AP881031-0001 AP-NR-10-31-88 2323EST r a AM-NewarkCorruption 10-31 0209 AM-Newark Corruption,0217 School Board Member Indicted In Newark Corruption Investigation NEWARK, N.J. (AP) A school board member took $8,000 in bribes from two teachers seeking promotions to vice principal, a federal grand jury charged Monday. Malcolm George, 32, of Newark, was indicted by the panel on two counts of bribe-taking and two counts of extortion by a public official. He faces 60 years in prison if convicted on all counts. George, the board's second vice president, allegedly took $5,000 from one teacher as early as spring 1987 and $3,000 from another teacher last August in exchange for improving their chances for promotion, the indictment said. U.S. Attorney Samuel A. Alito Jr. declined to identify the teachers or their schools or say if they were ever promoted. ``This is part of a continuing investigation into activities of this type,'' Alito said. Sheldon Bross, a board attorney, said he believes the teachers were not promoted. George could not be reached Monday. His phone number is unlisted, and his attorney, C. Robert Sarcone, did not return a message. No date has been set for George to appear in court. He was not arrested. Authorities said George was a former Essex County employee but did not know his current occupation. AP881031-0002 AP-NR-10-31-88 2330EST u p AM-Bush-Lobbying 10-31 0488 AM-Bush-Lobbying,480 Firm Owned By Two GOP Staffers Solicits Haiti For Lobbying, Report Says With AM-Political Rdp Bjt ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) A political consulting firm led by two top officials in George Bush's presidential campaign has offered to represent the government of Haiti, citing the firm's ability to work in ``the transitional environment in Washington,'' The Orlando Sentinel reported Tuesday. ``Given the fragile environment in Haiti and the ensuing presidential election in the United States there exists a window of opportunity for us to combine our resources and energies for the mutual benefit of our two countries,'' stated the letter from Bush & Co. The letter, dated Oct. 12, also expressed hope that Avril would ``retain our services.'' The Washington firm is run by GOP campaign officials Frederick M. Bush, who is unrelated to the vice president, and Margaret Alexander. The letter to Haitian president Prosper Avril appeared to be signed by Frederick Bush, but he told the newspaper Monday that his name had been signed by an associate without his permission or his knowledge. ``This upsets me very much,'' he said. ``This was totaly unauthorized. I want nothing to do with the government of Haiti.'' The switchboard operator at Bush's headquarters in Washington said no one was available late Monday for comment. Bush, 39, is deputy finance chairman of the vice president's election campaign. He was a White House staffer and the vice president's deputy chief of staff during President Reagan's first term. Alexander is both Bush & Co.'s vice president and finance director for this year's GOP presidential bid. She was on the finance committee for the Reagan-Bush 1984 re-election campaign. The letter sent by Bush & Co. offered Avril a variety of lobbying services and said, ``We are confident that we can effectively work in the transitional environment in Washington to assist Haiti.'' Frederick Bush acknowledged he was aware the Haitian government ``had requested information about the company several weeks ago,'' but he said he wanted no part of any subsequent discussions. ``I specifically said that I would not be involved,'' he said. Bush said that he has not been active in the company for the past two years because of his fund-raising duties for the vice president. An attachment to the two-page letter, however, promoted Bush's position with the GOP presidential campaign and Bush's background as a White House staffer. Six weeks ago Avril's regime ousted the government that had been having trouble conducting a peaceful election. After a November 1987 election was canceled because of violence, the U.S. government cut off $89 million in aid. Only food and development aid has continued through international humanitarian organizations. U.S. officials, while pleased with recent steps taken by Avril to improve the political climate and reign in Haiti's military, have said there is little prospect of renewing the full foreign-aid package until the new administration and the new Congress take office in January. AP881031-0003 AP-NR-10-31-88 2338EST u a AM-WPPSSTrial 10-31 0555 AM-WPPSS Trial,0568 Utilities Vote To Settle In Giant Securities Fraud Suit By JIM KLAHN Associated Press Writer SEATTLE (AP) Fourteen public utilities across Washington state voted Monday to approve a $226 million settlement letting them out of the giant Washington Public Power Supply System securities fraud trial in Tucson, Ariz. ``It's a (settlement) we can certainly live with and handle, and it won't have great diverse ... impact on our state,'' said Tacoma attorney Albert Malanca, who engineered the complex agreement involving utilities, the state of Washington and the federal Bonneville Power Administration. While several utilities agreeing to the settlement on Monday said rate increases may be necessary, they added that those increases would be small and the economic damage to the Northwest region minimal. Under terms of the agreement, the 14 utilities would pay $181 million, BPA and the federal government would pay $35 million and the state would pay $10 million to plaintiffs who sued after WPPSS defaulted in 1983 on $2.25 billion in bonds used to build two nuclear power plants. The plaintiffs include more than 24,000 past and present bondholders. The plants were begun but never finished after regional energy planners determined power from the plants wouldn't be needed. The region's economy suffered when WPPSS attempted to build five multibillion dollar nuclear power plants and finished only one. In Olympia, Gov. Booth Gardner announced the state would pay $10 million toward the settlement, if the Legislature concurs. Washington state faces a separate lawsuit involving the same plaintiffs. BPA participation still requires the approval of the U.S. Department of Justice, which is expected this week, and final approval will have to come from U.S. District Judge William Browning, who is overseeing the trial in Tucson. The pact leaves Snohomish County Public Utility District the only utility remaining as a defendant in the trial, although it has an option to settle until Nov. 10. Snohomish contracted for the biggest single share, 13 percent, on the two terminated WPPSS plants. The trial, over the largest municipal bond default in history, was recessed last week in Tucson when attorneys reported a settlement was possible. It was scheduled to resume Wednesday. Besides Snohomish, other defendants remaining include two engineering firms and a financial adviser firm. The price for Snohomish if it takes up the Nov. 10 option would be $48.7 million. That would be in line with the $3.7 million per-percentage-point of interest in the two abandoned nuclear plants other defendant utilities agreed to pay. Tacoma director of utilities Ted Coates said the settlement would bring to $591 million the amount paid to the class of plaintiffs in the giant federal lawsuit. Settlements during the past year have removed most defendants and totaled $365 million in cash. In addition to the $591 million would be $96 million in contested insurance claims. Coates estimated the settlement would add 3{ to 4 percent to Tacoma City Light's expenses. He said the city planned to pay the bill through floating long-term bonds. Under terms of the agreements, most utilities would have to make initial payments Dec. 15, with final payments Dec. 15, 1989. Interest would be paid, according to the agreement. The settlement memorandum noted some utilities could recover substantial amounts through insurance carriers that have so far ``refused to pay the insurance coverage contracted for.'' AP881031-0004 AP-NR-10-31-88 2347EST r a AM-Brawley-Suit 10-31 0266 AM-Brawley-Suit,0276 Prosecutor Files $800 Million Against Brawley and Advisers POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) A prosecutor filed an $800 million defamation lawsuit Monday against Tawana Brawley, the black teen-ager who a grand jury said concocted a story of abduction and rape by six white men. Dutchess County prosecutor Steven Pagones' lawsuit also named as defendants the Rev. Al Sharpton and lawyers C. Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox, advisers to Miss Brawley who had claimed that Pagones was involved in the purported attack last November. A grand jury cleared Pagones of any involvement in the case that began when Miss Brawley, then 16, was found in Wappingers Falls smeared with dog feces and with racial slurs written on her body. Miss Brawley never cooperated with the grand jury, and her advisers dismissed the resulting report as the product of a racist system. ``I hope he goes through with it,'' Sharpton said in response to the lawsuit Monday. ``Well, I think that Mr. Pagones has the potential of making history in being the first man to sue himself into jail,'' he said. Sharpton said Miss Brawley would tell her story in court and, along with other witnesses, would prove Pagones' involvement. ``He will be proven guilty of rape and sodomy and will go to jail,'' Sharpton said. Mason had no comment on the lawsuit, according to a receptionist at his law office. Maddox did not immediately return telephone calls for comment. Pagones' lawyer, Gerald Hayes, also did not return telephone calls. Pagones had said at a news conference on Oct. 10 that he intended to file suit. AP881031-0005 AP-NR-10-31-88 2351EST r i PM-BRF--Iraq-Locusts 10-31 0144 PM-BRF--Iraq-Locusts,0147 Locusts Invade Basra BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) The southern city of Basra, devastated by the 8-year-old Iran-Iraq war, now has been invaded by swarms of desert locusts, the Ministry of Irrigation and Agriculture says. A report on state-run television Monday said six separate clouds of the crop-devouring insects were in the city, but that the ministry was using helicopters to bring the situation under control. No further details were immediately available. Locusts can eat twice their body weight every day, so the swarms are sprayed with insecticides to keep them from reaching agricultural areas. Locusts from Sudan and Ethiopia have swept across the Arabian peninsula in the past two weeks. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said in a recent report that the spread of locusts represents ``a lateral extension of the plague, which will make control efforts much more difficult.'' AP881031-0006 AP-NR-10-31-88 2351EST r i PM-Algeria 10-31 0146 PM-Algeria,0150 Riot Prisoners Ordered Released ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) At the direction of President Chadli Bendjedid, the Justice Ministry has decided to release provisionally everyone who was arrested during the October riots, the official news agency reported. Algerie Presse Service said Monday that the decision was taken ``in application of the orientations received from the president and on the occasion of the 34th anniversary of Nov. 1, 1954.'' The Algerian revolution began on that date, resulting in independence from France eight years later. The number of people set free was not revealed. Earlier, an unstated number of minors were let go. Officially, 159 people died in the riots and 154 were injured. Unofficial reports put the death toll at 400 or more in disturbances that started over rising prices and food shortages. The move comes three days before a nationwide referendum on political reforms. AP881031-0007 AP-NR-10-31-88 2356EST u i PM-Poland-Analysis Bjt 10-31 0797 PM-Poland-Analysis, Bjt,0825 Shipyard Closure Seen as Attempt to Cripple Solidarity AP News Analysis By JOHN DANISZEWSKI Associated Press Writer WARSAW, Poland (AP) Whatever sense it may make on solely economic grounds, the decision to shut the Lenin shipyard is a slap at the Solidarity trade union movement at a time the government ostensibly is seeking dialogue. The closing poses a difficult challenge for union leader Lech Walesa, who has been preaching economic reform but undoubtedly did not want it to begin by eliminating his workplace and political base. Monday's announcement follows closely a government demand that Walesa remove two longtime Solidarity advisers from his delegation to promised ``round-table'' talks with authorities, which were to start in mid-October. Walesa refused and the talks now appear in jeopardy. The developments underscore an end to the accommodative mood on both sides that briefly seemed to dominate Polish politics after Walesa ended a series of strikes in early September in exchange for the promise of the talks on Solidarity's future. The government has taken a more energetic, decisive tone since the ascension to prime minister last month of Mieczyslaw F. Rakowski, the party propaganda chief and a longtime Solidarity foe. Rakowski has said the situation is too urgent to wait for talks with the opposition before trying to revitalize the economy. But the opposition, which has long distrusted Rakowski, questions whether he is interested in talks at all. Rakowski said in a broadcast interview Monday that the decision to close the Gdansk shipyard Dec. 1 and liquidate it over the next year was purely economic and had ``nothing to do with Solidarity.'' The official media gave heavy coverage to the decision, but made no mention of the shipyard's symbolic importance as the birthplace and stronghold of the only independent labor movement allowed in the Soviet bloc. The official news agency PAP said the state-owned shipyard, Poland's largest, has been losing money and increasingly draining the public treasury. But Walesa said it was no coincidence that the shipyard was the first industrial enterprise in the country to fall victim to the budget ax. ``Premier Rakowski's decision was not dictated by economic reasons,'' he said, calling the move Rakowski's ``personal provocation'' against the yard where Solidarity sprang to life in August 1980 after a nationwide strike wave. While vowing to fight the closing, Walesa said he agreed the ``economy needs restructuring and basic changes. Solidarity is and has been for those changes.'' But he said the yard could be saved by dismissing incompetent managers and allowing workers to run it more efficiently themselves. Historian Bronislaw Geremek, a close Walesa adviser, said Solidarity always was prepared to accept painful economic choices in the course of reform. But those steps were supposed to be a subject for agreement in the now-delayed talks with authorities, he said. By deciding unilaterally to close the shipyard, Rakowski ``either buried the chances for the round table or considered the round table already buried,'' Geremek said. ``If such decisions are taken without first achieving a social contract, then what one wants to prove is that there is no need for such a way, no need for dialogue.'' One Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, called the government's move a political ``masterstroke''. If Solidarity strikes, it will lend credence to Rakowski's argument that the union is unreasonable and poses an obstacle to efforts to reform Poland's inefficient, debt-ridden economy. And by shutting down the shipyard, the strikers would only be hastening what the government wants to do next month anyway. But if Solidarity does not mount a protest to defend its home base, Walesa and the Solidarity leadership run the risk of seeming toothless to militant followers at home and would-be supporters abroad. Poland's first major plant closing is likely to send shock waves through factories nationwide. But because the closing was announced during a four-day holiday weekend, it was difficult to immediately judge the degree of public sympathy for the workers. The government, meanwhile, was trying to take the sting out of the closure for the approximately 10,000 workers facing layoffs. It said state enterprises have far more than enough jobs going begging in Gdansk province at equal or higher pay. And it promised free job retraining for those who need it. Ironically and perhaps not accidentally, Rakowski made the move only days before Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain is due to arrive for a visit that is to include a trip to Gdansk to see Walesa on Friday. Official commentators have been drawing parallels between Rakowski's plans to overhaul Poland's economy and the toughness shown by Mrs. Thatcher in facing down the unions and cutting back money-losing state industry in Britain. ___ EDITOR'S NOTE John Daniszewski is the Associated Press correspondent in Warsaw. AP881031-0008 AP-NR-10-31-88 2358EST r i PM-Afghanistan-Mines 10-31 0466 PM-Afghanistan-Mines,0482 Anti-Personnel Mines Delay Refugees' Return To Afghanistan Eds: Also in Tuesday AMs report. By KATHY GANNON Associated Press Writer ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) Anti-personnel mines designed to maim an enemy remain scattered about Afghanistan and must be cleared before more than 5 million refugees in Pakistan and Iran can return home, United Nations officials say. The mines are estimated to range in number from hundreds of thousands to 5 million. Some look like toys and are small enough to fit in the palm of a person's hand. If picked up, they can blow away a hand; if stepped on, a victim can lose a foot. Zia Rizvi, spokesman for the U.N. Economic and Humanitarian Program for Afghan refugees, said the landmines have to be found and defused before a billion-dollar rebuilding program can begin. The devices are believed to have been laid by Soviet and Afghan government forces during their nine-year war against Moslem insurgents. The insurgents also have laid a number of anti-tank devices. Teams of mine-clearing experts from the United States, Britain, France and Turkey have been in Pakistan to plan a training program designed to show Afghans how to locate, identify and defuse the mines. A $9-million training program is scheduled to begin shortly, Rizvi said. Clearing the mines ``is a pre-requisite to any (rebuilding) activity,'' said Rizvi. The Soviets are not a contributor to the mine-clearing effort, but they ``have assured us of their total cooperation,'' said Rizvi. Since the April signing of an accord providing for the withdrawal of more than 100,000 Soviet troops from Afghanistan, the United Nations has begun mobilizing for one of the largest refugee movements in its history. Rizvi said the widespread use of the landmines ``is a comment on the people who make, sell, buy and use them.'' The U.S.-backed Moslem guerrillas, known as the Mujahedeen, have been fighting the Afghanistan's Marxist government since it seized power in 1978. The Soviet Union entered the conflict in December 1979. Fifteen different types of anti-personnel mines have been identified along with five models of anti-tank mines, Rizvi said. In addition to the anti-personnel devices that resemble toys are are scattered around villages, another common type is a bright green plastic device that looks like a butterfly and fits into the palm of a hand. Rizvi said unexploded ordnance of other kinds, such as dud bombs, also are scattered around the Afghan countryside. The first task of foreign mine-detecting experts will be to make Afghans aware of what to look for. Rizvi said children will be educated to the dangers as well. Foreign experts will train Afghans who in turn will pass on their knowledge to others, he said. Eventually, said Rizvi, an Afghan mine-clearing team would be established in most villages or cluster of villages. AP881031-0009 AP-NR-10-31-88 0007EST r i PM-Hirohito 10-31 0217 PM-Hirohito,0225 Emperor's Condition Called Stable After Weekend Hemorrhaging TOKYO (AP) Emperor Hirohito discharged small amounts of blood early today and his blood pressure fell, but palace officials described the 87-year-old monarch's condition as stable after a serious weekend setback. Palace spokesman Kenji Maeda said Hirohito discharged blood early today but added that doctors did not administer another transfusion. He told reporters that palace physicians described the discharge as remnants of blood lost Saturday night and Sunday morning. The world's longest reigning monarch has been bedridden since falling ill with internal hemorrhaging on Sept. 19. Despite a drop in the emperor's blood pressure today, Maeda said doctors were not ``particularly concerned.'' He said the emperor was fully conscious this morning, chatting with his physicians. On Sunday, Hirohito's blood pressure had dropped dangerously low and he received a total of 3.8 pints of blood in the largest transfusion since becoming bedridden. Since Sept. 19, the emperor has received 31.5 pints of blood, about three times the normal amount in his body. Hirohito has not taken any solid food since falling ill, with the exception of a few spoons of porridge. He is being fed intravenously, receiving some 600-700 calories daily. Palace officials have refused to confirm or deny media reports that the emperor has pancreatic cancer. AP881031-0010 AP-NR-10-31-88 0007EST r a PM-AbortionProtests CORRECTIVE 10-31 0050 PM-Abortion Protests, CORRECTIVE,0048 Eds: Members who used a0540, PM-Abortion Protests, UNDATED, sent Oct. 29 are asked to use the following: NEW YORK (AP) The Associated Press erroneously reported Friday that 40 protesters were arrested at two abortion clinics in Nashville. There were no arrests reported in Nashville. AP881031-0011 AP-NR-10-31-88 0015EST r a PM-AlaskaHighways 10-31 0932 PM-Alaska Highways,0958 Tourists Fuel Debate Over Pushing Roads Through Alaska Wilds Eds: Also in Monday AMs report. An AP Extra By DAVID FOSTER Associated Press Writer TOK, Alaska (AP) The Taylor Highway, a rib-jarring gravel washboard that snakes through mining hills northeast of this interior Alaska village, doesn't rate much mention in the tourist brochures. But the Taylor is Larry Champagne's specialty. He drives a tow truck and, as they say in the trade, business is picking up. He sat the other day in his Chevron station and pointed out the highway's latest victim: a van with a crushed roof and shattered windows. ``He was passing a motor home on a curve, got over too far, and t-h-p-p-t, into the river,'' he said. Champagne was happy to haul the van and its uninjured driver back to Tok, for $700. A 1984 legislative study found that 60 percent of Alaska highways were in fair to poor condition. But the potholes and frost heaves don't slow the flow of vacationers. Growing herds of tourists not only keep Champagne smiling but also help fuel debate over this frontier state's transportation future. More roads! say business leaders who see a young and developing state with little access to remote villages and mineral deposits. Stop the bulldozers! cry environmentalists who see a pristine land needing protection from the forces that paved over the lower 48 states. The arguments likely will continue as long as there are places people cannot drive to, and much of Alaska fits that category. The state's 11,600 miles of roads are concentrated in the southeastern quarter, leaving vast areas untracked. One-fourth of Alaska's half-million residents live unconnected by road to the outside world. Of 151 incorporated communities, 133 are unconnected, including the state capital of Juneau. Given the mountains and permanently frozen ground that cover much of Alaska, it's a wonder roads were ever built. Turn-of-the-century gold rushes spurred the first major construction. In World War II, concerns about a Japanese invasion prompted another building frenzy; the 1,520-mile Alaska Highway, Alaska's first overland link to the lower 48, was finished in just nine months. Since statehood in 1959, expansion has continued steadily. The latest road, completed this summer in northwestern Alaska, is a 54-mile link from the coast to a mineral deposit known as Red Dog. ``I try not to think about that,'' said Susan Alexander, state representative for the Wilderness Society, which unsuccessfully fought the road's route through Cape Krusenstern National Monument. She said wilderness is easily destroyed by roads and resulting development and pollution. She cited the 416-mile Dalton Highway, built in 1974 to link Fairbanks and the Prudhoe Bay oil fields. Although only the highway's southern half is open to the public, lax enforcement lets many drivers slip through to the north, and Alexander worries about the effect on wildlife. ``Increased access means increased poaching, and there definitely has been poaching along the road. The road lets in people, hunters, who wouldn't have been there otherwise,'' she said. Letting more people into Alaska is what economic boosters have had in mind for years. Wherever roads have gone, tourism has followed. U.S. Customs officials say 38,150 vehicles _ about 70 percent of them motor homes and campers _ entered the state on the Alaska Highway last year. Roads can cut shipping costs to villages and make remote mining more competitive, say the boosters, who over the years have proposed dozens of roads to fill blank spaces on the map. In 1977, travel guides called the 152-mile Elliott Highway near Fairbanks the ``Road to Nome,'' even though it dead-ended, and still does, 500 miles short of the Bering Sea town. In 1986, the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce suggested a road that would head 200 miles southwest from Denali National Park to McGrath, then swing north another 200 miles to the Yukon River. In southeastern Alaska, plans surface occasionally to connect Juneau to highways that now stop in Haines and Skagway. But such projects, each estimated to cost hundreds of millions of dollars, are distant dreams for state officials who can barely raise the $52 million needed each year to maintain existing roads. Alaska's oil-dependent government has grown cautious since the oil boom busted, and the state Department of Transportation plans no major highway expansion. It would cost $600 million just to bring Alaska's rural highways up to standards, said Ron Lind, the agency's planning and budget director. Patterns of land use and ownership also discourage road-building. National parks, preserves and monuments now cover 50 million of Alaska's 375 million acres. Natives, protective of open space needed for subsistence hunting and fishing, own 44 million acres. But things could change quickly in Alaska's boom-bust economy. As publisher Robert Henning wrote in an Alaska Geographic book called ``Adventure Roads North'': ``Strong anti-roads sentiments of environmentalist groups have slowed Alaskan road construction, but in the history of the North, there has ever been the cry for `more roads, more trails,' and it is inevitable that the road building will continue. ... Like it or not, it seems to be the American way.'' Wherever and whenever roads are built, the likes of Larry Champagne will be there to pick up the pieces. Back at the Chevron station, Champagne was smiling again; a Winnebago driver was in for the second time that day with a flat tire. Champagne quickly fixed the tire and proceeded to the cash register. ``That'll be $10,'' he said. ``You have a nice day.'' EDITOR'S NOTE David Foster is the AP Northwest regional reporter, based in Seattle. AP881031-0012 AP-NR-10-31-88 0018EST r i PM-SubterraneanParis 10-31 1120 PM-Subterranean Paris,1153 `Cataphiles' Haunt The Bowels Of Paris Eds: Also in Monday AMs report. An AP Extra EDITOR'S NOTE The City of Light sits on a subterranean city of darkness, a vast network of stone quarries that has given refuge to scoundrels, saints and the bones of 6 million souls. It is where the Phantom of the Opera set up house. Here is a report by an AP correspondent who visited the catacombs. By ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press Writer PARIS (AP) The Phantom was laid to rest long ago in the cellars of the Opera, but figures nearly as macabre still haunt the catacombs that wind through the belly of Paris like entrails and conceal millions of human bones. Each weekend, dozens of people slip out of their city skins and into the maze on which the city rests. They descend as far as 90 feet into a world where night is eternal, the unexpected waits at each turn and the game is to the fearless. Some are history buffs seeking the dank breath of ancient Paris, others are adventurers and still others inhabit a marginal world whether above ground or below. They are called ``cataphiles'' and are drawn, as if by enchantment, to the darkness beneath the City of Light. They tread in the footsteps of sorcerers, bandits, smugglers, the quick and the sly who haunted the tunnels centuries ago. Many who spend time below use nicknames _ ``Destroy,'' ``Calamity'' or ``Professor Sato'' _ and dress in exaggerated punk or skinhead style. The eternal, eerie silence and stillness enclose a voyager who weaves through the sand-colored maze of galleries, rooms, nooks and niches as if pulled along by the flashlight beam. Fossils of ancient creatures are imbedded in walls nicked by the pickaxes of workers long dead. Minuscule stalactites have formed on the dripping ceilings of what once were quarries for the limestone that built Paris, most of them worked in the Middle Ages. During World War II, the catacombs were bunkers for the German occupiers and hideouts for the French Resistance. They have been a blessing to mushroom growers who harvested tons of ``champignons de Paris'' each day from the murky gardens. ``It's a milieu that is such an anachronism compared with the rest of the capital,'' said Inspector Jean-Claude Saratte, director of police operations in the catacombs. It has been against the law to go underground since 1955 because of risks both to travelers and the city's foundations, but Saratte said: ``It's an adventure ... so everyone goes down, from sons of Cabinet ministers to little punks.'' Quarries of Lutecian limestone running under southern Paris, just a corner of the 188 miles of accessible catacombs, are assigned to the dead. The galleries are lined with the skulls and other bones of 6 million people, some guillotined in the French Revolution but most merely overflow from the crowded cemeteries of Paris. Anne-Marie Leparmentier, a geologist with the General Inspection of the Quarries, the city agency in charge since the 18th century, said a ``reserve'' of bones is kept in other sections of the quarries, but ``sometimes a skull disappears'' now that the cataphiles have come. People have had regular access since the last century to the bone caverns at the Place Denfert-Rochereau in southern Paris and regular tours are conducted. The rest of the catacombs are reached by manhole, under cover of darkness, down a steel ladder to another world. Going underground became a fad more than a decade ago when students of the Ecole Nationale des Mines nearly made it a ritual. ``We ended up spending days finding people lost inside,'' Saratte said, so all but eight of about 300 accesses to the catacombs have been soldered shut. The quarries are the lowest level of subterranean Paris, which also is honeycombed with subway lines and 1,313 miles of navigable sewers. The vast underworld inspired Victor Hugo, and later Gaston Leroux, whose ``Phantom of the Opera'' hid out in ``that infernal underground maze.'' Around one corner is a bath carved into the rock by quarry workers centuries ago, around the next an open well that may descend to the center of Earth. Around still another, ``Lost in the catas. Help!'' is scrawled on the wall. Some writings reek of threat or foreboding: ``This is the domain of the Klan,'' ``Avenue of the Black Mass,'' ``I'm Dead.'' A shuffling sound comes from a corridor nearby. The path forks and the swamp route beckons. Travelers slosh through the ancient mud of Lutecia, as Paris was called in Roman times. Eras collide in the catacombs. Punks, skinheads and weekend revelers hold all-night seances. In Room Z, a large, confusing, amorphous cavity reached by slithering on the stomach through a narrow tunnel, the walls are scrolls of obscenities, swastikas and death wails. Subterranean Paris is ``a very particular little world, a little planet all its own'' where groups of regulars establish zones of influence, said Saratte, the police inspector. Philip, who uses only his first name, said: ``This world is divided into two races, the tourists and the cataphiles. The tourists are a hated race. ... You have to do everything to chase them out.'' ``Actually, it is a rather hostile milieu'' where ``criminals don't think of hiding out, said Michel Laroche, another geologist for the city quarries agency. Since the beginning, the quarries of Paris have attracted those either in hiding or in search of the celestial or the damned. St. Denis, patron saint of France, said Mass in the quarries during the Christian persecution, according to Simon Lacordaire's book ``The Secret History of Subterranean Paris.'' Some 13th century bandits hid under the Chateau de Vauvert, replaced long ago by the Luxembourg Gardens, Lacordaire said. Sorcerers used the quarries for black masses, especially during the 1348 plague that filled the Paris cemeteries and caused the living to search for solace in the occult. In the last century, merchants used the catacombs to smuggle untaxed black-market goods to clients. Official concern now centers on preserving the natural beauty of the quarries and fears that unauthorized travelers will harm the city foundations. ``There have always been cataphiles, but perhaps in the past they were more respectful,'' Laroche said. ``It is not a sacred place, but it is our patrimony.'' Over-ambitious excavations weakened the subterranean infrastructure. There were reports a century ago of the earth swallowing homes on the Boulevard St. Michel and neighboring streets. Laroche said the last fatal accident was a 1961 cave-in at Clamart, a southern suburb, that killed 20 people. Authorities began mapping and reinforcing the quarries in the mid-18th century and do so today when the need arises. Quarrying has been prohibited since 1788. AP881031-0013 AP-NR-10-31-88 0022EST r i PM-Czechoslovakia-Future 10-31 0754 PM-Czechoslovakia-Future,0779 Czechoslovak Leaders Chart Conservative Course Eds: Also in Monday AMs report. AP News Analysis By ALISON SMALE Associated Press Writer PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (AP) Unimpressed with sweeping Soviet reform and demands for change at home, Czechoslovakia's Communist leaders are holding firm to policies pursued since 1968, when ``Prague Spring'' reforms were crushed. Tough police reaction to a mass protest in Prague on Friday and to a demonstration in August signaled that authorities will not tolerate public expressions of a desire for more freedom. For the thousands of peaceful protesters, the mass rallies could strengthen their resolve in demanding a more democratic society. The next public show of support for such demands is likely to come on International Human Rights Day on Dec. 10. A demonstration called that day last year by the Charter 77 human rights movement attracted a few thousand people. Czechoslovakia was an independent democracy for 20 years before World War II and has a long tradition of civil movements predating independence in 1918. The 70th anniversary of that independence was the occasion for Friday's rally in Wenceslas Square, 24 hours after the authorities organized their own mass celebration of the anniversary for the first time in four decades of Communist rule. The two events were sharply contrasting, with the official rally seeming ritualized and the banned independent gathering appearing a more genuine expression of national sentiment, dissident filmmaker Stanislav Milota noted in an interview. ``The government, at their rally, didn't sing the national anthem, which was played by an Interior Ministry band and sung by an Interior Ministry choir'' and not taken up by the organized, massed crowd, Milota noted. By contrast, on Friday, thousands sang the national anthem with great feeling before riot police with truncheons marched down the square toward a core of hundreds of protesters who stood their ground. The authorities have made clear they will seek no contact with such people or unofficial groups, as Communist officials tentatively have in neighboring Hungary. ``There can be no dialogue here,'' Prague Communist party chief Miroslav Stepan told Thursday's official rally. At 43, Stepan, a member of the ruling Politburo, is one of a new generation of Communist leaders slowly rising into the ruling elite in a reshuffle by Milos Jakes, who took over as party chief from Gustav Husak in December. Czechoslovaks had few expectations of reform from Jakes, who oversaw the purge of an estimated half million Communists from the party after August 1968, when Soviet and Warsaw Pact tanks put an end to the ``Prague Spring'' reform of Husak's predecessor, Alexander Dubcek. A reshuffle this month confirmed Jakes and his allies do not intend to follow Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev into sweeping economic or political reforms. The leading proponent of change in the top elite, Lubomir Strougal, lost his Politburo seat and his post as premier. According to a Czechoslovak source, his replacement, Ladislav Adamec, was one of a group of party members who backed Soviet criticism of Dubcek before the 1968 invasion. The reshuffle also saw the first professional policeman named Interior Minister. Frantisek Kincl, who had overall responsibility for Friday's tough police action and the strict security in force for days beforehand, is a former police chief in northern and central Moravia, two areas known as the toughest on dissidents. The police action and detention of at least 85 dissidents in one of the biggest pre-emptive crackdowns nationwide in years stood in stark contrast to Soviet policy as presented a few days earlier by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. He announced that all Soviet political prisoners would be freed by the end of the year. Other Western nations greeted that announcement with skepticism. But recent Soviet policy does contrast with the trend in Czechoslovakia toward what one Prague resident summed up as ``retrenchment.'' The dissident community, meanwhile, is inching forward to more overt political activity. Charter 77 has been primarily a human rights movement, a loose association of an estimated 1,300 signatories who issue documents on Czechoslovak society and history and include former Communist Party members who still believe in Socialism and many intellectuals who do not. Earlier this month, several leading Chartists, including banned playwright Vaclav Havel, joined a new Movement for Civil Freedom, which has formulated 11 demands for a multiparty democracy and a largely denationalized economy. EDITOR'S NOTE Alison Smale has been reporting on Czechoslovakia and other East European countries as the Associated Press' Vienna bureau chief and East European correspondent for the past two years. AP881031-0014 AP-NR-10-31-88 0029EST r i PM-BattleForCities 10-31 0696 PM-Battle For Cities,0720 An Afghan Turning Point: Who Will Control The Cities? Eds: Also in Monday AMs report. By EARLEEN FISHER Associated Press Writer HERAT, Afghanistan (AP) As the pink-tinged sunset fades over ruins of bombed-out houses, and kerosene lanterns start twinkling through the darkness, the gunfire begins. It lasts until sunrise, to be followed intermittently through the day by the more distant boom of rockets aimed at the city. Herat, Afghanistan's third-largest city with a population of 106,000, is one of the cities the Moscow-backed government considers ``safe'' because Soviet troops are still present. The government professes to be able to defend the city against U.S.-supported Moslem guerrillas known as mujahedeen, or Islamic holy warriors, even after the Soviet pullout scheduled this winter. The designation ``safe'' appears to be a delusion, if not an outright fraud. The guerrillas are about 12 to 13 miles from the city, according to Juma Mohammad, provincial commander of the Sarandoy, a paramilitary armored force considered more loyal and better-trained than the Afghan army's rank and file. But the outgoing fire at night in Herat seems aimed at an enemy much closer. Most of what can be heard from the balcony of a government building on the northern edge of the city sounds no bigger than .50-caliber _ whose range is about 1{ miles. The mortars used by Sarandoy troops in Herat's 14th century citadel show signs of recent firing and are of the type that has a maximum range of about five miles. In the Afghan capital of Kabul, non-Soviet bloc diplomats predict Herat will fall quickly to the mujahedeen after Soviet troops pull out in accordance with a U.N.-mediated accord. The withdrawal must be completed by Feb. 15. But Soviet troops left Kandahar this past summer and the mujahedeen still have not dislodged the Afghan garrison and taken that city, the largest in the country after Kabul, the capital. Rockets also land in Kabul several times a week, sometimes by the scores. Most of the time the damage is insignificant. But the cities are vulnerable, more to siege tactics than to any direct military attack the mujahedeen can mount with their poorly targeted rockets. The capture of Kandahar or Herat would deal a major psychological blow to Afghanistan's Soviet-style government. Afghanistan's mountains afford sanctuary to the mujahedeen but it is the cities they must capture. Whether they can achieve victory through direct military attacks, the mujahedeen are in a good position to isolate the cities from their supplies of food, fuel and military reinforcements. Kabul gets a periodic taste of this when the mujahedeen cut the roads leading to the capital, causing sugar to disappear from the markets and doubling the prices of dwindling stocks of flour. Herat is even more vulnerable. Fuel comes from the Soviet Union, a two-hour drive up the 95-mile highway to the Afghan border town of Torghundi when the road is not blocked by winter snows or year-round guerrillas. The fuel is needed not only for automobiles, which are outnumbered in Herat by horse-drawn vehicles and bicycles, but for heating, cooking and running the city's power plant. The plan provides electricity only from sundown to sunrise and only for the few relatively prosperous neighborhoods, government institutions and hospitals. Herat has never had around-the-clock electricity, not even before the war That began a decade ago when a coup-installed communist government took power and quickly required Soviet assistance to survive. The guerrillas surrounding Herat are led by one of the mujahedeen's ablest commanders, Ismail Khan of Jamiat-e-Islami, the largest of the seven Pakistani-based guerrilla groups. Main roads and bridges around the city are now guarded by Soviet troops. Sarandoy commander Mohammad said he has 4,000 men in Herat province, 600 of them in Herat city. In addition, he said, there are 2,000 government-paid village militiamen and 4,000 ``Defenders of the Revolution,'' gun-toting civilians the government pays $4.75 to $7.15 a month. Mohammad said he had no idea how many mujahedeen were outside the city. ``Their activity is too secret. It is difficult to say,'' he said in an interview in his office where the second-story windows were bricked up and sandbagged. AP881031-0015 AP-NR-10-31-88 0037EST r i PM-DeadlyTravel 10-31 0763 PM-Deadly Travel,0784 Sea Travel Major Threat To Filipinos, Studies Say Little Being Done Eds: Also in Monday AMs report. An AP Extra By MIGUEL C. SUAREZ Associated Press Writer MANILA, Philippines (AP) Last year, after more than 1,500 people died in the collision of a packed ferry and an oil tanker, investigations concluded that government agencies and shipowners habitually ignored maritime safety measures. Last week's sinking of the ferry Dona Marilyn during a typhoon showed little has changed, despite sea disasters that have killed thousands of people and left hundreds missing in the past year. ``Largely a seafaring people living in an archipelago, Filipinos rightfully expect a government attentive to the needs of sea travel,'' a Philippine Senate study said in April. ``Instead, they find a government disorganized in its treatment of sea travel and the shipping industry.'' It speculated that neglect of the public safety in shipping was probably due to the fact that most who travel by sea are poor and cannot afford plane fares. The House of Representatives noted in another study that most of the 588 ports throughout the island nation were designed primarily to handle cargo and none has a passenger terminal. The reports followed separate investigations by the two chambers into the December crash of the Dona Paz and an oil tanker. Official reports put the death toll at about 1,700, but most estimates placed the actual figure at more than 3,000. Only 28 survived. The Senate report said that despite frequent fatal accidents, the government had done so little that when the Dona Paz sank, ``the bureaucracy had little to offer except knee-jerk reactions and confusion.'' Despite pledges by shipowners and authorities to enforce rules on manifesting passengers, neither knew the precise number of people aboard when Typhoon Ruby sank the Dona Marilyn, the sister ship of the Dona Paz. The Coast Guard recorded 379 passengers and 60 crew members. Carlos Go, president and general manager Sulpicio Lines, which owned the ferry, said 451 passengers and 66 crewmen were on the Dona Marilyn when it left Manila Oct. 23 for the central Philippine port of Tacloban. By Sulpicio's count, at most 20 people were not listed on the manifest. But Manila newspapers said at least 52 survivors were not on the list. President Corazon Aquino ordered an investigation, saying that among other things she wanted to know ``why they sailed despite very bad weather.'' Commodore Pio Garrido, commandant of the Philippine Coast Guard, which clears commercial ships for sailing to ensure safety regulations are followed, said Dona Marilyn was allowed to sail because ``the weather was clear in Manila.'' Previous warnings by the government's weather service showed the ship's destination was in Ruby's path. Garrido said nothing in maritime regulations prevents a vessel from sailing if there is bad weather at its destination. The investigations of the Dona Paz disaster showed virtually everything was wrong with the shipping industry. Both laid most of the blame on government neglect and apathy. Both reports said that not only was there a shortage of ships, but communications equipment and navigational aids were obsolete and personnel poorly trained. In addition, maritime safety regulations could not be enforced because of corruption and overlapping regulatory agencies, the reports said. The reports noted that up to seven agencies were overseeing the shipping industry so that responsibility could easily be passed from one to the other. It said corruption was such that operators could obtain lincenses for even the most unseaworthy vessels by bribing licensing officials. The Senate expressed surprise that despite the country's heavy dependence on water transport, only a total of $150 million had been invested in all aspects of the shipping industry. It cited figures from the Maritime Industry Authority showing that in 1986 the country had 3,000 vessels ``of different sizes, configurations and uses,'' which moved a total of 16 million passengers and 39.6 million tons of cargo. It said the average annual maritime death toll of 152 between 1980-87 was already bad enough before the Dona Paz disaster raised it to 508 per annum. The figure does not include hundreds of accidents involving unregistered outriggers in rural areas. Despite Mrs. Aquino's promise of an investigation, the Philippine press has been skeptical that improvements will be made. ``After every sea disaster, there is usually a lot of talk about reforms in the shipping and maritime industry,'' wrote The Philippine Star columnist Art Borjal. ``But after all is said and done, nothing much really happens. And when another sea tragedy takes place, the vicious cycle is repeated.'' AP881031-0016 AP-NR-10-31-88 0039EST r i PM-Prince-Architecture 10-31 0619 PM-Prince-Architecture,0639 Prince Charles Gains Support In His Battle With The Builders Eds: Also in Monday AMs report. By AUDREY WOODS Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) Prince Charles took on the architectural establishment in his own television documentary and gained a powerful vote of confidence from ordinary citizens, newspapers, and even some architects. A newspaper survey showed that more than 75 percent of Britons agreed with the prince's views that many architects and developers ignore people's wishes and build ugly, characterless buildings that are unpleasant to live in. However, Bill Rodgers, director general of The Royal Institute of British Architects, responded Sunday that ``there is too much hypocrisy ... and we are not going to allow architects to be made scapegoats.'' Charles' maiden venture into television writing and performing was an outspoken and often humorous return to the subject of modern architecture, which he has discussed publicly for several years. He has angered leading architects and raised complaints that a member of the royal family has no business publicizing such views. With 75 minutes of uninterrupted television time on the British Broadcasting Corp. on Friday night, Charles took a more positive approach, showing viewers new buildings and developments he admired. But his criticism of others was severe. Glancing at a low, stark-white structure among Victorian buildings at the edge of the River Thames, Charles commented: ``That's redolent of a word processor to me, and I don't see that people particularly want to live looking at a word processor.'' The Sunday Telegraph newspaper called the show a tour de force that established the 39-year-old heir to the throne as a ``great communicator.'' The Observer said it was admirable, and Sunday Times columnist Simon Jenkins wished Charles luck in a ``genuinely popular crusade.'' Other Britons seemed to agree. ``He follows what the ordinary man in the street believes, I think, about London: it is being drowned out by skyscrapers,'' said an unidentified woman in a TV interview Saturday. In its poll by Telephone Surveys Ltd., the Sunday Express said 75.5 percent of 1,000 people in a nationally representative sample agreed with Charles. Almost 88 percent thought it right for members of the royal family to speak out on such issues. No margin of error was given. Denys Lasdun, architect of the concrete National Theater, was asked by a BBC interviewer whether the prince should voice his opinions in public. ``Of course he should ... so should anybody, it's a public art,'' Lasdun said. ``But because everyone shoots their mouth off, it doesn't mean ... they talk sense.'' Charles called Lasdun's creation ``a clever way of building a nuclear power station in the middle of London without anyone objecting.'' He called a projected London development by Peter Palumbo ``rather like a 1930s wireless (radio).'' ``I can only say, `God bless the Prince of Wales, and God save us from his architectural judgment,''' responded Palumbo, new chairman of the Arts Council, which allocates state funds to Britain's arts. Max Hutchinson, president-elect of the Royal Institute of British Architects, defended the latest generation of architects. He said they have ``no greater love than the prince for much of what happened 20 or more years ago.'' Conservative Party lawmaker Sydney Chapman, the only architect in the House of Commons, backed Charles in his attack on ``ugly, multi-story slabs of concrete.'' But the legislator said they were principally the fault of politicians who rushed to rebuild cities damaged in World War II. In its page-one editorial, The Sunday Telegraph said Charles could become a major television personality. ``It will only take a few more charismatic performances like last week's for him to hold the nation in the palm of his hand,'' the newspaper said. AP881031-0017 AP-NR-10-31-88 0055EST r a PM-Names 10-31 0873 PM-Names,0912 Names in the News LaserPhoto NY14 JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) British rock star Mick Jagger thrilled an audience of more than 60,000 with a two-hour concert of songs from his days with the Rolling Stones and his solo career. Jagger, appearing Sunday at the nation's biggest soccer stadium, sang at least 22 songs, including the Stones' ``Honky Tonk Woman,'' and ``I Can't Get No (Satisfaction)'' and his own ``Just Another Night.'' After bidding his fans farewell in Indonesian and English, Jagger flew back to his hotel in a helicopter, passing over the stadium. TEOTIHUACAN, Mexico (AP) With the great pyramids of Teotihuacan as a backdrop, Spanish tenor Placido Domingo led the premier of ``Aztec Songs,'' a choral symphony written in a 500-year-old Indian language. ``Aztec Songs'' is based on the poetry of Nezahualcoyotl, a ruler of the Nahuatl tribe who died in 1472. The songs were performed Saturday in Nahuatl, an ancient Mexican tongue that gave the world the word for chocolate. Thousands of people in Mexico still speak Nahuatl and there are Nahuatl poets still writing today. Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin conducted the symphony with a baton of obsidian, the gleaming black volcanic rock fashioned into works of art by Mexico's pre-Colombian peoples, in an icy wind before an estimated 10,000 people at the foot of the Pyramid of the Moon. The audience greeted Domingo, who performed with a cold, with an especially warm round of applause. The tenor has relatives in Mexico and his efforts to help it recover from the devasting 1985 earthquake has endeared him to Mexicans. The performance was part of a campaign to raise $300,000 to preserve Teotihuacan, 25 miles north of Mexico City. TACOMA, Wash. (AP) The flu forced pop star Michael Jackson to cancel three concerts here this week, his publicist says. The decision to cancel the shows scheduled for today, Tuesday and Wednesday at the Tacoma Dome was made on the advice of Jackson's physician and after consultation with the singer's manager, Frank DiLeo, publicist Michael Mitchell said Sunday. NEW YORK (AP) Leonard Nimoy, who went from playing Mr. Spock on ``Star Trek'' to directing hit movies, says it's good to be just an actor again _ and Mr. Spock at that. ``I was fantasizing about this when I was making `The Good Mother,''' Nimoy told The New York Times during filming of ``Star Trek V.'' ``The actor comes to work and says, `Where's the coffee? What time is lunch? Why are you keeping me waiting?''' Co-star William Shatner, Nimoy's ``Star Trek'' shipmate as Captain Kirk, is the director of ``Star Trek V.'' Nimoy directed ``Star Trek III'' and the popular ``Star Trek IV'' before returning to Earth to make the hit ``Three Men and a Baby.'' His latest film, ``The Good Mother'' starring Diane Keaton and Jason Robards, opens this week. ``I feel like I've been struck by lightning,'' Nimoy said in the interview published Sunday. ``But I feel like I've been standing out in a rainstorm for quite a while and I finally got hit.'' NEW YORK (AP) Tom Rettig, who was Lassie's best friend as farm boy Jeff Miller on TV's most famous dog show, says he discovered that life outside of show business has its hazards. Rettig, who played Jeff from 1954 to 1957, dropped out of show biz at age 15. ``I wanted to be a real kid and see what the real world was like,'' he said in an interview in this week's People magazine. After high school, Rettig tried odd jobs and tried to go back into acting, but didn't have much success. ``I went into the most painful period of my life,'' he said. ``I considered suicide every day.'' In 1971, he was arrested for growing marijuana. Three years later, he was jailed on another drug charge, and his wife left him with their two boys. The latter conviction was overturned in 1979. Rettig's story had a happy ending. Today, he lives in Marina del Rey, Calif., and owns computer software company. ``I'm at the happiest place I've ever been,'' he told People. ``I'm happy with myself, my career and my life.'' Eds: A version moving sports wire. CHICAGO (AP) Professional basketball superstar Michael Jordan says he plans to take more time out to smell the flowers. ``Next year, I plan to cut down on my endorsements and personal appearances,'' the Chicago Bulls guard said recently. ``I want to have more time for myself. ``At the same time, I don't want to isolate myself from people. I don't have fences around my house or guards standing in front of it. No bodyguards with me when I go out.'' Although basketball has made him a millionaire, Jordan said he enjoyed it more when he was a child in North Carolina. ``Then, there was no business surrounding it,'' he said. ``No crowds following your every step. The game was cut down to its bare basic. It was pure fun, something everybody in the neighborhood just loved to do. ``Now, there is too much pressure on me. Not just in terms of how you play the game, but how you are perceived away from the game.'' AP881031-0018 AP-NR-10-31-88 0058EST r w PM-Pentagon-Indictments Bjt 10-31 0772 PM-Pentagon-Indictments, Bjt,760 No Pre-Election Indictments in Pentagon Fraud Case By JOAN MOWER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The prosecutor in a massive defense contracting probe says the complexity of the case _ not politics _ will delay indictments until after the Nov. 8 election. Henry E. Hudson, the U.S. attorney in Alexandria, Va., who is coordinating the multistate investigation, also said indictments could continue for a year as a result of a probe into the $150-billion-a-year Defense Department purchasing system. A federal grand jury resumes meeting Nov. 15, so indictments could come then, which would be about five months after the FBI revealed the investigation by searching more than 40 premises across the country. ``I am very optimistic on November indictments,'' Hudson said. Information about the case has been scarce because prosecutors have sealed most search warrants and affidavits. The investigation centers on whether private consultants, many of them former Pentagon employees, paid bribes to Defense Department officials for inside information about contracts, chiefly within the Navy. Hudson, a Republican, denied any suggestion that indictments were slowed so that Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis could not make them an issue in his campaign against Vice President George Bush. ``Nothing would have given me greater pleasure than to hand down indictments in the first part of October,'' Hudson said in an interview. But the prosecutor said the case has been ``administratively complex'' with attorneys forced to examine about 700,000 documents and listen to ``thousands and thousands of tapes of two years of telephone interceptions.'' Federal and defense sources also indicate Hudson's staff has been kept waiting for answers from some potential defendants who have been offered plea bargains. Adding to the task was the time-consuming process of gathering financial evidence from foreign bank accounts, which Hudson described as an ``always delicate issue.'' Hudson said there were good reasons for thoroughness, including the ``high national visibility'' of the case, and the propensity for judges in Virginia to schedule trials shortly after indictments are returned. ``I will not present this indictment until we are ready for trial, and we feel we will be ready ... within the next month,'' he said. As the case evolves, indictments and trials could be held in other cities, sources said. Hudson did not discuss charges that could be filed. But the use of Internal Revenue Service agents on the case suggests that tax charges may be contemplated in addition to the more obvious counts of theft of government property, bribery, fraud and conspiracy to defraud the government. Fifteen attorneys, some of them working 12-hour days and weekends, plus 75 federal agents from the FBI, the Naval Investigative Service and the IRS have been assigned to the case, which Hudson called, ``the largest case ever handled in the eastern district of Virginia.'' Hudson refused to say how many indictments he expected to be returned initially, but noted that courtroom space generally confines the number to less than 12. Though Hudson declined to name the targets of the investigation, he did not rule out members of Congress. ``All individuals that may have been engaged in wrongdoing or committed a criminal act in connection with the defense procurement process will be scrutinized and prosecuted if appropriate,'' he said. Hudson disputed reports that he had told members of Congress during the summer that none was a target. ``I never made such a statement,'' he said. ``I told the members of the House of Representatives that no member of Congress had been the subject of electronic surveillance, had received a subpoena to testify in front of the grand jury at that time or had been the subject of a search warrant,'' he said. Court papers filed in Brooklyn, N.Y., indicate prosecutors are looking at allegations that campaign contributions were extorted. Raids in New York came at the business of James Kane, who set up the Long Island Aerospace Political Action Committee to make contributions that might help area defense contractors, and at the home of Dennis Mitchell, a Unisys Corp. official identified as turning over contributions to Rep. Roy Dyson, D-Md., who sits on the House Armed Services Committee. Dyson has denied any wrongdoing. The name of another committee member, Rep. Bill Chappell Jr., has also surfaced in connection with the probe. Chappell says he has done nothing wrong. Among those whose names have been linked to the investigation are five Pentagon officials, including James Gaines, deputy assistant Navy secretary for acquisition and management; Melvyn Paisley, a consultant who was assistant secretary of the Navy for research, engineering and systems before leaving government in 1987, and William Galvin, another defense consultant. AP881031-0019 AP-NR-10-31-88 0059EST r w PM-FarmScene 10-31 0807 PM-Farm Scene,780 USDA Economist Predicts Bumper Crops Next Year By DON KENDALL AP Farm Writer WASHINGTON (AP) This year's drought is not likely to be repeated in 1989, and U.S. farmers probably will harvest bumper crops of wheat, corn and soybeans, according to an Agriculture Department economist. Corn production, for example, could nearly double from this year's drought-riddled yield. But James Cole of the department's Economic Research Service warned that a backlog of demand will siphon off most of the 1989 crop increases without allowing the United States to rebuild its stockpiles significantly. ``Production of all commodities almost certainly will be much greater next year, but consumption of wheat, corn and soybeans also will remain high, resulting in only limited increases in stocks during 1989-90,'' Cole said. The odds are good for such a harvest improvement in 1989, he said. Since 1970, drought has shriveled U.S. crops five times _ 1970, 1974, 1980, 1983 and 1988 _ and in each case harvest yields were up significantly the following year. According to Cole's analysis, which was prepared for the November issue of Agricultural Outlook magazine, 1989 wheat production may rebound to about 2.5 billion bushels from 1.8 billion bushels this year; corn to 7.5 billion to 8 billion bushels from 4.4 billion in 1988; and soybeans to almost 2 billion bushels from this year's harvest of 1.5 billion. Cole said the larger crops of 1989 ``will be used to sustain growing consumption'' by domestic and foreign users. Therefore, he added, inventories ``may rise only slightly'' by the end of the 1989-90 crop year. ``The real impact of the drought _ markedly reduced stocks _ will remain for some time to come,'' Cole said. ``Some rebuilding of inventories that had been severely depleted in 1988-89 is expected, but gains will be small. Larger increases, if desired, will take more time.'' Despite the odds that the 1988 drought will not be repeated next year, the possibility still exists, no matter how unsavory the subject is for USDA officials. Lester Brown, president of Worldwatch Institute, a non-profit research organization based in Washington, recently said that another U.S. drought in 1989 would trigger a ``desperate scramble'' by needy countries for dwindling grain supplies. Cole explained further about drought's track record in the United States and how it backs up his contention that 1989 may be a bumper crop year. ``Unlike other countries, the United States has not had back-to-back droughts in at least 75 years,'' he said. ``The Soviet Union recently endured as many as four successive years of drought. U.S. weather history and prospects give little reason to believe that crop yields will not rebound next year.'' Moreover, he said, rainfall in September and October has helped replenish badly depleted soil moisture in parts of the corn and soybean belts, and across the Southeast. Long-term forecasts call for average or slightly above-average chances for normal precipitation this fall. ``Even so, most of the upper Midwest and Southeast still require as much as 6 to 10 inches of rainfall this fall and winter to restore soil moisture to more normal levels,'' Cole said. ``Temperatures are likely to be somewhat higher than normal.'' Some other reasons cited by Cole for expecting 1989 crop production to rise sharply: _The USDA has used provisions of the 1985 farm law to reduce the amount of land farmers must idle in order to qualify for price supports and other program benefits, including ``deficiency'' payments, or direct subsidies. For 1989, as an example, only 10 percent of a farmer's feed grain base acreage will have to be set aside, compared with 20 percent this year. Wheat farmers also will have to idle only 10 percent instead of 27.5 percent for 1988. _The Disaster Assistance Act of 1988, which provides drought aid to stricken farmers, also permits USDA to let farmers plant soybeans or sunflowers on corn acres without losing acreage credit for future program calculations. Although 1989 soybean plantings are likely to expand less than either wheat or corn, production is expected to rise substantially. Soybean acreage in the South has been declining for several years as farmers returned land to fallow or other uses. Recovery could begin in 1989, but it will take sustained higher prices to boost the South's soybean acreage to levels of the late 1970s, when prices were high and exports boomed. ``Consumption of wheat, corn and soybeans is expected to increase in 1989-90,'' Cole said. ``Domestic food, seed and industrial uses likely will be near present levels. However, global grain and oilseed use probably will increase slightly.'' Cole added: ``Export growth will be spurred further by increased demand from developing countries, as the value of the dollar remains relatively low. Price declines accompanying next year's harvest will make it easier for importing nations to maintain or expand purchases in 1989-90.'' AP881031-0020 AP-NR-10-31-88 0101EST r w PM-EndangeredForests Bjt 10-31 0770 PM-Endangered Forests, Bjt,750 Could the Marbled Murrelet Be a Red Herring? LaserPhoto WX14 By LES BLUMENTHAL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) If the marbled murrelet turns out to be an endangered bird, it may endanger loggers' plans to take timber from some of the oldest forests in North America. The Fish and Wildlife Service, in a little-noticed decision published in the Federal Register, agreed to consider listing the marbled murrelet as an endangered species. The agency found that a National Audubon Society petition for listing the bird ``presented substantial information indicating that the requested action may be warranted.'' Not much is known about the marbled murrelet, a robin-sized seabird that seems to swim better than it walks or flies. But scientists are convinced the bird nests almost exclusively in the old-growth timber that towers over the coastal regions of the Northwest _ some of the oldest forests in North America. Listing the bird as endangered or threatened could result in a ban on cutting trees that are prized by the timber industry for their top-quality logs and premium market price. Timber industry officials accuse environmentalists of using the marbled murrelet to attempt a ``backdoor'' prohibition against old-growth timber harvesting on public lands. ``It sounds like a red herring,'' said Jay Goldstein, a spokesman for the Washington Forest Protection Association which includes among its members some of the largest forest-products companies in the Northwest. ``We need to decide what to do and get on with it,'' said Goldstein. ``But let's not play games and use soft little birds to defraud the process. These never-ending tactics aimed at foiling the process are irresponsible.'' Environmentalists don't deny that they are waging a battle to halt the cutting of old-growth timber, but add that the marbled murrelet is worthy of protection in its own right. ``We are going to make the survival of the ancient forest a national issue,'' said Brock Evans, an Audubon Society vice president. ``This is not just a problem for the Northwest. Everyone owns these forests. It's like saying the Grand Canyon only belongs to the people of Arizona.'' Caught in the middle is the Fish and Wildlife Service, which recently declared that another bird that nests in old-growth timber, the spotted owl, wasn't worthy of listing as endangered or threatened. That decision is now being reviewed in a lawsuit brought in federal court in Portland, Ore. ``What we have to answer is how important is old growth to the marbled murrelet,'' said Jim Bottroff, a Fish and Wildlife biologist based in Portland. The Audubon Society believes that the bird could eventually become extinct if logging of the old-growth forest continues. According to biologists' estimates, only 3,400 breeding pairs of marbled murrelets remain in Washington state, maybe 2,400 breeding pairs in Oregon and less than 1,000 in Northern California. Estimates for Alaska range up to 50,000 breeding pairs and the bird is also found in Western Canada. Jim Pissot, an Audubon Society specialist, said that since the turn of the century people have been trying to discover where the marbled murrelet nests. ``Now we know or think we know: 150 feet up on the thick branches of old-growth trees,'' said Pissot. ``They are very dependent on old growth.'' Environmentalists believe that more than 160 species may be dependent for survival on old-growth forests. ``The spotted owl and the marbled murrelet are just the tip of the iceberg,'' said Evans. ``They dramatize what is at stake.'' The U.S. Forest Service has estimated that about 7.5 million acres of old growth remains in the Northwest with more than 80 percent of it on national forest lands. Plans call for cutting about half of that total over the next 50 years and Forest Service officials have warned that unless it is cut the region's timber industry could collapse. Environmentalists say the Forest Service estimates are grossly inflated and even include trees that were destroyed by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. They also say that the old growth is being cut at the rate of more than 170 acres a day _ the equivalent of roughly 129 football fields. Congress asked the Forest Service to survey the remaining old growth and to come up with a common definition for an ancient tree. A Forest Service task force earlier defined old-growth trees as being at least 200 years old and almost three feet in diameter. Environmentalists say that definition is too narrow and that officials also should take into account how many of the trees are in a given area and whether it has the characteristics of a mature forest. AP881031-0021 AP-NR-10-31-88 0105EST r w PM-PestControls 10-31 0631 PM-Pest Controls,620 Savings Seen in Fighting Farm Pests with Other Insects By CARL HARTMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Chemical pesticides used to kill crop-damaging bugs too often destroy the pests' natural predators as well, says a group promoting use of the insect world's ``good guys'' to protect food supplies. The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, which holds its annual meeting here next week, has compiled a number of examples from around the world to bolster its position. It says, for instance, that the island republic of Indonesia alone could save up to $100 million a year by cutting down on chemical pesticides and using other bugs to fight the ones that hurt the rice crop. The group represents 13 international research centers around the world, including those responsible for starting the ``green revolution'' in maize and other crops. They are trying to obtain $23.8 million for a five-year biological fight against pests. Damage by pests to cassava, on which 200 million Africans depend, has been estimated at $2 billion a year. Americans know cassava best as tapioca, and use it occasionally in puddings. In Africa and other Third World areas it is a staple food. One economist calculated that a little wasp brought from Paraguay saved over $400 million worth of cassava in Africa last year by eating large quantities of mealybugs, the chief culprit in the losses. Richard B. Norgaard, who teaches farm economics at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote that the wasp program saved farmers $149 for every dollar spent on it. Merle Shepard used to be the top man on insects of the International Rice Research Institute at Los Banos, in the Philippines. He now teaches about useful and harmful insects at Clemson University in Clemson, S.C. ``There are about 800 species of `good guys' in the field,'' he said. ``In most cases they outnumber the `bad guys' five to three.'' A major enemy of the rice plant is the brown planthopper. One wolf spider will kill 20 to 30 of them in a day, saving an estimated $3 worth of rice a season. The trick is to find the best bugs, test them, release them and get them established where they can do most good. Shepard told reporters that chemical pesticides can hurt farming as well as help, by killing the useful as well as the harmful insects. A study on Indonesia earlier this year by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said: ``Only when these predators were killed by unnecessary insecticide treatments did the brown planthopper escape natural control and become a serious pest.'' Shepard said some pesticides must be used, but that they can be eliminated 70 percent to 90 percent of the time. The use of biological methods goes back to the ancient Chinese, who set predatory ants against some insects that attacked citrus fruit. The most recent list of such attempts, compiled in 1976, reports 327 successes. Hans Herren is a Swiss who works in the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture at Ibadan, Nigeria. He said U.N. figures show that 40,000 Third World farmers are killed and 150,000 are injured every year from the use of pesticides. A study last year by the U.S. National Research Council reported several hundred deaths from pesticides a year in this country during the 1970s. It estimated that tens of thousands of people fell ill because of the chemicals. The international research group says the use of bugs, birds and microbes as well as chemicals to help fight pests can be cheaper, healthier and more effective than only spraying with pesticides. But it is also a lot more trouble, which may be one reason it has not caught on more in richer countries. ``Farmers don't like counting bugs,'' Shepard said. AP881031-0022 AP-NR-10-31-88 0106EST r a PM-S&LTroubles Bjt 10-31 0730 PM-S&L Troubles, Bjt,720 S&L Industry Meets Amid Mounting Problems By DAVE SKIDMORE Associated Press Writer HONOLULU (AP) The oldest and largest trade group of savings institutions opened its annual convention today, intent on persuading Congress to help the ailing industry with a multibillion-dollar bailout and preserve it as a system separate from commercial banks. The nation's 3,048 savings institutions lost $7.5 billion in the first six months of this year and losses almost surely will top last year's post-Depression record of $7.8 billion. An estimated 4,050 delegates and spouses to the U.S. League of Savings Institutions' 96th annual convention have gathered in the palm-ringed luxury hotels along Waikiki Beach to map strategy for 1989, when Congress likely will make decisions affecting the industry for years to come. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which regulates the industry, estimates the cost of restoring all S&Ls to solvency at $45 billion to $50 billion, but private analysts put the price tag as high as $100 billion. Bank board chairman M. Danny Wall, scheduled to address the convention on Thursday, said his agency will have enough money to do the job, but only if thrift institutions are charged a special assessment for deposit insurance for the next 30 years. S&Ls say they can't afford it and are looking to Congress to come up with the additional money. ``It's a 30-year mortgage we just flat out can't handle,'' said Theo H. Pitt Jr., chairman of Pioneer Savings Bank in Rocky Mount, N.C., and outgoing chairman of the industry group. The bank board this year has shut down more than 135 institutions or merged them with stronger partners, but at midyear, 497 insolvent institutions were still open. Another 408 were solvent but losing money. The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp., financed by assessments on the industry, was set up to insure deposits in S&Ls but it has been weakened by the flurry of failures. S&Ls already pay more than twice as much for deposit insurance as commercial banks _ $2.08 cents per $1,000 of deposits for S&Ls compared with 83 cents for banks. Pitt contends that continuing the extra assessment, originally scheduled to be phased out in three years, would push otherwise profitable institutions into insolvency, creating an ever-enlarging problem. So far this year, the extra assessment has made the difference between profit and loss for 69 institutions, he said. ``Clearly there is a limit to what the solvent institutions can do,'' he said. Congress, when it decides how to pay the bill, whether through a direct appropriation from the Treasury or through some sort of taxpayer-backed guarantee, will almost certainly include measures aimed at preventing the problem from recurring. Although much of the industry's problems are concentrated in depressed oil-producing states in the Southwest, they have been magnified in Texas, California and Florida by lax state regulation that permitted thrift institutions to make risky investments far removed from traditional home mortgage lending. Many in the industry had pushed for permission to diversify in the early 1980s when soaring interest rates made it impossible for thrifts to make money on their old, fixed-rate mortgages. The argument was that a greater range of activities would help institutions pull themselves out of the hole. As it turned out, Pitt said, the institutions that strayed most from traditional mortgage lending earned the least. ``The ones that have gotten into trouble were the ones who took the most advantage of the new powers,'' he said. Rep. Gerald Kleczka, D-Wis., and other members of Congress say that after all the insolvent S&Ls are closed or merged with stronger partners, the entire S&L system should be merged with the commercial bank system. But Pitt says American home buyers need a separate S&L system. A study by the U.S. League this summer showed that thrifts and mortgage banking companies owned by thrifts provided 54 percent of the country's residential mortgages last year. ``I believe Congress is beginning to recognize that we haven't abandoned our traditional role,'' Pitt said. ``If we don't do it, you're going to have to reinvent the system. He said the league will be recommending regulatory changes in what he called a ``never again scenario.'' Among the likely recommendations, he said, would be stricter limits on direct investment in commercial real estate projects and on the amount that can be loaned to a single customer. AP881031-0023 AP-NR-10-31-88 0031EST u a AM-TerrorTrucker 2ndLd-Writethru a0401 10-31 0403 AM-Terror Trucker, 2nd Ld - Writethru, a0401,0407 Trucker Runs Cars Off Road, Shoots Officer in Neck; One Dead Eds: SUBS penultimate graf, ``The driver ...,'' to CORRECT that driver stopped his vehicle sted being stopped by roadblock. FORT HANCOCK, Texas (AP) A tractor-trailer driver ran at least nine vehicles off the road Sunday, killing one driver, and wounded an officer in a violence spree that stretched 70 miles, police said. A 30-year-old man was arrested, but no charges had been filed as of late Sunday, authorities said. The series of events on Interstate 10 in West Texas lasted less than an hour, said David Wells, a Department of Public Safety spokesman. They began near Van Horn, about 100 miles southeast of El Paso, when authorities received reports of cars being run off the road by a westbound semi-tractor-trailer, said DPS trooper Bob Newman. Thirty miles west of Van Horn, the man rammed a car driven by Sharon Marie Agutter, 48, of El Paso, Newman said. She later was found dead in her flipped car on the side of the interstate, said Wells. Several miles west, a man driving a recreational vehicle pulling a trailer was rammed from behind and run off the road. The driver of the RV was uninjured and followed the trucker, Newman said. A Hudspeth County constable and a Border Patrol agent who heard about the incident on their police radio pulled over and waited for the trucker. When he drove by, the two officers gave chase. The officers pulled the trucker over near Fort Hancock. When Constable Sonny Hillin got out of the patrol car, the driver tried to pin him against the vehicle, Newman said. Hillin was able to scramble away, get back into the car and drive it in front of the truck to stop it. When Hillin got out of his car again, the truck driver shot two times through his own windshield and hit the officer once, Newman said. He said the trucker then fired at the trailing recreational vehicle, but no one was injured. The truck driver then drove off a second time. The driver finally stopped his vehicle a half-mile west of Fort Hancock. He offered no resistance, Newman said. Hillin was taken to Vista Hills Medical Center in El Paso, where he was in stable condition with a gunshot wound to the neck, a nursing supervisor said late Sunday. AP881031-0024 AP-NR-10-31-88 0106EST r a PM-InvestmentPlayoffs 10-31 0258 PM-Investment Playoffs,0265 Come Tuesday, They're Off To Wall Street _ May the Best Investor Win SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Starting Tuesday, about 15,000 students nationwide will play a Wall Street board game come to life, complete with a toll-free number to make trades and a computerized network with up-to-the-minute stock prices. For the next four months, each of the students at 1,000 colleges and universities will use $500,000 in play money to buy and sell stocks in the first AT&T Collegiate Investment Challenge, organizers said. ``My strategy right now is go for some long shots and hope they pay off,'' said Steve Geist, a political science major at the University of California-Berkeley and aspiring lawyer. Participants include students from community colleges, four-year colleges and graduate programs. The student investors are expected to make 7,500 calls a day to 30 ``brokers'' at Wellesley, Mass.,-based Wall Street Games, the educational board game the competition is based upon. The students are likely to opt for high-risk portfolios in hopes of gaining the greatest growth in the shortest time, said Lisa Nollet, marketing director for Wall Street Games. Although less bullish trading is more prudent in real life, Nollet says players of the game still learn the rudiments of the stock market and perhaps a sense of caution. The top finisher wins $25,000 in real money. Second place gets $10,000. Other prizes include a trip to New York, a week in the Bahamas, wristwatches and athletic shoes. Those who double their money will be made members of the ``Millionaire's Club.'' AP881031-0025 AP-NR-10-31-88 0107EST r a PM-Reagan 10-31 0505 PM-Reagan,510 US Joins World Copyright Pact EDS: Will be topped with signing at 2 p.m. EST By W. DALE NELSON Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) The United States is entering into a worldwide treaty providing reciprocal copyright protection for American artists and writers and those of 76 other countries. In a ceremony in a hotel meeting room today, President Reagan was signing legislation bringing American copyright law into compliance with the 102-year-old Bern Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. The Senate ratified the treaty on Oct. 20, but legislation making changes in American copyright laws was also needed before the United States could become a full-fledged member of the convention. Differences between American and other nations' copyright laws stalled ratification for decades, but many of the obstacles were removed when Congress enacted a sweeping overhaul of U.S. copyright law in 1976. Participation in the convention will enable the United States to have copyright relations with 24 countries with which it now has none, officials said. The convention was signed in Bern on Sept. 9, 1886. It spells out minimum copyright standards, detailing what is protected and how long the copyright lasts. It also bars member nations from discriminating against protected works from other member states. The signing ceremony was the only public event on the president's schedule today. On Sunday, Reagan and his wife, Nancy, traveled from their ranch north of Santa Barbara to receive awards from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an organization dedicated to the study of the Holocaust. In a speech accepting the center's 1988 humanitarian award, the president said his administration has made U.S. ties with Israel ``warmer than they have ever been'' and added: ``We must remain strong, and we must be willing to use force when we are under threat. This is a lesson that binds us still closer to the state of Israel; for the fact is, a strong Israel depends upon a strong America.'' Reagan also announced that he will soon sign enabling legislation passed this year to facilitate U.S. adherence to the United Nations convention on genocide, which the Senate ratified in 1986 after a long campaign by Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis. Aides said the president is expected to sign the legislation on Thursday in Washington. The award to the president was given for his efforts on behalf of peace and his support of Israel. It was presented at a dinner held on the 80th birthday of Simon Wiesenthal, who has worked with the U.S. and other governments in locating Nazi war criminals. Wiesenthal joined the president and others at the head table. The president, who left the White House last Thursday, campaigned for the Republican ticket in Arkansas, Missouri and California and made a foreign policy address here before spending the weekend at the ranch. On Tuesday, he will resume campaigning with stops in San Bernardino and Fullerton, Calif., and Reno, Nev. He will speak in Milwaukee and in Berea, Ohio, before returning to the White House on Wednesday. AP881031-0026 AP-NR-10-31-88 0110EST r a PM-QuakeAftermath 10-31 0580 PM-Quake Aftermath,0596 Five Years Later, Massive Quake May Be in Danger of Being Forgotten By BOB FICK Associated Press Writer CHALLIS, Idaho (AP) The damage has been repaired and the continuing aftershocks are mostly imperceptible, and some say the great temblor that shook central Idaho and killed two children five years ago is being forgotten. ``It was a beautiful day until the Earth started shaking,'' remembered Oval Caskey, mayor of the small town of Mackay. ``It just shook everything down to the roots.'' The quake struck near the Little River Valley town of Challis on the morning of Oct. 28, 1983. At 7.3 on the Richter scale, it was the nation's most powerful earthquake in nearly 20 years and one of the country's strongest ever recorded. The quake visibly rolled up the valley, undulating the ground like an ocean wave and making its shock felt as far away as southwestern North Dakota, or more than 600 miles. The state's tallest mountain, 12,662-foot Borah Peak, was at the epicenter. The quake lifted it a foot, dropped the valley to the west 4 feet and created a 12-mile-long fault line still visible today. Two school children died in the valley that's home to about 1,400 people. Damage in Challis and Mackay ran into the millions of dollars. ``I was never worried about earthquakes before,'' said Mike Gallagher, owner of Round Valley Supply in Challis. ``But every time you feel a tremor your heart stops for a second and you wonder if this is another big one.'' Residents worked quickly to repair the damage, though, and the government built a city hall in Mackay and several new schools in the valley. ``They're a tough bunch,'' said Walt Weymouth, who recently moved from Challis to northern California. ``They submerged their feelings and simply went on with their lives.'' Janet Franck is one of them. Her 6-year-old son, Travis, was killed by the falling rubble along with 7-year-old Tara Leaton as they walked to school in Challis. ``I'm a person who believes the past is in the past and it should be left there,'' Mrs. Franck said. ``Bringing it back up just opens a lot of old wounds.'' Aftershocks have dwindled to only a few each week, and only a fraction of them are felt beyond scientists' seismographs. Attitudes have lightened so much that when an aftershock has been big enough, like last summer's 4.7 tremor, clerks in the Custer County Courthouse have set up a betting pool for estimating the final Richter scale reading. Scientists like Bob Smith of the University of Utah express worries that information gleaned from the quake has been ignored. ``We can take what we've learned there now and say what would happen if we had an equivalent earthquake in, say, Salt Lake City,'' which lies on the Wasatch Fault. But, he cautioned: ``The people who are in the position to utilize this kind of data, the land-use planners, the legislative people ... seem to operate on short-term problems. The lessons learned from Borah Peak don't seem to have made much of an impact yet.'' Idaho Disaster Services Director Darrell Waller said the state has scheduled a major earthquake disaster exercise for next spring. But he acknowledged that building codes haven't been revised, and said a disaster of greater magnitude may be needed to prompt such changes. ``Had that event happened and affected seriously a major city, it would not have been so quickly forgotten,'' he said. AP881031-0027 AP-NR-10-31-88 0115EST r w PM-UtilityRenovation 10-31 0728 PM-Utility Renovation,680 Wisconsin Case Could Set Precedent for Older Power Plants By GUY DARST Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Utilities nationwide are closely watching a clean-air case involving a Wisconsin power company because it could affect future renovation projects at hundreds of older plants across the country. The Environmental Protection Agency has told Wisconsin Electric Power Co. that it will have to meet more stringent standards for new plants if it goes ahead with planned repairs at a coal-fired power plant. The industry has long assumed that such renovation projects were exempt from the tougher clean-air rules that apply to new plants. EPA's ruling is the first of its kind. ``I think they are flat wrong,'' said Henry Nickel, chief lawyer for the Utility Air Regulatory Group, which represents utilities. EPA's decision, he said, contradicts current regulations. Bob Beck, environmental manager for the Edison Electric Institute, trade association of the nation's private utilities, said EPA's ruling could amount to ``a de facto acid rain program.'' The Energy Department has taken the utilities' side, protesting to EPA that the decision could jeopardize future power supplies, or make them more costly. Utilities say they may simply close plants or forgo repairs if the new-plant standards will apply. But David Hawkins, an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, said EPA ``is making the right call.'' ``It's about time they put some life and teeth into the requirements'' that significant renovation qualifies a plant as new. The plant involved is the Port Washington station in suburban Milwaukee, whose five 80-megawatt generating units were installed from 1935 to 1950. In 1984 the company discovered severe cracks in steam drums. The following year one of the five units was taken off line and steam pressure reduced in the other four, for an overall drop in capacity of 40 percent. Now the company plans to replace the steam drums in a project costing $71 million. Wisconsin Electric argues that this is routine maintenance that ought to be exempt from review. But in an Oct. 14 letter to the company informing it of the decision, EPA Administrator Lee M. Thomas said the company had told state regulators the project was not routine, that $46 million of the expense was a capital expenditure, that capacity had deteriorated before 1984 for other reasons, and that other equipment also would be replaced to help restore original capacity. Thomas said emissions will go back up once the plant resumes full-power generation, and that the increase will result from a capital rather than a maintenance expenditure. The argument that the utility plans only to restore original capacity is not relevant under those circumstances, he said. Sulfur dioxide is the most important pollutant at issue. Formed from sulfur in the fuel, it is transformed in the atmosphere into sulfuric acid, leading to acid rain. A new plant today would be limited to 0.6 to 1.2 pounds of sulfur per million BTUs provided by the fuel. At the same time it would have to remove 70 percent to 90 percent of the sulfur originally in the coal. Port Washington now burns coal emitting 2.5 pounds of sulfur per million BTUs. EPA estimates that Port Washington's hourly emissions of sulfur dioxide would increase from current levels by 69 percent after the renovation. As a practical matter, the only way to prevent that increase would be to install smokestack ``scrubbers'' _ something that according to one industry rule of thumb could cost about $80 million at Port Washington, more than the repairs, and reduce the plant's electrical output by 5 percent. Wisconsin Power is negotiating with EPA in a bid to avoid that expense. Lisa Fox, a company spokeswoman, declined to discuss specifics of the negotiations, though she did confirm that fuel-switching to oil or gas is an option. Though U.S. sulfur dioxide emissions have been falling since the mid-1970s, environmentalists say they would have fallen faster if more old plants had been replaced by new plants. Extending the life of old plants ``wasn't even on the radar screen'' in 1979, when the current regulations were promulgated, said Hawkins, who was then with the EPA and helped draft the rules. Now, according to the Energy Department, plants more than 30 years old are expected to account for 25 percent of all fossil-fueled generating capacity in 1990 and 90 percent in 2010. AP881031-0028 AP-NR-10-31-88 0048EST u i PM-GulfTalks 10-31 0589 PM-Gulf Talks,0604 Prisoners Of War High On Agenda As Iran-Iraq Peace Talks Resume Eds: LEAD prospects uncertain. By HANNS NEUERBOURG Associated Press Writer GENEVA (AP) On the eve of a new round of peace talks, Iran and Iraq each released 25 prisoners of war and U.N. chief Javier Perez de Cuellar said he would promptly seek the repatriation of the thousands that remain. The United Nations secretary general told reporters on arrival Sunday that he hoped the third round of talks that begins today would soon yield ``positive results,'' specifically on the exchange of prisoners. But he has said his first target as mediator to have both sides agree to the disengagement of forces that a U.N. report says have remained in ``dangerous proximity'' since Aug. 20, when a truce halted the 8-year-old war. The U.N. Iran-Iraq Military Observers Group, which is monitoring the cease-fire, says in the report that in some places troops are separated by just 30 feet of no man's land. Perez de Cuellar said he planned to discuss the prisoner-of-war issue this morning with the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross and expected to meet later today with the delegations of both sides. A U.N. report estimates Iran and Iraq hold a combined total of up to 105,000 prisoners of war, though the Red Cross has registered just 50,182 in Iran and 19,284 in Iraq. So far, Iran has freed 790 prisoners and Iraq 638, according to the Red Cross. On Sunday, Iraq freed 25 disabled Iranian prisoners and they were flown to Tehran, the capital of Iran, aboard a plane chartered by the Red Cross. Iran reciprocated immediately by releasing 25 Iraqi prisoners who boarded the same plane for the return flight to Baghdad, Iraq, according to Francoise Derand, a spokesman at the Red Cross office in Geneva. Iraq has agreed in principle to release all prisoners and says their freedom should not have to be worked out in the peace talks. But Iran has said the exchange must be based on the U.N. resolution under which the cease-fire took hold and on a plan drafted by Perez de Cuellar. That plan provides for a timetable for implementing all ten points of the cease-fire resolution, ranging from the prisoner-of-war exchange to assessment of damages and an inquiry into who started the war. Perez de Cuellar said Sunday night that he hoped the Geneva talks would be ``if possible much more useful'' than the previous round held in New York early this month. Both Iran and Iraq have not budged on the principal issue stalemating the talks since they began in Geneva on Aug. 25: delineation of the border between the two nations. Iran says a 1975 treaty set the border in the middle of the Shatt-al-Arab waterway, Iraq's only navigable outlet to the sea. Iraq repudiated the treaty in 1980 and demands sovereignty over the entire waterway. Foreign Minister Tariz Aziz of Iraq, who heads his country's delegation to the talks, told reporters at the airport on Sunday that Iraq ``did not go to New York for substantial negotiations. ``Let us resume direct talks in Geneva where we can stay for a while as long as the job needs,'' he said. ``Now we will negotiate on this matter with the Iranians.'' He said Iran, whose delegation is headed by Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, is to blame that ``we are still on the same place (in the peace talks) where we left in Geneva and in New York.'' AP881031-0029 AP-NR-10-31-88 0051EST u w PM-Cambodia-CovertAid 10-31 0460 PM-Cambodia-Covert Aid,420 Thai Military Officers Said To Steal U.S. Covert Aid By JIM DRINKARD Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A covert CIA program to aid non-communist rebels in Cambodia is operating at reduced levels following discovery that military officers in Thailand had siphoned off some $3.5 million, according to intelligence sources and a published report. The corruption scandal, which may also have involved some Thai businessmen, was reported in Sunday's Washington Post and confirmed in part by other sources, who declined to be identified by name. The program, one of several Reagan administration initiatives to bolster anti-communist forces in conflicts around the world, has since been cleaned up but is operating at reduced levels. More rigorous accounting procedures are in place, the newspaper reported. It said CIA officers in Thailand first turned up evidence that money had been skimmed from the covert aid program, which totaled $12 million in fiscal 1988. Some of the Cambodian rebels operate from neighboring Thailand. The agency then tipped off the Senate Intelligence Committee, which sent a four-member audit team to Thailand. The team, part of a beefed-up independent auditing capability instituted by committee chairman Sen. David Boren, D-Okla., and co-chairman William Cohen, R-Maine, confirmed the existence of the scheme. The team's report back to the intelligence panel on July 12 sparked disagreement over whether the covert support should be continued, the Post reported, citing a State Department document detailing the developments. At the time, the administration was seeking to increase support to resistance forces opposing Vietnamese troops inside Cambodia. The program's aim is to establish a non-communist presence that could prevent the return of the communist Khmer Rouge when the Vietnamese pull troops out of Cambodia. After a debate within the intelligence panel it was decided to continue the program, but to reduce the amount of U.S. support to $8 million in the current year and to institute strict procedures for making sure the money is spent for its intended purposes _ non-lethal items and training. The audit team later returned to Thailand to review how new controls were working, and found ``solid evidence'' that proper accounting was in place, the Post reported. The covert program in Cambodia, begun in 1982 or 1983, had until then provoked little controversy and had received far less public exposure than similar administration programs to support anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua, Angola and Afghanistan. Boren declined to comment directly on the Post story, but issued a statement saying he was ``deeply troubled'' by the reference to a State Department document provided by an executive branch source. ``I have asked both the secretary of state and the director of the CIA to determine if anyone in the executive branch has indeed been compromising classified documents,'' Boren said. AP881031-0030 AP-NR-10-31-88 0119EST r a PM-Arafat-Interview 10-31 0238 PM-Arafat-Interview,0244 Arafat Says He Would Be Ready For An International Conference NEW YORK (AP) Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasser Arafat says regardless of the outcome of Israel's elections he would be ready to join an international conference on Palestinian rights. ``I am ready to sit in an international conference with Israelis, no matter whom they send,'' Arafat says in an interview in the Nov. 7 issue of Time magazine. ``The enemy will say, our representative is Sharon, our representative is Peres, our representative is Rabin. I can't say no,'' Arafat said, referring to Israeli rightist Ariel Sharon, and Israeli Labor party leaders Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin. Israel's parliamentary elections are Tuesday. After the election, said Arafat, he would be willing to talk with any Israelis ``who accept an international conference for Palestininan rights according to international law and are ready to fight together with us to implement peace in this area.'' Arafat also predicted that neither the conservative Likud nor the left-leaning Labor party will win a majority in the Tuesday voting. ``I am sure there will be another coalition,'' he said. Referring to the 10-month uprising by Palestinians in the Israeli occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, Arafat said, ``More than 50 of the Israeli army is in the streets _ in the villages, in the towns, in the camps.'' And he added: ``Definitely, no single party can carry this responsibility.'' AP881031-0031 AP-NR-10-31-88 0121EST r a PM-EarlyFuneral 10-31 0453 PM-Early Funeral,0469 Woman Attends Own Funeral By ELIZABETH LIGHTFOOT Associated Press Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) A terminally ill woman who set up and attended her own funeral says she'll remember it for the rest of her life _ and after. Carrie Munson, who overcame a quarter-century addiction to heroin to earn a college degree at age 49, attended her funeral Saturday at New Hope Baptist Church, wearing the cap and gown she wore when she got her diploma. The 62-year-old Milwaukee woman, who suffers from pancreatic cancer, said she planned her own funeral because she wanted to see the faces of ``friends, associates and enemies.'' More than 100 people attended. ``You can't communicate with your friends and tell them how you feel inside a box,'' Munson said as she peered around the church. ``As I look around, I don't see any enemies. All I see is friends. ``This is a moment in my life that I will never forget and after I'm gone I'll remember it, too.'' Munson said the funeral will provide the perfect ending to her autobiography: ``Bury Me in My Cap and Gown.'' In his eulogy, the Rev. R. L. Lathan praised Munson's faith in God and determination. ``You have stood up with faith. You have challenged even the medical society,'' Lathan said. ``Carrie, there is no guarantee you won't be able to wear that cap and gown again,'' he said. ``Many of us here with you may beat you to the grave.'' For Munson, the cap and gown are something to be proud of. Until she was in her 40s, Munson had only a fourth-grade education. After 25 years of drug addiction and small-time crime and several suicide attempts, she decided to do something with her life. Munson said she prayed, began to hate the drugs and set out to prove herself by attending college. ``I knew I wasn't stupid. I knew I wasn't dumb,'' she said. ``If I take what I learned on the street and put it into this B.A. ... I'll have a masterpiece.'' Munson graduated in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a degree in journalism and mass communications. Since then, she has worked as a radio jazz show host and as a social worker. Ziff Sistrunk said he took a bus from Chicago to attend the ceremony after reading about Munson's plans in the newspaper. During the funeral, he sang the Frank Sinatra hit ``I Did It My Way,'' saying he had read that Munson cherished the song. Munson said she had a message for drug addicts and cancer patients: ``Why be afraid? We've all got to die. Live every day to the fullest. Don't sit around and worry about death.'' AP881031-0032 AP-NR-10-31-88 0108EST u i PM-Israel-Economy 10-31 0739 PM-Israel-Economy,0762 Economic Woes Will Weigh Heavy on Winner of Israeli Election With PM-Israel, Bjt ^By EILEEN ALT POWELL Associated Press Writer TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) As Labor Party leader Shimon Peres walked through a crowded town market on a hand-shaking campaign tour, a loyalist of the rival Likud bloc confronted him with an angry question. ``I worked at Alliance Tire for 20 years, and now I've lost my job,'' the man screamed. ``What are you going to do about it?'' Peres, upset by hecklers drowning out his speech, shouted back that the man should apply for unemployment. The acrimonious scene was a reminder that, though the Palestinian uprising has been the focus of Israel's election campaign, economic problems will be a major task facing whoever is in office after Tuesday's elections. Economists are warning of a possible recession, a growing crisis facing Israeli industry and a sharp rise in unemployment. Several large unions threatened strikes even as election day approached. About 15,000 employees at three major Israeli banks held a one-day strike Sunday. Leaders of the Histadrut, the nation's trade union federation allied to the left-of-center Labor Party, convinced most of them to return to work today. The workers, some of whom earn as little as $600 a month, are demanding higher pay. Also, gasoline truckers demanding a 4.5 percent wage increase nearly walked off the job, but the strike was averted when Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir agreed to discuss the truckers' demands at Sunday's Cabinet meeting. Last week Koor, the nation's largest industrial conglomerate employing 27,000 people, had to be bailed out by the government after it defaulted on a $20 million loan. Shamir, who heads the right-wing Likud Party, immediately turned that into a rallying cry for an end to Labor-backed policies that traditionally have preserved jobs regardless of the cost. ``The concept of the Labor Party belongs to the past, it belongs to East Europe at the beginning of the century,'' Shamir said in a speech calling for ``a free economy and free enterprise.'' Peres, though he has a say in the coalition government along with Shamir, responded by blaming Likud for tight money policies and high interest rates that have hampered industrial growth and moved the economy precariously close to recession. ``Today there are 3,000 plants in distress,'' Peres charged in a televised debate with Shamir. ``What plant can pay 30 percent to 35 percent interest? This entire policy rocks the economy.'' How voters will respond to the rhetoric remains unclear. Hanoch Smith, an independent pollster, says surveys so far have shown ``a standoff between the two main parties'' on economic issues. Labor appears more vulnerable than Likud because the Histadrut owns or controls many of the ailing industries, chief among them Koor and the nation's largest insurance company. A few months ago, the Histadrut's ailing Alliance Tire & Rubber Co. northeast of Tel Aviv was put in the hands of a state-appointed receiver, and Israeli banks put up $8 million in emergency loans to keep the company afloat. After a three-month closure, the plant was reopened Oct. 5 but 250 workers _ including the one who confronted Peres _ were not recalled. Economists say Israeli's current industrial problems stem in part from its success in dealing with another economic evil faced when the coalition came to power in 1984 _ inflation. That year, consumer prices were rising a record 445 percent a year. In July 1985, the government enacted an ``emergency stabilization program'' with wage and price freezes, stringent monetary controls and tight budget policies that have brought inflation down to about 16 percent a year. Although the government has eased up since to allow limited wage and price increases, continuing high interest rates and strict exchange rate controls have squeezed business profits. In addition, the Palestinian uprising in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip has sapped millions of dollars from the tourist industry and from businesses that traditionally depend on Arab workers, such as construction and textiles. One western-trained economist, who insisted on anonymity, predicted the Israeli economy would grow 1 percent or less this year, well below the government's target of 3.7 percent and down sharply from last year's 5.2 percent growth. The nation's unemployment rate has risen from 5.6 percent at the end of 1987 to nearly 6 percent in the first half of 1988, and some economists believe it hit 7 percent in the July-September quarter. AP881031-0033 AP-NR-10-31-88 0126EST r a PM-Lites 10-31 0628 PM-Lites,0652 On the Light Side DETROIT (AP) An avid football fan is hoping to score with a book designed to help people tell the difference between the end-around and the end zone. ``Football For Men And Women Who Want To Learn The Game,'' teaches the beginning fan the fundamentals of professional football, author Donna Foehr said. It also contains information about college, high school, pee-wee and Canadian football, she added. ``Football is not for everyone, but there are a lot of people who want to learn more about the game,'' she said. Foehr, 57, of suburban Bloomfield Hills, said she has gone to football games for as long as she can remember and is a season-ticket holder for Michigan State and Detroit Lions games. Almost all topics of the game are defined in the $9.95 book published by National Press, from the dimensions of the field to little-used plays like the drop kick. ``It took me about five months to write the book but once that was done, I spent about 500 hours re-editing it,'' she said. ``It seemed that every time the publisher sent me changes in the manuscript, I would change them back again and that went on several times.'' OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) Candidate David Hales apparently doesn't believe in staying close to his intended constituency. He's attending college about 3,000 miles away in Massachusetts while seeking a Washington lawmaker's post. Hales, who is 18 and from Renton, near Seattle, easily won the Democratic primary for state representative, but he was the only one on the ballot. Hales, a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge on an ROTC scholarship, left Washington state Aug. 25 and has not actively campaigned for the seat now held by state Rep. Bruce Holland, a Republican. ``I think a few of his friends are helping David but I haven't seen any yard signs and don't know if they have been doorbelling,'' said Hales' mother, Martha. Why, if he didn't intend to campaign, did Hales file for office? ``David is interested in politics and the system and just wanted to get involved and so decided to run for the Legislature,'' said Mrs. Hales. Attempts to contact Hales at MIT were unsuccessful. As to Hales' candidacy, Holland said he isn't too happy with the situation. ``I've taken a position on several issues and there's nobody here to argue the other side so I don't get any feedback,'' said Holland. ``I'll win because I'm here and he's not.'' MILWAUKEE (AP) Most folks would be happy with $1 million but not Lois Whitcomb. Wisconsin lottery's first $1 million winner says she's ready to try for another million during a trip to Las Vegas. Mrs. Whitcomb, who runs a steak house with her husband in Larsen, near Oshkosh, said they were going to a convention of tavern owners in Las Vegas. ``I'll probably win a million out there,'' joked Mrs. Whitcomb, who had the winning number in Saturday's drawing for the $1 million prize. The trip had been planned before she became one of 10 finalists for the lottery drawing. Her actual winnings work out to about $730,000 after taxes, which she will get in 20 installments of $36,535. She said the money will not change her life. ``I just feel regular, everyday,'' the 46-year-old mother of seven said Sunday, although ``I won't be working every weekend, I hope.'' Her husband, Robert, 66, who has had heart surgery, did not feel well enough to attend the drawing Saturday, when he was hospitalized briefly. ``Every time I get a little problem, they take me in,'' he said. ``I would like to have been there to give her a hug and a kiss.'' The Wisconsin lottery started Sept. 14. AP881031-0034 AP-NR-10-31-88 0128EST r a PM-AbortionProtests CORRECTIVE SUB 10-31 0058 PM-Abortion Protests, CORRECTIVE, SUB,0055 Eds: CORRECTS a0412 to Saturday, sted Friday. Eds: Members who used a0540, PM-Abortion Protests, UNDATED, sent Oct. 29 are asked to use the following: NEW YORK (AP) The Associated Press erroneously reported Saturday that 40 protesters were arrested at two abortion clinics in Nashville. There were no arrests reported in Nashville. AP881031-0035 AP-NR-10-31-88 0138EST r i PM-Portugal-WaroftheWorlds 10-31 0327 PM-Portugal-War of the Worlds,0333 Panic In Northern Portugal Sparked By Orson Welles-Style Broadcast By PETER WISE Associated Press Writer LISBON, Portugal (AP) Some people flocked to the countryside to see if Martians had landed, while others fled in fear after a local radio station broadcast a 50th-anniversary rendition of Orson Welles' ``War of the Worlds.'' The 90-minute broadcast on Sunday had been advertised in preceding days but nevertheless sparked scores of calls to police and fire services in Braga, a northern city of 63,000 people. The curious drove to an area outside town where Radio Braga reported aliens from Mars were landing, officials said. The frightened began fleeing in cars, according to news reports from the area. Lines reportedly formed at some gas stations in Braga, 200 miles north of the capital, Lisbon. The broadcast was a recreation of Welles' radio dramatization of the H.G. Wells novel ``The War of the Worlds.'' On Oct. 30, 1938, the actor and director interrupted radio broadcasts in the United States with a report that Martians had landed in New Jersey. That broadcast caused hundreds of thousands of people to panic. In Braga, police were called to control 150 to 200 demonstrators who gathered outside the studios of Radio Braga to protest the broadcast of the recreation of Welles' version, said Paulo Sousa, a reporter at the station. Sousa said the station received more than 100 calls. ``Some called to complain, some to inquire and some to offer congratulations,'' he said in a telephone interview. Sousa said the broadcast was intended as an homage to Welles and had been well publicized previously in newspapers and on the radio station itself. He said the program itself also contained clues that it was fiction. A police spokesman in Braga, who asked not to be named, confirmed police had been called to the radio station. He said many people believed the broadcast initially, but added that no serious incidents were reported. AP881031-0036 AP-NR-10-31-88 0124EST u i BC-Japan-Stocks 10-31 0027 BC-Japan-Stocks,0026 Stocks Up In Tokyo TOKYO (AP) The Nikkei Stock Average closed at 27,982.54 points, up 21.53 points, on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Monday. AP881031-0037 AP-NR-10-31-88 0148EST r p PM-PortlandMayor Bjt 10-31 0507 PM-Portland Mayor, Bjt,0520 Portland, Ore.'s Eccentric Mayor Makes Strong Bid For Re-election LaserPhoto PD1 By RICHARD GREEN Associated Press Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Bud Clark exchanged his bartender's apron for the mayor's mantle four years ago and, barring a long-shot victory by one of the three police chiefs to leave his administration, will remain a mixologist of policy, not drinks. Ron Still, who resigned as police chief after Clark took office, advanced to the Nov. 8 runoff election after winning 33.6 percent of the primary vote. Eleven candidates fragmented the vote, and Clark fell just short of topping the 50 percent plus one vote need to avert a runoff. A poll by KATU-TV Oct. 13 showed Clark leading Still, 58 percent to 32 percent, with 10 percent undecided. The margin of error was plus or minus 5 points. Clark, owner of the popular Goose Hollow Tavern, points to such accomplishments during his first term as voter approval of a bond measure for a convention center and formulation of a plan to deal with the city's homeless. Still has made veiled criticisms of Clark's eccentricities, which include a victory cry of ``Whoop! Whoop!'' once performed on ``The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson'' and a penchant for wearing shorts and suspenders. Clark once posed for a poster that carried the caption ``Expose Yourself to Art'' and showed a back view of a man opening an overcoat in front of a statue. ``Portland needs a mayor who knows when to wear lederhosen and when to wear a three-piece suit,'' Still said early in the campaign. ``A lot of people say they want their mayor to look and act like someone who can run a multimillion-dollar corporation,'' said Carolyn Gaudry, Still's campaign manager. For his part, Clark said he is one of many mayors ``who have used certain antics in drawing attention to their city.'' Still also has criticized Clark for his handling of the police. Still's resignation led to Clark's selection of Penny Harrington as the nation's first female chief of a big-city police department. She resigned after a mayoral commission criticized her management style. Clark replaced her with Jim Davis, but later fired Davis during an argument at a cafe. Still has tried to pin Portland's crime problem to Clark, under whose administration the city's first gang-related shootings occurred. Gang members, seeking to increase their drug markets, have flocked from Los Angeles to Portland and other western cities. Under his tenure, Clark responded, this city of 420,000 residents has succeeded in reducing the frequency of some crimes, such as burglary. Fighting crime would be a high priority in his next term, he said. Aides to Clark and Still say each side will have spent about $500,000 by the Nov. 8 election, making this the most expensive campaign in city history for the $60,000-per-year mayor's job. The race officially is non-partisan, but Clark showed his allegiance to the Democratic Party during its presidential nominating convention, when he announced the vote of the Oregon delegation. Still is Republican. AP881031-0038 AP-NR-10-31-88 0152EST r a PM-Brite-SlammerSlumber 10-31 0296 PM-Brite-Slammer Slumber,0309 Go Directly To Jail For Fun and Charity BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) The sheriff's secretary spent a night behind bars in the St. Clair County Jail, as did the manager of the farm bureau and some of the sheriff's friends. They were guilty of no known wrongdoing. They spent Friday night in jail for laughs and worthy causes. ``It just seemed like something different to do,'' said Tom Jett, county farm bureau manager. ``You don't get the opportunity to do this very often _ come in here and be able to leave.'' Twenty-five people spent the night in jail as part of a program called ``Slumber in the Slammer.'' That's what Sheriff Mearl Justus called an all-night party to break in a $2.7 million jail addition dedicated earlier in the day. Participants gave donations for the privilege of going to jail, with money going to the Women's Crisis Center and for a memorial being built near the jail to honor officers killed in the line of duty. ``I think it was successful,'' Justus said. ``We ought to net a couple thousand dollars for each cause.'' When it was time to release the honorary detainees about 7 a.m. Saturday, Justus' secretary, Pat Buxton, said a night behind bars gave her a different perspective. ``I'm just glad I get to go home at five every night,'' she said. Like most inmates, the one-nighters complained about the accommodations. Pillows were a hot commodity. When Jim and Fran Smith, friends of Justus and the sheriff's wife, Audrey, got to the jail, they found their bunks, but no pillows. ``I sent him home for two pillows,'' Fran Smith said of her husband. ``He came back with two pillow cases.'' Justus came to the rescue with some pillows. AP881031-0039 AP-NR-10-31-88 0210EST u i AM-Japan-Markets 2ndLd-Writethru 10-31 0346 AM-Japan-Markets, 2nd Ld-Writethru,a0816,0354 Dollar Down, Stocks Up EDS: LEADS with 3 grafs to UPDATE with closing Nikkei, dollar rates. Pickup 4th graf `Exchange dealers...' TOKYO (AP) The dollar fell against the Japanese yen Monday, while share prices inched up on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues finished trading at 27,982.54, adding 21.53 points, or 0.08 percent. The index closed at 27,961.01 Saturday. The dollar closed at 125.00, down 1.08 yen from Friday's close of 126.08 yen. Opening at 125.72 yen, the currency moved in a range of 124.98-125.85 yen. Exchange dealers attributed the weaker dollar to a decline in the currency on overseas markets. They said there was a general perception that the U.S. economy was beginning to show signs of slowing down and that was driving the dollar down. They added, however, market participants were concerned over intervention by the Bank of Japan to prop up the dollar and prevent its further fall against the yen. ``The market's sentiment appears to be inclined toward a weaker dollar,'' said Yoshikazu Kotouge, dealer at Yasuda Trust Bank in Tokyo. ``But there was some buying of the dollar at around the 125.70-yen level, and that's keeping the dollar from falling rapidly.'' Dealers said that despite intervention by the Bank of Japan on a small scale several times Monday morning, the central bank was not able to stop the dollar's decline. On the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the Nikkei was lower in early morning trading due to profit-taking, but dealers said the market was still bullish after gains last week. ``Investors took advantage of last week's gain and as a result, share prices opened lower,'' said a broker at a major Japanese securities firm, speaking on condition of anonymity. ``But the general sentiment of the market is still bullish. Share prices appear to have managed to turn toward profit-taking near the end of the morning session,'' he said. The Nikkei index topped the 28,000 level at midmorning Monday for the first time since Sept.19, the day Emperor Hirohito fell seriously ill. AP881031-0040 AP-NR-10-31-88 0231EST r a PM-FilmRatings Bjt 10-31 0717 PM-Film Ratings, Bjt,0739 20 Years Later, Hollywood Has Mixed Reviews For Film Rating System By BRUCE V. BIGELOW Associated Press Writer HOLLYWOOD (AP) The film ratings system, which at its inception gave a G to ``Dracula Has Risen From the Grave,'' turns 20 years old Tuesday to mixed reviews from Hollywood insiders and outsiders. To groups denouncing what they see as a penchant by the film industry for sex, violence and drugs, the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is inadequate. To many filmmakers, an X rating, or even a family-oriented G, means box-office poison, and obtaining a PG-13 or an R has become imperative, the equivalent of a mass-marketing seal of approval. To Gene Siskel, film critic for the Chicago Tribune, ``The R-rated category is now so widespread, and covers so many emotions and physical acts that I don't know how valuable it is to parents.'' But to Jack Valenti, who has overseen the rating system for two decades as the association's president and chief executive officer, the film code has achieved at least one feat. ``I think just the act of surviving is itself a minor triumph,'' Valenti said in a recent interview. The ratings, however, have gotten less than rave reviews from Thomas E. Radecki, chairman of the National Coalition on Television Violence. ``It's a system designed to placate the public,'' Radecki said, ``and to prevent a public rating system from coming into existence.'' Radecki conceded that the code is better than none, but argued the ratings are ``why we have so much more violent and sexually degrading films than we did when the rating system was started.'' Radecki would prefer a ratings system with specific guidelines, something like the 1934 code that prohibited ``passion that stimulates the baser emotions'' and ``lustful kissing.'' He contends that rating guidelines should forbid the use of alcohol or drugs in PG-rated movies. But Valenti, who dismisses Radecki's group as ``right-wing zealots,'' said he's rejected pleas to designate a variety of things depicted in films as taboo, including sex, violence, drug use, smoking and even animal cruelty. ``Pretty soon we would put such baggage on this rating system it would collapse,'' Valenti said. The principal guideline given board members, Valenti said, is: ``If you had to meet with the parents of Wichita Falls, Texas, tomorrow, do you believe they would find what you want to rate this picture to be fair and reasonable?'' Valenti also disputed arguments the ratings have somehow encouraged Hollywood sex and violence. He said the ratings are a mirror of society's values and that the association surveys moviegoers' attitudes toward the code each year to measure its success. ``Over the last decade, 65 percent to 73 (percent) of all parents with children under 13 say it's `very useful to fairly useful' in helping them'' determine which movies their children see, Valenti said, ``and 20 to 23 percent find it not useful at all.'' ``Now by political standards that's a landslide,'' he added. The board's nine members ``are neither gods nor fools,'' Valenti said. ``They're just people who like movies, and they're parents and they're intelligent.'' Valenti hires the board's chairman, and together they select the eight other members. The board's costs are underwritten by a fee each filmmaker must pay in submitting the movie to be rated. Appeals are possible only to a 22-member board comprising theater owners, independent producers and distributors and major producers and distributors. The first film rated by the board was ``Dracula Has Risen From the Grave,'' which got a G rating, said Barbara Dixon, an association spokeswoman in Washington, D.C. Soon, ``Midnight Cowboy,'' which starred Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, was given an X but still managed to win the Oscar for Best Picture of 1969. Altogether, the association has rated 8,460 films, Valenti said. He said no more than 100 of them have created any controversy, citing disputes over ratings assigned such films as ``Angel Heart,'' ``Cruising'' and 1983's ``Scarface.'' Of the total, Ms. Dixon said, 11.1 percent were G-rated; 33.4 percent were PG; 3.4 percent were PG-13 (a category instituted in 1984); 47.8 percent were R-rated and 4.3 percent were X-rated. Ms. Dixon noted that pornographic filmmakers do not submit their films for screening, and eagerly apply multiple Xs to their films themselves. AP881031-0041 AP-NR-10-31-88 0231EST r i PM-Czechoslovakia 10-31 0335 PM-Czechoslovakia,0345 Eighty Five Detained In Thursday Roundup, Charter Spokesmen Held PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (AP) At least 85 people were detained in a massive police roundup of dissidents that coincided with the 70th anniversary of Czechoslovakia's independence, a dissident source said. Anna Sabatova, a signatory of the Charter 77 human rights document, said Sunday that most were rounded up on Thursday and that all three of the movement's spokesmen were among those detained. One spokesman, Milos Hajek, apparently was detained after going to Prague's Wenceslas Square on Friday to attend a banned independent rally marking the anniversary, Sabatova said. Hajek did not return home after the rally, which was broken up by riot police using water cannon and tear gas. Another spokesman, Bohumir Janat, was detained with his girlfriend on and another man in Lany, 30 miles west of Prague, as they went Saturday to lay flowers on the grave of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, Sabatova said. Masaryk was the first president of democratic Czechoslovakia, although Communist authorities give him scant attention. Sabatova said other people in the group Janat was with made it to the Lany cemetery to lay a bouquet from Charter 77 on Masaryk's grave. Wreaths from the presidency, the national parliament and the Communist-led National Front were laid on the grave in a low-key, 10-minute ceremony on Thursday. Sabatova, who is also a leading activist of VONS, the Committee for the Unjustly Prosecuted, said at least 85 people were detained in a massive roundup of dissidents on Thursday. Those held included the third Charter 77 spokesman, Stanislav Devaty. Only one person detained, Tomas Hradilek, had been reported freed. He was released on Saturday, but detained again after he laid a wreath on a spot in Prague where there used to be a statue of Masaryk, Sabatova said. Customarily, police hold dissidents in such roundups for 48 hours and then release them without charges. At least one man, Charter 77 signatory Vaclav Benda, was released Saturday and rearrested immediately, his wife said. AP881031-0042 AP-NR-10-31-88 0253EST r i PM-Japan-USHousing 10-31 0539 PM-Japan-US Housing,0556 Opponent Of U.S. Military Housing Wins Mayoral Election By HIROYUKI KACHI Associated Press Writer ZUSHI, Japan (AP) Voters re-elected a mayor who ran on his longstanding and strident opposition to having U.S. military housing built in a forested oasis that is a sanctuary to birds and other wildlife. But despite the return to office Sunday of Mayor Kichiro Tomino, the national government appears determined to go ahead with the housing project in this city 30 miles southwest of Tokyo. The housing would relieve crowding at the nearby Yokosuka Naval Base, home port of the U.S. Seventh Fleet. ``This is a clear indication of the wishes of the residents of Zushi,'' Tomino said in a victory speech. He said he hoped the government would take heed of the residents' wishes and reconsider the project. In the hotly contested election, Tomino defeated physician Tadashi Ina, a proponent of the construction plan, by just over 3,000 votes. Backing Ina was the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed Japan for most of the postwar period. Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita told reporters today that he expected Tomino's victory and ``the construction will progress,'' according to the Kyodo News Service. The U.S. military has tried to keep a low profile over the drawn-out housing controversy, saying it was a matter for the Japanese to work out. Voter turnout was reportly high after the polls opened Sunday, and when the ballots were counted this morning Tomino had 17,507 votes to Ina's 14,489. At stake in the election was about a quarter of the Ikego Hills, more than 700 acres of forest in the center of Zushi, a town of 58,000 in Kanagawa prefecture. The forest has gone almost untouched for half a century and is a sanctuary for birds and other wildlife in an otherwise densely populated area. Environmentalists and local housewives drew national attention with their campaign to defy the plan the central government announced six years ago to build more than 900 apartment units in Ikego. The location was picked because it is the former site of a Japanese imperial navy ammunition dump. In recent weeks, the Defense Facilities Administration Agency has begun clearing trees at the fringes of the hills. Under a bilateral security treaty, Japan must supply land and help pay the cost of maintaining the 48,000 American military personnel stationed nationwide. Due in part to the weak dollar, private off-base housing is expensive for U.S. personnel. In an unsuccessful compromise proposed by Kanagawa Governor Kazuji Nagasu last year, the number of units was reduced to 854 on 205 acres of land. Tomino, first elected in 1984, rejected the compromise and resigned last year to force a new election and demonstrate local opposition to the construction. He also was re-elected in that election. Sunday's election was held because Tomino's original four-year term had expired. During this year's campaign, Ina argued that Tomino's opposition to the plan had been ineffective and that it was time for Zushi residents to look to the future and put the Ikego issue behind them. In February, Tomino flew to Washington to plead his case but was turned back by U.S. congressmen who said they were too busy to hear him out. AP881031-0043 AP-NR-10-31-88 0301EST u i BC-Japan-Crash 10-31 0131 BC-Japan-Crash,0134 Four US Marines Die in Helicopter Crash TOKYO (AP) An American military helicopter crashed Monday during a training mission on Okinawa, killing four U.S. Marines, the United States Media Liaison Office said. Marine Master Sgt. Jake Rodrigues said two CH-46 Seaknight helicopters were involved in routine training when one crashed in remote, mountainous terrain on the Japanese island. The second helicopter returned to its base at Marine Corp Air Station at Sutenma. Rodrigues declined to say how many people were on the helicopter when it crashed or speculate as to why it went down, and said names of the victims were being withheld pending notification of next of kin. The two helicopters were assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262. He said the accident was under investigation. AP881031-0044 AP-NR-10-31-88 0434EST r a PM-Obit-Clark 10-31 0231 PM-Obit-Clark,0238 Lincoln Clark, CARE Co-Founder, Dies FALMOUTH, Maine (AP) Lincoln H. Clark, a co-founder of CARE who in 1946 delivered the international relief organization's first package to France, has died of cancer at age 77. Clark, who died at his home on Friday, also served as director of the Maine Court Mediation Service from 1981 until this year. He was appointed in 1981 special master of the Pineland Center in Pownal to oversee compliance with a 1978 court order to improve the lives of the mentally handicapped residents at the state-run facility. A native of New Rochelle, N.Y., Clark received a doctorate from the University of Chicago and was a professor of marketing at universities in four states. During World War II, he served as executive secretary of the War Production Board. After the war, he helped found the New York-based CARE and worked for the agency, delivering the first CARE package to LeHavre, France, in 1946. He served as a consultant to four countries on United Nations matters. Clark was editor of the Journal of Marketing from 1955-57, and was chairman of the board of Aero-Nautical Inc. of Greenwich, Conn., from 1962-76. Clark is survived by his wife of 16 years, Anne Randolph Clark, four sons and six daughters. His first wife, Alice Hardenbergh Clark, died in 1971. A memorial service will be held Thursday in Portland. AP881031-0045 AP-NR-10-31-88 0455EST r a PM-RefineryFire 10-31 0449 PM-Refinery Fire,0463 Two Dead, Two Critically Hurt in Refinery Fire LaserPhoto CX4 By JAMES REINDL Associated Press Writer WHITING, Ind. (AP) A refinery tank exploded, killing two workers and critically injuring two others after covering the four with molten asphalt that burned through layers of clothing and hardened on their bodies, officials said. Sunday's fire and the resulting explosion in the tank, which was several stories high, were contained within 30 minutes by refinery firefighters, said Elise Sims, spokeswoman for Amoco Oil Co. The explosion, the second this month at the refinery off Lake Michigan, ``sounded like a vacuum-packed puff,'' said Michael Kowal of Whiting, who was driving by the refinery just northwest of Gary. ``Next thing I know there was black smoke 100 to 200 feet in the air. It just pushed it up like a mushroom cloud.'' The cause of the fire was under investigation, said Amoco spokesman Charles R. Mason. George Kusbel, Leo Gonzalez and Robert Zivich had hardened asphalt up to half an inch thick on parts of their bodies when they were brought to St. Catherine's Hospital in East Chicago, said emergency room Dr. Michael Pepper. ``We had to cut all their clothes off with a cast saw,'' Pepper said. ``Most of them had two or three layers of clothes on because of the cold weather, so it burned right through their clothes.'' Kusbel, 37, of Whiting, died six hours after suffering third-degree burns over more than 80 percent of his body, and Michael Zimmerman, 44, was pronounced dead on the scene, officials said. Gonzalez, 40, of East Chicago, and Zivich, 44, of Dyer, were in critical condition at hospitals today with third-degree burns over much of their bodies, officials said. The refinery in this Chicago suburb along the Illinois-Indiana state line was once the largest in the nation and has been the scene of several major fires in the past 10 years. Two men were hurt in a fire and explosion in a different part of the plant Oct. 6. In April, 16 people were injured in an explosion and small fire in a processing unit. A December 1984 fire destroyed two bulk storage tanks and forced the evacuation of about 100 people. In 1979, a series of explosions and the ensuing fire forced the evacuation of about 1,500 residents. A 1955 explosion at the refinery killed two people, injured 35 others and destroyed 70 storage tanks and 200 homes. Mason said the refinery's safety record is good. ``The asphalt unit, up to about the first of October, had gone 350-some days without a disabling injury. It had the best safety record of any unit in the refinery,'' Mason said. AP881031-0046 AP-NR-10-31-88 0455EST r i PM-Salvador 10-31 0389 PM-Salvador,0401 New Military Chief Advocates Broad Solution For Ending War By ANNIE CABRERA Associated Press Writer SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) An army officer who says winning the loyalty of the poor is necessary to win the country's civil war has been named head of the military. Col. Rene Emilio Ponce, a brigade commander, takes command of the military forces on Tuesday, replacing Gen. Adolfo Blandon, who is going to France as military attache. Blandon, head of the joint chiefs of staff since 1983, announced the change of command within the U.S.-backed government in a local television interview broadcast late Saturday. The 48-year-old general, who had been expected to step down by year's end, said his transfer ``is not related to the political situation. It is necessary to open spaces for new generations.'' Ponce, 41, was singled out as an exceptional commander by four U.S. Army lieutenant colonels earlier this year in a Harvard fellowship analysis of the Salvadoran civil war. ``We cannot think that solely by military means we are going to resolve this war,'' Ponce said this year. ``Even if we kill all the subversives, the problem will not end. Such deplorable socio-economic conditions would remain that it (insurgency) could easily revive.'' Rebel and government negotiators have met three times, most recently in October 1987, in an unsuccessful bid to negotiate a cease-fire in the 8-year-old civil war. On Sunday, two rebel commanders arrived in Panama City for talks with the Rev. Arturo Rivera y Damas, the Roman Catholic archbishop of San Salvador, on the possible resumption of peace talks. Joaquin Villalobos and Leonel Gonzalez said they planned to meet today with Rivera y Damas and the Rev. Emile Stehle of West Germany. Stehle has participated as an observer in previous government-rebel talks. Ponce commands the 3rd Infantry Brigade and belongs to the ``tandona,'' a tight-knit block of officers who have consolidated control of the armed forces in recent months. Blandon will leave the nation with a legacy of a larger military. He increased its size to 50,000 troops and accompanied President Jose Napoleon Duarte in meetings with rebel leaders. At the request of U.S. military advisers, Blandon has increased use of small strike forces against guerrillas rather than sweeping offensives. More than 65,000 Salvadorans, mostly civilians, have been killed in the civil war. AP881031-0047 AP-NR-10-31-88 0535EST d a PM-BRF--TMIShutdown 10-31 0165 PM-BRF--TMI Shutdown,0169 TMI Reactor Shuts Down MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (AP) The lone operating reactor at Three Mile Island made an unscheduled shutdown for reasons believed to have originated in the plant's non-nuclear turbine system, a spokesman said. The Unit 1 reactor shut down automatically at 8:50 a.m. Sunday, said Gordon Tomb, a spokesman for plant operator GPU Nuclear Corp. Plant systems operated normally during the shutdown and no emergency condition existed, he said. The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission was notified, Tomb said. Plant and agency officials checked the system to try to determine the cause of the shutdown, which occurred as the reactor was operating at full power, he said. Three Mile Island was the site of the nation's worst commercial nuclear accident when equipment failures and human error led to a loss of coolant and partial core meltdown in the plant's Unit 2 reactor on March 28, 1979. The NRC approved the restart of the undamaged Unit 1 reactor in May 1985. AP881031-0048 AP-NR-10-31-88 0455EST r i PM-WomanPriest 10-31 0434 PM-Woman Priest,0445 American Woman Priest Holds Unauthorized Communion in London Despite Ban LONDON (AP) An American woman priest celebrated Communion with an Anglican feminist group outside a chapel where their services were banned after receiving widespread publicity. ``God is here,'' the Rev. Suzanne Fageol of Chicago said during the hourlong service Sunday night outside St. Benet Chapel. ``Her spirit is with us,'' was the united response from nearly 100 mainly women supporters. Ms. Fageol, 38, was ordained in the United States, where the Episcopal Church is one several provinces of the worldwide Anglican Communion to ordain women. The Church of England's governing General Synod has decided to move toward ordination of women, but there is much opposition at all levels. Ms. Fageol had been celebrating Communion in St. Benet Chapel at the request of St. Hilda's Community group since spring of 1978. But her service on Oct. 23, widely reported and photographed, led lawyers for the London Diocese and Fund, which administers property for the Bishop of London, to warn the group it would consider unauthorized services in the chapel as trespassing. Bishop of London Graham Leonard, a leading opponent of efforts to allow women priests in the Church of England, told Ms. Fageol in a letter Thursday: ``I greatly deplore the use of the sacrament for the purposes of protest and for promoting a cause.'' Leonard said neither he nor Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, the Anglicans' spiritual leader, had authority ``to permit you as an Anglican and a woman priest ordained abroad'' to act as a priest in Britain, where the church does not allow the ordination of women priests. But on Sunday night the group set up a folding table outside to hold the Communion wine, wholemeal bread rolls and candles, and proceeded with the Eucharist. After the service, Ms. Fageol said: ``I don't feel I am defying the church. I don't feel I am doing anything wrong. ``It isn't a deliberate act of defiance against the church, it's a deliberate giving of faith and witness and pastoral responsibility to a group of people who are trying to worship in a way they find useful spiritually,'' she said. Ms Fageol is attached to a parish church in Leeds, England, while studying for a doctorate. She said she intended to continue holding Communion for the St. Hilda's group as soon as they could find a new home. The archbishop of York, Dr. John Habgood, said in a service at York Minster on Saturday that the cause of women's ordination, which he supports, could be endangered by these unauthorized services. AP881031-0049 AP-NR-10-31-88 0454EST r a PM-GirlFalls 10-31 0228 PM-Girl Falls,0237 Toddler Survives 80-Foot Fall SILVERTON, Ore. (AP) A child bending down to pick up a stone while posing for a family photograph plunged 80 feet off a ledge at a park but survived in serious condition, authorities said. Amy Michelle Walker, 2, of Lyons suffered a head injury and a broken nose as a result of her fall at Silver Falls State Park, authorities said. ``The doctor said she is doing good. It's nothing she's not going to recover from,'' said state police Sgt. Randy Westbrook. The girl bent down to pick up a stone while posing for a picture but lost her footing and fell from a trail at the park's South Falls shortly after noon Sunday, said Westbrook. She slid and tumbled the first 40 feet down the steep incline, then fell through the air to a creek bank below, Westbrook said. The girl's father carried her to a parking lot, where a helicopter picked her up. She was taken to Emanuel Hospital & Health Center in Portland and listed in serious condition Sunday night, a nursing supervisor said. Westbrook, who spoke with the girl's doctor, said she suffered a broken nose, a skull fracture, and cuts and bruises. ``I'd say it was just luck that she wasn't hurt worse than she was,'' he said. ``We were expecting a lot worse.'' AP881031-0050 AP-NR-10-31-88 0458EST u i BC-Lebanon-Hostages 1stLd-Writethru a0476 10-31 0434 BC-Lebanon-Hostages, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0476,0442 URGENT ^Kidnappers Release Videotaped Message from Anderson Eds: COMBINES urgent series, UPDATES with details of message, background. No pickup. BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem kidnappers on Monday released a videotaped message from one of their two American captives, journalist Terry Anderson, a few days after he turned 41. The tape was delivered to a Western news agency office in Beirut along with a statement in Arabic. ``My name is Terry Anderson,'' the captive began his message in English. ``Once again I have been given the chance to speak to my government, my family and my people. ``I love you, I miss you very much. I know of your continued strong efforts for me ... the work and devotion of my friends and colleagues, and many people I don't know. I know I cannot repay you,'' said Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press. Anderson was kidnapped March 16, 1985, in Beirut and is the longest-held of the 14 foreigners still missing in Lebanon and presumed captives of kidnappers. Nine of the 14 are Americans. He was seized by a group calling itself Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War, and marked a fourth birthday in captivity on Thursday. Islamic Jihad's statement that accompanied the videotape said: ``To the families of American hostages ... to the family of Terry Anderson. ``On the occasion of Terry Anderson's birthday and in response to your letters, and according to his desire to send you a recorded message, we hereby enclose with this statement the recorded message on videotape,'' it said. Anderson appeared relaxed as he read from a prepared statement. He was cleanshaven and wore his eyeglasses. His hair was neatly combed. He appeared from the waist up, wearing a striped grey sweater. ``I am well and being well treated and I received your birthday greetings and as always I thank you very much,'' he said. Letters from family members and colleagues appeared in Beirut newspapers last week. ``As my fourth birthday in captivity passes and the end of my fourth year in captivity approaches, I find it difficult to keep my hope and courage high,'' Anderson said. The last previous videotape message from Anderson was released on Dec. 24. In it, appearing to read from a prepared text, the journalist criticized the Reagan administration for failing to secure his and fellow prisoners' freedom and warned ``There's a limit to how long we can last.'' Islamic Jihad also holds Thomas Sutherland, an American who is acting dean of agriculture at American University. He was kidnapped on June 10, 1985. AP881031-0051 AP-NR-10-31-88 0532EST r a PM-TricksOrTreats 10-31 0705 PM-Tricks Or Treats,0729 Halloween Briefs With PM-Devil's Night KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) A Key West-style celebration of Halloween attracted cave dwellers, Romans and Greeks and some people who apparently interpreted the festival theme of ``B.C.'' as meaning ``Before Clothes.'' The island town's historic district was jammed with costumed-revelers for the Nighttime Fantasy Parade that stretched well into the wee hours of Sunday, said Michael Whalton, director of the 10th annual Fantasy Fest. The parade, whose theme was ``Fantasy B.C.,'' brought out Fred and Wilma Flintstone and all their friends to mix and mingle with ancient Greeks and Egyptians and some bizarre space creatures, along with a few who caught more eyes for what they weren't wearing. ``My costume? I'm a caveman, of course,'' said Larry Fleischman, a retired Internal Revenue Service officer who wore only a itsy-bitsy loincloth. ``Actually, I'm a dirty old man with very little on.'' More than 100 fundamentalist Christians mingled with the 40,000 revelers, passing out pamphlets and trying to keep things in check. Fest organizers have cut out the too-titillating outfits worn by some in the parade's early years. ``It's a chance to let your hair down and be crazy.'' said Barbara Sheckler, a resident of Miami who has been to two other Fantasy Fests. The parade culminated seven days of masquerade balls, costume contests and other zany events. Even four-legged masqueraders got into the party spirit with a pet costume contest. TIONESTA, Pa. (AP) Cathy May Sliker has reason to believe more than one person was behind the theft of her family's pumpkin. It weighed 246 pounds. The pumpkin was snatched last week from the front porch of the family's home in northwest Pennsylvania. Sliker said she and a friend had to use a wheelbarrow to bring the pumpkin her home. She said she used a bathroom scale to determine the weight of the pumpkin, which was 2{-feet in diameter. Her four children had planned to carve the pumpkin into a jack-o'-lantern and put a flashlight inside to display it for Halloween. LaserPhoto HF2 of Oct. 30 PUTNAM, Conn. (AP) Trick-or-treaters are going ape over the mighty Kong in this northeast Connecticut town. Once the terror of New York City, King Kong glares down on passers-by, fangs bared and a likelike paw clutching a terrified Fay Wray against the roof of Dawn and Kenneth Wilkinson's house. Dawn Wilkinson, 27, is delighted that people appreciate her 50-foot replica of the sinister simian. ``We've had kids out here with their hands over their mouths, jumping up and down on the sidewalk,'' she said. ``A school bus stopped to let the kids look, and we've had elderly people taking family portraits in front of him.'' Using molding plaster, 80 feet of pipes, 800 feet of wire fencing and $150 worth of black garbage bags, the Wilkinsons worked on King Kong for more than a month and spent $700 on their Halloween decorating project. They had planned to hoist King Kong, but he had other ideas. ``We were using pulleys to stand him up when the face started to come crashing down,'' Flagg said. ``All of a sudden, he sat down as if to say, `there, that's good enough.''' SEATTLE (AP) The Grinch who stole Halloween apparently had a change of heart and returned a 19-foot inflated jack-o'-lantern stolen from a residence for families of children being treated for cancer. The lighted orange balloon, financed by a gift from a California family, was inflated and tethered to stakes in the lawn outside the Ronald McDonald House late Friday but was gone by Saturday morning. The balloon reappeared on the doorstep Sunday and was reinflated to the relief and renewed delight of staff, patients and their relatives. ``I guess they felt guilty and brought it back,'' said officer Jeff Bray. The balloon weighs about 100 pounds and is valued at about $2,500. ``I can't believe someone would steal it from a place like that,'' said Shad Dean of the Elliott Bay Balloon Co., who helped set up the great pumpkin. ``When we got it set up, the kids were down there loving it and carrying on. I'm not an emotional guy, but I was touched.'' AP881031-0052 AP-NR-10-31-88 0533EST r a BC-Quotes 10-31 0153 BC-Quotes,0154 Current Quotations By The Associated Press ``Portland needs a mayor who knows when to wear lederhosen and when to wear a three-piece suit.'' _ Portland, Ore., mayoral race challenger Ron Still, issuing one of his criticisms of incumbent Bud Clark's various antics, including his penchant for wearing shorts and suspenders. ``If you had to meet with the parents of Wichita Falls, Texas, tomorrow, do you believe they would find what you want to rate this picture to be fair and reasonable?'' _ Jack Valenti, who oversees the Motion Picture Association of America's 20-year-old film rating system, explaining the principal guideline given review board members. ``They might burn the church, but they ain't burnt nobody's spirit.'' _ The Rev. Steven Jackson, pastor of the New Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Illinois, preaching to his congregation during a Sunday sermon about their church being burned twice in six months. AP881031-0053 AP-NR-10-31-88 0536EST r a PM-TerrorTrucker 10-31 0393 PM-Terror Trucker,0405 Police: Trucker Arrested in Fatal Rampage Apparently Was On Drugs FORT HANCOCK, Texas (AP) A trucker was behind bars today after a 70-mile rampage in which an officer was shot and several motorists were forced off a highway, including a woman who died when her vehicle flipped, officials said. Denver Jerome Burrell, 30, of Anderson, S.C., was arrested after the hour-long rampage Sunday along Interstate 10 in a remote, mountainous section of west Texas, said David Wells, a state Department of Public Safety spokesman. ``The only thing we know is he was high _ evidently on drugs,'' said Trooper Bob Newman of El Paso. The officers who arrested Burrell ``said he was out of his mind,'' and witnesses said he appeared disoriented, according to Newman. Burrell was in the Hudspeth County Jail in lieu of $400,000 in bonds on charges of attempted capital murder, involuntary manslaughter and driving under the influence of a controlled substance, officials said. The rampage began near Van Horn, about 100 miles southeast of El Paso, Newman said. As the tractor-trailer continued west on I-10, it rammed a four-wheel-drive vehicle driven by Sharon Marie Agutter. The 48-year-old El Paso woman's vehicle careened off the road, and flipped. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The tractor-trailer, which was hauling light bulbs from South Carolina to Nevada, next rammed a Winnebago pulling a compact car on a trailer, smashing the car. The Winnebago's driver was unhurt, but followed the truck. County Constable Sonny Hillin and a U.S. Border Patrol agent chased Burrell, and managed to stop him, Newman said. But as Hillin stepped out of his patrol car, the truck driver tried to pin the officer against his car, Newman said. Hillin scrambled back to his car and stopped the truck again by pulling in front of it. But Burrell shot through his own windshield, hitting the officer in the neck, Newman said. Hillin's wife, Jackie, who operates a volunteer ambulance service for Hudspeth County, said she and her son-in-law took Hillin to Vista Hills Medical Center in El Paso, where he was listed as stable condition late Sunday. Officers pursued the truck for several more miles. Burrell finally stopped about a half mile west of Fort Hancock, then surrendered without incident, Newman said. A .357-caliber Magnum revolver was found on the dashboard, he said. AP881031-0054 AP-NR-10-31-88 0601EST r a PM-Devil'sNight 10-31 0574 PM-Devil's Night,0592 Devil's Night Tradition Appears To Be Fading, Some Firefighters Say LaserPhoto DT4 By JUSTIN BURKE Associted Press Writer DETROIT (AP) The tradition of arson in the days before Halloween appears to be fading, but Devil's Night will burn brightly for some time in the mind of Mamie Lee King, whose home was threatened by a burning house next door. King watched as flames consumed a neighboring house and threatened her own home early today. She fought to hold back tears as firefighters doused her roof to keep the fire from spreading. ``It started in a garage and spread to the two houses next to mine,'' King said. ``Somebody had to have set it. ... There's just no excuse for it.'' Firefighters saved King's house but the two other dwellings were gutted, leaving at least three people homeless, including a 77-year-old invalid. Devil's Night, traditionally a night of pranks in Detroit, grew into a night of arson, peaking in 1984 with 810 fires that killed one person and left dozens homeless. Last year, the number dropped to 290 fires over a two-day holiday weekend. Firefighters questioned Sunday night said the downward trend appears to be continuing this year. ``It seems to be going down every year,'' said one firefighter, who declined to give his name. ``Maybe people are getting tired of it (Devil's Night).'' The number of arson fires during this Devil's Night weekend won't be available until Tuesday or Wednesday, said Robert Berg, a spokesman for Mayor Coleman Young. About 20,000 citizen volunteers joined city employees in patrolling the streets. The volunteer force, including members of citizens band radio clubs, block clubs and other organizations, was twice the number deployed in the past few years, Berg said. Fascination with the Devil's Night tradition drew observers from all over the country. ``Yeah, I got some raised eyebrows when I told people I was going to Detroit for the weekend,'' said Dave Purcell, a College Park, Md., resident. ``But there's nothing like Devil's Night in the United States.'' Purcell, a volunteer firefighter, said he and three friends flew to Detroit for a weekend of chasing fires and taking pictures. ``We like seeing a big city fire department in action, and we're guaranteed of seeing some action on Devil's Night,'' Purcell said. Officer Fred Zaharoff, a police spokesman, said no arson-related arrests were reported Sunday. A 6 p.m.-6 a.m. curfew for youths under 18 took effect Saturday night and will continue through Tuesday night. Police picked up 119 youngsters Sunday night and 278 on Saturday night for violating the curfew, Zaharoff said. Elsewhere, Halloween festivities resulted in the arrest of 125 people in the college town of Athens, Ohio. Police said between 8,000 and 10,000 people, mostly Ohio University students, took over a section of town Saturday night for the celebration. Most of the arrests were for disorderly conduct. In Kent, Ohio, home of Kent State University, police say 32 people were arrested during a downtown Halloween celebration. In Carbondale, Ill., police arrested more than 190 people during a two-day Halloween street festival. ``It was a typical beer blast with drinking in the streets,'' said Carbondale police Sgt. William Holmes. ``What happened is about par for the course _ as people get drunker they get a little rowdier ... and there are usually more than 100 arrests.'' Holmes said there were no serious injuries to police or the more than 15,000 festival-goers. AP881031-0055 AP-NR-10-31-88 0605EST u i PM-Dollar-Gold 10-31 0298 PM-Dollar-Gold,0317 Dollar Lower, Gold Up LONDON (AP) The dollar was lower against major currencies in thin European mid-morning trading today ahead of a religious holiday in several countries. Gold prices rose. Foreign exchange dealers said pressure to square trading positions before the end of the month partly caused the slight lowering of the U.S. currency. They said trading rooms were closing down in a number of European countries for All Saints Day on Tuesday, and other dealers had taken a four-day weekend. They added that the dollar was unlikely to suffer sharp swings this week before the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election. ``No matter who wins the market will still be bearish on the dollar,'' said a trader in Rome. In Tokyo, where trading ends before Europe's business day begins, the dollar fell 1.08 Japanese yen to a closing 125.00 yen. Later, in London, it rose slightly to 124.95 yen. Other mid-morning dollar rates, compared with late Friday: _1.7760 West German marks, up from 1.7755 _1.4905 Swiss francs, down from 1.4970 _6.0415 French francs, down from 6.0750 _1.9969 Dutch guilders, down from 2.0010 _1,315.50 Italian lire, down from 1,321.50 _1.2192 Canadian dollars, up from 1.2035 In London, the British pound rose to $1.7770 from $1.7680 late Friday. Gold opened at a bid price of $412.50 a troy ounce, higher than its late bid price Friday of $410.50. At mid-morning today the city's five major bullion dealers fixed a slightly lower recommended price of $412.30. In Zurich, the mid-morning bid price was $412.30, up from $411.25 bid late Friday. Earlier, in Hong Kong, gold rose 18 cents to close at a bid $414.46, up slightly from Saturday's $414.28. Silver bullion was traded at a bid price of $6.31 a troy ounce, unchanged from late Friday. AP881031-0056 AP-NR-10-31-88 0703EST r a PM-LawnDartGirl 10-31 0254 PM-Lawn Dart Girl,0258 Girl Injured With Lawn Dart Emerges From Drug-Induced Coma NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) An 11-year-old girl whose skull was pierced by a lawn dart has emerged from her drug-induced coma, a hospital spokeswoman said. Amy Herrin of McMinnville regained consciousness early Sunday morning, said Nancy Humphrey, spokeswoman for Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Doctors Saturday stopped administering the coma-inducing drugs. The child's doctors are ``pleased that she is responding as she is,'' Humphrey said. ``But they will be evaluating that over the next few days now that she has regained consciousness.'' Amy underwent eight hours of surgery last Tuesday to remove the metal and plastic dart that was stuck 2 inches into her head. Doctors put her into a coma to keep her brain activity to a minimum until swelling subsided. The child remained in critical condition and doctors planned to administer tests to determine the amount of brain damage she may have suffered. Amy and some friends were playing with a neighbor's lawn dart set when the girl bent over to pick up a dart and was struck by another dart tossed by her cousin, said Sue Tucker, Amy's mother. The Consumer Product Safety Commission voted Friday to ban the sale of lawn darts. Proponents of the ban said the darts have severely injured about 6,700 people, mostly children under 15, and resulted in three deaths. The ban, which goes into effect in mid-December, requires that the products no longer be sold, manufactured or imported into the United States. AP881031-0057 AP-NR-10-31-88 0749EST u i PM-Lebanon-HostageText 10-31 0485 PM-Lebanon-Hostage Text,0501 Text Of Anderson Videotape With PM-Lebanon-Hostages BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Here is the text of American hostage Terry Anderson's videotaped message: My name is Terry Anderson. And it's October 30. Once again I'm being given a chance to speak to my family, to my friends and to the American people. First to my family. I love you and I miss you very much. I know of your continued strong efforts for me, the work and devotion of many friends and colleagues and of the many people I don't know, like (American entertainer) Mr. Hank Williams. I know I can never repay you. But I thank you and pray for you as you do for me. I'm well and being well treated. I received your birthday greetings and as always that helped me very much. But as my fourth birthday in captivity passes and as the end of my fourth year (in captivity) approaches, I find it difficult to keep my hopes and my courage high. The news I hear tells me that you've not forgotten (me) and I know you will not. But the difficulty seems enormous. I've been very close to being released several times over the past two years. But each time it seems that the U.S. government uses its influence to stop any agreement of being made. And I don't understand this. I'm not asking President Reagan to deal with terrorists, although both he and Mr. Bush did so in the Iran-Contra affair and the TWA hijack. Our problem could have been solved long ago without such complications as arms deals. With the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Lebanese in Israeli-run prisons, U.S. support of Israel is no different. All that is necessary is that Mr. Reagan and Mr. Bush, if he is elected, use their influence in a positive way, not a negative one, with those who are trying to find a way out of this terrible impasse. I gather there's been very little discussion about this problem in the U.S. presidential campaign and that's disappointing, as is President Reagan's complete failure to find a solution during his eight years in office. But whichever candidate wins this election, remember an unyielding refusal to deal with this matter is not going to make it go away. It is not going to free us. I heard on the radio of the generous and ambitious effort to free three trapped whales a few days ago and the president's thanks to the Soviet Union for its help. It's a warming story. That kind of cooperation and spirit is absolutely necessary to bring this situation to an end. Once again, this has gone on too long. It can't continue like this. Peg, Madeleine, Dad, kiss my daughters for me. Keep your spirits up and I will try to do the same. And one day, soon God willing, this will end. AP881031-0058 AP-NR-10-31-88 0815EST r a PM-AbortionProtests 1stLd-Writethru 10-31 0590 PM-Abortion Protests, 1st Ld - Writethru,a0467,0604 Thousands Arrested In National Abortion Protest Eds: INSERTS one graf after 13th graf, `Nearly 160...', to add detail on arrests Saturday in New York. Picks up 14th graf, `Demonstrations were...'. By The Associated Press Anti-abortion protests nationwide resulted in the arrests of more than 2,000 demonstrators who tried to block entrances to clinics and turn away patients, organizers said. Operation Rescue, the New York-based organization that sponsored the demonstrations, said 2,212 persons were arrested in 27 cities Saturday and in four cities on Friday. Organizers of rallies in Pittsburgh, where 367 were arrested, and Philadelphia, where 138 werlvania. In New Orleans, one woman yelled ``Save your child! Give your life to Jesus!'' as sheriff's deputies escorted a woman into a suburban clinic. Among the 203 cited or arrested were several Protestant ministers and three Roman Catholic priests. In Des Moines, Iowa, a Planned Parenthood clinic employee was slightly injured when protesters, thinking she was a patient, dove in her path to stop her from entering. Police arrested 20 demonstrators there. Clinic Director Jill June said abortions account for only about 5 percent of the clinic's business, and that the rest is birth control. ``We'd like them (protesters) to find a constructive way to help women not get pregnant in the first place'' she said. Operation Rescue began blocking clinic entrances on July 19 in Atlanta during the Democratic National Convention. About 7,000 sympathizers have been arrested nationwide since then, 1,200 of them in Atlanta. On Saturday, some sympathizers prayed and sang hymns as police arrested others. Counter-demonstrators chanted, ``Right to Life, your name's a lie, you don't care if women die,'' and ``Not the church, not the state, women will decide their fate.'' Among other cities, arrests were made in Falls Church, Va.; St. Louis; Jackson, Miss.; Phoenix; Columbus, Ohio; and the North Carolina cities of Charlotte, Chapel Hill and Raleigh. Houston police arrested 11 people at one clinic. Nearly 160 people were arrested in New York, Indiana and Florida on Friday. In New York, 133 demonstrators who defied a court order and the threat of a stiff fine were also arrested Saturday after a loud but peaceful demonstration on Long Island. Demonstrators were generally peaceful, but in Atlanta, where police arrested 40, a man who tried to stop a police motorcycle from entering clinic property was handcuffed and arrested. In Brookline, Mass., Acting Gov. Evelyn Murphy told a rally of pro-choice demonstrators that only Gov. Michael Dukakis, the Democratic presidential nominee, would protect their right to a legal abortion. ``We must get up and exercise our choice for the candidate who believes women have a right to control our bodies. George Bush believes women are criminals,'' she said. Bush is campaigning against abortion. Anti-abortion groups had advertised plans to protest in Boston on Saturday but instead decided before dawn to move their demonstration south to Rhode Island. In Sunnyvale, Calif., where 60 arrests were reported, police dragged one man 50 yards on his belly to a police vehicle but most cities reported gentle arrest tactics and only minimal resistance by protesters. Atlanta police were widely criticized in early October for rough arrest tactics used on Operation Rescue demonstrators who went limp and refused to walk to police buses. AP881031-0059 AP-NR-10-31-88 0847EST r p PM-TheMediaBias 1stLd-Writethru a0405 10-31 0739 PM-The Media Bias, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0405,720 Eds: subs grafs 9 and 16 with campaign context. Deletes 22nd graf pvs to tighten. An AP News Analysis By JONATHAN WOLMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) There may be an insidious media bias at work this election year, but it isn't the publishers tilting Republican or the networks showing an Eastern Establishment slant for the Democrats. No, it's an anti-ideological prejudice in favor of a close election. Close elections make better stories. Close elections make it seem as if the American Democracy is in some kind of wonderful balance. Close elections are fun to cover. Close elections give journalists and politicians something to talk about over drinks after work. Journalists _ like gardeners, accountants and electrical contractors _ tend to pursue their own best interests. If there is a close race, they like it to stay that way. But if one candidate moves way ahead of another, journalism can often trigger mysterious forces that test a front-runner's mettle or encourage the underdog's heroic comeback effort. In races like those for Pennsylvania or Tennessee Senate seats, there is little anyone can do to boost the fortunes of anonymous and underfinanced challengers against popular incumbents like John Heinz III and James Sasser. In races for the House of Representatives, where 90-odd percent of the 435 seats will be won by incumbents, journalism can't even provide a finger for the dike. But the presidential campaign is another matter altogether, and the bias for a close race has been a subtle dynamic in the titanic struggle of George Bush and Michael Dukakis, overshadowed rightfully by the exertions of the candidates themselves and the volatility of an electorate apparently enamored so far with neither candidate. Today Bush leads the race and the bias for a close election is benefiting Dukakis. Bush would complain, except that he's benefited from the same process and might need to again _ say next weekend, for example. Also, Bush would not like to anger the other constituency, aside from journalists, who welcome a close race _ voters. From a voter's perspective: Close elections make for humble and responsive public officials. Close elections make it seem as if the American Democracy is in some kind of wonderful balance. Close elections are fun to watch on TV. The ads become especially entertaining, even if the debates tend to wax insufferable. Close elections make it seem as if every voter counts, even those on the West Coast. The roles of campaign journalism _ to ask tough questions, describe the character of candidates under pressure, constantly gauge public interest and reaction _ are consistent with this voter interest in close elections. Campaign coverage will often: _ Raise new and sharply tougher questions about the front-runner. This happened to Bob Dole during his brief stay atop the GOP primary race. He won Iowa and sought a New Hampshire knockout of George Bush. But Bush waged a great comeback campaign, his forces fanning reporters' questions about the operation of Mrs. Dole's trust fund. (It didn't hurt that Bush allies controlled the New Hampshire GOP and he began primary week with a big lead). _ Raise the underdog's visibility. This is happening now with Dukakis, who is deluged with TV invitations and is using the platform to explain his values to voters who are just now tuning into the election process. Bush, offered the same opportunities, has the most to lose from TV exposure, and so he's limiting his appearances to the morning talk shows. If he slips in the polls, he'll change his strategy before you can say, ``Live from New York, it's Saturday Night.'' _ Write encouraging things about the dauntless, dignified, suddenly impassioned comeback kid. Dust off the 1948 Truman stories, explain how the Electoral College math provides a glimmer of Election Day hope. How can we tell if the presidential election is tightening? Journalists now use ``tracking polls'' to identify and publicize one-day trends in public opinion. If those ubiquitous ``likely voters'' provide good news for Dukakis _ like they did last Thursday, for example, journalists and voters will be sensing a comeback. ``We thought from the beginning,'' Bush said Saturday while bus stopping his way through Illinois, wary of resisting the public will for a tight campaign, ``that it would be close right up to the end.'' ___ EDITOR'S NOTE: Jonathan Wolman is The Associated Press' assistant bureau chief in Washington. AP881031-0060 AP-NR-10-31-88 0847EST r a PM-RosierTrial 10-31 0372 PM-Rosier Trial,0383 Doctor's Case To Examine Right-to-Die Question ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) A doctor who said he drugged his cancer-stricken wife so she could end her life with dignity goes on trial more than two years later for her murder. Dr. Peter Rosier, 47, is charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and attempted first-degree murder. His trial was scheduled to begin today. ``This is something that is done in the medical community all the time,'' said his attorney, Stanley Rosenblatt. ``Doctors assist their terminally ill patients who want to die, and everybody just winks at it. ``To put him in the same category as an organized crime figure or someone who robs a 7-Eleven in the middle of the night is absurd.'' Rosenblatt said he would call doctors and mercy-killing experts to testify for the defense. Rosier is accused of giving his 43-year-old wife, Patricia Rosier, a 6-milligram morphine injection and 80-milligram morphine suppository on Jan. 5, 1986. Rosier says his wife also took 20 tablets of Seconal, a sleeping pill, which he didn't administer. Steve Wisotsky, a Nova University law professor assisting the defense, said the drugs the doctor gave to his wife weren't enough to kill her. After the drugs were administered, Mrs. Rosier lay near death for hours and her stepfather, Vincent Delham, finished the effort by suffocating her, according to court records. Delham and his two sons, who said they were in the room, have been granted immunity from prosecution and are expected to be state's witnesses. Rosier immediately opened himself to suspicion by going on Fort Myers television station WBBH in November 1986 to talk about his 641-page book ``The Lady.'' It was about his and his wife's lives, and her death. Rosier, a retired pathologist, may have exhibited ``colossal stupidity'' by going public with the act, but that doesn't make him a murderer, Rosenblatt said. Wisotsky said Mrs. Rosier had a constitutional right to die with dignity, but prosecutor Ed Volz has asked Lee County Circuit Judge James Thompson to prohibit any discussion of euthanasia and morality. ``Philosophy, ethics, morality will confuse the jury and they will not be able to reach an acceptable verdict based on the law,'' Volz said. AP881031-0061 AP-NR-10-31-88 0852EST r i PM-Zambia-Elections 10-31 0241 PM-Zambia-Elections,0250 Kaunda Sworn in for New 5-Year Term By ROGER HEARING Associated Press Writer LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) President Kenneth Kaunda was sworn in for a sixth five-year term today after capturing 95 percent of ballots in elections at which he was sole presidential candidate. Hundreds of supporters cheered and sang as Kaunda, 64, arrived at the High Court for the ceremony. Kaunda told them their votes had given him ``marching orders'' to resolve Zambia's economic woes, including record inflation, unprecedented unemployment and a foreign debt of $5 billion. ``We are likely to face even more and greater problems over the next five years,'' said Kaunda. ``But I am confident that we shall pull through.'' To stay in power, the Zambian leader needed a simple majority of ballots cast by voters who were asked specifically to vote for or against him. Only 4.5 percent of those who went to polls last Wednesday voted against him. Officials said 56 percent of 2.6 million registered voters took part. Kaunda was nominated by the United National Independent Party, the country's only legal political movement since he declared Zambia a one-party state in 1972. He is expected to name his 24-member Cabinet on Wednesday, aides said. Four Cabinet ministers and two ministers of state were rejected at the polls, reflecting popular hostility toward official mismanagement and corruption. Kaunda led the British colony of Northern Rhodesia to independence as Zambia on Oct. 24, 1964. AP881031-0062 AP-NR-10-31-88 0901EST r i PM-Algeria-Earthquake 10-31 0159 PM-Algeria-Earthquake,0163 Quake Injures At Least 10 In Algiers ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) An offshore earthquake rattled Algiers and surrounding towns this morning, wrecking a school and injuring at least 10 children, officials said. Preliminary information indicated the quake, which struck at 11:14 a.m., measured 5.4 on the Richter scale, Algeria's Center for Research in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Geophysics said in a statement. The epicenter was put about 30 miles north of the capital in the Mediterranean Sea. The earthquake lasted about 10 seconds, and Algerians immediately ran into the streets from cafes and office buildings. At least 10 children were injured in the town of El Affroun, 30 miles outside the capital, when the roof of their school fell in, officials said. The Richter scale is a gauge of the energy released by an earthquake, as measured by the ground motion recorded on a seismograph. A quake of magnitude 5 can cause considerable damage in populated areas. AP881031-0063 AP-NR-10-31-88 0907EST r i PM-Anderson-Chronology 10-31 0879 PM-Anderson-Chronology,0916 Chronology of Terry Anderson's Captivity With PM-Lebanon-Hostages NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) Here is a chronology of the captivity of Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press. He is one of 14 foreign hostages, including nine Americans, missing and believed held in Lebanon. 1985 March 16 _ Anderson abducted on Beirut street. Telephone caller says Islamic Jihad kidnapped him as part of ``continuing operations against America and its agents.'' May 16 _ First photo of Anderson in captivity released. Islamic Jihad warns of ``catastrophic consequences'' if Kuwait does not free alleged terrorists. Sept. 9 _ Rev. Benjamin Weir, another Islamic Jihad captive, freed after 16 months in captivity. President Reagan says he ``will not be satisified'' until remaining Americans also are released. Oct. 29 _ Beirut television stations broadcast videotaped birthday message from relatives and friends to Anderson. Nov. 8 _ In an open letter, Anderson and three other American captives held by Islamic Jihad call on Reagan to ``have mercy'' and negotiate with kidnappers. All four hostages are allowed to write to their families. Another letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury appeals for Terry Waite to mediate with Islamic Jihad. 1986 Feb. 15 _ Anderson's father, Glenn R. Anderson, dies of cancer at age 69. June 7 _ Anderson's 46-year-old brother, Glenn Richard Jr., dies of cancer four days after making a videotape from his bed appealing to Terry's captors. July 26 _ Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco, freed after almost 19 months as hostage, says he was held with Anderson and two other hostages for a year. Oct. 3 _ In a videotaped appeal, Anderson and David Jacobsen call on the Reagan administration to work as hard for their release as it did to secure the release of journalist Nicholas Daniloff in Moscow. Oct. 31 _ Beirut TV stations broadcast videotape showing Anderson's 16-month-old daughter, whom he has never seen. Nov. 2 _ Jacobsen, freed after 17 months in captivity, says hostages ``are in hell.'' Nov. 15 _ Islamic Jihad releases new picture of Anderson. Dec. 28 _ Fourth picture of Anderson sent by captors to Western news agency in Beirut. 1987 Jan. 16 _ Islamic Jihad distributes another picture of Anderson. June 7 _ Anderson's daughter is shown on Lebanese television on her second birthday saying, ``Our hearts are broken. Where is daddy?'' Aug. 2 _ Sixth photo of Anderson released by Islamic Jihad. Oct. 21 _ Islamic Jihad releases another photo of Anderson. Oct. 27 _ Anderson turns 40. Friends and family gather at Jefferson Memorial in Washington and AP staff in Beirut goes to his vacant office to mark the day. Nov. 26 _ Jacobsen says he learned from sources in the U.S. government and the Middle East that Anderson is being held again in chains and blindfolded 24 hours a day. Dec. 10 _ Anderson passes his 1,000th day as a hostage. Dec. 24 _ Islamic Jihad release a videotape of Anderson. Appearing to read from a prepared text, he criticizes the Reagan administration for failing to secure the release of himself and other Americans and warns ``there's a limit how long we can last.'' Dec. 30 _ A London newspaper reports that a CIA analysis of the tape indicated Anderson may be held in Basta prison in west Beirut with missing Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite. 1988 March 16 _ Anderson begins his fourth year in captivity. April 10 _ Islamic Jihad threatens in a statement, accompanied by a photo of Anderson, that it will kill its captives if any attempt is made to storm a Kuwaiti jetliner hijacked by Shiite extremists. May 4 _ Islamic Jihad freed three French hostages. May 9 _ Release French hostage Marcel Fontaine, also held by Islamic Jihad, says Anderson's greatest fear is that the Americans will launch a commando raid to free him, an action he believes would mean his certain death. Aug. 18 _ Islamic Jihad issues a photo of Anderson with a statement saying he and another U.S, hostage will not be freed soon, squelching speculation they would be released following the gulf war cease-fire. It also contains new demands: an Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon and compensation for the reconstruction of south Lebanon and south Beirut. Oct. 3 _ Mithileshwar Singh, and Indian national and U.S. rediaent alien, is freed by another Shiite faction. Oct. 21 _ Islamic Jihad threatens to ``punish'' its captives in retaliation for Israeli air raids in south Lebanon. A photo of Anderson accompanies the statement. Oct. 23 _ Islamic Jihad threatens in a statement, accompanied by a photo of Anderson, that its American hostages will a price that ``will reflect adversely'' on them if the group's demands are not met. Oct. 24 _ Islamic Jihad denies any connection with a Lebanese woman arrested in Milan with a photo of Anderson and another U.S. hostage. Oct. 27 _ Anderson is 41, his fourth birthday in captivity. Islamic Jihad issues a photo of him to authenticate a statement again denying any connection with the women held in Milan. Oct. 31 _ Islamic Jihad issues a videotape of Anderson to mark his 41st birthday. He says the U.S. government is impeding his release and adds: ``I find it difficult to keep my hope and courage high.'' AP881031-0064 AP-NR-10-31-88 0909EST r i PM-Gulf-USForces 10-31 0385 PM-Gulf-US Forces,0395 First U.S. Warship To Leave Persian Gulf Since Cease-Fire By RICHARD PYLE Associated Press Writer MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) The United States plans to withdraw its first warship from the Persian Gulf this week, a small but important step that reflects confidence in the Iraq-Iran cease-fire, U.S. sources say. The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that barring a last-minute change in plans the missile frigate USS Rodney M. Davis was to be detached from duty Tuesday and sail for home port in Yokosuka, Japan. The 3,600-ton frigate would be the first U.S. warship pulled out of the gulf since Iraq and Iran agreed to an Aug. 20 cease-fire in their eight-year war. The ship's departure would trim overall American naval strength in the region to 25 vessels. The Pentagon says the gulf force will gradually be scaled back to a pre-war level of about five ships if the cease-fire stays in effect. Since the truce, no flareups have been reported in the waterway, where more than 500 commercial ships were damaged by air and gunboat attacks related to the war. In Washington, Pentagon spokesman Maj. Mike Stepp refused comment, citing a Defense Department policy of not discussing ship movements or locations for security reasons. U.S. warships are regularly rotated on a six-month basis, with about three months on duty in the gulf. The Rodney M. Davis arrived Sept. 9 and was to have left in January. The fleet dropped to 26 ships when the missile cruiser USS Vincennes left the Arabian Sea on Sept. 5. The sailing orders of its designated replacement, the USS Mobile Bay, were canceled a day before it was to leave the United States. In other moves toward reducing the U.S. presence, officials ended 17 months of close escort of U.S.-flagged Kuwaiti oil tankers, curtailed regional air surveillance and took a fortified barge off station in the northern gulf. The Navy squadron inside the gulf, normally about 16 ships, includes six mine-sweepers, an amphibious landing ship, and the flagship USS La Salle. There are also two missile cruisers, one missile destroyer, and four frigates besides the Rodney M. Davis. The missile cruiser USS Reeves and missile frigate USS Vandegrift also are scheduled to leave in the next week but will be replaced, the sources said. AP881031-0065 AP-NR-10-31-88 0919EST u i PM-Soviet-Protest 1stLd-Writethru a0509 10-31 0420 PM-Soviet-Protest, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0509,0431 Two Dissidents Ordered Jailed Eds: Updates throughout with dissidents jailed for human rights protest. No pickup. MOSCOW (AP) Two Moscow dissidents were jailed for their part in protests demanding freedom for hundreds of people they say are political prisoners, a dissident source said today. Yuri Mityunov said police arrested Valeriya Novodvorskaya and Dmitri Starikov on Sunday and they were given 15-day jail sentences. Mityunov is a spokesman for the Democratic Union, a group that bills itself as an alternative to the Communist Party. At least 50 people were arrested as hundreds of demonstrators marked an imprisoned poet's death by protests demanding the release of hundreds they say are political prisoners, Mityunov said. About 40 people were arrested in Leningrad, 14 in Moscow, and four in Novosibirsk, Mityunov said. A few thousand people gathered separately in Minsk, capital of the Byelorussian Republic, to commemorate the victims of Hitler and Stalin. Fourteen people were arrested there, Mityunov said. Ms. Novodvorskaya was arrested on her way to a planned demonstration on Moscow's Pushkin Square along with several other Democratic Union leaders. A crowd of several hundred people gathered on the square in the cold and snow Sunday evening, but no protest took place. Starikov was arrested when he raised a banner demanding freedom for political prisoners after most of the crowd left, Mityunov said. Earlier Sunday, five members of another group were arrested on the square for their brief protest. Mityunov said 200-300 people gathered to read poetry and hold candles along Leningrad's Nevsky Prospket near Kazan Cathedral. At least 40 of them were arrested, he said. A crowd of several thousand gathered near the police station where they were taken, shouting angry slogans, he said. A Leningrad dissident source said all but 10 of those arrested were freed by Monday. Sunday was the 16th anniversary of the death in a labor camp of Yuri Galanskov, a poet and pacifist who was an editor of the dissident journal Phoenix 66. He was sentenced to seven years in a labor camp in 1968. Sunday's protests came just days after Soviet officials reportedly promised West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl that they would release within 10 weeks all those regarded by the West as political prisoners. The Soviet Union says it has only a few dozen political prisoners. But many Western human rights groups and Soviet dissident organizations say several hundred people still are held in prisons, labor camps, psychiatric hospitals, or in internal exile, because of their beliefs. AP881031-0066 AP-NR-10-31-88 0923EST r i PM-Burma 10-31 0484 PM-Burma,0498 Burma to Open Its Economy to Foreign Investors Eds: Abel as one name cq. By SEIN WIN Associated Press Writer RANGOON, Burma (AP) Burma said today it will end 26 years of economic isolationism and a rigidly controlled domestic economy and open its doors to foreign investment. There was no indication the government of Gen. Saw Maung, who seized power Sept. 18, would become liberal politically. ``Burma will practice a market-oriented trade policy in line with the world economic trend, both in domestic and foreign trade,'' Trade Minister Col. Abel told a news briefing. Abel said laws that would provide a favorable investment climate were being drafted and welcomed queries from both domestic and foreign investors on the new policies. He said items such as teak, petroleum and gems would remain under government monopoly but private enterprises could become involved in all other sectors of the economy. He said foreign investment would be permitted either directly or through joint ventures with the government or local private enterprises. But Abel said there were no plans to change the current official exchange rate of six kyats to one dollar. Under this rate, private exporters often receive less from their transaction than the cost of the export commodity. The black market rate has soared to more than 40 kyats to the dollar recently. Burma's economy spiraled downward last year and the country, according to experts, is virtually bankrupt following months of political unheaval and a freeze on aid by Japan, West Germany, the United States and other donors. The international community has condemned the military government for suppression of popular dissent which began late July following the retirement of Ne Win. Ne Win, who seized power in a 1962 military coup, imposed a centrally directed economy and banned all private foreign investment. Under his authoritarian rule, one of Asia's potentially richest nations became among the world's poorest with an annual per capita income currently estimated at below $150. Reaction from foreign investors to the plans Abel spelled out was expected to be cautious, given the potentially chaotic political situation and Burma's earlier backtracking on promises of economic reform. Since late July thousands have been killed by an authoritarian regime trying to maintain its power in face of nationwide protest. Saw Maung has allowed the formation of political parties and promised a general election but opposition leaders are skeptical that a free and fair election can be held while the military wield power. The minister said cross border trade was opened at two points with China recently and similar arrangements were expected to follow along Burma's frontiers with Bangladesh, India and Thailand. In the past, the government has lost vast revenues because it was unable to control smuggling across the country's frontiers. The border with Thailand, across which most commodities enter Burma, is largely controlled by ethnic minority insurgent groups fighting the central government. AP881031-0067 AP-NR-10-31-88 0924EST r i PM-Britain-Olivier 10-31 0145 PM-Britain-Olivier,0149 Lord Olivier Hospitalized BRIGHTON, England (AP) Laurence Olivier, celebrated as Britain's greatest actor, has been admitted to a hospital with an undisclosed illness, the hospital reported today. The 81-year-old stage and screen actor was in ``comfortable and stable'' condition at Royal Sussex County Hospital in the south England resort of Brighton, a spokeswoman said. She said Lord Olivier's family had asked the hospital not to reveal any details of his illness and ``we have got to respect the wishes of the family.'' He was admitted to the hospital during the weekend, she said. She spoke on condition of anonymity. Olivier has suffered from cancer, pleurisy and a degenerative muscle disease. He was quoted in a magazine interview last year as saying he had fought off illnesses by ``sheer bloody-mindedness.'' ``You need anger to see you through,'' he was quoted as saying. AP881031-0068 AP-NR-10-31-88 0932EST r a PM-Fernald-Workers 10-31 0450 PM-Fernald-Workers,0464 Fernald Workers Report Regular Uranium Exposure, Report Saysa CINCINNATI (AP) More than half of the long-term workers at the Fernald uranium processing plant say they've been exposed to uranium frequently over the years, a newspaper reported. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Sunday that a federal study found a close relationship between workers' reports of exposure to uranium and medical problems, including shortness of breath. The report was the latest in a series of revelations of problems at the Feed Materials Production Center near Fernald, a small town north of Cincinnati, and at other federal nuclear weapons plants. The plant, owned by the U.S. Department of Energy, processes uranium for weapons. The study was requested by one of the unions that represent Fernald workers. It was performed by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Cincinnati. The Enquirer said an interim report dated July 1987 found that some workers were so severely affected that they could not walk short distances without stopping for breath. The study was limited to workers who had been employed at the Fernald plant for more than 10 years. Of the 208 such employees, 146 agreed to participate in the study. They had worked at the plant an average of 32 years. The Enquirer said 93 of the 146 workers estimated that they had been regularly or frequently exposed to uranium. Forty-nine had been exposed at least 10 times, while 38 workers said they were exposed at least 20 times. Even after accounting for cigarette smoking, 32 percent of the workers had shortness of breath, the study found, including nine workers who could not walk more than 100 yards without stopping to breathe heavily. One-fourth of the workers had restricted or obstructed lung functions. The study was requested by the International Association of Machinists, which represents 625 of the plant's 1,500 full-time workers. The plant's unions are on strike, citing safety and health concerns as well as wage and benefit disagreements. Production at the plant has been stopped since Oct. 7. David Day, president of Fernald's Machinists local, said the NIOSH report is being reviewed by the unions. ``It's difficult to know who to trust,'' Day said. ``Right now we do trust NIOSH.'' Dr. Mitchell Singal of NIOSH, who prepared the study, said the federal institute is still researching the working environment at the plant, but has closed its investigation into medical effects on workers. ``There were some additional analyses done'' after the interim study was completed in 1987, ``but those analyses didn't change the initial conclusions,'' Singal told the Enquirer. James Reafsnyder, Energy Department site representative at Fernald, said over the weekend that he was not familiar with the study results. AP881031-0069 AP-NR-10-31-88 0937EST r a PM-WeatherpageWeather 1stLd-Writethru a0495 10-31 0501 PM-Weatherpage Weather, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0495,0510 Record Lows Broken Or Tied in Northeast, Midwest; Rain in South Eds: LEADS with 5 grafs to UPDATE with further records broken or tied, Detroit breaking 115-year-old record, Picks up 5th graf, `In the ...' By The Associated Press Record low temperatures were reached in the Northeast and Midwest today as cold air poured into the Great Lakes, and showers lingered in the warmer South. Early this morning, the mercury plummeted to new depths for the date in nearly two dozen cities, including Detroit, which broke a 115-year-old record with 21 degrees. Other cities reaching record low temperatures included Toledo, Ohio, and Elkins, W.Va., at 16 degrees; Albany, N.Y., at 18; Cleveland, Alpena, Mich., Binghamton, N.Y., and Fort Wayne, Ind., at 19; Allentown, Pa., Rochester, N.Y., and Hartford, Conn., at 21; Flint and Grand Rapids, Mich., at 22; and South Bend, Ind., at 25. Low temperature records for the date were tied at Williamsport, Pa., at 21 degrees; Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, Pa., at 22; and Indianapolis at 24. Today's records came a day after record lows for the date also were broken or tied in three cities, including Youngstown, Ohio, where the mercury dipped to 21. In the Southeast, where higher temperatures prevailed, showers and occasional thunderstorms remained through the early morning hours in northern Texas, and across Louisiana and central Mississippi to central Alabama. Thunderstorms produced hail a half-inch in diameter at Abilene, Texas. Today's forecast called for rain scattered from Texas across the lower Mississippi Valley, the southern Atlantic Coast, Florida and the Pacific Northwest. Predicted highs: 40s and 50s from the northern Plains and upper Mississippi Valley through the Great Lakes, the Ohio Valley, the central and southern Appalachians, and from the Middle Atlantic States into southern New England; 30s in northern New England; 80s in southern Florida, and from southern Texas through the Rio Grande Valley and the southern Plateau into Southern California; and up to the mid-90s in Arizona's desert areas. Much of the rest of the nation is expected to be in the 60s or 70s. The nation's temperatures at 2 a.m. EST ranged from 18 degrees at Elmira and Massena, N.Y., to 77 at Yuma, Ariz. Other reports: _East: Atlanta 56 cloudy; Boston 34 fair; Buffalo 28 fair; Charleston, S.C. 56 cloudy; Cincinnati 30 fair; Cleveland 23 fair; Detroit 26 fair; Miami 73 cloudy; New York 37 fair; Philadelphia 34 fair; Pittsburgh 27 fair; Portland, Maine 30 fair; Washington 39 partly cloudy. _Central: Bismarck 50 fair; Chicago 31 fair; Dallas-Fort Worth 50 rain; Denver 45 fair; Des Moines 31 fair; Indianapolis 30 fair; Kansas City 38 fair; Minneapolis-St. Paul 33 fair; Nashville 48 cloudy; New Orleans 67 cloudy; St. Louis 37 fair. _West: Albuquerque 52 fair; Anchorage 31 partly cloudy; Las Vegas 65 fair; Los Angeles 63 fair; Phoenix 75 fair; Salt Lake City 43 fair; San Diego 62 fair; San Francisco 57 fair; Seattle Not lable. _Canada: Montreal 21 fair; Toronto 25 partly cloudy. AP881031-0070 AP-NR-10-31-88 0946EST r a PM-BitterBlood 1stLd-Writethru a0485 10-31 0791 PM-Bitter Blood, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0485,0805 Book Faults North Carolina Authorities in Case That Left Nine Dead Eds: SUBS 16th graf, `On June...', to add ages of dead boys. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) In July 1984, a wealthy matron and her daughter were shot to death at their sprawling home northeast of Louisville. In May 1985, three members of a well-to-do Winston-Salem, N.C., family were found slain. Two sets of killings, months and miles apart, but tied together by a tale of failed marriage, an incestuous relationship and a bitter child custody battle. When authorities finally caught up with the suspects, they committed suicide in a car explosion after killing the two boys at the center of the custody dispute. The story was apparent to investigators in retrospect; according to a new book, it could have become apparent much sooner, before the second set of killings, but for the mistakes of North Carolina authorities. ``Bitter Blood,'' by Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record reporter Jerry Bledsoe, looks at the slayings of Delores Rodgers Lynch, 68, and her daughter, Dr. Jane Lynch, 39, of Prospect, Ky., and the aftermath. Mrs. Lynch also had a son, Thomas J. Lynch, a dentist in Albuquerque, N.M. He had been married from 1970 to 1981 to North Carolina native Susie Newsom. As part of his investigation into the Lynches' slayings, Dan Davidson, then an investigator for the Kentucky State Police, requested a check on Susie Lynch from the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. The check showed that a camping trailer was jointly registered to her and a Frederick Klenner, 32. Davidson then sought a check on Klenner and was told that he was a doctor with no criminal record. An apparent dead end. But Klenner, who was Susie Lynch's first cousin, was not what he appeared to be. Despite a widespread belief among people in his hometown of Reidsville, N.C., that he was a physician, he had never attended medical school. At least one person knew that and had complained to authorities, who compiled a detailed file on him, according to the book. In the file, a State Bureau of Investigation agent described Klenner as a survivalist ``gun nut.'' According to the file, Klenner was ``paranoid and spent all of his money on exotic military weapons that he carried wherever he went.'' Had Davidson been given this file by North Carolina authorities, he would have focused on Klenner immediately, according to ``Bitter Blood.'' Davidson agrees. North Carolina SBI officials refused to talk to Bledsoe for his book, and the bureau in Raleigh recently declined to comment to The Associated Press. After the Lynch killings, 10 months of fruitless investigation passed. Then, on May 18, 1985, Susie Lynch's parents, Robert W. Newsom Jr. and Florence Sharp Newsom, and her grandmother, Hattie C. Newsom, were shot dead. With the second set of slayings, the family tie became clear. All five victims, apparently upset by Klenner's courtship of Susie Lynch, had planned to testify against her at a hearing that summer over the custody of her sons. Both families were wealthy, and a desire for the inheritances may have played a role as well, investigators said at the time. But the real motive will never be known. By early June, authorities had decided to arrest Klenner on murder charges in the Newsom family slayings because he was planning to leave the state and had threatened witnesses, they said. On June 4, they caught up with his van and began a chase. With Klenner was Susie Lynch and the two boys. As police closed in, the van exploded. Klenner and his lover were killed by the explosion; authorities discovered that the boys, ages 8 and 10, already had been killed _ poisoned with cyanide and shot in the head. Davidson said Klenner had to have detonated the bomb, and authorities believe Susie Lynch knew of all the slayings and died willingly as well. After the explosion, Davidson and his investigators returned to Kentucky to finish their investigation of the Oldham County killings. Davidson got phone records that led him to the gun store in Winston-Salem where Klenner did most of his trading. He found that Klenner had traded a rifle _ the same type of weapon used to kill the Lynches _ to that dealer the day after the killings. Ballistics tests linked a bullet found at the Lynch home to the gun. Three months after the explosion, an Oldham County grand jury found that Klenner and Susie Lynch were responsible for the Lynch killings. ``I wanted to be able to tell the people ... that there wasn't a killer in their midst, and I wanted to be sure about what I was telling them,'' Davidson said. AP881031-0071 AP-NR-10-31-88 0954EST r a PM-SeaLion 10-31 0291 PM-Sea Lion,0299 Sick Sea Lion Attacks on Land, Water SAUSALITO, Calif. (AP) A sea lion apparently suffering from a liver and kidney disease attacked a swimmer and a beach stroller over the weekend, prompting authorities to issue their first-ever sea lion warning. ``We've never even heard of something like that, where a sea lion would actually attack somebody swimming,'' said Mary Jane Schramm, director of public relations for the Marine Mammal Center. ``In the water, the animal typically feels it has nothing to fear from a human.'' The center warned swimmers plying the chilly waters of San Francisco Bay to avoid all sea lions. A swimmer was bitten off Aquatic Park in San Francisco on Saturday. The sea lion ``just swam up to the poor guy and gratuitously bit him on the side of the chest and on the foot,'' Schramm said. The unidentified swimmer was admitted to a hospital and received ``the normal animal-bite treatment,'' Schramm said. The same day, the sea lion attacked a woman who was walking on the beach off Crissy Field a few miles from where the swimmer was attacked, Schramm said. The woman thought the animal was sick and wanted to help. ``She meant well, but she got bit because she placed herself right between the animal and where he wanted to go _ the beach,'' she said. The sea lion, which weighs between 60 and 80 pounds, has two red tags on its flippers, meaning it was born near the Channel Islands off Santa Barbara. Schramm speculated that the sea lion was suffering from a disease called Leptospirosis, an often fatal sickness of the liver and kidney. Three rescue teams searched for the sea lion over the weeked but were unsuccessful. AP881031-0072 AP-NR-10-31-88 0959EST u i PM-Israel 6thLd-Writethru a0518 10-31 0937 PM-Israel, 6th Ld-Writethru, a0518,0962 Firebombs Kill Mother and Three Children, Wound Five Eds: Leads with 8 grafs to update with funeral, quote from Rabin. Picks up 11th graf pvs ``Two of those injured...'' INSERTS Sharon quotes before next to the last graf pvs. LaserPhoto NY4 By NICOLAS B. TATRO Associated Press Writer JERICHO, Occupied West Bank (AP) Israeli leaders today vowed to avenge the deaths of a Jewish woman and her three sons in the firebombing of a bus. The army said the Palestinian attackers were in custody, and there were reports two had confessed. The attack in this West Bank town came 35 hours before Israel's parliamentary elections. It could drive undecided voters to the Likud bloc of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who has advocated a hard line in dealing with violence. In newspaper interviews published today, Shamir and his rival, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, promised revenge for Sunday's attack. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin asked the army's chief prosecutor to investigate whether the death penalty could be used against the assailants, calling them ``murderers of women and children who have lost all shades of humanity,'' Israel radio reported. The radio said the army rounded up dozens of Palestinians in Jericho. It said two suspects in custody admitted taking part in the attack. In Jerusalem today, more than 1,000 mourners attended a funeral for the victim, 27-year-old Rachel Weiss, and her sons, Rafael, Netanel and Efraim, aged 9 months to 3{ years. Many mourners wept and wore the traditional black clothes of Orthodox Jews. A banner stetched across the street said ``Oh what has befallen us?'' Mrs. Weiss, her husband and her sons lived in Jerusalem and were returning home from northern Israel at the time of the attack on the bus. The husband escaped without serious injury, army officials said. Five other bus passengers were injured in the attac, one a soldier who was seriously burned. Two of those injured are immigrants from Pittsburgh: Dov Blum, 35, who suffered serious burns on his face, and his wife, Cindy, burned on her face and back, said Ruth Mekel of Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. The attack claimed the largest number of Israeli lives in a single assault since the Palestinian revolt against Israel's 21-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip broke out almost 11 months ago. A total of 305 Palestinians and 10 Israelis have been killed in the uprising, which began Dec. 8. Maj. Gen. Amram Mitzna, the West Bank commander, told reporters in Jericho today that a curfew was imposed on the town of about 17,000 Arabs 18 miles east of Jerusalem. The attackers tossed the firebombs from a banana plantation next to the road. As reporters watched today, an army bulldozer plowed under rows of banana trees to prevent future ambushes. Soldiers, some using police dogs, searched door to door. Officers said the attack was meticulously planned, but Mitzna played down a connection with the elections: ``The timing is just two days before the election, but it is not the first time that firebombs were thrown on (West Bank) roads.'' In the past two months, there have been more than 100 firebomb attacks in the Jericho area, Israel radio said. Mitzna said firebombs were hurled at the bus by Palestinians at about 8:15 p.m. One broke through a window, setting afire the back seat where the children were sitting. ``Two or three Molotov cocktails were thrown at the bus, which went up in flames in seconds,'' Mitzna said. The driver slammed on the brakes, and most of the 22 passengers scrambled to safety. A soldier, identified only as Sgt. Ron, boarded the red-and-white Egged bus No. 961 and found a woman still aboard. ``From the back of the bus I heard the sound of a trapped woman,'' Ron said on Israel radio. ``I grabbed her with one hand. I said, `Come out with me.' She absolutely refused.'' ``She screamed, `But I have a baby, what about the baby!' After a few seconds, I realized that if I remained one more second (I would be killed).'' Capt. Avi, who arrived moments after the bus caught fire, told reporters the woman apparently panicked and feared leaving the bus because she thought terrorists were outside. Reporters were kept away from the scene until dawn and the bus was gone by the time photographers arrived. However, one witness said the bus was consumed by fire, its tires melted into the asphalt. Speaking on Israel radio, Shamir said he did not think the attack was linked to the elections, saying there was no logic to such acts of hatred. ``I am sure the security forces will reach the murderers,'' he said. ``I hope the murderers and those who sent them and their supporters will feel the serious consequences to them and their surroundings of their heinous hatred towards us.'' But Industry Minister Ariel Sharon, at an election rally in southern Israel, accused Israeli liberals of creating an atmosphere for such attacks, by saying: ``All talk of withdrawal or pullbacks brings more and more firebomb attacks,'' newspapers reported. Shamir was quoted as telling the Hadashot daily: ``This despicable act in Jericho deserves an appropriate response that will prove to the murderers they will be punished to the full extent of the law.'' Peres was quoted by the national news agency Itim as saying Israel was united into ``one family'' by such attacks. ``Neither terrorism nor violence will determine our path. We will determine our path,'' he said. ``Deeds such as tonight's tear at the heart and provide nothing in the way of hope for a solution.'' AP881031-0073 AP-NR-10-31-88 1007EST r i PM-Japan-Capsize 10-31 0153 PM-Japan-Capsize,0162 South Korean Fishing Boat Sinks, 27 People Missing TOKYO (AP) A South Korean fishing boat capsized in rough seas in the Pacific Ocean off Japan today and maritime authorities reported all 27 crew members were missing. An official of the Maritime Safety Agency, Japan's coast guard, said the the No. 35 Sang Young Ho fishing vessel sank just after midnight about 600 miles off the northeast coast of Japan. The crew, who abandoned the 290-ton ship before it sank, radioed they were drifting in two rubber boats, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He said coast guard and military planes searched the area and found two empty dinghies. Japanese patrol boats were expected to reach the area where the fishing boat sank by Tuesday, the official said. He said the No. 35 Sang Young Ho was fishing with six other South Korean boats when it capsized. AP881031-0074 AP-NR-10-31-88 1009EST r i PM-Turkey-OzalShooting 10-31 0243 PM-Turkey-Ozal Shooting,0253 Teacher Says He Shot Ozal ANKARA, Turkey (AP) A 32-year-old schoolteacher today admitted shooting Premier Turgut Ozal as he delivered a speech four months ago. Kartal Demirag said he was sorry as he put in a guilty plea at the start of his trial. ``I ask him (Ozal) to forgive me,'' Demirag told the court. He fired at Ozal twice while the premier addressed his Motherland Party's general convention. One shot hit the microphone in front of Ozal. The other hit his right thumb. Bodyguards returned the fire, wounding Demirag and 20 other people. The teacher was captured at the scene. Prosecutor Tevfik Hancilar charged Demirag with attempting premeditated murder, carrying an unlicensed weapon and using a false identity. The prosecutor demanded the gunman get a 20-year jail term. Demirag had been serving a 10-year sentence for knifing a man in a coffeehouse brawl last year, but escaped from prison in January. He said he nursed a grudge against Ozal because the Turkish leader did not declare a general amnesty while he was in prison. The prosecutor claimed Demirag held neo-fascist views. Turkish newspapers reported Demirag was a member of a youth organization known as the Gray Wolves, from the defunct neo-fascist National Movement Party. Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II in 1981, allegedly belonged to the Gray Wolves. No date was set for the next session of Demirag's trial. AP881031-0075 AP-NR-10-31-88 1012EST r w PM-Scotus-Internment 10-31 0529 PM-Scotus-Internment,550 Court Kills Lawsuit Stemming From Japanese-American Internments By JAMES H. RUBIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court today killed a lawsuit against the government stemming from the World War II mass detention of Japanese-Americans in U.S. prison camps. The court, without comment, left intact rulings that the veterans of the internment camps waited too long to file suit seeking compensation for property losses. Congress and the Reagan administration this year officially acknowledged that the Japanese-Americans were treated unjustly. President Reagan signed legislation on Aug. 10 that provides a $20,000 tax-free payment to each of some 60,000 survivors among the 120,000 U.S. citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry who were placed in the camps. Noting that the detainees were forced to leave their homes and placed in concentration camps for up to four years, Reagan said the reparations had ``less to do with property than with honor.'' The bill calls for a $1.2 billion fund, with appropriations in any one year to be no more than $500 million. But the new law did not make the case acted on today by the Supreme Court a dead issue. The legislation allowed anyone who does not seek reparations from the fund to pursue the lawsuit. The Reagan administration opposed the suit on grounds the statute of limitations, or deadline, for filing such court claims has long since passed. The detainees argued the deadline should be suspended because the government's deception in concealing the real reason for the internment _ racism rather than military necessity _ was not exposed until decades after the war ended. They said the Supreme Court itself was deceived in 1944 when it upheld the internment program. The administration said the high court was not hoodwinked. Justice Department lawyers said the government based the internment policy on its belief that ``ancestral, cultural and ethnic considerations'' made it likely those of Japanese ancestry would engage in subversive activity. In the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the government forcibly removed from their homes those of Japanese ancestry living in California, Oregon, Washington state and Arizona. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the internment, acting on advice by military leaders that people of Japanese descent could not be trusted. The Supreme Court's 1944 ruling upheld the internment program as a constitutionally acceptable military necessity. By the mid-1970s, government documents were discovered that indicated there was no such military necessity. Then, 19 survivors and descendants of those interned filed suit in 1983 in behalf of all 120,000. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in 1986 that the government must defend itself at trial against the suit. But the Supreme Court in June 1987 said the appeals court did not have authority over the case and sent it instead to a different court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. That appeals court, in a 2-1 ruling last May, said the suit was barred by the statute of limitations. The deadline question had not been addressed by the Supreme Court when the justices issued their ruling last year. The case is Hohri vs. U.S., 88-215. AP881031-0076 AP-NR-10-31-88 1014EST r a PM-GangViolence 1stLd-Writethru a0508 10-31 0533 PM-Gang Violence, 1st Ld - Writethru, a0508,0540 Toddler, Seven Others Wounded in Watts Drive-By Attack Eds: Leads with 4 grafs to update number of wounded and second 17-year-old dying, cop's description of shooting, picking up 5th graf pvs, `We were...'; Subs the 10th graf, `Also Sunday...', to update with youth's death. Shyolanda and Dalafayette are cq. LOS ANGELES (AP) Gang-related violence killed two 17-year-olds and wounded at least 13, including a toddler who was shot in the head, after 200 police officers conducted an anti-gang sweep of the area. Police said 15-month-old Dalafayette Polk was struck in the head by a shotgun blast Sunday night during a drive-by attack on a birthday party in the Watts section of Los Angeles. The boy was in critical condition today at Martin Luther King Jr.-Drew Medical Center, said nursing supervisor Sarah Patterson. The boy's mother, Sheila Williams, was in good condition with a gunshot wound to the foot, said Patterson. Eight others were wounded in the attack. The shooters shouted gang slogans as they drove by and opened fire, but the people attending the party apparently were not gang members, said Lt. O.L. Johnson. The motive for the attack was unknown and there were no arrests. ``We were across the street at a birthday party and heard shots and smelled burned rubber,'' said neighbor Shyolanda Montana, 12. ``Everybody was just starting to leave when they got shot.'' The shooting occurred 16 hours after 200 police officers ended a two-night, anti-gang sweep, arresting 365 people, including 193 reputed gang members, said Officer Richard Dugerian. The offenses included driving under the influence, curfew violations and outstanding felony and misdemeanor warrants. In nearby Long Beach, 17-year-old Danny Romero was gunned down Sunday night after neighbors had repeatedly called police to report gang trouble brewing. Neighbors said gang problems have grown worse in the neighborhood in the past months because of a turf war. Resident Barney Hellman said Sunday night's trouble began when 15 youngsters began throwing bottles at cars. Long Beach police Sgt. Robert Hohl confirmed that police received several calls about the disturbance, but added that reports of bottles being thrown would not be considered a high priority for police. Also Sunday, 17-year-old Louis Orellana was shot and killed by rival gang members while he was walking with friends in Hollywood, said Detective Andy Monsue. No arrests were made. On Saturday, three officers answering a report of a shooting outside a party attended by gang members came upon a man allegedly firing at a teen-ager, said Detective Sid Nuckles. The gunman ignored orders to stop shooting and drop his weapon, and the three officers fired 28 shots, striking him four times, said Nuckles. The gunman was in serious condition at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center and the teen-ager was treated for a minor gunshot wound. In another shooting, two men shouting gang slogans from a car fired at least six times with a pistol and a shotgun at a reputed gang member and a woman in the city's southside early Sunday, police said. The woman was taken to Martin Luther King Jr.-Drew Medical Center with a shotgun wound to the abdomen, said Officer Charles Walton. AP881031-0077 AP-NR-10-31-88 1018EST r w PM-Scotus-DeathRow 10-31 0557 PM-Scotus-Death Row,530 Court to Decide Issue on Lawyers for Indigent Death Row Inmates in Virginia Case By JAMES H. RUBIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court today agreed to decide whether states must continue to provide lawyers for indigent death row inmates after they have lost their initial round of appeals. The court said it will hear an appeal by Virginia officials who said requiring states to pay for attorneys in such cases could lead to interminable delays in carrying out executions. The justices are expected to announce their decision in 1989. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 6-4 ruling last June, said condemned murderers in Virginia who cannot afford a lawyer are entitled to greater representation at taxpayer expense than the state provides. Attorneys are provided by the state when a death row inmate files an initial appeal in state courts. Convicted killers who lose that round may pursue a second round of appeals in state courts, contending that their rights were violated. But they are not entitled to free legal representation during this second phase if they are unable to afford their own lawyer. Like other states, Virginia provides prison law libraries and assigns part-time lawyers to help inmates prepare their second-round _ or collateral _ appeals. In some cases, volunteer lawyers are available to help the prisoners. But the 4th Circuit court said the Constitution requires more in the case of those on death row. ``The complexity and difficulty of the legal work involved in challenging a death penalty require particular safeguards in order to insure meaningful access'' to justice, the appeals court said. The appeals court also noted that inmates facing execution are likely to be emotionally incapable of preparing a cogent appeal. But the appeals court said death row inmates are not entitled to free legal help for a third round of appeals _ when they take their cases to federal court to claim their rights were violated. By the time the case reaches the federal courts, the appeals court said, the inmates will have legal briefs, trial transcripts and state court opinions from earlier state court appeals that will enable them to prepare their own defense effectively. Virginia officials said the 4th Circuit court ruling ``injects a palpable danger of infinite delay'' in resolving capital cases. The added guarantee of free legal representation will give death row inmates another opportunity to contend that they received ineffective assistance from their lawyers, the officials said. That could lead to another protracted round of appeals, they continued. The officials also said that most states with capital punishment do not guarantee free legal help beyond the first round of appeals. The state attorney general's office interpreted a 1987 Supreme Court ruling to mean that the Constitution does not guarantee a right to a lawyer in collateral appeals. In the 1987 case, the justices ruled that a Pennsylvania woman's constitutional right to adequate legal help had not been violated during an earlier appeal. She claimed she was denied effective representation when her court-appointed lawyer concluded that her collateral appeal was fruitless. The 4th Circuit court said the 1987 ruling did not answer the constitutional question raised in the Virginia case, particularly since the Pennsylvania case did not involve the death penalty. The case is Murray vs. Giarratano, 88-411. AP881031-0078 AP-NR-10-31-88 1027EST r w PM-Scotus-ChildPornography 10-31 0488 PM-Scotus-Child Pornography,450 Court Lets Stand Child Pornography Ruling in Illinois Case By JAMES H. RUBIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court today let stand a ruling that a state may ban the possession of child pornography. The court, citing a lack of jurisdiction, rejected an appeal by an Illinois couple who say state officials are intruding into the privacy of the home to impose censorship. Justices William J. Brennan, Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens voted to hear arguments in the case, one vote shy of the four needed to grant such review. The couple, John and Charlene Geever of Bartlett, Ill., are awaiting trial on a 19-count indictment handed up by a state grand jury in 1985. While the Geevers also were accused of soliciting a child to appear in a pornographic video and taking indecent liberties with a child, 12 of the counts deal solely with possession of pornographic material. The state law provides a penalty of up to three years in prison and a $25,000 fine for possession of child pornography. The Illinois Supreme Court ruled in March that outlawing possession of sexually explicit and lewd material depicting children under 18 does not violate the Constitution. ``The purpose of the statute ... is not to limit the indvidual's freedom of thought and mind in his own home, nor is its purpose to regulate the moral content of the depictions described,'' the state court said. ``The purpose is to prevent the sexual abuse and exploitation of children by drying up the market for child pornography.'' The state court said state officials have a compelling interest in protecting children ``from the lasting harm of emotional and sexual degradation.'' At least 11 other states have made it a crime to possess child pornography. They are Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Washington. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that states may not forbid the mere possession of obscene material. The justices based that ruling on constitutional guarantees of free expression and on ``the right to be free, except in very limited circumstances, from unwanted governmental intrusions into one's privacy.'' The high court also has held, in 1982, that states may ban the sale and dissemination of child pornography, even if the material is not legally obscene. That ruling said fighting sexual exploitation of children is ``a government objective of surpassing importance.'' Since 1973, the court has defined materials as obscene _ and therefore unprotected by constitutionally guaranteed freedoms _ if they ``appeal to the prurient interest in sex ... portray sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, or when taken as a whole do not have serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.'' The 1982 decision held that material depicting sexual activity by children does not have to meet that standard to be subject to criminal laws against distribution. The case is Geever vs. Illinois, 88-381. AP881031-0079 AP-NR-10-31-88 1025EST r a PM-DeathCapDinner 10-31 0222 PM-Death Cap Dinner,0226 Patients Improving After Transplants PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Four people who underwent liver transplants after eating poisonous ``death cap'' mushrooms were showing signs of improvement, hospital officials said today. In addition, a fifth person who ate the wild mushrooms they had picked along the Columbia River was in fair condition at Bess Kaiser Hospital. John Duncan, 41, was the only victim whose liver was not destroyed by the poison. The five ate the Amanita phalloides mushrooms, which resemble a safe species found in Asia, in a stir-fry dish on Oct. 22. The poisons in the mushroom can damage the liver, kidneys and gastrointestinal system. Duncan's wife, Teresa Ok Hui Duncan, 43, of Portland, was in critical condition at Oregon Health Sciences University Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said. Isun Pak, 52, of Hillsboro was in serious condition at the hospital. Pak's son, Andy Clark, 33, was upgraded Sunday from critical to serious condition at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, said Dr. Jack Lake, coordinator of the liver transplant program. Glenda Sabolyk, 41, of Clackamas was in serious condition at the same hospital. She was moved from intensive care to a regular floor and was improving, Lake said. Sabolyk underwent surgery Thursday. Pak had surgery Friday, and the operations of Clark and Mrs. Duncan ended Saturday. AP881031-0080 AP-NR-10-31-88 1028EST r i PM-Afghanistan-Guerrillas 10-31 0340 PM-Afghanistan-Guerrillas,0352 Rebels Announce Plans To Form Government By BRYAN WILDER Associated Press Writer ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) An Afghan guerrilla leader today announced plans to form an all-rebel government in Afghanistan and said he hoped elections could be held by January. Burhanuddin Rabbani, chairman of the seven-member guerrilla alliance, outlined a plan under which Afghans inside Afghanistan and refugees outside the country would elect a 400-member Parliament. The Parliament would elect a head of state and approve a Cabinet, Rabbani said. The Pakistan-based guerrillas, or mujahedeen, announced similar plans in the spring, but they didn't materialize _ reportedly because of guerrilla infighting. ``As the mujahedeen have been successful on the battlefield, we can also be successful in the peace process,'' he told reporters in the Pakistani capital. Rabbani said the seven leaders of the guerrilla alliance unanimously adopted the plan. Rabbani said he and representatives of the six other guerrilla groups were leaving for New York later to attend talks at the United Nations on the war. The U.N. General Assembly takes up the Afghanistan issue this week. Afghan President Najib called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to discuss the Afghan war, especially allegations that Pakistan is violating an accord by allowing guerrillas to receive U.S. aid through Pakistani territory. The U.N.-mediated accord calls for the Soviet Union to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by Feb. 15. It was signed in April in Geneva. The Red Army intervened in the Afghan conflict in December 1979 to replace one Marxist government with another. It remained to help the government fight the guerrillas. Although the agreement includes a pledge by Islamabad and Washington not to interfere in Afghanistan's internal affairs, the United States and Soviet Union also agreed to continue arming their respective clients in the war until the other side stops. Rabbani his call for direct talks with Moscow. ``We remind the Russians that if they want peace, they must recognize the reality that the only solution is direct talks with the mujahedeen,'' he said. AP881031-0081 AP-NR-10-31-88 1030EST r w PM-O'Connor 10-31 0124 PM-O'Connor,100 O'Connor Returns to Supreme Court After Surgery WASHINGTON (AP) Justice Sandra Day O'Connor returned to the Supreme Court today, 10 days after undergoing breast cancer surgery at Georgetown University Hospital. The 58-year-old justice took her seat with fellow justices when the court convened after a two-week recess. O'Connor reportedly underwent a mastectomy, removal of the breast. Normally, breast cancer pateints receive some treatment such as chemotherapy or radiation to prevent a recurrence. No details of the operation have been confirmed. But O'Connor said in an earlier statement that the cancer was detected in an early stage and the prognosis is for a full recovery. O'Connor had previously issued a statement that she intended to be back at the court today. AP881031-0082 AP-NR-10-31-88 1033EST r w PM-Scotus-Dial-A-Porn 10-31 0415 PM-Scotus-Dial-A-Porn,390 Court Refuses to Disturb Ban on Dial-a-Porn in New York Case WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court, for the second time in six months, today refused to disturb a ban on sexually explicit telephone dial-up message services dubbed ``dial-a-porn.'' The justices, without comment, rejected arguments that such bans violate free-speech rights. Today's action in a case from New York City sets no national precedent, and challenges to a new federal law banning all dial-a-porn services are expected to reach the high court soon. Such services have been available to callers through 976 numbers and AT&T's 900 long-distance lines. The 976 and 900 exchanges also are used for other, non-controversial types of messages such as sports scores, time checks and stock market and weather reports. In the appeal acted on today, a group of dial-a-porn companies challenged an older, less restrictive version of the federal law that banned making ``any obscene or indecent communication by means of a telephone for commercial purposes to any person under 18 years of age.'' The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last January upheld the federal law as it applies to obscene material. But the appeals court said the law cannot be enforced against merely sexually explicit material not deemed to be legally obscene. A federal trial judge in Los Angeles issued a similar decision last July 19 when ruling on a challenge to a dial-a-porn law enacted by Congress and signed by President Reagan on July 1. U.S. District Judge A. Wallace Tashima ruled that the new law may be applied to obscene material but not to merely indecent material. The new law bans all dial-a-porn services _ offered to adults as well as to children. American Civil Liberties Union lawyers say the law is unconstitutional. They support providing means of having the services available only to those who want them. The Reagan administration appealed Tashima's ruling _ that portion blocking the law's enforcement against indecent but not obscene telephone messages _ directly to the Supreme Court. The appeal is pending before the justices. The court last April let stand a ban on dial-a-porn message service in Arizona. In the New York case acted on today, lawyers for various dial-a-porn companies argued, among other things, that the since-updated federal law ``creates an impermissible national standard of obscenity.'' They said past Supreme Court decisions on obscenity require that determinations of obscenity must be made according to local community standards. The case is Carlin Communications vs. FCC, 88-37. AP881031-0083 AP-NR-10-31-88 1034EST r i PM-Greece-Divorce 10-31 0237 PM-Greece-Divorce,0245 Premier's Girlfriend Divorces Architect Husband ATHENS, Greece (AP) Premier Andreas Papandreou's girlfriend and her architect husband have divorced by mutual consent, a court official said today. The official, requesting anonymity in accordance with Greek practice, said the divorce ``would become final within one week _ when the papers are processed.'' Dimitra Liani, a 34-year-old Olympic Airways flight attendant, married Alex Kapopoulos, 48, a former prominent member of the Revolutionary Greek Communist Party, in a civil ceremony in 1982. The couple have no children. They parted after working together on a 1986 television series promoting equality of the sexes. Ms. Liani presented the program, which featured the premier as the first guest. Kapopoulos was the producer and still works for state-run channel ERT-1. Papandreou, 69, said before undergoing open-heart surgery in London last month that he intends to divorce his American wife, Margaret. He is expected to marry Ms. Liani, according to officials in his Panhellenic Socialist Movement. Mrs. Papandreou, 66, who heads a left-wing Greek feminist organization, said she will only comment on her husband's plans when he has fully recovered. Papandreou married Margaret Chant in a civil ceremony in the United States in 1951. They have four grown children and two grandchildren. Ms. Liani was in London with the premier during his two months in the hospital and has made several public appearances with him since they returned to Greece last weekend. AP881031-0084 AP-NR-10-31-88 1036EST r i PM-Gulf-India 10-31 0160 PM-Gulf-India,0165 Indian Warships To Sail In Persian Gulf, Sources Say MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) Indian navy warships will resume sailing in the Persian Gulf after a five-year hiatus caused by the Iran-Iraq war, gulf-based diplomatic sources said today. They confirmed a report in the Dubai-based Gulf News that the INS Ranvir and INS Shakti will be the first Indian ships to enter the gulf in five years. The diplomats said the warships will call at Bahrain on Nov. 2. The warships will also go to Oman, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with regulations. Indian ships suspended voyages through the waterway during the so-called tanker war, when Iran attacked neutral shipping in revenge for Iraqi attacks ships ferrying Iranian oil. Other countries deployed warships in the waterway to protect their merchant vessels from attack. India has maintained good relations with both Iran and Iraq. A cease-fire halted the 8-year Iran-Iraq war on Aug.20. AP881031-0085 AP-NR-10-31-88 1036EST r w PM-Scotus-HighSociety 10-31 0442 PM-Scotus-High Society,440 Court Lets Stand Libel Award Against Magazine By JAMES H. RUBIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court today refused to overturn a $75,000 libel award to a Virgin Islands bar and restaurant that had the same name as a bar featured in an adult magazine's erotic fiction. The court, without comment, rejected an appeal by High Society magazine's publishers, who said they were unaware the restaurant in the article entitled ``Savage Lust'' bore any resemblance to a real business establishment. High Society was sued by S & H Management Corp. and its president, Jaber Samad, owner of a restaurant called the Carousel on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. High Society is published by Drake Publishers Inc. ``Savage Lust,'' which appeared in the December 1981 issue of the magazine, was a fictional account of a St. Thomas bar also called the Carousel. The article described the bar as a ``sailor's dive'' frequented by prostitutes and ``a symbol of tropical decadence and moral decay.'' The story described how a female customer was drugged, kidnapped and sexually assaulted by the owner. U.S. District Judge Almeric L. Christian ruled that the article hurt the real Carousel's reputation and ``would deter a desirable clientele from patronizing the bar.'' Gloria Leonard, publisher of High Society, testified she was unaware there was a real bar on St. Thomas called the Carousel. But Christian concluded she knew of the bar's existence since she had been a frequent visitor to St. Thomas and could recall the names of businesses located on either side of the Carousel. The judge said Samad had proven that the article referred to his bar. ``The fact that fiction purports not to concern real persons or events is of no consequence in determining the merits of a defamation action,'' Christian said. The judge added that the magazine was guilty of ``actual malice'' by acting ``with reckless disregard as to the truth or falsity'' of the events described in the article. But Christian said the magazine still could be forced to pay the libel award even if it was guilty only of negligence. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last April upheld the libel award in a one-page order. Drake Publishers said the appeals court thus failed to examine the case carefully as required by a 1984 Supreme Court libel ruling. The appeals court ``has wrapped its decision-making and review process in a cloak of silence,'' the company said. ``Drake's right under the First Amendment to an independent appellate examination of the whole record cannot be so lightly or easily sidestepped.'' The case is Drake Publishers vs. Samad, 88-369. AP881031-0086 AP-NR-10-31-88 1037EST r w PM-Scotus-DrugTests 10-31 0466 PM-Scotus-Drug Tests,460 Court Rejects Appeal by Justice Department Employees on Drug Tests By JAMES H. RUBIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court, declining to further expand its study of drug testing in the workplace, today rejected an appeal by Justice Department employees who say such tests would violate their rights. The court, without comment, refused to intercede in the case _ which has yet to be argued before a lower court. The random drug-testing program for the Justice Department stems from an executive order by President Reagan in 1986 that authorizes heads of federal agencies to conduct tests for those in ``sensitive positions.'' The ``drug-free workplace plan'' adopted by former Attorney General Edwin Meese applies to numerous department employees, including anyone with access to top secret information, high-level appointees and attorneys and their assistants who conduct grand jury investigations. The program was challenged by 38 attorneys, three paralegals and one economist. They said requiring them to submit to random urine tests _ when there is no reason to suspect them of drug use _ violates their constitutional privacy rights. A federal judge blocked the tests pending further court action. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals here scheduled arguments in the case for Dec. 15. But the department employees, saying they faced ``an unprecedented frontal assault on personal privacy and bodily integrity,'' appealed directly to the Supreme Court to decide the case without waiting for a lower court opinion. ``Hundreds of thousands of federal employees should not be left at risk of losing either their livelihood or their constitutional rights while awaiting resolution'' of the case, they said. They said those who ``refuse to urinate under surveillance and submit their urine to the government's fishing expedition for evidence of drug use'' would be fired unlawfully. Solicitor General Charles Fried, the Reagan administration's top courtroom lawyer who would be subject himself to the drug tests, asked the high court to reject the appeal. ``The regular judicial process should be allowed to run its course'' and the Supreme Court should keep hands off until the appeals court here reviews the case, he said. The justices previously agreed to examine drug tests in three cases to be decided by next July. They will determine whether a railroad company may routinely test its workers; whether the federal government may require the tests for railroad workers who have been involved in serious train accidents; and whether the U.S. Customs Service may test those seeking jobs related to drug enforcement. The Justice Department employees said the tests planned for that agency are similar to those planned for hundreds of thousands of federal workers. The Reagan administration has said that 345,000 federal employees are designated for random tests under Reagan's 1986 order. The case is Harmon vs. Thornburgh, 88-427. AP881031-0087 AP-NR-10-31-88 1039EST r w PM-Scotus-Trademark 10-31 0350 PM-Scotus-Trademark,320 Court Lets Stand Ruling in Nebraska Trademark Case WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court today refused to allow the sale of T-shirts and other items parodying nuclear war with a design resembling an insurance company's trademark. The court, let stand a ruling that the design illegally infringes on the trademark of Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. Justice Byron R. White voted to hear arguments in the case. But the votes of at least four justices are required to grant such review. Mutual of Omaha sued Franklyn Novak, who was living in Omaha, Neb., when in 1983 he got the idea for the design. He said he used Mutual of Omaha's logo as inspiration for his design showing the emaciated profile of a face wearing an Indian bonnet of burned or charred feathers with ``X'' in place of an eye. Alongside the Indian head was the inscription: Mutant of Omaha, Nuclear Holocaust Insurance. The Mutual of Omaha insignia is an Indian head with the company's name alongside. Novak sold about 4,000 T-shirts bearing his logo design on the front and on the back the message, ``When the world's in ashes we'll have you covered.'' Novak also placed the design on sweatshirts, caps, buttons and coffee mugs. A federal judge ruled that Novak's use of the design could confuse people into believing that Mutual of Omaha was affiliated with the merchandise. The judge barred him from advertising or marketing the items. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in December 1987 upheld the injunction. The appeals court rejected Novak's argument that his design is a legitimate exercise of free-speech rights. ``The protection afforded by the First Amendment does not give Novak license to infringe the rights of Mutual,'' the appeals court said. ``Given the circumstances of this case, Mutual's property rights should not yield.'' The appeals court said the injunction is not a blanket ban on Novak's right of free expression. It doesn't restrain him from engaging in ``editorial parody in a book, magazine or film,'' the appeals court said. The case is Novak vs. Mutual of Omaha, 87-1908. AP881031-0088 AP-NR-10-31-88 1045EST r w PM-Scotus-DeadlyForce 10-31 0539 PM-Scotus-Deadly Force,540 Justices Reject Appeal to Kansas Law By RICHARD CARELLI Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court today rejected an appeal by Kansas prosecutors challenging state laws that broadly justify using deadly force to defend someone's home or personal property. The justices, without comment, let stand Kansas laws that permit use of deadly force even by people not threatened with death or great bodily harm. The controversy arose when Lloyd D. Clothier was charged with involuntary manslaughter for fatally shooting a 15-year-old boy at his Wichita home Nov. 23, 1986. Trial testimony established that Clothier was awakened in the pre-dawn hours that day by his dog's barking and growling. Taking a loaded revolver from his nightstand, Clothier looked out a window and saw someone in his driveway reaching into Clothier's van. Clothier said he was worried that the intruder would find his garage door opener in the van, and use it to gain access into his home. Clothier testified that he fired a warning shot and saw someone run behind the van and across the yard. He testified that he fired another warning shot at the ground before stepping outside the house. One of the bullets hit Seanan Picard in the head. The youth, who was unarmed, died a short time later. Sedgwick County prosecutors charged Clothier with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting. But a jury acquitted him after being read what Kansas law says about the defense of a dwelling and personal property. One law says a person ``is justified in the use of force ... he reasonably believes ... is necessary to prevent or terminate such other's unlawful entry into or attack upon his dwelling.'' Another law says a person may defend against the theft of his possessions with the ``degree of force or threat thereof as a reasonable man would deem necessary to prevent or terminate the interferenc.'' In the appeal acted on today, Kansas prosecutors urged the justices to ``change laws which give greater deference to property than to human life by striking down the Kansas statutes which allow this inequity.'' The appeal noted that there is ``no definitive, universal solution on the issue of using deadly force to defend one's home and property.'' The prosecutors said, for example, that Texas law justifies one person's killing another to protect land or property. They said the Texas law ``goes so far as to permit the use of deadly force to prevent one from fleeing with property, even though the escapee is no longer a threat to the defender.'' Conversely, the appeal said, ``many states (have laws) holding that the use of deadly force which results in the taking of human life merely to defend any property is never reasonable.'' The appeal argued, ``It is absurd that a person who guns down a 15-year-old boy for tampering with his vehicle may be held to answer for his use of excessive force in one state but may shoot with impunity in another.'' The Kansas Supreme Court rejected the prosecutors' arguments last April 29, saying their appeal ``presents essentially a quarrel with the legislative wisdom of deciding to grant the defenses set forth'' under the state laws. The case is Kansas vs. Clothier, 88-168. AP881031-0089 AP-NR-10-31-88 1045EST r w PM-Scotus-PublicDefenders 10-31 0483 PM-Scotus-Public Defenders,440 Court Rejects Appeal by Indiana Judge on Firing of Public Defenders By JAMES H. RUBIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court today left intact a ruling that a judge may not fire public defenders because of their political affiliation. The court, without comment, rejected an appeal by an Indiana judge ordered to pay $61,075 to two assistant public defenders who sued the judge for violating their rights. The political patronage case stems from the appointment of James J. Krajewski to be a Lake County Court judge in 1985. He was named to replace Orval Anderson, who was indicted on federal perjury charges. Nearly a year after he was appointed, Krajewski, a Republican, fired assistant public defenders Stephen A. Kurowski and David H. Nicholls, both Democrats. Krajewski said he dismissed the public defenders in a general house-cleaning of the office. Kurowski and Nicholls had served under the previous chief public defender, who had been convicted of criminal misconduct along with Anderson. But Kurowski and Nicholls said the real reason they were fired was because they were Democrats and Krajewski wanted to name Republicans to replace them. A federal magistrate awarded damages to the public defenders, and that ruling was upheld last June by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The appeals court said the evidence was clear that the two men were fired because of their political affiliation. The appeals court also rejected Krajewski's arguments that he had the proper authority to dismiss the public defenders for political reasons. Citing a 1980 Supreme Court ruling, the appeals court said a judge may not fire assistant public defenders on political grounds. The 1980 high court ruling held that a chief public defender may not fire his assistants because of their political affiliation. The 7th Circuit court said that ruling ``turned on the characteristics of the assistant public defender's job, not on the office of the person doing the firing.'' The appeals court rejected Krajewski's claim that assistant public defenders in Indiana hold ``policy-making'' jobs _ and therefore can be fired for political affiliation _ because public defenders are eligible to serve as temporary county court judges. The appeals court said that argument does not hold up because any lawyer in the state _ not just a public defender _ can be picked by a judge to fill in on the bench in the judge's absence. Judicial service is not part of the public defender's office, the appeals court said. Public defenders ``represent criminal defendants, and their loyalty as advocates runs to their clients, not to their employer,'' the appeals court said. Krajewski was ordered to pay $59,075 in compensatory damages and $2,000 in punitive damages to Kurowski and Nicholls, who also were ordered reinstated in the public defender jobs. They also were awarded $13,905 in reimbursement for their attorneys' fees. The case is Krajewski vs. Kurowski, 88-391. AP881031-0090 AP-NR-10-31-88 1048EST r w PM-Scotus-ForeignBribe 10-31 0265 PM-Scotus-Foreign Bribe,230 Court Asks Administration Advice on Lawsuit Involving Center in Nigeria WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court today asked the Reagan administration for advice on whether the justices should kill a lawsuit growing out of the development of an aeromedical center in Kaduna, Nigeria. The court asked the Justice Department to give its views on a decision requiring W.S. Kirkpatrick & Co., a New Jersey corporation, to defend itself against allegations that it won the contract by illegally bribing Nigerian government officials. Those allegations are raised in a suit filed by Environmental Tectonics Corp. of Pennsylvania. A Justice Department investigation of the 1981 contract between Kirkpatrick and the Nigerian government led to Kirkpatrick's pleading guilty to one count of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Kirkpatrick was fined $75,000. Environmental Tectonics, which had submitted a lower bid for the Nigerian contract, then sued Kirkpatrick. Its lawsuit alleged that Environmental Tectonics would have been awarded the contract but for Kirkpatrick's payment of bribes. A federal judge dismissed the suit, relying on the so-called ``act of state doctrine.'' It precludes U.S. courts from inquiring into the validity of a foreign government's acts committed within its own territory. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, however, reinstated the suit last May 2. ``The traditional justification for invoking the doctrine _ avoiding a judicial determination of the legal validity of a state's act within its own borders _ is not present in this case,'' the appeals court said. Kirkpatrick then sought the Supreme Court's help. The case is Kirkpatrick & Co. vs. Environmental Tectonics Corp., 87-2066. AP881031-0091 AP-NR-10-31-88 1051EST r i PM-Greece-Taxis 10-31 0411 PM-Greece-Taxis,0429 Taxis Ring City Center In Protest Of Traffic Ban By HELENA SMITH Associated Press Writer ATHENS, Greece (AP) More than 6,000 taxis ringed downtown Athens today and cabdrivers demonstrated outside the Transport Ministry to protest anti-pollution measures that restrict their access to the city. Half of Athens' 800,000 cars _ including 25,000 taxis _ are banned from a five-square-mile zone around the city center between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays. Under the ban, introduced in January, vehicles with license plates ending in an even number alternate with those bearing an odd-numbered last digit. The drivers fiercely object to the ban because they say 50 percent of their fares are generated in the restricted zone. Today's protest, which caused a traffic jam in the center, followed a monthlong boycott of the restricted area by cabdrivers. ``It's ridiculous to say that we're solely to blame for Athens' pollution ... if the government really wants to solve the problem it should improve the quality of diesel gas and not restrict our movements in the city center,'' said taxi driver Emmanuel Loukas, 35. Environmental control authorities say that exhaust fumes from diesel-fueled taxis, aging buses and private cars are responsible for the high levels of atmospheric pollution in the capital. But taxi drivers claim they cause less than 7 percent of the pollution. ``That's not enough for the government to expect us to send our cars to the junk yard and buy others that run on lead-free petrol,'' said driver Panayiotis Liakos. Most Athens taxis run on diesel fuel, but more than 100 of them have recently converted to unleaded gasoline in a bid to bypass the ban. The government has said that all cabs running on unleaded gasoline would be able to move freely in the restricted zone. But the drivers, who earn an average take-home salary of about $400 a month, say they cannot afford to make the change. ``How can the government honestly expect us to go out and buy new cars ... none of us have the capital to do that,'' said cabdriver Konstantinos Stefanides. A gallon of unleaded gasoline costs about $2.40, compared to about $1.00 for diesel fuel. ``If our cars were to run on (unleaded fuel), we would have to raise our fares substantively,'' said Stefanides. ``It would be the end of some of the cheapest taxis in the world.'' A taxi ride from Athens International Airport to the city costs $4. AP881031-0092 AP-NR-10-31-88 1058EST r w PM-Scotus-Contributions 10-31 0352 PM-Scotus-Contributions,330 Court Allows Alaska Officials to Enforce Law on Political Contributions By JAMES H. RUBIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court today allowed Alaska officials to enforce a state law requiring groups of two or more people to report political campaign contributions. The court, citing a lack of a substantial federal question, rejected an appeal by an oil field service company fined $72,600 for not reporting paycheck withholding of $100 per worker and payment of the money to legislative candidates. The company, VECO International Inc., collected $41,080 in campaign contributions by mid-December 1983. The money generally went to candidates picked by an oil and gas industry political action committee. VECO encouraged its employees to allow $100 to be withheld for donations. The workers could choose not to contribute or could earmark the money for specific candidates. The company was told by a state official in August 1983 that it would not have to register the withholding plan with the state or report the contributions. But the Alaska Public Offices Commission that supervises the campaign reporting law later wrote to VECO indicating the company was not exempt from the act. The Alaska Supreme Court last April upheld the fine against VECO. The state court said the contributions were provided by a group _ and not separate individuals _ since the company ``has a significant role in candidate selection.'' The state court also rejected arguments that the law is too broad because it imposes disclosure requirements on small groups that spend minor sums of money supporting candidates. ``There is a level of joint political activity below which the government has no legitimate interest in regulating,'' the state court said. But the state court said VECO's plan was above that level and there was no danger of chilling political activity by interpreting the law to apply to the plan. ``VECO furnished substantial support to candidates in the 1984 election,'' the state court said. ``The public was not informed of this support and to that extent the statutory purpose was frustrated.'' The case is VECO vs. Alaska Public Offices Commission, 88-177. AP881031-0093 AP-NR-10-31-88 1056EST u i PM-Soviet-Embassy 10-31 0260 PM-Soviet-Embassy,0269 Soviets Say They, Too, Have Claims for Embassy Construction MOSCOW (AP) Soviet claims against the United States for construction delays on its Washington embassy exceed the $29 million the United States wants for its unfinished embassy in Moscow, an official said today. ``We also have bills to present to the American side,'' Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady I. Gerasimov told a news conference. Claims for late delivery of equipment and construction materials and other problems would top the sum U.S. officials are seeking from the Soviet Union, he said. President Reagan said Thursday that he was recommending the main office building of the new U.S. Embassy compound in Moscow be torn down because it is riddled with Soviet bugging devices. The United States is not allowing the Soviet Union to occupy its new building in Washington until the Americans are satisfied with the status of their Moscow building. The U.S. claim is for damage and defective construction. No figure has been established for a claim against the Soviet Union for bugging the building, U.S. State Department spokesman Phyllis Oakley said. Soviet officials deny the building is bugged and say the United States has provided no proof. Gerasimov told reporters last week that the United States is free to do what it wants with its embassy in Moscow, but that there was ``a certain anti-Soviet aftertaste'' in Reagan's decision. The United States and Soviet Union have held direct talks on their claims, and U.S. officials said last week they would ask outside arbiters to settle the dispute. AP881031-0094 AP-NR-10-31-88 1058EST r w PM-Scotus-Spanking 10-31 0298 PM-Scotus-Spanking,270 Court Kills Challenge to Nebraska Policy on Spanking WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court today killed a challenge to a Nebraska policy prohibiting facilities offering 24-hour care for children from using corporal punishment. The justices, citing a lack of a substantial federal question, let stand a Nebraska Supreme Court decision dismissing a challenge to the law by the Cornhusker Christian Children's Home in Hitchcock County, Neb. Cornhusker, located on a 160-acre ranch, provides 24-hour residential care to children placed by parents, courts and the state Department of Social Services. The children attend public schools in Culbertson, Neb., and live in cottages in a family-type atmosphere with house parents. Up to 1983, Cornhusker had a written policy on discipline that permitted a house parent to use corporal punishment _ ``such as the spanking on the buttocks by the open hand or a suitable instrument for the purpose of inflicting temporary pain.'' But in 1983 state officials adopted a new policy, prohibiting such corporal punishment. Cornhusker amended its disciplinary policy under protest, and challenged the state's policy in court. At the time, 15 children ranging in age from 8 to 16 lived at the home. A state trial judge found the state regulation invalid on state law grounds. The Nebraska Supreme Court last December reversed the trial judge's ruling and reinstated the state regulation barring corporal punishment at homes such as Cornhusker. In the appeal acted on today, lawyers for Cornhusker argued that the no-spanking state policy violates the rights of parents who entrust their children to such homes. ``The regulation is a remarkable state intrusion on a clear and oft-recognized parental liberty interest to control and direct the welfare of a child,'' the appeal said. The case is Cornhusker Christian Children's Home vs. Nebraska DDS, 87-2058. AP881031-0095 AP-NR-10-31-88 1106EST r w PM-Scotus-Driving 10-31 0598 PM-Scotus-Driving,500 Court Rules on Miranda Issue in Pennsylvania Case By JAMES H. RUBIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court ruled today that police in Pennsylvania did not violate the rights of a man suspected of drunken driving by failing to read the motorist his so-called Miranda warnings soon enough. The justices, by a 7-2 vote in an unsigned opinion, agreed with Pennsylvania law enforcement officials that a lower court wrongly required police to warn motorists of their right against self-incrimination. Relying on a 1984 ruling, the court said that ordinarily when police stop a motorist they are not required to give the Miranda warnings because the motorist is not in custody. The motorist ``was not entitled to a recitation of his constitutional rights prior to arrest, and his roadside responses to questioning were admissible'' as evidence, the court said. Justices Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens dissented. Thomas A. Bruder Jr. was stopped in Newtown Township, Pa., the morning of Jan. 19, 1985, by a police officer who said Bruder was driving erratically. The officer said Bruder was swerving back and forth across the highway. He said that after stopping his car and emerging, Bruder had difficulty maintaining his balance. The officer asked Bruder if he had been drinking and Bruder replied in the affirmative. The policeman also asked Bruder to recite the alphabet, a task the officer said Bruder performed poorly. After that, Bruder was arrested and warned that he had a right to a lawyer, to remain silent and that anything he said could be held against him. A judge found him guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol and sentenced him to a term of 48 hours to six months in jail. A three-judge state court overturned the conviction last year, ruling that Bruder was entitled to the Miranda warnings earlier. The state court said Bruder was entitled to the warnings before being questioned by the police officer, even though he had not been arrested formally. Bruder had good reason to believe he was not free to leave and, in effect, was in police custody when stopped, the state court said. ``The test of custodial interrogation is whether the individual being interrogated reasonably believes his freedom of action is being restricted,'' the state court said. ``Undoubtedly, (Bruder) was not free to leave when he made the statements elicited.'' Also, the state court said, requiring Bruder to recite the alphabet was akin to taking testimony from him, and should not occur before he was read his rights. The state court contrasted the recitation with taking a purely physical test for sobriety _ such as walking a straight line. ``We view the recitation of the alphabet as essentially communicative in nature,'' the state court said. It said Bruder could be retried, but his pre-Miranda statements and testimony about reciting the alphabet must be excluded. Pennsylvania law enforcement officials said the state court ruling violates a 1984 Supreme Court decision that permitted police to question motorists without giving the Miranda warnings. The high court said in the 1984 case that the vast majority of roadside detentions last only a few minutes and are conducted in public. Generally, the court said then, the motorist feels he will be permitted to go on his way and is not completely at the mercy of the police. The Pennsylvania state court said the 1984 decision does not rule out the possibility that in some cases police, even prior to arrest, must warn motorists of their rights before questioning them. The case is Pennsylvania vs. Bruder, 88-161. AP881031-0096 AP-NR-10-31-88 1108EST r w PM-Scotus-BibleClub 10-31 0376 PM-Scotus-Bible Club,350 Court Allows California School Officials to Ban Bible Group Material By JAMES H. RUBIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court today allowed public school officials in California to ban leaflets and school yearbook advertisements that promoted a student-run, lunch-hour Bible study group. The court rejected an appeal by two students who said the officials violated their free-speech rights. Justices William J. Brennan, Thurgood Marshall and Harry A. Blackmun voted to hear arguments in the case. But the votes of at least four justices are required to grant such review. The students, Alexander Perumal and Frederick Read, were barred by Saddleback Valley school district officials during the 1984-85 school year from distributing the religious club flyers or placing ads in their high school yearbooks. Perumal attended El Toro High School and Read went to Mission Viejo High School in the Saddleback Valley district. Officials allowed the students, members of a group called New Life, to run Bible study and prayer groups during lunch hour outside the school building. But the officials said permitting distribution of the handbills and yearbook ads would violate constitutionally required separation of church and state. The officials said permitting distribution of religious literature and advertisements, in effect, would be giving government backing to the Bible study group. The school district said it was acting in accord with a formal policy that limits the use of school facilities to officially approved student organizations and clubs. The officials noted that in 1981 the district withdrew recognition of the New Life group after some parents complained. But Perumal and Read said the school district was practicing unlawful censorship by restricting free expression about religion. A California appeals court, in a 2-1 ruling in January, said the school officials acted properly. The appeals court said a school may decide to prohibit ``off-campus groups from functioning or advertising on campus.'' The appeals court also said the Saddleback Valley policy permitting only school-sponsored activities to function complies with the Supreme Court's test for assuring separation of church and state. That three-part test permits government-sponsored activities that have a primary secular purpose, do not advance religion and do not cause entanglement between government and religion. The case is Perumal vs. Saddleback Valley, 88-340. AP881031-0097 AP-NR-10-31-88 1112EST u p PM-PresidentialPolls 1stLd-Writethru a0449 10-31 0617 PM-Presidential Polls, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0449,600 Bush Maintains Solid Lead in Seven States, Slight Advantage Elsewhere Eds: Top 4 grafs new with ABC-California poll, deletes Houston Chronicle poll, which was county-wide NOT state-wide; pick up 5th graf pvs bgng ``A poll... By The Associated Press George Bush continues to hold slim leads over presidential rival Michael Dukakis in the key battlegrounds of California, Texas, Michigan and Washington, surveys indicate. An ABC News poll released today said Republican Bush was ahead of Democrat Dukakis 51 percent to 44 percent in California. The poll was conducted Saturday and Sunday of 510 likely voters, with a margin of error of 5 points. New polls also showed Bush with a double-digit lead over the Democratic nominee in New Jersey and with commanding advantages in New Mexico, Utah, Kentucky, Indiana and Montana as he seeks the 270 Electoral College otes needed to win the election. The vice president led Dukakis by 21 points in a statewide poll in Texas, which has the third largest electoral prize of 29 votes. A poll released Saturday by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and WFAA-TV in Dallas had Bush leading Dukakis by 58-37 percent. The poll of 1,443 likely voters, conducted Oct. 21-24, had a margin of error of three percentage points. In Michigan, with its prize of 20 electoral votes, 47 percent of the 400 registered voters surveyed favored the Republican ticket while 41 percent prefer the Democratic slate, Detroit station WJBK-TV reported Sunday. The survey, conducted Tuesday through Thursday, had a margin of error of five percentage points. In Washington, Bush led Dukakis 50-45 percent in a poll of 642 voters surveyed Tuesday through Thursday. The poll, published in Sunday's editions of the Morning News Tribune of Tacoma, had a margin of error of four percentage points. Washington has 10 electoral votes. A statewide survey in New Jersey, which has 16 electoral votes, found Bush's lead over Dukakis has grown to 14 points, 52-38 percent, among 800 likely voters polled Oct. 17-25. The survey, published in Saturday's editions of The Star-Ledger of Newark, had a margin of error of four percentage points. The vice president's lead in similar polls stood at three points in mid-September and seven points at the end of the month. Bush holds his biggest lead in Utah where the Salt Lake Tribune reported Sunday that 64 percent favored the Republican nominee while 31 percent preferred Dukakis. The poll of 903 registered voters, conducted Monday through Thursday, had a margin of error of about three percentage points. Utah has five electoral votes. In Indiana, the home state of Bush's running mate, Sen. Dan Quayle, the Republican ticket leads the Democrats 54 percent to 33 percent, according to a poll in Monday's editions of The Indianapolis Star. The poll of 808 registered voters was conducted Tuesday through Thursday and had a margin of error of four percentage points. Indiana has 12 electoral votes. Bush held a 15-point lead over Dukakis, 53-38 percent, in Kentucky. The poll of 674 likely voters, published Sunday in The Louisville Courier-Journal, had a margin of error of four percentage points. The survey was conducted Tuesday through Thursday in the state with nine electoral votes at stake. In Montana, Bush led Dukakis 49-34 percent in a poll of 603 likely voters surveyed Oct. 15-24. The poll, published in Sunday's Great Falls Tribune, had a margin of error of four percentage points. The vice president also led in New Mexico, where 50 percent of the 759 registered voters surveyed favored Bush to 38 percent for Dukakis. The Albuquerque Journal poll, conducted Tuesday through Thursday, had a margin of error of four percentage points. New Mexico has five electoral votes. AP881031-0098 AP-NR-10-31-88 1113EST r p PM-KittyDukakis 10-31 0147 PM-Kitty Dukakis,210 Mrs. Dukakis Felled by Virus, Cancels Midwest Appearances With PM-Political Rdp Bjt ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) Kitty Dukakis, wife of Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, canceled a campaign tour of the Middle West today because of an upper respiratory viral infection. Mrs. Dukakis underwent tests at the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic in Minneapolis for two hours this morning and will spend the rest of the day resting in her St. Paul hotel room, said press secretary Paul Costello. He said a decision would be made early Tuesday on whether Mrs. Dukakis will resume her travel schedule. The candidate's wife canceled plans for a breakfast this morning with the wife of Gov. Rudy Perpich and an afternoon speech at South St. Paul High School. Also canceled were appearances later in the day at Bismarck, N.D., La Crosse, Wis., and Waterloo, Iowa. AP881031-0099 AP-NR-10-31-88 1122EST u p PM-NewspaperEndorsements 2ndLd-Writethru a0523 10-31 0681 PM-Newspaper Endorsements, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0523,640 Kansas Paper Breaks Republican Tradition, Endorses Dukakis Eds: New in first 5 grafs to add Boston Globe endorsing Dukakis, Arizona Republic endorsing Bush, quotes. Picks up 4th graf pvs bgng: The Eagle-Beacon ... By The Associated Press The Wichita (Kan.) Eagle-Beacon broke with the GOP for the first time in its history by endorsing Democrat Michael Dukakis, joining several newspapers nationwide that backed Dukakis and criticized George Bush's negative campaign tactics. Dukakis also was endorsed by The New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, the Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record and New York Newsday, which called Bush's campaign ``sniveling, dirty, distorted and irresponsible.'' But the Globe said its endorsement came ``despite our uneasiness with (Dukakis') leadership style and with the lack of focus in his campaign.'' The newspaper said its temptation to endorse no one was overcome when Bush ``displayed extraordinary weakness'' in choosing Sen. Dan Quayle as his running mate. It also called the race ``one of the most trivial elections in recent memory'' pitting ``two candidates as notable for their weaknesses as their strengths.'' Bush picked up endorsements Sunday from the Detroit News, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Arizona Republic and the Denver Post, which said that ``after wiping away the mud from both candidates, The Post believes George Bush is the better choice.'' The Eagle-Beacon, the largest newspaper in heavily Republican Kansas, said in a Sunday editorial that the Democratic nominee ``seems uniquely prepared to deal with the crises certain to confront the next president.'' Dukakis ``has shown much deeper sensitivity toward the struggles of millions of Americans to make ends meet,'' the newspaper said. Eagle-Beacon managing editor William R. Handy said it was the paper's first endorsement of a Democrat for president since The Wichita Eagle and The Wichita Beacon were formed in 1872 and the two papers merged into a morning edition in 1980. This year, the editorial board said it was disgusted with Republican nominee George Bush's negative campaign tactics. ``I think it reveals the broad distaste that the Bush campaign, really both campaigns, has left in the mouth of the American people,'' Neavoll said. ``Gov. Michael Dukakis has drawn criticism from his fellow Democrats because he has refused _ or has been unable _ to match the Republicans in meanspiritedness and contempt for the American voters,'' the newspaper said. The editorial also said that while Bush has more than 20 years in public service, ``he has left his fingerprints on so few positive accomplishments.'' It also questioned Bush's choice of Sen. Dan Quayle of Indiana, ``a feckless, shallow, politically immature man,'' as his vice presidential running mate. The New York Times said the scales were tipped in Dukakis' favor as the candidate likely to do a better job of ``getting America out of hock'' from the Reagan administration's deficits, which it called the most urgent task facing the next president. The vice president also was endorsed by the Sunday Oregonian of Portland, that state's largest newspaper; the Miami Herald and five smaller Florida newspapers, as well as the Topeka (Kan.) Capital-Journal, the Maine Sunday Telegram of Portland and The Blade of Toledo and the Akron Beacon Journal in Ohio. Dukakis won the endorsement of The Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal, the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat and Kentucky's two largest papers, The Courier-Journal of Louisville and the Lexington Herald-Leader, as well as the Roanoke (Va.) Times & World News. The St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press Dispatch endorsed both candidates, saying its editorial board was divided on which candidate would make the better president. The Des Moines Register, the largest newspaper in Iowa, endorsed Dukakis as best equipped to turn the nation's attention to long-neglected domestic needs. The paper criticized Bush's ``smear campaign'' and his ``alarming'' choice of Quayle as a running mate. The Cedar Rapids Gazette, the second largest paper in Iowa, backed Bush for his promise of no new taxes and his support for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels and the Star Wars plan for a space-based missile defense system. AP881031-0100 AP-NR-10-31-88 1123EST r p BC-US-Pres-Sum 10-31 0128 BC-US-Pres-Sum,100 10-31-88 10:00, Eds: This is a TEST table to demonstrate style and format. Results listed are for test purposes only. By The Associated Press Here are the latest nationwide election returns in the race for President with 17 percent of the nation's precincts reporting. Dukakis 11,480,245 - 50 percent Has won 1 state and the District of Columbia with 11 ev. Leads in 21 states with 258 ev. Bush 11,480,245 - 50 percent Has won 3 states with 20 ev. Leads in 25 states with 249 ev. Needed to win: 270 of the 538 electoral votes (ev) from the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Percentages may not total 100 percent because of additional candidates on the ballot in some states. AP881031-0101 AP-NR-10-31-88 1126EST r p BC-US-Senate-All 10-31 0682 BC-US-Senate-All,400 10-31-88 09:00, Eds: This is a TEST table to demonstrate style and format. The dummy results listed are for test purposes only. The list of candidates may change due to official action. Note that third-party or independent candidates are listed only in Minnesota, Nebraska and New York. By The Associated Press Here are the latest returns in the races for U.S. Senate. ARIZONA 100 percent x-DeConcini, Dem (i) 600,508 - 51 percent DeGreen, GOP 571,825 - 49 percent CALIFORNIA 97 percent McCarthy, Dem 3,904,978 - 47 percent Wilson, GOP (i) 4,413,639 - 53 percent CONNECTICUT 91 percent -Dem Gain x-Lieberman, Dem 479,019 - 47 percent Weicker, GOP (i) 540,211 - 53 percent DELAWARE 80 percent -Dem Gain x-Woo, Dem 66,388 - 45 percent Roth, GOP (i) 81,140 - 55 percent FLORIDA 88 percent -Open MacKay, Dem 1,703,904 - 51 percent Mack, GOP 1,637,080 - 49 percent HAWAII 100 percent Matsunaga, Dem (i) 137,165 - 41 percent Hustace, GOP 197,383 - 59 percent INDIANA 99 percent -Dem Gain x-Wickes, Dem 784,295 - 41 percent Lugar, GOP (i) 1,128,632 - 59 percent MAINE 97 percent Mitchell, Dem (i) 270,528 - 58 percent Wyman, GOP 195,777 - 42 percent MARYLAND 81 percent x-Sarbanes, Dem (i) 611,945 - 59 percent Keyes, GOP 425,248 - 41 percent MASSACHUSETTS 95 percent x-Kennedy, Dem (i) 1,227,560 - 62 percent Malone, GOP 752,348 - 38 percent MICHIGAN 75 percent x-Riegle, Dem (i) 1,397,760 - 53 percent Dunn, GOP 1,239,520 - 47 percent MINNESOTA 97 percent -Dem Gain x-Humphrey III, Dem 683,178 - 44 percent Durenberger, GOP (i) 791,859 - 51 percent Mann, Oth 77,604 - 5 percent MISSISSIPPI 86 percent -Open x-Dowdy, Dem 447,560 - 51 percent Lott, GOP 427,135 - 49 percent MISSOURI 64 percent -Dem Gain x-Nixon, Dem 458,032 - 45 percent Danforth, GOP (i) 555,458 - 55 percent MONTANA 100 percent x-Melcher, Dem (i) 174,525 - 58 percent Burns, GOP 126,374 - 42 percent NEBRASKA 98 percent -Dem Gain x-Kerrey, Dem 260,874 - 52 percent Karnes, GOP (i) 200,678 - 40 percent Chambers, Oth 40,131 - 8 percent NEVADA 100 percent Bryan, Dem 159,033 - 51 percent Hecht, GOP (i) 124,733 - 40 percent None of the Above, Oth 28,058 - 9 percent NEW JERSEY 93 percent x-Lautenberg, Dem (i) 1,125,531 - 52 percent Dawkins, GOP 1,038,891 - 48 percent NEW MEXICO 100 percent x-Bingaman, Dem (i) 228,182 - 58 percent Valentine, GOP 165,238 - 42 percent NEW YORK 3 percent Moynihan, Dem (i) 70,903 - 56 percent McMillan, GOP 50,509 - 40 percent Nathanson, Oth 4,619 - 4 percent NORTH DAKOTA 78 percent x-Burdick, Dem (i) 89,290 - 57 percent Strinden, GOP 67,364 - 43 percent OHIO 62 percent Metzenbaum, Dem (i) 1,184,112 - 51 percent Voinovich, GOP 1,137,672 - 49 percent PENNSYLVANIA 80 percent -Dem Gain x-Vignola, Dem 1,204,144 - 42 percent Heinz III, GOP (i) 1,662,841 - 58 percent RHODE ISLAND 79 percent Licht, Dem 119,018 - 48 percent Chafee, GOP (i) 128,839 - 52 percent TENNESSEE 90 percent x-Sasser, Dem (i) 785,343 - 57 percent Andersen, GOP 592,439 - 43 percent TEXAS 78 percent Bentsen, Dem (i) 2,048,985 - 53 percent Boulter, GOP 1,797,772 - 47 percent UTAH 100 percent -Dem Gain x-Moss, Dem 205,407 - 40 percent Hatch, GOP (i) 308,117 - 60 percent VERMONT 96 percent -Open Gray, Dem 90,565 - 47 percent Jeffords, GOP 102,120 - 53 percent VIRGINIA 61 percent -Open-Dem Gain x-Robb, Dem 587,287 - 56 percent Dawkins, GOP 461,422 - 44 percent WASHINGTON 100 percent -Open-Dem Gain x-Lowry, Dem 789,857 - 52 percent Gorton, GOP 729,097 - 48 percent WEST VIRGINIA 79 percent x-Byrd, Dem (i) 257,241 - 59 percent Wolfe, GOP 178,760 - 41 percent WISCONSIN 99 percent -Open-GOP Gain Kohl, Dem 801,525 - 49 percent x-Engeleiter, GOP 833,088 - 51 percent WYOMING 100 percent -Dem Gain x-Vinich, Dem 54,231 - 39 percent Wallop, GOP (i) 84,824 - 61 percent AP881031-0102 AP-NR-10-31-88 1127EST r p BC-US-Gov-All 10-31 0279 BC-US-Gov-All,400 10-31-88 10:00, Eds: This is a TEST table to demonstrate style and format. Any results listed are for test purposes only. Candidate lists are still subject to change. By The Associated Press Here are the latest returns in the races for Governor. DELAWARE 80 percent -Dem Gain x-Kreshtool, Dem 64,912 - 44 percent Castle, GOP (i) 82,616 - 56 percent INDIANA 99 percent -Open-Dem Gain x-Bayh, Dem 936,193 - 49 percent Mutz, GOP 974,388 - 51 percent MISSOURI 63 percent -Dem Gain x-Hearnes, Dem 463,196 - 46 percent Ashcroft, GOP (i) 537,734 - 54 percent MONTANA 100 percent -Open x-Judge, Dem 147,443 - 49 percent Stephens, GOP 153,456 - 51 percent NEW HAMPSHIRE 93 percent -Open McEachern, Dem 151,093 - 47 percent Gregg, GOP 168,992 - 53 percent NORTH CAROLINA 88 percent -Dem Gain x-Jordan, Dem 870,804 - 51 percent Martin, GOP (i) 836,624 - 49 percent NORTH DAKOTA 78 percent Sinner, Dem (i) 84,584 - 54 percent Mallberg, GOP 72,055 - 46 percent RHODE ISLAND 79 percent -Dem Gain x-Sundlun, Dem 109,016 - 44 percent DiPrete, GOP (i) 138,751 - 56 percent UTAH 99 percent -Dem Gain x-Wilson, Dem 224,449 - 44 percent Bangerter, GOP (i) 261,507 - 51 percent Cook, Oth 27,413 - 5 percent VERMONT 96 percent Kunin, Dem (i) 102,037 - 53 percent Bernhardt, GOP 80,909 - 42 percent Gottlieb, Oth 9,546 - 5 percent WASHINGTON 100 percent x-Gardner, Dem (i) 820,179 - 54 percent Williams, GOP 699,715 - 46 percent WEST VIRGINIA 79 percent -Dem Gain x-Caperton, Dem 222,360 - 51 percent Moore, GOP (i) 213,642 - 49 percent AP881031-0103 AP-NR-10-31-88 1134EST u i PM-Poland 3rdLd-Writethru a0519 10-31 0857 PM-Poland, 3rd Ld-Writethru, a0519,0880 Poland Closing Shipyard Where Solidarity Was Born Eds: INSERTS 2 grafs after 5th, `Rakowski was...' to ADD prime minister's coment and new quote from Walesa. Pickup 6th pvs, `The government's... By JOHN DANISZEWSKI Associated Press Writer WARSAW, Poland (AP) The Lenin Shipyard, a hotbed of labor activism where strikes eight years ago gave rise to the Solidarity trade union movement, will be closed Dec. 1 because it is losing money, the government said today. Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, an electrician at the shipyard, said workers were ready to take over the business and run it profitably. The shipyard was closed today because of a holiday and is to reopen Wednesday. Walesa called the decision a ``personal provocation of Prime Minister Rakowski against the birthplace of Solidarity.'' The shipyard is the first big industrial enterprise to be singled out for closure by the government of Prime Minister Mieczyslaw F. Rakowski, who promised to aggressively restructure Polish industry. Rakowski was a firm supporter of the Dec. 13, 1981, martial law crackdown that crushed Solidarity, the Soviet bloc's first free trade union. He was named prime minister Sept. 27 to replace Zbigniew Messner, who was criticized as ineffectual in reforming the inefficient and debt-ridden economy. Rakowski said the move ``has nothing to do with Solidarity.'' In a radio interview with the British Broadcasting Corp., he said, ``If someone wants to make the Polish economy more healthy, he has to start with very strong steps.'' Walesa, in a statement released by an aide, said, ``Solidarity will defend the enterprise which is _ for the union and for the whole nation _ a symbol of the struggle for a new and better Poland.'' The government's move comes as it bickers with Solidarity over proposed talks on social and economic reforms, including legalization of Solidarity. After Walesa persuaded workers in August to end a wave of nationwide strikes, authorities said they would sit down with the opposition to discuss grievances. But officials object to Solidarity's choice of negotiators. The official news agency PAP said Rakowski approved the decision to close the shipyard Saturday. It referred to a speech he made Oct. 13 when he presented his government to the Parliament: ``Rakowski announced that his government will go from words and plans to firm acts which would recover the Polish economy. ``That would include liquidation of enterprises that are inefficient, unproductive and some enterprises which require subsidies from the state treasury,'' the agency said. The shipyard's workers will be offered jobs at other enterprises in Gdansk province, PAP said. It said the 10,000 workers will have some 30,000 jobs to choose from. PAP said the announcement of the closure ``is not a surprise for public opinion or for the work force of the Lenin shipyard. The possibility of liquidating this shipyard has been discussed in public ... for a long time.'' The shipyard, scene of strikes in May and August, has for two decades been a center of union activity but has been in decline for years. It was scheduled to build 11 ships this year, primarily for the Soviet Union, which as an ally is afforded very favorable purchase terms. In the late 1970s, it produced a high of 27 ships a year and had more than 15,000 employees. One newspaper described it as a ``a giant on partly rotten legs.'' But the shipyard's director of foreign trade, Ireneusz Kubiczek, said in July that the business was not necessarily unprofitable and its main problem was a lack of work force to handle all the potential contracts. In August 1980, a strike at the Lenin Shipyard gave rise to Solidarity. Solidarity's membership grew to 10 million before it was banned in 1982. Walesa said in a telephone interview that the union could cope with the yard's problem if given the chance. ``We are ready to take over this enterprise and make it profitable. We will help the (workers' council) take it over so that the shipyard can work well and make its profits,'' he said. Walesa said he saw the announcement, which came during the four-day All Saints' Day holiday when Poles remember their dead, as an attempt by the government to provoke protests at the shipyards and in other factories. There were no immediate announcements of protests, but the Rev. Henryk Jankowski, pastor of St. Brygida's Church a few blocks from the shipyard's gates, said he would celebrate Masses for the shipyard workers every night this week, culminating with a Mass on Sunday. Liquidating the shipyard's property will take at least one year, PAP said. Production equipment not taken over by neighboring shipyards will be converted to different uses, it said. The liquidation program assumes completing construction of those ships already begun, PAP said. Remaining contracts outstanding will be passed to other shipyards, it said. Rakowski's government has signaled on several occasions that it would move briskly to shut down money-losing enterprises that drain huge subsidies from the state. Industry Minister Mieczyslaw Wilczek said last week he has asked his ministry staff to make a list of the country's 150 least efficient enterprises for possible closure. AP881031-0104 AP-NR-10-31-88 1137EST r p BC-US-House-All 9thAdd 10-31 1112 BC-US-House-All, 9th Add,400 10-31-88 09:50, Eds: This take covers Texas through Wyoming UNDATED: TEXAS District 1 -- 76 percent Chapman, Dem (i) 67,912 - 51 percent McQueen, GOP 66,362 - 49 percent District 2 -- 78 percent Wilson, Dem (i) 81,127 - 56 percent Nelson, Oth 62,953 - 44 percent District 3 -- 80 percent Cowden, Dem 76,556 - 42 percent Bartlett, GOP (i) 105,722 - 58 percent District 4 -- 79 percent Hall, Dem (i) 87,563 - 57 percent Sutton, GOP 66,057 - 43 percent District 5 -- 80 percent Bryant, Dem (i) 61,686 - 53 percent Williams, GOP 54,703 - 47 percent District 6 -- 79 percent Kendrick, Dem 80,984 - 48 percent Barton, GOP (i) 87,734 - 52 percent District 7 -- 80 percent Richards, Dem 68,972 - 42 percent Archer, GOP (i) 95,247 - 58 percent District 8 Fields, GOP (i) Uncontested District 9 Brooks, Dem (i) Uncontested District 10 -- 80 percent Pickle, Dem (i) 110,898 - 57 percent May, Oth 83,659 - 43 percent District 11 -- 80 percent Leath, Dem (i) 76,397 - 59 percent King, Oth 53,084 - 41 percent District 12 Wright, Dem (i) Uncontested District 13 -- 75 percent -Open Sarpalius, Dem 60,996 - 48 percent Milner, GOP 66,079 - 52 percent District 14 -- 79 percent Laughlin, Dem 78,778 - 49 percent Sweeney, GOP (i) 81,992 - 51 percent District 15 -- 74 percent de la Garza, Dem (i) 76,516 - 58 percent Hendrix, Oth 55,728 - 42 percent District 16 Coleman, Dem (i) Uncontested District 17 Stenholm, Dem (i) Uncontested District 18 -- 80 percent Leland, Dem (i) 65,291 - 59 percent Snead, Oth 45,372 - 41 percent District 19 -- 78 percent McCathern, Dem 47,713 - 40 percent Combest, GOP (i) 71,570 - 60 percent District 20 -- 80 percent Gonzalez, Dem (i) 50,517 - 60 percent Trevino, GOP 33,678 - 40 percent District 21 -- 78 percent Smith, GOP (i) 127,874 - 57 percent Robinson, Oth 96,915 - 43 percent District 22 -- 79 percent Walker, Dem 52,874 - 41 percent DeLay, GOP (i) 76,088 - 59 percent District 23 -- 78 percent Bustamante, Dem (i) 73,094 - 60 percent Gonzales, GOP 48,727 - 40 percent District 24 -- 80 percent Frost, Dem (i) 7,672 - 12 percent Sadovy, Oth 57,915 - 88 percent District 25 -- 79 percent Andrews, Dem (i) 72,806 - 58 percent Loeffler, GOP 52,721 - 42 percent District 26 -- 79 percent Reyes, Dem 79,208 - 41 percent Armey, GOP (i) 113,983 - 59 percent District 27 Ortiz, Dem (i) Uncontested UTAH District 1 -- 100 percent -Dem Gain x-McKay, Dem 87,099 - 49 percent Hansen, GOP (i) 90,653 - 51 percent District 2 -- 100 percent x-Owens, Dem (i) 90,178 - 52 percent Snelgrove, GOP 83,241 - 48 percent District 3 -- 100 percent -Dem Gain x-Stringham, Dem 68,160 - 42 percent Nielson, GOP (i) 94,127 - 58 percent VERMONT At-Large -- 97 percent -Open-Dem Gain x-Poirier, Dem 77,396 - 40 percent Smith, GOP 100,600 - 52 percent Sanders, Oth 15,381 - 8 percent VIRGINIA District 1 -- 60 percent -Dem Gain x-Ellenson, Dem 41,198 - 42 percent Bateman, GOP (i) 56,896 - 58 percent District 2 -- 14 percent x-Pickett, Dem (i) 10,883 - 53 percent Curry, GOP 9,651 - 47 percent District 3 Bliley, GOP (i) Uncontested District 4 x-Sisisky, Dem (i) Uncontested District 5 -- 63 percent x-Payne, Dem (i) 50,872 - 51 percent Hawkins, GOP 48,872 - 49 percent District 6 -- 50 percent x-Olin, Dem (i) 42,108 - 55 percent Judd, GOP 34,448 - 45 percent District 7 Slaughter, GOP (i) Uncontested District 8 -- 79 percent -Dem Gain x-Brickley, Dem 64,830 - 40 percent Parris, GOP (i) 97,245 - 60 percent District 9 -- 66 percent x-Boucher, Dem (i) 60,176 - 57 percent Brown, GOP 45,392 - 43 percent District 10 -- 64 percent -Dem Gain x-Weinberg, Dem 56,930 - 41 percent Wolf, GOP (i) 81,922 - 59 percent WASHINGTON District 1 -- 100 percent -Dem Gain x-Lindquist, Dem 105,341 - 49 percent Miller, GOP (i) 109,639 - 51 percent District 2 x-Swift, Dem (i) Uncontested District 3 -- 100 percent -Open x-Unsoeld, Dem 100,752 - 53 percent Wight, GOP 89,345 - 47 percent District 4 -- 100 percent -Dem Gain x-Golob, Dem 75,931 - 43 percent Morrison, GOP (i) 100,655 - 57 percent District 5 -- 100 percent x-Foley, Dem (i) 108,538 - 58 percent Derby, GOP 78,596 - 42 percent District 6 -- 100 percent x-Dicks, Dem (i) 85,688 - 56 percent Cook, GOP 67,325 - 44 percent District 7 -- 100 percent -Open x-McDermott, Dem 112,431 - 57 percent Edwards, GOP 84,816 - 43 percent District 8 -- 100 percent -Dem Gain x-Kean, Dem 87,551 - 43 percent Chandler, GOP (i) 116,057 - 57 percent WEST VIRGINIA District 1 -- 80 percent x-Mollohan, Dem (i) 65,673 - 57 percent Tuck, GOP 49,542 - 43 percent District 2 Staggers Jr., Dem (i) Uncontested District 3 -- 75 percent x-Wise, Dem (i) 63,015 - 58 percent Hart, GOP 45,629 - 42 percent District 4 -- 80 percent x-Rahall II, Dem (i) 59,890 - 59 percent Brewster, GOP 41,620 - 41 percent WISCONSIN District 1 -- 100 percent x-Aspin, Dem (i) 102,748 - 60 percent Weaver, GOP 68,498 - 40 percent District 2 -- 100 percent x-Kastenmeier, Dem (i) 102,822 - 54 percent Haney, GOP 87,588 - 46 percent District 3 -- 100 percent Krueger, Dem 78,627 - 43 percent x-Gunderson, GOP (i) 104,230 - 57 percent District 4 Kleczka, Dem (i) Uncontested District 5 -- 100 percent x-Moody, Dem (i) 104,430 - 58 percent Barnhill, GOP 75,621 - 42 percent District 6 -- 100 percent Garrett, Dem 74,331 - 42 percent x-Petri, GOP (i) 102,652 - 58 percent District 7 -- 96 percent x-Obey, Dem (i) 100,315 - 57 percent Hermening, GOP 75,675 - 43 percent District 8 -- 100 percent Baron, Dem 76,215 - 42 percent x-Roth, GOP (i) 105,252 - 58 percent District 9 -- 100 percent Hickey, Dem 75,424 - 40 percent x-Sensenbrenner, GOP (i) 113,135 - 60 percent WYOMING At-Large -- 100 percent -Dem Gain x-Sharratt, Dem 55,294 - 40 percent Cheney, GOP (i) 83,440 - 60 percent AP881031-0105 AP-NR-10-31-88 1141EST u w PM-Scotus-Classified 1stLd-Writethru a0547 10-31 0890 PM-Scotus-Classified, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0547,850 Court Will Review Secrecy Law EDs: Inserts grafs 16-30, In other action, with other cases By JAMES H. RUBIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court agreed today to consider reviving an attempt by Congress to limit the president's authority to withhold classified information from the nation's legislative branch. The court said it will review a ruling that invalidated a law aimed at giving Congress more access to national security information. The justices are expected to announce their decision in 1989. A federal judge had ruled the law violates the required separation of legislative and executive powers. The clash between Congress and the president over classified information is a longstanding one. But the case acted on today has more recent origins in a national security directive adopted by President Reagan in 983. The directive requires federal officials, before they are allowed access to classified information, to sign an agreement that they will not disclose the information. The directive also established a standard form for officials to sign, promising they never will divulge classified or ``classifiable'' information without written permission from proper authorities. Some members of Congress bridled at the directive, particularly the use of the word ``classifiable.'' They said the presidential order restricts the free-speech rights of federal employees and ``allows after-the-fact classification of information in order to punish whistleblowers for making disclosures that embarrass their superiors.'' Opponents of the presidential directive said the secrecy agreement that federal employees were forced to sign would bar them for life from revealing information to Congress which it is entitled to receive. Congress then enacted legislation prohibiting use of funds during the 1987-88 fiscal year to implement the standard forms Reagan had authorized. The legislation, attached to a general government spending bill, was aimed at blocking the executive branch from withholding ``classifiable'' information or from impeding congressional access to such material. U.S. District Judge Oliver Gasch declared the legislation unconstitutional last May. ``The statute impermissibly restricts the president's power to fulfill obligations imposed upon him by his express constitutional powers and the role of the executive in foreign relations,'' Gasch said. In other action today, the court: _ Agreed to decide whether states must continue to provide lawyers for indigent death row inmates after they have lost their initial round of appeals. The court said it will hear an appeal by Virginia officials who said requiring states to pay for attorneys in such cases could lead to interminable delays in carrying out executions. _ Killed a lawsuit against the government stemming from the World War II mass detention of Japanese-Americans in U.S. prison camps. The court, without comment, left intact rulings that the veterans of the internment camps waited too long to file suit seeking compensation for property losses. _ Rejected an appeal by Kansas prosecutors challenging state laws that broadly justify using deadly force to defend someone's home or personal property. The justices, without comment, let stand Kansas laws that permit use of deadly force even by people not threatened with death or great bodily harm. _ Let stand a ruling that a state may ban the possession of child pornography. The court, citing a lack of jurisdiction, rejected an appeal by an Illinois couple who say state officials are intruding into the privacy of the home to impose censorship. _ Declined to further expand its study of drug testing in the workplace, rejecting an appeal by Justice Department employees who say such tests would violate their rights. The court, without comment, refused to intercede in the case, which has yet to be argued before a lower court. _ Ruled that police in Pennsylvania did not violate the rights of a man suspected of drunken dirving by failing to read the motorist his so-called Miranda warnings soon enough. The justices, by a 7-2 vote in an unsigned opinion, agreed with Pennsylvania law enforcement officials that a lower court wrongly required police to warn motorists of their right against self-incrimination. _ Allowed public school officials in California to ban leaflets and school yearbook advertisements that promoted a student-run, lunch-hour Bible study group. The court rejected an appeal by two students who said the officials violated their free-speech rights. In the classified-information case, the American Foreign Service Association, representing members of the nation's diplomatic corps, joined with senators and House members from both political parties in appealing to the Supreme Court to reinstate the law. The Reagan administration defended Gasch's ruling. ``Surely the First Amendment does not confer an unfettered right on an employee of the executive branch to disclose whatever national security information he pleases outside authorized channels, whether to a member of the public or to a member of Congress,'' the Justice Department said. The law that Gasch threw out expired on Sept. 30 with the end of the fiscal year. But a similar rider was attached to the spending bill enacted for the current fiscal year. President Reagan announced Wednesday that he was pocket-vetoing another measure intended to give new protection to federal employees who expose government fraud and abuse. The president said the bill, which is not tied directly to the case acted on by the court today, violates the Constitution. Since Congress has adjourned, it cannot vote to override the veto. The case is American Foreign Service Association vs. Garfinkel, 87-2127. AP881031-0106 AP-NR-10-31-88 1149EST r a PM-Transplant-Death 10-31 0309 PM-Transplant-Death,0319 Woman Dies After Getting Dead Daughter's Kidney In Transplant BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) A woman died two days after a transplant operation in which she received the kidney of her daughter who had died in a car accident, hospital officials said today. Hank Black, a spokesman for University Hospital, said Antoinette Moore, 54, of Gadsden died Sunday evening. On Friday, doctors had given her the kidney of her 26-year-old daughter, Terri Moore, following the daughter's death from injuries suffered in a car wreck earlier in the week. Mrs. Moore had suffered from kidney problems for seven years, and had needed dialysis, a mechanical method of cleansing the blood, for the last few months. Black said an autopsy was being performed today to determine the cause of Mrs. Moore's death. He said Mrs. Moore did return to the operating room earlier Sunday because of excessive bleeding. But there was no immediate word from doctors on how the death might have been related to any post-operative problems. Mrs. Moore's husband, Jay C. Moore, had said that he had mixed emotions about the transplanting of his daughter's kidney into his ailing wife. ``I just tell myself that I'm doing what my daughter would have wanted,'' he said. The daughter was pronounced dead Thursday afternoon at a Gadsden hospital following a roadway accident Tuesday. Black said the daughter recently told her family that she wanted to become an organ donor, so her family followed her wishes. Moore said his wife knew before the surgery that she was receiving her daughter's kidney. Mrs. Moore had previously turned down her healthy 32-year-old son's offer to donate one of his kidneys because of the threat to his life that might occur if his other kidney failed. Black had said that Ms. Moore's other kidney was designated for transplanting into a recipient in Florida. AP881031-0107 AP-NR-10-31-88 1155EST r a PM-JetCollision 2ndLd-Writethru a0542 10-31 0374 PM-Jet Collision, 2nd Ld - Writethru, a0542,0380 Actress Sally Field in Private Jet Collision at Aspen Airport Eds: SUBS 3rd graf, `Field, 42...', to CORRECT Field's age to 41 sted 42. ASPEN, Colo. (AP) Academy award-winning actress Sally Field and her family were soaked with jet fuel but escaped unhurt when their private plane aborted takeoff and smashed into two parked airplanes. ``It's absolutely a miracle'' no one was seriously injured in Saturday's crash, said Pitkin County Airport operations manager Bill Frome. ``We're very, very fortunate that it's our slow period.'' Field, 41, was en route to Burbank, Calif., when the Challenger CL60 crashed. Also on board were her film producer husband, Alan Greisman, 41, her 11-month-old son, Sam, and mother, Margaret O'Mahoney, said Pitkin County sheriff's spokesman Steve Crockett. The pilot and co-pilot were treated for cuts and bruises, Crockett said. A flight attendant on the jet was unhurt. ``I led them from the crash to the terminal building, and I think she (Field) was in a state of semi-shock,'' said Frome. ``She didn't know what had happened. ``The gas was just spurting out of the gas tanks,'' said Miss Field's publicist, Pat Kingsley. ``They were covered with gas. They had to get out of the plane and they got out on the wing and had to jump about six feet to the ground.'' Jeff Lumsden of the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office said the plane lost power as it attempted takeoff, causing it to veer to the right. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash. The private jet had been loaned to Miss Field, who owns a home overlooking Aspen, by producer and former talk-show host Merv Griffin, the owner, according to Griffin's Los Angeles publicist, Warren Cowan. The jet had flown into Aspen after taking Griffin and actress Eva Gabor to Griffin's Monterey, Calif., ranch earlier Saturday, Cowan said. The jets hit by Griffin's jet belong to entertainment personality Burt Sugarman and Marty Raynes, the son-in-law of oilman Marvin Davis, Cowan said. After the crash, Field and her family continued their journey via a commercial flight out of Denver, Crockett said. Field won Oscars for her performances in the films ``Norma Rae'' and ``Places in the Heart.'' AP881031-0108 AP-NR-10-31-88 1200EST u i BC-Hostage-Excerpts 10-31 0466 BC-Hostage-Excerpts,0482 Excerpts of Videotapes of Terry Anderson BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Here are excerpts from the videotaped messages received from American hostage Terry Anderson since his abduction March 16, 1985: _Oct. 4, 1986, after the release from Soviet custody of American journalist Nicholas Daniloff: After 2{ years of empty of empty talks and refusals to act on the part of the Reagan administration, it hurt to see the propaganda and bombast with which that administration solved the problem of Mr. Daniloff, a citizen like us who was imprisoned only a short time. How can any official justify the interest, attention and action given in that case and the inattention given ours? We are surprised that the American government has put pressure on other Arab and European governments not to negotiate in such cases as ours, but surrendered itself on the Daniloff case, releasing the Russian spy (Gennadiy) Zakharov who was working against our people. _Dec. 24, 1987: To my government, I don't know what to say. To my family, I love you and miss you very much. ... I am in good health but tired and very lonely. Mr. President, I say again this cannot continue. There is a limit for how long we can last and some of us are approaching their limit. ... Surely by now you know what must be done and how you can do it. This is difficult, but you can do it. There have been enough careful consideration, cold discussion and enough secret maneuvering.'' I know that you're trying to get us out though I don't know exactly what it is you've been doing. I only know that it hasn't been enough or the right thing. _Oct. 31, 1988, following his 41st birthday: I'm well and being well treated. I received your birthday greetings and as always that helped me very much. But as my fourth birthday in captivity passes and as the end of my fourth year (in captivity) approaches, I find it difficult to keep my hopes and my courage high. I've been very close to being released several times ... But each time it seems that the U.S. government uses its influence to stop any agreement ... I don't understand this. I gather there's been very little discussion about this problem in the U.S. presidential campaign and that's disappointing, as is President Reagan's complete failure to find a solution during his eight years in office. I heard on the radio of the generous and ambitious effort to free three trapped whales a few days ago and the president's thanks to the Soviet Union for its help.... That kind of cooperation and spirit is absolutely necessary to bring this situation to an end. Once again, this has gone on too long. It can't continue like this. AP881031-0109 AP-NR-10-31-88 1239EST r i PM-SwedesMurdered 10-31 0172 PM-Swedes Murdered,0176 Two Swedish Women Found Murdered On Inca Trail Eds: Barbro is cq in 2nd graf. LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) Two Swedish tourists who had been stabbed and shot to death were found at the bottom of a cliff on an Inca trail in the Andes, the Swedish Consulate said today. Bertha Arduz, the Swedish consul in La Paz, identified the victims as Helene Larsdotter-Liedegren, 23, and Barbro Schwang, 20. She said the bodies of the two women were found by a farmer Saturday. Police believe the two were killed a week ago. The trail the women were on crosses the Andes from an area east of La Paz to the Yungas region. Because of the rugged terrain, police said they were having problems retrieving the bodies. Police found a sleeping bag with a diary and documents belonging to the two Swedes near the cliff where the bodies were found. Arduz said the Swedes were experienced travelers who planned on crossing the Amazon River basin after leaving Bolivia. AP881031-0110 AP-NR-10-31-88 1225EST u w PM-DeltaCrash 10-31 0575 PM-Delta Crash,560 Doomed Plane's Pilot Says He Hesitated Too Long By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The pilot of Delta Flight 1141 told investigators he wishes he had applied full power immediately after the first sign of trouble and not 23 seconds later as his Boeing 727 was about to crash, documents revealed today. The crash Aug. 31 at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport claimed 14 lives. There were 108 people aboard the jet, bound for Salt Lake City. A transcript of the cockpit voice recorder tape, among the eight sets of documents released by the National Transportation Safety Board, showed a routine takeoff down the runway with the plane gaining proper speed and climbing power. Seconds after liftoff, however, there was the sound of a ``snap'' and then the jet's control column began to shake, an advance warning that the aircraft was about to stall. ``Something's wrong,'' Capt. Larry Davis, who was at the controls, was believed to have said. His exact words were not clear. Then followed the sounds of what is believed to be five compressor stalls in the engines and the co-pilot announcing an ``engine failure.'' Investigators have said they have found no evidence of a mechanical malfunction in any of the three engines. ``We're not gonna to make it,'' Davis said nearly 15 seconds after the first ``snap'' was heard. But it was eight seconds more before he called for ``full power,'' according to the transcript. Less than a second later came the sound of the first impact. Davis said in interviews with NTSB investigators that ``in retrospect I should have pushed up full power immediately,'' according to a separate document made public today by the NTSB. During the interview, Davis also said that he was aware his aircraft had an unusually high nose-up position as it struggled to gain lift, but that he was afraid to lower the nose, the normal maneuver in an attempt to fly out of a stall, because he thought impact with the ground was imminent. Davis said that in the seconds after liftoff the Boeing 727 began to ``roll violently.'' He told investigators, ``It was all I could do to control the airplane.'' He said at one point he thought ``we were going to make it, but then we got more bangs.'' Investigators have closely examined the three engines of the jetliner and concluded that there was no mechanical failure. The bangs have been widely interpreted as the compressor stalls caused by an interruption of air flow, possibly because of an unusual angle of the aircraft. The NTSB previously has said that there is evidence the plane's flaps might not have been extended properly for takeoff, which would have inhibited the plane's ability to gain lift. The flaps were found in a retracted position in the wreckage, as was the cockpit lever controlling the flaps. But the transcript of the cockpit voice recorder tape released today indicates, as has been disclosed previously, that the flight crew followed a pre-takeoff checklist that included specific reference to the flap setting. ``Flaps,'' the flight engineer, Steven Judd, was heard to say. ``Fifteen, fifteen, green light,'' responded the co-pilot, Carey Kirkland. The numbers were a reference to the degree of extension for the flaps on the left and right wings. ``Green light'' referred to an indicator light denoting the position of the wing slats, which also must be extended in a takeoff. AP881031-0111 AP-NR-10-31-88 1239EST r i AM-BRF--JetFire 10-31 0111 AM-BRF--Jet Fire,0114 Cargo Jet Abandons Takeoff After Engine Fire AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) An El Al cargo jet with three crewmembers aboard abandoned takeoff Monday after one of its engines caught fire, apparently after being struck by a bird, an airport spokesman said. None of the crew was injured in the accident at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, said spokesman Rien Floris. Built-in fire extinguishing equipment put out the fire, although one of the Boeing 747's wheels then caught fire because of the pilot was forced to break sharply, Floris said. Airport firefighters soon extinguished that fire as well, he said. The plane was flying to New York and Los Angeles. AP881031-0112 AP-NR-10-31-88 1240EST r a BC-Quotes CLARIFICATION 10-31 0159 BC-Quotes, CLARIFICATION,0161 CLARIFICATION Eds: Members who used BC-Quotes, a0516 of Oct. 17, may wish to use the following, which clarifies the opinions of an author who has written about the Pledge of Allegiance. By The Associated Press The Associated Press, in attributing a quote to Louise Harris of Providence, R.I., on Oct. 17, implied that she believed the author of the Pledge of Allegiance was a socialist. The original version of the pledge in The Youth's Companion magazine in 1892 was unsigned. Once it caught on, competing claims to authorship quickly emerged. Harris, who has written extensively on the origins of the pledge, and other scholars say the author was James B. Upham, an editor of The Youth's Companion. Two formal investigations _ by the U.S. Flag Association in 1939 and the Library of Congress in 1957 _ concluded that the Rev. Francis Bellamy, who also was on the magazine's staff, was responsible. Bellamy was a socialist. AP881031-0113 AP-NR-10-31-88 1238EST u i AM-Poland Bjt 10-31 0930 AM-Poland, Bjt,0958 Walesa Vows to Fight Lenin Shipyard Closure LaserPhoto FRA5 By JOHN DANISZEWSKI Associated Press Writer WARSAW, Poland (AP) An infuriated Lech Walesa vowed Monday to fight government plans to close down the Lenin shipyard, the site where the Solidarity trade union was born. The state-owned shipyard in Gdansk is being closed down Dec. 1. It is the first big industrial plant to be singled out for closure by the month-old government of Prime Minister Mieczyslaw F. Rakowski. The decision was announced while the shipyard was closed on the eve of All Saints' Day and caught many workers and Solidarity activists by surprise. The yard reopens Wednesday. A longtime foe of Solidarity, Rakowski took office Sept. 27 with a pledge to restructure Poland's aging industrial base and get the economy moving. In an interview with the BBC, he said the decision ``has nothing to do with Solidarity.'' The announcement came during an impasse in preparations for talks between representatives of Solidarity and the government, which had been promised to Walesa on Aug. 31 during the last strike at the shipyard. In an interview with The Associated Press, Walesa denounced the decision as Rakowski's ``personal provocation ... against the birthplace of Solidarity.'' Rakowski was a firm supporter of the Dec. 13, 1981, martial-law crackdown on Solidarity. Walesa, himself a worker at the shipyard, said in a later statement that ``Solidarity will defend the enterprise which is for the union and for the whole nation a symbol of the struggle for a new and better Poland.'' The state-run news agency PAP said Rakowski on Saturday approved an Industry Minstry recommendation to close the yard. It referred to the premier's Oct. 13 speech when he presented his plan to parliament. Rakowski told the BBC that ``there is no other way. If someone wants to make the Polish economy more healthy, he has to start with very strong steps.'' ``Rakowski announced that his government will go from words and plans to firm acts which would recover the Polish economy,'' PAP said. ``That would include liquidation of enterprises that are inefficient, unproductive and some enterprises which require subsidies from the state treasury.'' PAP added the decision should come as no surprise because the possibility has been discussed publicly ``for a long time.'' Rakowski replaced Prime Minister Zbigniew Messner, who was criticized as ineffectual in reforming Poland's inefficient and debt-ridden economy. Since taking over, he has announced cuts in several government departments and allowed several independent groups to be legalized. But closing the Lenin yard is his first move to streamline Poland's heavy industry. The century-old shipyard, the scene of strikes in May and August, employs about 10,000 workers and was scheduled to build 11 ships this year. It constructs ships primarily for the Soviet Union for non-convertible currency. Articles in the press have questioned its financial efficacy, with one newspaper describing the Lenin Shipyard ``as a giant on partly rotten legs.'' A strike at the shipyard in August 1980 gave rise to Solidarity, the East bloc's first independent trade union whose membership grew to 10 million before the union was banned in October 1982. But the yard has been in decline for more than a decade. In the late 1970s, it produced a high of 27 ships one year. At that time, its employment was more than 15,000. In July, the yard's director of foreign trade, Ireneusz Kubiczek, said the yard was not necessarily unprofitable and said its chief problem was a lack of workforce to handle all its potential contracts. He said whether it was profitable or not was debatable, since it all depended on the costs arbitrarily set by the state for materials, taxes and credit. But management admitted it needed new loans or subsidies in order to continue production. Walesa said his union could cope with the yard's financial problem if given the chance. ``We are ready to take over this enterprise and make it profitable. We will help the (workers' council) take it over so that the shipyard can work well and make its profits,'' he said. He said he saw the announcement as an attempt by the government to provoke protests at the shipyards and in other factories. The Rev. Henryk Jankowski, pastor of St. Brygida's Church near the shipyard's gates, said he would celebrate Masses for shipyard workers every night this week, culminating with a big Mass on Sunday. But there were no immediate plans for protest actions. ``We will have to work out a general stand for the union,'' said Bogdan Lis, Solidarity regional leader in Gdansk. ``I think that it could lead to a new strike.'' Walesa last week refused to meet with Interior Minister Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak about a government demand he drop two proposed Solidarity delegates to the talks whom the government considers too extreme. On Friday, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Great Britain plans to visit the towering Solidarity monument just outside the shipyard gates. The PAP communique said the shipyard's workers would be offered jobs at other enterprises in Gdansk province. It said the 10,000 workers will have 30,000 jobs to choose from. Liquidating the shipyard's property will take at least a year, the communique said. Rakowski's government has signaled on several occasions it would move briskly to shut down money-losing enterprises that are a drain on the state. ``Perhaps fewer and fewer shipyards would make for more efficient shipyards,'' newly appointed Industry Minister Mieczyslaw Wilczek told a news conference last week. Wilczek said he has asked for a list of the country's 150 least-efficient enterprises for possible closure. AP881031-0114 AP-NR-10-31-88 1249EST u p PM-Bush 2ndLd-Writethru a0533 10-31 0885 PM-Bush, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0533,880 Bush Mocks Dukakis' Embrace of Liberalism Eds: Top 17 grafs new with Bush comments, poll results; picks up pvs 5th graf bgng, A new Time; DELETES pvs grafs 6-7 bgng, Embarking on, as redundant, and DELETES pvs grafs 13-16 bgng, He said, to tighten. By RITA BEAMISH Associated Press Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Republican nominee George Bush today mocked Michael Dukakis' sudden embrace of the liberal label as a ``breakthrough'' and dismissed his Democratic rival's invitation to an election-eve debate next Monday night. The vice president said the real debate should feature Dukakis and Dukakis, ``the new left vs. the old left.'' A combative Bush attacked Dukakis for his declaration that ``Yes, I'm a liberal'' during a campaign swing Sunday through California, and a new poll showed the vice president with a 15-point lead over the Massachusetts governor. The survey, taken last week by The Courier-Journal in Louisville, said Bush had a 53 percent to 38 percent advantage in Kentucky, a dramatic gain from his two-point lead around Labor Day. Nine electoral votes are at stake in Kentucky, where the Bush-Dukakis battle originally was predicted to be close. After weeks of trying to avoid the liberal label that Bush repeatedly sought to paste on him, Dukakis suddenly wore it proudly Sunday. ``I'm a liberal in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and John Kennedy,'' he said. Bush wasted no time in responding today at his first rally of a campaign day that also will take him to St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo. ``Now for the breakthrough,'' the GOP nominee said. Bush recalled that during their last nationally broadcast debate in Los Angeles on Oct. 13, Dukakis ``jumped all over me for using the L word. Well, speaking of my opponent, yesterday, miracle of miracles, headlines, read all about it, he's using the liberal label again.'' Dukakis had challenged Bush to a one-hour debate the night before the Nov. 8 balloting to talk about ``what it takes to lead this country and unite this country.'' Bush chimed in with a counter-proposal. ``There should be a debate, Dukakis vs. Dukakis, an entertaining debate, the new left vs. the old left.'' He added: ``The governor of Massachusetts could suddenly pretend to be in the tradition that is prepared to use force to defend freedom, but then the other governor of Massachusetts could explain why he failed to support that needed military action in Grenada or the action against that terrorist, Moammar Gadhafi, and why he has opposed every weapon system to modernize our defense. What a debate.'' ``One could claim to be on the side of ordinary Americans and the other Dukakis could explain why he thinks ordinary Americans oppose the death penalty for drug kingpins like he does, favor these weekend furloughs for first-degree murderers who have not served enough time to be eligible for parole,' and oppose a law that would require teachers to lead their classes in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, Bush said ``Dukakis vs. Dukakis,'' he said. ``What a debate. It should be very, very interesting.'' As the crowd applauded, Bush concluded, ``Will the real liberal please stand up? God knows what would happen.'' Campaigning in Philadelphia on Sunday, Bush told reporters he didn't believe recent polls indicating that his lead over Dukakis is narrowing. The Dukakis camp said Bush's lead had shrunk to six percentage points, but GOP aides said it had settled in the double-digit range after some fluctuations. A new Time magazine poll of 1,096 probable voters showed Bush leading by 10 percentage points, 50 percent to 40 percent. The survey was conducted Tuesday and Wednesday and results had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points. His schedule later in the week tentatively calls for him to hit Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and California. Bush, speaking to supporters outside the campaign's headquarters in suburban Montgomery County, Pa., encouraged voters to go to the polls on Election Day. ``From now on it's get out that vote. As for Barbara and me, we're going to keep running like we're 10 points behind. Nobody is going to out-work us,'' he told the gathering. Bush's chief of staff, Craig Fuller, said campaign officials had always expected to see the poll numbers tighten and were not alarmed by the latest apparent shift toward Dukakis. ``I think it's to be expected as you get to the final days of the campaign that you're going to see some tightening in this race, but that's going to cause us to work harder. We'll not allow ourselves to lose the edge we've had as a campaign team,'' Fuller said. Meanwhile, Bush campaign chairman James A. Baker III repudiated a Republican campaign flier circulating in Maryland with side-by-side photographs of Dukakis and Willie Horton Jr., a convicted murderer who raped a Maryland woman and slashed her fiance after he escaped while on a Massachusetts prison furlough. Dukakis held Bush personally responsible for the fund-raising letter which asks, ``Is this your pro-family team for 1988?'' Baker, appearing on the CBS-TV's ``Face the Nation,'' said the flier was ``totally out of bounds and totally unauthorized.'' But he said the Bush campaign could do nothing about it. ``You cannot control every party organization throughout the country,'' he said. AP881031-0115 AP-NR-10-31-88 1255EST r p BC-US-House-Winners 9thAdd 10-31 0340 BC-US-House-Winners, 9th Add,400 10-24-88 10:40, Eds: This take covers Texas through Wyoming This is a test table to demonstrate style and format. Any results listed are for test purposes only. Winners are listed to demonstrate the format. UNDATED: TEXAS 1: No winner declared. 2: No winner declared. 3: No winner declared. 4: No winner declared. 5: No winner declared. 6: No winner declared. 7: No winner declared. 8: Jack Fields, GOP (i) 9: Jack Brooks, Dem (i) 10: No winner declared. 11: No winner declared. 12: Jim Wright, Dem (i) 13: No winner declared. 14: No winner declared. 15: No winner declared. 16: Ron D. Coleman, Dem (i) 17: Charles W. Stenholm, Dem (i) 18: No winner declared. 19: No winner declared. 20: No winner declared. 21: No winner declared. 22: No winner declared. 23: No winner declared. 24: No winner declared. 25: No winner declared. 26: No winner declared. 27: Solomon P. Ortiz, Dem (i) UTAH 1: James V. Hansen, GOP (i) 2: No winner declared. 3: No winner declared. VERMONT No winner declared. VIRGINIA 1: Herbert H. Bateman, GOP (i) 2: No winner declared. 3: Thomas J. Bliley Jr., GOP (i) 4: Norman Sisisky, Dem (i) 5: No winner declared. 6: No winner declared. 7: D. French Slaughter, GOP (i) 8: No winner declared. 9: No winner declared. 10: No winner declared. WASHINGTON 1: No winner declared. 2: Al Swift, Dem (i) 3: No winner declared. 4: No winner declared. 5: No winner declared. 6: No winner declared. 7: No winner declared. 8: No winner declared. WEST VIRGINIA 1: No winner declared. 2: Harley O. Staggers Jr., Dem (i) 3: No winner declared. 4: No winner declared. WISCONSIN 1: No winner declared. 2: No winner declared. 3: No winner declared. 4: Gerald D. Kleczka, Dem (i) 5: No winner declared. 6: No winner declared. 7: No winner declared. 8: No winner declared. 9: No winner declared. WYOMING No winner declared. AP881031-0116 AP-NR-10-31-88 1253EST u i PM-Soviet-PoliticalPrisoners 10-31 0242 PM-Soviet-Political Prisoners,0249 Soviets Say Anti-Dissent Laws Under Revision MOSCOW (AP) One law used to imprison Soviet political dissidents will be rescinded and another likely will be revised to cover specific acts against the state, the official Soviet news agency Tass said today. It was the second promise within a week of impending improvements for Soviet dissidents. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said last week after talks in Moscow with officials including Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev that he had been told all people regarded in the West as political prisoners will be freed by the end of the year. On Monday, Justice Minister Boris Kravtsov told Tass that Article 190, the law banning ``anti-Soviet slander,'' apparently will be dropped in the current review of the Soviet criminal code. Article 70, barring ``anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda,'' probably will be restricted to cover concrete actions, Kravtsov said. He also said the law on exit visas is being revised in accordance with an international agreement on civil and political rights. Kravtsov said only eight people are serving sentences under the two anti-dissent laws. Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organization, says it has information on 150 Soviets ``imprisoned soley for their non-violent exercise of their fundamental human rights.'' It counted 10,000 a few years ago. Soviet human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei D. Sakharov said last week that there were 25 people still in labor camps under Article 70. AP881031-0117 AP-NR-10-31-88 1255EST r a AM-ProtestCourse 10-31 0281 AM-Protest Course,0289 Clergyman To Teach Course In Religious Protest DETROIT (AP) Students enrolling in a new course at the Whitaker School of Theology may find their names on a police rap sheet. The seven-month introductory course on religious protest will include demonstrations outside Detroit-area military contractors such as General Dynamics Corp. in Warren and Williams International Corp. in Walled Lake, said the instructor, the Rev. William Wylie-Kellerman. Candidates for the priesthood in the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, which sponsors the school, will earn seminary credit for the course, which begins Saturday. ``It is important to understand that worship and liturgy are always political,'' said Wylie-Kellerman, 39, a United Methodist who has been jailed nearly 40 times during protests at military and weapons facilities in several states. Wylie-Kellerman said the protests to be staged as part of his course will be ``a low-risk taste of this kind of direct action.'' Students will be asked to pray and read Bible passages and not necessarily be arrested, he said. He said the course was meant to clarify the relationships among politics, religion and militarism. ``There is a spiritual conflict over the culture of militarism,'' he said. ``On one side there's a story of imperial America, its manifest destiny and Rambo and `Make my day.' There's a whole language and story about imperial America that Ronald Reagan is living out.'' He said the other side is the Bible and its story ``of non-violent, forgiving love.'' Judith Craig, bishop of Michigan's United Methodist Church, supports Wylie-Kellerman. ``The thing I admire about Bill is that he never asks for an exception from the rules,'' she said. ``He always accepts the consequences of his actions.'' AP881031-0118 AP-NR-10-31-88 1257EST r a AM-Times-Patterson 10-31 0212 AM-Times-Patterson,0218 Veteran News Executive Patterson Passes Times Torch To Barnes ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) Eugene Patterson retired Monday as chief executive officer of the Times Publishing Co. of St. Petersburg and was succeeded by Andrew Barnes, editor and president. Patterson, who turned 65 on Oct. 15, designated Barnes as his successor at the 104-year-old St. Petersburg Times in 1984. Barnes, 49, said the change of leadership would mean little dramatic change in the Times' operations. ``I don't expect to bring any major changes,'' he said. ``Over time, will we respond to the world as it changes? Of course we will. Will we look up in 10 years and will the Times be different? Sure it will be different.'' During Patterson's 10 years as CEO, daily circulation rose from 195,000 to more than 300,000, Sunday circulation grew from 243,000 to nearly 400,000 and annual revenue increased from $54 million to $160 million. After World War II, Patterson became United Press bureau chief in London. In 1956, he went to the Atlanta Constitution, and won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1960s editorials opposing racism. He later became managing editor of The Washington Post. Patterson brought Barnes to the Times from The Washington Post, where he had been an assistant city editor. AP881031-0119 AP-NR-10-31-88 1258EST u w PM-ScotusAt-a-Glance 10-31 0678 PM-Scotus At-a-Glance,540 WASHINGTON (AP) Here, at a glance, are highlights of actions taken Monday by the Supreme Court. CLASSIFIED INFORMATION The Court agreed to consider reviving an attempt by Congress to limit the president's authority to withhold classified information from the nation's legislative branch. The court said it will review a ruling that invalidated a law aimed at giving Congress more access to national security information. The case is American Foreign Service Association vs. Garfinkel, 87-2127. DEATH ROW The court agreed to decide whether states must continue to provide lawyers for indigent death row inmates after they have lost their initial round of appeals. The court said it will hear an appeal by Virginia officials who said requiring states to pay for attorneys in such cases could lead to interminable delays in carrying out executions. The case is Murray vs. Giarrantano, 88-411. JAPANESE INTERNMENT The court killed a lawsuit against the government stemming from the World War II mass detention of Japanese-Americans in U.S. prison camps. The court, without comment, left intact rulings that the veterans of the internment camps waited too long to file suit seeking compensation for property losses. The case is Hohri vs. U.S., 88-215. DEADLY FORCE The court rejected an appeal by Kansas prosecutors challenging state laws that broadly justify using deadly force to defend someone's home or personal property. The justices, without comment, let stand Kansas laws that permit use of deadly force even by people not threatened with death or great bodily harm. The case is Kansas vs. Clothier, 88-168. CHILD PORNOGRAPHY The court let stand a ruling that a state may ban the possession of child pornography. The court, citing a lack of jurisdiction, rejected an appeal by an Illinois couple who say state officials are intruding into the privacy of the home to impose censorship. The case is Geever vs. Illinois, 88-381. DRUG TESTS The court declined to expand further its study of drug testing in the workplace, rejecting an appeal by Justice Department employees who say such tests would violate their rights. The court, without comment, refused to intercede in the case, which has yet to be argued before a lower court. The case is Harmon vs. Thornburgh, 88-427. DRUNKEN DRIVING The court ruled that police in Pennsylvania did not violate the rights of a man suspected of drunken driving by failing to read the motorist his so-called Miranda warnings soon enough. The justices, by a 7-2 vote in an unsigned opinion, agreed with Pennsylvania law enforcement officials that a lower court wrongly required police to warn motorists of their right against self-incrimination. The case is Pennsylvania vs. Bruder, 88-161. BIBLE CLUB The court allowed public school officials in California to ban leaflets and school yearbook advertisements that promoted a student-run, lunch-hour Bible study group. The court rejected an appeal by two students who said the officials violated their free-speech rights. The case is Perumal vs. Saddleback Valley, 88-340. DIAL-A-PORN The court, for the second time in six months, refused to disturb a ban on sexually explicit telephone dial-up message services dubbed ``dial-a-porn.'' The justices, without comment, rejected arguments that such bans violate free-speech rights. The case is Carlin Communications vs. FCC, 88-37. PUBLIC DEFENDERS The court left intact a ruling that a judge may not fire public defenders because of their political affiliation. The court, without comment, rejected an appeal by an Indiana judge ordered to pay $61,075 to two assistant public defenders who sued the judge for violating their rights. The case is Krajewski vs. Kurowski, 88-391. SPANKING The court killed a challenge to a Nebraska policy prohibiting facilities offering 24-hour care for children from using corporal punishment. The justices, citing a lack of a substantial federal question, let stand a Nebraska Supreme Court decision dismissing a challenge to the law by the Cornhusker Christian Children's Home in Hitchcock County, Neb. The case is Cornhusker Christian Children's Home vs. Nebraska DDS, 87-2058. AP881031-0120 AP-NR-10-31-88 1258EST r i AM-BRF--Pope-Science 10-31 0166 AM-BRF--Pope-Science,0173 Pope Appoints New Head Of Science Academy VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope John Paul II on Monday appointed a chemistry professor, Giovanni Battista Marini-Bettolo Marconi, as president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Marconi, 73, replaces Carlos Chagas, a 77-year-old Brazilian biophysicist who served for 16 years as head of the academy, which advises the pope on scientific issues. The new president took the name Marconi after his stepfather Guglielmo Marconi, who invented wireless telegraphy in the late 1800s. The 385-year-old academy, based in a Renaissance villa in the Vatican gardens, monitors scientific advances that might pose moral, ethical or theological problems. In a speech to academy members at the end of their weeklong conference, John Paul thanked the institute for its research on agriculture. He noted that while food production today could serve all the world's needs, ``the very unequal distribution of food resources has not yet brought ... projects effective enough so that agricultural production benefits all people and all men.'' AP881031-0121 AP-NR-10-31-88 1301EST u p AM-MississippiSenate Bjt 10-31 0894 AM-Mississippi Senate, Bjt,850 Good Ol' Boy Network May Help Underdog in Mississippi Senate Race By JIM DRINKARD Associated Press Writer TUPELO, Miss. (AP) H.D. Ross, a local retired judge, says Democrat Wayne Dowdy has a winning combination in his uphill Senate race against Republican Trent Lott: ``We got the old folks, the rednecks and the blacks, and there ain't nothing in this state can beat it.'' That observation may contain a bit of bravado, for Dowdy trails Lott by eight percentage points in the latest statewide poll. But it also expresses a belief that politics in Mississippi haven't changed as much as Lott would like to think. The schism in Mississippi politics along racial and economic lines remains real. But Lott, the smooth, buttoned-down politician who has risen to the No. 2 GOP leadership position in the House of Representatives, believes the balance is changing. ``Wayne Dowdy is a good ol' boy, and Mississippi is getting away from good ol' boys,'' Lott said last week in Clarksdale, the hub of cotton-growing Delta country. ``People perceive him as a backbencher. They see me as somebody who rose to a leadership position.'' In his three House terms, Dowdy took an active role in supporting renewal of the Voting Rights Act, but otherwise has not left a great legislative imprint. Mississippi's electorate is about one-third black and substantially rural. The state, long the nation's poorest, has made major economic strides in the past two decades. There are growing numbers of young professionals who live mostly along the Gulf Coast and in Jackson, the capital city, and they are overwhelmingly Republican. The challenge for Dowdy, 45, is to get the maximum turnout by blacks, who he believes will cast 90 percent or more of their votes for him, and to grab about one of every three white voters. Dowdy concedes that will be difficult, but says he has a reputation as a come-from-behind campaigner and that pollsters miss many of his supporters who don't have telephones. On that night in Clarksdale, the joint appearance by the two candidates battling for the seat of retiring Sen. John C. Stennis, D-Miss., reflected their philosophical differences. Addressing a pro-Lott Chamber of Commerce crowd of 300 people, Dowdy made a pitch for better roads and schools, two areas where he said the federal government should play a greater role. Lott countered that the answer to the state's problems is economic development. ``The answer is the private sector,'' Lott said. He called for a cut in the capital gains tax rate, which is one of Republican presidential nominee George Bush's favorite campaign themes. Ironically, Lott received the heartiest applause of the evening when he specifically urged widening U.S. 61, a worn, north-south artery through the Delta, from two to four lanes. For Dowdy and his supporters, such moments are frustrating. They say that Lott, 47, has built an eight-term congressional career on pinching pennies _ including funds for his own state _ but is using slick advertising to avoid paying the political price for those past votes. Although he campaigns for road improvements, Lott has voted against transportation appropriations bills in the House. A television ad shows him canoeing through the wilderness, though an environmental group has listed him among ``the dirty dozen'' in Congress with the worst environmental voting records. Lott claims to be among the staunchest defenders of Social Security, but does not mention his 1981 vote to eliminate the minimum benefit. Lott's TV ads are produced by Robert Goodman, who made the ``Morning in America'' spots for President Reagan in 1984, and they have been effective in softening the GOP candidate's cool partisan edge. ``Sometimes I get that Teflon feeling,'' says Dowdy supporter Walter Thompson, referring to Reagan's famed ability to shed political negatives. ``We have not educated the people on what Lott's votes really are.'' Lott stumps from town to town before crowds turned out by a well-oiled campaign machine. Dowdy's efforts seem more haphazard as he makes unannounced visits to courthouses and local businesses. Lott seems to have generated enthusiasm in Jackson, where his campaign posters have sprouted in the yards of white, middle-class neighborhoods. The same signs are prominent along the main drags of smaller towns, too. Dowdy, a country lawyer from McComb who became wealthy enough to buy several radio stations, seems unconcerned. ``We don't get the Main Street crowd,'' he says. Although he has outspent Dowdy by $2.6 million to $1.6 million, Lott has never broken much above 50 percent in the polls, which gives the Democratic candidate some comfort. Dowdy has gone on the air with his own ads, one of which features an endorsement by the widely revered Stennis. ``In the end, it's going to be decided among independent voters as to likability,'' Dowdy said. One of Dowdy's big frustrations is having a Massachusetts governor, Michael Dukakis, at the top of his party's national ticket. It is hard to imagine two states more different culturally than Massachusetts and Mississippi. When asked about Dukakis, Dowdy prefers to talk instead about Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, the vice presidential candidate. ``We are not running from Dukakis, but his campaign is not doing that well in our state,'' Dowdy observes. He predicts that Bush, who is running more than 20 points ahead of Dukakis in Mississippi, will help Lott by several percentage points. AP881031-0122 AP-NR-10-31-88 1307EST u i AM-Takeshita Bjt 10-31 0779 AM-Takeshita, Bjt,0801 Takeshita Still Faces Tests After Year in Office An AP Extra By DAVID THURBER Associated Press Writer TOKYO (AP) Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita quietly cast off the shadow of a dynamic predecessor during his first year in office, but now faces two major tests: a political scandal and the approaching death of Emperor Hirohito. Takeshita is undynamic even by Japanese political standards. He minimizes conflicts by seldom speaking out, and waits until a consensus has formed before making political moves. His approach is a sharp contrast to the flamboyant self-confidence of his predecessor, Yasuhiro Nakasone, who became one of the few Japanese political leaders with a strong image abroad. Takeshita's approach ``is a return to the traditional Japanese political style,'' says Yozo Yokota, professor of international law at International Christian University in Tokyo. ``Nakasone was outward-looking, but not so good at gathering support within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party,'' he said. ``Takeshita is the reverse. He spends time listening to various views in the party and then seeks a consensus. He doesn't have his own policies or philosophy.'' During his first year as prime minister _ Thursday is the anniversary _ Takeshita has weathered two political crises, announced an expansion of Japan's diplomatic activities, dealt with two major trade disputes and presided over a vigorous economic recovery. Now, however, the 64-year-old leader faces a growing stock-trading scandal involving top politicians and the inevitable death of Hirohito, who has been gravely ill since September. The trading scandal involves shares in the Recruit-Cosmos real estate company reportedly sold at low prices to dozens of prominent politicians, business leaders and journalists before the stock was publicly traded. When public trading began, the value of the shares shot upward and the recipients made large profits. Takeshita, Nakasone, Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and other top officials acknowledged some aides bought Recuit-Cosmos shares, but said they did not know about it. Government officials have said the transactions were legal but opposition parties claim they were unethical and have demanded a parliamentary investigation. If Japan's a parliament, the Diet, investigates the stock scandal, one test of Takeshita's command will be whether he can prevent it from spreading into other areas of political financing. ``There are a lot more disclosures to come,'' said Gregory Clark, professor of Japanese studies at Sophia University in Tokyo. The approaching death of Hirohito, 87, is an emotional issue for the nation. Japan has not experienced the death of an emperor under its postwar constitution, which separates religion and the state. Takeshita's government must decide how to handle the many traditional Shinto-based funeral and related ceremonies. Some Japanese continue to link the imperial system with rightist politics and militarism, and see the transition as a critical period. Takeshita used adroit behind-the-scenes dealings and great skill at manipulating the party bureaucracy to work his way up through the ranks, and became leader of the largest faction of the governing Liberal Democrats in 1987. While Nakasone often tried to circumvent government and party structures by establishing special study commissions and advisory groups, Takeshita has reaffirmed the role of bureaucrats, with whom he feels comfortable. On U.S. demands for access to the Japanese public works construction market, Takeshita gave complete negotiating authority to Ichiro Ozawa, deputy chief Cabinet secretary. The dispute, which dragged on for more than 1{ years and came to symbolize trade differences between the two nations, was settled in March with concessions from powerful Japanese industry groups. He also delegated negotiating power in talks on a U.S. demand that Japan eliminate import restrictions on beef and oranges. Trade friction has declined during Takeshita's tenure because of slower growth in exports attributable to the yen's higher value. In two crises during his first year in office, Takeshita took little direct action, allowing both to run their course until the people involved resigned. One concerned Seisuke Okuno, head of the National Land Agency, who caused protests from abroad by saying that Japan was not the aggressor in World War II. The other involved Koichi Hamada, head of the powerful lower house Budget Committee, who called an opposition politician a murderer. In foreign policy, Takeshita was widely expected to remain under the influence of Nakasone, who took a special interest in the field. Instead, he has traveled widely to build his own international reputation, including trips to Southeast Asia, North America, Europe, the Pacific, South Korea and China. In June, at the Toronto summit of Western leaders, Takeshita pledged that Japan would expand its international political and diplomatic role and increase foreign aid over five years to the equivalent of $50 billion, which would make it the world's largest donor. AP881031-0123 AP-NR-10-31-88 1306EST u a PM-MarcosArraignment 2ndLd-Writethru a0606 10-31 0941 PM-Marcos Arraignment, 2nd Ld - Writethru, a0606,0962 Imelda Marcos Enters Innocent Plea At Arraignment On Embezzling Charge Eds: LEADS with 12 grafs to UPDATE with wrangle over bail, another hearing set for Thursday, Mrs. Marcos sent to be fingerprinted, other detail. Picks up 6th graf pvs, `The embezzlement...'. LaserPhoto NY5 By MARJORIE ANDERS Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos pleaded innocent to racketeering charges today, but a federal judge refused to let her return to Hawaii until government and defense lawyers iron out details of her $5 million bail. Mrs. Marcos brushed away a tear as U.S. District Judge John F. Keenan said, ``I'm not going to let the lady go back to the Hawaiian Islands until I'm certain the bail is set.'' He set another hearing for Thursday. She and her entourage arrived Sunday by borrowed luxury jet from Hawaii, where she and ousted Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos have lived in exile since fleeing their homeland in February 1986. They are accused of embezzling $100 million from the Philippines. Defense lawyers had convinced Keenan that the 71-year-old Marcos was too frail to make the trip to New York City for a court appearance. His arraignment was postponed, at least until a government physician examines him. The judge, however, ordered Mrs. Marcos, 59, to appear on the charges that she and her husband used the country's money to buy property including four New York buildings and artwork. As a small group of demonstrators changed anti-Marcos slogans, Mrs. Marcos strode into court dressed in black high-heeled pumps and an aqua-blue, off-the-shoulder full-length gown with puffy sleeves. She spoke only twice during the 45-minute hearing, once to waive a reading of the indictment, and once to answer ``Not guilty.'' After the innocent plea was entered, the judge set bail to be secured by real estate, cash and personal possessions ``amounting to a reasonable market value of $5 million.'' The judge first said he would not detain Mrs. Marcos, but a hitch developed when prosecutors and defense lawyers could not agree on what property and cash would be used to secure the bail. Defense lawyers, who originally wanted Mrs. Marcos released without any bail, had agreed to a bail package in which the Marcoses would put up $1.2 million in Philippine pesos along with jewelry the couple brought to the United States when they fled their homeland. ``I don't see how that can possibly be used as bail,'' said Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles LaBella, noting that the jewelry is subject to subpoena in an ongoing grand jury investigation and the Philippine currency is subject to a claim by the current government of that nation. The judge ordered the parties to return to court Thursday with details on bail. Mrs. Marcos was then sent to be fingerprinted. The embezzlement and racketeering indictment was handed up Oct. 21. The main racketeering charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison upon conviction. Mrs. Marcos flew from Hawaii on Saturday, the first time she has left the state since her exile there. On Sunday, a limousine brought her to the Waldorf Towers, one of the New York locations where she threw lavish parties as first lady. She was surrounded by reporters and photographers. Bodyguards cleared a path as she and those with her strode inside the luxury apartment-hotel without comment. A Marcos associate in Honolulu, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Mrs. Marcos hoped to shop and entertain old friends while in New York. ``Her real concern is that she also hasn't left her husband's side for three years and she's very concerned about his health,'' John Bartko, a Marcos attorney, said in Honolulu. ``She's going to meet her legal obligation, but I just don't see her having a gay old time in New York City.'' Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Marcos visited St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cathedral. Aides said the Waldorf bill, which reportedly will run $1,800 a night, is to be paid by friends they won't identify. The criminal indictment is similar to a 1986 civil lawsuit filed in California by the Philippine government of Marcos' successor, Corazon Aquino. ``We developed an idea, which the American courts bought, that a dictator can't fleece his country, deposit the loot in the United States and expect to get away with it,'' said Morton Stavis, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a non-profit legal group representing the Aquino government. In response to the lawsuit, an injunction was granted March 2, 1986, that prevented the sale or transfer of Marcos' New York properties, which included four Manhattan commercial buildings and a Long Island estate, with a total value reportedly in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Mrs. Marcos arrived Sunday in a private Boeing 737 loaned by American Tobacco Co. heiress Doris Duke. The plane, outfitted to carry just 19, brought Mrs. Marcos' entourage, which included an attorney, a nurse, secretary and several friends. The jet landed at Newark International Airport, where reporters and about 40 supporters remained behind a gate out of sight from Mrs. Marcos. ``We wanted to show Mrs. Marcos and President Marcos that there are Filipinos who still support them,'' said Willy Paderon. ``I hope they will be vindicated of all these politically motivated charges that are coming left and right. ``They (the U.S. government) double-crossed the president. You don't do that to friends. It's going to cost the U.S.'' Six others were indicted with the Marcoses, including Saudi financier Adnan Khashoggi, who is accused of acting as a front for Marcos to help divert assets and hide his ownership of real estate and art. AP881031-0124 AP-NR-10-31-88 1315EST r i AM-BRF--BusCrash 10-31 0067 AM-BRF--Bus Crash,0069 Bus Crash Kills 12, Injures 29 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) A bus making a sharp turn plunged off a mountain road Monday, killing 12 people and injuring 29, a government spokesman said. The accident occurred in Shangla, about 80 miles north of Islamabad, said Mohammad Naeem Khan, government commissioner in the Swat district. He said 12 of the injured were in critical condition. AP881031-0125 AP-NR-10-31-88 1305EST b a PM-Obit-Houseman 10-31 0067 PM-Obit-Houseman,0068 URGENT Actor John Houseman Dead at 86 MALIBU, Calif. (AP) Actor John Houseman, known for his Oscar-winning role as a crusty law school professor in the movie ``The Paper Chase'' and for a long career as a theater and movie producer, has died. He was 86. Houseman died during the night at his home, Ivan Goff, said a family friend and Hollywood scriptwriter. AP881031-0126 AP-NR-10-31-88 1316EST r i AM-BRF--Uganda-Murder 10-31 0147 AM-BRF--Uganda-Murder,0152 British Agricultural Expert Killed in Uganda KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) Unknown assailants shot and killed a British agricultural expert working on a project to help farmers, the British High Commission said Monday. Tony Ridgeway, 57, was killed Tuesday night at his home in Lira, about 125 miles north of the capital of Kampala, said David Pearey, deputy high commissioner. ``As far as we know, he was alone at the time,'' said Pearey. ``It seemed he may have been shot as he rose from the desk he was working at.'' Pearey said several bullets hit Ridgeway in the legs and at least one bullet pierced his neck and chest. A briefcase was missing from the house. Ridgeway, who had lived in Uganda for about six years, was working on a project sponsored by the Washington-based World Bank. His wife and two sons live in Britain. AP881031-0127 AP-NR-10-31-88 1316EST r i AM-BRF--Bulgaria-Emissions 10-31 0133 AM-BRF--Bulgaria-Emissions,0136 12 Countries Sign Declaration To Reduce Nitrogen Oxide SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) Twelve countries Monday signed a declaration to reduce emissions of air pollutants that contribute to acid rain and the depletion of the ozone layer. The countries that promised to reduce by 30 percent their emissions of nitrogen oxide in the next 10 years are Finland, Norway, Belgium, Italy, France, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, West Germany, Liechtenstein, Denmark and the Netherlands. Nitrogen oxide, derived mostly from car exhaust fumes and the burning of fossil fuels, contributes to smog, acid rain and the ``greenhouse effect,'' or the warming of the atmosphere around Earth. The 12 members of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe were in Sofia for a meeting of the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution that begins Tuesday. AP881031-0128 AP-NR-10-31-88 1316EST r w PM-Bush-Iran-Contra 10-31 0525 PM-Bush-Iran-Contra,520 With PM-Lebanon-Hostages WASHINGTON (AP) Vice President George Bush knew the United States secretly sold weapons to Iran in an effort to secure freedom for American hostages, but he was unaware, he says, that profits from the sales were later diverted to the Nicaraguan Contras. Bush, who was chief of a presidential task force on terrorism, has tried to minimize his involvement in the Iran arms sale. He has said ``mistakes were made,'' but claimed he was ``out of the loop'' in making major policy decisions. The congressional committees that investigated the Iran-Contra affair said Bush was present at a White House meeting on Aug. 6, 1985, at which participants talked about allowing the Israelis to sell U.S.-made missiles to Iran. President Reagan made no decision on the weapons sales, participants said. But Secretary of State George Shultz and former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger opposed the plan. Bush has steadfastly refused to reveal his recommendations, if any, to the president. A few weeks later, the first shipment of TOW missiles was delivered to Tehran. The Americans hoped the weapons sales would lead to freedom for U.S. hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon. Ultimately, three hostages were released during the 14-month period before the shipments were shopped in November 1986. Congressional committees and the Tower Commission made few references to Bush, portraying him as a largely passive figure. Maine senators William Cohen, a Republican, and George Mitchell, a Democrat, both members of the Iran-Contra committee, said in a book they wrote that Bush's role remains an unanswered question. They wrote that others in the Reagan administration were convinced Bush had supported the plan. ``The vice president attended several meetings on the Iran initiative, but none of the participants recall his views,'' the report said. In February 1986, Bush's task force on terrorism released a report recommending that no concessions be made to terrorists. In August 1986, Bush visited Jerusalem, where he received a briefing on the arms-for-hostages deal from Amiram Nir, an Israeli official who had worked with National Security Council officials on the deal. Nir said the weapons sales were designed to ``get and hostages out,'' as well as to ``build better contact with Iran. Nir told the vice president: ``We are dealing with the most radical elements'' in Iran, according to the congressional report. But Bush did not comment except to thank Nir for pursuing the initiative ``despite doubts and reservations throughout the process.'' The congressional committees also concluded Bush was not told about the diversion of money from the weapons sales to the Contra rebels. Donald Gregg, Bush's top foreign policy adviser, had extensive knowledge about certain elements of the resupply operation for the Contras, but did not tell Bush about it, the report said. ``The vice president said he did not know of the Contra resupply operation,'' the congressional report said. Gregg testified that he was told about certain elements of the resupply operation by former CIA agent Felix Rodriguez in August 1986. But Gregg said he never passed along his information to Bush because he ``did not consider these facts worthy of the vice president's attention.'' AP881031-0129 AP-NR-10-31-88 1319EST r i AM-BRF--Waxwings 10-31 0126 AM-BRF--Waxwings,0130 Unusual Waxwings Seen Along Coast of Britain LONDON (AP) Scores of birds known as waxwings have arrived along the east coast of Britain, and an expert says they came from the Soviet Union in search of food. Christopher Mead, a bird specialist with the British Trust for Ornithology, said the waxwings seen on Sunday don't usually migrate to Britain and came because of a sparse crop of the berries on which they survive. Waxwings, which get their name from the red color at the tips of their wings, were last seen in large numbers in Britain in the 1960s. Officials reported about 100 waxwings were first seen a week ago in the Orkney and Shetland islands off the north coast of Scotland. AP881031-0130 AP-NR-10-31-88 1345EST r i AM-Israel-Glance 10-31 0401 AM-Israel-Glance,0426 Israel's Election at a Glance With AM-Israel, Bjt JERUSALEM (AP) A look at Israel's election for its 12th Knesset, or parliament, on Tuesday: VOTERS AND POLLING Any Israeli citizen over age 18 is eligible to vote. There are 2.9 million registered voters, including 350,000 Arabs who live in Israel. The country's total population is 4.4 million, including 750,000 Arabs. Included are 70,000 Jewish settlers who live in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip but are eligible to vote. Polls open at 7 a.m. (midnight EST Monday) and close at 10 p.m. (3 p.m. EST). About 80 percent usually vote, and ballots are counted by hand. THE KNESSET The Knesset has 120 members. Any Israeli citizen over the age of 21 is eligible for election. THE GOVERNMENT Israeli is a parliamentary democracy. The government is headed by a prime minister traditionally chosen from the party with the most seats in the Knesset. The prime minister forms a cabinet, which must be approved by the Knesset. PARTIES Israelis vote for parties, not individual candidates. The number of Knesset seats each wins depends on its proportion of the vote. Each party makes up numbered lists of candidates, and those gaining seats are chosen by their order on the list. Twenty-seven parties are running. The two major parties are the right-wing Likud bloc headed by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and the left-of-center Labor Party of Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. In Israel's history, neither major party has ever won an absolute majority, meaning the government is always a coalition and small parties have influence beyond their numbers. Labor and Likud each have three allied parties as likely coalition partners. There also are eight religious parties which use their seats as swing votes to gain backing for Jewish Orthodox causes; two Arab parties; an Arab-Jewish party that favors creating a Palestinian state, and eight others, most championing single causes. OPINION POLLS Most polls predict a close race, either with Likud and its allies winning narrowly or a split vote that will again create a Labor-Likud coalition such as has governed since the last election in 1984. Then, neither major party could form a government without the other. The polls are regarded as less than reliable because most are sponsored by Labor or Likud. Also, most do not survey Arabs, religious Jews, soldiers and residents of collective farms. AP881031-0131 AP-NR-10-31-88 1324EST u p PM-PoliticalRdp 2ndLd-Writethru a0600 10-31 0908 PM-Political Rdp, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0600,900 Dukakis Embraces Liberalism As Race With Bush Tightens EDs: Top 8 grafs new with Dukakis; pick up 6th graf pvs bgng ``Questioned by...; SUB 12th graf pvs bgng ``As part'' to clarify that St. Louis rally today By DONNA CASSATA Associated Press Writer George Bush today scoffed at Michael Dukakis' weekend embrace of the liberal label, calling it a ``miracle of miracles.'' Dukakis said the Republican has stood ``on the wrong side'' of every issue of importance to voters. With eight days left until Election Day, and some polls indicating a race closer than earlier surveys suggested, Bush shored up support in Kentucky and Missouri while Dukakis rallied California supporters and said, ``I'm fired up.'' Bush recalled that Dukakis had ``jumped all over me for using the `L' word'' in their last debate in Los Angeles. ``Well, speaking of my opponent, yesterday, miracle of miracles, headlines read all about it, he's using the liberal label again,'' the Republican nominee said in Louisville, Ky., today. Bush also brushed off Dukakis' invitation for a third debate, saying the real debate should be between Dukakis and Dukakis, ``the new left versus the old left.'' At stops from Bakersfield to Stockton on Sunday, Dukakis told voters, ``We need a president in the tradition, yes, the liberal tradition of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy.'' Dukakis dropped the ``L'' word _ as Bush and President Reagan regularly call it _ during his appearances today but still referred to the heritage of Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy. In San Jose, Dukakis said Bush has been ``on the wrong side of every issue,'' singling out issues of importance especially to women, such as pay equity, parental leave and health insurance. In a slap at Bush's long resume of appointed posts, Dukakis also said, ``You can't inherit the White House, you have to earn the right to be president of the United States.'' Questioned by reporters about his decision to embrace the label he has shunned for months, Dukakis said he comes from the liberal tradition of ``presidents who were on the side of average Americans, presidents who helped to build middle class America.'' ``Harry Truman was a liberal who believed in balancing budgets and that's the tradition I come from,'' the Massachusetts governor said. Though the Dukakis campaign sought to characterize California, with its 47 electoral votes, as a tossup based on their internal polling, a new ABC News poll put Bush ahead, 51 percent to 44 percent. The poll of 510 likely voters was conducted Saturday and Sunday. Bush stumped in Philadelphia's suburbs on Sunday and briefly manned the phones at his campaign headquarters in Montgomery County. ``This is George Bush calling from the headquarters. We're trying to get the vote out. I know you probably don't believe it, but that's who it is,'' the GOP nominee said in one call. Bush also delivered a pep talk to staff members at the headquarters, saying he and his wife, Barbara, plan ``to keep running like we're 10 points behind. Nobody is going to out-work us.'' As part of a counteroffensive, the Dukakis campaign in Missouri announced late Sunday that a free lunch with the homeless will be held across the street from St. Louis' Union Station at the same time as a Bush rally today. The lunch for clergy, veterans, the elderly and others is being sponsored by the St. Louis Clergy Coalition, Students for Dukakis and other organizations, the campaign said in a statement. Dukakis' running mate, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, was focusing today on his home state of Texas where a statewide poll released this weekend showed Bush maintaining a strong lead. Republican vice presidential nominee Dan Quayle was campaigning in Michigan and Ohio. The latest nationwide poll, a Time Magazine survey published today, found the Republican ticket leading Dukakis-Bentsen by 10 points, 50 percent to 40 percent. The survey of 1,096 probable voters was conducted Tuesday and Wednesday and had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points. Bush's chief of staff, Craig Fuller, said the campaign thought the race would tighten in the closing days of the campaign. ``I think it's to be expected as you get to the final days of the campaign that you're going to see some tightening in this race, but that's going to cause us to work harder,'' Fuller said. Buoyed by his campaign's tracking polls and some statewide surveys indicating a closer race, Dukakis claimed that the battle for the White House is far from over. ``You can sense it, you can feel it, you can taste it,'' he said. Crowds chanted ``Give 'em hell,'' and ``Tell it like it is,'' as the Democratic nominee made his way through the California valley by Amtrak train. A cheer also went up when Dukakis proclaimed himself a liberal. In an interview with the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, taped Saturday and scheduled to air tonight, the Massachusetts governor said he was upset ith Bush's definition of a liberal and the characteristics he tried to pin on his Democratic rival. ``The thing I object to is Mr. Bush's use of the term in a way which I think is very deliberately designed to suggest that I and people like me don't have a sense of values, that we're kind of permissive, that anything goes. And anybody who knows me knows that that's the farthest thing from who Mike Dukakis is,'' he said. AP881031-0132 AP-NR-10-31-88 1418EST r i AM-Rhino 10-31 0509 AM-Rhino,0524 Poachers Kill Kenya's White Rhino Herd By DIDRIKKE SCHANCHE Associated Press Writer NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) Poachers raided a special reserve at night and slaughtered at least five white rhinoceroses, eliminating the animals from Kenya's public lands, authorities said Monday. The massacre by the 30 poachers occurred Sunday night at Meru National Park, east of snow-capped Mount Kenya and 140 miles northeast of Nairobi, the capital, said Minister of Tourism and Wildlife George Muhoho. Five rhinos were killed, he said. Several wildlife experts, who spoke on condition of anonymity, put the number at six. Thirteen elephants also were gunned down in the last week in different areas, the wildlife sources said. The killings came amid stepped-up anti-poaching efforts by the government since August, when Muhoho revealed the slaughter of 92 elephants in the previous three months and the government launched a highly publicized campaign to stop the killing. The white rhinos, which unlike the black rhino are not indigenous to Kenya, were imported from South Africa about 20 years ago and lived under guard in a special reserve in the park. ``People watched over them day and night,'' said one of the sources. ``The rangers were wounded trying to defend them.'' The poachers escaped after hacking off the rhinos' valuable horns. One rhino horn can sell for up to $24,000 in the Far East, where it is used to make traditional medicines, and in the Middle East, where it is fashioned into ornamental handles for daggers. The white rhino's numbers have not been reduced as sharply as have those of the black rhino, which were thought to number more than 60,000 in the early 1970s. Today, there are thought to be about 800 black rhino throughout Africa. Most of Africa's white rhinos live in South Africa, where experts estimate the herd at about 3,000 strong. Twenty-five to 30 of the animals live in a private park in Solio Ranch, near the equator southeast of Mount Kenya, according to the Daily Nation newspaper. Both types of rhino are a rather dark gray, with their visible differences lying mostly in horn size and lip shape. Kenya sent a paramilitary unit to Meru National Park to track the rhinos' poachers, said a government wildlife source. He declined to provide details. Gunmen in the last week slaughtered and hacked the tusks off five elephants in southeastern Tsavo East National Park and eight elephants in the Mathews Range in arid Samburu district 155 miles north of Nairobi, the sources said. Their deaths bring to about 150 the number killed since April, according to published data. Wildlife officials estimate the toll is much higher. Studies by the Nairobi-based U.N. Environmental Program show that in the past 15 years, Kenya's elephant population has dropped 85 percent. An aerial survey in February of Tsavo Park and its environs found less than 5,500 elephants, down from 35,000 in 1974. Experts blame the intensifed slaughter on an all-time high of ivory prices, which have climbed steadily since the early 1970s and average about $82 per pound. AP881031-0133 AP-NR-10-31-88 1331EST u p PM-Dukakis 1stLd-Writethru a0438 10-31 0894 PM-Dukakis, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0438,900 Dukakis Says California Reception `Smells Like Victory' Eds: Top 15 grafs new with Dukakis speech; picks up pvs 6th graf bgng, As he traveled. By DONALD M. ROTHBERG AP Political Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) A fired-up Michael Dukakis campaigned today as the political ally of women and young people, and said the noisy welcome he received in California ``smells like victory to me.'' Taking a swipe at Vice President George Bush, who rejected his invitation for an election-eve debate, the Democratic presidential nominee declared that ``you can't inherit the White House, you have to earn the right to be president of the United States.'' Dukakis was greeted by loudly cheering supporters at the student union building at San Jose State University on the second day of a campaign swing through a state with 47 electoral votes, the most of any state. ``It smells like victory to me,'' he said. Dukakis campaigned Sunday as a born-again liberal but omitted the word from his San Jose speech today when he referred to the heritage of Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy. Trying to attract wavering sources of traditional Democratic strength, Dukakis said the Republican ticket of Bush and Sen. Dan Quayle of Indiana had been ``on the wrong side of every issue of special importance to American women.'' If people believed in such issues as pay equity, health insurance and parental leave, he said, ``then we're on your side.'' He also said he was separated from Bush by his stands on the environment and Supreme Court appointments. Dukakis quoted Quayle as telling a 12-year-old girl that ``if she were raped and made pregnant by her father, the government had a right to force her to bear that child.'' The audience erupted in loud boos. As he left the building, Dukakis was cheered by several thousand people, mostly students, who stood outside the hall. ``You're fired up,'' he told them. Asked about his own mood, Dukakis replied, ``I'm fired up.'' As he toured the lush San Joaquin Valley by train Sunday, the Massachusetts governor said confidently that his message ``is getting through'' and that ``this race is tightening up'' with polls showing he is narrowing Bush's lead in several key states. ``You can sense it, you can feel it, you can taste it,'' he said. Campaign aides said an internal poll showed that Bush's former 10-point lead in California had shrunk to a dead heat. As he traveled by Amtrak train, Dukakis predicted an upset victory on Nov. 8 and drew shouts of ``Give 'em hell,'' and ``Tell it like it is,'' from crowds that gathered under cloudless skies. From Bakersfield to Hanford and then Fresno, Merced, Modesto and Stockton, the train passed through the rich agricultural valley, past fields of cotton and vineyards and orchards. Accompanying the candidate were Sen. Alan Cranston and Reps. Tony Coelho and Robert Matsui, as well as a carload of financial contributors. ``The pollsters and the press have been trying to tell us the election is over,'' said Cranston. ``We'll show them on Election Day.'' Dukakis took up the same theme. ``It won't be the pollsters and the pundits who vote on Election Day,'' he said. ``It will be you.'' The candidate said his improved standing in polls is the result of work by ``a wonderful network of volunteers across the country'' and because ``our message of standing on the side of working Americans is getting through.'' Suddenly, he no longer shied away from the ``L-word.'' ``We need a president in the tradition, yes, the liberal tradition of Franklin Roois the outgoing vice president. Congress reasoned that a vice president only has to move down the hall. Regardless of who wins, the transition headquarters will be ready for immediate occupancy. By Election Day, telephones will be installed, copying machines will be plugged in and furniture will be in place. Stationery already had been ordered with a politically neutral heading of ``Office of the President-elect.'' Along with the government offices, the building at 1825 Connecticut N.W. houses a drug store, Chinese restaurant and Pakistani bank. Across the street is a bath house that once was a massage parlor. Representatives of the Bush and Dukakis campaigns have worked with the General Services Administration, the federal housekeeping agency, on arrangements in the building. Both say they don't need all of the three full floors and a part of a fourth that have been offered. In the Dukakis campaign, transition director Marcia Hale has put her planning on hold as her candidate tries to stage a political comeback. In the Bush campaign, where the rule is to avoid overconfidence, transition director Chase Untermeyer is reluctant to talk about his months of preparation. ``I'm in no position to answer because that's in the new world. It won't dawn until after he (Bush) happens to be elected,'' said Untermeyer, who works out of the Republican National Committee headquarters. If the polls are correct and Bush wins, he will face a situation that is unique in the last 152 years of political history. Not since 1836 has a sitting vice president been elected to the presidency. That was when Martin Van Buren moved up from understudy to president. How would it affect Bush's relationship with Reagan? Would Reagan begin to defer to Bush? Who would be in charge? ``The great historic example was in 1932 when the banking crisis was hard upon the land,'' Untermeyer recalled. ``President (Herbert) Hoover asked President-elect (Franklin D.) Roosevelt what he aimed to do, and Roosevelt declined to answer because he felt that was improper _ that the president is the president until he leaves office. ``Obviously their relationship was marked by a great deal of bitterness because Roosevelt trounced him during the election but that offer was declined,'' Untermeyer said. Even though there would be no bitterness between Reagan and Bush, Untermeyer noted that, ``The president-elect (is the one who) gets all the attention. The incumbent president is the one that people have to be reminded of.'' Nevertheless, Untermeyer says, ``The vice president has shown throughout his vice presidency that he has held the president in the highest esteem and honors him as the president of the United States and will until noon on the 20th of January. ``And I can't believe that even though, as history suggests, the fullest, brightest lights are going to be put on him (Bush) during what they used to call the interregnum that he will in any way appear to take that light from the president until he himself is president,'' said Untermeyer. However, he said that if Bush takes office on Jan. 20, ``It is a new administration ... It would not be Ronald Reagan's third term. It would be George Bush's first term.'' AP881031-0134 AP-NR-10-31-88 1432EST r i AM-Soviet-Radar 10-31 0297 AM-Soviet-Radar,0304 Superpowers Meet to Discuss Krasnoyarsk GENEVA (AP) Top U.S. and Soviet arms control officials met Monday at the Soviets' request to discuss the Krasnoyarsk radar in Siberia which the United States says violates the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. The delegations, headed by William Burns, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency director, and Viktor Karpov, the head of the arms control desk at the Soviet foreign ministry, met at the Soviet diplomatic mission, said a U.S. spokesman speaking on condition of anonymity. He said the meeting had been requested by the Soviets and that the talks were expected to last ``a few days.'' ``Our purpose in these talks is to listen to the Soviet proposals and to clarify Soviet positions on actions that they are prepared to take to correct the Krasnoyarsk problem,'' said the spokesman. The Soviet government announced last week that it was giving the controversial radar site to the Soviet Academy of Sciences for use as a civilian-run international space research center. President Reagan, in a speech in Los Angeles on Friday, said the United States is listening to what the Soviets have to say about Krasnoyarsk, but the U.S. position remains unchanged. The United States has said that the Soviets must dismantle the Krasnoyarsk facility in order to comply with the ABM treaty. U.S. officials maintain the radar violates the treaty, which limits each side's anti-ballistic missile facilities, because of its location and orientation. The two sides met in Geneva in August for their third periodic review of the treaty. At the close of the one-week session, the U.S. side issued a statement saying it ws not satisfied with the Soviet response to U.S. concerns about the radar, and threatened to take action that could terminate or suspend the ABM treaty. AP881031-0135 AP-NR-10-31-88 1432EST r i AM-Obit-Fuerbringer 10-31 0095 AM-Obit-Fuerbringer,0097 German Actor Who Dubbed Gregory Peck's Voice is Dead MUNICH, West Germany (AP) Ernst-Fritz Fuerbringer, a stage and screen character actor who also dubbed Gregory Peck's voice for German-language movies, died Monday of a heart attack at the age of 88. Fuerbringer's career spanned over 60 years, and included parts in more than 50 films, as well as dozens of stage and TV roles. He was also known for his dubbing work and lent his voice to Peck and Italian actor Vittorio de Sica when their movies were dubbed into German. AP881031-0136 AP-NR-10-31-88 1335EST u w PM-US-NorthKorea 1stLd-Writethru a0425 10-31 0508 PM-US-North Korea, 1st Ld-Writethru, a0425,480 US Eases Restrictions EDs: New material, editing thruout By GEORGE GEDDA Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The United States today relaxed trade, travel and diplomatic restrictions against North Korea to support South Korean efforts at easing tensions on the peninsula. State Department spokesman Charles Redman said the United States will encourage unofficial non-governmental visits from North Korea in academics, sports, culture and other areas. Redman also said financial regulations are being revised to permit group travel by Americans on a case-by-case basis. American diplomats will be allowed substantive contact with North Korean diplomats for the first time in almost a year, he said. In addition, the spokesman said, commercial exports of humanitarian goods to North Korea will be allowed on a limited basis. Currently, humanitarian items must be donated. Redman stressed that general commercial trade will still be illegal and that North Korea ``remains on our list of states which support or are engaged in international terrorism. ``Its behavior in this area is something we will continue to scrutinize closely,'' he said. The moves are a complement to efforts by South Korean President Roh Tae Woo, who has called for a north-south summit meeting and a resumption of trade between the two Koreas as part of an attempt to ease tensions. Roh met with President Reagan 10 days ago and suggested the United States act in coordination with South Korea's own moves. North Korea is one of the few countries in the world with which the United States has no diplomatic relations, and it has been the target of a highly restrictive U.S. trade embargo. In a gesture to the north in early 1987, the administration removed a prohibition on diplomatic contacts, but then restored it after what officials said was convincing evidence of North Korean complicity in the November 1987 bombing of a South Korean passenger plane that killed all 115 aboard. Since Roh's visit, the State Department has been working with the Treasury Department and other agencies to carry out the paperwork necessary to implement the expected changes, the officials said. Historically, South Korea has, with U.S. help, tried to isolate North Korea, but Roh has altered that policy with his call for north-south trade and for an unprecedented summit meeting with President Kim Il-Sung. As U.S. officials see it, Roh's moves reflect increased South Korean self-confidence based on the country's growing economic strength and the success of the Olympic games held in September in Seoul. North Korea made no attempt to disrupt the games, which Roh took as an encouraging sign. He proposed the summit shortly after the games concluded, reflecting, in part, strong domestic pressure to make an effort that could lead to the eventual peaceful reunification of the peninsula. The officials said recent developments have left North Korea more isolated than before. Its principal backers, China and the Soviet Union, ignored North Korea's appeals for a boycott of the Olympics. Only Cuba and a handful of other leftist countries supported the North Korean call. AP881031-0137 AP-NR-10-31-88 1432EST r i AM-Chissano 10-31 0116 AM-Chissano,0120 President Recuperating from Surgery in Cuba MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) President Joaquim Chissano is recuperating after an operation to remove his prostate in Cuba, it was reported Monday. Chissano, 49, underwent the surgery Sunday, according to the national news agency AIM. The political bureau of Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party distributed a communique saying the president was ``fine, and recuperating. His vital signs are normal.'' The operation was decided on after doctors found Chissano was suffering from a benign illness in the prostate gland, the report said. Chissano, accompanied by his wife, Marcelina, and Minister of Security Mariano Matsinhe, left Maputo on Thursday and met with Cuban president Fidel Castro on Friday, AIM reported. AP881031-0138 AP-NR-10-31-88 1342EST u a PM-LottoJackpot 3rdLd-Writethru a0604 10-31 0736 PM-Lotto Jackpot, 3rd Ld - Writethru, a0604,0751 Hospital Workers Among Those To Claim Record $60.8 Million Jackpot Eds: Leads with 10 grafs to CORRECT ``Sears road service'' to ``Sears appliance service,'' update with news conference schedule then cancelled, delete repetitious phrasing, picking up at the 9th graf previous, ``The Los Angeles.'' And Deletes the last three grafs to tighten. By STEVE GEISSINGER Associated Press Writer SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Groups of workers in separate parts of the state claimed to hold two of three winning tickets for a $60.8 million lotto jackpot said to be the world's largest lottery prize. ``The lady who found we had a winning ticket screamed,'' said Carrie Dragon, a member of the group of 14 workers at Fallbrook Hospital in San Diego and a friend who attended a party Saturday night to watch the winning numbers drawn. ``Then everybody started dreaming about what we were going to do with the money,'' Dragon, a 38-year-old pharmacy technician, said Sunday. ``I'm going to set up trust funds for my four kids and pay off bills. But for Thanksgiving, we're (the group) all going to Hawaii or someplace like that.'' The second group of 25 workers at a Sears appliance service department in Sacramento were said today to have a second ticket, while the third was claimed to be held by a couple from Westminster in Orange County in Southern California. Lottery officials scheduled but then cancelled a news conference with the 25 Sacramento winners. Lottery spokeswoman Kim Rendahl said the workers then decided they didn't want the publicity and had to return to work. Taylor said he was uncertain whether tickets could be checked in time for a news conference with the San Diego group today, but that a news conference with the potential Westminster winner was possible. Lottery spokesman Bob Taylor said he could not confirm that the claimants held winning tickets until the stubs were verified, probably later today. Each winning ticket is worth a third of the jackpot, or nearly $20.3 million, to be paid over two decades. The winning numbers were 5, 20, 26, 28, 32 and 39. Surinder Sanghera, owner of Sangheras House of Liquors in Sacramento where a winning ticket was sold, said it was bought by a pool of 25 Sears employees. ``They are regulars,'' he said. ``I think they've been buying here since the lotto began.'' A woman answering the phone at the Sears service center this morning said that she and 24 other workers there were joint winners. She added, ``I'm pretty excited about it. Wouldn't anybody be?'' before hanging up the phone without giving her name. The Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register reported today that the Westminster winner is Ron Smith, a 45-year-old production supervisor. Smith said he had bought five lottery tickets. ``We're very common, real people,'' Smith's wife, Linda, told the Register. ``We have our friends and this is our house. We're not going to move.'' The two now earn about $40,000 a year. Smith said he'll quit his job at Shell Oil so he and his wife can travel. He went to work Sunday and told his co-workers. ``They thought I was kidding,'' he said. ``Then they decided I was serious.'' The group at the hospital in Fallbrook purchased $600 worth of tickets, with each member of the group kicking in $15 apiece, Dragon said. She said all agreed they would split what winnings came from the ``Quick Pick'' tickets. ``Quick Pick'' means that the numbers on the $1 tickets were selected at random by a computerized lotto terminal. The tickets were purchased at a Circle K convenience store, she said. Lottery officials verified that the winning ticket in Fallbrook was purchased in a Circle K. Dragon said the winning ticket was placed in a bank vault Sunday. If verified, it would be worth more than $67,000 a year before taxes for 20 years to each of the 15. Each of the three winning tickets is worth $20,296,175, one-third of the $60,888,525 jackpot, said lottery spokeswoman Susan Kossack. The prize was the world's largest lottery jackpot, Taylor said. The previous world record was $56 million in Spain's El Gordo lottery in 1983, according to Sam Valenza, publisher of Lottery Players magazine in Moorestown, N.J. The previous North American record was a $55.16 million Florida lottery jackpot last month, but that prize went to a single winner. AP881031-0139 AP-NR-10-31-88 1434EST r i AM-BRF--Iraq-Weather 10-31 0118 AM-BRF--Iraq-Weather,0121 First Weather Forecast in Iraq in Eight Years BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) For the past eight years in Iraq, tomorrow's weather literally has been anybody's guess. On Monday, however, the forecasters were back. The government pulled all weather forecasters off the domestic airwaves and newspaper pages when the war with Iran started in September 1980. The ban stemmed from a fear the information could be used by the enemy. The forecast called for clear skies and moderate northwesterly winds in the northern and central areas, while the southern part will be partly cloudy to rainy with southeasterly winds. The temperature is expected to be 77 degrees in Baghdad, 72 in Mosul and 82 in Basra. AP881031-0140 AP-NR-10-31-88 1436EST r i AM-Nicaragua-Joan 10-31 0369 AM-Nicaragua-Joan,0383 Aid For Storm Victims Arrives From U.S. And Other Countries By BRYNA BRENNAN Associated Press Writer MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) The international community, including private U.S. groups, is sending tons of aid to Nicaragua in response to the leftist government's plea for help to the victims of Hurricane Joan. About 200,000 people were left homeless after the hurricane swept a path of destruction through Nicaragua on Oct. 22. The torrential rains and winds downed bridges and destroyed crops, with the Atlantic Coast and the south-central regions suffering the worst damage. The Sandinista government called on the international community for urgent aid. Cuba, Nicaragua's closest ally, sent thousands of tons of supplies from Havana to Bluefields, the hardest-hit coastal city. The first plane carrying U.S. aid arrived Saturday night at Managua's A.C. Sandino International Airport from Tucson, Ariz., with 30 tons of food, medicine, blankets, clothes, tents and building materials, according to Karen Glenn, a missionary with the Evangelical Committee for Aid to Development, an umbrella group for Protestant organizations. Mrs. Glenn said the donations came from Walk In Peace, a group started in Georgia by the Rev. Don Mosley. A plane from the U.S.-based World Vision landed Sunday with 20 tons of goods, she said. A third plane with U.S. aid was to arrive on Monday, Mrs. Glenn said. The Reagan administration imposed a trade embargo in 1985, charging that Nicaragua threatens U.S. national security by supporting communism. The ban bars Americans from exporting goods, except humanitarian aid, to Nicaragua and prohibits imports. The Dominican Republic shipped 35 tons of goods, including rice. El Salvador, a staunch American ally, sent two flights of goods over the weekend from the Salvadoran Red Cross. A plane was expected Monday from the Soviet Union, Nicaragua's largest economic and military backer. Barricada, the official Sandinista newspaper, said the Soviets also were sending a boatload of supplies. Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Mexico and Panama sent emergency goods last week. Also last week, Spain sent food, medicine and blankets and the British Red Cross supplied more than 3 tons of goods. Pledges for aid came from North Korea, Italy, France and Uruguay, the government said. The total amount of aid was not known. AP881031-0141 AP-NR-10-31-88 1436EST r i AM-Poland-Shipyard 10-31 0431 AM-Poland-Shipyard,0442 Gdansk Shipyard Is Hallowed Ground for Solidarity With AM-Poland, Bjt By DEBORAH G. SEWARD Associated Press Writer WARSAW, Poland (AP) The Lenin shipyard in Gdansk has symbolized the struggle for free unions since the tumult of August 1980, when a 36-year-old electrician named Lech Walesa led the strike that created Solidarity. The yard once was a showcase of industry in communist Poland, but never recovered after the martial law crackdown of Dec. 13, 1981, that crushed Solidarity, the first independent union in the Soviet bloc. Solidarity was recognized as a legal union after the 18-day strike led by Walesa, who still works at yard named for the founder of the Soviet state. It was formally outlawed in 1982 and, like the shipyard that spawned it, never regained the power of that heady first summer. Officials now have decided to close the shipyard Dec. 1, citing the need to discontinue money-losing state enterprises. Baltic coast shipyards have been hotbeds of political activity since the 1970s. The killing by police of scores of workers during food-price riots in December 1970 inspired a generation of workers to demand free unions. The immediate cause of the 1980 strike at the Lenin yard, which began Aug. 14, was the dismissal in July of a popular woman who worked as a crane operator. Walesa, who had been fired in 1976, vaulted the fence into the shipyard to lead it. Soon after it was legalized, Solidarity claimed 10 million members, including thousands belonging to the ruling Communist Party. When it was banned in October 1982, Solidarity maintained a leadership structure underground. Workers at the Lenin shipyard joined strikes in May and August of this year, the worst in Poland since 1981, and authorities began to suggest closing the operation. At its height of prosperity in the 1970s, the yard employed more than 15,000 workers. A billboard on the grounds lists 27 countries for which it has built nearly 900 ships since World War II. Much of its equipment has become rusted during the bad times, and only about 10,000 employees remain. Many ardent supporters of Solidarity were fired or have drifted away since martial law to higher-paying jobs in construction or other fields. A new generation of militant young workers has taken up the Solidarity banner, however, pressing bread-and-butter issues like pay and housing. Even when the shipyard is closed, the site will remain a strong symbol of the free union. Outside the gates are three metal crosses 130 feet tall erected by Solidarity in its heyday to honor the workers slain in 1970. AP881031-0142 AP-NR-10-31-88 1410EST r a AM-People 10-31 0708 AM-People,0736 People in the News LaserPhoto NY44 NEW YORK (AP) Actors Sidney Poitier and Estelle Parsons honored actor and director Frederick O'Neal in a ceremony that also marked what would have been the 90th birthday of actor, singer, lawyer, athlete and activist Paul Robeson. In Sunday night's celebration at the Shubert Theatre, Poitier and Parsons draped a kente cloth worn by the kings of West Africa around O'Neal's shoulders and called him ``one of our venerated elders.'' O'Neal, 83, whose career dates to 1927 and who co-founded the American Negro Theater, was given a special Robeson Award. ``I accept this award as sort of a command: `Now go out and earn it,''' O'Neal told the audience, which gave the AFL-CIO vice president and president emeritus of Actors Equity a standing ovation. Robeson, who died in 1976, was among the most famous and highest paid actors of his day, renowned for his performances in, among other things, ``Othello'' and ``Show Boat.'' But Robeson's popularity suffered in the 1950s because of his open admiration for the Soviet Union. Poitier told the audience that Robeson the political radical had counseled him against being too radical. ``He had an impact on every selection I ever made as an actor. He never wanted me to lose my credibility,'' Poitier said. ATHENS, Greece (AP) Premier Andreas Papandreou's girlfriend and her architect husband have divorced by mutual consent and the divorce will become final within a week, a court official said Monday. Dimitra Liani, a 34-year-old Olympic Airways flight attendant, married Alex Kapopoulos, 48, a former prominent member of the Revolutionary Greek Communist Party, in a civil ceremony in 1982. They have no children. They parted after working together on a 1986 television series promoting equality of the sexes. Ms. Liani presented the program, which featured the premier as the first guest. Kapopoulos was the producer and still works for state-run channel ERT-1. Papandreou, 69, said before undergoing open-heart surgery in London last month that he intends to divorce his American wife, Margaret. He is expected to marry Ms. Liani, according to officials in his Panhellenic Socialist Movement. Mrs. Papandreou, 66, who heads a left-wing Greek feminist organization, said she will only comment on her husband's plans when he has fully recovered. The couple have four grown children and two grandchildren. WASHINGTON (AP) Justice Sandra Day O'Connor took her seat with other Supreme Court justices on Monday, 10 days after undergoing breast cancer surgery at Georgetown University Hospital. O'Connor, 58, reportedly underwent a mastectomy, removal of the breast. Normally, breast cancer pateints receive some treatment such as chemotherapy or radiation to prevent a recurrence. No details of the operation have been confirmed. But O'Connor has said the cancer was detected in an early stage and the prognosis is for a full recovery. O'Connor had previously issued a statement that she intended to be back at the court Monday after its two-week recess. SYDNEY, Australia (AP) A mother who claimed a wild dog ate her baby and battled for eight years against a wrongful murder charge says American actress Meryl Streep's portrayal of her in a new movie is ``painfully perfect.'' Lindy Chamberlain and her husband, Michael, praised Streep in a televised interview for a ``truly amazing job'' in the soon-to-be released film ``Evil Angels,'' which will premier in the United States as ``A Cry In The Dark.'' The couple was interviewed on Australia's ``60 Minutes'' program on the eve of the film's release this week in Australia. The film centers on the 1980 disappearance of the Chamberlain's 6-week-old daughter Azaria during a camping trip to the Outback, and her mother's much-publicized murder trial and imprisonment. It also stars Sam Neill as Michael Chamberlain, who resigned as a pastor for the Seventh Day Adventist Church during his wife's trial. ``In some ways it (the film) was good because it helps clear up a lot of points,'' she said. ``But in another way I didn't like it because it was my life on the screen.'' Her husband said it was a ``true story totally on line with what we know.'' ``I felt extremely emotional,'' he said. ``One minute I was in tears, the next minute I was laughing.'' AP881031-0143 AP-NR-10-31-88 1437EST r a AM-Brites 10-31 0622 AM-Brites,0645 Bright and Brief KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) Kokomo, Ind., is, no doubt, a fine city, but it's hardly the tropical paradise of the Beach Boys' song ``Kokomo.'' So Keys businessmen are creating pieces of the fictitious island to satisfy the Kokomo craze. The song, which climbed to the top of Billboard's pop singles' chart Monday, mentions various Caribbean islands as well as Key Largo and the Florida Keys and declares that Kokomo is the place ``you want to go to get away from it all.'' Unfortunately for interested vacationers, songwriters Mike Love, Terry Melcher, John Phillips and Scott MacKenzie dreamed up the alluring isle for the song from the motion picture ``Cocktail.'' Some would-be visitors, not finding Kokomo on any maps, have called chambers of commerce in the Keys looking for it. ``One caller said she wanted her wedding ceremony on Kokomo Island and asked us to help make arrangements,'' said Ginna Thomas, executive director for the Key Largo Chamber of Commerce. Not ones to miss any opportunity, resort operators are trying to capitalize on Kokomo's fame. In Key West, Marriott's Casa Marina has renamed its beach Kokomo Beach, according to marketing director Jeff Erwin. ``We felt if people wanted Kokomo, then what the heck, let's give them Kokomo,'' said Joe Roth, managing owner of Holiday Isle Resort in Islamorada. ``So we named our poolside bar Kokomo and developed a tropical drink with the same name.'' The full name, by the way, is Kokomo at Margaritaville. As with Kokomo, there is no Margaritaville, featured in a hit song by Jimmy Buffett, the Keys' resident music star. TACOMA, Wash (AP) Shadowy figures flit through the halls after dark. Burglar alarms go off for no apparent reason. Things go bump in the night. Sound like a Halloween haunted house? Actually, it's the Washington State Historical Society Museum. Through the years, nighttime security guards have reported ghostly figures stalking halls and noises in deserted parts of the museum, which was built shortly after the turn of the century. ``There's nothing worse than closing this place up at night,'' said Steve Campion, who works in the gift shop. Campion says any creaks and thumps probably come from settling of the building, but he admits that he would be reluctant to spend a night in the place. Registrar Mary Rash said a security guard who retired in 1986 often reported seeing a lady wearing a brown dress in the darkened hallways. The same man, who died the month after he retired, also said he saw the ghost of Mary Todd Lincoln playing with her two sons near an Abraham Lincoln display. Security officer Michael Shaudis said he was told that shortly after a new alarm system was installed several years ago, a motion detector sounded an alarm in a locked room where the Lincoln display was stored, for reasons that remain unexplained. Ms. Rash, hesitant to say she believes the museum is haunted, nonetheless does not believe the guard fabricated his ghostly tale. Unexplained circumstances continue even with the latest technology. Images of Victorian-clad mannequins from a display somehow were burned into video security screens. When a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy known as Ankh Unnofoi was moved last fall from the first-floor atrium to a dark cranny on the second floor to make room for another exhibit, plans called for installation of a light at the new location. The first light bulb fizzled. So did the second. A new lighting base and bulb were installed, and all was well until the light was pointed at the mummy. The bulb immediately went out, Shaudis said. ``Obviously, it's probably the contacts in the track,'' he said. Nonetheless, to this day, the mummy remains unlighted. AP881031-0144 AP-NR-10-31-88 1438EST r i AM-China-Bankruptcy 10-31 0570 AM-China-Bankruptcy,0586 China's First Bankruptcy Law Goes into Effect By JIM ABRAMS Associated Press Writer BEIJING (AP) China's first bankruptcy law takes effect Tuesday, creating a legal framework for closing thousands of inefficient state-run enterprises. Economists say that in its initial stages, the law will be used more as a threat to debt-ridden firms and few will be closed. Since 1986, when bankruptcy experiments started in several cities, only two small state-owned businesses have been closed. The new law is part of overall reforms designed to end lifetime employment, tie wages and benefits to work performance, and redefine the state's relationship to business. It was passed in December 1986 with the stipulation it would take effect three months after another new law, which gives factories greater operating autonomy. The bankruptcy legislation could affect the nearly 7,000 state-run companies running in the red. These companies _ 17 percent of the nation's state-run businesses _ lost almost $1 billion in the first half of 1988, up 27 percent from the same period in 1987. The government will spend about $10.8 billion this year to prop up the ailing industries. The bankruptcy law applies to firms that have suffered ``heavy losses,'' but does not pinpoint which companies should be the target of closures. Under the law, the state will auction off the fixed assets of enterprises declared insolvent. Efforts will also be made to merge money losers with stronger businesses. The efficient firms will have the right to reassign workers or change the product line of the plant taken over. The official China Daily said Sunday the introduction of bankruptcy, once regarded as a symbol of capitalist decay, is ``sending a shiver down the spines of directors and workers in money-losing enterprises.'' It quoted Zhang Yinjie of the Beijing Economic Planning Commission as saying his office was not sure ``how to determine what kind of enterprises should go bankrupt and then, having decided that, how to bring them to court.'' Zhang also brought up the labor issue, saying, ``What if the workers who have been fired throng around the government buildings, raising signs and chanting `I want to work, I am hungry.''' China, which only recently acknowledged that unemployment existed in the socialist state, puts unemployment at 2 percent. Chinese economists say the jobless rate will hit 4 percent or 5 percent as factories trim excess laborers or go broke. Despite new statutes giving factory managers the right to hire and fire workers, few people have lost their jobs and large scale layoffs are rare. Under an unemployment insurance program being tried in several cities, enterprises pay into a relief fund and laid-off workers are eligible for benefits of 75 percent of their salary for the first 12 months and 50 percent for the second 12 months. China in the past month has called a temporary halt to price reforms and reasserted controls over bank loans and foreign trade in the face of a badly overheated economy and an inflation rate of more than 20 percent. However, Chinese leaders insist they remain committed to the 10-year program of switching to an economy directed by market forces rather than central planning. The government appears to be pushing ahead with measures to restructure the state ownership system, such as the selling of shares in state factories, auctioning off smaller state firms to collective or private businesses, instituting the contract system and introducing bankruptcy. AP881031-0145 AP-NR-10-31-88 1409EST u p AM-InsuranceRevolt Bjt 10-31 0714 AM-Insurance Revolt, Bjt,0732 Californians Will Decide Expensive Ballot Contest over Auto Premiums By STEVE GEISSINGER Associated Press Writer SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) In this state infatuated with cars but infuriated by soaring auto premiums, the insurance industry has raised a record $42.6 million for a campaign to defeat consumer-backed ballot proposals that would slash rates by at least 20 percent. The contest over five conflicting auto insurance reform measures on Nov. 8 ballots has grown into the most expensive political struggle ever waged outside a presidential contest. All told, a combined $60 million has been poured into a political war pitting consumer advocates, insurers and trial lawyers against one another. Industry analysts express fears that support for the tougher rate-cutting measures could spawn a nationwide ``insurance revolt.'' More immediately, if Californians approve more than one of the five conflicting measures, it could likely trigger court battles that would produce unexpected hybrids. But polls show Californians leaning toward approval of Proposition 103, the deepest and broadest of the measures on the ballot. Proposition 103, supported by consumer advocate Ralph Nader, would lower almost all rates by an immediate 20 percent below November 1987 rates. It would require an additional 20 percent cut in insurance rates for good drivers. It also would give an elected insurance commissioner control over future rate increases, limit use of territorial rating to set auto insurance premiums and subject the industry to state antitrust and unfair business practice laws. The rush to reform auto insurance was spurred by rates which have risen 40 percent between mid-1985 and the end of 1987, according to legislative studies. The insurance industry claims its profits in the state are slim to none. It placed rival Proposition 104 on the ballot, a 24,000-word measure that would create a no-fault system, temporarily cut personal injury premiums by an average 20 percent, and prohibit recovery for pain-and-suffering damages unless injuries result in death or permanent and serious disability. ``The key is getting a good no-fault law passed. And the bargain that the insurance industry is offering you ... is a good no-fault law .... I think it's a bargain you ought to strike with them,'' says University of Virginia professor Jeffrey O'Connell, an expert on accident law who is backing Proposition 104. A second industry-backed measure, Proposition 106, would limit the contingency fees attorneys could charge their clients. The fees are the payment an attorney gets from a settlement won for a client who cannot afford the regular pay-as-you-go arrangement. The industry says high contingency fees drive up insurance rates. But foes say the measure would make it difficult for victims of accidents to hire qualified legal counsel, while placing no limits on fees paid to lawyers working for insurance companies. Nader claims the insurance industry placed its rival measures on the ballot as a tactic to muddy the water. ``When Proposition 103 first hit the streets to get signatures (to qualify it for the ballot), the insurance companies realized they would have a very difficult time defeating it, so they put ... their propositions on the ballot to confuse the public and their ads are furthering that end,'' Nader said. Adding to the confusion is Proposition 100, financed largely by trial lawyers and sponsored by consumer groups, which would immediately roll back good drivers' rates by 20 percent below those charged on Jan. 1, 1988. The measure also would prohibit limits on lawyers' fees. A fifth measure, Proposition 101, sponsored by Democratic Assemblyman Richard Polanco of Los Angeles and Coastal Insurance Co., would cut certain premiums by up to 35 percent by capping attorney fees and injury claims. Trial lawyers and consumer groups argue that the measure would leave loopholes for insurers to raise rates. Industry officials insist that Propositions 100 and 103 would drive up rates in all but four Southern California counties because companies could no longer use territorial rating and therefore would no longer be able to charge Los Angeles residents for the high cost of claims there. Proponents counter that their measures would not end territorial rating, but would force insurers to justify it. The industry also says many companies would abandon California in the face of rate cuts in Propositions 100 and 103, but supporters term such threats scare tactics. AP881031-0146 AP-NR-10-31-88 1440EST r i AM-BRF--USInspectors 10-31 0156 AM-BRF--US Inspectors,0161 U.S. Team Leaves After Inspecting Former Soviet Missile Sites BERLIN (AP) A team of eight U.S. inspectors left East Germany on Monday after completing inspections of missile sites covered under a superpower treaty scrapping intermediate-range nuclear weapons, the state-run media reported. The men left after inspecting former Soviet nuclear missile sites near Leipzig, Communist East Germany's ADN news agency said. The team had arrived Sunday to determine if the Soviet SS-20 missiles had been removed, ADN said. Soviet inspectors have conducted inspections at several U.S. missile sites in West Germany since the treaty was signed in December. The Soviet Union began removing its missiles from East Germany and Czechoslovakia in February, before the U.S. Senate had ratified the treaty. Under terms of the treaty, the Soviet Union and the United States agreed to eliminate all land-based, intermediate-range nuclear missiles. The treaty allows for inspections by both sides to verify its terms. AP881031-0147 AP-NR-10-31-88 1455EST d a AM-BRF--PrayerShawl 10-31 0132 AM-BRF--Prayer Shawl,0134 Court: Prisons Don't Have To Supply Free Prayer Shawls NEW ORLEANS (AP) Prisons don't have to supply free prayer shawls, sermon tapes or religious books to inmates, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday. The court upheld U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice's dismissal as frivolous Donald Ray Frank's lawsuit against the Texas Department of Corrections. Frank, who is Jewish, claimed his freedom of religion was violated because the department wouldn't give him religious materials including six books, a prayer shawl and sermon tapes. The 5th Circuit noted that Frank does not claim he is not allowed to worship or that he is discriminated against because he is Jewish, or that the corrections department won't let him get the things he wants on his own. AP881031-0148 AP-NR-10-31-88 1443EST r i AM-Hirohito 10-31 0230 AM-Hirohito,0239 Hirohito Remains in Stable Condition By TERRIL JONES Associated Press Writer TOKYO (AP) Emperor Hirohito received another blood transfusion Monday after his blood pressure fell, palace officials said. The 87-year-old monarch, listed in stabile condition, discharged some blood early in the day but doctors waited until afternoon to administer a transfusion of nearly a pint, said palace spokesman Kenji Maeda. Hirohito was recovering from a serious weekend setback. He received 3.8 pints of blood from late Saturday to Sunday evening _ the largest transfusion since he fell sick from internal bleeding 43 days ago. With Monday's transfusion, Hirohito has received more than 32 pints of blood since his illness began. Doctors consider the transfusions routine. Hirohito, the world's longest reigning monarch, has been bedridden and fed intravenously since the crisis began. Maeda said doctors were not ``particularly concerned'' by the drop in blood pressure. It fell to 114 over 36 in the morning, but rose to 124 over 62, roughly what it was Sunday night, Maeda said. Early yesterday, it had dropped to a dangerously low 84 over 34. A healthy person's blood pressure is about 120 over 80. The emperor was fully conscious Monday, talking to the five physicians who attend him on a 24-hour basis, according to Maeda. He received visits from his two sons, Crown Prince Akihito and Prince Hitachi, and other relatives. AP881031-0149 AP-NR-10-31-88 1457EST d a AM-People-MrsAmerica 10-31 0121 AM-People-Mrs America,0124 Minnesota Woman Named Mrs. America LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) Jennifer Kline of Minnetonka, Minn., was crowned Mrs. America 1988 during a pageant here. Kline, 22, a model, received more than $100,000 in cash and prizes for her victory Sunday night. First runner-up was Jaunita Lee, 30, a sales representative from Mount Pleasant, S.C. Other runners-up, in order, were Connie LeLaCheur, 25, of Colorado Springs, Colo., co-host of a children's television show; Candi Sizemore, 25, a part-time computer operator from Pine Bluff, Ark.; and Renee Johnson, 25, a model and fundraiser from Rockford, Ill. The 50 contestants were judged in swimsuits and evening gowns and on personality and poise. The pageant will be shown on ABC-TV Tuesday night. AP881031-0150 AP-NR-10-31-88 1443EST r i AM-India-Farmers 10-31 0385 AM-India-Farmers,0397 Farmers End Protest, Claim Officials Considering Their Demands By RAJU GOPALAKRISHNAN Associated Press Writer NEW DELHI, India (AP) Thousands of farmers camped on a road to the presidential palace ended their weeklong protest Monday, saying the government will consider their demands for higher crop prices. Their withdrawal came soon after Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi addressed a party rally in memory of his slain mother, former premier Indira Gandhi. The rally of the ruling Congress Party was to be held at the site of the farmers' protest but was shifted to a park in front of the 17th-century Red Fort, about 3{ miles from the presidential palace. ``We have shown our strength,'' said Mahavir Singh, one of the farmers' leaders who spoke to reporters as hundreds of tractors drove down the Rajpath or Avenue of Kings and out of the city. Many farmers viewed their protest as a success because it forced a new venue on the Congress rally. Mahender Singh Tikait, president of the Indian Farmers' Union, called off the protest. He said the government has assured a farmers' delegation that their demands will be considered. Police said at least 40,000 farmers camped on Rajpath since last Monday. Most slept under the shade of their tractors by day and burned fires of cow dung to keep warm at night. ``Their protest became meaningless after they forced the Congress to shift their rally,'' said Ajay Aggarwal, a police officer posted at the sit-in site. But the farmers say they will continue a non-cooperation movement and refuse to pay taxes until government assurances become concrete offers, according to Mahavir Singh. Among demands are that farmers get free electricity. ``We are happy with what we have achieved,'' Singh said. ``If the government does not honor its assurances we can always come back. And if we come back, we won't leave.'' At least 500,000 people gathered on the dusty grounds at the Congress Party rally. During a 45-minute speech delivered in Hindi, Gandhi repeatedly told the crowd that his party had ushered in an agricultural ``green revolution'' and was trying to help farmers. Gandhi did not specifically refer to the farmers' demands. The rally was called to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Indira Gandhi, who led the party for nearly two decades. AP881031-0151 AP-NR-10-31-88 1458EST d a AM-StutzmanTransferred 10-31 0258 AM-Stutzman Transferred,0265 Stutzman Headed To Texas To Face Murder Charge LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) Eli Stutzman, convicted of abandoning the body of his 9-year-old son, will be sent to Texas to face a murder charge, a judge ruled Monday. Lancaster County District Judge Earl Witthoff granted Texas temporary custody of Stutzman to face the charge in the 1985 death of his former roommate. Stutzman, 38, was sentenced in January in Thayer County District Court after pleading guilty to two misdemeanors related to the death of his son Danny, whose body was found Dec. 24, 1985. Stutzman is serving a one-year sentence for abandoning a human body and a six-month term for concealing a death. On July 18, Texas authorities indicted Stutzman in the murder of Glenn Pritchett, 24, whose body was found near Austin on May 12, 1985. Assistant Nebraska Attorney General William Howland said Monday that because Stutzman will complete his Nebraska sentence Dec. 15, he probably will not be returned to Nebraska. Howland said Stutzman will be transferred to Texas as soon as all the paperwork is processed and arrangements are made. Danny died while he and his father were driving to Ohio from Wyoming. According to authorities, Stutzman left his son's body in a ditch along a road near Chester and a motorist discovered it. Townspeople buried him a few months later and his identity remained a mystery until Reader's Digest published a story on the case in its December 1987 issue. A reader thought the boy might be Danny and contacted authorities. AP881031-0152 AP-NR-10-31-88 1444EST r i AM-Namibia 10-31 0395 AM-Namibia,0406 Report U.S. to Announce Delay in Namibia Independence By LAURINDA KEYS Associated Press Writer JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) The failure of Cuba and Angola to respond to a U.S.-mediated compromise plan have delayed Tuesday's target date to start granting independence to South-West Africa, reports said Monday. The independent South African Press Association said an official U.S. announcement ``is expected to be made soon,'' saying South Africa would not meet its Tuesday target to begin withdrawing from the territory, popularly called Namibia. The withdrawal was to lead to June 1 independence elections supervised by the United Nations, which Pretoria defied to continue its 73-year rule of Namibia. South Africa set the Tuesday date and the government's official stance Monday was that the target holds, but it would not be responsible if other parties were not ready. South African newspapers have reported recently that President P.W. Botha is seeking to begin the independence process on Jan. 1, 1989, since it became clear Tuesday's deadline would not be met. ``We're prepared to move at any time,'' said Louis Pienaar, South Africa's administrator for the territory. But South Africa's proposal was contingent on an agreement for the departure of 50,000 Cuban troops supporting the Marxist government in Angola, Namibia's northern neighbor. South Africa, Cuba, Angola and U.S. mediators have held periodic talks since May, but have been unable to set a timetable for Cuban troops to withdraw. No new date has been set to resume negotiations. The South African agency said that in New York early this month, U.S. mediator Chester Crocker had asked for responses to the compromise plan by Oct. 12. Crocker is Undersecretary of State for African Affairs. ``South Africa, according to informed sources here, met the deadline, but the other two have not yet responded,'' SAPA reported from Pretoria. It said the U.S. plan called for half the Cubans to leave Angola before elections in Namibia and the remainder to move north of the 15th parallel. This would distance them from the Namibian border so they could not support South-West Africa People's Organization guerrillas who have been fighting South African rule for more than two decades. The second stage, SAPA reported, would involve reducing the Cuban strength to one-fourth its present strength by the end of the first year. Remaining Cuban troops would leave by the end of the second year. AP881031-0153 AP-NR-10-31-88 1458EST d a AM-BRF--PoliceImage 10-31 0161 AM-BRF--Police Image,0166 Police Worry About Their Image SCITUATE, R.I. (AP) Police are concerned about their record _ their record of satisfaction, that is. To see how they're doing, the department sent questionnaires to 68 people who were victims, arrested, or given summonses. The two-page survey, mailed Sept. 1, asks such questions as: ``Understanding that this may have been a difficult situation, were you generally satisfied with the Scituate Police Department?'' The survey, named ``Project Image,'' is based on a program developed by a Florida police department. Replies will be reveiwed by a committee including the police chief, the president of the police union, town officials and a resident. If the results warrant, the review committee may recommend changes to the department. The 28 people who have returned surveys gave the department high marks. None of the surveys returned so far are from the three individuals arrested by the department, who are being held at the Adult Correctional Institutions. AP881031-0154 AP-NR-10-31-88 1445EST r w AM-DCHomicides 10-31 0489 AM-DC Homicides,460 District of Columbia Sets New Homicide Record as Drug Battles Rage By LISA M. HAMM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The nation's capital set a grisly standard Monday when police recorded the 288th homicide of 1988, a city record for the most homicides in a single year. The 288 deaths exceeded the previous mark of 287 homicides set in 1969. Authorities blamed the upsurge in violence on drugs. The latest victim was identified only as a Hispanic male who died at about 6 a.m. at Washington Hospital Center, according to Shannon Cockett, a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police Department. It was not known how the man got to the hospital. Homicide detectives believed he may have been stabbed about 8 p.m. Sunday. No motive had been established. Police Chief Maurice T. Turner has blamed the high number of slayings on violent turf battles between drug dealers. Sixty percent of the year's homicides have been drug-related, Turner said, compared with 33 percent as recently as 1986. In the past couple of years, Jamaican drug gangs have infiltrated the Washington metropolitan area, local and federal authorities say. Turner said the turf battles have been exacerbated by the introduction of new drugs into the city. ``This is one of the last major cities in this country to have an infusion of crack,'' a highly addictive cocaine derivative, Turner said. ``When crack arrived in other cities, like New York, murder rates went up there too.'' Most recently, a drug combining marijuana, PCP and cocaine has hit the streets, fueling the wars. ``It's called `beaming,' short for `Beam me up, Scotty,''' Ms. Cockett said, referring to an expression from the old ``Star Trek'' television series. Turner over the weekend said officers still are not armed with 9mm semiautomatic weapons to combat heavily armed drug dealers, despite a promise he made eight months ago, because no money in the city's fiscal 1988 budget was earmarked for the weapons. But Turner promised officers would be equipped with more sophisticated weapons within two years. Gary Hankins, chairman of the labor committee of the Fraternal Order of Police, blasted the department for failing to protect officers. ``It's ridiculous that it has taken the police department this long to develop specifications for a weapon that everyone agreed was urgently needed,'' he said. ``It's a miracle that one of us hasn't already died because he's outgunned,'' Hankins said. The 9mm semiautomatic weapons fire more rapidly than the .38 caliber revolvers officers currently carry, and allow them to fire an additional 10 bullets before reloading. The District of Columbia's police force has been cut to 3,800, down from 5,100 in 1977, but Turner said more officers wouldn't necessarily be able to stem the drug trafficking and cut the rate of killing. He said putting more officers on the streets might produce more arrests, but the city's overflowing prison system has no room to house additional inmates. AP881031-0155 AP-NR-10-31-88 1446EST r i AM-Soviet-China 10-31 0290 AM-Soviet-China,0299 Soviets and Chinese Reach Some Agreement On Border Issues MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union and China have settled most of their differences over the disputed eastern section of the Sino-Soviet border, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday. At the conclusion of border negotiations that began Oct. 20, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze met with the chief Chinese negotiator, Deputy Foreign Minister Tian Zeng Pei, said spokesman Gennady I. Gerasimov. He said talks would continue on remaining areas of dispute along the eastern border and that the two sides agreed to form a joint working group on their differences over the western frontier. The Sino-Soviet border east of Mongolia is about 1,500 miles long, while the western section stretches about 1,100 miles. The Soviet Union provided large amounts of aid to China after the victory of the Chinese communists in 1949. But relations between the two communist powers deteriorated sharply in the late 1950s as they vied for dominance in the world communist movement. Soviet and Chinese soldiers traded gunfire across the border in 1969. Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev has tried to ease tension with the Chinese since he took power in 1985. China's leaders have made improved relations contingent on the removal of Soviet soldiers from Afghanistan, settlement of the Cambodia conflict and reduction of tension along the border. Soviet soldiers are withdrawing from Afghanistan and Vietnam has said it will withdraw its troops from Cambodia. On Oct. 6, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Rogachev said a summit between the Soviet Union and China was planned next year. Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Quichen is to visit Moscow before the end of this year. Gerasimov said Shevardnadze's talks with Tian focused on Qian's forthcoming visit. AP881031-0156 AP-NR-10-31-88 1453EST r i AM-Algeria-Quake 10-31 0236 AM-Algeria-Quake,0241 No Deaths Reported in Algerian Earthquake ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) An earthquake centered in the Mediterranean Sea shook the capital and several provincial towns Monday, injuring at least 27 people, officials said. The earthquake, which struck about 11:14 a.m. and registered 5.4 on the Richter scale, was centered about 30 miles offshore, according to Algeria's Center for Research in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Geophysics. It lasted for about 10 seconds. The Interior Ministry said the quake caused no deaths, but that preliminary reports indicated 27 people had been injured. Among those injured were 10 children in the town of El Affroun, in the Blida region 30 miles outside Algiers. Officials said the children were hurt when the roof of their school fell in. Several construction workers also were reported injured when several buildings under construction cracked or caved in, according to the official Algerian news agency, Algerie Presse Service. 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 3.5 on the Richter scale can cause slight damage in the local area, 4 moderate damage, 5 considerable damage, 6 severe damage. A 7 reading is a ``major'' earthquake, capable of widespread heavy damage; 8 is a ``great'' quake, capable of tremendous damage. AP881031-0157 AP-NR-10-31-88 1451EST u a AM-BestStudents Bjt 10-31 0649 AM-Best Students, Bjt,0669 Underprivileged Sixth Graders Asked to Give to Others By KATHY EYRE Associated Press Writer JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Sixth-graders in the Jackson School District will have a new kind of homework assignment this spring: Earn money to give to someone else. The Best Program was created last year for 116 sixth-graders at Raines Elementary School, where administrators feared students from deprived neighborhoods would be easy recruits for gangs and drug dealers. ``We had a troubled group of sixth-graders last year. They had low self-esteem, no self-motivation, homework was just brought in in a sloppy manner,'' Raines Principal Rosalind Hambrick said. ``I knew that we had to try to do something for these children before they got away from us.'' ``So we were looking for a counselor, a mentor, somebody, anything. We knew that Frank Melton (general manager) at WLBT-TV studios had done extensive work with gangs and troubled youth, so we called the studio and his secretary said we ought to talk with Dr. Yazdani.'' Nanolla Yazdani, a psychologist, was working with Melton on developing anti-gang programs for the city. Yazdani had gained international publicity after developing a program for first-time, non-violent offenders at the Misssissippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. The prison program, which he no longer oversees, was patterned after Army bootcamp _ right down to the spit-polished boots worn by the inmates and their rigorous regimen of calisthenics. Yazdani visited Raines Elementary and designed a program for sixth-graders. This summer, he trained teachers from 10 Jackson elementary schools on his program's techniques. This spring, educators plan to expand the program to all sixth grades in the system, 2,562 pupils. Youngsters must have parents' permission to take part. Meanwhile, some teachers are already putting Yazdani's techniques to work, like Sadie George, who oversees an after-school day-care program for pupils of all ages. Her students don't march like Yazdani's prison recruits, but they do sound out some strong cadences. Standing tall, heads erect and hands behind their backs, the youngsters repeat their rhythmic Best Program creed: ``I am somebody; I will never use drugs. ``I am somebody; what my mind can conceive ``And my heart can believe, I will achieve. ``I am somebody; I will make you proud of me. ``I am somebody; I will do my work ``And I will love my fellow man, I am somebody.'' The Best Program's definition of being somebody includes the ability and willingness to do things for somebody else. Last year, the Raines sixth-graders held car washes, then used the earnings to take pizzas to deaf students at nearby Magnolia Speech School. The school's four sixth-grade classes worked as groups on their fund-raising, but individuals are encouraged to daily share their knowledge with others. Part of their homework is living the Best Program motto: ``Each one, teach one.'' Each child is helped to identify knowledge and skills he can share, Hambrick said. To do their best, the children are taught to stick with a task until it's completed, take criticism and think creatively. Hambrick said she saw children disinterested in school become model students after Yazdani's 20-session program last year. Last spring, sixth-graders scored an average of 6.5 in mathematics on the California Achievement Test, compared to 5.8 among sixth-graders at Raines the year before. In study skills, scores went from 5.8 in the spring of 1987 to 6.8 this spring, the principal said. A score of 6 is indicative of expected sixth-grade work. ``Somebody asked me, `How is it that when they have to go back into the school room and they have to learn 10 spelling words, why do they learn those 10 spelling words now?' ``I think it is because they have learned the value of learning the 10 spelling words. It's not because somebody tells them they have to learn the 10 spelling words,'' Hambrick said. ``They've set their own goals for themselves.'' AP881031-0158 AP-NR-10-31-88 1452EST u a PM-Obit-Houseman 3rdLd-Writethru a0655 10-31 0883 PM-Obit-Houseman, 3rd Ld - Writethru, a0655,0899 Actor-Producer John Houseman Dead at 86 Eds: SUBS 2nd graf to ADD cause of death; SUBS 6th-9th grafs, bgng `He first...'., with 6 grafs to add quote from 1987 tribute, fix spelling of Virgil, add detail on World War II Office of War Information work, other detail, picking up 10th graf, `Among his...'. SUBS 16th graf, `Among his...', to end to add further detail on accomplishments as educator, television actor. ADDS byline. LaserPhoto NY31 By LAUREN BLAU Associated Press Writer MALIBU, Calif. (AP) Actor John Houseman, who gained wide fame late in life for his Oscar-winning role as a law professor in the movie ``The Paper Chase'' after a long career as a theater and film producer, has died, a friend said today. He was 86. Houseman died during the night at his home, said Ivan Goff, a family friend and Hollywood scriptwriter. He died of spinal cancer. The Romanian-born Houseman became a household name while in his 70s as Professor Charles W. Kingsfield in ``The Paper Chase,'' a role he first played in the 1973 film and then in the television series. He parlayed that fame and his distinctive speaking style into a lucrative series of commercial endorsements, including ads for the investment firm Smith, Barney in which he bellowed, ``They make money the old-fashioned way _ they EARRNNN it.'' But before that, he was best known as a producer, director and writer for both the stage and film. During a tribute to him in 1987 in Los Angeles, Houseman said: ``The only important thing when you've lived as long as I have is what you've accomplished _ a body of work. ... We all tend to talk about our successes. At least as important are our failures.'' He first earned wide recognition in 1934 as the director of a Broadway production of the Gertrude Stein-Virgil Thomson opera ``Four Saints in Three Acts.'' In 1937, after two years in the government-funded Federal Theatre Project, he helped Orson Welles form the Mercury Theater in New York, one of several repertory theater companies he helped form over the years. Its first production was a modern-dress version of ``Julius Caesar.'' He was also involved in writing and producing shows for the Mercury Theater of the Air, the radio form of the troupe. He was a co-producer of the troupe's epic 1938 ``War of the Worlds'' that created a nationwide panic just 50 years ago Sunday with its realistic portrayal of radio news coverage of a Martian landing. Houseman also had a key role in putting together Welles' landmark 1941 film, ``Citizen Kane,'' including collaborating on the script. During World War II, he spent 1{ years at the federal Office of War Information as head of programming for overseas radio operations. His office put out ``Voice of America'' broadcasts in 27 languages. Among his film production credits were ``The Bad and the Beautiful,'' 1952, a Hollywood drama starring Kirk Douglas; ``Julius Caesar,'' 1953, with Marlon Brando, John Gielgud and James Mason; and ``Lust for Life,'' 1956, the biography of artist Vincent van Gogh that won a supporting actor Oscar for Anthony Quinn. In 1986, the John Houseman Theater Center in New York was named for him. It is home to the Acting Company, a touring repertory company he co-founded in 1972. Among its well-known alumni are actress Patti LuPone of ``Evita.'' Also in 1986, he was honored by the Congressional Arts Caucus for ``outstanding achievement and dedication to the enrichment of America's cultural legacy.'' ``Your charm, eloquence and excellence are a delight to all of us,'' Rep. Claude Pepper, D-Fla., said at the time. In September, Houseman said that he had no plans to slow down from a career that included involvement in scores of stage, screen and broadcast productions. ``I have tapered off a little, but I wouldn't know what to do with myself if I retired,'' he said three days before his 86th birthday. ``I still have something to offer, even though the roles these days are usually small. ``But I'm 85 years old. I am not going to be offered the role of Romeo anymore, or Juliet, for that matter. Yet the limited range I do play, I play well. My range is that of an old man, but what do you expect from someone who started acting at the age of 70?'' In addition to ``The Paper Chase,'' his movie acting credits included roles in ``Seven Days in May,'' 1964; ``Three Days of the Condor,'' 1975; ``Rollerball,'' 1975; and ``Wholly Moses,'' 1980. He also appeared in a number of made-for-television movies and miniseries, such as ``The Winds of War'' and ``Washington _ Behind Closed Doors.'' He was the author of a critically acclaimed series of memoirs, including ``Run-Through'' and ``Front and Center.'' His career also included a stint as an educator: He headed the drama department at New York's famous Juilliard School from 1968 to 1976. Houseman was born Jacques Haussmann in Bucharest, Romania, on Sept. 22, 1902. The son of a wealthy grain merchant, he was educated largely in England. He came to the United States in 1924, working in the grain business while translating plays as a hobby, until the economic collapse of 1929 when he went into the theater full-time. AP881031-0159 AP-NR-10-31-88 1500EST u a PM-Reagan-Hostages 2ndLd-Writethru a0683-a0652 10-31 0690 PM-Reagan-Hostages, 2nd Ld-Writethru, a0683-a0652,700 Eds: Combines pvs, editing to tighten. By W. DALE NELSON Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) President Reagan today denied statements by hostage Terry Anderson on a videotape released by his kidnappers that his administration interfered with the release of hostages or bargained with terrorists. ``I don't think that was Terry speaking,'' Reagan said of the tape. ``I think he had a script that was given to him.'' When asked about the statement on the tape that the U.S. government interfered when the hostages were about to be released, Reagan said, ``That is absolutely not true, but let me point something out. Terry Anderson in that terrible confinement at the hands of those barbarians _ any information he has has to have come from there; there is no contact with the outside world.'' ``We have been doing everything we can for the release of the hostages, and the very simple answer is, for those people, to let them go,'' the president said. Reagan answered reporters' questions after signing legislation clearing the way for U.S. entry into an international copyright agreement. ``There has never been any interference, nor have we ever been negotiating any more than we would with any other kind of a kidnapper on a ransom type of basis,'' he said. When asked whether he thought the kidnapers were trying to influence the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, he said, ``You'd have to ask them; I can't fathom their minds.'' The president disputed a statement on the tape that Vice President George Bush was involved in negotiations with terrorists in the Iran-Contra affair and a Middle East TWA hijacking. ``Nor was I, because we were never doing anything of that kind,'' he said. When asked what he thought were the circumstances in which the tape was made, Reagan replied, ``You have to remember, these men are in the closest type of confinement. ...you have to recognize that no hostage is taking something on himself; they're telling him what to do.'' About prospects for the release of Anderson and other Americans held in Lebanon, the president said, ``I'm not going to give up hope for any of our hostages that are held. That's just too unthinkable.'' But, he said, ``the one thing we cannot do is negotiate with the kidnappers on a sort of ransom idea because that just encourages more kidnapping and more hsotage-taking.'' Earlier, Reagan's chief spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, said release of the videotape was ``a cynical attempt to use the hostages to influence public opinion, and the only real answer is for them to release the hostages immediately.'' ``It's not clear what they are trying to achieve, but it's obviously meant to influence the election'' eight days away, he said. In the tape released by his pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem kidnappers, Anderson said: ``I have been very close to being released several times over the past three years, but each time it seems that the U.S. government uses its influence to stop any agreement and I don't understand this.'' Fitzwater said that statement was ``simply not true.'' Anderson also urged the administration to negotiate his release and appealed to the new U.S. president to end the plight of the hostages. The Reagan administration has said it won't negotiate with terrorists. Anderson said he was ``not asking Reagan to deal with terrorists, although Mr. (George) Bush did so in the Iran-Contra affair and TWA hijacking.'' He did not elaborate. Fitzwater said that statement was ``totally incorrect, wrong.'' He declined to elaborate, saying he assumed the vice president would speak for himself. Fitzwater said the tape ``has some political statements in it that are cynical certainly and most unfortunate for the hostage families and for all of us who care about their plight.'' Asked whether he regarded Anderson, the chief Middle East correspondent of The Associated Press, as cynical, Fitzwater said, ``I think the hostage-takers are, the kidnapers; I don't think Terry had much choice.'' Fitzwater said the statements in the tape ``are outrageous; they are cynical; they are an affront to the families of the hostages and to the American people.'' AP881031-0160 AP-NR-10-31-88 1510EST u a PM-SearsTowerSale 3rdLd-Writethru a0569 10-31 0632 PM-Sears Tower Sale, 3rd Ld - Writethru, a0569,0645 Sears Plans to Sell World's Tallest Building as Part of Restructuring Eds: INSERTS 1 graf after 7th graf, `Brennan said...', to add how many Sears employees would remain after 8,000 transferred, total employment in building; INSERTS 3 grafs after 12th graf pvs, `The corporate...', with quotes from news conference, stock prices, picking up 13th graf pvs, `Speculation about...'. Version moved on financial wires as PM-Sears. LaserPhoto CX6 CHICAGO (AP) Sears, Roebuck and Co. today announced plans to sell Sears Tower, its corporate headquarters and the world's tallest building, as part of an effort to streamline the company. Sears' restructing plan also will include a stock buyback, ``intense cost-cutting'' programs and the sale of its commercial real estate subsidiary, the nation's largest retailer said. ``We are acutely aware of investors' desires for improved returns and enhanced share value,'' Edward Brennan, chairman and chief executive officer, said in a statement. ``And over the past year, we have thoroughly evaluated all strategic and financial alternatives available to the company. ``These alternatives have been reviewed not only with regard to shorter-term valuation objectives, but also giving consideration to the longer-term needs of our customers and $526,000 employees, the financial strength of our company and fulfillment of Sears' long-term strategic potential,'' Brennan said. The Sears Tower, which rises 110 stories _ 1,450 feet _ from the grid of the downtown Loop business district, was built in 1974. The statement did not indicate how much Sears hoped to get for the landmark building. Brennan said it would continue to serve as corporate headquarters for the company, although the 8,000-employee Sears Merchandise Group would be moved to smaller, less costly facilities over the next several years. The move would leave just 600 Sears workers in the building, officials said. Counting employees of both Sears and other companies, there are now about 13,000 people working at the tower. Sears said it anticipated $425 million in expenses related to the sale of the building and other changes announced today, and would deduct that amount from fourth-quarter earnings. However, the company said it expected to add $340 million in net income for the year as a result of other accounting changes. The stock buyback program will be aimed at acquiring up to 40 million shares of Sears common stock, or approximately 10 percent of the company's 380 million outstanding shares. The restructuring plan also calls for divestiture of the commercial division of Sears' Coldwell Banker Real Estate Group, redirection of its Allstate Business Insurance division and strengthening of its financial services subsidiary, Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., with a greater commitment to consumer-driven activities. The corporate moves to cut costs and redeploy assets ``will enable Sears to compete more effectively and profitably in its merchandising, insurance, financial services and real estate businesses,'' Brennan said. At a news conference today, Brennan was asked what message the restructuring plans were intended to send to Sears' huge number of customers. ``The message is we are positioning Sears strategically and financially for a period of unprecedented growth,'' he said. But Sears stock declined 87{ cents to $42.75 a share in New York Stock Exchange trading today after the restructuring was announced. Speculation about a restructuring of Sears have been circulating for months, as have reports that the company was seeking to sell off several of its divisions. Last Tuesday, Sears reported its third-quarter net income fell 16 percent from the year-earlier period, marking the third consecutive quarter of declining profits. It blamed the results on flat merchandise sales and intense competition from other retailers. Net income for the quarter totaled $344.2 million, or 90 cents per share, for the three months ending Sept. 30. That compared with $409 million, or $1.08 a share, for third-quarter 1987. AP881031-0161 AP-NR-10-31-88 1515EST u i PM-Lebanon-Hostages 6thLd-Writethru a0666 10-31 0967 PM-Lebanon-Hostages, 6th Ld-Writethru, a0666,0995 Anderson Says U.S. Government Impeding His Release Eds: Leads with 6 grafs to update with Reagan comment. Picks up 5th graf pvs ``This is a cynical...'' By FAROUK NASSAR Associated Press Writer BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem kidnappers today released a videotape of American journalist Terry Anderson, who read a message accusing the U.S. government of preventing his release. Copies of the tape were delivered to two Western news agencies in Beirut four days after Anderson, 41, spent a fourth birthday in captivity. They were accompanied by a statement in Arabic from Islamic Jihad, which holds Anderson. In Los Angeles, President Regan denied his administration impeded the release of the hostages. ``I don't think that was Terry speaking,'' Reagan said of the videotape. ``I think he had a script that was given to him.'' He president added: ``We have been doing everything we can for the release of the hostages, and the very simple answer is, for those people, to let them go.'' Reagan's chief spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, said the kidnappers were trying to influence the U.S. election. ``This is a cynical attempt to use the hostages to influence public opinion and the only real answer is for them to release the hostages immediately,'' Fitzwater said. ``It's not clear what they are trying to achieve, but its's obviously meant to influence the (U.S.) election.'' Anderson began his message, which lasted two minutes and 35 seconds, by identifying himself and saying the date was Oct. 30. ``Once again I have been given the chance to speak to my government, my family and my people,'' said the chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press. ``I love you, I miss you very much. I know of your continued strong efforts for me,'' he told friends and family. ``I have been very close to being released several times over the past three years, but each time it seems that the U.S. government uses its influence to stop any agreement and I don't understand this. ``I am not asking Reagan to deal with terrorists, although Mr. (George) Bush did so in the Iran-Contra affair and TWA hijacking.'' He did not elaborate. Bush, the Republican candidate for president, has not previously been named as a negotiator in the 1985 jet hijacking, in which Shiite Moslems demanding freedom for Shiite prisoners held 39 Americans for 17 days. Israel released 766 prisoners. Fitzwater said today that Anderson's statement about Bush was ``totally incorrect, wrong.'' The vice president has said he was not a key player in the sale of arms to Iran and was unaware of details and planning of it. The deal became known as the Iran-Contra affair when it was revealed that money for the arms was funneled to Contra rebels in Nicaragua. ``Our problem could have been solved a long time ago without such complications as arms deals,'' Anderson said. He urged the administration to negotiate his release and appealed to the new U.S. president to end the plight of the hostages. The Reagan administration has said it won't negotiate with terrorists. It was the third videotaped message from Anderson since his abduction in Moslem west Beirut on March 16, 1985. The other tapes were released Oct. 3, 1986, and Dec. 24, 1987. Anderson is the longest-held foreign hostage in Lebanon. There are 14 captives, including nine Americans. Islamic Jihad, or Holy War, said in an accompanying statement that it provided the videotape ``on the occasion of Terry Anderson's birthday and in response to your letters, and according to his desire to send you a recorded message.'' Islamic Jihad also holds Thomas Sutherland, 56, of Fort Collins, Colo., acting dean of agriculture at American University in Beirut. He was kidnapped June 10, 1985. The group is demanding, among other things, freedom for fellow ``holy warriors'' from all foreign jails and withdrawal of Israeli forces from south Lebanon. It repeated those demands in a statement Oct. 23. Anderson appeared relaxed as he read from the prepared statement. He was cleanshaven and wore eyeglasses. His hair was cut short and neatly combed. He was shown from the waist up, wearing a striped gray sweater. ``I am well and being well treated and I received your birthday greetings and as always I thank you very much,'' he said. Letters from family members and colleagues appeared in Beirut newspapers last week, and state-run television broadcast a one-minute film Thursday of Anderson's 3-year-old daughter, Sulome, singing ``Happy Birthday.'' Anderson said: ``As my fourth birthday in captivity passes and the end of my fourth year in captivity approaches, I find it difficult to keep my hope and courage high. ``The news I hear tells me that I have not been forgotten and will not be, but the difficulty seems enormous.'' ``I heard on the radio of the generous and ambitious efforts to free three trapped whales a few days ago and the president's thanks to the Soviet Union for its help. It is a warming story,'' he said. ``That kind of cooperation and spirit is absolutely necessary to bring this situation to an end.'' To his family, he said: ``Peg, Madeleine and Dad, kiss my daughters for me. Keep your spirits up and I will try to do the same and one day soon, God willing, this will end.'' The reference to ``Dad'' indicates Anderson does not know his father died in 1986. ``Peg'' is Peggy Say, Anderson's sister, and ``Madeleine'' is Sulome's mother. Islamic Jihad has freed three Americans in the last three years _ the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Martin Lawrence Jenco, a Roman Catholic priest, and David Jacobsen, former directer of the American University Hospital in Beirut. Jacobsen's release Nov. 2, 1986, was connected to the shipment of U.S. arms to Iran. AP881031-0162 AP-NR-10-31-88 2029EST d a AM-BRF--Whales-Procrastinators 10-31 0151 AM-BRF--Whales-Procrastinators,0155 Procrastinators Club Votes Award to Whales MIAMI (AP) The Procrastinators Club of America issued its top award to the California gray whales that dallied so long off the coast of Alaska after they became stuck in ice, a club official said Monday. ``They exemplify the highest standard of procrastination,'' said Joseph Weiss of North Bay Village, the club's secretary-treasurer. ``They waited until the last minute to go down to their spawning grounds.'' The Philadelphia-based club has not yet decided what the prize will be or when and how it will be awarded, Weiss said. ``Their award will be sometime in the future _ we have to have a lot of meetings first,'' he explained. The two whales, whose plight attracted attention worldwide, are believed to have finally escaped their icy prison near Barrow last week after two Soviet icebreakers cut a path for them to open water. AP881031-0163 AP-NR-10-31-88 1708EST r a AM-StrangeGifts 10-31 0443 AM-Strange Gifts,0455 Unusual Gifts Challenge College Administrators By ALEX DOMINGUEZ Associated Press Writer OXFORD, Miss. (AP) A 19-foot-tall King Tut mask, 200 old-time music machines and a 1597 map of the New World are testing college administrators' ingenuity in finding uses for the sometimes odd gifts of well-meaning alumni. The one-ton King Tut mask was donated to the University of Mississippi two years ago by a Houston developer who was an Ole Miss grad. The mask had hung in a building sold by the developer, said university spokeswoman Barbara Lago. The school has put the disassembled bronze, copper and aluminum mask in storage for possible use in the foyer of a new library now under consideration, Lago said. ``We've had all kinds of gifts given to us,'' the school's development director, Don Fruge, said. ``We even had somebody build a 2 million gallon reservoir on our golf course to provide water for irrigation.'' The music machines, part of collection valued at $500,000, were donated to Mississippi State University last year by a 1949 graduate who once played in the school's band. The music machines and other memorabilia dating to the Civil War will be put on public display. More than 20,000 pieces of sheet music also included in the collection will be used for research by music students, school officials said. The 400-year-old map was donated to the University of Southern Mississippi by James Riley, a retired Hattiesburg insurance adjuster and his wife. ``The library has been the beneficiary of so many gifts from them over the past 30 years, they've dubbed it the Riley collection,'' assistant public relations director Phil Hearn said. Among the Rileys' gifts: old books and a 1962 mechanical pencil. All have been put on display. Sandra Guest, a development assistant at Ole Miss, said the gifts, referred to as in-kind donations because they do not involve money, sometimes are extremely valuable. The King Tut mask, for example, is worth about $100,000. ``It doesn't represent a significant portion of the school's budget, however,'' Guest said. ``I really can't give a number because we may get one really valuable gift every five years.'' Some in-kind gifts, however, do generate income. Three acres of Palm Beach real estate was bequeathed to Ole Miss in 1986 by an alumnus. A Bonanza steakhouse and a gas station sit on the property and the school now receives rent from the two businesses, Fruge said. Tougaloo College, a private school in central Mississippi, receives a portion of the purse from an Ohio breeder every time a horse of the same name wins. So far this year, the school has gotten nearly $11,400. AP881031-0164 AP-NR-10-31-88 1729EST r i AM-HamadiTrial 10-31 0467 AM-Hamadi Trial,0482 Judge Wants Parents Of Hijacker To Testify By GEORGE BOEHMER Associated Press Writer FRANKFURT, West Germany (AP) The chief judge at the trial of confessed TWA hijacker Mohammed Ali Hamadi said Monday the court wants the defendant's parents to testify at the proceedings. Hamadi is charged with air piracy and murder in the June 14, 1985, hijacking of TWA flight 847, which was diverted to Beirut after it left Athens for Rome. Thirty-nine people were held hostage 17 days, and U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem was murdered. ``We still don't know when we'll be able to hear Hamadi's parents,'' said Judge Heiner Mueckenberger. They are believed to be living in the west Beirut neighborhood of Bourj el-Barajneh. The trial, which began July 5, has focused heavily on the Shiite Moslem hijacker's childhood in war-torn Beirut. The parents' testimony could help the court to determine Hamadi's age at the time the hijacking began. Court records show Hamadi was born June 13, 1964, which would make him 21 at the time of the hijacking. Hamadi has said he is at least two years younger. On Monday, anthropologist Manfred Kunter, 48, told the court he studied medical X-rays of Hamadi taken in Saarlouis, West Germany, where the defendant lived from 1982 to 1984 before returning to Beirut. The expert said he analyzed the development of Hamadi's elbow and his collarbone. ``From the information I have studied, I would say the birth year is 1965, plus or minus a half year,'' Kunter said. Depending on the court's decision on Hamadi's age, his maximum prison sentence, if convicted, would range from 15 years to life in prison. In other testimony Monday, psychiatrist Andreas Ploeger testified hijack victims often suffer long-term psychological disorders as a result of their ordeal. Ploeger told the court that one of the former victims of a 1977 hijacking of a West German airliner ``still imagines being followed in a car'' by a hijacker. Hamadi, who was arrested at Frankfurt Airport in January 1987 after customs officials found liquid explosives in his luggage, told the court he had no comments on Monday's testimony. The defendant told the court in earlier sessions he took part in the hijacking, but he has denied killing Stethem. The diver's parents, Richard and Patricia Stethem, have attended the trial regularly, taking notes and listening attentively to the proceedings. Hamadi's attorneys last week asked the court to suspend hearing more witnesses in the case until they can examine evidence compiled by the FBI in the United States. The court has not yet ruled on the request. Court officials said Monday that more former passengers on the hijacked flight were expected to testify this week. Mueckenberger canceled Tuesday's session due to a death in the family of one of the jurors. AP881031-0165 AP-NR-10-31-88 1738EST r i AM-Yugoslavia-Media 10-31 0271 AM-Yugoslavia-Media,0279 Journalists Demand Greater Press Freedom BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) The Yugoslav journalists' union has sharply denounced political interference in the press and demanded greater freedom, the official Tanjug news agency reported Monday. Journalists attending an annual conference in Belgrade last week issued a statement saying the union ``is opposed to all pressures exerted on journalists and editorial offices and rejects any form of repression of the written word,'' according to Tanjug. The conference earlier had dropped from the union's statutes a requirement for journalists to be ``committed to the principles of Marxism-Leninism.'' The phrase was replaced by a call for members to ``support socialist self-management,'' the participation by workers in the management of their own companies. ``The further democratization of our society will not be possible without the ... independent participation of journalists in keeping the public informed about the functioning of the system,'' the journalists said. Although the Yugoslav media is far more independent than in any other communist state, some journalists have been fired for failing to support official policies. Several dozen reporters and editors, mostly in Yugoslavia's largest republic of Serbia, have been removed from their jobs this year for allegedly criticizing Communist Party bosses. The circulation of the Belgrade magazine NIN, once the country's most authoritative political weekly, has plummeted since its editor-in-chief and several journalists were purged earlier this year for opposing Serbia's Communist Party chief, Slobodan Milosevic. In July, a military court in the northern republic of Slovenia convicted three journalists from the youth magazine Mladina of disclosing military secrets and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from five to 18 months. AP881031-0166 AP-NR-10-31-88 1739EST r w AM-ParrotArrests 10-31 0420 AM-Parrot Arrests,430 U.S. To Prosecute 36 for Trading Illegally in Parrots By GUY DARST Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday it will prosecute 36 people in six states for trading in parrots illegally smuggled into the country. U.S. attorneys in Indiana, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas and California have agreed to seek indictments against people it believes have been buying parrots from smugglers who sneak them across the Mexican border near Brownsville, Texas, said Megan Durham, spokeswoman for the service. Because indictments were still being sought, she declined to identify the communities in which the defendants live. Two already have been sentenced to prison, she said. Most of the defendants will be retail or wholesale dealers, she said. Sellers of the birds, she said, ``chop down trees in Central and South America to get baby birds, and many of these were smuggled across the border as babies.'' Some of the birds are protected by a treaty which outlaws international trade in them without permission of both the exporting and importing countries, or that outlaws trade in officially listed endangered species. Violation carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Following a two-year inquiry, investigators concluded that as many as 26,000 birds a year may be imported illegally, the service said. Investigators seized planes, vehicles and birds worth $468,000. These included the thick-billed parrot, an endangered species in the United States and thus illegal to import; and the black palm cockatoo and the scarlet macaw, illegal to import without permits from the Fish and Wildlife Service and the exporting country. Also, the double yellow-head Amazon parrot and the Mexican red-head parrot, which may not be imported without export permits from Mexico. In addition, yellow-nape parrots and red-lored parrots were seized because they were imported without undergoing quarantine, Ms. Durham said. Parrots may carry Newcastle's disease, a highly contagious viral disease that can infect poultry, the service said. The service has received complaints of the illegal trade for some time, but has had trouble making cases because dealers claimed their birds were bred in captivity in the United States, service Director Frank Dunkle said in a statement. ``The illegal dealers commonly believed that once they got the smuggled birds away from the border they would not be caught,'' Dunkle said. ``Operation Psittacine (from psittacus, Latin for parrot) is the first major covert effort by the Fish and Wildlife Service to target illegal parrot dealers operating away from the borders.'' AP881031-0167 AP-NR-10-31-88 1744EST r a AM-GoodSamaritan 10-31 0393 AM-Good Samaritan,0404 Hospital Fired Good Samaritan, Lawyer Says Eds: Sallyanne is cq in 2nd graf. By JAMES WEBB Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) A hospital ignored state laws that encourage ``good Samaritan'' acts by firing a dormitory housemother who gave shelter to a battered wife, a lawyer argued Monday. The former housemother, Sallyanne Brown, is seeking unspecified damages and back pay from Northeastern Hospital in a civil lawsuit that went to trial Monday in Common Pleas Court. Mrs. Brown testified that she was fired from her part-time job as housemother at a dormitory for the hospital's female nursing students after she opened the dormitory doors late one night to a woman who was crying that she had been beaten by her husband and needed the police. Hospital officials testified that Mrs. Brown was fired for violating rules that prohibited her from doing anything that might endanger the safety of the dormitory residents, including admitting unauthorized visitors after curfew. Mrs. Brown's lawyer, Judith Chomsky, argued that the hospital decision was based on an ``unreasonable'' fear that the woman posed a danger and that the hospital failed to give housemothers guidelines for handling emergencies. During the opening arguments, Common Pleas Judge Lawrence Prattis said there was no question that state laws encourage giving assistance to abuse victims, but said that does not provide an excuse for violating rules established by employers. When Mrs. Brown was on the stand, Prattis asked her if she would have let in a teen-age boy who came to the door with bruises and said he was abused. Mrs. Brown said she would, to which Prattis replied, ``I believe you would.'' ``And that, Ms. Chomsky, is your problem,'' the judge said. Mrs. Brown also testified that a hospital security guard was present Dec. 13, 1987, when she let the woman in, and that the guard stayed until police came for the woman. Dr. Shirley Hickman, director of nursing education at the hospital, said Mrs. Brown would have been disciplined regardless of whether a guard was present. Ms. Hickman said the dormitory housemother has the responsibility for controlling who comes into the building after curfew, and that hospital rules prohibited the entrance of unauthorized people. Ms. Hickman said she recommended that Mrs. Brown be fired because of the rules violation and because she no longer trusted Mrs. Brown's judgment. AP881031-0168 AP-NR-10-31-88 1745EST r a AM-RefineryFire 10-31 0326 AM-Refinery Fire,0337 Two Injured Workers Still Critical, Amoco Searches For Cause WHITING, Ind. (AP) Amoco Oil Co. began its investigation Monday into a refinery explosion and fire that killed two people and badly burned two others, but did not expect to pinpoint a cause for some time, spokesmen said. The injured workers remained hospitalized in critical condition Monday with third-degree burns. Sunday's explosion and fire at the refinery was the third this year at the complex south of Chicago in northwestern Indiana. Company spokeswoman Elise Sims refused discuss the investigation or the possible cause of the accident. Results would not be available ``for quite some time,'' she said. The company planned to interview workers, said Charles R. Mason, another Amoco spokesman. Leo Gonzalez, 40, of East Chicago was hospitalized at Loyola Medical Center in Maywood, Ill., with third-degree burns over 65 percent of his body. Robert Zivich, 44, of Dyer was at University of Chicago Hospital with third-degree burns over 30 percent to 40 percent of his body. The explosion at the No. 3 oxydizer unit, which makes industrial asphalt for paving and roofing, instantly killed Michael Zimmerman, 44, of Hammond, a 17-year veteran of the refinery. George Kusbel, 37, of Whiting, a shift supervisor with 14 years' experience, died of burns six hours after the accident. There were no other injuries. Hospital emergency room workers had to cut through hardened asphalt up to a half-inch thick on the victims' bodies. The accident tied the death toll from an explosion and fire in 1955 that also injured 35 people and destroyed 70 storage tanks and 200 homes. This year, on April 16, an explosion and small fire in a processing unit injured 16 workers. Two men were hurt Oct. 6 in a fire and explosion at a refinery unit where chemicals are added to jet fuel. A December 1984 fire destroyed two bulk storage tanks and forced the evacuation of about 100 people. AP881031-0169 AP-NR-10-31-88 1745EST r i AM-Olivier 10-31 0174 AM-Olivier,0179 Olivier Admitted to Hospital For Tests BRIGHTON, England (AP) Sir Laurence Olivier, celebrated as Britain's greatest actor, has been admitted to a hospital and was undergoing blood tests, his agent said Monday. The 81-year-old stage and screen actor was in ``comfortable and stable'' condition at Royal Sussex County Hospital in the south England resort of Brighton, a hospital spokeswoman said. Olivier was undergoing tests as a follow-up to a kidney operation last year and was expected to be back at his home near Brighton ``in two or three days' time,'' said his agent, Laurence Evans. Olivier's family had asked the hospital not to reveal any details and ``we have got to respect the wishes of the family,'' the hospital spokeswoman said. He was admitted over the weekend, she said. Olivier's has suffered cancer, pleurisy and a degenerative muscle disease. He was quoted in a magazine interview last year as saying he had fought off illnesses by ``sheer bloody-mindedness.'' ``You need anger to see you through,'' he was quoted as saying. AP881031-0170 AP-NR-10-31-88 1748EST r i AM-Camelot 10-31 0359 AM-Camelot,0368 Genealogists Say Castle Site Could Have Been Camelot LONDON (AP) The ruins of a castle owned by generations of a Scottish Kennedy family could have been King Arthur's Camelot, a genealogist said Monday. Greenan Castle, high on the Ayrshire cliffs of southwest Scotland, was built on the site of a 6th century fort that ``matches almost exactly'' the description and location of a fortress in Arthurian legend, said Harold Brooks-Baker. Although the story of King Arthur and his court at Camelot are legend, historians believe there probably was a British ruler named Arthur who fought Saxon invaders from what is now the Netherlands and the north German coast. The shadowy figure was embellished by storytellers into a chivalrous hero, slayer of monsters, leader of the Knights of the Round Table and seeker of the Holy Grail. Brooks-Baker, publishing director of Burke's Peerage, said researchers had discovered the castle site was a key military post for King Arthur and his knights. They made the discovery, he said, while carrying out research to prove that the medieval Scottish barony of Greenan is an active title of nobility. Norma L. Goodrich of Claremont, Calif., a specialist in Arthuriana, carried out separate research into the fort's history and believed it was one of Arthur's six castles and ``the most important one from a military point of view,'' Brooks-Baker said. He quoted her as saying: ``It was the custom of the king to refer to the castle he was using at the time as `Camelot.' ... In my opinion, Greenan was one of King Arthur's forts.'' The seventh marquess of Ailsa, Archibald David Kennedy, wants to sell the barony, including the castle site, ``to somebody who will allow the historical research to continue,'' Brooks-Baker said. The title of baron is tied to ownership of the land and not to a blood lineage, he said, adding there was likely to be a blood tie between the Scottish Kennedys and the Irish Kennedy family from whom the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy was descended. JFK's term often was referred to as ``Camelot.'' ``We're trying to establish a blood relationship,'' Brooks-Baker said. AP881031-0171 AP-NR-10-31-88 1749EST r a AM-Ethanol 10-31 0399 AM-Ethanol,0411 Scientists Develop Way to Produce More Ethanol, Reduce Cost GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) Biotechnologists have produced a bacteria strain that could greatly increase the supply of ethanol, a potential substitute motor fuel, and reduce its cost, the University of Florida said Monday. ``For the first time, bacteria have been genetically engineered so that they are now able to convert all types of sugars found in plant material into ethanol,'' said Lonnie O. Ingram, professor of microbiology and cell science at the university's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. Ethanol is the principal octane booster used in premium-grade gasolines, replacing toxic lead additives, and is considered a possible substitute motor fuel for the future. Ingram said he has changed the genes of a strain of bacteria to produce ethanol from a wider variety of substances. Further development of this process could cut the cost of ethanol production in half and eliminate dependence on cornstarch or cane sugar as a biomass source for ethanol fuel, Ingram said. Corn starch now represents about 80 percent of the expense in ethanol production. The new process would allow the conversion of cheap biomass composed of diverse sugars into ethanol, Ingram said. ``It is now possible to convert inedible vegetable waste, stalks, stems, leaves and woody materials into ethanol, a clean-burning fuel which can be used to reduce air pollution and our need for foreign oil,'' he said. Ingram and his team are not the only scientists working on the ethanol problem. But researchers have always failed to design a bacterium that can produce enough ethanol to make the process profitable. ``If the Florida work is to be a major breakthrough, it will have to be rapid production with high concentrations of ethanol,'' said Henry Bungay, an ethanol expert and professor of chemical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. Bungay defined high concentration as ``above 4{ percent.'' That means at least 4{ percent of the mass digested by the bacteria would have to be converted into ethanol. ``We can achieve 4{ percent without any trouble at all,'' Ingram said. The development was made possible by cloning the genes for the ethanol digestive tract from the bacterium Zymomonas mobilis and inserting these into the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli). The research is to be presented at the British Society for General Microbiology meeting in England in March 1989, the school said. AP881031-0172 AP-NR-10-31-88 1807EST r a AM-HalloweenCostumes 10-31 0258 AM-Halloween Costumes,0265 Halloween Costumes As Horrible As Ever, Vendors Say By ARLENE LEVINSON Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) The theme in Halloween costumes this year apparently is the bloodier the better, with horror movie characters selling big at costume and toy stores. ``It's gross. It looks like razor blades for fingers,'' said Marianne Chronowski, describing the hand that comes with the mask in the Freddy Krueger costume, one of the biggest sellers at the toy store this Halloween season. Freddy Kreuger was the murderous central character in the horror hit ``Nightmare on Elm Street.'' Another popular costume was the hockey-masked visage of Jason, the horrific teen-ager in the film, ``Friday the 13th,'' said Mrs. Chronowski, a toy shop employee in Woburn. The same was reported at Jack's Joke Shop, a downtown Boston store founded in 1922 that claims to be the oldest fun shop in the country. ``There's also the traditional Draculas,'' said owner Harold Bengin, who has been selling horrible get-ups at the family store for 39 years. ``Many girls are going in for Elvira,'' he said, referring to the vampy and vampire-like hostess of a TV horror film show. ``They're also going in for the traditional clowns, priests, pirates and Arabs. Executioners are very big. We have a black robe and hood and the big double-edged sword and vials of blood,'' Bengin said. In the spirit of the election season, couples are going as the improbable presidential duo of George Bush and Michael Dukakis, he said. ``We also sell them little American flags.'' AP881031-0173 AP-NR-10-31-88 1808EST r a AM-AsbestosDilemma 10-31 0487 AM-Asbestos Dilemma,0501 Can't Sell, Can't Renovate, Can't Raze Home With Asbestos JASPER, Fla. (AP) A family who found asbestos insulation throughout their home can't sell the house, can't afford to renovate it, and contractors refuse to tear it down, and their insurance company won't pay a penny. The Selphs have abandoned their home of 14 years and along with it, most of their asbestos-covered belongings, including toys, furniture and their daughter's college diploma. Even the vacuum cleaner had to be ditched. ``All my pictures _ everything I've had since my kids were babies _ it's all in there, covered with asbestos,'' Carol Selph said. ``I feel like we've been living in Pandora's Box.'' It will cost more to have the cancer-causing asbestos removed than the 40-year-old house is worth, and their insurance won't cover anything, because it doesn't cover that kind of contamination. And the Selphs can't sell the home unless the asbestos is removed. Contractors refuse to demolish the structure since workers would need to take special precautions, and the hazardous materials can't be disposed of in the county landfill. ``Some people ask when we'll be moving back in, but they don't understand the immensity of the problem,'' Mrs. Selph said. ``The people in the community have been so nice to us. Churches have had fund-raisers and offerings for us. People have given us gifts, furnishings and clothing.'' Asbestos was commonly used for insulation until the dangers became known, but it was rarely used in the construction of homes. No other homes in Jasper have been found to contain asbestos. ``It's very unusual to find asbestos in the walls and ceilings of homes, even homes built around that time,'' said Edward Palagyi, asbestos coordinator for the state Department of Environmental Regulation. When asbestos was used in homes, Palagyi said, it usually was to wrap pipes. The Selph's troubles began in August when they had a heat pump and ventilation outlets put in. ``I didn't know anything about it until two days after the system was installed and I asked a worker if they could repair some cracks,'' Mrs. Selph said. ``He said he couldn't and then told me it was asbestos. I was floored.'' To install the heat pump and vents, employees of Kinsey's Air Conditioning had to cut through walls and the ceiling. That made the asbestos friable, or flaking, and the new system wafted fine asbestos dust throughout the house. Samples of the walls and ceiling were found to be 60 percent to 65 percent asbestos, and Selphs were urged to move out. ``We know it's in our lungs, no doubt about that,'' Mrs. Selph said. ``But we've all had baseline chest X-rays, except my husband, and everything looked fine.'' The family now lives in a rented house a few miles outside of town. They have hired an attorney in hopes of finding some way to pay for the asbestos removal. AP881031-0174 AP-NR-10-31-88 1811EST r p AM-Quayle 10-31 0627 AM-Quayle,620 Quayle Says Dukakis Still Has Identity Problem With AM-Political Rdp Bjt By MERRILL HARTSON Associated Press Writer MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) Sen. Dan Quayle made use of a line that was once used to belittle him, diputing Michael Dukakis' claim to a venerable liberal tradition by declaring that ``Michael Dukakis is no Jack Kennedy.'' Recalling the line that Democratic vice presidential opponent Lloyd Bentsen used to slap him down in debate, Quayle charged that Dukakis misled voters by identifying himself with such liberals of yesteryear as John F. Kennedy, Harry Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Quayle, seeking to solidify support in the Midwest for himself and GOP standardbearer George Bush, said that the Massachusetts governor has ``finally resolved his identity crisis.'' Dukakis, campaigning in California's Central Valley, said Sunday that ``we need a president in the traditon, yes, the liberal tradition of Franklin Rooosevelt, Harry Truman and Jack Kennedy.'' Quayle, commencing a weeklong series of appearances in the Midwest and South, told reporters that Dukakis forgot to tell voters ``he is a modern-day liberal'' like Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale and George McGovern. ``FDR liberals today are Republicans,'' the senator said, saying that Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy were ``pro-defense'' and that latter-day liberals have been relatively weak on national defense. During his debate with Bentsen earlier this month, Quayle said he had served about the same amount of time in Congress before seeking national office. Bentsen, in one of Campaign '88's unforgetful putdowns, retorted: ``Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.'' Quayle traveled to Republican strongholds in western Michigan, and then went to Ohio Monday at the start of a campaign tour that will take him to Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, North Carolina, Missouri, Oklahoma and his native Indiana by week's end. Peter Secchia, the Bush-Quayle chairman in Michigan, said the state remained ``pretty close. ... It's tightening up.'' He said the GOP ticket had a 9- to 11-point public opinion poll advantage recently, but that this margin has narrowed. Quayle, standing next to jack-o'-lanterns and stacks of dried-up corn stalks, dwelled Monday on Dukakis' newfound acknowledgment of Democratic liberalism. But he complained that Dukakis ``wants to compare himself'' with Kennedy, Truman and Roosevelt instead of Mondale, Carter and McGovern. ``He's a liberal ... but he's certainly not in the liberal mode of Truman, Jack Kennedy and FDR.'' Quayle said that Rooosevelt had fought ``totalitarianism'' and that Truman ``drew the line on the advancement of communism'' in Korea. He said that Kennedy ``was able to stare down the Soviet Union in our own hemisphere'' during the Cuban missile crisis. Kennedy campaigned in 1960 ``on a strong defense, he campaigned on the missile gap,'' Quayle said. ``Mike Dukakis is no FDR, and for that matter, I didn't know Harry Truman and I didn't serve with Harry Truman, but Michael Dukakis is no Harry Truman, either,'' the senator said, adding: ``And, yes, I didn't know Jack Kennedy and I didn't serve with Jack Kenn