion in investment in Telmex over the next five years, Caso said. Of that, he said, private investment will provide $3 billion and the rest will come from reinvestment of profits by current owners. ``Gradually we will pull out'' of ownership, Caso said. Foreign participation is now limited to the 25 percent of Telmex traded on the New York Stock Exchange, he said. He would not identify private companies involved in negotiations, but he said some foreign companies are interested. Any new investment must have majority Mexican participation, he said. He added that no foreign individual or company may own more than 10 percent of Telmex. Telmex would retain control of basic telephone service, but new competition in the other areas would be healthy, Caso added. Such concessions would be renewable every five years and require companies to prove their service records, he said. The main goal is to improve service. Describing phone service in Mexico as ``bad,'' he added that the company is way behind in meeting needs for new installations. Despite the poor service, ``the company is financially healthy,'' he said. He said there is a limit to public expenditures and private capital can fill the gap. ``Without new investment, it would take 15 years to meet urgent needs,'' he said. Part of the restructuring will involve establishing new quality standards for phone service. Caso quieted fears that workers might lose their jobs and said that foreign participation would not affect Mexico's sovereignty. Phone company employees also will be allowed to purchase a still-to-be-determined percentage of the company. He said the government will will announce the complete privatization plan next month. Salinas on Monday told telephone workers that the government will maintain regulatory control of the company as its ownership decreases to 25 percent. Telmex has been in government hands for 16 years. AP890920-0283 AP-NR-09-20-89 2209EDT r f BC-Rhone-Poulenc-GAF 09-20 0179 BC-Rhone-Poulenc-GAF,0189 Rhone-Poulenc to Buy GAF's Surfactant Business PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) France's largest chemical company, Rhone-Poulenc SA, has reached an agreement to buy GAF Corp.'s surfactant chemical business for $480 million, Rhone-Poulenc said Wednesday. The purchase is aimed at expanding Rhone-Poulenc's position in so-called performance and fine chemicals worldwide, especially in the United States, the company said. Performance chemicals are additives that improve production processes or improve the finished product. Surfactant chemicals are surface acting agents such as detergents. The company also signed an agreement to purchase the specialty chemicals operations of RTZ Corp., a British mining and industrial group, for about $800 million. Wayne-based GAF produces specialty chemicals and building products. The company's surfactant business employs about 270 people. Sales projected for 1989 are about $190 million. Rhone-Poulenc SA operates in 140 countries and had sales of about $11 billion in 1988. Rhone-Poulenc Inc., its American subsidiary, is based in Princeton. The company has more than 6,000 employees in 41 U.S. locations. The two agreements are expected to be finalized by the end of the year. AP890920-0284 AP-NR-09-20-89 2327EDT r f BC-Comerica-Plaza 09-20 0229 BC-Comerica-Plaza,0237 Michigan and California Banks Agree to 1991 Merger DETROIT (AP) Comerica Inc. will acquire Plaza Commerce Bancorp of San Jose, Calif., for $117 million on Jan. 1, 1991, the date California opens its boundaries to full interstate banking, Comerica said Wednesday. The companies have signed a letter of intent to carry out the $16.50-a-share transaction subject to approval of regulatory agencies and Plaza Commerce stockholders, Comerica announced. Comerica is a Detroit-based multibank holding company with $11.5 billion in assets. It has nine banks in Michigan and also operates banks in Texas and Ohio, lending offices in California, Colorado, Indiana and New Mexico, and a trust operation in Florida. Plaza Commerce has offices in San Jose, Sunnyvale and Fremont, all in the San Francisco Bay area. It has assets of $450 million. ``Plaza Commerce will be our California flagship holding company from which we will expand our California operations, much in the way we have begun to do in Texas through our Dallas affiliate,'' Comerica President and Chief Executive Officer Eugene A. Miller said in a statement. Plaza Commerce President and Chief Executive Officer Jack W. Conner said his institution also would get a boost. ``The kind of growth and profitability that we anticipate through an affiliation with Comerica represents a level ... we could not soon achieve if we were to remain independent,'' he said. AP890920-0285 AP-NR-09-20-89 2341EDT u f AM-CoalStrike 2ndLd-Writethru f0303 09-20 0759 AM-Coal Strike, 2nd Ld - Writethru, f0303,0778 Striking Miners Leave Plant; Promise More Disruptions Eds: LEADS with 9 grafs to UPDATE with occupation over; picks up 8th graf, `The union...'. Also moving on general news wires. By DAVID REED Associated Press Writer CARBO, Va. (AP) Striking coal miners ended their four-day occupation of a coal processing plant Wednesday, hours after ignoring a judge's ultimatum to leave the plant or be removed by force. Union officials promised to use similar tactics in the coming weeks against the Pittston Coal Group Inc., the target of the United Mine Workers strike that began April 5. UMW Vice President Cecil Roberts, carrying an American flag, led the miners out of the Pittston plant at 9:20 p.m., and declared the occupation a success. ``We're going to hurt this company economically,'' he said. ``We're going to cut off their production until they wake up and we're going to do it peacefully.'' Roberts, who did not participate in the occupation, said the next move to cut off coal production could come next week but he wouldn't elaborate. Asked why the union decided to bring the miners out, Roberts said, ``We're going to use them again.'' Protected by 3,000 miners and union supporters who rallied outside the plant, the 98 miners inside ignored a 7 p.m. deadline set by U.S. District Judge Glen Williams. Williams said the miners would face no federal penalties if they left before 7 p.m. Otherwise, they should be prepared to be carried out by force. Some state troopers drove off at dusk and law enforcement authorities let the deadline pass without trying to get inside the plant. Two hundred-fifty miners in camouflage clothes blocked the road to the plant. The union leadership and the striking miners inside the plant pledged earlier in the day to maintain the occupation as long as they could. ``They're going to have to haul us out of here,'' said Eddie Burke, one of the occupiers and the UMW's southeast regional coordinator. ``If they've got enough jail cells and enough buses, I'm sure they'll get us eventually. We're not going to resist.'' The judge said strikers who remained in the plant would lose their $200 a week in UMW strike benefits and face contempt charges, and the union would be fined $600,000 for each day of the occupation. ``Hopefully, the union will peacefully vacate without having to do so by force,'' Williams said during a hearing in Abingdon. ``I not only hope but pray that they have the sense to come out.'' Williams said he was concerned that an assault on the building would be dangerous even though the demonstrators were unarmed. ``I can visualize a lot of things that would be unpleasant,'' he said. The men were ocupying a plant control room reachable only by way of a narrow staircase. Meanwhile, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., chairman of the Senate Labor Committee, announced Wednesday evening that the committee was launching an investigation of the labor dispute between Pittston and the UMW. Kennedy said the panel would hold a public hearing on the matter once the investigation was completed. He did not give a timetable for the review. Pittston's 1,695 UMW employees from Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky went on strike in a contract dispute. Union members at other coal companies staged wildcat strikes in June and July. The miners and one religious leader had stormed the plant Sunday, equipped with gas masks, sleeping bags and food and water for 10 days, when only a dozen security officers were on the grounds. They barricaded themselves inside the control room and shut down production at the plant, where coal is cleaned, sorted and shipped. Replacement workers had been operating the plant since the strike began April 5, although production has been about half of normal. Union leaders said they wanted to halt production, force Pittston Co. Chairman Paul Douglas to join contract negotiations and make a dramatic public statement about what they consider unfair treatment by the company, which they contend is trying to break the union. Massive fines have taken away all other avenues of peaceful protest, such as sit-down demonstrations and mass picketing, they said. Pittston President Michael Odom called the demonstrators terrorists and said their actions amounted to extortion. ``We cannot and will not negotiate with terrorists,'' he said. UMW spokesman Joe Corcoran said Odom was closing the door to a peaceful solution. He said the demonstrators have done no damage to plant property and were armed only with playing cards and checkers.